Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Our budgets are under extreme stress. Arts fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We run our cities with a balanced budget which we are required to do by law. So what does that mean . How do we possibly do that in the face of this tremendous crisis . It means the cut jobs. It means eliminating services and staff at the same time. Our First Responders have been on the job since day one of this pandemic transporting those with covid to hospitals with Public Health initiatives keeping social and family order
I want to thank her for an sent the National League of cities in the National Association of counties for their sheer dedication to this issue on badly needed federal assistance as we continue to fight the covid19 pandemic. A quick note for members of the press joining us today, we will take questions after brief opening remarks. If you have a question, please put your name and media outlet in the chat and well call on you. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We r
Temperatures and another cool morning. Yes. Good morning. Feeling a little chill in the air this morning. And, we are going to see a big change in temperatures coming up. And, the 24 hour loop of the radar, shows you all the storms this time yesterday. Now, we just have clouds as we start to get into our weather today. And, it is looking pretty good. And, the temperatures are moving by essentially today for those about average. A little bit below average. We are seeing a very low average. We have more not coming up in just a bit and they arrested nine people after a second night of looting this was the scene at telegraph avenue. As please try to take control of the crowd there. With those flash brain crowds. It is unclear if any were arrested. And they said, they arrested three people for burglary. Six other people were arrested. And, outside agencies assisting them as well. And, its one of just several bay areas. And, seeing more unrest last night. And, live on more with that out in S
Oakland, demonstrators chose to stay still instead pretty group gathered this afternoon for a sit in at freckle gobble plaza in front of city hall. Our top story at 5 30, redeployed workers, thousands of city and county workers in San Francisco getting reassigned to completely different jobs during the covid 19 pandemic good evening, i am alan martin. Sharon chin shows us it is part of the largest disaster redeployment in the citys history. Reporter is Branch Manager of the public library, Bernie Sanders usually moves books. Im not usually moving potatoes into a bag. Reporter one of more than 100 Library Staff reassigned to the food bank to deliver food to 12,000 Senior Citizens a week who are sheltered at home. There is definitely a need for food delivery and we are thrilled to help. Reporter other Library Staff monitoring Homeless Hotels and shifting to covid19 Contact Tracing at you cfs. It is one example how City Employees are reassigned as Disaster Service workers. In a disaster,
That means we want to hear from Small Business owners and Small Business employees, and we will open up a special line for you. If you own a Small Business, your number is going to be 202 7488000. If you work for a Small Business, we want to hear from you as well. Your number is going to be 202 7488001. European counts as well, so we want to know what you think about the Small Business loan program being out of money, so your line is 202 7488002. Keep in mind, you can always text us your opinion at 202 we are always reading on social media. On twitter at cspanwj, and facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Once again, Small Businesses are the life lot of america lifeblood of america, and the coronavirus pandemic has hit them hard. We want to know from you how you are surviving if you are a small smallss owner and a business employee. Lets get some information about the program first. Lets go to politicos caitlin who is on the line and here to talk to us about what is going on with the small f