[roll call] clerk we have a quorum. Madam president , i want to make a couple of announcements. First, i want to let everybody know that closed session will not be heard today. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendation issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and that Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted on teleconference, this meeting is being televised on sfgovtv. Please note that there is a delay between live and what is being viewed on sfgtv. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item, dial 14156550001, meeting i. D. 1467101398, pound, pound. To raise your hand to speak, press star, three. Please limit your Public Comment to the item that is under consideration. Im going to ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones if they have not already done so. Madam president , your first order of business is to approve the minutes of the meeting of october 27, 2020. Commissioners, do i have any questions or discussion
Lets dig in with pennsylvania right now. Joe biden has taken the lead right now. He has about a 6,000vote lead, just under 6,000 votes. Theres still 130,000 ballots that still need to be counted. If youre saying this race is very close, were talking about a 6,000vote lead. Theres 130,000 ballots that can be counted. President trump can catch up, maybe. Heres the problem for President Trump. At least 60 60,000 of those 130,000 ballots that have yet to be counted are coming from philadelphia, the surrounding suburbs up through the Lehigh Valley and joe biden is making eastern pennsylvania even more blue. Tom, let me stop you there. Through the night joe biden has been winning. Hes been winning the deep blue areas by 70, 80 . Yes. Because of the mailin vote, when we look at pennsylvania, look at the ratio right here, this is pretty much the breakdown. 80 are going to joe biden. I want to say 30,000 of that 130,000 still to be counted is coming from pittsburgh, a very deep blue county. Als
144,000, 65000 people hospitalized and we are averaging over a thousand deaths a day. A new round of restrictions would surely slow the economy and put more people out of work, heard even more with travel, retail and Entertainment Industries perhaps, thats one reason the market is selling this morning. After the huge recent gains the dow looks to be down about 200, s p down about 10. Look at the nasdaq with a modest bounce to the upside with the dana may be a quarter of a percent of the standout political headline comes from Bernie Sanders. He says yes, if offered the job of labor secretary in a biting next he would take it. On that, we will say this, varney co. Is about to begin. Stuart born to be wild, well i guess thats fairly appropriate. What you are looking at is rather empty new york city on a rainy thursday morning. Of course, its been half empty for about eight months and Governor Cuomo has more restrictions on businesses. Ashley, bring me up to speed. Ashley he certainly has.
Those arrive in london today, and the pound appears to gain after jumping to a sixweek high. This is surveillance. Eldinusef gamal in dubai. Toew fiscal stimulus impact mitigate the impact of the coronavirus. Reflecting that degree of caution, a little bit lower at the moment for the s p 500. At the same time, european stocks are falling for a fourth straight day. What is happening in the states is the bund rally is likely to pick up momentum again as the focus shifts away from global input to some of the deteriorating domestic fundamentals. Think along the lines of the german confidence data we got, the yields near the sevenmonth lows we had. Benefiting from the larger dollar risk aversion. It is very much strengthening over the past month, and at the goldt, the philadelphia and silver index up about 1. 4 . Lets check in on the first word headlines for you and toss it out to leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, yousef. Growing signs an agreement is insight. Negotiati
Protection, he wants 1200 stimulus checks, that is what he wants, not Speaker Pelosi democrat state bailout commonality this, the markets reaction, selloff tuesday in a reversal this morning, the dow will be up 200, look at that and nasdaq up about 100 points, that is a reversal, heres another blockbuster, declassified documents show in 2016 the cia director john brennan personally briefed president obama on Hillary Clintons alleged candidate trump to russia. His notes made right after you briefed obama showed clintons during up the scandal to distract from her email problems and obama knew all about it, by the way the broadcast network did not cover this at all. 0 coverage on a blockbuster story, maybe mike pence will bring this up at the debate tonight. This is a major event. We are less than four weeks to the election and senator harris has a strong chance of becoming president given joe bidens age, he will be 78 on eggnog ration day, she will have to answer the question that biden