This is really affecting people who are going to Newark Airport, going to catch a flight or pick someone up, leave yourself a lot of extra time or head for routes 1 and 9. You can get off the garden state parkway, take 78 east, get on into Newark Airport that way. Newark airport flights are not affected. New york air train is running without a problem. New jersey turnpike is something to cross off the list. We will take a look at a camera and show you the delay. We will look at another camera this is a webcam. Another camera and show you the delay as you head southbound on the new jersey turnpike. This is right across Newark Airport. So, here you have the inner roadway which is known as the car lanes. You can see traffic is barely moving. Its at a crawl. To the right of that is where the track lanes are. There is no traffic. They diverted everybody into the car lanes. They are taking everybody down to the area where that fire has occurred and they are diverting everybody off. This is s
You could see wires dangling across lanes. Drivers saw five hour delays. We get up from like 10 00 this morning and we just got here. Reporter again, state police within the hour confirming the death of that truck driver. At this point they have not released his identity. For now we are live here in linden, new jersey, toni yates, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Toni, thank you. What a mess. Another view of all of this from newscopter 7. Shannon sohn above it all and it looks like they are beginning to pull that truck out of there. Reporter yeah, they are finally making a little bit of progress just about half an hour ago, it was still on its side but we showing you with sky rider 7. Look at the damage to the tires there and the front end of this vehicle, burst into flames. We can also show you here exactly how this accident transpired. This is the southbound side of the new jersey turnpike on that outer roadway but you can see the three roadways next to it are all still closed down if you
Concert will continue after what happened here. Theres also breaking news in brooklyn, someone shot five people overnight. It happened on dwight street. Weekend. This was in red hook. Today in new yorks britain gingras is there. Reporter we just got an update on the injury, five people injured in this shooting. Let me get out of the way and dwight street. Police still investigating. The shooting happened not far from the Red Hook Houses out of the apartment complex here on dwight street. Thats where we also saw, not too long ago, one victim hobbling back home after being released from the hospital. She had a wound on her shin. Police say the gunman drove by around 11 00 last night and fired out the car window, hitting those five people, injuries included shots to the leg, wrist, torso and one person has a more serious injury with a gunshot wound to the neck. And at this time, the gunman is still on the loose, as police are still in there, again, collecting evidence. Its unclear from my
Lori stokes. We have a brandnew air mass in place. 74. 74 to start out right now. Drops down maybe another degree or to but 60 at hopatcong, blairstown, up to poe and kingston. 80 by noontime. Beautiful weather. Heather, i have great news in the weather department. I have okay news in the traffic department. My maps arent working at this time. That is bad news in the traffic department. Not good news for me. Lets go to a webcam. We will show you how things are looking traveling on the Staten Island expressway. You can see the construction is set up. That is right around richmond avenue. Now, this advertise the eastbound side of the Staten Island expressway. They did cancel a lot of that construction during the overnight. Thats because of what was going on with the truck accident yesterday on the new jersey turnpike which has completely been cleared away. Now, we are looking at the b. Q. E. Up the northbound side. This is your delay coming up to the Brooklyn Bridge. We do have our stree
61 down the jersey shore. 64 wrightstown. Sunshine, 84 by noontime. 87 this afternoon. A great day, especially for august. We should be in the midst of the dog days where its sticky, steamy and sultry. Its not. We will talk about the weekend next in your accuweather seven day forecast and it looks better than when we were talking about it this time yesterday, heather. That is a good thing. Lets go to the maps. Not a good thing is on the leigh. Looks like we still have an accident, l. I. E. Eastbound near exit 19. This accident blocks three lanes. Then as you head through brooklyn, dont forget about the sinkhole. Its 5th avenue at 64th street. Then we are looking at minor delays lincoln. Off the George Washington bridge on to 95 southbound local lanes near exit 71, we have an accident in the process of being cleared away. Mass transit is running on or close to schedule. Shirleen, ken, over to you. Okay, thank you. House sands of homes on long island are still without electricity this mo