Wind gusts. More of that over the next several hours. Thats why theres a Coastal Flood Advisory for south county. Sussex county, with the southeast wind piling in here at high tide. Jersey. Through southern monmouth. Southern ocean county. Heavy rain here in new jersey here that would keep riding to the north. Future cast, temperatures are in the mid50s. Youll see by 4 00, a good portion of this rain is through the area so for the next three, four hours, the rain is going to come down hard. And the winds are going to gust very high over us as we go into the evening commute and into tonight. Expected rainfall somewhere around half inch, three quarters and an inch of rain. Create flooding. Wind speeds will be sustained here, 25 to 35 miles per hour. As i mentioned, with the gusts at 40. Into the next few hours. Theres 50 to maybe 60mileper hour wind gusts at the coast. Well talk about what will happen in the weekend. As this plows on through. Well talk more about this rain coming up, its
This morning. All eastbound lanes were shut down while crews removed it. John elliott is here with the latest. I tell you, it is all tied together when you look at the peak winds. This is the view, gray and wet, 53 degrees with light rain. It is mild because of the south wind. In 2 last hourandahalf we have seen in the last hour andahalf we have seen winds well in excess of 45 Miles Per Hour. Look at these numbers, la guardia has 43mile per hour winds. And i think you will see stronger winds in parts of long island as the storm is anticipated. It is all streaming out of the south, so it is mild but very damp. City. Bergen, essex county and passaic, and more heavy rain waiting to fill in. This line with bright colors through parts of delaware and pushes through. We are concerned about adding half an inch to an inchanda half of additional rain, so we are concerned about street flooding. Also with that push out of the south, also mindful of the risk of coastal flooding, as 1 00 to 6 00 p.
N. J. Burkett in Lower Manhattan tonight with our lead story. Thats right. What does a former Restaurant Owner in harlem have in common with Police Commanders in brooklyn and two borough park businessmen who are fundraisers for the mayor . There are at least three degrees of separation in this widening investigation. I remember a lot of people i know from borough park, i dont remember knowing those two individuals. Reporter the mayor today was firm. That he barely knows jeremy reichburg shown here on the left, and jonah recnits, two former businessmen currently under investigation along with the nypds former chief of department. Investigators are pouring through finance records from the mayors 2013 campaign, amid questions about how donations from the citys real estate and business interests were solicited and whether individuals may have benefited. If i think my administration hasnt handled something well, ill say so. Things appropriately, ill also say that. We are very, very careful
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
Reporter it was actually steam. This cell phone video shows just how much. It was that high, like seven stories high. Steam coming out. Reporter Officials Say right around 9 40 this morning, here on 58th street between 6th and 7th avenues, a problem underground sparked a chain reaction. The water leak is what caused a steam issue, obviously water affects the steam pipes in the ground and then you have steam coming up through the ground. That water pipe beneath the roadway sent enough water pouring on to the steam pipe that heavy thick vapors poured out in actually two spots right near each other. Was it a lot of steam . A lot. What did you do . Run away. Reporter including many construction workers who were right in the middle of a job, in a building that stretches from 57th to 58th street. Seconds after the pavement buckled and that steam soared in quickly leaving the area after getting an order on their radios to evacuate the structure. Next thing you know, i see one of the developer