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Lemonade stand and taking big coin there. can you believe it? >> the big coin? >> yeah, theyre using big coin. they made $70. its the new form of the future, guys. >> bijtal payment. can you buy lemonade, cookies, anything else. >> all right this is "first look," "way too early" starts right now. newly released e-mails linked the office of new jersey governor chris christie to a controversial lane closure at the george washington bridge. >> one of christys top appointees at the port authority....

Then, suddenly, without any notice, during a september rush hour, two of the three lanes from ft. lee to the george washington bridge were shut down. they stayed closed for days, and they led to a traffic nightmare. you can only imagine. even for paramedics, they couldnt get to people in trouble. there are even questions this morning over whether this contributed to the death of a 91-year-old woman. now, governor christi he has lo denied any connection to what happened, even saying that no one i...

Who are these people that talk and think this way? it makes no sense. >> how do you think it will impact his run for president? >> christie is the most counted politician i know, other than maybe bill clinton. so if this is the end of it, if nobody else is involve d, then i think hell emerge and be a strong presidential contender. but if we let other things, other people in the governors office, if this becomes a pattern, then i think its going to give him real problems. >> former governor tom k...

For four-days in september people werhere, we are talking school buses and emergency vehicles for hours because three lanes were reduced to one into that cash toll lane. the governor denied any involvement in purposefully shutting down the lanes as some sort of political pay back because the mayor here in fort lee who is a democrat didnt want to endorse christies reelection. there are now apparently two weeks before the lane closings, one of christies top aid kelly actually e-mailed the port aut...

Transit between new jersey and new york. dating back to 2010, the mayor of fort lee was complaining about traffic problems. and david wild stein was going to commission some sort of study. thats why it is so puzzling why he would decide to close some of the access lanes to the bridge and then not tell the fort lee officials about it who then complained in september when had closed hose access lanes. as you mentioned, david wildstein resigned in december but he is testifying here today at noon. o...

Representative of what you have learned? are we going to get the rest of it? >> theres thousands of pages of documents, and mr. wildsteins commission is 907 pages. what we want to do is have this hearing tomorrow, and provide mr. wildstein an opportunity under oath to answer questions. theres an august 13 e-mail about trying to create traffic problems in fort lee. he says, got it. you wont know what that means unless youve had a conversation about this topic beforehand. who did he have that conv...

Bridge, ann kelly one of three deputies on christies senior staff, writes the following e-mail to christie appointee david wildstein at the port authority that runs the bridge. "time for traffic problems in fort lee" she writes. the reply from will wildstein "got it". we dont know who texted this to wildstein. is it wrong that im smiling? no, the person responds. i feel badly about the unknown kids talking about the kids going to school stuck on school buses. i guess comes the reply from >> i ac...

Traffic backed up, school buses ran late, ambulances were delayed. all allegedly because ft. lees mayor, a democrat, refused to join other democrats endorsing chris christie. today, we got evidence there was payback,s imme kating top christies aides. "time for some traffic problems in ft. lee," she writes. the reply, got it. late today, chris christie writes -- the statement went on to stay, this behavior is not representative of me or my administration in any way, and

Is a two-edged sword. the theme of this month in politics at least in washington democrats arent really admitting how ineffective the welfare programs are and republicans refuse to come off their support for folks at the high end of incomes until both sides actually face that, its not ever going to get fixed. >> chris christie, you also talk about his troubles. how big of a problem is this? >> its time for traffic problems is going to go down in history as one of the great dumb e-mails ever. he ...

Apparently due to the change in traffic patterns in the fort lee area. were talking about a vehicle accident with injuries involving four patients, a woman in cardiac arrest who was pronounced at a local hospital and a couple cases of people experiencing chest pains. the letter was dated september 10th of last year. this shows why the evidence of intentionally created delays on the george washington bridge are so serious for the governors office. >> reporter: first, there was snarled traffic on ...