Freight train derailment. 1000 feet of track, railroad ties, the third rail and two switches. Railroad officials hope to have it restored by this evenings rushhour but that is clearly not going to happen. The delays and cancellations will affect nearly tens of thousands of commuters over the next few hours. We call this the main line and this line feeds both the port jervis branch and the ron Port Jefferson branch and the Ronkonkoma Branch and those taken together will take half of the ridership on the Long Island Railroad. Reporter this contingency plan just went into effect. If youre in penn station tonight, there will be Eastbound Service and you will be able to get out to long island but there will be cancellations roughly 1 3 of the evening schedule out of penn station is going to be cancelled, and there will be no service into new york city on the ronkonkoma and port jeff branches. The advice, get to the Babylon Branch or the Fort Washington branch because those drains are trains
And it was really late. Then had to spend 25 minutes on a bus or so. Now i will be late for meetings so im trying to figure out what to do next. Reporter overnight rail workers removed the derailed freight care and spent the next 16 hours struggling repair the damage. It would not come soon enough to save the evening rush hour. Our track guys have been at it for many hours and they got a good look at the damage. I was told it was in excess of a thousand feet of track damaged, significantly damaged, third rail, regular rail, ties, all of that. Reporter with one of the two tracks out of service, the railroad canceled Westbound Service on the ronkonkoma and port jeff branches at 3 00 p. M. To make way for eastbound trains. The priority, to get commuters out of new york city. Most seemed resigned to the inconvenience. Sometimes things break and you got to adapt to it and do the best you can. How do you think they are doing the best they can . I think they are doing a good job. You can alwa
Even into putnam county, northern fairfield, could be a little icing overnight. Were going to talk about that. We got a great day today with 45 this afternoon. Debbie duhaime is looking at the commute for you this morning in for heather. Hows it going out there . Reporter ill tell you whats happening now, good morning, bill, good morning, everybody. Heading to the outbound bqe, traffic moving slowly heading down toward the brooklyn bridge. Its a disabled truck in the way. So expect slowdowns there. Now, still seeing this problem over on 202. Its closeed in bernardsville with Fire Department activity. 9 northbound the 9a getting past croton on hudson, an overturned truck to watch out for. Over on fifth avenue at bay shore closed at the Southern State, a serious accident there. Lets go outside to our camera. Heres a look at the l. I. E. Westbound. L. I. E. Westbound moving slowly here right out toward rosalind road, so expect some slowdowns. And going over to the other camera, the inboun
With the exclusive accuweather forecast good morning, everyone. Happy friday. Were starting off with some nice numbers here for you. Grab a jacket or a sweater, but the temperature 36 degrees. Two days ago we were starting off at 11. So its really warmed up nicely. Normal overnight low is about 28. So we are above normal, even north and west some cool numbers, kingston, poughkeepsie, 16 degrees. 15 around middle town, 30 norwalk, 30 on long island. So these numbers are nice. Its calm, its quiet this morning. But there is a Winter Weather advisory for tonight up above i 80 and i287 and along i84. There could be a little frozen precipitation. Were going to talk about that and your weekend coming up here with some heavy rain on sunday. Weather and traffic together every seven minutes. Apparently heather had an alligator fall on her windshield. Reporter you heard about that, right . Yeah. Reporter you gotta watch out for those alligators. Snakes on her windshield in this warm and cold, war
Im lori stokes. Im rob nelson in for ken rosato. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic. Temperature of 23 degrees. Dress warmly. Its chilly. 19 hopatcong. 23 hand november. 22 poughkeepsie. 23 bridgeport and long island and 21 down the shore. Its a chilly morning. It will warm up to 38. Compared to yesterdays real feel of 5 to 15 degrees, it will feel warmer. It will get warmer and milder. We will talk about that next. Good morning. Im tired from my commute back from california. Subway status, service on or close to schedule. Bruckner southbound near 138th street you have an accident cleared away. Side 138th to Yankee Stadium, that construction. That is a longterm construction project. Construction on the George Washington bridge, both decks, both directions. Lincoln and holland have construction but minor delays. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect. Lori, over to you. All right, thank you, heather. The Powerball Jackpot is down to a m