Overnight hours. Its humid, raining. Visibilities are low. White plains 3 miles. Teterboro 5. Some area airports may have delays. Belmar 3mile visibility. Flash flood watch. Conditions are favorable for heavy downpours of rain creating flooding and that will continue with the rain that you see in pockets like heading to stamford and i95 in connecticut to oyster bay and huntington. Another batch of heavy rain from monmouth heading to fire island. Heading to the southern part of nassau then another batch to the west around the delaware bay that will cut across toms river and atlantic city. This winds down midday. Its getting crazy out there. Rfk triboro bridge we have an the prospect an accident. Near williamsburg bridge flooding. Problem on the new england threw south at cedar an accident involving a car carrier leaves one lane open. 287 at exit 57 a tractor trailer fire that they are working on. Garden state parkway south exit 148 we have that accident. On to route 17 south near paramu
Lets get to the accuweather alert. Meteorologist bill evans has the first look at the forecast. Looking at rainfall amounts, we have seen the rainfall amounts a couple of attemptths to a quarter inch around city. Further south 1 2 inch of rain. 73 degrees with more rain on the way. 73 montclair and hanover. Temperatures are mild. Warm for the overnight hours want f effect until 4 00 this afternoon. The yellow areas is heavy downpours inside the rain shield. Thats where you can get problems 95, connecticut, westchester, rockland county. We will be drenched by daybreak. Weather and traffic every seven minutes. That has an effect on the roadways. We have two problems on the bruckner. One southbound near country one near white plains road another accident is being cleared away. Then as we take a look at the l. I. E. , this is construction closed between exit 40 and 41. All lanes are closed until 5 30. We hope to get that cleared way within the hour. We have the Northern State parkway, good
72 degrees, partly cloudy to clear skies. A great day today with a little bit of a southwest wind going east. Up above i80, i 280, 64 monticello. Going to be a great day today. Sunshine, mid and upper 80s. A northerly to an east wind coming around to the south. Later on today well pick up thunderstorms tomorrow. Youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. Reporter long island railroad, Jersey Transit and metro north all doing just fine, no major issues there. Three trains, l trains, m, all have track work until 5 00 a. M. If you are going onto the fdr drive both ways 60s and 70s, you have construction. A couple of lanes are closed down so you may experience delays but this should be cleared away by at least 5 00 on that. Could run late. You have construction here, George Washington bridge inbound lower level is closed down as a result. Outbound lower levels underneath the apartments have construction. A minor delay inbound. Lincoln, holland, they also have constructi
Really have to search lie and low. And as far as rain goes, we are again, dry on the east coast. Looking great for the northeast, and we hold showers free really right through tomorrow afternoon. And then by saturday we could be dodging some showers and thunderstorms. Your day planner for today, upper 60s by 7 00. By noon 78. A high today of 81 degrees with a light southeast wind. Coming up the accuweather 7 day forecast well talk the best half of the weekend and weekend is out. Im okay with that. Me too. Something im not okay with is this. This is the George Washington bridge as you move across the upper level you are bumper to bumper. Lower level looks a lot better all because of late running construction. Webster avenue into the sheridan. 30 minutes inbound George Washington bridge lincoln and holland doing okay. Verrazano bridge brooklynbound Police Activity. The activity has been cleared away, the upper level is open. The Staten Island expressway onto the verrazano bridge. Bqe nor
Innocent bystander was killed as a result of this shootout. The police scene now stretching for blocks here on 198th street, evidence markers show the bullet casings left over from this shootout early this morning. Sources say the commotion started out in the street and then spread inside the store. They say that someone flagged two Police Officers down who went into the store and they were approached by a 30year old suspect who grabbed one of the officers guns and began firing. A second officer responding back with shots, and thats once in the torso and that innocent bystander was shot and killed. Now, witnesses say they saw the bystander being taken out of the deli. They say he is a 49yearold man, a store employee, well known in the neighborhood who was just cleaning the shop at the time. I was upstairs in my apartment, and i just kept on hearing a whole bunch of shots. It actually didnt even sound like shots, so, you know, after about five or six of them went rounds went off. Fright