and i approve this message. live from the channel 4 studios in boston, wbz news starts right now. >> breaking news at 5:30. an explosion at a chemical facility. at least four people are hurt. all four critically injured. breaking news right now. emergency crews hazmat teams rat dow chemical on willow street. >> and we are joined with the news newest information coming in ken. >> reporter: we are setting up for a news conference that you just mentioned that will be happening with state fire

at6. behind meow can see it's a traffic jam of emergency vehicles and emergency personnel pour into the industrial park here in north andover where they are focused on the dow chemical plant over this rise right here. could fit more vehicles up here all night affair. 2:30 this afternoon it was powerful explosion here at the plant. triggered by the heating of the chemical try methel aluminium and we don't have more specifics on that. but the blast was fourful enough it did plenty of damage and sparked a chemical fire and injured four workers. three of those workers thought to be in critical condition were rushed to lawrence general and med flighted to boston hospitals to mgh and one brigham and women's and a fourth apparently in critical condition remains atlawrence general.

massive response. crews in protective suits can be seen going and coming from the building as workers huddled in front. one came by and said simply that he heard a loud explosion. most of the others declined to speak. we are told by official there's there's no chemical cloud or anything of that nature and interestingly back in 2013 there was also a fatal chemical explosion here involving the chemical trimethylindium so a different chemical than what we are hearing today. in that instance a worker was burned over 50% of his body and was killed. we are expecting a news conference here from state fire marshal stephen cohen and local fire official to give us a update on what happened this afternoon. we will bring it to you live. ken macleod, wbz news. >> thank you. also breaking wall streetseeing the worst drop in three months.

because of ongoing concerns about china's can i. the markets -- economy. for the markets it was the wort start to the year. >> now at 5:0. >> it's -- 5:0. >> it's scarry -- 5:30. >> it's scary i am glad he is gone. >> an i-team investigation reveals a principal quit after police caught him in an online sting. >> investigators say he was trying to chat with a 13-year- old girl and won't facecrl nam charges. but as christina hagger reports he is out of a -- hager reports he is out of a job. >> reporter: a letter was sent to the parents about the former principal ed rozmiarek using a school issued laptop to send sexually explicit messages to a girl he thought was 13. she assures no students or other employees were involved. we find the allegations to be totally repugnant and disgusting. >> we need to turn into a learning tool for the children

responsibility not only for teens but for adults. >> reporter: rozmiarek's resume show him in key leadership roles over the last decade head matter at lowell high from 2010 to 2013 and four years before that, assistant principal at north redding high. in lowell where rozmiarek worked before coming hoare i spoke with a school committee member who used to work as a teacher under him. he said there were no red flags nothing suspicious and i am shocked he said. and in north redding where he worked before that, the superintendent says there were never any disciplinary issues. after the foundation perverted justice reported catching him in a sting operation, police asked rozmiarek why and henceed -- answered it was very exciting. >> i think he needs to be charged with something. >> reporter: but rozmiarek not being charged because according to the district attorney, he never tried to set up a meeting with a minor. it will affect his well established career in

after he resigned last month, he was serve with an order not to trespass on swampscott school property. christina hager wbz news. >> the mother of murder new hampshire journalist james foley is writing a book. foley was the free lance reporter kidnapped in syria and executed. that kill shown in a horrific isis video two years later. the publisher saying the book includes her memories and interviews with people who are close to her son. it will also cast a critical eye on hon -- on how the government responded to the kidnapping and it is scheduled to be released next year. lisa a. wild scene near san diego as el nino flooding is causing big problems on the roads and look at this. a white lamb bore goony of all -- lamborghini of all cars making its way through the flood waterch the car cost about 200,000 dollars and this high off the ground but makes it through the the intersection. the threat of med slides forced

forced some from their homes. chris martinez is in california. >> reporter: powerful waves up to 16 feet are battering the california coast as the el nino related storms move out and another one is brewing in the pacific. >> there's possibility of did -- there's possibility of a fairly -- there's possibility of a fairly week system drveg -- there's a possibility of a fairly week system. >> reporter: here in new hall about 30 miles north of los angeles emergency crews evacuated 10 mobile homes in this neighborhood after heavy rain triggered mud slides. brandon hanson was one of the residents who fled and was allowed to return thursday morning.hanson says mud began to wash from the burned hillside surrounding his mobile home on tuesday. >> started to rise and i told my son pack up. let's go and got them out of here. >> reporter: crews are working around the clock to clear streets and protect homes. despite the damage, the storms are rebuilding the depleted reservoirs. la county collected billions of

and the lexington reservoir in northern california gained a foot of water in just 24 hours. >> the good news is that the watersheds are beginning to be saturated so we are starting to see more run off in our reservoirs. >> reporter: the storm is also giving the region snow pack a boost. jump-- dumping as much as a foot of fresh podder in the mountains. chris martinez new hall california. >> last year there were 10 weather disasters to tha caused a billion dollars or more in damages. among them record breaking snowfall but overall 2015 was the second warmest year on record in the u.s. eric is here with a closer look tonight. >> it was quite the flip. a year of extremes. around here a brutal start. it was the coldest january northeast. if you look at the first half of the year, very cold in the northeast and great lakes. but very warm out west. then if you look at the second half of the year, july through december, the whole country was warm and all the red states had

year on record. that includes december and this is the month that put the country over the top and got it to the second warmest spot. 29 states had the warmest december and five others a top five warmest and it's extreme end to 2015 and this year things are coming down this january. we will look at the forecast heading towards the weekend in a couple minutes. republican presidential hopeful ted cruz is trying to silence critics who say his birthplace makes him ineligible to be president. donald trump for example is verypublicly questions whether he is actually a natural born citizen e was born in canada to an american mother and cruz insist it's very simple. >> the child of a u.s. citizen born abroad is a natural born citizen. and people will continue to make political noise about it but as a legal matter it's straightforward. >> kentucky senator rand paul is trying to get in on this and trailing in the polls and jumped in on the question

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we enjoy the pictures from quebec a traffic camera capturing the images of a snowy owl in flight. it's in the province official bird sightings of the snowy owl are very rare and that picture is close to perfect. >> i like how it is looking into the camera like it knew what it was doing. >> that's right. >> a photographer -- a lot of photographers new hampshire wish the snowy owls would look at them. and that's one of my favorite birds. >> and you see them at logan with some frequency. >> every once in a while. >> i am petary filed of all birds except for owls and they are vicious. >> fairly fierce and they attack people on the the streets. >> you be careful. take it away eric. >> what's going on out there today? beautiful day to walk out. more fair than fowl would you say. 43 degrees. that's a david wade joke i have been hanging out with you too long.

watching right now a very spotent storm off to the south and east curled up. weather is game of miles and if it's 150 miles further west the east coast have woo have a different weather story it may have a name become a named tropical system over the next 48 hours and if that were the case it would be alex and has not been a named tropical system in january since 1978. we have been living on the fringe provide agonize sunset. cirrus clouds moving over the state. temperatures pretty comfortable in the 30s for the most part and starting to see a few 20s show up across northern worcester county and southwestern new hampshire. not a chilly night everyone below freezing. 18 to 25 for most suburbs and boston down to about # 1 and partly cloudy skies. -- 31 and part cowedy -- cloudy skies -- cloudy skies. the moisture moves in and is trapped under the dry air and we will have fog and low clouds moving in during the day tomorrow. there's just enough moisture and it's not going to be lot,

freeze on surfaces around the region. so that's going to be the main concern from friday morning through the afternoon into friday night and even into the day on saturday. not a lot actually falling. but just enough moisture to make things slick. so high temperatures tomorrow you notice above freezing here eastern massachusetts southeastern mass no icing concerns. once you get outside of 95, this is where we could have pockets of subfreezing air especially in the morning that could create a few icy areas. so what we are watching here is a little spotty drizzle in green and as you move into the pink zone that could freeze on contact and this is all through the day tomorrow and into tomorrow night and saturday. so a long duration events that doesn't add up to a lot but causes the potential of hazardous travel so i urge caution tomorrow morning into saturday. we could see a few snowflakes mixing in on saturday morning as the air cools down a little bit more. gray skies to start the weekend. and a much more significant storm moves in on sunday and this one is much warmer. it's going to bring a plume of 50s into southern new england

so a pretty good soaker on sunday good movie day and a few rumbles of thunder. half inch to 1 1/2 inches of rainfall widespread and we could see record warmth here too. record in boston is 56. forecasting 54 degrees. saturday is the chilly day. 30s inland and low 40s near the coast a few icy areas sunday we warm up in a wind swept rain and that rain goes all the way up through northern new england. so if you want to hit the slopes best days are tomorrow and saturday and on sunday we start to see the changeover. here's accu-weather 7-day forecast next week. a chilly start temps fall all day on monday and cold tuesday into wednesday and we are watching the chance of a storm to develop nearby on wednesday. could bring us snowflakes a little too far out for specifics on that one. >> nothing terribly cold. >> cold but not like in. >> mostly just winter and not like last winter at this point. >> good. >> appreciate it. can you improve on perfection. >> as much as we love denim an m.i.t.

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down here and see they are getting set for a long night at the dow chemical plant and sealed the street off on willow street. aid small industrial park. let's go -- it's a small industrial park. let's go back to what happened. it's powerful blast at the dow chemical plant. apparently, triggered by the chemical trimethylaluminium. we don't have specifics on how it went down. but the, plosion was powerful enough -- explosion was powerful enough that sparked a chemical fire and injured four workers. three of those workers were rushed to lawrence hospital and med flighted to boston hospital's two to mgh and one to brigham and women and the fourth at lawrence general. it triggered a massive response to fire fighters and decontamination teams. crews in protective suits were seen coming and go from the building. stunned work he is huddled in front and the couple that just

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