Allegheny avenues. Eyewitness News Reporter Elizabeth Hur is live with more on what drivers can expect. Liz . Reporter chris, what drivers can expect is basically what you see behind me here. Overnight lane closures with cones up and then crews off to the side busy at work. Now, we are told Officials Say these crews will be at work during the week from 10 00 a. M. To 5 00 a. M. A familiar sight for commuters construction work along i95 will be extended starting wednesday night. Now to include the stretch between the girard avenue and allegheny interchanges. This Officials Say is part four of sick phases. The ultimate goal here to reconstruct and improve 3 miles of i95 and in the end the corridor will be widened to four travel lanes in both directions. So for now the changes you will notice immediately Officials Say will be the repainting the lanes and shifting of the traffic pattern. The work will be done overnight but for some commuters, they believe the added confusion will only mean
Middlesex county, only lasting about two minutes. Roper arrived to court and was met by a flood of media. The 35 year old truck driver from jonesboro, georgia, pleaded not guilty. His attorney speaking for him in court. The judge kept his bail at 50,000 which hes already pos posted. He is the sole driver charged in causing the deadly six vehicle pileup along the new jersey turnpike this weekend. The crash killed comedian 62 year old james mcnair and just two blocks away from here tracy morgan and two others are still recovering in the hospital. Morgan remains in critical but stable condition. Roper and his attorney declined to speak to reporters. They said you didnt sleep for 24 hours. Is that true . Roper did not make statement leaving court, but his twitter account believed to belong to him says i thought our country said we still had right of being innocent until proven guilty. Wait, that doesnt sell newspapers or get website hits and another tweet from yesterday said i was never ch
Just outlying ought of those charges against kevin roper but it was an opportunity for him for his lawyer to dress those accusations that he had no business behind the wheel saturday morning. If kevin roper was ever looking for 152nd of fame, this wasnt it. Ropers accused of being sleep deprived when he crashed a walmart tractor trailer in the limo bus in the new jersey turnpike saturday carrying Tracie Morgan critically injured. One of his fellow comedians james mcnair was kill and several others were injured. Roper faced arraignment in criminal court. Roper is being charged with vehicular homicide for death of mcnair, assault by auto for others who were injured. Under new jersey law a driver can be convicted if there is proof he has been without sleep for 24 hours when the accident occurred. Ropers Attorney Says he didnt commit the crimes. Authority say roper failed to slow for traffic and tried to swerve at the last minute to avoid a crash. Instead the rig slammed in the back of the
Liz . Reporter chris, what drivers can expect is basically what you see behind me here. Overnight lane closures with cones up and then crews off to the side busy at work. Now, we are told Officials Say these crews will be at work during the week from 10 00 a. M. To 5 00 a. M. A familiar sight for commuters construction work along i95 will be extended starting wednesday night. Now to include the stretch between the girard avenue and allegheny interchanges. This Officials Say is part four of sick phases. The ultimate goal here to reconstruct and improve 3 miles of i95 and in the end the corridor will be widened to four travel lanes in both directions. So for now the changes you will notice immediately Officials Say will be the repainting the lanes and shifting of the traffic pattern. The work will be done overnight but for some commuters, they believe the added confusion will only mean more congestion. Were local. So, um, cant imagine this being good for quick trips to and from the city.
Murphy. Good morning, to all of you waking up with us, so early, had yet another very busy news day. Our reporters are following two developing stories happening right now, fire, that destroyed a bar early this morning. Search foreman behind brutal attack. Lets fine sue serio tracking another wet day. Whats the number, sue serio . Half and half number days today, looks like another five, with more fog, starting off this morning, and thats one of your minuses, because thats going to slow you down, still humid, pop up thunderstorms are possible, on the plus side, temperatures little cooler, and we might see few peaks of sunshine today. Cross your fingers. Heres bus stop buddy, with areas of fog, some drizzle around this morning. Were saving the thunderstorms for later on this afternoon, temperatures are in the 60s, little bit cooler than they have been in the morning, still so humid, just casino of yucky out there. There is a look at ultimate doppler, most of the rain thats falling is ou