Hospital and lost his arm. The victim of the attempted robbery is in jail. Looking at a picture from Lower Manhattan from brooklyn on what is a bitter Cold Saturday morning. Hopefully you are in bed, under the covers. Electric blanket. Flannel jammies on. Whatever you are doing, hopefully its keeping you warm. Were in for a historically cold weekend. Here we go. Baby, its cold outside. Good morning, im michelle charlesworth. Looking at the weather, miss friesz, and it is brutal out there. Is it feels like just 11 degrees. This is is the beginning of touching the surface. It is going to be a quick hit. Its not going to last that long, but while it does, avoid the temperatures and outdoor exposures because its going to be that cold. Temperatures go low and winds go high. Parts of maryland the winds are gusting up to 20, 30 Miles Per Hour. Feels like 3 below in monticello right now. This cold air will infill rate the entire tristate. So the cold air is coming down from the north and west
Combined with the winds that are starting to shake the cameras all over the city. More details are coming up. Michelle . Our top story this morning, that arctic blast and what you need to do to stay safe and warm as temperatures continue to plunge. Mainer de blasios News Conference on the conditions is expected to get under way. Well bring that to you live. Meantime, marcus solis is going to join us live from the office of Emergency Management in downtown brooklyn with the hey, marcus. Reporter were expecting updated numbers. We know at least 2,000 people are calling 311 with complaints of no heat as the arctic air settles in overnight. The concern is for the homeless. Outreach teens were out trying to bring people in off the street. We know more than 200 went into the citys hospitals to deal with the areas that have been taken. The construction cranes are secured. We are expecting gusts upwards of 40 Miles Per Hour. Obviously trying to avoid a repeat of last weeks crane collapse. The
Terms of what it will feel like when the wind hits your skin. The rest of the tristate area, between minus 15 and 20 below, even in the shore areas youll feel it too. A freezing spray advisory goes into effect. You may have never seen this around here before, but the sea spray will freeze on impact because its so cold and can isles over vessels and cars nearby. Right now, temperatures are this the teens for the most part. Yet. So most of the windchills are in the teens to single digits, but it will get progressively worse tomorrow. Im going to track those feels like temperatures coming up. Back to you. This type of cold is so dangerous, that frostbite could take hold in minutes. So how are people dealing with it . Natalie is live in brooklyn where many people plan to hunker down this weekend. Reporter yes. Ive been out here for just the the cold in brooklyn and have my gloves on. I even brought my hand warmers out. Even with these, my fingers are already starting to go numb. While most
Sale that turned violent. One family says the Surveillance Video doesnt tell the whole story here. Welcome to today in new york this morning on the 13th of february. The big story today, the weather. When you go out the door, youre in for a shock. Right now were going over to the storm team 4 weather center. Just getting into the cold stuff right now. The winds havent kicked in yet. It feels cold, yes, but nothing like whats coming our way. We have all these warnings and advisories to get to. All these counties shaded in this blue color including long island. Where you have the pink color, thats the windchill warning. Thats where were going to see the worst. Thats where well see windchills as cold as 35 degrees below zero late today into tonight and even into your sunday morning. Heres a live look at Storm Tracker. We are watching some light snow but it could be slippery in spots. Otherwise clouds and clear skies mixing around. These are your current windchills. Again, yeah, its cold.