CHICAGO Hours after Mayor Lori Lightfoot scolded a large, maskless crowd at Montrose Beach on Twitter, city crews erected fencing to try to block off access to the closed beach.

Its called a pandemic, people. This reckless behavior on Montrose Beach is what will cause us to shut down the parks and lakefront. Dont make us take steps backwards, Lightfoot warned in a tweet.

In a follow-up tweet, Lightfoot said she visited Montrose Beach personally.

In case you were wondering, I stopped by to see for myself. Its being addressed, Lightfoot wrote.

By Sunday, approximately 300 yards of fencing was installed between the grassy area that leads to the beach and the sand.

Less than 24 hours after Lightfoots tweet, people continued to gather near Montrose Harbor and the nearby lakefront. Many people walked around the fencing.

Some entered the area by walking past The Dock at Montrose Beach, the newly reopened beachside restaurant. But owner Luke Cholodecki said he does not let customers wait outside his restaurant and none of his patrons were involved in the partying condemned by the mayor.

Amy Osborne of Lakeview who was at the beach with two friends said she didnt see the mayors tweets.

I dont think its really a problem, she said.

Chicago Park District spokesman Michelle Lemons confirmed that park district employees installed fencing Sunday to deter large gatherings.

While the lakefront trail is open, Chicagos beaches and parkland east of Lake Shore Drive remain closed under the Chicago Department of Public Healths executive order, Lemons wrote in an email.

On Sunday evening, Chicago Police and emergency workers blocked cars from entering the driveway that leads to the beach from both Montrose and Wilson Avenues, but were not stopping pedestrians on foot.

Another woman at the beach who declined to give her name said she did see the mayors warning. She shrugged her shoulders in response.

Her boyfriend, who accompanied her, responded with a shrug, too, and a laugh: That says it all.

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Clinton was hit very hard from the storm last night. Clinton County is one of many that Governor Reynolds has declared a disaster area, which means they are eligible for federal aid.

Trees are down all over Clinton, and one was in the middle of a road. Local Four News spoke with one neighbor who had some property damage.

David Martensen just moved into his new house in Clinton a couple weeks ago. Last night was a wild one and its one that he will never forget.

I came home. I came with my mom in a car and we came here to see the damage at my house and I witnessed branches and trees laying on my shed here and its pretty devastating. I was pretty frightened.

As the severe weather was rolling in, Martensen immediately went to his mothers house to pick her up and get her to safety.

I cant really get her down in the basement so I figured it would be safer to get her in a car and find some shelter somewhere. So we found kind of like an overpass to just hide under.

Matensen didnt have any damage to his house, but his shed and fence in his backyard werent so lucky.

I was renting another house up in the north end of town, central part of town and I loaded it up on a trailer and just brought it down here because I thought it would be a nice little extra shed to keep lawnmowers and stuff in and I wasnt really expecting a limb to fall on it and destroy it the way it did.

Considering the extent of the storm, Martensen knows it could have been a lot worse.

I was surprised that was all there was. It was just a shed. Im not complaining at all.

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ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - Minnesota's temporary fence around the state Capitol has cost taxpayers at least $38,000 -- and counting -- and state officials say the barrier will stay up indefinitely.

The decision to keep the fence up is a reversal in tone from last month, when officials said it would come down soon. During Monday's meeting of the Advisory Committee on Capitol Security, state officials said the Capitol has recently become the target of increasing vandalism.

Minnesota's temporary fence around the state Capitol has cost taxpayers at least $38,000 -- and counting -- and state officials say the barrier will stay up indefinitely.

The fence has been in place since May 31. Large protests broke out after the Memorial Day police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, prompting Gov. Tim Walz's administration to order the Minnesota National Guard and a large contingent of state troopers to guard the Capitol around the clock. The National Guard has gone home and most of the troopers have returned to their regular posts, but the fence has remained.

The fence cost $18,707 for installation plus $274 a day in rental fees, according to a copy of the contract with Minneapolis-based Mortenson Construction and Keller Fence in St. Paul. The money is coming out of the Department of Administration's operational budget.

The fence -- and the locking of the Capitol because of the coronavirus pandemic -- has blocked the public from entering the building, even as the Legislature has held two high-profile special sessions this summer. A third special session is scheduled to start Wednesday.

"Its helpful, and thats the bottom line," State Patrol Col. Matt Langer said of the fence. "I would hope it could stay in place for the foreseeable future."

In the past two months, Langer said the State Patrol has "staffed the Capitol complex like we have never staffed it before and is significantly over budget for security. The Capitol is "extremely large" to protect with troopers alone, added Capt. Eric Roeske, the head of the State Patrol's Capitol Security unit.

Administration Commissioner Alice Roberts-Davis said the Capitol complex is increasingly a target. In recent weeks, taggers have put graffiti on concrete, statue pedestals and security bollards. Someone used a chisel to damage the Peace Officers' Memorial, she said.

The Peace Officers' Memorial is being repaired, Roberts-Davis said. She did not say whether anyone was caught or arrested for the incidents, and a follow-up email to the state Department of Public Safety went unanswered.

The most infamous incident on the Capitol grounds in recent weeks happened June 10, when protesters toppled the Christopher Columbus statue. No one has been arrested in that incident. The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension turned over the case to the Ramsey County attorney in July, and prosecutors are "getting close" to a charging decision, Langer said.

The fence has many critics.

State Sen. Scott Dibble said the Walz administration should take it down by January, when the Legislature is scheduled to start its 2021 session.

"Ill just make the point that the fence is ugly and sends a really negative message," said Dibble, DFL-Minneapolis.

Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, who has argued for fence removal in July, said she also wanted an answer by January so the public would know how to engage with lawmakers.

Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea pushed for a timeline on fence removal, and said the court wants to hear cases in its Capitol courtroom in September.

"Its almost middle of August now. So what is the deadline for when were going to have a plan here?" Gildea asked.

Monday, no one provided any timelines. Roberts-Davis made a cost-savings argument, pointing to the recent $310 million restoration of the Capitol and said the state must protect its investment.

What I would hate to see is us take the fence down and go through that expense and then end up in a position where we have to put the fence back up because of something thats happened again," Roberts-Davis said.

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The video clip I received to my cellphone contained 29 seconds of waves breaking on rocks. Were in Tel Aviv, my friend wrote me. How much excitement was compressed into those few words.

She is from Nablus. She, her husband and their two children did what tens of thousands of Palestinians from throughout the West Bank have been doing in recent weeks. They left through a breach in the separation fence and entered Israel.

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This was the first time her 25-year-old son had crossed the Green Line and seen Palestines sea. He didnt want to leave, my friend said. He went crazy over how beautiful the sea is.

As chance had it, they exited through the breach at Farun, east of Taibeh, about half an hour after I left that exact same spot. Like them, I saw the soldiers standing on the road and watching as masses of people crossed on foot from the fence to waiting minibuses or taxis.

I saw entire families, groups of young people, couples, babies in strollers and toddlers trotting along the dirt road after their parents. Some went down the sides of the narrow wadi and climbed up toward the breach. Still others chose the longer but easier, paved route there.

It went on all day and all evening. They came from cities, villages and refugee camps. Some headed to Acre and some to Netanya. Some planned to spend the night in the Galilee or the Triangle region, others would go home at midnight. The excessive price for a taxi ride angered them, but didnt deter them.

And as usual, there were small-scale entrepreneurs there. One was selling masks. Another lugged a canister of cooking gas all day, back and forth, and sold coffee or sage tea. Im afraid the soldiers will shoot me, because theyll think the canister is a weapon, he said. But the lure of some income was stronger than his fear.

These breaches in the fence are no secret, and BTselem the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories has documented cases in which soldiers shot and seriously wounded laborers who entered Israel through them. Yet the army, the lord and master on the ground, hasnt closed them.

Its also well-known that these breaches have multiplied since the coronavirus pandemic began. They are now spread out along the entire length of the fence.

Before dawn, laborers come through them. Israel needs their work, and they need a livelihood. Farmers whose land is locked away on the other side of the separation barrier also come through them. That way, when they go to and return from their fields, they dont have to wait for soldiers to open the gate.

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And over the past two weeks, even before the Eid al-Adha holiday on July 31, they have been joined by a never-ending stream of vacationers people who long for normalcy, freedom of movement, fun and visits to friends. Theyre hungering to travel around their homeland, said Ehab Al-Jariri, editor and host of one of Palestinian radios most interesting talk shows.

I decided to wait with the story and pictures of this exodus. I was afraid that any attention to it from the Israeli media would hasten the closure of the breaches. An opportunity for another few thousand Palestinians to exercise their right to travel around their homeland is much more important than any journalistic report.

For the same reason, photographer Oren Ziv of +972 Magazine, whom I met during one of my visits to Farun, decided to temporarily shelve his photographs. But now that the story has already been told on Israeli television, we have been freed from this decision.

When so many breaches have remained open for around half a year, its clear that this is a decision from above. Israeli security officials have made some sort of cost-benefit calculation, once again proving the extent to which Israeli control over the Palestinians is present, invasive and capricious.

In the morning, soldiers actually do lie in wait near the breaches in some parts of the West Bank and fire tear gas canisters at people as they pass by. Why? Its not clear. Palestinians have been busy speculating about why the breaches havent been closed and why soldiers sometimes fire tear gas at them and sometimes dont. Indeed, by Tuesday morning reports from along the fence were telling about soldiers shooting tear gas and closing some breaches.

The fear or the dangers the vacationers may face are dwarfed in comparison to the possibility of freeing themselves of the usual suffocation and stress, if only for a day. Even if afterward, the feeling of being imprisoned in West Bank enclaves merely grows stronger.

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A Visalia man is accused of being under the influence crashed through a fence and fled the scene, police said.(Photo: File photo)

A Visalia man who crashedthrough a fence and fled the scene may have been driving under the influence, police said.

Around 4 p.m. Monday, officers were called to Whitendale Avenueand Chinowth Street after someone reported a car had nearly slammed into a home.

The driver fled the scene before officers arrived. Police say the fence was damaged, but no one was hurt in the yard or home.

Officers searched the area and eventually found Jeremy Kyle, 38, on the Linwood Elementary Schoolbaseball field. It's unclear what he was doing on school grounds.

"School was not in session and there were no students present during the incident," Sgt. Mona Whaley stated in a press release.

Kyle was evaluated by officers who determined he wasunder the influence. He suffered minor injuries and was treated at Kaweah Delta Medical Center.

He was later released from the hospital and booked into Tulare County Pretrial Facility on suspicion of DUI and hit-and-run.

Because no injuries were reported, Kyle will likely avoid felony DUI charges but could face a stiffer penalty for the hit-and-run, if convicted. He will be required to pay restitution fees to repair the fence, if the charges stick.

If anyone has information regarding this incident, they are urged to call the Visalia Police Department at 734-8116.

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Omaha police were called to Millard Family Hospital around 1 a.m. Monday.Upon arrival, they spoke with the 18-year-old victim who said she was injured when she and some friends were attempting to sneak into a closed pool at the Autumn Grove Apartments on South 156th Court. The teen said she slipped while climbing the fence and impaled her left arm on the spiked top.She was taken to the hospital by her friends.Police believe alcohol was involved. It is not clear if the victim will face any charges.

Omaha police were called to Millard Family Hospital around 1 a.m. Monday.

Upon arrival, they spoke with the 18-year-old victim who said she was injured when she and some friends were attempting to sneak into a closed pool at the Autumn Grove Apartments on South 156th Court.

The teen said she slipped while climbing the fence and impaled her left arm on the spiked top.

She was taken to the hospital by her friends.

Police believe alcohol was involved. It is not clear if the victim will face any charges.

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True to his educator roots, longtime teacher and head football coach Joseph Headen turns to the dictionary to explain how he feels about the possibility of returning to in-classroom instruction this fall amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Ambiguous is how I feel about our return to school, said Headen, a history teacher at Susquehanna Township High School. According to Websters, ambiguous is an adjective. Meaning open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations; equivocal: an ambiguous answer. of doubtful or uncertain nature; difficult to comprehend, distinguish, or classify: On the fence.

Like tens of thousands of teachers across Pennsylvania, Headen is torn about the idea of returning to the classroom amid a pandemic that continues to exact a toll across the nation and Pennsylvania, where it has claimed more than 7,000 lives.

Even as Gov. Tom Wolf recently ordered restaurants to reduce their occupancy to 25 percent of their capacity, the states 500-plus school districts have been instructed to adhere to federal pandemic guidelines and prepare to roll out reopening plans.

Thats not a mandate, but guidance, and withcoronavirus cases on the rise in certain parts of Pennsylvaniaand other states, educators say they are mostly ambivalent about whether guidelines and mitigation efforts can provide them a risk-free work environment.

The teacher in me is anxious to return to school, to be around the students, to continue to do what we as teachers love to do, in our traditional fashion, Headen said. However, we may never use that traditional fashion again. The ultimate goal is everyones safety. So the fact that districts like ours and those across the country are giving parents options is a positive. Districts and teachers can try their best to keep the students as safe as possible.

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Cesa Pusateri, 12, and her grandfather, Timothy Waxenfelter, principal of Quigley Catholic High School, leave with his collection of speech and debate books after the recent closure of the school in Baden, Pa., Monday, June 8, 2020.

Across Pennsylvania, school districts are scrambling to decide whether to open their doors to students and teachers in a few weeks. A growing roster of them have opted for hybrid models, where students will attend schools on certain days and work remotely on others.

Guidance from education and health officials direct schools to ensure students remain at least six feet apart all day long, and includes other provisions such as in-classroom lunch periods and health screenings every morning.

With fluid guidelines in place, educators say they want to return to school but, like legions of weary parents, they remain concerned that a return to brick-and-mortar schools poses significant and unavoidable health risks. A survey in June by theAmerican Federation of Teachersshowed 76 percent of teachers felt the same.

At the college level, professors have not been shy about expressing their concerns about face-to-face instruction during the pandemic.A majority of professors in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Educationsaid in a survey they dont believe in-person instruction is safe and would prefer to go with online courses in the fall.

The unease voiced by teachers was one reason both Philadelphia and Pittsburgh public schools have decided to begin the new school year with remote learning.Most but not all central Pennsylvania schools are beginning the yearwith in-classroom instruction or a hybrid of online and in-person learning.

I think everyone is wanting to do what is best in the interest of everyone. Teachers, students, parents who have to work, said Michele Rolko, a teacher at Downey Elementary in the Harrisburg School District and president of the Harrisburg Education Association.

We think face-to-face instruction is key to student learning. Some people want to go back. Others would rather stay remote. Theres the thought of can we do both? Right now we are following what the CDC is looking at. We are trying to get as much guidance as possible to reopen schools.

Rolko said there really is no ideal scenario.

You have to go day by day, she said. Things are changing frequently. Theres still a lot of questions but our No. 1 priority is safety of all staff, administrators and students. That is a priority, to make sure everybody is safe, however that is going to happen.

Central to the discussion among educators is the idea that schools inherently present close quarters and close-contact environments, making in-classroom instruction and even navigating hallways a challenge for social distancing.

We only have one chance to get school reopening right. There is no margin for error. And make no mistake about it, this virus is deadly. It kills people, said Arthur Steinberg, president of the American Federation of Teachers in Pennsylvania. However, before we can even consider reopening schools, there are dangers to mitigate and public health benchmarks to hit in order to protect the educators and workers who occupy these buildings every single day.

Leanna Goodrich, a German teacher at Pennridge High School, just outside of Allentown, told state lawmakers at a hearing Monday she is concerned that some school districts are taking the virus more seriously than others within their reopening plans.

As both a parent and a teacher I want decisions to be made based on science, facts and what is safe. If this is not being done in all parts of Pennsylvania, then perhaps the decision-making should be made by a higher authority, who will consider the safety of our community paramount, she said. Not the decision being made by someone who is making decisions based on either convenience or making parents or children temporarily happy.

Jake Miller, a teacher in the Cumberland Valley school district, said some teachers are opposed to going back due to the pandemic. But in a discussion on Facebook with PennLive, Miller said some teachers want to return to the classroom.

There are other teachers who do want to go back because we know in person at its core is whats best, if we can do it safely, Miller said.

Rolko notes that teachers know first-hand that coming down with a cold or flu is part of the fall back-to-school experience.

When flu season hits it doesnt just hit kids, it hits adults too, she said.

Rolko said she is fond of doing a glitter test with her students whereby she uses glitter on the hand to demonstrate a health lesson.

Germs spread, she said. It shows them that by not washing their hands and simply touching, how quickly germs can spread.

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Rows of school buses are parked at their terminal, Friday, July 10, 2020, in Zelienople, Pa.

One of the states largest teacher organizations, the Pennsylvania State Education Association, which represents some 180,000 educators, is encouraging its local leaders to work with school districts to ensure robust mitigation efforts are part of reopening plans.

We are making that one of our highest, if not highest, priority in the organization, said David Broderic, a spokesman for the PSEA.

The organizations president, Rich Askey, is urging the Wolf administration to outline plans for online instruction in the event coronavirus cases surge across the state forcing schools, once again, to shut down.

We are not saying that districts should go all online, Broderic said. We are saying we should be prepared for it, in case the situation requires it.

The organization has heard from teachers all across the state, most expressing concerns about their safety.

Individual district plans play a critical role in fostering comfort levels among teachers, he said. Still, anecdotally, PSEA has heard from teachers who are concerned about returning to the crowded spaces that are classrooms.

There are teachers who have understandable anxiety about returning to school, Broderic said. Its understandable anxiety given the situation we are in. People in different areas of the state have different views of it. This is true, not just with school reopening, but business reopenings.

Rolko said that, at least on a personal level, she regards remote learning as the best option for everyone involved in the education process.

We havent even gotten through this first phase yet, she said. Maybe then if we go that route, we can get a better handle on things, especially in the city where cases seem to hit harder I think going remotely would make everyone feel comfortable at this point. We can see what happens as we go into the school year then other decisions can be made.

Headen said one of his biggest concerns is the fear of the unknown, particularly having his district plan for one thing only to have another situation at hand.

The important thing will be to all work together to do what is best to educate the kids and be able to accommodate every learner, Headen said. Be it in a traditional setting if parents feel comfortable, remote learning, or by cyber academy. As a teacher, I know that I can do my best to keep my teaching area and class as sanitized as possible and make the parents and students feel they can learn in a clean environment. It may require me to do more and change the way I teach, but being able to adjust what I do on a day-to-day basis and feel confident that I can teach our students amid the many distractions and adjustments is my biggest concern.

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The phone on the wall would ring and she would pull a kitchen chair out to the middle of the linoleum floor and set her clippers and scissors out on her old kitchen table, the one she just cleared of supper.

Or maybe, if it was a summer evening, she would pull that chair out on the deck or the stoop and wait for the pickup to kick up dust on the road to unload a scruffy-looking man who was just on the other end of the telephone line.

I wasnt there for all those haircuts, of course, but I was there when I was 7 or 8 or 9 and she was still alive and laughing, and I remember.

I remember the way she draped and fastened an old peach bath towel around the wide shoulders and snapshirt of our neighbor, Dean. His hair was thick and sprinkled with salt and pepper, and maybe, this was the only time I saw him with his hat off. And so I noticed that his forehead was white and smooth, just like his teeth, pushing up his tan and weathered cheeks in a story with a punchline and his big, deep laugh.

Summer days spent on the back of a horse or in the hayfield turn a man like that into a sort of windswept patchwork quilt. I noticed that then, at 7 or 8 or 9, and then I noticed that man, without his hat, half a head of hair on the kitchen floor, defenseless under my grandmothers clipper and peach towel, the way Id never seen a man out here before.

But a man needs a haircut, even when theres calves to check or fences to fix. And maybe they didnt want to make the long trip to town, maybe they didnt have time, or the money, or they had a wedding the next day and time got away from them, and so they called my grandma down the road. She did a fine job. They had coffee or sun tea and a good visit.

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I gave my first haircut at the ranch the summer we first moved back. I took the dog clipper to my husbands mane in that very same kitchen where my grandma set up shop. I clipped a towel around his shoulders and watched his hair fall to the same linoleum floor, freeing his neck up of the curls that formed in the sweat of the August heat.

I did a terrible job, but my husband stood up, put his hat back on and thanked me as he headed out the door to fix a broken tractor.

This spring, my dad came in from checking the cows and was desperate to tame the scruff of his wild white hair. It had been years, but I dug out those dog clippers again and shaved it all off in the kitchen, just as my little sister walked in to gasp loud enough to cause concern. "Its just hair," he said, and he was glad it was gone, grateful for his hat to fit right again as he headed back out to fix a fence.

The next day, I sat my husband down on the deck, poured myself a drink and spent the next hour trimming, shaving, clipping and obsessing over the shape of his hair with his beard trimmer and my daughters safety scissors. The white of his forehead and salt and pepper in his hair reminded me of Dean, and I decided that if I was going to provide this service, I might as well learn how to be good at it. Because not only did it make the men in my life feel a bit lighter, it made me feel glad for another way to take care of them.

So I ordered myself some professional scissors and my sisters sending her husband over here next week. If you need me, I guess its official: I give the neighborhood men haircuts.

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UPDATE (4:18 p.m.): The Big 12 is on the fence about the 2020 season.

UPDATE (4:02 p.m.): The Pac-12 is canceling its 2020 football season.

UPDATE (3:38 p.m.): The Pac-12 may be ready to follow the Big Tens lead.

UPDATE (2:49 p.m.): The Big Ten decided to postpone the 2020 college football season.

UPDATE (2:46 p.m.): SIs Pat Forde reports the Big Ten may cancel college football in 2020, with the hopes of playing in spring of 2021.

Another one bites the dust.

UMass on Tuesday became the third school to say it will not play college football in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Last week, UConn, which like UMass plays football as an independent, became the first bowl-eligible school to cancel its season. The Athletic reported Monday Old Dominion was joining the list. The Monarchs play in Conference USA, which announced last week it plans to play all conference games as scheduled, according to CBS Sports.

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The Mid-American Conference, which shares a large geographic footprint with the Big Ten and some of whose member schools are considered academic and athletic peers, became the first Football Bowl Subdivision conference to postpone its season, making the decision official on Saturday. ESPN reported Monday the Mountain West Conference also was postponing its season.

Heres where things stand with the Power Five conferences.

Big Ten: Widely rumored to be ready to cancel or postpone the season. Conference presidents are meeting Tuesday morning. The Big Ten previously announced it will play a 10-game, conference-only schedule in 2020.

Pac-12: Also expected to cancel the season. The Pac-12 CEO group, which is made up of a president or chancellor from each of the 12 universities, will have a meeting Tuesday. The Pac-12 previously announced it will play a 10-game, conference only schedule in 2020.

SEC: Commissioner Greg Sankey said Tuesday that our medical advisory group has said, Yes, we can continue to go forward. Should that advice change, that would certainly be a stopping point. The SEC previously announced it will play a 10-game, conference only schedule in 2020.

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Big 12: ESPN reports the conference is on the fence regarding the 2020 season, and that league officials will meet on Tuesday, starting with the athletic directors, followed by the conferences board of directors. The Big 12 previously announced it will play a 10-game schedule in 2020, with nine conference games and one non-conference game.

ACC: ESPN reports the conferences presidents and chancellors are expected to meet Wednesday to discuss options. The ACC previously announced it will play an 11-game schedule, with 10 conference games and one non-conference game. It also announced Notre Dame will participate as a conference member in 2020.

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