Shes going to talk to us about the news briefing today, the San Franciscos Covid Response and the latest numbers and give it to you right now. As of today, San Francisco has 7,433 cases. The total number of deaths, 91. Good news and real positive progression in the last 14 days is that the number of new cases per day, that is down. About a couple months ago, we were seeing about 200 new cases per day. As of yesterday, and the day before, the day before that, around 70 new cases per day. Given these positive developments, she is allowing more things to reopen now as you know, just this week, San Francisco reopened gyms, salons, tattoo parlors but at a limited capacity, talking about only 10 right now. People being close to each other, to reduce the density. That is something that a lot of businesses say is very hard to maintain, to make money on and survive, if you will. She is actually signing in now to join us. Well ask her about even though test Positivity Rate is down and again, good news, some populations are still being hit. The test positivity in that community. Schools around the bay area, not the schools. The mayor unveiled a while back. How those are on facebook now to see what kind of questions you have, mayor london breed right now. Are we getting her quickly real soon . All right. So that is happening. And i see you guys are with us, thats another two minutes. Two minutes a little bit too long to stretch so well start you off with a quick soundbite from the mayors news Briefing Held a couple of hours ago. But then as soon as she logs in and joins us in a minute and a half, well switch over to that. We are fortunate in that people can go outside and breathe a little better and hopefully see the air quality improve over the next few days. We are not out of the woods when it comes to covid. We have to always keep in mind that the need to wear your mask and socially distance and to even be reminding and diligent about this process is necessary. And also focusing on making sure we dont turn back the clock. You remember a couple of months ago, one day i announced well be opening a number of places and as of today, some of those places are open and some of those places still are not open. But we do have some good news in that our hair salons, nail salons and other places that clearly from my perspective finally to operate i know theyre staying open. That was london breed on tape but now we have her live with us us. Launching a new program that gives a thousand dollars to black and papa civic islander pregnant women. Tell us about that pilot . This came about based on a lot of research and work with the university of californias San Francisco, and in this community, as a result, the Pilot Program the Additional Resources, support around making sure that folks are getting prenatal care and were going to be analyzing this data to determine if this makes an improvement. Any strings at all attached to how that money would be spent. University of california San Francisco and so they will analyze each person, each case and make a determination. A lot of factors theyre going to look at is, you know, low income women in particular. Africanamerican and pacific islander, those in need and also making sure that prenatal care is a priority. So its not going to necessarily, prenatal care, theyre taking care of themselves and providing Additional Resources for them to do so. New cases are down. Averaging about 70 per day now. Looki looking. Were having problems with the latino. And the particular community and making some adjustments in addition to the popup location the eastern side of San Francisco we know there are more cases. We have increased testing and our work around half of those folks doing contact tracing, they speak spanish and the work to deal make sure people know kw the hospitalization rates start to climb. That was what the press conference was today earlier to remind people that its important to contain a file of the health guidelines. Even with the mix progress if you will and the teared system. Thats not the most serious leve level, and while many say thats a start and thats a positive sign. Business owners are also telling us, look operating at that level, we cant really pay our rent. What do you say to them . Well, i will say that, you know,. Net disagree with that them. We know its not enough. And unlike residential evictions, the state governs the laws associated working with the governor to extend that so people can have the security of having a location as they begin to reopen their businesses. But the fact is, there are going to be some real challenges ahead of us. This is not just in San Francisco. This is all over the country. Global pandemic. Millions of dollars in no interest loans. Delay of fees to the point where we are definitely looking at forgiving so many fees that people have had to pay, many of these small businesses, and so look, i get it and were trying to do our best coming up with a number of ballads and other things that we hope will make a difference and sadly, thats not going to be enough. People have been closed for over six months. There is nothing more important to me than to try to do everything i can to make sure that we open those businesses as soon as and as quickly as possible. I want to turn the subject over to skoochools. I know you started these learning hubs and how is that going so far and are schools far behind . Schools support to in comparison to those who we havent. Many of these kids dont have family members or support at home to help them do this process, so the learning hubs opened yesterday. I was so excited about the learning hubs, but i think the kids were really excited to be around other kids. And also the need to have people there to assist with lesson plans, especially in households where the parents dont speak english. Because we know these lesson plans are challenging. We know that this has been really tough on kids and we know we need to get these schools back open as soon as we can safely do so. Its not enough, its not going to be enough. And so, getting schools back open. So thats why its so important that people follow the social distancing orders, wear a mask and do your part because these kids and others are counting on us to get the city back open. I think we only have 30 more seconds but id be remiss if i didnt ask you this because so many people whose parents are asking, will halloween trick or treating be allowed this year in the city, im going to guess youre going to say depends on what people do now. I want to say, its so important that no matter what we choose to do, we do it safely. We use common sense. I know those parents more importantly want to get their kids back in school more than anything else. And im not certain if halloween halloween, handouts, stuff like that. Parents come up with really creative ways to celebrate. It doesnt always have to involve maybe trick or treating or some of the traditional things weve done. The more we do, the more we risk getting covid. The more chances we are that we see the numbers go up, and that could delay opening and returning to schools. Weve got to just be very thought aboutful about the decisi decisions we make. Make. Make its tough to ask people to hald off. It sounds like its going to lo look. Nice of you to check in. Keep this conversation going. Take care. Well take a short break on the air but look with dr. Lucy jones about climate chang our next guest is a go to source for earthquake and other scientific information. She now has a podcast called getting through it and she wrote an article called the music of Climate Change. Joining us to talk about whats a Major Political debate, scientist doctor lucy jones, of course at the u. S. Geological survey and found eer for scienc and society. Thank you for joining us. Thanks for having me here. Take a listen. Well have that in a second. But basically, he was sitting there at the round table, the president and governor gavin newsom with the secretary for natural resources, and there was an exchange about climate science. Mutual agreement and priority is vegetation management. We want to work with you to recognize the changing climate and what it means to our forest. If we ignore and think its about vegetation management. It will start getting cooler. You just watch. I wish science agreed with you. I dont think science knows actually, tom . After that, you tweet add response, science does know actually . We predicted many, many decades ago that this would lead to warming. We are seeing warming. Data on warming is absolutely incon tr in incontrovertible, and because its being driven. All the physics and chemistry we know, since its being driven by actions, the data matches our predictio predictions and the prediction is it will keep ongoing. The idea that it will somehow turn cooler is magical thinking and the science says its not going to happen. We do have the seasons. We are getting into fall, so it will be cooler, but when we look at the longterm. It averages them across. All of those and getting an average global temperature and weve gone up, average it over the whole world and the seasons. Not to scare people, but given Climate Change and that we are now warmer than we should be. What other types of disasters are possible in the future that we havent had before . More heat in the atmosphere, more energy in the atmosphere, one would expect in the situation is that theres more Energy Available to drive storms and therefore not more hurricanes but more intense hurricanes. And thats exactly what weve seen the most, the highest wind speeds in just a few years ago. The longest duration. Especially heat differences. Those are the most difficult to predict the timing of but the most a certain climate. The climate is now different and thats true everywhere in the world every ecosystem. The ecosystem no longer appropriate for the climate. The Climate Change happened over millennia and it would shift as some plants became more hardy than others and it would gradually take over. Doing it too quickly and theres no natural process for the wholesale replacement. Thats whats going on. Dr. Jo dr. Lucy jones, of course, built a career on earthquake science but youre tackling a lot more right now. Your other endeavors, explore one of them, thats podcaster and also musician. You know, youve taken your findings and channelled them into musical forum. Can we play that . Lets do that. Are you the violinist there, dr. Jones . Not a violin. Its the guy whos actually im studying with. Can i ask why you do that . Is it more for you where thats your Creative Outlet over the angst you feel about these things happening or to reach the public . I definitely started it for myself. It was just the frustration of seeing how big the changes were, being able to see how music can show how. One thing about being a scientist. We dont handle emotion well. Music is my outlet for processing that. I originally wrote it for myself but got encouraged to make the video up on youtube to help other people see it as well. The wildfires still on our radar. Do you think wed be ready for an earthquake amid the challenges . Theres no question, if we had the big earthquake, firemen are pretty busy right now. I think that would be the most catastrophic potential consequence if it were to happen but californians have responded the a lot of catastrophic things. Made you prominent as well. How do you feel about it . As a scientist, it appalls me. You shouldnt believe me because im a celebrity, understand that for yourself is challenging, and if this helps People Better understand it, im willing to do it. Dr. Thaunchts so much for joining us today on this for tonight, several stories breaking as we come on the air. Hurricane sally set to slam into the u. S. The states of emergency tonight. The hurricane already lashing the coast. Warnings up now from louisiana straight across to florida. This is a slowmoving hurricane, which could be devastating. The third hurricane to hit the gulf coast this season alone. The tornado threat right now. And the potential for lifethreatening storm surge. Up to 30 inches of rain is expected. Ginger zee and rob marciano both in the storm zone with the latest timing and track tonight. Meantime, the wildfires and the smoke traveling across the country. Tonight, the hazardous air quality choking major american cities. Portland, oregon, the worst air qualify in the world. What theyre now handing out there. And this dangerous air, evidence of this all the way to the east coast