[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
Advisors warn could be a surge on top of a surge in coronavirus cases and deaths facing the u. S. In the next few months. They are going to be the most difficult time in the Public Health history of this nation, largely because of the stress that it is going to put on our health care. Brennan with the virus surging across the country, hospitals are overwhelmed with covid19 patients. On top of noncoronavirus hospitalizations, are they close to the breaking point . Well talk to the head of nebraska medicine, james linder, and well take a look at the massive undertaking of vaccinating hundreds of millions of americans with the head of operation warpeoperation warp dr. Moncef slaoui. And finally, chris krebs was head of the agency taived witagenttaskforce. Its all just ahead on face the nation. Brennan good morning, and welcome to face the nation. The numbers of new covid19 infections, into deaths, and new hospitalizations in the u. S. Continue to spiral out of control. The coronavirus was
Abuse claims against boy scouts of america. We speak with one of the more than 82,000 accusers about what allegedly happened and what needs to change. And a miraculous recovery of a hiker found unconscious on mt. Rainier. How he lived to tell us the story after he was on the brink of death for 45 minutes and doctors revived him. First, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. We really are in a critical situation today. You must physically distance when you cannot physically distance, Everybody Needs to wear a mask. The u. S. Has now passed 11 million coronavirus cases. You think it would be a good idea if your team would be able to work with the Biden Harris Transition Team . Thats obvious. Of course, it would be better if we could start working with them. Ill help them in any ways that i can. Now, im not planning to suddenly work around the white house. No cabinet position for you . Probably some things i would not be doing because michelle would leave me. Shed be like,
Arizona for First Time Since 1996 and thats where we will begin this morning as the president continues his legal challenges today. President elect biden winning the state of arizona, thats according to nbc news decision desk overnight further cementing his victory in last weeks election biden now holds 290 electoral votes, to trumps 217. Georgia and North Carolina are the ones that are still too close to call, jim but if you put those two together, even flipping those for the president would not be enough yeah, look, carl, this matters tremendously there was a lot of uncertainty in the last four days that perhaps the president wouldnt leave the white house, the legal challenges would go on forever, december 13th would come, 14th is the last day, and there would be no concession about the electoral college. And this kind of makes it so that it is less likely, plus the attack on fox, believe it or not, made people realize maybe there is a second life, maybe a station that will be owned
Hospitalizations are 36. Sadly, the total number of deaths has reached 151, and we are seeing 5,000, almost 6,000 tests per day. Our Positivity Rate has went from a record low to now 1. 28 , and what does all this mean . We are seeing an uptick. Two weeks ago, we put a pause on our reopening efforts, and we made it clear to the people of San Francisco that we are seeing the number of cases increase, and we should be concerned. We had plans. We had plans not only to continue our reopening efforts, but we had planned to really expand so many services, so many businesses, and a number of other i think thisethings, o weeks ago, we knew we were probably headed in this direction, and sadly, what were seeing today has put us in a situation where we have to take a moment and to recognize that there is a problem. The upticks that we have seen are really a cause for concern, and its put us in a situation where we have had to make yet another hard choice. San francisco has been praised over the p