President yee good afternoon. And welcome to the october 6th, 2020, regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. Supervisor fewer. Commissioner fewer present. Clerk supervisor haney . Supervisor haney present. Clerk supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman present. Clerk supervisor mar. Supervisor mar present. Clerk supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin present. Clerk supervisor preston. Supervisor preston present. Clerk supervisor ronen. Supervisor ronen present. Clerk supervisor safai. Supervisor safai present. Clerk supervisor stefani. Supervisor stefani present. Clerk supervisor walton. Supervisor walton present. Clerk and supervisor yee. President yee present. Clerk mr. President , all members are present. President yee okay. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart. Will you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United St
A very warm welcome to new and distant of your of x. And here is what else we have in the show for you. Youre a maggot report a maggot a leak out in a greenhouse in amsterdam and a bonus he signed it creates such an accessory well the only harm. And we kick off the show in the british capital london one of the most famous landmark stare is that historic tower of london now legends as if the ravens who live at the tower fly away the kingdom and the tower are do so off course nobody wants that to happen we met with a man who takes very good care of the births and make sure they stay. The face of the british monarchy depends on the ravens. Are considered the guardians of time of london and time nation. And this man is responsible for looking after her majestys ravens. When i was on the way even moscow here at the time of london this election the way vince lead the tide of london it will quote go to dust in the great hall more before locking done so it is my responsibility to make sure tha
Cases of coronavirus. Also today, 21 people died of coronavirus in Santa Clara County. 10 people have now died from coronavirus in Santa Clara County. The most in the bay area. They have also announced a 39 new cases bringing the total number of cases there to 302. Telling us more about how the counties address this. Hospitals in Santa Clara County are bracing for a surge of covid19 patients as tests become more available. Any strategy to meet demand. Transforming a Convention Center into a federal medical station. Spirit the partnership of the federal government is bringing in 238 additional beds for people have noninfectious disease so we can alleviate the pressure from our hospital. Officials and clark county revealing new details on sunday and as per the mentor stage of the site would be temporary entry patients who have not tested positive for coronavirus. At that facility they really need to use the resource to help decompress our hospitals. Right now they have a total of 2500 ho
Thank goodness for social media in times like this. Tom, thank you. Now to San Francisco, where emergency work versus moved into the Mascone Center where there is more space for them to keep a distance from other workers. The number of cases of coronavirus in San Francisco over 70 now. And more people are being tested. Christien kafton in the city with the latest developments to try to slow the spread of coronavirus. Reporter were here where the city of San Francisco has moved most of their Emergency Operations. If you take a look here, you can see some evidence of that. A San Francisco department of Emergency Management vehicle as well all right here in front maf scone south. The city stressing the importance of social distancing. Saying they need to flatten the curve because given the states recent surge in cases, the peak is still to come. Reporter San Franciscos emergency workers have moved from the citys Emergency Center on turk to masconi south to manage the covid19 response. The
International destinations. And officials are urging all americans abroad to return home immediately. This afternoon President Trump and Vice President pence went to fema headquarters to Video Conference with the nations governors. The Vice President told them more protective masks are being produced. In the bill the president signed last night. We have literally unlocked tens of millions of n95 masks. What the president asked the congress to do, and they did, was we extended Liability Protection to all industrial n95 masks. So those can now be readily sold to hospitals and healt providers. The administration has not responded to an offer from carnival to use some of its cruise ships as floating hospitals during the pandemic. The company says the ships could be used to free up landbased hospitals. Applications for Unemployment Insurance jumped dramatically this week. Advanced claims on Unemployment Insurance acrossed 34 compared to last week. Governor newsom said 80,000 people applied