now it s just a matter of getting parents to sign on. i think many parents are afraid to bring their child back to child care facilities until the shelter-in-place order is lifted. also, many parents moved out of the city for this period of time. child care centers have been able to remain open for families of essential workers or children in vulnerable groups. this new government web portal lists all available centers. as more parents go back to work, at seabird, they said it s not their responsibility to check a parent s work status. we have availabilities. we would like our existing students to come back as soon as possible, as well as we open to the new students. so seabird told me they actually need about a dozen students to open this friday. so they re waiting to see if any parents are signing on. that just tells you that different providers have very specific circumstances to deal with before they can open, despite directives that they are allowed to open. am m
stay-at-home orders, but the governor says it won t be until next month at the soonest. he once six criteria met before loosening restrictions. here are the bullet points: protecting communities through testing and contact tracing, protecting at-risk groups from infection, making sure hospitals and health systems can handle surge, developing therapeutics for treatment, making sure businesses and schools can support physical distancing, and finally the ability to reinstitute stay-at- home orders if necessary. we have live team coverage no. for now, the governor is asking everyone to stay the course. reporter: that s right, news and praises californians for acting doubtfully to she wants them to transition out of the crisis the same way. there s no lightswitch here. i would argue it s more like a dimmer. reporter: governor gavin newsom says reopening society and the economy may be an on- again off-again process. this toggling back and forth between more restrictive and
the state, with county health officers, will begin easing constraints. it is all conditioned on is continuing to stay the course on the current road that we are on. reporter: not time to celebrate, but these neighbors see it as newsom does, a glimmer. it gives people hope, little thread to hang onto. reporter: this gathering reflects our times. residence at a santa rosa cul-de-sac connect every tuesday when they bring their garbage cans in. trash talk they call it, weekly friendship and support. it s been challenging all of a sudden to not have a job. it s california, my husband and i need both of our incomes. reporter: they are all aware when restrictions lift . the new normal will be very different. we are all going to have to make some meditations and continue to adapt. i just think it s important to let folks know we are not in a permanent state. reporter: the timetable will become more clear inmate. let s not make the mistake of pulling the plug too e
superior at city hall. the mayor has under the chart of the power to hire and fire the director of public works. and if that is not her subordinate, i don t know what is. xo tonight, the mayor denies any wrongdoing. this has never impacted my job as mayor. not in one instance. reporter: while there are calls for her resignation inside city hall. it is time that we expect more from the top leaders of the city, and that is why i am calling on the mayor, asking her to the right thing and step down. reporter: supervisor ronan is not the only one calling for a resignation or a stepping back on the mayor s duties tonight. at least three supervisors have made such a request. we have not heard from the city attorney directly, obviously there is some complicated legalese here may be involving whether or not this gift was legal. so we reached into santa clara university and spoke with anne state who is the director of the wakulla center for applied ethics. this is what she ha
about, midtown manhattan, and a couple preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. i like that better than power point as a term. i m not good at power point. it s not that i m a luddite. i m just not good at technology. i m just a technological idiot. well, this is not the supreme city is not the book i originally set out to write. the original idea was to do the whole city, all five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii, but without trying to be too cute, i took too big a bite out of the apple, and i discovered as i was doing my research that there was i was really drawn to a really compelling story within the larger story i had intended to tell, and it s an untold story actually. it s been told in bits and pieces, but it s never been stitched together as a compelling historical narrative, and that story is the rise of the the sudden and spectacular rise i should say of midtown manhattan in the 1920s which was an urban backwater