[speaker not understood] and help connect with it. The next recommendation is around expanding reunification of individuals and trent has tremendous amount to be proud of. Theres been a program home ward bound which has existed for anyone years now. We have close to 8,000 individuals and our city does a good job making sure and confirming people who are returning home are being rejected with family or friends that are going to support them so that were not seeing people dumped, but it has been of the next recommendation about Behavior Health and outreach, we do have i think some incredible work going on. Kelly hiramota who works with barbara garcia. She work in director of placement. Weve worked with challenging individuals who have been on the street or been chronically homeless and they have devised very thoughtful plans that also involve the Adult Protective Services and other partners in housing, challenging individuals. The centralized information system, the hmis system, there is
Christmas. That cannot come soon enough with the u. S. Now bracing for a super surge after the thanksgiving holiday. And what it means for december given november has been the worst month yet for covid cases. What you need to know if you did travel this weekend. Also happening today, for the first time in the world of politics, the president elect and his v. P. Elect havent to get their first classified president ial daily briefing. The biden Team Staffing up, and within just the last hour, launching the ainaugural committee. What that might look like. To start off this morning, some brock in miami, Jacob Soboroff in los angeles, and dr. Natalie azar joining auz well. Sam, promising news on the vaccine front. After this Holiday Weekend things could get worse before they get better. No question about it. 93,000 hospital covid hospitalizations. Thats a record. Thanksgiving travel is not going to help with that. You talked about moderna, the second Pharmaceutical Company to be submitting
To people who [speaker not understood] homelessness. [speaker not understood] and help connect with it. The next recommendation is around expanding reunification of individuals and trent has tremendous amount to be proud of. Theres been a program home ward bound which has existed for anyone years now. We have close to 8,000 individuals and our city does a good job making sure and confirming people who are returning home are being rejected with family or friends that are going to support them so that were not seeing people dumped, but it has been overwhelming successful, handful of people have come back to San Francisco. Police officers, a lot of all the agencies that work with Homeless Individuals really know to ask people if theyre not being successful in San Francisco, to reunify. The next point is around an oversight committee. I think that is the local homeless board. Theyll want to dialogue about what their role is in term of the next recommendation about Behavior Health and outre
Come see me. But i think for a hie they look at homesness and say, people need homes. Its really very simple. At one stage of my life i thought that was naive. I think when you get down to the policy level, thats what people need, they need homes because were spending a lot of money no one comes up here, we shouldnt spend x amount of dollars on police services, x amount of dollars for the Sheriffs Department to move peoples things out of their homes, x amount of dollars for street cleaning. No one ever comes and says we shouldnt spend that money, but people say this jurisdiction is a magnet for people who need services. Im grateful the people who did the Homeless Count here because we can let some air out of this big room. Lets look at alameda county, santa clara county, san mateo county. Yes, some of them will have more success than us, but if you look at the base being parameters of the numbers, the truth of the matter is, yes, people oftentimes come to urban areas for opportunity. S
What hes learned about the media world, coming up. After a week of uturns by the president , part of what Chris Cillizza called the education of donald trump, lets seek out a quote of the week, a single quote that tells a big story. This is what the president told the wall street yournl after listening to the president explain the history of china north korea relations. Quote, after listening for ten minutes, i realize that its not so easy. This quote left Cnns Anderson Cooper almost speechless. President trump said in the wall street journal after listening to the chinese president explain the history of china and north korea for ten minutes, he realized its not so easy. I mean, is that i i im i really am speechless. I dont know why im reacting like this. He said the same thing about health care. Its the same thing. Nobody knew health care was so complicated. Everybody knew it was really, really complicated. She is right. Back in february, trump said this about health care. I have to