Clerk madam chair, you have a quorum. Wonderful. Clerk item 3, announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. Its clear were using sound producing devicing duries duri meeting, so we wont announce this. Item 4, approval of minutes of the november 3, 2020 meeting. Directors, is there anyone who wishes to make any comment . Okay. Seeing none, are there any members of the public who wish to make Public Comment this item on the agenda . You have zero questions remaining. Okay. With that, ill turn it back over to the directors. Directors, do i have a motion . Motion to approve. Second. Okay. Secretary silva, would you please call the roll. [roll call]. Clerk madam chair, you have five votes to approve the minutes. You are on item five, communications. Due to the covid19 health emergency, this meeting is being held virtually, and all members of the staff and the public are attending via teleconference. This will ensure the safety of the sfmta board of directors, t
The World Health Organization and americas top infectious experts are urging vigilance. The virus is not going to stop and call a time out while things change the virus is just going to keep going. The process is just going to keep going. This is something that just is now going in the very, very strong right direction. The vaccines are effective. We want to get it approved this quickly as we possibly can. We want to get doses to people starting in december, and then we want to really get the ball rolling as we get into january, february, and march. We want to smooth process with that. And the way you do that is by essentially having the 2 groups speak to each other and exchange information. Donald Trumps National security adviser says the 1st step to solving the qatar gulf located is to allow planes to fly over saudi and bahraini airspace. Robert obrien said hed like to see permission for flights granted within the next 70, days before a transition of office. Saudi arabia, the u. A. E
A really important milestone in the fight against the pandemic, because it demonstrates that our better senior morning to all 73 is able to prevent covert 900 disease, including severe disease in people who receive. Its really just a milestone. We have a lot of work ahead of us knowing the vaccine is going to be effective is great news, but we still need to complete the regulatory process, which involves completing the study, generally more to follow safety. And then of course, we need to get busy manufacture. Donald Trumps National security adviser says hed like to see the blockade on cats are resolved within 70 days. Over to brian said, a 1st step is for saudi arabia and bahrain to fully reopen their airspace. To qatari aircrafts. The u. S. Is expected to have the number of troops in afghanistan by the middle of january, leaving around 2500 personnel in place. The order would stop short of going president Donald Trumps goal to have all troops withdrawn by the end of the year. The num
Reports now from dutch and their governments for the problem concentrate the mortal they are prog from the power couple of days from the outskirts of mckillip, the comfort zone of the to cry. Its the ultimate prize for them. And they say now about 2 mates in their Prime Minister had given or but deadlines. He had given to them to the degree forces who are the fighting forces for them to lay down their weapons to try to end up with the government. They are saying that the next 48 hours will prove. 1 to be in the bottle, they carry out a number or for assault against the cop to pull off a particularly good u. S. Secretary of state mike compare has arrived in turkey as part of a 10 day tour of the middle east and europe. But he work be meeting with turkish politicians or officials. Hell spend tuesday meeting with religious leaders in istanbul to discuss issues affecting the wider region of payors, also set to visit georgia. Israel. Other member of gulf countries. There is congress has cho
Ultimatum given to the 2 great forces to surrender is now over. Meanwhile, an estimated 25000 people have fled into neighboring sudan to escape the fighting. And this is crucial to the hero worship. You know, as you know, the reason why we have to service is you, it should be your job. You see it was just you and other service providers. And you can see some stories of this instance revision much more needs to be done. The head of nato has warned against the removal of u. S. Forces from afghanistan too quickly. Reports suggest the trumpet, ministration is looking to have the number of personnel there by january. And iran says any attack on its Nuclear Facilities would face a crushing response thats following a report from the New York Times that president from was seeking options to attack a nuclear site. Oxfam says g 20 member countries of sold 17000000000. 00 worth of arms to saudi arabia. Since it intervened in yemens war 2015, the charity says that is 3 times whats going to yemen i