Specific information from new jerseys department of transportation for people specifically who plan to ride patco and for people who plan to make that hike, that very long walk across the ben franklin bridge. Exactly what roads will be closed is what well detail now. Multiple agencies, including the new Jersey Department of transportation, new jersey transit, which runs the river line, as well as the turnpike authority, state police and camden officials, as you can imagine, have been working at a roundtable on this plan for many months now. Heres what we just found out. Special tickets for the Atlantic City line and the river line will be required and they will go on sale this saturday. New jersey is to close certain exits on 295, that is if traffic from the pope causes dangerous backups. Were told that would be worstcase scenario. The river line will have minimal stops. The walt whitman, betsy ross brinls will stay open, and exit 663 heading into philadelphia from camden will be close
Jim . This map just out with the additions there. It will take people awhile to digest it. It is going to be up on our website and on the nbc 10 app. Thanks for that late information. Now to the impact on south jersey. We know which roads and bridges will be accessible. That plan has been finetuned and details have been released this afternoon. Nbc 10s cydney long continues Team Coverage from camden. Driving your own car to camden that weekend is highly discouraged . Reporter thats right. You are simply not going to be able to do it. This is going to be all about patience and preplanning. We found out today, take a look, the parking lots behind us like the one here along the waterfront at the base of the ben franklin bridge, campbells field, the battleship, you name it, there are about 1100 spots. You will not be able to bring your car here. They will all be reserved for credentialed tour buses and it will make camden the mass transit hub for this historic visit. For many people, they
Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. The images coming out of tianjin china are of breathtaking devastation. Virtually destroyed by two enormous industrial explosions seen and felt for miles around. Right now the death toll already well into the dozens still rising. Many people are still missing, and the search and recovery is being carried out amid serious concerns over whats in the air. Nbcs ian williams is there. Reporter its a scene of utter devastation. Fires still burning, smoke still rising, more than 24 hours after this. New video shows the first blast light up the sky over tianjin followed by a far more powerful explosion captured on cell phone from a nearby Apartment Building until a photographer retreats in terror. Among the american eyewitnesss, english teacher drew. All of a sudden there is a loud, like a shock wave sound. The first thing people thought it was was an
Into the bus companys safety record. Reporter a surveillance camera captured the school bus slamming into the liquor store on springfield avenue after colliding with an suv. The bus was coming down stanford avenue but the driver told witnesses and police the brakes failed before she could stop at the busy intersection. She was saying, oh, my god, my brakes went off on me. And that was it. And i thought, thats okay. Its going to be fine, you know,. Reporter this bodega owner was among all the people you can see here rushing to help the children, the smallest only 3. I tried to come back here. I grabbed a few bottles of water and tried to give it to the little kids because they were scared. Even the ones that they were okay, they were scared. And they were crying. So i tried to help out. Reporter officials here say the 11 children, the bus driver, chaperone and suv driver were all alert and conscious with scrapes, bruises and broken bones. We take injuries to be evaluated. You dont think
And its the saddest thing to see, you know, grass growing up through concrete. A few hours ago, the Parks Department told us the hickman playground, the one we showed you with all of those cracked blacktops, essentially, that is a park that is scheduled for a full renovation starting next week. And city hall stresses 35 parks in lowincome neighborhoods have been renovated in just the last year. But during his mayoral campaign, bill de blasio supported a more ambitious plan to force the private operators of central park, the highline, and other welloff parks to contribute 20 of their budgets to help fix up parks in poor areas. City hall is no longer expressing support for that idea. Back to you. Thank you very much, chris. And remember, if you have something you think the news 4 iteam should look into, call us at 1866news 244. This is new tonight, an update to a heartbreaking story we first brought you on tuesday. Police in patterson say theyve arrested the driver who hit and killed a t