Pair of tongs before. No. [ laughter ]. In many areas, these in person drop offs are out numbering ballots arriving by mail as caution drives voting behavior and your local registrar of voters thinks thats a good policy. But i urged people to vote early and dont take chances of lines or delays or power shut offs or wildfires or evacuations or asteroids, just vote now. Yeah, its those asteroids you have to watch out for. 45 to 50 of voters in the counties have all ready cast their ballots. Think about the switch ercomput coming in. When you vote in person, youre scanning immediately on site there. Then theyll bring themer todi process. They flip back over to mailno ballots that come in election day and beyond. Were looking at a big number of votes all ready come 8 00 on Election Night again. Its going to be one interesting year for sure. Wilson, one week to go, thank you very much. Its not too late to vote early for a guide to help you vote smart, visit ix now to the fire in the Oakland
Authorization for Emergency Use. That means options when it comes to vaccinations. Thats good. At the same time, republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene is holding her own News Conference one day after she was kicked off her Committee Assignments for supporting over years violent rhetoric, dangerous disinformation. We begin with the economic news. Christine romans, 49,000 or so new jobs. Yesterday we had nearly 800,000 new unemployment claims. Do the math for us there. Where does it stand in terms of all these lost jobs . Theres no historical precedent for this. You had 14. 8 Million People who told the government this month that they didnt have a job to go back to. The business they worked for was closed or was barely open but not allowed to give them hours. And a quarter of the people working say theyre working from home. The virus has completely changed what is usually a dynamic labor force. This 49,000 jobs created was mostly in professional business services, going back to
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, but as of june 1, they account for 30 of the confirmed covid19 cases and 34 of covid19 deaths. 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 there is nothing inherent to black or brown people that makes them more susceptible to severe covid19 illness. The data should not be used to further racism or fear. The disparity is because people of color have historically had less access to health care, housing, Economic Opportunity and more. This vir
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
Governor northam also spoke about the coordination of reopening between himself and leaders of maryland and washington, d. C. Gov. Northam i hope everyone had a nice weekend. To all of the mothers, a belated happy mothers day. I want to talk about Northern Virginias regional pace to ease restrictions, petersburgs water, the dmv and our elections. 9801 testsported yesterday, which is a great step as we work to ramp up testing. That has not shown up on the website yet but it will in the next day or two. Now i want to give virginians an update on where we are with our data metrics. You saw these slides on friday and they are also available on the Virginia Department of health website. This is our confirmed positive cases. The blue bar represents the number of cases and the yellow line is the seven day moving average. While we have seen a slight dip in the past few days, largely these numbers are going up. That is what we expect to see. Manygraph shows us how people are being tested each d