The mid 20s. Tonight we will fall into the coldest air of the season so far with lows in the low teens and Single Digits across the state. Thursday should be a dry but very cold day with highs only in the low 20s. The weekend is starting to look a bit nicer with highs climbing back into the lower 30s and we should see the sun again next week well start warmer in the 30s with a few small snow chances through the week. Elias lets get into the top five this morning. Lets get into the top five this morning. Elias flooding along the Mississippi River continues to get worse. Preparations are underway in saint louis for what could be the worst flooding since 1993. Many communities in the area spent tens of thousands of sandbags. However, in some areas the rising waters have all but covered up whole towns. Elias in the number two spot this morning. Elias another sign that iowa has been freed of the avian flu outbreak. The state department of agriculture says that on january first the ban on po
Arraignment is definitely not accident. She joins us to explain why the prosecutors are in a race against time. Good evening linda. Thats right. Good evening to both of you. The decision by prosecutors to pursue a criminal case against bill cosby right now came just days before pennsylvanias 12 year statute of limitations was about to run out. Bill cosbys alleged Sexual Assault on Andrea Constand happened 12 years ago. The previous District Attorney at that time declined to criminally charge cosby. The current prosecutor chose to reopen the case over the summer after constands civil suit became public. At about the same time dozens of other women came forward with similar accusations. Attorney Peter Frankel is a defense attorney. If you look at the probable cause affidavit to get the arrest warrant to arrest mr. Cosby, it reads like a movie script. Theyre true, it is trouble for mr. Cosby. Attorney frankel says if this case goes to trial it is highly unlikely that cosby would testify b
Snow chances through the week. Elias lets get into the top five this morning. Elias flooding along the Mississippi River continues to get worse. Preparations are underway in saint louis for what could be the worst flooding since 1993. Many communities in the area spent tuesday filling tens of thousands of sandbags. However, in some areas the rising waters have all but covered up whole towns. Elias in the number two spot this morning. Elias another sign that iowa has been freed of the avian flu outbreak. The state department of agriculture says that on january first the ban on exhibitions will be lifted. Officials instituted the ban to prevent the disease from spreading, halting live poultry shows at fairs and auctions. Some resorted to using photographs to still show birds. Elias the third thing you need to know before you walk out the door. Elias family and friends are mourning the loss of a College Student from des moines. This after the charter bus she was riding in monday crashed j
Im r k r. Its thursday, september 3. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and amy freeze in for bill. A pair of 7s to start things off. Mild out there. Air quality action alerting into effect at 11 00 a. M. We have a hot steamy air mass overhead. The heat wave does continue. 80 is the normal high. 65 kingston, poughkeepsie. 69 new city. Yonkers 73 already. 75 for west orange. Not a lot of cooling happening last night. We had the heat right at the surface so we get a head start on the temperatures. Yesterdays 91 should easily turn into 93. We will get mostly sunny skies after the patchy fog that we have this morning. Very similar to what we saw yesterday. There is areas of reduced visibility. Today a high of 93. A word of caution p Heather Orourke, as people get started, they need to know there could be reduced visibility that might affect the roadways are travel. Lets get the latest on the roads, good morning to you. So far that is not affecting the roads
Play ball. Lets take a look at nbc 10 first alert radar. See all that green there . Rain is moving in. Lot of it in fact. Lets go to first alert meteorologist. Is this going to cause problems for the morning commute . In the morning, we could see showers but right now, were mostry dry unless youre up near the polke anoes. And more rain is going to move through overnight tonight. And there you see the rain back off to our south and west. We expect heavy rain. Some could cause localized thunder and overnight, we expect showers but now were looking at 8 00 in the morning. We could have a bit of a break but were still at a fair chance for scattered showers in the morning commute. Temperatures will be in about 24 m mid70s. We had a heat wave and even cooler temperatures ahead going into your weekend. Now, thousands of tickets to see the pope in philadelphia, all gone in seconds. The final free tickets were given out in just 30 seconds. The tickets for the papal mass went up for grabs at 8 0