Thank you for joining us it is monday, february 15th president s day, you are never more than seven minutes away from the accuweather forecast. Yesterday we hit a record of 1 below zero, havent done that in over a 100 years, temperature 14 degrees. And 14, 12 around belmar, we are looking at a Winter Weather advisory at least until midnight tonight. Thats for snow that will be coming later today. That snow is back to our west and south and will start creeping up after lunchtime today. Well have temperatures around 33, notice how it rises above freezing this afternoon well have the snow showers starting after lunchtime changing over the rain tonight. When the temperatures continue to rise. Well talk about very heavy flooding rains for awhile that here she is, ladies and gentlemen, the birthday girl herself. Happy birthday. Good morning to you. If you are planning on commuting by subway you want to hear about this. We have a lot of mass transit changes. Subways runs on a saturday schedul
Boston in nearly 60 years. And the defense the highlight of the allstar game last night in the toronto. It was the highest scoring allstar game ever. The west winning it 1 6173. Mvp. Those are some of our top stories on this president s day, monday, february 15th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning. Were going to start this half hour with the dmu details were learning on the death of Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia. As the political fight over his seat gets under way, we hear from one of the people who saw scalia the final hours of his life. With more, heres jim avila. Reporter justice antonin curtains of this room. Peacefully and in his sleep. I was a firsthand witness. Reporter says the owner of where the judge had been a first time guest scheduled to hunt quail an saturday. His body discovered when he skipped both breakfast and lunch. He was totally peaceful, hes a man that went to sleep and just didnt wake up. Reporter the highend Hunting Lodge and r
Were going to turn now to the weather. Youve got snow falling outside. Mayor bill de blasio issued a travel advisory in new york city. It goes through tomorrow. Hes asking people right now to be extra careful. Governor Chris Christie in new jersey tweeting 20 minutes ago asking people in that state to stay off the roads. Road cam 7 is out checking things out. Right now this is the view in the cross bronx express way. People are taking it slow in nassau county. At the airports there are delays and cancellations here and across the country. Nationwide more than 1100 flights have been canceled. Meteorologist lee goldberg is tracking it all. Hes live on the upper west side. Were just not wasting a flake today. After that frigid weekend, everything sticking. New york city, its rare to see the snow stick this quickly. This is whats happening. And weekend snow for the next hour or two before sleet and ice mix in, eventually over to rainfall. Youre looking at the toll plaza in the George Washi
Were less than 36 hours removed from subzero temperatures. Freezing in islip. 34 in belmar right now. So the ocean temperatures, 40. Thats taking care of the coastline but the inland members will be much slower to come up. You see how were mixing over to rain and freezing rain in new york city around 7 00. Were still going strong with snow north and west. That will change by 10 00 or 11 00. We see on Eyewitness News it will be mix north of i84 and during the overnight hours we all go to rain. Its light rain tomorrow morning and pouring tomorrow afternoon. Well have more on that timing. Winter weather advisory until midnight for the far northern suburbs till 7 a. M. Gives you an idea that cold air is going to be tough to scour out. Its a windswept soaking tomorrow morning. Snowfall amounts, inch, inch and a half in new york city. 1 to 3 inches north and west. A lot of this going to get washed away by all the soaking rain coming in. Long climb back. More on the accuweather forecast in a
New this morning, police in newport news say a driver died following a car crash. It happened in the Early Morning hours at 41st street and jefferson avenue. Police say the driver was not wearing a seatbelt when he crashed into a utility pole. Paramedics took the man to the hopsital where he was pronounced dead. Investigators do not know if speed or alcohol were factors in the crash. Were working to learn the mans name. Decision 2016 coming off the South Carolina democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders is looking ahead to super tuesday. 1hundred10 delegates are up for grabs in virginia. Later this morning, sanders is scheduled to hold a rally at the scope in norfolk. He hopes to strengthen his support in the commonwealth and stay competitive against democratic frontrunner hillary clinton. Rico bush is live outside scope where sanders will hold his rally later today. Hes got more on where both democractic candidates stand in the polls in virginia. Rico. A Christopher Newport university poll,