To the upside. Other news coming through about approvals for future houses as well. The asx up 119 points. Thats move along and look at other Asset Classes. Crude trading yesterday with a 33 handle, hasnt had a huge rally since then. Part of that is down to russia and opec looking like they will not be hiking reduction in january. That news helping to propel oil prices up to over 97 in the last six hours or so. ,old remaining where it was just shy of the 1900 level. Thats ahead of the u. S. Election. The u. S. Dollar index marginally down, the Rate Decision coming expecting a 0. 15 cut in the base rate and we do have in anticipation of all that move slightly higher than that, and thats down to a commodity related currency and the crude price helping that along. Lets head over to new york and join karina mitchell. We start with the latest headlines on the pandemic. Starling fell to its weakest in the month, with an economy already reeling from similar measures earlier this year. France
Thank you. That passes. Item three is the directors report. Commissioners, grant colfax, the health director. A few things in the directors report. We had the pleasure of participating in an announcement with senator scott wiener and mayor breed with reintroducing the Safe Injection Sites. The senator plans to reintroduce this bill in december. As you know that Safe Injection Sites have been a priority for the department and in alignment with mayor breeds priorities. We need these evidencebased proven interventions more than ever as fentanyl continues its uncrease in San Francisco and we have estimated that weve had more than 470 Overdose Deaths in the first month of 2020. And so this is a muchneeded intervention and it remains a priority and able to participate with the senator and the mayor in announcing the fact that that the bill will be reintroduced. We continue to encourage everyone in the city to get a flu shot now more than ever. This is certainly not the year to skip on a flu
Motion to approve. Second. Second. Theres no one on the Public Comment line so far today. President bernal all right. Clerk [roll call] thank you. That passes. Item three is the directors report. Commissioners, grant colfax, the health director. A few things in the directors report. We had the pleasure of participating in an announcement with senator scott wiener and mayor breed with reintroducing the Safe Injection Sites. The senator plans to reintroduce this bill in december. As you know that Safe Injection Sites have been a priority for the department and in alignment with mayor breeds priorities. We need these evidencebased proven interventions more than ever as fentanyl continues its uncrease in San Francisco and we have estimated that weve had more than 470 Overdose Deaths in the first month of 2020. And so this is a muchneeded intervention and it remains a priority and able to participate with the senator and the mayor in announcing the fact that that the bill will be reintroduc
Situations that present a little more transmission risk, so we want you to be armed with information. So having said that, joining us rite now is our special correspondent dr. Aloke patel, who has all sorts of information for us, but happy halloween in advance. Thanks for joining us today, dr. Patel. Happy halloween. I got to ask you, and i think i know what youre going to say. Does halloween and then thanksgiving coming up and christmas coming up make you a little nervous . They do make me informs. Its not because i dont trust people. Its just the way were bearing together. We saw spikes. So this is its on every Public Health initial, every doctor, everys radar. Right. No doubt. Ok. So given that there is some risk, were going to play a little game today designed so that you can learn in an engaging way. Dr. Patel youre part of a team that help put this together. Its on our website, abc7news. Com, so you can check it out. We have 12 different scenarios. Each one, you get to rate the t
Representing different parties and different points of view had many specifics to be worked out. Given the data needs associated with the coronavirus aftermath. The panel will discuss the tradeoff between privacy and the context of the pandemic and get back privacy considerations and what the new privacy wall should look like and include and what it should not include. We are a distinguished panel to discuss these issues. Let me introduce them now. We have professor of law at the university of arizona. Christina montgomery is Vice President and chief officer at ibm, the former acting chair and commissioner now a partner of the law firm, andrew smith is the head of the bureau of Consumer Protection of the ftc and distinguished professor of management. Let me start out with a question for the panel and then also take you in the same order. Has the pandemic changed the tradeoff and beneficial uses of data, and if so, how. In terms of where the policy debate is going, i found its done surp