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Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Our budgets are under extreme stress. Arts fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet...

I want to thank her for an sent the National League of cities in the National Association of counties for their sheer dedication to this issue on badly needed federal assistance as we continue to fight the covid19 pandemic. A quick note for members of the press joining us today, we will take questions after brief opening remarks. If you have a question, please put your name and media outlet in the chat and well call on you. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Im keeping this brief and to the...

President ial debates on American History tv on cspan3. The Senate Judiciary subcommittee on intellectual property held a hearing on u. S. Copy right law and the 1998 copy right act which says when hosts must remove pirated content. This hearing will come to order turn your microphone. This hearing will come to order. While im disappointed we cant be together in person today, im grateful to chairman graham and Ranking Member feinstein and our clerk for facilitating todays hearing through webex. ...

At the mississippi book festival in jackson to talk about literacy and american libraries. [inaudible conversations] good morning everyone. Welcome to the third mississippi book festival. In the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Ive been asked to remind everyone that you are more than welcome to take photographs, post to social media, and the hash tag is literarylongparty. This is the conversation with the library of Congress Panel sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council an...

The sqf complex, but it started when our fires here locally in the bay area started with that Lightning Storm. It has been going since then, but today it took off. If you look at it, were going to talk about that plume of smoke in a second. If you got good eyes, you can see there is kind of a white dot that shows where the flames are emanating from, and that white dot is a telltale sign in addition to smoke this fire has developed another one of those pyro cumulus clouds. That word. Those are th...

Could have been close tore 10 million than the 15 to 16 that we had to provide for. Ok. Two more questions. One, as rec and park actually lease vehicles, Passenger Vehicles or s. U. V. S or anything like that . No, it does not. Ok, im you all have great ribbon cuttings and i would love to celebrate them with each of you. All right. I donated to that playground, norman, too. What is the Cost Reduction for the large concert such as a bed lands for next year . Have you been in touch with them and a...

Bad air quality and what is ahead for us in the day. We have only seen a few lightning strikes over the bay area. Most of it has been to our east and some of it has been over the pacific but in terms of what we have seen, there are just a few and if we look live at the doppler, it is still raining in the north bay. This is actually good news because those are relatively light showers, just enough to dampen things up around the la yukon complex. There is a light rain through 101. Just to the nort...

To see the impact on our hospitals. I already had it all down, i was dreaming how we would open to make everybody safe. Once the county goes on the watch list and is there for three days, indoor operations will have to close at gyms, salons and at malls. So where does your county stand . You can check out the entire state with our interactive feature at actibc7news. Com. You can see not only how long each region has been on the state, but why. With schools closed and education plans in flux, San...

Some warmer weather for the weekend, at least away from the coast. Lets take a look at the cloud cover on live doppler 7, you can see it is not nearly as extensive as it was yesterday and the day before. And it is dry out there, no need to worry about drizzle or mist today. Temperatures are the constant, even with cloud cover varying, were still in the mid to upper 50s at 7 00. Hard to break free of the 50s at the coast while we hit 71 to 75 at noon with more sunshine. But then we barely warm th...

Supplies, and work orders of other city services, such as department of Human Resources, Controllers Office services, and rent. We have six f. T. E. S with the Directors Office vacant since march of this year, and we have an open grant funded position that youre not seeing in this chart, just vacated last week that were working on filling quickly. We, like all City Departments were instructed to propose a 10 reduction. We proposed initial reductions amounting to 959,000 annually, and this was an...