{"id":238006,"date":"2026-04-19T17:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/238006\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T17:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:05:09","slug":"u-s-1-southbound-connecting-monroe-to-miami-dade-shuts-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/238006\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. 1 southbound connecting Monroe to Miami-Dade shuts down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 19, 2026 at 12:48 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/QM5BSO6YBZBXBLCXHBADR6IJ3Q.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Drivers wait for U.S. 1 to reopen southbound at mile marker 119 on Sunday afternoon in southern Miami-Dade County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 Southbound traffic on U.S. 1 from Monroe County to Miami-Dade County came to a halt on Sunday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded to mile marker 119, south of Florida City. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A M-DFR helicopter also responded. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This is a developing story. Local 10 News Assignment Editor Mariana Ortiz contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 19, 2026 at 12:48 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandDrivers wait for U.S. 1 to reopen southbound at mile marker 119&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-238006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}