New interstate highway coming, thousands wait for housing vouchers and how SEC membership helps OU academically

Good morning, Oklahoma!

Here's what you need to know today:

🌞 Temperature check: More thunderstorms are likely in the OKC metro area this morning, becoming less frequent in the afternoon. Highs expected in the upper 70s, dropping to mid 60s tonight.

📅 Today in History: in 2011, NASA launched its last space shuttle mission. The final mission of the orbiter Atlantis lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida.

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If you only read one thing today:

A new interstate highway may be in Oklahoma's future.

It may take years, but highway department officials are making plans for a new east-west interstate highway connecting I-35 in Oklahoma City with I-49 in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. The new freeway, I-412 would run across the eastern half of the state north of Tulsa paralleling 1-40 to the south.

Read the full story here 🔗

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