Politics . I think he was. I think he was. You know i think he followed politics quite a bit, not quite a bit but he did and we had them for dinner the other day. He is fine. I never heard of him climbing anything. Reporter fox 5 news. Ernie . Trump is bigger things to worry about than a guy climbing is building. His polls show him strgl is continuing the harsh rhetoric rhetoric. This is Hillary Clinton getting into her economic plan. Dan bowens has been following the story for us. Dan was the latest . Reporter big speech from Hillary Clinton telling a crowd in michigan she will stop trade deals like the transpacific or ship tpp. Thats a big break from the obama administrations policies are at all this is donald trump is sticking by his controversial remarks linking the present of i call resident bomb in Hillary Clinton the founders of isis. Reporter donald trump says hes not changing his style of his Harsh Criticism of president obama and Hillary Clinton. I think we will give Hillary Clinton the most valuable player mvp award. Isis will hand her the most valuable player word. Reporter the boulder marks even as the flamboyant down in the polls in his cnbc interview possibly for the first time publicly might lose in november. How do you close that gap . Just keep in the same thing im doing right now and its either going to work or im going to have a very long vacation. Reporter nutrisite Hillary Clinton looking to move on from her latest email scandal this week with new documents showing state. Speaking on the economy in michigan she looks to contrast her agenda with mr. Trumps. She spoke in detroit earlier this week. He talked only a failure poverty and crime. He is missing so much about what makes michigan great. Reporter the former new york senator looking to attract independent and Republican Voters as well as midwestern swing states blasting what she make tax cuts for the wealthy insisting her vision includes opportunities for the middle class. We will put americans to work work, building and modernizing our roads, our bridges, our time host, our roadways, our ports and our airports. Reporter aides to Hillary Clinton saying the democratic nominee will be releasing her 2015 tax return soon. It appears to be attempted the so far he hasnt released them and he says its because hes being audited. Ernie more to come. Thank you. The stories making news tonight in the headlines. Medical marijuana is legal in half of the country is still considered a dangerous drug. The dea has often opted not to reclassify marijuana instead saying it has a high potential for abuse and notes of good medical use. Some believe the u. S. Is way behind the rest of the world on this issue. There are tens of doctors who are recommending medical marijuana in the states yet the federal government refuses to say there are any medical benefits so its really disappointing. Ernie agency put marijuana in the same class as heroin but plans to allow more research into the drugs possible medicinal benefits. Macys is closing about 100 stores very next year. The retailer lands competition no word yet on what locations will shut down. The money saved will be used to ramp up macys. Com and thats whats happening in the news right now. You are here and its just unbelievably hot and humid out there. Audrey its going to get even worse. We are expecting heat index values to go for 100 degrees in many locations. Tomorrow its going to get even hotter. Ernie it feels more like july than august. Audrey this will be a record heatwave at the summer and the longest one too. So be prepared. High temperatures today lets start with that. We hit 90, actually 91 central park or this afternoon. Actually that was 11 00 this morning. We. Much of the day at 89 to 90 degrees in the park. 90 network as well as bilmark. Montauk is her cool spot at 86 degrees with a high and we drop down in belmar, 85 in iso 88 new york city and down to the 70s towards long island by the it isnt about the temperature. About the dewpoint. These numbers have been soaring into the 70s which is very oppressive. We factor that in with the temperature reading and heat index values well into the 90s and over 100 degrees in newark in belmar. We will see a lot of these meetings over the next several days a heated eyes or he expanding across much of the tristate area all the way through sunday. Do what he can to keep cool. We also have a Flash Flood Warning has been issued for Somerset County new jersey into a 30 00. We had a severe thunderstorm rolled through the area and it hasnt made Much Movement although its diminished in intensity as producing downpours have two to 3 inches of rainfall has fallen in those counties and 30 00 tonight. Elsewhere across the region you can see a couple of popup showers and downpours moving out of Staten Island working its way into brooklyn and queens. Its moving eastward so those of you enough the county will get a downpour. Showers and thunderstorms of max several hours. We are under the influence of High Pressure sitting offshore. We call that a bermuda high. On the backside we have a southwest wind been pumping up the humidity over the last couple of days and now its pumping up the heat across the tristate area. It was a high temperatures moving into the 90s heat index values near 100 over the next several days and thats for much of eastern the eastern seaboard. It will be from raleigh towards memphis. Hot in texas with temperatures over 100 degrees. A look at our futurecast shows things will die down overnight and tomorrow much psych today with a mix of sun and clouds in an afternoon showers and the same thing as we go into friday and saturday. Saturday and sunday in fact we will take this unsettled weather pattern into the beginning of next week. One tonight with temperatures mostly in the 70s possibly dropping to the low 80s in the city and tomorrow we will rise into the 90s. A diesel on shore points that everyone will be comfortable with high humidity. 90degree heat through the weekend first half of next week and we dont see a breeze and site so keep cool and comfortable and an safe. Ernie the call at the dog days of summer. Thank you audrey. By the time the day is over new york subways will have carried about 6 million passengers around the city. A system that egg is bound to have some hiccups. Coming up next we will look at the challenges facing subway riders and whats being done to help you keep it right here. We will be back right after the we love the new York State Fair two words. Piglet races wine slushees. Bonding time. Fried everything theres so many bands. The bands those pigs are just so cute cheesecake, on a stick. A rollercoaster the great new York State Fair just got greater. With all new fairgrounds, from august 25th to september 5th in syracuse, new york. Order tickets before opening day for just 6. Its all here, its only here. Ernie welcome back to her back to our weeklong feature focusing on your commuter challenges. Today we will look at the way to get around new york big bear talking about the subway of course. Anywhere you want to go its a system that faces frequent problems, its getting people frustrated of course. We have a special guest joining in a minute to talk about that first antwan lewis begins or look at this commuting challenge. Reporter College Student xavier takes the subway to campus and many times hes late at no fault of his own. They dont take it as an excuse. Reporter translate this is one of many straphangers. Hot, but i appreciate the airconditioning on the train. The metro cars dont always work when you swipe them. Hes the Deputy Director of transit Watchdog Group for riders alliance. Of theres number one complaint we hear its the downside downside is everyones back and i downside is everyones back and have another concern is the looming closure of the l train in manhattan. Repairing severe tunnel damage from superstorm sandy. Director of the medications considered to plans to shut down of 18, one for three years for the went with a shorter destruction based on community meetings. Everybody understood that we do the 18 month closure and it gives the state ability that work done as quickly as possible. The cities lines are worried about delays and overcrowding will start to see some relief in a few months. Decembers one phase one of the Second Avenue subway is expected to open. Open. Is going to. Is going to have a huge impact on the site and believe crowding on the lexington avenue line and biggest infrastructure for the subway system in 50 years. The mta works to meet the demand of its customers even his be done alone. We hear from riders every single day. We talk about how difficult it is to move around the city and a system thats outdated than the number one thing we hear is we need to state our governor and a legislature to invest more money in our subways and buses so they work from new yorkers. Reporter Antwan Lewis Fox 5 news. Ernie joining me tom wright who is planning association, he wrote the subway coming here i know. It got hot between heat and the crowding. Ernie ridership is up and we heard big problems, overcrowding. Its too much of the good thing in a way. We are hitting levels that we havent seen since world war ii and are world war ii and our ridership in thats a look at thing. We have capacity 20 years ago in the system so we were able to accommodate all the people wanted to wright but today we have run out of it and i think people are seeing it in the soles of their feet. Going on. You have closures and shutdowns and doing a lot of repairs from the storm. The l subway and was going to happen there as a result of superstorm sandy. Bb t is making a recalling shutting it down for 18 months in taking the issue headon or their other things that we would like to see them do also trying to so if we have to live without it for 18 months there ways that we could be improving access elevators and so when the system comes back on line maybe new yorkers can get it better. Ernie the Second Avenue subway will make a difference. It will be the biggest improvement in my lifetime. The biggest beneficiaries are going to be the people on the line who get on the train to set up watching them go by crowded. Ernie you have a capital plan in place that money is always an issue so still looking for we are in the middle of funding from the city and the state so thats moving ahead. Really thats not going to get is the kind of investment and capacity increase we are going to need to continue the growth we have seen over the last 10 or 20 or so we will have to look for new forms of funding that these things always pay for themselves in the long run. Look at the seven extension to the west side to the west side. That was a wise investment. Without seeing the Economic Development there generations will thank us for doing that. We have to look for more opportunities. Ernie tom wright, ride the subway and enjoy. Thanks for joining us and by the way we have one more day in the series. Tomorrow we will wrap it up with our commuter rails to the north and east to what can be done to fix the problem plaguing long long island and metro north reverence. We will talk about that tomorrow at 6 00 and we have more coming up today including new york really . What would you be willing to do before Vacation Time . Some interesting answers coming up in a few minutes. We are taking a break and we will be back right here on fox i am totally blind. I lost my sight in afghanistan. If youre totally blind, you may also be struggling with non24. Calling 8448442424. Or visit my24info. Com. At subway, youll love the greek flavors of our mediterranean collection. Your choice of delicious chicken or hearty steak. Creamy tzatziki sauce. Try our mediterranean collection today. Subway. Fresh is what we do. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently, which means we can fix things differently. Thanks for calling fios. This is ryan. You cant tell me this cord isnt in. I know its in. Its in, but its not working. Im sending you a link to the my fios app that going to let me see what youre seeing. Really . Yes, mr. Mcenroe. See that cord . Just plug it into the connector on the right. I like that. Tech support that lets your technician see the problem over your smartphone. Only from fios. Ernie this portion of the mets got swept today by the lastplace diamondbacks but lets focus in on something fun like this amazing onehanded grab by a mets fan today with beer in hand. The fan reaches up sneers at, get his ball to a young fan nearby. What a nice touch. Great stuff on an otherwise tough day for the mets. A cute story. Now we have millions of pets in the city, you know that but according to a new study new york is the least pet friendly city in the country. Cannot be . We send mac king to find out whats going on. Whats happening . Reporter school for the dogs dog trainer chelsea believed new york city and forces that owners who appear to spend more time with fuzzier like cassie the bulldog. Addressing things that need to be addressed in making sure the dog is happy. Reporter new study new york city pet in the nations city for a pet to live. The vets are more expensive so thats the downfall. Besides that its fine. Reporter it created its metrics new york paying the highest that costs of the cities in the united states. Is very big and very energetic its not difficult. Dominic and lady. Shes a cranky old lady. Chelsea and other dog owners could not comprehend how their homes may represent the nations most difficult to own a pet. Living are there out away from dig urban centers its harder to find the same kind of options. Were. Chelseas argued for pet Stores Carrying pet foods grooming devices. Dominic found outweigh the inconvenience. Newark and jersey city place in the bottom 10 of the hubs rankings. Lower east side mac king fox 5 news. Ernie thanks. Nothing like new york. Straight ahead for you tonight we could all use a break but you get enough time off . What would you do to get more vacation . Your answers are coming up right ernie heres a timely question. What would you be willing to do for more Vacation Time . I probably would not work weekends, absolutely with more more work more hours. I enjoy the weekends too much. Reporter what do you do . I would work a couple more hours per day. I would maybe even work a saturday to have more Vacation Time. Reporter how much Vacation Time would you like a year . At least five weeks. Reporter that would be great. Work a little more and take vacation. Put in more hours and take vacation and take more time. I would take less space for more vacation. Reporter cubit take less pay, really . Because its worth that . You have to get your vacations in. A lot of people are willing to give up a lot for it. They would work longer hours two hours more a day. Reporter just keep adding it up. What about holidays . Yeah why not . Reporter how about weekends . As long as i get more time off. No complaints. Ill bet the boss likes hearing that. 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