Shirleen, back to you guys. Thank you very much, bill. Mayor de blasio is warning people today they had to be cautious because the heat is dangerous but its not keeping people away from the beaches. Folks are enjoying the sun and water. Sandra bookman is live in or charred beach to tell us about it. Ken, there is a breeze here. I will tell you a secret. Thats why our photographer and i came here. We knew we could start the day off cool. Thats the same idea a lot of people here had and the same idea people around the city told us they have. Whatever you need to do, you need to do it early. Hitting the beach on one of the hottest days of the summer is practically a no brainer. The earlier the better. Certain time of the day the sun is hot. This is, as you can see, the best time to enjoy yourself. Then when it gets hot you seek shelter. Reporter at Orchard Beach in the bronx, some worshippers claimed their spots before noon. Getting up early seems to be one of the most common ways of beat
Some benefits to all this heat. Nothing like a cool breeze on a hot day, even the seagulls on city island know where to go to get their feathers ruffled. For others, relief is spelled san d, in this case orchard beach, the trick to getting a jump on a 90degree plus day, get there early. We opened the beach this morning reporter first ones . Yeah, we was the first ones here. You get a better spot and look for all the crowds. Reporter in this kind of summer swelter, hitting the market before the sun is too high is also a smart idea, as is eating and drinking to beat the heat. I get lettuce, radish rad dish radish and all that stuff. The heat is not all bad. All that cheap Fresh Produce just one of the pluses of the dog days of summer. We have more time to be outside and to exercise and to socialize with people and that sunlight builds strong bones and also decreases the chances of people who have mood problems during the winter months. Reporter yeah, we know about that seasonal effective
The flames and are putting out hot spots. Toni yates joins us with the developing details. Toni . Reporter sade, diana, one woman we saw was crying her eyes out as she was talking on the phone to someone about the fire that either heavily damaged her apartment or completely destroyed it. It did not take long for the fire that started in one house to spread causing huge damage. We got an initial call at 12 505, record structure 12 55 for a structure. We have a total of five structures burning from 175 to 179. Reporter five homes igniting, 31 people displaced. She lives in the house where the fire started. She wasnt home but she got a frantic call from her mother. The house is on fire. Me and the kids are outside, p. J. s, no shoes. Its gone. She kept telling me its gone. I was coming home and i saw the smoke and everything. It was like is it my house. I see that it was four houses that caught on fire. Reporter firefighters are looking into the cause including talk at the scene that a ch
Where you get the significant flooding over union county. High resolution futurecast shows encouraging signs. As we lose the daytime heating, we lose a lot of the fuel in the atmosphere for the storms and i think everything will weaken as we approach sunset. The problem is as we head to later in the week, especially friday, there could be a much more widespread potential downpour and flooding situation in the tristate area. We will talk about that in the full forecast coming up. See you then. We will turn to the folks trying to clean up from the storms. Nina pineda is in scotch plains. She continues our coverage. Reporter liz, we are talking flooded basements, ruined cars. I will show you how the force of this water behaved here on route 22 eastbound. Look at that. That is the pavement just buck ltd under the force of this day buckled under the force of this deluge. They are talking 3 to 4 inches they thought an hour. It came down the hill and actually up the highway and took the stree
Like it. I dont think it helps the environment there. Reporter from a Law Enforcement perspective, the easiest thing to do is just get rid of the plaza altogether. And put broadway back where it was historically and thats an idea Police Commissioner bratton has discussed with the mayor. The mayor acknowledges that is still an option. You can argue that those plazas have had some very positive impacts. You could argue theyve come with a lot of problems and a lot of the surrounding Business Community certainly cited the problems, well give that a fresh look and i think thats consistent with the man date for the task force. Reporter ways to make times square comfortable but also uphold the constitution and that is something mayor guiliani went through in the 1990s. I have never been accused of sounding like rudy giuliani. Reporter well, that sentry true. The task force will report to the mayor on october 1st. But what to do in the meantime . In the meantime, they are planning on using exi