our director joaquin torez and gwenn, all of my team at young community developers.you look in this room, there are so many based community-based organizations and helping to negotiate and get this space. it took seven to eight months to get into this space. i want to thank toni brock. all of the things you've seen, that's through toni brock ang ad the work she does in ensuring our community stays beautiful. let's enjoy the hub and this weather and we look forward to providing services to the communities in our communities. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> thank you, dj. you know, these important moments of legacy and creating opportunity for our residents are impossible without leadership and partners beyond d those who are standing and talking to you today but all community members who are tirelessly put efforts and hard work and volunteered time on commissions at volunteer associations, demanding resources and i want to give a shout-out to joseph bryant who was here earlier today. [cheers and applause] >> to apri, jackie flynn, to the governor sending his calif

director torez? >> do we have any idea when the central subway will open from your perspective yet. >> so we plan to bring an item to this board for action later this month and we'll be fai wonr to give you a completion date. >> i'm tired of receiving all these letters and referring them to you with no response to the agency to the subcontractors who have not been paid. a lot of small companies will go under because we're not paying them. i thought we were getting close to a resolution on paying some of them. just want to reiterate again, that these subcontractors, i'm talking about the folks that are doing the subcontracting work, small companies and they're getting hurt. thank you. >> thank you. >> i do have one question. >> about the cable cars. i saw ed is head of travel and i don't know why the information about the kabu cable cars didn't to him and he had all of these people calling because it's a number one tourist attraction. so whatever we can do in advance, as much notice as possible, becau

through the mayor's office of economic and workforce development under the leadership of qua -- joaquim torez to make sure we are working with small businesses to do facade improvements and many others. this is how we're going to get there and the board of supervisors who has been incredibly focused. even before she was on the board of supervisors where she served as a legislative aid for two previous supervisors, i was one of those supervisors, there was no one more committed to supporting small businesses and being responsive to the community than your supervisor, district 5 supervisor, val brown. [ applause ]. >> i just want to thank a few people. i have them written down. i want to first thank the mayor. i want to thank the team at o.e.w.d., ben, when we were doing this legislation, it was grinding. just because it was pushed out, came back. ben would come back and think he had a way to do that. i want to thank my aide in the corner hiding like normal. [ applause ]. >> he kept saying, we can do it, we can do it. i want to thank the chamber of commerce. they were there all along coming to

john torez. let's start with this breaking news.ional fatality, a statement put out by the fda commissioner, obviously concerned enough to do that. so anybody who was thinking, well, this ways a safe s a safe alternative might want to rethink it. >> exactly. and that is what they said in their teleconference, essentially think before you try an ecig of any type. if you are young adult action pregnant woman, athlete, don't do it, do use anything that has been modified or you buy off the street corner. and for those getting ecigarettes from other sources, consider not using them. they say 450 cases of this type of pneumonia are being suspected caused by ecigarettes and they are concerned because of different ingredients that are in there. they can't pinpoint one specific thing, but the vitamin e seems to be getting to the top as far as suspects of what might be causing these types 6 things. >> i understand that that vitamin e is only a risk when it is inhaled. nos when not when we put it on our skin. what is the early connection? >> v

director torez? >> i want to echo our past director's comments because think they're on target. i do walk the streets of san francisco more than i ride a bike or do other things and believe me, mr. winer, i've been almost hit from bicyclists, scooters on the sidewalk and it's unbelievable what occurs in there, especially for senior citizens and i'm one of those now, too, that are impacted but these activities and by the lack of ken fo concern for safety of. it's true for drivers. it happens all of the time where i'm trying to cross the street and they don't care who is in the cross-walk. they don't care what's going on with the tree around them and not looking. but number one, they're on their phones. they're texting or they're a vehicle that utilizes our streets for pay and they're not taxis. they usually don't live in san francisco but come from all over the state to harass and to, basically, congest our very streets here. so we have a long way to go, but i believe that efforts of many of the mea people who spoke shod be applauded and we need to do that to our staff and i will

we bring a in anthony torez, tell us what you'ring to with prepositioning. >> good morning.here is a volume tier base we have with 1500 red cross volunteers based across the state of florida, through georgia, into the carolinas. so we have prepositioned our teams, we have safe places for people go to evacuate. over over 100 tractor trailers full of relief supplies. >> the evacuation centers, are they filling up? any idea how many people are in them right now? >> over the last 24-hours, a little more than 2,000 people in the evacuation centers and some have spent the night. we will expect that number to grow as the storm continues to einvolve, it is a very slow-moving storm so we want people to know they have a safe place to stay to get out of harm's way. >> leland: typically, you think about a hurricane, coming ashore and causing damage. this is different because it is tracking up the coast. you have 800 or 900 meals of coast lean in the united states that sunday possible hurricane conditions here. how thin is that stretching your resources? >> the reality is that, as we tal