President yee good afternoon. And welcome to the october 6th, 2020, regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. Supervisor fewer. Commissioner fewer present. Clerk supervisor haney . Supervisor haney present. Clerk supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman present. Clerk supervisor mar. Supervisor mar present. Clerk supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin present. Clerk supervisor preston. Supervisor preston present. Clerk supervisor ronen. Supervisor ronen present. Clerk supervisor safai. Supervisor safai present. Clerk supervisor stefani. Supervisor stefani present. Clerk supervisor walton. Supervisor walton present. Clerk and supervisor yee. President yee present. Clerk mr. President , all members are present. President yee okay. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart. Will you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United St
House Coronavirus Task force. I couldnt be more proud of the efforts of the men and women standing behind me and those standing behind them. President trump sent from early on this would be a whole of government approach, and today gives evidence of the fact that it is a whole of america approach. We are bringing the full resources of the federal government and full resources of this great economy and our great business sector to bear in protecting the American People and american families. A few updates from today. As we continue to expand testing availability across the country testing is available at all state labs and by the end of the week there will be 4 million more tests made available in jurisdictions across the country. One million more are already in place thanks to the work of the labs President Trump brought together yesterday. Lab corps and quest are in the process now of distributing and marketing coronavirus tests all across america, and we are working with straight wit
Prone to gaffes. In congress, no agreement on how to respond to the virus. The latest proposals, a payroll tax holiday for the rest of the year. In other words, your Social Security contribution, suspended. Another one, extend the april 15th tax deadline. However, congress had better get on with it. A oneweek recess starts friday. The market, not happy with any of this. Stocks will be down at the opening bell. You kind of get seasick watching it all. Down 2,000 monday, up 1100 tuesday, this morning we will open about 800 points to the downside. Similar losses for the s p and nasdaq. The virus, there are now just over 1,000 cases in the United States. Draconian action in new rochelle, new york, where the National Guard has been called out to help with a cluster of cases in that town. Seattle has restrictions on large gatherings. The first lawsuits have appeared, a cruise line sued. And just look at this. Students at the university of dayton rioted last night after the authorities announ
Rebounds, even as saudi arabia turns up the heat. The kingdom is now threatening to flood the market next month. Relisting into the White House Briefing on the coronavirus. Larry cutler is currently speaking. We had a lot of momentum in the First Quarter. I recognize the challenges, and that is why we are proposing to combinel measures with monetary measures that have already been taken. The president intends to bring the full power of the federal government to deal with these health and economic challenges. And a word from the surgeon general, jerome adams. Evening, everyone. As surgeon general, whether its opioids or cigarettes or the coronavirus, i job is to help the American People understand how to live a healthy life. I am imploring all of you to help share my prescription for america to overcome this coronavirus situation that we are in. Watching awere just press conference at the white house. Were listening to larry kudlow speak about measures from the federal government in ord
Headed by Vice President pence. The Vice President we just completed the Coronavirus Task force. I couldnt be more proud of the men and women of the efforts standing behind me or those standing behind them. President trump said this would be a whole of government approach and today gives evidence of the fact that it is a whole of america approach. We are bringing the whole resources of the federal government and full resources of this great economy and our great business sethor to bear in protecting the American People and american families. A few updates from today. As we continue to expand testing availability across the country. Testing is available at all state labs. There will be four million more tests made available in jurisdictions around the country. One million are already in place thanks to the good work of our top commercial labs that President Trump brought together yesterday. Lab corps and quest are in the process now of distributing and marketing coronavirus tests all ac