That marine layer is making the big push. Steve says it has really pushed in far, and almost everywhere right now is nothing ghi. The sun will come out, but thats later. Happening today, Training Camps opened for the new pre football season. Some are reporting to camp this morning. The veterans for all of the 32 teams are scheduled to show up. The new season is beginning despite the resent spike in the coronavirus. The Players Association has plans for the test asking other issues tied to the pandemic. Some of the biggest stars are posting that. They have not done enough to protect the players and super bowl mvp quarterback mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs and Russell Wilson have issued similar statements. Welcome to mornings on 2 the 9. I want football like you would not believe. I ask myself everyday. I cant help my parents. I would love too. If i did and transmitted covid19, is that wealth it . The answer is no. That can apply to the sports analogy as well. When it comes to basebal
Distancing and staying at home, tonight, the coronavirus pandemic is worse than it has ever been in the u. S. In just 24 hours, the country has added more than 50,000 new cases, leading the head of the administrations Testing Program to Tell Congress today that the e. S. Is not flattening the curve and that the nationwide surge of the virus is real. Infections are now up in 37 states as more and more people who get screened are testing positive. Avere beginning of june, cases a day. Averaging about 600 new cases a day. Today, there were 10,000 new infections. With i. C. U. Beds reaching capacity and lines for testing wiretching for blocks, mayors and goors nation abringing back july at home. Texas governor, who has spent weeks pushing back on the idea of mandating masks, just issued of mandating masks, just issued an executive order requiring them in Public Places across most of the state. Tonight, the virus has killed more than 128,000 people in the u. S. , and there are more than 2.
Struggle to recover from the coronavirus. What she is telling the broadway actor to give him hope. Safe harbor. In the world from homes series, how a tourist island in greece stayed safe from the pandemic with zero cases. Want to go there. But first, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. Bottom line is the spread of this virus continues. Were seeing these cases from coast to coast across the sunbelt. Cases rising dramatically. With more than 2. 5 million americans infected, the president said he hopes the virus, quote, just disappears. Hes hoping that it will disappear. Is that the president s strategy . The president is confident it will disappear. The president said masks are good and that he would wear one looked. I thought it was okay. I looked like the lone ranger. We took this seriously. We handled it appropriately. The white house responding to allegations of bountsys placed on u. S. Troops in afghanistan. The intelligence people, many of them didnt believe it h
So im justice delighted to have her join just delighted to have her join the department. So its a great announcement to make to you all today. And then i, again, i will go through the covid19 update as the next. The agenda item and i am prepared to take any questions. Clerk thank you, dr. Colfax. Commissioners, before you might have any questions. Number one, can i ask everyone except actually everyone to mute themselves except for dr. Colfax right now. I see a lot of microphones on and were hearing someone typing. So everyone would please mute yourselves. And then the Public Comment line, any Public Comment for the directors report . Lets give it one second. Im going to share the Public Comment line info real quickly. Okay. There are no questions from the public. Im going to put this line up quickly for that in case number is watching. Commissioners, if you have any questions for dr. Colfax on the directors report, please raise your hand. Commissioner chow this is dr. Chow. I cant rai
Or whatever the processes would be, for a more permanent way of making sure that hiring is really more effective as you have shown . Thank you, commissioner, for that question. Just so you know that part of what we did is that we dismantled some of the norm processees that we used in hiring. But even with that, if you looked at just the nursing, for instance, that theres some things that we did which we can keep as we go forward. And im hoping that it will also blend and lend into the rest of the type of hiring that we do. With the directive from the mayor we were able to bypass some of the Civil Service rule processes in terms of hiring. But what we did specifically is to start looking at with the nurses and hiring without having to wait for the supervisor who is doing the clinical work to do the interviews and the processing. And h. R. Took control of that. And those are some of the things that we can do and to look at in the future as we start in our hiring process. One of the key t