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Communications team about the next press conference, when and where that is going to be. Thank you all very much. Gov. Justice hello, everyone. This is friday, may 1. This is the briefing today. We have been a little late getting going. We are getting some additional slides that should give you more valuable information together. I guess, lets start off with news, think is respectful but at the same time, its dang, i hate this. I cant tell you how much i hate this. We have lost five more West Virginians. The death toll is now at 46. We have lost a 74yearold male in berkeley county. A 71yearold female in cannot county. An 81yearold male. A 58yearold male in jackson county. And a 96yearold female in jackson county. W, when you look back at it, and again, if all youre going to do is think about stats , the numbers are good. , if you just think about you know, we had 41 deaths and now weve got 46. Inone swoop, we have gone up excess of 10 of our deaths. I just hate it. I really, really hat
We have lost a 74yearold male in berkeley county. A 71yearold female in cannot county. An 81yearold male. A 58yearold male in jackson county. And a 96yearold female in jackson county. W, when you look back at it, and again, if all youre going to do is think about stats , the numbers are good. , if you just think about you know, we had 41 deaths and now weve got 46. Inone swoop, we have gone up excess of 10 of our deaths. I just hate it. I really, really hate it. I know our people are doing any and all they can do but i am going to quadruple down and just urge our people in every way. I dont know what else are Health Care Community can do. For crying out loud, they are doing everything. Its just plain terrible and i hate it. Please, please keep them in your thoughts and prayers. These are West Virginians. These are people and these people have names. Like i said over and over, theyve got loved ones. Just truly think about them over the weekend and keep them in your thoughts and prayers.
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