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Troubled by the tragic death of george floyd here in most. There were many deaths that took place in missouriened across the nation over the weekend. What happened to him was very wrong. And it is fill it has filled americans everywhere with sadness, grief, and anger. Were also saddened by the acts of violence that have transpired across our state and our nation in response to this event. Citizens have every right to peacefully assemble and protest. And we support those who are calling for justi...

Please keep those people in your thoughts and prayers. Yesterday was a really important day, a national day of prayer. I am sure those families and those people, the great West Virginians we lost appreciate you. I am not going to read you through what has happened in week two and three of the reopening plan, which will begin this coming monday. Guidelines for those businesses up on our website or itw website. The four will begin monday 18th great we will divide guidance at that time. I promise y...

Come back parade. Not startling, but reminder these companies are trying to conserve cash. They look to do it reining in the advertising budgets. The effect on broadcast industry, cable industry, newspapers, publishers, that could be pervasive this is not a shocker. Something i want to pass along. Also broadway right now, it is all blacked out. There are no shows. That will continue to be the case at least through labor day. Were getting word from broadway producers this will be case at least th...

[inaudible] can you hear me . Even though it doesnt even though we hadnt gotten together in more than a month, it feels like all of us are all together all the time. Number of Staff Meetings is up 2x. Number of management meetings is up 2x. We were set up to work remotely. We do that because were on the road quite a bit, and we have nontraditional hours where were conducting meetings after hours, on weekends and evenings. This was a seamless transition for us. Weve had access to digital presenta...

With a few Public Health data slides and then a little look t where were going. You have seen this before. It is updated. The gray are the cumulative cases that we have had in vermont. We are in the low 8507bs for cases. These 800s for cases. These are the new cases. It is coming into that more plateaued type of phase. This is called anepicurve. The new cases on a daytoday basis. We were pretty accustomed to an average of 3040 cases with occasional times where we peaked here in middle here. At 5...

Here we are in this Virtual World and i hope the public is able to access this meeting and future meetings. Well do our very best to make sure that that happens. I also want to say that meetings by our advisory groups will get started up again, hopefully soon, as well as Many Committee meetings by the board. But we do have capacity issues at the moment, but we want to make sure at the same time that the public is engaged and that we have a transparent process for all of our decisionmaking proces...

Will give some opening remarks and an update on where we are in the state with regards to ealth. Well start this morning with a few Public Health data slides and then a little look t where were going. You have seen this before. It is updated. The gray are the cumulative cases that we have had in vermont. We are in the low 8507bs for cases. These 800s for cases. These are the new cases. It is coming into that more plateaued type of phase. This is called anepicurve. The new cases on a daytoday bas...

More testing and three to discuss the need for more assistance to the states. Murphy telling the president at one point in this, quote, we have been crushed as a state. So neil, i will send it back to you. Because well get the tape. One other thing i was told i want to get in real quickly, i was told the white house as it relates to more relief down the line potentially for states, the white house essentially is on hold, a pause, they are surveying the landscape what potentially could comb next....

In ethiopia we discussed how to combat youth unemployment. And in mali d. J. And sound engineer 5 go takes us around his hometown of said group. Where a few weeks into the coronavirus pandemic now and the situation across the continent is difficult and frightening to say the least so how these last dozen curfews affecting young people economically we asked our correspondents all over africa what the job situation is like in their hometown and what people are doing to try and make the best of the...

Relatively good news out of new york where hospitalizations continue to decline although there is a spike in deaths in the state. The governor is worried, outlining for folks the idea of a staggered reopening of the state. Only 45 minutes after new yorks mayor bill de blasio was saying look, it is looking like june. That the city will not be able to open up before june. That was not exactly worthy after fox news or fox business alert. No shocker there. A highranking mayor of the city was making ...