Planes delayed. Packed airports and traffic tied up. Tonight, storms causing problems on the roads, and in the sky, as people try to make it home for the holidays, and it is not just here. Severe weather in the south. Tonight tornadoes turned deadly in laguardia, some travelers night. Lets begin with elise finch and the latest on her forecast. Ill start with the totals. Just how much rain have we gotten so far . Over 2 inches in new york city. Ridge port, the big winner, 2. 34 inches of rain. The heaviest of that rain is almost behind us. But this is good news for us. You may not necessarily love rain to get you in the holiday spirit, but remember, we have a significant deficit on the year, so we need that rain. The fog, the other huge issue. Visibility still low up around white plains around babylon. Not great in new york city. Fog will remain an issue. The clouds and also showing the moisture. Now weve got one batch thats actually on its way out right now. You see the bigger picture.
Been waiting for flights all day. Reporter the arrival, departure boards spelled out bad news for many travelers. These days, they dont call them delays p they just time. When we first got here they didnt say they were being delayed so we were aggravated but we got coffee and now we are just hanging out until he comes. Reporter by midday, the an hour. Arrivals were closer to an hour and a half. Its slow but its okay. Reporter adding to the overload tighter security courtesy of tsa. Fewer passengers able to opt out of body scanners. The ones critics call virtual stripsearch machines. I do enough traveling that im like, you know, really thats not much to see. [ laughter ] [ music ] reporter tis the season for more people more security so be sure to pack some patience along with your ugly holiday sweats. Reporter the latest average delay times at new york area airports newark the worst delay 3 hours 28 minutes. Laguardia is second 2 hours 35 minutes. Jfk 1 hour 9minute delays. We have tal
Then well get into what we know. Its a mixed report right now about exactly how many explosions. Anywhere from three to seven in jakarta. Witnesses say at least three suicide bombers blew themselves up in a starbucks. I believe thats what we were looking at right there. After police stormed that cafe, there was a reporter on the scene that said he heard an additional blast. Police also saying there were more than two hours of gun battles. As you mentioned, it all happened at a really busy shopping area of downtown jakarta. These explosions, these gun battles with police left bodies in the streets as some of these Office Workers watched from the highrise windows. There are also unconfirmed reports of explosions in other parts of jakarta. We do know there have been several warnings in recent weeks by the police that islamic militants were planning to attack. In fact, the National Police spokesman was just on local this attack is a copy cat of the paris attacks and most likely from an isi
Vanessa, this weather is incredible. It is. Christmas 2015 by far the warmest on record. Yesterday we topped out at 72 degrees. That was before noon. Today a high of 66 sets a new record. The normal high for christmas, 40. We were soaring above that number and it was like spring with the high of 66 today. Felt like april 28. The old record of 64 degrees is set back in 1982. Whats happening out there right now, its 62 in the city, 54 monticello, 57 hamptons. As we look at the vortex satellite and radar picture, note we do have wet weather moving through. This will continue to be the trend overnight as the boundary will bring up unsettled weather for us. So this is the pattern for overnight. Well bottom out at 48 degrees through. Your full forecast is coming up and well talk about a a weather roller coaster to be sure. It is expected to continue. The temperature changes are certainly making it difficult to dress and thats not all. Could this weather also make you sick . Dr. Max gomez has
Live from the cbs Broadcast Center in new york city, this is cbs 2 news at 11. Far from frightful. Some christmas celebrations moved to the shore. Another record breaking day of warm weather. There is cool coming soon first, at 11 tonight, my mother was in the kitchen not knowing there was an intruder upstairs they thought it was a false alarm but a long island family came face to face with a thief. Im Jessica Snyder im dick brennan. Police are investigating the deaths of three people found inside a home in edgewater. Dave karlin is on the scene reporter were being kept in question. We do have detectives inside the apartment. Were told its on the seventh floor. This is a complex thats just steps away from the hudson river. Inside the apartment are three people dead. The Homicide Team is in there and we are waiting for a chief to come downstairs and tell us exactly how they died. Police sources tell us it doesnt appear theres a suspect on the loose in connection with this case. Resident