Youre coming off i85. Looking at independence expressway, volume of traffic here in center city beginning to heat up just a bit. Lets look at the drive times, coming up from rock hill, 21 minutes, 64 miles an hour. Concord to center city, 17 minute commute, speeds there in the upper 60s and lake norman southbound at 15 minutes and 65 miles an hour. Looking at the overall charlotte commute, most of our major interstates continuing to run in the green and including 485, 77 and 85. Were seeing slow downs now outbound providence road over toward wt harris, albermarle and heavier now around the arboretum area. That is a check of traffic, john, back to you. John this morning a state of emergency declared in North Carolina as areas recover from this weeks severe weather. Governor pat mccrory says the primary problem right now is the number of Power Outages across the state. Now at the peak of the storm, more than 122,000 customers lost power. Mainly in mecklenburg, gaston and forsyth counties
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