Make sure to vote in person at one of the 588 locations across the city or at city hall on tuesday, november 3rd. Thank you. [ ] as always, i will ask the presenters and the commissioners and the speakers to mute themselves until called on and ask members of the public, ill ask you to mute yourselves as well until and unless you are giving comments, that theres not feedback or background noise. Before we begin, im going to ask everyone to put your hand over your heart and well do the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance]. Now at the end of this meeting im going to be asking that we adjourn in honor of a firefighter who lost his life today, jason cortez, who spent 13 years with the San Francisco fire department, married, two young children, dad was a firefighter as well, and its such a terrible loss for our city, for our community, and we want to thank him and all of those who serve, who try to help us in the community at great expense to themselves. So i will ask to adjourn in h
This is the captioner. This is the modem test. Hopefully you can see the text. As always, i will ask the presenters and the commissioners and the speakers to mute themselves until called on and ask members of the public, ill ask you to mute yourselves as well until and unless you are giving comments, that theres not feedback or background noise. Before we begin, im going to ask everyone to put your hand over your heart and well do the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance]. Now at the end of this meeting im going to be asking that we adjourn in honor of a firefighter who lost his life today, jason cortez, who spent 13 years with the San Francisco fire department, married, two young children, dad was a firefighter as well, and its such a terrible loss for our city, for our community, and we want to thank him and all of those who serve, who try to help us in the community at great expense to themselves. So i will ask to adjourn in his honor and in honor of all those who serve. We w
Present for us. The members of the commission are meeting remotely to ensure the safety of everyone, including the members of the public. Madam secretary, please call the first item. Clerk thank you, mr. Chair. The first order is roll call. Please respond when i call your name. [ roll call ]. Clerk all members, excuse me, all other members of the commission are present. The next item is announcements. The next regularly scheduled meeting will be held remotely on november 20, 2020. Please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comment on each agenda item unless the Commission Adopts a shorter period on any item. Please note that during the Public Comment reared, all dialin participants from the public will dial 14156550001 and the access code is 1464367015. When you dial star 3 you will hear the following message you have raised your hand to speak. Please wait for the host to invite you to speak. When your line is unmuted, this will be th
A briefing on the wildfires ravaging the west coast us. Multiple mega fires burning millions of acres have been destroyed millions of residents have to live in toxic air well meet one of the california farmers now dealing with the aftermath of an on president a task. Im brian thomas good to have you with us today israel has become the 1st country to announce a 2nd nationwide lockdown to combat the coronavirus this comes after a surgeon new infections the Prime Minister said the new lockdown which begins friday will restrict movement and last for 3 weeks. As israels outbreak threatened to race out of control Benjamin Netanyahu announced the unpopular but perhaps unavoidable decision will look you know you wont be today we decided on a Strict Lockdown plan for 3 weeks with an option to extend but as of now weve decided that the lockdown will last until the end of the holiday. Door prelims lot of Health Ministry executives and hospital managers have warned us that death rates are forcing
On tuesday when he returns the crisis will be waiting for him. The World Health Organization says theres been a record one day rise in corona cases around the globe more than 300000 new cases were reported in the previous 24 hours joining us now from geneva is Margaret Harris from the World Health Organization margaret what has you particularly worried right now about the coronavirus. Well it could send parts of the ground but to create the very intense outbreaks were seeing in the americas a continue to happen in the United States and in south america countries like argentina brazil but also in india which has been recording record numbers of cases they off today and has a huge outbreak but 50 percent of the cases are still in the americas were also seeing rises in the Eastern Mediterranean region around north africa and in the gulf states but also of course europe is now saying a resurgence in cases in a number of countries and israel has become the 1st country to introduce a 2nd nat