San francisco is surrounded on three sides by water, the fire boat station is intergal to maritime rescue and preparedness, not only for San Francisco, but for all of the bay area. [sirens] fire station 35 was built in 1915. So it is over 100 years old. And helped it, were going to build fire boat station 35. So the finished Capital Planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on Sea Level Rise. The station 35, Construction Cost is approximately 30 million. And the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. It is being fabricated in china, and will be brought to treasure island, where the building site efficient will be constructed on top of it, and then brought to pier 22 and a half for installation. Were looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. The historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respo
Are watching American History tv, all weekend every weekend on American History tv. Tv,ext on American History novelist and historian kevin baker discusses his book, america the genius how a generation of tinkerers changed the world. At an event in cape cod, mr. Baker describes what he thinks are key factors in the nations innovative spirit. Guestant to thank our tonight. Kevin baker has written several your, at you are still in but also was raised in rockport, massachusetts. He has experienced being a massachusetts person. Tonight,ing forward to keeping an ion the weather, but please welcome kevin baker. Mark, for having me. Great to be on the cape, if only virtually. Hoped to be there, but i am going to have to make do. Talk to you about america the ingenious, this book i wrote. The best thing about writing books is that hopefully, you learn something. I learned a great deal writing this. Americansory of how invented, developed or learned to exploit so many innovations that would sha
If it went ahead virtually, the nature of the interaction would change and interrupting would be much more difficult but the president says hes not going to do a virtual debate. Thats where it stands right now. At last nights debate orderly fashion and Kamala Harris failed to answer on key issues, she deflect order laughed it all off. Her silence revealed on what the biden team will do if elected. President trump goes all in on regenerons antivirus treatment. The president called it a miracle. Of course, hes been criticized for his use of an unapproved treatment. The stock, though, up big time, 3. 6 , 21 higher. Now look at the overall market after wednesdays very, very big rally. 840,000 jobless claims last week. Not having that much impact on the market this morning. We see the dow going up another 180. S p up 21 and look at that the nasdaq going again up 101 points. Possibility, they are still talking about some form of stimulus. Thats a positive. Looks like a still stalemate but th
Covid vaccine trial has been put on hold after a patient suffered a serious reaction. Australian corporate earnings set for a tough recovery after their worst slump. Will be asking about the challenges ahead including tensions with china. Shery lets get a quick check of how markets are trading. We are seeing u. S. Futures again under pressure. Down 7 10 of 1 . This as we continue to hear more reservations coming from these vaccine makers. We heard from astrazeneca after the close. We already had some skepticism over what happened to those vaccine approvals. We also had the text selloff accelerating. We saw the s p 500 sinking to a four week low. Not to mention ongoing u. S. China tensions. Every sector on the s p 500, 11 of them were down, led by tack and energy. We had the nasdaq composite losing more than 4 during the regular session. Take a look at some of the biggest decliners. We have tesla sinking almost 20 . This after shares were not added to the s p 500. A had news that rival
Lets go to joy next. Good morning everyone, my name is joy jackson morgan. Im the executive director. Im a unicorn in the city, a San Francisco native. During this time third street has really focused on our young people in addressing the needs that youth have been coming up with, primarily with housing. That has been a huge issue for our young people and food has also been an issue. Weve gone from having our food pantry to having food delivery for our youth and their families. Were currently serving about 50 youth and families per week. Were also trying to keep our young people engaged. This has been a hard time for them adjusting to Distance Learning and not having the certain outlets that theyre accustomed to. So we continued our Youth Development program. We have been keeping our young people engaged, and active, and connected to their peer groups. This is not the norm for any of us. We are use to be being able to go outside and going where we want and now were confined to zoom or