From right now. Clear skies to partly cloudy. Parks reporting clear skies on those automated meters. Its 73 bridge port. What a great start. Really nice morning. Its going to be a nice august day. Were looking at mid to upper 80s. The humidities are held at bay today. A little more humid tomorrow. Thunderstorms late in the day sunday. Big old weather changes for next week. Debbie duhaime has been talking about garbage, the throughway, up there. Thats for sure. Were going to start off with the garbage spill. Were going to go to live shots. This is hamilton avenue at 3rd avenue in brooklyn. Look at the mess here. Its an overturned garbage truck with this garbage all over the place. Crews are here cleaning up the scene. They have been out here for quite awhile. Avoid hamilton avenue in brooklyn. The ramp from hamilton avenue to the bqe is completely blocked as well. This is going to take awhile to to the maps and tell you about a major problem on the new york state throughway. Exit 11 in
Breaking news this morning. A u. S. Olympic swimmer has just completed a fourhour interview with Brazilian Police as two of his teammates are set to land on u. S. Soil shortly after also being questioned about their claims of an armed robbery. Brazilian Authorities Say those claims were made up but the swimmers refute that. Gunnar bentz and jack conger board a flight in rio last night. Rio police say the pair along with teammates ryan lochte and james feigen were confronted by robbers. In a statement overnight the u. S. Olympic Committee Says we apologize to our hosts in rio and the people of brazil for this distracting ordeal in the midst of what should rightly be a celebration of excellence. They left followed by an angry crowd. Abcs matt gutman has more on the investigation and what the swimmers say. Reporter its the robbery that police say never took place. And its now at the heart of this video obtained by abc news shows ryan lochte one of the winningest olympians in history and t
Scattered. The back edge is east of scranton. Those will slide through in the next hour or two and then good old sunshine is off to our west. Well have a lot of that this afternoon with temperatures in the mid80s. A great night tonight and a great start to your weekend, which well talk about next. Youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. Heather is going to look at the trends for you. Reporter updating transit, path trains no major issue. Long island railroad, jersey okay. Local only 42nd street, c, street ferry suspended once again today. They are doing repairing. New york waterway take that there pier 11 to jersey city and path lines are doing just fine. Heading onto the new jersey turnpike north bay extension east of exit 14 that is an accident being cleared away. Looking at the Grand Central parkway westbound near the l. I. E. Another accident being cleared. Investigation in elizabeth and alternate side of the Street Parking rules are in effect for today. Ken
Nice to have you aboard. You are never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. You work three days in a row, you get to stay another week. Here we go. We take a look outside this morning. We start the day with 75 clear skies. 76 around babylon. 72, 71 down the jersey shore. And a great day. A great start to your weekend. Were lo 88 this afternoon. Northeast wind, moderate humidity. Well talk about the rest of your weekend coming up. Debbie duhaime has a look at your traffic. First of all, go to our web cam and show the bqe. Getting down toward the l. I. E. Its bumper to bumper with construction. Also reports of an accident right at the bqe. Watch for that. Lets highlight the maps and other on hamilton avenue. An accident involving that overturned tractor trailer. It looks like we have that debris spill. Lets see what else is happening on the a train. No service with track work. Same thing on the 7. So some shuttle buses available as well. L. I. R. R. , metro north, new Jerse
Joining us. Nice to have you along. Bill evans is here with the exclusive accuweather forecast. Youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. Reporter grab an umbrella, the temperature 78 degrees a little humid, not so much as the fact that weve got showers around this morning. Temperatures 80 around ridgewood queens on the jersey shore. 72, 73. Showers are not heavy, there are no thunderstorms, no lightning, no gusting winds. Just sprinkles with a little upper level system. Then you e sun breaks out at noon. Wind south southwest, well be the mid80s today. A good day after a couple of showers this morning. We talked about your weekend next. Hecht they are says check out the bqe, better known as better quickly exit. Reporter we have a lot of activity on the scene. 7 trains, track work, that is the bq eaccident you can see. All that activity. Head into that area on the southwest side. Back over to the maps, talk about rainshower subway status. 7 trains track work until 5