Justin talks with Damon Bouwkamp of Aquinas College about how higher education is adapting to COVID-19. Justin also takes your calls and talks to Bill Steffen about today's wind.
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Check your bank account this morning -- you could have an extra $1,200 or more. The U.S. Treasury said Americans have already started to receive their economic impact checks. It comes as Dr. Anthony Fauci said a "rolling reentry" of the U.S. economy is possible in May.
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A spring storm with strong winds is expected to impact the entire state of Michigan on Monday. Consumers Energy said it is preparing for the wind storm in case of power outages. With many people social distancing and working from home, outages could have a bigger impact than normal. Consumers said it has crews on standby monitoring the storm.
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Michigan saw a significant decline in the number of cases and deaths reported on Sunday. The daily update showed there were 645 new cases, bringing the state total is 24,638. There were 95 new deaths, bringing the death toll to 1,487. Sunday was the first day in a week that the death toll dipped below 100.
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The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) has partnered with Cherry Health to open a new COVID-19 testing site in Grand Rapids. MDHHS is working with 12 other community health centers to expand testing throughout the state. MDHHS said with additional testing sites and with help from of a Grand Rapids lab, that will process more than 3,000 tests a day, COVID-19 testing will be more accessible.
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JOE BIDEN SEXUAL ASSAULT ACCUSER | A former aide to Joe Biden is accusing the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee of sexually assaulting her during the early 1990s when he was a senator. Biden’s campaign denies the charges. In two recent interviews with The Associated Press, Tara Reade alleged the assault occurred in the basement of a Capitol Hill office building in the spring of 1993.
Saudi Arabia and Russiahave struck a deal with other major oil producing nations to slash oil production by 9.7 million barrels a day in an attempt to stabilize the roiling oil market. The group is known as OPEC+, and their attempts will hopefully lift the market out of an 18-year low over the next few months. The historic production cuts would take place in May and June, and then production would steadily ramp up until the agreement expires in April 2022. The announcement boosted oil prices a little to begin the week, but analysts say the agreement -- or any agreement, for that matter -- can't fix the lack of global demand or close major gaps in the market caused by the coronavirus crisis.
From drive-in services to Zoom communion, Easter worshipers got creative this weekend
The only time when car horn honks have been church-appropriate
What are people buying this week?
Walmart CEO Doug McMillon and other retail leaderswalked through the weekly buying "phases" of the pandemic so far. Week 1, everybody was buying sanitizers and disinfectants. Week 2 was, of course, toilet paper. Weeks 3 and 4 were spiral hams and baking yeast, thanks to Easter. We're in week 5 now. Can you guess what people are picking up? Hint: You can't eat it.