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

And it is Thursday, October 22nd.

Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy abruptly left an event Wednesday after announcing he was going into quarantine, saying he just found out a member of his staff had tested positive for COVID-19.

Per guidance from the public health officials, the individual is quarantining at home, and the governor's office has begun to contact trace, the contact trace process to notify anybody who may have come into contact with their colleague.

Murphy, a Democrat, was speaking at a workforce development event.

His office organized with Democratic Representative Donald Norcross at Camden County College

when he said he learned a contact tested positive.

Out of an abundance of caution and in line with the highest levels of

commitment to protecting public health, the governor and first lady will be canceling their

in-person events and voluntarily quarantining through the end of the weekend and each will take

an additional COVID-19 test before they resume any in-person engagements, the statement said.

The governor received a coronavirus test on Monday as part of his regularly scheduled testing, which came back negative.

The governor and first lady were tested again yesterday afternoon.

That also came back negative.

I don't want to suggest any duplicity here, but I know that if I sharded, I might say that I had to go out and get a test.

That's a good diversion.

The 63-year-old governor has no

symptoms. New Jersey has had more than 222,000 positive cases and 14,438 deaths. The state's

daily coronavirus figures have doubled over the past month, state officials said earlier this

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