– Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Oct. 28

CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Clear. Lows in the lower 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.

.FRIDAY…Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. South winds around 5 mph increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. South winds

around 10 mph.

.SATURDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs around 50. West winds 10 to

15 mph shifting to the northwest 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.

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

.SUNDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.

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

.MONDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s.

.TUESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows around 20.

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s.

The North Dakota Department of Health dashboard is updated daily by 11 am and includes cases reported through the previous day. The investigations are ongoing and information on the website is likely to change as cases are investigated. The information contained in this dashboard is the most up to date and will be different than previous news releases. This dashboard supersedes information from previous news releases or social media postings.

Check out our other dashboards: The COVID-19 Vaccine Dashboard, NDUS Dashboard.COVID- 19 stats:

COVID-19 Stats

Thurs. Oct, 28, 2021

10:30 -a.m.

Barnes

New Positives: 21

Total Positives: 1870

Active: 72

Recovered: 1755

Breakthrough Incidents Per 10K Fully Vaccinated Individuals: 222

Stutsman

ONE NEW DEATH

TOTAL DEATHS 87

New Positives: 20

Total Positives: 4417

Active: 80

Recovered: 4243

Breakthrough Incidence Per 10K Fully Vaccinated Individuals: 244

Valley City (CCHD) City County Health in Valley City announces their COVID-19 testing days and site location in Valley City.

Testing has moved to the REC Center at 140 4th Street Southwest. Testing will be 12:30-2:30 Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

There are opportunities for vaccinations, both for annual influenza and for the COVID vaccine. Call 845-8518 to make an appointment.

Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Regional Medical Center (JRMC) has been following one of it’s employees, Rhonda Ravely, as she is cured of cancer.

On Thursday, October 28, 2021 they celebrated “Rhonda’s Roots”. Along with the unveiling is a raffle to see where and what kind of hair will grow back. The raffle supports JRMCroots. Participants have a chance at a $1000.

Other ways to support include, donating $20 for a T-Shirt, cut your locks (Tag #JRMCRoots to be entered into a prize drawing. Purchase Scentsy at https://karalautt.scentsy.us/party/15106029/jrmc-cancer-center-fundraiser.)

100% of Event Proceeds Benefit the JRMC Cancer Center REACH Program.

At 12 Noon on Thursday Oct 28 Rhonda and her friends and co-workers joined her to see Rhonda unveil her cap and show her hair’s growth. The raffle will be awarded on November 18. The Edgeley American Legion is matching gifts up to $10,000.

Jamestown (City) The street closure on 2nd Ave NW, between 1st St NW & 2nd St NW in Jamestown will be extended until approximately Wednesday, November 3, 2021, or until finished.
The above schedule is contingent upon changing weather conditions.
A detour will be put in place.
Motorists should use extreme caution in this area and use alternate routes, if possible.

Also…

Starting Monday, November 1, 2021; there will be a road closure on 2nd Ave SW, from 2nd St SW to 3rd St SW. This closure is expected to last until approximately November 16, 2021, or until the utility work is finished.

Construction signing will be put in place by the Contractor.

Motorists should use extreme caution in this area and take alternate routes during this time, if possible.

Jamestown (JPD) The Jamestown Police Department is reminding city residents that everyone must have all trailers, campers and motorhomes removed from city streets by October 31.

“The only exception is for contractors. They may have their construction trailer parked in front of whatever building they are actively working on for two weeks at a time.”

Also, any motor vehicle parked on city residential streets must be moved every 48 hours.All of This is to assist the City Street Department in snow removal over the winter months. The department thanks everyone for their cooperation.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Board of Higher Education says university presidents and system leaders should have the flexibility to decide what to do about President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The board voted Thursday to support the idea after a 90-minute discussion that included pleas from presidents of the state’s two research institutions who said they could lose tens of millions of dollars in federal contracts if they didn’t comply with Biden’s requirements. The vaccine mandate covers people who work with federal contractors and their subcontractors, as well as student employees and support staff in areas such as billing, human resources and custodial service.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Budget writers in the North Dakota Legislature have agreed to spend nearly the entire amount of the $1.1 billion in federal coronavirus aid available to the state. The proposed spending includes funding initiatives ranging from infrastructure improvements to childcare programs. House and Senate appropriations committees finished work on the spending plan Thursday, after a marathon day Wednesday where budget writers failed to reach consensus on some items. Only $54 million of the $1.1 billion wasn’t tapped for spending. The spending suggestions will be forwarded to the full Legislature which meets Nov. 8.

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota lawmaker was barred from boarding a flight at Minot International Airport this week following a run-in with airport security. Rep. Jeff Hoverson and his wife were planning to travel Monday for their anniversary. Hoverson says a Transportation Security Administration agent said he was going to give him a pat down but did not ask permission. TSA says in a statement the pat down was initiated when he set off the alarm in the screening machine. The agency said Hoverson objected during the pat down and called the police, Hoverson eventually complied, but the airline made the decision to deny boarding.

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says he has reached a “historic” framework with Democrats in Congress on his sweeping, though scaled-back domestic policy plan. Biden’s remarks at the White House come after he traveled early Thursday to Capitol Hill to pitch House Democrats on the package. The proposal is now $1.75 trillion and without a paid family leave program and other priorities. But it’s still a sweeping plan with new health care, free-prekindergarten and climate change programs. He told lawmakers in the plainest language: “I need your votes.” He wanted a deal before departing for global summits. Progressive House Democrats want to see the fine print.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is rebranding itself as Meta, an effort to encompass its virtual-reality vision for the future. Experts point out that it also appears to be an attempt to change the subject from the Facebook Papers, a document trove that has revealed how Facebook ignored or downplayed internal warnings of the negative and often harmful consequences its algorithms wreaked across the world. Zuckerberg insists that the metaverse — what you might think of as the internet rendered in three dimensions — represents the next technological horizon for humanity, and thinks a billion people could be connected to it within a decade.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Families of nine victims killed in a racist attack at a Black South Carolina church have reached a settlement with the Justice Department over a faulty background check that allowed Dylann Roof to purchase the gun he used in the 2015 massacre. The Justice Department will pay $88 million, which includes $63 million for the families of the slain and $25 million for survivors of the shooting, it was announced Thursday. Weeks before the church shooting, Roof was arrested by Columbia, South Carolina, police on the drug possession charge. But a series of clerical errors and missteps allowed Roof to buy the handgun he later used in the killings.

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A neo-Nazi group member has been sentenced to nine years in prison in a case that highlighted a broader federal crackdown on far-right extremists. FBI agents arrested former Canadian Armed Forces reservist Patrik Jordan Mathews and two other members of a group called The Base four days before a pro-gun rally in Virginia in January 2020. Surveillance equipment installed in their Delaware apartment captured Mathews and fellow Base member Brian Mark Lemley Jr. discussing an attack at the rally at Virginia’s Capitol in Richmond. The judge who sentenced Mathews to prison concluded that he and Lemley intended to engage in terrorist activity.

(AP) When Kyle Rittenhouse goes on trial Monday for shooting three men during street protests in Wisconsin last summer, the case may turn on how Rittenhouse’s self-defense claim stacks up against prosecutors’ argument that he acted recklessly and dangerously by being on the streets of Kenosha with a rifle. That’s according to legal experts who examined the evidence in the case. Rittenhouse was among a number of people who answered calls on social media to travel to Kenosha with weapons last August to stop damaging protests. Those came after a white police officer shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, in the back.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The state of Florida is suing the Biden administration over its coronavirus vaccine mandate for federal contractors. The lawsuit was announced Thursday by Gov. Ron DeSantis and opened yet another battleground between the Republican governor and the White House. The lawsuit alleges the president doesn’t have the authority to issue the rule and that it violates procurement law. DeSantis has vowed legal action over federal vaccination requirements and fought masking and vaccine rules implemented by local governments. Biden has argued that the mandates are crucial to bringing an end to the pandemic. But Republicans nationwide have opposed the vaccination requirements and have threatened to bring similar legal challenges.

LONDON (AP) — Britain has removed the seven remaining countries on its travel “red list.” The change means that travelers who have been vaccinated against the coronavirus will no longer have to quarantine in a government-approved hotel after arriving in the U.K. The government said Thursday that Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Peru and Venezuela were being taken off the list effective Monday. Britain will also recognize vaccinations given in more than 30 additional countries, including Peru and Uganda, bringing the total to more than 135. Karen Dee of the Airport Operators Association, said the changes were “a welcome and a significant step forward to normalizing international travel.”