In michigan. Since then, our world was turned upside down. Gov. Whitmer to be honest, we have never seen Something Like this. More than 30,000 cases confirmed in our state. This virus impacting every aspect of our lives. Over one million michiganders now unemployed. Thousands of Small Business owners wondering if they will be able to stay afloat. Survivell find a way to and survive through the recession. Public schools shuttered through the school year. Kitchen tables becoming classrooms. Parents becoming teachers. But where theres struggles, theres strengths. Heroes. On the front line. While michiganders and stay home and do their part. Gov. Whitmer the people of michigan have stepped up, and we have started to flatten this curve. Most people have played their part, and we are grateful. We know there are plans to reopen the state, but many questions are main how we will get there. Tonight, we come together to chart that course. Town hall. Cial good evening. Bym so honored to be joined
That course in a special virtual town hall. Brought to you by michigan now. Good evening. Im honored to be joined by my frank and mike. We are broadcasting to stations across michigan tonight. On behalf of all of our stations, we want to thank you for your questions and for tuning into this incredibly special event. An unprecedented time in our history calls for an unprecedented response to your covid19 has hit our state hard. Michiganders have seen loss of life, jobs, and a sense of normalcy. Rebound, anyward questions remain like when will people be able to go back to work, when will things get back to normal, and what is the plan if we do see another spike in cases. Our stations are teaming up to get your questions answered. Tonight we are joined by governor gretchen whitmer. Governor, we want to thank you for the opportunity to bring questions directly to you. The governor is joined by michigans chief medical executive and the director of Michigan Labor and Economic Opportunity. ,h
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We are fighting and enduring all of this together. We are making a lot of progress. I spoke with Governor Cuomo. To getworking hard additional things to the states. We took care of the hospital. 2500 beds that we built just recently. We opened it up. It is something we did in louisiana and we are doing it in dallas. Now we are manning the hospitals. One of the most important issues is delivering supplies throughout the nation. We have the best health care and disaster experts anywhere in the world. 151 nations are going through it. Telling governors we cannot go there. We will continue to do it. This will probably be the toughest week. There will be a lot of death, unfortunately. But a lot less death than if this was not done. Focus. Looking for a you looked at what is going on in new jersey. Every decision we make is made to save lives. That is our sole consideration. We want as few lives lost as possible. It is critical that certain Media Outlets stop spreading false rumors and creat
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