ep near paramus road in ridgewood. now, we haven't seen any traffic coming through this area until right about now. so i'm going to check to see exactly what's changed here. alternate side parking, it's in effect city wide. be safe don't text and drive. cindy, back to you. >> alex, thank you. >>> breaking news in new jersey this morning, a large water main has ruptured in hoboken. water is gushing at first and harrison streets. drivers are urged to avoid the area because of road closures. and hoboken residents may have a loss of water or low pressure. we'll have a live report from hoboken in our next half hour. 8 that left thousands of travelers in turmoil yesterday. >> this morning the power is back on and the airlines are working to get everyone where they need to be. cbs 2's andrea grymes has more. >>reporter: lights out, luggage piled up after power problems at jfk's terminal 8. many passengers trying to fly out last night had to reschedule for today. >> they transferred me to laguardia at 6:00 in the morning. vi n

this is in paramus. we had some late-running construction. still some residual delays because it was closed for a better portion of the morning. we have delays on the l.i.e. at the grand central parkway as you make your way westbound. you can see here that you have some standstill traffic as you try to continue your way through queens and into the city. alternate side parking, it is in effect city wide. be safe, don't text and drive. back to you. >> thank you. >>> a former staffer of new accuses him of lying about the bridge gate scandal >> that's according to a text message newly surfaceed in court filings. cbs 2's magdalena doris reports. >>reporter: governor chris christie is on the defense after new court documents show his own staffer claims he lied about bridge-gate. >> it's ridiculous, it's nothing new. and so that's it. there's nothing new to talk about. >>reporter: that was his reaction to texts just revealed that were submitted as evidence in the trial against former port authority director bill berrone, alleging christie was not tr

we have delays that extend back e paramus this morning, kind of busy out there. route 17 closed an detoured as you make your way northbound between century road an midland avenue. two lanes are blocked on the southbound side as well. very similar to what you had to deal with yesterday at this time of morning. alternate parking, it is in effect city wide. do be safe don't text and drive. andrea. >> alex, thank you. >>> two american swimmers ordered to stay in brazil have left the rio airport after being questioned by local questioning about claims they were robbed in rio early sunday morning. yesterday a brazilian judge issued orders to seize the passports of gold medalist ryan lochte an jimmy fagan after seeing this video obtained by the daily mail. it shows the four athletes returning to the village sunday morning after the robbery. the judge says the athletes do not appear shake isen up and offer conflicting details of what happened. lochte's father says his son has already returned to the u.s. >>> back here at home an update on the little ferry fire, officials

the woman's attorney says paramus catholic illegally fired her after she married another woman. the school said she was fired because of the marriage, but not because she was a lesbian. >>> grad students who work as research orch form unions. teaching assistants were not strictly speaking employees was the old ruling. >>> two baseball fans from new jersey hit in the face by foul balls at two different games. >> one of them a 9-year-old girl. >>> a burglary caught on camera consulate. coming up, what the burglars made off with that could help police track them down. >>> our weather remains calm and beautiful. it's starting to spark up in the tropics in terms of storms. this as we take a closer look at what's out there right now. i'll give you the forecast coming up next. >>> lester holt has a look at what he's working on for 6:30. >>> homegrown zika no longer just in the miami area, but now across the state. the new worry for florida health african-american voters may be falling flat. they are lifesavers for allergy sufferers, so why is the cost of fios is not cable. we're wired

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kate was the dean of guidance paramus catholic high school. attorneys for the church say she was fired not because she's a lesbian, but because she wasn't against the catholic faith by having a same-sex marriage. >>> the promise to cut her student debt costs. >> better get baquero for the red flags of this latest scam. >>> cars, si an increase in noise complaints in the city. which spots are seeing the most? >>> storm ranger 4 is on location in new jersey deploying its one-of-a-kind high powered fios is not cable. we're wired differently, which means we can fix things differently. i know it's in. it's in, but it's not working. i'm sending you a link to the my fios app that going to let me see what you're seeing. really? yes, mr. mcenroe... see that cord? just plug it into the connector on the right. so you can clearly see what's in and what's out? oh absolutely. i like that. tech support that lets your technician see the problem over your smartphone. >>> storm ranger 4, our new radar on wheels. here's a behind the scenes look at engineers buil

in paramus changes for you. route 17 currently closed making your way northbound between century road and midland avenue. we have two lanes blocked on the southbound side as well. lingering construction there. a live look to one of our hundreds of cameras showing you suffolk county. all lanes currently close on the een side of the l.i.e. -- eastbound side of the l.i.e. between exits 53 and 55. traffic there is the headlights approaching us, being diverted off to the service road. of the grand central parkway, between laguardia airport and hoyt avenue. minor delays through the area. alternate side is in effect city wide, be safe, don't text and drive. chris and mary, back to you >> alex, thank you. >>> happening today, funeral services will be held for one of the victims of sunday's deadly crash on the long island expressway. 29-year-old scott martela, a former aide to gof dwof will be memorialized in dix hills. >> in the meantime, one investigation shows one driver hit speeds of 100 miles per h three others hosp

what will be happening is these storms will move over morristown, move in to paramus, over new cit make their way south and east. there is very heavy rainfall. gusty winds. we've already had damage in some spots near the connecticut-new york border tonight with thunderstorm damage. some of these storms are really potent. here's the excessive heat watch which has been elevated and even lengthened to sunday at 10 p.m. we still have the heat advisory further off to the west. plenty of warmth coming our way. one of the worst parts of this, when you get a heat wave that goes several days with high cool down. so it looks like we'll be in the upper 70s and lower 80s across much of the area. a very fast warmup. 89 degrees by 11 a.m. tomorrow. we're in the mid 90s. these are actual thermometer temperatures for tomorrow. the feels-like temperatures will be in the triple digits. we'll talk about who gets the hottest coming up in the accuweather 7-day forecast in a few minutes. >>> due to the oppressive heat, new york city extending cooling center hours but not everyone dangerous conditions especia

paramus road. and turnpike shut down for quite a stretch. more weather and traffic coming up on the 4s. >>> new this morning, a raging fire forced people into the street in bergen county. the flame broke out at a home on washington avenue in little ferry. jen maxfield is there. >> reporter: this was a very in fact six people were injured, including two young children after the fire broke out here at 109 washington avenue. flames were shooting from cars. it's believed that the fire started on the garage level of it home just after midnight. the flames quickly spread further up in the home. and a 5 and 6-year-old child were injured and in addition to four adults. we understand that they may have been injured with second or here. emergency responders described desperate efforts to get children out of the burning home and taken to get medical attention. again, this was a two-alarm fire and several neighboring departments helped here in little ferry. back here live at the scene, we can show you that investigators are up on the second floor of the

it's the southbound side near paramus road with one it's possible but just be careful. is moving into the east #alex in 19 with an accident happening with the truck. a ton of traffic here. something to keep in mind. getting slow with rubbernecking. now, and the belt parkway will be the next picture. one issue if you will be traveling along the five train. you will want to keep that in mind. the li double r is looking good. so is the past train running on are close to schedule. area to the road on the white house. donald trump keeps up his criticism of obama. >> he will not back down as tom petty says. even though others want him to. gauger was following the road to the white house and she is outside. >> good morning. >> donald trump's poll numbers continue to slip. that he made. he is doing with another problem. >> can you imagine? losing to her? can you imagine? >> fox news confirms that 70 republicans have sent a letter to the committee chairman. they asked him to fund the senate races. >> the gop presidential nominee denies all the reports and says even is true. >> t

paramus road is a great option. on the cross bronx expressway, construction cleared but a disabled tractor trailer is now causing delays. delays not quite back to the deegan right now. a live look at the george washington bridge on the inbound side, clear sailing into the crossings. delays on downtown 5 trains has cleared out. major commuter lines operating just fine. we'll have more weather and traffic on the 4s. >>> police want your help finding two men who may be involved in the shooting of two bystanders in the bronx. video shows the men walking on the side walk. tuesday. two people on the ground on the grand con core near east 179th street. both wounded in the leg. people were rushing to their aid. those folks are now recovering. >>> this morning the reward to catch the person who killed a young person jogging in queens is growing. a gofundme reward is well over $160,000. >> somebody knows something, somebody has to say something. maybe with this money they will. >> vetrano's body was found last week near her h

northern new jersey and 72 paramus. same in west 2350e8d at 70 at pine brook you're in the upper 60s at the moment. couple of showers and downpour along jersey shore around belmar but everyone is dry at the moment. there is still the threat of a couple of scattered showers and umbrella handy and slow to exit the region and not going to dry out to see great weather until probably wednesday unfortunately so look at our future cast shows clouds in place today. we'll see couple of showers popping up from around the area to produce downpours too and clouds in place just isolated shower or two and finally clear out tomorrow night and wednesday. great plenty of sunshine expected and temperatures 80 degree 84 on thursday. heat and humidity build over the weekend and temperatures close by 90. more "good day new york" will be right back. our bacteria family's been on this cushion for generations. i like to watch them clean, bacteria on big, soft surfaces. now, customers are going to call asking for on demand. all they have to do

a request by paramus catholic high school to dismiss the suit was denied. the school violated the discrimination law when they fired her in january. the school claims it has the right to fire an employee for being in a same-sex marriage. >>> charges are pending against a man in custody after children. it took 200 firefighters about three hours to put out the flames early this morning. a man as well as a 4-year-old, a 6-year-old and a three-month- old were killed. a resident said she believes the fire was set by a man who came by the door asking for money. >> he said i owed him $10. i slammed the door in his face. i don't owe you anything. he began to kick and punch at the door. >> the stairwells were burned out making it difficult to get to residents. the building failed the mo inspection and the owner was issued citations as inspectors could not access most of the apartments to verify that there were smoke detectors inside. >>> massive wildfire burning across six states in the west. hot, dry and windy conditions are fueling the flames threatening homes and

paramus catholic says it was within its first amendment religious rights >> there's no denying the fact that miss drumgull has engaged in a lifestyle, in a marriage that is inconsistent with the tenets of the catholic faith. >> we did nothing but fall in love and. er size our rights. we neated to create awareness that this is still happening and nobody deserves to be treated this way. >> the judge is expected to rule on the case sometime next week. >>> a computer glitch left more than 8,000 drivers in registrations. the state dmv says all of the registrations were flagged for renewal in february but notices were never printed. the agency upgraded its computer system and has been plagued with problems ever since. >>> now to our favorite story of the saturday morning. a man thought he could avoid police by giving himself an extreme makeover. man. he was a fugitive up in massachusetts until yesterday. what you probably don't realize from this picture is that he's really that guy, 31-year-old shawn miller. police caught up with miller on cape cod where he was disguising himself as an old ma

future feels-like temperatures by tomorrow afternoon at 4 p.m., feeling like 107 in the city. 106 in paramus and freehold. 107 -- everybody just so hot again tomorrow. by the time you get to saturday a repeat. triple digits feels-like temperatures out there. that's why we have a heat advisory in effect right now until 8 a.m. saturday. but hold on. that's a heat advisory. it will then become an they they can't issue the warning that far out so it becomes a watch. we know it's going to be happening and we also know some storms are going to be sparking up, as well. so that's all part of this forecast. every day you're looking at a storm chance and every day you're looking at the humidity remaining high and the temperatures remaining high, as well. 93 for a high thermometer reading on friday. 93 saturday. 94 sunday. 90 monday. 86 on tuesday. wednesday 84. thursday 84. by the time you get to the end of next week we could jump out there with the storms kicking in as well and i think on saturday or sunday you could have the hottest day so far in 2016. >> all right. thank you. >>> mothers will soon

students in schools in teaneck, hackensack, paramus and other commun receive the backpacks. >>> armed rangers inside a park on long island. the drastic measure one town is taking to try to stop an uptick in violent crime. >> we're watching a line of severe thunderstorms over eastern parts of pennsylvania. warnings getting awfully close to the new jersey border. effect for central and western new jersey through 11:00 this evening. this line really means business as it moves to the east along i-78 and i-80. be careful out there. >>> keep an eye out this labor day weekend. re island will be shocked to see armed park rangers on patrol. they've hired six rangers to patrol the area's beaches, towns and parks. as of now, two will patrol at night on the weekends. they'll also focus on huntington station where there's been a rash of shootings and gang violence. a spokesperson for the town says if successful, they will expand to week night patrols. >> we've been successful in other towns in long island. give it a try. >> the added patrols are expected to begin within the next 10 days to two wee

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also in paramus, route 17 closed as it's been throughout the better portion of the week. it is detoured northbound between century road and midland avenue. two lanes are blocked on the southbound side lingering construction, alternate side parking is in effect city wide. be safe, don't text and drive. >>> thank you. time now 4:53. in our next half hour, the mta going high-tech making it easier for you to buy tickets on its commuter rail lines. >> and a husband killed his wife left for dead, the community comes together to remember the couple. >> and crimes among the ashes, a devastating fire in yonkers our daughter, libby, is convinced that the washing machine will eat her buddy antonio. so when it's time for his much needed bath... ...antonio hides from me. but, when i do find antonio, i wash him with tide and downy. we only trust tide to get rid of the week-old stains and tide and downy. great on their own, even better together. your heart loves omega-3s. but the omega-3s in fish oil differ from megared krill oil. unlike fish oil, megared is easily absorbed by your body

it will stay above these through today and 71 degrees in paramus. hoboken, checking in at 70. the same number we are finding and pine brook and berkeley heights. we still have a flash flood watch for the counties shaded in green here. we are not seeing any rainfall right now, any scattered showers that develop or any downpours the heavy rain has shifted off to the east. things are starting to quiet down for you. isolated showers popping up in the hudson valley. still have your umbrella handy. potential for a couple of scattered showers today. low pressure sitting over the northeast. there will be a lot of clouds in place. an isolated s wednesday, full sunshine. temperatures will warm up by the weekend. it will turn humid once again. let's check out the roads. >> good morning. several accidents to talk to you about. we will start off in new jersey. you have the right lane still blocked. blocked off all morning long. we will also have an accident right by the highway. as we get you outside, also watching an accident on the bqe. a box truck hit a utility pole. now they have lanes

in the left lane out by paramus road. use caution if you travel in that area. heading over to the trains, 5 trains with ongoing signal problems. >> lauren, thanks very >>> if you sprawl gra graffiti, there's $13 million lost in the period of unpaid fines. state comptroller says that they are not picking up the phone to collect the money. so you don't want to send people the message, just don't answer the phone and you don't have to pay the fine. >> it would be nice if people >> right. >>> 5:26, a scare at the 3 world trade center. a crane that nearly broke one of the windows. >>> and i'm katherine creag live on the upper west side where a woman walking her dog was attacked. we'll show you what the suspect may look like. >> download the news 4 new york app on your device and we'll be ?? nly almondmilk made with california-grown blue diamond almonds. ?? of course, if you ask one of our almond growers... there's no maybe about it. ?? almond breeze. the best almonds make the best almondmilk. >>> the search for a man who attacked a woman. what she did to fight him o

and paramus, we still have the construction out there route 17 southbound, two lanes remain closed from midland avenue to century road. and better news that accident on 80 west by exit 56 cleared. and we'll take a live look at the l.i.e. by exit 52 where things are moving along really commuters. and commuter checklist, all the major lines look good. we did get a report of delays on downtown b and d trains, though. >>> an inferno in california, here it is, just one day after the start of a small brush fire exploded into a fast moving wildfire just north of los angeles. kerry barrett is in the newsroom with a look at how devastating things are in this area. it's been such a tough summer for wildfires in california. >> such a as you mentioned, the blue cot fire has burned now 18,000 acres, it continued to spread overnight. more than 700 firefighters are battling it. it started as a small brush fire and exploded into this huge very quickly moving wildfire about 60 miles east of l.a. yesterday. this morning that fire is 0% contained and it is covered now more than 28 square miles. this is on

katie drumgul says she unexpectedly lost her job at paramus catholic high school. she was fired because of her within its first amendment religious rights to fire her. >> there's no denying the fact that miss drumgull has engaged in a lifestyle, in a marriage that is inconsistent with the catholic faith. >> we did nothing but fall in love and exercise our rights. this is still happening in 2016 and really, nobody deserves to be treated this way. >> the judge is expected to more than 8,000 drivers in connecticut driving with expired registrations. the state dmv says all of the registrations were flagged for renewal in february but notices were never printed. the agency recently upgraded its computer system. it has been plagued with problems since. they are now sending out notices for drivers to keep for now in case they are stopped by saturday morning, a west coast honor for a star. how tony bennett's birthday is being celebrated over in california. >> and coming up in sports, the mets won't be doing any celebrating out in cali. highlights from last night's highligh

collaboratively with nonprofits such as ours through their foundations and corporate social responsibility paramus. community housing partnerships, tech partners include twitter google, and a lot of other smaller companies. they can provide invaluable support to our work. one example is that last year we were able to launch our -sorry-workforce training center with the sport of some of these companies which are custom all customizable classes based computer lab where clients build the skills required to enter the workforce after experiencing homelessness. again just some thoughts from us without an opinion on the measure. we know the board of supervisors has put a proposed sales tax increase on the ballot that if passed would provide $50 million to fund homelessness and housing. we believe having multiple measures with the same goals is confusing to voters. we worry more tax increases we propose the more likely it is they will all fail. thank you for your time. >> thanks very much. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is julian gall. i'm an organizer with the community group a's. many of us are he

collaboratively with nonprofits such as ours through their foundations and corporate social responsibility paramus. community housing partnerships, tech partners include twitter google, and a lot of other smaller companies. they can provide invaluable support to our work. one example is that last year we were able to launch our -sorry-workforce training center with the sport of some of these companies which are custom all customizable classes based computer lab where clients build the skills required to enter the workforce after experiencing homelessness. again just some thoughts from us without an opinion on the measure. we know the board of supervisors has put a proposed sales tax increase on the ballot that if passed would provide $50 million to fund homelessness and housing. we believe having multiple measures with the same goals is confusing to voters. we worry more tax increases we propose the more likely it is they will all fail. thank you for your time. >> thanks very much. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is julian gall. i'm an organizer with the community group a's. many of us are he

collaboratively with nonprofits such as ours through their foundations and corporate social responsibility paramusmmunity housing partnerships, tech partners include twitter google, and a lot of other smaller companies. they can provide invaluable support to our work. one example is that last year we were able to launch our -sorry-workforce training center with the sport of some of these companies which are custom all customizable classes based computer lab where clients build the skills required to enter the workforce after experiencing homelessness. again just some thoughts from us without an opinion on the measure. we know the board of supervisors has put a proposed sales tax increase on the ballot that if passed would provide $50 million to fund homelessness and housing. we believe having multiple measures with the same goals is confusing to voters. we worry more tax increases we propose the more likely it is they will all fail. thank you for your time. >> thanks very much. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is julian gall. i'm an organizer with the community group a's. many of us are here t