Colorado. Going to beaver creek. Hopefully we will get snow. Reporter carla kline and her family are heading to the slopes this thanksgiving holiday. Heading into Philadelphia International airport they are hoping to avoid the holiday rush. I would be there but they came from panama yesterday and it took me two and a half hours to get to the airport last night yeah, so traffic was really bad but today was a breeze, no traffic at all. Reporter midday on the ]jbusiest travel day of thes were the lack of long lines. So far, so good we came early. Flight is supposed to be at 4 30. We just wanted to avoid hustle and bustle so we came early. Im surprised our flight anxiety we chose to come early and so far it looks good. Reporter rick fox and his family breezed through airport check in on their way to chicago. Im really excited. Spend time with my husbands family. So we will get sometime off. Reporter earlier in the day lines formed quickly at this tsa security checkpoint as travelers tried
The accident started in the northbound lanes. One box truck trying to pass another when they bumped at high speed and one lost control jumping the divider into the oncoming tractor trailer. Its a complex accident scene in a really bad spot. Reporter evidence spread over hundreds of yards of pavement on a friday afternoon where that corridor is very heavy. Most of the traffic is being diverted. Its one behind the other. Nobody moving for two hours. Reporter state police tried to turn southbound thruway motorists around but ended up filtering on to local streets to get past the wreck. The Ripple Effect lasted all afternoon. 17 is a dead stop. Reporter how long have you been stuck . Four hours. Going from suffern to spring valley. Reporter how long is it taking you. An hour and a half. Reporter and youre not there yet . No. Youre still in suffern, you know. Yeah. Reporter thousands were caught in it but the frustration vanished once they saw the cause. This truck driver missed all his app
About the first day of school in less than three weeks. I dont know how were supposed to go back to school because thats an entire floor. That exploded. Reporter thats a reasonable question. Earlier in the day, the city said that school would be open in time. But late this afternoon, the mayor is now saying the School Building will not be ready, and all students housed in that seven schools in the building will have to be diverted to new locations. Again, School Starts in less than three weeks. Reporting live from marble hill, ida siegal, news 4 new york. Thank you for those new details. Take a look at video we just got into our newsroom. A man has been killed and a woman critically hurt in a brawl on an east harlem street corner. Police say this started as a verbal dispute and quickly turned violent. Ray villeda has been on the scene working on the details. Hes in east harlem. Police just left the scene about an hour ago after reviewing Surveillance Video. According to witnesses, this
Have some light precipitation popping through the region. Were starting to see the end to this out in lancaster as its pushing toward the east but for now south jersey on the northern suburbs and philadelphia a bit on the damp side as you head in. The wide view though shows some drying. Not too far to the west. And then some clearing down to the southwest and we are expecting the return of some sunshine today. 58 degrees currently in philadelphia, 56 in allentown. Very even numbers beneath the clouds. A lot of us have been on the damp side but we are looking at some quick improvement. 56 degrees by 7 oclock. Rain ending by about 8 oclock this morning in most areas. And then 62 degrees by noon with some sun coming back and the afternoon looks partly sunny and mild with a late day high of 71 degrees around 5 oclock. Word to the wise down the shore. If you live in one of those areas that sometimes gets minor tidal flooding at times of high tide this evening and the next couple of evenings
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thank you for joining us. President donald trump spent part of his day in palm beach, florida, interviewing four finalists to be his new National Security adviser. Three of them are active or retired Army Lieutenant generals. Acting National Security adviser keith kellogg, h. R. Mcmaster. , and robert caslen. The fourth candidate is former u. N. Ambassador john bolton. Mister trump is filling the vacancy left by the firing of general Michael Flynn for misrepresenting his phone calls with russias ambassador to the u. S. Before the Trump Administration took office. Today,