do it in my ling room. >> it's beautiful, isn't it? that's emily: good morning, it's wednesday, december 9. i'm emily riemer. randy: i'm randy price. breaking news on the eyeopener right now, a shooting overnight in boston's south end. the investigation and the injuries this morning. emily: a plea for help as two robbers force their way into a quincy home. the accusations of violence and the arrest this morning. randy: donald trump sparking a firestorm with his comments about muslims. the backlash from both sides. and the disturbing trend the comments may be fueling. emily: we'll get to those stories but first we want to check in with cindy and

cindy: we're starting off in the 30's. winds are calm. around the freezing mark in most areas. we are close to freezing in worcester. 34 degrees. there could be a few icy spots on the roads. we have high pressure to our south and this is going to try to eat away at the cloud cover a little bit. so a lot of clouds this morning. some breaks of sunshine developing by noontime. we're up around 44 degrees and during the afternoon especially we'll see a few breaks of sunshine. today is temperatures are coming up to a high of 47 today in boston. warmer air on the way. all about that in your weekend forecast. let's get you out to the roads this morning. olessa: good morning. looking good along the pike here. let's get to the maps.

construction in place 93 south at the zakem bridge. northbound from the mall and then more construction on route 3 approaching the braintree split. 128 construction, west of money to good shape. more road work blocking two left lanes. we're expecting the trains and buses to start morning on schedule. emily? emily: olessa, thank you. breaking overnight, one man is in the hospital fighting to survive after a shooting in boston's south end. it happened at rutland and tremont streets just before 2:00 a.m. at this point no word on any randy: the norovirus is being in boston. is still shut down, after at least 80 customers got sick. workers spent the night cleaning the location on beacon street. city health inspectors also

location, including low holding temperatures for chicken and steak, and an employee working despite being sick. emily: a desperate call for help in quincy. right now, police are searching for a second suspect in a violent home invasion. a teenager able to get away and get help. randy: the eyeopener's sera congi is live in quincy with the manhunt this morning. reporter: randy and emily, one suspect is already behind bars after police chased the pair from the home, where they tied up a pregnant woman. of two men who barged into the basement of the quincy home yesterday afternoon. a 16-year-old managed to get upstairs, and call for help, as the suspects tied up her mother, who is 6 months pregnant. the teenager scared, but

>> she is hiding. where are you hiding? >> the living room. reporter: now police got here in time to nab one suspect but another got away. officers recovered this gun and hope to use it to track that suspect down. hospital for evaluation. they're shaken, but are both expected to be ok. murphy is charged with assault and battery, kidnapping, and home invasion. emily: thank you. the defense rests its case in chism. but they'll continue to fight today to prove the teen is -- was insane at the time. the eye's juli mcdonald is live outside the courthouse in salem, where the jury could get the case this week. the trial, close to wrapping up. today the defense will have a chance to cross-examine a witness that the prosecution called yesterday. insane when he raped and murdered his danvers high math

years ago. the prosecutors sought to discredit that claim by presenting a witness who examined chism and determined he was faking symptoms. >> suggested that he was trying to fake that and to demonstrate that he was severely mentally ill. reporter: the jury could get this case by the end of the week. as for today some of the testimony may be held behind closed doors, so as to not compromise confidential test questions that were asked of chism. >> i'm the worst thing that has ever happened to isis. the people in my party fully understand that. randy: donald trump is dismissive of the question over

muslims. we're tracking the overnight developments. >> it is less than 48 hours after the gop frontrunner called for a shutdown of muslims entering the united states the firestorm is only growing. this is the front page of the new york daily news. the paper compares trump to a nazi and shows him decapitating the statue of liberty. just the latest in a string of harsh criticisms. in a one on one interview with barbara walters trump defended the temporary proposal as critical to national security. >> they knocked down world trade center. they tried doing it twice. other things have happened. there are people that have tremendously bad intentions. reporter: trump went on to claim that he is among the least bigoted people. new this morning, there is growing evidence of disturbing a disturbing backlash in the u.s. arab-american leaders are reporting a rise in anti-muslim attacks just since last week's mass shooting in

that includes vandalism to mosques. and verbal and written threats directed at people of the muslim faith. the anti-defamation league says they have logged at least two dozen anti-muslim attacks since the terror attacks in paris last month. emily: both republicans and democrats are calling foul on trump's plan. democratic frontrunner hillary clinton used some choice words yesterday in new hampshire. >> this is both a shameless and a dangerous idea. emily: house speaker paul ryan also took a stand, saying trump's proposal goes against both the party's values, and the country's. it is 4:37 this morning. new clues in a cold case in baltimore linked to boston. randy: the federal judge rules on the worcester armory theft. the charges dropped against one of the suspects. emily: a controversial christmas display.

the home owner has to say about it. cindy: a lot of clouds will be hanging around today. we'll see a few demrimses of sunshine. a big wa hey mom, i could use some basil. oh, sure thing, sweetie. r life is eating out of a flower pot. wait where' s the? right. it' s being a food paparazzi. rhoney, your rump roast just broke the internet. as it should. and a takeout romantic. dessert! happy anniversary.

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uncovering new information in a 40-year-old murder mystery. police may have the name of the baltimore victim, linked to boston. baltimore police tell us it came from a tip. they also say the girl and her family may have moved to forbes street in jamaica plain from puerto rico when she was 5 or 6. she may have attended catholic school on wyman street before disappearing at 15. the girl was found murdered in maryland in 1976. evidence from the scene connects her to massachusetts. baltimore police are not releasing the name yet, but hope the new information will push more people to come forward. randy: 4:41. a federal judge has dropped the most serious charge against a dorchester woman, accused in connection with stolen guns from a worcester armory. ashley bigsbee is on pretrial release, after a judge dropped a possession of a machine gun charge against her. her friend, james morales, is charged with breaking into the army reserve center on november 14, and stealing 16

a bombshell for some health insurance customers. emily: the company refusing to offer what some doctors say can be a life-saving test. a new toy sells for big bucks. why this particular character is so special. and what the company plans to

emily: 4:44 this morning. we have enjoyed such a string of mild days. cindy: mild days. mild weeks. november was so warm. we're like a week into december now. take a look. we're running well above average again. typical high these days is 43. even yesterday when it felt so much colder, it was 44 so technically an above normal day. we have only had one day this month with temperatures below average. we had a lot of clouds yesterday. we're going to see some sunshine today. not a lot, but a little, better than yesterday. starting tomorrow, 50's return and it is going to be even warmer around here by this weekend. so we have got once again the

here in the east. mild temperatures up and down the eastern seaboard. out west is where it has been stormier and colder. this has been a persistent pattern for more than a month here. temperatures in the 30's. 34 in worcester. 35 in nashua. north and west of town, a above freezing. most spots are above freezing this morning. boston it is 37. but it is cloudy. you can see the clouds are going to hang tough for a while this morning and then late morning into the afternoon, clouds may little bit of sunshine. really have any fog to deal the skies are cloudy, yes. we could see a little bit of fog this morning. now we are looking like we're locked in cloud cover here. we have high pressure to our south. this is trying to eat away at the clouds. it is feeding off southerly winds on the backside.

this is the air mass that is going to start to work on in. today we'll hold temperatures in the 40's. about 44 worcester. 47 should be our high in boston. mostly in the mid 40's here as the winds turn to the south at five to 10 miles per hour. i'm looking for a lot of clouds, just some breaks of sunshine. then the afternoon, a few holes in the cloud cover. limited amounts of sunshine today. overnight the clouds fill back in. look at this throughout the overnight hours. one or two patches of drizzle could be around so pretty murky. temperatures falling into the upper 30's and lower 40's. not terribly chilly overnight. tomorrow we brighten it up and keep the mild air in place on friday as well. a chance for a little bit of drizzle overnight and first thing on thursday. mid to upper 50's on thursday afternoon. friday afternoon as we go into

looks like we're 60 degree or higher. by sunday, we could be flirting with record high temperatures. the record in worcester is 62. 63 in boston from back in 1984. we could be close to those values this weekend right around 60. then early next week, it looks like our next chance for significant rain comes in on monday. warming it up once again. emily: just in time for saturday and sunday. olessa: a live look outside at the pike. so far we're looking good there both directions. we are watching some overnight construction. a lot of it still in place for another 10-15 minutes if you're traveling into boston this morning. that road work south of the zakim and the expressway. more construction on the expressway, south of there approaching the braintree

as you travel by a great plain avenue, to problems there. north of second down, some more road work traveling 128 south from route 3 to four approaching route two. trains and buses on schedule. emily: thank you. some say massachusetts' ban on texting and driving doesn't go far enough. now 5 investigates is looking at the push to help the commonwealth solve the problem. tom brannelly lost his daughter to a distracted driver in 2012. he testified in support of a bill that would ban all hand-held cell phone use behind the wheel in massachusetts. states, including three in new england. in connecticut, 16,000 tickets were issued for distracted driving in one year. compare that to about the same texting and driving in massachusetts.

economic headlines. dow chemical company and dupont right now. insiders say an announcement on a possible deal could come as soon as this week. both companies have a separate total market value of about $60 billion. asian stocks were mixed today as commodity prices weakened. that includes the cost of iron ore. right now u.s. stock futures are up after a down day yesterday. the dow lost 162 points to close at 17,568. emily: a health alert this morning. a major insurance provider is raising eyebrows with its decision to deny 3-d mammogram coverage. medical experts say the new technology catches more cancers and saves more lives than the traditional flat view. but cigna informed subscribers that as of february 15, it will no longer pay for the more advanced screenings, citing a lack of evidence to support the benefits. leading experts in the field strongly disagree. >> the 3-d mammography has been

conventional 2-d mammography and even here locally at the hospital, we have seen double the number of diagnosis of small, early cancers. emily: cigna says it will continue to review the research on 3d technology. a check of your trending stories on the eyeopener. randy: north face founder and environmentalist douglas tompkins has died. the 72-year-old suffered hypothermia in a kayaking accident in southern chile. he was boating with 5 others when the group capsized in a lake in the patagonia region. the other boaters were rescued. emily: some uproar in michigan over this holiday display. people say it looks like a gunman, pointing his weapon at drivers. but the homeowner says he is a hunter shooting at a decorative deer in her yard. the woman says the hunter represents her father, who passed away more than a year ago. she says he loved to hunt, and the display is to honor his memory. randy: it could be one of the world's

a buyer spent $21,500 on this glass character from the shopkins. the popular toys usually price around 2:99. the so-called gemma stone was only meant to appear in company videos, never to be sold. because of her popularity, the company put her up for auction, and donated proceeds to a nonprofit that helps deliver toys to at-risk kids. a new visa program passed by the house. emily: the changes in the works. and the group of people most affected. then new on the eyeopener at 5:00: protecting yourself while you shop this holiday season. the warning before thieves get your credit card

emily: it is 4:54 this morning. breaking news out of boston. randy: this happened just before 2:00 this morning. emily: the childhood friend who bought the two assault-style rifles used in the attacks may face gun charges. investigators say enrique marquez made the purchase so that syed farook wouldn't be linked to the guns. farook's mother has now been added to the government's terror watch list. farook's father was added last weekend, following the attacks. the moves are a praution to ensure neither leaves the country. investigators say farook may have plotted another attack 3 years ago but didn't go through

area. randy: all of the attackers in the paris attacks have been identified as french or belgian. the u.s. house has passed new legislation to tighten controls on travel into the united states as measures seek to prevent syrian and iraqi nationals to take advantage of the visa waiver program. this bill approved 407-19 also looks to prevent anyone who has traveled to syria, iraq, iran or sudan since march 2011 from using the waiver program. emily: case dismissed for the webster man accused of keeping his mother in a house of squalor. she was found with towering pile s of trash all around her.

against her son because there was no evidence of injury. michael said he plans to clean up his own house and have his mother move in. randy: an unprecedented show at vatican. it features this illuminating display at st. peter's square. it features animals, depictions of pollution in an effort to get people talking about climate change and ways to solve it. emily: a generous donation for families. salvation army volunteers found a diamond ring and wedding band in a kettle outside a market basket in billerica. the worker who found the it says it was put there on purpose. the one karat diamond ring has been appraised at $3,500. it will be auctioned off this saturday. a mystery solved on boston common. newscenter 5 was there as the woman who has been anonymously leaving coats and scarves for people in need returned to leave even more clothes. now, we know who she is, she's rebekah barrasso of malden.

leaving hats, scarves, gloves and coats on the common along with signs telling people who need them to take them. >> it is an open invitation for anyone to come. if they feel comfortable, they can come take what they need. no one is really watching. they can take what they need to keep warm. emily: rebekah says she heard about someone doing the same thing in new york city, and wanted to give back. great idea. randy: very nice. in the world where so many negative things happen, someone is out there doing great things. cindy: really, really nice. we have a big change coming with the temperatures. yesterday was kind of damp and we had some drizzle. we were stuck in the 40's yesterday, which is seasonal for this time of year. average high now is just 43 degrees. we're going to go close to that today and then look what happens to what happens toward the end of the week. right now, these are current

note the absence of really cold air. this is typically the time of year that cold air comes down through canada from the arctic and spills into the lower 48. we do not see that pattern happening now. pretty quiet overall. stormy out on the west coast and florida. otherwise much of the country is dry this morning. high pressure to our south but a lot of low cloudiness this morning. we had all of those clouds yesterday and we have a lot clouds in place this morning. as we get deeper into the morning hours and especially after lunchtime, there will be a few breaks of sunshine developing. a little bit brighter than yesterday. seasonal temperatures in the 40's today. as mentioned, we have warmer temperatures on the way as we head toward tomorrow afternoon. tomorrow it will be milder in the 50's in the afternoon. a little bit of patchy drizzle here through the early morning hours. notice as we get into the afternoon tomorrow, clouds break for sunshine.

partly to mostly sunny.