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The Arizona Department of Transportation has one freeway that crews are focusing on this weekend for construction. It's the Loop 101 WB and EB in the northeast part of the Valley. On their website, ADOT reported the following closures and restrictions:

Youll want to watch out for these freeway closures to avoid major weekend slowdowns. In Galveston County, I-45 Gulf Freeway northound will be shut down from FM-2004 to Holland Road overnight Friday. I-45 south will be closed from FM-517 to FM-2004 overnight on Saturday. To avoid slow downs, you can detour to Highway 3 or the feeder road. There will be a nightly closure on US-59, the Southwest Freeway southbound from Chimney Rock to Beechnut through Sunday morning. Drivers can take the feeder ro...

As the storm was coming in. they would expect about 250,000 people to be here this weekend, this holiday weekend. thats on top of the 57,000 or so permanent residents here. it seemed like there were a few people on the beach but only a handful here and definitely not fourth of july weekend traffic we went to a very popular restaurant up the road here in nags head. we were some of the only customer, so right now it is dark. were waiting to see what the damage was to buildings and to cars and low-...

How quickly they were able to sign up and enroll, but the department of human services put out this statement. the statement said, quote, the site is performing well today with low overall error rates and response times. despite heavier than usual weekend traffic. we are making additional hardware upgrades and software fixes tonight as part of a planned set of improvements to improve speed and reduce errors. the presidents obama care team has been working for weeks on this website. it was down f...

Than usual weekend traffic. >> signing on right away you saw a distinct change? >> absolutely. just going to the site. you can tell it looks much smoother. it looks more like what you see high capacity websites look like. >> the administration said the website should be able to handle 50,000 users at the same time. double what it could. overall 800,000 users per day. >> this website is going to get fixed and we are going to be signing people up. >> reporter: front page headlines drew sharper con...

Me now. is the white house confident that this is going to work? are they like all of us and have their fingers crossed? >> i think everyone has their fingers crossed, but the latest from the administration is that healthcare.gov is actually performing well on deadline day with what officials are saying is heavier-than-usual weekend traffic. now, we do know the site was shut down overnight for fixes and updates, were told there will be more of that tonight but that theyre, quote, on track. and t...

Weekend traffic. it wasnt enough for sarah palin to find the spot un-flipping-believable. conservative host rush limbaugh, glenn beck and several on fox news devoted considerable air time to this 30-second ad run by and for another cable news network. >> do your children belong to you or do they belong to the government? now according to nbc news cable operation its not you. >> according to msnbc your kids belong to the community. >> msnbc melissa harris-perry say kids dont actually belong to yo...

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Despite heavier than normal weekend traffic. were making additional hardware upgrades and software fixes tonight as part of a planned set of improvements to improve speed and reduce errors. the presidents team has been working for weeks on this web site. it was down for 11 hours last night for maintenance. by today, 50,000 people should be able to use the web site at the same time and the web site should be able to handle 800,000 consumer visits a day. republicans say theyre skeptical and waitin...