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Jeff Berardelli is doing the weather forecast tonight.

Noticed Shirleen Allicot is not co-anchoring at 12 PM this week. I've seen Michelle and Sandra subbing. I wonder if when Shirleen goes on maternity leave if her sub is going to anchor the morning news and 12 PM? Always found it odd Shirleen did the morning news and 12 PM while Ken only does the morning news and David anchors with Shirleen at 12 PM.

Friday on Today In New York they got rid of the weather and traffic reports at 4 and 34 minutes. Instead they had Chris doing a quick weather forecast at 10 and 40 minutes. The total traffic reports went from 8 to 6 per hour.

WNBC made a change to Today In New York this morning. Instead of starting the top of the hour and half hour with weather and traffic, they started with breaking news, another news story then went to weather and traffic at 3 minuets after the hour and 4 minuets after the half hour.

Sunday night Lee filled in for Jeff who was filling in for Amy who was on vacation.

WCBS made another change to the morning newscast. John and Alex are no longer shown standing at the area to the right of the news desk for the start of the traffic and weather segments. At the top of the hour and half hour, Alex is at the chroma key wall and John stands at a podium. Alex did the other traffic reports from the news desk except for 5:45 and 6:45 when she was standing at the video wall.

They did no traffic reports Monday as Alex co-anchored subbing for Chris.

Chris was back today and Alex was off. They used Jenna DeAngelis to do traffic, after two days of doing no traffic reports as Alex subbed for Chris.

Alex was subbing for Chris who was guest co-host of "The Talk" today. Instead of having a sub do the traffic reports, they skipped the traffic reports and rebranded the segments "Weather On The 2s"

CBS2 has made some slight changes to the morning newscast this week. For some of the traffic and weather segments at the top of the hour and half hour, the camera starts at the side of the desk then moves around the desk and ends with a closeup on John. Around 5:25 AM they are doing a "CBSNEWYORK.COM Most Viewed" segment from the couch. Around 6:25 AM they have everyone sitting at the couch for traffic and weather and "2 Talkers" segments. Here's also a bit more of the anchors standing next to video wall to intro reports.

Janice Huff and Erica Grow are on at 6 PM for coverage of the winter storm arriving tonight.

New weather graphics

Noticed this morning they put the 7 day forecast on the front of the news desk.

Are they ever going to name permanent weekend news anchors or just keep rotating reporters in the role?

Alex is in tonight doing traffic.

Today at 6 am the lights were on and the skyline photo was used. At 6:30 am they switched to a live camera background and the lighting around the video wall was turned off.

She's started a new twitter handle @JamieRoth4NY and her bio says " Reporter @NBCNewYork".

WNBC has added lighting above the video walls and between the main video wall and blue side walls. Instead of a live camera view of the city, they are using a photo of the Manhattan skyline for the background with NEWS 4 NEW YORK at the bottom scrolling left to right . You can see the difference in stills from the 1st and 7th.

Noticed former WABC reporter Jamie Roth on WNBC.

Janice Huff and Erica Grow were on at 6 PM and 11 PM covering the winter storm.

For those wondering why Heather has been off.

Rana Novini was subbing for Darlene Rodriguez Wednesday and today.

Henry Rosoff anchored the evening newscasts tonight.