Yeah, thanks rob.
You said not much traffic.
Not like you would expect.
And yeah, if you look at southbound
Interstate 5 not a lot of traffic course
that's going to be a different story.
On the other side where you
see a sea of headlights,
that's only going to grow greater as
people wake up and put in that one
last day of work before the holiday
going in the downtown interchange,
especially under J Street on
five we saw some puddling that
likely later could pose a threat,
as flooding will keep you posted
on that and more in the meantime,
over to you, Walt,
alright, thank you my friend.
We do have some breaking news.
Oh wait wait wait wait,
what look OK back it up back it up.
We just had an accident.
OK can you guys back up had an accident?
I don't know if you saw that or not.
Yeah we're gonna give me a safe place and
show you exactly what happened on live TV.
A card just whipped and
flipped in front of us.
Indeed, that's what we're
talking about slowing down today.
We're gonna safely exit and keep
you posted on that and accident
happened just moments ago.
Back to you.
Can you circle back and make sure they're OK?
I mean, is there an exit?
Sure, OK phone it in something?
Yeah, that's that's exactly the plan Walt.
I I can tell you that car
was in the fast lane.
We saw them hit a puddle as if we had
exactly what we have just spoken about.
They hit puddle. They went sideways.
They flipped.
We're
going to alert authorities.
Sure, someone is doing that already.
We're going to do that as well,
and we're going to circle
back and bring you an update
in just moments back to you.
Yeah, they may need some
immediate assistance there,
and that would be good if you guys
get off, get back and see how they're doing.
Marcus Allen, Mark Willis.
Our crew out in live drive.
Today we told you there's a reason
they're out there and you just saw that.
So there are roads with a lot of
ponding puddling as Mark just said.
That was the high speed lane where
they hit something and flipped so.
Be warned, OK, right now we're going
to go ahead and go back to Walt
at the moment. What you might have an update
on something we saw
earlier on live TV. Rob,
good point. We were just
doing our live drive.
Marcus Allen you you've located
the vehicle that spun out
what what's the condition?
What happened out there?
Yeah, I've got to be honest.
This is that fine line.
I've first and foremost I need
to be a concerned citizen.
I I just made contact with
the passenger of this vehicle.
Her name is Daisy.
She appears to be OK.
She told me she's OK,
but right now we're doing the
best we can to try to keep
her safe with our live truck.
Just marking that there is an accident here.
We witnessed it live moments ago at
5:35 AM she hit a massive puddle over
in that lane about 300 yards up began.
Spinning out and finally
came to a stop over here.
Thankfully, she appears to be OK.
We've alerted 911.
They're on the way,
so I'm going to check back with this.
In the meantime, camera guy,
Mark and I are just going to do
the best we can to, you know.
Keep her safe and keep everyone
safe this morning,
but just leave this as a reminder.
Slow down, leave early.
Don't drive, especially on the freeways.
If you don't have to back
to you. OK, Mark, thank you.
Thank you for helping.
Daisy, as we get a little bit of a closer
look, it looks like she's somewhat upright.
You've got help on the way,
and they're probably gonna need to
get a tow truck. She's straddling
a ditch there. So as Mark said
earlier, the roads are nasty.
She hit a giant puddle in the number
one lane, which is the fast lane.
It ended up all the way over
in the other side of the road,
flipped and spun out.
OK, thank you all right, Rob.
Let's take you back now to the scene
of where we were just a little bit
ago with a car spinning off the road.
Marcus Allen is there.
Live and Mark it got worse.
OK, OK Mark is not talking right now,
so let me see if I can figure it out.
This is the information
that I'm getting here.
Let me set the table for you.
We when we were live doing live drive a
car in the number one lane spun out that
is the car you see off to the right.
We went back to give assistance and
I'm told that as we were helping
this woman named Daisy in her small
car someone completely destroyed
our live van that was pulled off
and and just behind daisies cars.
So I'll tell you Marcus Allen I
reporter Mark Willis our photographer.
Are fine, we're sending a crew
out to get them,
but in the meantime of us pulling over
and making sure that Daisy was OK,
which she is, someone plowed into
the back of our satellite truck.
So again, people,
it's not the type of day where
you want to be speeding.
Traffic Safety says go 10 mph under a
posted speed limit and even with that
this is a construction zone worth 55.
Even with that the roads are just a mess.
You're going to hit large.
Puddles you're gonna be in a high
speed lane and just like almost stop
because you're gonna run into something.
I'm just giving you fair warning today.
Get a little bit of an earlier
start if you can and slow down.
We are speaking from first hand
experience from about 10 minutes ago.
We'll check back.