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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

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Today is Tuesday, April 7th.

Good morning.

Good morning.

In the news this morning, more than one million Pennsylvania residents have filed unemployment compensation claims since the coronavirus began taking a severe toll on the economy

in mid-March as the State Department of Health on Monday reported more cases and more virus-related

deaths. The state exceeded 283,000 jobless claims last week, pushing Pennsylvania past one million

in the three weeks since the state began pressing for

business shutdowns to help stop and spread COVID-19.

There was a glimmer of good news as the number of new virus cases and deaths reported by the

State Department of Health did not set a new high in either category.

Governor Tom Wolfe warned that the surge is coming but expressed some optimism Monday that

the worst fears may be avoided.

We are starting to see the early exponential increase in cases has given a way much flatter curve,

so the surge may not be as great as we once anticipated, Wolf said in a video news conference.

However, he also said that the success depends on people staying home.

One Pennsylvania mayor became so frustrated with residents' failure to adhere to social distancing guidelines

and so alarmed by a huge increase of virus cases in the area that he began enforcing a curfew over the weekend.

Also, Monday, top Republicans in the State House of Representatives press legislation

to force Wolf to loosen restrictions on construction

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