Its out for central and northwest and southern new shore. Were looking at this warm air. We get cloudy skies and temperatures get into the 60s. Rain comes in here around 5, 6 00 this evening. Well talk about that and all that goes along with that in your accuweather sevenday forecast coming up. Its weather then heather. I take it this fog is causing some problems. We have some speed restrictions out there. You definitely want to get in touch with your individual carrier if youre going to the airport. Bell parkway east near Ocean Parkwayment unauthorized tractortrailers. Not allowed on parkways. Lets go right over here to the deegan going southbound the ramp to 138th street you have a disabled truck there. Subway as much as is running on or close to schedule. We have new schedules for Long Island Railroad. Dont forget about that. Jfk air trains suspended until for maintenance. They have shuttle buses in place, and you have new Jersey Transit doing okay. Garden state parkway you do jerse
Outreach teams to monitor the homeless. Political reporter dave evans is at city hall. Reporter every night there are 50,000 men, women and children living in new york city shelters. The mayor is not talking so much about them but the 3 to 4,000 people that live on the street and panhandle. The experts say there are probably more than that but they praised the mayor for finally addressing the problem. The homeless situation in new york has gone from bad to worse this year. In the last few weeks police dismantled about 30 homeless encampments. He is spending millions on Homeless Housing with on Site Social Services and he is doing something about the street homeless and aggressive panhandling. I want to underscore the point that we are going to go at this problem with everything we got and when we hear a report of someone in distress, someone in need we will go there compassionately, but we will not tolerate any form of illegal activity. Reporter today at a breakfast, the mayor announce
Ive seen the email, liz, and the person who made the threat claimed for example that every school in new york city was somehow rigged to explode and made an illiterate reference to allah. The schools opened and stayed open and everything was we do not see that as a credible terrorist threat, and we are investigating it as a hoax. We believe that the email originated overseas. The language in the email would lead us to believe that this is not a jihadist initiative. They should have closed the schools, though, i think so because they never know if it was true or false. They said they knew. How do they know . They said they know. If they know i guess they know but i dont think they should have let the school stay open. They should have closed it just in case of an emergency. Reporter yes, they kept the school open but that is the sentiment we heard from many parents here this afternoon. They closed the schools in los angeles but the police city says that was in his words a significant ov
Officer randolph holder was shot and killed on the job tuesday night here in east harlem. Police have arrested 30yearold tyrone howard. He has been charged in holders death. This morning we are also getting a closer look at the three then police are trying to track down from the night of that shooting. Now, these men are not suspects but the nypd does want to talk to them about a shootout that happened before officer holder was killed. Police are asking anyone with any information on their whereabouts to give them a call. Were also tracking new information this morning a deadly shooting out of the bronx. Two men this morning face charges in the killing of 20yearold kimberly velasquez. She was taken to the hospital where she was pronounced dead. The investigation, ongoing. Investigators try to figure out what caused this raging fire that destroyed a home on long island. Look at the smoke and flames shooting out of this house on 16th street and west babylon. A mother and her teenage daug
Honoring a fallen officer. The reverend al sharpton and the widow of eric garner, paying tribute to randolph holter. Patricia has fizzled out, but it came ashore a powerful category 5 storm. It leaves remarkably little damage there in mexico. The officials assessing that damage and trying to reach some of the hardest hit areas. Puerto vallarta and another major port city did avoid a direct hit. Joe fryer reports now from Mexicos Pacific coast. Reporter Hurricane Patricia strengthened very quickly, and today the storm is weakening quickly. Now a tropical depression. A sigh of relief for people up and down Mexicos Pacific coast. Officials are now assessing the damage. Washedout roads and landslides. Translator i live on the southern end, and the truth is, it really destroyed a good portion of our home. And took a lot of trees. But thankfully we are all okay. Reporter but Officials Say no major catastrophic damage in wellpopulated areas like Puerto Vallarta and manz nil la. Winds were blo