Im annemarie green. We begin this morning with americas staggering death toll. The latest figures reveal more than a quarter of a Million People in the u. S. Have died from covid. As cases spike across the country, more than 70,000 americans have been hospitalized. The Health Care System is feeling the strain. Debra is in washington. How are state and local governments responding now to this worsening crisis . It ranges. In north dakota, there is a mask mandate. In ohio, a 21day curfew and in florida, there are no changes. State and local governments are reimposing measures to slow the spread. I need to ask a little more. We know this will cause some more harm out there. Restrictions mostly on restaurants, bars and gyms come as the total number of americans who have died from covid19 passes 250,000. The rate of growth from the middle of october until now is something we have not seen since march. A record 79,000 americans are currently hospitalized. We dont want to think about what wil
Like a president and more like an arsonist im burnt off in berlin this is the day. This is a cliff i am emergency this is real. And its happening this is the perfect storm troopers the great environmentalist here that it is the california folks is america fast forward but there are places where they. Are. What were experiencing right here is coming to a community all across the United States of america unless we get our act together on Climate Change but if he gets a 2nd term these hellish events will continue to become more common more devastating and more deadly. Also coming up china is germanys biggest trading partner china is also a human rights abuse or german chancellor Angela Merkel is weighing both carefully at the e. U. Chinas summit now underway and the topics which it difficult where we dont always agree hong kong for example the treatment of minorities and the issue of human rights. So i feel that today we had a good open honest dialogue which should. We continued. On to ou
There life on venus scientists have found what might be the 1st clue. That i am here in tilton welcome to the program we begin in the u. K. Or british lawmakers have given their initial approval to a controversial new bricks a bill despite concerns that it breaches International Law. M. P. s in the house of commons backed the u. K. Internal market bill by 340 votes to 263 clearing the way for further debate over the next 2 weeks the bill gives the government power to override parts of the bricks and withdrawal deal agreed with the European Union and just last year. The stickered country. Excuse me was following. Vote in the u. K. Parliament so walk us through this what exactly is the significance of todays vote well the u. K. Parliament under the direction of Boris Johnson has gone ahead and done what the e. U. Has wanted not to what is pos this internal market bill which gives it the power to rip up the agreement that it previously just made with the e. U. About the break that the tra
It is not over. It is just beginning the days are long right now. We are going to take that. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. We are sitting at the flat line. Dow down about 7 or 8 and nasdaq up by about 13 yesterday, the dow was down 710 points a decline of 2. 7 s p off 2. 6. Came with huge steep declines going as smoothly as people had hoped. All of those concerns added up to steep losses. Looking at the treasury yield at 0. 669 now you see additional pressure as we continue to watch that case count talking about that, the United States seeing a Record Number of new coronavirus cases in a single day. Tallyi tallying 45,000300 that tops the numbers from april reporting that visitors that travel from hot spots to new york, new jersey to connecticut will be asked to quarantine two weeks. Those who defy that order. Hot spots include arizona, utah, texas, arkansas, alabama, north and South Carolina President Trump says he will not follow the quarantine order wh
Of the minutes. Any Public Comments on the minutes . Hearing none, all those in favor . Opposed . Motion carried. Next item. Item 4 is general Public Comment, members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissioners jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. I have three speaker cards here. The first is eileen. Good afternoon. Eileen, coalition for San Francisco neighborhoods on my own behalf. I live two blocks from sunset reservoir. I attended the Community Meetings before the retro fit of north basin. When asked why south basin was not being receipt retrofitt d retrofitted, it made no reference to north basin. In the puc report from 2018, the report states that both basins have been retrofitted. In the current 10year capital plan, the plan does refer to south basin. Currently there is an 8 million allocation in fiscal years 2830. The line item is line 109 in the water enterprise spreadsheet. The item description is to update the 1996 Risk Assessme