Interstate 5 shut down due to police pursuit and shootout, San Diego CA
WeaponsNorthbound and southbound lanes of Interstate 5 near San Diego were closed after police pursued a suspect involved in a shootout. The incident started near Verena Park and continued south toward Oceanside. The highway was closed during the police activity and later reopened.
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00:00
The world's shut down.
00:02
You probably already know about it.
00:06
Yeah,
00:07
I don't know about it.
00:08
Was it an accident or a construction?
00:13
According to the media, police activity, there was a shootout started up in Verena Park and they chased whoever it was down a little bit south of Oceanside.
00:29
Roger, that is unfortunate, but that's a long way to do a chase.
00:37
No, Boena Park turned it over to CHP.
00:42
All right, but then CHP took it all the way down into San Diego County.
00:49
Yeah, but that's not a mountain climb.
00:54
If you ever listen to CHP radio, they used to be on a low band.
00:59
Those radios go a long way,
01:02
like that age-old thing.
01:04
You can't outrun the radio.
01:07
So,
01:08
yeah,
01:10
it may be open now.
01:11
I'm supposed to open around 1030.
01:13
They might have opened it earlier, I don't know.
01:21
What time did it all go down? Was it while it was dark or just within the past couple hours?
01:30
I start around two something this morning and CHP took over round four something.
01:38
It's been going on for quite some time.
01:41
I hope everyone's safe, hope no one gets injured or injured or hope there's no fatalities.
01:54
Yes, sir. I agree with everything you just said.
01:59
Yeah, it'll probably be on the news later.
02:02
It's really sad.
02:04
North and Southbound shut down.
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I-5, San Diego, CA
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