Morning commute. Additional showers will pop up in the afternoon, the main focus of the rain will be from now until 9 00, 10 00 this morning. The lighter rain is approaching the city. 74 now in elmhurst. 76 in sheepshead bay. Take your umbrella with you, youll need it from time to time. The time really being this in clouds out there and 80 degrees. Lets get over to lauren scala. On the bruckner, we have an accident blocking two lanes. The cross bronx expressway is the way to go right now. Heading over to long island, nassau county, the l. I. E. Is shut down out in both directions between exit 40, jericho head over to the Northern State parkway. Now to the grand finale of the Democratic National convention, Hillary Clinton rallied delegates and reached out to voters promising better leadership and a better america if shes elected president. Tracie strahan has a look. Reporter good morning to you. Hillary clinton cemented her place in the history books yesterday using her time in the spo
Storms, not moving very slowly. Moving quickly. While they may have rainfall rates of one to two inches per hour, it doesnt last that long over one particular spot. To the west, another ban of shower and thunderstorm activity. Most of this should be out of here by 9 00, 10 00 in the morning. Thats the good news. Tends quickly, its smack dab in the morning commute. A slow go out there at times. Showers taper at noon, fec high in the lower 80s. Lets see if there are any early issues. Lauren what do you have . Two accidents on the roads. Neither causing huge delays. One involving a jackknifed tractor trailer on 95 southbound on country club road. Thats in the left lane. In paramus, an accident on route 17 southbound out by paramus road. That blocks the right lane and the exit ramp over. There well have more weather now to the final day of the Democratic National convention. Hillary clinton tried to win over voters and lay out her plan if elected president. Tracie strahan is in the newsroo
Well north and west, 27 to 17, we are looking at very warm numbers with the precipitation coming up and changing over to snow, we have a Winter Weather advisory above i84 all these highways that are pretty much right here around northern new jersey and here, 287 there. Thats going to be the where were seeing heavy wet snow that could coat 2 inches accumulation possible. All down to our south and west going here about midday well last through the afternoon into the evening commute. It is going to be sloppy going from the city northward south of the city, well talk about that in just a moment. Heather is looking at your commute. This is the inbound side of the expressway where it connects with the prospect and turns into the bqe. You can see this delay inbound, northbound, eastbound, this is at atlantic avenue. You have an accident, two lanes closed on the northeast side southbound side you may find rubber necking delays as you go in that spot. New Jersey Transit doing okay, Long Island
The reason being, we have messy, sloppy weather on the way for today. 63 degrees to start your day, 23, and hannover, 32. Montclair, these numbers are warm for the over night hours. 36 around the park, 37 belmar, toms river. 36 long island, 30 in the city, 20 to the north and west. Winter weather advisory until 6 a. M. Tomorrow for morris, sussex, warren county. Thats because of this, this rain, this all that slippery stuff headed your way, a little ice, west virginia, maryland. Thats going to be coming our way today gets here about midday, it will be a mixture of rain and snow and very heavy wet snow for the afternoon, that could create a couple of inches of heavy wet snow on car tops and grassy surfaces and slippery for the afternoon and evening weather and heather every 7 minutes. B and the d trains there was a rail condition, the four five and six trains and new Jersey Transit doing okay, metro north is fine the bx40 bus is detoured because of a fire, well have more information tha
Fifth floor where crews have had their ladders up inside of this Apartment Building at 1893 morris avenue. It appears the flames began in one apartment quickly spread to other units forcing hundreds of residents to evacuate. We saw some of them being treated by ems here on the scene with oxygen masks for smoke inhalation and there are four overall injuries two of them minor two serious. All of them civilans. We spoke with some of the people forced outside of their homes. I smelled it and i could hear the commotion. And then what happened . I got my family out. When i came out i saw all of the flames. Now again firefighters telling us four injuries, four civilan injuries here at the scene two of them serious and the other two minor. It appears they are starting to wrap up the scene and have since pulled their ladders out are told is about under control at this hour but of course we will continue monitoring the situation for you. A lot of residents out here waiting for word if they will