An early look at the ride good morning good morning craig were taking a look first at the midtown tunnel had for thirteen years now its at the camera is the camera ill be watching because you may have heard that we had overnight construction at the midtown helpful actually closed last night at six oclock to start those repairs in and do all of that at the midtown tunnel is not scheduled to reopen until five oclock this morning so i havent seen any movement yet on either side once i see movement a latino hopefully wraps up a little bit early early bird commuters out there knowledge now back in the Traffic Network maps he said warning symbol up there in newport news sixty four eastbound at lee hall. We do have overnight road work there as well only one lane is blocked so you have to worry about taking another route this morning but of course that could slow you down just little bits will keep you posted and let you know and that clears and then coming over for affordable to the very Earl
Fog early this morning. Well talk more about the beautiful weekend thats in store coming up in the first alert sevenday forecast. Back to you. Heres whats in the new right now. The f. B. I. Believes its identified the masked man with the british accent who appears in videos that depict the beheadings of two american journalists and an aide worker from the United Kingdom but f. B. I. Director james comey will not reveal the mans name or National Natural si. Attorney general nationality. Attorney general eric rolledder will step down. Lestay in the position until his successor is confirmed by the senate. Detroit leaders are once again in control of the citys finances. State appointed emergency manager kevyn orr has relinquished financial control of the city to the council. He was appointed back in march 2013 to manage the citys finances and steer detroit through the largest municipal bankruptcy in u. S. History. Are they ready for the super bowl champion seahawks . Two things for redskin
I dont think anybody necessarily wanted to go in this direction, but now that were here, its more important that we Work Together as opposed to continuing to fight each other. Its very, very important, i think, that we respect the fact that the emergency manager has the key to the city at this point in time. My relationship with kevin has been positive from the beginning, you know, we dont agree on everything, but at the same token we do it in a very respectful way. I know there are a lot of people that are upset, that are concerned about their futures, but we are now starting from square one. There are going to be a lot of negotiations yet to come. Theres going to be a lot of push and pull. I dont think we have a final determination as to what all of the elements are going to be to get us through this process, but its a process that i think we need to take a lot of care, because there is going to be pain for a lot of different people, but in the long run, i think the future of the cit
The republicans are routing fore rooting for it to fail. Forensic scientists have concluded that Yasser Arafat died of Natural Causes and was not poisoned it contradicts an earlier swiss report that found that the Palestinian Leader was poisoned by radioactive polonium. Those are the headlines im john siegenthaler. America tonight is coming up next with joie chen. I will be back at 11 00 eastern and 8 00 pacific you can get the latest news at aljazeera. Com. On america tonight. Will they turn out the lights . Detroit is clear to go forward on bankruptcy. Will it be the move that saves the city services. We need everything. We need rigs. We need fire trucks right now we need manpower. Also tonight. Lessons learned . The latest read on how u. S. Students stack up and what it really says about american i hadcation. Hadcation education. And fashion build. What role you play in one of the worlds most polluted places. We take you inside of hell on earth. If you want to see what hell looks li
The sole survivor of a capsize at sea stuck from days on the bottom of the atlantic. A good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America. Its good to have you with us. Im drait. In a major development. The engineer of the train apparently admitted to a nunion representative that he nodded off at the controls. It happened while the train travelled at 82 Miles Per Hour. The ntsp removed the commoout ear rail employees union, citing a breach of confidentiality when they talked to the media. Al jazeera correspondent has the latest on the investigation. For the First Time Since the metro north Train Derailment leaving four dead and Dozens Injured attention is shifting from mechanical failure, focussing on the trains engineer. Based on this data, theres no indication that the brake systems were not functions properly. It was suggested from William Rockefellers camp that human error was ta play. Saying that he became dazed, suffering highway hypnosis. William rockefeller revealed to a Union Offi