It will mean for reinforced shot of cool air this afternoon. The north bay will see temperatures dip a couple of degrees later on this afternoon. Still 70s for the north bay. Staying call at the coastline. 62 in San Francisco today. 68 for the east bay, and the warm spot today without a doubt the try valley and south bay. Temperatures in the low 70s. The week ahead looks pretty toasty. Talking temperatures in the 80s. We may have a few places that hit 90s before the week is done. Well talk about that and a look at the sevenday forecast which include rain. A little bit of something for everybody. Thank you. We begin this morning with breaking news. Two people are dead and at least one hurt in an amtrak derailment. It happened about 2 00 this morning rather two hours ago this morning in chester, pennsylvania. That is not too far from philadelphia. Officials say the train struck a piece of Construction Equipment on the tracks and derailed. That train was headed to savannah, georgia from n
Freight train derailment. 1000 feet of track, railroad ties, the third rail and two switches. Railroad officials hope to have it restored by this evenings rushhour but that is clearly not going to happen. The delays and cancellations will affect nearly tens of thousands of commuters over the next few hours. We call this the main line and this line feeds both the port jervis branch and the ron Port Jefferson branch and the Ronkonkoma Branch and those taken together will take half of the ridership on the Long Island Railroad. Reporter this contingency plan just went into effect. If youre in penn station tonight, there will be Eastbound Service and you will be able to get out to long island but there will be cancellations roughly 1 3 of the evening schedule out of penn station is going to be cancelled, and there will be no service into new york city on the ronkonkoma and port jeff branches. The advice, get to the Babylon Branch or the Fort Washington branch because those drains are trains
News. Channel 7 eye witness news. A call for action after a violent weekend in the five boroughs. Police released video of the suspects wanted for killing three people as Community Leaders ask for the publics help to put a stop to gun violence. The peoples pope. Pope frances inspires hope and service with the people of cuba. This as new york city leaders efforts ahead of his arrival here in the united states. Good evening, everyone, im joe torres. We are going to begin with poep frances and his first full day in cuba. Boy, was it a busy one filled monumental meeting. This is brand new video meeting with fidel castro. The two sitting down together earlier pope frances made his way through havanas main square. You can barely see him through the faithful. The pope took time to talk to cuban children including this boy in a wheelchair. A day filled with scripted catholic pageantry gave way for off the cuff remarks. First, pope frances veered off his prepared text and spoke about the import
Towards us as we were paddling and that was on the right side, i could see it, it started coming in to the boat. Reporter those dragon boat racers were out there for about two hours, launched by citi field, the whitestone bridge was the Halfway Point and they had just turned around to make their way back and one more thing. Moments before their boat capsized, one of those teammates had proposed to his girlfriend. The boat sits at the bottom of the river, he saved that ring. Spoiler alert, she said yes and, of course, now there is a happy ending here in more ways than one. We will tell you more about that proposal coming up at 6 00. In College Point, cefaan kim, channel 7 Eyewitness News. What a story they have to tell. Thanks, sa non cefaan. Pope francis made his first big public appearance in cuba today. Hundreds of thousands of people filled havanas revolution plaza where the pope celebrated mass. Fidel castro at the former cuban leaders home where the two shook hands and exchanged g
It is monday september 21st, youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. Meteorologist bill evans with the accuweather forecast. We start out with some clouds this morning, some cooler weather. Last couple of days of summer, and its going to feel very falllike. 61 degrees here at 4 30. Were looking at 50 around middletown, 61 newburgh. Temperatures all over the place depending on whether its clear. 52 in putnam county, 47 kingston and poughkeepsie. Were looking at 57 around norwalk. Its a little on the cool side. 61 around belmar and towards montauk 61 degrees. Wind out of the northeast. Its kind of ironic heather we close out today and tomorrow, but fall on wednesdays going to feel like summer. Thats good news. Well talk about our subway status. This was going on all weekend long continuing until 5 a. M. , 1 trains, no trains, 242nd street to south ferries. There is local service. Long island railroad, metro north, new Jersey Transit doing fine. Throgs neck bridge h