With a little daunting. You do the historian thing speak generally. I guess i think if they are looking at american politics, from the beginning straight through we can even go half of the several work, they areal talking the boat paradoxes and conflicts and improv. Tend to focust i on is the early part of the ark. His improvisational nature of that that really fascinates me more than anything else. The nation was founded and a world of monarchy. The United States is a republic. What that means was a super clear at the moment. People knew that they were trying to do something that wasnt that. Beyond that, theres a lot of open ground. There is a lot of improv in those early decades the boat what the nation is, how it functions, the tone of the government, how this nation is going to stand tough amongst the nation of the world and other kinds of nations. What does it mean to be a republic and a world of monarchy. How is this nation going to get any degree of respect and equally if not mo
Well, good morning, everybody. Humid, sticky, steamy, stuffy and thunderstorms around in these overnight hours. Here is the current temperature, 80 degrees. We will drop a bit as we get going today another degree or two. 71 kingston and poughkeepsie. 78 bridgeport, connecticut. 80 in the park. 78 around orange. Air quality alert. Bad air once again. That is really across northern Fairfield County but long island, coastal connecticut, you are not in that but the air quality wont be that good. A couple of thunderstorms around bridgewater. There is lightning in that one and around Suffolk County a storm, too to watch out for. That will run up to 80 and up the hudson river valley. Another steamy day. Highs in the low 90s. It will feel like 95 to 100. Heather is feeling better. She is back in action. I am here. We will talk about mass transit. Mass transit is there for you as well. Its doing okay as far as metro north goes. You have the Waterbury Branch. Long Island Railroad doing fine. 1,
North part and massapequa 73. The cell that left the upper west side, that big rain cell is working toward hackensack and up to passaic and Bergen County along 95 and route 80. There it is around wayne and paterson, new jersey. That is heading to greenburgh and Rockland County. Back to the west, more showers and thunderstorms will get here thursday. Northern jersey, grab the umbrella. A spotty shower inland. We will talk about that. Day four of our heat wave. We will talk about the subways, two and three trains. We tweeted this out, facebooked it as well. 2 and 3 trains, signal problems at 14th street. Metro north Waterbury Branch with downtown delays, 5 to 10 minutes southbound trains. Long island railroad, new Jersey Transit trains, no problems there. Ed koch, 59th street bridge no problems but up the fdr heading from the 60s to the 90s ongoing construction they are in the process of getting that away. Bruckner earlier accident Near Country Club road. It was closed down. It has reope
Bayonne right now. The lower portion of manhattan will get the brunt of these downpours over the next half hour. Between one and two and a half inches of rain falling into the 5 boroughs of new york city. Some of the more recent flooding reports. Theres more off to the west over pennsylvania. During the wee hours of tomorrow morning. Well detail that in the full accuweather forecast coming up. Thank you very much. Downpours are swamping the garden state. This sudden and heavy rain flooded roads in an instance. Aj ross is in patterson reporter sandra, garbage and debris have littered all over the streets of patterson tonight after the severe flooding swept across major arteries here. These are the garbage and debris cluttered under the cars on union avenue. One of the roadways hit hardest. The rain fall was so hard and fast many roads looked like rivers. It was something unbelievable. Ive been part of this for over 20 years. Ive seen Something Like this no more than three times. It was
Several car rescues, a dangerous situation out there. Well head over to storm team 4s erika roe. Flash flooding tends to happen when you have small concentrated areas of heavy rainfall. In the city we have heavy rain falling in manhattan. Flash Flood Warning is in effect for all the burroughs. Hoboken and jersey city areas. Flash Flood Warning in effect for pasaic and bergen for another half hour. A Flood Warning is in effect even though its no longer raining in somerset county. The water is starting to filter theres a Flood Warning in effect for millstone river in the reardon area in effect until 2 00 pm tomorrow when floodwater finally recedes. Well take a look at the threat for more rain in the forecast. Erika, thank you. You can get the latest updates using the nbc 4 app. You can track the storms going on with our live interactive radar. Download the app using the app store or google play. Caused major issue for drivers all weekend. New jersey getting the brunt of it. Many people h