It is going to be a rough commute. These delays are about a 9mile jam that takes you almost all the way back to interchange 9. If you can take route 30 it is going to be better. This is something you need to avoid. Reporting live over the new jersey turnpike shannon stone channel 7 Eyewitness News. We are going to take you from the sky to the ground and check in with mallory near the scene in South Brunswick. Mallory . Reporter thats right. Cars in the southbound lanes are starting to move once again of the i want to show you the scene out here. You can see things starting to move slowly. Just awhile ago though we spoke with a man who was an eyewitness. He saw what was taking place here. He got out of his car and attempted to then those who were suffering. Humvee and three soldiers were trapped. I ran back to my truck, got ply jack. I ran back over, attempted to try and jack the front of the vehicle up to get some room to try and free the one soldier and we couldnt get it underneath. I kept looking trying to flag down vehicles to see if anyone had a floor jack and i flagged down a construction vehicle. A guy had a couple heavy duty pry bars and we were able to move the week enough to get the one soldier out. Obviously a really scary situation there, that man jumping in to help moments later. Personnel did begin to arrive on scone. You can see here the accident still needs to be cleaned up but traffic is moving once lanes, at least to some extent. We will, of course, bring you more information as soon as it becomes available. Live in South Brunswick mallory hoff channel 7 Eyewitness News. Well keep you posted on that story. Now a deadly fire in the bronx. Investigators saying burning incense was the cause of the fire that killed two little girls that had had been left home alone. The video shows their panicked mother running from the laundromat across the street as she realized that was happening. Eyewitness News Reporter darla miles is in the clairmont section with more. Reporter im hearing this mother walked out of the laundromat and almost did a double take as if she was in disbelief her apartment was really on fire. We are told at the same time someone who lives in the the family could not get in because the door was locked and right now this mother is home she went to the laundry and wash her clothes. She was about to come back quick but it takes long there. Reporter a 26yearold mother pregnant with her third child and now preparing to bury her first and second born. They know that nobody want to do this. But it happened. Reporter what happened is that her two little girls, a 2 yearold and an 18monthold perished in a fire while their mother was across the street doing laundry, seen in the Surveillance Video obtained by Eyewitness News. Horrible. It was horrible. We watched them a crowd of us watched them two little kids come out. The first one was looking like a pet. The Mother Told Police she thought another adult was in the apartment when she left but home alone when police say unattended incense started the fire. A Family Member who lives in the same building ran to the burning apartment at butler houses and dried to get the girls out but did not have a key. But that time firefighters had already arrived and the expectant mother was leaving the laundromat to run home. She collapsed when she came out because she was not allowed up there and then she just passed out. She just laid there. Reporter the smooth spent quite a bit of time talking to investigators. She has been released. No charges have been filed. That may happen at a later date. It depends upon the District Attorney and possibly a grand jury. Darla miles channel 7 Eyewitness News. Firefighters are on the scene of some sort of explosion at a business. Blast, followed by a fire at a fragrance business in an Industrial Complex this afternoon. The mayor tells us one person was injured, although it is not known how badly injured. Firefighters are now inspecting the building and trying to determine what caused the blast. All eyes on brooklyn as Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders get ready to square off in their ninth and potentially final debate. The stage is set, literally, for what could be the most contentious debate yet. This is their first face off since sanders questioned clintons qualifications. Marcie gonzalez has the latest from brooklyn. Reporter a democratic debate battle in the big apple. Tonight Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will take this stage, facing off for the first time in more than a month following a massive rally last night in manhattan. Jane and i left new york city when we were kids. Reporter brooklynborn sanders back in his home borough tonight. Senator clinton campaigning in the state where she lives. Both hoping their new york connections will help gain leverage with voters ahead of tuesdays primary. I am so glad to be back in the bronx. Reporter the republican candidates are also in new york. Donald trump, ted cruz and john kasich all speaking tonight at a fundraising event for the gop. Following clashes outside of trumps event in pennsylvania tonight the nypd is prepared for possible protests here. Reporter and trump is leading in the gop polls. Hillary clinton is pulling ahead by double digits, but that gap habaneroing and sanders hopes tonights debate could be just what he needs to marcie gonzalez, brooklyn, new york. Meanwhile, Donald TrumpsCampaign Manager will not be prosecuted after he was charged with misdemeanor assault. Prosecutors in florida say while there is probable cause for an arrest, there isnt enough evidence to prosecute the battery charge. He was seen on there video here grabbing a former bright bart News Reporter at a Campaign Event last month. Trump has refused to fire him. As supporters gather at Donald Trumps long island fundraiser stacey seger is tweeting out the latest. And we would like to hear from you. We have an Eyewitness News camera set up in union square so you can talk about the 2016 election. You can head to union square for a chance to enjoy the conversation. Is expressing outrage today over the delay in sentencing for former Police Officer peter le yang. 100 protesters protested. Le yang was supposed to be sentenced for his manslaughter conviction. A hearing was called to determine if a juror in le yangs trial misrepresented himself during jury selection. Le yangs attorney is making the argument the juror is prejudiced against police and they are now calling for a mistrial. We have discussed with the Justice System stop killing him again and again with your tricks. Reporter the sentencing has been rescheduled for next tuesday. He faces up to 15 years in prison. New details on the power outage in newark. Which continues for several Large Businesses in the city right now. By noon workers were able to restore power including the utilitys headquarters. Rutgers newark and ng it were forced to cancel classes because of this. Full restoration will be later tonight. And power is out in another neighborhood in new jersey after an out of control dump truck rolled down the street and knocked down utility poles. Workers dropped off a load from their truck, and the vehicle started to roll away. The workers ran after it, but it was too late. Remarkably only the poles and the truck were damaged. The truck came to a rest outside of the fire station. Power is expected to return to the neighborhood sometime tonight. One of president obamas final commencement speeches during his tenure will be delivered at rutgers university. The white house made the announcement today. Speeches is what the president gives. Rutgers more than 123,000 students and 40,000 guests will be on hand for the ceremony. The president will be delivering commencement speeches at Howard University and the air force academy. Stocks on wall street pushing the dow back toward the 18,000 marks. Stocks climbed for the Third Straight trading day. Investors were encouraged after word unemployment claims dropped to their lowest level since 1973. The dow rose a little bit more than 18 points to 17926. A local town supervisor arrested. Did he trick people into building a baseball stadium . It may sound like a 1980s spy film but this is real live drama and it played out in the and a chimp escaped from the zoo, dangling high above a residential neighborhood. Certainly not as much drama in the accuweather forecast. Spring is hitting its stride. It is a beautiful afternoon, we are in the low 60s. How about that weekend warm up . Here is your next 7 hours, nice evening coming up, light wind. Suburbs tonight, h all across america families are coming back to Time Warner Cable for a whole new experience. 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Lets get an update on the traffic from shannon stone in news copter 7. Reporter this was traveling southbound on the turnpike when the right front tire blew out, causing it to overturn. We did have four soldiers on board, three were trapped. The female soldier had a leg amputation at the scene. We did have two medevacs at the scene and because of that all lanes were shut down on the inner and outer lanes of the roadway. All of your lanes are getting through but the outer roadway we are still down to only one lane squeezing through and despite the fact they have opened so many lanes the damage here is already done. The delays on the push turnpike stretch back a whopping 9 miles almost back to interchange 9. It is a rough right tonight on the new jersey turnpike. Shannon stone channel 7 Eyewitness News. Right now Governor Cuomo applauding the new 15 an hour minimum wage. They are marching down to the republican gala. Some verizon workers who went on strike yesterday have joined them as well. Unsafe and unprofessional, that is the u. S. Military. That is what it is saying about the russian fighter jet that u. S. Warship. At one point coming within 30 feet of the vessel. Reporter it was a scene reminiscent of the cold car. Look on the deck. Reporter russian fighter jets flying dangerously close to the Navy Destroyer the uss donald cook as it navigated International Waters in the baltic sea. The planes passing 30 feet away from the ship again and again flying at le altitude, even it is wholly unsafe. There is no reason to be that low, there is no room for error and lots of room for disaster. Reporter the u. S. Navy captain judged the russian action unsafe and unprofessional, but he took no action, beyond trying unsuccessfully to communicate with the aircraft by radio. The white house says there have been repeated incidents like this in recent years, raising serious safety concerns. This incident is entirely inconsistent with the professional norms of military operating in proximity of each other in International Waters. Russia said the u. S. Ship was 44 miles from a Russian Naval base and once the flyers detected the destroyer they diverted from it with all safety precautions. Following breaking news in neighborhood officer peter le yang, a judge just nypd officer peter le yang. The judge denied a new trial. He was supposed to be sentenced today, that was delayed while they discussed that hearing and we know the judge upheld his verdict. We are going to head outside right now where meteorologist lee goldberg is. It is beautiful out there lee. Reporter so nice. He was checking out the marine forecast. Waves are two to three feet tomorrow. I didnt know if you were going to hang 10 tomorrow. Can we bring the audience up to speed . She is now surfer 8k core. She did it on surfer anchor. She did it on vacation. We all got up. Im happy about that. Remake of point break. Winds are chilly along the coast and yeah the surfs up a little bit. But we have great spring weather and we are on day two here of what will likely be at least a 6day stretch of dry weather and maybe even longer than that. Lets look at a beautiful picture of central park. Where by the way, channel 7s Softball Team opens the season with a 109 squeaker. Congratulations to them. 19 the air is super dry. Luckily the winds are not gusty, otherwise wed have some brush fire danger. But right now it is just dry. That is one reason why the 61 feels a little bit more like 50s than lower 60s. No humidity to make it feel warmer out there. We couldnt be closer to average with a 61 over 44 for your high and low. Numbers this morning, definitely a chill as we are going to repeat that again tonight. There is a frost advisory over dew points when they are in the low 20s, that is super dry air and that is not going to change over the next several days. This evening 55, an easterly wind will be light. 48 at midnight. 44 tomorrow morning, double nickels through the midday and we should tack on another couple of degrees tomorrow, in the low, perhaps middle 60s in spots. The satellite is Crystal Clear right now and what you have is this slow moving area of giant pressure and reflections of the high moving down the coast and it continues to build over the next several days and helping things to be a traffic jam on the weather map is the low out in the atlantic. Nothing is moving. What you see is what you get. For us that is really great. Nice weather tomorrow, again high and dry. The only thing well watch out for . More, might be a touch breezy and a few see that spinning low on out there . Might be a touch breezy and a few patchy clouds. Numbers in the middle 60s during the afternoon hours. Clear and chilly tonight, a little bit of patchy frost in the suburbs, i know you are anxious to plant everything. Sunny and pleasant, 50s at the coast. 44 tomorrow night clear and cool and 30s in the suburbs. We talked a little bit about saturday and being nice. By sunday it will be the fifth straight dry day, david and liz, and that will be a classic spring day and well Start Talking about 70s, and maybe even a shot at 80 degrees. Wow. Gets better and better. Almost surfing weather out there. Time to open the pool too. I think we need video proof right lee . That she did it . Absolutely know chance of that ever happening. Period. Well see. We shall see. Thanks lee. Still to come, your taxes may be in the mail but that is not stopping thieves from going after your refund. Coming up, how you can avoid being a victim of a scam. And into the jungle for in new york state, we believe tomorrow starts today. All across the state, the economy is growing, with creative new business incentives, and the lowest taxes in decades, attracting the talent and companies of tomorrow. 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In theaters now the jungle book like you have never seen it. Sandy . Reporter liz neil said he never set out to be an actor, growing up here in the city he thought he might become a dentist, like his parents until fate inconveniented. And now the young man intervened. And now the young man stands at the center of the movie opening it features voices provided by a galaxy of stars. That is theville us in tiger the tiger, bill murray, they were all created in a computer, with one exception. Neil was just an average fifth grader in manhattan when a teenager suggested he audition for the lead role of mowingly of the boy raised by wolves. You are similar . Yes. Reporter in what way . We are both stubborn. We are both adventurous. Reporter neil had to make full use of his imagination. But john really helped me like a lot, the director. He would take a puppet and interact with me like off camera and that would make it a lot easier for me. Reporter neils parents, both dentists here in the gave him crucial support and encouragement during the long months of filming in l. A. He has embraced it. He has loved it. I see a smile on his face and feel like im doing the right thing. Our job is to basically keep him ground and that is our biggest challenge. We strive for that. Reporter do you still have