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And now, Preston and Steve's news updates with Kathy Romano.

And it is Monday, April 19th. Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning. A car show at Atgo Dragway in Camden County quickly turned into a traffic mess on Sunday.

Race track officials say that they were told by police that they had to shut their gates due to COVID-19 restrictions.

But when cars were turned away, many of them hung around in the area.

So on Sunday afternoon, several parking lots along Route 73 in West Berlin were packed with vehicles.

Many of them equipped with large speakers just down the road from the Aco Dragway on Jackson Road.

A few hours into the raceways all-day event, police shut down Jackson Road and asked people to avoid the area.

Roma's pizza is among the businesses in the shopping center just outside of the road closure,

and the owner said that there were about 200 people in the parking lot listening to music. He says the traffic jams happen sometimes when Echo has events, but this was the biggest he's seen. He says he helped to direct traffic at some points, and he didn't mind the music or the extra business. Kathy, we're looking at video. I had no idea there were speaker arrays in the back of vehicles. I was like, yeah. I mean, like, Preston, they looked like Marshall stacks popping out of the back of these vehicles. Outrageous, isn't it? Yeah. Not all businesses fared as well. Victory, bar and grill across the street closed around midday in the midst of the congestion. A shuttered gas station on Route 73 was also full of vehicles.

At Go Dragway owner, Len Capone, says police told him to shut his gates with a long line of cars waiting to get in. So, do that thing. Occasionally, and you've all been next to a car that has the music so loud. Oh, my God. And it rattles the vehicle, yeah. What does it sound like to the person within that vehicle? Steve, I was just having this conversation this weekend because there was a car parked, like, at a stop sign, and I was getting out of my car. I'm like, what the person inside, the windows were up and everything. I'm like, the person inside is listening to that.

What are they hearing? Yeah. Steve, I was leaving here last week. There was a funeral procession that went out in front of our building and then made a ride on Belmont. Right. Because there's a few

cemeteries down that way. And there was a modded out Jeep. And it was meant to look like an

Iron Man car. So it was gold and red, painted like Ironman.

Okay.

And they had speakers not quite like we just saw in this video at Echo, but my car was rattling from what was going on in their car.

Do you have to wear earphones?

I don't know.

I have no idea.

That's the big question.

What does it sound like to the person within that vehicle?

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