I also want to thank john c. Who is troubleshooting our online meetings and ellen mccue from the board staff who are assisting with the Public Comment line. Madame clerk, are there any communications . Yes, mr. President. During the covid19 Health Emergency, Board Members will participate through the Video Conference system to the same extent as if they were physically present in the meeting. Regarding the publics participation and to minimize any uncertainty around which items are accepting Public Comment, there are three public hearings on todays agenda. Two of which are expected to be continued. Item 10, the public hearing on Law Enforcement staffing and items 11 through 14, the appeal of determination of exemption from Environmental Review. Both items are expected to be continued to the near term. The public hearing that is expected to [inaudible]. Please utilize this information. We will also display it once those items are called. And please feel free to submit your written comme
Celebration separation. Easter weekend is transformed with empty churches, services on computer screens, and families limiting their gatherings. How even the peoples pope is without his people. And surprise in the sky. With millions of businesses shut down, it seems the lights are on in the heavens above. What stargazers are seeing now that hasnt been seen in generations. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. We have not reached the peak. Every day, we need to continue to do what we did yesterday and the week before and the week before that. Reporter the u. S. Reaches half a million coronavirus cases. The actual curve is much, much lower than any of them projected. Now is not the time to stop the social distancing. It is working. This cannot be a weekend to think we can let our foot off the gas. Were not even close, folks. We have to keep with it until this war is won. I dont know what ive had a bigger decision. Im going to surround my
Thank you all again for coming back today and for tuning in, and i do know that these daily briefings can get tedious, and the information, much of it, sounds the same, so people may start to tune it out, but i can tell you the situation is changing, it is evolving, and the information we are putting out is important. Just because the social distancing and hygiene guidance and the stay at home order stays in place after day doesnt mean we shouldnt talk about those things because that will be the key to success in trying to get through this Public Health emergency with the fewest amount of cases and certainly the lowest death toll. I want to think the doctor for being with us today. He has been a practicing physician in new orleans for decades although he does not look that old. Officere chief medical officer. Working with the state office of Public Health and it is great to have you here today. He will take some questions. He will have some prepared comments and take questions after i
Trying to get through this Public Health emergency with the fewest amount of cases and the lowest death total. Corey he thank dr. Bert. He has been a practicing physician for decades, although he does not look that old. He is the chief chief medical officer for dillard university. He is also working with the state of Public Health. And it is great to have him here today. He will take questions and have some prepared comments after i am finished. The doctory have from the apart department of health to take questions related to testing and Public Session other things. Dr. Hebert is here because we mentioned some disturbing statistics coming out of our analysis of the information we are getting, and that is while about 33 of the states population is africanamerican, over 70 of the deaths because of covid19 or among africanamericans. That is concerning to me and to others, and it is unacceptable. We want to better understand why that is and what we can contributed to do, and how we get rid
With the community about this disturbing incident. Reporter city leaders talked along san bruno avenue and they say they are angry and upset by what they saw in that video. [ crying ] this cell phone video posted on social media shows an older asian man being chased and harassed by another man with the stick that appears to be a trash tool. A lot of vanity was used. Victim was seen trying to walk toward the recyclable pile neglect someone commented that it occurred in the bayview neighborhood of San Francisco. It is reallyheartbreaking reporter the police and of the bayview started a meeting monday night speaking about the incident. The meeting was scheduled before this weekend, and an audience member expressed concern that older asian folks are often the target of crime the Police Captain said the department has not received a Police Report from the victim or any witnesses in this incident. Still he says an investigation is underway the officers are trained to locate and identify all