Shortly, as well as supervisor sandra lee fewer. Thank you to this committees clerk, john carroll, and id like to thank sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please silence your cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copies of any documents should be provided to the clerk. Items acted on today will appear on the march 10 board of supervisors agenda. [agenda item read]. Chair mar supervisor fewer, thank you for joining us this morning as the sponsor of this hearing. The floor is yours. Supervisor fewer thank you, committee. I call this hearing today after discussions with ifpte local 21 because i am concerned about the use of Civil Service exclusions and the impact it has on our Civil Service industry. I realize that discussions have been ongoing between the department of Public Health and local 21 regarding a process of conversion for these positions since the last hearing that we called on this issue in april 2019. Since that time, thi
Including its 2 biggest cities. And a month on from the declaration of a pandemic we go back to the one of life markets of asia to blamed for causing the chaos. So the United States has become the country with the highest death toll from corona virus according to the Johns Hopkins university tracker more fatalities were confirmed in the past day taking the u. S. Past italy which is on 19 1468. 00 deaths you can see that top right and heres the United States where the total is now 19701. 00 as you can see a confirmed cases in the worlds biggest economy have been skyrocketing in the month since a pandemic was declared and lets speak to mike hanna who joins us now from washington d. C. So mike now the United States has small fatalities and anywhere else. Weve lost our connection there with my camera well try to get it back a little bit later in the program now critics of President Donald Trump say his slow response is largely to blame for the high numbers in the u. S. Lets hear now from o
The same again. As the u. K. Reports more than 900 hospital deaths the government has criticized for its handling of the crisis and mobile phone alerts and electronic waste wristbands how technology is helping stop the spread of the virus but what does that mean for our privacy. Hello the United States has become the country with the highest coronavirus death toll dots according to latest figures from Johns Hopkins university this one month after the World Health Organization 1st declared a pandemic well back then there were over 4000 confirmed deaths and in 30 or so days that number has surged to 100000 the epicenter of the virus has shifted as well moving from china and asia to europe and north america and here in the u. K. Officials have again reported more than 900 hospital deaths and the total number of deaths is nearing 10000 the u. K. P. Could be weeks away in spain however there is cautious optimism just seen the lowest number of daily deaths of more than a fortnights while in
To come back to life, whether weve actually based on the numbers weve had in the last couple days seen a peak in confirmed cases, what all of that looks like. Then, of course, the fact that we have earning season kicking off in earnest this week, the big banks reporting and some key other names that give us some insight into the state of the economy and things like trade flows like jb hunt will report this week too. Number of analysts and strategists saying the number is meaningless, the eps number is meaningless, any guidance for q2 probably up in the air as well, that its really going to be the health of these companies, its going to be the Balance Sheets and how theyre able to weather what has been a complete shutdown in so many different parts of the economy, so many industries, so many different businesses dom . I mean, whats curious about this whole conversation debate, guys, thats happening right now is there are so many takes about just how much damage has been done to the econ
Coming up, more on the coronavirus outbreak on the u. S. Response with dr. William schaffner from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and we will get your reaction by phone, facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Guest republicans 2027488001 independents 2027488002. The conversation on twitter cspan wj or facebook. Com cspan. Here speak House Speaker nancy yesterday sounding confident that the house would vote. I dont think well get consent. Theres some other people who that. Bject to were not worried about that. Our members want to come back in debate and wethe expect to have a voice vote on it. Preparedt, well be for whatever it is. One way or another, with losing no time, we will be passing the bill tomorrow. Thank you. Host speaker of the house yesterday. David when they gaveling in at next . M. , what happens guest they will pass this as quickly as they can. The question is whether or not, is going to have force rollvoice and call voice. Theres parameters in place to r