I get for coming out today. I had an opportunity to meet ,ith local elected Officials Police and sheriffs offices, the office of emergency preparedness. We took off and we flew encircled that flew in circles and we flew in come on row and circled back. The devastation is nowhere near what he saw in Southeast Louisiana yesterday. Powermistic the restoration is going to happen relatively rapidly, but i cant get a prediction on that. Have wendy of power crews that are here working already. We had more power crews positioned ahead of storm than ever in the history of our state. And i think it was the worst storm to ever strike louisiana. I talked to individuals here who can never remember Hurricane Force winds this far north in louisiana, after the experience yesterday. We have got a long way to go. We will be posting a major federal disaster declaration today and i expect they will turn that around fast and that will enable us to even more assistance and we can start looking for parishes
Gatheringpeople doing essential work and need to work in close proximity, we need to have that happen. Lets not gather for things that could otherwise be delayed or be done on zoom or in other virtual ways. With regard to specific out breaks, i cant comment on drawing conclusions from the gathering at dolores park except to say thats behavior that were very concerned about it. Our message continue continues o not gather unless absolutely essential. Do not gather out side your immediate household. If you do, wear those face masks and use good hygiene and socially distance when possible. Look, when i walk or drive around the city, we know this is still not happening to the degree it needs to be. We need to hit that 80 mark. Lets go for 90 or one hundred. We need to crush this curve. Thank you. The next set of questions are from the associated press. How have the states problems with cal ready effected San Francisco effective reproductive rate. Its based on the number of hospitalizations.
You may address the board once per agenda item for two minutes. Item number 1, call to order. [roll call] president tsen here. Director dunlop here. Vice president lai here. Director richardson here. We do have a quorum. President tsen excellent. Before we begin, hello, directors and members of the public. Thank you so much for joining us today. I am sorry that we still to conduct our meetings by teleconferencing. And i ask that everybody be patient as there is a lag time sometimes to hear the Public Comment. But our able secretary kate austin will guide us through the process. I would like to start the meeting with a quote, whose life and words inspired so many of us. He wrote a letter which was published and i quote from that letter. He says, ordinary people with extraordinary visions can redeem the soul of america by getting into what i call good trouble, necessary trouble, building and participating in the democratic process are key. Democracy is not a state. It is not an act. Each
Suspected russian mercenaries are detained in baton rouge accused of trying to disrupt an upcoming vote. And we have major sports news stories today including criminal proceedings in switzerland against the fee for president a deadline for russia to avoid exclusion from takes and Saudi Arabian investors out of their bid to buy Newcastle United after months of premier league scrutiny. That it swept across the United States killing tens of thousands of people and now the devastating effects of coronavirus on the economy is becoming clear the United States is just recorded at shoppers downturn since the 940 s. And admitted all president dollar trump is floating the idea of pushing back novembers election is often talks of the economys strength but between april and june. Its shrunk at the fastest pace on record that is down 9 and a half percent in the past week another 1400000 people applying for jobless benefits his response to the pandemic is expected to be a key election issue the us h
Agenda item up to two minutes and be in a quiet location and speak clearly and slowly and mute computers or radio. Item 1, call to order roll call. Director tsen. Here. Director dunlop . Perhaps you have unmute. Sounds like hes having an issue with his tablet. If hes in the meeting he can see it. Go to the upper left hand corner of the screen theres a circle with an i that says event information and at the bottom theres an attendee i. D. If you dial in and enter that attendee i. D. When prompted you should be able to access the meeting by audio and hopefully it will merge with your panelist i. D. As well. Can staff people perhaps phone him or text him. If he cannot join by video can he join by phone . Yes, theres instructions i just gave where he can use audio to dial into the meeting as a panelist but in order to do that he has to be in the meeting to access the unique attendee i. D. Otherwise hell call in but hell end up as an attendee and appear as a callin user like the public. Tho