NJ salt shortage

Who's to blame for New Jersey's road salt shortage this winter? It depends on who you ask.

With supplies of road salt almost completely used up after the snow and sleet that fell earlier this week, the New Jersey Department of Transportation got some very welcome news Wednesday -- a huge shipment of salt is arriving at Port Newark from South America.

New Jersey Congressman Frank Pallone has joined U.S. Sens. Bob Menendez and Cory Booker in calling on federal officials to grant a waiver of the Jones Act -- which would allow a foreign vessel to pick up a huge load of rock salt at a port in Maine and deliver it to the Garden State.

A representative from the American Maritime Partnership said Monday that the industry is taking steps to resupply New Jersey with additional road salt as fast as possible.