Well, good morning, everybody. Humid, sticky, steamy, stuffy and thunderstorms around in these overnight hours. Here is the current temperature, 80 degrees. We will drop a bit as we get going today another degree or two. 71 kingston and poughkeepsie. 78 bridgeport, connecticut. 80 in the park. 78 around orange. Air quality alert. Bad air once again. That is really across northern Fairfield County but long island, coastal connecticut, you are not in that but the air quality wont be that good. A couple of thunderstorms around bridgewater. There is lightning in that one and around Suffolk County a storm, too to watch out for. That will run up to 80 and up the hudson river valley. Another steamy day. Highs in the low 90s. It will feel like 95 to 100. Heather is feeling better. She is back in action. I am here. We will talk about mass transit. Mass transit is there for you as well. Its doing okay as far as metro north goes. You have the Waterbury Branch. Long Island Railroad doing fine. 1,
Fires, all the consequences of a powerful storm of historic proportions. In sandys wake at least 28 are dead in the u. S. Dozens of homes lost to fire or swept to sea. Mass transit stalled, and some 8 million without power. The president has been hunkered down at the white house declaring states of emergency, working with governors, and helping to coordinate relief efforts. Just an hour ago he traveled to the headquarters of the red cross pledging for support for whats expected to be a lengthy recovery. My message to the federal government, no bureaucracy, no red tape, get resources where theyre needed as fast as possible, as hard as possible, and for the duration because the Recovery Process obviously in a place like new jersey is going to take a significant amount of time. Indeed. The president will travel to hardhit new jersey tomorrow, and just a week from election day the president s challenger was hardly content to sit on the sidelines. For his part, mitt romney tried to turn an
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Speed down that bicycle path, and struck bicyclists, and pedestrians. There will be more injuries, as people selfevacuated, and we will determine that later as we do our survey. But thats the patient count and the deaths as we know it now. All right, at this point, were going to take some questions. Miles. Hold on, miles. [inaudible] john, ut to talk about the you want to talk about the program a little bit . As you know, through the shield program we do a very wide outreach. We have just under 20,000 members after isis, ramia magazine came out. Listening to the press conference in new york city, the mayor of new york city, the governor of new york. The police and fire commissioner. Getting an update on how this terror incident took place in lower manhattan. It took place almost two and a half hours ago, where it person started going down a bike path. Hit people, injuring two students, injuring two adults, brandished a handgun, and was taken down by an officer on duty nearby. One of th
Overall the day will have a mostly cloudy feel with maybe some sun breaking through. Now, we talked about this yesterday. This morning is the coldest morning of the week in some spots with allentown all the way down to 34. I think that qualifies as cold. 36 degrees in reading. 35 in trenton. In philadelphia were Still Holding onto 42. 39 in millville and 47 in cape may. Not there cant be any sun. Some sun may break through at times especially early but were going to be cool an lot more cloudy than yesterday. 52 degrees is your temperature by noon. A high of 60 around 3 oclock and by 7 oclock we zip down to 57. For the kids on the bus stop this morning obviously you want to bundle them up. Were only getting to about 43 degrees while theyre waiting for the bus in philadelphia and in some suburbs down to 34 and again we have that frost advisory up until 9 oclock this morning in the Lehigh Valley and much of rural south jersey including parts of camden and gloucester counties so if you sti