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IT IS A 10 ON THIS MORNING'S FIRST AND FINEST.
WE ARE JOINED BY BRIAN FOLEY OF
CONNECTICUT'S DEPARTMENT OF
EMERGENCY SERVICS AND PUBLIC
PROTECTION BRIAN.
PROTECTION BRIAN. GOOD MORNING.
GOOD MORNING. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING
US.
US.
US. HOPE
US. HOPE YOU HAD A GREAT
THANKSGIVING.
THANKSGIVING. GOOD MORNING, ANGELO.
THANKS.
THANKS.
THANKS. THANKS FOR HAVING ME ON THIS
MORNING.
MORNING.
MORNING. OF COURSE NOT OFF BY TALKING
ABOUT THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND WHEN
WE TYPICALLY SEE A LOT OF
ENFORCEMENT AND PATROLS BY
STATE POLICE.
STATE POLICE. SO CAN YOU TELL US WHAT
THE NUMBERS LOOK LIKE THIS
YEAR?
YEAR?
YEAR? YES, CERTAINLY THE CONNECTICUT
STATE POLICE WERE BUSY THIS
HOLIDAY WEEKEND WIT OVER 40
CAL FOR SERVICE.
THEY ISSUED ABOUT THREE AND 30
TICKETS.
TICKETS.
TICKETS. THIS IS AS OF LAST NIGHT.
ELEVEN DUI.
ELEVEN DUI. AND THEY ASSISTED TWO HUNDRED
AND SIXTY FOUR MOTORISTS ON
THE ROADSIDE.
THE ROADSIDE. THAT BEING SAID, THE BIG NEWS
OUT OF THE WEEKEND WAS THAT
THERE WERE SIX FATALITIES IN
FIVE ACCIDENTS, A FATAL MOTOR
VEHICLE ACCIDENTS.
VEHICLE ACCIDENTS. SO IT WAS A SADLY DEADLY
WEEKEND ON THE HIGHWAYS IN
CONNECTICUT AND STATE ON
THE HIGHWAYS.
THE HIGHWAYS. NOW I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS
TRAGIC STORY OUT OF VERNON
WHERE A FATHER WAS KILLED IN A
HIT AND RUN CRASH.
WE KNOW VERNON P.D. DID FIND A
VEHICLE OF INTEREST BUT NO
ARREST HAS BEEN MADE AT THIS
POINT.
POINT.
POINT. I'M SURE THERE'S A PROCESS THAT
POLICE ARE FOLLOWING.
WHY IS THAT THAT NO ARREST HAS
BEEN MADE JUST IN?
YOU KNOW, FIRST LET ME JUST SAY
I'M SORRY FOR THE FAMILY AND
THE COMMUNITY OF VERNON
OBVIOUSLY IMPACTED THIS GUY WAS
WELL KNOWN IN ANY YOUTH SOCCER
COACH.
COACH.
COACH. SO
COACH. SO A LOT OF KIDS AFFECTED AND
THE DOG WAS LOST IN
THE ACCIDENT AS WELL AND LOST
AS IN IT RAN AWAY.
THE DOG WAS FOUND THIS WEEKEND
BY AN EFFORT BY THE VERNON
POLICE IN THE VERNON FIRE
DEPARTMENT TO FIND THAT LOST
PUPPY AND SO MANY VOLUNTEERS
WERE OUT LOOKI R THO
AND THANKFULLY THE DID A GREAT
JOB AND REUNITED THE DOG WITH
THE GRIEVING FAMILY WHICH I'M
SURE IN SOME WAY HELPS WITH
THE GRIEVING PROCESS.
BUT THIS GENTLEMAN WAS HIT JUST
OFF THE RAILS TO TRAILS SYSTEM.
HE WAS WALKING ON A ROAD AND
WAS STRUCK BY A HIT AND RUN
DRIVER WHEN THEY FOUND HIM.
SO LOOK AT VERNON POLICE
DEPARTMENT HAS SOME AMAZING
DETECTIVES AND THEY DO A GREAT
JOB.
JOB.
JOB. AND
JOB. AND ALSO THEY HAVE A REGIONAL
ACCENT INVESTIGATION TEAM THAT
COMES IN THAT'S INCREDIBLY
PROFESSION AN THEY
WORKING THE CAE AND SO THEY
DID AN EFFORT A GOOD OLD
FASHIONED POLICE WORK WHERE
BASICALLY TH RUN A CHECKPOINT
IN THE SAME LOCATION AT
THE SAME TIME THE ACCIDENT.
A LOT OF TIMES THESE THINGS
DON'T TURN UP TOO MUCH BUT THEY
GOT LUCKY AND WELL LUCK IS GOOD
PLANNING SO THEY ACTUALLY FOU
A CAR OF INTEREST.
NOW LOOK, PEOPLE THINK WELL,
WHY ISN'T THERE AN ARREST?
I GET IT.
I GET IT.
I GET IT. BUT LOOK AT THAT AT THIS POINT
YOU HAVE TO DO IT BY AN ARREST
WARRANT.
WARRANT.
WARRANT. THEY HAVE A PROSECUTOR OUT IN
TALON COUNTY WHO'S VERY
METICULOUS AND VERY GOOD AT
WHAT HE DOES AND I EXPECT THIS
TO BE DONE RIGHT.
RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING.
COLBY PROCESSED FOR EVIDENCE IN
THE CONNECTICUT STATE LAB AND I
TALKED TO DR. VALERO AND THEY
WANTED US TO REACH OUT TO BURN
AND P.D. AND WE DID TO SAY THAT
THAT THAT SHOULD THEY RECOVERED
DNA EVIDENCE OFF TH VEHICLE
THAT WILL BE GIVEN HER PRIORITY
BY DIVISION OF SCIENTIFIC STAFF
SERVICES OR THE STATE LAB.
LOOK, THEY'RE GONNA MATCH UP
PARTS OF THE VEHICLE AT
THE SCENE WITH WITH A VEHICLE
IF ONE VEHICLE OF INTEREST IF
THAT'S THE CASE, THERE'S SOME
STEPS TO BE TAKEN HERE.
THE CAR LIKELY WILL HAVE A
COMPUTER IN IT.
THEY CAN ANALYZE THAT.
THEY'LL DO SEARCH WARRANTS FOR
CELL PHONE RECORDS FOR ANYONE
THAT MAY HAVE BEEN A POSSIBLE
DRIVER.
DRIVER.
DRIVER. THESE THINGS TAKE TIME YET TO
WAIT FOR THE CELL PHONE AND
DIFFERENT RESULTS TO COME BACK
FROM DIFFERENT TESTS.
SO IT SOME TIME BE PATIENT
PEOPLE ARE MURNANE A POLICE
DEPARTMENT IS VERY
WELL-PREPARED AND I EXPECT THEM
TO HANDLE THIS WITH SOME SORT
OF CLOSURE OR SOME SORT OF
OUTCOME.
OUTCOME.
OUTCOME. YEAH, WE'LL BE WAITING ON THAT
UPDATE.
UPDATE.
UPDATE. AND IT SEEMS LIKE IN GENERAL
WE'VE BEEN SEEING A LOT OF
DEADLY ACCIDENTS RECENTLY AND
WE ALWAYS SEEM TO GET THESE
CRAZY VIDEOS OF WRONG WAY
DRIVERS ON THE HIGHWAY.
SO IS THERE ANY WAY TO HELP
PREVENT THOSE ACCIDENTS?
WELL, LOOK, ANGELA, THE VAST
MAJORITY OF THOSE ACCIDENTS ARE
DONE BY IMPAIRED DRIVERS I
BELIEVE NATIONWIDE WELL OVER 60
PERCENT OF RUNWAY ACCIDENTS ARE
IMPAIRED DRIVERS TYPICALLY LATE
AT NIGHT.
AT NIGHT.
AT NIGHT. THERE'S SOME ELDERLY
DISORIENTED DRIVERS THAT
SOMETIMES HAVE THE SAME THING
HAPPEN AND CERTAINLY DISTRACTED
DRIVING WHEN PEOPLE HAVE YOU
KNOW, 10 DIFFERENT THINGS GOING
ON IN THEIR CAR AT ONCE.
THEY DON'T THEY MISS THE SIGNS
THEY TAKE THEY MA A WRONG
TURN AND END UP ON THE WRONG
OFF RAMP OR ON RAMP.
THE KAINANI DEPARTMENT
TRANSPORTATION'S BEEN PUTTING
TOGETHER COUNTER MEASURES TO
PREVENT THIS FOR THE LAST SAY
AT LEAST 10 YEARS AS OF LATE.
THEY'VE BEEN GETTING IT TO SOME
DIFFERENT TECHNOLO AND I
BELIEVE IN THE LONG RUN
TECHNOLOGY WILL OUTRUN THIS
PROBLEM AND SOLVE IT.
BUT IT'S EXPENSIVE.
WE ARE GOING TO HAVE DOTY
DEPARTMENT GUILTY ON HERE ON
FIRST AND FIND US IN THE COMING
WEEKS TO TALK ABOUT HOW THEY'RE
PREPARING FOR THE STORMS AND
THEY'LL LIKELY TALK ABOUT SOME
OF THE THINGS THAT THEY'RE
DOING TO PREVENT THIS AS WELL.
THEY'VE THEY'VE IMPRD
SIGNA
SIGNA
SIGNA THEY'VE IMPROVED STREET
MARKINGS AS A PART OF THEIR
COUNTER MEASURES.
COUNTER MEASURES. THEY'VE THEY'VE INSTAL SOME
LIGHTING SYSTEMS AND SOME SOME
TECHNOLOGY THAT CAN DETECT
WRONG WAY DRIVERS AND THEN
ALERT THE WRONG WAY DRIVERS IF
THEY'RE GOING THE WRONG WAY AND
THEN ALERT OTHER DRIVERS THAT
ARE ON THE HIGHWAY AS WELL AS A
WRONG WAY DRIVERS.
THAT'S VERY EXPENSIVE BUT
THEY'RE STARTING TO DO IT
DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE STAT
OTHER STATES HAVE DOE IT WITH
SOME SUCCESS AND THERE'S DATA
TO PROVE THAT IT IS WORKING.
BUT WE LOOK TO WE'LL HAVE DOTY
ON HERE FIRST TO FIND OUT
THEY'LL HAVE SOME BETTER
ANSWERS.
ANSWERS.
ANSWERS. RAUS.
RAUS.
RAUS. COOL.
COOL.
COOL. LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT.
AND SWITCHING TOPICS NOW.
SO RIGHT BEHIND WHERE YOU ARE
STANDING IS WHERE THE HARTFORD
MARATHON TYPICALLY HAPPENS
EVERY YEAR.
EVERY YEAR. OF COURSE IT COULDN'T HAPPEN
THIS YEAR IN PERSON BECAUSE
THE PANDEMIC BUT WE DO KNOW YOU
WERE ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
FOR THE MARATHON
FOUT. SO CAN YOU TELL US HOW THE RACE
WAS HANDLED THIS YEAR?
ANYTHING ABOUT THAT?
WELL, THE HARTFORD MARATHON
FOUNDATION HAS ALWAYS DONE AN
AMAZING JOB RAISING MONEY FOR
DIFFERENT CHARITIES ACROSS
THE STA.
DIFFERENT CHARITIES ACROSS AND STA.
DIFFERENT CHARITIES ACROSS AND LOOK AT A RACE EVENT IS AN
IN-PERSON EVENT AND THAT'S WHAT
YOU LOOK FORWARD TO AS A
RUNNER, YOU KNOW.
HAVING RUN THAT MARATHON, WHAT
GETS YOU THROUGH IT IS KNOWING
THAT THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE AT
THE FINISH E FI A
LOVED ONES.
LOVED ONES. AND IT'S REALLY INSPIRING TO
COME ACROSS THE FINISH LINE SO
WITHOUT THE IN-PERSNP OF
IT.
IT.
IT. IT
IT. IT MADE IT OBVIOUSLY A VIRTUAL
THING WHICH IS AN INCREDIBLE
HARDSHIP FOR THE HARTF
THING WHICH IS AN INCREDIBLE RO DSHIP FOR THE HARTF
THING WHICH IS AN INCREDIBLE RO FDOIP FOR THE HARTF
THING WHICH IS AN INCREDIBLE THAT OIP FOR THE HARTF
THING WHICH IS AN INCREDIBLE THAT BEING R THE HARTF
THING WHICH IS AN INCREDIBLE THAT BEING SAID, HARTF
THING WHICH IS AN INCREDIBLE THAT BEING SAID, THEY DID AN
AMAZING JOB.
AMAZING JOB. THE RUNNERS EVERYONE WHO SIGNED
UP IT FOR THE VIRTUAL EVENT.
WE ACTUALLY RAISED 27 PERCENT
MORE THIS YEAR THAN WE DO
DURING A TYPICAL RUN.
SO WE'RE IN TOTAL JUST FROM
THE MARATHON 420 THOUSAND
DOLLARS WAS RAISED AND YOU WANT
TO SAY VIRTUALLY BUT IT WASN'T
VIRTUAL.
VIRTUAL.
VIRTUAL. THA' REAL
THA' REAL
THA' REAL FOUR HUNDRED TWENT THOUSAND
DOLLA RAISED FOR DIFFERENT
CHARITIES ACROSS CONNECTICUT.
THEN THERE'S OTHER VIRTUAL
EVENTS AS WELL.
ANOTHER SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND
DOLLARS.
DOLLARS.
DOLLARS. SO YOU'RE YOU'RE GETTING UP
CLOSE TO HALF A MILLION DOLLARS
AT THE HALF MARATHONOUATN
WAS ABLE TO RAISE FOR CHARITIES
AROUND THE STATE.
AND THAT'S ONE OF THE .
THAT IS THE BEST THING THAT
THIS MARATHON FOUNNDS
S WHA THEY RAI FOR CHARITY.
I WANT TO TALK ABOUT EVER
SOURCE FOR A MINUTE.
I KNOW POLITICALLY YOU KNOW,
THEY'VE THEY'VE TAKEN SOME FLAK
BUT THEY HAVE BEEN AN
INCREDIBLE SPONSOR AND
INCREDIBLY GENEROUS IN THEIR
CHARITABLE GIVING TO
THE HARTFORD MARATHON
FOUNDATION.
FOUNDATION. MORE IMPORTANTLY, THEIR
EMPLOYE THAT WON THERE,
THEY'RE INVOLVED IN RAISING
MONEY FOR CHARITY AS WELL.
AND THEN WHEN THERE ARE
IN-PERSON EVENTS, THE HUNDREDS
AND HUNDREDS OF EMPLOYEES COME
OUT AND VOLUNTEER FOR THIS
EVENT AND ALL IN THE EFFORT TO
RAISE MONEY FOR CHARITY.
SO IT CAN'T BE UNDER SPOKEN.
SO WHAT WE'RE VERY THANKFUL FOR
THAT WE'RE THANKFUL FOR ALL
THE VOLUNTEERS AND EVERYTHING
EVERYONE DID AND WE HOPE AS
WE'RE DISCUSSING EARLY, ANGELA,
THAT THIS MARATHON WILL BE NEXT
YEAR RUNNING RIGHT THROUGH
HERE.
HERE.
HERE. I'VE STARTED TRAINING FOR
THE 20 21 MARATHON HALF
MARATHON.
MARATHON.
MARATHON. I CAN TELL YOU THAT I HAD
COVERED 19 EARLIER IN THE YEAR
AND AS I STARTED TO RUN AGAIN
IN PREPARATION FOR THIS
MARATHON, I CERTAINLY FELT A
CHANGE IN MY LUNGS AND MY
BODY'S ABILITY TO RECOVER.
SO FOR ANY RUNNERS OUT THERE,
IF YOU'RE PLANNING ON DOING
THE 20 21 MARATHON AND WE
REALLY HOPE THAT IT'S GOING TO
BE IN PERSON THIS YEAR HERE IN
THE CITY OF HARTFORD, I WOULD
SUGGEST IF YOU THINK YOU HAD
COBRA YOU MIGHT WANT TO START
RUNNING OR PREPARING A LITTLE
BIT EARLIER BECAUSE CERTAINLY
MY BODY DIDN'T REACT THE WAY IT
USUALLY DOES WHEN I START
RUNNIN AGAIN.
RUNNIN AGAIN. WE'RE KEEPING OUR FINGERS
CROSSED.
CROSSED.
CROSSED. AND LASTLY, YOU DON'T WANT TO
MISS THIS BUT THERE IS A BLOOD
DRIVE HAPPENING TS K THA
WE WANT PEOP TO KNOW ABOUT.
CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THAT?
YEAH.
YEAH.
YEAH. WE'LL LOOK AT THE HOSPITAL
HOSPITALIZATIONS AND THE SURGE
THAT WE'RE SEEING RIGHT NOW
RELATED AROUND KOBE 19.
THERE IS AGAIN A DIRE NEED BY
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS FOR
BLOOD DONATIONS AND THEN FROM
ON WEDNESDAY THE SECOND FRM 9
TO TWO UP AT CAMP HARTWELL IN
WINDSOR LOCKS, CONNECTICUT AIR
NATIONAL GUARD IS HAVING A
BLOOD DRIVE UP THERE SO YOU CAN
GO TO THE AMERICAN RED CROSS
FOR MORE INFORMATION.
THEY REALLY NEED PEOPLE JUST TO
CONTINUE DONATING BLOOD THROUGH
THIS PANDEMIC.
THIS PANDEMIC. ALL RIGHT.
ALL RIGHT. SOUNDS GOOD.
SOUNDS GOOD. BRIAN FOLEY, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
ALWAYS A PLEASURE SPEAKING WITH
YOU.
YOU.
YOU. THANKS FOR HAVING ME, ANGELO.
SEE YOU.
SEE YOU.
SEE YOU. HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND.
ALL