Lori stokes. We have a brandnew air mass in place. 74. 74 to start out right now. Drops down maybe another degree or to but 60 at hopatcong, blairstown, up to poe and kingston. 80 by noontime. Beautiful weather. Heather, i have great news in the weather department. I have okay news in the traffic department. My maps arent working at this time. That is bad news in the traffic department. Not good news for me. Lets go to a webcam. We will show you how things are looking traveling on the Staten Island expressway. You can see the construction is set up. That is right around richmond avenue. Now, this advertise the eastbound side of the Staten Island expressway. They did cancel a lot of that construction during the overnight. Thats because of what was going on with the truck accident yesterday on the new jersey turnpike which has completely been cleared away. Now, we are looking at the b. Q. E. Up the northbound side. This is your delay coming up to the Brooklyn Bridge. We do have our stree
61 down the jersey shore. 64 wrightstown. Sunshine, 84 by noontime. 87 this afternoon. A great day, especially for august. We should be in the midst of the dog days where its sticky, steamy and sultry. Its not. We will talk about the weekend next in your accuweather seven day forecast and it looks better than when we were talking about it this time yesterday, heather. That is a good thing. Lets go to the maps. Not a good thing is on the leigh. Looks like we still have an accident, l. I. E. Eastbound near exit 19. This accident blocks three lanes. Then as you head through brooklyn, dont forget about the sinkhole. Its 5th avenue at 64th street. Then we are looking at minor delays lincoln. Off the George Washington bridge on to 95 southbound local lanes near exit 71, we have an accident in the process of being cleared away. Mass transit is running on or close to schedule. Shirleen, ken, over to you. Okay, thank you. House sands of homes on long island are still without electricity this mo
We are looking at really nice weather to start your friday and your weekend. 73 degrees outside right now. Temperatures out across long island are looking very nice. Were going to be seeing temperatures that start out around 66 in brook haven, 63 around west hampton. 64 white plains, 58 around poughkeepsie. This afternoon we get to 82. Some absolute gorgeous weather. Were going to talk about a beautiful weekend coming up in your accuweather sevenday forecast. Heathers looking at your commute this morning. Not going so well through westchester. Right near exit 32 this is an ongoing accident investigation. You can expect a lot of delays northbound on the sawmill. Lets show you how things look as you travel across the Staten Island expressway. This is the eastbound side into the area of south avenue. This delay is all because of ongoing construction there thats been with us all week long. This is the bqe as you travel on the northbound side making your way up into the Brooklyn Bridge. We
Northeast wind. Heather how about i buy lunch today. Awesome. What are we eating . I dont know. Whatever you like. Okay. Me everything. Lets go right over to our maps and give that some thought and talk about whats happening here as you head on to the Sawmill River parkway, northbound side near exit 32. We have all lanes closed down. An accident investigation ongoing. You can expect a lot of delays. Cross bronx near white plains road, that is an accident and traveling on the new jersey turnpike truck lanes southbound the ramp to the newark bay extension eastbound remains closed. We have an overturned tractor trailer on that ramp. Path trains, Police Activity cleared. New Jersey Transit doing okay. Ongoing bridge work in bridgeport and street cleaning rules are in effect. Thank you very much. 6 01. We begin with breaking news in newark. Two children critically injured when flames spread to three different homes in newark. A fire began inside a house on bergen street a couple hours ago.
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