Thank you joining us. Im ken rosato. Mom bill evans with the weekend meteorologist bill evans with the weekend accuweather forecast. Today is going to feel like october. Were going to be looking at temperature around 60 degrees. It will be windy and cooler. Well be dropping into the 50s. Then were going to be looking at that weekend forecast for you this morning. Right now our temperatures right at 58. It will warm up today to about 60. Cool air is pouring in, whitestone, Cambria Heights about 59 degrees. Happy friday to you. Its weather then heather every 7 hows it going out there . Lets talk about our subway status. Our subways are on or close to schedule. If youre using metro north, new haven line, ongoing track work. Jersey transit on or close to schedule. It will lead you into the covered roadway, thats closed both ways until 5 a. M. You want to stick with the new jersey turnpike approached in. That will be a good alternate. The construction has been cleared at the lincoln tunnel.
Lets go right over to a webcam. Ill show you the accident activity as you head southbound side on the van wyck expressway trying to get into jfk expressway. We still have that entire area closed down. All traffics being diverted off the area, and you have a very heavy amount of traffic coming back all the way back to at least liberty avenue down into the area of jfk airport. If you have to go to the airport and catch a flight or pick somebody up, you want to think about that one. Well head over to our maps, and ill also tell you we have this problem on route 9 both ways between nepperhan avenue and wells avenue with ongoing Fire Department activity. Our street cleaning rules are in effect. 6 01. We are going to start with breaking news in westchester county. A massive 4alarm fire tearing through businesses in the heart of yonkers. That fire began overnight on broadway near main street, and right now fire investigators are trying to determine whether this fire was an accident. Eyewitnes
News copter 7 was also overhead capturing the mess, snarling traffic for several blocks and evacuating multiple buildings in the area. Luckily no one was injured. Fire Officials Say it took so many hours to get things under control because of all that water aboveground. Unfortunately the Flooding Condition was such that dep had a difficult time finding the exact gate valves to shut down, to isolate the problem area. Now buildings nearby had water restored by this afternoon. In the meantime subway and bus service was also disrupted for many hours today. Coming up on Eyewitness News at 5, well tell you who city Officials Say will have to pay for all of this mess. In elmhurst cefaan kim. 17 schools, elementary through high school in fairfield connecticut were locked down earlier today after receiving several threats. Students were dismissed early after all School Activities were also canceled tonight. So far the threats have been unfounded. Eyewitness News Reporter Tim Fleischer in fairfi
It was spraying into the area gushing at least 8 feet or so. If you take a look at the building across the street, that is a mixed Residential Commercial building. Fire Officials Say that building was partially evacuated. That first floor is all commercial, those Business Owners were all taken out of there as you can imagine theres probably quite a bit of water damage inside there, and the electricity has been shut off because there are power lines in the cellar. If you look at the roof of that building, those residents are just hanging out because fire Officials Say they were not evacuated so theyre just going to wait this out. If you look down it may be hard to see with this fire truck. On the ground level you can get a sense of how deep this water is by looking at those trash cans and how high that water has come up there. Again, were on queens boulevard. Thats quite a wide boulevard and at times that water was almost all the way over crossed over to this side. Moments ago fire offi
Holding at a third alarm. Most of the fire knocked down. We have three tower ladders set up around the scene. You can see that the roof has completely collapsed. Apparently this fire breaking out on the third floor, racing up through the fourth floor and up through the roof during the 4 00 hour. I understand the building was occupied at the time. No reported injuries. Apparently everybody made it out okay. But again, very heavy damage. We can tell you one footnote, this was put on the National Historic registry back in 1995. So a very historic building, a very pretty building, but right now facing a lot of fire activity and a lot of damage. You can see the front windows completely blown out and a lot of damage through the roof. Of water damage. Good news so far, no injuries. The studio. Six hours is how long it took crews to knock down these barely spared, a centuriesold church, older than america itself. The fivealarm fire broke out just before midnight, but the smoke blanketed st. Jo