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With us. we begin with damage control in new jersey. governor chris christie scrambling to contain bridge date gate as we await internal documents. >> he fired a top aid who ordered rush hour lane closures on the george washington bridge as political pay back. this as the fbi and the state attorney's office are launching an investigation as well. >> marianne rafferty is live with the governor's apology and what happens next. >> new jersey governor chris christie heartbroken saying he was blind sided by some of his top aids. >> i come out here to apologize to the people of new jersey. i am emba...

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 couldn't 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 in his office knew about it, but now, two of his appointees at the agency that runs the bridge have ...

Bridge connects new jersey to new york, into a parking lot. there was no notice or cause given for the closures, but mark socolich, the democratic mayor of ft. lee, had an idea as to why. he believed the lanes were closed in political retribution for refusing to endorse christie for governor. the port authority said the lane closures were due to a traffic study. the new jersey legislature decided to investigate. at a november hearing, christie's top port authority appointee testified that the order to close the lanes came directly from christie's high school buddy, dave wildstein, another port...

Roots. i see him, though, as sort of in the outer inner circle. he's not necessarily one of the half dozen, dozen people that have christie's ear at all times. he's sort of at that next level, somebody he trusted enough to put in this job. he was put in this job at the port authority to sort of be his eyes and ears there. but the next step, really, and what democrats are looking for is to see if anybody in that inner circle of christie maybe sent an order to wildstein to do this traffic study. and we're hopefully going to find that out sooner than later. >> does it say something about chris ch...

Back in the 1930s, but there's no contract, nothing in writing about that, by the way, and there's no signage that says ft. lee residents only, so we kind of look at that and go, huh? so, this is -- >> every time, and this is what i found interesting, it could be cleared up very easily. >> yes. >> every time they try to explain something it looks more and more like there genuinely is something super fishy happening. >> exactly. when you ask, it's like now you're making assumptions. what is the purpose of this? >> bob -- this is my big question, i think people vastly overestimate how well the c...