Jersey. Those storms are now offshore completely. Just a few scattered showers remain this morning, and clouds, theyre not going to last much longer, though. Theyll be clearing out quickly. You can see the road is still damp in cape may, beach avenue. The view from the marquis de lafayette hotel. The big storms are clear of our area, off to the northeast, but there are just a few spotty showers left in southern new jersey. Millville, Cumberland County getting a little bit of light rain moving in. Its going to be a fast mover, that shower is going to move right on out. The wind pushing those clouds out of here. Today winds are at 14 miles an hour. Were seeing gusts right now to 23 miles an hour. Temperatures starting off in the 60s will warm into the 70s this afternoon. Ill go through it with the future weather hour by hour when i come back. But first, jillian mele has traffic. Good morning, jillian. Good morning to you, bill. Starting off with two problems out of new jersey right now.
Before classes began about 8 25 this morning. The bus driver hit four parked cars, all empty at the time, according to witnesses. Two of the cars belong to teachers. Parents and students tell us they had just departed the remaining two vehicles minutes before the accident. We have been talking to people who saw the crash. He just kept going. And he took all the cars and climbed the curb with the children on the bus. Reporter how were the children . They looked a little shooken up. They were just, you know, stunned by everything going on. Reporter were they cry sng. Some of them were crying. You could see the stunned look on their face. They were scared. Reporter after the children were let off the bus, they were examined at a triage unit here on the school grounds. Sky force 10 captured video of that while it was taking place. We have spoken to one parent whose car was hit. You see him here in the distance. He tells us that he is going to tell us whats going on. Were working on that fo
That making any accommodation to shut it down, to do something to it, is very difficult. Narrator two Massive Underground tunnels, called simply tunnel 1 and tunnel 2, provide most of the citys water supply. They run hundreds of feet below manhattan, far deeper than the subways. Built at the beginning of the 20th century, they are concretelined and bored through solid rock. They could last centuries. But the mechanical equipment within them will not. Engineers in the 1950s discovered rust on the tunnels valves. There were concerns that if they closed the valves for tunnel inspections, they may never open again, leaving new york city without water. So they chose to keep them open. As a result, there has not been significant inspection, maintenance, or repair of the tunnels in decades. No one knows their current condition. Hurwitz currently, city tunnel 1 and city Tunnel Number 2 would be feeding each half of the city. So youd lose half the city if you didnt have a replacement. Narrator
We started on this project in 1969. Im a sandhog. Ive been a sandhog for 37 years. Narrator sandhogs are the men of local 147, who work deep below the city. They began building the infrastructure of new york in 1872. From the subways to the sewers, the water tunnels to the highway tunnels, new york city thrives because of their work. Ryan you got one little hole in the ground, and nobody knows were here. See the empire state building, right. Thats 1,000 feet. So you figure, you go down 1,000. How high that is thats how far we go down. Narrator stretching more than 60 miles under the city, tunnel 3 is taking generations of workers to complete. Ryan i dont even want to imagine what my father had to go through. When we first started, it was a rough job. Everything was dynamite. Now, they have these machines called moles. Its like a big drill, and it just cuts right through the ground. So theres no more dynamite. And its still a rough job, but its gotten to a point where its a lot safer. I
That we face in america today. Allbee the clean water act set a floor and basically said, everybodys whos discharging is going to have to have a permit, and to achieve this defined performance level. Narrator the clean water act regulates the discharge of pollutants into surface waters across the nation. It protects our watersheds, our recreational waters, and our Drinking Water intakes. Man today, more than 50 of the nations waters are fishable, swimmable. Thats almost doubled since the clean water act was passed in 72. Narrator another significant component of the clean water act was a federally funded Grant Program to build Wastewater Treatment plants to reduce pollution in the waterways. And many cities built their Treatment Plants with this grant money. Oberstar but even a decade after it was enacted, the Reagan Administration came in and cut the Grant Program to a loan program. And funding diminished over a period of time. Now, we still have 1 3 or more of the nations streams and