Across the road and the cleanup continues now. Lets take you back to the live camera and show you the situation as it stands now. This is 85 southbound and 40 westbound where it comes together and we have the two left lanes blocked right now. On the other side, 85 northbound and 40 eastbound coming in from the western side of Orange County through hillsborough, we have all lanes open but some heavy residual delays as people trying to work their way through that area. Lets head over to that part of the map an again, well in advance of the 70 interchange there heading into hillsborough. 70 is your best option if youre trying to get from the western side of Orange County out towards durham this morning. You can pick up 85 on the other side of the delays. You will notice that red there, very heavy eastbound delays on highway 70. It might at this point be best for you to stay in the traffic. Now that we have all lanes open we could see the drive times improving considerably over the next wh
The one that shall not be named. The case count is, at best, plateauing at a shockingly high level. And at worst, it is spiking in yet another, new region. This time, the midwest. Here is the governor of iowa, one of the president s staunchest supporters, by the way, doing what the president , apparently, could not. As you may have seen, in the News Headlines in recent days, iowa had the highest rate of increase in covid19 cases, nationally, last week. And the fifth highest Positivity Rate increase in the country. Growth of new cases has accelerated, especially as social activity among young adults and and on college campuses. Now, she wont issue a mask mandate but at least she admits the Positivity Rate around the university of iowa has tripled in the last three weeks, and is now at a staggering 29. 7 . That is what iowa and other states, mainly in the midwest, are now facing. Nationwide, more than a thousand new deaths reported yesterday, and more than 40,000 new cases. And though, b