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The presiding officer pursuant to rule 4, paragraph 2, the senate having been in continuous session, the senate will suspend for a prayer from the senate chaplain. The chaplain let us pray. Holy god, as our lawmakers strive on this decisive day in history to accomplish your purposes, show them how to discern your will. May they renew their minds through the in yourishment of your an hourishment of your holly word. Lord, prepare them to be sober minded and filled with your spirit, accomplishing t...

You look to the end of our weekend. In the meantime we are dealing with extreme heat as well as dangerous fire conditions. In the mountain peaks, winds gusting 30 to 50 Miles Per Hour, a big concern with the critical fire weather conditions. Thats the reason why we have a red flag warning still in effect until 11 00 a. M. Due to the extreme fire danger. Also the heat. The heat advisory is still in effect for the bay area. We are going to see temperatures soar hotter than yesterday, mid to upper ...

The most intelligent president s we have ever had. I mean, he is up there in the top half dozen. And when we go through his life, by the end of it, or the middle of it, youre going to start laughing because youre just going to say no, that cant be, he cant be that good in that field, its just not possible. And then well find something else. And youre going to say, no, he is just incredibly bright. And the hope for his presidency was enormous. And so were going to discuss an absolutely brilliant ...

I think the perceptionce that many people in the United States and also around the worldhi that this is an extraordinary unusual time in a sense where we are out of time will be a curiosity in the future. People will look back and wonder about that wonderment. And he gets kind of an interesting phenomenon. When you think about today do you compare it to any other time in history . As a historian. Im interested in that. We have a cognitive tendency. In the same way im the kind of person that seem...

The pier 740 master plan which eventually led to historic core, it resulted in those buildings being rehabilitated and rfp that resulted in brookfield taking over the waterfront site as our partner on that location and the next slide, built on to that process in 2013. Our planning and Environment Group developed a crane cove park plan. You can see here its very similar to what ultimately has been delivered on site which is very exciting. And the kneass building was not addressed with use it migh...

So little perspective on this moment, its quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and of course also around the world have that this is an extraordinary unusual time something we are the time out of time, will be curiosity in the future people will look back and wonder about that very wonderment i think its an interesting phenomenon. When you think about today do you compare it to any period in history . Jill lepore as a historian im interested in an...

Conocopillps acquiring contra resources. The largest deal this year and well have conoco ceo join us this hour. The 737 max or comeback european r regulators saying it is safe to fly and planning a december return to service. Carl jim, heard you just talking to becky about stimulus as we continue to kick this around it does not sound like this new sense of urgency, quote unquote, will do much to push the package forward. We are too close to the election and either side gives then the other side....

The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the october 19th, 2020, meeting of the rules committee. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. With me is the vicechair Catherine Stefani and gordon mar. Our clerk today is victor young and i would like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk to protect the Board Members and the City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. How...

Good afternoon, welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors for today, monday, october 19th, 2020. I am the chair of the Committee Supervisor peskin joined by Committee Member dean preston and soontobe joined by vicechair supervisor safai. Our court is miss erika major. Do you have any announcements, ms. Major . Due to the covid19 health emergency, and to protect Board Members the legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, membe...

If you didnt watch, i envy you. There was nothing new, republicans and democrats placed their assigned roles but we are not here to talk about that. We are talking about something more interesting, the Roberts Court. More than any other Supreme Court justice in recent history, john roberts has played a defining role in shaping our free speech block. Hes been more than twice as many majority opinions in this area than any of his colleagues and there is a certain result in 95 of the greek expressi...