Head out there. Im ken rosato. Im Shirleen Allicot in for lori stokes. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and bill evans with the forecast. Showers and thunderstorms are coming in the area from the city eastward through rockland, Westchester County across brooklyn and queens. On the l. I. E. , 49495, oyster bay, smithtown. That will continue across the area. Here is another look from our accutrack radar. You can see the lightning strikes that are there. They decreased. They are across brooklyn and queens this morning heading eastward. We will have that a couple of hours. Then we look at a hot day today. The high will get to about 90 later on. Real feel 95. A spotty thunderstorm this afternoon. Heather is looking at the commute. Any flooded roadways . Nothing just yet. Take it easy if you are out driving around. Lets go to the maps. We will talk about a couple of incidents. Belt parkway, eastbound at irrelevant sten two lanes are cheesed. B. Q. E. Northb
Big wind gusts so far this morning. 50 Miles Per Hour in lading. 30 islip. Thunderstorm warning for the eastern end of long island, east hampton, montauk, riverhead eastward the thunderstorms are spreading. They are down around southold to plumb to Fishers Island out to new london. There is another band through right now. Northern jersey, rockland, westchester to philly, you need your rain gear the next half hour. Then a steam bath. Heather is looking at the commute. How is that going . Not well for long island commuters. We head to the commute, a tree fell, downed wires, this is near stony brook. Something to keep in mind if you use the Port Jefferson branch. New Jersey Transit on or close, Metro North Waterbury branch, work in bridgeport. B. Q. E. Subject to closure north at metropolitan avenue, overturned truck. Belt parkway east at knapp street an accident. 287 north in boonton a downed tree. B. Q. E. At this point northbound side still shut down. Southbound side only the right. A
To riding the waves speeding across the water on his motorbike taking on 30foot high waves. What hes saying about his deathdefying stunt only on gma this morning. And good morning, america. Lets get right to those severe storms passing through the northeast overnight and early this morning. Look at that lightning over new york city. Yeah, that lightning and the thunder was just one of those mornings you wanted to stay in bed. Everyone agree but we all came in anyway and had a deluge on the way to work. We sure did and the storms up north deadly causing that tent collapse in New Hampshire. A father and his young daughter killed. More than 30 others injured and abcs linzie janis is on the scene in lancaster, New Hampshire. Good morning. Reporter the fog is thick but behind me is where that huge tent is lying on the ground. Families say they had just sat down to watch the circus when a severe storm seemed to come out of nowhere ripping it out of the ground and sending its metal poles cras
This is really affecting people who are going to Newark Airport, going to catch a flight or pick someone up, leave yourself a lot of extra time or head for routes 1 and 9. You can get off the garden state parkway, take 78 east, get on into Newark Airport that way. Newark airport flights are not affected. New york air train is running without a problem. New jersey turnpike is something to cross off the list. We will take a look at a camera and show you the delay. We will look at another camera this is a webcam. Another camera and show you the delay as you head southbound on the new jersey turnpike. This is right across Newark Airport. So, here you have the inner roadway which is known as the car lanes. You can see traffic is barely moving. Its at a crawl. To the right of that is where the track lanes are. There is no traffic. They diverted everybody into the car lanes. They are taking everybody down to the area where that fire has occurred and they are diverting everybody off. This is s
Police on an update on the truck driver. For now we are live here in linen linden, toni yates, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Lets get an update from shannon sohn from high above in newscopter 7. Weve done the tour around from the north, south, east, no matter how you try and get around this new jersey turnpike closure its a nice mate nightmare. That is the southbound delay into interstate 10. What you are finding is all of this traffic is backed up getting right into interchange 10 and this is what the problem really is right here, we can show you with sky rider 7 once you get off the 10 you have an option to take to the northbound side, you can get onto the outer roadway, it is just the inner roadway that is closed down but that is where that inner roadway merges in right here and it is causing nightmare traffic. It is a little bit better than it was before but we are going to show you the reason for that. This right here coming into the center of your picture is woodbridge avenue, nice