here comes the storm. rain about to turn into heavy snow and blanket the roads. >>right now plows are gearing up to clean up. boston already canceling classes. many prepared to wake up to winters return. we have our eye on the storm and the snow coming for boston and dozen of school districts. we put the list at the bomb the screen. at last count about 106 closings. when will the snow start to fall? how will it affect the morning commute? >>a big change compared to the spring we have had over the past couple of days.

boston was were. higher snow totals are likely tomorrow. a bit to love tropical moisture from the gulf of mexico right of the eastern seaboard, kind of a firehose and it will start air. this is all moving up the east coast, this is the one we are watching it will come up and move into the area increasing rainfall tonight. we already see steady rain moving up to connecticut river valley. this will help us cool down more, we need to cool down a lot compared to the 50s today. 35 in orange, this is cold enough for snow and it will drop back. in boston we are in the mid- 40s. we will see this progress as we had through the night. after midnight snow starts to massachusetts. as we move through tomorrow morning's drive heavy rainfall moves to snow. as we head towards 6:00 that

and down to the boston area. it is still raining south and east, as we had deeper in the morning the line makes progress. also note all of the temperatures at or above freezing. many will have a heavy wet snow fall and that will be the type that you want to shovel as you go. looking toward the late morning the snow line clears the cape and heads towards nantucket and then in the afternoon we start wrapping things up. the main impact morning and midday and the snow totals are widespread, 4-8 inches of snowfall, 2-4 nw. and 2-4 around the cape they will see a lot of rain the lowest totals will be around nantucket. does the wind, not extremely strong but enough we could see power outages because of the heavy nature of the snow. for many schoolkids this will be the first snow day of

>>that is because it will make a mess for the morning drive. 1 like it or not winter is coming or is it just returning? fortunately many cities and towns have a surplus of salt and sand. >>reporter: sorry boston, it is happening. parents likely will have to go to work but school is already out for thousands of kids including those in boston. >>snow is fun for all kids. >>i am excited because i have been going to school all day waking up at 6:00 in the morning. >>reporter: managers at just about every local hardware store are excited. >>we have been selling a lot of shovels and scrapers. a lot of people don't want to see the white stuff coming but we are looking forward to it. >>reporter: last year ace

anything in stock. this year they have piles of pallets. a basement full of winter products. >>i can't believe we will have 8 inches. >>reporter: may be the puddle will finally freeze over. >>spring is right around the corner. >>reporter: it is raining now, as this eventually turns to snow you that the cancellations and delays will likely add up. stay with us tomorrow morning. are storm team will be tracking the snow through the night. watch wbz tomorrow morning starting at 4:30 or the latest traffic conditions and the updated list of delays and cancellations. now to an exclusive in the race for president. it is the closest one yet at

initial results are in from a poll. this is going to be an interesting finish. >>it certainly is. with almost 1/3 democrats and nearly half of republicans saying they might still change their minds before next tuesday. that is a lot of voters this late in the game. let's start with the gop, donald trump is holding onto a substantial lead with 33%, 90 point margin over marco rubio and 14 with john kasich at 10%. 10 crews -- ted cruz has 9%. jeb bush and chris christie have 6 and 5 respectively. dr. ben carson and carly fiorina each have 3%. for the democrat senator. bernie sanders has 24 point lead over former secretary of

with what other polls have been showing. the large number of voters who say they still have an open mind means those can change dramatically. starting at 5 tomorrow we will get you closer to what new hampshire voters are saying they like and dislike about the candidates and what issues are top of mind for them. plus we will point you toward the keys to understanding where this unpredictable election may be headed back. you saw the pool, hillary clinton has 5 days to make up ground. tonight she had a high-stakes showdown with bernie sanders. it was the first one-on-one debate. >>reporter: right off the top of the debate tonight went in and sanders tried to define themselves as battle tested and the outsider. one word coming up over and over again.

very artful smear that you and your campaign have been carrying out in recent weeks. >>reporter: in the first head- to-head debate of the democratic primary race, hillary clinton and bernie sanders came out swinging. the issue of who is really progressive firing right off the bat. >>a progressive is someone who makes progress. that is what i intend to do. >>i am proud to be the only candidate up here who does not have a super pack. >>reporter: both candidates championed change in tuition costs, health care and finance. clinton painting herself as a pragmatic progressive. >>i want to make sure middle- class kids not donald trump kids are able to afford college. >>reporter: sanders the defined revolutionary. >>the business model of wall street is flawed. >>reporter: voters definition

>>continuing to grow, constitutionalist is a living document. >>working families, less about the 1%. televised opportunity before the new hampshire primary and now they have to change hearts and minds on the trail as we inch closer and closer to tuesday. republicans are dropping the gloves in the primary. katie is live were -- with donald trump supporters. >>reporter: donald trump attracted a couple hundred people here in portsmouth and under scoring this contest so far he made sure to ask his supporters to go to the polls. >>we are led by stupid, stupid people. >>reporter: donald trump took

the wild up this crowd in portsmouth. >>by the way i am number one in new hampshire. please keep me there. >>reporter: many in the crowd were already -- >>i think he can change things from a business standpoint. >>reporter: ted cruz was still on the top attacked thursday. >>donald trump is very rattled. he told the entire world he was going to win iowa and then he didn't win. his reaction is he got angry. >>reporter: cruz focused on connecting with voters sharing how his father and others struggle with addiction. marco rubio held for events where he tried to woo rand paul supporters. >>i hope i will be in the white house but i am building a building right down the road. >>reporter: trump the constant businessman talked about one of

he stayed away from jobs against his opponent which for this voter was what she wanted. >>i want to see a debate worth something -- substance. >>reporter: wbz has learned governor. baker will officially endorse chris christie tomorrow. reporting live in portsmouth new hampshire. kit -- stay with us for continuing coverage of the primary next tuesday. we will get you closer to the candidates and the issues. would tom brady skip the super bowl in his hometown just despite roger goodell? >>tonight we had the answer. steve burton joins us live from super bowl city in california. >>reporter: this falls under a category can we all just get along? the nfl is confirming tom brady will take part in a pregame ceremony honoring the former super bowl mvp.

speaking of san francisco, it is indeed a super bowl city. i finally got to test out the zip line. this thing is absolutely flies. for anyone worried about what kind of reception brady might get on super bowl sunday, the fans here now he grew up in the bay area and they love him. >>tom brady we love you. >>reporter: that is the banjo man. james brown talked about tom brady attending super bowl l. >>looks like fun. we are so proud to be a super bowl station. we will have live reports from california right after the big game, broncos, panthers sunday

a violent crime caught on camera and the inconvenient proof for this robber is he is locked in. still mild but by the time you wake up in the morning many

this is one of the wildest robberies we have seen in a while. a man with a knife grabs the

stop quick. >>the clerk fights back with a golf club. the robber tries to escape but the door is locked. instead he smashes the door with the register, shatters the glass and that is how he gets out. >>believe it or not they are still looking for him. >>that is pretty good video. at some point someone will recognize them. how many hours do we have to wait until the snow? >>and my daughter hominy times will she asked do we have school? >>all the closings are at the bottom of the screen, 4 for-8 inch snow we have not seen [ indiscernible ]. the timing is everything. thank you relation and visibility is the main issue, it is not a big coastal situation we have big wind or flooding but there will be power outages because of the heavy wet snow and some wind

it is tough to imagine after an afternoon like this way up in the 50s. we were at 59 degrees, people walking around in shorts but things like this have happened before. the radar is already watching this area from new york down to dc, this is going to move up across new england. as that rain starts to fall are temperature start to drop. right now the rain is falling across the cape and some of it moving up to hartford and that will get the process started. right now 39 in worchester, the people who won't be looking at a lot of wet snow, this is where temperatures will drop in turn more to fluffy consistency. we are about to set a record for the warmest [ indiscernible ] temperature on date. looking at the trends as we head to the overnight snow breaking out in central massachusetts and then as we head towards the morning the snow line start to dive north

by 6 am boston area north shore it will start to change over to wet snow. the temperature above freezing means it does not actually quite as quickly and you get a mess. it will be heavy wet stuff. shovel as you go. through the morning part of the commute heavy snow is coming down anywhere from the seacoast right through the boston providence corridor into eastern connecticut. late morning that snowline heads down towards the cape, more progress by lunch bringing the snowfall across cape cod and finally across nantucket. when does it stop? it goes from west to east. i 4:00 [ indiscernible ] coming into boston, in the evening coming to cape cod. snow totals pretty wide 4-8 inch snow that includes places like hampton, newburyport, boston, providence and down to eastern connecticut. northwest worchester 2-4 inches. then toward the cape 2-4

rain before we make the switch. the cape cod totals will be low as well. terms of impact morning in midday hours that is the real heart of it. by early afternoon getting better especially to the west. by the evening much improved all across the region in terms of travel issues. talk about the wind, compared to a big storm system it is not that impressive but enough to cause power outages when the snow grips on the trees and power lines. temperatures stay in the 30s all day, as we head for the weekend things calm down. we cleanup more on saturday, pretty nice finished lots of sunshine with snow showers in northern england on sunday. both are looking at highs near 40. we will have sunshine sunday night not expecting any problems. next week is a different kind of weeks, much colder 30s everyday and we are watching our next snow chance which

and i-team investigation into a company hired by the state to help homeowners save money. >>the work is supposed to cut energy costs but the i-team found complaints are piling up. that is why we are asking who is keeping an eye on contractors to make sure you are getting quality work? >>reporter: insulation to keep your house warm and your bills low. workmate affordable for homeowners a program managed by the utility companies and paid for by a surcharge on our energy bills. >>it seemed like a no-brainer. >>reporter: but she was stunned when she came home the day of her project. >>i open the cabinet to make tea and it still with insulation. >>reporter: then she found this upstairs, a hole in her wall and piles of insulation filling her office. >>you have seen disaster movies and we were out of our house for 10 days while in varmint to

>>you could see all kinds of colors of mold. >>reporter: charlie hebdo replaces roof after contractors improperly installed insulation in the attic in his home. >>what did you think? >>terrified. >>reporter: the contractor in both cases new step living. a company that has grown dramatically and size. several other homeowners share their horror stories and photos with the i-team and the atty. gen.'s office has logged john -- dozens of complaints. online we found hundreds of angry reviews including a guy who said next up living caused an explosion at his house. >>i do not know how that company has that many negative reviews and still stays with the program. >>reporter: that is what we wanted to ask. after the company refuse an on camera interview we stopped by headquarters to get answers. >>i'm not able to track them down. >>reporter: they would only

this is has served more than 120,000 homes and 35,000 insulation jobs adding they aim to resolve all customer concerns. insulation contractor tom ray was appointed commission charged with taking a closer look at the program. >>there are variety things that can go wrong if it is not improperly. >>reporter: speaking about the industry in general he believes low reimbursement rate paid by the program may lead some contractors to rush through jobs and cut corners. >>i think it is safe to say that there have been issues with the quality of the work. >>is the program set up for quality work? >>i do not believe it is. >>reporter: while matt davis helped thousands of people make energy-efficient upgrades, homeowners like celeste wonder who is looking out for them. >>these are our dollars to pay for this program. there has to be some sort of vetting process for the contractors. >>reporter: who is in charge?

which contractors make the cut. we are told they are aware of the issues with next step living and increased inspections and demanded they improve customer service. >>interesting story. coming up next and sports steve is live in san francisco with more on why tom brady decided he would go to the super bowl. a big comeback for the bruins. the new caramel macchiato from dunkin' donuts. of espresso, milk,

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[ indiscernible ] is having a career season coming in to tonight's game. he has scored 7 of his last [ indiscernible ] games. when the puck drop tonight he was at 22. bruins pick -- bruins taking on the sabres. here they come. that was his 11th of the season. then the 3rd on the nifty backhand, 23rd on the year. we go to overtime and a shootout, he was the only player to score bruins win. they get a big two points. let's switch gears and get you caught up on the action leading up to super bowl l. steve is in san francisco. steve, people were wondering about tom brady, they don't have to wonder anymore. >>reporter: they can stop there wondering. as i told you earlier, yes, the nfl confirmed tom brady will be

will take part in the pregame ceremonies honoring past super bowl mvps. he has won the award on 3 different occasions. people are wondering if brady would skip the event because of all the stress the leak caused him. i spoke to james brown about brady's decision and he things it is a great one. >>what an excellent move. brady represents the best of the national football league. he is the reigning elite quarterback in the national football league. i've always said that the patriots in an era designed for [ indiscernible ] they are the dynasty. to have him here speaks volumes. >>reporter: meanwhile the broncos and panthers are on the practice field today.

indiscernible ]. >>i had dinner with eli the other night and he and i talked about a lot of things. certainly he played against these guys earlier in the year and i talked to him about carolina and some of the tips we had on their defense and some things they like to do. >>he is great to bounce ideas off of. >>he is well prepared. >>reporter: saying that eli manning is 2-0 and super bowls and peyton manning is one-to he should listen to his little brother. >>he will be reporting all week long leading up to super bowl l and that game is sunday night. finally isaiah thomas will competition.

even without saying anything this guy is clearly running afoul. >>police post to this video of a turkey climbing all over a crews are. it is not the turkeys first run with police. earlier this month the bird chased after a crews are as it pulled out of the parking lot. i think we need to get the i- team on this. >>he has a message for the police officers we just don't

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