We are looking at really nice weather to start your friday and your weekend. 73 degrees outside right now. Temperatures out across long island are looking very nice. Were going to be seeing temperatures that start out around 66 in brook haven, 63 around west hampton. 64 white plains, 58 around poughkeepsie. This afternoon we get to 82. Some absolute gorgeous weather. Were going to talk about a beautiful weekend coming up in your accuweather sevenday forecast. Heathers looking at your commute this morning. Not going so well through westchester. Right near exit 32 this is an ongoing accident investigation. You can expect a lot of delays northbound on the sawmill. Lets show you how things look as you travel across the Staten Island expressway. This is the eastbound side into the area of south avenue. This delay is all because of ongoing construction there thats been with us all week long. This is the bqe as you travel on the northbound side making your way up into the Brooklyn Bridge. We
64 in wilmington, some suburbs kind of cool and we dip into the upper 60s on the boardwalks. Heading out were looking at 68 by 6 00. 71 by 8 00. Partly cloudy and comfortable conditioners, as we roll through the day its going to be a warm one. Noon, 81. By 3 00, thats the high of 85 with clouds increasing as the day goes on, perhaps late this afternoon or evening. The poabt possibility of rain. The rain thats arriving is because of the area of low pressure west of us. It will track south tonight and into tomorrow. Looks like most of the rain we get from that will be south of philadelphia. When i come back i will show you a couple of models theres not total agreement with the placement of this rain. Were looking forward to the weekend whether where we bounce back. Karen, what do the roads look like . Reporter the roads are clear and dry. I95 at girard southbound traffic heading toward center city moving just fine at this point. We can see the construction off to the side. On the big pic
Comfortable degrees right now. Low 60s in reading and trenton. 69 on the boardwalks down by the shore. 71 by 8 00. Noon, 81 the high will be 85 degrees reading at 3 00 p. M. The clouds are getting thicker and late day or evening shower possible down by the shore. Looks like the showers will past to the south tonight that means most of the rain later tonight and tomorrow morning should be in south jersey and delaware, although philadelphia could catch a little bit of that. Ill show you that on future tracker 6 coming up next and well look at the models suggesting that. What about the roads karen. Reporter the roads are not as bad as they normally be, its summertime. Live i95 southbound traffic starting to pick up. 15 minute ride southbound thats not bad overall on i95. Speeds 35mile an hour near girard. The schuylkill expressway is in good shape mostly in the 40s and 50s, moving along nicely. We have a problem with a disabled vehicle plymouth road at west germantown pike. An accidents o
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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