Good morning. It’s Monday, November 23rd. This is your briefing from Lucas Dixon for The News & Observer. Today will be partly sunny, with a high of 63 and a low of 36. In our top story: North Carolina hit another grim milestone in the coronavirus pandemic over the weekend. The state has now had more than 5,000 deaths connected to the virus since March. To put that in perspective, that’s 5 times the number of combined deaths from every hurricane in the state’s history.