The granddaughter of Actor Morgan Freeman stabbed to death on a street in manhattan. Tonight the actor is speaking out about his loss as the family awaits charges against the suspect. First, a nightmare for tomorrows commute. The lirr service is back up and running tonight after a plane crashed on the tracks. Good evening im sandra bookman. Im rob powers. Service was fully restored to the Ronkonkoma Branch tonight. Plenty of headaches for people tonight. The mta releasing new images. The plane was decimated and the pilot killed and his name has not been released. One person survived the crash. Mta crews worked into the night to fix the tracks. Josh einiger is live for us at penn station for more. Reporter from looking at the pictures you can get a look at how colossal it was for them to get things moving for tomorrow morning. Its pretty much back on schedule and just in the nick of time for the monday morning ride to work. The train started moving again after dark along the lirr busy m
You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist bill evans with the forecast. Hot day. Day three of our hot wife. It started saturday. Temperatures around 80 to start the day. Normal high is about ten cooler than that. 78 canarsie. 75 cambria heights. 81 whitestone, Staten Island, down the jersey shore, from 78 to 72 degrees. 68 up to the north around poughkeepsie. So, we are looking at a hot day today. We will get into the mid90s easily today. You tack on the humidity, it will feel like 100. Thats right. Be careful. We could get to 95, 96 degrees, break a record high. We will talk about that coming up. Debbie duhaime is in for heather. We will start out telling you everything is back on track l. I. R. R. On the Ronkonkoma Branch after problems from yesterday. Metro branch, Waterbury Branch ongoing construction in bridgeport. George, lincoln and holland moving okay. Number 1 trains, no trains at 14th to south ferry. That is Maintenance Work going o
Now we can officially say as you heard john say, it is now a heat wave that is new this summer, but 90 degree heat and rising humidity, well, thats not new at all. A dangerous combination of heat and humidity is forecasted once again. Being in a three piece suit is a little rough for me, but going to the beach would be perfect. I really hate it. Why . I dont like the summer. Weve already had 9 days where temperatures were above 90 degrees. We didnt get thee of those 90 degree days in a row we couldnt call them a heat wave. In fact the last official heat wave in new york city was in july of 2013. But people we spoke to say they dont mind battling through another one. Ill go to the beach if it is really, really hot and miserable id like to sneak inside and try to find something i had to do i didnt want to do when it was nice like this and do it inside air conditioning. Winter took a long time to go away, i like the heat and hoping it lasts into september. Well, at this rate we dont know
Reporter it was crazy this afternoon. In fact all day. Several hundred people showed up to do their civic duty. Only one arrived in a stretch limo and had to sign autographs on the way in and out. Republican president ial candidate donald trump. A huge flock of local, national and International Media landed on the steps of state Supreme Court to catch donald trump doing his civic duty. By the lunchtime break, the billionaire tv star was still in the jury pool mix. We caught up with him as he was coming out. Hes giving the experience a thumbs up. Its a great system, a system that works and they do a fantastic job. I met some wonderful people. Reporter unlike other political candidates, trump stopped to answer reporters questions along the way and sign autographs for supporters. There were no burly bodyguards surrounding him, only an aide and his loyal limo driver eddie diaz. Hes been taking trump around in his limo from event to event. Very busy. Hes doing from New Hampshire to carolina
Were going for a high of 95 degrees at 4 00 p. M. It will be hot and humid, youll want to keep the cool drinks handy. 95 one of off the record high of 96 in philadelphia today. Karen, we are looking at an end to the heat wave eventually as we go through the week, ill have the details on that coming up in the seven day. Looking live organ the schuylkill expressway, i was just watching as dave was talking the last construction guy left the scene. They were blocking the right lane on the schuylkill expressway westbound between city avenue and belmont. Both lanes are back open, now youre good to go eastbound and westbound. The volume is light for the most part looking good. We picked up a 19mile an hour speed when we had the crews blocking the right lane. It is about to get better. I95 northbound near cottman we have a new construction pattern watch for that. I95 southbound traffic heading toward center city, southbound we have a disabled tractortrailer blocking the right lane, in such a b