But we begin on election 2024. There are still primaries to pie shifted their focus to their november general election and with 239 days to go until election day, we want to he loog president ial rematch. If you support President Biden, phone number is 2027488000. If you support former President Trump, 2027488001, if you support nei and if youre still undecided at this point, 2027488003. You could also send us a text this morning and catch up with us on social media on x at cspanwj and on facebook on facebook. Com cspan. This is the headline from theto. Biden and trump go on the attack in dueling georgiants. Both speaking to crowds of supporters there. Georgia set to be a key state once again in the november somet biden had to say in atlanta. Pres. Iden you know youre the reason were going to win. Donald trump has a different constituency. Heres a guy whos off his campaign on the road with Marjorie Taylor greene. It can tell you a lot about he. And yesterday he was hosting at his club,
Reporter the admitted hit andrun driver sentenced last week to 25 years after a drug fueled reign of terror. He carjacked an elderly woman and caught hours later shopping for a television. He offered no apology. The cop promoted to detective credits support from his Police Family and beyond. I will say thank you every day. Reporter now the 36year old marathon runner with a broad smile works to regain strength. Theres some good days and bad days but i got to look at the bright side. Im alive, here and im going to continue. Im going to strive. Reporter to return to police duty as soon as possible. I want people to know that the police are there for him. Reporter ready to put his life on the line again. In huntington, long island, carolyn gusoff, cbs 2 news. Detective guerreros partner was also struck by the car thief. His injuries not life threatening. A second suspect in the case is in court next week. Cbs 2 has learned of the unprecedented plans to keep pope francis safe when he visits
Here we are august 1st already, summer flying by, hottest time of the year. We will see temperatures in the lower 90s. We are waking up, somewhat on the comfortable side. It is warm. Mid 70s in philadelphia at the airport. 76 degrees. Nice 60s showing up north and west allentown at 64. Sixtyseven in reading. South jersey we will go also in the lower 07s in wildwood right now. There are the suburbs quakertown a cooler spots and pottstown coming in at 64 degrees at this hour. The wind are shifting out of the southwest. That keeps heat around. Humidity levels slightly higher then yesterday but still not too bad for early august, and we will look at those dew point temperatures in yesterday and they were in the lower 60s and 50s and little bit high tore day. More moisture in the air with you overall not that bad. It could be worse. Storm scan three is quiet. A few clouds this morning. We should see plenty of sunshine throughout the day maybe fair weather cloud developing will in the aftern
Seen for miles away as the truck burned. Janelle burrell is live. Reporter the truck over turned causing the over pass to catch on fire. Now police arent sure about the over passes stability. The massive traffic back up because of this truck over turning on the new jersey turnpike around 10 30, catching fire at the good avenue over pass between exits 12 and 13. It ignited the over pass. The over pass game became engulfed in flames also. New Jersey State Police so concerned they shut down seven lanes of traffic in both directions, 14 in all leading to this rare scene. Cars actually turning around on the turnpike going the wrong way in their lanes, a result of the gridlock stretching for more than 5 miles in both directions. New now its up to engineers to decide the extent of the damage and whether the over pass is structurally sound. We believe the over pass has been compromised and we are going to have the turnpike shut down until thats checked. Reporter state police said once the fire
And also the issue of synthetic marijuana. Its known as k2 and spice, and its creating a Public Health crisis. The homeless can buy it at bodega for 1 a packet. I thought i was having a heart attack. Reporter ma man ask this man asked us to hide his face, and he says the drug has a violent reaction, and you can see it here with the reaction from this naked man. Arresting the people becomes dangerous. The individuals on the drug are crazy. They have superhuman strength and are impervious to pain, and the normal takedowns will not work. Reporter the city released the latest Crime Statistics, and according to the numbers, overall crime is down by more than 10 , but homicides have gone up from last year, and thats something we asked mayor de blasio about. Reporter some people look at the statistics and some say the city is going downhill. What do you say . I would say look at the facts and stop the hysteria. Reporter ilana gold, cbs 2 news. Thank you, ilana. Time for traffic and weather on