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 brook. Something to keep in mind if you use the Port Jefferson branch. New Jersey Transit on or close, Metro North Waterbury branch, work in bridgeport. B. Q. E. Subject to closure north at metropolitan avenue, overturned truck. Belt parkway east at knapp street an accident. 287 north in boonton a downed tree. B. Q. E. At this point northbound side still shut down. Southbound side only the right. A
To riding the waves speeding across the water on his motorbike taking on 30foot high waves. What hes saying about his deathdefying stunt only on gma this morning. And good morning, america. Lets get right to those severe storms passing through the northeast overnight and early this morning. Look at that lightning over new york city. Yeah, that lightning and the thunder was just one of those mornings you wanted to stay in bed. Everyone agree but we all came in anyway and had a deluge on the way to work. We sure did and the storms up north deadly causing that tent collapse in New Hampshire. A father and his young daughter killed. More than 30 others injured and abcs linzie janis is on the scene in lancaster, New Hampshire. Good morning. Reporter the fog is thick but behind me is where that huge tent is lying on the ground. Families say they had just sat down to watch the circus when a severe storm seemed to come out of nowhere ripping it out of the ground and sending its metal poles cras
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 turnpike. This is right across Newark Airport. So, here you have the inner roadway which is known as the car lanes. You can see traffic is barely moving. Its at a crawl. To the right of that is where the track lanes are. There is no traffic. They diverted everybody into the car lanes. They are taking everybody down to the area where that fire has occurred and they are diverting everybody off. This is s
Lori stokes. We have a brandnew air mass in place. 74. 74 to start out right now. Drops down maybe another degree or to but 60 at hopatcong, blairstown, up to poe and kingston. 80 by noontime. Beautiful weather. Heather, i have great news in the weather department. I have okay news in the traffic department. My maps arent working at this time. That is bad news in the traffic department. Not good news for me. Lets go to a webcam. We will show you how things are looking traveling on the Staten Island expressway. You can see the construction is set up. That is right around richmond avenue. Now, this advertise the eastbound side of the Staten Island expressway. They did cancel a lot of that construction during the overnight. Thats because of what was going on with the truck accident yesterday on the new jersey turnpike which has completely been cleared away. Now, we are looking at the b. Q. E. Up the northbound side. This is your delay coming up to the Brooklyn Bridge. We do have our stree
61 down the jersey shore. 64 wrightstown. Sunshine, 84 by noontime. 87 this afternoon. A great day, especially for august. We should be in the midst of the dog days where its sticky, steamy and sultry. Its not. We will talk about the weekend next in your accuweather seven day forecast and it looks better than when we were talking about it this time yesterday, heather. That is a good thing. Lets go to the maps. Not a good thing is on the leigh. Looks like we still have an accident, l. I. E. Eastbound near exit 19. This accident blocks three lanes. Then as you head through brooklyn, dont forget about the sinkhole. Its 5th avenue at 64th street. Then we are looking at minor delays lincoln. Off the George Washington bridge on to 95 southbound local lanes near exit 71, we have an accident in the process of being cleared away. Mass transit is running on or close to schedule. Shirleen, ken, over to you. Okay, thank you. House sands of homes on long island are still without electricity this mo