Not joining us and i know shes on the call and id like to open it up to directors and ill start with brinkman. Thank you, very much, chair board and its going to be hard for me not to always call you director rubke and thank you for all the hard work you put into this and were a thoughtful and careful director and you have such empathy and i appreciated serving with you on the board and getting to know you as a friend and now we can talk and travel as long as we want and we wont have to sensor ourselves at all. Thank you so much for your years of service and i will miss you very, very much on the board. Director eakin. Thank you. Christina, director rubke, its been such an honour and privilege to serve with you. You bring an important perspective i hope you will stay in touch with us and weigh in on board items. You are always welcome to call and share your perspectives. Ive learned so much from you and i really join director borden to be sad that this will lose perspective and your in
Were sad to have the director not joining us and i know shes on the call and id like to open it up to directors and ill start with brinkman. Thank you, very much, chair board and its going to be hard for me not to always call you director rubke and thank you for all the hard work you put into this and were a thoughtful and careful director and you have such empathy and i appreciated serving with you on the board and getting to know you as a friend and now we can talk and travel as long as we want and we wont have to sensor ourselves at all. Thank you so much for your years of service and i will miss you very, very much on the board. Director eakin. Thank you. Christina, director rubke, its been such an honour and privilege to serve with you. You bring an important perspective i hope you will stay in touch with us and weigh in on board items. You are always welcome to call and share your perspectives. Ive learned so much from you and i really join director borden to be sad that this wil
Protests in cities all across the nation including here in the bay area this is video we received from a viewer just an hour ago this is in emeryville you can see dozens of people running towards a best buy store there. We are also hearing that there are protesters at a target store in the same area in emeryville we are working to confirm with Police Exactly what is going on there, but you can see there is a lot of Movement Activity were not seeing any looting at this point. But nonetheless were waiting to get in touch with police thank you for joining us at 9, im pam moore and im ken wayne, the protests are in this response of course to the death of george floyd. The black man who died in minneapolis after a Disturbing Police arrest was captured on video. This is the video at the center of the National Outrage and shows nowfired Police Officer Derek Shaaban with his knee on floyds neck for almost 9 minutes. Shaaban has been arrested and is now charged with 3rd degree murder. And mansl
Were watching up on some of that work as well as completing the westportal cross over that the former director advocated for. We should be able to complete the westportal cross over in time for the restorative rail service allowing us to be able to potentially offer threecar shuttles in the subway between westportal and embarcadero stations. Were also moving forward rapidly on the van ness Improvement Projects and the lack of transportation on van ness avenue and it has been able to allow the crews to accelerate the sewer and water work thats been the source of so much of the disruption on that street and that work is continuing quickly and it means that well be able to start the sfmta portion of that project and the transit portion starting this spring. Ill remind you all, that while the sfmta is in the lead of the brt project, none of our work has started yet. The work for creating the bus Rapid Transit line so were very much looking forward to that work getting moving and many of yo
From doctors and nurses in peru who say hospitals cant cope with the rising number of coronavirus cases plus. If it. Make it a space x. Rocket blasts off from florida with 2 nasa astronauts on board launching a new era of commercial space travel. Hello thanks for joining us minneapolis is gearing up for another night of violent protests after unrest over the death of a black man at the hands of Police Officers spread to more u. S. Cities the governor of minnesota says hes fully mobilizing the National Guard for the 1st time in the States History but warns he still doesnt have enough troops President Donald Trump says the oath or is there a need to get tougher and offered to send in the National Military this while it appearing to encourage a counter protest by his own supporters friday nights all classes at atlanta and houston in new york and other cities while a 19 year old man was killed in detroit when shots were fired from an s. U. V. Into a crowd of protesters the continuing prote