Winds are on the calm side so we are measuring a wind chill of about 2 degrees. As we look across the region though you will see those wind chills drop on off. Temperatures across the region right now in the teens and 20s. But the wind chills are in the singling digits and teens and we know the temperature is only going to go down from here. Those wind chills will feel like 20 below zero. By tomorrow night in some could feel as cold as 50 below zero. Prepare for it. As a result of the incredibly cold temperatures, the city has issued a code blue. The mayor is asking for new yorkers to take this weather very seriously. The fdny will check the hydrants at department of sanitation has salt trucks ready to go in case icing is a problem. We have been talking to new individual we spoke to is looking forward to the upcoming bitter blast. My friends in town so we are trying to make the best of it. Its going to be 40 degrees colder tomorrow at this time. I dont want to hear that. I think we are
The vehicle reading it to our vehicle. 27 degrees now. The winds calm at 6. 5 miles per hour. The wind chills just about 20 degrees. That means tomorrow night at this time it will feel about 40 degrees colder. Now, because of the extreme cold, the city has issued a code blue and no one will be denied shelter and mayor de blasio is asking new yorkers to take this weather very seriously. With temperatures about to bottom out in the single even subzero digits, its hats on across the city. Some are big. What do you call yourself when dressed like this . Bubble head. Reporter some bold but some are barely there. No hat, yeah. Im just roughing it. Reporter when i say to you 20 below zero, what comes to mind . I should be in florida. Reporter Kristin Williams wont be there. She will be here and willing to venture out even when wind chills make it feel a bone chilling 20 below zero. Will you wear a hat . I will find a hat. Reporter when i say to you mind, i cant say it on tv. I say oh alaska n
530 this morning the entire roof collapsed is more than a hundred firefighters on the seen as a sixth alarm fire we did get word from firefighters and everybody was evacuator and there was no one and an inside and everyone is accounted for. The building is a tall lost. Reporter or also watching weather and traffic this morning reporter get ready for the possibility of showers this weekend of the stock a drop in temperatures tomorrow through easter. It is a look at the embarcadero shot we have clear skies out there is chilly when you stepping out the door. But this forecast for today of the next 30 minutes as to getting up and ready to get out the door expected chilly to a cold start under light winds. The 30s and 40s this morning lunchtime it will be signing freeze the in this upper 50s a lower 60s by lunchtime and it 5 00 tonight sunny and pleasant from 63 in downtown San Francisco did not for ditchers sunglasses and baggage or umbrellas ready force of a shot or sent will start as ear
Body out, i just lost it. Its just so incredibly touching. Reporter the sight chokes up mcraes exwife. They were married three years from 2005 to 2008. She says the 44yearold d. C. Native has two sons from an earlier marriage and this is him and his oldest son desmond and now has a daughter with his current wife. Mcrae fought fires in the district over 20 years. He responded to this fire at a high rise in the shaw neighborhood this morning. He came out, then collapsed. An hour later he was dead. The world is missing kevin andre mcrae, lieutenant, husband, father, son, brother, uncle, cousin, friend, just an all around wonderful person. Reporter mcrae is the 100th firefighter to die in the line of duty in the district. The 99th . His cousin james mcrae who died of a heart attack in 2007. It was devastating it. It was a complete shock. 10 always had a smile on his face. I i kevin always had a smile on his face, always had a positive attitude. It could get pretty ugly in the last 20 hours
Immediately, he was the father a husband, a well hiked colleague from a family of firefighters. Our coverage coverage starts now. Reporter you can see the black bundling is up on the up on engine six of the fire house right now. While many are remembering kevin mcrae as a leader and a mentor and the city is remembered him as a hero. Many who knew him well say theyll remember his sense of humor. His smile and his positive attitude are the best things about kevin. Reporter dozens of his friends and colleagues stood at attention and saluted. His body was transferred from the hospital today. Firefighters have spent the day consoling one another. It has been nearly eight years since a d. C. Firefighter died in the line of duty. The fire who died his cousin james mcrae. The mcrae family has suffered a lot. This is the second time this has happened to this family. Kevin mcrae is one of the few members still on the department 24 years later. Kevin was also available to help somebody to teach t