and hsa and others who will present. in much more detail on staffing so just as we think about our questions, just that i hope these will be addressed by further presentations. let's address this question. >> >> the division circle site is some of what you are saying and it is sort of a yes and, supervisor ronen. from a design perspective, this is a site that is shared and i'm going to tap dr. boren in a little bit who is also on the line to speak to some of the medical questions. it's a site that is being kind of jointly set up, not kind of. is being jointly set up by hsa as responsible for mass care and shelter. the traditional shelter operator and the department of public-health as the medical behavioural health provider for the city. i would prefer having a sight for people with covid-19 and we no the capacity of the inq site that stan talked about is a challenge so, we want to make sure we're maximizing every resource in the city. from the staffing operational staffing the site, they asked to find a provider who is

people aged 65 and over stability to you to put one into the hsa. people should be able to use their hsa money to help pay the premium if they're having difficulty. but the doctor and patient in charge. if we need to do medical malpractice reform. remember when president obama said this little pill, doctors giving people pills, , doctors e doing unnecessary testing and is very expensive. because they want to line the pockets with money. doctors practice defensive medicine because they are afraid of being sued. particularly neurosurgeons and obstetricians. some of them drop out because they can't afford the premiums unless they're in a large hospital practice. price waterhouse cooper says the cost defensive medicine $210 billion a year. taxes capped noneconomic damage and then 16,000 doctors went back into texas to practice medicine. we have to do these punitive damages and not economic damages, put control in so that we stop all this frivolous lawsuits of an angus chasing lawyers going after people. we also need to block grant medicaid, allow people

the two priorities of especially the three biggest social service and health departments dph, hsa and hhh, they are focused on planning for and supporting additional surge planning for the hospital system, seeking additional bed capacity and supplies and staffing. vital to dph's plans is placement for people who either under investigation and not confirmed with covid-19 and cov, finding places to free up capacity to help people with the highest acuity in the hospital setting. that leads to the demands we have and hard work that hsa is moving forward rapidly to identify hotel and shelter placements for vulnerable populations and front line workers. the goal is to secure about 3500 hotel rooms, which will be prioritizing to allow the hospital system to discharge individuals who can't self-quarantine, to make sure we have enough hotel capacity to fill front line workers unable to self-isolate at home and vulnerable individuals without that capacity. those in congregate settings and city shelters. there is a desire to find 2000 placements -- a need to find 2000 placements for additional s

the two priorities of especially the three biggest social service and health departments dph, hsa and hhh, they are focused on planning for and supporting additional surge planning for the hospital system, seeking additional bed capacity and supplies and staffing. vital to dph's plans is placement for people who either under investigation and not confirmed with covid-19 and cov, finding places to free up capacity to help people with the highest acuity in the hospital setting. that leads to the demands we have and hard work that hsa is moving forward rapidly to identify hotel and shelter placements for vulnerable populations and front line workers. the goal is to secure about 3500 hotel rooms, which will be prioritizing to allow the hospital system to discharge individuals who can't self-quarantine, to make sure we have enough hotel capacity to fill front line workers unable to self-isolate at home and vulnerable individuals without that capacity. those in congregate settings and city shelters. there is a desire to find 2000 placements -- a need to find 2000 placements for additional s

the two priorities of especially the three biggest social service and health departments dph, hsa and hhh, they are focused on planning for and supporting additional surge planning for the hospital system, seeking additional bed capacity and supplies and staffing. vital to dph's plans is placement for people who either under investigation and not confirmed with covid-19 and cov, finding places to free up capacity to help people with the highest acuity in the hospital setting. that leads to the demands we have and hard work that hsa is moving forward rapidly to identify hotel and shelter placements for vulnerable populations and front line workers. the goal is to secure about 3500 hotel rooms, which will be prioritizing to allow the hospital system to discharge individuals who can't self-quarantine, to make sure we have enough hotel capacity to fill front line workers unable to self-isolate at home and vulnerable individuals without that capacity. those in congregate settings and city shelters. there is a desire to find 2000 placements -- a need to find 2000 placements for additional s

deveerak through b. hsa rantsve be head of the household, had to because i became a dependent. wanted to smoke a cigarette i would think of my children. (announcer) for free help, call 1-800-quit now. >> o'donnell: tomorrow is friday, and that means that steve hartman is going to be on the "cbs evening news." steve speaks with a nurse who left her home and family to work in the epicenter of the tbtbreak. and, there is even more to her story of selflessness. and if you can't watch us live, don't forget to set your dvr, so you can watch us later. that is tonight's "cbs evening news." i'm norah o'donnell in washington. we'll see you back here tomorrow. ncaioned by media cess g at wgbh access.wgbh.org ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> i'm chip reid, and we've got a lot more to tell you about this morning, starting with the latest jobs numbers. tlahe labor department reports more than 5 million americans filed for first-time unemployment benefits last month. that makes more than 22 million the past month. in our series the financial fallout, tony dokoupil follows

we will not be able to get to that last question and is hsa still on? >> yes. >> was there a particular number of staff and a unti number of ds requested of dhr? >> we had asked for a total of 600 by the time we got to what we thought would be full of limitation. we have been revising our numbers up and up as we've gone forward. so i don't think number would be adequate at full-blown system at this point. but that was the original number we had asked for. >> ok, thank you. appreciate that. i just again want to thank all of the committee members and thank you chair mar and al thank you anyone stepping up to work in staff in these hotels from the local 2 and teamsters 856 to all of our dsws from 10 to local 1021. we want to say thank you and we hope that this is a huge contribution to our city and our public health and so, hopefully, we'll have an opportunity to thank you directly some time and i wanted to underscore that. i wanted to say to all of the different departments here that i think it might be helpful to have a clarity around maybe one person wh

hsa is not doing this alone. in partnership with department of real estate, city attorneys and department of public health and in the case for moscone west we can't thank the director of the convention e confacilities for helping us set up th the space. it is amazing the level of work, expertise and partnership in the city. there is no way we could do this alone. no way the department of health can manage alone. mayor breed is steadfast in her leadership and guidance andy serves a lot of credit for the way the city has responded. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am assembly member david chu. i have been in touch with my legislative colleagues around the state regularly. what has been apparent to all of us is the leadership of san francisco and the bay area during this coronavirus we have been setting the standard, leading the way. i want to take a moment to thank everyone who is part of the emergency response and the public health response and the response to the economic challenges we are facing. the decisions th

hsa is not doing this alone. we are doing it in partnership with department of real estate, city attorneys and department of public health and in the case for moscone west we can't thank the director of the convention e confacilities for helping us set up th the space. it is amazing the level of work, expertise and partnership in the city. there is no way we could do this alone. no way the department of health can manage alone. mayor breed is steadfast in her leadership and guidance andy serves a lot of credit for the way the city has responded. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am assembly member david chu. i have been in touch with my legislative colleagues around the state regularly. what has been apparent to all of us is the leadership of san francisco and the bay area during this coronavirus we have been setting the standard, leading the way. i want to take a moment to thank everyone who is part of the emergency response and the public health response and the response to the economic challenges we are facing.

hsa is not doing this alone. we are doing it in partnership with department of real estate, city attorneys and department of public health and in the case for moscone west we can't thank the director of the convention e confacilities for helping us set up th the space. it is amazing the level of work, expertise and partnership in the city. there is no way we could do this alone. no way the department of health can manage alone. mayor breed is steadfast in her leadership and guidance andy serves a lot of credit for the way the city has responded. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am assembly member david chu. i have been in touch with my legislative colleagues around the state regularly. what has been apparent to all of us is the leadership of san francisco and the bay area during this coronavirus we have been setting the standard, leading the way. i want to take a moment to thank everyone who is part of the emergency response and the public health response and the response to the economic challenges we are facing.

key departments to ensure that people are getting the testing they need, the care they need, and with hsa and with hsh, that people who are at greatest vulnerable from bad, bad outcomes from this business are placed in hotel rooms to protect them and our community. >> one final question from the san francisco examiner. to we know how many of those 70 people testing positive at msc have had underlying conditions or in the age range to be more vulnerable? >> i do not have those numbers yet but certainly some of them have those chronic conditions and we are looking through those numbers right now. i want to emphasize that we are deploying our team of medical experts to ensure that people who have tested positive, whether or not they have a chronic condition, are getting the best care possible and certainly if need n need of greater levels of care they will be transported to the appropriate medical facility. >> thank you dr. colfax. the next questions are for abigail stewart-kahn. >> a two-part question and a follow-up from nbc bay area. inside city shelters are homeless people now being shel

hsa is not doing this alone.re doing it in partnership with department of real estate, city attorneys and department of public health and in the case for moscone west we can't thank the director of the convention e confacilities for helping us set up th the space. it is amazing the level of work, expertise and partnership in the city. there is no way we could do this alone. no way the department of health can manage alone. mayor breed is steadfast in her leadership and guidance andy serves a lot of credit for the way the city has responded. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am assembly member david chu. i have been in touch with my legislative colleagues around the state regularly. what has been apparent to all of us is the leadership of san francisco and the bay area during this coronavirus we have been setting the standard, leading the way. i want to take a moment to thank everyone who is part of the emergency response and the public health response and the response to the economic challenges we are facing. the d

the 105.6, those are the placeholders for what we have let with public health and there's some for hsa, obviously. this is in our financial system, as such. the categories, number two, can i gcani go back, kelly? and i wanted to run you through numbers from fema and numbers that we are tracking. this is as of yesterday and we're definitely going to update this moving forward. so in terms of the fema eligible costs to date that we have submitted to fema so far, as of the last submittal, it amounts to about $40.4 million and as part of our expedited funding request, which is basically a portion of the 75% of fema's cost share is going to be coming to us soon and. and this is15.1 million and i dd this on the previous slide of number one, number two, and number three which totals 15.2. and the obligations, all three have been obablie obligated to . this is as a part of the funding request that we have. this is another source of our funding that we will be getting moving forward. the 153.8 you're seeing here is basically the first installation that we have seen so far and this relates to th

hsa is not doing this alone.we are doing it in partnership with department of real estate, city attorneys and department of public health and in the case for moscone west we can't thank the director of the convention e confacilities for helping us set up th the space. it is amazing the level of work, expertise and partnership in the city. there is no way we could do this alone. no way the department of health can manage alone. mayor breed is steadfast in her leadership and guidance andy serves a lot of credit for the way the city has responded. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am assembly member david chu. i have been in touch with my legislative colleagues around the state regularly. what has been apparent to all of us is the leadership of san francisco and the bay area during this coronavirus we have been setting the standard, leading the way. i want to take a moment to thank everyone who is part of the emergency response and the public health response and the response to the economic challenges we are facing. t

we are working with our partners at hsa and hsh at the department of homelessness in support of housing to do everything that we can to best protect and care for the homeless population. they obviousl are part of the ve population to covid-19. i'm in th not aware of any experiencing homelessness. we know from data from dr. margo and others that the physical -- that the medical age of people who are chronically homeless is 20 years older than their chron logical age. we are establishing places for people who are experiencing homelessness who are under investigation or covid-19 positive i just wanted to go back to commissioner green about the providers. i wanted to assure you all that we have a liaison to the san francisco medical society ensuring that private providers are getting the information they need about testing and how to manage their patients and work with their patients going forward. we're also issuing a health order this afternoon that will ensure that only people who need the most urgent or emergent care will be seen in offices going forward. >> is there specific guidance w

the 105.6, those are the placeholders for what we have let with public health and there's some for hsa, obviously. this is in our financial system, as such. the categories, number two, can i gcani go back, kelly? and i wanted to run you through numbers from fema and numbers that we are tracking. this is as of yesterday and we're definitely going to update this moving forward. so in terms of the fema eligible costs to date that we have submitted to fema so far, as of the last submittal, it amounts to about $40.4 million and as part of our expedited funding request, which is basically a portion of the 75% of fema's cost share is going to be coming to us soon and. and this is15.1 million and i dd this on the previous slide of number one, number two, and number three which totals 15.2. and the obligations, all three have been obablie obligated to . this is as a part of the funding request that we have. this is another source of our funding that we will be getting moving forward. the 153.8 you're seeing here is basically the first installation that we have seen so far and this relates to th

hsa is not doing this alone. we are doing it in partnership with department of real estate, city attorneys and department of public health and in the case for moscone west we can't thank the director of the convention e confacilities for helping us set up th the space. it is amazing the level of work, expertise and partnership in the city. there is no way we could do this alone. no way the department of health can manage alone. mayor breed is steadfast in her leadership and guidance andy serves a lot of credit for the way the city has responded. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am assembly member david chu. i have been in touch with my legislative colleagues around the state regularly. what has been apparent to all of us is the leadership of san francisco and the bay area during this coronavirus we have been setting the standard, leading the way. i want to take a moment to thank everyone who is part of the emergency response and the public health response and the response to the economic challenges we are facing.

hsa is not doing this alone. we are doing it in partnership with department of real estate, city attorneys and department of public health and in the case for moscone west we can't thank the director of the convention e confacilities for helping us set up th the space. it is amazing the level of work, expertise and partnership in the city. there is no way we could do this alone. no way the department of health can manage alone. mayor breed is steadfast in her leadership and guidance andy serves a lot of credit for the way the city has responded. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am assembly member david chu. i have been in touch with my legislative colleagues around the state regularly. what has been apparent to all of us is the leadership of san francisco and the bay area during this coronavirus we have been setting the standard, leading the way. i want to take a moment to thank everyone who is part of the emergency response and the public health response and the response to the economic challenges we are facing.

>> abigail hill is here from hsa to answer more in detail. i think i have made it clear in my earlier comments in terms of getting access to hotel rooms. i want to add to my earlier comments. first of all, as i said, we put out request for proposal to get access to hotel rooms and working with hotel council, the contracting process allowed us to have 300 now and we expect to have another 3,000 by next week. there is a process that has to be worked out including issues of insurance as well as who is going to staff, the security to make sure people obey the order, especially if quarantined, what kind of wraparound supportive services the people housed in these locations need. we want to be clear. one of the biggest challenges we will face is not necessarily finding locations. sadly, for people who are homeless, but people who suffer from substance abuse disorder and people with mental illness the difficulty we have as the city in keeping them in quarantine or keeping them on an order to shelter-in-place is going to be difficult. we have to make

the choice facing this board, the mayor, hsh, hsa and the rest of the city government is clear. do everything in our power to get people housed now or be complies iand thisis a matter o. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. >> you have three questions remaining. >> is the speaker ready to make comments? >> yes. >> please proceed. >> first i run an organization in veteran's alley. and i'm calling in support of supervisors hanye, ronan and peskin and walton for people experiencing homelessness during this crisis. also i would request that the supervisors attempt to clarify what yar coordination between te department of veteran affairs and our public health response team that's happening with the city now, because a lot of the federal resources that are available to veterans who are experiencing homelessness right now and if we had any proper connection between va and our team on the street today, we could help to alleviate some of the local burden of the veterans that are unhoused right now today. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. >> you have four questions remainin

the choice facing this board, the mayor, hsh, hsa and the rest of the city government is clear. do everything in our power to get people housed now or be complies iand thisis a matter o. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. >> you have three questions remaining. >> is the speaker ready to make comments? >> yes. >> please proceed. >> first i run an organization in veteran's alley. and i'm calling in support of supervisors hanye, ronan and peskin and walton for people experiencing homelessness during this crisis. also i would request that the supervisors attempt to clarify what yar coordination between te department of veteran affairs and our public health response team that's happening with the city now, because a lot of the federal resources that are available to veterans who are experiencing homelessness right now and if we had any proper connection between va and our team on the street today, we could help to alleviate some of the local burden of the veterans that are unhoused right now today. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. >> you have four questions remainin

key departments to ensure that people are getting the testing they need, the care they need, and with hsa and with hsh, that people who are at greatest vulnerable from bad, bad outcomes from this business are placed in hotel rooms to protect them and our community. >> one final question from the san francisco examiner. to we know how many of those 70 people testing positive at msc have had underlying conditions or in the age range to be more vulnerable? >> i do not have those numbers yet but certainly some of them have those chronic conditions and we are looking through those numbers right now. i want to emphasize that we are deploying our team of medical experts to ensure that people who have tested positive, whether or not they have a chronic condition, are getting the best care possible and certainly if need n need of greater levels of care they will be transported to the appropriate medical facility. >> thank you dr. colfax. the next questions are for abigail stewart-kahn. >> a two-part question and a follow-up from nbc bay area. inside city shelters are homeless people now being shel

key departments to ensure that people are getting the testing they need, the care they need, and with hsa and with hsh, that people who are at greatest vulnerable from bad, bad outcomes from this business are placed in hotel rooms to protect them and our community. >> one final question from the san francisco examiner. to we know how many of those 70 people testing positive at msc have had underlying conditions or in the age range to be more vulnerable? >> i do not have those numbers yet but certainly some of them have those chronic conditions and we are looking through those numbers right now. i want to emphasize that we are deploying our team of medical experts to ensure that people who have tested positive, whether or not they have a chronic condition, are getting the best care possible and certainly if need n need of greater levels of care they will be transported to the appropriate medical facility. >> thank you dr. colfax. the next questions are for abigail stewart-kahn. >> a two-part question and a follow-up from nbc bay area. inside city shelters are homeless people now being shel

as the mayor did, we thank the dsws and hsa staff who are out there ever da everyday operatine hotels. i was told the held of the library is employed as a site monitor. so it's really, really hard to do for everybody. i, too, wani don't want to sugt this. this is one of the hardest things to do and this is part of the challenge and we're learning together to make this work. >> thank you, director. that concludes our questions for today. thank you. - >> tenderloin is unique neighborhood where geographically place in downtown san francisco and on every street corner have liquor store in the corner it stores pretty much every single block has a liquor store but there are impoverishes grocery stores i'm the co-coordinated of the healthy corner store collaboration close to 35 hundred residents 4 thousand are children the medium is about $23,000 a year so a low income neighborhood many new immigrants and many people on fixed incomes residents have it travel outside of their neighborhood to assess fruits and vegetables it can be come senator for seniors and hard to travel get on a bus to get

as the mayor did, we thank the dsws and hsa staff who are out there ever da everyday operatine hotels. i was told the held of the library is employed as a site monitor. so it's really, really hard to do for everybody. i, too, wani don't want to sugt this. this is one of the hardest things to do and this is part of the challenge and we're learning together to make this work. >> thank you, director. that concludes our questions for today. thank you. >> san francisco parks, golden gate park transforms into one of the greatest music festivals of all time, let's journey, inside, outside land. ♪ >> to this, our 6th year doing the outside lands and our relationship with san francisco, rec and park. and we work very closely with them in the planning and working very closely with the neighborhood organizations and with the city supervisors and with the city organizations and with the local police department, and i think that the outside lands is one of the unique festivals in the world and we have san francisco and we have golden gate park and we have the greatest oasis, in the world. and it h

key departments to ensure that people are getting the testing they need, the care they need, and with hsa and with hsh, that people who are at greatest vulnerable from bad, bad outcomes from this business are placed in hotel rooms to protect them and our community. >> one final question from the san francisco examiner. to we know how many of those 70 people testing positive at msc have had underlying conditions or in the age range to be more vulnerable? >> i do not have those numbers yet but certainly some of them have those chronic conditions and we are looking through those numbers right now. i want to emphasize that we are deploying our team of medical experts to ensure that people who have tested positive, whether or not they have a chronic condition, are getting the best care possible and certainly if need n need of greater levels of care they will be transported to the appropriate medical facility. >> thank you dr. colfax. the next questions are for abigail stewart-kahn. >> a two-part question and a follow-up from nbc bay area. inside city shelters are homeless people now being shel

hsa is not doing this alone. we are doing it in partnership with department of real estate, city attorneys and department of public health and in the case for moscone west we can't thank the director of the convention e confacilities for helping us set up th the space. it is amazing the level of work, expertise and partnership in the city. there is no way we could do this alone. no way the department of health can manage alone. mayor breed is steadfast in her leadership and guidance andy serves a lot of credit for the way the city has responded. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am assembly member david chu. i have been in touch with my legislative colleagues around the state regularly. what has been apparent to all of us is the leadership of san francisco and the bay area during this coronavirus we have been setting the standard, leading the way. i want to take a moment to thank everyone who is part of the emergency response and the public health response and the response to the economic challenges we are facing.

key departments to ensure that people are getting the testing they need, the care they need, and with hsa and with hsh, that people who are at greatest vulnerable from bad, bad outcomes from this business are placed in hotel rooms to protect them and our community. >> one final question from the san francisco examiner. to we know how many of those 70 people testing positive at msc have had underlying conditions or in the age range to be more vulnerable? >> i do not have those numbers yet but certainly some of them have those chronic conditions and we are looking through those numbers right now. i want to emphasize that we are deploying our team of medical experts to ensure that people who have tested positive, whether or not they have a chronic condition, are getting the best care possible and certainly if need n need of greater levels of care they will be transported to the appropriate medical facility. >> thank you dr. colfax. the next questions are for abigail stewart-kahn. >> a two-part question and a follow-up from nbc bay area. inside city shelters are homeless people now being shel