Midmorning With Aundrea - May 15, 2020 (Part 1)

(Part 1 of 2) Gov.

Tate Reeves joins Aundrea via Zoom to touch on important topics as the state tries to reopen even while the coronavirus cases keep rising.

And MSU has already made the decision to resume teaching on campus by this fall with guidelines on social distancing and cleaning procedures.

I hope i created this morning as i say believe is outweighed by the si we have to deal with these terms the family is doing well for asking the women in this location will open the door with a fast we want you to take a look at where we have been and where we are now using updating mississippians every day where press conferences you're doing it over social media you're talking directly to the people we are dealing with this pandemic was several weeks ago we also had some pretty disastrous weather that recovery effort is also not overwrite the daily life in mississippi right now is truly dealing with disaster at the disaster and that we had the present cris and now we have a mages scandal and one of the state agencies that we had a historic flooding in our state the largest and widest tornado in history mississippi occurred as well in the history of the country came and saw the slippages we weeks ago for the last 60 days or so majority of the disaster has occurred with colbert 19 we are mobile testing as we have every sort history can think of my staff and our focus on trying to run and manage state government if you look at the evolution of what has happened over the couple months as it started out this we start off and then we shut things down and now we've gotten into the mode in over a week or so we had the scepter in place people want to see the economy back open and want to live normal again that is very much where we are right now let's talk about what has happened in the last two months in correlation with the coronavirus about in our country or state has lived through a time as this will the state health department in our emergency management people have been fantastic have been having us this day one and we have been trying to make every decision based upon the data what you have to understand is that we have public health cris ongoing in the state of mississippi pussy up but we also have economic crisis and is confident we have over 200, 000 people lose their job i believe that a true leader were very slow or any mandated guidelines for mississippians people cannot stand homes for lease weeks and weeks and weeks and months without having anything going on we assess abuse mental issues and health issues going on with data we are now rephrasing in a reopening in our nni state we have a lot of industries that have never said now now issue of reopening as soon as possible when it is safe how to go about appeasing or make everyone, with what we're doing the economy and people's health are both important so how you handle that well any leader now point in time is important to consider both of the we make this easily made based on data and you have to understand why we made those decisions that probably not going to agree with us what they respect the fact that were probably going to try to communicate and people are probably tired here for most you have to understand the data in decisions that were making i don't believe that every single decision i have made has been very right is based on the data in the characteristics of the environment that i had time we did good news when can we get another which i take all of those into account and focus on goal was best for mississippi for mississippians and by far lies we been relatively successful one of the decision that you made early on was to close school campuses i noticed the conversation happening about what's going to happen with schools in the fall was happening in those conversations you want to make the decisions of close school was the hardest decision i have ever had to make i still believe that that is certainly a among the hardest decisions i believe it was the right decision had exactly the right time but i do believe that social distancing measures are put in place with you have a positive impact on where we find ourselves today i find close schools is a key component of stopping the spread on it with the virus believe that i'm using is on the schedule and i don't think we need to invest more things like distance-learning techniques as far as they who needs a central oscars for more more technology we need to invest in teachers and on this activities in those areas has been a lot of confusion among them is policies around the state who are you said that their restrictive family last intrusive than yours but they could be more restrictive you think is good that local leaders know best about what's going on in the counties and letting them make decisions that are some guidelines that were put in state wise we believe we have the best experts phone call phone with the doctor about the coronavirus guys at least twice a week there are sometimes when their local circumstances require more restrictive on policies the local official close and in order any less restrictive orders than i have given but they can be more restrictive that his decision in a local decision makers need to make i need as you want to trust it on to to polar opposites of each other when people go back to church are people living to the casinos opening back up i never sent out either one of those two enties i believe that the government has the right to set down churches believe the people are religious in his classes country and i believe our constitution gives them the right to be i have the responsibility to take care of their most people across the state have done that to my by social distancing if you can open in the same way that is far one of the things that we saw early on is that clients are not a good thing they spread the virus in a spray very quickly casinos the gaming commission who said casinos will be issued issuing a reopening sometime late or early next week are ready to go back to where we were in january have over 10,000 cash to have occurred in mississippi smart we had protect us and we had a person protect our neighbors have to understand social distancing and what you are and his team of doctors and that we reached our peak or are we not.

In mississippi we have never really had a major key lewis daylight new york louisiana they have a state like mississippi we have not been between hundred and 4400 new cases per day for the last couple of days and is where one of the devices not go there staircases there are still challenges that we have an estate recognizes that as the people know we have to be smart best thing that people can do is take on their own personal responsibility i need to wear a mask i need to stay home when i can only need to leave when i have to i need to go to work on it go get groceries and go home we appreciate the daily updates i think communicate in the best for people to hear what you doing straight from you thank you for taking your time with us and i know you're very busy every day we can possibly get everything in we want to talk about but would come talk to us sometime in the future yes i look forward to government phase mississippi state university plans to resume in-person classes this fall.

The university's covid-19 task force guidelines include changing the academic calendar to minimize disruptions.

Cleaning and disinfecting will also be increased in buildings.

Face coverings will continue to be used.

Covid-19 testing and contact tracing will also be used if needed.

The university plans to try a hybrid - online and face to face instruction.

The task force is considering alternative best practices for campus life, athletics, and public outreach.

As of right now, classes will begin at m-s-u on august 18th.

But across the nation, some universities are making the choice to keep classes online for the fall semester.

That's disappointing to many students.

And, as kristine lazar reports, it may well change enrollment.

Graduating senior carter wells was supposed to head to cal state san marcos for his freshman year, but when he learned that all cal state schools would continue remote learning through the fall semester... sot @ 00:01:14 "w looked at the numbers and it just wasn't worth it."

So wells will now head to community college.

His mom, holly admits finances were a consideration.

Sot @ 00:02:22 you think you're paying all that money, but they're still at home and they're learning online."

Jennifer djavadi is an education consultant who primarily works with college- bound seniors.

She says before incoming freshman decide to take a gap year, they need to ask themselves what will they be doing?

Sot @ 00:1:58 "typical gap yea experiences are travel, or a mission, or a job- are simply not likely to be options this year."

If college seniors opt to delay going to a university, djavadi cautions, many universities have made it known they may not accept community college classes done during during that time.

And when students go to apply next year... sot @ 00:07:22 the current estimate i am seeing is that 20 percent of 2020 graduates are going to be deferring.

So that means already from the gate there will be 20 percent less seats on any given university across the country."

Louann katz-curtis is a counselor at providence high school in burbank.

She says only a handful of their students have decided to change plans due to remote learning.

Sot @ 00:02:32 "fo some families they want their child to have that traditional college experience, living in the dorms, and for other families having their child start college is really the priority."

Ginny inlander's son was accepted to uc riverside.

Her son is opting to continue with his plans, even with remote learning.

Sot @ 00:08:48 "he i going to miss that freshman college experience, but he still feels he doesn't want to lose credits if he does community college, and he doesn't want to have to go an extra year to college."

It's not just graduating high school seniors who are being effected by covid.

Jennifer schiff's son adam is a freshman at the university of denver.

They've just learned he is no longer guaranteed housing in the fall and they expect remote learning to continue.

Sot @ 00:03:15 "it' certainly not the college experience that we had in mind and that he had in mind when he decided to go to college.

Everything is up in the air at this point."

Stand up tag: college counselors caution- universities don't typically grant a lot of deferments, so don't bank on one.

But if you do get one, it could impact any scholarships you may have.

When we come back, keep an eye out for termites.

We'll tell you what to look for