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MetroNews This Morning 8-16-21

Census numbers show a massive population loss in West Virginia in the past decade and that will be reflected as redistricting is getting started. More students head back to school in West Virginia with various protocols for Covid from county to county. Meanwhile Covid case numbers continue to climb in West Virginia. A teenager is dead in Kanawha County after a Sunday shooting and the State Fair of West Virginia continues with all the sites, sounds, and smells of fair week. In Sports, the Mountaineers have their first scrimmage of the pre-season and Deuce McBride makes a splash in his NBA debut over. Those stories and more in today’s MetroNews This Morning podcast.

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