Year is barely underway but seven Elementary Schools and four middle schools wrapped up two hours early. Not all parents and guardians, many who had to rearrange child care believe in the decision. This will negatively affect their education. We never had days off when i went to school. Reporter School Officials say the heat and humidity are too extreme and the early dismissal involves schools with limited or no airconditioning. Opening windows and running fans is not providing enough relief which leads to another complaint from parents. How come they dont have air conditioning . There wouldnt be no dismissal. Where is our taxes going . Reporter and, so, the question becomes what happens tomorrow . Well, in the last 15 minutes or so, the School District coming up with a decision. They know it will be a hot day. All indications say that it will be a little less severe. So, a full day of school is scheduled for tomorrow. Live in norwalk, marcus solis, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Marcus, t
Running 10, 12 warmer than normal. This afternoon 93. That will tie the record high set in 1919. After school today, supports, that sort of thing, drink lots of water, take a lot of breaks. Coaches, superintendents, be aware of that. Thunderstorms after school for thursday. We will talk about that next in the sevenday forecast. Heather orourke is talking about bus changes at Port Authority. Before we get to that, there is an accident on 495 traveling to the lincoln tunnel. This is the helix, dark out there. You can see the traffic is slowly moving down the helix. An accident on 495 near pleasant avenue. That accident is being cleared away. Lets go to the maps. We will talk about the gate changes, new Jersey Transit buses, coach usa buses. I got a tweet from somebody. Judy wants to know why im talk not talking about decamp buses. There are changes. Street cleaning rules are in effect today. Developing this morning, a deadly Chain Reaction crash on the belt parkway. A young woman thrown
Flood advisory on the eastern end of long island, westhampton beach, Eastern Suffolk county. The flood advisory forenassau has expired. Rain cutting through connecticut. Another big batch of rain to the south and west. This is running up the jersey turnpike. Rain on the Southern State and the l. I. E. Out to the eastern end of long island and rain along 95 in connecticut. Through the day today, more rain to the west that will be sliding eastward. Have your rain gear all day. The rain will build to a drain strain situation with flooding rains of two to three inches possible as we go into this evening and tonight. Weather then heather every seven minutes. Overturned tractor trailer and flooding in brooklyn. A lot of messes. We will look at the webcam we were showing you earlier. They are in the process of moving it around. A lot of activity on the scene. Firefighters out there. It looks like this is the overturned truck. Look at that debris. We will head to our maps and explain where thi
Year is barely underway but seven Elementary Schools and four middle schools wrapped up two hours early. Not all parents and guardians, many who had to rearrange child care believe in the decision. This will negatively affect their education. We never had days off when i went to school. Reporter School Officials say the heat and humidity are too extreme and the early dismissal involves schools with limited or no airconditioning. Opening windows and running fans is not providing enough relief which leads to another complaint from parents. How come they dont have air conditioning . There wouldnt be no dismissal. Where is our taxes going . Reporter and, so, the question becomes what happens tomorrow . Well, in the last 15 minutes or so, the School District coming up with a decision. They know it will be a hot day. All indications say that it will be a little less severe. So, a full day of school is scheduled for tomorrow. Live in norwalk, marcus solis, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Marcus, t
This afternoon or into the day tomorrow winds southwest 5 15, waves about 2 to 3 feet. That rip current risk remains moderate. Only swim when lifeguards are present. Water temperatures 75 at the new york city beaches and down the jersey shore. We have much needed rainfall in your accuweather 7 day forecast coming up later in the week. Well talk about that in just a few minutes. Thank you, jeff. With all this gor gorgeous weather many are outside at the beach. For some dolphins made a splash at belmar in new jersey. Anthony johnson is there. Stellar day for the beach. Reporter the beautiful pictures of the dolphins around noon today brought to you by my photographer pete santana. He has an eagle eye when it comes to catching mother nature. The star of the story down here along the entire jersey shore has been the weather. A lot of sunshine. We talked to Business Owners today. Many of them talking about profits this summer going up 10 to 20 . There is a simple formula to success on the j