Detroit All Local from WWJ Newsradio

Live on WWJ, Governor Gretchen Whitmer says her Stay Home order will have to be extended.  Models show the peak of the coronavirus is 3-5 weeks away.  Listen to the interview with WWJ's Tom Jordan and Roberta Jasina.

Listen as Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer provides the latest on the state's efforts to battle the coronavirus.  Listen to the full news conference here.

Federal money coming to the city of Detroit and other Michigan cities.  WWJ's Jason Scott and Jackie Paige talked with U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao about that and how the coronavirus is affecting travel.

Work to transform the TCF Center into a 1,000 bed field hospital is underway.  Crews are putting up the structure for bed spaces that will be on both the upper and lower levels.  WWJ's Jason Scott and Jackie Paige talked with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Planning Office Chief Nick Zager.

WWJ autobeat reporter Jeff Gilbert talks with Ford CEO and president Jim Hackett about the impact of coronavirus on the company and industry.  Listen to what Hackett says about reopening plants.

The number of cases of COVID-19 and deaths continue to soar in the state. What is it like working on the frontlines? WWJ health reporter Dr. Deanna Lites talked with a local doctor from McLaren Macomb hospital.

The number of positive coronavirus cases in Michigan has crossed the five-thousand mark. In all, there are  5-thousand-486 cases. State health officials say 132 have died.  Detroit continues to be hard-hit with 23 deaths.

A state of EMERGENCY declared, nearly 55-hundred cases, hospitals almost at capacity across the state -- Michigan has had a tumultuous weekend and things could escalate. 

Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist spoke with Tom and Roberta about the latest on the state's response to the pandemic

Some local health systems and their doctors are working together in hopes of getting large scale drug trials for COVID-19 in southeast Michigan. WWJ's Brooke Allen talked with one of the doctors involved, Dr. Brian O’Neil, Specialist In Chief of Emergency Medicine at the Detroit Medical Center.

WWJ's Roberta Jasina and Greg Bowman talked with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer about comments by President Trump, if schools will be in session this year and Michigan's income tax deadline.