Light showers at that. Some of the wind gusts, laguardia officially 55 Miles Per Hour. Teterboro, 55. Larchmont, 67 miles an hour. The east end of long island, about 57 Miles Per Hour. Right now, its calm and quiet. Mostly cloudy, couple of sprinkles in spots. Temperatures will drop. Bounce back to the 50s and drop to the 40s towards the end of the day. Brisk and breezy. But no heavy rains to worry about or damaging winds. More on the forecast in a bit. Surveying the damage on the roads, heres lauren. Thanks. Im going to talk to you about two closures that will get in your way. Well start with the bronx River Parkway. All lanes shut down. Its a small stretch here. You can get around it. Head over to route 100 instead. Heading over to new jersey, we do have a closure on route 22 westbound. This starts at king george road. Thats also because of floofding. Two things to beware of. Lauren, thank you very much. The nasty storm, we all felt it. Knocked down trees and power lines and scenes l
Cant. Reporter we told the mayor about what we witnessed and how they were intimidating people into stopping. He says if theyre breaking the law, they wont get away with it long. If we see any new trend that requires enforcement, i assure you theres no place in the city with more police per square inch than times square. Any new trend will be addressed quickly and aggressively. Reporter some of the characters say theyre working to pay bills or school and a few bad apples shouldnt spoil the bunch. Im lisa evers, fox 5 news. Christina were fortunate to be joined by gayle brewer. Thank you for being here. What do you make of all this . Youre active in this area, especially in times square. I think two things. First of all, to brattons credit, there are specialized cop forces in the area. They know the 1st amendment and the situation. I think most recently when the arrests took place, when 50 was grabbed from the tourist, it was the perpetrator was caught. Thats a good thing. The weather i
A mild winter. It was very warm. Now it feels like every day were getting hit with another blizzard. Reporter this time its not a blizzard but conditions havent made getting around easy. Fallen lines and icy roads created dangerous driving. Put the wire back up if we can. If not, we backfeed it to pick up the outages. They do a permanent repair. Theyre trying to repair outages as they come in snead of waiting for the snow to stop. This lineman tells us the wind isnt as big of an issue as the ice. Weighs the wires down, trees come down. Reporter its a tough job during big storms. Crews can work 16 on, eight off. Homeowners can help by pruning trees throughout the year. When the trees come down, it makes everything more complicated because it can take the wire, poles down. Its more work. Reporter people may not like the snow, but at the end of the day, its winter in the the snow here, im from connecticut, this doesnt bother us at all. You cant do nothing. Cant wait for spring. Reporter 4
Last month five teenagers were arrested for gang rapping a woman in the part. A family member, actually, the alleged victims father, his bizarre and rather disturbing role in all of this in a moment. Juliet rosanna that romney. One of the people that donald trump is feuding with. A bombshell in Donald Trumps past. Donald trump called him grew goofy and all sort of things. Rosanna i think donald said he will show them after super tuesday. They will be very, very beautiful. Lets take a live look at the rockaways situation. It hit one of those sandbars. The coast guard showed up to rescue everybody. Rosanna it capsized. No serious injuries. It is still going on as we speak. Greg wheres the coast guard vessel . It capsized. Attempting to rescue the rosanna some of the members had to swim to shore. Greg it has to be really bad when the coast guard needs rescuing. Mike the wind was crazy. I can only imagine. I am sure the windows were going crazy. Twitter, facebook, all over the place. It wa
On the 5s at 7 05. 7 lets take you right to thea big story, though. Big ory, you can see it right here. Death and destruction innd southeast virginia. Ut a live look fromhe the town ofno waverly as we begin right hereig at 7 00 a. M. At good morning, im allisonll seymour. And im steve chenevey. S welcome to fox5 news morning. Wsi right now virginia remainsem under a state of emergency. Stat the National Guard has beenal g called up. The the weather is being blamed for the deaths of fourord people in the commonwealth. State police say a plan in appomattox county was killed kle after a funnel cloudnel cl reportedly destroyed his home. Em in essex county the storm injured 25 people and pple destroyed at least 15 homes. Omes and in the tiny farming townng w of waverly a tornado is tordo believed to have touched downedd killing three people. Ing the pe. Thats where we find anniee n yu. Shes there with the veryy latest for us this morning. Is annie. Reporter good morning, steve and allison.