State transportation agencies in North Carolina and Tennessee are still assessing damage from the storm, forecasting a months-long effort to repair hard-hit critical arteries such as Interstate-40.
Considerable damage is seen in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina after the Category 4 hurricane swept up from the Gulf of Mexico, as communities take stock and emergency workers assess dams, bridges and other critical infrastructure.
Novo Nordisk, the Denmark-based health care company, is planning to invest $4.1 billion to expand its U.S. manufacturing capacity with a second fill and finishing facility in Clayton, N.C.