After starting in a Staten Island hotel. Two of those are children. We will have the latest on a search for the suspect, it will be a first for bill de blasio. Reports that he plans to munch in the st. Patricks day parade. Ben i am ben simmoneau. Carrie i am in for juliet huddy. Ben we are just about. We are moving along. Its important. Its a little friday. That is true. A lot of people have a threeday weekend coming up. Not us carrie a cold weekend is ahead. Before its a cold weekend we wont want to do a lot. Stay inside if you have the third day off why not. Do nothing. Ben would you recommend people do . Stay inside . Joke ben it is valentines day. Ben mike why not . It is valentines day. There is nothing but angels around us. Ben we dont have dirty minds. Mike its 250 and we just dropped another degree. Its at 250 in belmar. 260 and bridgeport and everyone is freezing. Thats not even taking into consideration the wind out there. The windchill factor is reporting in central park at
After that were going to get colder starting tomorrow. The jet is going to phase these two systems. And a new system is going to develop along the carolina coast as we go in to saturday late in the day, early sunday. Then that storm is going to crank off the eastern seaboard sunday. First of all in the shortterm, weve got scattered gusty showers through the evening hours. Theyre going to dissipate. Downpour. The cooling trend begins tomorrow and now based on all the information weve looked at today, a wet spring snow does seem likely. Starting sunday and going in to early monday, have preliminary thoughts on accumulation amounts and timing. Thats coming up in the 7day minutes. Were going to turn to the other news of the night. That gun found at a school in queens. Police say a 15yearold was his backpack. This happening days after reporter this is the loaded. 38caliber which police say the student at the academy in jamaica brought to school today. I had had no clue my daughter is going
When their granddaughter needed them the most. Wheres all the cops the man said they were going to put on the train . If they were there, that wouldnt have happened. Deltoros granddaughter is being interviewed by cops. She said she feels guilty for putting her father in this situation all over a dollar. Police are hoping velasquez turns himself in. The alleged victim, police just identified him Herbert Burgess from the bronx. Cefaan kim, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Weve been following the changing weather in the clouds. Theyre just starting to move in here in our area. Its raining in some places. Meteorologist lee goldberg tracking it all at the weather wall. No doubt. Take a look at this. Clear sky right here. Dark clouds ready to move in to manhattan. Rainfall in new york city not too far away. Maybe next 15, 20 minutes or so. Were at 59 degrees. Also gusty winds with these showers. Just localized but when these showers roll through they kick up the winds to near 30 miles per hour. We
Thank you. As do you. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic. Meteorologist bill oevans in the weather center. We will probably drop to 45 through the morning but the numbers are warmer than normal. It should be 25 around new burn but it is 45 there. Poughkeepsie. The same. Monticello 37. 43 around wrightstown. Well be looking at a nice, mild day. Normal High Temperature this time of the year is 50. Well get to 61 this afternoon and much of the parade will be dry and breezy and the wind will be at your back. If youre on 5th avenue, the winds are at your southwest. Look at that and the sun will shine warmly upon your face. Here is the fdr drive. We have construction setup there so we do have sml sm really heavy delays on the fdr drive. Lets go over to our maps and explain where it is. It is southbound to the 90s and 70s into the 60s. Northbound 60s up into the 70s. Three trains suspend services, use the trains instead. Extra service on new Jersey Transit buses
From raleigh, durham to laguardia. Taking them in to a storm. Reporter but moments later out of nowhere. Reporter passengers saw something they may never forget. Wow, never experienced this before. It was a flash of light and big explosion, the plane dipped about 100 feet, i dont know. It just felt like i was on a roller coaster. 3233 just got hit by lightning. There was visible damage to the jet in at least two places. As for the passengers, you know how they feel. My last meal is going to be the bag of peanuts and the cup of water i got on the flight . It was pretty intense but im glad we made it safe. It was an American Airlines jet operated by Republic Airlines according to the faa. Port Authority Police were out there on the runway but the jet landed without incident. The average commercial jet is struck by lightning at least once a year and the last one to crash from lightning in this country was back in 1963. Live tonight at kennedy airport, n. J. Burkett, Eyewitness News. We fi