Announcer it is 10 00 p. M. Do you know where your children are . Right now on fox 5 news atten wow. If you stepped outside tonight, you know we are in for it now. After a relatively warm month of december, we are about to get whit the arctic blast tonight. Temperatures are dropping down the teens. In fact, it is 1718 now. Digits. Everybody bundled up in the new winter coats everything they got for christmas. Nick is wheel the forecast. The good news is, it long. Correct. Boy, a a blast. That is sure . No question are in january today. Temperatures in the teens now. 17 in the city. 18 bellmawr. 13 poughkeepsie. 10 in sussex. 13 monticello. Here tonight. The sky is clear. We have a few skater clouds lout. No issues from that department. Fox 5 will confirm that. Couple of snow showers well offshore. The wind has been issue. It is gusting out of the north. 15 to 25 miles per hour, so we see those windchills down. I will show them to you. Oh, look at the 24hour temperature change over 20 t
Throughout the day and at least most of tonight. The breakdown right now as we go on into the weekend, the snow arrives overnight. Snow amounts are still going to vary considerably from south to north. Much more to the south and west. Much less to the north and west. Damaging winds, flooding certainly a possibility. This is the time you want to make sure you have batteries, flashlights, even a manual can opener. Most of this is going to be a snow event. Might be a little mixing along the coast. The accumulation range right now, we still have to keep it in the 6 to 12inch range. Any little shift as little as 50 miles could make it go from 6 inches to a foot. Further south and west, better chance of a foot or more. Once you get on that border, over a foot a good bet. Towards the north and west, the amounts drop off a little bit been 2 to 6 inches through most of northwest new jersey. Anything from a coating to a couple inches into sullivan, orange county, and ulster and a lot of variatio
Its a half hour early. 4 00. Were going to get on the latest you need to know this storms. Hundreds of schools are closed. The Long Island Railroad will be running at 80 today. Metronorth will have a normal weekday schedule. Nj transit buses will be up and running. Lauren will have the latest in a moment. This morning, between black ice and unplowed streets, getting around is not going to be easy. Our live drive cameras on the roads looking for trouble spots. We have team coverage. Youre looking at the George Washington bridge right now. Team coverage is across the region. We begin with chris cimino. Chris . Good morning, ladies. Were talking about temperatures well below freezing, especially in the suburbs. Any melting that took place during the day yesterday in the especially on secondary roads, highways. It drops to the teens across long island. Low 20s white plains. Low to mid teens across central new jersey. The skies are generally clear right now. But were seeing cloud up towards
And m ms an now, new yorks number one news, channel 7 Eyewitness News. An 8th grader brewinged and beaten after he brewinged bruised and beaten after trying to do the right thing. The story new at republican. The deadly crane collapse in manhattan. Crews on the scene cleaning up. Roads are closed. The investigation just getting started. And we have two reports tonight, a. J. Ross and josh einiger are in tribeca. Were going to begin with josh overlooking the crash site. Reporter were about 6 or 7 stories up over the site, and you can see the devastating scene. The most impressive thing is how much worse this could have been if the crane had gone in on werth street. New tonight, we can tell you that the crane operator has tested negative for alcohol, but its still unclear what caused this tragedy, and whos to blame. The mangled and twisted wreckage still sits tonight where it landed morning rush displayed out across two blocks of werth street, where the 300 tons toppled, slowly at first,
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