To come in and get to work. And good morning, im lori stokes. And thank you for joining us, im ken rosato. Today is friday, january 1st, happy new year and happy new year and you are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic thank you. Thank you. Even on new years day. Meteorologist bill evans with the accuweather forecast. Happy new year gang and we tee it up and do it all over again. Still a party at the Empire State Building. Still going on here in the overnight hours as we head into 2016. Temperature 41 degrees right now. This is really comfortable this time last year it was 21 and the windchills were in the single digits. So it feels pretty good out here this morning. As a matter of fact, that up the Hudson River Valley even its 40 poughkeepsie and kingston. 41 bridgeport and 41 on long island and 39 down the shore. Today great day a nice start to 2016. Going to warm up to 345 degrees this afternoon and still warmer than normal for the seasonal averages this time
Looking at some very nice weather. Your temperature 6 00 a. M. 40 degrees and weve got a west wind here at about 10, 15 miles an hour. And its 39 poughkeepsie and 39 white plains and a great day. 42 by noontime and 45 this afternoon. A beauty of a first day of 2016. Well talk about the weekend coming up next. Debbie duhaime is looking at the commute for you this morning what commute there is on the new years day. What is going on out there . Average couple of problems believe it or not bill. Good morning bill and good morning everybody. Happy new year and still seeing delays on the subways right now on the a. C. And e. Uptown delays with a Police Investigation. Also a switching problem at franklin avenue so still seeing delays on the 4 and 4 as well. Now on 2 and 4 as well. Now an the van wyck northbound at the grand central. Accident reported and the grand accident there as well. Fdr drive northbound in the 70s still cleaning up the accident and traffic light but watch for that accide
Well take a look at the sevenday forecast in a few. Right now, emily west is here with your commute. Still busy on the roads. Fdr, new accident here northbound near 79th street. Two lanes blocked. You can see the backup. Goes all the way into the 40s. Definitely just take your time this morning and be very, very cautious. Garden state parkway southbound, exit 145 to 280, a right lane blocked here with a crash. More weather and traffic coming up on the 4s. Thank you. New this morning, a tragedy in manhattan. A man died in some sort of elevator accident just after midnight. First responders rushed to 131 broome street on the lower east side. Today in new yorks Katherine Creag is there with what were learning about the building this happened in. Reporter as you said, what a tragedy that happened here. Even more bizarre for the people going in and out of this building. They tell us the elevators are working right now. Theres no sign, no notice that something tragic happened here. From a ma
Ben clubs and faced alabama. Yesterday, clemson defeated oklahoma. Liz we will have more on that. Happy new year. Ben happy new year to you. It always feels like a fresh start. Ben mike woods is off on the holidays. Night. It was a good night. A chilly night. Exciting stuff. Last year was so much cooler. It was. Christmas, two. We will start to turn a little bit colder. We really do have a great stretch of weather coming up. We will see that sunshine. Quite cloudy and kind of gray. Sunshine will be on the way. Right now, 39 degrees. Thirty and monticello. Forty right now and islip. Dragging in the drier air. Chilly air. Probably a little bit closer to the freezing mark. Wearing the heavier jackets, again. Lots of clouds north and west. The flurries will not be able to carolinas. That is moving away from us. Upper 30s and 40s. Slowly climbing. We start to feel the difference. When chill tomorrow about 20. Still pretty good on sunday. Tuesday, this is the afternoon high. Thirtythree. Rig
At the gas station. Greg cergol is live at the scene tonight. Reporter pat and rob, the owner here got a phone call before 3 00 this morning saying his gas station was on fire. And what makes all of this all the more worse is that it appears it was no accident. Its pretty bad. You can see that. Gas station owner dave hassan had little to celebrate this new years day. Part of his station was damaged in a predawn fire that erupted after a car slammed into a gas pump. The whole pump is burned, the building is damaged. Thank god nobody was right by the window and my cashier was, you know, he was inside and hes save. But while the damage here is unmistakable, what happened is less clear. My other guy was telling me i think there was two or three day gooi guys, they were in an argument and started fighting. Crash and fire. But no one involved stuck around long enough to talk to police. We didnt find any victims at the scene. It was just a vehicle engulfed at the time when we arrived. Suffolk