San franciscos biggest private employer, salesforce, announced its barring most employees from flying for business within the united states. Only critical Domestic Travel will be allowed. The move could have a wider impact on domestic air travel. Twitter and amazon have taken similar steps. Vice president pence meeting with the countrys biggest drug makers. That includes Silicon Valley biofek companies. In an unusual move, theyre banding together instead of competing with each other. Scott budman is inside a lab in one of the companies. The conditions have done this before with other outbreaks, like ebola, where they team up together to find a vaccine. Reporter thats right, jessica. They are teaming up. We are here in the lab at adam bio. While people are working into the night in newark on a possible virus, theyre working with companies all over the world as the cases of coronavirus continue to mount. Employees in the lab at adam bioare pulling extra shifts as they try to find a coron
G od morningd welcome to news 4 midday. We begin with our weather alert. Right now were under anxc eessive heat warning. In fact, 31 states are under some kind of heat alert. That means 150 Million People are impacted by this weather. And the feels like temperatures are going to t 100 degrees today. Yo think thats ba oh, baby just you wait until tomorrow. Lets get the stage set herem storm t4 meteorologist chuck now. Joins us breakdown what we can expect. Heat indexes running 105 to 110 degrees for three days in a row. , tomorrow and again on sunday. Hazy skies an code orange air quality. So folks that have respir ory or cardiac sensitivities, this is not the weather you want to be spending outside. Theres the excesse heat warning outside for all of the listening areanow. Heat index values over 110 degrees, onespecially saturday. Saturday i think will be the peak of the heat wave. Right now itslready 90 degrees with the heat index close to 100 degrees at 11 02 in the morning. Ur theres
Electronic device places you on item number four. Approval of minutes for the april 16th regular meeting. Thank you. Directors are there any changes to the april 16th minutes . Okay. Seeing none, well open the item for Public Comment. Are there any comments . Comments on the minutes. Seeing none, well close Public Comment. Is there a motion please. And a second on the minutes. So moved. Moved move. Approval rather. Yes. Second, thank you. Please call the roll on the motion to approve the minutes. Director henderson a henderson i director kinsey i kinsey i director so i so i director tarloff i director kahina i kahina i chair ekin ekin i thank you. The minutes are approved places you on item five communications. I have none moving on to item number six introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members. Board members, are there any items of new or Unfinished Business today . Director. So. Hi, everyone, i want to take this moment to, say that we are celebrating the Asian America
Minutes for the april 16th regular meeting. Thank you. Directors are there any changes to the april 16th minutes . Okay. Seeing none, well open the item for Public Comment. Are there any comments . Comments on the minutes. Seeing none, well close Public Comment. Is there a motion please. And a second on the minutes. So moved. Moved move. Approval rather. Yes. Second, thank you. Please call the roll on the motion to approve the minutes. Director henderson a henderson i director kinsey i kinsey i director so i so i director tarloff i director kahina i kahina i chair ekin ekin i thank you. The minutes are approved places you on item five communications. I have none moving on to item number six introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members. Board members, are there any items of new or Unfinished Business today . Director. So. Hi, everyone, i want to take this moment to, say that we are celebrating the Asian American Pacific Islander heritage month. This is a month of may. And
Im Gasia Mikaelian pro palestinian protests continue to grow on us College Campuses. Overnight, dozens of protesters were arrested on the campus of New York University as police moved in. Some protesters took to the streets of manhattan demanding a cease fire in the war between israel and hamas. More than 30,000 people in gaza have been killed in 200 days of war. Activists at Columbia University continued to demand the school divest from Companies Selling weapons to israel. The climate has changed, and now were more and more confident that we will be able to achieve our demands. Most classes at columbia will be hybrid for the rest of the spring semester, due to tensions on campus, students at uc berkeley pitched tents at the sproul steps near the schools sather gate. Its their latest demonstration calling for an end to israeli attacks in gaza. Ktvu james torres explains how the school is handling the protest. What youll see here at uc berkeley is not nearly as intense of what youve see