It is wednesday, march 2nd. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic. Here is meteorologist bill evans with the accuweather forecast weve got showers, grab your rain gear. Youre going to need that this morning, and we have a temperature of 53 degrees, very mild, and thats going to be our high today. Hanover 54 in montclair and teaneck. 55 around poughkeepsie and 51 on long island. These numbers are way mild. You can see we got rain from the Hudson River Valley across jersey, headed out long island. Were going to have this off andon rain until about 10 00 this morning. So if youre headed out here, grab your rain gear. Then the temperatures going to be dropping. Look at between 2 00 and 4 00. Yow i would say thats temperatures dropping like a rock and its going to get much colder with the wind too. The win will be at about 45 the wind will be about 45 Miles Per Hour. Well talk more about that. Hows it going out there, heather . Reporter i have much better news. L
And obtained certain clients in part because of her access. Jane doe number two quote was the only person that the defendant or his Assembly Staff ever recommended for hire. And was hired quote in part due to silvers recommendation and followup request. Silver is 72 years old. And was considered one of the most powerful men in new york state government. Until he was forced from office in disgrace. After his conviction for fraud, laundering. U. S. Attorney barara threat tornado disclose the affairs during the trial if his legal team sought to portray their client as a man of Good Standing and character silvers lawyers released a joint statement this morning unproven and salacious allegations that have no place discussion. So silver faces up to 20 years in state prison when sentenced next month. The judge will take these allegations into account. Lori, dave . All right, thank you. Other news the names of the four Army Reserve Soldiers injured in a crash on the new jersey turnpike have be
High on wednesday. Today, seasonably chilly. In the mid40s for many of us. Right now, on the vortex satellite and radar picture, these snow showers are falling apart. This snow is barely reaching the ground. The air is very dry. You may see a few flakes through the morning hours. After that, skies clear. Temperatures will warm up. Thirtyfour in the city. The windchill is very light this morning. Wind only blowing at about 5 miles per hour. As we go through the day, noon, 39. Feeling like 38. By 3 00, mostly sunny and 45. That is as warm as it gets today. Still a little bit of an improvement over yesterday. Then by six oclock this evening, 42 degrees. Feeling like 40. And a little bit of daylight. Coming up in my full forecast, we will talk about more specifics on how quickly the temperatures climb. Back to you. Firefighters battled a big fire in brooklyn overnight after flames broke out at a commercial building which you can see in this picture. This happened in east new york. The fire
Hazel sanchez, cbs2 news. A brush fire burning in morris county, new jersey. Chopper 2 so far head. Joe biermann with this birds eye view. Joe. Reporter hello, maurice. The first of the warm weather means the first of the brush fires. Now, this is a large area. The big picture is its between route 280 and route 10. It is about 5 acres that, um, the Fire Department says is on fire. Its mostly contained in that area. Some of the local streets, troy and melanie, as we widen out you will see homes at the bottom of your screen. Thats the primary concern. The Fire Department has set up defensive operations. They have controlled burns trying to burn it away from homes. Joe biermann, cbs 2 news. Thank you, joe. Some new information now on the search for a missing tenyearold girl in rockland county. Kelly pillco was found safe in harlem this afternoon. She is on the way home. She never made it to school. Police say she took a cab from Spring Valley to the city. A Business Owner in manhattan fou
Which is over the legal limit. Court papers also reveal he was tested again 15 minutes later and allegedly blew a. 091. According to the complaint, murphy said the results must have been caused by the gum that he was chewing, a likely witness fort prosecution is murphys copilot for the two flights that day who told investigators both times murphy was drinking an unknown beverage from a cup. Murphy, who lives here with his wife in ramsey, new jersey was released on a 50,000 bond. Passengers at Kennedy Airport dont like hearing any of this. Thats crazy. Thats insane. Very reckless and irresponsiblement reporter jetblue says it has a zero tolerance drug and alcohol policy an confirmed murphy no longer works there, saying he resigned. The federal Aviation Administration says 225 commercial Airline Pilots tested above the legal blood alcohol limit since 1995. To know that they should not reporter we spoke on the phone with aviation attorney and pilot daniel rose who says the problem is like