Police and fire had to evacuate people in the area. Now manhole explosions can happen in this kind of weather, thats because salt from the roads seeps on down, corrodes the wiring and eats away at the insulation leading to a blast. I was waiting because i was looking outside and i started running and i say to people come on, lets go. I closed and everybody out. Reporter now, most of the roads have now been reopened but there are still some repairs to be done, about 25 people are without power. But pse g tells me they should be able to restore that pretty soon. The messy weather is also causing problems for travelers arriving at local airports. Flights are delayed about two hours at la guardia, also similar issues at kennedy with flights arriving about two hours at newark flights are delayed about an hour and a half. Andrew siff is at la guardia with the situation. Reporter yeah. The situation, were also talking about nearly 500 cancel ed flights across the tristate area. Those are flig
You might want to grab a light jacket. Good morning, im lori stokes. Im Michelle Charlesworth in for ken rosato. Today is wednesday october 14th. Youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic and bill. Good morning ladies. We take a look outside, and weve got a cool and crisp morning. Its also mild for this hour of the day. A little warmer than normal. Were at 62 degrees. The cooler air is going to be slowly filtering in today. Look at that. 55 kingston, poughkeepsie. 59 bridgeport. 57 islip, wrights town 57 and were looking at a nice sunny day today with temperatures in the upper 60s. Yeah, its going to get near 70. Upper 60s today. Were going to talk about a big november shot coming for the weekend in your accuweather sevenday forecast, and shes really happy about that. No, shes not. Not at all. I saw the scowl on your face. I can see the laser beams coming out of your eye sockets. Lets go over to our mass transit charts. It looks like everything is running on or clos
68, and were looking at 70s on the way. Well talk about that next. Heathers got all kinds of issues this morning. Thats why we do weather and traffic together every 7 minutes. Were going to head to dix hills and show you where there closure is. Northern state parkway remains closed down. Everything is closed down both directions between exits 41 and 42 with an ongoing accident investigation. Deer park avenue onramps to the Northern State parkway are also closed down. This was a double fatal accident. Kristin thorne has been giving us information all morning long. This is where the closure scene is. You can head to jericho turnpike. That is a good alternate to the Northern State parkway if you are heading up the north shore. Chelsea fire closures, 7th avenue right near west 18th and 17th street between 7th and 8th avenues. You want to avoid the area of chelsea. Our mass transit times are doing just fine. Our street cleaning rules are in effect. Ken over to you. Heather thank you. Its 6
That same level here at rig writing by. Letter these fans are starved. Reporter jacob decome takes the ball. Now comes the fun part. I think we have a lot of confidence in this game. We matched up well against two great pitchers. And we got a chance to take a 3 0 lead. Reporter well, the cubs are taking batting practice. Next up are the mets. First pitch still about three hours away. That is going on inside Wrigley Field. Anthony johnson is outside the ballpark with more on the mets fans here in chicago. Anthony . Reporter laura, the first thing we have to say is its a beautiful afternoon in chicago. Quite different than what we saw over the weekend in new york city. I am standing basically in a sea of blue. So many blue jerseys between the cubs and a few mets fans and lo and behold there is a mets fan right there wearing a jacob degrom shirt. These mets fans are here to have fun. Right in the middle of cub central in the midst of cub mania are cool, confident mets fans gearing up for
Value of the mammogram. What theyre picking up tends to be things like fibrous changes. Theyre only examining the breast once a year so theyre not picking up things that lead to detection that makes a difference. It makes me as a patient feel better. It makes a lot of women feel better. No one is saying women shouldnt Pay Attention to their bodies. If you detect any change in your own body bring that to the attention of your doctor. Why is it all of a sudden were seeing these changes . Theres a number of reasons. Were recognizing more and more that screening has benefits but it also has harms. Theyre trying to cut down and make sure were getting the best benefit we can get out of screenings than harms. The harms are more than just fears. Theres biopsies and surgeries that have side effects and complications. If youre in a Higher Risk Group youre going to need more frequent and earlier mammograms. The groups that fall into that are people with a Family History of breast cancer, if you h