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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is Metro News this Morning, bringing you this morning's
biggest news headlines from across the state.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It's Columbus Day, Monday, October thirteen, twenty twenty five, and
this is Metro News This Morning, a service of Metro News,
the Voice of West Virginia. I'm Jeff Jenkins. Good morning.
Join us for the next fifteen minutes or so gets
you updated on what's going on across the state of
West Virginia, news in sports, and take a look at
the weathers we get this work week started. Thanks for
joining us this morning. Let's got our first update from
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the Metro News anchored desk. A Raleigh County Circuit judge
appears weeks away from making a final decision on a
request for a permanent injunction to allow for religious exemptions
to the state's school entry vaccination Laws's Michael Froebel heard
more testimony last week, including from state epidemiologist Shannon McBee.
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She testified the current policy aligned for exemptions under a
Governor Patrick Morrisey executive order doesn't measure how serious a
person and is about their religion.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Policy as cannot test the sincerity and delay as it's
right now.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Judge Frobel says he'll hand down an order by Thanksgiving.
Read more at wv metronews dot com. The State Treasurer's office,
which administers the Hope Scholarship program, has received dozens of
messages from homeschool parents concerned about the delay in the
online purchasing system for school supplies through the program. State
Treasurillarry Pack acknowledges there were problems, a.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Lot of I think headaches, a lot of I called
startup issues that the new company had and that took
a long while to work through.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Pack says things are getting better with improve communications with
the supplier. You can read an update on the issues
a story posted this morning from Metro New state wide
correspondent Brad Michaelhaney at our website. Required changes in Medicaid
have the attention of the State Bureau of Medical Services,
which oversees Medicaid in the state. Those changes include work
requirements for some able bodied residents currently receive benefits. Caple
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Cutting Delegate Matthew Roorbach says it's an individual decision for
those who would have to work to keep receiving the benefits.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
People just playing don't want to work, then they're not
going to meet the requirements. That's pure and simple. Now,
if they are complying, we don't want the paperwork to
be an impediment to them getting their benefit.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
House minorit leader shown Hornbuckle sees these changes differently. Hornbuckle
says those who are part of Medicaid expansion face losing
their benefits.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Healthcare in West Virginia will be negatively impacted by the
big bill that was passed in Congress. There is an estimated,
which was confirmed, one hundred and sixty thousand West Virginias
that are definitely in peril.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It's going to be more than a year before some
of the changes take place. WVU will hear from its
new president this afternoon.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
President Michael T. Benson is set to deliver his first
State of the University address at three o'clock this afternoon
from the WVU College of Law. The speech will come
at the beginning of the faculty meeting. According to the university,
Benson will be discussing his vision for wvu's future. Benson
has been at the helm of the university for about
twelve weeks now and gave a little piece of his
strategic plan back in August. During the West Virginia Business
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Summit with wvu's new mission statement, but there's likely much
more in store for the speech today. I'm Aaron Parker
for wv metronews dot com.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
New Marshall University athletic director Gerald Harrison says some recent
NCAA rule changes should help Marshall. Harrison told the Marshall
Bard of Governors last week the change to establish a
single transfer port to a window for college football players
in January werevent mass transfers like Marshall experience last year.
That puts us a little bit of a cross student
athletes here before to drop a bad date. But we
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do know that whatever we team we have at that
point in January.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
We know that's the team that we will field, more
likely to majority.
Speaker 7 (03:49):
Of them due to fault.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Harrison says Marshall is transsitioning from focusing on nil to
revenue sharing. Read more of his comments at our website today.
A full week of Homecoming week activities our scheduled this
week on the Marshall University campus. The annual Unity Walk
through Campus begins at five this evening. Charleston police are
investigating an early morning shooting. It happened on the city's
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east end. At shortly before four o'clock. There's indication a
shooting victim was taken to comc General for treatment. A
driver who led police on a high speech pursuit this
morning in Kanal Valley is hospitalized. Please say. The pursuit
BA began in Dunbar at about one thirty am and
at a few minutes later when the driver crashed his
car on the Oakwood Road exit ramp on Interstate sixty
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four in Charleston, Please say, speeds reached one hundred and
forty miles an hour. Two people traveling with the driver
were detained by police. Discussions are taking place on whether
there should be a joint city county governing board in
Morgantown to oversee operations at the Morgantown Municipoy Airport. One
Gay County Commister Tom Bloom says the airport in his future,
have a lot to offer and right now it's not
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getting the attention it should.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
It is probably the future economic engine of the city
of Morgantown and s and unfortunately we don't talk about it.
We're talking about other issues that may affect one percent
of the people, and this needs to be looked at.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
The discussion includes the City of Morgantown retaining ownership of
the airport, but a joint authority overseeing its operation. Today
is the Columbus Day holiday. You'll find federal, state, county,
and municipal government offices closed and also most banks are
closed today. It's going to be a sunny day across
West Virginia with highs reaching in to the low seventies.
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Thanks for joining us this morning. Our Metro News backgrounder
is on the way. Next. Daniel Woods in with sports
this morning. It's a Monday morning. This is the Morning News.
Speaker 9 (05:48):
The high school football season continues Friday night with our
Game of the Week, Cabal Midland and Parkersburg, presented by Gomar.
You can also watch Princeton and Beckley montclam against Greenbrier,
West Parkersburg out in Mortontown, Scott and Rome County, and
Winfield versus Shady Spring All on Metro News TV, brought
to you by the Thrasher Group, Marshall University and the
Mountaineer Challenge Academy. Stream the action live on Metro News Television,
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Speaker 10 (06:29):
The vigil continues this hour in the Upshire County community
of Tollminsville as desperate relatives await word on the fate
of thirteen coal miners trapped in the Sego mine.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
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Speaker 3 (06:57):
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Speaker 7 (07:00):
He launches it.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Good if it goes.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
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Speaker 2 (07:21):
Daniel Woods, has a sports update in just a couple
of moments. First in our Metro News background or so
much needed construction is beginning today at the Eugene A.
Carter Bridge on I sixty four in Charleston. Cruis will
be installing a water resistant in membrane and adding a
two inch later of asphalt to the bridge deck to
prevent lars potholes from forming again. FW eight spokesman Brent
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Welker says CRUs have already started work, but things will
get busy this week. We have more in our background.
Speaker 11 (07:47):
They've been out at night doing some preventative patching on
that concrete deck and just trying to get a head start.
And so as you had mentioned day through Thursday, you
had mentioned six, that's about when they'll be be starting
the traffic controls. I think though for travelers they could
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really start to see more action beginning around nine and
working through the evening. There will be periodic closures, not
of the entire bridge, of course, but motors can't expect
eastbound westbound lane closures. But again it's going to be
nighttime work. Traffic is less. There could be some just
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as there are now. There could be some periodic exit
closures on ramp off ramp closures, and so we as
that schedule becomes available. As we hit some milestone type issues,
we are going to put information out heavily. We're going
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to let you guys know. We might be back on
this show talking about it, but we recognize the importance
of this and that's why we fast tracked this project.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Welker guest last week on Metro News Midday.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
This is part of a three step plan to help
the bridge. The final step is a full redecking project
expected for twenty twenty eight. Time for a sports update
on this Monday morning. Daniel Woods is with us big
matchup in high school football last Friday night people still
talking about, is martins Burg flex its muscles?
Speaker 10 (09:30):
Daniel, That's right, Jeff Martinsburg taking down number one Morgantown
thirty four to six, meaning there are no unbeaten teams
left in Class Quad A football. Bulldogs head coach Dave
Walker crediting his team's improvement since an zero and two start.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
These guys are just hung together. I'm really proud of
the progress that they've made. They've continue to get better.
They continue to work in the young guys that have
grown up somewhat and steal a lot of room for growth.
Though so We're still plugging at him.
Speaker 10 (09:59):
The Bulldogs are now five and two. As I mentioned,
no unbeaten teams in Quada football. That's because Saturday, Jefferson
went on the road and beat number two George Washington
thirty four to thirty three with a late goal line stand.
Cougar's coach Craig Hunter says, they had the play scouted
and his defense executed.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
We kind of figured out knew what they were going
to do when they got down that load. They've always
run a wedge play, either with the quarterback or running back.
We knew they were going to run a witge. We
knew how to try to get to stop it, which
we had to come up the edge as hard because
they don't block anybody, come up the edge, come straight
down the line, and as grab the legs we can't
go forward.
Speaker 10 (10:31):
The Cougars are winners of two straight. After an zero
to four start, The Marshall football team pulled an upset Saturday,
beating an Old Dominion team previously unbeaten in Sun Belt
Conference play forty eight to twenty four. Head coach Tony
Gibson says the key to success was believing they could
get the job done.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
My biggest thing today was believe.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
That was the message starting yesterday this morning in our
team meeting.
Speaker 11 (10:52):
We gotta believe we can win number one, and man,
did they play good.
Speaker 10 (10:56):
The Herd is three and three ahead of Saturday's homecoming
game with Texas State. WVU women's soccer team ranks among
the best in the nation according to the NCAA Tournament
Selection Committee. The committee released its current top sixteen seeds Sunday,
and the Mountaineers ranked ninth WVU as a winner in
its last three Big twelve matches, beating Houston three to
two on Friday. The Mountaineers returned to play on the
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road this Thursday at Kansas. The WVU men's soccer team
remains unbeaten in Sun Belt Conference play after a win
over Coastal Carolina two to one. The Mountaineer volleyball team
dropped its second straight Big twelve match Sunday three to
ze at UCF. The Marshall men's soccer team also secured
a win Saturday against top twenty five ranked Kentucky. The
MLB playoffs are back tonight Game one of the NLCS
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between Los Angeles and Milwaukee. Game two in the ALCS
Seattle against Toronto.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Thanks Dan, you remember following the sports of the day
at wv metronews dot com or high school football ranks
will also be coming out early this week. This is
Metro News This Morning from Monday, October thirteenth, twenty twenty five,
Columbus Day. Join us for a Metro News talk line
ten oh six this morning. Dave Wilson on the show Today.
Weatherwise across the state of West Virginia today to begin
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the work week, plenty of sunshine, highs in the low seventies,
and meteorologists say it's going to be dry for most
of the week, will get cooler temperatures a little rain
by the end of the week. Thanks for joining us
on Metro News This Morning. For this Monday morning, October thirteenth,
I'm Jeff Jenkins. Have a great Metro.
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