The urgent search right now. Good morning, america. It is a busy wednesday morning and a lot to get to. So much of the country still being hit hard by severe weather. That is the most powerful storm on the planet right now churning in the pacific and ravaged a u. S. Island. We begin with that news just breaking this morning. The man who helped that minnesota dentist kill cecil the lion speaking out for the first time this morning after appearing in court. He faces up to 15 years in prison for allegedly having that illegal hunt. The dentist is still in hiding. His home vandalized and abcs david wright has been following the story and starts us off this morning. Reporter professional hunter wore dark glasses to court. He lost his hunting license and now faces criminal charges for allegedly luring cecil the lion out of the safety of Hwange National park by dragging a dead animal from his car as bait. Speaking to reporters bronkhorst scoffed at the charges. I think its frivolous and wrong.
Forecast. Down the shore there has been fog. Temperature 73 degrees. That is warm. We should be at 56 for this hour of the day. Murray hill 73. 71 riverdale in the bronx. 70 bridgeport. 68 to 70 long island. 68 in poughkeepsie. Flood watch has been put in effect for dutchess, Ulster County, Orange County for flooding rains for tomorrow. Today is going to be a warm day. We will have showers this afternoon. Might even be a thunderstorm coming up later on today. We will talk about that. Heather is looking at the commute. The George Washington bridge, we have inbound side of the lower level closed down. This is because of some construction. Its not causing major delays. Upper level doing fine. No major problems. Lets go to the maps. Inbound lower level George Washington bridge is closed. Upper level is open. If you are trying to come into the city at the hudson river crossings, not doing badly. The ramp to the George Washington bridge is closed. Not doing badly meaning its a minor delay ac
Now with exclusive accuweather forecast diswhrvment well, first things first. We have one storm that affects us today and then we have joaquin for sunday into monday, so lets get started with whats happening this morning. Its windy, its cloudy, its chilly, so you need the gear to keep you warm. You need the wind breaker, you need the sweater. Its 57 degrees. Were going to be 20, 25 degrees cooler today and its windy. So were looking at 57 murray hill, riverdale 54, whitestone 56. Up to the north 48 monticello. So cooler, albeit, lets just call it colder air has poured in here from the north. You see the camera bouncing around here. Hour wind. Well be around 64. Its going to feel much cooler today. Rain comes in later today and tonight, then its windy, rainy tomorrow and then weve got some nasty weather for saturday and sunday, and thats not even from joaquin. So were going to be talking about a lot of coastal flooding as well as inland flooding in the coming days, lasting into next wee
Seven minutes away from weather and traffic. Bill evans now with the exclusive exclusive forecast. We meet again just to say no. Heres a look outside and we have temperatures way warmer that hour of the day. 53 and normally about 45, 42 a around the five boroughs. 55 whitestone queens and 45 around bridgeport and white plains is 42 and 45 down the jersey shore at belmar. Were going to be looking at 72 degrees as the high today. And its going to be 70s this week and maybe record high by friday. All that talk about in the accuweather seven day forecast. Heather orourke told me that bayonne is closed . No, but 440 is closed down. This involves two pedestrians. 440 northbound east 22nd to 21st street closed down. Directions and now police are saying just the northbound side. But none themself the closure nonetheless the closures going on. Fast track repairs on the trains. And then you have your main line of new Jersey Transit with some leftover delays between ridgewood and serve. Long isla
Its 58 it might drop another degree or two. Normal overnight low is 45. So were way warmer than that. 41 kingston and poughkeepsie. 53 white plains and 51 bridgeport. 48 islip. Its kind of the cool spot as well as wrightstown at about 42. Well have sunshine today were going to get to 70 degrees one more time. Were going to do it again maybe a record high by friday and talk more about that in just a moment. But starting off already shes got problems on the Brooklyn Bridge. The bqe actually getting into the bridge and there was this earlier garbage truck fire, this is what it looked like a little while ago and you can see the Fire Department on the scene. And this garbage truck right here was on near and Fire Department there. Fire and Fire Department there. Looks as though all lanes are still closed down. Over to the web cams and i can show you the scene right now. Still out there trying to work on it. No longer fully angel you have had. They should be able to get this heres the bqe nea