It is taking a tremendous cost. Us to pushg all of ourselves beyond what is comfortable. What is fair or sustainable for much longer we stay strong, stay in the fight we can see the finish line but the push to the end requires all of us to sprint. We are at her new the peak in mississippi. This is the most painful time this is the hardest time. It is the beginning of a turning point that we have not gotten past our peak pain yet. I pray every day for an end to this crisis and we are acting together to protect our people. We have been to other trials and overcome. We will come through this also. I know that what is being asked of use is not easy. It is not even close to being easy. We also notice the collective work of our people is having an impact. The damage could be far worse. Our projected pain is coming down dramatically. It hurts but it is working. You are saving your neighbors life. When we avoid death we only see the cost of the sacrifice. You are saving lives every day stay in the fight. Our enemy is doing great damage. Not only to those who catch the disease but to those who have lost the ability to survive provide for their families. We cannot fully stop the mental and physical costs to you and your families anymore that we can fully stop this fire is. We can help lighten the load. Today i want to share two new programs that we hope will help. Mississippi Home Corporation has just authorized are hardest hit funds to provide shortterm help with the mortgage for mississippians who lost employment or significant income due to covid19 if you have lost the ability to earn during this crisis and you are at risk of losing their homes we can provide temporary help heard it will not take over your home payments indefinitely. Time to giveour you head above water to find work and become selfreliant again. It may provide a one time payment to make your mortgage current. It may also pay your mortgage for a time while you try to find work. Firsthand the homes that were lost to the tornadoes this weekend. It breaks my heart. There are more who at risk of losing their homes to our nations economic crisis. We cannot stop the wind from blowing but we can try to stop more from losing their homes. Go to mshomesaver. Com to apply. Overike to turn this scott, who is administering the program. Thank you. Program that has been in existence since the financial crisis. These were dollars that were repaid to the treasury. And authorized to provide mortgage assistance in 18 states they will expire next year. We have set aside some for the light of elimination. Going to take this opportunity to move about 10 back over anding reopen the mortgage a system pipeline. It is temporary but it is forbearance iste not forgiveness. And it is not forever if people are putting our mortgages in their forbearance the debt still exist that is the one of the reasons it will be won an Important Program so they cannot have to go into lost vacation or come up with a number of mortgage payments one forbearance is finally over [indiscernible] reeves scott is available for questions. We are working to address one of the most taxing issues. Our essential workers are being asked to do things others are not. They are stepping into the line of fire to provide what we all need it to stay safe. We need to do everything we can to help them. We are not talking about robots whose lives begin and end with their essential work. These are mississippians just like you and me. They have lives. They of homes. And many have children. Children that are now out of school for the rest of the semester. We has traveled and facilities to remain open to take care of their children. Not easy. Today are we providing more guidance and more help. Department ofi Human Services and the department of health are activating their childcare crisis assistance response. This plan provides temporary Emergency Childcare facilities during the crisis for the families of essential workers. People in health care, First Responders and knows keeping food and supplies in our homes. Who do not people have access to typical providers to childcare. The sites will not be around forever but they will meet all the standards of typical child care facilities. Even more during these unique times. The state is working to find potential partners. Chargell get free of training to the Early Childhood academy. And they will be assigned a coach to help them operate throughout this emergency. Anyone, churches and businesses and nonprofits and individuals who have the capacity to operate canrding to the guidelines offer to open one of these emergency sites. We are asking those partners to step up now. If youre are willing to become a partner, please go to am dhs. \cc ai are. Childcare crisis assistance isolation response. Sites begin to operate they will begin out reached parents. If you need Financial Assistance to afford this Emergency Childcare, you can apply for that assistance beginning one week from today. We hope this expanded access to childcare will lighten the load for essential workers. It will not make their jobs easy but it we hope he can make this one highly stressful element a little bit easier to deal with. At this time i will turn it over to mr. Bob anderson. I want to commend him on the job hes doing at the department of Human Services. Stressful circumstances under which he took this job, and how grateful we are for the work he and his team are doing in these challenging times. This obviously is a new concept but it is not a new idea. The idea is that parents who have children and who need to be at work, doctors, First Responders, whether they are sanitation workers, whoever they are, they need to be work and they have children they need childcare. This idea was put together by our division of early child in order topment come alongside existing childcare providers who are still in operation in one of the realities that no right now is of about 1500 childcare providers across the state somewhere around 900 are not 60 of them are not in operation. We understand why they are concerned. Theyre concerned about their safety and the safety of the children they care for. And they are following the governors orders that we shelterinplace we expect the parents to continue to do that ,ut those Emergency Personnel those healthcare personnel who have to be at work, we want this idea to make it one less thing , thatave to think about they have Emergency Childcare opportunities available to them if their traditional provider is no longer operating as the governor has said anybody can put together and stand up one of these sites, church, it can be we have talked with museums about doing this. All role is to simply be a partner with those willing to provide care we have a training packet available on the website the governor mentioned and we want to be a partner to providers who are beingresource to those parents who need this care for their children go thank you for your team for making this possible. There will be a large number of individuals that take advantage. 200 73 new cases of covid19 reported in our state earlier this morning. We reported unfortunately 11 more deaths. We are in the eye of the storm. Please stay smart. Stay safe. Protect yourself and protect your family. We will reopen our economy soon. We have to. It is not going to be an option. Lives are at stake due to a rapid increase in poverty as well as his Public Health crisis. No business is nonessential to those who rely on its paycheck for food, supplies and shelter. Today this posture is preventing imminent death. It is not forever. It is a temporary tool. In the time is coming to safely move beyond it. I hope and pray it is very soon. Askhis time i would like to dr. Dobbs to speak where we find ourselves today with respect to covid19. As the governor mentioned, we have 273 new cases and 11 deaths if we look at the racial breakdown, 56 of the case for africanamericans and 66 of the deaths are africanamericans, something that we find unacceptable. We had a total of 66 outbreaks within longtermcare settings our definition is a single case. Residentmployee or because we take these things so very seriously. As we talk about some of the things the department of health is trying to do i want to make sure Everybody Knows we will target our testing resources in the communities of greatest need to that end we are doing a testing location day in Mississippi Valley state trying to identify individuals who might be infected then tomorrow we have testing set up for lexington and homes county wilkinsonoodville and if you live in one of these areas and you have any of the symptoms, i strongly encourage s website thisc is free of charge and they will give you an appointment. If you lived in one of these areas, and think you might be infected we want as many people as we can to come to these testing locations if we look at these preparations for the surge of hospital resources we continue to see relative stability and a number of patients in the hospitals and in the availability of beds and ventilators. If we look at yesterdays numbers we have 149 patients with covid19 in intensive care. We have to hundred 75 open ofensive care unit heads ventilators we have 100 patients on mechanical ventilation which is similar to yesterdays number. Have 631 available ventilators for future use. Are in the eye of the storm. It is important for us to maintain our vigilance. We are all getting tired of this. Right now it is so important. I want to talk to our young people out there. Socialize. T and you might be sick. Will bring it back to your family members, your friends folks certainly are going to be a lot more prone to have severe illness and even died do it for your families and the ones you love thank you. Teamanks to you and your at the department of health for your leadership has gone tohelle covington in Lawrence County this afternoon he will be in Walthall County in the morning to tour additional damage andere in Jeff Davis County in jones county yesterday he and i and the senators and representatives from our federal team at fema and others one of the things that dr. Dobbs mentioned in an update i cannot give you today is our goal from beginning of this has been to ensure that every single mississippi and that gets covid19 and can get better with quality care has access focus to doour everything in our power to make sure that our Health Care System is not overwhelmed we are beginning to feel more confident that we willhave an adequate number of hospital beds we will have an adequate number of i see you beds and we will have an adequate number of ventilators challenge as everyone has heard over the last weeks is trying to ensure we also have an adequate amount of ppe i friday this past week we did receive 100,000 surgical gowns, and over the last two days, we received 95 masksn that is very welcome news. To say it has been a difficult environment to ensure that we ise adequate amounts of ppe an understatement we are beginning to get more and more of that and we are beginning to feel more confident as we progress forward as it relates to that thank you all for being here and we will try to answer some questions regardinge questions the hardest hit funds we will bring scott back up but for now if you have questions of mr. Anderson we will start to the left. Do you anticipate that the state fair site might come online . Yesterday you mentioned like what you would, out of this and step as we entered it, it seems like this has been put in place now at least some extension as it relates to essential businesses in terms of getting the site up and functional we anticipate eight to 10 days. There is some background background investigation, criminal checks. On the website, there is a nine step process that lays out exactly how to become a site. Is staffpart of that background checks, immunization and going to the training that we are offering for free. Anyone who wants to become a site. About a week to 10 days we could have the site up and running. How it relates to where we find ourselves in the cycle, we found that even under our executive order which did not require shelter in place, that kept some nonessential businesses open it, some health care, some childcare versatility shutdown they did it for whatever reason they chose and that is certainly asa private business that is their prerogative i will tell you we were having conversations every single day and two or three times many days about how quickly we can get our economy back open we are also planning to contingencies, not unlikely planned in terms of facilitiesat shelby and Community Colleges we want to make sure we have contingencies in place if things were continue to get worse than what we expect them to get do not get worse are essential businesses will continue to fund our Health Care Workers will continue to function ,nd the further along we go there are Health Care Providers for instance that are working every single day they have childcare facilities that for whatever reason some of the cave are not coming no we are a little bit concerned as we always everyone else in this new economy we are dealing with that some of them financiallycould find themselves of the typical circumstance this does just another tool in the toolbox to deal with some of the circumstances with the Financial Assistance only apply to these facilities or some still in operation . If i understand your question we provide a Financial Assistance to existing childcare facilities that will still continue to feel available to those operating trains andilities stand up and become a Training Facility and the children are they are entitled to Financial Assistance they will continue to get it you might find is their facility that exists out there and we are going to supposition but they may have had 100 kids six weeks ago. Effects, thee number of effects, one of which there issome nonessential workers that are not going to work that that facility may have gone from 100 kids down to 20 they may have found it not financially prudent to stay open this may be a way for which to them for them to reopen so this help is provided some more kids get there so it is more financially feasible for them the childcare centers, and that be free of charge . The range of possibilities for the facilities in terms of whether they charge a fee or whether they are made available for free is depending on who is sponsoring that facility they can fund them by donations or fun them by charging a fee, they can take our assistance vouchers as children qualify for vouchers, and they could be free the short answer is it depends on who is providing the funding for the facilityonce it is put in place i have got a threepart question the Economic Recovery Task force e what are they going to be doing and what oversight will they need . [indiscernible] reeves my brain is not working as well as it was before this aroundtheclock 24hour a day task we are doing. Individualt to the members committee, they are representative of the best in the brightest minds in our business community. They are going to be making recommendations to me and to our Leadership Teams in the State Government. They will have direct ability to spend any of the federal funds. They are going to make recommendations and we will make decision based upon what we believe is in the best interests of mississippi citizens how about hello, governor reeves thank you for calling me have a twopart question im wondering when we will be making a decision on the children order ending specifically the [indiscernible] reeves my timeline is yesterday. As soon as it is safe to do so. We have to do it as soon as we are comfortable that our Public Health x are comfortable with where we are in the cycle dr. Dobson i had multiple conversations over the last several days dr. Dobbs and i had multiple conversations. Where we find ourselves in the cycle. And how quickly we can get back ,pen as i mentioned yesterday we are looking at a number of Different Things but for the people of mississippi here is the way i explain it. Back over the last four weeks we got into a shelterinplace by taking numerous steps that got us to the shelterinplace we close school initially for a week then we close schools for four weeks family when into an executive order which mandated social distancing, which eliminated the ability for groups of 10 to get together, and 10 days after that we went into a shelterinplace for a 16 day time for two weeks my anticipation is over the next 34 weeks we will see a similar approach in which we loosen the restrictions over multiple decisions so as to come out of this as we get on the other side after having flatten the curve one of the things that many people look at in terms of the data, the easiest thing to look at and that is how many new cases did we report today . Just keep in mind that is a bit of a lagging indicator because reported today were actually tested a day ago or three days ago or at a private lab and it was three or four or five days ago, and the actual onset of their systems their symptoms occur to week ago so there is a number of Different Things we have to look at as it relates to that but we feel like at a minimum where we find yourself today we are at a plateau phase we are not seeing significantly new additional cases then the other thing many people look at is the daily number of deaths the keep in mind and this is been true everywhere in the world and we have seen it in america in new york the number of daily deaths is a lagging indicator there is no doubt in my mind that the things that we have put in place has significantly reduced the total number of cases in mississippi and reduce the likelihood number of deaths with respect to your question on , the elimination of the allowance of evictions has stated in effect because it was in the shelterinplace order that is currently scheduled to be done on monday. April 20 at 8 a. M. A final decision which we should make in the next 48 hours with respect to that shelterinplace order, we will make a decision on whether those evictions itl be extended as well is a question for you governor and dr. Dobbs this 447talked about page plan that existed there was finished last year dr. Dobbs, you were on the committee that formalized this plan i wonder if you can speak about how helpful or not helpful that plan has been i know is very heavy on the department of health and Emergency Management extremely useful because it is a framework for developing response if you read through you see all of those the jargon about who does what important most functions is where we stand at the state Emergency Operations center Everybody Knows their role and they have a defined operations likely have Mental Health we have social servicesand we have lawenforcement everybody has a piece in that regard it is extremely helpful assumptions we had based on pandemic influenza which is very different that was a real challenge because a lot of our assumptions from that perspective is that even if you have the flu pandemic there is a subset of people thatwill be mostly a partially immune but coronavirus we do not have any of that everybody is wide open susceptible is a bigger challenges far as like if you look at the social distancing interventions were a lot softer in the plan and what we are doing that speaks to the severity and susceptibility of the population we do not have some of the other told they had in place especially the pharmaceutical editions like tamiflu that we can use for pandemic flu. And the other one is Vaccine Development although we are on the early phases for Vaccine Development for coronavirus we have a long way to go we have a pathway. We make flu vaccines every year we put it in bags those two factors are sort of like really the things that will make it especially difficult for us to have a comprehensive response likely wouldve liked to for pandemic flu the single most important aspect of our pandemic plan that has made the biggest difference thes being able to mitigate height of the curve and the total number of cases and the total number of deaths has been the fact that when we, when that group meets in the state Emergency Operations center at their headquarters, and i call in typically the first few weeks , the i was selfisolating most important piece of the plan that has been is the fact the state department of health is the lead agency in making decisions needed to be made as governor i have to sign of lot of the executive orders and have to be the ultimate when i look at the governors Conference Room dr. Dobbs has a table fema is a supporting agency the National Guard is the supporting agency they do have done a fantastic job, both of them the Mississippi Department of transportation, the department of Human Services every agencys representative thatEverybody Knows the role they of the plane we have had zero infighting about who is in charge it was known from beginning the department of health is leading her efforts and i will tell you theyhave done a fantastic job they have built up their team over long time. And they have continued to build insuring that in as he sent teams to various communities that have potential of weeks, there able to assess Contact Tracing and determine who has the virus and isolator quarantine not only those who have the virus but those who come in contact with those who have the virus like what you were saying, dr. Dobbs, you could not have possibly planned for this scenario but there were some perils governor, i wonder if they were to rethink the two or three things in that plan, school closures, set forth in the plan clearly it did not let you make thecall. Coordination with School Officials there were two or three other clear moments i wonder if you think that it has been good it couldve been better planned ahead of time i would tell you is when you are dealing with pandemic i will go back to Hurricane Katrina i think mississippi was well prepared for what could have been envisioned with a major hurricane hitting the mississippi gulf coast we had one in 1969 mississippi had seen a major hurricane before so we believe at that time mississippi was prepared what ultimately happened when Hurricane Katrina hit is a hurricane that was five times larger than and Natural Disaster in the history of our country hit the mississippi gulf coast we were not prepared for that you have for something fivetimes larger than anything you could fathom to a certain extent with covid19, many of the factories that existed for instance, i do not think when the pandemic plan that was being put in place, some 450 pages, by our partners in leaders across the State Government andnot sure we felt dont it is becoming more clear that Accurate Information was not coming out of china for months and months as you try tod lay out the plan, there is no way to plan for every possible scenario that exists but what i will tell you is gently speaking, the plan was very well thought out and contemplated various things my very first decision really was a recommendation to Shutdown School buildings for that first week the vast majority of School Districts chose to do that the way the statutes read in mississippi is for instance local School Boards have the ability to shutdown their schools the state department of education would argue they do not have that authority the reason that i had to step up and do it was because under the is whaty guidelines gaveme the authority to shut down School Buildings withd it in conjunction state opponent education working with the chairman of the board and dr. Wright we did a conversing with numerous School Districts all state the state was it perfect . Of course it was not perfect. I do not know if anybody could write 460 pages about any topic a framework and a guideline for various steps we are taking we now have our first reported covid19 death in our state what states are they taking to stop the spread of the virus in our Corrections System today include test for covid19 and how long did the results takes . Reeves we have not had nine inmates tested within our correctional system is i appreciate that. One of those nine has now, have we had a test that are returned as positive positiveed return as after that one inmate had passed away my understanding has significant preexisting conditions but the things that we are doing within our prison system do everything in our power to avoid an outbreak in our prisons, which have been seen in many many other states around the country. We were very early to cut off visitation to our prison system. That is a difficult thing to do. For many of those that are in the system that are looking for to getting out, having visitation is something that is important to them. That helps from a Mental Health aspect that we did try to keep the virus and getting into our prison system. Hadlso a large part have our facilities under quarantine with very few, very restricted transferreds. We have not a lot of visitation and we are doing daily screening of facility staff in each of our facilities, things similar to what we are doing here in this building as each of you who are here came through and get temperature tested. We know we have to do everything in our power to protect her inmates, and we will continue to do so. Thank you. We had our National Investigative team, on Small Business loans this week. Around 5 of Small Businesses around the country will be able to access that money because of the amount available. How important was it for you to early on and through that for mississippi and make that available . Reeves we were one of the earlier states to receive that from the federal government. This is an issue in terms of the payment plan that is critical. And it is critical because the congress put 350 billion into that program, and everybody agrees in washington the program passed 960, republicans and democrats agreed that it is a good program. They allocated 350 billion. And everyone agrees, i believe republicans and democrats alike in washington of set a year for the extension of the program and for putting more money into it. They need to quit playing politics. They need to quit using this crisis to try to get things they cannot otherwise get people to vote for, and lets find the Small Business program, continue to allow Small Businesses to pay for their employees to keep them on the payroll, because from the federal governments perspective with what they already passed, either we will help Small Businesses keep people on the payroll, or those individuals will get laid off and the federal government will pay for them through unemployment compensation. It makes no sense for Speaker Pelosi to play politics with this. Lets get more money into the program and help more spots this is. Lets get the house of representatives come back to washington and do their job and we can debate all these other things republicans and democrats alike want in the future. Speaking of that. Endorsed 500 billion for states for budget shortfalls. Do you support that . Second part of that question, the cares that provided 1. 2 billion to the states to deal with the coronavirus. I know we spent a lot of money but if we do not spend that much what happens to that money . Reeves im going to take the second one first. The original package provided 350 billion for Small Business programs. , excuse me,d about 280 billion hospitals. Of that, about 150 billion of that was dedicated to state and local governments. Of that 150 billion dollars, 13 andion went to territories washington, d. C. The other 37 went to state and local governments. States,dedicated to the but much of much to the support of many of the democrats, and this is one of their bargaining tools, 45 went to cities that had more than 500,000 people in them, so of the billion was left, we were not eligible for. We got 1. 2 billion and we have not received it yet, what we should beginning be getting our money before the end of april. And i supported that, i think that was the right thing to do. The National Governors association, i did not know the number, i know they asked for significant resources, and i am supportive of the federal andrnment supporting states local governmental entities for moneys spend in response to this covid19 crisis, but i am more interested in individual mississippians being supported through programs that make it easier for our economy to get back operating and running so that those individuals who wants to have a job can get a job and continue to provide for their families. Will the state spend that much on the response . Gov. Reeves yes. Theill adequately use resources afforded to us in the federal act, we are not going to turn it down, but we are going to use it in such a way that we can grow our economy, and we can thatin the budget holes were presented, because expenses that were not previously budgeted are eligible. Sayannot use that money to that we spent 400 million on something we should not have, but for things like the amount of money we are spending for our covid19 response, those of the type kind of things we will utilize that money for. We will also utilize it as allowable in setting up programs and in ways that other local governmental entities can use it, and for investing in our economy and people to get them back employed. Bethe long term, that has to our goal. We have lost almost 100,000 jobs in the last three weeks. Mississippians to the covid19 virus, and i pray for those 120 families every day, but we also lost 100,000 jobs. We have 100,000 people who were employed three weeks ago who are not currently employed. That is a hundred thousand people that actually got through the call center or some other mess in some of our other avenue. There are many others out there, and we think that number will go up tomorrow when the unemployment claims go out tomorrow. We have got to recognize that this is a shortterm Public Health crisis, the likes of which we have not seen in over 100 years, but it is also an economic crisis. The longer we allow this to foster, the more trouble we are going to be in, not only as a state, but as a society, and that is something that we have got to consider as we are trying to get our economy reopened. Dobbs, youfor dr. Talked about the testing site in woodville. If you have guys have known that whyks are most at risk, have you not ramped up testing in those areas before now . Dr. Dobbs we have been doing different delta counties, we have been to adams already, it is just a matter we have four teams running, and we have really targeted areas where our numbers are high, and our percentages of africanamericans are high. It is a continuation of our previous effort and we are looking at doing additional one with jackson state, trying to make it as widely available as possible. These mobile sites are a drop in the bucket, we really need to work and we have worked nicely with private partners and Community Health centers, because that is where the stability is. Sitese over 120 community that have dedicated themselves to testing for covid, and a lot of them are Community Health centers. If you go to your regular doctor, that is great. Theou have resource issues, Community Health centers are picking up the ball and they have support to meet that obligate obligation. Gov. Reeves just to remind everyone, there are 150 billion in the cares act for states and al governments, and 130 130 billion for hospitals around the country, and i have talked to several administrators that they received their first payment within the last couple of days, there was also a significant number of dollars, but i do not know what it is off the top of my head. There is a significant number of dollars to increase and enhance testing. If you look on the department of healths website, what you find is a list of testing sites throughout the state, and i have not looked in the last seven or eight days, but when i looked a week or so ago, i believe that there were nine pages of testing sites, and over 180 total sites statewide, so if you look at testing, it is one of the things, and we talk about this on governors calls regularly. You have heard me say it every time in the early days, and it is still true, but in the early days particularly, your total total numberts of positive cases where as much as anything else, function does how many tests but they have done. We have seen some states widen the gap. If you look at the test on per capita prepared compared to every other state and take out those states where they federal government has pumped tremendous resources into, like louisiana, new york, and new jersey. I understand why they did that, they were the hotspots. When you take those out of the equation and you look at 40,000ippi, we have done tests, approximately 13000 and some change per one million population. Whatis over 2. 5 times south korea did in terms of testing and they were considered a model nation two or three weeks ago. I give credit to dr. Dobbs, forest general, and their partnership, which is coming online, and particularly the department of health. Testing is one area that has put states in ato other very favorable position on per capita testing. Dobbs, are we testing postmortem . Dr. Dobbs in certain circumstances. If you are hospitalized and had not been diagnosed previously i am wondering if those could be possibly counted as death rates. Ner dobbs we have some coro cases. I do not think it would be an increase over our baseline and there might be some that go undetected. By and large, i think the numbers are solid based on the number of requests. Everybodys keyed up about covid diagnosis, but that is something we have done somewhat. Thank you. I know some other states have started coming online with this. As we get more cases more data could be added. Have there been any more discussion about adding the number of recovered cases . Dr. Dobbs as you can imagine it takes a wild to be recovered. We are only in this very month, and we are doing a casebycase assessment, which is a lot a people, going back and seeing what the recovery rate is. It will have to be sampling calculation so we will not be able to get a hold of everybody. That will be a value available as we go through this, but the bulk of our cases have not been sick long enough to have recovered, technically, but that will be available. Gov. Reeves as you look at the data and you look at recovered cases, i would submit to you, and i am certainly no scientist or physician, even if you listed the number of recovered cases, you would be wrong because an awful lot of people who had the virus were never symptomatic. Now, we aree right in a position where we had 3000 and some change test positive and unfortunately we have had 120 deaths and 100 people on icus. In our state, like every other state, even the vast majority of people who test positive are going to recover. If you are over the age of 65 and have preexisting conditions, those risks are much higher, i think everybody appreciates that. Even amongst those who are symptomatic enough to get tested early on, the vast majority of individuals who get covid19 are not going to pass away with it. I have another question jack has another question. Jack on another question, i am wondering do you know how that inmate tested positive that tested positive, got virus . Have staff that they came in contact with gotten tested . We have talked a lot about the spread of the virus. Gov. Reeves i will follow up and try to get you an answer. I do not specifically know how that particular individual received the virus. I know that once it became known to the leadership at the department of corrections that he did in fact test positive for covid19, they had conversations with the state department of health and worked to ensure that everyone who had come in contact staying did have are in quarantine and etc. I think that is something we will continue to monitor and be very diligent on and sharing that there is proper and adequate sanitation at the facilities, and that we are our inmatesto keep as safe as possible. Emily has a question. Ask you aboutd to the issue of restrictions on the manner of worship. Last week you brought in the palm sunday had the in surface in Person Service and you talked about the importance of social distancing and the dangers of having in Person Service. The Justice Department has gotten involved in a lawsuit against the city of greenville because of the restriction on drive in and in person worship services. , he praised a man for his involvement in that. Have you reached out to city leaders in greenville or the church is involved in fighting those restrictions to try and defuse the situation . Gov. Reeves i have not spoken to anyone in greenville over the last two days. I have been fairly busy with the tornadoes that occurred on easter sunday. What i will tell you is this. In greenville, the local ordinance is in direct conflict with the states Emergency Declaration with the state executive order, which lists essential entity. I have been clear, i have urged and made phone calls and begged to notes preachers have in Person Services with more than 10 people in their facility. When you look at specifically what happened in greenville, is the actions taken by an overburdened some government put more people at risk they and had they not taken those actions. You havewords, if family sitting in the automobile with their windows up, and they are listening on their car radio to a preacher standing at the front of the parking lot and no one gets out of their vehicle, than the individual sheltering in place with their family and those same individuals with their family are in their vehicles, they are putting no one at risk. When you take 20 Police Officers and put them in that parking lot and force these individual families to roll down their windows and these Police Officers at the direction of politicians are handing them tickets, they are putting more people at risk than had they not done that in addition to the fact that the executive order specifically lists churches as an essential operation. Believee said, i do not that the government has the right to shut down churches. I think they have Constitutional Rights to do that. Again, let me be clear. To all of our pastors, please do not have in Person Church Services while the shelterinplace is in order. We are going to get our economy open and churches back open when it is safe to do so, it is not safe to put thousands of people into individual rooms given where we are with the virus. Not havel governments the right to shut down outside church services, and they do not have the right to put more people in harms way just because they want to do it for whatever reason. Just to be clear, you had time to tweet out that message but you did not have time to call the mayor. You said it a number of times at this press briefing that if you put 20 lawyers in a room there is going to be 20 different responses to that. Why not call and say, this is what my executive order says and this is how it should be implemented instead of turning this into politics . Have had multiple conversations with the mississippi municipal league. We had over 70 mayors on the call this morning when i was communicating with them. I do not know if that specific mayor was on the call or not. I have made it very clear throughout this process that and it is very clear in the executive order that i signed, that local jurisdictions have the right to go further than my executive order does. For instance, my initial executive order that we shuts down restaurants with the exception of if they could thenrly social distance, we did not shut them down. That gave local jurisdiction that if they wanted to, they had the ability to do so. What we also said was, and we were clear about this, local jurisdictions do not have the ability to issue executive orders from the local level. Direct link conflict what we list as essential businesses. And so, i think that is clear. Courts willthe decide this. Attorney general barr and the Trump Administration the guidelines are clear, and ultimately a judge, whomever is hearing it, make the ultimate decision. That the executive order speaks for itself, and i think i have been clear throughout this process. Hello governor. Question, thinking back, do you think the states should in lawsuits from being filed against the city of greenville . Gov. Reeves that is a decision for the lawyers to make. And again, i that am not a lawyer, i am not sure cus brief is any more powerful than the chief legal officer of the United States of general the attorney under president trump. He made clear what the u. S. Governments opinion was with respect to freedom of religion. I have made very clear publicly what my opinion is, whether or not we need to put that in writing, i will let the lawyers decide, that it is an easy call for me. I see no other questions at this time. Im going to wish a few wonderful people happy birthday. Holmes rogers and alanna , and alex singleton. Pound,irthday Alexander Leo white. Lie allie is turning 18. Happy birthday to mariah jones and lancaster. Happy birthday to Andrea Johnson and a senior at the university of southern mississippi,. Happy birthday to asher addison, attorney said turning six. Happy birthday to Bailey Sanders and billy grubbs. Billy is turning 83 years young. 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Kirk andthday spencer sylvia bell turning 15. Happy birthday to dillard and tony cooper jr. Happy birthday to travanti hampton and tyler hallmark. Happy birthday to tyler mclaurin, a senior at north Forest High School who will play football in the fall. Glad to have you at millsaps. Happy birthday virginia walk josh robinson, wyatt groner zach friendnd also to my good down in ocean springs, representative hank zubers dad. Happy birthday barry. One of my favorite things to do is wish a happy birthday to one of our great servicemen and women, and veterans at the Veterans Home in oxford, misses Shirley Roberts is turning 88 years young. Have a great bread have a great day and god bless. Thank you. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, holds a Kevin MccarthyConference Call to discuss the Coronavirus Response and the houses legislative agenda. Pelosi5 p. M. , nancy holds her Weekly Press Conference also via Conference Call. At his Coronavirus Briefing wednesday, andrew cuomo announced that 752 new yorkers died in the previous 24 hours, but the hospital and icu admissions were declining