Theres a lot of different city staff and other members of the city family that work every day to try to make San Francisco safer. Youve heard some of it, the 15 mile an hour zones. Were enhancing crosswalks around the city. Were bolding out sidewalks to make crossing distances smaller. Were using automated were using red lighten forcement, photo red lighten forcement. A lot of things that many of the planners and engineers at the mta are doing to try to make the city safer, and will be the ones in whose hands a lot of the execution of the pedestrian strategy lies. So, i do want to acknowledge tim popandreo who leads our Long Range Planning who is leading the development of the strategy. Bridget smith who leads our a group we call livable streets. And these are the planners and the engineers that actually do the planning and design work to put this stuff in the ground. And they operate under the leadership of vaughan yee, a legend in the public rightsofway in San Francisco who leads our
Americans. And there are now 424,000 covid deaths by january 23. And also breaking news on which i will, where efforts to increase individual pandemic relief checks to 2 thousand dollars appear increasingly unlikely. Nick watt is in los angeles with the latest. And the Trump Administration painted a much rosier picture of the reality than where we are. Reporter you know, we saw it with the testing, they talk a very big game and then just kind of fail to deliver as admiral bret giroir said this afternoon. We need to be doing a better job. But all vaccine programs start somewhat slow. Nearly 2. 6 million americans have actually gotten their first dose of vaccine. But the goal was 20 million. By end of day tomorrow. There are two holliday, three major snowstorms, numerous facto facto factors. And were lagging behind other countries. I think that it comes down to really just a lack of a National Strategy on this vaccine disthrough big distribution. Reporter and the astrazenecas vaccine was
Combat mission, but President Bidens goals are daunting. The mission is off to a owners start. The covid19 czar said what we are inheriting from the Trump Administration is so much worse than we could have imagined. And while we were all focused on the inauguration, again yesterday the new cdc director that warned that the doth toll is expected to hit half amillion. They warned the vaccine will not be as widely available as the Previous Administration promised. I dont think late february were going to have a vaccine in every pharmacy in this country. We sad 100 million doses in the first 100 days, and were going to stick to that, but after 100 day theres is still a lot of americans that need vaccine. There are reports that they are inheriting no rollout at all. One big change already, dr. Fauci addressed the world health organization. He is also expected to be in the White House Briefing room this afternoon marking the return of information directly from the nations top scientists. As
Welcome, shall, to the uss macon islands. My name is lewis loeven and im the executive director of the San Francisco fleet Week Association and what a great fleet week were going to have for 2012. Thank you. This is the second time weve had the uss macon islands and i want to thank captain pringle and his entire crew. What a great ship and what a great crew. They turned this swear hanger deck around all right night and turned it into a Conference Room and it looks absolutely beautiful. Thank you, captain, and your entire crew. Im going to make this short because were already running a little bit behind schedule, but San Francisco fleet week for the third year is organized with i object credible participation from city, civilian agencies from all around the region and all of us our fabulous United States military, the coast guard has been fabulous in providing assets to protect everybody out on the bay. It is one heck of a Logistics Program to get this whole program started and here we
Want to thank captain pringle and his entire crew. What a great ship and what a great crew. They turned this swear hanger deck around all right night and turned it into a Conference Room and it looks absolutely beautiful. Thank you, captain, and your entire crew. Im going to make this short because were already running a little bit behind schedule, but San Francisco fleet week for the third year is organized with i object credible participation from city, civilian agencies from all around the region and all of us our fabulous United States military, the coast guard has been fabulous in providing assets to protect everybody out on the bay. It is one heck of a Logistics Program to get this whole program started and here we are the culmination of nearly a year of planning. Weve had exercises, weve had lots of meetings down in San Francisco up at the marines memorial, this is a fabulous program, we had a great medical exchange yesterday. Senior leaders seminar third year in a row has gotte