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the granddaughter of actor morgan freeman stabbed to death on a street in manhattan. tonight the actor is speaking out about his loss as the family awaits charges against the suspect. first, a nightmare for tomorrow s commute. the lirr service is back up and running tonight after a plane crashed on the tracks. good evening i m sandra bookman. i m rob powers. service was fully restored to the ronkonkoma branch tonight. plenty of headaches for people tonight. the mta releasing new images. the plane was decimated and the pilot killed and his name has not been released. one person survived the crash. mta crews worked into the night to fix the tracks. josh einiger is live for us at penn station for more. reporter: from looking at the pictures you can get a look at how colossal it was for them to get things moving for tomorrow morning. it s pretty much back on schedule and just in the nick of time for the monday morning ride to work. the train started moving again a ....
you are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist bill evans with the forecast. hot day. day three of our hot wife. it started saturday. temperatures around 80 to start the day. normal high is about ten cooler than that. 78 canarsie. 75 cambria heights. 81 whitestone, staten island, down the jersey shore, from 78 to 72 degrees. 68 up to the north around poughkeepsie. so, we are looking at a hot day today. we will get into the mid-90s easily today. you tack on the humidity, it will feel like 100. that s right. be careful. we could get to 95, 96 degrees, break a record high. we will talk about that coming up. debbie duhaime is in for heather. we will start out telling you everything is back on track l.i.r.r. on the ronkonkoma branch after problems from yesterday. metro branch, waterbury branch ongoing construction in bridgeport. george, lincoln and holland moving okay. number 1 trains, no trains at 14th to south ferry. that is mai ....
temperature at 6:00 of 78 degrees. that s how we will start this hour. we are looking at probably that is the overnight low. 80 whitestone. 79 ridgewood queens. staten island you are at 74. 71 white plains to rockland county. 89 to 90 by noontime this afternoon. 90 to 96 degrees. with the humidity, it will feel like 100. yes, it will be a heat wave. if we hit 96 that breaks the mark of 95 net is 1944, just after the second world war. that record stood for a while. we luck take about how long the heat and humidity will last. debbie duhaime is in for heather. bridge. brooklyn bridge into brooklyn car. the ramps from the fdr are closed to the brooklyn bridge. fdr northbound through the 70s an accident. look at the solid line of traffic on the fdr north through the 70s. on the 5 train uptown delays 180th. time. a look at the inbound side of the gowanus, inbound side of the gowanus as we go to the webcams still moving okay. let s go up to john del giorno. he is high above th ....
new jersey, 97 at morristown, you get a little rain cooled or not rain cooled but cloud cooled 88 on the shore at belmar. the heat index values well into new jersey. we have an air quality alert in effect until 11:00 p.m. out there. if you have any type of heart or lung condition you would want to avoid any type of strenuous activity outdoors into the evening hours. these are the storms we have been talking about, one blew up right near the george washington bridge, affected inwood, parts of the bronx and then moved into parts of queens. that has since weakened. one little shower on the queens brooklyn border, couple of other showers north of and east of long branch in new jersey so again this first heatwave in central park since july of 2013, over two years ago, you re going to want to stay in air conditioned places if you can. if you can t, stay hydrated and avoid heavy exercise outside. a little bit of relief from the heat tomorrow but at the same time the humidi ....
to be outdoors, stay under that air-conditioner and avoid heat stroke at any cost. if you don t have air- conditioning, if you re going to be at home, take a cool bath, take a cool shower, lower your body temperature. reporter: but in the dog days of summer there s no staying inside for these little ones. scorching hot, so humid. just have grandkids out in the water. stay under the shade. reporter: a shady spot while the kids have all the fun. is that water cold? uh-huh. really, really, really cold. reporter: which, of course, i had to find out for myself. lots of liquid, extra shade, that s the case. reporter: back out here live with my friend mohammad who has been doing this for the last 17 years, mohammad, any advice? yeah. snow cone, this is my job only. reporter: drink lots and lots of water? yes. reporter: you heard it. drink lots and lots of water. reporting live in downtown brooklyn, shirleen allicot, channel 7 eyewitness news. thank yo ....