Is. Dan turner has never complained about the location of his job. Its great. Reporter near the corner of Martin Luther king and bonanza, its easy in, easy out. But come tuesday morning, traffic at this intersection might be an issue. Northbound onramp to u. S. 95 is scheduled to shut down. And turner thinks a backup is inevitable as confused motorists reroute. If that trout lane ist route lane is shut down, i dont know how far back they are gonna go. If they dont go far, everybody is gonna get right up to it. Reporter the closure is necessary to make room for a carpool flyover bridge that will connect u. S. 95 to i15. One piece of the puzzle that is project neon. A 1 billion redesign to ease traffic, before and after animation showing the scope of this is a busy stretch of highway. Reporter this project manager spoke to us about the plans in june. It has over 300,000 vehicles per day and with that we experience three and a half accidents a day. What were doing is safety and mobility.
Its immensely frustrating, its out of hand, its pandemonium out here, theres nobody taking charge. Just one of hundreds of parents who felt they were left in the dark overnight after School Officials duscovered spilled mercury. That led to the lockdown and the epa being called in. Followed by more than 16 hours of screening students kept inside the school. This morning a School District spokeswoman, the School Police chief and an epa representative all said things went well and according to how but that message is not sitting well with parents. Many of them came to an information open house tonight at a nearby school. Fox5s Miguel Martinez valle was that and joins us not to tell us if parents have caled down. Or jsut become more frustrated. It was supposed to be an open discussion a place for concerned parents to ask questions to officials like the epa the School District or the fire chief. But when parents werent getting answers to their quickly went out the door. Natyou wouldnt relea
They had mercury in a plastic bag and these boys were playing around in the locker room and i think it broke everywhere mercury just bounces like little beads and it gets on your foot and you could track it everywhere which is why we were very cautious about sending people home when it was potentially on their shoes the School Districts Police Department says now that they know everyone is safe the next step is figuring out what happened. But he was very clear, they do know it started with a group of kids just messing around. As for the parents theyre glad everyone is safe but they habe some hard feelings about the way this whole thing was handled, especially when it comes to communication. They say it was a mess last night, and for more on that, John Christine will you. Continuing our Team Coverage is fox5s eric hilt. He joins us live in the newsroom after spending nearly all day yesterday with parents eric, how are those parents feeling today . Theyre tired because some of them staye
With a quick look at the fox 5 weather 247 forecast. Triple digit temperatures return the next few days as a ridge holds on bringing us quiet weather until sunday afternoon. A low meandering off the california coast will shift creating breezy conditions by the afternoon. A trough from the Pacific Northwest starts to slide down the coastline overnight sunday and that will usher in much cooler temperatures for our area beginning monday. The uv index for friday is 8 or very high. students names called out students names called out Emergency Response teams are working around the clock to clear away a mercury spill at Walter Johnson junior high school. Classes are cancelled again for a second day. This scene started after a teacher alerted School Administrators that a student was playing with the substance. Thats when things got serious. The school was placed on lockdown. With more than a thousand students still inside. 9 students and 3 administrators were initally exposed to the substance.