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DNAinfo Morning Manhattan News Update

By DNAinfo Staff on November 6, 2009 8:48am  | Updated on November 6, 2009 9:38am

MANHATTAN — Good morning this is your update from DNAinfo. It's in the low 40s now. Partly sunny and breezy today highs around 50 degrees.

You'll want to bundle up if you're heading to the Yankees celebration. The ticker-tape parade honoring the World Series champs kicks off at 11 this morning. It's starting at Broadway and Battery Place. Expect a sea of people and about 36 tons of paper and confetti.

In the West Village a wheelchair-bound actress is in serious condition after she was hit by a garbage truck yesterday. Witnesses say 78-year-old Shami Chaikin was traveling in a bike lane on her motorized wheelchair, when she tried to pass the idling truck which pulled out and hit her.

Police have nabbed a suspect in connection with six high-profile robberies in the city. In several incidents, the robber posed as a deliveryman and pushed his way into homes in Greenwich Village and the Upper West Side.

We've got great ways to keep warm in this chilly fall weather: toasty knishes from the Lower East Side, sultry Brazilian samba in TriBeCa and smoking hot blues in Washington Heights. Your best bests for the weekend are right here on the site.

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