and says proud of our heroes keeping the fight from home. bess tweets my heroes are the morgans. proud americans. it is 58 after the hour. before you leave the house here s what s happening today. the eastern seaboard bracing for a hurricane. a short time ago arthur was upgraded to a category one storm as it churns up the coast. mandatory evacuation in effect for parts of north carolina s outer banks. if you re traveling for the holiday brace yourself for increased security amid fears that al qaeda could be trying to smuggle undetectable bombs on to flights headed for the u.s. time to look at the good, the bad, and the ugly. up first the good. as if we need more reason to eat more chocolate, a new study finds older people that suffer from artery problems can walk longer after eating dark chocolate. it contains 85% cocoa which
reporter: the van was overturned and crushed by the impact from the crush. morgan s friend, james mcnair, was killed in the wreck. live from new york it s saturday night! reporter: morgan shot to fame as a longtime cast member on snl. seth myers spoke to jake tapper about his friend. we are sending our thoughts and prayers. everyone on the staff. tracy was a vet at snl when i started. i m thinking of him now. kevin roper turned himself into police on saturday. he was released on $50,000 bail. he ll be in court on wednesday to answer the charges and be arraigned and with what he s being charged with, which is one count of vehicular homicide and four counts of injury by auto, if convicted, carol, he could face up to 13 years in jail. nischelle turner reporting live for us this morning. while we don t yet know all of
63 we are old, a fellow comedian and longtime friend of morgan s. we are learning two of the other people hospitalized were fellow comedians. no wird on their current conditions. we know that one of those comedians is a man performing last night with tracy morgan in dover, delaware. just hours before this crash he had actually tweeted out pictures that were posted to his facebook and instagram accounts. they show him and morgan and what appears to be that limo bus just hours before it was involved in the six-car crash. the other vehicles, two tractor trailers, suv, and two cars. this happened around 1:00 a.m. the question always comes to mind any indication of alcohol involved? also, if there had been other charges filed yet. this sing still under investigation, poppy. at this point no charges have been filed but the middlesex county district attorney s office is looking into this. new jersey state police say that what they know at this point is that it appears that the driver of
goes, doesn t it? and it goes immediately. all it takes is one little thing like this to ruin it. we just can t afford that right now. morgan, i ve only you ve only been working at cnn for about a month, but you can come back any time. whenever you need me, i can twerk whenever you like. i like the idea of two morgans going at it. good to talk to you. thanks, piers. we ll be right back.
morgan, i ve only you ve only been working at cnn for about a month, but you can come back any time. you re a man of all trades. whenever you need me, i can twerk whenever you like. i like the idea of two morgans going at it. good to talk to you. thanks, piers. we ll be right back.