Crews were dispatched to a crash (2024)

EXPECT A WALL TO WALL SUNSHINE FOR A GOOD PART OF THE DAY. TEMPERATURES ARE GOING TO CLIMB INTO THE UPPER 80S TODAY, A LIGHT BREEZE OUT OF THE WEST AT ABOUT FIVE MILES PER HOUR. JUST A FEW MORE CLOUDS AS WE GET INTO THE LATE AFTERNOON AND THE EARLY EVENING. BUT A NICE SECOND HALF TO OUR WEEKEND SHAPING UP. I GOT 90 ON THE BOARD IN THE TEN DAY FORECAST AND STORM THREAT REMAINS ISOLATED, BUT I’LL LET YOU KNOW WHEN WE’LL HAVE TO WATCH FOR SOME OF THE STORMS TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA. ALSO IN THE TEN DAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH, MARY ELLEN. NOW WE START THE 6:00 HOUR WITH AN UPDATE ON A STORY WE BROUGHT YOU LAST NIGHT ON NEWS EIGHT AT 11, WHERE A BICYCLIST WAS INJURED AFTER BEING HIT BY A CAR IN LANCASTER COUNTY. NOW, IT HAPPENED JUST BEFORE 9 P.M. ON FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE INTERSECTION OF NORTH BROAD STREET AND LINCOLN AVENUE IN LITITZ. NOW, THE DRIVER REPORTEDLY DID HAVE THE GREEN LIGHT AT THE TIME OF THE CRASH, AND THE BICYCLIST IS EXPECTED TO RECOVER. AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CRASH IS ONGOING. WE HEAD UP TO DAUPHIN COUNTY NOW, WHERE ROUTE 147, IN REED TOWNSHIP HAS REOPENED. NOW THE THE ROAD SUSTAINED FLOOD DAMAGE WHEN TROPICAL STORM DEBBIE’S REMNANTS PASSED THROUGH THE AREA A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO. PENNDOT ORIGINALLY THOUGHT THIS ROAD WOULDN’T OPEN UNTIL MONDAY, BUT REPAIRS WERE FINISHED EARLY AND THE ROAD IS NOW FULLY OPEN TO TRAFFIC. MEANWHILE, THE 29TH STREET BRIDGE DEMOLITION HAS ALSO BEGUN AS PART OF THE CAPITAL BELTWAY PROJECT. NOW, DRIVERS ON SOUTHBOUND I-83 ARE GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE EXIT 45 TO PAXTON STREET. AS YOU SEE, THERE’S THE DEMOLITION RIGHT THERE. THEY’RE GOING TO HAVE TO GO FROM BASS PRO DRIVE AND HEAD WEST TOWARDS 17TH STREET TO THE RAMP TO GET BACK ONTO I-83. MEANWHILE, IF YOU’RE HEADED NORTH ON 83, YOU’RE GOING TO NEED TO EXIT AT 19TH STREET AND GO FROM PAXTON TO EISENHOWER BOULEVARD TO TAKE THE RAMP BACK TO 83 NORTH. NOW, DRIVERS CAN EXPECT THIS DETOUR TO LAST UNTIL 8:00 THIS MORNING. DIDN’T EVEN WAIT FOR THE DUST TO SETTLE AND THE SMOKE TO CLEARED. IT LOOKS LIKE THE EQUIPMENT WAS GOING IN WITHIN A, YOU KNOW, A FEW SECONDS OR A MINUTE AFTER THE THE BLAST. SO THEY’RE HARD AT WORK RIGHT NOW AS FAR AS I KNOW. THE PLAN IS STILL TO OPEN THE HIGHWAY AT 8 A.M. NOW, I’LL WORK ON THIS. PART OF THE PROJECT IS EXPECTED TO BE FINISHED BY THE FALL OF 2025, AND STAYING IN HARRISBURG. CITY OFFICIALS SAY THAT THEY’RE ALSO INVESTIGATING AFTER A GROUP OF NEO-NAZIS MARCHED THROUGH THE CITY CARRYING SWASTIKAS ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON. A POST ON THE CITY’S FACEBOOK PAGE SAYS THE CITY OF HARRISBURG CONDEMNS THESE INDIVIDUALS IN THE STRONGEST TERMS. OUR CITY IS ONE OF LOVE AND PEACE, AND THEIR MESSAGE OF HATE IS NOT WELCOME. WE NOW HEAD DOWN TO YORK COUNTY, WHERE POLICE FROM YORK, HARRISBURG AND EVEN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS ARE BUILDING UP PARTNERSHIPS AND LEARNING FROM HOW TO REDUCE TEEN GUN VIOLENCE. AND AFTER TWO TEENAGERS DIED BY GUN VIOLENCE IN HARRISBURG LAST WEEK, YORK CITY OFFICIALS STOOD IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE HARRISBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT. THE YORK POLICE DEPARTMENT STARTED A GROUP VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM BACK IN 2016, AND IT HAS SEEN SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS. AND IT ALSO SERVES AS A MODEL FOR POLICE DEPARTMENTS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY. THEY HAVE REDUCED THEIR GUN VIOLENCE, SO THEY INCORPORATED THIS INITIATIVE ABOUT STATS. THEIR GUN VIOLENCE HAS GONE DOWN AND WE WANT TO IMPLEMENT THE SAME STRATEGY THAT THEY HAVE NOW. WARRIOR ALSO SAYS THAT STRATEGIES SUCH AS THESE AS HAVING KIDS GO TO A YMCA TWICE A WEEK. SHE EXPECTS TO SEE YOUTH CRIME GO DOWN WITHIN A YEAR. NOW MOVE OVER TO OUR ELECTION COVERAGE AND VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS REINTRODUCED HERSELF TO THE COUNTRY DURING THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION IN CHICAGO THIS WEEK. BUT THE MESSAGE SHE DELIVERED IS DIFFERENT THAN HER FIRST PRESIDENTIAL BID BACK IN 2020. NOW FOR MORE ON THIS. WE’RE JOINED LIVE THIS MORNING BY OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT JACKIE DEFUSCO. GOOD MORNING JACKIE. YOU’VE BEEN LOOKING IN TO SOME OF THESE CHANGES IN HER POLICY APPROACHES. WHAT’S HER CAMPAIGN SAYING ABOUT THIS? YEAH. JAY. THE HARRIS CAMPAIGN SAYS THAT HER CURRENT POSITIONS ARE A PRODUCT. BASICALLY, OF HER LAST THREE YEARS GOVERNING AND THAT THEY ARE GROUNDED IN TRYING TO BUILD CONSENSUS, TO TRY TO MAKE PROGRESS. BUT ONE POLITICAL ANALYST TELLS ME THAT THOSE POLICY POLICY SHIFTS ALSO COME WITH RISKS. VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS, DEFINING HER VISION FOR THE FUTURE. I PROMISE TO BE A PRESIDENT FOR ALL AMERICANS. AS FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP FRAMES HER AS FAR LEFT MOST RADICAL LEFT PERSON EVER TO RUN FOR HIGH POLITICAL OFFICE IN OUR COUNTRY. IT COMES AS OFFSTAGE, HARRIS’S CAMPAIGN IS REVERSING SOME OF THE MORE LIBERAL POSITIONS SHE EMBRACED DURING HER 2019 PRESIDENTIAL BID. RUNNING FOR THE NOMINATION OF A PARTY IS VERY, VERY DIFFERENT THAN RUNNING FOR A GENERAL ELECTION, WHICH WE KNOW IS GOING TO BE RAZOR THIN AND IS GOING TO BE DECIDED BY THE MODERATES ON ENERGY POLICY. THE HARRIS CAMPAIGN HAS SAID SHE’S NO LONGER BACKING A BAN ON FRACKING. ON IMMIGRATION, SHE’S WALKING BACK. HER PRIOR PUSH TO MAKE ILLEGAL BORDER CROSSINGS A CIVIL OFFENSE RATHER THAN A CRIMINAL ONE. NOW SHE’S SUPPORTING TOUGHER PENALTIES. I KNOW WE CAN LIVE UP TO OUR PROUD HERITAGE AS A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS AND REFORM OUR BROKEN IMMIGRATION SYSTEM. AS FOR HEALTH CARE, THE HARRIS CAMPAIGN SAYS MEDICARE FOR ALL WILL NOT BE PART OF HER AGENDA AFTER SHE CO-SPONSORED IT AS A CALIFORNIA SENATOR. INSTEAD, SHE SUPPORTS STRENGTHENING THE CURRENT SYSTEM. WHEN WE WIN, TIM AND I WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT EVEN STRONGER WHEN IT COMES TO GUN POLICY. SHE’S NO LONGER PUSHING FOR MANDATORY ASSAULT WEAPONS BUYBACKS, BUT SHE IS STILL ENDORSING OTHER REFORMS. WE ARE FINALLY GOING TO PASS UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND CHECKS. RED FLAG LAWS AND AN ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN. EXPERTS SAY THOSE POLICY SHIFTS COULD POTENTIALLY COST HER IN NOVEMBER. THE RISK IS THAT SHE LOOKS LIKE A FLIP FLOPPER, AND HISTORICALLY, THAT’S BEEN A PRETTY DAMAGING CHARGE. NOW, TRUMP HAS ALSO CHANGED POSITIONS OVER THE YEARS, INCLUDING ON ABORTION, FOR INSTANCE, WHEN HE WAS A PRIVATE CITIZEN, HE ONCE DESCRIBED HIMSELF AS PRO-CHOICE. AND THEN, AFTER STARTING HIS POLITICAL CAREER, HE AT SOME POINT BACKED NATIONAL RESTRICTIONS ON ABORTION. AND NOW IN THIS CAMPAIGN, HE SAYS THAT THE ISSUE SHOULD BE LEFT UP TO THE STATES. JAY AND JACKIE. WHILE THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN IN THE PUBLIC EYE FOR A PRETTY LONG TIME, THERE STILL ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE SEEMINGLY GETTING MORE AND MORE FAMILIAR WITH HER AND WHAT SHE BELIEVES IN AND HER POLICIES. YEAH, IT SEEMS THAT WAY, JAY. FOR INSTANCE, IN A RECENT CBS POLL, MORE THAN A THIRD OF REGISTERED VOTERS SAID THEY STILL DON’T KNOW WHERE KAMALA HARRIS STANDS ON KEY ISSUES. AND THERE ALSO WAS DIFFERING OPINIONS AMONG VOTERS ABOUT HOW MUCH HER POLICIES WOULD STRAY, IF AT ALL, FROM PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN. OF COURSE, SHE’S BEEN SERVING UNDER HIM FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS NOW. NOW, WE SHOULD SAY THAT THOSE NUMBERS MAY HAVE EVOLVED IN THE WAKE OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION, AS MANY VOTERS, PERHAPS FOR THE FIRST TIME, WERE TUNING IN TO HEAR HARRIS PITCH. BUT ALSO, NOTABLY, HARRIS HAS REALLY NOT BEEN MEANINGFULLY PRESSED ON THESE POLICY POSITIONS SINCE BECOMING FORMALLY THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE FOR THE DEMOCRATS, OR SINCE LAUNCHING HER CANDIDACY. A BIT MORE THAN A MONTH AGO. SHE’S STILL YET TO HOLD A FORMAL PRESS CONFERENCE J. WELL, THAT IS OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT, JACKIE DEFUSCO. JACKIE, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US THIS MORNING. AND ALSO, DON’T FORGET THAT DONALD TRUMP IS GOING TO BE SPENDING A LOT MORE TIME IN THE COMMONWEALTH, INCLUDING HAVING A RALLY THIS FRIDAY IN JOHNSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA. IT’S GOING TO BE AT THE FIRST SUMMIT ARENA IN AT THE CAMBRIA COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL IS GOING