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Good afternoon, and welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors today. Im the chair of the committee, aaron peskin, joined by dean preston. Do you have any announcements. Yes, due to the covid19, to protect the city, the board of supervisors legislative chamber rooms are closed. However, members will be participating remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the statewide stayathome order, declarations and directive. They will attend via Video Conference. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Both channel 26 and sf...

[background sounds]. [background sounds]. Host hello and welcome to the 24th annual book festival. My name is katie and im an executive editor. Here today to talk to amaryllis fox author of the book life undercover comingofage in the cia. It is a wonderful book and i encourage everyone to pick up one down here at the stand. She is going to be signing copies. I will give a quick introduction then i will ask a few questions and leave the last ten to 15 minutes for audience questions. Will have a microphone set up right here in the front and another one in the back. Please silence your cell phone...

The 10year is yielding 0. 75 . Well continue to monitor that as well. We have a lot of guests today. Including dr. Scott gottlieb who will join us in a couple of minutes. J js cfo, the ceo of moderna, ceo of related companies and the ceo of zoom. All in the next three hours. Andrew an update now on the pandemic in the United States. Now more than 582,000 cases and 23,000 deaths. North has 96,000 cases and 10,000 deaths. New york governor governor cuome numbers appear to have knocked off in new york. It was an accomplishment. A heck of accomplishment those Health Care Workers for the rest of my...

Now now the selloff [ applause ] wasnt due entirely to coronavirus. It was also due in large part to war over oil prices launched by saudi arabia still, a l o understandably worried and while theres no reason to panic, governments across the world are taking extreme measures to mitigate the outbreak over the weekend, italy put millions of people on lockdown in regions hit hardest by the outbreak where people were rushing to catch the last trains leaving milan before the lockdown took effect officials in italy putting 16 Million People on lockdown. Now, thats a quarter of a countrys population ...

Federal agencies are working in response to the coronaVirus Outbreak. Ken cuccinelli is acting deputy Homeland Security secretary, and dr. Robert kadlec is assistant health and Human Services secretary. They testified before a senate committee. Topics included supply chain management, sick pay support, and travel issues, specifically, how the coast guard is working with cruise lines. This is just over two hours. Good morning. This hearing will come to order. I want to thank the witnesses first and foremost for your efforts as theyre related to the current, i guess weve got to call it a pandemi...