Hearing in person must wear a face mask. Members who are not wearing a face mask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders for those members appearing in person. You will see members and witnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in front of you when youre speaking in what is known in webex as active speaker view. At time is visible in the room directly in front of you. For members appearing remotely i know you are all familiar with webex by now but let me remind everyone of a few points. First you will be able to see each person speaking during the hearing. Whether they are in person or remote, as long as you have your webex set to active speaker view. If you have any questions about this please Contact Committee staff immediately. Second, we have a timer that should be visible on your screen when youre in the active speaker with him know. Members who wish to pen the timer to the screen should Contact Committee staff for assistance. Third, thousand rules require that w
We have seen it all this weekend. Wind, rain, lightning and listing heat. The heat is still causing a strain on the power grid. Fortunately the operator said there will not be a need for rolling blackouts tonight. As you can see, there are Power Outages in some areas. The orange dots represent outages of 500 or more pg e customers. The lightning and because of the heats been extended until tomorrow morning. Greg ligands will have the latest on those fires that started around those today. First, bill martin for the current conditions. We do have a chance of a thunderstorm. The red flag warning has been extended into the evening hours for possible Lightning Strikes. This was, i will not say unprecedented, but i havent seen a lightning hit like this. Not the number but the aerial distribution. For km, Lightning Strikes and then look at this. Hundreds of strikes. They ended up covering the entire bay area. Very unusual. This went on for five hours. We do see the storms, we even saw some at
Including myself have opted to use secure video teleconferencing which allows them to participate remotely. For those on video conference, once you start speaking, there will be a slight delay before youre displayed on the main service. Speaking into the microphone activates the camera displaying the speaker on the main screen. Do not stop your remarks if you do not immediately see the screen switch. If the screen does not change after several seconds, please make sure youre not muted. To minimize background news and ensure the correct speaker is displayed we ask the members participating by video remain on mute unless you have recognition. For members using the video option, you will notice a clock on the bottom of your screen that will show how much time is remaining and one minute remaining, the clock will turn to yellow. At 30 seconds remaining i will gently tap the gavel to remind members that their time is almost expired. When your time has expired the clock will turn red and i w
Needed systemic change against racism today. Thank you. Thank you. You have zero questions remaining. We can continue, kate. Item number three, report by Treasure Island director. Director, chair tsen, robert beck. Covid19 continues to impact the lives of residents and commercial ten xhants and provide commercial tenants with the most pertinent information. Housing providers are following the Mayors Office and moratorium guidance in cases where residents have been unable to pay rent and title will be sending Additional Guidance to all commercial lease olders this week. The Health Officers shelter in place remains in effect and government is planning for reopening of activities and the department, office, and facility and health and safety plans prior to reopening. The reopening will not look the same as things did in january or february. We are as part of this effort, were exploring what services we can put online. And continued to be deployed to the gratest extent possible and factore
Color, irrespective of party affiliation. We are one america. And lets try to act that way. And i close this briefing. Thank you. As that herring comes to a close, lawmakers discussing how the Veterans Affairs department, this is a live hearing getting under way now on cspan 3. If covid19 turned into a pandemic and portions of the United States Health Care System broke down the va may need to come back and ask for additional funds and since then congress has appropriated 17. 2 billion for vhas covid19 Pandemic Response and i was glad to help advocate for that funding. Now im not sure that many of us here on the dais know what to expect during that february hearing nor did we fully grasp the enormity of the Public Health challenges americans would soon face from the pandemic. This is largely because the administration failed to recognize these risks and communicate them to the American Public in advance of the crisis. Here we are a little more than three months later and exactly 90 days