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that top christie appointees orchestrated traffic jams on the george washington bridge last year in ft. lee to punish the town s mayor for not endorsing christie s re-election. chr chris frates has been digging into this for us. lawmakers have issued 18 new subpoenas wideping their investigation. as we pored through dozens of these pages it appears they have questions about a testimony of a top christie official. even as chris christie raised money for the gop and fought the record snowfall in his state, tweeting about snowmen and school closings, he s not been able to fend off an avalanche of new subpoenas in the widening probe of the bridgegte scandal. does the gw bridge situation impact your ability to execute on those priorities for the state? actually, i m shocked you brought that up. cnn has obtained copies of 18 subpoenas issued by the legislative committee
trouble when you start casting aspersions on people. it tends to get their back up. whatever loyalty, whatever shreds of loyalty they might still have tend to go out the window. slime them. slime them before they testify. let s go on here. i want to give you something there, john. here is what is so hard to believe. when you think about christie s explanations. yep. just look at the timeline here. christie says he first realized there was a problem with the lane closures incident when he saw in the newspaper, that s the wall street journal, that the port authority s chief, that s patrick foye, a new york appointee had written a scathing letter to christie s appointees in the agency. and here is the big lead from the wall street journal story october 1. the abrupt closure of local access lanes to the george washington bridge last month triggered a pointed private response. who said the move likely broke state and federal laws and could have caused deaths because of snarled tra
up last-minute items from the grocery stores. forecasters predict up to 10 inches of snow. also lawyers for amanda knox vow to fight over her conviction. italian appeals court reinstated that verdict. she was found guilty of killing her roommate. the guilty verdict was reached at a retrial of knox and her boyfriend. knox is now in the u.s. a decision to extradite her will be left to secretary of state john kerry. the allegations made by a lawyer for one of the new jersey governor s former top aides that christie knew about the controversial lane closures on the george washington bridge last fall while they were happening. governor christie s office insists the governor found out about the closures after the fact from press reports. let me bring in david cruz of njtv, covering news in new jersey for 20 years. have you seen anything like this before? a lot of people, even jon stewart, he says, this is what
tickets to europe says the new alert won t change their travel plans. what are the chances it s going to happen? minor, so, hey. not going to let them rule me. i figure my faith will come upon me as a grand surprise, but it s not going to interfere with my amusements. u.s. officials say there are hundreds of thousands of americans in europe at any one time, including tourists, students and business people. rutgers university in new jersey is planning to hold a vigil tonight for tyler clementi, the freshman who committed suicide after a sexual encounter was secretly streamed online. rutgers paid a public tribute to the 18-year-old at the school s homecoming football game, pausing for a moment of silence. clementi s name was also shown there on the stadium s huge scoreboard and the crowd applauded politely after the observation ended. the gifted violinist jumped off the george washington bridge last week and his body was recovered in the hudson river three weeks later.