Tonight and my great friend the new president of the capitol historical society. On june 4, 1919, the 19th amendment was passed and sent to the states for ratification. The suffragists used the white house as a backdrop to challenge inequity and bring attention to their cause. And tonight we look forward to hearing more about their successful efforts to secure womens right to vote. But before i introduce our speaker i have a couple of other introductions and things id like to share. First of all we have guests from Smith College here tonight, the Washington Club of Smith College. Stand up the washington Smith College crowd. Theyre our special guests tonight and were honored to have them. Id also like to tell you a little bit about the White House Historical association. And for those of you who have been with us before know i love to talk about our wonderful mission begun in 1961 by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy. And remember she was only 31 years old when her husband was inaugurated p
Supplies across the board but these n95 respirator masks in particular are in high demand and short supply. I have this one left over from fire season. 3m is pledging double output but i have spoken to Health Care Workers in San Francisco, oakland and san jose who say the shortage of supplies in their hospitals is a problem. We have to have gowns, masks, and face shields p. All in limited splice. He is a nurse at Santa Clara Medical center in san jose and the Vice President for a nurses union rnpa. The mask you have one mask a shift. Reporter he says they dont have enough n95 to change masks between patients. We are put in a patient we have to do a job we really want to do but we dont have the supplies to do that job right. Reporter the cdc has guidance on their website how to work around a mask shortage. When no face masks are available, the website says for Health Care Providers to use a bandanna or scarf as a last resort to care for patients with covid covid19. They say we are runni
More than half is from a source you might not expect. Almost half the particles were these tiny black rubber particles. We have analyzed a few of them with a special technique to show the arts higher tread. Reporter tired us. You might be polluting the bay every time you go to the store. Pick up the kids go to work. Think about tyrus. When your tires get bald where does the tiredness go . Reporter it doesnt just disappear. Reporter there are of course other stuff too. Tiny pieces of everything plastic you can imagine. What can you do . We do singleuse plastic and plastic packaging. Everywhere you look there are plastics. Reporter the Study Results is being shared with an invitation only audience of scientists. Policymakers and researchers. Theyre hoping the craft ideas to address the problem of micro plastics. Folks on the street have their opinion. Im not a scientist. Im not sure. They should be able to figure that out. The more plastic the less fish. The less wild animals. In the bay
San francisco for affordable housing, has been significant. And so the need is great. San franciscos coalition on homelessness is preparing for its annual fundraising, and ought auction. The executive director says the president is proposing to help end homelessness is ironic in light of Trump Administration policies that she says increased homelessness. They cut housing by over 80 . The Trump Administration itself has cut a lot of section 8, has cut hud. We have reached out to the white house and the department of housing and urban development to try to get an idea of what this plan might look like, so far weve not heard back from either. Christian you kind of alluded to this, and there may not be an answer, but what are the options that the federal government would even have in the first place . Thats why we are trying to reach out to them, you are absolutely right, i dont have a clear idea on exactly what that might be, thats one of the reasons we are reaching out to the white house
Heard a lot today is go 95, and thats 600 pages of state rules for overhead line design, construction, and maintenance. Of course as you heard earlier, this was developed over years of workshops and reviews and collaboration between all of the utilities. So on this slide, im just kind of going over the attachments and what we do. At t is attached to approximately 26,000 poles in San Francisco. Now, of those, 2,000 are solely owned by at t. The majority we are coowners with pg e and you heard a little bit about that earlier. Our inspections as far as maintenance and inspections and protocols, our techs are required to inspect the infrastructure for safety issues every single time they touch our equipment. So if you are running around San Francisco, you see our trucks everywhere. So we are constantly doing these evaluations. They actually call it a tzone inspection that they need to do, where they look up the pole and then they look both directions as far as the ooi can see just to notic