NBC Affiliates | Top 10 Longtime KNBC Traffic Reporter Paul Johnson Gets His Own Freeway By Andrew Gauthier on Feb. 23, 2011 - 4:58 PM Longtime KNBC traffic reporter Paul Johnson, who died of a brain tumor this summer, is being honored with his own freeway. A stretch of the 55 freeway in Orange County has been named the Paul Johnson Memorial Freeway. “In a ...