That will scour out that shower activity. Right now 73 in the park, 50s well north and west. Dew points that measures the amount of moisture in the atmosphere in the uncomfortable category. It is muggy out there. 72 at 8 00 in the morning, average partly to mostly sunny. 82 by noontime, temperatures in the middle 80s by 2 or 3 00. We send it over to Debbie Duhaime right now. Good morning jeff, good morning everybody. Well start off on the maps by telling you about a problem on route 9 in cortland at jack road. Its an accident. Also at the Southern State westbound by 111. Reports of an accident on the shoulder. The 1 train back on schedule, 2 and 3 back on schedule. Same thing with the 7, everything on time with the lirr, new Jersey Transit and metro north. George, lincoln and the holland moving smoothly. The east river crossings off to a nice start. Lets go outside, the Staten Island expressway moving okay eastbound through victory boulevard heading through that construction zone. Alte
Sunshine. But at least less humid conditions. Lets see if there are any problems for the commute. No major problems. Only construction. But it is causing a delay in certain areas. For new jersey, route 17 northbound shut down between century road and midland avenue and southbound two lanes are blocked. Northbound youll be diverted at century road and get back on later after midland avenue. And crossbronx expressway, two lanes remain shut down east on the 4s. New this morning, a fierce fire has injured two children in Bergen County on washington avenue in little ferry. Jen maxfield is there and this was quite the scene. Reporter definitely was. And what an incredible rescue operation when a Little Ferry Police lieutenant who was driving in the area heard an explosion and raced to the reason. The residents were literally throwing their children to safety. We will show you some video of that fire now. This is a very serious two alarm blaze that is believed to have started as a gas explosi
An accident involving multiple vehicles. Shannon sohn is above it all. What a mess this is. It all happened about 3 30 this afternoon. Were looking down at the toll plaza at 14 c. You can see that one car there right out of the toll plaza on the westbound side of the roadway. If you look behind it, you can see the skid marks where he tried to stop but you can also see the severe front end damage after he rear ended a vehicle. A fuel spill there as well. What it appears is that that vehicle that he rear ended finally ending up in the eastbound lanes where he had a head on collision with a accident here. We know that two adults and one child all taken to jersey city condition. If you travel through this area, you need to know this is going investigation. The cars coming at you from your left, thats the eastbound side of the roadway. Traffic not too bad there. But if youre coming out of the holland tunnel, this is what you have in store for you. If you can take it to 109 its certainly goi
Confirmed two people have died in a multivehicle crash on the new jersey turnpike. It happened this afternoon at the westbound toll plaza in jersey city. One vehicle rear ended another, causing the second vehicle to get in to a headon collision with a van. There are big delays for drivers coming out of the holland tunnel right now. Want to go ahead and check in with shannon sohn. Shes over the accident where you can see crews are still there. This is going to be an ongoing accident investigation. Its been out here since 3 30 this afternoon. Its really affecting both the east and westbound sides of the roadway. On the left side of your screen, thats your traffic heading eastbound in toward the holland tunnel. And truthfully all night thats been the best, really not too much of a traffic delay here. If youre traveling westbound out of the holland tunnel heading to the newark bay extension youve got only two lanes getting through that toll plaza at 14c. Look what this has done to traffic.
But we do know that police are still looking for the suspect. He is still on the loose. Nypd helicopters are circling around right now. There are nypd on the ground, detectives searching the area. And we have much more information coming up as soon as we get it. From staten island, cbs 2 news. Thank you. Now to the campaign trail. The two big winners last night in New Hampshire headed straight for new york after their victory speeches. Donald trump did a round of media interviews this morning and Bernie Sanders had a meeting at a political power spot in harlem. Andrea grymes reports. Reporter supporters cheered and reverend al sharpton greeted him with a hug as Bernie Sanders arrived shortly before 10 00 this morning. Its just so exciting to see him. I believe in him so much. All my friends are behind him. Reporter what specific issues do you like . The economy, debt. Finance and ending mass incarceration. Reporter while sanders lost by a razor thin margin to Hillary Rodham clinton in