We are starting out with beautiful weather this morning. We cleared out, and the showers are gone, not a lot, but every little bit helps. These numbers are closer to normal for the day. The cloud cover is keeping the temperatures pretty much close around the tristate area. 51 by 10 00. It will be a great spring day. The cooler temperatures to talk about in the days ahead. We have no 1 trains here, because of the platform collapse that occurred. We have trackwork from 138th street and express service only, and no service from 129th street and 96th street, and Long Island Railroad is doing just find. Metro north running close, and we have construction because at our hudson river crossings. Heather, thank you. 4 32. The morning commute could be a messy one in the bronx. Reporter good morning, ken, its a work in progress and at least a dozen or so mta workers are trying to get this problem fixed, new will probably not happen in time for the morning rush. The dire avenue 5 station has been
Good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. No rain. No, its not raining out there. Forget the umbrellas. Weve got a great concert in our 8 30 half hour. Were so excited. Coldplay is here. How do you follow up a performance at the super bowl . Obviously, come to the today show plaza. Were thrilled to have them. Tons of people getting ready. We hope the weather cooperates. Lets begin with the amtrak train, traveling from los angeles to chicago, derails in kansas. Five cars falling off the tracks. Blake mccoy is in chicago with more. Good morning to you. Good morning, matt. The train, as you mentioned, was on its way to chicago when just after midnight something caused the train to derail, sending passengers and their belongings flying. Reporter this morning, authorities are trying to figure out what caused an amtrak train carrying 128 passengers and 14 kansas. Amtraks southwest chief train was heading from os los angeles to chicago when five of the nine cars derailed, leaving th
People have been shot outside a block. Ecl and word did come overnight that he has now been arrested, formally accused in a disturbing string of incidents. Take a look at this video. This is 37yearold greg boyden of the bronx. He is now facing a laundry list touching, public lewdness and three counts of sexual abuse. Starting in August Boyden is accused of targeting teenage boys, in some cases offering them money to help him carry his bags. The victims range from age from 12 to 15. Surveillance video of the suspect was released and had many residents in this area on edge especially since there are three schools in this neighborhood near this park. Teachers talked about their fear. It scares me as a teacher in the community and especially because of all the kids, you know, we see them every day for their safety we just want them to be safe. Now before his arrest there were three known incidents that he was linked to, but after his arrest weve now learned about a fourth incident in which
A nice start to the day with some of those outdoor cirrus clouds. 48 kingston and poughkeepsie. A nice fallfeel. Above i84 in the upper 40s to mid50s around 287, down into central jersey. 54 white plains and 60 around the five boroughs. A lot of sunshine mixed with clouds. It will be at 73 which is normal for this time of the year. It will be breezy. It will feel like summer to start fall on wednesday. Were going to talk about that next in your accuweather seven day forecast. Weather then heather every 7 minutes. At 6 00 this is when it usually starts up. Lets go to our maps and a few disabled vehicles as well. Staten island expressway eastbound near clove road we have an accident, two lanes are closed. The delay begins near 440, takes you all the way in to clove road. Then we have a problem over here as you travel on the westbound side of the l. I. E. Thats a disabled tractor trailer. Check out that delay before you get into the van wyck expressway making your way into that scene. We
Heather, today is the first day of autumn t. I thought i would let you know that. I know that. Feels like june. I know you like that. Im happy it feels like june but the fact that winter is closer, not happy about that. Anyway, lets show you how things are looking traveling on to the George Washington bridge, something you could be happy about. No major problems inbound. The upper level is slower than the lower level. Inbound side is moving left to right. Mass transit is doing great Long Island Railroad, new Jersey Transit trains subways moving with no major problems at all. We showed you the George Washington bridge how nicely it was moving. Lincoln is okay. Holland tunnel is doing just fine. Alternate sides are suspended. Good advice. Thank you. Breaking news. The loss of yogi berra passed away overnight at the age of 90. During his 18 years in the bronx he helped the yankees reach 14 world series capturing a record 10 titles. Some of his greatest talents came off the field with coun