We want to get straight to vanessa who can confirm the roads are blocked here. Were talking about those trying to learn a little more. Good morning. Vanessa good morning. Bear with me. Ill get in the shot in a second. Im just trying to keep an eye on the sky fox shots. Ill just move to the maps here and let you know what is happening. U. S. 41 is blocked northbound and southbound. This is going to be in the pasco, lake acres area so northern pasco county, really close to county line road. And your alternate is going to be the sun what were hearing from authorities is this is a traffic crash that resulted from earlier Police Activity. We do know that theres going to be a briefing later so well have more information hopefully to bring to you later this morning. We have a crew on the way to the scene and we do know that at least one person has been transported to the hospital with some injuries. We also saw unfortunately looks like an extended crime scene being set up with investigators.
Historic pandemic. It seemed that whatever we did in different parts of the world theres responses that were sometimes favorable in that countries got it under control but as you can see from this slide here my own country the United States as im sure we can discuss a little bit more is in the middle right now even as we speak in a very serious problem. Thursdays case count is second time this week the u. S. Has broken its daily record and the figures from the states experiencing case surges are really just disturbing. Florida, california and texas all reporting their largest daily numbers yet of people dying from covid. Plus the increases in daily case averages are off the charts up more than 1,200 in florida. Early may the state was averaging about 680 cases a day and now it is averaging 9,000 cases a day. In south carolina, the average of daily new cases is up 942 . In arizona and texas, its up more than 800 . And now a cdc forecast which is based on 23 separate projections from var