Wayne Byers Show – Morning – Oct 27

CSi Weather…

REST OF TODAY…Cloudy. Highs in the upper 30s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.

.TONIGHT…Partly cloudy. Not as cold. Lows in the lower 30s. West winds 15 to 20 mph.

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s. Northwest

winds 10 to 15 mph.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s. Northwest

winds around 5 mph.

.THURSDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s. West winds

around 5 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.

.FRIDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs around 40.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.

.SATURDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 20s.

.SUNDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs around 40.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.

.MONDAY…Sunny. Highs in the upper 40s.

Friday night into Saturday,  no precipitation expected, but it`ll bring breezy northwest winds and a slight drop in temperatures on Saturday. Temperatures rebound Sunday and into the start of next work week, with forecast highs on Monday in the upper 40s to mid 50s. Not much signal for
any sort of meaningful precipitation in the long term.

 

Statistics released by the North Dakota Department of Health show that hospitalizations from complications due to COVID-19 have gone up by nine in the last day. Monday’s update showed that the total number of people requiring treatment in medical facilities stood at 173, five days after the all-time high of 183. According to data released Sunday, the state had 28 staffed intensive care unit beds and 282 staffed inpatient beds available. The state confirmed 527 new virus cases from 6,660 tests, a daily positivity rate of 8.28%. A total of 38,241 people have become infected since the start of the pandemic.

NDDoH

COVID-19 Stats

Mon. Oct 26, 2020

11- am

Barnes

New Positives   3

Total Positives 351

Active Cases 51

Recovered 292

 

Stutsman

New Positives  15

Total Positives 843

Active Cases  133

Recovered  694

COVID-19 Test Results
The results listed are from the previous day. Additional data can be found on the NDDoH website.

BY THE NUMBERS

6,660 – Total Tests from Yesterday*

822,605 – Total tests completed since the pandemic began

527 – Positive Individuals from Yesterday*****

38,241 – Total positive individuals since the pandemic began

8.28% – Daily Positivity Rate**

 

6,446 Total Active Cases

-60 Individuals from yesterday

577 – Individuals Recovered from Yesterday (431 with a recovery date of yesterday****)

31,334 – Total recovered since the pandemic began

173 – Curren­tly Hospitalized

+9 – Individuals from yesterday

5 – New Deaths*** (461 total deaths since the pandemic began)

INDIVIDUALS WHO DIED WITH COVID-19
To simplify and clarify messaging around deaths, we will no longer be reporting underlying health conditions. For more information on the change, please view the October 23 news briefing beginning at 40:48. For more detailed information on deaths, please visit the NDDoH dashboard. 

• Man in his 70s from Burleigh County.
• Man in his 70s from Cass County.
• Man in his 80s from Ramsey County.
• Man in his 30s from Sioux County.
• Woman in her 80s from Williams County.

COUNTIES WITH NEW POSITIVE CASES REPORTED MONDAY

 

• Adams County – 2
• Barnes County – 3
• Benson County – 1
• Bottineau County – 5
• Bowman County – 2
• Burke County – 1
• Burleigh County – 89
• Cass County – 136
• Dickey County – 18
• Divide County – 1
• Eddy County – 1
• Emmons County – 1
• Foster County – 1
• Grand Forks County – 53
• Grant County – 1
• Hettinger County – 1
• Kidder County – 2
• LaMoure County – 3
• Logan County – 1
• McHenry County – 5
• McIntosh County – 1
• McKenzie County – 9
• McLean County – 4
• Mercer County – 6
• Morton County – 24
• Mountrail County – 5
• Pembina County – 1
• Pierce County – 2
• Ramsey County – 14
• Ransom County – 7
• Renville County – 2
• Richland County – 3
• Rolette County – 8
• Sargent County – 1
• Sheridan County – 3
• Stark County – 9
• Steele County – 1
• Stutsman County – 15
• Traill County – 8
• Walsh County – 5
• Ward County – 61
• Wells County – 1
• Williams County – 10

* Note that this does not include individuals from out of state and has been updated to reflect the most recent information discovered after cases were investigated.

**Individuals who tested positive divided by the total number of people tested who have not previously tested positive (susceptible encounters).

*** Number of individuals who tested positive and died from any cause while infected with COVID-19. There is a lag in the time deaths are reported to the NDDoH.
**** The actual date individuals are officially out of isolation and no longer contagious.

*****Totals may be adjusted as individuals are found to live out of state, in another county, or as other information is found during investigation.

 

For descriptions of these categories, visit the NDDoH dashboard.

 

For the most updated and timely information and updates related to COVID-19, visit the NDDoH website at www.health.nd.gov/coronavirus, follow on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and visit the CDC website at www.cdc.gov/coronavirus.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The White House coronavirus response coordinator says she spent a day looking around Bismarck and found its COVID-19 protocols to be worst she’s seen anywhere in the country. Dr. Deborah Birx, whose tour has taken her to nearly 40 states, says she found the absence of face coverings and the lack of social distancing in Bismarck to be “deeply unfortunate” and a danger to public health. Republican Gov. Doug Burgum has not ordered a statewide mask mandate, instead urging people to wear masks out of personal responsibility. North Dakota has had more new cases per capita than any other state over the past two weeks, according to The COVID Tracking Project.

Earlier…

(CSi) – Gov. Doug Burgum and Lt. Gov. Brent Sanford Monday welcomed White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx back to North Dakota for an update on the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and continuing efforts to save lives and livelihoods.

Birx, who met with officials from across North Dakota on Aug. 29 in Fargo, held another roundtable discussion today with state, local and tribal leaders and representatives from the education, health care and business sectors at Bismarck State College’s National Energy Center of Excellence.

Burgum says, “We’re very honored to have Dr. Birx back in North Dakota. She’s been a great partner of our state since the very beginning. As one of the leaders and coordinators of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, she’s been a steady presence in all of the meetings with all the governors going on since last spring.”  He noted that Birx has visited over three dozen states to study trends across the nation. “We’re grateful for her dedication.”

Birx said the significant community spread that’s driving up North Dakota’s COVID-19 case numbers, positivity rate, hospitalizations and fatalities “is a reflection of what we see happening in states as the weather cools” and outdoor activities move to the heated indoors, similar to how cases in the South increased last summer when hot weather drove people into the air-conditioned indoors.

Brix said, North Dakota is doing a “superb” job of testing and finding COVID-19 cases.

She added, “But there’s a whole other set of cases underneath those cases, of asymptomatic young people who are still getting together, or even 40-, 50- and 60-year-olds who I saw throughout Bismarck not wearing masks and not physically distancing yet being indoors.”

Birx encouraged asymptomatic individuals under age 35 to get tested and isolate if they are positive, and she called for all North Dakotans to practice social distancing and wear a mask in public spaces or when gathering with others, even in small groups.

 

She added, “It starts with the community, and the community deciding that it’s important for their children to be in school, the community deciding that it’s important not to infect the nursing home staff who are caring for their residents – for North Dakotans – every day.”

Birx, Burgum and Sanford also met separately with tribal chairmen Mark Fox of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation and Doug Yankton Sr. of the Spirit Lake Nation, to discuss their tribes’ respective challenges, efforts to fight the coronavirus and tribal-state collaboration in COVID-19 response. The chairmen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate were invited but unable to attend.

For more information on North Dakota’s COVID-19 response, visit www.health.nd.gov/coronavirus or www.ndresponse.gov.

Valley City  (Chamber)  Valley City Mayor Dave Carlsrud has issued a reminder statement to residents, date October 25, 2o2o

Hi Folks,

As you likely know, we enacted “The City Mask Plan” at 5:00 PM last Friday. You can view the plan at; https://www.valleycity.us/covid-19/ . Considerations for the plan are tied to the Smart Restart Guidelines issued by the Department of Health.

MASKING-UP is important as the main modes of transmission are by coughing, sneezing, talking and breathing. All of which transmit droplets of different sizes. Masks will help protect you and people around you too.

So, why would you and I want to MASK-UP?  With numbers of positives on the increase, we will be moving towards a higher risk level if we can’t lower our numbers. We need to help our businesses by masking up; business employees need to encourage customers to mask-up as well. If we move up too much in risk level, there is a threat the state could close businesses again so let’s all MASK-UP to save our businesses. Also, with holidays just around the corner, there will be gatherings with friends and families. As parents and grandparents, we all want to protect our children and grandchildren from COVID and they will protect us as well.

Let’s MASK-UP to save businesses and protect fellow employees, friends and family!!

 

“We are in this together.”        (Anonymous)                                                  

 

Blessings, Pray and Be Safe,

Dave

Dave Carlsrud

Jamestown  (CSi)  With the 2020 census completed, Jamestown responses were put at 73.5 percent, and in Valley City the response rate was close at 72 percent.

Earlier this year Jamestown Mayor Dwaine Heinrich and Valley City Mayor, Dave Carlsrud challenged residence of each city to have a better response rate to the census, and the mayor of the city with the highest response rate would present a cap  to the other mayor, to wear in town and at either the Jamestown City Council, or Valley City Commission meeting.

With Jamestown having the highest census response rate, Mayor Heinrich presented  the Jamestown cap to Mayor Carlsrud on Tuesday, that he will wear at the November 3 Valley City Commission meeting.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — National Guard soldiers have helped to notify 800 people who tested positive for COVID-19 but initially weren’t told. The notification backlog was due to a recent sharp increase in coronavirus cases. It was resolved Thursday largely through shifting the role this week of 50 North Dakota National Guard soldiers, health officials said. The soldiers had been informing people they may have been exposed to COVID-19 and should monitor their health for signs and symptoms of the virus. On Monday, health officials announced the soldiers would instead be notifying those who test positive for the virus.

Jamestown  (JPD)  The Jamestown Police Department reports that effective immediately the Police Department  has ceased fingerprinting for non-Stutsman County Residents.

Police Lt. Robert Opp says  that this will be until further notice.

Call Jamestown Police with  any questions at 701-252-2414.

 

Valley City  (CSi) Authorities report that a parked Highway Patrol vehicle was hit Sunday, October 25, about 1:30-p.m., in the 1100 block of 6th Avenue, Northeast in Valley City.

An 18 year old Valley City man faces charges, with his court appearance set for November 3, in Barnes County Court.

Valley City Police Chief Phil Hatcher says a witness reported the hit and run, and the striking vehicle’s  driver was located and cited for care required in operating a motor vehicle and leaving the scene of an accident.

Message from VCSU President, Dr. Alan LaFave

One of the most significant events on a college campus is commencement and the celebratory recognition of a young person’s accomplishment of the completion of their degree. Another of the more exciting aspects of campus life is seeing the landscape improve and change. Whether this takes place in the form of renovation or new construction, facility improvements are vital to maintaining high-quality and functional educational delivery space for our students. This has been an exciting week at VCSU, as we have seen the first walls set in place for the new Center for the Arts.

More information in this story at CSiNewsNow.com

BISMARCK, N. D. (AP) — A handful of North Dakota cities are involved in the emerging science of testing wastewater for the coronavirus. North Dakota’s Department of Environmental Quality is heading the testing that’s underway in Bismarck, Fargo, West Fargo, Mandan and Williston with plans to expand it to other communities. Testing wastewater is potentially an earlier indicator of active cases in contrast to testing people. It’s funded by $65,000 in federal CARES Act coronavirus aid that includes a $50,000 grant for North Dakota State University which is doing the lab analysis. The North Dakota State Penitentiary in Bismarck began wastewater testing in early October.

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — Grand Forks County sheriff’s officials say an intruder at a rural Grand Forks residence kept tactical officers at bay for six hours before trying to flee from the house. The standoff began when a man arrived home to find the male intruder in his house about 10:30 p.m. Monday. The resident told deputies the man had access to weapons in the house, so SWAT officers were called to the scene. Sheriff’s officials say about 4:30 a.m. Tuesday the man exited a basement window and attempted to flee into a wooded area before he was arrested.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Bismarck man who police say told investigators he fatally shot an acquaintance because he was tired of his teasing has been charged with murder. Twenty-eight-year-old Diego Ashton told police he suffers from mental health issues and that the victim, 47-year-old Robert Becker, had always given him a hard time about it. A court affidavit says the two were riding in a car last Friday when Ashton told Becker how he was feeling and Becker laughed at him. The affidavit says the two drove to a closed gas station northwest of Bismarck, where Ashton shot Becker, pulled him out of the vehicle and drove off.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A send-off ceremony for dozens of North Dakota National Guard members looks very different in light of the coronavirus pandemic. Families weren’t invited to the ceremony Sunday in Bismarck where 72 guard members of an assault helicopter company were preparing for a nine-month deployment to Washington D.C. They are mobilizing in support of a mission that stands ready to evacuate the Pentagon’s command if needed. Rows of soldiers wearing masks sat 6 feet apart in the guard hangar for a ceremony that was streamed live on Facebook.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Sunflower farmers in the U.S. are expected to produce their biggest crop in five years, and North Dakota farmers are expecting their best yield in history. The National Sunflower Association says the first production forecast for 2020 is 2.81 billion pounds, up 44% from 2019. North Dakota leads the country in sunflower production. The state forecast is 1.23 billion pounds, up 64% from last year.. Higher yields are expected in five of the eight states in which sunflower production is tracked. Increases are forecast for Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas. Decreases are expected in California, Minnesota and Texas.

In sports…

Monday

High School Volleyball

Jamestown 3 St. Mary’s 0 

Jamestown def St. Mary’s 25-12,  25-12, 25-21

Valley City def Fargo Shanley 25-23, 25-21, 25-21

Oakes def Richland 3-0 (25-23, 25-21, 25-11)

On Saturday the Jamestown Blue Jays Football squad was defeated at Mandan, 38 to 7.

 

NFL MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL…

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Rams rebounded from their Week 6 loss to the San Francisco 49ers by stifling the Chicago Bears.

The Rams’ defense allowed just 279 net yards and three points in a 24-10 win over the Bears. Taylor Rapp made an end-zone interception on a pass deflection by Troy Hill. The Rams held Chicago to 182 yards over the first three quarters in building a 24-3 lead.

Josh Reynolds and Gerald Everett caught touchdown passes from Jared Goff, who threw for 219 yards.

Eddie Jackson returned a fumble eight yards with 7 1/2 minutes remaining for Chicago’s only touchdown.

Nick Foles passed for 261 yards for the Bears, who managed just 49 yards on the ground.

Both teams are 5-2.

NFL-BROWNS-BECKHAM

Browns’ Beckham done for season with torn knee ligament

CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland Browns wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. will miss the rest of the season because of a torn knee ligament.

Beckham was hurt early in Sunday’s 37-34 win at Cincinnati. Beckham’s second season in Cleveland ended when his left leg buckled while running to try and make a tackle after Baker Mayfield’s first pass was intercepted.

NFL-PANTHERS-MCCAFFREY

Rhule says McCaffrey return possible

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Carolina Panthers coach Matt Rhule said “it’s a possibility” star running back Christian McCaffrey could return to action Thursday night against Atlanta.

McCaffrey was back on the practice field Monday wearing a red jersey signifying an injured player and he remains on the team’s injured reserve list for now. He did not practice, working instead with the training staff.

The 2019 All-Pro running back has missed the past five games with a high ankle sprain.

McCaffrey was off to a solid start with 223 yards from scrimmage and four touchdowns in the first two games. He left a Week 2 loss to the Buccaneers in the fourth quarter and hasn’t practiced since.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Wisconsin coach Chryst staying quiet on QB Mertz’s status

UNDATED (AP) — Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst isn’t discussing quarterback Graham Mertz’s status following reports that the redshirt freshman has tested positive for COVID-19.

Chryst did say he was confident the ninth-ranked Badgers’ game Saturday at Nebraska would go on as scheduled.

Big Ten protocols say that athletes who test positive through point-of-contact daily testing must take a polymerase chain reaction test to confirm the first result. The athlete can’t play again for at least 21 days if the PCR test confirms the first result.

Elsewhere in college football:

— No. 10 Florida resumed meetings and practices Monday for the first time in two weeks. The Gators got back to work after 30 players and coaches tested positive for COVID-19, causing the Southeastern Conference to postpone two of the team’s games. The Gators are scheduled to host Missouri on Saturday.

— Purdue coach Jeff Brohm says he plans to return to the sideline Saturday at Illinois. Brohm has been in self-isolation for more than a week since testing positive for COVID-19. Big Ten rules require him to isolate for 10 days before returning to work.

— Missouri wide receiver Maurice Massey has been dismissed from the team after he was arrested during the weekend. Boone County Sheriff’s department records show Massey was arrested Sunday on suspicion of third-degree domestic assault, fourth-degree assault and first-degree property damage.

— The SEC has fined Mississippi coach Lane Kiffin $25,000 for his complaints about officiating on social media following Saturday’s loss to Auburn. The conference also said the replay official should have stopped play to review the call after Mississippi’s fourth-quarter kickoff appeared to have touched the right hand of Auburn’s Shaun Shivers. The Rebels recovered in the end zone, but the on-field call was that Shivers didn’t touch it and play wasn’t halted for a review.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL-SCHEDULE

ESPN scrubs hoops tourneys slated for Orlando

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — ESPN won’t hold college basketball tournaments in a Florida bubble next month.

ESPN Events issued a statement Monday saying it had “set out to create a protected environment” in Orlando, but those plans changed due to “certain challenges surrounding testing protocols.”

ESPN Events says it will resume those events next season.

ESPN Events lists 10 college basketball tournaments and doubleheaders on its website originally scheduled for the upcoming season. Those events include the Champions Classic that annually features Duke, Kansas, Kentucky and Michigan State. They also include the Preseason NIT, the Jimmy V Classic and the Orlando Invitational.

NHL NEWS

NHL veteran Daley retires, joins Penguins front office

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Longtime NHL defenseman Trevor Daley has retired to take a position in the Pittsburgh Penguins front office.

Daley played 16 seasons in the NHL and helped the Penguins to consecutive Stanley Cups in 2016 and 2017. The 37-year-old Daley spent the last three seasons with the Detroit Red Wings.

He retires with 89 goals and 220 assists in 1,058 career games.

NASCAR-TEXAS

NASCAR’s Cup playoff at Texas still on hold

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — NASCAR now hopes to resume its Cup Series playoff race at Texas Motor Speedway on Tuesday, but the forecast may not cooperate. Similar weather conditions were in the forecast for Tuesday and into Wednesday.

The race was stopped on Sunday because of drizzle and misty conditions that allowed drivers to complete just 52 of 334 laps. Another 115 laps have to be completed to get to the halfway mark of 167 laps that would make Texas an official race.

In world and national news…

CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — A hurricane warning has been issued for the U.S. Gulf Coast including New Orleans. The National Hurricane Center is urging people to prepare now for life-threatening conditions late Wednesday from Morgan City, Louisiana, to the Mississippi/Alabama state line. Zeta has been moving across Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula as a tropical storm after making landfall just north of the ancient Mayan city of Tulum. It’s predicted to become a hurricane again over the Gulf of Mexico and make landfall again Wednesday night. Zeta’s top winds were 70 mph early Tuesday, centered about 560 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s first votes on the Supreme Court could include two big topics affecting the man who appointed her. The court is weighing a plea from President Donald Trump to prevent the Manhattan district attorney from acquiring his tax returns as well as appeals from the Trump campaign and Republicans to shorten the deadline for receiving and counting absentee ballots in the battleground states of North Carolina and Pennsylvania. It’s not certain Barrett will take part in these issues. No justice has assumed office so close to a presidential election or immediately confronted issues so directly tied to the incumbent president’s political and personal fortunes.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden plans to use the final week before Election Day to go on offense, heading Tuesday to Georgia and planning travel that may put President Donald Trump on defense in other states he won four years ago. The Democratic presidential nominee plans to hit Florida, Iowa and Wisconsin after a pair of stops in Georgia and is dispatching his running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris, to Arizona and the largest red state, Texas. Trump returns to Wisconsin on Tuesday, visiting West Salem just three days after holding a Janesville rally. While Biden rarely travels to more than one state per day, the Republican president has maintained a whirlwind schedule.

 

 

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police shot and killed a 27-year-old Black man on a Philadelphia street after yelling at him to drop his knife, sparking violent protests that police said injured 30 officers and led to dozens of arrests. The shooting occurred Monday afternoon as officers responded to a call for a person with a weapon. Police spokesperson Tanya Little said officers who arrived ordered the man to drop the knife. Video of the fatal confrontation posted on social media shows officers pointing their guns at the man, later identified as Walter Wallace. He walks toward the officers as they back away from him in the street, guns still aimed at him. Both officers then fired several times. Hundreds of people took to the streets to protest the shooting late Monday into early Tuesday.

 

Spain’s Canary Islands aim to pass a law this week demanding a negative COVID-19 test result from tourists wanting to visit the archipelago off northwest Africa. Canary Islands President Ángel Víctor Torres says the measure will apply to both Spaniards and foreigners. New infections have been soaring across Spain except for the Canary Islands, a popular tourist destination that is 1,800 kilometers (1,120 miles) southwest of Madrid. He said the law was being prepared even before the U.K. and Germany recently lifted travel restrictions to the Canary Islands. Those two countries account for more than half the archipelago’s 13 million annual visitors. The Canary Islands have officially recorded almost 17,000 cases of coronavirus and 272 deaths.

 

Shares have fallen in Europe and Asia after surging coronavirus cases and waning hopes for U.S. economic stimulus gave Wall Street its worst day in a month. Shares declined Tuesday in Paris, London, Hong Kong and Sydney. Tokyo was flat, while Shanghai recovered from early losses to edge higher. Overnight, the S&P 500 fell 1.9%, deepening its losses from last week. Stocks of companies worst hit by the pandemic logged some of the biggest losses. Cruise lines, airlines and energy stocks tumbled in tandem with crude oil prices. In another sign of caution, Treasury yields pulled back after touching their highest level since June last week.