Reading about 77 degrees now, but its going to feel a lot hotter as the day progresses. People here in the city bracing for another day of intense heat. Offensively hot. It offenders my sensibilities that it is this hot. I feel like im walking in a hot bath, an unpleasant hot bath. The humidity and heat index potentially dangerous. Its very draining and its hard to breathe. Which is why staying hydrated is crucial. We keep refilling our bottles every 10 minutes. We rest every 30 minutes or so. Thursday the weather system brought heavy rain to parts of our area, lightning setting off this fire in new jersey, a bolt hitting electrical wires. Center when a crane struck and cracked this window. As the hot weather continues into the weekend, officials are urging residents to do their best to conserve and limit use of high energy appliances. Lets just say the air is on. I just dont have the lights on. Reporter officials also urging you to check in on your neighbors to make sure they are okay
For everyone through the nighttime hours. So no changes over the next five days. Its going to be hot and humid. Theres that storm chance every day the next five days. More coming up. Despite the humidity, plenty of people braved this blistering heat today. Cbs 2s Vanessa Murdoch live on the Upper West Side with more on how its going. Vanessa . Reporter well, dana, we are right now feeling el storms so nearby. You heard lonnie talk about rumbles of thunder. Well, look up. We have a storm cloud due site of us so we are not getting rained on but we are certainly hearing the thunder out here. Not a lot of sunshine at this point in time but that was not the case earlier today. The sun blared and burned up the blacktop. Heat index soared above 100. New yorkers we spoke to didnt excessive heat offensively hot. It offends my sensibilities that it is this hot it feels very muggy. Its very humid. Uncomfortable too hot for summer reporter why . Tell me why. Because in the wintertime, its freezing
Good morning, im lori stokes. Im rob nelson filling in for ken rosato. Thanks for being with us. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist bill evans. Well, its h. O. To. Hot. Its humid. Stuffy. A couple of thunderstorms to the west. Yesterday we started out around 80. It feels like 80 this morning. Sticky, steamy, stuffy. Excessive heat warning is in effect through tomorrow. Then you have a heat advisory for the rest of the area. Thank you National Weather service, you finally caught up to the rest of us. That area south of lopping island down the jersey shore. Small craft advisory here. Winds are out of the southwest 10 to 25 knots. See the shower to the west . Are off to the races. 105, 110 around some good portion of the area west of the city. We have 93 to 94 this afternoon. We will talk about the heat lasting through the weekend next. Weather then heather, is it hot in the traffic center. It is always hot in the traffic center. Route 17
There are other carriers that do operate within terminal 8. This does impact all airlines operating in terminal 8. We encourage folks if they want to make changes to their reservation, do it online at aa. Com or contact reservations directly. The terminal flights are still departing. Obviously the biggest impact will probably be the weather out of jfk but we want passengers to give themselves extra time. Impacting th real quick, any idea when the power will be back on . Were working quickly to get that restored. It does appear to be some type of powerrelated surge that may have occurred at 1 50 p. M. Eastern time. So were working very quickly to get that back online as quickly as possible. It seems one part of the terminal. Its not impacting the entire terminal. Computers are still running fine. Its just the check baggage screening. Ross feinstein, thanks so the news tonight, were learning more about the 35yearold from brooklyn charged with the execution style murders of an imam and hi
News. Com and our nightline vo itd be great to take a break from the expected, virtually. Now, you can. Experience the new gold castle scratchoff with 3d gameplay. Developing right now, part of a crane crashing in to one of the World Trade Center buildings tonight. How in the world did this a proposed homeless shelter draws hundreds of people to a meeting and then things took a wild turn when everybody couldnt get inside. First tonight, sweltering august heat and humidity. You thought it was bad tonight . Get ready. Its going to be even worse tomorrow. Tomorrow will be dangerously hot and thick. Afternoon storms may be to blame for a raptured gas main. Officials think it was either hit by lightning or utility pole fell on it. No one was injured. Power companies now for any potential power problems. This was the biggest power day use of the year for con ed, folks now asked to conserve. Well begin with meteorologist amy freeze in for lee goldberg tracking the hot temperatures. First up t