investigation is ill underway. >> reporter: fire apparatus has gone in there. i don't know if you can see because it's dark. but where the flashing lights are there's more smoke now being vented out of that building. and this building is a pumping station that pumps a lot of the suesage over to deer island. so it's very, very important and they had a issue almost 7 stories below ground today that gave everyone including 5 employees and firefighters very difficult time. >> at some point, something went wrong and it was an explosionand the subsequent fire. those employees had difficulty breathing irritation to the eyes. >> reporter: five workers 7 stories below ground and a nut island pumping station an explosion and fire and for emergency responders, this was worse case. >> it was taken 6 minutes to get down to the area where the fire was and start to workch. >> reporter: as black smoke billowed from the vents, neighbors could only wonder.

gray smoke low and all of a sudden the black plumes started to come up and it was looking noxious and they told me that that two people were taken out in the ambulance. >> reporter: this facility handle almost half of the sueage in eastern pumps 400 million gallons a day plant. but officials here are confident the explosion won't facility. >> thankfully most of it goes to the gravity and by-pass that will kick in if we need it we will by-pass the station and continue to deer island. >> reporter: so, what's important is the five employees are going to be okay. smoke inhalation the environment and there's not going to be any raw sewage pumped into boston harbor. this as you heard fred talk about they are able to feed by gravity over to deer island. so that's okay. the issue now is apparently there is some hot spots still down there because there's more

can see in here more fire apparatus called in. reporting live -- reporting live bill shields now back to you. >> thank you. skyeye over weymouth war police officer was involved in a crash. no word on his injuries or if anyone else was hurt. also tonight, two big stories involving the mbta. commuters have had enough after construction caused major rush hour. >> and riders can weigh in on whether a price increase is afare hike both stories affect a lot of people. on average more than a million of us ride the t or bus. >> talk affair hike doesn't go over well with wide riders delay. paul burton is live in cambridge. >> reporter: any thought to paying more ride the mbta is upsetting to commuters many who feel the system let them down. tonight riders can voice their strong opinions about potential

spoke to many commuters upset >> unreliable. >> mediocre. >> reporter: commuters take redth red line -- taking the red line are upset. they reported severe delays. hour speed restriction for a portion of the red line. that has cascading impacts across the whole length of the red line for any portion of the red line. >> reporter: speaking at mass d.o.t. fiscal and management control board meet owing physicians say the red line delays that slowed monday morning's commute will impact the evening rush hour as well. and it didn't take long for people to vent frustration on social media. craig tweets just ticked past the one hour mark on my mbta red line ride today. usually takes 20 minutes. this is not delay but failure. >> we are hoping by tomorrow morning as we get into close to that 48 hour period, from when we switched over, we may be

>> reporter: over the past two years red line has come under heavy fire involving infrastructure and aging signal system and delays. >> we are going to have a longdiscussion about the investments put into the line. >> reporter: and now there's talks of potential fare hikes. >> i thought they are not going to raise prices but it's inevitable and i can only hope the service is beter with that but i doubt it will. >> reporter: and that individual we spoke with says he pays 75 dollars a month to ride the mbta thoughts to pay more as much as $84 is unfair. live in boston tonight paul burton wbz news liam back to you. >> thanks. a developing story from everettt police searching for robers who pistol whipped a clerk early morning at a market on broadway. surveillance cameras snapped the pictures of the attack. two men demanded money and began to beat the clerk before running out with the cashch the

the clerk is being treated for head wounds. a whitman man facing charges after shooting at a plow during saturday's storm. bruce o'brien face adjudge today. today. witnesses said they heard several gunshots and o'brien says the plow nearly hit his jeep and says he fired because he and his wife feared for their lives. police say he was drunk at the not hurt. it's the big dig out for parts of the east coast still buried after the week answered deadly winter storm. and lisa hughes is here with the latest on that. lisa. >> reporter: 36 people died in the storm. washington dc got 2 feet of snow. huge cleanup underway there. government offices and schools were shut down again today. bulldoze verse been brought into clen up -- clean up the capital and city is trucking snow to rfk stadium. maryland is still under a state of emergency in baltimore and crews from boston have joined the clean up effort.

tweet and photograph showing boston public's work crew clearing the street. in in you york a his stork storm. know fall total -- historic storm the snowfall missed the all time record by a 10th of an in. schools and offices were opened today. and finally take a look at the jersey shore. the massive storm brought snow and coastal flooding and in some cases, the flooding was worse than it was in hurricane sandy. liam, stale lot to clean up and very -- still a lot to clean up and very slow. >> thanks. logan airport is feeling the effects of the weekend's storm. more than 40 flights were canceled today and there were dozens of delays as well. amtrak works on a mod fight schedule. and -- modified schedule. >> we can't complain and eric you have a very cool picture from the weekend storm. >> yeah. it was so clear outside today satellites what great view over southern new england. i thought it was perfect because it shows you where the blizzard of 2016 ended. so we are looking at the

england in white is where snow covers the ground and here is the bear ground so northwestern connecticut litchfield hills no snow and norwalk connecticut 16in new york 30 inches of snowfall. the sharp cut off the back edge about willburham and concerned curled up. so lowell and sals beery didn't see a flake. i thought it was interesting. -- salisbury didn't see a flake. i thought that was interesting. some 40s are in the forecast. we will look at that coming up in few. you know we had some opportunities but in the end just came up a little short. >> heart broken and home. tom brady and patriots are back in boston after a devastating loss in denver a it up one for fans to -- a tough one for fans to take and tonight the team is talking about the missed chance. steve burton is here with more on that. steve. >> thanks very much. this feeling is going to linger

players but let's be clear, patriots gotoutplayed and even though brady had the weapons back it didn't matter. denver never let up. it was a toughening for tom brady and company last night. they were the favorites to win yet the confetti was for manning and broncos who pulled off theupset. today the team cleaned out lockers and said they were proud of the accomplishments this season but untimately, they came up short. >> it never feels like a successful season unless you win the whole thing. you know. that's what this team is built to do around here. and that's our expectation so you know we are disappointed. >> we da lot of good things and juan lot of games. be a came -- and came up short in the inned. bittersweet. >> matthew slater gives us intion information on players families and what they sacrifice and how he is look home. guys. >> thanks that puts things in perspective.

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from would spot more than a million pictures. >> a m.i.t. remarkable. he took pick ature of the skyline every day for five gardner shows us the work. >> reporter: the apartment gives us a perfect photo opp. he noticed this too. he started to take a few pictures of storms or sun sets when he moved in in 2010 with his camera mounted on the window. >> after taking enough we realized we have several thousand photos and after a couple years 100,000 photos and so i talked to my friends to do

>> reporter: it turned into time-lapse see wednesday as it moved through boston. >> fireworks are interesting- there's weather related issues at the fireworks in july. lot of -- a lot of storm pictures i put on the website people noticed with height ening behind boston the storms happened to happen behind boston on the ocean. and so you get nice effect. >> reporter: not only are the pictures visually stunning but they can be used for important weather research. >> things like what was the temperature that day and what was the weather and than you can see if you can predict these. i still hope that people will be able to use the data to do things hike make it snow in the summer. i am happy people want to use these images for research there's problem of transferring the 5 tara bytes of data but we will figure it out. >> how cool is that if you've

>> a different story. >> and fireworks i got say that view of boston from the mit side is my favorite. beautiful and he captured all our snow. >> it's gorgeous looking into the city there and you've got the river and beacon hill nestled in a great spot. and if you are out there today you see ice on the charles much like last year but you wouldn't see as much snowfall a little blanket nothing like what they have in the mid atlantic look at snow depth here. some of the greatest on this date we have seen in at least 12 years across the united states. and if you compare cities new york has 19 inches today and boston 4 inches and not too bad interesting. cariboo is 8 inches and the top of mount washington has less now. only less than foot and half on top of the rock pile. temperatures tonight are dipping into the upper 20s where snow is deeper. it's fresh and makes for a cold night but look to the south and west 40s at this hour that's all going get pushed in our direction late tonight. so after a quick plummet the first half of the evening

back up by tomorrow morning. here's the set upthis system is going to head up through the great lakes and that's a warmer direction for us. and it's going boost us well into the 40s tomorrow. for tonight a quick drop through the 20s and watching out for areas of refreezing after all the melting today. and then tomorrow,, a little more cloud cover mild but not as bright as what we had today. more clouds and more wind tomorrow and chance for couple rain showers moving through during the afternoon and evening. not too widespread but a fewrain drops the front is into wednesday. for late january. and low 30s for most. and after a rebound after moving up. mid-day cloud increasing mild and windy in the 40s and wind tomorrow about 10 to as high as southwest. and the chance for showers heading towards the evening and sunset creeping closer to 5:00 we are almost there. 48 in boston and 47 in norwood and fitchburg around 45 and

south coast and cape and a lot of melting of the deeper snow pack this is moving offshore on wednesday and we will start the day with clouds and then work in more sunshine. we are near 40 degrees and the trend is all above average. average high is 36 and tomorrow the mildest and head towards the week answered chance for more rain showers and not snow. one thing to watch before we get to the weekend, we have got a storm system developing along the coastline. and the question is does does it phase with this system out of the polar jet stream and become a closer coastal storm or does it graze us and head out to sea. highest chance of impact is towards came cod as well as immediate eastern coastline and the island and right now the track is still a bit to be determined but it's what we will watch heading through the week. it's the only bigger storm system keep tabs on. temperatures running above that average mark all the wayth way through the week wednesday and thursday quiet and a chance for some of the snow especially in the morning on friday and this

rain showers will move through but nothing big-like the last few weeks end. now back to you. >> thanks. and despite that it has begun. streets of south. are death raided -- decorated with the space says -- space savers whatever you are are holding parking spots after 4 inches of snow. and some people are saying the fairly small dig out people had does not warrant the rethe et we ward of a spot safer and i have to say you took a couple. >> there's a unwritten code and it has to be a significant storm. >> a lot of patriots memorabilia may be draped over the chairs and cones that season came to an abrupt end. >> we were watching and. >> i just -- just doesn't feel gloomy. >> i know. you are right. you are right. so instead of the traveling to san francisco for the big game the pats are in cleanup mode

levan reid reports they are are officially onto 2016. >> reporter: final seconds on the clock and long off season is here. bill belichick what final chat with the media. >> i respect the way we competed proud of it you know. they battle to the last play. >> reporter: still the thing of this game-- the sting of the game will not go away easily. >> i never been in the situation before so it's all year. >> reporter: here are are some lasting inches gronkowski left doubt he is the toughest matchup in the league admitting the team had their chances. >> it's frost frustrating when you have an opportunity we are in the red zone and you don't capitalize. >> reporter: and tom brady took a bated beating all game but -- beating all game with you after -- but afterwards consoled steve government cowsy.

he is the best and there was >> reporter: what now? a player says it's family time. >> i got a wife that's been pretty much raising a son on her own the last couple months so, i am tapping in as a dad. >> reporter: bill belichick has an analogy about a season that doesn't end with a super bowl like running at treadmill on good clip at for long time and someone hits stop. everything is sudden and abrupt. that's the feeling with the patsand participates rot -- patriots nation levan reid wbz sports. all right levan talib was fired up after the win and put on a show in locker room. check it out. >> was it more special beating your former team. >> definitely. being able to beat them twice in one year. all those guys i am on the group chat with those guys so i am going to be on them he ran gronk up the middle when he caught it same thing and threw it up so i wasn't going to let

>> it's scary when he is out there. >> we never scared. >> i am scared. >> that's you that's why you wear ties and we wear pads. >> good point. >> we never scared of nothing. >> couple weeks ago if we told you this would happen would you why have believed it? >> definitely. we would have believe it we got confidence in ourself and we are a confident bunch and we started this season this is where we say we will be so i would havebelieved it. >> talib is character. time to give love to the bruins and celtics both will be in the playoffs inform they started today and both are in action tonight on road. b's in philly and cell nicks dc take on the wizards that's sports for new. >> thanks. the cbs evening news is coming up next at 6:30. >> scott pelly joins us live from new york -- pelley joins us live from new york with a preview. >> great to be with you in boston. 7 days from today the first real votes will be cast in the race for the white house and

polling that shows a squeaker between hillary clinton bernie sanders donald trump and ted cruz we will have the latest on the politics and clean up from the big snow coming up on the cbs evening news in about 10 minutes. >> see you then thanks. >> still to come sweet news for

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