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Something is better than nothing’ is quickly becoming the line from Milwaukee leaders about the Democratic National Convention. Visit Milwaukee CEO Peggy Williams-Smith yesterday said she wants to have as much of an in-person convention as she can. Williams-Smith says Milwaukee needs businesses now, and even a smaller DNC would provide a jumpstart for downtown bars, restaurants and hotels. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett says he expects at least a partial in-person convention in the city in August.

We now have more information about a weekend shooting in Eauy Claire. It was on May 24th just before 11 at night when the Eau Claire Police Department received information indicating a person had been shot. During the initial 911 call, no location was provided. A short time later, police were called to a local hospital for a gunshot victim. Officers were able to determine that the victim had been shot at a residence in the 3300 block of Reno

Here in our area, Eau Claire has added 8 confirmed cases of coronavirus, bringing the count locally in Eau Claire county to 103 positive cases. Overall in Wisconsin, the positive coronavirus testing rate is down to nearly four-percent. T he health department says the state completed nearly 52-thousand tests last week, the most of any one-week period. Nearly 60-percent of infected people are recovered. Meanwhile, health officials in Fond du Lac County believe recent coronavirus cases are connected to gatherings

The Federal Trade Commission is warning people across Wisconsin about a coronavirus scam.  Identity thieves have been texting people pretending to be contact tracers for health departments tracking the coronavirus.  A text message claims the victim has been in contact with somebody who tested positive for COVID-19 and advises the victim to access more information using a link that is provided.  Officials say it’s a scam and clicking that link downloads software which can then access personal information.

The Oneida Nation is reopening it’s casinos with new health protocols.  Customers at Main-Airport Casino in Ashwaubenon will have to wear face masks and practice social distancing.  Smoking will not be allowed inside and there will be temperature checks.  Initially only slot play will be available at all Oneida Nation casinos.

Advocates for the homeless say the coronavirus could make things much worse for people living on the streets. The Wisconsin Coalition Against Homelessness has a new plan to spend 70 million-dollars to help find jobs and homes for the homeless. The group’s Joseph Volk says with unemployment pushing 15-percent in Wisconsin, there could be a surge of homelessness in the state. He hopes lawmakers act now, before it’s too late.

Wisconsin’s coronavirus numbers dipped over the Memorial Day weekend. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday reported 307 new cases of the virus. DHS also reported that over seven thousand people tested negative. Wisconsin’s positive-test-rate is now sitting at just over four percent.

We should get some answers today about a weekend shooting incident in Eau Claire that ended with a man in jail. Police are promising a news conference later this morning about the shooting late Sunday night at a home in the 33 hundred block of Reno Drive. There are no reports of any injuries.

The coronavirus has punched a nearly two billion-dollar hole in Wisconsin’s tourism industry. Tourism Secretary Sara Meaney was on UPFRONT on Milwaukee TV on Sunday. She said the state has lost one-point-seven billion-dollars in tourism money because of the virus. She says those losses will continue. Meaney says Wisconsin is not advertising for visitors to come to the state this summer. She hopes that by fall and winter, things will start to rebound.