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Rockland County Executive Ed Day joins News 12 via Zoom to discuss the dangerous road conditions in Rockland County.

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Now, meteorologist Julian C Wright joining us to talk about not just the temperatures but also the rain out there, Julian. Absolutely. So now we are looking at a dry period in temperatures that are rather mild for this time of year, but we are going to see all that change except for the temperatures getting into our Sunday. So like I mentioned earlier for the first update, we are looking at these two systems which have been stalled out over towards the coast and for the northern parts of the northeast near Canada, those are creating a bit of a tunnel which is going to continue to flow this storm system straight into the northeast, which is not only gonna bring us cloudy conditions but even rain by the time we wake up for our Sunday morning, so expect wet conditions throughout the entirety of our Sunday. We do have some breaks though once we get to our Sunday afternoon and Sunday nights, but just notes, if you're gonna be outdoors, definitely bring the umbrella and the rain gear, but it's also not gonna be too bad of a day to just really stay inside and cozy up. Here's what we're seeing for our Sunday afternoon, around noon, widespread rain, a bit of heavier rainfall towards white plains and Yonkers. But temperatures will be into the upper forties, low fifties by the time we get into the noon hour, and that's gonna be pretty steady throughout the course of the day, especially for Yonkers in itself. But on and off showers are going to be possible, especially once we get to around five o'clock and heading closer towards dinner time. Sunday, late nights, we're still dealing with some remnants of some showers and even heavy rain possible just outside of uh Kingston as we get near our midnight hour. But things look to dry up by the time we get into our Monday morning, close to about three quarters of an inch of rainfall is gonna be expected across lower Hudson Valley. So it's not a full wash out, but it will be a day that we are really just going to want to stay inside because it's just gonna be wet near seasonal temperatures in the days ahead, mainly dry with clouds and trending chilly as we get into the later parts of next week, mainly for Tuesday is gonna start that trend. But for Hanukkah, we're looking at temperatures to be on a colder end for our Thursday into the upper thirties and the next weekend warming back up with rain chances. All right, Julian, thank you very much.

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LIVE ZOOM: Rockland County Executive Ed Day

And we're continuing to monitor severe flooding throughout the Hudson Valley that does include Rockland County. Joining us now is the Rockland County Executive Ed Day to talk about conditions now and what's being done to try and get things back to normal? Thanks for joining us. Good to be here, Lisa, thank you very much. So, basically, right now, this as far as Rockland kind is concerned, this is pretty much almost entirely within the town of Stony Point. Um We're in an assess, we're in an assessed repair mitigation and restore mode as it relates to where we're approaching right now. Now, um the roadways as you're reporting on North South routes in Rockland and in Stony Point, North Rockland are pretty much shut down nine W uh uh up in its code, we have a, a sinkhole in the roadway there. Um Parkway obviously shut down and um, you know, again, the, the train station had people on site uh at seven this morning uh to assess this and try to move forward and get the these roads open up. Uh Bear Mountain Bridge is shut down except for emergency vehicles and the goat trail on the on the Westchester side also is shut down. So along with nine D southbound. So it really, from traffic perspective, there's, there's really uh pretty much gridlock areas. Uh If you try to enter and get it around within the northern part of Russia County, my advice to people, if you have to drive, stay, stay south. Uh take do southern crossing such as the, as the Tappan Zee bridge, for example, uh and stay south of exit 14, which is where the, uh, the shutdown uh begins. So the clean up can be, can uh be moved forward. Uh Any estimate though, on a timeline for when anything is gonna get back to normal. Are we expecting hours days? What, what is the Department of Transportation telling you? They, they're still assessing it right now. But you know, we got the best news we got was what Matt Ham said, we're getting no rain for a few days. That's great. Uh That's gonna help us with the rece recession of water. Um We, we, I'm, I'm probably looking at days at this point, not any longer than that. Um Because the assistance we're gonna get is really from the, the, the uh what are not feeding into these areas anymore and allowing the natural drains to take place? Yes. And we're seeing video right now of those cars left stranded in a parking lot near Lowland Park. And then we also know that 40 people were rescued in the Palisades area. Talk to us a little bit about that and an update on some hikers that were rescued. Absolutely. You know, you know, it just reiterates how dangerous these storms can be. Uh, we had 40 people stranded at the, at Long Mountain Circle. It's at the very top of the Palisades Parkway by the circle that, uh, takes you into Orange County. Um, people drove into the water thinking they're going to keep on going and not realizing that unless, you know, for sure you can get through, uh, an area where there's water of standing water. Don't do it. Turn around and go, just turn around and leave, don't try it because if you, unless you know that area and you, and you're looking at the way it is and it's passable. Other than that, please don't do this because you're gonna not only put yourself in harm's way but you put all our first responders who have done heroic work over the past, uh, 48 hours. You're gonna put them in harm's way too. All right, we've got about 30 seconds left. Can you talk to us about kind of next steps for the day to day and, and what your focus is right now. Right now, our focus is getting normalcy back, uh, clean up, uh, whatever, repairs again, repair, mitigation and restoration. That's, that's our, our mantra right now. All right. Day Rockland County executive. We appreciate your time. Thank you so much. For joining us. We'll be checking in with you throughout the day and as you mentioned, part of that normalcy requires some dry weather. And thankfully Matt, that is exactly what we're getting.

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