. right now at 4:30, fake bomb threats disrupting skoals in 15 towns. the investigation underway this morning. >> and scary moments in a t station. two men shot the suspect on the run. >> and the state of the city mayor marty walsh detailing boston's progress and protesters make sure their voices are herd. >> from the channel 4 studios in boston, this is wbz this morning. >> good morning everybody. great to have you with us. kathryn hauser. >> i am chris mckinnon it's only wednesday but many are looking ahead to a possible

>> that's to be prepared. we should note aid close call whether we get a direct hit or glancing blow. let's go to the expert danielle niles here with a closer look at the forecast. we wonder how it will go. >> looks like the mid atlantic will get the brunt of the storm in terms of jackpot snowfall and the time frame for us is later on saturday. there's been indication that we may hold off the snow until saturday afternoon or potentially into the evening. and it would last into sunday before tapering off. the location for the jackpot mid atlantic to here in southern new england. this is not a northern new england or north country ski storm. the track is going to be likely south and east of nantucket. the question is how close does it come and because there is a full moon that means the tides are going to be astronomically high. even if the storm passes offshore, we get some of the onshore winds that may kick up the seas and the surf heading

details to iron out over the next couple days. until then it's about the cold. temperatures 0 degrees at logan airport. the real feel is 6 degrees at northwest wind kicking up. 16 miles per hour but gusting higher than that. hook at that worcester airport. 3 below zero what it feels like. single digits readings out there. winds gusting over 20 miles per hour and higher worcester 37 miles per hour in nan tact 40 miles per hour. so the skies are clear. we have had a couple clouds trying to skirt by the outer cape. other than that we are in for bright sunshine today. the wend won't be as -- the wind won't be as strong as yesterday and we will rise into the 20s but the real feel is in the teens staying at heft partly cowedy as we -- at least partly cloudy on the ride home. >> thanks very much. breaking news overnight a deadly attack at a university in pakistan. at least 19 people have been killed. gunmen stormed the university shortly after it opened for morning classes.

in and a gun battle began. military officers say the attackers have been contained. and four have been killed. so far no one claimed responsibility for the attack. also this morning schools are opened today back here at home as the fbi investigates bomb threats in nearly two dozen communities. all of the threats have turned out to be hoaxes. >> it's been a very frustrating few days for parents and students as you can imagine. the untraceable phone threats are happening a distrcts across the state. 7 schools on friday and then-- districts across the state. yesterday. schools were swept by police and deemed safe. in other towns hike arlington students were sent home early. police are look to see if the threats are connected and parents are worried. >> it's scary and you have to take it serious. >> we found out through a phone call and the kids didn't know so it was scary knowing that happened and they were still there.

in new jersey and maryland. police say bomb threats are serious business. you can get up to 20 years in jail and a 50,000 dollar fine. an unconscious man pulled from his burning home in scituate. fire broke out before 8 last drive. firefighters couldn't get inside to the man because of clutter inside the home. hospital. he was last checked in serious condition. we continue following developing news from hawaii. coast guard is suspending the search for 12 missing marines. coral christopher orhando is among those missing. it's now a recovery mission. marines why flying in two helicopters that crashed last week over 5 days searching crews recovered 4 empty life rafts and debris from the choppers but no signs of the marines. officials say the decision to suspend the search was

>> i hope that the efforts the knowledge that so many were willing to put forward so much effort to try to bring the marines home will provide solace in the future. >> a memorial for the missing marines will be held in hawaii on friday. right now boston police looking for the man who shot two people inside a t station. terrified riders captured thechaos as it unfolded. good news is both victims are expected to recover. wbz louisa moller has the latest on video you saw first on four. >> i heard what was a shot it was a firecracker or shot. and then what i saw was the people in my car started recoiling. >> reporter: it was a routine hop on the mbta blue line when martti witnessed a frightening and tbriewlg sight. >> as you can see there's the individual here on the ground. >> reporter: two men gunned

the aftermath captured on the cell phone. >> and second over here. >> reporter: it started with a verbal fight between two men on the inbound blue line train. the fight turned violent as the train was pulling into the station. >> one male pulled out a firearm and fired two rounds at the victims. >> reporter: a 29-year-old shot as he was getting off the train. a 43-year-old man who police believe was not riding on the train shot on the platform. >> we don't know his involvement if at all. >> reporter: both sent to the hospital with nonlife- threatening injuries. all of it happening to the horror of at least 15 passengers on the train car. >> the couple-- a couple ladies came on our car crying. and saying someone had been shot one of the ladies said someone was shot in the face. >> reporter: police are on the hunt for the suspect like passengers are recovering from the experience. >> we didn't know whether we were in the middle of a terrorist incident. >> reporter: police are

surveillance video and witness statements. donald trump and sarah palin will hit the campaign trail together after she threw her support behind the gop front-runner. >> this is going to be so much fun. i am here because like you i know that it is now or never. i am in it to win it. >> trump's campaign calls her endorsement an honor. ben carson will resume his campaigning today. he suspended all campaign events yesterday after one of his volunteers was killed in car accident in iowa. the crash on icy roads injured three other campaign workers as well. and in new hampshire there's shakeup for the democrats. the latest poll shows bernie sanders surging ahead of hillary clinton by 27 points. that'ss the largest -- that's his largest lead to date. new hampshire primary is 3 weeks away. marty walsh used his state of the city address to tout successes of the past year.

symphony hall didn't like what schools. wbz political analysts jon keller breaks down the address. >> i am here to report the city ever been. >> reporter: inside symphony mayor. >> save our schools. >> reporter: outside, proof that the walsh way has its detractors. >> the boston public schools are my priority. >> reporter: but walsh acknowledged the anxiety of many parents over funding and school closure issues even as he bemoaned the angry tone of some of the debates. >> it will require a unified effort that's why the conversations around schools concern me. instead of unity we see schools pitted against one another by adults. tonight, i am calling on everyone to come together to back all our children all our teachers and all our schools. >> reporter: walsh's cost cutting efforts and support for

ahead. >> who gets scrod me and you. >> reporter: and even though he never mentioned the collapse 69 summer olympics dream the political lesson a guy as likable as walsh will face intense resistance has seemingly been learned. >> bring to the table not just your own wants but a vision for the commonwealth. find common ground even when you don't agree with everything. protect what we love about our city by sometimes embracing change. reporting. mayor walsh got a big round of applause when he menseed the city landing ge corporate headquarters but the millions in tax breaks has drawn fire from funding star school advocates. patriots one within away from playing in super bowl 50 and this could be the last tango between brady and manning. the two featured on the latest cover of sports illustrated. the afc championship game will be the 1th meeting.

will be without another key member. linebacker mayo will not be part of the game plan. yesterday, the pats placed him on injured reserve with a shoulder injury. he is done for the season. meanwhile, back when the pats took on broncos in november tom brady threw for 280 yards and 3 touchdowns. denver sacked him 3 times and hit him another 9 times. antonio smith said brady is a tough dude and started to trash talk. >> that man is automatic. you are not going to rattle him just because you hit him hard. i tried over the years you know. he's great competitor. you know. he knows it's coming he is going to cry about getting hit but he will take the hit and get up and keep going. >> wbz is the official station of the new england patriots. we have you covered on the afc championship starting tonight

from denver with dan roche steve burton and kate. we will start you off on sunday followed by the 5th quarter post game show on wbz and my tv38. thanks for being with us this morning. coming up on wbz this morning, hundreds of cars ticketed during the snowstorm. >> one city is actually apologizing and making good on a hasty de?ietion and chipotle new perk for employees as they

welcome back it's 4:# 4. a fast-food chain is serving up a new type of french friday and chipotle is changing the sick time policy. future. henna daniels joins us live with the money watch good morning. >> reporter: good morning. dell released the ranking of the most future ready cities. highest ranked was san jose san francisco washington, d.c. and boston. rounding out the top 25 columbus ohio and philadelphia. boston by the way came in at number4.

capital commerce and infratruck sture-- infratruck sture. -- infrastructure. chipotle will announce sick time the idea if sick employees don't come to work it will reduce the chances of customers getting sick. and mcdonald's is taking the classic french fries to the next level. at least in japan. tuesday the company announced a new mcchoco potatoe french fries drizzled with two types of chocolate sauce. no word on whether they plan to test them here in the u.s. >> did you say mcchoco because that's disgusting. >> reporter: i am with you i love fries and chocolate but not together. >> oh, yeah. >> i like sweet and savory but that doesn't appeal to me. >> no thank you. >> just leave it.

something that works, let it alone. thanks very much we will see you next hour. >> i don't know. >> the drizzle of the chocolate was precise. >> it didn't look good in the picture too. i don't know. anyway we need to check the weather. so many people talking about this weekend but this morning we are dealing with choald. >> it's still chilly but the the cold air will be if place the next couple days. that's something we haven't had from storms earlier this season with a lock of cold air coming in and it's going to be quiet until then but it's about the wind gusting over 20 miles per hour still this morning these are the wind gusts 30 mice per hour in worcester and vineyard and nantucket. and that's creating a real feel 6 in the city of boston and 3 below in worcester and single digit readings in manchester and to the cape. the real feel through the afternoon won't be as cold as yesterday. it's going to be chilly, but the wind won't be gusting over 50 miles per hour like in spots yesterday.

going feel like the upper teens and lower 20s as the highs come up to around 30 degrees. we will seementy of sunshine today. now there's snow from chicago back down to kentucky and tennessee right now. this is not our weekend storm. this is going to pass to the south. our storm the energy from it is just coming in to the pacific northwest right now. it's going to come through the rockies and develop into a storm in the southeastern united states. so until then we are quiet. sunshine today, sunshine again tomorrow and it will be breezy and friday the clouds will increase. there's going to be areas of rain towards the gulf and we will tap the gulf of mexico for moisture and a storm is going to redevelop off the carolina coastline and bring areas of snow on northwest side. jackpot for the storm looks to be the mid atlantic where they may see over a foot of snow but we get fringed by the storm as it passes likely somewhere south and east of nantucket saturday night into early on sunday.

it's wednesday so we still have several days to time this out. but the risk of probable snow increases the farther sow you get because it will pass to the south. the highest risk is from just south of boston back down along the south coast. depending on how close it gets we may get a mixing that occurs in the outer cape or nantucket so it's moderate risk and the farther north you go there's going to be very sharp cut off to the northern edge of the precipitation. we may have to squeeze all this down in through southern new england. the farther north you get, this may be a little or no snow event for parts of central and northern new england. quiet until then though so there's no chance of precipitation today. we will be up around 30 degrees so not quite as cold as yesterday. tonight back into the teens and right around 30 again tomorrow too the wind afternoons today

20e to 30 miles per hour and the weekend storm we will be watching every step of the way by monday and tuesday we ga little rebound in terms of temperatures. get the latest on the weekend storm any time with the cbs boston weather app free in the google or apple store. get the video live radar and hour by hour forecast and it's a great tool to have chris. >> it is thanks very much. 4:49. worcester says it will make good on tickets in towing-- and towing fees from the last weekend storm. they issued a parking ban at 11:30 sunday night but didn't post it until later. as a result more than 700 people didn't move the cars and more than half of the people woke up to find they had been towed. >> my first thought my mom told me that the cars are gone and i get stolen? the roads were not that bad at all so i didn't think for a second it was parking ban. >> the city says it should have

will waive tickets and reimburseanyone towed. >> -- towed. a conditionsy man accused of being a online impostor. >> he stole the profiles of local women and what he is accused of doing with them. >> and putting a rivalry aside to honor an injured hockey player.

breaking news overnight a deadly attack at a university in pakistan at least 19 people have been killed.

shortly after it opened for classes this morning. police and soldiers were called in and a gun battle began. military officials say that the attackers have been contained and four of them have been killed. so far, no one has claimed responsibility for the attack. check other top stories on this wednesday morning schools are opened this morning as the fbi investigates fake bomb threats in nearly 2 dozen communities. the untraceable phone threats happening in distrcts across the state. just yesterday. another 7 schools saw them last friday. in billerica schools were swept by police and deemed safe and other schools students were sent home early. also police are looking for the man who shot two people in a busy mbta station in east boston. officers say a fight started on a blue line train one man was shot as he got off.

both are expected to recover. terrified riders captured this on cell phone video the chaos. hear from one wednesday that's coming up at 5. today, attorney general will announce a new plan to fight the opioid abuse by cracking down on illegal prescriptions and dispensing of opioidsch last week house law make airs proved a bill to limit the prescriptions to a 7- day supply. melrose high school is closed today as students there mourn the death of a classmate. grief counselors will be available. officials say the person who was hit by a commuter train monday on venton street and was believed to be a student. the victim's name has not been released. a quincy man is accused of impersonating women and begging men on sex sites to rape them. prosecutors say 45-year-old thomas sheehan you see here stole photos from women's facebook accounts and posed as them on bondage themed websites.

women's addresss and violent descriptions of what should be done a group of women who didn't want to be publicly identified were there for the day in court. >> we all just want to stand up and smile at him let him know it's not just this one victim that we are all here together. >> sheehan's attorney says no women were harold and calls the postings simply fantasy. a show of support for a hockey player badly hurt during a new year's day game. brew apes cade yens will -- bruins and canadiens will autograph and auction their jerseys. washington patriots win indenver is the ultimate road trip. >> and fans have come up with the ultimate way to get there. what used to be a school bus is now a rolling tribute to the serious technology including an hdtv ready to go and high end

>> for a pats fan this is like heaven right. fun. doing. you are i'ming towards up is --aiming towards something and bus. >> that's awesome. >> it is. >> the van has theme music ride of the-- the star wars theme and they plan to play it down to santa clara. that's so cool. >> it's really cool. i am thinking all right, school bus does it have heat and air conditioning? >> maybe. >> they decked it out so they probably do have heat. >> i bet. >> 4:56. two toonie hands melting hearts. >> a more's facebook video gone viral.

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here's something that might make you feel warm and fuzzy before you head out in the cold this morning a mother posted this beautiful video of her newborn twins holding hands as they rest on their dad's chest. babies are just 2 weeks old and they weigh less than two pounds. skin to skin contact in the hospital is a vital part of their treatment. >> that's what they tell you right away how important that is. >> that's a sweet moment. thr so teeny tiny. >> it is. >> sometimes i am like we should hold hands because it's so cold right now. we always do that who has the coldest hands right. >> yeah. it's. >> your top stories traffic and weather straight ahead here on wbz this morning.