A mixture of grief and rage also mexicos former president and 3 key opinion yetto is the latest to get sucked into a major bribery scandal. And the World Health Organization warns corona virus infections are spiking in latin america despite the months of lockdown. For the 1st time a woman of color will run for the office of Vice President of the United States after much anticipation Presumptive Democratic nominee joe biden chose senator comma harris as his running mate for novembers election in a tweet confirming his pick biden praised harriss record on social justice he said i have the great honor to announce that ive picked. A fearless fighter for the little guy and one of the countrys finest Public Servants as my running mate. And this is what come harris tweeted in return joe biden can unify the American People because hes spent his life fighting for us and as president hell build an america that lives up to our ideals im honored to join him as our partys nominee for Vice President
Ronen. Do you have any announcements . Due to the covid19 emergency to protect board members, City Employees and public, board of supervisors legislative chamber remain closed. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming live. [indiscernible] supervisor peskin , we lost you. Are you there . Erica . One moment, were checking with her right now. Ill go ahead and finish her announcements. Number scrolling across the screen for Public Comment call in is 4156550001. When your item of interest come up, please press star 3 to be added to the queue. I believe those were end of the comments for today. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. If ms. Major is still present, please read the first item. [agenda item read]. I want to thank supervisor ronen for being here for the first three items. She has be
How did the revolution survive its darkest hour . Because, of course, while all of this lofty language about liberty and rights and creating constitutions and remember the ladies is going on, the Largest Overseas expedition in european history is headed towards new york. So the mural that you see beside me here is an eyewitness depiction, which weve blown up as a mural, showing 5000 british warships and about 6,000 british and hessian troops in landing boats about to land on manhattan baynd in kept bay kips on september 15, 1776. At the time, one of the soldiers saw the ships gathering in new york harbor and later said i thought all london was afloat. So, it was one thing to declare independence, to tear down the king, to declare that you are now living in the American Revolution, but to actually achieve american independence was going to be an effort of many, many more years of struggle. And the first thing americans had to do was just survive the onslaught that was coming in the form
Be turned around within 72 hours but were seeing back ups especially with our provider labs and some of our own labs within the city. We are backing up seven days, ten days at this point. Thats something were seeing across the state and across the country. thank you director. Thank you madam mayor and dr. C olfax for your time. Any followup questions or questions after this meeting can be directed to dem press at sf dot org. Thank you for your time and that concludes todays press conference. Concludes todays press good afternoon welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee San Francisco board of supervisors for today monday july 20th. Im the chair of the Committee Supervisor aaron peskin joined by supervisor ahsha safai and dean preston and joined by colleague supervisor Hillary Ronen. Do you have any announcements . Due to the covid19 emergency to protect board members, City Employees and public, board of supervisors legislative chamber remain closed. Committee members will at
Were really not too far off that 25 , if we look at it 10 years from now. Thank you very much. Thank you, now were going to open this up for Public Comment. Every member of the public will have two minutes to speak. Yes, members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 4156550001. The meeting id is 1463082077. Then press pound and pound again. If you havent done so, press star 3 to line up to speak. The system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comment. We currently have 20 people lined up to speak at this time. May we have the first caller . Yes, i will unmute the first caller. Thank you chair ronen and Committee Members. This is doug on behalf of Teamsters Joint Council 7. Were also members of the food chain workers alliance. I want to thank supervisor fewer for the shoutout and her leadership. I feel so proud when i think of how far we come since that fir