WV and National Disaster News - June 15, 2021

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West Virginia

Government News

WV Daily COVID Update and Stats for June 15, 2021 (WV DHHR) - DHHR has confirmed the deaths of an 88-year old male from Berkeley County, a 49-year old female from Raleigh County, and a 61-year old male from Logan County. “While the numbers of deaths have dropped dramatically, we are still losing loved ones,” said Bill J. Crouch, DHHR Cabinet Secretary. “Please take every precaution to stop the spread of this disease, including scheduling a COVID-19 vaccination for yourself and all eligible family members."

Local News

• WV DHHR confirms 205 new COVID-19 cases, 4 additional deaths on Monday (WBOY-TV)
• New COVID-19 death confirmed in Kanawha; county death total at 317 (WCHS-TV)
• Morgantown begins cleaning up and moving forward after “100-year” storm (WBOY-TV)
• Severe flooding causes structural damages to Marion County home (WBOY-TV)
• Volunteers and staff at Braxton County school cleaning up after weekend flooding (MetroNews-Radio)
• Cleanup is ongoing from weekend flooding at Burnsville library (MetroNews-Radio)
• Flooding effects of Mountain Valley Pipeline under scrutiny after weekend damage in central WV (The Charleston Gazette-Mail)
• Gilmer County sees flood damage from afternoon and evenings storms (WBOY-TV)
• Calhoun County cleans up after wet weekend (MetroNews-Radio)
• Mountwood Park cleaning up from weekend storms (WTAP-TV)
• Wood County Courthouse communications knocked out by Friday storm (WTAP-TV)
• Lincoln County's only daycare plans to reopen after flood (WCHS-TV)
• Local health departments, DHHR honored by West Virginia Association of Counties for pandemic work (MetroNews-Radio)
• Kanawha students welcome COVID-19 vaccines with eye toward 'normal' 2021-22 school year (The Charleston Gazette-Mail)

National

COVID

• The first state to shut down due to Covid-19 reopens today (CNN)
• Gottlieb says Delta virus variant likely to become dominant U.S. strain (CBS News)
• Companies push employees to prove they are vaccinated for COVID-19 (Fox Business)

WEATHER

• US Gulf Coast put on alert for potential tropical threat (AccuWeather)
• Tropical Storm Bill becomes 2nd named storm of 2021 Atlantic hurricane season (AccuWeather)
• 'Rare, dangerous and deadly' heat wave tightens grip on western US (AccuWeather)
• Texas’ ERCOT Seeing ‘Very Concerning’ Power Plant Outages Amid Heat Wave (Forbes)
• Grid operator asks Texans to conserve power amid outages in searing heat (Axios)
• Drought-Driven Western Wildfires Keep Residents Out of their Homes (The Weather Channel)
• Also see AZ Central (AZ) and KTAR-TV (AZ)

OTHER

• FCC Tries To Remake Decades-Old Emergency Alert System (Inside Radio)