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Slowly on the roadways. Again, I'm here at Bay Park right next to the golf course at the end of the park. We do have a couple of inches of water. My photographer and I were trying to guesstimate here. We think probably it goes back 20 to 30 ft. But again, this is a spot that is prone to flooding. So I'll send it back to you in the studio. Rich Cecilia. It is definitely turning colder out there. The wind chill right now is down to 33 degrees in your area and we are attracting some moderate rain in the Oceanside area right now to East Rockaway also around Roslyn. So getting out the door this morning, give yourself some extra travel time. Let's take a look right now. You can see around Roslyn to sands, point to Kings Point these areas right here. You see these little areas of gray, there's even a chance of a little bit of sleet mixing in as the air turns colder from the top of the atmosphere as it comes on down. You're going to feel that chill. We have rainy conditions along the South state sunrise highway, getting towards Merrick Road. The lie the northern state slow it down. With this batch of heavy rain, there could be some more localized street flooding. And again where Cecilia is right now, we are watching that rain. We are near high tide times right now along the south shore. And with that rain, there could be some more water in some of the local streets in the neighborhoods along the south shore from Glen Head to Old Westbury Wheatley Road. We're looking at some heavier downpours and again, there could be a little bit of sleet mixing in with this batch of rain. I want to head out to Montauk right now. We just had a heavier shower move offshore but island wide, we are watching that wet weather here this morning and it's turning colder yesterday. We had highs fifties and sixties. Now we're down to 41 in Glencoe. 42. H said 41 in Valley Stream wind chills are in the thirties. Look at that. 33 in Hewlett. 38. Farmdale feels like 30 right now. In Iceland, the rain will start to taper off west to east as we get towards around 8 to 9 o'clock this morning. Much better weather with sunshine coming away for this afternoon. You can see around 415, the evening rush hour will be dry and it will be cold. A temperature. A high of 47 colder weather tonight at 3044 with sunshine on Tuesday. So again, the rain tapers off between eight and 11 o'clock this morning and most of our work week will be dry.

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LIRR commuters paying more as MTA fare hikes go into effect 

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It's the start of a costlier commute for riders on the higher fares are now in effect. Our Caroline Flynn is in Beth Page with a look at the numbers, Caroline. Well, thank you. And yes, if you are traveling into Manhattan from Beth Page now, ticket prices definitely are changing if you go by that monthly ticket. Well, it's going to go up about $10 already has, if you do the weekly ticket, it's around $4 and then a one way ticket to Manhattan that's going to cost you about 50 cents more. Nobody ever wants the price to go up. Right. Long Islanders are adjusting to the fare hikes on their commute. Everything's getting more and more expensive. So food, everything the MTA says increases are to help preserve service, which many writers told news 12 they'd like to see improve. It's come a long way over the years, but it still has a long way to go. I feel like the trains are not a full 12 cars, there are eight cars, there are 10 cars, they're very, very crowded. There are times when you have to stand all the way home to Rama which is not fun. So I understand the raise in prices, but I'd like to see the level of service go up as well. Here's the breakdown of fare increases. Long Island railroad fares go up about 4%. It varies by zone and averages about $12 monthly or $4.50 weekly. Once you get into the city, your subway or bus ticket rises from $2.75 to $2.90 driving. Well, you might have already seen most bridge and tunnel tolls have gone up about 5%. 20 trip discount cards have been eliminated as well. Riders who still work from home part of the time were most upset about this change. You don't have to be in every day. So, if you only got to go in two or three days a week, why do you have to buy a whole month? And the increases will mean another $305 million annually for the MTA back to you? No.

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