Freight train derailment. 1000 feet of track, railroad ties, the third rail and two switches. Railroad officials hope to have it restored by this evenings rushhour but that is clearly not going to happen. The delays and cancellations will affect nearly tens of thousands of commuters over the next few hours. We call this the main line and this line feeds both the port jervis branch and the ron Port Jefferson branch and the Ronkonkoma Branch and those taken together will take half of the ridership on the Long Island Railroad. Reporter this contingency plan just went into effect. If youre in penn station tonight, there will be Eastbound Service and you will be able to get out to long island but there will be cancellations roughly 1 3 of the evening schedule out of penn station is going to be cancelled, and there will be no service into new york city on the ronkonkoma and port jeff branches. The advice, get to the Babylon Branch or the Fort Washington branch because those drains are trains
Back in the ussr the phantom phone call . Sir elton and president putin in a battle over gay rights. Did the russian leader invite the legendary singer for a summit or was the megastar the victim of a prank . Back in the ussr good morning, america. Happy wednesday. Lets take a look watt some live radar. The weather system doing so much damage in the west this week and you see Salt Lake City and boise there but the kind of down of pour you are seeing in los angeles hardly ever comes this time of year. Once in a lifetime. We have a new look at pictures of that devastating flash flooding in utah. You see the wreckage of the cars, raging water is so powerful. Another storm moving in out west and ginger will start us off with that. We just smashed daily rain records from san diego to los angeles. You can see the highways covered but we have that flash flooding and still warnings already in the northern rockies. The wettest september day in more than 75 years creating a deluge in los angeles
Services. We are highly committed. Reporter the mayor points out the need for restructuring because it has been in place 20 years and does not meet the current needs. Reporting live, tim fleischer, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Tim, thank you. We are following breaking news right now. Two big problems for Long Island Railroad commuters. Westbound service is temporarily suspended on the Babylon Branch because of signal problems in freeport. On the ronkonkoma branch, a truck hit a vehicle near the bethpage station there. Commuters should expect disruptions there as well. We received a someone on board the train struck. No injuries to report. We are continuing to monitor the situation and we will keep you posted on the delays. Now the terror threats against the School System of new york and los angeles. Lots of second guessing of officials in l. A. That got virtually the same e mail as officials in new york threatening an attack on the schools but it was apparently a hoax. The nypd figured t
Afterwards and really warm weather for new years eve. This is what it should be feeling like this time of the year. We are at 31. We dropped two degrees since last hour. 28 in hanover and montclair. Blairstown 25. 30 poughkeepsie. 33 bridgeport. Thats the air temperature. Here is how it feels out there. 20s all day long. 122 brooklyn. 9 monticello. Cold day today. 30 at noontime. Look at the wind out of the north 10 to 25 Miles Per Hour. Cold today and tomorrow. It will warm back up. We will talk about that next. Minutes. Lets go to a webcam. The Grand Central parkway, we have a delay into the kew l. I. E. Subway status, we had earlier problems on the 4 trains, grand concourse repaired. Expect residual delays. Southern state parkway exit 30 vehicle fire has been extinguished. Traffic is easing up. Great at the east river crossings. Alternate side of the Street Parking rules in effect. Ken and lori, over to you. Heather, thank you. Developing in brooklyn, a woman and her boyfriend are d
The future is now. We need help. The zadroga act provides Health Benefits to emergency workers who are suffering from illnesses. But the program is set to expire next month unless Congress Makes a change. This morning, Hurricane Sandy victims have a little more breathing room. They have another month to have reviewed. Days. Some Insurance Adjusters have allegedly blamed sandy damage on other factors. So far more than 20,000 claims have been reviewed. Hundreds have been approved, totaling more than 7 million. Coming up on almost three years. A lot of people have been out of money for a long time. 5 05 right now. Time for a check of weather and traffic on the 4s. Wow, chris, who would have thought we would have august in september. Here. Temperatures this afternoon heading back into the 80s with sunshine, low humidity. Starting out in the 50s and 60s. Not quite as chilly in some spots as the last couple mornings. A day filled with sunshine. Warmer, upper 80s this afternoon. The humidity