first to elise finch with this wacky forecast. >> a little interesting. when we first started a couple hours ago, it looked really beautiful. each half-hour, it gets a little cloudy year. and temperatures, not bad. but certainly muggy. right now, temperatures in the 70s. uniformly across the board. it is 72 in monticello. and 76 in central park. seventy-seven in belmar. the dew point, in the 70s. when we have a dew point in the 70s, we consider that to be a process. even when temperatures are low. so very sticky out there now. no >> even all the yellow cab drivers we spoke with outside the bus terminal agree. >> we need to be able to talk to the customer. for good service. >> you have to speak the language in order to serve them properly. >> a spokesman for the mayor says the changes about helping newly arrived immigrants get and he told cbs2 the city and the tlc are "developing an education program that exposes all drivers to industry- specific english without diminishing the safe and reliable customer service that new yorkers expect". >> but cap -- comp

elise finch is watching storms. >> a cold front coming in. some locations with the rain and quite a bit of it especially on long island. significant numbers. 3-4 inches of rain in certain places. today we will see more front coming through. so we will take a live look outside. this is from our camera on top the empire state building. things are getting cloudier by the moment. 76 degrees is the current temperature. we're looking at headlines that include isolated showers this morning, which we already have seen and will continue to see. some afternoon and evening thundershowers that could be strong and possibly be severe. and could bring us quite a bit of rain to certain locations. out, really a pretty refreshing day tomorrow. lower temperatures and lower humidity. 84 degrees -- the forecast high today. 2 degrees above normal. because of the humidity, that 84 will feel more like 89 degrees. take a look. you can make out where the cold front is. right here is the front. take a look at the temperatures. still seeing 70 and 80-degree temperatures

and the forecast with elise finch. all ahead when cbs2 news sunday >>> three different shootings just five blocks apart. details of the violent night in >>> a family tragedy in queens. a woman has to court this morning to face charges for the murder of her 9-year-old stepdaughter. >>> and ryan lochte speaks out. with the olympic swimmer -- blaming himself. >>> good morning. coming up on 7:00 a.m. sunday, august 21. the top stories are straight ahead. let's get a check of the forecast with meteorologist elise finch. >> starting out decent. >> we do have a lot of clouds. and certainly the humidity is up. we're seeing a little sunshine in some locations. the clouds stay with us all day. we had showers and even thunderstorms to the max as the day moves on. currently, 76 degrees in central park. same for newark. and 77 for bayshore. the humidity is up across the board. whatever the temperature is, tack on a few degrees. we have seen some showers already this morning. and we will see more significant rain as the day moves on

over to elise finch who is checking the weekend forecast. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you both. so part forecast is good as well. we have rain in the forecast for today, and more significantly for tomorrow, and right now, just the humidity that you need let's take a live look outside, yeah, the sunrise, always a little nicer when we have a little bit of cloud cover, and right now, partly cloudy. winds out of the northeast at 6 miles an hour. here's the headlines. we are expecting a humid weekend. late storms, especially for sunday, and monday should be refreshing. lower humidity. lower temperatures, and it should actually feel really, really nice. take a look. here's where we are right now. yesterday, and expecting 87 today again with the elevated humidity, and it will feel warmer. we are cooler for sunday, and cooler still for monday. near normal for sunday, and below normal for monday. have not done that, and with the lower humidity, feeling, very, very different. the burn time, 20 minutes, and pollen, medium to high, and th

in upton, suffolk county, elise finch, cbs 2 news. >> important point there, thank you, elise. >>> the updated hurricane forecast is for the entire atlantic basin and that includes all caribbean islands and the entire east coast of the united states. so before a storm is storm. lonnie quinn has his eye on that one and it's been named. >> you bet. just received a name today tropical storm fiona and keep in mind, we just heard from elise finch in that story, what is a hurricane? a hurricane is mother nature's way of releasing heat. all right? that's what a hurricane is. and this july, nasa just reported this july was the hottest july on record in recorded history. so we have a lot of heat sort storm fiona. low grade tropical storm. 40-mile-per-hour winds. moving to the northwest at 16 miles per hour. national hurricane center thinks it may be increased to maybe 60-mile-per-hour winds. maybe go down to 50-mile-per- hour winds on monday at 2 p.m. still quite a ways away from land. that's bermuda right there. so we'll watch it and see where this goes but we have our eye on it and we know th

meteorologist elise finch is here with the latest. >> that certainly takes commitment. yeah, so we knew that we were going to have the morning hours would be nice and dry for us. we knew the rain was coming in the afternoon. it hardly looks like anything happened but as you back it up here, you can see actually what happened, so certainly some converging air made for showers and thunderstorms over long island, also into the city and parts of the lower hudson valley. take a look at the type of rain, the amount of rain we're calverton nearly 4 inches, same for riverhead, huntington 2 1/2, central park almost 1 inch of rain from that relatively short down burst, so of course we are making a huge dent in our rain bucket, but we have more rain as we head into the day tomorrow, and jessica i'll have more coming up about that in your seven-day forecast. >>> thank you. we have new information on friday's deadly bus crash in newark. police are now identifying the second victim who was killed. 49-year-old jesse garcia was the crash. she was pronounced dead several hours later. he

meteorologist elise finch is tracking more rain for tomorrow. >> yeah. tomorrow is actually going to be more significant more widespread rain event than what we sauteed. take a look. over the past 4 hours i mean, the bulk -- 24 hours, the bulk of rain focused on long island and where we saw in many locations three to four inches of rain. that rain fanned off into parts of connecticut, the lower hudson valley and into new jersey, but certainly the bull's eye today was long island. a little different story calmed down pretty significantly. but it is off to the west that we're expecting the next batch. so what we have is a cold front and we have a lot of activity out in advance of that front so showers and thunderstorms are going to push across the entire tri- state area as we head into the day tomorrow. as far as tonight is concerned, just some isolated showers and, of course, it stays humid, 74 degrees. i'll have more coming up in your full forecast. >> thank you. >>> a bomb set off during an outdoor wedding in southeastern turkey killed at nearly 100 mor

that combination makes it hard to stay indoors and outdoors. >> and cbs 2 elise finch is live in the mobile weather lab, and joins us from mount vernon. elise, how hot is it? >> reporter: hot. now obviously, it is is not as hot as it was, but pretty significant and the mobile weather lab as you mentioned in mount vernon, the instruments atop the mobile weather lab are give can us a reading of 89.3 degrees. as we swing around and take a look at the scene, you will notice 89.3, the temperature, but when you factor in the heat, it is saying that it feels like it is 92 degrees. and certainly cooler than it was yesterday and the day at bruni air conditioning and plumbing, in elmsford, service calls have tripled in the past week. the company president says operating an air conditioner in these conditions is like taking your normally reliable car, on to a racetrack, and racing it for hours. >> you get into a period like this, where it really has to work at its maximum capacity. for a prolonged period. that is why it is going to break option, if you get a breakdown, is to just replace it. bu

elise finch is in the weather center with the latest forecast. >> reporter: jessica, the good news is behind the system, there's an air mass i think most people will appreciate it. it's one we have not seen in awhile. it's dryer and cooler. right now, you're looking a the vortex satellite and radar, and it shows where we are. we have a few around new york city and eastern parts of our viewing area, and we are not system yet, and you can see here, certainly along the water, and in parts of westchester county and also into fairfield, and of course the system is not done with long island. it's clearing from west to east, and that's along the frontal boundary. the cold front is what this is all about. showers and thunderstorms there, and we do have a dryer, cooler air mass behind it, and right now well are at 75- degrees in central park. 66 many monticello, and 77 for the hamptons, and what happens, we are watching the dew points. 12 hours. more in the full forecast. jessica? >> thank you, elise. >>> new fallout after a security scare at jfk. a terminal was evacuated last sunday after fal

cbs 2 news's elise finch found how they are coping. >> big orange bins, cars loaded with necessities, nort as students move into the dorms at iona college. >> there is a tonf opeople sdp you and have-- and you have a ton of stuff. >> it can be scary, especially for freshman. >> i think i was excited to come and be in a different atmosphere with my team and friends, but at the same time, it was rough leaving my family. >> not being able to see them every day and not having them there for me, yeah. it was sad. but got to move on. >> the administrator in charge of student life services says it after their parents drop them off. she says it goes a long way to keep them from feeling sad and lonely. >> we program regularly with many activities so they are not sitting in the room feeling anxious and lonely. we connect them with their peers immediately so they have a bond, and they are part of a sub-group. then we check in very regularly. >> helps keep your mind off your parents back at home, and definitely helps to get involved right away. >> the parents say move-in day and the probably more

elise finch, cbs 2 news. >> always tough. >> it is. >>> up next, taking aim at a front door. the precious memory the accused attacker got away with. >> i can't wrap my head around the fact that someone would just destroy something it's been here for over 200 years. >> crime at the cemetery. american history becomes a target to vandals. >> plus a happy meal recall. [ grinding metal ] whoa, that doesn't look good. no, not you. ordinary fuels can clog your engine with dirt. and improved bp gasoline with invigorate helps clean up that dirt, like hundreds of scrubbing brushes. so that means a cleaner engine, which helps you get more miles per tank. i'll be here if you need me. new bp gasoline with invigorate. >>> breaking news. these are live pictures from chopper 2 at port newark where crews are battling a fire. let's check in with joe biermann for more details. joe. >> reporter: yup, it's actually well inside port newark as you can see. the cab of a tractor-trailer fully engulfed in flames. port authority fire and police fire out. we do believe the driver got out of the vehicle.

the city from our camera on top of the empire state building, and warm and humid out there, and elise finch has the full forecast in a few minutes. >>> a wedding reception abruptlen exploded in eastern turkey. [screaming] >> terrified guests quickly ran for cover when a car bomb exploded outside of the venue. there's been at least three deadly bombings this week. turkey's government blamed a separatist kurdish group. >>> governor cuomo is sending a 20-member crew to help fight bernardino national forest. they usually work for the state department of environmental conservation. some are forest rangers, and others have been certified to fight wild fires. the fire has scorched 37,000 acres and destroyed 100 homes. >>> police are investigating a break-in at the famous home of the brady bunch. the los angeles police say the burglars were confronted by the homeowners and quickly ran away. a neighbor tweeted this is the second time the house has been broken into in years. >>> atf agents say a fugitive with a flare for theatrical makeup is in custody in massachusetts. >> there are pictures, and not

elise finch has been monitoring this throughout the weekend. elise, you said it was bad, but you said the rain is not done? >> it's not done. we are going to see more showers and more thunderstorms as we head into the day tomorrow, and yeah, some folks have gotten, sort of a moderate or modest amounts of rain, and others not so lucky. we will check in with our weather watchers to see what kinds of conditions people are in brooklyn, almost midnight. alaina says very uncomfortable out there. no wonder. 91% dew point. ac is on. you need to keep that on. that's for sure. as we head to connecticut. stan is in greenwich, giving us the rain icon. it's 72 degrees, and his comment, keep the rain coming, my tomato plants love it, and so do i. i don't have to war. i think when you get a smaller, more manageable amount, just you look on the bright side. the 4-inch and 5-inch totals there for one day, just a few hours, and it becomes harder to appreciate. the rain and toll right now in central park, and 71 degrees, and the visible is low. here's the headline

the top stories are straight ahead, but elise finch is in for vanessa murdock. >>> some clouds, and sunshine and blue skies. things are dry and i'm not sure that will be the case all day. let's look at the temperatures we are reporting at what is about 9:00 until the morning. 79 for babylon. and 79 for scarsdale. already very warm, and of course, it's still very humid. dew point. at 74 for toms river, 73 for babylon with the trio of 70sin new york city, fairfield, connecticut; and new jersey. look at the vortex satellite and radar, and it doesn't show a lot right now, but it's likely to change. 73 on the day. with the humidity feeling then like 89. the instability should feel like a touch of storms. popup thunderstorm later today w tomorrow. more on that coming up in a bit. for now, andrea, back to you. >>> now to a developing story in queens. a 9-year-old girl was found dead in her bathtub. >> police are questioning her stepmother magdalena doris is live. >> reporter: investigators are trying to figure out what led to the 9-year-old girl's death. family members wait anxiously outside of the

cbs 2's elise finch has more on the winter outlook. >> i can't predict, but i'm hoping that it's going to be >>reporter: monique is one of the people who says she loves the hazy, hot and humid days of summer and says she's not looking forward to winter. but there are plenty of people buzzing about it, thinking surely a summer this hot will lead to a bitterly cold winter. >> we haven't had this kien of a heat wave in -- this kind of a heat wave in a long time, so my guess is it's possible and i think we have to be prepared for anything. >>reporter: the farmer's almanac recently released its winter outlook, promising ice cold and the northeast. the climate prediction center's model implies conditions could be near normal with an equal chance for temperatures and precipitation to be above normal or below normal. william goodman is a meteorologist with the national weather service in upton. >> looks like we have the likelihood of a weak la nina developing in the pacific ocean and what that means is colder- than-average water temperatures in the tropical pacific ocean near the equator. usua