The accident started in the northbound lanes. One box truck trying to pass another when they bumped at high speed and one lost control jumping the divider into the oncoming tractor trailer. Its a complex accident scene in a really bad spot. Reporter evidence spread over hundreds of yards of pavement on a friday afternoon where that corridor is very heavy. Most of the traffic is being diverted. Its one behind the other. Nobody moving for two hours. Reporter state police tried to turn southbound thruway motorists around but ended up filtering on to local streets to get past the wreck. The Ripple Effect lasted all afternoon. 17 is a dead stop. Reporter how long have you been stuck . Four hours. Going from suffern to spring valley. Reporter how long is it taking you. An hour and a half. Reporter and youre not there yet . No. Youre still in suffern, you know. Yeah. Reporter thousands were caught in it but the frustration vanished once they saw the cause. This truck driver missed all his app
Driver just a year ago is now part of auto racing history. Wow. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, memorial day, may 30th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. So crazy. They say he had only been training for three months for that race. Unbelievable. Rookie luck. Well see what he follows up with next year. We begin with the shootout in houston. Two people were killed, six others injured during this wild shooting spree. Even a Police Helicopter came under fire. There are so many questions about this. Even though its been hours since a s. W. A. T. Officer shot and killed the primary shooter, police are not sure exactly what happened or why. Abcs phillip mena reports. Reporter the crackle of gunfire erupting in a houston neighborhood. A quiet morning. One more down at two people down. Reporter 10 15 a. M. Officers arrive to find two men armed with guns. One an ar15 rifle. Police say at least one of the suspects opened fire in the streets, blowing out car windows
Wow. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, memorial day, may 30th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. So crazy. They say he had only been training for three months for that race. Unbelievable. Rookie luck. Well see what he follows up with next year. We begin with the shootout in houston. Two people were killed, six others injured during this wild shooting spree. Even a Police Helicopter came under fire. There are so many questions about this. Even though its been hours since a s. W. A. T. Officer shot and killed the primary shooter, police are not sure exactly what happened or why. Abcs phillip mena reports. Reporter the crackle of gunfire erupting in a houston neighborhood. A quiet morning. One more down at two people down. Reporter 10 15 a. M. Officers arrive to find two men armed with guns. One an ar15 rifle. Police say at least one of the suspects opened fire in the streets, blowing out car windows and igniting a gas station. Do we believe this is just one
Live from studio 46 this is cbs2 news this morning. Good morning. Its 8 a. M. On this sunday, march 27. I am dick brennan. I am andrea grymes. Happy easter. Meteorologist Vanessa Murdock is here with a look at our Easter Sunday forecast. A little cloudy out there right now . Yes. It looks grey. It will get a little bit brighter as the day progresses. Breaks of sun expected this afternoon with temperatures warming to seasonable levels. Along the coastline because of winds in generally out of the east it is going to feel much cooler than 50s. We will be feeling like the 40s along the coast there. Temperatures right now in the 40s for most of us. 43 great neck. Madison 37. What we havent seen a lot of this morning is movement of these numbers. That cloud cover is slowing us down on the warming front. As far as the vortex satellite and radar picture goes dropping any rain. It will be a dry sunday forecast. We will break it down for you hour by hour. By noon 49, feels like 47. Mostly cloudy
More than a shell left. And the flames are still raging there on the left. This picture was taken just a short time earlier. At that point one giant ball of fire filled the house. Another picture shows the fire eating through the roof of a neighboring home. Whats the current fire danger . Lonnie quinn has the answer from the weather center. The wind is the problem. Plus the super dry conditions that we have now. The best fire break you can get often times, you know, firemen will dig a trench for the fire break. A canal is the best fire break you can imagine and yet the embers were still able to be blown from one side of the other and spread the fire. As of now you look at manhattan its just sunny overhead but it is bone dry. Look at the conditions outside. 68 degrees. Thats your thermometer reading. This is the key. Right there. Your dew point is 8. What a dew point means simply thats the temperature that you have to cool this air mass. 68 degrees. You have to cool it down to to produc