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mattress makers. >> Breaking right now sources
telling channel to the Houston
Livestock show and Rodeo will
be shut down for the rest of
the season. Due to concerns
over coronavirus.
over coronavirus. >> That’s right there are
meetings taking place right now
at energy and City Hall in a
news conference is scheduled to
start at noon
channel two’s Mario Diaz joins
us now live from energy with
these breaking Mario, what can
you tell us.
>> Well right now that a that
is speak with one City Council
member who has informed me that
the administration is playing
this noon news conference to
announce that they’re always
going to be some form
of closure of the really I
asked him to take place here
today’s will take place
immediately years ago in
a sale I says I don’t have any
details what’s intriguing also
in talking with members at City
Hall they’re not releasing
anything right now
we’ve been talking to Here at
the rodeo asking for specific
with regard to this potential
closure again it’s scheduled to
be announced from what we’re
hearing from various sources at
noon today.
noon today. They are not We reached out
again multiple times to try to
get responses to this I can
tell you that here at the
rodeo, you see plenty of
activity and let’s keep in mind
this rodeo is going to last
until March 22th, which means
about
about 2 more weeks. Your time this is
a huge huge event for the city
of Houston from both an
entertainment perspective for
those who are visiting as well
as
as from a commerce perspective
because you have a lot of
people who rely on the business
of the rodeo I did reach out to
the mayor’s office with regards
to the news conference because
initially they announced it was
a joint news conference but
didn’t give any details
as to who was going to be
taking part in this news
conference the then revised
that press release that a few
minutes ago
minutes ago indicating that Sylvester
Turner the mayor of course
we’ll be joined by the county
judge Lina Hidalgo as well as
doctor David Pierce e
with regards to this news
conference at 12 o’clock also
other
other community leaders are going to
be at this pivotal news
conference and at the top of
the hour. But again here at the
rodeo. The very latest is that
there’s no one that’s
officially confirming this as
of
of right now separately it’s
business as usual you see
families here you see kids here
you see workers here you see
people who rely on this rodeo
here. Again this news
conference at 12 o’clock from
all indications that we’ve been
receiving here
receiving here this morning is at the rodeo
will scale back or will be
shutting We don’t know the
timetable on that, but of
course is all in relation
to the coronavirus situation
not only here in Houston but
nationwide that’s very late and