live from the channel 4 studios in boston wbz now is at noon starts right now. >> right now at noon tom brady ron gronkowski and patrick wrapping up the final press conference before the afc chapel iionship game. consider championship game but the storm we have been talking about is coming together. the snow is not flying but a large portion of the east coast is getting prepared. >> bat op down the hatches. the nation's capital bracing for round 2 of winter weather just last night.

their wheels with just an inch of snow. traffic was backed up for hours with dozens of accidents. so now washington, d.c. is bracing for a historic storm. >> that takes the -- takes thepressure off us. let's go over to danielle niles what do we expect up here? >> well i have to say the brunt of the storm is going to pass to the south. we are on the edge. we have got winter storm warnings up from northern mississippi to new york city where the blizzard watch is expanded across new jersey and the mid atlantic. so blizzard watch meaning visibilities is reduced to a quarter of a mile or less for 3 or more hours. where is the storm now? up now. so we have a big upper-level low that's spinning near missouri and thunderstorms starting to fire now along the gulf coast states. the storm is going to continue over the next several hours. kind of intensifying here and redeveloping off the carolina and delmarva coastline. snow arrives by the time we get

the philadelphia new york city area. for us, we are quiet until then. snow arrives from south to north by the time we get to saturday evening. there may be some mixing that occurs in southeastern massachusetts and out of here by the time we get to early on sunday morning wrapping up. so snowfall totals topping out around 2 feet in parts of virginia stretching back up to dc and felly more like a foot. any jog further north could bring more amounts. for most of us and in fact, we may see a little if anything in parts of northern massachusetts. we will look at what we expect in about 10 minutes from now. >> if you have travel plans airlines asked you to switch before the storm hits. delta southwest and american earls among those waiving fees for flight changes. air carriers warned cancellations and major delays

you can get the most up-to-date weather information including updates on the storm any time with the cbs boston weather app app stores. tom brady and company are going to be hitting the field for one of the final workouts championship. >> brady and gronk spoke to the media for the last time in foxboro before heading west. susie steimle is live with more on how brady is preparing for the showdown with peyton manning. chris. as always, there's a lot of talk about that tom brady peyton manning rivalry. he does address that and they met each other 16 times four of those in the playoffs and gronk got his first shot at podium you will hear him after brady. >> the quality of the players and coaches makes it a great team and organization and they have been that way for a long time. so, they have a great tradition

lot of good bronco teams beat them a couple times, but they beat us most of the time so iwould love to get to that number 3 in the win column this weekend. >> wow. a podium. i am big time. >> how do you like it? >> it's been a dream 6 years and last year was great but onto a new year and we have the afc championship game and just want to go out there and perform to my peak and go out there and do what i got to do to help out the team. >> reporter: he likes the podium with his first shot at it. and you know this is the patriots of course we can't just be talking about football. this is a team that has a nabbing for making the news for -- knack for making news for other reasons this week was a positive one darius fleming rescued a woman from her car butthat set off gossip sites that questioned whether or not

forward to let people know he did help her out. >> really. >> reporter: she department want to show her face but she did want to set the record straight. >> why would someone make this story up? that's -- a elaborate tale. >> reporter: tuesday news began circulating darius fleming saved a woman from a burning car. not long after the rumor mill picked up. gossip sites suggested he made it up. so the woman he helped came forward. >> i hope this clarifies things. he absolutely should be recognized. >> reporter: after practice last thursday, fleming saw a woman trapped in her car on the side of the of route 1. he kicked in the window and pulled her to safety. she was not hurt. but he was. >> i had glass on my legs and they got that out and a couple x-rays to make sure there's no more glass. >> reporter: he ended up with 22 stitches in the leg two days before the playoffs. that didn't stop him against kansas city.

another example of outsiders demonizing the patriots. >> no one likes out. >> reporter: why is that. >> because we win. success. some people are envious and resentful and jealous and you have to rise above that i think. >> reporter: fans here at gillette tell us that's why the mantra is they hate us because they ain't us. fans and players turn all their attention to the afc championship on sunday. live in foxboro, susie steimle wbz news. back to you. >> thanks so much. we have team coverage for the afc championship. dan roche and steve burton and kate merrill will be there. wbz is the official patriots station. we will start you off with live two hour edition of patriots game day at noon kick off at 3 followed by the 5th quarter tv38. breaking news right now.

been an arrest in another -- and another bomb threat at methuen high school. police say a 15-year-old freshman was arrested. the student was taken into police custody without any incident. we will continue to follow the story for you and bring you more as it continues to develop. also developing right now millford high school and shining -- milford high school and shining star preschool is close as police investigate a threat latest in a string of threats across the region. authorities say they are trying to see if they could be coming from the same place. >> we don't know if they are connected. we have detectives working on this particular threat along with the fbi from the drug terrorism -- joint terrorism task force and state police detectives. >> police tell us they closed the schools out of an abundance of caution saying it was easier to search without 1200 students a backpacks on campus. >> reporter: a hudson man due in court facing--

a hudson man due in court facing charges. jason terrio hit a 25-year- oldman walk along the road killinghim. the victim is patton stratton and the crash is still under investigation. the blackstone woman accused of causing the deaths of two infants in a house of squaller is trying to get murder charges thrown out. police say they found skeletal remains of three babies in erica marie's home last september. the 31-year-old is facing murder charges and other charges as well. murray's lawyer says she has mental health issues. police in milton say a person is in custody accused of a attacking a man outside this dunkin donuts last night on granite avenue. the victim was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. police say they found the suspect at a nearby gas station. look at this. a taxi cab bursting into flames and it's all caught on camera. the driver managed to get out and helped save a passenger

look at video now and a nearby witness captured the video as crews rushed in to put those flames out. we are told an elderly woman was riding in the back seat and needed help getting out of the taxi. >> his only concern was her safety. and that he was pretty heroic and took care of her needs before anything else and got her inside the building. so, she was very grateful to him. >> extremely good news there. nobody was hurt. switching to campaign 2016 and a growing lead in the republican race for president in new hampshire. the latest poll showing donald trump up more than 20 points over ted cruz. jeb bush and marco rubio are battling it out for third. and former president bill clinton is hoping his appearance in new hampshire will help his wife's campaign. recent polls show bernie sand wears big lead over hillary clinton. tonight governor baker will give the first state of the state address. topics are expected to include

the bipartisan efforts from the past year like overhalls of thembta, department of children and families and rmv. governor baker plans to detail lets of his budget propose -- elements of his budget proposal that will be released next week. you can watch the state of the commonwealth on wbz starting at 7:30. right now another roller coaster for wall street. let's look live at the big bort. board and see the dow up 258 points which is some good news. this comes after some huge sell offs yesterday which had the dow down at one point over 500 dollars. it did rebound a little bit so up around 260 this noontime is good news from the new york stock exchange. >> thank you for being with us this noon. coming up, deflategate part 2. state police were rushing footballs and air pressure gauges to gillette. >> also ahead, combating distracted driving. the new rules being considered right here in massachusetts and

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and i approve this message. join the fight to take back our government. welcome back. state police now confirm they had to rush footballs and air pressure gauges from boston to foxboro just in time for the patriots chiefs game.

them behind at the hotel. police say a hyatt employee called them and a trooper had to drive the ball down to foxboro. footballs to be used by the kickers arrived about an hour before the game and ironically the mistake happened just two days before the anniversary of the deflate gate scandal. of course it's onto denver and one local company is sending a care package to peyton manning ahead of the afc championship. sons of liberty spirit has sent a bottle of whiskey to the qb with the message for him to enjoy it when he is watching the super bowl from home. >> a box of tissues too maybe. >> a box of tissues. there you go. and we know patriots have the best fans around. >> and today we are introducing you to one lifelong fan. this is 99-year-old jo guenard cheering for the patriots since the team came into exenceist she moved to foxboro in 1929. more than 40 years before the team got there.

it's not because she has crush on tom brady. >> i like them all. i can't say i really have a favorite. i like them all. >> most of the girls like tom brady though. >> oh no. i don't. i like what's his name gronk >> reporter: gronk. >> i like him too. >> love her and get this jo has a custom patriots jersey theteam gave to her to celebrate what it calls her attitude and the way she lives life. she is pretty awesome. >> that she is. >> and the cbs station in din denver is challenging us to better fans. >> we know the answer but we want to prove our point with our battle of the fans go to cbs boston facebook page and look for the battle the fans photo right there on the top of the facebook page and you can like it and share it to show and spread the photo many, many times and don't forget, share your photos with us on cbs boston.com and there's link at the top of the home page for

>> no contest there i think in terms of devoted fans. >> ants morning anchors are starting a smack talk. >> i noticed that on twitter. it's starting. >> all right. eye on the storm when we play this music. >> you know something is coming. >> something is brewing and it's a big storm this time. especially for the mid atlantic and so for us it's tricky call we will get grazed by the storm that is out in eastern texas. there's a lot of upper revel energy and a lot of moisture with this thing. and it's starting to tap the gulf of mexico for some of the moisture. areas of snow through missouri and kansas and nebraska but we have seen blossoming thunderstorms across the southeast and there's a he threat for severe weather through the remainder of the day today. along the gulf coast states. by tomorrow the northern extent of the snow is northward so coming into dc by tomorrow

concerns too from north south carolina into north carolina saturday morning the snow is coming in new york city. it goes from light blue and snowfall. storm will intensify off the delmarva coastline and pass south and east nantucket saturday night. what it means for us is saturday morning's fine and saturday into the midday early right. areas of snow advancing from south to north saturday evening and there may be some concerns in the outer cape and then notice the farther north you go there's nothing. that is very sharp cut off a here in terms of the snowfall. and on the backside we may flip back over to snow on the cape as it pulls away from the region early on sunday morning. no change in terms of the early estimate. we are 48 hours out. low impact with a inch ofp or less in northern massachusetts a sharp cut off and we are thaig few inches possible from boston to near providence and a highest risk of to 6 inches along the south coast back over

think about it. if the storm tracks farther south we are going to have to shift farther south and the same respect if it comes farther north and we will bump everything farther northward but the trend has been to suppress everything some of the moisture out along the south coast. want to talk about the wind. wind gusts projection 45 to 55 miles per hour from the northeast and then the wind behind the storm is going to shift out of the north. by sunday morning. and so, the strongest winds is directly at the shoreline especially from southern plight am -- plymouth to the cape. i wouldn't be surprised to see a isolated gust around 60. that's a strong wind that will churn up the seas. the seas will build and on top of that we have a full moon. so the weekend tides to watch saturday night at 11:0 #. whenever we have -- 11:02. whenever we have coastal flooding it's two hours before or after that.

north and plymouth towards sandwich and cape cod bay may have to watch that. until then the weather is quiet. 30 in boston right now. but there's a wind out there. so the real feel is 17 tonight clear and blustery and we drop into the teens and the real feel is in the single digits waking up tomorrow morning. there's the weekend storm in and out of here quickly. quiet start to next week. little moderation into the 40s by tuesday and cooler again into the 30s by wednesday. chris. >> you said places like dc facing a historic snowstorm about are they readych last night an inch of snow that's all it is an inch of snow set the city into a tailspin. craig boswell has more. >> reporter: hundreds of crashes across the dc metropolitan area made the commute nearly impossible. backups lasted late into the night. the cause just an inch of snow that froze over. >> it's crazy out here. i know it seems like a little snow but it's really, really slick out here.

better this morning but not much. truck drivers who had reached their shift limits who to pull over blocking lanes of some highways. >> fort bragg north carolina 12 hours ago i left at 7. got into traffic here. >> reporter: president obama also got stuck in the mess. the motorcade skidded along roads he's returned to the white house and last night dusting is nothing compared to what is ahead a major winter storm that could drop 2 feet of snow on the sit they over the next couple days. the mayor of dc apologized for wednesday night's debacle and says the city is ready for the next storm with 30,000 tons of salt 800 workers and 500 plows. >> i lived in dc most of my life and i don't know i lived through a forecast like this. extremely large storm it will last for 36 hours. >> reporter: much of the northeast is in the blizzard's cross hairs. storm surge is a big concern

d.c. and virginia have declared a state of emergency before the storm even arrives. craig boswell cbs news washington. today bay state lawmakers are taking on distracted driving. the massachusetts senate is debating a bill that would allow you to use a phone only if you use hands free technology. the bill would make it illegal to program a gps while driving. >> coming up, a hometown boy comes home. >> what has mark wahlberg in

marco rubio. he ran for senate saying he opposed amnesty... then he flipped, and worked with liberal chuck schumer to co-author the path to citizenship bill. he threatened to vote against it. and then voted for it. he supported his own dream act and then he abandoned it. marco rubio. just another washington politician you can't trust. jeb bush. he's a leader, so you always know where he stands. right to rise usa is responsible for the

two bay state women will compete in next season of survivor. >> 3 nd season pits the brain brawn and beauty tribesagainst each other. aubrey bracco and julie soloowski will compete in another tribe. mark wahlberg making a quick trip home. >> the actor met with governor baker yesterday for what aides called a friendly talk. he has been in town to prepare for a upcoming movie about the boston marathon bombings. yesterday he was spotted at dorchester pub with danny keeler the boston police officer who was in command at

key role in the hunt for the tsarnaev brothers. still ahead a. new view of a magical movement. >> the northern lights like you

now to an out of this world view literally. >> this could take your breath away it do to our produce here is talking all about this -- produce here is talking aboutall about this. you can see the beautiful lights rate ate from the earth. the aurora bore alous happenswhen a solar stream hits the earth's atmosphere. >> and back here on earth we are bracing for snow aren't we. >> i was waiting for the iss -- waving to the iss. by. >> always tracking it but the snow for us is going to be more southern new england. maybe a little if anything in northern mag shutes and ramps up along the south coast of the still time to pinpoint the exact track there's issues with the coastline with a coastal flooding and gusty wind and thesun is out by sunday afternoon. >> join us for the next

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