Lori stokes. We have a brandnew air mass in place. 74. 74 to start out right now. Drops down maybe another degree or to but 60 at hopatcong, blairstown, up to poe and kingston. 80 by noontime. Beautiful weather. Heather, i have great news in the weather department. I have okay news in the traffic department. My maps arent working at this time. That is bad news in the traffic department. Not good news for me. Lets go to a webcam. We will show you how things are looking traveling on the Staten Island expressway. You can see the construction is set up. That is right around richmond avenue. Now, this advertise the eastbound side of the Staten Island expressway. They did cancel a lot of that construction during the overnight. Thats because of what was going on with the truck accident yesterday on the new jersey turnpike which has completely been cleared away. Now, we are looking at the b. Q. E. Up the northbound side. This is your delay coming up to the Brooklyn Bridge. We do have our stree
Freeze. Temperatures in central park dropped below zero for the First Time Since 1994. And that doesnt even factor in the windchill. The arctic air is numbing bodies and freezing wildlife like the plants in this instagram picture sent to us by an Eyewitness News viewer in the bronx. Now our interactive map at abc7ny shows the mercury stuck in the teens across the tristate area, weve got Team Coverage of the bitter cold. Were going to begin with meteorologist jeff smith and the exclusive accuweather forecast. Jeff . Oh, sandra, joe im happy to report the coldest air is now behind us but it feels still pretty brutal out here right now, anytime we get a little breeze it feels brutal out here and you want to avoid any prolonged exposure to this cold tonight. Because its still dangerous. Check out the lows that we had this morning. This is unbelievable. Got down to 1 below zero in central park and 13 below in monticello. Basically every reporting station had a record low this north of new y
Are you doing okay . Im fine. Reporter the fishing vessel ran aground for unknown reasons perhaps because of the surf that continued to toss the boat even during the rescue. I think mechanical issues, they wound up losing power and being pushed up onto reporter the waters were so rough that a 25 foot rescue vessel capsized as it tried to make its way to the fishing boat. Board and made it back to shore safely after encountering 10 to 12 foot waves. You can see the surf is severe and the boat is being tossed around. Reporter it took less than an hour to get the fishermen back to safe ground. Now the next phase of the operation is to get their boat out as well after eight days at sea. An operation that might have to wait until high tide. At this point, were confident once the weather dies down well be able to pull this thing off the beach. To imagine that really what churned up the waters behind me was the big storm system that moved through last night including gusty winds that are cont
Already hoisted for new york city and points north and west. Right through midnight tomorrow night. I think snow begins here in earnest around midday or just thereafter. Well talk amounts and well tell you when its all going to change over to rain and get washed away in the full accuweather forecast later in the half hour, sandra . All right see you then. Wild the cold may have eased up a bit. Efforts continue across new york city to make sure everyone has a warm place to go. But that part of the story, Eyewitness News reporter kemberly . Reporter well, one Success Story but on the flip side, one man refused help and tonight did not end up in a shelter. Just a few hours ago mayor de blasio teamed up with city outreach workers and tried to convince the homeless to let them help them. We were the only tv camera who tagged along with the mayor today and those very highly trained outreach workers. We headed into the subway at street. Of the situation we hung back a bit. The major and the t
It was already in bad shape because of a previous fire. For precaution the building next door was evacuate. The aftermath of the storms has left thousands without power right now, nearly 20,000 customers effected in our area. Long island was the hardest hit, but psag said moments ago that 92 percent of its customers are back online again. And trees crashing down all night led to crews working on the power lines all day, and a horrifying experience for a family, a teen girl studying in her room when a tree came crashing through the roof and barely missed hitting her head. The branch came right through the top and right above her. Were just glad shes okay. Everything else can be fix. Bedford and schools were canceled. And a Coast Guard Boat responding to a stranded vessel had to be rescued. Reporter after a rough morning at sea, these fisherman are doing well here at jamaica center, but the question is what went wrong. They wrapped up the meeting with the coast guard to figure out what h