Thank you for joining us, im ken rosato, and you are never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. Good morning everybody. Happy friday. If youre about to head out the door, grab your umbrella. You are going to need that. We have rain across the area, we have temperatures in the upper 70s. Its a morning where we start out with a muggy morning out here and a morning where were looking at whats going to be these showers and thunderstorms. 76 right now and passing through the area, its muggy. Were looking at the line from kingston to poughkeepsie down the toms river. Western jersey is shower free now and so is manhattan. Theres a little shower coming across Staten Island heading towards brooklyn and queens. Theres showers and thunderstorms up there at newburgh, and those are heavy along 84 and 87 and back to our west, drier, cooler air for tomorrow, which will be delightful. Well talk about that coming up in just a moment. Im doing okay. Southern state parkway, different story,
Heres our camera in brooklyn where the rain has ended and is pushing eastward. The heaviest rain is across long island. Theres a lone police boat way underneath the brooklyn bridge. 74 degrees, cloudy skies northwest at 3. Crazily wild across the five boroughs. That Flood Warning until 7 15 is really right there, queens and Nassau County and western suffolk, heavy rain across the l. I. E. And rain that has been causing flooding in monmouth county. The line of the rain is really now Litchfield County connecticut still another Lightning Strike in duchess. Now thats the rain ending in queens ask you see that heavy rain thats going duchess to Litchfield County. Behind that is beautiful weather that will be coming midday. The suns out, and there will be sunshine. The winds going north, northeast and northwest. Drier air pours in and makes for delightful weather. Heather another got a big issue on Staten Island. If youre trying to get to Staten Island via new jersey we have this issue on the
Ditching his board and pulling a 14yearold to shore speaking out this morning on gma. And we do say good morning, america. We made it to friday. A huge crowd already gathering in central park this morning for 5 seconds of summer and for a few seconds it didnt seem like it was summer at awe, the flash floods, the storms but look at them. Theyve dried out after staying there all night, amy, ready for this concert this morning . We cannot wait to hear from the band in just a bit. We do want to get right to that breaking news, that explosion in los angeles overnight. Rocking the basement of a highrise sparking a power outage at the Staples Center. Nick watt has the latest. Good morning, nick. Reporter good morning, amy. Thats right. Concertgoers plunged into darkness. Firefighters deployed in the heart of the city, fire and billowing smoke in the financial district. Overnight a powerful underground explosion shaking downtown los angeles. Looks like we got a large multistoried modern sealed
Eyewitness news copter you see just how big a scene this was and is still this afternoon. Traffic southbound has been diverted to route 17. They will be at this for quite some time today trying to figure out exactly what happened. All the details of what happened, and right now just trying to notify next of kin and straighten out exactly to get traffic flowing once again. Dolan channel 7 Eyewitness News. As we find out more breaking information we will update you on air and online at abc7ny. Three workers remain hospitalized with serious burns suffered in a massive explosion as they worked on a gas line at a high school in the bronx. Damage and tore a gaping hole in the side of the building as you can see from this tweet from marcus solis. He is joining us right now with the very latest. Its devastation, pure devastation. I have no idea. As a longtime teacher of Digital Electronics he had to come see for himself. These photos give you a sense of the force of the blast a gas fueled expl
That will scour out that shower activity. Right now 73 in the park, 50s well north and west. Dew points that measures the amount of moisture in the atmosphere in the uncomfortable category. It is muggy out there. 72 at 8 00 in the morning, average partly to mostly sunny. 82 by noontime, temperatures in the middle 80s by 2 or 3 00. We send it over to Debbie Duhaime right now. Good morning jeff, good morning everybody. Well start off on the maps by telling you about a problem on route 9 in cortland at jack road. Its an accident. Also at the Southern State westbound by 111. Reports of an accident on the shoulder. The 1 train back on schedule, 2 and 3 back on schedule. Same thing with the 7, everything on time with the lirr, new Jersey Transit and metro north. George, lincoln and the holland moving smoothly. The east river crossings off to a nice start. Lets go outside, the Staten Island expressway moving okay eastbound through victory boulevard heading through that construction zone. Alte