Clerk mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee okay. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart. Would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] okay. Thank you. On behalf of the meeting, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public on time. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. During this health crisis, the board of supervisors is meeting remotely and will proceed as though they were meeting in their public chamber. The board of supervisors realizes that public input is essential and more important during the time of covid19. So we hope that the public will take advantage of the following opportunities to participate in this meeting or comment remotely. If youre using the u. S. Mail, please address the envelope to the San Francisco board of supervisors, city hall, 1 carlton b. Goodlett place. Thats San Francisco, califor
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Been movement and supported and we will be taking will call the just like we did and our teams meeting. This did not change. [indiscernible] orthere any discussion motion regarding the approval of the minutes . Discussion on the approval of the minutes for october 15 . Will you please take a roll call vote . Taken]all vote four ayeir, you have votes. The second item on the agenda is the certification of the november 3, 2020 general election. Thank you, chair brad chop. Chair bradshaw. [indiscernible] all fourike to thank of you for your dedicated service to our stay. The staff recommendation is that you certify. You have before you the results of michigans election. More than 5. 5 million ballot, ars cast a record in our state. Two constitutional amendments. [indiscernible] dissipationng amidst a Global Pandemic is inspiring and voters should be commended for having their voices heard in november. State. Lf of our this is an effort that is unprecedented in scope and difficulty. Long be
A 1000000000. 00 he runs Media Companies previously run Clothing Companies so he is definitely a big fish when it comes to hong kongs Democracy Movement here and his profile here in the city farmers in india are meeting government ministers for a 2nd round of talks as protests intensify against proposed laws on farm produce they say theyll keep demonstrating after negotiations on tuesday ended without an agreement elizabeth has more. Farmers Union Leaders wouldnt eat the lunch provided by the government and brought their own lunch meanwhile the protests are continuing on 3 major highways coming into the indian capital one of them with thousands of farmers tens of thousands of farmers are using hundreds of their vehicles to block these key highways theyre being joined by more and more protesters from states which dont boarded early were seeing protesters arriving from the states of roger stone from the states of money for their. Ethiopian state television has released footage from withi
Fourth quarter shipments are up yearoveryear. We will talk to him about what is ahead for 2020. He is the amazon executive who calledd over what he vain toxicity running through company culture. Stories in a moment but first, tech earnings trickling out today. Abigail doolittle is with us. Abigail there was some action later in the day. Another sleepy day for much of the day for stocks. Record highs for the s p 500 and the nasdaq. News came out from pfizer, another headline that pfizer, the doses they will be able to provide for this year expected to be half of what had been anticipated. When the headline came out, it ran very bearish it read very bearish. Stocks initially took a leg lower. The s p 500 going down three tens of 1 . A decent intraday move. The s p 500 finishing down for the first time in three days. The nasdaq, however, managing to keep a small gain and a record high on the date. Pfizer really slipped, 1. 7 . Etf up 8 10 ofnd 1 . Tones of risk off, uncertainty around the