you ll find a kaleidoscope of voices which makes this a very rich tapestry. each of us experience the same event in a different way, so each of these individuals experienced the manhattan project in their own, unique way. cynthia kelly with the atomic heritage foundation. thank you for joining us on american history tv. cindy: thank you very much. something about your background, where you re born, education? benjamin: my parents who were russian-jewish immigrants who came to america just before world war i and just after world war i. they met at night school, a very romantic setting. they lived in the lower east side. they were very poor. my father worked as a restaurant worker all of his life. i grew up mainly in the bronx and partly in brighton beach in brooklyn. one of the great things about new york is that it had city college. city college was a defining event in my life because he gave me a completely free education, the exact subject that i wanted, which is physic
maitland boulevard. we want people to feel this is a safe project, and this was a terrible tragedy. and everybody is feeling the effects of it. amanda: sgl says workers were offered grief counseling. hourly employees were told to take the day off with pay. supervisors and salaried workers still reported but with a different focus. certainly we re going to be , reviewing access and how we control dump trucks coming in and out of the area, but certainly we don t want to look at just that. amanda: sgl says it will do a thorough review of all of it s safety procedures and i-4 work may resume friday, or not until next week. the florida highway patrol is investigating the accident and says the backup warning beeper on the truck was sounding when it backed over franklin, but other details of what lead to the tragedy are being investigated by both fhp and osha. florida department of transportation tells wesh 2 news ensuring safety is its top priority. it claims meantime, the
s department has worked 75 heroin over dose cases that resulted in eight deaths. one official told us the alleged drug dealers clearly have the skills to operate a legitimate business. michelle meredith, wesh 2 news. angela: an ohio pharrell board has decided to separate a man who is captured 62 years escaping from prison. he had run off from the shawshank prison in ohio 1959. he had been held for running over and killing a man. he was re-imprisoned last may. jim: we are learning more information about an i-4 worker who was killed while on the job yesterday. angela: it happened just before noon in a construction area near i-4 and the maitland boulevard exit. wesh 2 s amanda ober is live. amanda, this man had a dump truck back over him? amanda: that is what happened who was killed was a father of three children and that he was only on this job about a month, a job he was very excited to have. meantime you may have noticed there has been no activity at any of the i-4 construct
state road 50 in the west at westbound lanes are closed because officers are rerouting traffic around the crash tight. summer knowles, wesh 2 news. jim: not long before that crash, police in titusville were called to another accident that injured an eight-year-old boy who was riding a bicycle. this is a picture taken of the scene from the titusville fire department. a vehicle hit the child at alpine lane and delespine avenue. firefighters say the boy was conscious. police later found the vehicle and driver they believe to be involved. meredith: more breaking news right now in kansas where the death toll continues to rise after a series of attacks at an industrial plant. the suspect is a worker at an excel industries plant in the town of hesston, in south central kansas. that s just north of wichita. that business makes lawn mower products. the sheriff there confirms it is one of the crime scenes that s left up to seven people killed and 20 injured. investigators aren t s
announcer: local, live, latebreaking. this is wesh 2 news sunrise in high definition. jason: the weekend is just around the corner. a lot of you are telling us you are the gymnasium at this hour. you are going to glad you are not outside. it is chilly. amy: it is colder than it was yesterday. it is windy, so that helps out a little bit. we are talking about a wind chill on this friday morning. plenty of sunshine today. temperatures climb into the lower to middle 60 s. we will see a lot of sunshine and blue sky today. five to 10 degrees cooler than 45, daytona beach. orlando, 48. melbourne, 48. the wind is lighter than yesterday. they are coming of the west. overall, pushing towards the coast. it does feel a couple of degrees colder than it is. 44, sanford. 43 is how we feel in daytona beach. it will not be as blustery or gusty as yesterday. we will climb into the lower to middle 60 s. 65, orlando. right now, let s get an early check on traffic. ted: breaking news on i-driv