And the reception it has gotten so far . Guest they will have three different fire departments, state police, american leisure honor guard American Legion honor guard. Leaders from the boys and girl scouts. They are expecting several hundred people to participate. The township supervisors had been discussing ways to honor memorial day, and how can they do it . Since the beginning of april, they have had a program where they have been giving out free food, and local Catering Companies and businesses are donating food and people financially impacted by covid19 can drive through the parking lot, get their readytoeat meal and be on their way. This somewhat mirrors that. They just decided if everybody is going to stay in their cars and be apart from every each can keep separate, why not have a parade in this way . ,ost the website lehighvalleylive. Com. What are other events you have covered in pennsylvania on how people are experiencing memorial day in a time of social distancing . Guest the Lehigh Valley iron pigs based out of allentown, the aaa affiliate of the philadelphia phillies, they had a soldout drivein firework show where you had tickets in advance, and in their baseball Stadium Parking lot, people were able to park, and instead of watching a drivein Movie Theater screen, they just had fireworks and music and all of that going on. They scheduled the second one for june 6 because it was so successful. In addition to that, other places looking to redo things like parades, the towns of bangor and rosetta in pennsylvania, instead of having a parade, they are having a procession where First Responders will lead the procession with American Legion members and drive from town to town to multiple cemeteries. They will sing the national anthem, say a prayer, 21 gun salute. Members from the public are invited to join the procession and stay apart from each other the cemeteries. Have a procession instead of a parade. Host john best, contributor with lehighvalleylive. Com. What are your plans, what are you covering this week as you continue to cover it from the local level . Guest i will be heading to the parade i was talking about. I have a drone photography business and oob flying over the parade and taking pictures. It is easy to social distancing when you are flying a drone. Host will you be posting the pictures anywhere . Guest i will probably get them up on lehighvalleylive. Com at some point. Host thanks for joining us this memorial weekend. We appreciate it. Guest thanks. You have a good day. Host back to your phone calls as we come up on 8 00 eastern. Asking what reopening looks like in your part of the country. That is the topic we are focused on. The phones are being turned over to you to give your view of the part of the country. A special line for essential workers. 202 7488002. To las vegas. This is nathan. Nathan, what does it look like in las vegas . Caller good morning. It looks like a beautiful day. Right now it is about 70 degrees. It will be unseasonably cool. Starting wednesday will be like 105, 106, hot. Heat knocks a lot of people out, they go through the first year and they get out of town. We are opening up everything. There are a lot of people out and about. Number onethe attraction is the casinos. I cannot wait to get back into casinos. I mostly a sport better, i cannot wait for sports to get back so i can occupy my time and try to use my skills to make a little cash. As far as i think we should have been going along time ago. Governor that a lot of people this guy is on a power grab. The lady in michigan gets all of the print, but this guy is pretty bad, too. Still hoping. They are talking about june 1. Restaurants are open. Malls are opening up. We are getting back to it. Host with your interest in sports, is that can be the sign things are starting to get back to normal is the idea of when we can start watching sports together again . Caller absolutely. This thing would be a lot better , this would be a lot better. Town more than any other town. Simply because it,e got to get back to weve got the hospital situation all set up over the country and we are going to have to get out there. I heard the other day about hong kong, then only four people died. How is that possible . I was caller one thing the point host one thing they point to another countries is the live availability of testing and people Contact Tracing those who test positive have come in contact with and putting , doe folks in quarantine you feel like las vegas is doing and of testing and tracing . Crazy aboutnot so the idea of tracing. About the idea of government urges someone following me around. It seems like here we are , they have testers just standing around. I dont know what its like round rest around the rest of the country. Medoesnt make any sense to host that is nathan in las vegas. Program, closer to 10 00 a. M. Eastern we will be joined by the assistant Business Editor of the Las Vegas Review journal. Talking about the gaming industry specifically in las vegas and nevada and what the reopening process will look like. Thats just after 8 00 a. M. This morning. Of sports the caller brought up, i did want to note this headline. This picture from the Washington Times today looking back to this 102yearold photo of Georgia Tech CollegeFootball Game published today in the Washington Times. The blackandwhite photo of the scene back in 1918, decades before primetime kickoffs and billions of programs. Billions and program print pandemic provides a snapshot for fans returned to sports. Oregon, goodut of morning. What does it look like in oregon when comes to reopening . Caller its on the north oregon down, everything is closed , the state parks are closed , the beaches are closed down on the weekends. The beach out front of my house you can drive on from the Columbia River down to dear heart which is about 20 miles. Beachcess point onto the are closed on the weekends with gates, that doesnt stop hopeful campers from trying to find a place to camp. I have got a girlfriend that works for the local municipality and besides the commercial fleet being shut down because of covid19 and the canneries, there is no market for fresh fish, the restaurants being closed, every one of these big drag boats, long liners. They are tied up because there is no market. It doesnt stop the people from thising they can hook up behind their diesel pickup and come down here and try to bully their way into a two into a Church Parking lot, its time to go home and dont come back until we say its time to come back. Thank you. Do you trust Governor Kate Brown is making the right decision on when it comes to when to come back. Caller positively. Kate brown has done an outstanding job in the state of oregon as far as staying on top of the issue. Last week east of the mountains we had a veiled republican state,o try to open the and of course that issue went to the oregon Supreme Court, a stay was issued by the Supreme Court to allow kate brown to do the Due Diligence and as far as mr. Mannix on the east side of the mountains, wouldnt you just shut up and press on. Thank you. Host this is david and washington, d. C. Good morning. Caller good morning. Im in Fort Lauderdale right now and it is pouring down rain. Everything is closed down here. Fortunately of got a pool right , everything is shut down. Im not mad at nobody. He just said wanted to just go home and a figure i am home, this is my place. Would you go to the beaches today . Caller i cant go today. Host would you go today . Caller yeah i would go. To the beach stick community, this is ormond beach, florida. Caller good morning. I feel for the guy down in Fort Lauderdale. Of the state is closed down still because of the number of infections. In our area just outside of Daytona Beach and the number of people into tona beach at the beaches was probably obscene at this point. The hotels are at Maximum Capacity and i dont know that we are ready for this. I think our governor is trying to be trump junior. That isg every step recommended from washington, i think we have some problems with that. , the locallooks people i would assume are Wearing Masks, respecting the distancing. Some Grocery Stores still have one lane going one way and another going another. Thats a good thing. We are taking it seriously but there is some clash with the the medicalrsus science. We will deal with it and get through this. Some of us will make it, some of us wont. About ready to cap 100,000 people, that is a terrible number. Thats all i have to say. Thank you. Day heading into memorial , his press conferences throughout the pandemic, Governor Phil Murphy of new jersey has focused on those who didnt make it. Governor phil murphy on his friday press conference spoke jerseyhe locals from new beaches, the jersey shore and two in particular who didnt make it. This is the governor for friday. Wevemust remember those lost throughout this crisis and add to their numbers another 146 blessed lives lost from our new jersey family. 10,985,ewide total at that is extraordinary. Lets think about the few of those we have lost. First up, we remember anthony and Elizabeth George yanni g iorgiani. They were married for over 61 years. They were both born and raised they werenswick and married after rocky returned serving in the United States army in the korean war. Married and after the birth of their first child they moved to North Brunswick they were just there they would raise their two other children. Member ofa proud carpenters local out of milltown for 45 years and betsy worked at First Fidelity bank. They always love the jersey shore and after the respective retirements they moved fulltime to their happy place in ocean county. After hurricane sandy, betsy passed on may 9, her funeral was 15th. To their soninlaw and we had a conversation about both of them and their family and talked about their family bonds with the strong values that rocky and betsy instilled in their children and grandchildren. Especially their love for the jersey shore and overall appreciation for the preciousness of life. May god bless them both and its only fitting we acknowledge them and pale mosh as we pay all my pay homage to them. It is about 10 minutes after 8 00 this morning on the east coast this memorial day, we want to remind viewers the events we are covering today. Expecting President Trump to Arlington National cemetery at the tomb of the unknown soldier bring excited to participate in a recent a wreathlaying ceremony. Also expect the head up to fort mchenry at noon today. We hope you watch with us here andocus on memorial day whats taking place at Arlington National cemetery. Leo, give our viewers some pictures in this year at Arlington National cemetery and as we do that and you explain what flags in is and how it changed this year . This is volunteers putting flags in to the grays at arlington. Because of the virus and. Estrictions, those are limited arlington is closed off except for the president come onto russian Family Members of family entourage, Family Members. Paying respects to fellow soldiers who died. Today is going to be much more subdued day. Limiting those numbers and keeping big crowds from forming. Needat will Family Members if they want to go to arlington or the other veterans cemeteries around the country . Guest arlington is the most visible one. You need to have a Family Member who is deceased and buried there. Theres only going to be one entrance open, it will be pretty restrictive. There will be some traditional ceremonies, the president and Vice President will be there for ceremonies. Cordon through just quite a few to engage the public on that. Those more public tributes, those have been either canceled or changed to sort of private events that will be streamed on the internet. Trying to limit the number of folks. Officials have been encouraging people, discouraging large , so try to visit on off days. Try and keep those crowds under 10 people. So that this not large groups of people gathering. Host youve covered a lot of memorial days. Is there one that sticks out to you today and will you be able to go to this one . Guest i am not going to be going. We are watching this online. Paying tribute where we can. There will be some restful members following the president. Obviously veterans day theres more of a celebration and recognition, todays a recollect remembrance of those we lost. So there is not the same large speeches typically. Occasion. Of a quieter we are trying to encourage people to think about what memorial day means. Everyone. Llenge for i hope people find some time to take a few quiet moments to reflect on what it means. Same,ge is not to be the its good to be done remotely. Host for folks who havent had the chance to go to the tomb of , can youwn soldier talk us through what that experience is like . Cemeteryl of arlington , its hard to put into words. Its one of the most hallowed places in america. There are civil war war dead, world war ii dead. Deceased soldiers from the iraqi and afghanistan wars. Week, he was asking for the v. A. Cemetery to be reopened because he says its important for americans to experience this , to understand the cost of service and war. Know it but dont harness havent necessarily been there. It is hard to describe unless you been out there. , this is a very sacred day for a lot of families to go sit at their gravesite and pay tribute and reconnect with what theyve lost in the memories that were there. Host Deputy Editor at military times. Him at leo shane. Appreciate your time. That to your phone calls this morning as we continue to get your thoughts on the reopening process is all 50 states embark on some level of reopening at this point we are asking what it looks like in your part of the country. Manchester, new hampshire, good morning. Caller good morning and good morning cspan. I think you are the fairest cspan hosted and ive been waiting for a while to get this off my back. I was listening to these governors earlier this far as im concerned they are all cowards. Let me tell your audience why this is all political. We are more likely to be killed by a Lightning Strike or a car wreck meant to be killed by this virus. What you need to know is every protected group in america, the blacks, latinos, the First Nations people, the disabled, the illegal immigrants, the homeless, the lgbtq plus xyz crowd, all of these protected minority groups are disproportionately affected and dying from this virus. Of the core constituencies of the democratic party. And because they are disadvantaged and protected by law and have additional rights of the rest of us dont have, they feel like we owe them and the rest of us can stay home in home confinement in prison until the sun doesnt shine and fill it and where foolish masks until we die from Carbon Monoxide saturation of our lungs if that saves more of their prayer precious protected lives. Host when you say the rest of us are you talking about white people . Caller no, believe me, the elderly are a protected two. For the Republican Party. These governors are cowards. Because allt afraid these very powerful constituencies and voting blocks are disproportionately affected by these viruses so this is not meant to be racial. This is meant to be the cowardice of the government and are governors as we approach the summer of 2020. Host debbie is next out of murphy, california. Good morning and thanks for getting up with us. Caller im trying to catch my breath after listening to the last caller. That was very disturbing. I live in a is beautiful rural town in alifornia and we have done good job and what we are supposed to do trying to get levels appropriate for our area. The situation we are in is with a lot of secondhome vacationers from the bay area down that way. What happens is like this weekend, they all, our little town of 1000 was packed with people from the bay area who are still technically on stayathome orders. Its going to be interesting to see how it all works. I feel like im just watching to see what happens from all this. Up, ishen theyll come that a good thing for business and the money they bring . Caller i started as a vacationer myself, so i get it and we love our vacationers, the vague the whole community is filled with second homes. All of our industries benefit with it and we want them here, but in this situation i dont know who is coming up here. , dont see always the masking so i stay out of my Grocery Store while they are here and that kind of thing. I dont know which kind of people are coming up. We are you county that had 13 cases in all apparently. See how thisto plays out after our vacation weekend. Host how long do you think that feeling will last . People orar of other of not knowing . Will that last until a vaccine . Caller exactly. , every week weg get a new indication of what we are supposed to be doing and not supposed to be doing. If everyone was in a mask i would feel a lot better, we have fishing and lakes and theres just all kinds of things to do and like i said we love our people from the vacationers that its trying to walk and chew gum. Host thanks for the call from california. Sheila in oklahoma, good morning. You are next. Caller good morning and thank you