A truck on i95 in delaware. The driver is trapped in the vehicle, this is near basin road in newport. All southbound lanes are shut down as crews work to free the trapped driver. Matt pellman is taking a look at that in traffic, karen rogers has accuweather good morning to above the both of you. Reporter the upstairs truck flipped on its side the driver is trapped inside all southbound lanes of i95 remain blocked approaching basin road. This is extra problematic because of the closure of 495 thats keeping i95 very busy during the rush hour. Not only do you have the extra volume thats going to be detouring but you have the blockage of all southbound lanes. The southbound lanes could be blocked for a while stay with sn kirkwood highway or take 13 to churchmans road and 13 to highway 1 to i95. Theres a number of ways to do it. This is i95 in fishtown, southbound come the headlights in center city overnight construction is out of the way. Were looking much better on i95 with dry conditions
Trapped driver. Its 5 30 were bringing in karen and matt pellman. Karen will have the traffic in just a moment. Matt pellman is also a busy roadway in the morning, this will not be good for a lot of commuters. Reporter youve got that right, an hour weve been without the southbound lanes of i95 and we are getting toward the morning rush hour. As it continues to be closed well see more problems as everybody is forced off the southbound side of i95 on to 141 northbound. The over turned truck is blocking all lanes at basin road. Some alternates coming out of the wilmington if you normally head south on i95 stay up on route 2, kirkwood highway. Use route 4 or take 1 south to 273 from there use churchmans road or highway one knob to get back to northbound to get back to i95 southbound. A number of options if you use i95 southbound in the morning. A bad accident in avendale, Chester County reporting two tractortrailer along 41 newport gap pike and sunny road. In perkisie theres a crash 313 du
Matt odonnell is off, eva pilgrim is joining us, we have a lot of news you did not see last night. A home is in ruins after a driver loses control and rips part of an entire side off the house. Firefighters in Chester County fall victim to vandals who leave a number of cars marred. Another Atlantic City casino falling victim to the employees. Employees may learn today they will soon be out of a job. We are following breaking news, we have brand new video in just in of rescuers on i95 trying to free the trapped driver. The driver is on the way to the hospital, were working to find out how he is doing. The crash on the southbound side of i95 near basin road in newport. The southbound lanes are shut down as the crews worked on the driver, and they still shut down as he goes to the hospital. Lets go over to matt pellman. Reporter the story is more and more complicated. The silver mercedes struck the truck after it was overturned. The driver of the mercedes doesnt see the truck and strikes
The windows, Mother Nature is giving us a break from the summertime temperatures. Its been steamy lately. Reporter we should say temporary break because the heat and the humidity returns in the sevenday forecast. Were down in cape may. Should be a fantastic day on the beach. Looks like a gorgeous weekend around the delaware valley. You will see a sea breeze quick in that will cool the numbers off just a little bit down there at those shorepoints. 67 in philadelphia. On the boardwalk in Atlantic City, look at this, 70 degrees, sea isle city, 70. Inhandle, temperatures have dropped way off. 58 in millville. Trenton, 61. Allentown, 66. 59 for the poconos. High, thin clouds stretching across south jersey and delaware this morning, otherwise were seeing mostly sunny skies. Thats pretty much how your day is going to play out. Well see a lot of sunshine out there, just a few puffy clouds from time to time. Low humidity levels, temperatures seasonal. 10 00 a. M. , 75 degrees, 3 00 p. M. , 85 d
Seth a new state record for runoff with more than 3 million votes already cast. And more than 75,000 georgians who didnt vote in the general election registered before the Senate Runoffs with more than half of them under the age of 35. Now, we dont know who they voted for, but the highest turnout rates so far are coming from areas that tend to favor democrats, and while the whole world loves it when youre in the news, some in the world love it when you sing the blues. Republicans and conservative groups continue to push these baseless lawsuits trying to suppress the vote ahead of tuesdays elections including this texasbased organization true the vote which is working with georgia residents to challenge the eligibility of more than 364,000 georgia voters, and donald trump continuing with his baseless Election Fraud complaints. Hes claiming the georgia ballots are invalid. Hes possibly doing more harm than good where early voter turnout has really been kind of low. So Vice President Kama