Tuesday at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan, cspan. Org, or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Heres new Jersey Governor Phil Murphy on the process of reopening his state. He also praised fridays passage of the most recent covid19 relief bill by the u. S. House. The measure, called the heroes act, now heads to the senate, but as of now, they do not plan on taking up the bill. Joined by the woman on my right who needs no introduction. To her right, another familiar face, state epidemiologist dr. Christina tam, thank you for being here. Pat callahan, director of the office of security and preparedness, jerome mcnichols. Good afternoon. Thursday, we announced a plan by which the jersey shore could reopen in the summer season, and today im proud to announce that in addition to enjoying our beaches, our sure goers will also be able to enjoy time on the water as well, so today, i am signing an executive order that will allow Fishing Charters and other chartered vote services and watercraft
House. The measure called the heroes act heads to the senate but as of now they do not plan on taking up the bill. On thursday we announced the plans that we would be opening the beaches. Today i am signing an executive order that will allow Fishing Charters and other watercraft rentals to resume effective at 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow may 17. We will require social distancing and sanitation measures to be followed including the implementation of online or telephone Payment Systems to further lessen direct persontoperson contact among other procedures spelled out in my order. One of those will require all passenger and customer logs be properly maintained for the purposes of Contact Tracing should that be required. We are confident in taking these steps for getting our state back on the road for the reason we have been able to take the other steps we have announced to restart our economy and begin our recovery because the data says it is possible. Public Health Creates economic health. Data d
Gov. Murphy good afternoon, everyone. I want to give a shout out, i want to pay homage to the division of fire safety. State fire marshal rich, lenny and cerullo and all of the guys over here, hats off to the firefighters up and down the state who are as good as it gets. We salute you and thank you for everything you are doing. Im joined by the woman who needs no introduction, judy. This is our third engagement today. Two on the phone and one in person. The department of Health Communicable disease medical director and the guy familiar to you all, great to have you. And the guy to my left who needs no introduction, superintendent of the police, colonel pat callahan. Also jared maples. Welcome. Lets start with the numbers. I think we will go briskly today. We are announcing an additional 3457 positive test results for a total statewide of 1523. If we look at the curve of new covid19 cases, these are positive tests, we see continued flattening. We cannot ease up. Lets leave this appear a
And cerullo and all of the guys over here, hats off to the firefighters up and down the state who are as good as it gets. We salute you and thank you for everything you are doing. Im joined by the woman who needs no introduction, judy. This is our third engagement today. Two on the phone and one in person. The department of Health Communicable disease medical director and the guy familiar to you all, great to have you. Needse guy to my left who no introduction, superintendent pathe police, colonel callahan. Also jared maples. Welcome. Lets start with the numbers. I think we will go briskly today. We are announcing an additional 3457 positive test results for a 1523. Statewide of if we look at the curve of new covid19 cases, these are continuedests, we see flattening. We cannot ease up. Lets leave this appear and remind everybody lets leave this up here. A lot of folks have battled and won. That is an important point to make. The curve is flattening. Of a lotn the face more testing. Jud
Our neighbors safe. This has been difficult, because i mentioned earlier, there is so much we dont know about how easily this virus spreads. There was concern and i now see what the before we get into the like to havewould thecallahan give us weather. 6 00tornado watch until of our 21 counties. It could develop for a trip or we see the tornado is imminent. To 70 that, wind gusts up miles per hour. A lot of flooding, a partial building collapse. The boardwalk has some damage, andetween the high winds hail, it will be nasty. Dealing with over 47,000 Power Outages from the north and the south. Pictures of the wildwood area. If folks see a downed power line, call it in. We dont want you out right now even if it were sunny and 75. By percy kelly, medical Director Company great director, great to have you both with us. Us inrrit naples is with again, thank you for your patience today. Lets start with the overnight numbers. Report, overays 2000 more president s has test results. Ive according