And federal orders. Declarations and directives, excuse me. Committee members will attend this meeting through Video Conference and participate as if theyre physically present. Public comment will be available on the agenda. Channel 26 and www. Sfgov. Org is streaming. Your opportunity to provide Public Comment will be available by calling 4156550001. Once youre connected and prompted, you should enter todays meeting i. D. The i. D. For todays meeting is 1462673919. Following that, you press the pound symbol twice to be connected to the meeting. When youre connected, youll hear the meeting discussingses but your line will be muted and in listen mode only. When your meeting comes up, dial star 3. The speaker prompt will indicate youve raised your hand. Wait until the system indicates youre unmuted and you may begin comments. Best practices is call from a quiet location to speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or streaming device. There be discrepancies we may encounter
All, lets start off with one big news, piece of news for the bay area. Three ucsf doctors have been named to president elect bidens Advisory Council for covid pandemic policies. There are hundreds of jobs that the president elect will need to fill, but the Trump Administration said today that they are not ready to acknowledge him as the winner. President elect joe biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris go straight to work with the transition team. They met by videoconference with the transition covid19 advisory board. Focusing on a key campaign promise. I will spare no effort to turn this pandemic around once we are sworn in on january 20. Reporter the bay area doctors from ucsf are part of the board. Dr. David kessler, an epidemiologist and former fda commissioner is one of the cochairs. Dr. Robert you guess, are also board members. Typically, they were closely with Outgoing Administration according to eric schindler, codirector of uc berkeleys institute of governmental studies
Moving into the red. The News Conference set to start at noon. Were expecting it to start imminently. Meanwhile, we learned that Contra Costa County and Santa Cruz County were bumped back into the red. The governor warned based on current covid infect rates that are the counties are likelying to follow the move and be bumped again in the colorcoded tier system. Were waiting to learn if others are on the list. The News Conference is to start at noon. Californias in a better situation than other parts of the country where infects and hospitalization rates are surging. The governor yesterday indicating that dr. Gale today will announce more restrictions for some counties. Anticipate that we will see some counties moving backwards not forwards and this is exactly why we designed the tore status the way we did. It was about being more and less restrictive not based upon political whim but based upon the data. The epidemiology and facts. Reporter the governors comments came the same day as c
Audience and we have taken extra precautions during the pandemic. Everyone in the audience is required to wear a face mask and the candidates will be 12 feet apart. The audience is enthusiastic about their candidates, but they have agreed to express enthusiasm only twice, at the end of the debate and now when i introduced the candidates. Please welcome Kamala Harris and Vice President mike pence. [applause] senator harris and Vice President pence, thank you for being here. We are meeting as the president and first lady undergo treatment in washington after testing positive for covid19. We send our thoughts to them for the rapid and complete recovery, and for the recovery of everyone afflicted by the virus. Commissionpaigns and have agreed to the ground rules for tonight. I am here to enforce them on behalf of the millions of americans who are watching. No one in either campaign or at the commission or anywhere else has been told in advance of the topics or the questions i will ask. Thi
People will use common sense. We just cant put patrol officers shoulder to shoulder keeping people off the beach, so thats the reality. Reporter other beaches remaining open include ocean, china, and baker beaches, and stinson in martin. The beaches in Half Moon Bay are open, but are closed in pacifica. If we have on our beaches 250, 300 people, 400 people, and it has happened, it has happened at some of these beaches, that were in, you know, some serious issues. Reporter Half Moon Bay beaches are opened because in the past, closing the marking lots has led to out of towners crowding into neighborhoods. Theyre really not welcome, and should probably not come to san mateo county. Reporter so what can people do . Theres always hiking and biking, outdoor swimming pools are allowed to open machine n some areas, but wearing a mask in hot weather may be difficult for some. Be aware of physical strenuous exercise. If youre running on the beach, doing other physical activity, youre demand for