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take you to the 128 accident in wellsly, the box truck causing some major delays on 128 right now. it happened near exit 20 near wellsly. left lanes are closed. the box truck still on the median right now. state police tweeting out they are expecting four to six hours that this area will be closed partially as they clean this up. the box truck and car crashed and happened around 3:30. no one was hurt but again a four to six hour cleanup is expected. this is a busiest night for them for holiday traffic. we want to show you the scenes out on the roads. this is 93 trying to get in and out of the city, brake lights they have roughly 900 cameras all over the roads watching them for you.
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already just at 5:00. all the traffic on the right side that is southbound on 128. so it is a mess on 128, but the most difficult spot on this night every year is the pike. you can see it is allred from boston all the way as you head out to worcester. there was a big accident near auburn again what they want you to know is if you have to travel for thanksgiving tonight or tomorrow, you're going to want to go not between the hours of four and 8:00 p.m. you want to go very early or very late because again this combined holiday traffic rush combined with regular traffic tuesday before thanksgiving is always the busiest night and it's only 5:00 so things are expected to get much much worse, they are watching the
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you here and we will bring you more coming up live at 6:00. a lot of good information there. let break it down for one point. the headline here if you're going to go out, what's the time to go? >> reporter: they want you to go not between the time of four and 8:00 p.m., so if you can go after 8:00 p.m., if you can go at 9:00 at night or very early tomorrow morning -- the best advice is to go early, get the kids in the car seven or 8:00 in the morning, hit the road and be gone for the holiday, just don't want to go during the busy time as the kids get out of school, a lot of kids have a half day tomorrow, that will be another busy time, but easier. 5:00.
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people were hit in a parking lot. sky eye were on the scene just a little while ago. there are reports of at least one person has been taken to the hospital by med flight. we have a crew to the scene and will get you new information as soon as we get it. >> the weather was cold out there today but the sunshine made it feel so much nicer. >> live look at logan airport where there are no weather related delays and even the clouds are staying away. we want to check in with the fisher. >> reporter: calm conditions, on. everyone traveling from new england to the south a great couple of days to get to your location. it is forted two in boston,
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low techs 19 to -- temps 19 to 26. looking across the northeast breaking down the travel over the next couple of days up toward maine or downtown philly, it's getting warmer, you don't have to worry about that bone chilling cold that we have many years on friday. in fact will top 60-degrees on friday. will took a look at the next chance of rain coming up. you can download the android app for free. the state accident warning u.s -- state department is warning u.s. citizens, to be aware of your surroundings.
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likely to have happen in the next few months. so what is being done the keep you safe? >> reporter: david for one thing more police here at logan airport and it does not seem this morning has stopped travelers with going head with their traditions. signs giving some some peace of mind. holiday travel takes on a different tone this week. so many of us have to do it but after the state department terrorism alert many of us don't want to do it. >> just try to be vigilant of my surroundings, make sure i don't get in a bunch of crowded areas. >> reporter: police have ramped up at the airport, and more.
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>> we are trying to up our security levels. >> reporter: amtrak has told passengers to expect more crowds here too. the fbi is urging police to retrain in drills like this one in a new york city subway station. it revealed major problems with under ground communications. they say that's also been a problem at mbta stations but authorities here have addressed it. >> there are companies that provide special equipment that allow enter operate ability. >> reporter: security experts recommend you do not cancel your holiday plans, the more
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eyes the more helpful. you know the slogan, you see something you say something. if you are headed here this weekend, expect to hear it again. . thank you. with some breaking news in tonishia was hit by a blast carrying a presidential guard. no one has taken blame for the explosion. two russian pilots eject just in time when a plane was shot down over turkey, tonight nato is calling for calm. turkey says it was in their air space at the time and says they were told to leave 21 times within minutes. president vat mir putin is
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that will have serious consequences. another assault in the city's business school district was planned by the paris ring leader. they are charging the owner of the apartment building for housing a ring leader. and police are looking for this man, they say he was involved in the deadly attacks, and he was at one of the cars at the deadly attacks. president obama met today with french president hollande. >> reporter: coalition companies are being told they
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and tonight, french president francois holland is saying it. >> u.s. assistance has supported recent french strikes in syria and we are going to keep stepping up to coordination. >> reporter: prompting france to ramp up airstrikes where syria, the obama administration says russia must change it mission in syria and focus on isis and not their president ala sad. >> iran and russia supporting assad. >> reporter: hollande will
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meet next week with putin. russian fighter jets have been hitting syrian targets, but the white house says it is to help assad survive against the very rebels the u.s. is backing. it is more complicated now after the plane was shot down by turkey. several people hit by a car in a busy shopping center parking lot. let's get to julie lonchek. >> reporter: sadly we can tell you three pedestrians struck, we learned one of them has since died. the vehicle involved an older model buick it was just towed away. police tell me it was driven by a woman in her 80s. for whatever reason that woman careened into the wall. you can see the damage where
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three men were on the sidewalk there. this elderly woman hit all three. i'm told at least one went airborne. at least one was taken by med flight but can sadly tell you one of the pedestrians has died. we don't know the extent of the elderly woman's injuries. thethe store outside here is closed. all right. julie, terrible story. a play that was called by tom brady has as a lot of people talking. what rex ryan is saying. >> reporter: and a local woman want thanksgiving off so badly that she is battling to have
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no night off for patriots while the rest of us celebrate their win against the bills, they are making sure that a lot of people have a happy thanksgiving, they are handing out holiday food baskets to those in need. and we were there as they packed up those favorites. this holiday could not be the same without that gift. i know you are going to have much more on this event. but lets first talk about the big injuries again last items. >> reporter: but, i tell you, the guys are dropping like
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flies, dobson, am and dole amendola went down as well. he had an mri on his left knee. he had to leave the game after this punt play. looked like he tweaked it earlier. he had nine catches, 117 yards, hopefully he's not out long. he's become the patriots go to guy. they're going to have to get healthy in a hurry, because there's still a long road head of them. the referees for awful last night -- >> reporter: atrocious. i don't remember ever seeing something like that. you got to see the play. pats opening drive of the second half. a rev blue an inadvertent whistle after he through the ball.
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been a 69-yard touchdown pass. they thought amendola already had possession of the ball when the whistle blue even though it was a split second before he even caught it so the referees trying to make up for the mistake they made and even made another mistake it. >> you could hear brady calling out his line of place, at one point you could hear him calling out" rex ryan, rex ryan." >> reporter: well, remember" omaha, omaha"? >> yeah,. >> reporter: we were at the press box and hear tom brady call out a name and it just happened to be the buffalo bill's head coach's name. >> there were a lot of things
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books, so that's one of them. >> he was calling what -- my name? >> were you aware of that? >> he likes me, i know that. >> rex ryan. offense. >> we have a lot of unusual terms. i think we run the gamut. that one is pretty unique. >> reporter: now you have to wonder if he will call out gary cube cubiak next. here at the goodwill headquarters, we'll have much more at 6:00. a lot of baskets to be handed out, to 220 families.
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showing up for the fun night for everyone. we'll be saying" eric fisher, eric fisher ." >> reporter: i think i could get used to that. hope everyone is happy with this weather lately. there's been so few storms to worry about. 42-degrees in the city, very dry air in place, chilly temperatures all across the northeast, but not quite as cold. we will be a few degrees warmer. that air is residing much over the northeast. duel airs of high pressure system are controlling the whole weather situation for us. we won't have any active weather until at least friday night. upper teens to mid 20s, in boston low.
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we are going to add ability 3- degrees to our high temperatures. lots of sun sheen again, highs mainly in the mid 40s. looking at high temperatures 47 in new taunten. high pressure system is just off to our east tomorrow. on thursday thanksgiving day our winds are a little more southerly that will allow us to work our way into the weekend. friday when we have deep southerly winds i think a good chance of topping 60-degrees. the rain showers won't arrive until late friday night. upper 30s mid 40s for all the big riflery games on thanksgiving day.
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compared to the last couple of days that's going to feel really comfortable. it's the middle of the nation we are watching this system. eyes and snow in the southern planes, little rock, st. louis, thanksgiving day itself. if you want to catch some of the good deals on friday morning, looks like temps fall back into the 40s. there's your full accuweather seven day. 40s a cool weekend to maybe go pick up that christmas three. an old tradition of mine. a local woman wants off so badly she is taking on the world's biggest online company to get it. and a bullet going right into a man's house.
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>> reporter: kacameelkarrigan would like to be home with her family. >> i feel like billion dollars companies can give their employees two days off a year. >> reporter: massachusetts blue laws mandate that retail stores close on the two holidays. amazon may be online but she believes it's a retailer just the same and the warehouse should not be open thursday. >> to me, the 40 centers and the full fulfillment centers are the same. >> reporter: packages are loaded and unloaded on these trucks. she says that will be happening
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>> and i asked why if ups and the postal service isn't operating why we are open? because the packages as far as i can tell aren't going to be moving anywhere that day. >> reporter: she has appealed to the attorney general -- >> we'll take a look at it, but i really don't have anything to say about it right now. >> reporter: so you're really making a stand here? >> yeah, i am trying to, i hope it just doesn't cost me my job. >> it will be interesting to see what happens. >> a lot of people were wondering about a case. a bullet passes through a homeowner's window and why he is so worried this could happen again. >> i have to try to maintain myself because if he hears me
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