With dennis and chopper 4 in a few moments. Remember, for the latest updates any time, visit nbcnewyork. Com. Now, to the weather. Last nights rain still causing problems across the tristate. This morning, some flooded roads were shut down. This is the Northern State parkway. It was partially under way. News 4s greg is live. We saw the water coming up, couldnt believe it. What a difference just a few hours makes. As you can see behind me, the Northern State parkway, traffic is moving well in both directions now. This morning at the height of the rush hour, this area was a major stress point for drivers. The torrential rains flooded both the eat st and westbound lanes here, forcing police to close the area for three hours. Three cars were trapped and suffered damage. Fortunately, no one was hurt. This of course has been a problem spot before. But still the speed at which the floodwaters rose here caught some drivers by surprise. I was going to my job and a lot of water in my car. Reporter that guy eventually had his car towed. D. O. T. Crews moved in here and pumped the floodwaters. You can see traffic is moving well here. We got flood pictures from across long island. Places like lawrence and long beach. A lot of folks trying to dry things out now after a very wet morning. Were live in jericho, greg cergol, news 4 new york. Is it going to stay dry for the weekend . Storm team 4 meteorologist janice huff. It was insane across the area with all that rain and the flooding that ensued. The cold front has finally moved east of new york city. Most of the rain has tapered off. Look off to west. We can see the clear sigh kies towards pennsylvania, so drier air is moving in rapidly. Up near bridgeport, a sprinkle here and there, still rather cloudy across that area. Rhode island seeing the bulk of the heaviest rain. 1 to 3 inches of rain from the cells that came through this morning for you. Also north and west. Back through portions of pike county, into sullivan county, 1 to 3 inches of rain also causing a few problems here and there. Were expecting the weather to stay dry for the rest of today. Still a few clouds o the east end. And a few sprinkles. Saturday looks fantastic, but what about sunday . Ill have the details next. What about sunday, thank you so much. You can track the weather. Youll see our radar. Its available in the apple apps store now. Investigators say they still dont know what caused that huge explosion that rocked a high school in the bronx. Three construction workers are hurt. Theyre still in the hospital. It happened last night at jfk high school in the marlboro hills section. Katherine creag there. This is happening just days before School Starts again. Reporter thats right, we just heard from the School Chancellor who made it a point saying yes, school will start on time september 9th. What were seeing now, numerous agencies, emergency management, buildings inspectors, nypd. We saw investigators in the very heart of it where that explosion happened in those damaged classrooms. Building inspectors and fire marshals walked carefully over the debris. After a massive explosion at jfk high school. The Incoming Freshman says seeing this makes her worried about the first day of school. Dont know how were supposed to go back to school because thats an entire floor that exploded. Reporter the explosion happened after 8 00 at night, blowing out windows. It sent bricks flying. Residents thought there was an earthquake. Its believed workers making repairs to the Chemistry Lab classrooms hit a gas line with a blow porch. Three severely burned workers are in the hospital. Nearby resident sonya had to see the damage for herself. Today its like, oh, my god, its a disaster. I went to this high school. Reporter School Staff Members gathered. They told us they didnt want to make any comments yet. This incoming sophomore says he wondered how safe the school is. Theres been little incident, too, like a gas leak or something in the stair wells and stuff. Reporter as you take a look at the workers here, so many people from different agencies involved in this investigation. Once again, the schools chancellor said the school will be ready to open on time. She said they will never allow students to go back into a building thats unsafe. You pointed out that three construction workers remain in the hospital. One of them still critically hurt. He has burns on his face, his hands, arms and legs. Back to you, michael. All right, thank you very much. A bizarre accident in brooklyn. A 29yearold woman died after she fell out of a moving car and now her boyfriend is facing charges. It happened in bay ridge on fifth avenue, bay ridge parkway. News 4s Tracie Strahan is in bay ridge and spoke to the victims father. A difficult time for this family. Reporter as you can imagine, that grieving father says he still cant believe that his daughter, identified as daniel erickson, was pronounced dead, really all because of what happened right in the intersection behind me. And the man she was with at the time who they say shes known for a very long time, could be facing serious charges. Shes gone. My babys gone. Scott erickson says hes devastated over the loss of his daughter, danielle, who happens to be his only child. Authorities say the 29yearold died from head trauma after falling out of the back seat of a moving suv. And now a man said to be her longtime boyfriend is facing charges. I know they were out having a good time. Thats all i know. Reporter this was the scene moments after the freak accident around 11 30 last night. Authorities confirm erickson and her 35yearold companion had just left the bean post pub. She climbed into the rear passenger seat but didnt fully close the door and when her companion made a sharp right on to bay ridge avenue, erickson fell out, hitting her head on the pavement. He called me. I was notified by him. I went down to the hospital. And there was my princess there. Reporter after speaking with detectives, Scott Erickson now has the tough task of making funeral arrangements for his daughter. And explaining what happened to her 2yearold son. Authorities say her companion refused a breathalyzer test at the scene and is facing charges, including driving while intoxicated. See what happens when you drink and drive . Things get worse. Dont drink and drive. Reporter the suspect does remain in Police Custody at this hour. And despite previous reports, danielles father says the two were not married. Authorities, however, have obtained a warrant for the suspect, all to obtain a blood sample from him, because he refused that breathalyzer test here. Were live, Tracie Strahan, news 4 new york. Okay, very sad story, thank you. Coming up at noon, were continuing to follow the breaking news. The deadly li ly accident. Live fixtures here. Well have an update. Returninging now to our top story. That fatal crash on the new york state throughway. Live pictures from chopper 4. It involves the tractor trailer, two box trucks, another vehicle. The latest now from chopper 4. As you can see, michael accident investigation under way with the markings here on the roadway where that box truck around 9 30 this morning basically traveling north bound on the turnpike throughway, rather, crossed over the center divider, into the pathway of a tractor trailer. You can see the box truck. Ripped off also that tractor trail theyre basically hit it head on, on its side as well. Full accident investigation ongoing. Bigger problems on the northbound throughway. Almost a tenmile backup now from the Tappan Zee Bridge over to this point. Right now, northbound is shut down. Southbound completely closed. Two miles of backed up bumper to bumper traffic. Again, southbound is also closed. Looking at days here, northbound, on 287, also southbound on the throughway. Again this is going to be out here for quite some time. Take an alternate loop. Or the garden state parkway. Completely avoid this area for the time being. Reporting aboard chopper 4, michael, back to you in the studio. Thanks for that. In todays money report, the dow is plunging. It is down more than 325 points so far today. We want to check in with Bill Griffeth griffeth. Concern about chinas huge economy not growing as hugely as we want it to . And the price of oil is continuing to trade lower. Which is actually good for consumers but not good for producers. That raises fears the fed may raise interest rates. We were down 325. The dow has come back. But theres still plenty of time going into the afternoon session. Down 260 points now. Heres an interesting twist in the mobile phone wars. Samsung is now offering iphone users the opportunity to test drive one of their fully loaded samsung phones which are not as popular as they used to be. The twist is, you must sign up for this test drive using your iphone. What that means is theyre only going after iphone users. If youre using a Windows Phone or android phone, theyre not interested. Theyre clearly going after number one, apple. If you want to try the test drive, the samsung phone, you got to do it. Heres some very good news. The average credit score in this country is going up. Fair isaac, the Credit Service that created the fico score, says the average in this country is now 695. Thats the highest it has been in a decade. You know, the range is between 300 and 850. Mainly the rise is due to a decline in delinquent payments for things like mortgages. Although car payment delinquencies are going up. Also mainly because people know what their fico store core is. Theyre more accessible. When you find a problem on your credit score, you can correct it and then your credit score goes up. So there you go. You know your Social Security number. Score. People talk about it now like a batting average. Right, exactly. All right, thank you so much for all that. In the sticky days of summer, everybody wants to cool off. This mama bear and her five cubs decided to go in the backyard pool of the baso family in rock away township, new jersey. They hung around for hour. They played with the swing, the slide. Much to the dismay of the familys little girl. She wanted to get in there. You can see the video on nbcnewyork. Com. We want to check in with janice now. This is like a family pool party, right . Okay, im laughing right now, but i shouldnt be because i live near there. So no, they wont be in your pool till tomorrow. I just hope they dont decide to come over to my house and have some fun. But if they do, ill let them. Lets go back and talk about all this rain. Its all gone now it moved on to east. And moving off shore at this time. We start attracting this last night around midnight, around 11 00, moving out of pap pa into parts of new jersey. You had some very heavy rain over the catskills and poconos. Another line of showers developing over Mon Mouth County through queens and Nassau County with heavy rain. As much as 3 inches. Thats why you had flash flooding there. About a third of an inch in central park. Not much. But almost 2 1 2 at jfk. We see heavy rain across that region. Also, across new jersey, we saw anywhere from a quarter of an inch to almost an inch in bellemare this morning. Plenty of rain for you as well. Temperatures this afternoon, warmer and drier. The humiditys coming down behind that front. Were expecting readings in the mid80s. Average is about 82. We wont be too far off. At least the humidity will be low. North merrick, at 77. 70s and some 80 lts s across long island. 81 now in long branch. The weekend escape. Theres a chance for a few thunderstorms on sunday at the jersey shore in the afternoon. Keep an eye to the sky. Saturday looks great for everyone, including long island. Passing shower on sunday for you as well with temperatures right around 80. North and west, same thing. Gorgeous on saturday. A popup thunderstorm on sunday. Not expecting it to be a washout north and west. You may have a higher chance though to east across long island. Meanwhile, hurricane danny. Its a category 2 storm. Its increasing. The winds are up to 105 miles per hour. May weaken as it moves closer to the caribbean. But will make a landfall somewhere near the u. S. Virgin islands on monday morning. And then puerto rico on monday night. And then continuing through the dominican republic. Well talk more about that at 5 00 tonight. Sevenday forecast. 87 today. Sunday, 83. Thunderstorms in the afternoon. 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Hes been making a comeback from a major knee injury, but now dealing with a minor calf injury. He says the injury is something he can get over. And it wont be a huge hindrance. Lets hope not. Our live coverage of the giants and the jaguars as theyre known starts at 7 30 tomorrow night. Nbc primetime programming that can be seen on koz cozi tv. Be sure to watch our clear the shelters special. This weekend, well share some of the Success Stories and hear from celebrities who have gone their families by adopting shelter animals. Well be right back. Here at humana, we value sticking with things. When something works, people stick with it. More people stick with humana medicare advantage. Because we stick with them. Humana medicare advantage. The plan people stick with. Were going to continue to monitor the fallout of the fall at crash on the throughway. What well learn about the victims and how long its going to take to completely clear the roadway and of course what will be evening rush be like. For breaking news, log on to nbcnewyork. Com or downlone our mobile app. New york live is next. Have a great day. Hi, everybody. Welcome to new york live. A very happy friday to you. Sarah is still on vacation but filling in today is our own raina. So good to see you. Were going to have some fun. Her dress is fabulous. You should have seen what she wore in like the casual outfit into the studio. I had to like be on par with you today. Way beyond, way beyond. Now, weve got such a fantastic show to help you kick off your weekend. From super star transformations to jaw dropping true life stories. Weve got a sneak peek at a few movies youre definitely want to see this fall. We ek charged out the trailer for these movies. Oh, my goodness. I love it, i cant wait to talk about it. Plus, its an incredible story of new york spirit and triumph. Well show you how an east village spirit bounced back from tragedy. And well get to all that. But were going to start off with this. Forbes magazine has released its list of the worlds highest pate being an paid actresses. Its good to be Jennifer Lawrence, topped the list with an astounding 52 million. I just want a little bit. Jennifer beat out Scarlett Johansson who came in at number two with 35 million. Not bad to be number two. Me Lisa Mccarthy at number three with 21 million. Many have pointed out it further showing the sexism going on in hollywood as only four women make over 20 million while on the mens side a whopping 21 men earn that much. I dont get why this continues to happen across the country, in so many different industries. In hollywood especially. So many women are speaking out. Remember Patricia Arquettes oscar speech where she made a mention of inequality when it comes to men and women in pay. A long way to go. Of course the sony leak showed that even in the hunger games there was different pay for men and women. All the men and women are speaking out about it more and more. It wouldnt be bad to be Jennifer Lawrence im not mad but you know when the guys are topping the list at 80 million a year. Were not there yet. So heres an inspiring story of new york resilience. After closing earlier this year from a tragic explosion on