49 Lab Confirmed cases. 1760 new cases reported today and a new high, 760 people in the hospital and sadly, 1092 deaths. Dying from covid19 or morning a loved one who right now can be isolating in difficultin and we are praying for all those who are suffering now. Today, our concern is growing about the increase in cases and hospitalizations in North Carolina. This is also happening in many states across the country. While our hospitals still have capacity wean know this can chae quickly so we are working with hospitals and tracking hospitalizations and icq beds closely. Today is North Carolina highest day of new cases since the pandemic started and it is also the highest day of testing that weve had with over 21000 test reported. But the high number of new caseh is not just related to more testing. These numbers show the disease is spreading, that more people need hospital care. This has to be taken seriously. In the last week we have done an average of over 15000 tests a day and this
Along so we can see nature the blockage looks like a single lane pass thing. Expect some delays here or avoid area if you can once again congress at ridge in pasco county involving a pedestrian from what we can tell. We have a live look here we want to get back time. 4 westbound which has been pretty slow through entire portion of eastern Hillsborough County. A pair of crashes one we are look right alex and der street which is mostly con find to that sould they are poking partial blockage in right lane. So day alexander back to a county line. A second crash which is on shoulder as well. Closer to mcintosh causing delays back towards alexander. So dealing with about 24 minutes to get from the buck man to 75 pretty jammed up in the area. Looks like they are starting to clear the scene a little bit more. Some good news and just releasing a trooper op that right happened side they are moving everything over to left where you have more room. Truck overturned lots of debris in northbound lan
Who is apparently in the road or trying to cross the road. So more information on this to come. But in the meantime we want to get our next big incident involve overturned dump truck out tampa area 50 street under selman expressway we have that overturned. We have debris in roadways you can see that blocking northbound lanes in also hindering folks from exiting the selman expressway at 50th. Second of all we have we want to get, my apolo traffic jam on north bunked 75 in manatee at state road 64. Where we have a vehicle thats on fire. So please avoid that area. Now we want to get to this, a vehicle into a home out lakeland area. We have a live look from the ground here. And this is happening off the fitzgerald road. What were hearing from the Sheriffs Office is that this is actually happening at Orange Valley. But thats off of fitzgerald. So shutting down fitzgerald east from ken suarez in just a few minutes in update from sheriff in polk county. Just a little bit after that. But we ar
Just fantastic. Now mid to upper skwkts 60s an as you go further inland 60s to north including 63 in brooksville. 63 in crystal river. Humidity still in moderate category. Were going to hold on to that for probably three more days. But, cold front is still set to move through friday night. And that will yield a very, very nice weekend. So i do expect to go back to 87 degrees today. As well as for tomorrow. All right. Thanks, and right now well check in on some slower spots and new trouble spots that have popped up. Dale mabrey looks like we have some building southbound delays humphrey street south of busch and gun. Where we have a crash with lane blocks reported in that direction really not massive delays at this point definitely enough you will want to plan extra time as you head this way watch it make sure you dont have to take detour if delays get any worse. Some good news here out u. S. 19 and nebraska. Earlier crash with netable lane lanes are now clear it will enl oh be a matter
Ron burgundy moment when there as typo in the prompter. Never happens to us. Never. Ever. Not once. Good morning im laura moody. Ths nim annually on this friday morning its october 21st. And im Russell Rhodes. Thanks for being with us everybody. Yeah. It never happens us to but yet we manage three minutes of good day goodies coming up we can youre right. We make it fun. You know,ths 74 degrees im going to be honest with you its a little muggy out here. However, 12, 13 hours, that is all going to change. Yeah, we do have a dryer air finally enter our state. Its in panhandle now. Were starting here in mid 70s. We should probably get back to 83, 84 degrees then look at this, here comes the lower humidity tonight. Comes down, from the northwest. And 59 will greet us tomorrow morning. Bautiful. Sunsational in fact with a high around 76. Ill have sundays forecast in a few minutes. All right dave, thank you. About to switch over to 9 02. Did want to show you 275 south, this a live look, looki