showers for us friday night bu dry for thanksgiving with a few more clouds around warming up with a breeze coming foup friday and should be up around 60. as we head towards friday night that front will drop in with a few showers and behind it cooler air will come in. we continue now on eyeopener. randy: breaking overnight, more protests spilling in the streets of chicago. the outrage and fallout after video of an unarmed black man shot by police. randy: a new warning from the f.b.i. on one of the busiest travel days. a call for all of us to be extra vigilant. erika: a pedestrian accident at a natick shopping center takes a deadly turn. the steps being taken to see what triggered the crash on the ice. >> you're watching wcvb, boston's news leader. good morning. this is newscenter 5 eyeopener. randy: it's 5:00 a.m. did you get involved with this? it was a traffic night fair on

128, interstate 95. lots of other roads are backing up pumper to miles. the crash that triggered this string of headlines and olessa has what you need to know before hitting the roads. i'm randy price. thank you for joining us. erika: i'm erika tarantal. emily is off today. another cold start, cold but dry. a lot of people will be getting last minute things done, traveling and running around. no weather worries so that's a good thing. had to do some scraping this morning. there is frost out there. look at the temperatures again. cindy: it's a cold morningnd teens in the suburbs and down to 17 in orange and yesterday we were down to 13. 19 in bedford. boston slipped below the freezing mark. south of the city, teens in norwood to totten and lower 20's for you on the cape this morning. it's definitely another cold start. you see how clear the skies are. once again, high pressure in control. it's sitting right on top of us this morning and it will get just an ever so slight nudge to

the east today and that will turn our wind around to the southeast as we get to the afternoon. the temperatures will come up a few more degrees and good amount of sunshine at sun rise at 6:47. and we're holding at a freezing mark but into the low to mid 40's. midday temperature of about 44 degrees. topping out around 45 today, boston. some upper 40's on the south shore of the cape. nashua, your high of 45 degrees. no problems on the roads or in fact airport delays right now, not a factor at all across the northeast. if you're getting ready to head somewhere else across the country, it's pretty quiet overall with no weather delays to speak of at the present time. let's get to you the roads to see how we're looking out there. olessa: so far in great shape. eastbound moving to the top of the screen. let's get to the maps and check the rest of the ride. so far no complaints. heading into boston, you're good to go and no construction to worry about. quiet start on route 9 which is

wide open and so far so good on your trip from new hampshire and trains and buses starting on schedule. randy? randy: breaking overnight, hundreds of protesters making their voices heard in chicago, swarming roads and blocking a freeway. these people are outraged by newly released video of a white police officer officer shooting a black teenager 16 times. that officer has been charged with first-degree murder for the 2014 death of laquan mcdonald. erika: this is dash cam video of that night. mcdonald walking in the middle of the street with a knife in his right hand. as he walking away from the police two approach him with guns drawn. one of them, jason van dyke fires but mcdonald was shot six times in 15 seconds. >> of the eight or more officers on the scene, it was only the defendant who fired his weapon. erika: a hearing will be held monday to determine if van dyke should be released on bail. the city paid mcdonald's family $5 million in a settlement.

randy: we're getting new details about a new terror alert as people across the country prepare to travel for thanksgiving. todd kazakiewich is live with a message this morning. todd: good morning from terminal a. you look behind me the line for t.s.a. security screening has already started forming and was here since we got here at 4:30 this morning and there are even more people here now. obviously it's going to be a long day. patient. with regards to terrorism, we're talking about copycats and people looking to cause the same terror on u.s. soil that terrorists saw a few weeks ago. a new warning calls for increased security at so-called soft targets and includes airports, malls and transportation hubs like washington's union station. >> over here we have one of our detection k-9's and up there are special agents with

todd: law enforcement tells abc news while there is no specific threat, the u.s. is watching a group of isis followers. coming up we'll talk to the t.s.a. workers and tell what you to expect either today or the holiday weekend. reporting inside, todd kazakiewich, newscenter 5. erika: drivers know all it takes is one crash in the wrong miles. this nightmare had traffic at a virtual stand still for hours yesterday, even the back road were clogged when drivers tried to get off the highway and started with this box truck accident on the northbound side, shutting down three lanes. the river effect was felt from wellesley to braintree. >> thanksgiving is stressful enough for people and then you add this. erika: state police are expecting another heavy travel day today so plan accordingly.

a freak incident that's deadly, a car flying out of control and hitting shoppers. we are in natick this morning on what we learned about this crash with antoinette. antoinette: it happened at the shopping center in colorleaf and it went airborne and hit the tool shop. this morning one man is dead and two others injured. we've learned a woman in her late 80's somehow lost control of her vehicle, hitting those three men as they walked out of the harbor friday tools store. two were customers in their 70's and another was an armored truck driver in his 40's. was killed. witnesses recall a horrific scene. >> she went airborne so when she hit the curb you could hear an accident sound and when we all came running out of the building and bang, bang, bang, one on top of the other.

that driver suffered minor injuries and was feegged erratically but no word on what caused her to drive in the martin luther king. antoinette antonio, newscenter 5. randy: the founder after paxton animal shelter destroyed in a deadly fire for many animals says he will rebuild. richard clarke tells us the new building will be sturdier and more cutting edge than the building that burned saturday night. dozens of cats and dogs were killed in that fire. a gofundme webpage has raised more than $100,000. erika: governor charlie baker signed a bill into law criminalizing fentanyl trafficking, drug trafficking already is illegal but yesterday's bill makes the crime punishable for up to 20 years in prison those who traffic more than 10 grams of fentanyl could face that pun yib. -- punishment. the drug is accused of many

randy: a key part of the st. patrick's parade passed away 3689 john hurley passed away at massachusetts general and was the long time organizer of the st. patrick's day parade and fought to keep gays and lesbians from marching in the parade. organizers broke from tradition and allowed a group of gay veterans in the parade this year. hurley was 85 years old. erika: 5:08 this morning, new this morning making sure your home is protected while away. randy: three tricks to stop a break-in from happening. a big day in sports including boston passed travel kings and do your move amid troferse. .winter is coming but how much snow can we expect? harvey leonard gets the number from the man who got it right last year. cindy? cindy: and we have clear skies for your travel plans today as we say goodbye to the colder temperatures at least for now. the holiday warm-up on the way. take a look at the temperatures as you're getting ready to head out the door this morning.

nashua and 21 in plymouth and a little frost out there this morning and they need to scrape that car out as you head out the door. erika: we are following breaking news out of chicago. more protests in the streets tied to the release of an moments. the officer who shot him 16 times now p it's called a rigged economy, and this is how it works. z most new wealth flows to the top 1%. it's a system held in place by corrupt politics r where wall street banks and billionaires buy elections. p my campaign is powered by over a million small contributions, people like you rwho want to fight back. p the truth is you can't change a corrupt system by taking its money. r i'm bernie sanders. i approve this message.

>> i'm here with the tree on your way to boston. tune in to the holiday lights next week on wcvb. randy: and you know, now the tree is right here in boston. it is on boston common ready to get all the trimmings for next thursday's holiday light spectacular. erika: you can catch the tree

lighting excitement at 7:00 p.m. right here on news center 5. it's always a fun show. it's going to be great to see. don't forget to send us your wake-up calls. randy: a lot of lights. imagine being the light person. erika: my goodness. i barely can do a mantle. and if you're itching to do that, friday, it's going to be near 60. cindy: we've got big changes coming temperaturewise and today a big travel day. the weather will be sunny and dry so good weather for traveling. and a warm-up is coming in for thanksgiving and with us through friday and sowers come in friday night and brings in cooler air through the course of the weekend. you see the country as a whole is overall fairly quiet with storminess out west you can see here through the northern rockies the storm that pulled out of the northwest and brought snow to the cass indicates yesterday. it will continue to shift

bring in shower activity towards the midwest, chicago, and back into the denver area, looks like they'll get into snow as we head toward thanksgiving morning. during the day on thanksgiving the system taps in more moisture from the gulf of mexico and notice how it's used up more with rain around chicago and snow on the other side of the front towards minneapolis but all the while look at the eastern seaboard. it's dry and we'll see a bit of a warm-up coming as well. the temperatures now are chilly out the door. we're below freezing in boston and 30 in worcester. on the cape we have readings in the lower 20's, 19 in totten and norwood 18 and in the merrimack valley, we have sunshine in the forecast as the temperatures come up. look at lunchtime we're in the lower 40's with mostly sunny skies. again today, we have mainly clear start and you can see the absence of any cloud cover across southern new england. high pressure is in control and

today and allow our wind to turn to the southeast and means a little milder for you here in southeastern massachusetts in the upper 40's, about 45 boston and 43 in worcester. overnight we'll bring in more clouds as the winds go southerly. you see it here. as we get into thanksgiving day, there will be a period of cloud cover in the morning hours and the clouds blanket us and overnight low temperatures tonight, upper 30's boston and the coldest suburbs in the upper 20's and not as chilly and a milder flow of air throughout the next system and your thanksgiving may start out with cloud cover in the morning hours but the skies brighten in the afternoon as we come out of the 40's for the football games into the 50's midday and get even warmer here on friday with temperatures near 60 degrees and friday night we'll watch this frontal boundary finally approach. a narrow ribbon of showers. not expecting a lot of rain and will come through mostly in the overnight hours and early saturday morning and then dry

it out and turn cooler here in the upper 40's saturday and mid 40's sunday but notice dry weather overall so very little in the way of shower activity but the most of it coming overnight friday night. erika: we're lucking out. last year was a different story. cindy: we had snow on thanksgiving last year. erika: thank you. erika: no issues on the pike. olessa: eastbound moving to the bottom of the screen. let's check the rest of your trip. if you're heading into town, no construction to contend with. looking good along the pike, no problems at the o'neill tunnel. 24, 95, route 3 is wide open this morning. once again, the pike looking good out of framingham. route 9, no issues and so far so good on 93 south to the connector. trains and buses starting the morning on schedule randy? randy: thank you. new this morning traveling for the holidays, a lot of us will be, you can put your home at risk for burglars by doing that. there are a few steps you can

take that would trick the thieves into thinks you're still there. first, call the post office putting a hold on your mail can prevent a telltale pileup at the front door. second, make sure the trash gets out even if the bins are empty, enlist a neighbor to cart them out on trash and recycling day. finally, plan for the weather and get a friend to shovel your walk if a little snow shows up. you don't want any red flags. erika: to the economy now. asian stocks mostly lower after the downing of a russian warplane rattled nerves but u.s. stock futures higher as investors await the report of jobless claims and the dow made up for lost ground ending 20 points higher. today two fantasy sports sites will fight to stay in business in new york. at a court hearing fanduel and draftkings will argue they're legal. new york's attorney general want to shut the sites down immediately calling them illegal gambling operations. an expert tells "the herald" it

battle with appeals. e. coli being linked to chicken salad bought at costco. 19 people in seven states have gotten sick. massachusetts not on the list. people who bought chicken salad at any u.s. costco store on or before friday are being told to throw it out. experts are still looking at the cause of this outbreak. randy: well, of course last winter's record-setting snow and cold was brutal for all of us. might be wondering what's in store for this year? cindy is back with a new prediction. cindy: our chief meteorologist harvey leonard sat down with the winter weather guru and asked him what we can expect. judah cohen is his name and he's an expert at forecasting the seasons. he predicted boston would get blasted last winter despite the slow start we had. this winter, there is a very strong el nino that is heating up the pacific ocean and sending warm, moist air into the united states. cohen's model suggests that system will battle a cold

siberian air mass over the arctic. cohen uses snow cover in siberia in the month of october as a significant factor in his forecast. judah: this past october the snow cover was below norpe. i would be more confident about a cold and snowy winter but expect more than a winter snow than last year. cindy: it will be hard to repeat anything close to the record numbers from last winter but his model predicts we'll see above average snowfall, around 62 inches and just to give you some perspective, last year we had 110.6. eamp is about 43 him -- average is about 4. randy: 44 would be all right. we'll find out but it's a great prediction. thank you. cindy: thanks, guys. erika: marty walsh says the city has a new snow removal plan. this year the city will use massive snow blowers instead of the plows. the plows push the snow to street corners, the snow

blowers will fill dump trucks to haul away the snow. the city owns two such pieces of equipment but will have to rent more at an hourly rate. randy: a facial hair trend and fast food favorite gets a transformation. erika: both ahead in eye poppers and then terrifying moments for a boston teen when a man breaks into the house. how her mom, who was not home, came to her rescue. randy: searching for this man on the run.

randy: about 5:23 now on this busy travel day. you see across the country, it's pretty quiet. the storm now out in the west. we have clear skies and chilly temperatures here in new england this morning. you see lots of teens and 20's in the suburbs. we're just under the freezing mark in boston. look at this throughout the day. we jump up in the 40's under lots of sunshine this afternoon. looking for a high today in the mid 40's. mid 50's for thanksgiving tomorrow and we'll be around 60 on friday with just a few showers coming in friday night. erika? erika: thanks. time for eye poppers. olessa, what have you got. olessa: it's no secret we love food. this is a must. big mac sushi. yes, that's a big mac sushi roll. try not to drool over the classic burger. they added avocado, tomato, barbecue sauce and spicy mayo.

i think it's a brilliant idea. this. i see how some people might be grossed out by it, i don't know. erika: i wouldn't eat it but think it's a good idea. olessa: i agree. best of both worlds. and gentlemen, there's a new spirit. glitter beards. that's the trend. now. apparently you just dip your beard in glitter and you're party ready. "esquire" magazine seems to hate this look but you can be your own judge. it brings out his eyes, i think. erika: nice and sparkly. you'll be finding the glitter for years. olessa: next they'll be hanging ornaments from those things. erika: i think with a little gold mustache. randy: i'll try it. another setback for the mbta. a complaint from commuters causing the t to hit the brakes. heightened travel kerrs. steps being taken to protect

>> this is an editorial by wcvb channel 5 president and general manager bill fine. bill: as our editorial board reflected this week on what we have to be grateful for this thanksgiving, our conversation shifted to the many things we all can be thankful for in the commonwealth. our respect and gratitude goes to those on the front lines of national security who, when we watch terrible events unfold around the globe, have kept us remarkably safe at home. more thoughtful people have thankfully entered into the heated national discussion on refugees hoping to emigrate to america. and some of the more extreme voices on both sides of this issue are being challenged. we celebrate the innovators that drive massachusetts, making the commonwealth a true blair in the global economy. we're equally grateful we live in a city that views nonprofit work as a vocation and true civic responsibility in support of the community. local food banks are a powerful force all year but especially

we take pride living in a superb medical hub that not only leads the world in firsts but is complemented by a network of topnotch community health centers that fill the gap in coverage for so many. new england sports fans are always blessed and offer a thank you toast to david ortiz. big papi's announced retirement gives us plenty of time to honor his leadership on the field and off, especially when in the wake of the marathon bombing, his color vocabulary set the tone for boston strong. dare we dream of an 19-0 season? why not? the new england patriots may not be loved elsewhere but here at home they continue to be world class and we love that. from everyone at wcvb to you and your families, our very

son, the holiday season's just like football season... you got your big games... ...cheese plates, turkey, appetizers. and regular games. get it all at a great price... ...and the holiday season is won. that's my boy! eason, all at one place.

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randy: breaking overnight, swarming the streets, blocking the highways, outrage boiling over in chicago. the just released video that started it all. erika: a freak accident with deadly results. the questions after a car goes airborne at a shopping center. >> a new alert as the travel rush goes to high gear, we're with the t.s.a. at logan airport on what to expect. >> a big steal on the hardwood and then bam, the lowell student with the smashing play. on the eye. >> you're watching wcvb, boston's news leader. good morning. this is newscenter 5 eyeopener. erika: it is 5:30 wednesday, thanksgiving eve. a live look inside terminal a at logan. a busy travel day ahead. thanks so much for joining us. erika tarantal in for emily. randy: and i'm randy price. a big travel holiday for a lot of folks.

last night was a mess. cindy: someone got stuck in it after leaving here. erika: you can't blame the weather. it will be so nice. randy: especially friday. cindy: yes and we had storminess last year around thanksgiving. it's just cold this morning. you'll need to let the car warm up headed out the door because there could be frost on your windshield. looking at the teens, orange, jeffrey, worcester below freezing at 30 and 21 on the north shore and 21 on plymouth and totten and norwood in the teens this morning. the skies are clear and will stay that way all day long once again. high pressure still dominating our weather. the position is changing ever so subtley that it's going to be shifting slidely eastward today and will turn our wind to the southeast and nudge our temperatures up a couple degrees by this afternoon. the sun comes up at 6:47, bright sunshine right around freezing through 7:00 a.m. and then jump up by lunchtime and

out in the upper 40's today from marsh field to the cape and 4r5 boston a 43 worcester and the average high is around 48 this year but below the average today but a couple degrees milder than the past couple days. the airport, no weather delays in the northeast and the country as a whole, pretty quiet with a little storminess moving into the west and we'll track the storm through the holiday coming up. let's get to the roads. olessa, how are we doing? olessa: no complaints here. a live look at the expressway. some delays are picking up on the northbound side by the gas tank but that's it. let's get to the maps and check the ride heading south. not seeing problems yet. good shape on 24 and 95 and to braintree. pike 9 also no concerns and 93 south wide open down through wilmington to spot pond and down to the connector. trains and buses so far on schedule. randy? randy: thank but. -- thank you.

was released showing a shooting of a black teenager by a white police officer. a handful of arrests there. this is some of the video. laquan mcdonnell was shot 16 times. he had a knife but it shows him walking away from the officers. jason van dyke was charged with first-degree murder. erika: one is dead and two others hurt as a driver crashes into them as they walked out of a store in natick. witnesses say the car went airborne as it jumped the curb outside harbor freight tools. no charges have been filed. right now the holiday travel crush is shifting into high gear amid high security. randy: todd kazakiewich is in the boston airport talking to the t.s.a. about security this year. todd: randy and erika, good morning inside terminal a. looking behind me you see the line for the t.s.a. security checkpoint is quite long and has been since we got here at 4:30 this morning.

the wait times vary but it is here. as you look at the video from inside here, logan airport this morning, you see it's been busy all morning, like i said, just since we arrived at 4:30 this morning. t.s.a. said it likely will be the busiest thanksgiving day -- the day before thanksgiving, the busiest since t.s.a.'s inception and goes back to 9/11 to give you an idea how many people are traveling. here at logan airport, they're expecting about 60,000 people to go to the security checkpoints today alone. we talked to a t.s.a. spokesman on what to expect and how to prepare. here's what he had to say. take a listen. >> it's a partnership. you show up and you're a traveler and ready with your boarding pass out and make sure you don't have any items in your luggage and whip help you get through quicker and everyone else behind you get out quicker. todd: it bears repeating, come

to the airport early. obviously there are very long lines. it's not just today. this entire travel period really got going last friday and continues through sunday and here at logan airport alone, they estimate about 460,000 passengers will go through the security checkpoint over that period from last friday to this coming sunday. so we'll keep you posted throughout the morning. obviously a very busy day at logan airport. reporting live. randy: police are searching for a man accused of murdering a woman whose body was found in bridgewater. retaliation drove fernando owens to murder 29-year-old ashley bortner and her burned body was found along the train tracks three weeks ago. investigators believe owens' son was shot to death in dorchester and owens thought the woman had something to do with that and is believed to be armed and dangerous. family member of a baby killed in alexandria, new hampshire, think an arrest is coming soon. 11-month-old shawn sylvester

died earlier this month of blunt force head trauma. his family tells the union lead ter happened at the home shared by the boy's mother and her boyfriend. the assistant attorney general is not suggesting where it happened and the child's mother charged in a pornography case. erika: a teen is safe after hiding in her home as a man broke in. >> i thought he looked up and i went back down. erika: the burglar never saw haleigh morris and hid in the bathroom and called 911, shaking, scared and alone. >> the police are there. stay where you are. haleigh: he walked past the bathroom twice and thought he would come in. erika: her mother called and

set off the alarm remotely when she couldn't get through. the burglar ran into the bushes and was caught and is held on $70,000 bail. new hampshire state police say they caught this man driving 109 miles per hour yesterday. they were monitoring traffic in canterbury when they clocked joshua lessard at breakneck speed and was caught passing cars in the right and left lanes and is charged with court next year. randy: 5:37. schedule changes. the t is hitting the brakes after complaints by viewers. the riders feel blindsided by the proposed changes outlined last week and were to go in effect december 14. the proposed schedule included cuts on heavily used trains and stops during rush hour. the t says it will work with riders and hopes to have a new schedule in place by the spring. erika: 5:37. we knew this. massachusetts topping the list of best states to live. randy: the factors giving us

another recall tied to faulty air bags. the company at the center of the problem affecting millions of vehicles. erika: ahead in news to go, a town is overrun with spiders. the takeover dunkin's new sweet black pepper bacon sandwich, with double the slices of caramelized crispy pepper bacon. it's the bacon experience you've been waiting for. bacon up.

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with dunkin' donuts' holiday- cookie-flavored coffees, lattes, and macchiatos. enjoy every sip of the new snickerdoodle macchiato. erika: welcome back to the eye openers. eye earth start for us on the busiest day of the year. olessa: you're in good shape getting into boston.

route 9 is problem free and going to boston, the expressway is quiet. trains and busesen schedule. cindy, it looked bright this morning. cindy: it is. these are live pictures of the almost full moon, full officially at 5:44 this afternoon but clear skies, lots of sunshine today. we're below freezing in boston but teens, 20's in the suburbs right now. sunshine. we climb in the mid 40's for high temperatures today and warming into the mid 50's for thanksgiving tomorrow and look at that, 60 degrees and mild here on friday. erika? erika: thank you so much, cindy. on the health alert. doctors say there's an increase of young women diagnosed with early stage cervical cancer. they think because of a provision of the affordable care act, enacted in 2010 that allows dependents to stay on their child's -- parents health insurance until 26. ages 21-25 had an early stage cancer diagnosis, compared to

a new survey highlights america's best and worst places to live and at the top of the list of best places, yes, massachusetts. and 24/7 wall street reviewed social and economic data in all 50 states. massachusetts is home to some of the wealthiest and educated populations in the country. connecticut listed at number two with new hampshire rounding out the top three. randy: maine is a great place to visit but not live. breaking out overnight, new protests tied to the death of

>> first alert traffic. randy: good morning. news to go, everything wrapped up in 15 minutes. live at logan airport here, looking at one of the security lines. this is terminal a. in logan a lot of people traveling. erika: we start with cindy and the forecast. clear skies now. cindy: not just here. we've been enjoying that the past few days but the country as a whole is very quiet. a little storminess out west and we'll watch that evolve. but this morning is not causing airports. you see the major hubs not reporting weather-related delays so that's good news if you're getting ready to head out and do some traveling. you can see that storm, doesn't have a lot of moisture with it out west yet but will get more and bring quite a bit of snow to the denver area, the rockies and eventually tap into more gulf of mexico moisture and is

thanksgiving morning at 8:00 a.m. and there's rain getting started in chicago with snow in minneapolis and the storm gets more juiced up. so it will eventually head in our direction but not on thanksgiving day and will take until friday night to get here and out ahead of that storm, we warm it up as the winds shift to the south and will pull in warmer temperatures. mid 50's tomorrow. 60 on friday. the average high is just 48 degrees. it's a cold start out the door this morning. we're below freezing in boston and 30 in worcester and teens in the suburbs at bedford and totten and lower 20's on cape cod and another mostly sunny day and more seasonal this afternoon as the temperatures come up in the mid and upper 40's as the winds turn to the southeast and we'll enjoy sunshine with a southerly wind that brings in cloudiness and may start out with cloud cover thanksgiving day but the skies should brighten in the up. mid 50's thursday and friday looks dry by day and the showers come in friday night and we'll talk about the weekend just ahead.

let's get you to the roads now. is it getting busy out there, olessa? olessa: not bad on the volumes and watching delays on the orange line but the rest are on schedule. here is the northbound side where you see the volume starting to pick up. over to the maps now heading into boston, no problems there. south of town, still fairly quiet, 24, 95, route 3 doing ok. the pike and route 9, morning. traveling 93 south, wide open trip to andover and stays quiet for now to the connector. delays on the orange line but everything else is minor. randy? randy: hundreds of protesters making their voices heard in chicago, swarming roads and blocking a freeway here. they're outraged by newly released video of a white police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times. laquan mcdonald was carrying a knife at the time. the officer who shot him has been charged with first-degree murder. erika: we're getting details on a new terror alert as people

travel. randy: todd kazakiewich is at the airport with a message for travelers this morning. todd: randy and erika, good morning. security is obviously the top of mind for a lot of people here. live inside terminal a this morning. it's been busy this morning and will be a very busy day, 60,000 people expected to pass through the security checkpoint here. the lines are long and the wait times are long so you have to get here early. we talked to the t.s.a. spokesperson, mike mccarthy, about what you should know before you fly. mike: this will be one of the busiest travel days we've seen since t.s.a.'s inception. we're fully staffed and ready for the busy holiday season and trying to get the word out and remind passengers to arrive early and arrive prepared. todd: arriving prepared means making sure there's no banned items in your luggage and making sure your i.d. and boarding pass are handy. t.s.a. and state police say

they're ready for the rush of flyers today throughout the holiday weekend. reporting live inside terminal a, todd kazakiewich, wcvb newscenter 5. erika: french police say the man behind the terror attacks planned a second attack that was to happen days after the first. the plot would have involved suicide attacks on the french financial district. the plan was disrupted when police raided an amendment where the terrorists were hiding and planning their next move. breaking overnight, st. louis rams wide receiver steadman bailey is expected to survive a shooting in florida. nfl.com reporting he was in a car with family members when someone pulled up and opened fire. espn saying he was shot twice in the head and will undergo surgery today. bailey is currently serving a four-game suspension of violating the nfl's substance abuse policy. antoinette? antoinette: one man dead and two injured this morning after a car goes airborne and crashes at this shopping center in natick.

late 80's somehow lost control of her vehicle, hitting those three men as they walked out of the harbor freight tool store here at the cloverleaf shopping center. two were customers in their 70's and the other pan was an armored truck driver in his 40's. police have not said which one of them was killed. the driver suffered minor injuries. still no word this morning on what exactly caused her to lose control. we're live in natick this morning. antoinette antonio, wcvb, newscenter 5. randy: thank you, antoinette. drivers are certainly hoping nothing like this will happen today. this is a box truck crash on 128 at route 9, had traffic at a virtual stand still for hours yesterday. even the back roads were clogged when drivers tried to get off the highway altogether. three lanes of the northbound side is shut down and the ripple effect felt at wellesley and newton, all the way to braintree it. erika: they are urging you not

to visit turkey after the russians shot down a fighter jet. a pilot once missing is alive and back at base. the other pilot died. their jet strayed into turkish airspace in a bombing run over syria. the turks say they warned the russian pilots 10 times before firing. putin denies the jet was offcourse. randy: three people under arrest accused of opening fire on protests in minneapolis. black lives matter was protesting and five demonstrators were hurt in monday's shootings but not seriously. protesters continued their ninth night of demonstrations last night. attorney general maura healey's office is doing more to ease college loans. her office announced the increase of a new unit to help borrowers who have fallen behind in loans. her office is cracking down on what she calls predator student debt relief companies.

erika: new reports claim employees at takata raised concerns about air bags for decades according to the "wall street journal." the paper reports the workers believed the company concealed concerns that later led to massive recalls over air bag explosion concerns. the problem has led to the recall of more than 19 million vehicles in the u.s. a surprising discovery in a new york city christmas nativity scene, a church custodian found a newborn with his umbilical chord still attached in the the baby was wrapped in towels inside the holy church in queens and the baby taken to a nearby hospital, said to be in good condition. a parish family has come child. randy: encouraging news for the patriots, wide receiver danny amendola appears to have suffered a sprained knee in bills. a m.r.i. did not reveal any tear there is. amendola expected to receive cautiously with his return. still too soon to know if he'll

be available monday night in denver but is unlikely. erika: the celtics drop back into a bit of a rut and lost 3-4. this one last night to the atlanta hawks and was a beating. avery badly managed 25 for the seeds but 15 of those came in the first half. in the second, they went on an 18-3 run in the fourth quarter. 121-97. they take on the 76ers tonight. randy: a surprise for everyone at the umass-lowell game. look at this. he makes the steal and goes up for the dunk and shattered the backboard. umass-wheelock game was delayed an hour while the glass was cleaned up. too bad for smith, the dunk didn't go in. umass gets the win. erika: james taylor receives the highest civilian award. president obama presented the medal of freedom to 17 americans. other honor years included barbra streisand, steven

spielberg and baseball reg end willie mays and the late yogi berra. randy: look away if you're afraid of spiders. a field in southwest tennessee is overrun with spiders and managed to spin a web that stretches across the field. the city says the spiders do not pose any immediate threat to anything or anybody but they do plan on removing them. erika: i would hope so. randy: a little unnerving. especially if they start ending up in your hair. erika: that's a little unsettling to say the least. we've been looking at below average temperatures here since the weekend. we're going to change things up. cindy: starting tomorrow, our average high temperature is 48 degrees this time of the year and i think starting on thanksgiving we're going to talk about above average temperature as couple days. chilly out the door this morning. 19 bedford up to nashua, 16 in orange, below freezing worcester into boston, teens

and 20's south of town as well. you see on the cape, 23 in falmuth. the skies are clear. we'll see a lot of sunshine throughout the day and sun is up at 6:47 and by lunchtime we're in the low to mid 40's and the winds turn to the southeast and temperatures climb in the upper 407s on the south shore and cape, 45 boston and mid 40's through the merrimack valley. the skies are clear. high pressure continues to sit overhead and is slowing down the arrival of a developing storm pulling out of the rockies today. it is going to spread snow through the northern rockies, the plains states and showers and work their way to chicago and st. louis by days end today and that storm slowly approaches us heading towards friday evening and out ahead of testify we'll bring in a few more clouds as the winds turn to the south but our temperatures won't be as cold, mostly in the upper 20's to the coldest suburbs to upper 30's in boston and a milder flow of air tomorrow and temperatures

in the 50's for thanksgiving day. a little chilly at the football games in the morning. be advised of that. there will be cloud cover as well. we're watching it up for 50's by midday and see the temperatures hold steady for thanksgiving night if you'll be up early doing black friday shopping, shouldn't be that cold this year, temperatures in the afternoon around 60 degrees. a couple showers come through as the front drops southward friday night and drying out on saturday and starting to cool it down, back in the 40's but dry weather for traveling home from grandma's house this weekend. all right. let's get you out to the roads this morning, olessa. anybody going to work today? olessa: a couple people, maybe going to grandma's house. this is by the gas tank on the expressway. north side looks great and not much volume but expecting a different story this afternoon. maybe now is a great time to head to wherever your holiday destination is. getting to the maps, traveling to boston, problem-free ride for now and traveling 24, 95 or

route 3 into braintree, route 9 looking good out of framingham, and 93 southbound also quiet and as you travel south of there towards spot pond and the connector. we have minor delays and the orange line but everything else running on time. randy: traveling this weekend putting your house at risk. erika: tricks to trick burglars to thinking you're still at home. a live look at logan airport this morning. of course a busy travel day. you see the clouds are packed in. we're live with the t.s.a. on what you need to know as you make your getaway. it's now 5:57.

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