bloomberg ordered mandatory evacuations to low lying communities like coney island and battery park in manhattan because of an expected 11 foot storm surge. 375-thousand people need to leave. let me stress if you don t evacuate you not just putting your own life in danger you are also endangering the lives of our first responders who may have to come in and rescue you the subway systems in new york, washington d-c and philadelphia are closed. they may not be back on line until wednesday. a typical scene in connecticut and well beyond. tropical storm warnings cover 600 miles of coastline along the eastern seaboard. hurricane sandy is packing winds of 75 miles an hour. she is expected to collide with another system with the full force hitting the area monday night. president obama declared federal emergencies in washington, massachusetts and new york. my message to the governors as well as to the mayors is anything they need, we will be there mitt romney also changed his campai
the west. you will see it on the radar but right now we are expecting some showers and thunderstorms. high temperature is 7 degrees below average. wind gusting up to 35. we expect gusty conditions today. it s 49 at the lakefront. 51 and midway. morris is reading at 50 degrees. on the radar, we will have some light showers to come in from the south and the south east. further around the region low pressure will be on the flip side we can expect to see showers and storms coming in from the south and the west. eventually it will shift. expect rounds of showers today as much as half an inch coming our way. 5:00 p.m. with the chance of rain. today s high is about 57. stormy all week. of talk about construction on the roads. from the tri state and county line road we re squeezed down to a few planes. at cumberland we have some new resurfacing work that has that stretch reduced down to a single lane. eisenhower has the left lane that out. we will have more about these construction
effects. it s a massive storm spinning in the midsection. it will not move for another three or four days. the weather pattern will not change. off and on sunshine followed by rain than sunshine. six tents of an inch of rain came through. today we are expecting as much. the moisture coming in from the south. 51 at the lakefront. 51 in kankakee. the line of shares is lifting worked out of the region. we will be tried for much of the rush hour but we do have the chance of showers and firing up again just dealing with this unstable air. 64 degrees by 5:00 p.m.. 9:00 p.m. back down to 57. 40 percent chance of rain. thursday we do it again with scattered showers high-temperature 55. we don t try it out until the end of the weekend. we have a bad accident, a truck flipped over and hit the car just after 2:00. police say a car cut off the truck and forced it to swerve out of control. in this video that truck is complete jackknifed on its side. in madeleines are blocked. cleanup is
keep that going. let s see how it s going. it s going to be cooling down. we can blame that on the rain. showers will come. i think i requested this song and never but gave a big loud noise. i don t care what anybody says it s still good. we have half an inch of rain from yesterday today we have showers continuing. there will be relatively light and isolated. not a long reign for anyone just the potential for sprinkles to pop up. most of the day will be dry. we should get that came in with no problem. by 9:00 p.m. we re down to 48 degrees. the official high is 56. tamara s high temperature is 54 degrees. to help traffic for me as well? we have construction. 80- 94. things are really stretching down here to of two lanes going slow. taking advantage of that lingering dry weather will glass. we will tell you where some of those hot spots are. at this point we don t have any major delays. more traffic coming up in a bit. a third person is now charged in connection with the
clouds. we re getting closer to average. we could have some early afternoon showers. but not a green belt. 57 degrees in the union. it s 61 along the lakefront. the skies had cleared out. a few scattered storage hours popped up yesterday and overnight things have settled down now. a few showers could come back later on. that flow continues to keep us cooler than average. or going to throw in a 20 percent chance for a scattered showers by midday. many of us will not see it but we will see those showers and some isolated thunderstorms. 83 tomorrow. a spotty showers or thunderstorms. a better chance on friday. everything looks good out there this morning. dealing with roadwork because one of those means spots is on i 55 and lake shore drive. this continues so as you re approaching i 551 lane is out. and the ramp from sao paulo short south bound by five will be out as well until 5:00 a.m. tomorrow. less than two hours ago, the cubs just wrapped up their longest game in team hi