Encouraging news in the development of two experimental vaccines for covid19. Both hitting important milestones. And delivering conflict. As we rely even more on delivery apps like grubhub and doordash, what was once a love affair is now a war with restaurants and the cities they serve. Well go inside the booming business that some call a financial bust. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. We cant stay locked down for such a considerable period of time that you might do irreparable damage and have unintended consequences. Reporter this memorial day weekend will look very different, and officials want it that way. New restrictions at beaches and restaurants are in place with the hopes of preventing the additional spread of the coronavirus. Were not bothering anybody else. Were not going to be around anybody else. Its just us. Reporter President Trump declared places of worship essential places saying he wants them to open immediately.
Im molette green. A worstcase scenario to start this busy Holiday Travel week. Thats right, the lights are back on at the airport in atlanta, and passengers around the world will feel this impact for days. Yes. That includes people into and out of our areaa. An underground electrical fire plunged Atlanta Hartsfield jackson airport, that is, into darkness and bringing the worlds Busiest Airport to a standstill. Earn wveryone was just kind shocked and kind of went on with it because we saw it would come back really soon. But it wasnt really soon. It took over 11 hours. Around midnight the lights came back on and the damage is done. News 4s justin finch is live now at Reagan National airport where travelers are feeling the impact and there are flights left to reschedule. Thats so right, eun, reagan looking a lot smoother now than it was some hours before. This had all of the makings of a holiday nightmare. Were talking about a week out from christmas, crowds here showing up early to get a
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
This happened. The man is being treated at bellev hospital, so far no arrests have been made. Its being called flightpocalypse. Many passengers were flying into a rage today, right now things are slowly getting back to normal. A glifrp tch at a tracking system based in leesburg, virginia. Had airports along the east coach for several hours, the airspace over the typically very busy region of ours, looked very emanpty. Theres a lot of other things i could do on a saturday, than sitting in laguardia all day. Two hours stuck on the ground. Hopefully this gets resolved soon. I will not be able to make it to my family reunion, so i am deeply disappointed. The faa says it doesnt think hackers caused this glitch. But it is still being investigated. An investigation is underway tonight into a deadly plane crash in new jersey. A pilot died when his cessna crashed and burned moments after takeoff, the plane had just left the esix County Airport and went down by the Kiddie Academy in west caldwel
Coming up at 5 00, i will have more about the victim and remember, this is the 99th murder in our city this year. I will have more about that, too, coming up at 5 00. Now back to you. Developing right now, d. C. Police are hoping you can help identify the caregivers of a little boy found early this morning on benning road in northeast near the hecken jer mall. He is believed to be the between the ages of 27a and 4678 faf]jo found wearing mickey mouse pajamas and carrying black canvas gym shoes. You should call police right away if you havec y py information. 1d station is due4n in court any minute now. News4 was the first to report himself in for a shooting that left an innocent by stander dead. Before he surrender, king spoke mark picks up this developing story with what we are learning about how he became a suspect. Reporter according to newly released court documents, as zrtj four people opened fire shaw metro station anddimn as many a shots were fired. Service informant who led the