Board will not take any formal action but looking forward to peoples comments and questions. Any people on the line, moderator . You have seven questions remaining. Chair borden okay, our first speaker, please. Caller hello. My name is joel kamisher, a School Crossing guard and a member of the sfciu 10 to 1 bargaining committee. We have been trying to talk about not outsourcing people to protect the city workers and im hearing that discussion about the flaggers and the pedestrian monitors. I wonder if we could use our own workforce, the parking control people and the crossing guards instead of having the contractors hire private people. I realize that the flaggers might have their own union, so maybe thats a problem. But im hoping that we can do other things to reduce the need of contract people to prevent layoffs . Thank you. Chair borden thank you, next speaker, please. You have six questions remaining. Caller hello, members of the board, my name is Hector Jimenez and im with the loc
Area above highway 13. So certainly that was on everyones mind. This is the memorial to that firestorm but this time fire crews were in the right place at the right time. Black smoke rising from the Oakland Hills at 9 40 Tuesday Morning sent an ominous wave of panic. Oakland fire says what ignited the blaze is a gasoline generator hooked up because power was cut off by pg e because of the red flag warning posted for the east bay hills. It was a huge explosion. Its like i hear a neighbor saying its the generator that explode and then we see the fire all over the place and i started to shake and everybody just get panicked and started to run all over the place. Reporter this family lives next door. It was a second explosion and the fire went across the street into the other peoples yard. And the whole house just went up in smoke and flames, and then the cars exploded right after that. At least two cars. Reporter there were a total of four explosions as the fire tore through two homes, fl
Of americans lining up to cast their ballots three w weeks befe the u. S. Election. Cypress scraps its controversial citizenship for Investment Program after an undercover investigation by aljazeera. Inspections keep rising in the netherlan netherlands. Hello, abortion, obamacare, gay marriage, some of the topics featuring on game two of the confirmation hearings of president trumps u. S. Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett. Republican and Democratic Senators have 30 minutes to ask her about subjects that are touch points to many americans. The full senate could vote by the end. Month on whether to appoint her just ahead of the u. S. Policy on november 3. She dliend to say if she would recuse herself relating to the president election. She sidestepped questions on abortion, diane feinstein, the most senior democrat on the committee. A contentious issue which is i know one reason why it would be comforting to you to have an answer. I cant express views on cases or precommit to appro
A military coup. Turkeys top diplomats accuses armenia of war crimes in our azerbaijan as the border fight takes a toll on civilians from both sides. And twitter has just bans one of Donald Trumps tweets skin parent coronavirus to the flu. We begin with breaking news in kyrgyzstan the Prime Minister has resigned this comes straight after the Election Commission and now the early results of sundays full on the speaker of the parliament as also resigns now this comes after a night of violence where protesters stormed state buildings now theyre accusing the governments of rigging the election in its favor the protesters freed former president s are almost back. And other. Senior officials from jail president assume by jeenbekov has insisted that he is still in control of the country well Charles Stratford says on the line from the capital bishkek care to bring us the very late says charles weve now had a dramatic resignation well maki teles. And more on the right on the back of those resi
State, many sparked by lightning that will become a concern again today. At least 965 structures destroyed, many of them homes. Heres a quick look at just how widespread these fire zones are. The lnu complex in the north bay, primarily in napa and sonoma counties and spread out among lake county. The czu in san mateo counties. The possible threat of new thunderstorms is a main concern right now for firefighters. Something we are tracking. Lisa, we can we expect this morning . We are looking at better possibility of that tonight into monday and under a red flag warning right now and we have fog dense along the coast but the view of mt. Tam shows the colors and the air quality is better for most of you this morning. That will be changing into those winds throughout the afternoon. 60 in mountain view. 57 in San Francisco. This is the east bay where you can see the gray sky here and some of the smoke and poor air quality with you. 53 santa rosa. 59 in napa. Cooler temperatures, higher rela