To grab colder air from above and bring it to the surface. We have a burst of snow from ocean county towards stanford and Atlantic County. Theres an inch of snow on grassy surfaces. We can expect that while south of new york city, look at temperatures. 38 degrees in central park where you havent had any precipitation today. Its a lot milder. 46 in you head down to shore, closer to the center of that stone, 36 at brick and toms river. We watch that precipitation move towards the east during the evening hour and that will come to an end and clear things out. Below breezing at 7 00 in the morning. Teens in the west. A couple of spots ending early. The hard freeze with near record cold, youre going to have to protect plants or bring them in or cover them up and watch for slick spots. Standing water is liable to freeze over with a warmup in your 7day forecast. Well talk about that in a few minutes. Sandra. Thanks, jeff. The race for politics descended upon our area and candidates will being
Investigation. The fbi probe that has been looking into a possible nypd bribery scheme. Marrow owe and battle for new york. President ial candidates chris crossed the bureau with eyes on the prize. Crucial primary votes. Good evening, im sandra bookman. And im joe torres. Those stories first, but an accu weather. Were getting hit with a blaze of weather. A polar plunge drops the mercury like a rock. Theres a freeze warning from midnight until 10 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Meteorologist jeff smith here with our first look at the accu Weather Forecast. Jeff. Heres the freeze warning in long island and the jersey shores as the weve been dealing with the rain today. It has been mixed in with show at times. Right now, its recede off to the light rain. It should be ending around new york city. Check out where that precipitation is coming down more heavily. It grabs colder air to the surface and the snow accumulate on grassy areas southern county getting also, one snow shower, now diving off to the s
no. had we got what they said it would have been in my house. only six, eight inches from my stoop. shepard: you got lucky this time. i hope luck continues when they inspect things and make sure nothing is rotting up there. thank you. thank you. shepard: stacey walsh calling in from queens. linden hearst, long island we have pick from there now. listen real quick. i don t think it is supposed to be that close i am meanwhile, corrina from rahway, new jersey they are dealing with heavy heavy floods. radar from yonkers sent this picture of a flooded parking lot. up over the tires or close to it. shepard: just a quick idea of how many of these pictures are coming in. new york city s fire department has made dozens of
beginning to see serious flooding in low-lying areas and talking the coast of brooklyn, queens as well as battery park and lower manhattan and beyond. we have a map of hurricane irene now, moving along quite a pace now. but as we reported the winds have dropped below 74 miles per hour, on the threshold for a hurricane. we have been watching this, the storm is moving at about 25 miles per hour, forward progress, compared to 12 or 13 we were seeing last night and it will whip through new england and hopefully a sunny day, may be head, though windy and our correspondent julie bandaras in the southern tip of manhattan at what we call battery park. with a special guest. good morning. reporter: hi there, shep. we had a lot of rain earlier in fact the whole promenade down by battery park was completely flooded and, now it is absolutely not flooded which is incredible how quickly the water receded. high tide at 8:00 a.m. and i ve never before seen the new york harbor lap up against
new york city, up to 4 million homes and businesses on the east coast, now said to be without power, and emergency crews tell us that irene has killed at least 9 people, trees and power lines are down all over the place and new york city at a near complete stand still. that is 6th avenue, looking from the 40s up to central park and i count three cars on the move. streets of manhattan mostly empty, 65 mile-an-hour winds reported at coney island, but a major fear is in the metro area has been the storm surge, we re beginning to see serious flooding in low-lying areas and talking the coast of brooklyn, queens as well as battery park and lower manhattan and beyond. we have a map of hurricane irene now, moving along quite a pace now. but as we reported the winds have dropped below 74 miles per hour, on the threshold for a hurricane. we have been watching this, the storm is moving at about 25 miles per hour, forward progress, compared to 12 or 13 we were seeing last night and it wi