i feel like i m walking in a hot bath. reporter: or you feel like a marshmallow over a fire. mushy. reporter: it mayor de blasio a five-minute walk feel like a two-hour journey. it s hard to breathe. offensively hot. it offends my sensibility that it s this hot. reporter: suzanne says she is doing her best to be a considerate new yorker and not overpower the grid. it s game on for this crew. they have been out on the turf for two hours. he is winded of a sprint. describe the feeling. it s hot. all our feets are burning right now. reporter: they are playing smart soccer to make sure everyone walks off the field feeling okay. for what it s worth, we keep refilling our bottles. keep cool in the shade resting everything 30 minutes or so. reporter: or just take it easy. avoid exertion. on the weekend, as lonnie said, this heat is here to indices to climb into the weekend so be careful. take take care of yourself, elderly neighbors, pets and children. vane
raf miranda in the weather 4 storm team. it s better to stay indoors, stay in the ac. if you go outside, that s when you need to be concerned about staying hydrated and out of the sun. it s very hot out. a quiet start to your weekend. this is the problem. excessive heat warnings in effect. all of these counties shaded in pink. look where they the heartland. dutchess county, westchester, rockland, the five boroughs, under excessive heat warnings. this is in effect through sunday afternoon. basically all weekend long the heat will stay dangerous. we didn t cool off last night so now we re down at 81. winds out of the southwest at 8 miles per hour. plan your day. 90 degrees, fools like 99. that s because of the high humidity 37 as you head towards 2:00, tracking a few showers and storms. the big story is 9 5 feels like 107 degrees. even through 5:00 p.m., 92 degrees feels like 105. this is going to be the most dangerous time where you definitely need to stay indoors and stay h
we are live in kearny, lou young, cbs 2 news. a rally in support of chapter schools of charter schools. the demonstration started in brooklyn. thousands marched over the brooklyn bridge and ended up at city hall. cbs 2 political reporter marcia kramer was there and is here now with more. marcia. reporter: well, maurice and kristine, the rally in brooklyn drew huge crowds. organizers put the tally at over 18,000. but there was a much smaller group at city hall because construction was going on in the plaza so police limited the crowd to several hundred. but that did nothing to silence the passion or the demands that mayor de blasio go all in for charters. what do we want? charter schools now! reporter: only a now hundred protestors were allowed on the steps of city hall but they made their voices loud wanting to make sure that mayor de blasio him them. they want more charter heard them. they want more charter schools. i have seen firsthand how the mayor is fail
new tonight the nypd wants help finding a person who rob a elderly person in the bronx. it happened at the king disbridge section. he comes from behind, grabs him around the neck and throws him to the ground. police say the suspect stole about $200 from the victim and fled. anyone with information is asked to call crime stoppers. developing story on long island. crews are scrambling tonight to get things back on track for the morning rush wh aater the freight train derailment. turning the evening commute in to chaos. news 4 is live in hickssville with the latest on the emergency repairs. gus? those repairs continue at this hour. the cause of the derailment unknown. we are getting a better idea what the morning commute will look like. the evening rush is over, but the repair rush continues. heavy machinery, still trying to right this freight car on a stretch of track linking thousands of passengers to work and home. i don t really get upset. maybe because i m on my way
about, midtown manhattan, and a couple preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. i like that better than power point as a term. i m not good at power point. it s not that i m a luddite. i m just not good at technology. i m just a technological idiot. well, this is not the supreme city is not the book i originally set out to write. the original idea was to do the whole city, all five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii, but without trying to be too cute, i took too big a bite out of the apple, and i discovered as i was doing my research that there was i was really drawn to a really compelling story within the larger story i had intended to tell, and it s an untold story actually. it s been told in bits and pieces, but it s never been stitched together as a compelling historical narrative, and that story is the rise of the the sudden and spectacular rise i should say of midtown manhattan in the 1920s which was an urban backwater