In just a few hours, construction crews will make history on the outer banks. Theyll start work on the new bonner bridge. This after years of red tape and fighting with environmental groups. The bonner bridge is the only land route residents on Hatteras Island have to the rest of the outer banks. Rico bush is live in the newsroom with more on whats expected to happen today. Rico. After decades of delays on a bridge replacement in the outer banks, today marks a major milestone for North Carolina. Crews plan move forward with construction on a new bonner bridge, stretching across the oregon inlet. For years, 10 on your side has covered the story on the current bridge. Crews built it in the 1960s and the bridge was designed to last only last 30 years. You about emergency shutdowns for repairs to keep the aging bridge up and running. The constant battle and legal issues with environmental groups, residents and transportation officials prevented North Carolina from building a new bridge. Th
Some have taken to social media to criticize local leaders for the way they have spent tax dollars. So, why spend money on studies . Yesterday, ktivs tiffany lane asked local leaders that question. Not one of the major markets in the country, doesnt mean we cant use ideas from some of those bigger arenas here. The Tyson Events Center was awarded 68thousand dollars for a study to look at physical improvements, as well as, a review of concessions and programming. The cone park project had the most expensive study for fiscal thousand dollars. Parks and recreation director Matt Salvatore says that is because the study also included a preliminary design. We would have basically put together a rough idea of what we thought this project wouldhow it would have been done and we would have hired somebody to design and it wouldnt have given us the info up front, said Matt Salvatore, sioux city Parks Recreation director. Salvatore says without the study and design, they would have been going in bl
Yesterday. 30s for pottstown, trenton, northeast philadelphia and at freezing for mount holly. A little warmer in delaware, wilmington is 45 degrees. The wind is blowing. Well see a warmup. Also clouds moving in. 53 degrees at 9 00. In the low 60s by lunch time. Something that did not happen yesterday. Ill be back in 10 minutes with the neighborhood by neighborhood forecast. First Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic. Were checking the vine street expressway. If the youre heading out the door in the next minutes the vine street expressway closed until about 5 00 this morning, between broad street and the schuylkill expressway. Not a car westbound or eastbound at this point. These are cameras right above 24th street. We have a half hour for the closure to be lifted. On the schuylkill expressway were doing okay. Eastbound or westbound, were at 12 minutes at the most from the blue route to the vine street expressway. Into center city no problems there right now. And on 422 watch
Officials say the plane was a single engine munim20 and was headed to Atlantic City International Airport from gaylord, michigan. I called the airport there. A spokesman couldnt provide Additional Details on who might have been on board the plane. An faa official i reached out to so far has not been able to confirm the planes tail number. That type of aircraft is equipped with four seats but we dont yet know how many people were on board, nor the conditions of anyone involved. I will continue reaching out to the state police, the coast guard and the faa and as soon as we get more information, we will bring that to you. Live in Atlantic City, im Ted Greenberg, nbc 10 news. Now to your nbc 10 first alert weather. People trying to dodge heavy rain falling across the region today. Thats right. The problem wasnt just on the sidewalks. Drivers are dealing with flooding on the schuykill expressway and some other major roads tonight. The rain is still coming down, as you can see, on the live n
I want to talk about bond markets, for me this is where things get frisky. Japanese government bonds they are defying me, but what you are seeing the government bonds have been negative in germany, the japanese went in tandem. Is it fear inflation or what is it . Is it deflation or fear of a bigger route of the equity markets. John williams says june is reasonable everybody is pushing and hedging and migrating their view on where the euro will go. Will the rate cycle happen this year . Can it happen this year . Global bonds are at their lowest yield since 1996. 1. 21 on a global basis. Does it create asset bubbles elsewhere . Not my job to know. 44 points for seven is where we are on west texas intermediate 44. 47 is where we are on west texas intermediate. There you go, oil is on lower. Three stocks which are in focus today. A little bit of retail. W m morrison looking for a new ceo, a stock up Dalton Phillips steps down or is stepping down. His performance is underwhelming. He delive