Im Shirleen Allicot in for lori stokes. Today i go wednesday, all 3rd. Bill evans is here with the exclusive forecast. We are kicking off the doug days of august. We will talk about interesting weather this week. But todays monday, hot and humid weather continues. We look at a temperature of 70 across the area. Parts of the area low 70s. Central park mid70s to 77 and we like 70s. Hanover 61. Its not so warm up in the suburbs. 73 out to the hamptons and Shelter Island and Northern Branch on long island, the far east end. Hiding 90 today. Like 95. The week. It is. Into the 70s. We will talk about that in the Heather Orourke is here. Yes, i am. How was your weekend . It was great. I cant tell you. I was on a secret mission. I figured you were. Maybe i can get information out of you after this report. We will talk about 78 west near exit 3 a tractor trailer fire. A couple of lanes are closed down. On to the belt parkway, westbound near bay parkway an shut. 3 trains no service between 149th
Police on an update on the truck driver. For now we are live here in linen linden, toni yates, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Lets get an update from shannon sohn from high above in newscopter 7. Weve done the tour around from the north, south, east, no matter how you try and get around this new jersey turnpike closure its a nice mate nightmare. That is the southbound delay into interstate 10. What you are finding is all of this traffic is backed up getting right into interchange 10 and this is what the problem really is right here, we can show you with sky rider 7 once you get off the 10 you have an option to take to the northbound side, you can get onto the outer roadway, it is just the inner roadway that is closed down but that is where that inner roadway merges in right here and it is causing nightmare traffic. It is a little bit better than it was before but we are going to show you the reason for that. This right here coming into the center of your picture is woodbridge avenue, nice
You were driving and dropping someone off . Yes. Did you see people out that were injured . No. A lot of people get out from the restaurant and a lot of police. A lot of police running out. If there is good news here, is that there are no major injuries. It looks like three people treated for pepper spray and one also had a possible hatchet wound. The Movie Theater and a Shopping Center in a middle class neighborhood, this a copycat of the gunman two weeks ago in lafayette, louisiana, cops dont know. That shooter killed two people inside a theater, he later killed himself and of course right now in colorado a jury deciding whether a convicted killer james holmes should get the Death Penalty or life in prison for killing 12 people in a Movie Theater in colorado three years ago. But tonight more gun violence and we are working right now on trying to figure out who this shooter was and any possible motive, we will keep you posted. David. Thanks. We have more breaking news and we may final
We are looking at really nice weather to start your friday and your weekend. 73 degrees outside right now. Temperatures out across long island are looking very nice. Were going to be seeing temperatures that start out around 66 in brook haven, 63 around west hampton. 64 white plains, 58 around poughkeepsie. This afternoon we get to 82. Some absolute gorgeous weather. Were going to talk about a beautiful weekend coming up in your accuweather sevenday forecast. Heathers looking at your commute this morning. Not going so well through westchester. Right near exit 32 this is an ongoing accident investigation. You can expect a lot of delays northbound on the sawmill. Lets show you how things look as you travel across the Staten Island expressway. This is the eastbound side into the area of south avenue. This delay is all because of ongoing construction there thats been with us all week long. This is the bqe as you travel on the northbound side making your way up into the Brooklyn Bridge. We
See the newborn in the onesie, so its kind of hard. Police tell me the babys mother 21yearold rasheeda center. The dad and four other family members were in the Apartment Building around 4 this morning. The 102nd precinct. Officers manned the door outside this Apartment Building, another remainder of what happened. The sentiment in this neighborhood, people are in disbelief. Theyre even disgusted. Neighbors wonder how with six people inside this home no one could have stopped what happened. Were live in queens, kala rama channel 7 Eyewitness News. We have new information on a wrongway crash on the sawmill parkway. One of the drivers have been charged with dwi. Police say the 22yearold woman was drunk when she drove her car head on into traffic hitting another vehicle in chappaqua. The driver of that other vehicle is in critical condition. At this hour. The unidentified woman who was charged was not seriously hurt. The accident closed the lanes near grant avenue for several hours. New i