The city doubled. There were horses and horse and buggy was was the travel there are street cars and elevatedres no subways but the cycle came along. Has been something that special specialized riders but safety bicycles came along and the mass started to ride. The bicycle became the most popular form of conveyance. People who had just relied on the slow moving horse and buggy world had a way to get around cleanly, fast, very efficient, and for a lot of people this was their own form of independence, around this time, for example, a woman who has writing about suffrage, wrote a biograph called how i learn to ride the biffle. So gives you a sense of the new world of the bicycle and the most popular sport at this time was cycling. Much more so than baseball, for example. If you wants to see fastmoving sport you went to one of the men bell dreams and there were white races and black dominated race but to the main races were dominated by white riders. Major taylor had been born in indianap
Away from weather and traffic. Thank you for joining us this early hour of the day. Right now, 50 degrees is the temperature. Thats way warm. Way warm above normal. 33 is where we should be for the hour of the day. Its 45. 43 in new jersey. 49 around bridgewater. So the normal temperature about 33 in the park to 23 up there to 20 in monticello. But a sunny, cooler day today. The high 5 2. Thats going to run about 10 degrees warmer than normal. Weve got a lot to talk about. Rain is on the way for tomorrow. Weather and traffic together every seven minutes. Lets see whats happening. We will start off by telling you about 63rd street blocked after problems from last week. The ed koch 95th street bridge, ongoing maintenance into queens. And to the Brooklyn Bridge, watch for ongoing construction and lets go outside and ill show you the l. I. E. , westbound through 106. And eastbound, its construction. And to the other camera, the southbound van wyck really moving slowly here at kew gardens f
Greatest gift of all. Reporter for nightline, im Chris Connelly in los angeles. Our thanks to Chris Connelly. We should say star wars the force awakens comes to you on friday from disney. Thanks for watching. As always, were online 24 7 on our Nightline Facebook page good night. Music another sunny day by belle and sebastian such a shame its labeled a getaway. Life should always feel like this. Hampton. We go together. Always get the lowest price, hes a chaos candidate. Marco knows what hes saying isnt true. Hes the weakest on immigration. Republicans shooting verbal that focused mostly on how to keep the country safe from terrorists. Good evening at 11 00. Im sade baderinwa. Im bill ritter. 48 days before the iowa caucus and the republicans in their last debate of the year, some taking aim at donald trump. Others trying to show some president ial timber. Political reporter dave evans. It was an interesting evening. Senator ted cruz of texas and marco rubio of florida are lately seen a
The decision to close schools in los angeles that publicized the apparent hoax. To disrupt the daily schedules of half a million schoolchildren, their parents, day care, buses based on an anonymous email without consultation, if in fact consultation did not occur with Law Enforcement authorities, i think it was a significant overreaction, yes. Reporter tonight many Security Experts are praising the decision here in new york to keep the schools open. We will hear from one of those Security Experts at 6 00 tonight. Live in fort greene, brooklyn, n. J. Burkett, channel 7 Eyewitness News. N. J. , thank you. The lapd so far says 80 of the schools have been cleared. Authorities hope to have the systemwide sweep completed by 7 00 p. M. Our time. Administrators are defending their calls to close the schools. Reporter well, sade, the latest reports are that this was a hoax and that comes from u. S. Representative adam shift from los angeles and a Ranking Member in the house intelligence committ
Services. We are highly committed. Reporter the mayor points out the need for restructuring because it has been in place 20 years and does not meet the current needs. Reporting live, tim fleischer, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Tim, thank you. We are following breaking news right now. Two big problems for Long Island Railroad commuters. Westbound service is temporarily suspended on the Babylon Branch because of signal problems in freeport. On the ronkonkoma branch, a truck hit a vehicle near the bethpage station there. Commuters should expect disruptions there as well. We received a someone on board the train struck. No injuries to report. We are continuing to monitor the situation and we will keep you posted on the delays. Now the terror threats against the School System of new york and los angeles. Lots of second guessing of officials in l. A. That got virtually the same e mail as officials in new york threatening an attack on the schools but it was apparently a hoax. The nypd figured t