Good morning. It’s Thursday, July 23rd, and this is your briefing from Lucas Dixon for The News & Observer. Highs will be around 91 today, with a low of 72. In our top story: North Carolina added more than 2,000 coronavirus cases and 30 deaths yesterday, though the number of hospitalized patients took a large drop. Still, that means there are now more than 105,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19.