15 in danbury. Its these areas where we could see some icing problems. Because of that, a Winter Weather advisory in effect. Could get a little slippery. Its from 7 00 tonight through 10 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Day planner today, a lot of clouds, some sun at times. Kind of a sun sandwich in between. Clouds early, breaks, then more clouds late. A High Temperature at 43 degrees. Lets see if the commute is not bad. Lets find out from lauren. Not bad. We have a couple things going on. Lets head over to route 4 westbound. Theres an accident by midland avenue in the left lane with a downed pole. Not really causing a delay. 202 shut down northbound between mt. Airy road and mt. Harmony road because of Fire Department activity. A spot to avoid because its a northbound closure. More weather and traffic coming up on the 4s. Lauren, thank you. Want to get to that breaking news happening on the Upper West Side. A hazmat situation at mt. Sinai West Hospital. Patients who are at that hospital. Its on 10t
Blast of wet weather as we head to meteorologist bill evans tracking where the snow is. The snow is falling on the upper west side, one of the few cameras we can show you 33 degrees. We look at the temperatures. It is a mean morning out there. Heavy, wet snow to 5 inches in effect. The warning would be for 6 inches of snow and local spots might get it. Its falling as snow every dids where just to the very eastern end of long island toward the hampton bays and all the way out toward montauk. You see heavy snow on the l. I. E. , the jersey sun pike. This will continue through the morning commute up until noontime. That will give us the heavy, slushy, wet accumulations that creates all kinds of problems from automobile accidents, slowdowns at the airports. That as well as the trains right now. Reporter it is a great day for mass transit. Everything is running on or close to schedule, including our subways. We have a couple of accidents here, new york state thruway. You have the deegan wit
Live look at the belt parkway by jfk. A little warmer than the past couple of days. 38 degrees. Well talk to rave in a bit. What are your travel plans . You get a refund . A lot of people wondering about this. The centers for Disease Control and prevention have issued a travel alert, including a destination that roseanne hoped to visit. Roseanne is thrilled to become a firsttime mom. Now in her seventh month of pregnancy, she looked forward to which winter break in cancun next month. A baby moon for us. Were looking forward to getting away from the cold. Then she heard about severe birth defects linked to women exposed to the zika virus. She decided to cancel her trip. They had paid more than 500 each for their tickets. She contacted news 4. Canceling the flight and being able to receive some sort of a refund. Heir owe mexico addressed her concern saying the tickets were nonrefundable. But were waiving the exchange fee. You can use them within a year. As for other airlines, american is
Moving away from us. What were dealing with instead is a cold front. There are some snow showers that will work in here, possibly mixed with raindrops in the late morning, early afternoon hours. Some clouds. 20s in the suburbs. Look for brief mixed rain and snow showers from late morning until midday or so. Then a gradual clearing trend. It will turn windier later in the day with a high of 40 degrees. Emily west on this friday morning. Tell us about the first check on the commute. Hi everyone. We have trouble in queens. Lets take a live look at the Grand Central parkway westbound just past the l. I. E. You can see an accident here. Several emergency vehicles. Only the left lane is open. The two right lanes are closed. Well keep an eye on it. If you can go with the l. I. E. Instead, thats your better bet. More weather and traffic on the 4s. Emily, thank you so much. New this morning, were getting a look at the man who police say threatened and cut a woman on a brooklyn subway train. Tra
County as well. Al o seeing the brighter white in Suffolk County before all is said and done. Temperatures still flirting with being above the feezing mark. 33 in the city. At freezing in white plains. Still freezing across a good portion of new jersey and the Hudson Valley. Probably get below freezing in the next couple of hours. City, a good chunk of new jersey, southwest connecticut, its a winter storm warning in Suffolk County because conditions there could be worse. With as much as 5 to 8 inches of snow accumulating. Moderate to heavy snowfall and the Road Conditions probably going to be worse out here. Especially mid to late morning. Elsewhere, look for wet to slushy Road Conditions as we go on through. Again, accumulations around 3 to 35 just to the east of the city. The city around 3. 1 to 3 west of the city. The higher amounts in eastern Suffolk County. One of the storms that you have to keep watching hour by hour, minute by minute. Shes watching of the commute for us. Lauren