susan phillip from the department of public health. doctor, the floor is yours. >> thank you very much, chair fewer. thank you, supervisors walton and mandelman. thank you. i am coming today to talk about this grant which recognizes that unfortunately california has among the highest rates of s.t.d.s in the united states. rates are going up nationwide for chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis. that is true in california as well. and unfortunately in san francisco also. so this grant from the state was meant to recognize that local health jurisdictions such as san francisco need additional resources in order to try new and innovative partnerships and approaches. the emphasis that we are using this funding for is primarily on syphilis. syphilis has increased 11% between 2018 and 2019. it remains primarily an infection in san francisco among men. infections in women are increasing. and in women one of the large concerns with syphilis is the possibility of congenital syphilis transmitted from a pregnant woman to the unborn child which is one o

susan phillips says san francisco's slow reopening has been very deliberate. >> we would rather pausehan roll back. >> reporter: she's involved in the city's contact tracing program and shared one of the most important findings. >> 15% of r francisco a-- 55% of our contacs with covid are lat x. > reporter: we wanted to know where people were getting infected, the workplace, social gatherings, in large households. while all of those are contributing factors, the contact tracing program doesn't have the resources now to dig deep into all those specifics. >> you know, without that data, there are things we should all be doing in san francisco. always assume that we are being exposed or that we might be infected, and i think we have to cover our faces. >> reporter: san francisco expects trials starting as soon as august. kate larson, "abc7 news." >>> it can be hard to keep track of what's open, especially when places that were open have to close again, like we're seeing now. we're helping you out by shows county by county what's allowed to be open. you'll find it on abc7news.com. >>> coro

susan phillips says san francisco's slow reopening has been very deliberate. >> we would rather pausehan roll back. >> reporter: she's involved in the city's contact tracing program and shared one of the most important findings. >> 15% of r francisco a-- 55% of our contacs with covid are lat x. > reporter: we wanted to know where people were getting infected, the workplace, social gatherings, in large households. while all of those are contributing factors, the contact tracing program doesn't have the resources now to dig deep into all those specifics. >> you know, without that data, there are things we should all be doing in san francisco. always assume that we are being exposed or that we might be infected, and i think we have to cover our faces. >> reporter: san francisco expects trials starting as soon as august. kate larson, "abc7 news." >>> it can be hard to keep track of what's open, especially when places that were open have to close again, like we're seeing now. we're helping you out by shows county by county what's allowed to be open. you'll find it on abc7news.com. >>> coro

susan phillip from the department of public health. doctor, the floor is yours. >> thank you very much, chair fewer. thank you, supervisors walton and mandelman. thank you. i am coming today to talk about this grant which recognizes that unfortunately california has among the highest rates of s.t.d.s in the united states. rates are going up nationwide for chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis. that is true in california as well. and unfortunately in san francisco also. so this grant from the state was meant to recognize that local health jurisdictions such as san francisco need additional resources in order to try new and innovative partnerships and approaches. the emphasis that we are using this funding for is primarily on syphilis. syphilis has increased 11% between 2018 and 2019. it remains primarily an infection in san francisco among men. infections in women are increasing. and in women one of the large concerns with syphilis is the possibility of congenital syphilis transmitted from a pregnant woman to the unborn child which is one o

susan phillip from the department of public health. doctor, the floor is yours. >> thank you very much, chair fewer. thank you, supervisors walton and mandelman. thank you. i am coming today to talk about this grant which recognizes that unfortunately california has among the highest rates of s.t.d.s in the united states. rates are going up nationwide for chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis. that is true in california as well. and unfortunately in san francisco also. so this grant from the state was meant to recognize that local health jurisdictions such as san francisco need additional resources in order to try new and innovative partnerships and approaches. the emphasis that we are using this funding for is primarily on syphilis. syphilis has increased 11% between 2018 and 2019. it remains primarily an infection in san francisco among men. infections in women are increasing. and in women one of the large concerns with syphilis is the possibility of congenital syphilis transmitted from a pregnant woman to the unborn child which is one o

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susan to help historians better understand the monument. workers drilled through the largest of the rocks removing three stone cores. robert phillipse, you'd be forgiven for asking why another wasn't taken. >> well, stonehenge is completely unique. it's the only stones like it in the world, it's 4,500 years old. we don't want to be taking bits away. >> you can see quite -- >> reporter: it was a bit of a homecoming when phillips' sons returned the heirloom from the united states. >> it was exciting that it was luck really, the core being returned to us from america. just happened to coincide with some geological work that was already taking place. >> reporter: geologists traced the 20-ton joints to an area 15 miles north of stonehenge. >> pretty much some of the largest stones in the whole of southern britain. so it seems that the people who were building stonehenge were selecting deliberately large stones. >> reporter: why not build stonehenge where they quarried the stones? why move them so far? >> that's a really good question. not one that we can answer at the moment. other than to say that really stonehenge and the whole landsc

susan i have two questions that really interesting about this discussion tonight. the people who actually planned the court case and who gave birth to this case before samuel phillips albion tourgee. can you give me some kind of an idea of what kind of people where they? were there any woman in that decision? whether any blacks or whites? what was the makeup of that decision? the other thing was seeing the justice brown denied the opinion of the court. he was a native of massachusetts. he refers in his decision to the early case of roberts versus city of lawson. i wonder if you can explain if that played a role in this case as far as he was concerned? thanks very much. >> thanks. in the interest of time, we will have you answer the first one and you the second one. he's basically asking the citizens committee and whether or not there were women involved. can you tell us more about the group the challenged this? >> it was not a huge group. correct me if i'm wrong michael, i think some thing around 15 and 20 as i said earlier, there were these african americans who were part of this middle upper class group of people. light skinned, etc. they understood that they wou