Location. This is 40 minutes. Gov. Cooper good afternoon, everybody. As of today our state has 31,966 confirmed case, 659 people are in the hospital, and 960 people have died from covid19. I want to thank you for joining me for the national day of mourning on monday. We continue to pray for those who have lost loved ones to this virus. Before the murder of george floyd, and before the country heard yet again the cries for Racial Equity and justice, we already knew that covid19 was disproportionately impacting communities of color. In North Carolina, africanamericans make up approximately 22 of the population. As of june 1, they account for 30 of the confirmed covid19 cases. Nd 34 of covid19 deaths. Latinx people are just 10 of the population yet they make up 39 of covid19 confirmed cases. These statistics are alarming. And they are not acceptable. I want to be clear that theres nothing inthornte black or brown people that makes them more susceptible to severe covid19 illness. The data
People in the hospital, and, sadly, 152 deaths. We know that this disease includes an extra amount of sorrow, since loved ones cannot the at the bedside, and we continue to hold all of those suffering from this virus in our thoughts. Earlier this week, i laid out our path forward to a new normal , dependent upon testing, and i want to share some key updates about our work on that front. On testing first. North carolina has made great strides, but we have more work to do. We have conducted at least 73,000 tests, which is a long way from where we were a month ago. In fact, testing and our state has increased by 88 over the last two weeks, but we need testing to be more widespread, and we need to use it to give us a better indication of where we are in this fight. Today, we announced a partnership with three of our states medical universities, to use testing and tracing to help us determine how far the disease has spread in North Carolina. This research is part of a coordinated statewide
almost the entire state of florida, think about that, is bracing for the impact of hurricane ian., a monster storm is expected, several hundred miles across, and getting stronger by the minute. that is after causing a nationwide blackout in cuba. ian is turning in the gulf of mexico as a category three hurricane with sustained wind of just shy of a category for. now, along with life- threatening storm surge, florida is facing catastrophic flooding and powerful wind. conditions will deteriorate throughout the night ahead of the expected level in the coming hours, more than 2 1/2 million people are under some form of evacuation at this hour. the window to leave is running out. even before the hurricane makes landfall, authorities are warning residents to be on alert for tornadoes overnight. these images show the impact earlier after a tornado hit the airport in south florida, causing significant damage to several aircraft hangers. our meteorologist attracting the system for us.
Despite a few more changes in tonight track our message has that change. We could still have a category 2 either on or hugging our coastline as we head into this weekend. The latest forecast track we will keep as a category 4 hurricane as it is through the bahamas through thursday, then coming dangerously close to if not onto the florida coast on friday and then continuing to hug and North Carolina line as it slows down even more no being off our coastline until saturday night which has slowed down every forecast for the last 24 hours. There is a center line of the current updated track. Lets put in the yellow line which was the previous track. As you can see it has shifted west towards florida and georgia bad news for them especially but it has also pivoted a bit away from our coastline. Here is a closer look. Instead of going up over the outer banks the center pledges to the east but again our message remains the same category 2 hurricane 600 miles wine it could be 150 miles or close
2000 customers are still in the dark but crews have restored all power in florida and they are not moving north. And the damp we have been watching all day. The woodland them the whole has grown and the aftermath could be catastrophic if people do not follow evacuation orders. We have the latest. Reporter the actual dam is only about 500 yards over my shoulder and that is why it roads like this one behind me are closed. They want to keep everyone they want to keep people away from dangerous areas that could be affected if the dam were to break but the people who live on the other side of the closures essentially have to leave everything a hot days behind. Road closures meant many people could not get home. This gentleman was forced to evacuate his home earlier this week. I had to be boarded up. Reporter because of that he left the lot behind. Escort him to his house. Patrick was also forced to evacuate his house. I grabbed the wife and kids and loaded into the truck and we left. Report