Oct. 28, 2020
Gradual warmup. Tonight, we’ll have mostly cloudy skies with lows from 19 to 27 degrees. Tomorrow will be partly sunny with highs in the 30s. The National Weather Service says that after spending the last 10 days in a winter preview, we are getting a gradual warmup, which will bring highs back in the 50s and 60s by the middle of next week. And outside of some light snow in central Minnesota tomorrow night, the next week looks dry. Gov. Tim Walz: State plans to launch COVID-19 testing effort among young adults. The governor says 18- to 35-year-olds who are infected but asymptomatic are driving much of the virus spread in the state. "And I think what we're looking at is massive testing either in pop-up kiosks in places we can go. And asking them pull over for 30 seconds and take this test and we get a result instantly," he said at a stop in Moorhead today. Minnesota's number of active, confirmed COVID-19 cases hit another record high. New cases are growing more quickly than tests for the first time in six months. New Health Department data also showed some 1,900 newly confirmed cases and 19 more deaths. The percent of positive tests stood at 12.2 percent among the latest round of results. President Donald Trump will be in Rochester on Friday evening as part of a three-state swing through the Upper Midwest. His southern Minnesota event will follow speeches in Michigan and Wisconsin. Of the three states, Minnesota is the only one Trump didn’t win in 2016. He’s been focused on flipping it since. Federal officials announced indictments against 60 people, including more than a dozen Minnesotans, in connection with a nationwide telemarketing fraud scheme. U.S Attorney Erica MacDonald says the charges contain allegations including conspiracy, mail and wire fraud and violations of a federal law enacted to protect senior citizens from marketing scams.
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