Im molette green. A worstcase scenario to start this busy Holiday Travel week. Thats right, the lights are back on at the airport in atlanta, and passengers around the world will feel this impact for days. Yes. That includes people into and out of our areaa. An underground electrical fire plunged Atlanta Hartsfield jackson airport, that is, into darkness and bringing the worlds Busiest Airport to a standstill. Earn wveryone was just kind shocked and kind of went on with it because we saw it would come back really soon. But it wasnt really soon. It took over 11 hours. Around midnight the lights came back on and the damage is done. News 4s justin finch is live now at Reagan National airport where travelers are feeling the impact and there are flights left to reschedule. Thats so right, eun, reagan looking a lot smoother now than it was some hours before. This had all of the makings of a holiday nightmare. Were talking about a week out from christmas, crowds here showing up early to get a
Thriat killed four young women here last mo th. Prosecutors are trying to determine several factors. Like just how fast steven romeos pickup was traveling when it slammed into the limo. Information gathered here will ultimately help suffix da decide whether to send the case to a grand jury and whether to grade or reduce charges against the 55yearold pickup driver. Right now romeo is charged with driving while intoxicated. But last month the da admitted, blood alcohol tests done close to two hours after the crash dont confirm he was legally intoxicated. Standing alone, this number is below thenlegal standard for a charge of driving while intoxicated. Reporter prosecutors say romeo has admitted to drinking beer before the crash. His pickup rammed the limo as it made a uturn. Prosecutors are trying to learn whether either drive was distracted by cell phones in the seconds leading up to the crash. Just a few minutes ago, a spokesperson for Suffolk County confirmed to me that a second famil
The ambassador ended up playing purple rain and delirious before their meeting. We put together a list of his music. Tonight we have prince, the life and death of an icon. Watch that here at 10 00. Storms are brewing in the tristate area and you need to be ready in the hours ahead. Janice huff is tracking where and when. Theyre few and far between, but theyre starting to build now. To the north of the city, parts of Rockland County and parts of Orange County right now. Were seeing a couple thundershowers popping up near lateen late laten latentown and putnam valley. You might see a heavy down pour, hail with this as the storms develop. There is a lot more back to the west. That front is still going to take some time to come through. Its moving past the great lakes and the ohio valley, but its still far to the west. Its going to take through the night and into early tomorrow morning before were completely done with the showers. Take an umbrella if youre going out, keep an eye to the sky
25 and you tack on the wind it feels a little colder today were looking at 42 by noon, 46 this afternoon a little cooler than normal and the wind will make it feel like the 30s so dress warmly. Youll need rain gear tomorrow wednesday well talk about that next in your accuweather seven day forecast. Heather has the day off and debbie is in the Traffic Center. Good morning bill, everybody. The problem is on 37. 37 westbound in toms river its 37 westbound at hooper avenue in toms river an accident you can see Emergency Activity at the scene. Lets go to the maps 37 west at hooper avenue that accident in toms river eastbound busy as well. Subways running on or close to schedule the lie westbound bunching up getting out toward the Grand Central a stalled car causing delays and watch for delays on sunrise highway west at 112 with an accident into north patchhog, so watch out for slowdowns and also heading over to 45 at williams avenue in Spring Valley its an accident with injuries. Effect. Ba
Well transit alert for you. 1 train rider will have to adjust their travel plans this weekend. The 1 train will shout down 11 30 tonight until 5 00 a. M. On monday. The entire line from 242nd street to south ferry will be out of service. However 2 and 3 trains will run local between 96th street and chambers street. On the subject of transportation, it could be the deepest service cut nassau bus rider have seen in years. On top of that, a fare hike. Greg cergol has the details now from garden city. Reporter well, chuck, the guy in charge here at the nice bus headquarters says hes sounding an alarm about a 700 million budget deficit expected next year. And as you might expect, paying if are the deficit may fall on the backs of transit riders. For the 100,000 who ride nassau countys nice buses every year. I would characterize it as unfortunately necessary economicizing that we have to do. The ceo says he thinks fares will increase a quarter to 2. 75 a ride beginning next year. He blames t