forecast right n as the eye opener continues. emily: erika: uber in trouble. the lawsuit involving a boston woman-- and the new demands for passenger safety. emily: a popular cafe burned in brockton. why the damage is so disappointing for one neighborhood. contempt charges already a possibility in the chism trial. the comments that could get a prospective juror in trouble. it's on the eye for this friday morning. emily: also on the eye this morning. it's enough to make boston traffic look light. the nightmare on a 50 lane highway. we will explain ahead. it is unreal. emily: brutal all around. good morning, i'm emily riemer. erika:and i'm erika

tarantal.. randy is off. cindy: make sure you have the umbrella in handed a you head out this morning. not as cool it is a past few morning,. clouds starting to move in now. but the rain still off to our north and west. this is a batch of showers and some embedded downpours. we'll miss out on the bulk of this first batch of rain. however behind it, you can see there is a cold front and this will likely trigger showers and that possibility of a thunderstorm this afternoon. out ahead of that front, southerly winds increasing throughout the day gusting to perhaps over 30 miles per hour this afternoon. that southerly wind likely going to warm up temperatures to around 70 degrees this afternoon. it is turning warmer and windy this afternoon. lunchtime. you can see your lunch hour is still dry. after about 3:00, especially on in.

evening complute through the evening hours. likely -- commute through the evening hours. roads dry and that is the good news on a friday morning. olessa: a live look outside. starting off at the pike. let's get over the to the maps and all the overnight up. we have some construction closing the ramps to 24 from 93. early. if you're traveling the pike by newton corner that, project all done and the ramps from 128 to the pike open. no issues to report north of town. the trains and buses starting the morning on schedule. emily: thank you. new trouble for uber this morning over passenger safety. erika: the eye's antoinette antonio is live in boston with the lawsuit the ride share company is now facing. >> this morning two women are taking on the company, accusing

assaulted by drivers. this lawsuit involves two different cases. one in boston back in february where driver abderahim dakiri was charged with indecent assault after allegedly took a woman off her route and attacked her. the other incident happened in south carolina with similar allegations. the lawsuit calls on uber to create full-service customer support centers. to mandate tamper-proof video cameras in cars. give customers the option of choosing a female driver. and mandate fingerprint based background checks. uber, which is currently facing a regulation debate here in massachusetts, released a statement saying the company's thoughts are with the victims in these cases. erika: thank you.

figure out what caused the fire that heavily damaged a popular brockton business. the flames broke out at the sunset cafe around seven last night. one firefighter was injured in a fall during the fire, but he's expected to be ok. local leaders, including the mayor, said the cafe had done a lot to revitalize that brockton neighborhood. right now there is new legal trouble at the trial of a teenager accused of killing his teacher. emily: a juror may have said too much. frank? >> a father from danvers could be charged with contempt after violating a judge's orders and speaking to fellow potential jurors about why he wouldn't be picked. the 16-year-old is accused of killing his math teacher in 2013. juror 39 admitted he said h e was from danvers and he said he was in danvers on that tragic

juror 39 was excused earlier partly because of his danvers connection. the defense argues all should now be dismissed. the judge will make decision after reading a transportation after what other jurors said they were told. emily: right now police are looking for a man and a woman seen leaving the scene of a stabbing on boston common. punches were thrown outside the park street t station before someone pulled out a knife and the fight turned bloody. the man received multiple stab wounds described as not life-threatening. police say the attack was not random. investigators say this fast-moving fire at an oxford lumber yard was an accident. the fire chief says wednesday night's flames started near a make-shift kiln used to dry lumber. the telegram reports that kiln was built out of an old oil tank which was not maintained and left unattended. the business owner says his son noticed the smoke and was on

aftermath. erika: this morning former crew members are raising new concerns about the cargo ship lost at sea during hurricane joaquin. they say the el faro some rooms were constantly leaking. and that the drainage didn't work on the ship. the company that operated the ship denies those claims saying the vessel was well-maintained. meanwhile, a new mission will be launched to find the ship. the u,s, navy will send special equipment in hopes of locating el faro and its data recorder. that recorder may explain what happened as the ship went under. house speaker robert deleo knew winthrop native keith griffin, who went down with that ship. >> he would be the type who would just go through a wall, you know, to get something done. my first reaction was i can just picture keith out in the ocean, you know, saying i'm going to save this one. i can do this. natives investigators believe the ship

below the ocean's surface. emily: commitment 2016 now and signs that vice president joe about entering the race. according to the new yorker, biden aides met with staff from the democratic national committee this week. calendar and filing deadlines. a d.n.c. spokesman would not confirm the meeting took place. biden's potential rival hillary clinton is planning what her campaign is calling a day of action on gun control. that would take place across new hampshire tomorrow. she plans to send staffers door to door to talk to voters. on monday she filled out her own gun control proposals including background check loopholes and allowing victims to sue gun manufacturers. candidates are in new hampshire ted cruz will be in nashua.

and also visit manchester. stops in newington and donald trump will hold a rally here in massachusetts next friday in tyngsborough. still trying to sort out the chaos on capitol hill. california congressman kevin mccarthy is out, abruptly pulling his name from consideration to replace house speaker john boehner. convince former vice presidential nominee paul ryan to throw his hat in the ring. ryan says he doesn't want it, but we're learning boehner and calls to get him to change his mind. a top advisor for the romney-ryan campaign says he understands why. >> they see type of person who can bring together the young -- in the house caucus and put them together with the older establishment members. i think he would be a great pick. erika: representatives jason chaffetz and daniel webster are still vying for the job. emily: right now a class action lawsuit spellling new trouble for the fantasy sports business. that includes allegations of insider-trading, fraud and false advertising by boston-based draftkings and rival site fan duel.

draftkings employee won $350,000 from fanduel, the same week he inadvertently posted information about the players being picked the most in nfl fantasy lineups. draftkings has denied any wrongdoing, but questions are growing. >> there is a reason to think if you're working for draftking or fanduel, you might be very good at this particular product. that said, maybe there is the possibility that they are making this money, at least in part because of misuse of information. emily: new york's attorney general has already launched an inquiry into the incident, and massachusetts attorney general wants to talk to the two companies about their practices. erika: changes are coming to a dorchester neighborhood after a woman was sexually assaulted at knifepoint. the incident happened last month on harbor view street. at a community meeting last night, police told residents they'd beef up patrols in the area. including offers stationed behind the j.f.k./umass station during the evening hours. a camera was also installed at the robert ryan playground.

he stopped a terror attack in europe only to get stabbed at home in the u.s. emily: we have more details on that street fight that landed an american hero in the hospital. going. the best plans to save money for your kids. cindy? cindy: and the winds are going to pick up today bringing in possibly a thunderstorm. the timeline and what it means for holiday weekend ahead. first, take a look at the temperatures out the door this morning. nashua is the cool spot.

>> good morning. we're the second grade class at abington mass. erika: good morning to you. this is their second annual family fun run in abington. this year part of the proceeds will go towards helping a second grader named connor who's battling kidney cancer. great cause, so go check them and cheer them on in abington next weekend!

dressed for march 17. cindy: we have got warmer temperatures coming in today. it is kind of weird because it is going to be raining this afternoon. winds kicking up bringing in warmer temperatures. the potential this afternoon for some storms that could put down some briefly heavy rain and gusty winds. the primary threat is a rumble of thunder. impacts with rain during the second half of the day. make sure you have the wet weather gear as you head out the door with morning in. the rain for moment is to our north and this first batch is going to keep moving like this. i think it is going to miss us. frontal boundary to our west. showers will become more new the afternoon. all of this is working in -- showers will become more numerous as we get into the afternoon.

night. lower 50's in the cape. temperatures have started rising. we had a few upper 30's earlier in the night. lower 40's around keen. lawrence 44. the temperatures are going to keep going up. it is a mostly cloudy day. through midday we should be dry. temperatures come up to near 70 by lunchtime today. then you see by 3:00 this afternoon there could be some showers. even a thunderstorm around. here are your high temperatures. mid 60's worcester. 71 in boston with that southerly wind. upper 60's for you on cape cod. don't worry about the wet weather through lunchtime. it looks like after lunch. worcester will see the showers develop first. where you see the yellows, that is where we have the heavier downpours. heavy downpours could impact your evening commute and any evening plans you have, especially south of boston after 9:00, 10:00 tonight.

could feature some wet weather. we will see that rain come to an end. overnight temperatures in the 40's tonight. northwesterly wind going to keep the temperatures down. despite sunshine tomorrow, look at your highs on saturday. it is the coolest day of the holiday weekend. sunday looks great. sunshine. a chilly start. upper 30's sunday morning and we warm it up into the mid 60's. want to talk to you briefly about the winds. they are going to be gusting this afternoon. out of the south and they will likely -- to 30 miles per hour along the coast line. could see gusts close to 40 on cape cod. tomorrow morning the winds will be gusty as well. if you have plans saturday morning you'll notice the wind

olessa: so far a quiet ride on the roads. looks good for now. here is the pike. eastbound moving towards the bottom of the screen. so far so good in both directions. so far we're in good shape this morning. all of our overnight construction is out of the way. boston, we have some road work. that picked up nice and early. construction by the south bay mall is also gone. if you're traveling along 128, that construction also wrapped up for the early morning hours. ramps to the pike also opened from 128. so far no issues traveling down from new hampshire. trains and buses starting the morning on schedule. emily: the national dialogue quartet is the winner of the nobel peace prize. the jury chose this tune etion group for a pluralistic democracy in tunisia. erika: you can see a teenager

this was during a kidnapping attempt. bridgeport police say they have identified the driver but have not found her. they have found car. the victim said the woman lured her into the car while she was on her way to school. stopped a terror attack in france is in stable condition on a california street during a fight. this surveillance video shows the wild scene in sacramento. police say spencer stone was out with friends. words were exchanged with another group of people, and things quickly got out of hand. >> there was conversation and then it continued down the block to where the stabbing occurred. erika: police are looking for at least two suspects in wednesday night's brawl. the 23-year-old stone lost a finger while stopping a gunman on a train to paris in august. emily: topping economic headlines this friday -- asian markets jumped overnight over expectations interest rates will stay at a record low here

there were gains across the board on thursday. verizon wireless is trying to pressure its longtime customers into giving up their unlimited data plans. verizon stopped offering the unlimited data to new customers four years ago, but allowed those who had them to keep them at $29.99 a month. but, next month, that price jumps to $49.99. at&t is trying something similar to get its unlimited data customers to surrender their plans as well. at&t is making wifi calling available. that means you can dial for free as long as you have an i-phone 6 or newer model. the function allows phones to automatically switch to a wifi connection for calls and texts if cellphone signals are low or unavailable. you do have to be running ios 9 for it to work. erika: act fast if you're looking to save on holiday travel this year. the orbitz holiday insider index says tickets will be cheapest today. airfare may dip again around november 6, but will peak the week before christmas. you can save the most money, up to 30% by flying on december 21,

on christmas eve. erika: saving money for your child's education seems like an obvious choice. but making the wrong choice can actually hurt you down the road. financial experts say these are the best options. a 529 college plan. it's similar to an i.r.a. or 401-k and allows parents to save for that education tax-free through an array of investment options. next there are ugma or utma accounts. these accounts offer tax breaks but aren't tied to college, they can be used for just about anything. just remember you may have less control over that money. and finally a roth i.r.a. name once they start earning income. they can be accessed once the child turns 18 but not without penalties, so they can be saved beyond college years. emily: good to know. still ahead this morning. an omelet made without a pan. i love this idea because i don't like cleaning the pan. and quite possibly the worst traffic jam ever people

demanding better ways to get around boston. the transportation changes they want from the city. and ben carson is raising some

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night walk. to to raise money for cancer. erika: good morning to all of you. i got to help out last night. it raises money for the leukemia and lymphoma society. all of those red lanterns signifying support for this cause. the white lanterns are for survivors and the gold for those who are not here with us. and this year they raised more than $1 million. pretty incredible. what a captivating scene there. raising awareness performing money there. cindy: a wonderful thing there. rain coming in this afternoon. off o our west now. have the umbrella with you. we're starting ought in the 40's and 50's heading up to around 70

this afternoon. winds picking up as well. showers and thunderstorms late this afternoon, and evening. they are out of here for the holiday weekend. look at that. cool start on saturday. if you're heading north to check out the foliage, a lot of color now across central and northern new england. just a few splashes of color here locally. emily: the time is and time for your friday eyepoppers. we're doing a little cooking here. it is called an omelet in a bag. olessa: it may look strange but all recipes.com promises it works. dump everything in a plastic bag. roll it around and drop it in a pot of boiling water for 13 minutes. dump it on a plate and voila. let us know how you do. emily: i'm going to try this. olessa: we know boston traffic can be bad.

but just be glad it is not like this. that's a 50-lane highway in traffic backed up for miles and miles. the jam happening where a new toll booth just opened, reducing the highway from 50 lanes to 20. home after a week-long national the gridlock is expected to continue all week. it is like a parking lot. it doesn't even look like a highway. that? olessa: a nightmare. walk. that is the worst thing i've ever seen. erika: a good excuse to miss work, though. a duel between two dumpling restaurants. a live look at a much freer flowing road. it is 5:26.

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flames. why city leaders say more was damaged than just a building. and first it was fighting back. >> i would not just stand there and let them shoot me. emily: now the new comments from ben carson about gun control and the holocaust that are heating up this presidential campaign! on the eye. erika: 5:30 on this freud morning. cindy: taking a look here at the boston skyline. no sun. it is friday. emily: good morning. i'm emily reimer. olessa: i think the fiss half of the day is ok in term turnovers commute. cindy: have an umbrella with you . between 4:00 and 8:00 p.m. i think we'll see a good chance of rain that will likely impact you.

north and west. this first batch of rain is mostly going to miss us. see this around syracuse? that is a lightning strike that developed in the past 15 minutes. deeper into the day there will be showers and thunderstorms developing especially out ahead of this frontal boundary. that could trigger showers and a thunderstorm around here. ahead of it, southerly winds will warm us up. starting off in the 40's and 50's. 5 in boston now. -- 55 in boston now. wind gusting to over 30 miles per hour. toward lunchtime, showers and storms getting into western new england. closer to worcester by 3:00 p.m. and during the evening commute anywhere between 4:00 and 8:00 p.m. showers and embedded downpours as well. your evening plans will likely feature some wet weather. dry outs right now. let's get an update. olessa: so far it is a fairly

quiet start. a live look outside for you. there is pike eastbound moving toward the middle of the screen. so far it is fairly quiet this morning. all of our overnight road work is gone. that is good news. doing ok on route 24, 3 and the pike. so far wide open from framingham as you travel eastbound. it is a problem free start for you out of new hampshire. trains and buses start the morning on schedule. an electrical fire forced service to be suspended at the height of lush hour last night. peep were rushing to shuttle buses. hours later a signal problem only added to problems for commuters. emily: the nobel peace prize has

group. -- tunisian group. erika: investigators are trying to figure out what caused a fire that damaged a popular boston business. -- brockton business. the flames broke out at the sunset cafe around seven last night. local leaders, including the mayor, said the cafe had done a lot to revitalize that brockton neighborhood. emily: two women, cluding one from boston are suing uber over passenger safety. they want the ride share company to make a number of changes, including mandating car cameras after they say they were attacked by drivers. emily: new this morning. boston commuters are demanding a series of changes from the trains to traffic, asking the city to make getting around less painful. erika: the eye's antoinette antonio is live in boston with the new survey just released. good morning.

>> good morning. this is really a wish list of sorts. it's what commuters want to see happen as part of the "go boston 2030" transportation initiative. the globe reports that residents would like to see speed limits lowered from 30 to 25 miles per hour. they hope the city will increase the number of train stations that have bus and shuttle service. and people also want see help for low income households when it comes to how much they spend on transportation. the city obtained the data by holding several events to gather feedback. more than 6,000 residents responded. among the other goals residents have: reducing the average commute time by 10% for everyone from 28.8 minutes to 25.9 minutes. city officials are gathering more feedback on the report and they plan to release a final action plan in the spring of 2016. erika: thank you. right now investigators are trying to figure out what caused this raging marina fire in quincy.

they're still waiting to raise the boat where the flames actually started. for some people, those boats were also homes. we brought this to you as breaking news yesterday morning. the fire started in a boat called the dry anchor with what witnesses describe as two big explosions. an abington woman on board barely escaped with her life. >> she came out of her bedroom and smelled and saw smoke so she yelled to my dad and at that point the smoke kept getting worse. she went to one side of the dock to the other and she was scared, afraid of what would happen so he went back and held her hand and kind of pulled her back through. emily: there were 11 boats involved in all. erika: this morning a dumpling duel is pitting one restaurant owner against a former employee. nadia liu spellman opened her weston restaurant a year ago. dumpling daughter got rave reviews. she's now suing a new millbury restaurant called dumpling girl for stealing trade secrets, unfair competition, false

advertising. the lawsuit claims 41 of the items on dumpling girl's menu are direct copies from dumpling daughter, right down to the descriptions. spellman is quick to talk about her food, but not the lawsuit. >> the best part about this business is that we're a very passionate family about food and we love our food and we're serious about it. erika: the owners of dumpling girl aren't talking about the lawsuit either. it is now 5:36. abandoned at logan. a big ticket item someone left behind. and ben carson making comments about the gun debate, his

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cindy: so far we're in good shape. not seeing too many delays out there. all of o our overnight construction is gone. we are watching one accident. i'll have more info coming up. cindy: you want to grab the umbrella as you're heading out the door this morning. not only some showers, there could be a gusty thunderstorm as well. winds picking up out of the south today pushing temperatures up to around 70. much cooler but back to sunshine to start the holiday weekend. notice we're back in the lower 70's with sunshine by columbus day.

emily? emily: cindy, thanks. commitment 2016. more controversial comments about gun control from republican hopeful ben carson as he continues defending his remarks about last week's mass shooting at an oregon community college, carson was pressed about earlier views he wrote in a book that gun confiscation in nazi germany contributed to deaths during the holocaust. >> i think the likelihood of hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed. emily: carson has also suggested that if he were in an oregon classroom last week when a gunman stormed in, he would have urged everyone to confront the shooter instead of allowing him to shoot everyone one-by-one. president obama is heading to roseburg, oregon today to meet privately with survivors and umpqua community college shooting. but, he'll be met by protesters angry over his renewed calls for tighter gun control laws just hours after last friday's shooting.

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erika: 5:43 this morning. time for your early news to go. emily: cindy has your forecast for today and wet weather. cindy: we have some wet weather. something we haven't seen a lot of lately. we can actually use the rate. today is an anniversary. some communities were dealing with 10 years ago today, it' the rising cold river caused part of a culvert to collapse, down on route 123. two people died after their home was swept away. that anniversary here today. far different story. we have had this summer into the early part of fall. it has been so dry. our deficit for the year in boston is more than six inches. worcester to january 1, behind more than five inches now. we could use the rain coming out later today but in addition to threat from showers, there will likely be gusty winds and

thunderstorms that could develop today. there is a risk for a thunderstorm toward the afternoon and evening hours. the rain now you can see back to our west. a lightning strike showing up by our lightning detection. east of syracuse. this first batch is going to miss us to the north. this cold front, as it approaches, the thunderstorms becoming more numerous by 3:00 this afternoon. out ahead of the front, the winds are going to pick up out of the south. by lunchtime, winds gusting close to 20 miles per hour. later, 30 miles per hour. even up to 70 degrees in the afternoon. a much warmer day overall. by 3:00, there you see the showers, especially worcester north and west and as we get toward the evening drive here by 5:00 or 6:00 p.m. notice a scattering of showers and embedded downpours possible. that threat lingers on the cape.

it looks like a widespread quarter to half inch of rain in the western part of the state. weekend. the rain is gone. saturday looks like a bright day. book is the lower 70's by columbus day. olessa: a live look at the pike here. eastbound moving to the bottom of the screen. so far 24 looks good. 95 no problems. route 3 is quiet as well. on the expressway, 10-15 braintree into boston. a little bit of a delay 93 southbound passing by 495 and from 128 down to park street. aseed from that doing ok. trains and buses running on schedule. emily: the national dialogue quartet is the winner of this year's nobel peace prize.

who participated in the arab spring movement. a new legal challenge for ube erika: the eye's antoinette the lawsuit the ride share company is now facing. >> this morning two women are uber of neglect and fraud after they were allegedly sexually assaulted by drivers. the lawsuit focuses on two one in boston back in february where driver abderahim dakiri was charged with indecent assault after allegedly took a woman off her route and attacked her. the other incident happened in south carolina with similar allegations. the lawsuit calls on uber to create full-service customer support centers. to mandate tamper-proof video cameras in cars. give customers the option of choosing a female driver. and mandate fingerprint based background checks. uber did release a statement saying that the company's thoughts are with the victims in

these cases. >> a danvers father could face contempt and perjury charges in the murder trial of a danvers teen. filip chism is accused of killing his math teacher. the man known as major 39 told other potentially jurors he was killing. he was excused partly because of his connection to the case. the judge has selected 12 of the 18 jurors needed. the defense argues all should be dismissed because of the controversy. erika: thank you. investigators are trying to figure out what caused the fire that heavily damaged a popular brockton business. the flames broke out at the sunset cafe around seven last night. one firefighter was injured in a fall during the fire, but he's expected to be ok. local leaders, including the mayor, said the cafe had done a lot to revitalize that brockton neighborhood. right now police are looking for a man and a woman seen leaving

punches were thrown outside the park street t station before someone pulled out a knife and the fight turned bloody. the man received multiple stab wounds described as not life-threatening. police say the attack was not random. emily: kinder morgan is considering a change to its proposed natural gas pipeline route that would bring it closer to the everett turnpike in new hampshire. the union leader reports company representatives met with local officials yesterday. some merrimack town council members do have concerns about the plan. but kinder morgan insists the process is fluid and the plan could change again before they submit it for federal approval. erika: investigators say this fast-moving fire at an oxford lumber yard was an accident. the fire chief says wednesday night's flames started near a make-shift kiln used to dry lumber. the telegram reports that kiln was built out of an old oil tank, which was not maintained and left unattended.

noticed the smoke and was on scene all night helping deal with the fire and its aftermath. emily: worcester's school superintendent is leaving her post. she's taking a job in norfolk virginia. dr. melinda boone has led the worcester school system for six years. the official date for the move is not official but it has been reported that she will leave in december, no replacement has been named. erika: cars abandoned at logan for more than a year are hitting the auction block. massport says that they have tried and failed to reach the owners of 95 cars left in their lots. some of the cars have been parked at the airport since the last auction in 2009. on the auction list, a bmw a few mercedes and a mini cooper. >> emily: a major settlement in south carolina in the deadly shooting of an unarmed black man. the city of north charleston will pay walter scott's family $6.5 million. a witness captured the shooting on his cell phone. it shows former police officer michael slager firing 8 times at scott. slager was indicted on a murder charge in june and faces 30 years to life if convicted. erika: there is a growing push to convince paul ryan to run for speaker of the house.

ryan said he doesn't want the job but we're learning boehner and others have made personal calls to get him to change his mind. chaffetz and webster are still vying for the job. emily: donald trump takes the stage much to the delight of a very enthusiastic voter. she says she is from colombia and she was holding the latest issue of "people" magazine with trump on the cover. trump claims he has never met the woman who appears to be one of his bigs fans. erika: a california mother is outraged over a toy pirateship she says is racist. ida lockett says the assembly instructions for the playmobil toy tell users to place a shackle around the neck of an figurine that looks like an african-american slave. in a statement, the company says the toy is intended to portray life on a 17th-century pirate ship. and they didn't mean to offend

anyone. emily: it is hard to imagine how this happened. that is an suffer -- s.u.v. hanging from a utility pole. the drire was not hurt. erika: more retailers are accepting payments with iphones. several major chains have signed up for it. most of the stores will accept the payment option by 2016. apple is facing more competition. last month google released their android pay for android devices. the farm to your tray table. opening a blue potato farm and a garden at jfk airport in new it'll be outdoors near terminal 5 -- and called, appropriately, t5. will have 3,000 crates of potato plants. produce like beets and arugula. erika: it's not a "dislike"

to express emotions. today, facebook users in ireland and spain will be able to use a set of new expressions and animated emojis. they include, love, wow and yay, along with happy and sad faces. facebook says the new "reactions" feature could become available to users here in the u.s. in a couple of weeks. >> this week, just got to put all the focus on dallas. we had a little time off. it is go time now. erika: gronk says it is go time. this week play they play the injury-plagued cowboys. dallas is coming off a tough loss against the saints. emily: it was a rough night for the bruins opening the season here at home against the winnipeg jets. the bruins trying to bounce back after missing the playoffs last season, but both zdeno chara and dennis seidenberg had to sit out with injuries. the bruins struggling to keep the puck out of their net. tuukka rask made 26 saves, but it wasn't nearly enough.

a rain delay led to a mishap during kansas city royals game against the houston astros. a member of the ground crew got caught in the rolling tarp as they tried to protect the field from a downpour. fortunately, though, he did manage to quickly escape. erika: take cover. that is not exactly what they had in mind. cindy: 55 degrees in boston right now. we have a southerly wind that is starting to pick up now. that wind may gust over 30 miles per hour this afternoon. it is going to pull in warmer temperatures despite the fact that we have a lot of cloud cover out there this morn. in worcester. lower 50's in the cape. the southerly wind will push temperatures up. there is rain coming in. heavy downpours here moving across new york state. the southern edge may clip parts of southern verbatim and new hampshire.

the first batch is going to miss us across massachusetts during the morning hours. we are going to be out ahead of this cold front and as it punches in, it will likely trigger showers and thunderstorms. mostly cloudy skies this morning. by noontime, a gusty breeze. cloudy but still mainly dry in the upper 60's. showers and thunderstorms. could be as warm as 72 in marshfield. mild today despite the clouds. here you see us still dry through lunchtime. worcester north and west prime for showers and downpours. ing in on the greater -- closing in on the greater boston area. if you have evening hours, look at this, showers. a risk of a thunderstorm south of boston through the evening hours and overnight, the rain comes to an end and the skies clear out and we are in great shape here for the upcoming holiday weekend. saturday a little bit cool here locally. good amount of sunshine mixed

with clouds saturday, sunday and warming up into the lower 70's by columbus day. coolest morning is probably sunday morning. upper 30's. could be a little bit of frost tonors sunshine for whatever you have planned for -- tons of sunshine for whatever you have planned for the holiday weekend. olessa: a live look outside here at the connector and you can see that volume picking up now making its way into boston. let's check out the travel times as you make your way south 95 pick up some volume. 128 approaching the braintree split a little bit of volume there. pipe looks ok this morning. 939 southbound into andover and concorde to spot pond. most of the buses are on schedule.

there are some delays on the green line. emily: one of the men who stopped a terror attack in europe hurts near the u.s. erika: how he ended up getting stabbed. news this morning. saving for the kids' education. the best options as you start that college fund. emily: you can watch the latest newscast now or any time throughout your day on our wcvb mobile ap. cindy: grab your jacket and an umbrella. it is clear right now we have expecting showers. the full forecast coming up when the eyeopener continues. y>{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{wxwxwxwxwxwxwx when laquinta.com sends craig wilson a ready for you alert the second his room is ready, ya know what he becomes? great proposal! let's talk more

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