We will talk about that and will talk about the markets with box Business Team set up Jackie Deangelis following the action in the new york newsroom and blake burman coming out of the white house and Hillary Bonnie washington but with this rally, jackie for the second consecutive week. Is a great day, friday for the market, we have experienced so much volatility but weve seen gains as a matter of fact for the last two weeks in a row, you have the dow finishing just the session highs waiting to see where it settles out but the gain for the day just under 700 points, it looks like and this has been on optimism about a number of things that perhaps were getting to the right side of the curve when it comes to the coronavirus and the economy might start backup and you have stocks that have helped move the market along today, lets start with boeing because that was the one that has been absolutely crushed even before the coronavirus, boeing getting a breath of life after announcing it is goi
A term we have heard talking about essential frontline federal employees. Give us an idea of who some of those employees are. What are their jobs . Guest some of those employees would be tsa. Some of our Veterans Administration workers. Would be some of our prison workers. Some of those would be essential personnel. Guest what are you hearing from those frontline workers during the crisis . Guest more than anything is , protection. They feel that they are inadequately protected. While they have to and they want to do their job, just want to be protected. Our main concern is making sure that those employees that we represent are protected. Host do you have any idea of how many of your members have contracted covid19 . Guest i dont really have an accurate number. I do know that within the tsa is about 170 so far and in the Veterans Administration, i think the last count i had was about 189. Can i give you a little background of why we feel so strongly about the fact we need the protectio
The threat tobout biodiversity from covid19. Tell us what we mean when we say biodiversity. We are talking about the abundance and diversity of nature, the wildlife and plants and animals that exist in Natural Systems and how they coexist and how healthy those ecosystems they occupy our. We are seeing a collapse of biodiversity. Scientists are calling it the sixth mass extinction. About one million species around the world are at risk of disappearing. Biodiversity is in rapid decline around the world. Highlights onthe the threats to biodiversity, one million species are at risk of extinction worldwide. Half of all rain forests in the world are gone. Two thirds of wetlands have disappeared. 60 of the planets wildlife has been lost since 1970. The headline said the destroyed creates the perfect conditions for coronavirus to emerge. Scientists have been warning us that this is increasing the risk for Infectious Diseases to make the leap from the Natural World into the human world. Mers, h
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Announcements . Clerk yes. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, can you please call item 5. Clerk yes. Item 5 is a resolution authorizing the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to accept and expend a gift of 100,000 from San Francisco 722 montgomery. Chair fewer supervisor peskin, do you have anything you would like to add . Supervisor peskin i would like to thank steven sang for accommodating my request for this additional 100,000 on top of the inclusionary fees and interest and the Mayors Office of housing for preparing for the accept and expend and recommend it to you for full recommendation to the board of supervisors. Chair fewer thank you. Is amy chan here from mohcd . Okay. Supervisor peskin, is this something that you want to present on since emmy chan is not in the audience today . Supervisor peskin so yeah, sure, im happy to present. This is a gift to the Affordable Housing fund of the city and county of San Francisco in the amount