westchester

As prices at the pump continue to soar, one local lawmaker is fighting to make vehicles more fuel-efficient. Congressman John Hall (D-District 19) is joining other freshmen members of Congress in calling for better fuel-efficiency standards in the country. Citing an estimate from the Sierra Club, an environmental organization, Hall says improving automobile mileage to 40 miles per gallon could save more than 3 million barrels of oil every day.The thought of stretching a gallon of gas sounded good to customers at one Yorktown gas station. "I think that would be good because as we all know, gas prices are getting a little outrageous and I think everyone would benefit from that,? said Andi Coiro, of Yorktown. 

As prices at the pump continue to soar, one local lawmaker is fighting to make vehicles more fuel-efficient. Congressman John Hall (D-District 19) is joining other freshmen members of Congress in calling

Westchester

WC | Weather

HVFORECAST

Look over that bridge. You can see that fog really building up. You can barely even see the colors at us. And what are we looking at as we move into the weekend, Nikita, we're going to be finding ourselves seeing a little bit more brighter days coming our way. At least one day for Saturday. That over nothing. Right. You're right. Yeah, we definitely would like to have at least some of the weekend looking good. Saturday is going be the better of the two weekend days, Sunday. Not so much. So make your plans accordingly because here's your weekend planner as you do with mostly cloudy skies, sunny breaks out there in the afternoon. Now, it's feeling definitely mild. I think maybe just light jackets at best will be worn by a lot of people out. And about Sunday though, probably stay inside sky showers and on and off batches of moderate rain coming on down. You can see that breakdown right here with the rain moving on in very much late Saturday night, pretty much overnight in towards your Sunday. Then for Sunday night, the showers are tapering off. So your Monday morning commute should be fine. It's just, you know, we'd like to push that rain perhaps towards work and I have it on the weekend. Over the past several hours, the showers are leaving Sullivan County, Olsa County, Orange County as well. Still hanging out just east of the Hudson River, but not, thankfully not for long. We're watching this area of low pressure head up from the southern plains, head over this way where we're on the warm side of the system as the cold air is kept up across in Canada and over across the northern plains. So we're just talking about rain showers, no wintry mix to snow coming down overnight, the temperatures go down a little bit mid to upper to low forties. The light clouds around will keep the warmth around from the day and because there won't be much of a breeze around, all that moisture slowly settles down. So we'll have to talk about some patchy fog, possibly being out there throughout the overnight hours, but it should be burning away nicely past about 9 to 10 o'clock or so. Moving through your futurecast pass the night in towards the day tomorrow. Partly most of the cloudy skies in the morning hours, sun shining down around one o'clock, not bad out there. Then here comes the rain. You go on in past 9 to 10 o'clock in towards the lunchtime hour and it'll still be around towards the afternoon hours where you may be seeing pockets of moderate to heavy rain coming on down. Those showers should be wrapping on up towards the evening hours. A few straggles will linger around overnight, but we'll be enjoying a much more drier and eventually cooler time frame going through next week 50 on Monday, 42 on Tuesday and then struggling to get out of the thirties on Wednesday. All right, Addison.

https://vod.chdrstatic.com/transcode/855d1de2-536b-45ba-a13d-5d18fc086042/855d1de2-536b-45ba-a13d-5d18fc086042.transcribe

Local lawmaker pumps better gas mileage standards