Some type of bug going around or whatever. He said because i wanted to go on vacation. Reporter the mosquito borne zika virus is active in central and south america and the caribbean. Pregnant women should reconsider travel to affected countries. Cancel that trip if you are trying to get pregnant or you may newly pregnant. You really just dont want to put yourself in a position where a simple mosquito bite could endanger the health of your unborn baby. Reporter the virus is the suspected cause of birth defects that are spiking in brazil. Hundreds of babies born with undersized heads, a condition known as microcephaly. Manhattan Marketing Executive kristine decided to cancel her trip to the caribbean. Im 14 weeks pregnant. I dont think mothers ever want to take that chance. Reporter Nassau County has one case from someone who recently traveled. Its urging airlines and travel businesses to allow concerned passengers to change or cancel plans without penalty. Anyone with the concern that
Emily west has a look at that commute. Little slippery, emily. Little slippery, black ice in spots. A closure on long island sunrise highway shut down eastbound between exit 51 over to nichols road. Couple things in new jersey. A jackknifed tractortrailer at kennedy boulevard and then a crash on 78 eastbound. The local lanes elizabeth avenue, thats in your right lane. More weather and traffic on the 4s. Emily, thank you very much. Breaking news in new jersey this morning. Theres reports that Jersey City Police shot a suspect earlier today. Today in new yorks Tracie Strahan is there with new information. Reporter were hearing this was the result of a traffic stop. A Police Officer spotting a car he believed was stolen and that driver then taking off. Were going to show you video of what it looked like on ocean avenue and 4th street when we arrived. Police not letting anyone through what became a crime scene. We did see a crime scene Investigative Unit taking away a car on a flatbed. Sus
Thats where the heaviest rain is. In and around the i95 corridor its fairly wet. We have a lot of clouds around to deal with today. The rain is fund down past washington and pushing toward the east. We think most of the rain around here will be in the morning. The afternoon should be drier. Well get late sunshine coming down from the northwest. 43 degrees in philadelphia. 42 in wilmington. 40 in allentown. 47 in wildwood. Obviously all these numbers mild enough to rule out any freezing on the road surfaces. 40 degrees by 6 00 a. M. 41 by 8 00 a. M. It will be rainy during the morning commute. Youll need an umbrella. 3 00 p. M. , well be at 49. I think we hit the high of 50 around 4 00 p. M. And probably hold there for a couple of hours well be close to 50 as late as 6 00 p. M. Karen we have colder air coming in overnight. It will make for a wintry feel on saturday, ill have details coming up. Reporter in the meantime weve got ponding and puddling and splashing back on your windshields,
To david. Reporter as we step outside we have rain pushing through philadelphia and northern suburbs trenton getting hammered and southern bucks county, as well. The lighter stuff to the west of us making roads welt. You might be seeing snowflakes mixing in. Ive got rain on the terrace. But its been looking like on 89 Traffic Cameras and our twitter folks are saying its mixing in. Ground temperatures are mild enough and we were mild yesterday where we dont think any icing will happen there. Satellite view shows the rain chugging up the coast. It will slide to the east and well see drying. 41 degrees in philadelphia. Down to 39 in allentown. 40 in wilmington, 45 in wildwood. As we roll through the day, 41 currently and about that by 8 00. Noon, 46. 3 00 p. M. , 49 degrees looks like well get a high of 50 that will hit around 4 00 p. M. Karen, cooler air is coming in overnight tonight tomorrow will feel a little bit on the wintry side. Ill have that in the seven day. Reporter we may have
President s nomination of ash carter for defense secretary. Dont forget the deadline to keep the government funded or go into a shutdown also only eight days away. Leeland vitter live for us in washington with all the latest. Leeland, where are we going for the government to stay open . Well, gretchen, that seems to be the one thing that the president and republicans in congress seem to agree on. Obviously funding the government is very tightly tied to the immigration issue, and it looks like there may be a deal as weve heard over the past 24 hours or so, but the devil in these cases is always in the details. We have to be able to disagree on some things while going ahead and managing the peoples business and working on the things where we do agree. Democracy is messy, but it doesnt have to be chaos. Starting with border security, which is a way of reassuring the American People that were not going to have another calamity like weve had. Now, the latest plan right now is for congress t