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It would start with the casinos at midnight, giving Nevada just under six hours to put the brakes on a gambling industry with over 5,400 table games and 163,000 slot machines.Ĭalifornia California asks Navy for coronavirus support

Steve Sisolak announced he was ordering a statewide shutdown of businesses deemed non-essential - gaming, bars, restaurants, movie theaters, nail salons. Full of dreamers and those seeking fortunes big and small, it is a city of ambition and optimism, a blaze of neon in the desert, where, with a bit of luck and fine-tuned work ethic, you can make enough money to buy a house and live more comfortably than in most places.īut the painful flip side to that gilded coin was revealed Tuesday evening when Gov. There is perhaps no city that more accurately reflects the promise of the American spirit than Las Vegas. Without the beeps of the machines, whirs of the roulette tables and chatters from patrons, the music blaring from the speakers hovering above echoed louder. “Only when they open up.”īy morning, talk of the coronavirus was incessant but the familiar sting of cigarette smoke no longer enveloped casino floors. “I’ve never seen how a casino shuts down in my 35 years working on the strip,” said one Treasure Island employee while pouring out bottles of juice.

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