Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Our budgets are under extreme stress. Arts fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We run our cities with a balanced budget which we are required to do by law. So what does that mean . How do we possibly do that in the face of this tremendous crisis . It means the cut jobs. It means eliminating services and staff at the same time. Our First Responders have been on the job since day one of this pandemic transporting those with covid to hospitals with Public Health initiatives keeping social and family order
I want to thank her for an sent the National League of cities in the National Association of counties for their sheer dedication to this issue on badly needed federal assistance as we continue to fight the covid19 pandemic. A quick note for members of the press joining us today, we will take questions after brief opening remarks. If you have a question, please put your name and media outlet in the chat and well call on you. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We r
Tonight in both counties. This means nonessential illnesses and social gatherings with stop between the hours of 10 00 at night and 5 00 in the morning. Flock it is absolutely essential and it is important people live by the rules and if more people to, we would have a lot shorter time period, and significantly fewer death. Meriden county is the only bay area county still in the red tear. The second most restrictive tear although that could soon change. Moderna is now the Second Company to apply for emergency use use authorization from the fda for the coronavirus vaccine. As casey reports with cases and hospitalizations on the rise across the country, plans are being made to get the vaccines distributed as quickly as possible. Reporter the numbers are staggering. The u. S. Adding more than for million new covid cases in the month of november. Help could be just around the corner corner with moderna announcing the have applied for emergency use use authorization from the fda for their v
Reopening plans. This is ktvu fox 2 news at 6 00. We begin tonight with a developing story out of San Francisco. Three people were rescued from a boat that capsized near alcatraz, about 3 00 this afternoon. Marine units from San Francisco fire and the u. S. Coast guard took heart in the search which Authorities Say involved a 12 foot boat that began taking on water. Authorities say two of the people on board were rescued by another boat in the area, a third person was later found on the shoreline of alcatraz island. All three were evaluated by paramedics, and are said to be okay. Rescuers pulled a body from the ocean near sutro baths in San Francisco earlier today. The call came in at 8 45 this morning. A person in need of assistance, the u. S. Coast guard was called in to help with the recovery of the body. No word on exactly how the person got stranded in the water, conditions along ocean beach and baker beach have been dangerous and turbulent over the past week. Protesters confronte
For becoming the new Prime Minister of malaysia. And the sugar plantation in uganda that environmentalists say threaten using protected rain forests and hundreds of its animal species. And im santa hamas now have all the sports page a League Baseball welcomes back fans as the Atlanta Braves when the opening match of the National League championship series. While we begin this news hour in cyprus where the government is suspending a controversial citizenship for Investment Program after an undercover investigation by aljazeera is expose high ranking officials expressing a willingness to aids convicted criminals so say an e. U. Citizenship. In august al jazeera as investigative units released the cyprus papers which revealed serious falls in the citizen by Investment Program and as phil reece reports the investigation led to see the highest offices of the cypriot state the cyprus Investment Program allows foreigners to buy a european passport for an investment mostly made in property of