Their final preparations for game day hear what is on the agenda for today. We are waking up to chilly conditions. This is a live look from our Parkway Central Library camera , coming up what you can expect to feel like stepping outside today plus chance for rain or snow on game day. Today is saturday february g everyone, im jan carabao lets start off with the forecast with meteorologist chelsea in gram with eyewitness weather , good saturday morning , very cold out there today. It is so cold would you think groundhog totally right in his prediction six more weeks in winter. Absolutely 100 percent feels like wint they are morning and in a lot of spots it feels like the single digits. One of those spots is bethlehem feeling very chilly starting out your saturday morning taking a live look but a dry start, quiet start and new we will go to center city, same kind of situation, feeling very, very cold, but you can see that sky line is glowing in green this morning. Temperatures are in the
You got elected to be mayor of this city. Step up and do your job. Calling out the mayor after a weekend of gun violence. The community now demanding answers from the city. But first, breaking news in new jersey. A Police Officer seriously injured in a Chain Reaction crash that littered a street for blocks. Good evening. Im diane macedo in for cindy hsu. A dozen people were hurt when a speeding vehicle went on a collision course at around 8 00 tonight. Cbs 2s Hazel Sanchez spoke with witnesses. Shes live in jersey city with more. Police are still here cleaning up what witnesses described as a crazy accident scene. A maroon minivan was speeding down ocean avenue behind me when it slammed in to that silver car you see being towed right now. That started a scary chain of events that left a dozen people hurt including a jersey city Police Officer who was struck by that silver car while standing on the sidewalk. Reporter witnesses say the driver of this maroon minivan was speeding on ocean
Any questions or concerns that you would want to ask Health Officials . I would like for them to get a grip of it before it gets out of hand. Reporter so can you get sick if you come in contact with contaminated water or if water from a leaky airconditioning system that has legionella drips on you . Experts say no. This is a disease of the lungs. You get sick by inhaling water particles or inhaling a mist. Hotels, large buildings and cruise ships are places where traditionally spread. Any place with a cooling system that is not properly treated is susceptible. Tweet me if you have any questions for the doctors tonight. I will have answers later tonight on cbs2 news at 11. For now reporting live in the thank you. And here is some more disease. It cannot be spread from person to person. Its contracted by breathing in water mist that contains the legionella bacteria. The symptoms are similar to the flu. A cough, fever, body aches. And the disease is treatable with antibiotics if caught in
Seen for miles away as the truck burned. Janelle burrell is live. Reporter the truck over turned causing the over pass to catch on fire. Now police arent sure about the over passes stability. The massive traffic back up because of this truck over turning on the new jersey turnpike around 10 30, catching fire at the good avenue over pass between exits 12 and 13. It ignited the over pass. The over pass game became engulfed in flames also. New Jersey State Police so concerned they shut down seven lanes of traffic in both directions, 14 in all leading to this rare scene. Cars actually turning around on the turnpike going the wrong way in their lanes, a result of the gridlock stretching for more than 5 miles in both directions. New now its up to engineers to decide the extent of the damage and whether the over pass is structurally sound. We believe the over pass has been compromised and we are going to have the turnpike shut down until thats checked. Reporter state police said once the fire
Broke yesterday so i got a new one. Thats the good news. Once you get out of this neighborhood theres gas and stuff. Reporter getting out is not easy. North shore roads in Suffolk County are littered with massive trees. Wrapped around lines pulling down poles. Traffic jams are miles long. If there was an emergency it would be big trouble. Reporter the storm cut a 50mile s. W. A. T. From smithtown to southold. My kids thought it was the end of the world. Reporter the town supervisor called pse g to the carpet late yesterday complaining response was slow of the now he sees thousands of crew members on the job. In its defense pse g said it had 87,000 out at the storms heighted. 82 restored this morning. We stayed at a local hotel. Reporter the mann family of setauket counting their blessings. Uprooted trees buried in the deck sticking to their skylights. I hope we get our power back soon. I dont know, i have my doubts. Reporter above us you clearly see the sheared treetops from the danger