Of the street trees actually, they first started as a committee with the cable cars we joined with the committee with the chamber of commerce and started the citywide Tree Planting program in San Francisco youve got 60 years of advocates saying we want to help us to get more trees in San Francisco and the department of public works is saying we cant maintain the 3rd of street trees and well meeting only 50 percent of gallows and the dpw is saying well increase our tree common place by 50 percent and this mayor has not shown leadership but we need vision and our advocates will support you san franciscans have said over and over they have the trees in the neighborhood we want to see leadership forward on 24 so, please continue those talks and lets give the city the departments and the people of San Francisco and the advocates the leadership they need in order to move forward now is the time it cant get worse. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors my name is susan
Percent of gallows and the dpw is saying well increase our tree common place by 50 percent and this mayor has not shown leadership but we need vision and our advocates will support you san franciscans have said over and over they have the trees in the neighborhood we want to see leadership forward on 24 so, please continue those talks and lets give the city the departments and the people of San Francisco and the advocates the leadership they need in order to move forward now is the time it cant get worse. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors my name is susan restraining order so im a resident the district 8 thank you very much for your attention to this issue im an 11 year volunteer for the friends of the urban forestry i moved from out of state and the First Organization i joined and the work ive been doing for the past 11 years has been training volunteers of friends of the urban forestry to maintain street trees i was trained by an arrest warrant bolster an
Al im Harris Faulkner, this is the fox report. The first person to be diagnosed with ebola in the United States is now fighting for his life. That word from the centers and disease com and prevention folks there. Thomas duncan is at a hospital in dallas, texas as you may know by now. His condition worsened this weekend, but now the cdc is saying theyre hoping for his recovery, end quote. Its still not clear what his treatment has entailed, although reportedly he has not been receiving any experimental medications for the virus. Meanwhile the hunt is on for anybody he came in contact with. And now 50 people are being honored for signs of inf
ineffectation. Officials keeping a close eye on some of his family members with whom he was visiting and sharing an apartment and the Health Care Worker who is had very close contact with him. We remind you, there is no other ebola case confirmed anywhere in the america tonight. The cdc is confident the virus will be stopped in its tracks in dallas,
Travel agents get in on this. That does it for us. Harris faulkner is up next with the fox report. Were on breaking news with the storm system gaining strength in the caribbean and the concern for florida. Its been churning out there and on the move more than a week. A short time ago, forecasters upgraded it to a tropical depression. Its the time of the year, as you know we watch these things and sometimes they climb up the scale of intensity. Thats what we are told to prepare for. They are expecting it to happen as they are calling tropical depression number nine. If it becomes a Tropical Storm as early as tomorrow it could grow a name. Fp the current track holds true, it could be on floridas doorstep by thursday. Millions of people in florida getting ready in case. Senior meteorologist is live in the fox weather center. We are watching a lot of Tropical Storms out there, not just in the atlantic but in the pacific we have a hurricane, as well as a Tropical Storm that could affect haw
Sunday. For now. Breaking news on the fox report, we are hearing from the white house now that several governors are going their own way, they say the white house and federal Health Officials are not doing enough to protect americans from one of the deadliest viruses on the planet. At this hour, the list is growing. As states take matters into their own hands now. New york, new jersey, illinois, goi going above and beyond anything recommended by the cdc, by recommending a mandatory 21day quarantine for anybody entering our nation who may have had contact with an ebola patient. Floridas state Health Department has the authority to monitor people for 21 days when they enter the state from one of the three west african countries, they will have to submit themselves to being checked twice a day, those quarantines are sparking a backlash from the white house. Heres the wording the president s staff is using, warning governors who carry out the quarantines of, quote, unintended consequences.