Traffic Mayhem News Today

World news is next. We appreciate your time. Im dan ashley. And im kristen sze. For sandhya tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. The holiday escape turning deadly. Accidents grinding traffic to a halt in two major cities, as more than 40 million americans hit the roads. Now a sweltering heat wave settling in. Our ginger zee standing by. A Fourth Of July like no other. Thats what President Trump is promising in the nations capital, with tanks and military planes. But how muc...

Pedestrians wont stumble out into the cross-town streets every block without looking. 6th avenue was closed. you can see the street sweepers going to work to clean up the debris left after one of these festivals. thats why you are not seeing a lot of traffic on 6th avenue. but if we can get our times square camera up on 7th avenue and broadway just a block away, i think you will see traffic mayhem. unfortunately we cannot bring you that image because our times square camera is down. go figure. t...

Manhattan. at least 12 people injured. an 18-wheeler plunging off this bridge in houston. the driver did not survive. and you can see the traffic there backed up for miles. despite these challenges, a record number of people are expected to travel for this fourth of july. abcs gio benitez starts us off. >> reporter: tonight, these dramatic images on one of the busiest roads in the northeast, just as the fourth of july holiday rush begins. a sanitation truck overturning on the outbound side of ne...

Aware that the pope was meeting president trump this morning at all. and frankly, yesterday when i spoke to people in the street they realized that president trump was coming only because they saw traffic mayhem and were asking what was going on. in a way the italians were taij a bit aback by this very swift visit by president trump. but there are certain branches of society here, people that clearly were aware of him coming and made their voices heard. yesterday i spoke to a small group bald th...

Oh, my gosh, i cant watch my favorite -- >> you dont think that deliberately causing traffic mayhem around the busiest bridge in the world, potentially emergency services couldnt get to the elderly, is not a very serious story? >> let me clarify that i am massively opposed to chris christie, because he had his amnesty, i dont think he cares about the country, he cares about his wall street friends. i have no interest in defending him, and by the way, this idea that hes a bully is preposterous. h...

Administration, hasnt it? >> no. it actually hasnt dented my faith. in fact, the way hes handled the situation, rise together occasion, what i would consider true leadership. look, number one, he owned it. he took responsibility. i think thats extremely important. and theres also accountability in his administration. when were dealing with human beings, regardless of a gubernatorial administration or here in congress or in your own home, people are going to let you down. theres nothing we can do...

Many people working closely to him, including some of his own top staff, aligned with other people at the port authority and elsewhere, have all conspired to do an absolutely outrageous thing. risking lives of people in new jersey, causing traffic mayhem for a week, a sort of pathetic punitive piece of political payback. so i would ask you again, has your faith not in chris christie perhaps diminished, because he may have been completely blind to this as he says. but surely the way that his admi...

New jersey, bob summer, somebody who used to write for david wildsteins politics blog site, his name is being squatted by wildstein as well. bob sommer was asked if he had any idea this bobsommer.com thing was going on. his response was "wow! i am shocked that someone who i worked with very closely has taken my domain name without my knowledge." a spokesperson for governor christie said today that the campaign for re-election for governor christie and the governor himself, they all had no idea t...

Bob sommer was asked if he had any idea this bobsommer.com thing was going on. his response was "wow! i am shocked that someone who i worked with very closely has taken my domain name without my knowledge." a spokesperson for governor christie said today that the campaign for re-election for governor christie and the governor himself, they all had no idea this was going on, no knowledge of it at all. as this chris christie administration story gets weirder by the day, the big picture here, the r...

Security, if you can speak to that, especially in light of the manchester attacks, with the president there in the vatican. vatican city. st. peters square. the basilica. all -- im sure at any given time of day or night heavily, heavily secured. im sure even more so with the president there. >> yes. well, theres been traffic mayhem here in rome because all the areas around the locations that were visited or are being visited by president trump during these two days have been on lockdown. they cl...