Chair borden Municipal Transportation Agency commission. [indiscernible]. Please call the roll. [roll call] director you have a quorum. Item four communications. Chair borden due coth chair borden we ask the public to participate remotely. For all comments received in advance of the meeting, we have received an appreciate these comments. Thank you for honoring our request. We continue to urge the public to write the board. While this Technology Allows us to hold these meetings via teleconference, there maybe gap and silence as staff is transitioning the technology between speakers. We are doing our best and we ask for your patience and understanding. If we lose the connection during the meeting, we will pause the meeting until the connection has been reestablished. Lastly i want to thank the village that it takes to keep this meeting possible. This meeting is televised by sfgov tv, theres a time lag between the actual meeting and what members of the public is seeing on sfgov tv. If you
Welcome to the tuesday, august 4th, Virtual Meeting of the San Francisco Entertainment Commission. Im the Commission President and due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect Entertainment Commission members, city employment and public and city hall meeting rooms are closed. However, well be participating remotely. This is taken pursuant to the local, state and federal orders, declarations and Commission Members and employees will attend through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment is available on each item on this agenda, both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen and each speak will be allowed two minutes to speak. Opportunities to speak during Public Comment period are available during the zoom platform using meeting i. D. 89143696905 or calling 833 5480276 toll free. Using zoom platform, select the raised hand option for Public Comment. Dial star 9 if calling by
Claims. 1. 3 million last week, and that is the 15th weekly decline, so the downtrend continues. However, 17 million are still unemployed and still collecting benefits. Ive got two big tech stories for you. First off, the twitter hack. Fake messages appeared from big name celebrities. It was a bitcoin scam. The important point is the hackers took over the platform and could have sent out messages to disrupt the market or the election or anything. They showed they could do it and that is a huge problem. Stocks way down. Second tech problem, the top court in europe will restrict the transfer of the personal data of europeans to american companies. They are worried about our surveillance of them. This could severely disrupt big tech operations and big tech stocks are down. While stocks generally are moving lower, especially those technology issues, the dow, we are looking at a minus 180 at the opening bell, down 21 for the s p and really, the nasdaq taking it on the chin. Again, technolog
Active out there. Reporter and is still very active. But just up to a few minutes ago it looks like theyre putting away the ladder truck that you see right here. They were putting out hot spots for hours. Like i said, just a few minutes ago they started wrapping things up. But there is no word yet on when this fire will be considered contained. I had never seen a city fire spread this fast before. It was amazing. Reporter huge plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky as flames burned six buildings in san franciscos intermission district. The flames were three times as high as the building was. I mean it was fully engulfed back there. Reporter firefighters said the fire started on erie street, the backside of a wholesaler that sells steeled fabricated building supplies. In 10 minutes the whole building was gone. Reporter bruce bartfelt tells me the business was started by his father 75 years ago. This is what it looked like before the fire. The 73yearold says he arrived to open up s
Is a nice pattern that is not changing anytime soon. Overall what you see is what you get. And we are just carrying from one day and the next. 1 degree at the most changing from day today. Is hot on the inland. Most locations are near average to a little below. 53 in oakland and larimore. Theres a pretty good breeze out to travis. That is picked up in the last hour or so. Overall look for temperatures to be very similar between the low and the high. When becomes more of a dominant feature. There have been a few things going through here. Were going to look at a few of these things here. Lets go to the Richmond Bridge to san rafael. There is some slowing at the bay bridge toll plaza on the way into San Francisco lets go back to the headlines. We wait for that News Conference in San Francisco by firefighters. Lets bring you uptodate on the developments from the scene of this massive five alarm fire yesterday morning. Alyssa harrington is here now with its details. Bring us uptodate. Fire