Streets in some areas turning in to rivers. This is a day where we have the potential for flash floodingm places to the west of the city are under the biggest threat today. 69 river most areas in the 70. 71 ridgewood. Monticello, 63 degrees. The rainfall estimates over last 3 hours, we tapered off, the rain left we will see another round in the Flash Flood Watch until 11 tonight. The radar not looking so bad. The combination of hot, muggy weather, instability in the atmosphere and you get the drenching downpours. Heather orourke with a look at fdr drive. Where we have a closure. Because of construction, the northbound side of the fdr drive, detoured at 61st, southbound side, detoured 96. Expect volume on first avenue, second avenue. New Jersey Transit metro north doing fine. 4 and 5 trains, track work in place until 5 00 a. M. Downed alternate side of the Street Parking rules in effect for today. Following breaking news. A hit and run driver killed two men in brooklyn near fulton and c
Fighting zika costs money. Helping puerto rico deal with its zika crisis costs money. Research in the new vaccines, and nih announced the first Clinical Trials in humans. That costs money. Thats why my Administration Proposed an urgent request for more funding back in february. Not only did the Republicanled Congress not pass our request, they worked to cut it. Then they left for without passing any new funds for the fight against zika. Our experts at the ni hinch and cdc, folks on the front lines, have been doing their best moving funds from other areas. Now the money is rapidly running out. The situation is getting critical. Without sufficient funding, nih Clinical Trials and possibility of a vaccine could be delayed. Politics. More than 40 u. S. Service members have now contracted zika overseas. In 50 u. S. States, we know of more than 1,800 cases of zika connected to travel to infected areas. That includes nearly 500 pregnant women. Zika is present in almost every part of puerto ri
Its ten pm, do you you know where your children are . Right now on fox 5 news at ten. There is no reason im really leaving at this time. Im leaving with reluctance. I wish i had more time. Apparently its just time to go. Thats the word from the Police Commissioner announcing that he stepping down as new york citys top cop. The commissioners last day will be in september. With tod oneill. Sharon is here now with the changes coming to the nypd. Reporter some people have been talking about this around city hall and around one police plaza but todays announcement caught everyone by surprise. The mayor announced commissioner brown will leave his job in september and sent a video message to the police force. He said he told the mayor about a month ago of his plans. Todays announcement named chief to honor the achievements of bill bratton. Bill bratton ends a 45 year career in Law Enforcement to work in the private sector. This is a bittersweet moment. I wish i had more time chronologically t
Week on wall street and the dow component pretty much responsible for keeping the blue chip index in positive territory for the week as the Company Releases its iphone 7 smart phone. We will look at whether it is worth upgrading and whether the stock can keep rallying. Twitter moving higher after streaming its first nfl game last night. It was kind of cool. Pretty cool. We will get the ratings any minute now and tell you what they mean . And the government fining Deutsche Bank over Mortgage Securities probe. How does the government determine the extent of the fines . Lets start with a look at the volatile week. Would have been quite different outcome without apples gains. Bob pisani has the story. The biggest stock has the biggest gains. It not only moves apple but the entire stock market. The bigger stocks move the indexes more. Apple is the big one in this space. How big was the movement . Let me give you an example. The s p 500 is up about ten points this week. Apple is responsible
Until 6 15. Already been some flash flooding and more expected as additional thunderstorms come through. You can see one batch of rain has lifted out of the northeast. Another set to move in. Right now heavy storms passing through the waterloo area. Theyll be heading towards olewin shortly. You can see the line extends through the rest as we go through the eefrn hours. There will be thunderstorms around and kick off temperatures around 71 degrees. Looks like the rain move outs by midnight and after that much Better Weather for the rest of the weekend. Minutes after classes began this morning the school was put on lock down for a medical he was taken to university of iowa hospitals and clinics. Until authorities were sure there was no threat to their safety. Generally its not our practice to report suicides. In this case we had to consider the many concerned parents and Community Members looking for answers. We also reached out to Health Experts in our community. They asked us to be sen