It's the Brian Larosho on WNYC. Good morning everyone and happy Friday. I think I hope

you're indoors. Do anyone see that unusual yellow ball in the sky the last two days? I

think they call it the sun. Is that the word? The sun? Though I forget because we hadn't

seen it for so long, right? It was yellow and bright and kind of warming. Quite a thing actually.

But today, as you know, we're back to the day loose around here. It's actually so much

rain today that we can't just joke about it and roll our eyes. We know this can actually

cause some threatening situations for some people's homes and neighborhoods considering

how the ground and waterways were saturated already. We'll have reporting on this during

the show today as conditions change. Don't drive if you don't have to, of course. And we

have this note on the subways, the transit authority or New York City Transit in particular,

that part of the MTA has posted this on Twitter. It says there is only extremely limited subway

service available because of heavy flooding caused by rainfall. Service may be suspended

on certain stations and they give their website link to check status to see if service is

running at your station. So this hardly ever happens. Massive subway suspensions or outages,

even at individual stations because of rain. But that's what New York City Transit is posting

on Twitter on X now. There is only extremely limited subway service available. So definitely

heads up on that if you have any plans to move around the city at all right now. And let

me say this too, if you've got the luxury of working from home today or being home at all,

it's another day to honor essential workers at least with generous tips and generous words

of thanks. If someone is actually out there working on your behalf because they have to

be today, so the weather again draws our first words. But now, if Congress sometimes gets

derided as a three ring circus, the insult might be a little more liberal, literal. The

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