Babylon Branch News Today

Freight train derailment. 1000 feet of track, railroad ties, the third rail and two switches. Railroad officials hope to have it restored by this evenings rushhour but that is clearly not going to happen. The delays and cancellations will affect nearly tens of thousands of commuters over the next few hours. We call this the main line and this line feeds both the port jervis branch and the ron Port Jefferson branch and the Ronkonkoma Branch and those taken together will take half of the ridership...

Back in the ussr the phantom phone call . Sir elton and president putin in a battle over gay rights. Did the russian leader invite the legendary singer for a summit or was the megastar the victim of a prank . Back in the ussr good morning, america. Happy wednesday. Lets take a look watt some live radar. The weather system doing so much damage in the west this week and you see Salt Lake City and boise there but the kind of down of pour you are seeing in los angeles hardly ever comes this time of ...

Services. We are highly committed. Reporter the mayor points out the need for restructuring because it has been in place 20 years and does not meet the current needs. Reporting live, tim fleischer, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Tim, thank you. We are following breaking news right now. Two big problems for Long Island Railroad commuters. Westbound service is temporarily suspended on the Babylon Branch because of signal problems in freeport. On the ronkonkoma branch, a truck hit a vehicle near the be...

Afterwards and really warm weather for new years eve. This is what it should be feeling like this time of the year. We are at 31. We dropped two degrees since last hour. 28 in hanover and montclair. Blairstown 25. 30 poughkeepsie. 33 bridgeport. Thats the air temperature. Here is how it feels out there. 20s all day long. 122 brooklyn. 9 monticello. Cold day today. 30 at noontime. Look at the wind out of the north 10 to 25 Miles Per Hour. Cold today and tomorrow. It will warm back up. We will tal...

The future is now. We need help. The zadroga act provides Health Benefits to emergency workers who are suffering from illnesses. But the program is set to expire next month unless Congress Makes a change. This morning, Hurricane Sandy victims have a little more breathing room. They have another month to have reviewed. Days. Some Insurance Adjusters have allegedly blamed sandy damage on other factors. So far more than 20,000 claims have been reviewed. Hundreds have been approved, totaling more th...

It is dropped. Cespedes couldnt make the catch how abou yet thar effort . Digging around third. Matt harvey threw the royals, hitting an insidethepark home run. First of the world series since 1929. That was just the beginning. New yorks jen maxfield is at citi field. I hope you didnt stay up for the whole 14 innings. You would be late for work this morning. Reporter thats right. Some of us caught some of the game before coming in to work today. You said it was a special night. Well, it was also...

First one, ten guys plus one more. Jeb bush, who is that . Rosanna he is low energy. Finally caught, about two feet long but has been named jaws. Greg this is in queens, a little thing, no big deal. Rosanna but frisky. Greg the pope and coming to town, great contacts at the upper echelons of the church, hanging with the me yesterday. Rosanna observer of the otc where the holy father will be staying when he comes to town next week, monsignor franco on the right and on the left that is the new sta...

Us live. Saved by his scouts. A boy scout leader credits his troop for saving his life after being mauled by a bear. We have a gentleman in a cave with the bear. He h been injured by the bear. The quick thinking scouts gave new meaning to their new motto be prepared. And cringeworthy. A big blunder at the Miss Universe pageant when the wrong winner is named and crowned before host steve harvey has to admit he made a mistake. I have to apologize. Some incredibly awkward moments followed before th...

To dr. Carson, i guess probably i was the one that was hurt most by it. The republicans prepare for the abc news debate in New Hampshire. And megyn kelly fresh from her own debate firestorm here live with her take on the race for the white house. Uber alert. Criminals may be using the Popular Service to kidnap your kids. A famous hollywood directors daughter says she was nearly taken by someone pretending he was her driver. It was very, very scary. She speaks out only on gma. An abc news exclusi...

With its first elevator and connecting sidewalk, the Long Island Rail Road Copiague Station is now fully ADA-accessible.