Meeting of may 6th, 2020 to order. I am the Commission President and this Commission Meeting is being conducted pursuant to visions of the brown act and recent executive orders by the governor to facilitate teleconferencing to reduce the risk of covid19 transmission at public meetings. Ordinarily, the brown act sets strict rules for teleconferencing. The executive order does require that we continue to notice meetings in advance. The department has met all of the applicable notice requirements. As noted on the agenda, members of the public may observe this teleconference meeting via sf gov tv and may Public Comment by calling the published Public Comment phone number. I would like to welcome the members of the public and staff who are watching online, sfgovtv. The Commission Asks and thanks for your patience during these unprecedented times. Teleconferencing has never happened in our history. That being said, we respectfully ask the public to have patience and expect delays and gaps du
The department has met all of the applicable notice requirements. As noted on the agenda, members of the public may observe this teleconference meeting via sf gov tv and may Public Comment by calling the published Public Comment phone number. I would like to welcome the members of the public and staff who are watching online, sfgovtv. The Commission Asks and thanks for your patience during these unprecedented times. Teleconferencing has never happened in our history. That being said, we respectfully ask the public to have patience and expect delays and gaps during the meeting, particularly during Public Comment. Were working diligently to learn and become familiar with this new system as this may be the way we conduct future Commission Meetings. Madam secretary, please call the role. Thank you, president. Commissioners, please respond when i call your name. role call . Please note shereen mcfadam is present and president , we have a quorum. Thank you. Commissioners, the next item is it
Pandemic has forced many countries to close their schools its hoped to lock a social gathering will help slow the outbreak but is the sense learning the answer and how vulnerable are children to this virus this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im going to you know the Global Health crisis created by the coronavirus pandemic has led to extraordinary measures in an effort to contain the outbreak countries from south korea to the u. S. Italy to new zealand are introducing measures that are affecting hundreds of millions of people schools universities cinemas gyms concerts have all been shut down around the world and the u. S. The clear to National Emergency on the same day its travel ban on 26. 00 European Countries came into effect the World Health Organization says europe has now replaced china as the epicenter of the outbreak and governments are approving billions of dollars with the goal of slowing down and eventually stopping the virus well among the containment meas
And the time to talk in brussels the turkish president joins e. U. Leaders to try and find a way out of the standoff over migrants at the border between turkey and greece. Its good to have you with this it has been a day of drama on Global Financial markets fears of the coronavirus leave a trail of turbulence across the world share prices have plunged today with billions being wiped off the value of global indices the Dow Jones Industrial average took a nose dive at the start of trading more than 7 percent of its value wiped off in just the 1st minutes of the trading day that sparked an emergency 15 minute suspension and its no better here in. Europe in germany the benchmark dax index closed you see right there almost 8 percent in the red the gains of the past year were almost completely wiped out the price of a barrel of oil still and it has been at historic lows today after saudi arabia increased production to trying to pressure pressure russia into closer coordination of that disput
By the rules of the game. Also coming up marching to save their own lives and those of their daughters mothers and sisters protests today in mexico one of the most dangerous countries in the world for women. Its like being in a state of war where in a humanitarian crisis because of the number of missing and murdered women. Viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the fear factor and the coronavirus to say that the Global Economy is jittery because of the corona Virus Outbreak well that would be stating the obvious to say that. That see or could soon make a Global Economic crisis possible well that would be stating what became obvious today early today Global Oil Prices crashed a shock that since stocks on wall street tanking a mediately after the opening bell the drop was so fast the trading was halted for 15 minutes so why did all prices collapse russia has refused to cut its production so saudi arabia tried to pressure russia by