This is exit 153. Happening around 4 00 this afternoon. Car traveling southbound somehow lost control, hitting the crash barrels here and ending up on its roofer. I understand the driver did escape the car on their own. Injuries reporting with this accident although the injuries, dont know how serious they are at this point. You can see two left lanes are now closed and already six miles of bumper to bumper traffic here. Definitely want to steer clear of the garden state parkway, at least in the southbound direction, until they clear it. More details about the violence in a fairfield home that left a father dead and his family in the hospital. What do we know tonight . Several new developments as investigation into this attack. I just got off the phone minutes ago with Police Sources who tell news 4 Chris Andrews was the aggressor. He beat and stabbed his wife and three children. When officers arrived, police say they gave multiple commands for andrews to drop the knife, but he refused
Its the 21st of february. Im pat battle. Im g. Gus rosendale. Raphael miranda is tracking the latest temperatures for us. 51 degrees. Last week it was zero at this time. 50 degrees warmer thal last week. You can see its nice and qu t as well. Not tracking any raior snow just yet mthuch isigomeerain on the way. Well get to that in a minute. Look at tau temperatures. 47 mill basin. All around t do City Temperatures well int the 40s. 44 middle village. 49 degrees city island. Yesterday you were into the low s in spots. 30 in morristown. It is cooler north and west of town. Long island, very mild, 48 in islip and 47 degrees at this hour in bridge port. Now, today is a different kind of day. Not as much su hine. The clouds will build. Its still very mild. Temperatures well into the 50sw again, a high of 54 degrees. As sunny as yesterday. We could see a few hours by the end of the day around 5 00 6 00. Well explain what that means for your morning commute to rrow in a few coming up. Pat and
Big story this morning is the torrential rain in texas. So this is causing some flooding with massive amounts of rain. In fact, we are look at nearly 7 inches around austin, texas since midnight. And more on the way. The potential for four inches an hour. So look at some bigtime flooding problems here. This is not even the source of rain from patricia yesterday. Patricia was downgraded from a hurricane to a Tropical Storm. Went from 200 Miles Per Hour winds to 80 Miles Per Hour winds in 24 hours. Now its at 50 miles an hour. It will continue to move up through mexico and bring more rain into texas. So they are just getting slammed in the Lone Star State. And more rain headed into louisiana, up to the ohio river valley. And falllike rain head today the northeast, as well. We will talk about our local weather coming up. Tiffany. Lisa, thank you. Houses of people were evacuated along the southwestern coast of mexico. Residents and tourists alike. Those who couldnt get out tried to take co
Broadcast center. This is abc7 news. Look at that wind. The strongest measured hurricane ever in the western hem hemisphere and it hit just after 4 00. Dan ashley and ama daetz have the night off. Reports of flooding and land slides after Hurricane Patricia came on shore. No word of fatalities or major damage right now. Mexicos president says the damage is actually smaller than expected. Thousands of people were evacuated along the southwest coast of mexico. Residents and tourists moved inland and those who could not get out simply tried to take cover. We have Team Coverage and we start in the newsroom with abc7 News Reporter Melanie Woodrow with the latest. As Hurricane Patricia made landfall, residents went from being hotel guests to refugees. The strongest hurricane ever recorded in the western hem miss friar made hemisphere made landfall at 4 15 bringing with it 160 mile per hour winds. San francisco resident brad powell is vacationing in puerto vallarta. The hoy tell where he is s
By tomorrow. Heavy rain around austin texas and much of texas, just inundated with a swath of moisture, and what was Hurricane Patricia. Now at winds of 50 miles an hour, it is quickly weakening and spreading lots of rain. In fact, anywhere from to 12 inches of rain. So right now it is a Tropical Storm. We could see upwards of another 15 inches of rain here, and flash flooding certainly is possible. Some isolated spots, up to 20 inches of rain on the coast of mexico. In texas an entirely different story. We are looking at anywhere electric 7 from 7 to 10 inches of rain in parts of south of dallas. This will continue up to the ohio river valley and we will look for the flash flood warnings the next several days for texas. We will talk about our weather and whether or not we will get rain in here coming up. Thank you. You heard lisa mention Hurricane Patricia weakened from a category 5 to a Tropical Storm this morning. There have been reports of flood asking rainfall but no ward of fatal