Although the deaths in San Francisco have been lower than other cities, each person who has passed away is one too many. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Across the nation we are seeing tens of thousands of lives lost to this virus. In the last two weeks alone, death in the United States increased by 64 . More than 257,000 people have died. Hospitalization rates are increasing dramatically. 50 in the last two weeks across the country, 55 in california. Consistent with these increases across the nation and state, we are seeing the local cases in hospitalizations continually decline. Many cases deaths and hospitalizations can be prevented if we follow the basic measures that we know prevent the virus. Now, lets look at some data. Slide one, please. This slide shows how the surge is in relation to prior increases in San Francisco. Today 14,600 people are diagnosed in San Francisco and resulting in 158 deaths since the onset of the pandemic. As you can see from this slide,
By law, the bidenharris team cannot access federal funding or contact federal agencies without gsa signing off. Now despite the step, the president is clearly not conceding. In a series of tweets he wrote our case strongly continues. We will keep up the good fight, and i believe we will prevail. Nevertheless, in the best interests of our country, im recommending that emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols and have told my team to do the same. Now, in response to the letter, the executive director of the bidenharris transition wrote todays decision is a needed step begin tackling the challenges facing our nation, including getting the pandemic under control and our economy back on track. This final decision is a definitive administrative action to formally begin the transition process with federal agencies. Now, in her letter, murphy said she made her decision now because of developments involving legal disputes and certification of Election Results
Department, following that shooting. The the attorney said while keita oneil made a troubled past he was quote usual you add death sentence for theft. Oneils family said they are gratified to see that a criminal case will go to court as well. Hopefully this will lead the way in the future to hold the Police Officers accountable. Hopefully there will be some standards changed and policies. San francisco Police Officers association also released a Statement Today reading quote today we are informed of the charges against former Police Officer christopher samayoa. The criminal Justice System will allow for the facts surrounding this case to be disposed. Former officer samayoa is currently out of custody and is expected to surrender sometime this week. At this time, District Attorney boudin said there are no plans to charge any of the other officers who on scene at the time of that deadly shooting. Christien kafton, ktvu fox 2 news. New details tonight about a bribery scheme involving a co
If anything, i think it helps slow the spread, i support it. Reporter the governor issued the order thursday by statement instead of the usual video News Conference. Part of issuing this decree by statement was having to avoid the media and answering questions. About why he has been a hypocrite and why he has had such a difficult time managing through this crisis. All of those questions are things that he frankly did not want to deal with. You cant tell somebody dont do this and governess like that and they go out and do it. Reporter 41 of the 58 counties are in the purple tear, and the counties, and lest restrictive tiers. How the curfew will be enforced is still unclear, the state is reporting a weekly average of 9900 cases per day, or than double the average two weeks ago. Kenny, the governor has put himself in a tough spot, how has he responded since issuing the order . We reached out to the governors office, at times, soon after he issued the order via statement, but we have not h
Will see and hear details of an officerinvolved shooting incident that resulted in lifethreatening injuries to mr. We recognize the impact on the members of our community at large. With that said, to any of our viewers or members of the community who are experiencing trauma from this incident or from the information or the images presented here during this town hall you can contact the San Francisco department of Public Health crisis line at 4 sa9703800 for trauma services. With that said, here is what we hope to accomplish today. First and foremost tonight is about transparency. It is our intention to release the known facts involved in the incident in a nonjudgmental way and id like to emphasize that this is an Ongoing Investigation and as such that there are some facts that we cannot release today because we either do not have the answers at this point and or the release of certain information is prohibited by law or could compromise this investigation. Next there was Body Worn Came