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when you're ready yes thank you so much good afternoon everybody um i think we have concluded um that we are able to safely get back together uh in our usual spot in the war memorial we're gonna sanitize the entire space yet again completely but i think our our leaning right now folks unless you hear otherwise from mahan or dan is to be with you uh in our regular format in person in the war memorial and again that will be thursday at one o'clock unless we hear otherwise uh good afternoon everybody again with me today uh as they almost always are the woman who needs no introduction the commissioner of the department of health judy persicelli another guy who needs no introduction the superintendent of the state police pat callahan we have another familiar face and that is the department of health's communicable disease service director dr ed lipschitz good to have you back ed and today we are also honored to be joined uh by the chief administrator of the motor vehicles commission sue fulton sue great to have you you can also see paramount guard chief counsel is up on the screen with us now sue has joined us uh several times before uh to update us on the progress of the mvc and clearing up the months long backlog of transactions and ensuring that all customers can have their business attended to in a timely fashion and she's here with us today with another update i don't want to steal sue's thunder and i know she will go deeper into the details but i do want to leave you some with some facts on the mbc today the mbc is completing more transactions month over month than they were before the pandemic began and that's a good thing they are reaching out to and engaging with more customers through more targeted communications and social media alerting residents to the fact that most of their transactions can be completed at home and don't even require a trip to an mvc agency overall the number of user sessions on the njmvc.gov website you can see that at the bottom of the screen is up nearly three-fold from all of 2019. the number of transactions now being completed online is more than doubled from last year from 21 all the way up to 44 of all transactions and two-thirds of all renewals are now being completed online and that's a good thing and at agencies i know folks are frustrated believe me i am sue and her team are but the wait times uh in person have also continued to improve again uh please hear this there is no need to camp out overnight as the mvc begins shifting to an appointment-based system which sue will discuss the fact is that at the majority of agencies customers showing up after 10 a.m or in many cases 11 a.m are still able to have their transaction handled that day as i said sue will cover all of this and more in her report in a few minutes again i want to thank her and all of the women and men at the mvc for their dogged work to clear the backlog and ensure customers are served in an orderly and timely fashion we are not spiking any footballs here trust me we all get it uh sue and team are working morning noon and night uh to to plow through this but we also want to be honest about the facts and the facts are thankfully going in the right direction next up as we know tomorrow is election day but we've really been in an entire election season to ensure that everyone was given a chance to safely and securely vote and to have their voices heard as of the latest numbers you can see them up on the screen uh these are the latest available before we came out you got three million five hundred forty four thousand hundred 719 votes have already been received that's as of noon today that's just about 90 percent of the entire total vote in the 2016 presidential we've got a private wage here mahan and i as to what that number will look like at the end of the day but it is safe to say that this election will be an all-time record turnout more ballots will arrive and will continue to be processed today so we know this total will go up at this point i want to say this this is the first time i've said this we would discourage anyone from putting their ballot in the mail with only one day to go you may still use one of the secure drop boxes in your county or you may hand deliver your completed ballot to a poll worker at your local polling place tomorrow as long as you do it by 8 pm but again at this point do not put your mail do not put your ballot in the mail and contrary to what some elected officials have irresponsibly said you can vote in person tomorrow in a polling place in your community if you choose to vote in person you will cast a paper provisional ballot to be clear anybody telling you telling you that you can't vote in person is just wrong they are not telling the truth you can vote in person tomorrow every eligible voter in new jersey has been given the opportunity to vote and it is likely as i mentioned a few minutes ago we will see the highest number of total votes cast in an election in our state's history it just proves that when you open up access to the ballot and welcome every eligible voter and don't try to find ways to disenfranchise voters our democracy is made stronger and by the way at the same time while looking out as we always have first and foremost for public health today i'm also signing an executive order that will move the date of the perth amboy runoff election by one week to tuesday december 15th should a runoff be necessary as with the general election that we've been in the middle of all active registered voters in perth amboy will receive a vote by mail ballot which can be returned either via the mail or a secure drop box located within the city and vote voters will maintain the ability to show up in person on december 15th and cast a paper provisional ballot but again back to tomorrow i thank every voter who has grabbed their opportunity to have their voice heard in this election and your vote will be counted period next open enrollment under new jersey state-run healthcare exchange under the affordable care act is now open we opened for business on yesterday if you need an affordable health care plan for 2021 go to the website getcover.nj.gov getcovered.nj.gov today to review plan options and learn if you qualify for financial assistance open enrollment will be twice as long this year as it was last year it will run through january 31st but why wait there's no reason not to go online today and find an affordable health plan that works for you it works for your family and finally before we we turn our attention to the overnight numbers a quick reminder that all the details of the executive order i signed last week setting workplace safety standards are available at covet19.nj.gov safe again that's the website coveted19.nj.gov safe and i encourage all workers and employers to go there that order by the way takes effect this thursday morning at 6 a.m now let's shift gears and look at the overnight numbers we're reporting today another 1 379 positive cases our killman of total since march 4th is now 240 997. the positivity for all tests recorded on october 29 was 5.29 that's higher than we would like for sure it's a little bit higher than the past couple of days and it's in that sort of four to six percent range again which is too high for our taste the rate of transmission today sits at 1.28 and that's about where it's been the past number of days overall we appear to have had a quiet halloween albeit with several exceptions of a few large parties that were broken up by local officials and pat will get into a little bit more color on that but those knuckleheads aside i thank the overwhelming majority of you who celebrated safely and especially those of you who took extra precautions to keep trick-or-treaters and their families safe as well i'm really heartened that so many of you are taking seriously the need and the responsibility to help us beat back this second wave now that we're in november i know everyone is starting to think about thanksgiving i know we are in our house we'll have much more to say on this over the coming weeks but again this is an uncommon year and this won't be the year for traveling to large family gatherings as i've said before this is the year to gather around a smaller table so we can hope to be able to gather around a bigger one next year now turning back to the numbers in our hospitals last night a total of one thousand one hundred and nine patients were being treated 947 of whom were known coveted positive and another 162 awaiting confirmation of their status and that is the sixth day in a row that we have been above a thousand folks in our hospitals there were of that group 212 were intensive care and 100 ventilators were in use and sadly and again this is apples to oranges but to give you a spot sense that judy and i always try to leave you with 20 patients passed in our hospitals yesterday now they're not part of the numbers i'll turn to in a second and they'll they still need to be confirmed but that's the first time judy would have been at 20 in quite some time today on the confirmed with the heavy heart the confirmed losses of life we have three additional covered 19 related that brings our statewide total to 14 564 and another 1793 deaths are still listed as probable of the three new cases the three new new sad losses of life they are from october 12 october 24 and october 27 respectively you've heard that from us lately there was a time and ed lifshitz has lived this so he forgot more about this than i know there was a time when the bulk of the confirmed uh fatalities we were reporting were still we were making up for for uh lost time way back when uh that still is occasionally the case but you if you listen to the past handful of press conferences the the fatalities that we're reporting are much more approximate to the date that we are making those known so as we do every day let's join together and remember three more of the blessed souls from new jersey we have lost we begin today by honoring dr charles goodstein of tenofly he was 82 years old dr goodstein grew up across the hudson in manhattan and was a graduate of both columbia university and the university of pittsburgh medical school he served our nation in the air force rising to the rank of captain but when he returned from his military service he started a practice as an adult and child psychoanalyst in tenofly and called the borough home for the rest of his life throughout his career he served as a clinical professor on the staff of the nyu medical school teaching as part of the psychoanalytic association of new york while he achieved success professionally his family and friends kept him grounded and he dedicated his life as much to bettering their lives as he did his patients and students they'll all remember him as a man who loved both a good joke and a good argument who found joy in art and music especially by the way when a good parking spot right out front could be had he was a guy who never gave up on the yankees and never passed up a good piece of dark chocolate dr goodstein leaves behind his wife of 58 years dr carolyn goodstein and i had the incredible honor of speaking with her at the end of the week and by the way she also lost her brother stephen to covet stephen lived in florida he also leaves behind his children catherine who's an obstetrician in new york and his son clifford also who hangs his hat in new york and his two beloved grandchildren piper and nolan he also leaves behind four nieces and nephews and many cousins and of course he leaves behind many dear friends and grateful patients may dr goodstein's memory be a blessing for his family and all who knew him and i want to also thank him for his service to our great nation god bless him next up we remember edward macelunus senior a longtime resident of both verona and upper montclair born and raised in pittsburgh ed was commissioned a second lieutenant in the united states army and proudly served our nation in the korean war when he returned home he went on to finish his degree at the university of pittsburgh before moving east to take a job in new york working for the westinghouse electric company after working many years for westinghouse and others he opened his own successful wholesale packaging business called pack quest in 1993 they pioneered packaging designs that have become the standard in the painting building materials and food industries by his side through it all that gal on the left of the screen was his wife of 60 years joyce ed was 89 years old when he passed and just one week later joyce ii passed away however her passing was likely not from coveted 19 joyce was 84 years old ed and joyce leave behind their four children cindy with whom i had the great honor of speaking she's in montclair dina is in roseland lisa is in cedar grove and their son edward jr who's in pittsburgh and by the way both of them ed and joyce have been laid to rest in pittsburgh pennsylvania and the kids also have their spouses and their nine grandchildren they left behind robert emily justin jake jason catherine jack owen and grace we are grateful to both ed and joyce for choosing to make new jersey their home for so many years we thank him for his service to our nation may god bless them both and watch over their souls and their family finally for today we remember jersey city's elaine cunningham white gardener elaine was born and raised in jersey city the seventh of nine children at first she was a licensed practical nurse but the pull of social justice moved her to change course and she found her calling as an educator completing her schoolwork at night so she could watch her children during the day elaine earned the first degree in black studies ever awarded by jersey city university that's right she received the first degree in black studies ever awarded by jersey city university she then went on to teach african-american history at both henry snyder high school and dr robert mcnair academic high school before being named assistant principal of public school number 39 and serving as the district supervisor for social studies she retired from a story educational career in 1996. throughout that career she fought to expand job opportunities from minorities throughout jersey city schools and earned numerous accolades including being named one of jersey journal's women of achievement it shouldn't be any surprise she found a calling in public service her late brother and a guy i used to know quite well glenn served as the first african-american mayor of jersey city as well as state senator and her sister-in-law with whom i had the great honor of speaking last week and a great leader in her own right senator sandra cunningham continues building upon the cunningham legacy elaine in addition to her sister-in-law senator cunningham is survived by her three boys peter troy and derek and their families including 13 grandchildren she also leaves three surviving siblings richard brothers richard and gerard and her sister diane and she's also survived by numerous nieces and nephews siblings in law as i mentioned cousins and of course devoted friends and thankful former colleagues and students so we too thank elaine for her years of service to jersey city and for answering that call to be an educator god bless and watch over her three in fact four if you include joyce extraordinary lives lost let's redouble our efforts and do all we can to save every life we can now turning as we do to highlight the small businesses working alongside the new jersey economic development authority today i'd like to introduce lucas kovalsek the owner of the gravity vault the gravity vault is based in hoboken with franchised indoor climbing facilities throughout new jersey new york and pennsylvania offering a place where both beginner and experienced climbers can learn train and enjoy climbing alongside one another when the pandemic required lucas to temporarily close the doors he worked with the eda to receive a ten thousand dollar phase two grant that allowed the gravity vault to maintain their payroll and meet the rent and other expenses i had the opportunity to check in with lucas late last week in a driving rainstorm he was in the car headed to brick to open a location for the gravity va lt there and today the gravity vaults locations are open and lucas and his team are providing their clients with a safe place to climb as the weather turns and the ability to travel to other rock climbing destination destinations is limited check out lucas in the gravity vault at gravityvault.com very simple gravityvault.com and we wish him nothing but the very best for the times to come and that goes equally for everybody let's keep focused on doing what we need to to keep our families and communities safe maintaining social distancing washing our hands frequently with soap and water or using a hand sanitizer and importantly wearing our masks whenever we're indoors and also when we're out in public every time you wear your mask you show your fellow new jerseyans that you care about them and they in turn know that we're all in this together so let's keep at it it's been a long ago already and we're not done yet completely off script one of the great hollywood stars passed over the weekend sean connery uh we binged as a family on two of his best the hunt for red october and the untouchables over the weekend what a giant i i was in a restaurant in chicago on a business trip about 30 something years ago at a breakfast uh and he walked in making the untouchables by the way he walked in grabbed the newspaper sat down at a table by himself and nobody dared go near him but with that in the spirit of the rutgers university football team if you haven't seen it it's one of the great lateral plays of all time i can't believe the referee did not allow it but with that i'm going to lateral this over to the chief administrator of the motor vehicle commission commission please help me welcome sue fulton sue thank you governor as you know as you all know the motor vehicle commission is the largest customer-facing agency in state government and the only one that is reopened fully to the public following a nearly four-month closure due to covid our reopening plan set four priorities to keep people on the road our first priority move transactions out of the agencies especially document renewals second solve the driver testing backlog especially for commercial drivers third make agency operations safer faster and easier and finally clear the backlog of transactions that have to be done in person so that we can effectively move to appointments in a massive series of it projects even more complex than the massive facilities refit that was required to meet covet guidelines we dramatically expanded our online capabilities adding dozens of new transactions and streamlining others with new payment options longer grace periods and new ways to verify id the results since reopening our percentage of transactions processed online compared to 2019 has more than doubled as the governor indicated with renewals going from one-third to better than two-thirds online second we addressed driver testing we cleared the road test backlog well ahead of schedule thanks to some creative uh scheduling and there's currently no wait for driver testing appointments the final piece was agency operations we had to change the workflow in our agencies for safety and social distancing but also to increase speed and convenience for example a year ago you would have stood in line to check in then stood in another line to get your id checked then stood in one more line for service now when you check in we take your number and you're free to go until you receive a series of text messages to return for service this system isn't revolutionary but last year it didn't even exist in our 39 agencies we've had dozens of small changes like no contact license plate drop boxes at agencies but in all the past few months have been a time of tremendous innovation for motor vehicle commission here's our total weekly transactions for the last two months notice that we averaged roughly 240 000 in 2019 we have beaten that number almost every week now the remaining transactions have to be done in person and here's where we stand out of state transfers are appointment only starting today cdl renewals that's commercial driver license have been available by appointments since october 9. for visa restricted renewals appointments are in the works for later this month and new licenses other than violations those are all the remaining transactions in licensing centers our vehicle centers are primarily registering private sales of used cars and renewing registrations that expired pre-covet both of these are appointment only starting today some vehicle centers as you can see will be entirely appointment only others will allow walk-ins for those few unusual transactions that require special in-person handling we remind everyone that you don't need to arrive at a motor vehicle agency before we open at 8 am in most cases you can get an appointment or do your transaction online as for licensing centers this slide shows you data from the past three weeks what you're looking at is the time of arrival the first arrival at the licensing center of the last customer to get a ticket said another way you needed to arrive at this location by this time in order to get a ticket for service these are average times for monday through friday you can see most of these times are 8 am or later some of them much later i couldn't be prouder of the amazing volume of work processed by our team since reopening in july we know that many customers are frustrated as we've been digging out from the covid19 backlog this has been an incredibly stressful time for our customers as well as for our employees but i promise you we will never stop trying harder to serve you faster while protecting you from fraud identity theft and covid19 thank you to everyone on the nbc team thank you to our customers who've been so patient with us and thank you governor for your support dude thank you a very good presentation very compelling and and want to thank you and your whole team for all the hard work and i want to remind everybody nobody i know sue is not i know i'm not her team is not spiking any footballs here we know we have a way still to go but the progress is significant and i appreciate everybody in the patients they've shown uh and it's clearly it's clearly collectively working so thank you sue uh please help me welcome the woman who needs no introduction the commissioner of the department of health judy person kelly thank you good afternoon this week with 1 379 cases judy you've got a tough uh audio feed is there any way i'm not sure what why that is can you say something maybe yeah it's a little bit of a it's very scratchy not really are they doing any fix there or is it any better not really i mean i'm not trying to i i we we can hear you but it's it's it's very uh scratchy we're trying to could they say something i will fix my head whoever just said that they sounded like that we could understand them it's a little softer we can understand them better do you mind judy if we go to pat and then i'll come back to you is that all right sure okay pat can we go to you um uh halloween uh high winds today um parkway uh uh incident yesterday in any of the above and good to have you thank you governor good afternoon uh with regards to the weekend as far as eo compliance issues the greatest number that were reported to us were from the city of newark um i think you alluded to it governor we had uh their coven 19 task force broke up a large halloween party they seized ten thousand dollars worth of alcohol and the two party organizers were charged uh i spoke to director ambrose they also had three other parties that were broken up uh and their feedback their fire abc and code violations folk also cited 10 additional locations for eo violations so uh given what we're seeing in newark it was uh it was good to see uh director ambrose and those teams out there with regard to the wind certainly throughout the whole state we've been experiencing some gusty winds they're going to probably last through tomorrow to some degree currently we're up the rock is reporting 21 000 uh power outages mostly split between uh jcp and l and ps e g um and with regard to the parkway uh yesterday um i just i want to be clear that that situation on the parkway yesterday was incredibly irresponsible and dangerous uh i was glad to see that the troopers on the ground there took quick action and cleaned up that situation as quickly and as safely as possible uh i was also on the phone today with the commissioner dot commissioner scuchetti uh you know talking about video and any possible enforcement actions uh are being followed up on by our detectives out at troop d um and i just really close there's plenty of ways for people to make their voices heard but when they endanger the lives of those out there traveling our highways and byways there really is no excuse for it um and it really um you know it was gave us a great cause for concern and for those uh that don't know what is lawful or what are not our our phone lines are always open and anyone planning on doing any anything of that nature regardless of the cause should reach out to law enforcement and understand what's lawful and what is not that's all i have governor pat thank you i i was asked this morning in an interview when i used two uh adjectives silly and dangerous uh i want to say for my own taste uh a lot more weight on the dangerous side silly because i don't know what that accomplished uh if you want to get your guy elected president uh either one of these guys go to pennsylvania or go to go to go to some place where the race race is on the nice edge uh but the dangerous part that's just not on uh you folks are welcome to protest and pat i can tell you you and i have had uh had to get our arms around over the past eight months a lot of protests uh whether it's at the war memorial or driving down state street or our home whatever and folks have generally done a really good responsible job the only thing that i got upset about and i know you did too is that folks were in close proximity in a lot of those protests without wearing any face coverings but they didn't suck in uh other folks who weren't part of it they didn't put other people in harm's way and what happened yesterday put other innocent people who were not part of it in harm's way uh and i know that's what bothered you and that certainly bothers me so um thank you for that and the wind you said is state they stay gusty through tomorrow is that right yeah from what we got from national weather service may stay gusty through them not as bad as today certainly subsiding but uh again always mindful of downed power lines and our constant warning to make the phone call and to not go anywhere near them because they can uh they can be fatal yeah amen to that and you and i in our time together uh i can recall at least two fatalities uh in both of those cases it was a snowstorm but the common factor was high wind and a shout out once again to director ambrose and his colleagues you know newark of all places essex county is is down a little bit uh today um bear with me 141 cases though still so it's uh it's still substantial and newark has been a hot spot within essex county and the last thing we need are people gathering by the hundreds indoors on top of each other so um thank you for that as always uh that's the first time we've ever gone out of order i hope judy will speak to me uh again uh uh not intentionally uh but back to judy um can you give us a sound check there how are you holding up something does it sound better now any better i'd be lied to you if i said yes is there a way you could pick up a phone and call into the zoom um and do it by phone judy yeah let me do that that would be great uh if you don't mind and maybe we'll start taking a couple of questions that are not health related while judy gets a phone connection is that okay with you judy um right and apologies for that so so michelle let's do but but again if they're health related hold off give us some non-health um and uh we'll get back once judy's back on her feet that's all right michelle sounds good uh we'll start with kevin rincon kevin hey uh governor i this is covid testing related but i think i think you could you could answer it uh over the summer the state was running a number of covet testing sites and right now we're seeing some cities and counties doing that and the majority of it is through the private sector urgent care uh pharmacies we've been seeing uh long lines and appointments that are starting to take you know a week sometimes two weeks down the line for things to get uh for people to come in so i wanted to see to know if the state is is going to do anything to change that on that end to start opening up some state testing sites and then if you could just talk about the importance of testing as well more of them i know that there are some but more of them and then talk about the importance of testing as we head into these colder mods yeah i mean testing is um yeah i'll give you i'll give it my best shot we still have ad lift shits on so ed uh can can uh unlike me ed has a medical degree so ed may have an opinion here that uh is uh carries more weight than i um so um a big x factor uh kevin or the abbott binax now tests um that we've begun to get shipments of from the feds uh and that is going to take us from an already very high if not the highest state in the nation of testing capacity per capita up to um and even almost in fact uh if they all get used in this 12 week or three month period uh almost doubling our capacity um i don't have any comment about uh any adding any state-run um facilities um but in addition to the capacities that we already have getting the binax tests as we are doing and pat has overseen that as well on the oem side uh distributed to the counties and ultimately long-term care schools um that will uh be a big x factor for us a positive x factor um and i'd say one other comment you said the the the importance of testing particularly as we go uh with colder weather and indoors everything becomes more important including testing kevin so it's a good question uh but i'd say everything including testing tracing enforcement uh the bully pulpit um the plead to do the holidays right um there's no question you look at the temperatures of the past the couple of days the wind the rainbow for that uh we are overwhelmingly shifting to an in indoors reality in our state um and that uh is uh going to be here you know at least till we get back into the into this spring judy you are you on with us judy anything you'd add to that i think you're making oh i think that you've pretty much covered it yes we're seeing an increase in testing both the traditional pcr testing and antigen testing such as the abbott the binax now that's coming online we are going to see an explosion in point of care testing including the binax now as well as other kits that will be coming online as well over the coming months uh so testing certainly is extremely important and we encourage everybody out there who thinks they may have had exposure to go out and get themselves tested and i do think that state will have the capacity to handle that testing yeah and ed i think you'd want me or one of us to reiterate a point um it really part of the reason you got a quarantine if you know you've had a meaningful exposure uh you know the 15 minutes in very close proximity part of the reason you're quarantined first as the first step is that it takes a number of days for the virus to incubate and just show up on a test so that's another point that i think uh we want to remind you of that q q comes before t in this case uh but both are important judy any word out of you somebody if they could get a word to judy when she is on to give me a a shout um uh because we want to go back to her michelle let's take a another non-medical uh question all right we're gonna go to karen yee hi karen karen you there karen maybe you're muted is that possible oh hi can you hear me now we can okay how how late are um will county election workers canvas on tuesday night and what are you expecting in terms of what kind of results there will be on tuesday and i do also have a question is new jersey still not reporting is new jersey still not reporting anti en positive tests in the data and if so isn't that an undercount of the positive cases in the state judy you you there by chance i think i just heard your box can you hear me i can oh wonderful sorry about that no no worries you sound great by the way uh you look great before but you didn't sound so hot now we can't see you but you sound great i'm happy do you mind karen yee we're going to come back to you if you don't mind your questions judy please take it away and you're on your daily and then we'll go back to karen's questions thanks okay thank you well good afternoon everyone um we're entering uh this week with 1379 new cases our newly reported cases have surpassed one thousand daily for over two weeks on saturday and sunday we reported a total of three thousand one hundred and twenty one cases hospitalizations are up and patients in critical care are also up we've been here before those difficult days in march and april back then all of you did the hard work to bring down our case numbers you took personal responsibility all of you responded to the call to protect one another from covid19 we need to continue vital prevention efforts social distancing maintaining at least six feet of distance from persons who live outside your household wearing a mask washing hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds using hand sanitizer containing at least 60 percent alcohol staying home when sick or if you were exposed to someone with covid19 the cdc recently examined the adherence to mitigation behaviors over time according to the data presented in the cdc's morbidity and mortality weekly report thankfully we are seeing mass wearing going up across the country but other safety measures have declined or remained flat reported in adherence to these preventive behaviors was lowest among younger adults aged 18 to 29. we need everyone to double down on all these efforts to contain the spread of the virus in our state new jerseyans have done it before you have all done this before and i know you can do it again with the trends we are seeing we know this won't be the thanksgiving we are used to having but if we all convey recommit to fighting this virus together we can hope that the state is in a better place in time for the holidays our behavior will determine the path forward for the state of new jersey moving on to my daily report as the governor shared our hospitals reported 1109 hospitalizations with 212 individuals in critical care and a high of 47 percent of those patients are on ventilators thankfully there are no new reports of multi-system inflammatory syndrome children at the state veterans homes the numbers remain the same as they do at our psychiatric hospital on the daily percent positivity as of october 29th the new jersey daily report is 5.29 the northern part of the state 5.78 the central part of the state 4.13 the southern part of the state 6.47 so that concludes my daily report please stay safe and remember for each other for us all please take the call download the covet alert nj app and stay safe thank you judy it turns out we can both hear you and see you uh so this was a win-win-win uh karen yee was asking are we potentially under counting positives because of reporting of the antigen tests and i think we've been pretty clear that it's not just a new jersey matter but there's a data uh syncing up challenge between the abbot uh binax now tests and public health systems around the country is that an accurate statement judy uh yes and accurate that we do not have all of the antigen testing results both positive and negative uh in our system but we're working pretty aggressively to uh develop that uh connectivity that is an ongoing pursuit uh karen you asked non-healthcare i i i can't read my writing here how late are folks working tomorrow night and what was your other question i apologize uh what can you hear me now yeah perfect oh my question was what are you expecting in terms of the kinds of results there will be on tuesday night i think to be determined on on what we can expect tuesday night but the fact that we have 90 percent of the 2016 uh vote total already in the tank and secondly that county began a week ago saturday um i believe we're going to know a fair amount tomorrow night in new jersey uh and your question about how late are they working um i paramel do you happen to know what uh how late folks are working i assume they're working late tomorrow yes governor results will be reported after polls close at 8 pm tomorrow but like you said under the the law that you signed votes can vpn ballots can begin being counted up to 10 days before the election so we anticipate a significant number of those will be reported tomorrow yeah so i think it's a combination of working late and knowing a fair amount at least in new jersey tomorrow night thanks for that michelle who else do we have we will go to kenneth i'm sorry and it's burn okay good afternoon governor how are you i'm good man i see your picture right in front of me awesome i just have one question concerning the mvc as more directed towards the chief i was wondering how many of the changes that you implemented to reopen will they stay permanent after the pandemic good question i was actually going to t sue up for some of this as well i get asked this about election sue all the time is this if this is going so well is this a permanent condition or are you going to reassess and i think there's a very good question from kenneth on on the steps you've taken at nbc right now i appreciate that some of these steps we're going to keep because they just make things move faster and it's easier for customers we're certainly going to try to keep transactions online uh keep that availability um the appointments it will depend uh over time what's more convenient for people sometimes people don't want to have to make an appointment they want to just come in right now and for the foreseeable future uh we're going to continue to move in the direction of appointments but that will we'll have to revisit we said early on that um uh again designating license centers and vehicle centers uh was essential for social distancing we're learning more about that in a lot of places it actually moves transactions a lot faster but we'll we'll take a look at it because there's certainly some locations especially further south where they don't have the kind of high volume where um they're far apart that we would we would revisit so it kind of depends on which innovation it is good answer thank you for the question kes stu thanks for the answer michelle okay we'll go over to colleen o'day hi colleen you there yep sorry didn't see the unmute button thank you for taking my call um i just wanted to ask based on what happened yesterday you had the parkway incident but also i know there was a big rally up in wayne which was very near to a dropbox some people had been concerned i guess that it would be blocked we're not sure that actually happened but but given the you know what we've been seeing are i'm just wondering what you're expecting tomorrow are you expecting any kind of um rallies or any disruptions at the polls and um if so what kind of contingencies do we have for that i i did not hear that in fact that that the dropbox in wayne was blocked unless pat heard otherwise i did not hear that um listen i i i i want to broaden your the the frame of the question colleen it wasn't because of um uh potential intimidation uh it was because of public health but i am sure happy that uh i'm confident that as we open up for business tomorrow uh we're we may not be quite at 3.9 million that was the total vote count from 2016 but we've taken a lot of pressure out of the system uh by the by the hybrid model that we have pursued um and so while we expect obviously that there will be many people who vote tomorrow far more people have already exercised that right um we've got an all hands meeting later on this afternoon just to review our posture for tomorrow um and i i believe we're going to have a safe and successful uh day but we're gonna you know we take nothing for granted and i would just say to folks any amount of intimidation is categorically flat out 100 black and white illegal and that will be enforced strenuously uh so uh let's just hope colleen whether it's in new jersey or anywhere around the country that this is talk and not action i'm i'm very confident of the 21 county clerks and the posture that we have in terms of voting access in all of our counties um and again it's one thing to peacefully demonstrate for your guy or for your cause as long as you're doing it responsibly we got no problem with that but don't make it don't tangle that into other people's business uh who are innocent uh and unrelated uh and that's the frustration i think we had that pat and i have shared with yesterday's incident and that's the same mindset that we'll have around tomorrow thank you for that michelle okay we'll go over to matt arco hello matt good afternoon governor governor um new york announced that they're no longer using the joint travel advisory that was rolled out with uh new jersey and connecticut in june and will instead test people traveling to new york i'm curious if new jersey are we still going to be using this travel advisory i guess with connecticut uh and if you have any plans uh to scrap it and maybe go to a testing model like they've done in new york and also colonel um just to clarify have any citations been issued uh regarding the incident on the garden state parkway and you also mentioned that um detectives would be looking at videos is there an expectation there that citations that they haven't been issued will be issued matt i will um i'll defer to pat on the second one but judy and i may want to address the first one we're going to stay with the current posture that we've got remember by the way i don't know that this was made obvious by new york but i know it for sure because i spoke to governor cuomo and lamont a number of days ago none of what any of our three states are doing addresses uh or impairs i should say the ability of folks to do essential stuff like get to work so travel among our three states if it's essential you're going to work you're going for a health care reason whatever it might be that is not included in any of the advisories that any of our states have put out beyond that my posture our posture is the same we're just asking people if you don't have to travel just flat out don't travel period um judy i know is is uh on regularly with her counterparts in both new york and connecticut and and this is something that we're constantly i know she is constantly kicking the tires uh to tighten up uh whatever measures we have in place judy anything you want to add to that we're now just what you said it's there's so much widespread disease don't travel if you don't need to uh that's that's the safest uh situation not only for yourself but for people you come in contact with uh but we do kick the tires we're looking at the travel advisory um every week and we'll make changes as uh as we need to but right now don't travel don't travel and i judy as you were getting on i said uh q comes before t in the sense that if you have traveled or if you've had a known exposure you got a quarantine and then give it a number of days until the virus is incubated ed didn't correct me so i assume i got this largely right and then get tested uh and and uh and that's the the order pat any comments to matt's question about the incident yesterday on the parkway thanks governor i would just start with uh the trooper's primary objective yesterday when that occurred was to get that traffic moving again and we all again i never want to second-guess troopers and not being out there but to start issuing citations and summonses out there probably would have hindered the trooper's ability to get the parkway flowing north but that being said um the review of videos and if we are able to uh get enough uh evidence and indication of maybe it's those first three cars in the left center and right lane uh but i'll defer to the detectives and the turnpike authority to see if they can identify those folks and if so uh i would imagine that they would be issued uh motor vehicle summons is for obstructing traffic but uh i will let that investigation play out man thanks gov it does give me the opportunity and i can say this because i'm not patent myself on the back but we have the best state troopers of any state in the united states of america that must be said um michelle back to you i'll take your next question from daniel munoz hey daniel hi governor can you hear me i can hi thanks for having this um where else were authorities breaking up these indoor halloween parties i i i know we just mentioned a number of newark instances but i'm wondering where up and down the state this was happening as well um what percentage of positive cases are made up by the 18 to 20 or nine-year-old age group what's the data what's the most recent data showing on that and what percentage of positive cases are coming out of indoor gatherings versus indoor dining also regarding second wave projections i'm curious about when state health officials expect this uh second wave to peak so in terms of hospitalization daily count daily new cases rt anything else and what those high and low estimates are thanks thanks daniel um the ones that i was referring to in my remarks were newark um i'm not suggesting that that doesn't mean there were there weren't others but unless pat corrects me the ones the ones i was referring to and pat spoke to specifically were in newark um judy um i i would just gotta say one more thing on indoor dining which i mentioned last week and then turn it to you judy if you've got any color on the 18 to 29 what percentage are coming from indoor gatherings i think it's going to be very hard to answer that question daniel on the what what percentage from the indoors and i'll leave it to judy and ed to address um what their models are showing in terms of peaks i would say this so we always say that when we open when we were opening things up on a regular basis you heard me and all of us say that we we knew when we took a step we would take on more risk um and we felt the risk was manageable and it was responsible risk um last week i referred to the risk as it relates to indoor dining or indoor activities in a slightly different way but it but it captures uh i think in a in a more tangible way what that risk looks like and that is these are national surveys not specific to new jersey but when you ask people about their habits and then you compare those answers not just to each other but also to absolute questions of have you been exposed yes or no or have you in fact tested positive yes or no on the list of habits that correlates with a higher likelihood of exposure uh or actually testing positive are indoor activities uh and that makes that makes sense so we knew for instance when we went to 25 percent of capacity on indoor dining or 25 of capacity on indoor entertainment or gyms we knew we'd be taking on some amount of responsible risk and that's the way i would think about it it's the it's the gatherings that are not capacity limited that are beyond our control uh or at least beyond our uh realistic control that are the ones that we worry about on top of each other at a halloween party on top of each other at a after football watch party or at a thanksgiving event of some sort um that is where our concern is and that is i believe judy you'll you will you would see this the same way that is where we think the indoor exposure is coming from but any color you have on the 18 to 29 age group and or when you think what your models tell you about second wave peaking i'll talk about the second wave peaking very very preliminary predictive modeling puts it in the first quarter of next year but it's very very preliminary it changes every day as we look at new cases and hospitalizations we so far have tracked slight uptick with reopenings but it's so slight it has not um moved the dial very uh very much in terms of hospitals being overwhelmed so we look at it um every week we try to do some predictions uh but it's um it's really very prelimin ry so i wouldn't i wouldn't go to the bank with it uh we're gonna be vigilant from now to march um ed do you have the uh 19 to 29 or 24 year old percentages i get you a flute ed yeah i keep doing that to myself i can give some general background on that what we began to see over the summer was unusual over the summer we began to see an increase in cases first amongst the high school and college-aged people uh where as traditionally it already has been the older people the working age the 35-55's the most cases were in uh and their cases and the younger group increased over the summer as to their positivity more recently what we've begun to see is this the good news is that age group has leveled off meaning we're not seeing the same types of increases that we were in that age group that we were before and their positivity has actually begun to decrease somewhat the bad news is now the more traditional age groups those older working adults again roughly 35 to 55 year olds they're the ones that are mainly driving the big increases that we're seeing now that they're catching up and passing what those younger age groups have been so now we're beginning to see more of what had been traditionally seen which again i guess the good news is that high school and colleges have largely flattened out whereas the working adults have increased and i'd add one more bit of good news associated with that and then go back to that executive order i signed last week the other piece of good news whether you're a young adult or a working adult uh in both cases you're not a senior uh and we know seniors were crushed uh whether it was because of age frailty comorbidities whatever it might be i spoke to a woman today and she said i said if i'm doing the math your dad was 72 and she said he was and by the way he had some comorbidities but she said it offends her that uh that just because he had comorbidities the the assumption was that check yeah we're going to lose the guy she said he probably had another 10 or 20 years in him uh and the good news is whether it's young people whether it's folks in their prime in their working lives uh in neither case they're seniors and that god willing will lead to a lower again i'm practicing without a license a lower mortality rate the reminder on the executive order is is that is effective thursday morning 6 a.m that's another weapon that we have not had so if you're an employer you've got obligations now effective thursday morning at 6 a.m and that relates to providing masks pro you know six proper uh social distancing breaks so that folks can wash their hands with soap and water uh hyper hygiene standards on surfaces that will be another weapon at our disposal and that that's it's a it's one that i want to make sure we underscore that thank you all um michelle we'll do a couple more if that's okay okay next we'll take steve burns where's steve hey steve how are you governor thanks for uh doing this really appreciate it my pleasure uh looking at a press release that came out from the justice department a few hours ago i'm not sure if you've seen it uh they are sending out uh enforcement us from what they say is the civil rights division uh to 44 jurisdictions in 18 states and among those are middlesex and bergen counties so uh they're they're kind of characterizing this as a routine thing that happens every election but i wanted to see if you had seen that press release if you have any concerns about this doj coming in and monitoring voting practices in your two counties here first of all steve i'm not a good question i've not seen it uh i'll turn things over to paramill and pat in a second it's not normal as far as i could unless somebody tells me this normally happens it's not normal as far as i'm i'm concerned i have no idea how they would have picked those two counties out of 44 jurisdictions in the country i i that mystifies me um and uh listen i i will so i haven't seen it yet and if there's a if there's a strong rationale for it i will stand to be corrected and i will go on the record and correct myself and reverse course uh but this reminds me a little bit of the uh doj uh steps as it relates to our veterans homes um uh you know that was a week before elections this is a day before an election um i i can't help but think that this is some politics to it i hope i'm wrong um and god bless our veterans we followed every step of the way the cdc guidelines um and if we're going to try to keep anybody safe it's going to be our veterans um i'm not aware of this step steve i'll ask paramela or pat if they are if they've got any color governor we haven't seen the press release either but we'll obviously take a close look at it and determine an appropriate response yeah and by the way even on the as we said as it relates to the veterans homes we take we do our side of the of the uh we take all that seriously so if they're looking for information from us we provide it pat have you heard anything on this or not that's the first i heard of it governor steve we got more color we'll come back to you thank you for that michelle let's try to squeeze in one or two more if we can david wildstein david hi governor how are you i'm good how are you doing i'm well thank you i just have one question uh will the total number of provisional paper ballots that are cast on election day be disclosed before election officials go home tomorrow night so that there's no question as to the transparency of the actual number of ballots that will be locked up until they count them on november 11th it's a good question i don't know that i've got the answer caramel do you know the answer then no governor i'm not sure i have the answer either but we'll certainly follow up with the secretary of state and the county boards of elections and circle back make sure we circle back to uh to david on that it's a good question um and uh it'll also tell us by the way pretty quickly if we did have that number you'd have a pretty good handle on the total turnout of the election which again i believe will be a record but um the facts will either support that or not david we'll come back to that thank you for that michelle we'll go to charlie crowderville hi charlie charlie try you muted one more time troll you there am i muted is that is that the problem you're hearing me pat's shaking his head charlie we're going to have to we're going to have to skip it was good seeing you in new brunswick on friday uh michelle who else okay we'll go to shore hi thank god thank you thank you for waiting around uh which is going back to what you're talking about uh regarding the in-house uh gatherings is there any metric that would cause you to scale back the restrictions that are we you've allowed until now that you would see and not just say it's the indoor gatherings and rather some new restrictions would be needed you mean as a general matter for the state yeah in terms of maybe you're looking at hospitalizations et cetera i mean i don't have a number hospitalizations are as i mentioned in my remarks i think i said this earlier six days in a row judy over a thousand i show um judy will also want me to say that at the worst in the spring our peak was 8 300. i believe in the hospital so in as much as we're not happy to be over a thousand it's a far cry from where we were i'd say there's no magic threshold this is an iterative approach it's data based it's uh i i use the word kick in the tires as it relates to new york and connecticut i would say we're constantly health experts the entire administration is constantly you know living with this um and trying to make the best decisions we can it does it does um permit me to say something um on the back of something judy said about 10 minutes ago and she said preliminarily and she put a lot of caveats on it as i know she wanted to and should on the what the modeling says it will look like and when it would peak in first quarter and whatnot we haven't done this in a long time uh and maybe we should again mahan um when we first were in this fight you'll remember every day we were putting up judy the what the model says if we do nothing versus what the model says if we do took the steps we're taking and as a state millions of you out there working with us obviously we crushed the curve and proved the models wrong uh and judy would want me to say this the models are not a theta complete uh they they exist in many cases based on if you do the what you're doing now this is where the trajectory will take you which is why at the end of the day it's so important that we all sort of buck up again and push back against this fatigue it's what we can do collectively as a state that can literally bend the curve that's not theoretical in in the spring we were using ebola we were using uh hiv aids h1n1 other past epidemiological uh experiences to inform our theoretical ability to bend the curve we don't we don't need to do that anymore we know what we we did we did it together and so judy i think that's right that's the that's the challenge before us right the challenge is to do exactly that again to bend this curve and i say again this is not forever and always right so we've spoken as recently as at the end of the week about vaccine plans we had a white house call on friday that was all about vaccine distribution i thought it was a good instructive conversation tony fauci was a part of that deborah burks and others alex azar the secretary of health and human services so it it's not like we're going to have to do this forever and for always we're going to get there folks but it's up to us to bend that curve uh again just like we did the first time i think that's a good place to stop so i want to thank judy and ed on the health side pat on on the law enforcement paramedic mahan thank you for directing the show sue fulton thanks for being with us today keep up the great work neither soon or i don't want anyone to accuse us of thinking that we're in the end zone we're not uh but we're moving the ball one foot in front of the other down the field and again i thank her and her colleagues um again two two quickies i've already given you my impassioned go fight win we bent the curb before we need to do it again we can do it again and with your help folks we will do it again and then secondly unrelatedly unless you hear otherwise we're going to try to get back together at the war memorial thursday at 1 o'clock unless you hear otherwise and needless to say tomorrow's a big day you can exercise your right to vote right now again i would not put it in the mail i would at this point either drop in a secure box or hand it to a poll worker tomorrow or vote in person tomorrow um and i don't care who you vote for literally but i do care we care that you vote and if you are gonna exercise your right not just to vote but to scream with the top of your lungs about who you're for and which guy you want to get elected that's okay but don't entangle innocent people when you do that because if you do we will make note of it and we will we will take enforcement action we're going to have a great election folks it already has been a great one tomorrow will be no exception i want to thank again all the poll workers our county clerks our members of the national guard who will be there to plus up uh processing and counting um it has been so far an extraordinary election season let's finish it out in a great responsible broadly participatory way tomorrow thanks folks you