Slippery streets. For many, this was a day to enjoy all the snow. And good evening. Im joe torres. Im sandra bookman. The problem with this storm tonight is the Long Island Railroad full service not expected for the morning rush hour. Times square filled with people. Broadway shows resumed this afternoon. Most major roads are in pretty good shape. This is a live picture of the George Washington bridge. As people dig out, mayor de blasio is giving drivers a reprieve. New York City Schools will be open tomorrow. Falling ice from a highrise forced the closure of broadway from 53rd to 54th street. There was flooding in lowlying communities. During high tide this morning. Schools in newark, and jersey city are closed tomorrow. On the bottom of the screen. As for mass transit, buses and subways are running. New jersey trains are running but a lot of cancellations. Expect detours on bus routes. As for mass transit, the Long Island Railroad is suspended right now. We have reporters throughout
Is moving full speed ahead but the hassles just beginning as the people prepare to head back to work. For your morning commute, plan ahead and leave early. Mass transit is back up and running you may still run into delays. Especially if you live on long island. Four lirr branches will remain shutdown and seven will have full service. There are some schools closed tomorrow in new jersey, long island and a few in new york city. Those School Closings are running at the bottom of your screen and posted on www. Abc7ny. Com. We have a team of reporters tonight. Well begin with nj burkett with the new details on lirr service. Hes in huntington tonight. Reporter thats right, sandra, just east of the huntington train station. This is one of several branch that is Railroad Officials insist will be up and running by 5 00 tomorrow. No, others will not. Commuters into new york city tomorrow. Thats good enough for me. That works. Reporter many commuters are relieved tonight despite the empty parking
San Francisco Bay area transit riders are bracing for a long delay tomorrow morning. It will the fourth day of of strike. The deaths this weekend are raising questions as to whether the strike had anything tooted with the fatalities. The story now from lisa bernard. Reporter the train involved in the accident rolled out of here, and ntsb investigators are trying to figure out what caused it to plow into two workers checking the tracks on saturday killing both of them. The train was running in automatic mode with a driver plus five others on board, and b. A. R. T. Says there was an experienced operator at the controls. The mtsb will look at the employees involved and investigators will scrutinize the equipment. We do a thorough nchgs of the equipment, thorough mechanical inspection of every operation on the train itself inside and out, wheels, brakes, the third rail, all those things. Investigators spent about four hours sunday on the tracks between two suburban train spots and lickly s
, to Aljazeera America. Im stephanie sy. A frustrated president obama is expected to address the nation today about his Signature Health care legislation, the Affordable Care act. Hell tell the American People that the problemplagued federal website is unacceptable and layout a plan to get it back on track. Major technical glitches that have plagued obamacares Health Care Enrollment website have proven an embarrassment to democrats and giving republicans more ammunition to criticize the plan they vow to get rid of. I will do anything and continue to do anything i can to stop the train wreck that is obamacare. Nearly 500,000 applications have been filed through the exchange program, but no figures on actual enrollments have been released by the government, whose own Congressional Budget Office says 7 million should be enrolled within six months. Health and Human Services Officials Say changes are being made to file on line bugs, tweeting health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebe
A sense at the moment proof that things are going better than they used to, which is we tried while the president was speaking to log onto the Affordable Care act at healthcare. Gov. We managed to be successful on all four attempts. Do we have that screen shot . Os 9, there it is. We logged in four times and this is what we found. We got past the home page which is what seem to be the major complication throughout the day. It took it to the state that we logged in on and we were able to complete what we needed to complete, which is what some would say is progress. Mike viqueira joins us now from washington. Mike, the president seemed to have a lot of numbers at his disposal as well. People who had been waiting for quite some i assume. Reporter i was struck by the time that the president donned this role of salesman. Iwhen talking about the website, del, the president said we did not wage this long and contentious battle just around a website, then in the next breath youll hear Administ