People in the hospital, and, sadly, 152 deaths. We know that this disease includes an extra amount of sorrow, since loved ones cannot the at the bedside, and we continue to hold all of those suffering from this virus in our thoughts. Earlier this week, i laid out our path forward to a new normal , dependent upon testing, and i want to share some key updates about our work on that front. On testing first. North carolina has made great strides, but we have more work to do. We have conducted at least 73,000 tests, which is a long way from where we were a month ago. In fact, testing and our state has increased by 88 over the last two weeks, but we need testing to be more widespread, and we need to use it to give us a better indication of where we are in this fight. Today, we announced a partnership with three of our states medical universities, to use testing and tracing to help us determine how far the disease has spread in North Carolina. This research is part of a coordinated statewide
Meteorologist mike maze is tracking the system. You are also looking at the forecast for tomorrow morning. We could be looking at snow showers as this system to part in the morning. We will talk about that momentarily. Lets start with the radar, the rain we have been seeing is primarily around the triangle east along the i95 down for the coast. It has been light to moderate at times, for the west for durham and chapel hill, very little and nothing really going on in tran roxboro. Temperatures happen gradually fun. It was quite mild as we started the day but temperatures into the afternoon have fallen. That was the expectation. Tony brown rainfall totals, quite a bit of rain, especially eastern counties. 2. 3 inches rocky mount, over 2 inches goldsborough, clinton, and farther northwest, about 1. 5 inches roxboro. We have a bigger upperlevel storm coming through, what that will do is give rise to precipitation and cold air coming in as well. We anticipate numbers going down. Heres the f
And the s p broke through was the other big event, topping 107 per barrell in a sign of potential upcoming demand as the economy strengths. Will it be a july jobs jubilee today . The market expects 175,000 jobs were added to payrolls last month, and the Unemployment Rate could tick down to 7. 5 . In earnings afterhours, linkedin, aig, and kraft all rallied after posting better thanexpected results even though revenues were shy. And billionaire investor carl ichan reportedly is suing dell to stop michael dells effort to take over the company. Scott shellady of trean group joins us on this friday morning, and of course the jobs number is due out today. Scott, what do you think were in for . Well, if youre a taper tiger, you better hope for a big one, because that will supposedly put some pressure on the fed to start tapering in that septemberoctober time frame that most people have been talking about. I think the fed has said over and over theyre datadependant, so i think youre going to
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