[please stand by] [please stand by] good afternoon, welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors for today, monday, october 19th, 2020. I am the chair of the Committee Supervisor peskin joined by Committee Member dean preston and soontobe joined by vicechair supervisor safai. Our court is miss erika major. Do you have any announcements, ms. Major . Due to the covid19 Health Emergency, and to protect Board Members the legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to state and federal orders. Committee members will attend the meeting through the conference and participate in the meeting to the same ex at the present time as if theres physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgot. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak.
Has 20 electoral votes should biden pull ahead here and when the states he would of he would have crossed over the magic number of 270 Electoral College votes so that means he would he would win the election. Trump is still ahead by a little bit but its mail in voting ballots that are still being counted that favor joe biden and some of them are coming from the philadelphia area which is also a democratic leaning. Area and so that would mean that biden could pull ahead here and were expecting more numbers from there soon lets talk about the further numbers that are expected we also know from philadelphia that you just mentioned also know that georgia 99 percent of the vote counted and that is really quite a lot given all of this when could we expect to bristle at sort of timeline could we be looking. Well that is of course what everyone is wondering and the short answer is we dont know exactly some numbers and some states as you mentioned are very close to having all ballots counted. S
This is business im Kate Ferguson thanks for joining me Global Markets are on course to end the week higher as investors expressed optimism about the prospect of joe biden becoming the next president of the United States in asia indexes in hong kong and shanghai traders 7 on the expectation that the United States under biden would lead to an improved trade relationship with china hopes are also rising among european investors who believe that i trade reset with the u. S. Could prove a major boost. Lets take a closer look at transatlantic trade with found lying a chairman of the european parliaments committee on International Trade welcome mr lying in the last 4 years have turned the transatlantic trade relationship on its head is there even any going back at this stage. I hope of course to survive moby looks for that because indeed we have a lot of Serious Problems is that our trade is with the lust for us because both borders the terrorists on to the the expression of. The state the.
Im sorry kelly welcome to the program facing growing likelihood of defeat in the u. S. President ial election donald trump is again claiming without evidence that he won and that democrats are trying to steal the election in fact trump is steadily losing ground as the tallies in most undecided states swing in favor of joe biden. Now lets get the latest figures for you they show by the end with 264 electoral votes President Trump with 214 were going now to the key state of georgia where we have Seen Movement in the past couple of hours 16 electoral votes at grabs there its an extremely tight race biden has pulled ahead of trump with just over 900. 00 votes 99 percent of the votes counted there meantime pennsylvania the biggest prize yet to be decided 20 electoral votes donald trump currently holding a narrow 3 tenths of a percent lead that gap has been narrowing rapidly in arizona meanwhile votes are still being counted the a. P. News agency this is theyve actually called the state for
From the bay areas local news station we begin now with that breaking news takes us here to oakland where firefighters say unfortunately theyve gotten control of this brush fire thats been burning dangerously close to 5. 80 threatening several structures. But again it appears firefighters aggressive attack has prevented destruction and perhaps worse thanks for joining us said 8 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis the fire broke along west bound 5. 80 east of 35th avenue at the overpass there. At one point it was upgraded to a 3 alarm fire more than 50 firefighters answered the call. Another the fire is contained as grant said its still a very active scene. Kron fours taylor sackey joining us now live from the scene and taylor. What a tense afternoon and early evening for firefighters. Address thankfully things are looking much better and firefighters were able to get on top of that fire very quickly of course its now contained and behind these fire engines you would s