peri pourier is a representative for the great state of south dakota. she represents the pine ridge reservation which you're starting to see behind me. >>> as bad as the situation in south dakota is, the situation in north dakota is worse. one analysis showed that north dakota had the highest covid-19 mortality rate on earth. consider this. for the week ending november 19th, last week, south dakota reported on average almost 1500 daily new covid-19 cases per million residents while, north dakota, averaged a shocking 1,769 daily cases per 1 million residents. those are huge percentages compared to new york's worst week back in april, when the state was the world's epicenter, new york never averaged higher than 500 daily cases per 1 million people. unlike south dakota's governor, kristi noem -- i seem to have lost audio, so i won't be able to hear them. i may have to ask for a quick commercial break. north dakota's republican governor recently relented and issued a statewide mask mandate. due to the -- i've got my audio back. that's good news. due to the