Traffic and weather on the 2s. High levels of lead discovered in the water. The taps now turned off as officials call for help from the state and federal government. Janelle burrell live in newark with more this morning. Reporter hi chris and mary, most of the samples were actually taken from water sources from sinks and polices where you would wash your hands these test results showed that some of the Drinking Water sources, some of the water fountains at this Charter School came back with lead levels ten times above the acceptable limits. The testing took 324 water samples, a sample from every single water source in all eight nontraditional facilities within the Newark Public School district for this phase of testing. A quarter of those samples came back with elevated levels of led. 16 of them were from Drinking Water sources, 10 of those Drinking Water sources were the newark legacy Charter School. The epas acceptable level of lead and water is 15 parts per billion and some of the s
Vanessa murdock who is here with the forecast, snowy forecast this weekend vanessa. It is looking less snowy as we get closer to the approaching event. All right well thats good news. I certainly think so. Listen today is going to be a day leading up to the potential for snow tomorrow, over all your saturday looking not too shabby. Temperatures right now 37 in the city, 25 in liberty it is 35 in babylon. That cold air moved in over night it is here to stay here is a look how much colder its gotten it is 14 degrees colder in liberty than it was yesterday at this time. 11 degrees colder in central park. As we look at the vortex satellite and radar picture, directly over head skies are mostly clear with a few clouds at present but they will be thickening throughout the day. We actually have two clusters of moisture both will have an nearly as big an impact as we had seen yesterday. Here is the break down of today. By noon, 43 is feeling like 39. It is partly sunny by 3 00, 46 is as warm a
During at a busy theater in new jersey. Good morning, the time is 8 01 on this sunday, november 22. Vanessa murdock has a look at the forecast. We had showers move through overnight and they will return for some this afternoon. Right now temperatures are mild and they will not move much today. The wind will pick up, so expected to feel like the 40s for all of us. Despite that fact, some of us start off in the 50s. Looking at the vortex satellite and radar, there are some breaks in the clouds. For those of you well north and west of the city, you will see through the day. There is a slight chance that weather will impact your plans and there will be more cloud cover south and east of the city. Expect a cloudy day with the impacting your plans. As you make your way through the day, temperature wise we will not move much. We have already tapped out at our high of 55 and we will fall from there to the 50 degree mark as those winds pick up. It is not going to be bright and beautiful, but we
Country. A somber morning midtown as a casket of joseph lemm got carried into Saint Josephs cathedral followed by his grieving loves ones and teenage daughter and son. There was a sea of blue for his funeral, military personnel here to show the lemm Family Support and say a prayer. And also give a final salute to one of their own. It is tough, try to pull together as best we can. Lemm was also a Tech Sergeant in the national guard. The 45yearold had been on leave with the department doing a tour in afghanistan when he and 5 other americans were killed last month. After a suicide bomber road a it is always like the ones that are the nicest, friendliest guys. His fellow airmen in mourning calling him superman because of his physique and positivity. Always made you laugh had a good time. He served with lemm two years ago and will never forget his uplifting spirit. Godfather, good friend. Good brother, give you the shirt off his pack. His friends and loved ones heartbroken after loose a he
When without saying a word those officers pounced. Just rushed. Reporter the former tennis star shaken and furious. 35yearold james blake says he was tackled and pinned to the ground by nypd officers outside of the Grand Hyatt Hotel on east 42nd street wednesday morning, taken down in an apparent case of mistaken identity. Reporter have you had any conversation with him at all with the cops yet . Not yet. Reporter the harvard educated tennis player, once ranked fourth in the world was waiting outside of the midtown hotel for a car when the Police Lieutenant rushed towards him. He says at one time he was held down by five plainclothessed officers. It was when a detective nearby recognized blake and identified him and the officers let him go. Police commissioner bill bratton says blakes account is disturbing. One of the officers now placed on modified duty. Just the nature of what he described is not what we do. Its not what were supposed to do. Reporter bratton says the officers were fr