Pashuteh Yid
“I doubt YWN has reporters all over the tri-state area monitoring the trains and airports at this hour.”
True. weather.com, however, does.
“In addition, in any type of emergency, there could well be important info on TV, like where to evacuate, chas vshalom, etc.”
That is also on weather.com. And not only weather alerts, but all alerts. Actually, I once saw an alert for a kidnapper on the lose at a certain zip code.