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The business shutdown is putting a strain on tourism-dependent Florida. The closure of bars and reduction in restaurant capacity is causing a pinch on paychecks and leading to growing calls to temporarily stop evictions. Lynn Hatter has more. Loan programs are opening up as Covid-19 is beginning to impact small businesses in Florida. Robbie Gaffney reports the strict measures taken to prevent community spread of the coronavirus are hitting some businesses hard. Students across the state of Florida will be learning from home for at last the next month or so. Classes at all Florida colleges and universities will now be moving online for the rest of the spring semester. And as Regan McCarthy reports K-12 students will be staying home until at least April 15. In Bay County, local officials, who originally had welcomed Spring Break with open arms, were meeting today (Friday) to see if perhaps a different course of action might now be warranted. Our Panama City reporter Valerie Crowder tells |