71 islip to bridgeport. 63 poughkeepsie. 75 around central park. We will get to 79 by 9 00. 90 this afternoon with the humidity it will feel like the mid90s. Hot and humid august dog days. Those are coming to an end thursday. We will talk about that in the accuweather sevenday forecast coming up in a moment. How are you doing. Im doing all right. We have an issue with the two trains. We have mechanical problems. Thats downtown near grand concourse you will find the 2 by the 5 line as a result. Long island railroad, new Jersey Transit doing fine. Metro north waterbury branch, ongoing work in bridgeport. No major problems at the hudson river crossings. Minor delays across the board. 78 to the westbound side near exit 3, tractor trailer fire extinguished. Crews are out there now trying to clean up the debris from the tractor trailer fire. One lane is open. Then we have 51st, 52nd. Street cleaning rules are in effect. We begin with the developing story out of new jersey. A new Jersey Polic
Well start with Raphael Miranda. Raphael, we havent had a triple digit day in the summer, have we . No. Havent had a heat wave. Its like 89, raphi. Kept saying 89. That was the third day of the heat wave. Never happened. Weve had a string of 90degree days, though. Were going to get close again today and tomorrow. Flirting with 90. Youll see in the weather headlines, the heat does continue. Were turning up the humidity hey bit. It was comfortable over the weekend. That is ending a little bit. Chance for storms later tonight, especially north and west of the city. Then a cooldown is coming. No 90s towards the end of the week. Mostly clear right now. A quiet start in Westchester County and Rockland County. This is our weather maker later this afternoon. If you live well north and west of new york city, this cold front approaches, sparking off a few showers and thunderstorms. Probably just in time for the evening commute. Thats well north and west. Sullivan county, pike county, pennsylvani
Considering a run for the top office. Good morning, everybody, im juliet huddy. Im ben simmoneau. It is 5 00. Monday, august 3rd. What a weekend. Went to the mets game. Went out to dinner in hoboken. Met some people when out for dinner. They love the show. Thank you for watching. Especially early. Especially on a monday. Mike woods, good morning. Good morning to you both. August already. August 3rd. Clipping right along here. No. We have a whole month left. People. You will get backlash. Im not saying happy about it. I am saying it will fly by. You know the way it is. 31 days in august, right . Yes. September this year. We have five weeks left. We have some time left. That. Show you what we have out there. It was a pretty decent weekend a few little spots of rain here and there. We expected that. All together things are looking pretty good. This is what we had with the high temps. The reason we missed out on heat wave in the city, just something to talk about. We made it up to 89 degre
And also the issue of synthetic marijuana. Its known as k2 and spice, and its creating a Public Health crisis. The homeless can buy it at bodega for 1 a packet. I thought i was having a heart attack. Reporter ma man ask this man asked us to hide his face, and he says the drug has a violent reaction, and you can see it here with the reaction from this naked man. Arresting the people becomes dangerous. The individuals on the drug are crazy. They have superhuman strength and are impervious to pain, and the normal takedowns will not work. Reporter the city released the latest Crime Statistics, and according to the numbers, overall crime is down by more than 10 , but homicides have gone up from last year, and thats something we asked mayor de blasio about. Reporter some people look at the statistics and some say the city is going downhill. What do you say . I would say look at the facts and stop the hysteria. Reporter ilana gold, cbs 2 news. Thank you, ilana. Time for traffic and weather on
Police in somerset and morristown say they had multiple calls, a few dozen calls concerned about the rumbling and shaking of homes but no immediate reports of damage. We are told it was a 2. 5 magnitude earthquake, enough to scare people. Emergency Officials Say as soon as the sun comes up, they want homeowners, Business Owners to check their property for cracks in the foundation, cracks in the road, the driveway leading up to them so that would help. Lets listen to what woman told me at the train station. I was shaving this morning and all of a sudden i heard this bang and i thought something exploded. I felt the building shake. I looked outside to see if i saw anything. I didnt see anything. I thought it was an accident. Then five minutes later, two or three fire trucks, ambulance up there. But it was pretty bad. So, emergency officials in this area did respond to some of the calls but, again, no major damage was found there. But now as the sun comes up, you want to check your proper