Pandemonium days away. Traffic will be a nightmare. The 411 you need to know about how to get around manhattan when pope francis is here at the end of the week. Good evening at 11 00. Im bill ritter. And im sade baderinwa. The pope arrives in the u. S. Tomorrow. Tonight hes missing with bishops in santiago, cuba and praying at the shrine of our lady of charity. Hell meet with families at the cathedral of our lady of the assumption. Then hell leave for washington, d. C. About 4 00 in the afternoon. The folks there tonight getting ready. Here in new york security preparations are in high gear, but for most of us our main worry, just how will we all get around . Eyewitness News Reporter josh einiger is at penn station with details. With difficulty is the basic answer. When the nypd takes the enormous cement blocks and shuts down vehicular traffic on 7th avenue. They tell us tonight for the first time theyre going to leave the entrance to penn station open, the main entrance there on 7th,
Its going to be a chilly beginning to your weekend as well. Highs today below seasonable, in the 50s and expect clouds, maybe even stray showers as the afternoon approaches. Where are we right now . It is 28 in sparta. 41 in the city as well as the hampton thes. White plain, starting off at hamptons, 41. White plains, starting off in the 30s. In edison, 22 degrees cooler than yesterday at this time. And in the city, 13 degrees cooler. So a big dropoff over the past 24 hours and today, men thety of clouds. Heres today, we will see plenty of clouds. We may see showers developing close to the coast as we make our way through the day. 9 00 a. M. , 44 degrees, partly cloudy skies, feels like 40 by noon, 53 degrees and feels like mostly cloudy. We are watching an even more likely opportunity for wet weather into opportunity. Details on that in my full forecast. Thank you. A developing story we are following this morning. Hurricane patricia is slamming mexico right now. It hit as a category f
Seas and winds at 165 miles per hour. Witnesses recorded the category five hurricane as it pushed trees sideways and ripped apart fences. I do have some family and friends who send me Text Messages and Facebook Messages saying are you okay . And i think were all doing well. Reporter he is safe with his friends in nearby Puerto Vallarta but getting back to new york could be a challenge. If we have to get out on sunday or monday, how are we going to make sure that we can get to where we can fly f the airport is open or not. Or if the roads are access to believe the airport. Reporter many families have been forced to evacuate and go to red cross shelters and hundreds of tourists had to pack up and leave hotels. Came to this Convention Center and they said its not a safe place so we are going to the technical center. Reporter mexicos president says damage has been less than expected for a hurricane of this magnitude. But the country is dealing with significant the flooding and land slides
Force base greeted by the president which does not often happen. The president going down to do that, pretty cool. Chaos that barkley center, a brutal beating, on camera, a bunch of kids furrowing down, we will show you what went on. Chairman of the mta says he will cut the next phase of the Second Avenue subway if something doesnt happen. We will tell you what that is. I am juliet huddy. Ben i am ben simmoneau. It is Tuesday Morning september 22nd, thanks for being with us, day two of pope week, not a lot of pope activity get. Juliet welcome back. Meteorologist it is all good, engaged again and this is where the week picks up. Juliet are we looking at nice packagers . I have a friday night event. Meteorologist you got the big one. The weather looks to be pretty quiet, call like and since we in are just one day away at the countdown to fall in starts at 4 21, less than 24 hours until we are officially at that autumnal equinoxes and we will be in the fall. Feels like fall again, 62 at c
Squirrel on the streets of union city, new jersey the threat of a cellphone call. You have video of that. Good morning, everybody, and ben simmoneau. Juliet im juliet huddy on september 22nd, one day before the official day fall begins. Meteorologist you are right. Almost exactly 24 hours away, 4 21 tomorrow. This is the last full day of summer. So sad but you felt it a couple days ago. When the cold air came in, this is what we have out there, mild start to the day, a cooler slide to where we should be. We have been above normal for quite a while and it comes to a close for a little while. 54 central park, 56 in sussex, 63 central park, 65 in montauk, monticello, checking in in the at 3 to 10 Miles Per Hour pulling in more cool air, making for another fresh start out there once again, feeling like fall is in the air. It actually is all little action out there with more clout in the ariane and showers showing up out near the poconos. Whether it makes it to the ground, light rain or spr