Today in new york starts now. Happy st. Patricks day and good morning. 5 00 a. M. On this thursday. March 17th. Im michael gargiulo. Im darlene rodriguez. Storm team 4s chris cimino is here. Today, if you look outside, the barricades. Barricade, the green line is down on 5th avenue. Temperatures will cooperate. Thats the good news. Have to deal with a couple of showers before the parade is through. Poughkeepsie at the mild 47. Low 40s across most portions of long island and northwest new jersey. Yesterday, showers, theyre long gone. Had a couple of flashes of lightning and thunder last evening. This next batch is coming on in. Intensifies a little bit. Weve got plenty of real estate between the showers out in western pennsylvania right now. I think were going to buy some time there. The day planner if youre headed out to the parade, look for the winds to pick up, though. The temperature climbs. 06 at noontime. Forecasting a high of 56. Possibility of a few spotty showers. More details
This is one of those days you have to take along the umbrella. A lot of times on your side. From time to time, youll need it with another band of showers this afternoon. Nothing particularly heavy anticipated at this point. Colder weather as we work towards the weekend. For today, lot of clouds. Then it turns warm in the afternoon. Temperatures in the upper 60s and low 70s. Watch out for passing showers from time to time. Emily, west lets find out about the commute. It is early. We have early construction. In new jersey, got to find roadway closed. Can go with the goethals or outer bridge. The George Washington bridge, the lower Level Construction is cleared inbound and outbound. Ezpass only. The upper level looks great. More weather and traffic on the 4s. A marathon night in albany. Lawmakers worked into the done that includes money for transportation, education and the long dee bated increase in the minimum wage. Katherine creag has more. Reporter good morning to you. Second avenue a
26 in west chestter. 31 in the city. If you look at it, were in the teens to the north and west. Just at about 21 degrees as you head to Westchester County airport. Noontime, a mix of sun and clouds and 42 with a high of 47. The breeze ez kick in tonight and the clouds. Rain tomorrow. First, lets look at the roads and railings. Lauren, good morning. Good morning, dave. Good morning everyone. Lets talk about the rails. We have fastrack maintenance out there on the 1 trains. No trains between dyckman and 96th in both directions. We also have overnight track work on the 3, 4, 6, a, e, d and f lines. Expect delays and service changes. The next update on the 4s. Traffic is blocked along the henry hudson parkway. Bulging retaining wall there. Tracie strahan is live along the highway with a commuter alert. Not both directions are blocked off, though. Reporter no, just the northbound lane. Really just one of them. You can see the flashing light over my shoulder directing traffic near that reta
Bridge where things are moving nicely here. No issues north of the city. If youre headed out the door, you should be fine. On the subways, we have delays out there on downtown 2 trains. Otherwise, overnight track work, fastrack is wrapped up. More weather and traffic ahead on the 4s. Lauren, thank you very much. Tens of thousands of workers going to walk off the job fter a bitter dispute. More on the strike. Michael, it proe ses to indeed. Theyre going to walk off the job in an iour. They promise to rally here on 36th street. Corporate verizon is ved i for a strike as well. Theyre having a plan in place. Verizon says their dedication is to the customers. Official claims, they say they havent heard from Union Leaders and willing to submit to mediation or even extend a strike deadline. Ey say thats why they training nonunion employees to replace those planning to walk off the job and necessity plan to plug those employees into several different departments. Nearly 40,000 verizon workers
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