Please introduce yourself and tell our audience what you are currently working on the covid issues in your field. We can start with carmen. So good afternoon everybody, so glad to join all of you today for this great panel. I want to thank you megan for helping to host this and making sure this important conversation comes forward. I serve as San Francisco elected assessor. Like many of you, we had to quickly change to a remote work scenario with our office when we had the shelter place be put in place in march. We were able to do that relatively quickly and 98 of our operations is happening off site and not in person. Weve been working hard to make sure we try to continue to do our work, primarily because we know that the revenue impact of our work has been very, very large and disperse impact to the city, from the types of programs were able to support people with us specially during covid19. Were continuing to do that. I think on another note, i think i also serve as the Economic Re
Hello im San Francisco mayor london breed i want to thank everyone in San Francisco. Thank you for your patience, for your resilience and listening to our Public Health leaders. I know the last several months havent been easy for anyone. They certainly havent been easy for me. Everyday i hear about the struggles people are going through from friends from family members and from the community. While San Francisco has been a leader in the fight against this pandemic, everyday we suffer losses. People are losing their jobs, people are losing their grip on their Mental Health. Worst of all, people are losing family members to this disease. Even as we endure these losses, im hopeful for the future. These months of Public Health crises and social unrest has shown us that when we come together, we can have the hard conversations and make the tough choices to do what needs to be done. Not just save lives but to address systemic racism head on and change society as we know it. I know today is a
Department said they were following up on several reports of missing people in the fire zones. More than 77,000 other people are still evacuated from their homes. They are spread out around the county. Jesse gary joins us from one of the Evacuation Centers at cabrio college. Jesse . Reporter frank, good afternoon to you. To a man, woman, and child, there is one fourletter word that carries with it a combination of hope, anticipation, and frustration. That word is home. For the evacuation people here with a destination, a universal destination that is cloaked in questions and uncertainty. Is it ever gonna end . You know, i want to go home. Reporter Boulder Creek evacuee Barbara Andrews echos sentiments shared many of the people chased from their homes by the czu mega fire. Santa cruz county has set up near lay dozen evacuation sites for families, their pets, and their animals. Since that first night, weve expanded considerably. Weve gotten a lot of good infrastructure going on here. Wer
The fire to drop water and retardant. Cal fire at any moment is scheduled to begin their evening briefing that the Community Center in scotts valley. As soon as they do, well bring it to you live. Right now, we want to bring in our chief meteorologist bill martin. What are the weather conditions looking like, bill . Well, just kind of like what you said. Weve had a good run of weather for firefighters. Cal fire has made exceptional progress. Most of this great weather has to do quit what im showing you here, this live shot of the fog coming in. Its cool, moist, doing its thing, and that has increased humidities in the fire zone, doubled and tripled the humidities, which is huge. Any firefighters will tell you that. We saw more smoke today on the peninsula, with more of a southerly wind bringing the smoke in from the santa cruz fire. So we have a lot of smoke. Thats why the air quality district has issued or extended their spare the air alert through friday, and thats just how its going
I agree, it is too hot. Lets talk about this. I know people had some Power Outages yesterday, which made the hot date even hotter and a hot night. I dont think we are out of this yet . We will not get rid of this heat for the next couple of days temperatures will drop slightly for the weekend and then back up again peaking on tuesday. Outside right now, most areas never really cooled off. A lot of 60s and 70s out there to start the day. A live look over east bay where you can see some hayes and some fog along the northbay coastline. It is 64 in santa rosa. 67 semper cisco. Upper 60s in oakland and low 70s and livermore and san jose. A little bit of clear sky at there compared to the cloud cover we have been starting with over the last couple of days. In any case, temperatures are supposed to be there warm once again. Heres what we can expect with bart advisories getting as well. For nurse by those, especially, San Francisco peninsula and santa cruz, we have the heat advisory that will