So have the umbrella handy. Youll notice the winds around the area whipping about. What a pretty sky after looking so gloomy a couple hours ago with a low ceiling and lots of delays around the area. Were at 57. Doesnt feel too bad. Still have a wind advisory for long island, it includes brooklyn and queens as well. Theyve come off their peak and will continue to do so in the evening hours. That advisory might be dropped during the 6 00 show. Theres been big time delays especially laguardia and newark but those delays are on the way down. Rainfall amounts, big range. Heavy rains on parts of long island. Not so much over new york city and central new jersey. Theres the radar right now. All the yellows and reds pushing offshore, leaving east end. Also a couple showers pivoting in from the south and west. After this low for the evening commute, there will be more showers. I do not anticipate it being widespread and heavy as it was earlier but there will be more showers. If you look at the
It was like that high, 7 stories high. Reporter people here at west 58th and 7th were track. Reporter rocks . Yes, it was really bad. Reporter there were chaotic moments after there was a break in the water main and sent a plume of thick, white steam up above 58th street. There was a huge cloud of white smoke and i got like a waxy substance on my glasses, and it was hard to clean off. I got it all over my coat. Reporter firefighters were considering evacuating some of the buildings in the area. But still, they didnt know what was going on. There was no steam pipe explosion. As you can see, it would be a with High Pressure steam in the street here in manhattan and water that might surround the pipe and not compromise it. It would create a small steam condition which it did. Reporter thats 58th looking west between 6 and 7, and 6th avenue is open to traffic but that block of 58th street is closed. The concern is buckling in the roadway, and again, the officials want to stress that even t
Side with the falling temperatures. Just wild weather. Its miserable information you gave out. This is april. Lets go back to march. How miserable is this. Its cold and raw and take a look at whats happening. Spring has been on hold here and light rain in new york city. After the first day, it was beautiful. 79. Weve been plummeting. We well below average and a couple of days with snow showers and no signs of warm patterns coming in. Weekend weather advisories that expire through the evening. Accumulating snow can still finance duchess county, but its going to wind down. We have a freeze warning, coastal connecticut, lower westchester and new york city and long island and southern and Central New Jersey as well. It should be the meadow and central park we mowed last week. Low ceilings causing delays. 44 degrees. It has been an in credible range with below freezing temperatures. It was 60s river. Rain has reached ocean county. You can see the split. The rain snow line is along i84 and c
This afternoon inside the home, the cause still unknown. The police say it does not appear to be suspicious. You can see from the video the intense flames shooting out of this house. Firefighters tried to get in right when they got here, but because of the strong smoke and the fire, it really kept them back for quite some time. Eight Fire Departments responded. When fire investigators were finally able to get into the home, they found the two victims on the first floor of the house in the same room. Neighbors tell us they ran to the home when they first saw the flames. I started to hear sounded like an elderly lady inside screaming help. I called immediately, i called 911 immediately. You are taking a live look again outside the home. A lot of crime scene investigators right now. Not yet being released but we are told by neighbors that the man was a korean war vet. Kristen thorn channel 7 Eyewitness News. A cab drivers medical condition caused him to lose control, jump a curb and serio
The turnpike. The victim was an oncampus student on the footpath between the library and science hall when the unthinkable happened before 11 00 p. M. The victim was walking from one building to another, and apparently, they were lured into the woods and somehow, she ended up off the path and a slightly wooded area adjestent ad adjacent to the math. And its monday night at 10 00, and kids were about. It shows that attacks will just happen. Reporter students have been cautioned to walk in pairs, the buddy system. This is the first stranger assault in recent memory. I make sure i walk with someone. I dont know how this happened. Reporter it appears that the attacker was an intruder but that is an assumption. In his 40s and we have no further description. Reporter the victim is fine but students are still advised to keep their guard up for the foreseeable future. Lou young, cbs 2 news. And fairfield is home to Sacred Heart University where students are also advised to keep caution. And di