All vocal, all morning, the Fox
61 Morning News starts now. Good
morning. A little bit of light snow
causing a few problems out there.
The update on the road to
work this morning coming
up and a wrong way driver caught
on camera crashing into a state
trooper's cruiser over the weekend.
What you can do if you see
this happen out on the road.
So we'll look at how people
in Connecticut and across the
country are honoring Doctor Martin
Luther King Junior this morning.
Good morning, everyone,
and thanks so much for waking up with
us here on the Fox 61 Morning News.
I'm Julia LeBlanc in
for. Erica and I'm Tim Lammers.
Good to see you again. Yes.
Glad for having me back here.
Yeah, back here on the morning show.
It's gonna be a good day
here on this holiday.
Although we have some snow to talk about.
And I know as we're looking
live over Hartford, New Haven,
by no means is this statewide,
but if you were caught in it and
some people were coming down I91
as we get over to Matt Scott,
just from pretty much the state
line down to East Windsor.
Saw two spinouts.
Yeah, about 5 miles.
And the issue is untreated
roads and that was.
Not a wrong call to treat the roads.
The concern has really been
farther off to the east,
but there's a little bit of energy that's
holding together is causing a lot of
rough patches out there this morning.
So it's mostly wet.
But as we'll show you in the radar,
there is a little snow to speak of
that will amount at worst, at worst to
a coating to an inch offshore storm.
That's what's responsible.
It's it's far away,
but it's close enough for troubled winds too.
We do have mild temperatures
to talk about for the week.
We'll talk about that coming up, everybody.
Gronds 1 degree above freezing,
but everyone else New Haven
at 32 at or below freezing.
That's certainly not helping the situation.
So we've had a little bit of light snow.
Didn't think it was going to be an
issue for the Northwestern Hills,
but there it is.
Route 44 Canaan down to Winsted
Winchester will go in a little closer,
show you that Norfolk.
There's Colebrook down to 72.
Watch the untreated roads
because that's the trouble.
We are focusing a little more
on Tolland and Windham County.
So we'll take you back into Windsor locks,
very light amount of snow and
91 over into Longmeadow, mass,
summers, Stafford Springs,
Stafford and then down into Ellington.
And this activity is moving north to South.
So this energy that we're seeing
over Central and eastern mass is
going to hold together and move
right down the 395 corridor as we
go through the next couple of hours.
It will not amount to a lot,
but it does not take a lot to
cause some trouble and that's the
lesson with today, so temperatures.
Still get the 40 degrees later on,
about half a dozen degrees above normal.
But we are dealing with this a little
bit of a I don't wanna call it a burst,
but there's a little burst of
light snow this morning.
It's done very quickly,
but it is still doing some damage out there.
We'll talk about the rest of the
week coming up see what kind of
damage has been on the roads.
Tim mentioned a couple of spinouts
I was holding on to the wheel.
Those overpasses.
Warren Zenzi, certainly a little dicey.
Be careful out there.
Yeah. And my way into work at about.
3:40 I was I I slipped a
couple of times at that point.
Exit 29 on I-90.
One was still closed.
We don't know for sure if that involved,
you know, the wet, slick conditions,
but definitely something to
be mindful of out there.
Give yourself plenty of time,
keep your distance,
even more so than you typically do.
Let's bring you out to a crash that's
causing a huge headache down on the
northbound side of I-95 over in the
Darien area as we take a look at
an image that we were able to get
from the scene itself they have.
And it's blacked out the cameras,
but this is from about 15 minutes ago.
The right hand lane and the center
lanes are closed traffic squeezing
by in the left hand shoulder
and the left hand lane.
And as we take a look at the backup over
on the left hand side of your screen,
you can see traffic is crawling
at this point.
And this is several miles
back from the actual crash.
So be mindful of that if you are
traveling northbound on I-95.
Also over in Granby,
Route 189 is still closed because of
A1 vehicle accident from Wells Rd.
To mountain Rd.
We don't have any additional
information from state police.
But unfortunately,
it's been closed for quite awhile.
It's gonna take you about 18
minutes to get from East Hartford
to Hartford via via I-84 westbound.
We're also seeing some delay coming
into the Hartford Tunnel as well
as we take a live look at on 91,
though things have improved significantly
since that closure earlier this morning.
We'll check back in on the
roads coming up at 6:30.
For now, guys,
I'll send things back over to you.
Good morning.
Good morning to you, Lauren.
Thank you so much. Well, right now,
Connecticut State Police are
searching for the suspect in yet
another wrong way driving case.
Yeah, this one happened
early yesterday on I-91.
North near exit 33 in Hartford.
As Julia said, it's just one of so
many wrong way drivers we've seen here
in Connecticut in the past few weeks.
Now Fox 61 Brooke Griffin is here
with us with a look at what one state
trooper did to try to stop that driver.
She joins us from the Fox 61
Skydeck in Hartford.
Good morning. Well,
good morning to you both.
Can I get safe? Police tell us that
they tried to safely intercept that
wrong way driver by ramming into the
side of their car with a cruiser.
Unfortunately that driver did keep going
and was able to get away from police.
Now Connecticut State Police take a
look at this video say around 3:00
o'clock yesterday in the morning they
received several calls about a wrong
way driver on I-91 N you could see a
trooper get into position to hit the car.
He was able to swipe the side of it,
but the driver as you can see.
Keeps on going CSP tells us the
driver exited about 2 miles down
the road at the exit 35 HOV rammed.
They have not seen that driver since.
Police say they're now looking for
a dark 4 door sedan with significant
driver side damage.
And this isn't the only instance of a wrong
way driver in the past couple of weeks.
Connecticut representative Quentin Williams
was killed just two weeks ago when a
wrong way driver hit him head on on Route 2.
There have been at least three other
runway drivers reported since November.
Those are the ones we do have confirmed.
CSP says to protect yourself
from potential wrong way driver,
especially when it's dark out,
you should drive in the right
or the center lanes.
This is recommended because a wrong way
driver would think that the left lane
is the correct one for them to be in.
State police say people need to be
extra alert when driving late at night.
Oftentimes
we know the hours are between 11:00
PM and 3:00 AM, so we often find
operators who are under the influence.
And Connecticut State Police say
you're only going to have a few
seconds at best if you see a wrong
way driver coming your way to get out
of the way and get somewhere safe.
They say they don't want you
to try to intercept that car.
They don't want you to do anything
about it except for get yourself to
a safe space and then immediately
call 911 live in Hartford.
Brooke Griffin, Fox 61 news.
Alright Brooke, thank you so much.
Definitely something we will be following
very closely and on to Waterbury now.
A car crashing into a sign
in front of a building.
This happened early Saturday
morning on Hamilton Ave.
They say the driver was taken to the
hospital and is expected to be okay.
Investigators are now looking into the
moments leading up to that crash and six O 7.
Now it's been three years since 19
year old Mubarak Suleiman was shot to
death by a Connecticut State trooper.
Police said Suleiman LED
officers on a high speed.
Rates from Norwalk to West Haven and
the trooper who shot him, Brian N,
is facing a manslaughter charge.
He pleaded not guilty and he's
due in court coming up in March.
As for the night,
back in 2020, Suleiman died.
Dashboard cameras showed Trooper
N getting out of his car and
pointing his gun at Suleiman,
who was sitting behind the wheel of
a white car with the door closed.
Second Slater Suleiman appeared
to shuffle in his seat,
and that's when Trooper N fired through
the driver side window of that car.
Killing Suleiman?
Well, last night his family
gathered to remember him and share
some memories about his life.
His sister and family attorney said
their journey to justice isn't over.
Mubarak was the type of person who will
give you his last 20 if you needed it.
He was the type of person of a
friend will call him in the middle
of the night seeking shelter and
he'll open up our home to them.
As we always said, better to get
it right and take a very long time
than to get it wrong really quickly.
Released by Inspector General Robert
Dublins office was said to that
the shooting was not justified,
Devlin concluded, despite state
Trooper Norse claim that he shot
him to protect other officers from a
wielding knife wielding rather Suleiman,
who was in the car by himself.
He says nobody on scene faced
actual or imminent danger.
Well, today is Martin Luther King Junior day,
a day where the legacy and activism
of Doctor King is celebrated here in
Connecticut and across the country.
Speaking of Connecticut,
here's something you might not know.
Doctor King actually spent
some time here in Connecticut.
In 1944, he came to Simsbury to work.
The tobacco fields.
It was part of a program that recruited
African American college students
from historically black colleges in
the South to come up to the northeast
to work in the tobacco industry.
Now there are plenty of celebrations of
his life happening today in Connecticut,
two big annual events to know about.
One is the Hartford alumni chapter
of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority.
They're having their 38th annual
scholarship breakfast at the
Connecticut Convention Center,
and the Yale Peabody Museum is
also hosting its 26th annual.
Legacy of social and environmental
justice event for more details on
everything happening across the state today,
go to fox61.com or find the details
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