And before they were stars. A quiz for you tonight. Do you recognize these faces . Golden even back then. Good evening on this very busy friday night. We begin with the deadly flooding. Caring washed away. Drivers rescued from rising waters. With blistering heat now moving in too. Authorities life threatening. There is a state of emergency in louisiana tonight. An elderly driver rushed off the road. Good samaritans rushed in to save him. This school bus, children rescued. Tonight, there are flood alerts from the south through new england. And a short time ago, reports that five people were struck by lightning in new york city. Rescues are turning out. Reporter in louisiana, more than a foot of rain in hours. Floods powerful enough to sweep this tractor trailer right off interstate 10. Reporter trapped residents can only wait for help. You can see behind me, theres basically no way to get out. Reporter the high water already taking the life of a 68yearold man who was swept away east of
Place to stay safe or you cant get into shelter, if you can get into a car, thats a safe spot, any kind of shelter as well. Waiting out in the open, especially under a tree, bad idea. Make yourself as small as possible in a situation like that, crouching on the ground if you can. The storm is heading to cornwall next. You have about ten minutes here of extreme weather and then it pushes off to the east. Just taking the few minutes to get shelter is a great idea. Then east cornwall. This storm will make a east southeasterly push here in the next 45 minutes. Other spots on the map are not close into the city. The last storm went off shore through coastal connecticut. We will wait to see if these will pop up. Theyre spotty storms and dont last long but they can be potent. Extremely uncomfortable. At 3 00 this afternoon, toms degrees for the feels like temperature. Its the combination of the discomfort during the day and not being able to cool off at night that makes it so difficult for pe
On the way to the scene. We hope to have live pictures for you coming up. Five people under a tree in a park when lightning struck. Three of the people in critical condition. As we get more information, we will bring it to you. Thank you, joe. We turn to the heat. A large part of the area is under excessive heat warning that will go through sunday. It feels like temperatures are approaching 110 degrees today. The heat is expected to continue through the weekend. Con ed is fixing equipment and residents in the communities are being urged to conserve electricity. This was a tough day to be outside if you were construction worker like these guys in the bronx. Vendors selling cold treats were dos brisk business. It was even hot at the beach. Asbury park. We begin with meteorologist amy freeze who is in for lee who is in the Weather Center with more for us. It is so hot outside. Not just sizzling temperatures but it feels like a steam bath because of the incredibly humid air mass that is ju
The top reporting stations in how fish reports. Weve got on the radar right now. One thunderstorm with lightning along 95 and that particular storm is making a quick exit from stanford over 95. Its all about the heat right now. Excessive heat warning until sunday night at 10 00. All areas that you see in the bright pink are under that same warning. The l be from Central New Jersey through the city extending down through the lower Hudson Valley all the way into western connecticut where heat readings or heat embassies and feellike temperatures will be in the triple digits. Very uncomfortable. If your heat index is back towards 100 degrees or 95 degrees, its still difficult and oppressive for the body to handle this kind of heat. By tomorrow morning, its already feeling like the low to mid 90s. It. It gets more intense Late Afternoon on saturday. And we hold those heat indexes in the triple digits until 9 30 at night. Well start to pull back even sunday morning. Things are looking uncomf
The evening hours, we feel like 96 degrees because temperatures will get cooler to 80 degrees in the city and humidity remains high. We are right back with triple digit temperatures and the humidity just does not quit. We will talk more about this and i have details the full forecast. I will see you in a the coolest assignment of the day, the beach is the place to be. It is certainly a cool assignment. It would be cool if i had a swimsuit but on an unbearably hot where would you want to be . Is one of the more popular beaches among tourists as well as locals. And a lot of people are cooling off with a dip in the ocean and a lot of people say the beach is the best place to be on a humid day and while there is no ac the wind has been giving a bit of relief. And a lot of people say they have been out here for hours. We have our grandson and he loves the beach. We are just enjoying ourselves. The water is great. We should be. Im in 80s check im in 80s lady so enjoy the sun, no umbrella, we