Last month, he told new jersey residents that his focus would be on the state of new jersey. Just a few days later he endorsed donald trump and now the head of the Troopers Union in new jersey expressed to me that what happened today was over the line. Reporter as hundreds in uniform paid their final respects to trooper cullen hit and kill last week while on the job, governor Chris Christie was in North Carolina on stage with donald trump playing interviewer. How would you bring the same kind of principles you bought to building great property, managing a great company, to our relationships with trade with other countries around the wor world. Chris, one biggest problems we have is trade. Reporter this is the second trooper funeral christie did not tend. The other was trooper eli mccarsons funeral if december. Theres no official protocol for attending the funeral of state troopers. Christie has attended some in the past. This time Lieutenant Governor kim began know was in his face head
Trump. The header of the state Troopers Union is calling out governor christie for not atte attending today funeral for trooper shawl cullen. Services were held this afternoon in his hometown of cinnaminson. 31yearold died last week after he was hit by a car on interstate 95 while son to go an accident. He leaves behind a pregnant fiance and a nip month old son. Eyewitness News Reporter david spunt is in our sat center with more on the reaction to governor christies absent. When governor christie ended his dream to become the 45th president of the United States last month, he told new jersey residents that his focus would be on the state of new jersey. Just a few days later he endorsed donald trump and now the head of the Troopers Union in new jersey expressed to me that what happened today was over the line. Reporter as hundreds in uniform paid their final respects to trooper cullen hit and kill last week while on the job, governor Chris Christie was in North Carolina on stage with do
Announcer its 10 00 p. M. Do you know where your children are . Right now on fox 5 news at 10 00 p. M. Hulk hogan walked out of court a big winner. A jury awarded him 150 million. In a tape lawsuit against gawker. First, lets talk about our fox alert tonight. Temperatures will be dropping, cold enough on the first day of spring for snow. Thats often how it goes. Madness. We do see kind of a roller coaster. Today it felt a lot like spring 50s. Taking a look at the current reading we can see we are a bit of a chill in the air. A cooler 34 degrees in monticello. We do have a couple of isolated showers that have worked through the region. Things seem to be quieted down. The main focus is going to be on a system that is sitting just with the south and west and its an area of low pressure that is developing across the Mississippi Valley and it will be making its way into the northeast here. We are expecting it in the rain and snow area. Right now shifting is a little bit further east more li
Successful and safe visit for the pope and for the public. Reporter Security Officials are defending the order toss close down the ben franklin bridge stretches of highway and restrict movement in a three square mile swath of center city. Outdoor event such as we see here to the burlingtonbristol parkway in philadelphia, it creates enormous challenges bust we have to adapt to that and we have. Reporter joe clancy director of u. S. Secret service. He says plans must be in place to evacuate the pope and visitors in case of an emergen emergency. You have to have structure. If you dont have structure, you have mayhem. Reporter meanwhile city officials are still pushing back against claims that philadelphia has overreacted to the popes visit. Adopting security measures that go far beyond what will be experienced by those in new york and washington when the pontiff visits those cities. There are any number of events in both new york and washington, d. C. All ticked much smaller venues and no
unexpected. a pot club. even neighbors say they didn t know about it. no one was hurt in the early morning fire. but as anne makovec reports, fire department budget cut mass i have slowed the cuts may have slowed the response. reporter: firefighters think the old victorian can be saved, but many of the contents were spilled out on to drake street today, including pot pamphlet, remnants of what was a marijuana club, a business that even the next door neighbor wasn t aware of. i didn t even know it was that until i found out from a friend of mine who heard it on the news that they were running a business out of there. reporter: but she heard the fire, which broke out at around 3:00 a.m. the first truck to arrive on the scene wasn t the type of truck that carries water. the closest fire station s engine was cut with the budget last year. on this fire, i don t believe it had a large effect. it can on other fires, but this one, it really didn t. reporter: we need the