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Good monday morning. Were going to get started here with the sad new details were learning about the Amusement Park accident that killed a young boy. Caleb schwab, it turns out was the son of a state lawmaker and died riding the verruckt water ride in kansas city. Verruckt means insane and thats what it meant to symbolize. The slide is 168 feet tall and plunges 17 stories down. Park officials arent saying how caleb died, but the park will be closed again today as the investigation gets under way. More now from abcs alex perez. Reporter authorities investigating what went tragically wrong at this popular kansas city water park. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family during this difficult time. Reporter abc news learning the 10yearold of kansas state representative scott schwab died while riding water slide in the world here at the schlitterbahn water park. It still brought tears to my eyes that someone else lost their child thats my childs age that im sure they thought was safe. R
Fallen tree is blocking the lanes. That will be closed as well this morning. The bay bridge, theres some road work and well have mass transit delays coming up too. Breaking news in oakland where a car fire has sparked a homicide investigation. Police got a call around 2 00 this morning about a fire at 98th and empire. They found two bodies inside a burning car. A third person found in the car has been sent to the hospital. Opd has called out homicide investigators. Well bring you more information as soon as we get it. If youre flying today, you could run in to big problems. All delta flights have been grounded because of a worldwide computer failure. Thousands of delta passengers were delayed overnight because of the problem. The airline says their systems were down everywhere. Some passengers say they needed more than an hour to check in. While calvin riley stares at his phone, somebody shoots and kills him. Betty yu with the family and friends who cannot believe he is gone. For no re
He said i am not feeling good. I then asked i said what is it that you ate . He said it was a candy. He called 911 and then noticed a girl having problem of the within minutes. All this other days so started happening. You just arrived opinion scene and they quickly realized they had multiple patients with the same symptoms. The Fire Department and paramedics made a initial response and the Police Department was notified and the department of Public Health was also brought in. Firefighters ended up taking 17 people to the hospital. The candy in question was unwrapped and unlabeled because ten children got sick. Three of them wound up in intensive care. A special victims unit is also looking into the case. They are going to wait for those tests. The Security Guard pointed out that it is not the womens building that provides food at these events. It is brought in by either families or caters. It is highly unlikely they would ever ban food at parties. Back to you. Someone shot and killed
For joining us. Im Shirleen Allicot in for ken rosato. Beginning with bill evans. Good morning, we are going to have a beautiful start to the day. Temperatures 74 degrees, humidity is very low. Really nice, clear skies, light northwest wind. 71 Staten Island. 66 montauk. Today, by noontime 82. Later on th 85 87. Very low humidity, it is going to feel great. The weather is great, already starting the day in the traffic department, i cant bare to explain or tell the story that heather is about to tell. It is way too graphic. A sad day in the traffic center. We have an overturned tractor trailer, the tractor trailer was carrying beer. Tractor trailer. The hoboken to 33 street line, until december 19th. 1, 2, 3, 4 trains, track work until 5 00 a. M. Defq trains same situation track work until 5 00. Long Island Railroad metro north, new Jersey Transit, that is doing fine. Alternate side of the street rules in effect. We will start breaking news overseas, a suicide bombing a at government ru