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Head out there. Im ken rosato. Im Shirleen Allicot in for lori stokes. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and bill evans with the forecast. Showers and thunderstorms are coming in the area from the city eastward through rockland, Westchester County across brooklyn and queens. On the l. I. E. , 49495, oyster bay, smithtown. That will continue across the area. Here is another look from our accutrack radar. You can see the lightning strikes that are there. They decreased. They are across brooklyn and queens this morning heading eastward. We will have that a couple...

Big wind gusts so far this morning. 50 Miles Per Hour in lading. 30 islip. Thunderstorm warning for the eastern end of long island, east hampton, montauk, riverhead eastward the thunderstorms are spreading. They are down around southold to plumb to Fishers Island out to new london. There is another band through right now. Northern jersey, rockland, westchester to philly, you need your rain gear the next half hour. Then a steam bath. Heather is looking at the commute. How is that going . Not well for long island commuters. We head to the commute, a tree fell, downed wires, this is near stony br...

This is really affecting people who are going to Newark Airport, going to catch a flight or pick someone up, leave yourself a lot of extra time or head for routes 1 and 9. You can get off the garden state parkway, take 78 east, get on into Newark Airport that way. Newark airport flights are not affected. New york air train is running without a problem. New jersey turnpike is something to cross off the list. We will take a look at a camera and show you the delay. We will look at another camera this is a webcam. Another camera and show you the delay as you head southbound on the new jersey turnp...

Bridge but like i said, you know with the power and also the structural integrity. We have to determine that before we can let anybody come across. Reporter this update. Engineers late this afternoon obviously deciding that that overpass can stand the usage. The weight of those heavy trucks allowing traffic to finally flow across again. And of course, you can see behind me utility trucks still traveling over that overpass. Now were going to break down and go a little bit closer so we can see whats happening on the turnpike at this point. We also got chance too speak to some of the drivers who ...

You could see wires dangling across lanes. Drivers saw five hour delays. We get up from like 10 00 this morning and we just got here. Reporter again, state police within the hour confirming the death of that truck driver. At this point they have not released his identity. For now we are live here in linden, new jersey, toni yates, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Toni, thank you. What a mess. Another view of all of this from newscopter 7. Shannon sohn above it all and it looks like they are beginning to pull that truck out of there. Reporter yeah, they are finally making a little bit of progress jus...