MetroNews This Morning 1-15-21

West Virginia and the nation will bid farewell to favorite son and aviation legend Chuck Yeager in a ceremony today in Charleston. Covid 19 figures indicate some improvement from what we’ve been seeing in recent days. Vaccination clinics for those over 70 and for education workers over 50 continue with high demand for the Covid vaccine. However, Teachers’ Unions are ready to go to court to halt in-person instruction as mandated by the state BOE. A record year for organ and tissue donation in West Virginia. In Sports, high school athletic directors have a large task ahead to produce winter and spring sports on condensed and overlapping schedules. Those stories and more in today’s MetroNews This Morning podcast.

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