Everybody thanks for being here on kron 4 news at 9 im grant lotus and im justine waltman in for vicki tonight. Now Assemblymember Phil ting and other members of a San Francisco delegation are calling on superintendents in their districts. To reopen schools as soon as possible this is new coronavirus cases reach new heights in the last 24 hours. The country has reported more than 195,000 new covid cases and close to a 100,000 patients are currently in the hospital because of covid this is according to the covid tracking project in california nearly 21,000 new cases were reported in a single day. This is the most new cases recorded in a single day in the state since the pandemic started california has recorded more than a million total cases so far. In the bay area more than 153,000 cases have been recorded and nearly 2000 people have died. And despite a surge in infections, a San Francisco delegation has now sent letters to several School Districts in the bay area demanding that school
Bring students back as soon as possible. Thank you for joining us on kron 4 news at 10 everybody im grant lotus im Justine Waldman in for Vicki Liviakis tonight now this delegation sent letters to San Franciscos Unified School District san mateo counties offices at of education and more. Urging for more plans to be made to kron 4 cylinder sackey joins us now live from outside of San Franciscos district headquarters for the School District she has more now on this push to get kids and teachers back in the classroom. Well despite the surge in cases and hospitalizations lawmakers and doctors say that school should still reopen as soon as they can and based on data from some of the other schools that reopened in the bay area with. In Person Learning they say that actually schools are one of the safer places to reopen during the pandemic. Do believe that schools need to be prioritize. We think that schools need to be open when many of the things may need to be should an Assembly Member phil
Thanks for that you know traffic is looking great out there, but you can see the bay bridge. A lot of backup there the maze to fremont street 13 minutes and you see traffic starting to build here in the Richmond Bridge traffic steadily moving along near the tulsa the one o one about 11 minutes. For your drive so make sure now is the time you want to give yourself more time to get out on the roads because were no longer in the green everybodys out there trying to get to work, san mateo bridge 92 you can to one o one a 17 minute drive for you can see everyone kind of stepping on those lights there you see the brake people making their way across but its going to definitely be a drive and thankfully, no accidents to tell you about no hot spots to get to but lets get a check at our drive times for you filling a out to conquer 21 minutes of steadily increasing there but take danville 40 minutes, san leandro to milpitas 27, san jose youre at a 35 plus drive the air and one more look out at t
Can you please call the roll . [ roll call ] clerk you have a quorum. Announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. Approval of the minutes from the october 6 regular meeting. Can we open up the line for Public Comment on the minutes from the october 6 meeting. You have zero questions remaining. Well pause 20 seconds. If no one comes on the line, well move along. Clerk if members of the public wish to address the board on the meeting, please dial 10 to join the queue. And the number is available on the screen, should anyone want to join. You have zero questions remaining. Then well close Public Comment. Directors, are there any additions or amendments to the minutes . If not, may i hear a motion. Motion. Is there a second . A second. Please call the roll. [ roll call ] clerk 50. Item 5, communications. Due to the covid19 emergency, this meeting is being held virtually and all members of the public and staff are participating via video conference. This will
Skbl. Supervisor ronen could you describe again the decision like, where the two potholes were dug, why you chose those two . One was giving us the end of the street, the upper end of the street, and the other one was giving us kind of a low point on where the road was lumping up, so we figured that the pipeline is fairly straight, and that those two points face on what pg es instruction would give us, the pipeline. And the pipeline was surveyed by an additional surveyor, and a response was done. Supervisor ronen okay. Okay. And who prepared the initial response and evacuation plan . We worked with the Fire Department to prepare that. We tried many, many times to get in contact with the San Francisco department of emergency. I was sent hundreds of emails, i called and left messages. I went there personally many times, never got a call return. I would have liked to have gotten their input, but i wasnt able to. Pg e indicated they had a very robust evacuation plan thats being developed w