And good afternoon everybody welcome to the four to five i’m eric chilton alongside maddie gardner tahitian moyes we’ve got a lot planned for you today we absolutely do and we are so glad you are joining us thursday means tomorrow is friday everyone you know we are here to inform you make
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News related to our coronavirus numbers the number of north carolinians in the hospital with the virus dropped again today the red bar you see to the right is today’s number 3666 it’s 74 lower than yesterday and more than 300 fewer than our record we sat just a week
Ago it’s significant enough that cone health has pushed back the date it expects to exceed capacity you can see it highlighted in yellow at the top of the graph at one point the date was this past tuesday and now it’s february 11th north carolina a t state university is also on the
Forefront of the covitt vaccine rollout the school just received the first of five vaccine freezers a t will get two large ultra cold units and three smaller ones the five freezers have the ability to store more than 117 thousand vaccines those smaller units are mobile freezers that will allow
A t to help underserved communities while kovat19 vaccination rates have improved significantly over the past week north carolina continues to rank towards the bottom of vaccine distribution around the country new cdc numbers show the state has distributed more than 40 percent of the vaccine last week we were around 31 percent but
There is good news the latest cdc data shows more people are getting vaccinated every week in our state as the u.s death toll from covet 19 climbs past 406 000 people efforts to vaccinate people are starting to hit a wall with some states simply running out of doses as vaccination
Sites get bigger and busier around the country more elected officials are saying the same thing to the federal government double triple what you’re sending us we’re ready to provide the vaccines we’ve got the convention parking structure where we could handle 25 000 vaccinations a week and right now we’re scheduling six
Thousand we have pfizer right up the street in kalamazoo and they tell us they’ve got vaccines the federal government hasn’t purchased but their agreement will let themselves to the states so far only 22 states and d.c have used more than half of all the doses they’ve received but remember both the
Pfizer and modern vaccines require two different shots and to make sure they have those second doses available and set aside some officials are stopping new vaccinations japan says that the summer olympics in tokyo will happen after being delayed in 2020 because of the pandemic but some experts say that it is just
Too risky japan’s prime minister says they are prepared and determined to keep covet at bay 19 000 athletes plus support staff are expected to descend on tokyo in july officials are looking at using robots to speed up testing for fans if they’re allowed at all but much of
Japan is still under a state of emergency the country hasn’t even approved a vaccine covet cases are on the rise and so is public opposition to hosting the gangs now we are facing with a far more danger than last year so why do you have to hold the olympic games
One big factor to push ahead with the world’s biggest sporting event is the cost the government has already spent 15 billion dollars let’s turn now to more headlines with your 4-5 roundup a growing number of states are struggling to vaccinate people quickly now they’re enlisting the national guard
For help washington is the latest state to deploy the guard to set up mass vaccination sites they initially relied on hospitals and pharmacies to vaccinate people but their numbers have lagged and all about 20 states are using local troops to lead the vaccination effort drug maker eli lilly said thursday its
Antibody drug can prevent covid19 illness in people who live and work at nursing homes and other long-term care centers it’s the first major study to show that a treatment may prevent illness people who got the drug had up to a 57 percent lower risk of getting
Coven 19 compared to others at the same facility who got a placebo among nursing home residents only the risk was reduced by up to 80 percent with a new president in office the united states will resume funding for the world health organization and join the group aimed at sharing coronavirus vaccines fairly
Our country was set to leave the organization in july a move by the trump administration but the withdrawal will no longer happen and fewer americans applied for unemployment benefits last week lowering claims to 900 000 now that number is still historically high but lower than weeks past the government said 5.1 million
Americans are continuing to receive state jobless benefits that’s down from 5.2 million in the previous week that suggests that while some of the unemployed are finding jobs others are likely using up their state benefits and transitioning to separate extended benefit programs well we’re looking at our forecast with
Current temperatures and uh you know it’s chilly but we’ve seen worse haven’t we 52 degrees that’s not bad for this time of year above normal uh 53 in raleigh charlotte at 56 fayetteville 55 you have to go up toward boone in that area to see that 36 degree mark so a little
Chilly there we will drop to that 36 tonight in the triad which we usually see the next morning uh partly cloudy skies winds are fairly light so no worries there tomorrow we’ll see some morning clouds maybe a little bit of clearing by the end of the day but
Overall that high of 58 is tolerable you can see the cloud cover across the area it’s kind of hanging in a little bit for a while but when you go out to a wider shot the majority of the precipitation with this system we think that will now stay more to the
South so maybe there are southern counties if you’re heading down towards charlotte you know they may see a shower or two in the next day but i think we’re going to be right on the edge of that and we’ll probably miss most of that now that is part of a
System a cold front that works its way through again most of that precipitation is staying to the south we think i think most of our state will be spared that rain and then the high pressure really starts to build in it’ll be a little bit breezy
With the position of that low and the high we’re kind of getting all that air funneled in right over us so it will be a significant cool down and then the high of course as you can see just kind of hovers where it is as it drifts to the east
And dominates our forecast for a day or two so let’s go with partly cloudy skies friday saturday sunday 58 for tomorrow but once that front clears us mid 40s and 20s for highs this weekend rain chances slip in on monday and tuesday Guilford technical community college is working to help end a nationwide truck shortage and help get people employed now according to labor department data the trucking industry now has about 80 000 fewer drivers compared to 2019. last fall the college introduced a new commercial driver license training program
9 out of the 10 december graduates are already working program director vance daly says the triad is a good place to be a trucker there is such a need in this area you know guilford county with all the industrial and manufacturing bases base that we have here we’ve got all the new
Distribution centers going up and that’s just more and more transportation related jobs for the area and trucking is part of that staley says companies are having a hard time finding qualified drivers he says he has more recruiters reaching out to him than he has students due to covid though the school has had
To limit the amount of students in each class it’s a wonderful industry to be in and has been very rewarding to me and to a lot of other people it’s not for everyone but like i said you can go from unemployment to fifty thousand dollars a year in eight weeks full of time
Or sixteen weeks part time and we like to help as many people in guilford county as we can gtcc plans to offer six full-time courses and three part-time courses this year we’ll link you to more information on our website and if you think about it guys
Uh truck drivers are so important to the fabric of our country especially during covid you know they move about 71 percent of domestic freight and you know at the beginning of the pandemic things were down people were buying as much but now that’s picking back up you see the trucks on the road
Every day just trying to get things to you in the store like your toilet paper i mean it’s it really is a no-brainer the jobs are there gtcc is definitely affordable and i think a lot of folks probably need to line up and get those classes really quickly that’s i
Had no idea that the demand was that strong and we just did a story about how unemployment numbers are still historically high so if there are jobs available in this industry and the training is available as well i say jump on it i cannot imagine that job it has got to
Be so difficult i mean i have a hard time driving 10 minutes in my small suv to work so to drive a massive truck like that across the country for hours at a time they really do an important job yeah i mean they are essential workers
If you think about it they were uh working all during the pandemic making sure people got essential goods think about now the vaccine they’re a big part of that too making sure vaccine shipments are getting to hospitals and distribution centers very true all right well the 4-5 is heading to break but we
Never take a break on social media right guys we would love for you to join our conversation on facebook just find this live stream on wfmy news 2. you know i’m sure a lot of you out there have fond memories of the days way back
In the day when you used to go roller skating maybe maybe you still do it that was a middle school thing for me that’s for sure now in my hometown we went to the starlight skate center so much fun on saturday nights we’ll get ready to lace them up again because
Roller skating believe it or not has a huge resurgence it’s just been lately i spoke with susan konsel with derby city skates about why it’s coming back so susan i love first of all i loved roller skating as a kid i had a pair of tennis shoe roller skates the ones that
Looked like tennis shoes in the 70s loved it how did you get into this because your history is kind of interesting with roller skating so really the passion was always there from the earliest days of you know getting in the street as a kid but honestly the true passion started
Probably in the mid to late 1970s and had the privilege of working in roller skating rinks it was amazing to be in that community especially like in the height of the roll of disco craze and you were saying there aren’t many roller skating shops uh you know what i
Mean the outside of you the closest one is where new hampshire so um obviously the rings have some pro shops occasionally you’ll find roller skates in skateboard shops we do take a lot of pride in in claiming to be the uh only freestanding brick and mortar roller skate shop quad roller skates in
The entire southeast and did i hear correctly that at one point you were in roller derby yeah that is very true so um when i came to north carolina from uh new york uh oh years ago i was missing um the adult community of roller skaters
So i had uh heard about uh team forming here in winston-salem and it gave me an opportunity to skate with adults it was probably the most fun um i’ve ever had in my whole life so why do you think the resurgence of roller skating all of a
Sudden why is it blowing up nationwide well definitely a couple of things that come into play with the resurgence obviously the pandemic so roller skating is pretty amazing because all you have to do is have some case you can get out on the street you can go to dreamways
It can be done in groups it can be done alone i think most of my customers would say it’s their mental health right now we will be visiting your shop i hope so yeah you know it i loved it as a kid i loved it i would still when i take my
Little one skating now it brings back a million memories so i asked people on facebook i said give me your memories of the roller rink when you were growing up and here’s what they had to say we’ll start out with carol uh she’s a regular here on the fortified
Facebook page when i was in high school she says that was our only place to go have fun love dancing on my skates with those big pink pom poms on the skates md moore said other than being with friends and maybe the hokey pokey the rink on high point road was right
Beside ray’s king burgers and we could get a burger right after uh nicolia says meeting friends at the roller rink every friday and staying till it closed great time i agree mickey silver said still have one in eden we take our grandson their best memory though is seeing him build his memory to
Know and enjoy what we knew and enjoy back in the day and susie said that her memory is that not breaking anything considering all the times that she fell yes i remember seeing about every other week some kid would fall and there’d be a cracked wrist or something
And the rest of us would slow down but it was a free-for-all and so much fun the good old starlight um so you’re about to learn something else about me folks we’ve learned a lot this week i can’t roller skate i can’t rollerblade i never learned how but i do think i
Need to learn how since it’s popular again plus i really want some cool bell-bottom pants to wear with some roller skates bring back the 70s yes what’s old is new again i will say because you know i like to bring up tick tock a lot it is trending on tick tock as well
There are a lot of people doing different videos on tick tock my sister recently got into it she uses it as a workout um i remember i would say probably the last time i went to a rank would be about six years ago and that’s actually where i had my first date
With my now fiance alex we had a grand old time there was a laser tag placed in there as well and we played laser tag with a bunch of 10 year olds he was awesome at it i was basically last place after all the 10 year olds it’s fine
It doesn’t matter he still likes you clearly yeah clearly so it worked out all right so i’m going to enlist tahesha and chilton to teach me how to rollerblade roller skate once corona races no longer i love love it love it i’ll do it in a heartbeat if that’s considered a workout then
Maybe that would get me to work out all right let’s see what’s going on with the forecast because it would take a lot to get me a workout uh 52 degrees in greensboro right now 53 in winston-salem high point in lexington uh 55 in reidsville so we’re all pretty
Much on the same page higher elevations boone and up toward allegheny action watauga counties they are in the 30s right now we’ll get there tonight we’ll drop down to probably the mid 30s and we’ve got varying sky conditions i would say partly to variably cloudy for the most part
Dropping down into the mid 40s by 7 o’clock tonight and by midnight into those upper 30s and again bottoming out in the mid 30s satellite and radar a combination there a cloud cover it’s kind of a partly cloudy to variably cloudy sky and we stay in that neck of the woods for a
While but the systems have shifted a little bit what does that mean for us and why do we care it means that we think most of this precipitation will stay to the south away from us you can see that on the future cast here as we take you into uh
That’s friday morning you can see that basically the cold front moving by colder air filters in now the winds around the high they’re clockwise around that low counterclockwise so all of that funnels down from the northwest right over us so it will be a little bit breezy we
Think as we head into the day tomorrow and uh maybe even into saturday but for now i think friday’s is a windy day saturday possibly but the bottom line is it will be significantly cooler once we get through tomorrow those lows tonight in the mid 30s but the seven day forecast shows 58
Tomorrow that’s real mild when our normal high is about 10 degrees below that but doesn’t last long does it mid to upper 40s for highs and 20s for lows for the weekend partly cloudy little rain monday and possibly tuesday 48 and 52 but when you get to wednesday and
Thursday of next week we’re planting the seed not saying that something’s going to happen yet but there is a possibility a 40 chance we’ll say now rain and maybe some snow mixed in but once we get closer to those dates we’ll know a little bit better and we’ll
Keep you posted right here on the four to five so the super bowl is still happening this year and despite who wins a league first is guaranteed to happen as well sarah thomas one of the league’s referees will become the first woman in the league history to officiate a super bowl
Thomas is no stranger to making history though in 2015 she became the first woman ref in the nfl and just two years ago she became the first woman ref to work a playoff game thomas will serve in the down judge position for this year’s title game a post she has held irregularly since
2017. pretty cool stuff i think this is a week of women making history breaking all of those glass ceilings you go on and do the thing girl you got a lot of people supporting you uh 2021 that’s the year of history so i’m watching
Uh it was awesome i saw um there was a female referee in one of the playoff games that i was watching last weekend and my wife and i both noticed and um you know it’s you’re breaking all the barriers which shouldn’t be there anyway in the first place so
I think we’re moving in the right direction and we’ll probably see more of that wait till we get a female head coach in the nfl that’s what i’m waiting for probably not too far off i think it’s really cool that we’re about to enter a generation where
Little girls who are growing up won’t know these traditional gender role jobs that we all saw when we were growing up i mean men and women they can do anything it’s an open play you want to be quite literally in the nfl right yeah all right we are heading to break with
The four to five we’ll be right back connect with us on social media we’d love to see you there I’m stacy spivey and here’s your social snapshot a north carolina canine is back on the job after an injury walker is a six-year-old belgian malinois with the charlotte mecklenburg police department he was recently injured while on duty chasing a suspect he actually severed an artery in his nose after
Getting tangled in barbed wire but now he’s back to work full time and enjoying using his sniffer once again and your dog can help seek out the bad guys too winston-salem police just launched their pups against crime program the department posting on facebook inviting pups to sign up to help
Fight crime and better the community they want dogs and their owners to be on the lookout for suspicious activity when out on those daily walks and of course alert them when something seems out of the ordinary and your dog will also get some free goodies as well if you sign up that’s your
Social snapshot hey ice cold milk and an oreo cookie they forever go together like a classic combination when a dark delicious cookie meets an icy cold sensation might check one two three four five Hey there welcome back to your four to five i’m eric chilton alongside maddie gardner and tahitian moyes another half hour ahead yes absolutely and a lot in store we are here to inform you make you feel connected and let you into our world a little bit here on the four to five
Yes and we love chatting with you on our facebook stream that’s where we live stream this show you can join the conversation that way you can also watch us on youtube and twitter we begin in washington dc this afternoon where president joe biden began his first full day in office
With a virtual prayer service the new president is focusing on the nation’s coven 19 response and this afternoon he signed 10 executive orders that will among other things provide guidance to safely reopen schools he also hopes to provide up to 100 million vaccine doses by the end of april and
Invoke the defense production act to get to that goal president biden says today’s executive actions will help but acknowledges he will need congress’s help to achieve these goals long way to go these are just executive actions they are important but we’re going to need legislation for
A lot of things we’re going to do there’s already pushback from several gop senators to the president’s proposed 1.9 trillion dollar coveted relief package the white house says president biden plans to meet with congressional leaders soon to talk about how to move that package forward and president biden didn’t wait until
Today to get started after arriving to the white house yesterday president biden signed 17 executive orders ranging from mass mandates to actions on global warming so let’s take a closer look at those executive actions there’s a lot to unpack so we’re going to go quick mask required on federal property the world
Health organization the u.s rejoins and dr anthony fauci will head up the delegation to who a new covet 19 response coordinator position is created a nationwide moratorium on evictions and foreclosures extended until march 31st the pause on federal student loan interest and payments extended till september 30th a majority
Of biden’s executive orders revolve around immigration daca protections reinstated travel ban to seven muslim-majority countries lifted expansion of immigration enforcement stopped construction of the border wall halted deferrals of deportations for liberians extended an order excluding undocumented immigrants from the census rescinded the restriction on diversity and inclusion training within
Federal agencies is lifted and workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity is prohibited the paris climate accord rejoined in the keystone xl pipeline cancelled the office of management and budget the office that prepares the president’s budget proposal has to update their review process and finally anyone appointed to the executive branch
Has to sign an ethics pledge to ensure they act in the interest of the american people and not for personal gain all right let’s turn now to more headlines with your four to five roundup vice president kamala harris won’t move into the vp’s residence at the naval observatory just yet
An aide told cbs news that the home needs a few repairs chimney liners need to be replaced among other maintenance to the home that now that the pence family has moved out the naval observatory was built back in 1893 and congress refurbished the house for the vice president in 1974.
Former vp walter mondell was the first to live there the senate confirmed president biden’s first cabinet nominee avril haynes was voted in as director of national intelligence hours after the inauguration yesterday senate committees began holding confirmation hearings for five of biden’s picks on tuesday hearings continue today federal agencies will be led by
Acting officials until all of the nominees are confirmed and a powerball ticket sold in maryland matched all six numbers in last night’s jackpot drawing worth 731.1 million dollars this recent powerball drawing is the fourth largest jackpot in powerball history and capped as being the longest jackpot run the lucky winner will have the
Opportunity to choose between receiving a payment of 546.8 million dollars all at once or being paid an estimated annuity in 30 payments over the course of 29 years just that amount of money is staggering that is crazy all right let’s talk about a forecast we all take a deep breath and
Wish we were buying that dad that ticket in our hands i can’t imagine uh highs today pretty much low 50s for just about everybody some mid 50s to the south in the southern piedmont in the mountain communities upper 30s low 40s so above normal our average high is usually
Around 48 this time of the year so we’ll drop down into probably low 40s by about 9 o’clock tonight you look at the hour-by-hour breakdown and by midnight upper 30s the forecasted overnight low tonight will should be we think in the mid 30s and again that’s what you see in the morning
Hours when you head out partly cloudy skies for your friday pretty much all day 53 by midday with that high of 58 that is a good 10 degrees above normal on friday but it does not last long there is a pretty strong cold front even though most of the rain with that cold
Front stays to the south of us you can see that on the satellite and radar combo here um the cold air obviously rushes in behind it the system that we’re watching it’s kind of a high pressure to the northwest and the low to the north with winds circulating around those two
Systems counterclockwise around the low clockwise around the high then all that wind funnels down over us so it might be a little breezy second half of the day friday and into saturday as those two systems work to move on to the east but it also ushers in some cooler air
Here’s your extended outlook mid 40s to upper 40s for highs and 20s for lows for the weekend a little chilly rain on monday and 48 up to 52 tuesday and a little bit of clearing but wednesday thursday we will watch closely for now we’ll kind of say rain could be a little
Frozen treat in there we’ll keep you posted as the days get closer with kova 19 restrictions making it tough for families to get out of the house the greensboro science center is doing what they can to provide a safe and fun experience for the whole family wfmi news 2’s
Jaylen gilkey went to check it out even though you now have to make an appointment to visit the greensboro science center is still offering a great time for your family however there may be a lot less people a couple fewer exhibits and way more hand sanitizer on grounds there
Is still the same amount of fun to be had although there are a few minor changes that have been made the greensboro science center is still a great place to hang out we are following all safety precautions all city and state guidelines and our staff has been trained to enforce those
Guidelines just to make sure everyone has a safe visit some of the high touch areas are closed for safety reasons but there is still plenty to see and do our aquarium is open our zoo is open the museum is open the cold weather zoo animals are still
Out and about enjoying snacks and taking naps while the dinosaurs and the aquatic animals are enjoying the warmth inside and if you’re feeling brave you and the kids can even try out the ropes course so right now with it being winter folks are starting to go a little stir crazy
So we’re just really excited to offer families a safe place to get out of the house and i’m gonna be honest with you guys i cannot wait to go back and try the high ropes course it looks like so much fun and i’m all for a good time anytime all right
So a fun story when the good morning show here on wfmy turned 60 the science center was also turning 60. so we went out we did a lot of stories with the science center and i got tasked with doing the ropes course for the show
And it’s hard to do i i mean i enjoyed it i like being up there and feeling you know like i’m in the trees and everything but it was hard work so just you know get ready maybe train a little bit for that great i want to do it though i want to
Do it that sounds like a a team building exercise i’m sure there’s something that can be worked out for the four to five and and what and what would happen is that i would get locked up on a tree and not let go i’d be the one that freaked out and
They’d have to bring a crane to get me down that’s exactly what happened like when a cat gets stuck up in a tree and the fire department has to come out we have a chilton stuck actually i think the 405 probably could use some team building because you know
Jalen always picks on chilton yeah we do need to work on our chemistry a little bit better you should see them in the uh non-televised meetings [Laughter] what did you say yesterday something about uh when when president trump pardoned little wayne on his last day in office and
Chilton didn’t realize who that was no he didn’t know who kodak black was i didn’t know who that was you didn’t either but so i told him i said i’m sorry i said i’m sorry he said well he didn’t pardon frank sinatra wow i missed a lot yesterday apparently
You’re supposed to come to work t no yes you did all right let’s check in with tanya All right jalen’s story has me thinking what is it that you just don’t miss out on every single year uh for example okay i go and see the christmas ball lights at sunset hills every single year i’m not going to miss it do you have an activity like that too
Maddie well you know i have adopted the sunset hills lights activity as well tanya um i can’t think of anything that i have never missed before i bet after this whole thing goes you’ll be like oh yeah this and this yes this all those things all right well let
Me introduce you to someone who has never missed a super bowl what i’m ready to go baby i’m okay i’m ready my 55th symbol itself it’s unbelievable did you hear that this is tom’s 55th super bowl he has all the past tickets to prove it 54 super bowls are in the
Books for him and this year the big game is being played 15 minutes from his house in tampa with coveted restrictions though he was worried whether he’d get seats somebody definitely uh looked up for us i didn’t think it let me down especially me living here in tampa been
On that vip list of the nfl for a long long many many years so he got tickets and they’re the most he has ever paid for them you ready for it twenty five hundred dollars a piece oh that is a lot of change and you’re not talking about he’s never missed
Watching a super bowl on tv he’s never missed being at the big game that’s right being there sitting in the seat i think he’s in uh like row 226 row g or something like that he has two tickets so i’m trying to figure out like if he needs
A friend to go with him well he does need someone to go with him his wife is a huge bucks fan oh and he’s got lots of friends who are green bay fans so we’re just gonna have to see what happens i gotcha i got you so he’s gonna
Wait and see how the playoffs end up before he picks his date but you know i’ll put in a good word for you betty thank you i mean i’m not a huge fan of either of these teams when the the panthers aren’t involved i’m really just like i’m in it for the halftime
Show and the commercials this year you know i’m with you it’d be fun to see all right we’re heading to break but we’ll be right back stick around we are on top of breaking news out of davidson county where deputies are looking for this man dustin dial you’re taking a look at
A live picture from denton we have a crew out there where deputies are currently looking for him the davidson county sheriff’s office says this all started when they responded to an assault call on cabin creek road yesterday the suspect allegedly led deputies on a chase but crashed and then
Got away they looked for him overnight and he was seen on a woman’s surveillance video this morning but this afternoon he allegedly stole a woman’s van and led randolph county deputies on another chase where he crashed again and got away if you see him do not confront him deputies say immediately call 911.
So whenever we see people from our state other north carolinians who get kind of featured on a national stage of course we get very excited well that’s exactly how members of the high-stepping cloggers felt they’re from uh the high country cloggers rather are from boone in that area
And they felt pretty excited because they had a chance to perform for the virtual inauguration parade how about that i spoke with their director amber henley about this feat so amber this is i mean to be in the inauguration whether it’s virtual or in person that is a huge
Honor how in the world did this come about so it’s such a crazy connection how we how this all worked out but my husband has an organization called wine to water and he was a former cnn hero he met the producer of the cnn hero shows and we we met
The producer and threw a few connections there she found out i was a clogger and um you know a few years later she calls and she’s like hey um there’s an opportunity for you guys to perform clogging and absolutely we said yes we would love to we we definitely jumped at the opportunity
To to be able to represent north carolina and our country and it has been just such an honor for sure so tell me what that experience was like when you’re when you’re doing this i can’t imagine i would think you and all the dancers were just over the moon
We were definitely it was just such an overwhelming experience for us to be able to have the opportunity to show the world what clogging is and i i hope and i think we made people proud and we’re able to show people what the what clogging was all about and
Just the experience and being outside and this beautiful overlook at the blowing rock in north carolina to have the film crew and people like telling us how to do all this stuff was definitely a new experience for us we’re just so so excited to have that opportunity for sure so um explain what
It was like when you’re watching this inauguration and then all of a sudden you see yourself so yesterday was super special we had all the girls at the dance studio we were practicing and we’re all you know we had it on at the in the waiting room and we were just you
Know waiting around just to see like when is it our turn to come up and then people are you know calling us like we gotta watch and so we all had a chance to experience it together which made it even even more special and definitely memories that we’re
Cherishing now forever um just to be able to have that you know that experience together and it was a special day for sure well we’re also proud as north carolinians of you guys excellent job thanks for telling well thank you so much yeah so if you can’t tell amber is a
Ball of energy that girl uh she’s awesome and when i called because one of our producers at the station courtney gave me a tip on this so i called this morning to see if they’d be willing to do something i couldn’t get my f my sentence finished before she
Goes yes yes we’ll do it so very excited and very pumped up and rightfully so a beautiful backdrop that they had they’re definitely making our stay proud my producer told me in my ear that he wanted me to clog when we came out of that story
I can’t clog i can tap i can do a little flatball change maddie i’ve been hearing excuse me not today i’m sorry go ahead to haitia what can you do i i’m offended you know i love you you know i love you and i’m just poking fun we definitely need that
Team-building exercise the 4-5 is splitting apart the seams here you’ve been gone too long oh no but clogging is fun it looks fun i can tap i can tap but i haven’t fit on clogging shoes they’re just a little bit different but some of the moves are the same
All right the four to five is heading to break we’re going to regroup and we’ll be right back we’re just just joking we’re fine it’s all good president biden could get some help in the effort to vaccinate as many americans as possible and it could come from
Amazon but there is a cat let’s connect the dots for you while some businesses have struggled during the coronavirus pandemic amazon’s business has boomed meanwhile the effort to vaccinate americans has hit roadblocks with the toughest component being what logistics experts call the last mile getting the vaccine injected into someone’s arm
It’s part of the distribution process that amazon has excelled at getting packages on your doorstep in a timely and efficient manner now the massive company is offering the biden administration its logistical know-how to help with vaccinations in a letter to the incoming administration the company’s worldwide operations leader offers their technology
Operations and communication capabilities to assist getting vaccines to people who need them amazon is also offering more than just its tech it also floated turning its facilities into vaccination sites amazon has massive facilities all across the country though it is not clear which ones could be used though the company does say
It already has an agreement with health care providers to administer the vaccine on site now i must say if there’s a company that knows how to get things places uh and in a fast manner amazon yeah you know you got that two-day prime shipping and with the distribution center or the
Couple of them that we have here in the triad were this to be a thing uh the triad would be in a good shape i mean imagine because you’re right the the numbers of the vaccine that we need are staggering obviously but if anybody can handle mass distribution of something it would
Be amazon as we always say they have their hands in everything going on including apparently vaccinations you see i want amazon to be in charge of delivering the vaccine so they get here quickly but i want chick-fil-a workers giving me the vaccine it is my pleasure to vaccinate you
They know how it’s done yes service with a smile absolutely that means my twins will be given out vaccines well let’s not get ahead of ourselves just yet actually i’d let alex give me a shot right here and bryce can do the second dose all right we’ll be right back you
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