this is in long island city. by the way, have you guys been over there? the development is crazy. it's exciting. of course this is a 12-acre great views, really nice view of the united nations if you want to check this park out. it's about a 12-acre park. so let's check out the numbers on the mobile weather lab and see what we're doing. i know they're going to be lower. so we're right now at 82.3 degrees which is spectacular which is exactly where we want to be. 82 degrees there, 82 degrees in the city as well. 84 in babylon. well, i guess queens is in the city, it's just central park in the city. 83 in greenwich, 85 in the hamptons and belmar. 85 in edison. yesterday, it's a little cooler, it feels a little bit better. still going to be above normal. 83 is the normal and 87 is the anticipated high. sun sets at 7:50, should be pretty. pollen is high again today, and it stays relatively high into the weekend. uv forecast is high, air quality is good. quick caveat, high rip current risk for the south-facing beaches off suffolk county and even a moderate rip current risk for nassau,

queens. >> reporter: if you're looking for tasty mexican cuisine, find central boulevard in long island city and find skinny's cantina. they have the best tacos, guac and soup this side of the border. the margaritas are amazing, too. when you're done, for a different culinary experience, hop on the no. 7 train and you're a few stops away from a central queens neighborhood brimming with the flavors of india. if you find yourself in this part of queens, you have to try kebab king. the food is fab. the menu has lots of variety, but no surprise here, the kebabs rule. you can get a chicken kebab meal for less than 10 bucks. value and great taste, it doesn't get any better than that. christal young, fox 5 news. ernie: yummy. great going. and we'll have more great food tomorrow. we'll chinatown boasts amazing food and there's delectable irish cuisine. that's tomorrow at 6:00. first, tonight's street question about this year's presidential race. keep it right here. we're coming right back. for all those pokers, prodders, shuckers and sniffers, all stop & shop produce is triple checked. we're focusin

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long island used 1,000 beds for the homeless and for people fighting addiction that all came to an end when engineers condemned the only bridge and evacuated the island in october of 2014. sings then, the city is still on track to spend more than $5 million on long island. >> reporter: no easy way to get there. off limits to most. but to understand what happened on boston's long island. the tables and laundry in the washer and drier. >> reporter: and that's at stake now. >> the fallout will be in the streets of the city. in 2014, workers and residents were given just hours to leave. now it's mostly a ghost town but you wouldn't know it looking at the bill still being picked up by taxpayers. $1.8 million spent by the city in just the last year on long island, according to records obtained by fox 25 investigators. >> these are old there's a certain level of maintenance that's required. >> reporter: monica valdez loopy is executive director with the boston public health commission still responsible for operations on long island. >> who are in those buildings right now? >> there are no programs. >> oh, are there people working there? >> there are maintenance staff. >> reporter: this year the ci

city. a little sooner north and west. later across long island and that finally dissipates overnight tonight. 90 again the expected high today. 90 with six in a row, a couple of nasty thunderstorms. first half of tonight could be stormy in parts of the area. it dries out overnight with a low temperature of 76. back to 88. but breezy and refreshing that breeze as the humidity continues to drop in the afternoon and fairly comfortable. into thursday, it might get stickier briefly. upper 80s. the shower thunderstorm threat stays to the south of us. same thing for friday. up around 90 degrees. but at least with the moderate levels of the humidity, it won't feel all that terrible. ten-day forecast, you can see the trend. still temperatures above normal. after the thunderstorm threat today, drier weather wednesday, thursday, friday. we take the storms out of the forecast for the most part. a slight risk south on thursday. as the weekend approaches, threat of showers and thunderstorms returns late afternoon an evening both saturday and sunday and into ea

more troubling than the millions spent on the island he says is the city's lack of a long-term plan for w buildings, since the only bridge to the island was destroyed last year. >> have you seen anything from the city that gives you confidence they're going to address this quickly? >> no. no. i haven't. a decision needs to be made, so those costs don't continue. >> the reporter: for now, the bill for taxpayers keeps adding up. among the costs this year, a $600,000 contract to transport paper, heating oil and other supplies. fox 25 investigates has learned the city paid for 61 round trips from squantom and 440 hours of barge service. that barge, costing taxpayers, $300 an hour. >> i can assure you, that our budget and finance staff are actually taking really hard look at the ferry and transportation budget. >> the reporter: fox 25 investigates has to go inside these buildings, but the city denied our request, citing safety concerns. now, the city says it has replaced the beds for the homeless tha island, but another nonprofit that was operating a program on long island, says it's still p

city around 8:00. down toward philadelphia and the of long island by 10:00 tonight. and then things start to taper off. it weakens a bit. temperatures are pretty tolerable this time around. blairstown is at 70. 64 at monticello, 70s across long island. 81 in the city seems to be the warm spot. now, later today, we're not expecting as many 90s on the map. 92 in trenton, b the south wind kicks in, different than what we saw on monday. we'll have more humidity in the area, it will feel like it's above 100. it's not quite as bad thursday, friday and into saturday, mid-80s next week is where we'll see a big break, the temperatures are in the 80s during the day. >>> another mishap in rio. seven people were injured today when a camera plunged in olympic park. organizers said two of the forces it to plummet to a concourse outside the basketball arena. two women were taken to the hospital, none of their injuries were considered serious. >>> new details about the arm robbery involving ryan lochte. police in rio are looking into the possibility that the group may have been set

city. even a severe drought over parts of long island. that may have been minimized by the flooding rain fall for suffolk county. but central suffolk in a severe drought as of yesterday. we will have to see the update. it comes out on every thursday empire state building, 76 drs, and mostly cloudy skies. pumping in a lot of moisture from the atlantic ocean, and there's the onshore flow continuing through tomorrow it will be muggy out there, and temperatures topping off in the middle 80s, and a blend of sun and clouds, and mainly cloudy, and a few peaks of sun out there, and then the showers and thunderstorms are coming in full force i think by tomorrow evening. before that happens, before the main line of storms will come in, there could be a spotty shower or storm afternoon hours. these were spotty, but they sat over the same locations over suffolk county all afternoon. calverton with 3.58 inches. east north port over 2 inches, and like i was saying, considered a severe drought over suffolk county, and we will have to see if it has been

is slashed in half, $14.50 and free shipping and we have a bunch of kids from oasis camp and long island city camps. >> the forecast. lots of sunshine. 81 degrees is the high for today. another picture perfect day. tonight, 68 is the low. and cooler in the suburbs. in the 50's and 60s. and tomorrow the muggyerize back. ahigh of 84. and sticky. heading into the weekend. sad could be stormy. the temperatures near 90 at 85. monday, tuesday, and wednesday, te >> ah. this is the cool part with christopher gurr which is appropriate. >> isn't it, though. >> you play gus and bustopher and peter. >> three parts. i'm changing clothes all night long and changing my makeup all night long and on stage it's fantastic. >> let's do this. an entrance. >> here we go. >> grab my hand. step up. don't mind the smoke. >>> good morning. it is 8:27 on this thursday, august 4th. lori stokes. and the latest headlines. the f.b.i. following members of the nypd of people after a multiyear investigation. 50 suspects with mob ties were arrested by states including new york, new jersey, and degrees. more details are expecte

now, he said the buildings on long island remain the city's a fox 25 investigates report found taxpayers on the hook for more than $5 million on boston's long island, just in the time since engineers condemned the only bridge to the island in 2014. now, that move shut down programs for the homeless, and people in drug rehab. mayor walsh said that those lost beds for the homeless had been made up here in boston, but he couldn't give us an answer about the future of those empty buildings. >> what is the plan for long plan right now. we're working through what we're going to do with the long term. we don't know what it will be. at the end of the day t will come down to where do we come up with the money to build the new bridge. >> if there is no plan for long island, why continue to spend money to maintain those buildings. >> because we have assets out there that we want to make sure we preserve for the future. we don't know what's going to happen out there and if we start running water and electricity to those buildings, they'll fall into disrepair. it will cost even more money. mayor toda

is slashed in half, $14.50 and free shipping and we have a bunch of kids from oasis camp and long island cityow we have radar, you're seeing nothing out there. as we look outside, sky6 live hd everything looking blue and bright, lots of sunshine, low humidity temperatures in the low 70s. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast shows a high high of 84 degrees, sunny and nice, low humidity. warm and humid tomorrow, 84 and sticky saturday. with christopher gurr which is appropriate. >> isn't it, though. >> you play gus and bustopher and peter. >> three parts. i'm changing clothes all night long and changing my makeup all night long and on stage it's fantastic. >> let's do this. an entrance. >> here we go. >> grab my hand. step up. don't mind the smoke. ♪ >> good morning, i'm tamala edwards, 8:27, thursday, august 4. let's check in with matt pellman this time he is starting on the schuylkill expressway. >> reporter: we were looking at this shot last time. we were talking about the heavy delays with the eastbound sun glare. westbound there's a crash pushed off to the side. it's still a very s

is slashed in half, $14.50 and free shipping and we have a bunch of kids from oasis camp and long island city camps. all that, new shoes. >> new shoes. look at their new shoes. >> they look good. >> what you got, young man? loving it. >> big smiles. >> thanks to you, tory and all these companies for providinging these great deals. get them at goodmorningamerica.com on yahoo! their arms are going to fall off. back to ginger, backstage on broadway. >> yes, robin, i'm backstage and put my cat ears on. tornado, multi cindy: we have sunshine out there right now. temperature are ready 72 in boston. closed 80 degrees and noontime and topping out in the 80's this afternoon. >> ah. this is the cool part with christopher gurr which is appropriate. >> isn't it, though. >> you play gus and bustopher and peter. >> three parts. i'm changing clothes all night long and changing my makeup all night long and on stage it's fantastic. >> let's do this. an entrance. >> here we go. >> grab my hand. step up. don't mind the smoke. >> live from wcvb channel number five. this is an update. >> boston police preparing f

flood advisories west of new york city including union and essex counties and east of the city onto long island and north of the city surrounded by flood advisories. the radar picture right now showing that initial downpour that cau inch of rain in about an hour's time exiting off of long beach. there are more showers replacing that one moving across new york harbor right now. more rain into st. george and lower parts of monohat tan and union and essex counties. those will be moving east across the city and those can cause in fairfield connecticut. this batch of thunderstorms will try to work its way east overnight and could be in the viewing area by early tomorrow morning. especially south of new york city by 4 or 5:00 in the morning. during the day going to get a break before the sun tries to come out and that could destabilize the atmosphere and cause more heavy showers and storms in the later. accuweather forecast cloudy, humid and another and a spotty shower. 71 for a low. areas of fog developing outside of the city. cloudy and humid at 7:00 in the morning. temperatures in the low 70s. sti

the city of long island, in the twin forks and the hamptons, not hanging out too long but they are not done with rainfall for a while, central park, 77 ? with cloudy skies, south southwest wind, lots of humidity keeping temperatures warm, not mh 77 in williamsport and philadelphia, 70 in albany with a mostly cloudy sky, if you patty lighter showers but potential for showers to pick up coverage as well as intensity as the day goes on. the heating helps showers and storms and it becomes more likely you run into rain showers later on, high-pressure holding on but not doing a great job, the front is squeezing in and giving more scattered showers through the day, air temperature 81 ?, water temperature 75. the rip current risk is at a high level. if you're going out into the water watch out for recurrence and if you get caught make sure you relax and swim parallel to the beach. we have 86 for high today, highs in the operatings alone are thes, storm chances out there until you get the myfoxny.com weather apps, let's get live interactive radar, all set to go. that is your forecast. there it

. >>> a dog starves to death long island. >>> a city of milwaukee will be enforcing its curfew for teenagers tonight as it tries to prevent another night of unrest. city leaders spoke out blaming those outside the city for insighting confrontations. >> elizabeth herd has more. >> this is the police. leave the area. between police and protestors boiling over. angry crowds protesting the police shooting of an allegedly armed black man during a traffic stop. >> shots fired. injured officers here. >> the chaos so far destroying this patrol car, burning businesses, and flying bullets injuring at least one teenager. it started saturday afternoon after the 23-year old suspect seen in this facebook picture and now identified ads smith was o was also black. according to authorities, the suspect was armed. the officer ordered him to drop his weapon, but when the suspect did not comply, the officer opened fire. the confrontation caught on the officer's body camera. >> it certainly appears to me at the time he made that decision, it was a credible and legally protected decision. >> we're going to make s

city. just approaching western long island. south western parts of connecticut. the heaviest rain by far north and west of the city. some heavy downpours over advisory western sullivan that has since expired. some thunderstorms near philadelphia we'll have to watch and see if these survive the trip all the way to the jersey shore for parts of ocean county. the heaviest of the rain probably over around 8:00 p.m. still can't rule out a shower or thunderstorms through midnight. then even there it will exit. we're down to 68 overnight. upper 50s at monticello. breezy, cooler. highs getting only intth city. only 72 for a high at monticello. it'll feel great out there with the lower humidity and the nice breeze. but later on in the week. warmer and more humid air does tend to return as that bermuda high sets up offshore. for tonight showers, a heavier thunderstorms this evening then things wind down. humidity lowering overnight. mostly sunny, pleasant, less humid out there, pleasant. 64. many of the suburbs will be in the 50s tomorrow night. could even be some upper 40s

slashed in half, $14.50 and free shipping, and we've got a bunch of kids from oasis camp and long island cityw shoes. >> look at their shoes. >> thank you for that tory. that was wonderful. oh, i like it. >> they look good. >> what you got, young man? loving it. >> big smiles. >> thanks to you, tory, and all these companies for providing these great deals. get them at goodmorningamerica.com on yahoo! their arms are going to fall off. back to ginger, backstage on broadway. >> yes, i've got my ears on. a quick look at where the severe weather is. >>> hello, i am meteorologist mike nicco and we will check on out the forecast. highlights show a refreshing sea breeze at 12 degrees cooler. clouds and drizzle tonight. below average highs through the weekend. today the temperatures are 50s long the coast. 60s and 70s around the bay. 70s and only 80s inland. tonight, cloud cover, drizzle and democrats in the 50s. my seven-day forecast shows cooler on friday and saturday. before temperatures rebound on monday. >> ah. this is the cool part. i'm here with christopher gurr which is appropriate. >> isn't i

the affected work letters get severance packages and can apply for the other jobs in new york city, long island and new jersey. >>> tonight shipper said no pr replacement. why did the brooklyn customer say better get baquero? what happened? >> she contacted us because this problem has been dragging on for nearly two years. there's a reason why angie chose to move to a particular burrough in the big apple and it has to do with this method of transportation. >> brooklyn is a great place to bike. there are bike lanes all over and they wanted to get around without having to take the invest in a single speed ride if a california based company. >> they make glow in the dark bikes just for new york city. you thought it would be great to have one. >> she paid $250 and the bike arrived soon after placing her order in 2014. >> i unpackaged the box, everything was in parts like it is now. both wheels were danged. one, the spoke is completely rimm >> she called right away. >> and she said no problem. go ahead and e-mail us pictures and we'll send you new wheels. so i thought it was taken care of until i di

>>reporter: long island splish splash doesn't have anything like the park in kansas city, but this is the most daring. it drops eight stories in three seconds. it's half the size of kansas city's. it's called cliff diver which, like all water slides at splish splash come with a height and weight requirement. height and age limits may have been a factor in kansas city. caleb was 10, the ride requires mike bankston says he can't speak for other parks, but here managers ride every slide every morning and lifeguards are audited by an unannounced risk management team to be sure they are watching height and weight requirements. >> every year at the beginning of the summer the department of labor comes in and walks all of our slides, the fiber glass, the towers, everything and checks to make sure is everything is okay. >>reporter: while the park in kansas city hasn't released many details about how the boy died, parents here have >> i don't know what went wrong to have it happen, and ironically today my son was telling me how we had to go on cliff diver together which we haven't done yet. >>

former new york city mayor rudy giuliani and long island congressman peter king had prominent seats at the table. >> the local police, they're not getting the information that they need. >>reporter: hillary clinton toured a high school cleveland today. >> i want to register all 18 years old automatically. >>reporter: at a rally she dismissed the changes trump made. >> he can hire and fire anybody he wants from his campaign. they can make him read new words from a teleprompter, but he is still the same man. there is no new donald trump. this is it. >>reporter: "face the nation" host john dickerson says trump should expect to be judged on is even though i have no experience, i'll come into the presidency and whip it into shape because i have special management skill. well, his campaign is a test of that. >> that was dick brennan reporting. right now hillary clinton is leading the polls in just about every swing state. house republicans hope she may still be damaged by her e-mail scandal. yesterday they received a request -- on tuesday, excuse me, they received requested documents from th

long islands. at least for the near future. yesterday afternoon boston mayor marty walsh defended spending on long island. a fox25 investigates reports found that the city spent more than $5 condemned the only bridge to the island in 2014. that move shut down programs for the homeless and people in drug rehab. mayor walsh said laws have been made in boston but couldn't give us an answer of the future of those empty buildings. >> reporter: what is the plan for long island? >> we don't have a long-term plan. we are working to see what the plan is long term. it will come down to where do we come up with the money to >> if there is no new plan for long island, why maintain to preserve those buildings. >> we want to preserve for future and if we stop running water to those buildings, they will annual disrepair and will cost us even more money. >> julie: mayor walsh said the city doesn't have enough money to build a new bridge from long island but may ask for help from the state and feds. >>> state officials are be work zones this summer. they are working extra hard to get impaired drivers off the road. new ads reminding people of severe penalties for oui con

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. her bus driver james robert was treated and released from the hospital with neck, back, and shoulder injuries. the other bus driver was killed. more than a dozen passengers are still recovering, and investigators are still trying to determine what caused the crash. >>> now to the latest on the swimming scandal. the international olympic committee

during the overnight we have to be a little concerne new york city, long island, connecticut. maybe a small impact on the morning commute. a lot of clouds around. does look a little threatening right now but nothing imminent for the five boroughs. mostly cloudy. stray shower. a few developing off to the north and west. complete 7-day accuweather forecast is coming up. we may have tropical storm early this evening. the tropics are heating up. our weather will heat up by the end of the week. that's coming up in a little was accused of cheating homeowners out of federal flood insurance following superstorm sandy. he pleaded not guilty to the charges. he used to be a product manager in union dale. prosecutors say he directed staff to alter reports saying damage to the homes existed before the storm. >>> presidential politics. republican presidential nominee donald trump is facing bipartisan criticism tonight for his comments about family of a fallen muslim american soldier. in an emotional speech, the parents of captain kahn said trump has sacrificed nothing and no one and challen

a network of agencies all across new york city, long island and westchester helping the disabled find jobs. and a little crash, a new jersey man is overcoming many obstacles and giving back to those who are in need. but first, chips is a not-for-profit charity that serves the less fortunate in more ways than one. denise scare vel la and viktoriya proskurnyak and your son mark, who's adorable. who is this guy with no hair? [laughter] tell me about chips, denise. >> chips is a nonprofit that slope to help the underserved in park slope. forty years ago chips really was in a neighborhood that needed help, and a lot of the residents that lived there were looking for some advocacy programs for them. so there's a group of people that came together, and they thought, well, we can at least offer these services. they started in one store front, they went to another and another and eventually they landed on fourth avenue and sackett. so and it was just an old warehouse, i think, of some kind -- >> right. >> and they took that first floor, and they started making soup. and every day on a kitchen

city. we'll focus on long island and connecticut after that. beaches okay, just keep an eye to the sky late in the day. for thunderstorms. here's our front right now. winds out of the south here. i think a couple showers can sneak into the region tomorrow morning early. just a small chance for that. the main event is that line coming off from the west. there is a small chance of some storms could get gusty with downpours and frequent lightning, but again, that would be widely scattered. broken line of storms. here's the future cast. tomorrow morning, an isolated shower. the future cast -- as you go into the catskills. line approaches new york earlier, it was closer to 1:00. i think it's that early time period for new york city and probably east of new york city by about 4:30. after that, watching long island and on the shore, 5:00, 6:00, and then offshore after that. we have the thunder threat tomorrow. the windows noon to 5:00. breezy, beautiful on sunday. get back to the weather we've had much of the week, which is low humidity. boaters, sout

require the city recommend make >> reporter: tim tyler is president of the boston municipal research bureau. more troubling than the millions spent on the island he says is the city's lack of a long-term plan for what to do with these buildings since the only bridge to the island was destroyed last year. >> have you seen anything from the city that gives you confidence they're going to address this, quickly? >> no. no. i haven't. decisions need to be made so those don't continue. >> reporter: for now the bill for taxpayers keeps adding up. among the costs this year a oil and other supplies. fox 25 investigates has learned the city paid for 61 round trips between hull and long island in the last year. another 213 trips from squandton and 444 hours of barge service that barge costing taxpayers $300 an hour. >> i can assure that you our budget and finance law are taking really hard look at the ferry and transportation budget. >> reporter: fox 25 investigates asked to go insi t the city denied our request citing safety concerns. >> that was erik rasmussen reporting. the city says it has replaced all of the beds for the homeless that were lost on the island. but a program tells fox 25

assure that we're providing critical services to really vulnerable residents in the city. >> reporter: but not on long island. >> look for funding, look for whatever you need to create a place for these people. because if not, a fall out is going to be in the streets of the city. >> reporter: for "fox 25 investigates" i'm eric recovered the recovery beds, the question how long it can maintain the empty buildings without an effort for the future. that's part of the report we're working on at 6:00. >>> now your local forecast with jason brewer and storm tracker weather team. >> jason brewer: all right. we have a fantastic evening shaping up. wednesday, humid and storms start to move back in. and then we are going to have to be monitoring our heavy rain threat there enjoy this evening. look at the 70s at the coastline. sea breeze coming in with middle to upper 80s back toward arlington an norwood wellesley, sharon at 83 degrees. on the vineyard 78 degrees. 80 in auburn. and there in pepperell, 84 degrees right now. not bad with low humidity out there. here's boston. have the sea breeze weakening. as we head int

another line redevelops north of the city around 5:00. long island may not see the rain until 84 tomorrow. near 90 in spots saturday. 88 in the city. sunday is the beach day. fantastic weather. back to the mid 80s all the way to the middle of next week. >> thank you. >>> more ahead on news 4 at 5:00, surprising find for new jersey firefighters responding to an office fire. why was there more than 100 thousand rounds of ammunition inside? church. dylann roof under heavy protection in prison. how was he assaulted by another >>> right now on news 4 new york, who placed booby trappes a hoping to hurt hikers and bicyclists? i'm david ushery. >> i'm sabila vargas. >> the trail is popular with hikers and bicyclists. pat battle joins us live from wayne with more. >> reporter: the first of those objects was discovered back on the 23rd of june. the most last night by one park user who brought all those items, who took pictures of them and brought them to police. hi mountain park preserve is huge. those objects were found on a small area on a bike path behind w

city. parts of long island in to southwestern connecticut. there's another line of storms associated with the actual cold front slicing through eastern parts of pennsylvania. behind that, a little bit of a reduction in the humidity as we head in to the day tomorrow. here's our futurecast overnight tonight by midnight, some of those showers and storms approaching the delaware water orange county. they may approach new york city by around 2:00 in the morning. do not be surprised if you wake up to a rumble or two of thunder during the wee hours of the morning. then everything moves out to sea there after. as we head to morning commute time, temperatures around 78 degrees. still going to be muggy early. humidity comes down during the day. i'll tell you if that nice trend continues throughout the work week in your full accuweather 7-day forecast coming up. >>> new tonight, another amusement park accident. this one six kids and a ride operator in connecticut. it happened at ocean beach park in new london on the scrambler ride. police say as kids we

. >>> this afternoon boston mayor marty walsh said the spending by long island was first reported on fox 25. the city has spent more than $5 million on long island in the time since engineers condemned 2014. that move shut down programs for the homeless and people in drug rehab. mayor walsh also said those lost beds for the homeless have been made new boston but he couldn't give fox 25's eric rasmussen an answer about the future of these empty buildings. >> what is the plan for long island? we don't have a long term plan right now. we're still working. is. >> if there is no plan for long money to maintain those buildings? because we want to make sure that we preserve for the future. we don't know what's gonna happen out there and if we stop with those buildings, it will cost even more money. >> mayor walsh says the city does not have the money to build a new bridge to long island but says he may ask for help from the state or federal government. >> the water park where a 10-year-old kansas boy died in the world's largest water slide will re-open tomorrow. the boy's death is calling oversight at rides

at newark with two points in the moisture and we did have a shower passing through the city coming through long island and the central sections falling apart. we will see the quick passing shower but more intense stuff will be picking up later in the day. that is quite likely. highs in the upper 80s and low 90s for the rest of the week with shower chances out there. carrie and juliet, over to >> let's hear about this. >> it's pretty fun. mike and i were driving back and we were actually on the broadcast last night. john sterling and susan are my other half. >> a rod did not start last night. pit's the yankee game versus boston. the entrant into the talks. >> said he would play a rod as much as he wanted. the yankees are already 5 and a half games out. what happened? they said he is trying to win games and here is what a-rod said. >> i am disappointed. i said i would plan all four games and i was really play? i have to do what is right for the club in the organization. >> here is the deal ?joe said he got caught up in the moment. he was emotional. you can't just let him go up there once. he will play o

and cooling centers from new york city to long island and bergen county are open. careful. cbs 2's christine sloan live in far rockaway, queens, with precautions taken there. christine. >> reporter: dehydration, heat stroke, especially with the elderly, serious concern with this kind of nasty weather. excessive heat warnings because this hot, muggy weather is going to be with us right through the weekend. hot, humid and unbearable. what's it like out here? >> really humid. trying to that's why we came to the sprinklers. >> reporter: the only way to get relief from the intense heat outdoors running through these water sprinklers. >> since i went in the water, kind of feels kind of cozy, not that hot. >> reporter: city officials warning all residents to stay inside in a cool place. >> in new york city, more than 80% of heat stroke deaths in recent years involve people who were exposed to heat and homes without air- conditioning. turn it on. >> reporter: more than 500 cooling centers open for those without air-conditioning. if you are at home keep your thermostat at 78 degrees

found lights on in these empty buildings records revealed that the city of boston was still spending millions on maintenance at long island even though programs to help the homeless and those fighting drug addiction were moved off the island almost two yearsing. >> this is going to require the city recommend make tough decisions. >> reporter: tim tyler is president of the boston municipal research bureau. more troubling than the millions spent on the island he says is the city's lack of a long-term plan for what to do with these buildings year. >> have you seen anything from the city that gives you confidence they're going to address this, quickly? >> no. no. i haven't. decisions need to be made so those don't continue. >> reporter: for now the bill for taxpayers keeps adding up. among the costs this year a $600,000 contract to transport people, heating oil and other supplies. fox 25 investigates has learned the city paid for 61 round trips between hull and long island in the last year. another 213 trips from squandton and 444 hours of barge service that barge costing taxpayers $300 an hour. >> i can assure that you our b

long island. just east of new york city and that's now moving to the southeast. it's not moving eastward toward the south coast or the cape. a lot of lightning. it had a history of a lot of hail. still in evidence with the storm. still a serious and storm. >> we had a general rain area that moved across our region during the course of the day. there are still some small showers popping up. the air is so humid. as we try get a it will brightening and jump up a couple of degrees it's enough to cause a few downpours to reform. here's within right now across the north shore. -- moving towards peabody, while we focus on this, it will slide through gloucester and cape ann. watching this shower activity through worcester. a cell east and one just west of worcester right along route 9. further to the west, a couple of other showers and thunderstorms are poupg right here. so there is still action through the evening hours. early eveningou widespread and as we lose some heating that will tend to fall apart. also, that area around long island mostly stays to the south but i

and then, there are proposal out there can use metro north or long island railroad within confined of new york city at a reduced rate, that would help reduce congestion on the training, and create an incentive for people to get out of their cars, sometimes you have to spend time in a vehicle. every does it. but people are pulling their hair out at-this-point. traffic and congestion that is not good for your mental health, that is going to have you pull your hair out, and causing economic activity in new york city and region. ernie: et's keep on it thank you. >> thank you. >> a reminder, to tell you, we'll continue talks about our commuting challenges tomorrow looking at the mta bus system, what can be done reputation of being slow. ernie: a hospital in new jersey uses virtual reality to show dangers of driving while being distracted by your phone. a stim stim -- simulator was sep today, they could use risk-free how dangerous it is to take your eyes off the road and glance at your phone even for a second. could distraction you enough to hit a kid crossing the street or hit the person in front of you

there is a moderate risk of rip currents north of atlantic city through long beach island and a.c.nd south. not as much as an issue and switch near the lifeguards as always. it's getting more humid out there today and hot obviously too with the light southwest wind. overnight tonight warm and muggy, 74 is the overnight low, it's a lot warmer tomorrow morning, than what you experienced later in the week. with the cold front coming through we'll really have to see the temperatures climb, a high of 95 degree, it will be hazy hot and humid and feeling like 100, in urban centers by the end of the day and a spotty thunderstorm is possible and it doesn't look like a whole lot. on future tracker 6 maybe a little sweep of something up north and tomorrow the last model runs have not shown much of anything, maybe to the east of philadelphia a shower, we'll allow for it, and this does not look like a strong front. tropical storm gaston does not know what to do. it was upgraded to a hurricane run, and now back to a tropical storm. but it looks to refire and fire up to a category 2, but miss ber

in central park earlier this afternoon, with the shower that just sat over new york city and also parts of long island. showers and thunderstorms with a cold front coming in late tomorrow. i think the time range will primarily be from 5:00 a.m. to midnight. with those, downpours and gusty winds. this situation. it's more of a downpour type of scenario. breezy and much less humid during the day on monday. like i was saying, long island, they needed the rain. maybe not quite that much in that short amount of time. but a lot of suffolk county in a severe drought. it will be interesting to see what happens when that map gets updated. that happens every thursday. every thursday the u.s. drought monitor comes out. showers that developed over the north shore of long island. it was a converge of two sea breezes from the atlantic and long island sound, can converging air rises and that causes your showers and thunderstorms to develop. much bigger area of showers off to our west right now over the ohio valley. that will be moving in tomorrow evening. it's not inconceivable that we get a shower or storm overnigh

readings right now around the city, 80 in city island. 70s across long island and jersey shore. 78 in bridgeport. 80s inland. poughkeepsie, newburgh 81. skies remain clear. high pressure system is still around. we are tracking thunderstorms to the west. cold front is moving to the that front is what's coming on saturday that will bring a chance of storms here. storms will move west to east. it will take all day for the line to move through. great night tonight at yankee stadium. this is game four of the subway series. temperatures starting out in the mid 70s. pleasantly cool overnight. a few 50s north and west. tomorrow in the mid 80s. if you go to the shore,at there will be a moderate risk of rip currents. make sure you see the lifeguard. if you go into the water, be careful. 84 is the high tomorrow. slightly muggy. 90 on saturday. hot and muggy with a few storms starting from west to east early in the morning and later in the evening in the coastal areas. a stretch of dry days next week. >>> we are just over 24 hours to the opening ceremony of the rio olympian who racked up three go

island to private chain at no charge. even as the city spends millions to maintain long island. it has no plan still to ever using these buildings again. what do you say to tax payers who see this as a waste of money? >> we have worked diligently the group to ensure that we're providing critical services to really vulnerable residents in the city. >> reporter: but not on long island. >> look for funding, look for whatever you need to create a place for these people. if not, the fall out is going to be in the streets of the city. >> reporter: for "fox 25 investigates" i'm eric rasmussen. >> catherine: we spoke with the boston mayor marty walsh and tellus responsiblet to keep the buildings maintained to allow them to come disrepair, would cost more money in the future if the city sdiepdz to return. >> now your local forecast from jason brewer and storm tracker weather team. >> jason brewer: good saturday morning, almost said sunday. we're at saturday. happy saturday. a little cloud cover rolling in. behind this weak front that i'm drawing right here for you. coming slicing right a

right now 66 in monticello while it is 77 in the city and out towards long island and the jersey shore. the dew points are generally low. 40s and 50s in the very comfortable nice range. tonight's lows 50s and 60s. it is going to feel like a fall night and a fall morning tomorrow. we're up to 80 for the afternoon high tomorrow. kicking it up by friday to near 90. that is going to be the muggy day, but this weekend looks sunshine, and it stays that way through next week when we start september. >> sweet. >> beautiful weather. >>> hey, john, what's happening? >> the yankees and mets trying to make up some ground as they chase the playoffs. another setback. the mets are losing steven matz. gary sanchez hit the cover off the ball last week and the baseball world took if you're told you have cancer, explore your treatment options with specialists who treat only cancer. every stage... every day.... at cancer treatment centers of america. fios is not cable. we're wired differently. so we wired the wagner's house with 100 meg internet. which means that in the time it takes mr. wagner to pour a

jersey. 1:00 in the morning, not as many, but showers scattered here and there around the city and parts of long island. into the overnight period, they're not as many either. conditions are going to improve after we get through tonight, so that's the good news. we expect a much drier and sunnier day tomorrow, even though we might get a lingering shower. putnam, orange county, northern and western new jersey and into monmouth county and middlesex counties, that will continue into the overnight. these are the areas where you have to watch out for the tropical downpours like we saw over the weekend. we're still seeing a deficit between 3 and 6 inches. we need a lot more rain. tomorrow there's only a slight chance we might get a shower or storm around 3:00 in the afternoon. otherwise it is pretty sunny those 70s will feel a bit stifling. we will be back to drier conditions by wednesday. less humid. 82. perfect. 84 on thursday. climbing towards 90 by the time we get to the weekend. saturday might be a bit stormy, particularly in the afternoon. we'll be tracking that for you day by day. looks like sunday is

long island. the weak twitter hitting the city, causing flooding and tree damages. another roadblocked by a downed down trees in north haven. the trees fell on power lines and cars. the tree left a path of damage over two miles long. no injuries reported. >>> amy freeze in for lee goldberg tonight. you were tracking that tornado and one of the first to report it on tv. >> yes, the tornado touched down for suffolk county. we also have a lot of damage in the area because of lightning as well. calm tonight in the city, 84 degrees. the storm reports that came in were first of the ef-0. east of sunset avenue, west of blossom boulevard. we also had a lightning strike in amganst that set a house on fire. another house struck by lightning as well. a real potent storm that came through. thousands of strikes of lightning. with it tonight things a lot calmer. we have showers and storms coming out of central pennsylvania. look how they're weakening as they push in. certainly it's happening up close as well. we get a look at the spotty showers and storms that have through. speak

long island. most of the rainfall fell north city. you saw those flash flooding pictures along route 17. between 1 and 1 1/2 inches, even 2 inches of rain in northern parts of west chester. it wasn't a very big rainstorm. a very narrow stretch. the big story, though, behind the front the temperatures are going to be falling and the humidity is going to be falling already down in the mid-60s toward month cello. here's our future cast overnight tonight. you can see right through midnight. right through 1:00 in the morning there still could be some shower activity over suffolk county, also into western parts of connecticut and then that all moves off shore around 3:00 or 4 in the morning and by 7:00 a.m. moving into the area. mostly sunny and pleasant at 7:00 in the morning. temperature 68. i think some areas could get down into the upper 50s. highs during the day getting up to a very pleasant 81. it's going to be bright, breezy, low humidity. and this will continue for several more days. island just moments ago. we learned that a 5th victim has died. that crash happened this morning when o

same for long island, 80 in the city. because we have no weather worries here, down to fiona and check in. right now the storm's prediction low pressure center coast. the spaghetti models all the way to the middle of the atlantic to potentially getting a little bit closer to florida. lots of uncertainty of what could potentially happen but doesn't look like a big threat. a couple of other tropical waves starting to form. i'm just letting the futurecast roll. between now and wednesday we don't have to worry about any showers. clouds will be hard to scare around 80 degrees for the next two days and we are right back in it by wednesday, mid-80s and a slow climb with increasing humidity, a muggy feel. hot by thursday with 88. friday at 88 degrees, humid near 90 on saturday. sunday temperatures right around 86. a mix of sun and clouds that day. the next chance for rain late from the week. beautiful beach day today. if you are headed in that think even though temperatures will be in the mid to upper 70s at the shore locations i

partly cloudy sky front, that's it right there, sets up anywhere over long island, stretching down philadelphia, right through the city, possibly, at 5:00 pm. and this is a computer's rendering of where we think this could be. further to the east, further to the west, but it's out there. i think there's that rain chance for everybody. then it clears out for your day on sunday. and sunday looks to be a good one. the way everything comes together is a high temperature tomorrow of 88. i think some people could possibly find a 90-degree mark make a peek of sun here and there. and some of the showers or storms could possibly be on the severe side. sunday the better looking day for everybody. beach forecast or mountain, sunday is the better day. and through tuesday, beautiful weather. >> aren't the weekdays always? >> what is up with that! >>> we all know want yankees notoriety midst of making changes. one longtime star is hanging up the spikes. but after a tearful announcement, the man they call tex comes through >>> steve is in for otis tonight. a little baseball. >> absolutely. have to say gonna be to mark texeira. at le

an onshore wind coming in from the east is bringing in warmer water. 72 degrees at the long island and new york city beaches, 76 down the jersey shore, waves 2 to 3 feet. the rip current risk is moderate. a decent shot of rain by the time the weekend rolls around. in your 7- day forecast. heather. >> reporter: bumper to bumper in the bronx. crossbronx east near webster avenue we have this accident involving two tractor trailers and now we have a new one. john del giorno showing us the pictures of this accident involving two box trucks. this is the eastbound side of the crossbronx expressway right on the alexander hamilton bridge. the george washington bridge what a mess this is causing here. two separate accidents crossbronx, that is double the trouble. least a 30-minute delay inbound at the toll and his you are jam packed across the span. onto the southern state parkway, here is an accident off on the side of the parkway. we have police on the scene. where is that? we have the southern state parkway on the westbound side near exit 18, eagle avenue. the btrain signal problems. track work on the manh

now, we have had a cloud deck roll from the south and edging into new york city and long island. we turned overcast for a period of time. mostly clear across the tristate area. we are under the influence of high pressure and keeping it under control in the northeast and helping to protect us from the weather maker in the mid atlantic. the cloud deck is reaching to the north and the rain is staying to the south here. as this high is sliding to the east, the wind flow from the southwest, that is a very warm and humid air flow for us and things are building up for wednesday, t going up to 90 and the humidity is going to build too. the futurecast is showing mainly clear skies. that is how we start out tuesday. a couple of clouds in the afternoon. it feels nice and dry tomorrow. tuesday night things are going to change. on wednesday, lots of clouds in place and a chance of showers tonight we are going clear, mild and dry. the temperatures dropping down to 50s in the suburbs. tomorrow mostly sunny, quite warm and rising to 90 degrees and breezy in the afternoon. then we start to see th