Damaging and dangerous, severe storms take down trees and flooded streets. Right now, traffic on our busiest bridge is at a standstill after winds were Strong Enough to flip a tractor trailer. Good evening, im kristine johnson. Im maurice dubois. Well have team coverage, but we want to get to lonnie quinn. Part of our area is under a tornado watch right now. Theyve extended that watch until 1 00 in the morning. Were talking where Morris County south through or she county until 1 00 a. M. , tornado watch. Not happening right now, but all the puzzle pieces are in mine and it could happen. Elsewhere, the areas shaded in all five boroughs riders of the city until 11 30. Severe thunderstorm warning means severe storms are taking speak. This is the worst the storm has to offer. Peek at this. This is probably the biggest thing i can share with you. We talked about tornado watches. No reports. However, look at all the rotation were seeing in the atmosphere. Radar indicated rotation. If you see a green spinning arrow, way high in the atmosphere, yellow closer to the ground, red has not touchdown but close out there. If you look at the vortex, a place like new jersey right now dealing with the skinny part of this line, only dealing with it for about 20 minutes or so. Look at franklin, new jersey, youve got this long line right over your area. Thats a good hour to an hour at half of hard storms. Well talk more about whats for tomorrow in just a bit. Right now, back to you. An idea of how strong those winds are tonight. Police believe the winds are responsible for knocking over this tractortrailer on the upper level of the George Washington bridge. Right now, blocking all outbound lanes, thankfully nobody was seriously hurt but traffic is backed up for miles. The damage is widespread, downed trees and power lines, Tracee Carrasco live now in north brunswick. Reporter the rain just started picking up again, right now weve even seen some lightning within the past few minutes but behind me, take a look, crews are working to repair an area where a tree fell down on some power lines. This storm causing damage all around the area. Heavy rain soaked people as they walked in New Brunswick tonight, umbrellas providing little to no relief. The rain also caused flooding in some areas like here in and route 1. Driver splashing through it, along with rain came the whipping winds, only intensifying as the night continued. Winds so strong history snapped and came down on wires and route 27 at omaha haul road in north brunswick. Traffic was shutdown as crews worked. At laguardia, construction barrier blew over onto a yellow taxi damaging the window. The driver was not injured. A fiery scene in ellensburg, west cancer westchester county. Earlier, the wet weather caused some alarming moments on a busy street in elizabeth when manholes started exploding. Cell phone video captured one of them, you can see the metal cover flying several feet into the air. Narrowly missing people and cars. Residence next to this tree tell me they did not lose power but its unclear how long the how long these crews will be here tonight. Live tonight from north brunswick, Tracee Carrasco, cbs2 news. Lets go to Valerie Castro live in new milford where a tree crashed onto a house there during that families dinner hour. Valerie . Reporter this team, you can see the large tree behind me, this evergreen tree, the family believes it was about 50 feet tall before it fell. You can see the trunk where the tree snapped right in the middle, over here it landed on top of this deck area, also an awning over here, the homeowner believes this deck structure actually helped prevent more damage to the home. This happened around 9 00 this evening when the winds were really picking up, the homeowner says it caused a whole to go all the way into the house. The family was sitting around the dinner table when they thought they heard a large clap of thunder. I was having my dinner. All of a sudden, boom, boom, it was like the sky falling. Thundering voice. And i said, oh [ bleep ] the tree probably fell. Reporter the family says the tree was planted just a few years after the home was built in 1935. The homeowner says he is sad to see it go. Reporting live, Valerie Castro, cbs2 news. Glad everyone is okay. Metronorth train hit a tree tonight, that fell onto the tracks in the irvington arts area. You can see some of the debris still stuck in front of the train. Metronorth says no injuries here. Passengers were put on another train. A growing number of Power Outages tonight over the past several minutes, con ed told us it has more than 10,500 customers affected. Jcp nl has more than 3500 customers in the dark. New tonight, the brooklyn charges against five teenagers. The alleged victim now admits she lied. Cbs2s tony aiello live now in brownsville with late details. Tony . Reporter these were explosive charges, here at osbourn park. January 7, 18yearold claimed five teenagers chased her father away at gunpoint, then raped her. But her story kept changing. Tonight, the case has collapsed. The five young men were shown, named and chain shamed by local politicians outraged by the allegations. They should be more afraid of us today than of the police. Reporter the alleged victim of a gunpoint sex assault at Osborn Playground now has recanted. Attorney abdullah green represents one of the exonerated teenagers. Can finally go back to some normalcy in his life. You can only imagine, the trauma that he experienced and the embarrassment when this it sounded horrendous. The family is glad this is behind them. Reporter prospers believe the woman was in this park drinking with her father from whom she had been separated most of her life. There was sexual contact between the two. The da says the group of young men saw what was going on and one or more of them joined in. Quote, this young womans father and the five young men engaged in conduct that was reprehensible and wrong. But because of a lack of reliable evidence, criminal charges simply cannot be sustained. The father later claimed he sought help at this deli but was denied. In january, Community Activists angrily confronted deli workers. A worker says the anger has now subsided. This activist denies there was a rush to judgment. We dont have the luxury of sitting back and letting things happen in our community. If an allegation was like that, we sound the alarm. Reporter resource describes the young woman as troubled. The District Attorneys Office office are offering to work with her to provide her help and support but she made it clear recently she wouldnt cooperate with criminal charges, so case dismissed. Live in brownsville, brooklyn, tony aiello, cbs2. Turning now to campaign 2016, donald trump celebrating his win in the nevada caucuses. He was quick to point out his support was widespread. We won evangelicals. We won with the young. We won withhold. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated. This was trumps Third Straight win, giving him 81 delegates so far. Marco rubio and ted cruz each have 17 but the ultimate test in six days away on super tuesday. When 595 delegates are up for grabs. Just doing some shopping when started flying out of his pants. Just doing some shopping of his pants. A mom of four who made a name for herself as the so called hot dog hooker is now at it again. She is up to something new in her long island neighborhood. And whats in that bag . The Reason Police want to find street. A kentucky man never thought he would like to like this. Look. Hes left with seconddegree burns after an ecigarette battery exploded in his pocket. The man actually ran out to take his pants off while an employee sprayed him with a fire extinguisher. Police are searching for a bold burglar in queens, the man is climbing fire escapes to break into apartments, suspected in at least five breakins in the rego park area. The suspect is believed to have targeted 310 wins in the same building. The long island woman dubbed the hot dog hooker is in the headlines again. Cathy scalia was lounging in offering a topless lap dances inside her East Rockaway home. You may recall four years ago, scalia was busted and pleaded guilty to offering sex to undercover officers from her hot dog stand. Scalia claims now shes not offering sex, she says is no different than what goes on a strip clubs. Lunch and a lap dance, thats what you get. Impressionable children in this neighborhood. We cant have a woman like this flashing herself and posting signs like this in residential areas. She also wanted to make it known she wants to be known as the hot dog honey. New tonight, millions of people in the tristate area currently looking for a new job or at least contemplating a career change. One of them, your search starts right here, cbs2 reveals the companies that are hiring, the positions available, and to pay. Im a fast learner, eager, ready to work. Now all james mclean meet is a job offer. Ive been in the hospitality industry. He joins the ranks of more than 3 million other new yorkers currently out of work. Whether you recently graduated or laid off for reinventing yourself, cbs2 wants to help. We pulled the data with the help of the new York State Department of labor to find out where the jobs are. Were showing huge gains in this big cluster they call managerial, professional and creative. Analyst jim brown says new york is experience tremendous job growth right now with several hundred thousand new positions in every field from accounting and media to computer trade, new positions that include the director of finance for wyndham worldwide hotels, social media specialist at the Staffing Agency robert half, and Software Engineer with medical research. Take this listing for a cyber consulting which typically starts at 80,000 a year. Were seeing an uptick in a chart job too. Theres also a need for truck drivers, lawyers, and ad execs. Weve made a very Successful Transition to online advertising. People need to look at the trends that are happening. Reporter tracy wyland is the author of employed for less. Personal trainer, took an extra certification so he could focus on personal training for people who are 50 plus. Reporter she and other experts say to be successful today, you need to recreate your job skills, to fit the need. You say nurse, people go hospital. But then you discover a significant number of nurses are employed in insurance or management of home healthcare. Something mclean is hoping to do with his hospitality skills. To land a new job in finance. Im looking forward to it. If you to land an interview, here are three donts. The conversation, or throw someone under the bus. You can find a link to hundreds of thousands of available jobs from the new York State Department of labor on our website, cbsnewyork. Com. Good luck. We hope that information helps. Ask questions, let it come to you. The weather picture tonight, active night in the weather world, thunderstorms, tornado watches. Shouldnt be happening this time of year. Forget about a tornado watch, that should never happen in february. Even severe thunderstorms dont happen this time of year, but thats what were dealing with. As of right now, weather watchers, a lot of want, 64 in plainfield, new jersey right now. Take a look at what some of the peak wind gusts have been reported around the area, 34, 29, okay. Were seeing some gusts not necessarily by the weather watchers on this list but we had them up as high as 61 Miles Per Hour in portions of the hour gust. Its going to be really windy as you go through the overnight hours. Your picture into the city, 57 degrees as of right now, rain is falling, 58 was your high temperature, thats where you rest as of right now. The rain that weve been dealing with today, plenty of folks over an inch of rain right now, new york city, poughkeepsie, and andover, two inches of rain and more to come. This line is dropping rain quickly as its moving to the area. So we should be expecting mild temps out there but the strong storms are out there as well. The happiest taking place right now until 2 00 in the morning, could be later east end of long island, very windy, 40 to 60 mileperhour gusts if not stronger. Trees go down, they take out the power and we have problems with Power Outages. Vortex satellite and radar, i know this is moving in around 45 Miles Per Hour to the northeast, what id like to do, right here, there we go, i want the heavy rain, i know theres strong storms out there for everybody, but this right now is the worst coming through the area. So the worst of it, catching it right now, harder, stronger rain at edison, newark, 12 new rochelle, 12 22, 12 52 into oyster bay. Now what i want to do, giorgio is back at the helm in the weather office, id like to trace the back edge of the heavy activity, just the package, more rain behind us but i wanted to know if you are under the gun right now with heavy storms, this is when it will start to let up, okay . 11 26, starts to become lighter, 12 09 in newark, 12 23 in new york city. Lets get right to it moving forward, big picture, big storm, blizzard conditions in portions of michigan right now, all of this has to move through but is going to be moving through tonight during your overnight hours and tomorrow, lingering wind but not as bad a day as today. The big one for that. Look at your winds, 5 30 in the morning, now upper 30s, close to 40 mileperhour winds, then 40 mileperhour gusts tomorrow, another windy one. Not as windy as you see right now. Across the board for your temperatures, 54 on thursday, better than today but still not great. 39 on friday, a brighter day but now some cold air for friday, point if you starting off below freezing, saturday 40. A better day of your weekend will be sunday at 50. Right now next week looks to be lower 50s, upper 40s. Looking forward to it. Otis livingston tonight in tampa looking ahead to sports. As a yankee full squat got together for the first time the rain and cc sabathia. A bottle adrift for 2. 5 theres makes the voyage from Staten Island to the shores of france. The journey is now uniting two artists from different continents. Cbs2 news Jessica Schneider has the story. Hello. Reporter its the email this brooklyn painter never expected to get. The bottle arrived in perfect aspect. Reporter the glass bottle he crafted in 2013 his Crown Heights studio made its way across the atlantic onto the shores western france and into the lives of these two. George 319 glass bottles into waterways all of the country. The one that reached france was tossed from right here at what spawned on Staten Island. Inside each bottle, a letter and a piece of artwork. Up until last week, only seven had been found all along the east coast. He thought the rest were lost couple more than 3000 miles away emailed him last thursday. Now their correspondence is a daily affair. Theyve told me all about where they are, theyve invited me over. Its great. Weve been exchanging pictures. Bridgette is an artist herself. Reporter she was using the bottle messages to raise awareness about the trash killing birds in the ocean. Now he knows his message is resonating. Very inspired to do more of them. I may do some this weekend. Reporter art project making its way around the world. Jessica schneider, cbs2 news. So cool. Taking us back to preinternet days. I know. So much to say about the whole message in a bottle. A lot there. I hope we have a buyer for the house. Me too what are the neighbors doing here . Bill hey i didnt know your home wifi could stream so many devices at the same time. Dad, its time warner cable. 300 megs. Crazyfast. Dad you can get wifi all over this place. Cool make your home as connected as possible. Get 50 meg internet with unlimited data for 39. 99 per month. And ask about free installation. Once again Otis Livingston otis, weve got a weather situation up here. I know you had some down there as well earlier today. We certainly did, kristine and maurice. When i woke up, i thought, so much for sunny tampa. This was a day that everyone was looking forward to with position players meeting up with pitchers and catchers for the first time, theyd get together. Mother nature threw us a curveball early this morning. Rain, rain, go away. Why would you have to show up on full squat report they . Not even the morning downpour could dampen the spirits of the bronx bombers. Always fun coming back the first couple days. This is where it starts, our goal is to win the world series. Theres all the excitement, everybody comes back, ready to get started. There was an Alex Rodriguez siding. 6 45, then at a deck 22, he shows up. Legacy and taking batting practice indoors. He didnt speak to the media. That will happen tomorrow. He did check in with his do. Theres not all the questions he had to answer last year. So i thought he came in and looked really relaxed. So does cc sabathia who recently said he will rely on his teammates as he battles alcohol addiction which sidelined him late last season. They say they have is back. As a teammate, i have to support him and be nice to him and hopefully the moment he went through, i believe he dont want to go through again. It was tough for him and his family. Excited to see him in the clubhouse and see the smile on his face. Looking forward to playing behind him. Caring about each other, more than just a teammate but as a friend, cc is the model for that and hes done that for his entire career. So its time for us to pick him up a little bit. Everyone pulling for cc sabathia. Nicks and pacers, off night for, little anthony, 520 the knicks have lost 13 of 15, 108105. Finally tonight, forget about wheres waldo. Lets play can you tell what Yoenis Cespedes is driving today . As you recall yesterday, we had that batmobile type thing, three wheel vehicle called a polar slingshot, today, a 400,000 lamborghini of altidore aventador. He has eight customized automobiles so we could be in for quite a show this week. Aventador. Once again Alex Rodriguez speaking tomorrow, well have it covered for