Months in prison. Almost four years. Its been close to four years since the incident on the ft. Lee side of the George Washington bridge that created the bridgegate scandal. Bridgette kelly and bill baroni were convicted in november of wire fraud, conspiracy, and misusing the bridge as retaliation against ft. Lees mayor because he declined to endorse governor christies bid for reelection. Prosecutors said the two shut down several toll lanes at the George Washington bridge in september of 2013 intentionally causing a major traffic jam in ft. Lee. Governor christie was never charged with any wrongdoing. He argued that he was never aware that his office was involved until months after the fact. Federal sentencing guidelines call for 37 to 46 months. The exact sentence is up to the judge. Both boroni and kelly have asked for leniency including Community Service instead jail time. Meantime, governor Chris Christie is in line to lead a President Trump task force. That tops the other stories
Dwip. Looks like we had improvements here on 195 on the westbound side. Earlier, we had a closure around route 130, around exit 5. That closure was in this general area. Thats why you see slowdowns approaching the scene. Looks like at least according to the map system they might have lifted it. Ill check in with that to see either way. Watch for delays on the westbound side. Approaching 5. 95, center city. Cameras around gerard avenue. 14 minutes southbound from woodhaven to the vine street expressway. Sfee speeds into the high 50s. The schuylkill expressway looks good, as well. There is around the eastbound sides, the blue route to the vine. 13 minutes. Speeds into the 60s. Both directions pretty much look the same so far. Here are the top headlines were following today a judge will sentence bill baroni and bridget kelly. A jury found the two former aides to new Jersey Governor Chris Christie guilty in a plot to cause traffic jams near the George Washington bridge. They could face up
Good morning. There might be a few clouds in your neighborhood this morning. You can see that on satellite but there are some breaks in the clouds and we expect most of this to melt away and most of the day should be fairly bright. Were starting out on the milder side this morning. 50 degrees in philadelphia. We have dipped into the upper 40s in Trenton Allentown reading and lancaster. 51 in wilmington, just 45 in millville and 47 down the shore o you can see how the wind is still coming down out of the north this morning. Just 7 Miles Per Hour though bicking up a little bit in allentown. As the sun gets up i do think those breezes will pick up a bit and it will be a bit on the breezy side today. Looks like it will be bright though prompt by 7 oclock 47 degrees. By noon i expect a lot of sunshine, 52 and we should get up into the low 60s today with a high of 62 probably around 4 oclock right in there and Still Holding 60 by 5 oclock and down to 57 by 7 oclock. Youll want to jacket beca
Allentown reading and 47 cape may. So far so good on the wind well its actually started to pick up from the north and west. This is a new number just in. You can see were still in the Single Digits in south jersey and up toward trenton but were starting to build those winds a little bit out of the northwest. I was about to tell you that once the sun came up we were expecting the winds to build and it is going to be a rather breezy day today with a 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour wind not exactly enough to knock you off the sidewalk or to push your van out of the lane but a little bit breezy and cool. 47 degrees by 7 oclock. By noon up to 52. You can see how were expecting a lot of sun overall today and a high of 62 well probably hit that rather late in the day, say about 4 oclock. Tomorrow looks a little bit cooler but nice enough, karen. Then friday soaking rain. Details coming up in the seven day. All right. I cant wait to see the sunshine. Weve been sun starved lately. Looking outside walt
5 oclock. Tomorrow were looking at a soaking rain developing during the day and through the night on friday. Details on that coming up. We have two days of sunshine to enjoy before the rain comes back. Meanwhile even though roads are dry we have a big problem here in trenton. Now were looking live at it. Its on i195 westbound, an accident has the highway shut down and that and Hamilton Square road. You can kind of see theyre forcing everybody off onto the ramp right now. Stick to kuser road as your alternate to i195 westbound. Thats a major roadway in trenton to be shut down right now because of an accident. Lets look outside live on the ben franklin bridge and the pastcooking at the shot so foggd in you couldnt see anything and now were looking pretty clear, just a couple of clouds up ab westbound traffic headed towards center city moving nicely. Same situation on i95, nice and dry today. Youll get a little sun flare. 95 a traffic headed towards center city, no problems, no delays jus