welcome, mayor. >> thank you, mayor hancock and mayor pete. congratulations. it is just a delight to see you in this position. i am confident you will be confirmed, and i have to add my comments that it is just heartwarming to see an out queer person in your position. we are so dang proud of you, pete, and so looking forward to what you are going to do. i have a long list. this is but one of many conversations i hope to have with you. just want to highlight a few things. i am so heartened to see the focus on climate and equity and bringing economic opportunity to our communities and those who needed the most. just the fact that local hire came out of your mouth is wonderful. i look forward to building on that with you. i want to mention work that i think many of us are doing across the country under the rubric of vision zero. you led with safety, and i think many of us are trying hard to improve safety in our transportation systems through the vision zero framework. we would love for that to be more of a national program in partnership -- and partnership. near

mayor gin -- mayor hancock: thank you, mayor. if any of those cities want a rematch against mayor ginther, bring it back. let's go to college park mayor, mayor patrick. mayor? >> thank you, mayor buttigieg, for this opportunity. on a personal note, it was great to see you at the confirmation hearing the other day. great to have you as the first potentially gay member of the cabinet. also i wanted to note in your introduction of the hearing, you talked about the need for a bottom up approach to infrastructure planning and what the department will do. i think that was music to the ears of many of us on this call to hear that your priorities will be the priorities of local communities around the country. one priority that has been highlighted by the pandemic that has been in place for many years in local communities such as college park is the importance of safe places to walk and bikee importance of safe places to walk and bike. you have spoken compellingly about that in your work in south bend and in the article in the washington

as mayor of louisville and also mayor of the present of u.s. conference of mayors. it's the next honor to be moderating today's session. i want to thank obviously secretary kerry, gina mccarthy, eric garcetti and frank cownie for being with us today. i want to thank you all for joining us in this discussion to discuss climate change, the defined child of our lifetime and also to welcome to c-span2 becoming today's discussion. everything that we want to accomplish right now of the celts, public safety, down economy, racial justice, equable recovery from covid-19 all depends on healthy environment. how is it time to make bold and brave action to prevent irreversible damage to our planet. in boston and in cities all over this country we've taken this responsibility seriously. with upheld our commitment to the paris agreement come focus and counter cutting emissions and creating green jobs and preparing a residence for the impact of climate like rising sea levels store and heat waves. as mayor we're close to the people we serve. we see firsthand ho

conference of mayors and climate mayors.on that note, i would like to congratulate mayor sylvester turner from houston for becoming the new chairman. we appreciate his commitment and work and it's great to see him take the reins of this critical organization. cities have condolence to drive this work forward and we're excited to accelerate our efforts on a national level. climate action must be at the hea of our covid-19 recovery efforts. as we rebuild our economy, we need to focus on green jobs, we need to look at our economy and social conditions that made some populations vulnerable due to covid-19. especially people of color, immigrants and low-income workers. now is the time to heal our nation by investing in long term community health and well-being and climate action is at the heart of this work. it's my pleasure to introduce somebody who has been fighting for a long, long time, he's helped us to work together across sectors and helped to make the united states a climate leader on the national and international stage,

mayor bowser:? mother -- mayor bowser: yes, sir. reporter: mayor bowser, if you were a governor, how would yesterday have gone different lever you? what would ash differently for you -- differently for you? what would you have been able to do? mayor bowser: the difference would be when we become the 51st state, our congresswoman has a bill in the congress right now to give the mayor control of the d.c. national guard. what is different is we would not make a request to the secretary of the army for guard support. we would not be restricted in anyway from how to deploy the guard, so we wouldn't have to clear a deployment plan with the secretary of the army. we could be nimble in how we change it. if we have a deployment plan that was approved, for example, that limited the guard to the traffic box or 2 9th street, if we find out during the course of the response that that needs to change dramatically, then i as mayor/governor would make that determination. that is the big difference. what wouldn't be different as toernor would be my

are there tips to fellow mayors? mayor de blasio? mayor de blasio: thank you, mayor.k, a point on trust with communities right now. i heard dr. murphy loud and clear about making sure there is capacity going forward, but in new york city and a lot of cities, we have a huge capacity and no vaccine, so in terms of the trust, mayor stoney, when we tell people we are ready to vaccinate and you have an appointment, we read distrust when we have to pull back. -- breed distrust when we have to pull back. that is part one. part two, mayor, to your point, local, local, local. get to the neighborhood level. we are planning to open up yankee stadium, city field, and mega sites, but the community-based sites, public housing, the sites in community centers, local high schools, they have to be particularly focused on the community's that bore the brunt. we know that african-americans, latinos, and asians bore the brunt of this crisis. that is where we need the vaccination centers to get down to the grassroots. the more local, not only will it be easier for people, that means you're

youyo are on mute, mayor. >> i've got to remember that. thank you, mr. mayor. mr. secretary, we have next the mayor of the super bowl champion kansas city chiefs and patrick mahon's. >> thank you mr. chairman and secretary. it's good to see you again. i enjoy talking to you and mayor walsh, just on wednesday. i'm excited to have a lot of our friends and conference of mayorc in these decisions. as we discussed briefly on wednesday i want to talk about both equity and climate and i'm so excited those are focuses of yours. first is to take a chance on the department of transportation and look at the zero transit program we've institute in kansas city. although we have already heavily subsidized we spent marginal costs but on average $2,000 a year back into the pockets of so many who find budget challenges. each and every day and managed to sustain during a pandemic that's been worthwhile. we also recognize as funding goes, compared to almost any infrastructure type investment, so working withh you on how we can address that, but a question i have relating to climate,

mayors. he previously served as the city of miami and at the age the first miami board mayor of the city that has a lot going on, we look forward to hearing you, he served as the oklahoma city since april 2018, he is the youngest mayor of oklahoma since 1923, congratulations and the mayor of a coma city in one of the youngest with more than 500,000 residents and he served eight years in the senate and oklahoma. in thehe newest member mayor ken lincoln assumed office in stockton california the most diverse city in america, about four weeks ago, january of 2021. he previously served in the marine corps and during that time he was assigned marine one in the george w. bush tenure in the top security companies and serve the community of stockton through full-time ministry of the church. all of you have interesting and diverse backgrounds all of your grappling with what were dealing with now in our cities and we look forward to diving in. when each of you talk it would be great to hear why you ran

[inaudible] , let's go to mayor patrick mayor. >> thank you mayor hancock and thank you mayor but a judge, secretary designate buddha judge and thank you for this opportunity. on the personal note it was great to see your husband sitting behind you as the confirmation hearing the other day. it's great to have you as the first openly and potentially open gay member of the cabinet. also i want to note, in your introduction and the hearing you talked about the need for bottoms up approach to transportation planning and two with the department role will do. and i think that was music to theth ears of many of us on the call to hear that your priorities will be the priorities of the local committees around the country. one of those priorities that really has been highlighted by the pandemic but has in place for many yearswa in local communities such as college park, is the importance of safe places to walk and bike. and i know you spoke compellingly about that in your work in south bend and that article in the washington post that you've been walking the biking is an active means of transportat

and chair of the us conference of mayors task force of mayors and police chiefs. we have a great program today. we are here to talk about what mayors can do and are doing to reduce gun violence. and in our respective cities into take questions and to have a conversation. and frankly it comes on the heels of one of the most violent years that many of us have been through. we appreciate the help and support for all of the help gun safety in the mayors against illegal guns in organizing and providing the session and for all of us individually in our cities. first, cincinnati is unfortunately one of the many cities that saw this. a huge spike in gun violence. in 2018 and 2019 we had record low gun violence and 20 year lows. and last year that really came off. historic levels of gun violence. and there is no easy explanation as to why this happened the recession, the public health issues, the schools being closed, and i know we had in being very candid. i forgot to mention i need to mention that we're on c-span and so everyone should know that we year on c-span life an

mayor walsh, mayor garcetti on this important work. two months ago mayor caputo of pittsburgh who was supportive of the paris climate agreement i should point out, a very full support of that work led a group of mayors in the ohio river valley to talk about this marshall planfor middle america and i'm proud to be one of the signers of this work . it's a real issue and miss mccarthy and the secretary kerry, it's a real need for places i live to deal with jobs and if we don't lead with jobs on this issue we will continue to lose on this issue because right now in places like where i live it is not a winning escutcheon point. if you remember when i first came to city council one of the first things we did is we were more thoughtful and save the money was with a rooftop garden on to help with water runoff and you would've thought we had created something that was completely superfluous because people don't understand it but in this communities like mine that has lost a tremendous amount of jobs because of the loss of manufacturing due to t

mayor bowser: park service? thank you. >> thank you, mayor. yes, in terms of this weekend, you will start to see, now that the fencing has gone up, as the secret service activates some perimeters, we will fully support that. access will become more and more restricted within the national mall and areas we have inside those boundaries. we have worked with everyone, all the permittees who requested special events or demonstrations from now through the inauguration to find another time and location for their activities. for those two events we have, they are groups, my understanding is that we have expressed first amendment activities frequently through the district, and we had a chance to talk to them and be able to make sure they are able to scale their first amendment demonstrations to the site we have available, so we also thank them for working with us on this. >> mayor bowser, do you anticipate the area being able to go back to normal immediately after the period have ended or expected to end? mayor bowser: i think that we are going to go b

the mayor of miami was selected in 2017 i guess the longest-serving mayor of first-term mayors and previously served as the commissioner for district four at the age of 431 of the youngest in the country the first miami born mayor of the city and has a lot going on we look forward to hearing from you mayor also serving as mayor of oklahoma city since april 2018 the youngest since 1923 congratulations on that the first native with more than 500,000 residents and he served eight years in the senate and oklahoma the newest member to the merrill lynch on - - branch to the most diverse city in america january 2021 he famously served in the marine corps during that time has worked for one of the top security countries y'all have diverse backgrounds and are grappling with what we are dealing with right now in our cities and we look forward to diving right in. hearing about why you ran in the first place so i got you interested in this job to begin with, you can address that when you have a chance but i thought i would start with you mayor, mayor suarez will have to leave at 230 we'll try to get you

mayor. early happy new year. mayor de blasio: happy new year. reporter: it is a relief to have this year over with soon. can you tell us more about how the logistics will work in terms of the vaccination campaign? for instance, if we are doing the million shots, do you expect it to be anyone over 65 or any essential worker? where will that get us up to in the line? is this going to be by appointment? is it just going to be people lining up? and kind of where are the numbers going to come from with -- you said 45,000 a week. it does not add up to a million. mayor de blasio: hold on. you've got a lot going on there. we try to pull out the core of what you are saying. suffice it to say, our vaccine command center will be constantly providing updates, and how each center will relate to the overall number, the different categories -- suffice it to say you will hear more and more about that, each day to come. i will turn to dr. chaffee, that i do not expect him to have the perfect chart of how all will be done in january yet. i also wanted to say at t

mayor worters you are muted i believe. >> thank you mayor. it's an honor to be here with all of my colleagues and talking about an issue that's incredibly serious to all of us. our cities need to be rescued from the financial cliff there are. yesterday the federal reserve warned that the u.s. economy recovering is weakening. municipal job cuts have real world consequences for residents households and small businesses. when residents lose jobs demand for state and local government is increased underscoring the urgency for congress to step in and provide the support we need to help our committees through these very difficult times. over the past several months we have continued to communicate what we are seeing in our hometowns with regard to revenue loss layoff numbers and every piece of local data that we have a nurse disposal. it's estimated municipal governments are facing 90 billion -- to their current revenue. according to labor statistics december 2020 jobs reports local governments shed 32,000 jobs. state and local government employment

as a mayor. it's like, i'm not the only one getting banged around a little bit. i think that is what public service is about. >> president joe biden and vice president, lai harris were sworn in wednesday. watch the historic 59th inaugural ceremonies again this weekend on c-span. see the arrivals of former presidents and celebrity performances. >> america has been tested a new, and america has risen to the challenge. >> here joe biden>>'s inaugural speech and amanda gorman's moving poem, followed by president biden's white house arrival. watch the inauguration tonight first at 8:00 p.m. eastern and again at midnight on c-span, on demand at c-span.org, or listen on the c-span radio app. >> next, two georgetown university law professors discuss policing and racial bias following the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol. both present research and data and talk about some of the lessons learned from the attack. >> i want to welcome everyone to our conversation on lessons on policing from the capitol s

mayor adler a great chat and it was the same question that mayor fisher and i got mayor adler to kick it off here. >> julie, thank you, thank you and what everybody is saying that cities know what is best what is needed and bringing funds, whether it be transportation or the covid to cities, it's just really important and the flexibility to hit the local needs. but my question goes to vaccine distribution. in so many ways what we are dealing with is a supply question. people are frustrated because they otherwise qualify and there is not the supply and there is very little you can do that is right. we are getting the vaccine in a greater allocation from the state. the moment it comes in and resulted and our city losing their allocation. the question is what is the real story with supply of the vaccine? short-term and over the next 100 days -- i could take 100 doses over 100 days and divide it by my population in my city and i know what that means. what is the supply of the vaccine? >> >> we are quickly getting a better sense of -- and for lack of a better description, really peeking un

mayor thank you this by the last time we see you on is due mike this is her mayor. so you have contributed so much in your time to mayor and you're going to continue to do that is labor secretary. no telling what's ahead of that just thank you once again. we had a great love festival for you yesterday and it could never be over for you mayor. i'm about the all are with today i'm honors to introduce our next discussion which includes media, or one of our own

conference of mayors. i'm looking forward to continuing a more inclusive and equitable city during these tough and difficult times because of the pandemic and racial strife and also the economic downturn. our discussion today on the current status is vital to all localities, states and nation. i'm pleased to introduce the guests to inform this great conversation. first i'm delighted to introduce my good friend and the 109th mayor of the city of new york, bill de blasio. he's been a steady resource and leader for the city both before and during the pandemic. as the mayor of new york city, he is launched countless initiatives and shared lessons learned with us at the conference. to respond, cover and support, residents, families and businesses throughout and i will say i have been to be a new york jets fan so new york is dear to me because it is my birthplace. next i am honored to again welcome doctor vivek murthy, a great friend to the conference of mayors and served as the 19th surgeon general of the unite

mayor. our staff was so honored when you came it will be three weeks tomorrow that you came to elm hurst hospital we started vaccinating those health care heroes. we started as the -- with the eople at the highest risk. those two people where one worked in the i.c.u, one worked in the emergency department where people are -- have breathing tubes which put people at high risk. both of them you'll remember were over 60. so we started very narrowly. but in these last three weeks i'm happy to tell you we have vaccinated everyone in all 11 hospitals who have patient care responsibility. they are protected. they can go and take care of their patients and know that they are not themselves going to all ill to this illness. now starting yesterday, the state gave its approval to vaccinate everybody in the hospitals. by the end of this week, sir, we are going to vaccinate everybody in the hospitals. all staff who want to be vaccinated, we are going to do it. i was pleased to follow in the footsteps of

my co-leader, mayor williams, to say a few words. mayor williams. >> thank you, mayor. so well stated. i need to thank all the mayors who worked so hard this last year to secure direct fiscal assistance to our cities. we didn't get it done in 2020, but the need for assistance has not changed. for anything, it has increased as the virus rages on and our resources continue to be depleted while our cities are still a critical partner in fighting the virus and also getting us back on our feet and getting this economy going. i look forward to working with nan and all of you to press this issue and bring it across the finish line. what a great way to begin this new year in getting this across the finish line and looking so forward working with brian and julie on the line here. our u.s. conference of mayors campaign for direct fiscal assistance is definitely a bipartisan effort. n/a united front, republicans, democrats and independents are here to help the biden administration defeat the virus and give cities the resources we need to continue essential and life-saving services

. >> vamos con las personas mayores de 65 aÑos.trabajadores esenciales. reportera: le preguntamos cÓmo harÍan las personas que no tienen acceso a internet, ofreciÓ el nÚmero 211. el supervisor del condado de sonoma nos dijo que hay mÁs de 10 clÍnicas que estarÁn colocando la vacuna en el condado. ramÓn: gracias. por su parte, el director del equipo atlÉticos de oakland informÓ, que el estadio podrÍa ser un sitio para colocar las vacunas a partir del prÓximo mes. la campaÑa de vacunaciÓn ya comenzÓ en el Área de la bahÍa. algunos departamento de salud informaron nuevos sitios para colocar la vacuna a personal de salud. en santa clara ya hay tres enormes centros, entre otros. vamos con los detalles. reportera: muy buenas noches. ya existe un sitio web en donde la gente de tercera edad del condado de contra costa puede pedir una cita para vacunarse. algunas personas mayores de edad de contra costa ya pudieron vacunarse y se espera ampliar el rango prÓximamente. >> esperamos poder vacunar a todos los mayores de 65 aÑos. reportera: este

conference of mayors to help support mayors as they face the immense challenge of increasing understanding of and access to the covid-19 vaccines for the ir residents. the will help city leaders navigate the challenges associated with widespread distribution of the covid-19 vaccine including community engagement and finding relatable messengers. this partnership will focus on supporting city leaders in three areas. best practices around resident engagement, toolkits with guidance on vaccine administration, and webinars providing the latest updates on vaccine development and distribution. this includes opportunities for cities to learn from each other and access the experts. i want to particularly acknowledge meharry medical college, the largest historically black medical school, who will partner with us to ensure hard-hit communities of color receive the resources they need to access vaccines. and also, the bloomberg school of public health will provide mayors and city leaders latest information in the virus and vaccine to address resident s' concerns about vaccine. we asked two people who

thank you, mayor. >> mayor breed: thank you, maria. community partners have been essential in taking care of our kids at these sites day after day. i would like to introduce betty field ashbury for the tom embarcadero ymca providing staffing. thank you and welcome, betty. >> thank you, madam mayor, maria, it is such an honor to be here speaking about our work at the treasure island community hub. i first and foremost want to thank the families and caregivers that entrust us with the chair of their young people. it is the most awesome and humbling responsibility, particularly during this time while we are figuring out how to get through the pandemic that none of us were ever anticipating or prepared for. we on the island, our community is going through an enormous amount of physical transformation and with that comes feelings of separation and isolation from the city. that is compounded during this pandemic. for us at the community ymca remaining stable was imperative and call to action for all of us, and my team on the island working s

mayor of the city. look forward to hearing from you, francis suarez. david holt, mayor of oklahoma city since 2013, the first native american mayor of oklahoma city and one of the youngest mayors of the city with 500,000 residents that he served eight years in the senate in oklahoma. the newest member of the bench, kevin lincoln just assumed office which the census bureau calls the most diverse city in america, four weeks ago, january of 2021. previously served in the marine corps and during that time was assigned to marine one during the george w. bush 10 year, worked for the community of stockton in a full-time ministry. in our cities, look forward to diving right in. it would be great to hear a little bit about why you ran in the first place, what got you interested in this job and you can address that in due course when you have a chance but i thought i would start with you, francis suarez, something will take you from a set to:30 so hope we get to you first, and deal with questions after the fact,

>> san francisco mayor london n. breed. for persons who wish to ask questions, include your name, outlet and up to two clearly stated questions in webex chat. and now we welcome mayor london breed. >> thank you so much. and good morning, everyone. i am excited to be here today because we know that most recently we have a vacancy in the city administrator's office, and i am so proud to announce that i am nominating carmen chu to serve as san francisco's city administrator. many of us know carmen over the years. she has served the city and county of san francisco since 2005. she currently serves as our assessor recorder and in that role she is responsible for managing a team of over 200 people. under her leadership, the aassessor's office has reversed a decades old backlog of assessment cases and generating $3.6 billion in property tax revenue annually to support public services in san francisco. had it not been for carmen's leader snip that role, we would have a budget that was deficient in the amount of $3.6 billion. that g

and we will now continue questions with mayor breed. >> mayor london breed: all right. >> mayor breed, your first set of question comes from nbc bay area. what do you say to landlords who feel that they're being taken advantage of by tenants who continue to pay zero dollars in rent and intend to continue living rent-free during the eviction moratorium? >> mayor london breed: well, i appreciate the question. and, you know, san francisco since the beginning of this pandemic, through not only the rental subsidies that we had through the city and county of san francisco, that try to provide some additional rental assistance to make sure that when this is over that people are still responsible for that rent and will need to pay it. we just found out from the federal government that san francisco will be given $26 million in stimulus money to help with rental assistance. this will be significant. we know that it's not just the people who are struggling to pay their rent, but some of the small property owners and others who might be struggling because they're not receiving that additional in

mayor. >> -- at dcmayor.gov. we also know that authorities are doing what they can do to keep our city safe, and we certainly appreciate it. we want you to be vigilant, look around yourselves when you're out and about, and if you see something, absolutely say something. and you may report anything that you think is out of the norm by calling 911. you may report suspicious activity at 727-9099. you can go to mpd's iwatchdc.org website or text tips at 5411. we are also recommending that businesses download and print and display these signs. and these signs let anyone know that firearms are not welcome on the premises. we want businesses who encounter anyone with a weapon to call 911 and try not to confront that person or persons themselves. the signs can be download the at inauguration.dc.gov. later today h. seema, that's d.c.'s security agency will host a call to discuss the district's planning. people can attend that by dialing 844-811-1314 at 4:00 p.m. the conversation will also be broadcast live on channel 16 a

i want to thank mayor breed. i want thank united playaz and family of george floyd for theiring their passion. so we can put an end to senseless gun violence. i want to encourage everyone to bring your unwanted guns to buyback saturday. you'll never know how many people lives you saved by doing so. thank you. >> real talk. thank you so much. may your son robby, prest in peace. i want to thank everyone for sharing their knowledge and experience. i'm a survivor gun violence, twice. last time i was shot at in 2012 in this neighborhood that i'm at with someone who got murdered yesterday three blocks up. one gun off the streets where people who say this doesn't work, one gun off the streets can destroy one person's life. that one person life can be the person who can save this whole planet. you never know who that can be, who that person will grow up to be. we want to make sure we get all the guns i can. i'm not against the second amendment, i'm against senseless gun violence. if shouldn't be little kids and innocent