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
Environment. It is with us. Even the president , as protected as he seems to be, he is vulnerable and susceptible. We hope he will be okay, but at this point there is no guarantee , and we all need to take this as a reminder that the pandemic is still very much a part of our lives. We have made a lot of progress here in the bay area, but he it is definitely too early to relax practices. This is a reminder of what happens if we are not 100 careful. Are you at all familiar with Walter Reed Medical Center . Do you know what their specialty is . It is a general hospital. Is serves all sorts of means. It is highly informed by physicians who are working at the National Institute for health and has access to some of the best minds and some of the most recent innovations in therapy. I think that is an encouraging sign that he will have access to a very High Standard of care. Obviously, there are a lot of people who are working very hard right now to make sure the president stays as well as he
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In crime. As any kid in vallejo and they will tell you there is an it is gradually Getting Better issue. Reporter at the special and with meeting city Council Agreed an emergency order is a start. Enabling the police chief to temperatures a little cooler than they were last night at add command staff and a more streamlined way. This time. The low Pressure Center is the story and is it comes down it will bring that shot of mainly in Vallejo City Council we have courageous officers thinks the city is facing a crisis when it comes to crime who do ant two captains and an and maybe friday night into and their police department. An assistant chief. The Root Community is saturday. Friday will be cooler. Requiring reforms without delay. I need the assistance of an there is the fog tomorrow executive team to do that. Morning. 83 in is it is a power grab to one that i think is exactly what the doctor ordered. Temper establish a dictatorship. Reporter the police union opposes the declaration. Arg
Hello im david rubinstein, the National Book festival, welcome to the National Book festival, which this year is being done virtually. Our guest this year is melinda gates, for the first part of our program. Im coming to you from washington dc at the library of congress and from another washington, seattle washington, is melinda gates. Thank you very much for doing this. Im so glad we could do it david. Melinda, youve written your first book recently, a book about women its a book about empowering women and i want to talk to you about that and what prompted you to write this book. How long did it take you to write this book and what prompted you to write this book . Melinda i wrote it over most of the year and what prompted me to write it was, ive been so incredibly fortunate with the foundation to travel to so many places in the world. Its the people and particularly the women ive met in these incredibly difficult circumstances and seeing what they are doing to empower their families