From the jersey shore. New here at 5 30, news 4s Ted Greenberg shows what authorities are doing to save lives. Reporter vacationers, commuters, truckers. They are in more than 16,000 vehicles that use ocean countys route 539 every day. I avoid it as much as i can. Reporter a remote twolane highway through the pinelands that has a dangerous reputation. You can just be driving, doing the speed limit, and somebody is in your lane coming the other di ction, trying to pass. Reporter the 38mile road has been the scene of 11 deadly crashes in just over twoandahalf years. Unsafe passing has been creating a lot of issues out here lately. Sean is on the lookout for aggressive drivers and those going faster than 55. As part of a monthlong Enforcement Campaign using marked and unmarked vehicles that began saturday, organized by the ocean county prosecutors office. When we start drilling down on it, the numbers were staggering. Reporter route 539 has been the scene of more than 400 nonfatal crashes
It is 10 00 p. M. Do you know where your children are . Right now on fox 5 news at 10 00 p. M. Drones sharing the skies with the airports, why were they being sold in an airport gift shops . It shocked the Port Authority enough to get them pulled from shelves. Dari dan bowens has more. Reporter thats right, the Port Authority saying that these two stories, hudson news and brookstone. Lawmakers are pushing for legislation to limit where these crafts can fly particularly near airports. Reporter is happening far too often. 650 drones airplanes this year, thats near double the amount from last year. There was a drone flying near here. There was 137 near misses and drone spotting smear their planes. Last month and 136 before that. Charles schumer planning to propose legislation requiring drug manufacturers to include geofencing. What you do is you put in the software of the drone weight they cannot fly. In all that you could say that they cannot go within 2 miles of an airport. They cannot
Story. Also tonight, could be finally see a consensus on gun control . Tonight both sides of this divisive issue seem to agree on one thing. This device used by a las vegas gunman needs more scrutiny. Theyre called bump stocks and allow a weapon to fire rapidly like an automatic weapon. Were shown how these items have been flying off the shelves. Its resetting so quickly that it seems like automatic, but its not. Reporter luke kelly describes to us how this semiautomatic gun could be adjusted to fire at a faster speed. Its almost like a one piece type of thing. That you take off. Theres a bolt that holds the grip in here. Reporter its the kind of gun that can be legally altered using bump stocks. Were told some websites are crashing from high demand after the las vegas massacre. Others saying theyre stopping new orders from now. Kellys store already taking new calls from interested customers, telling nbc news nothing is available. Youre a responsible gun owner, you do it in a controlle
The buildings a total loss. Well continue to keep our eyes on this. No one was hurt. This morning, a south Jersey School is shut down after mold is found everywhere from the classrooms to the hallways. Parents are outraged as they try to figure out if their children were put at risk. Nbc10s Randy Gyllenhaal joins us live from holly glen elementary in gloucester county. Whats the school saying . Reporter there is mold in the classrooms, in the hallways, even in the library. And this is forcing the school and the district to decide that they will shut down this south jersey elementary school. And yesterday, parents here were actually shown a number of pictures of the mold including this one here on a beam above one of the ceilings inside of the school. Yesterday an auditorium full of parents went to a board of education meeting. Some gave the board an earful after the report revealed mold here. Students will be bussed to other schools in the district when classes resume on tuesday. The M
After the same thing. They demand cash and cigarette. Some cases they get more cigarettes and some they didnt get any money. We really want to get these guys off the street. As the race is on to get the robbers off the street the police are confident that its the same duo for the crime spree. Same clothes and same areas and same backpack and some pull the gun at the last minute that is why we think they are related. Back out live no injuries reported in these robberies and police tell us the criminals not just after cash but they believe they sell the cigarettes illegally. If you have information about this call police. Live from northeast detectives, gray hall, channel 6 action news. Thank you. We have got some brand new information for parents this afternoon. Philadelphias john b. Kelly Elementary School is closed again tomorrow. Because a contractor is still working to remove mold found in several classrooms. Vernon odom is live outside of that school this afternoon in german town w