Debate. The 2020 gubernatorial candidates debate is presented through a partnership with the North Carolina association of broadcasters education foundation. Good evening and welcome. Im the North Carolina tv news anchor your moderator for tonight and welcome to the 2020 North Carolina Gubernatorial Debate produced in association with the North Carolina association of broadcasters Educational Foundation and umc tv. We introduce the candidates tonight, the governor of North Carolina democrat roy cooper. And the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina republican dan forrest. And we should note the debate is happening of course during a critical time for the state, the covid pandemic. Many north carolinians have died of the virus. You will probably notice several precautions tonight inside of the studio to help ensure safety against covid19 including the fact theres no Live Audience tonight only the two candidates, the moderator and some studio technicians. In the last 12 hours, everybody i
News anchor your moderator for tonight and welcome to the 2020 North Carolina Gubernatorial Debate produced in association with the North Carolina association of broadcasters Educational Foundation and umc tv. We introduce the candidates tonight, the governor of North Carolina democrat roy cooper. And the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina republican dan forrest. And we should note the debate is happening of course during a critical time for the state, the covid pandemic. Many north carolinians have died of the virus. You will probably notice several precautions tonight inside of the studio to help ensure safety against covid19 including the fact theres no Live Audience tonight only the two candidates, the moderator and some studio technicians. In the last 12 hours, everybody in the building and in the studio tonight has tested negative. We quickly you want to review the rules of the debate and it will last for one hour. Then i will submit candidates and the radio Digital News Assoc
North carolina Gubernatorial Debate produced in association with the North Carolina association of broadcasters Educational Foundation and umc tv. We introduce the candidates tonight, the governor of North Carolina democrat roy cooper. And the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina republican dan we should note that this debate tonight is happening of course during a critical time for our state, the covid pandemic. Many North Carolina people have died of the virus. Many are ill. Our prayers go out to the families involved. In fact, you will probably notice several physical precautions tonight inside the studio to help ensure safety against covid19 spread, including the fact theres no Live Audience in the studio tonight. Only the two candidates, the moderator, and some studio technicians. And in fact, in just the last 12 hours, everybody in the building and in the studio tonight has tested negative for covid19. We quickly want to review the rules of the debate tonight. It will last one h
Diseases division chief at Childrens National hospital. Thanks for being with us this morning. Good morning. How many cases of covid19 have you treated among children at the hospital . Well, we started ten cases in the middle of march and weve now had over 600 children that have come to the hospital with symptoms. About a quarter of those have been admitted to the hospital. So about 150 of those. And about a quarter of those to a third of those have needed our intensive care unit. Whats the pattern among children, what do you see and how are their symptoms different from adults . We really are seeing several different patterns of disease. So of those 600, the vast majority of them, and this has been seen in other parts of the country, as well. They have mild to moderate illness, where they have typical respiratory symptoms, fever, cough, runny nose, sore throat. So mild, moderate illness. But the children admitted fall into several different categories. Some of them from what is simila
Delta, some of the Higher Elevations and i would expect a cooler pattern these next couple days look like theyre in store for you. A little bit below average. 60s, 70s and mainly low 80s all right, well, alley was busy yesterday and shes busy again today. We are pretty busy i have to say, youre saying that the forecast is for me because its been cooler and its good news. We can show you in a second some of that fog and the windy conditions in the Traffic Cameras we start with the maps of that problem were following since before 4 00 this morning. All lanes of southbound 680 are now open after the crash that happened earlier this morning caused them to come in and bring some sweeper trucks to clear the debris. You can see it extends up to the 580 interchange all lanes open. It has taken a while to catch up. A report of a crash eastbound 80, this is at central. That is not slowing things down too badly we continue to keep an eye on it. The drive on the east shore freeway, once you get do