Present. Supervisor stefani. Present. Supervisor walton. Present. Supervisor yee. Mr. President. All members are present. Thank you. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. Place your right hand over your heart, please. I pledge allegiance to the flago f america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. On behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who record each meeting and make the transcripts available to the public online. What i would like to do is before we go to communications, and before we get into our special order at 2 00 p. M. , i would like to at least say a word or two. Before we get started i want to acknowledge George Floyds funeral today and thank the city family, particularly m. T. A. , for halting all Public Transit from 12 00 to 12 08 p. M. To acknowledge the wrong that happened to mr. Floyd and to the many other black and brown individuals in our country. C
Chair peskin welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority board for our meeting today, tuesday, june 9th, 2020. Our clerk is ms. Angela tsao. Madam clerk, could you please call the roll. Clerk commissioner fewer . Present. Clerk commissioner haney . Present. Clerk commissioner mandelman . Present. Clerk commissioner mar. Present. Clerk commissioner peskin . Chair peskin present. Clerk commissioner preston . Present. Clerk commissioner ronen . Present. Clerk commissioner safai. Commissioner safai . Safai absent. Commissioner stefani. Present. Clerk commissioner walton . Present. Clerk commissioner yee . Present. Clerk we have coreium. Chair peskin thank you, madam clerk. Do you have an announcement . Clerk yes. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda, via telephone, by calling 888 2045987, enter access 2858465 as seen on the screen. And then follow the system prompts. Once you join, you will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. When yo
Greece lost it from radar. Just moments ago, egypts government in charge of the investigation says terrorism is more likely to blame than any technical failure. This is what we know right now. The paris to cairo flight had 66 people on board. Air Traffic Controllers in greece say the egyptair pilots did not respond to the calls during the last 90 seconds of the flight. It vanished from the radar, 173 miles off of the egypts coast. The problems emerged at 37,000 feet. Aviation experts say this is the safest part of the flight, because it is at cruising altitude and under less stress. Were bringing of all of the late ets developments. Lets begin with Nic Robertson in london. The latest information we have coming in from greek authorities is that some debris, two pieces of debris, have been spotted, 50 miles southeast of the site where the aircraft disappeared off the radar. It is not concluded whether the two pieces of debris are related to the aircraft, but it is in the area of the sear