>> now on newscenter 5's "eyeopener." antoinette: a suspect under where the victim was headed when he was struck and killed. danielle: still relatively warm this morning. but changes are on the way. when we could see some rain. frank: and controversy surrounding the new global pact to fight climate change. the local reaction to the agreement. >> you're watching wcvb, boston's news leader. this is newscenter 5's "eyeopener." antoinette: good morning to you. december 13. i'm antoinette antonio. frank: and i'm frank holland. i want to toss things over to danielle vollmar with a look at this really mild sunday morning. good morningance danielle. danielle: good morning, frank that's right. you can see behind me look at these temperatures this morning. starting out in the 50's in a

can you believe it's the middle of december, folks. yes, it is. 51 degrees right now in boston. 53 on nantucket. 49 in worcester. but it is colder up in concord at 39 degrees. even colder on mt. washington at 25 degrees although this time of year it could be below zero there. as far as how we do it today, temperatures will hold pretty steady in the upper 40's, low 50's. notice there is a lot of cloud cover with this weather because we do have a back-door cold front moving through the area. so those winds have turned to the north and the east and to the east today. highs today really stay in the upper 40's, and the reason why is we have this back-door cold front moving through right now but watching this system out towards the west, you see a lot of rain with that. that's headed in our direction. i'll have the complete timeline coming up. antoinette. antoinette: danielle, thank you. a taunton man under arrest right now for the death of a pedestrian. 33-year-old michael burns is accused of driving under the

71-year-old joseph brady was hit trying to cross park street friday night. police say burns did remain on the scene where he was tested for drugs. "the enterprise" reports the accident happened right by the christmas tree lot that joseph brady has owned for the past 45 years. michael burns is expected to face more charges. we now know the identity of a pedestrian killed in lynn. state police say 26-year-old miguel del-rosario was not walking in the crosswalk on the lynnway when he was struck. he was taken to an area hospital where he died. the driver of the car that hit him. matthew reppucci of new hampshire did stay on the scene. he's been charged with driving with a suspended license. frank: a deadly rollover under investigation in exeter, new hampshire, right now. one person was killed when the car crashed into the guardrails, then flipped over yesterday afternoon. debris scattered everywhere. guardrails were smashed on both sides of route 101. the highway shut down, backing

witnesses describing the scene say they'd never seen anything like it before. >> we just heard this huge crash and we looked out the window. we saw smoke. frank: police say just one car was involved in the crash. state police are still trying to figure out what caused the accident. the philip chism murder trial will be handed over to the jury this week. closing arguments are expected to be heard tomorrow. they were postponed last week because one of chism's lawyers was sick. the defense claims chism was insane when he killed danvers high teacher colleen ritzer inside the school two years ago. prosecutors say he's faking mental illness. antoinette: right now, world-wide reaction to a global pact on climate change. some 200 nations signing on but not without controversy. people around the world both praising and protesting the deal. our juli mcdonald has a closer look at the agreement and the local reaction. reporter: people in nearly every

celebrating an historic milestone: a global pact to reduce the devastating effects of climate change. in the works for 20 years but after two weeks of intense talks outside paris, world leaders came to a consensus. >> we've reached an agreement here that is the strongest, most ambitious global climate change agreement ever negotiated. reporter: the 31-page deal goes into effect in 2020. its goal is to limit the warming of the earth to less than 3.6 degrees fahrenheit. each country has to come up with their own plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and will have to publicly report them. >> we may not live to see the full realization of our achievements but that's okay. what matters is that today we can be more confident that this planet is going to be in better shape for the next generation. legally binding. much of it is voluntary and there's no way to punish countries that don't comply. protesters held a peaceful rally in boston to spread their

infrastructure and rapidly invest in renewable resources. >> there's no reason to believe they're going to hold those commitments. unless they do i, we're done. that's it. we are essentially causing our own extinction. reporter: that protest and march from the common to the state house were both peaceful events. at one point the protesters were blocking traffic. police were called in but no arrests were made. in boston, julie mcdonald, wcvb, newscenter 5. frank: commitment 2016 now. once fierce foes, now clear allies. former g.o.p. presidential nominee mitt romney appearing at a campaign rally for his former g.o.p. opponent arizona senator john mccain. mccain is running for his sixth term, but the talk quickly turned to the presidential race. romney would not pick a favorite from the g.o.p. field, but senator mccain had an idea. senator: there are a number of people whom i support. i think it would be traffic for president. i mean there's jeb bush or chris christie or marco rubio.

the list goes on and on. there are a number of people running that i think are qualified that would be terrific presidents. we're going to see how this works out. >> i'm having the "draft romney" campaign. frank: the former bay state governor has said he is not a candidate and will not be making another run for president. on the democratic side, bernie sanders spending part the weekend in iowa, a state where he is trailing behind hillary clinton in the polls. yesterday, he took part in a forum on racial justice and prison reform, then held a town hall in dubuque. the senator will kick off a two-day swing through new hampshire tomorrow. his stops include nashua, hollis, rochester, and hampton. antoinette: a growing holiday tradition at the veterans cemetery down on cape cod. volunteers placing wreaths on the graves of those who served. thousands of wreaths laid down yesterday to honor past sacrifice. it's a tribute growing nationwide.

the story from bourne. sera: it's a holiday mission requiring hundreds. volunteers lay wreaths for thousands of war veterans at the national cemetery in bourne. rick ezersky: something i've always wanted to do. sera: rick ezersky is here to honor his father and mother, both buried here. rick ezersky: i think it's just fantastic to see the people that remember those that fought. a o, say, can you see a a sera: a special ceremony marks the annual event. every wreath is donated. capt. dennis mills: to remember that we are one nation with one flag. sera: but there are not enough wreaths for the over 58,000 veterans who rest here-- second largest behind arlington cemetery. captain: i would love, i would love to have 58,000 wreaths here. sera: organizers hope to get 5,000 wreaths for the ceremony. thanks to a last-minute donation, they surpassed that goal. captain: it was 4,383 as of yesterday before that phone call. that pushed us up to over 6,000.

contribute for this holiday season, but donations made now will go towards next christmas. john: my grandfather was a world war i veteran. sera: it's an act of respect family members like john balkley say these veterans have earned. john: to remember those who sacrificed for our freedom. rick: to remember and continue loving and thank these people for what they've done for this country. sera: in bourne, sera congi, wcvb, newscenter 5. frank: the vatican announces details of the pope's upcoming trip to mexico. the five-day trip will take place in february and include an open-air mass near the u.s. border that is expected to attract the faithful from both countries. boston's cardinal sean o'malley will join pope francis on the final day of his journey. he was among those who insisted the pope go to the border. antoinette: on the way this morning, a smash-and-grab at a major museum. frank: the questions surrounding those stolen gems. and what we know about the suspected thief. antoinette: wild weather around

from destructive tornadoes to danielle: and the unusually warm weather in our area. but don't get too use to it. the changes i'm tracking and

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frank: 5:12. welcome back. wild weather in texas yesterday. residents say they spotted two funnel clouds in lindale. no one was injured, but officials estimate the twisters damaged about 50 homes and other buildings. the threat for severe weather not over yet in texas or in neighboring oklahoma. meanwhile out west, rain is hamperg efforts to clean up after a rare tornado touched down in battleground washington. winds topping 100 miles-an-hour swept through a mostly residential part of the city tearing into roofs, homes, and ripping out massive trees. it could taken weeks and even months for some people to clean up. antoinette: denver, colorado seeing some snow yesterday. about six inches to eight inches fell up in mountains which caused some heavy traffic along i-70. the snow did taper off overnight, and it should be sunny and dry for today's broncos game.

california. there has been rain, hail, and snow. and the breezy conditions are making it feel even colder than it is. >> i think it's really cold. >> it's freezing. i'm not used to it. our cali people are not used to this weather. too cold. antoinette: the storm fueled surf also causing extensive damage along the coast in ventura. the pier no match for mother nature's destructive force. wooden support beams on the side of the structure snapping sending chunks of splintered debris washing up on shore. my question is exactly how cold was it? you know those people in california, they think-- my dad will say grab a jacket. it's 60 outside. danielle: that's true. they're very spoiled on that side of the world. we've been pretty spoiled over here. all that weather you were talking about too that weather system in the midwest in texas bringing is the severe weather. that's headed our way, the

we may actually get a couple of rumbles of thunder here on monday night if it sets up perfectly. i want to show you this right now. it's a powerful system. you can see rain showers and storms from minneapolis all the way back towards oklahoma and even texas now. and there is a cold side to this. some snow even falling in parts on the backside of this of kansas. now it is a warm frontal boundary that is headed our way. right now we're actually under the influence of a cold front. it's actually a back-door cold front that is backing in at this point. and what it is doing is actually bringing in a lot of clouds for us today. so you're definitely waking up this morning with clouds around but it's also going to hold our temperatures. it's going to drop our temperatures from yesterday because yesterday we were spoiled with 60 degrees in boston and 56 in worcester. today going for a high of 50 in boston and 48 degrees in worcester. that's about a 10-degree temperature drop. just to give you some perspective. we should be running around 42 degrees at this time of year. so, hey, we'll take too even

i want to show you what's happening right now. it's currently 51 degrees in boston. 52 in plymouth. look at nantucket checking in this morning at 53 degrees but cooler up through the merrimack valley in the 40's and even 30's in concord, new hampshire. and 45 in orange. now through the day today, temperatures really are going to hold, i think. we're in the upper 40's, "low 50's, not really going anywhere. the reason we're going to have the persistent winds out of the north and east shift to go the east anywhere from 5-10 miles an hour so it is going to keep our temperatures down and also keep in low-level clouds so anywhere from, say, 48 in worcester, to 50 in boston, to maybe 55 degrees on nantucket. that will the warmest spot on the map. now for tonight it's mostly cloudy. temperatures dropping into the 30's and 40's. again with an east leer wind and low-level clouds, we could get in some drizzle overnight into first thing tomorrow morning.

so let me show you the timing on everything. notice by monday morning we have a lot of clouds around. future cast not necessarily indicating that we'll see some drizzle but i do think we could especially by our coastline. once we get through the afternoon and the showers really start to fire up and into the evening and into the overnight. in fact, the overnight hour s is when things will really get going for us while most of you are sleeping. so rain chances on the way up to very high monday night into really early tuesday morning. and then it should wind down by tuesday late morning and everything should be good. when all is said and done we're looking for a half an inch to rain. we could really use it because we're down over ten inches for the year now in boston. now behind this system we're actually going to be pretty warm on tuesday morning. but through the afternoon, those temperatures are going to drop. and the reason why they're going to drop is because those winds are going to pick up, turn to the north and west. look, these are the wind gusts at 5:00. upwards of 35 to 40 miles an

so it's very windy, brisk day on tuesday. and that does eventually bring in colder air, so much so that we're in the 40's by wednesday and by next weekend we're back into the 30's. it feels a lot more like wintertime. frank and antoinette. antoinette: danielle, thank you. it's 5:17. stories we're following on the eyeopener right now. frank: police in ohio say they've arrested a thief who stole more than $80,000 worth of jewels from a museum display. check out the surveillance video. cleveland police say the suspect casually strolled into the cleveland natural history museum last week, smashed the case, nabbing the sapphires on display. he then slipped out through a service door. the suspect is the lab tech and physics teacher at nearby john carroll university has been put on administrative leave as police try to figure out where those jewels are now. antoinette: swiss police say

syrian passports and are now investigating their possible ties to terrorist organizations. police in geneva say they found traces of potential bomb-making chemicals in their car. the two men are being investigated for possibly making and transporting explosives and toxic gases. security is high right now around geneva amid a terrorism alert and a hunt for at least four suspects believed to be plotting a specific attack. administrators at a middle school in georgia are apologizing to a family after a teacher asked their muslim daughter if she had a bomb in her backpack. the 13-year-old daughter, who wears a hijab, was stopped and asked what she had in her backpack. when she didn't immediately respond, the teacher asked her if she had a bomb in the bag. the teenager said the teacher called her to the hallway and frank: a close call for one driver in california. take a look at this. the driver of this s.u.v. walked away from this scene with just a firefighters say the man was driving in san jose when a metal ramp fell off of a truck and crashed right through his windshield. the driver was able to pull off to the side of the road safely and get out of the car.

halloran. bob: good morning, everyone. the only way patriot tightened rob grong could you ski would have a chance to play in houston tonight is if he made the trip to houston and he did. so i'm telling there's a chance. he remains questionable for the game tonight between the patriots believe his chances of playing are 50-50. gronk suffered a bone bruce and sprain to his right knee against the broncos. the patriots lost that game and lost the eagles' game which gronk couldn't play. that gives you an idea just how valuable he is. 24 hours after a double overtime thriller against the warriors the celtics battled hard in charlotte last night. an old-fashioned hook shot. lamb nice off the inbound pass. late in the game the celtics go on the break. isiah thomas will give it up to evan turner who will give it back. the celtics beat the hornets 98-93. bruins home against florida. they get two goals from brian spooner and a solid outing from tuukka rask.

they're 8-1-2 in their last 11 games. globe's chris caspar is on sportscenter sportscenter 5 o.t. tonight. eat be talking b's, c's, sox and patriots. that's sports. have a great day. antoinette: a seal was released yesterday. he was suffering from field pox when he was rescued. hundreds came out to cheer him as he made his way back into the atlantic. frank: an extra special birthday celebration at the copley plaza beloved ambassadors. their birthdays with a special catie turned 14; carley is now five. both dogs are fixtures at the hotel. their duties range from going cheering up sick children in town for medical treatment. catie copley is retiring next month after more than a decade of service. antoinette: have you ever met

frank: never. antoinette: i always stop by. i even have a plush catie copley stuffed animal. frank: now i have to stop by. antoinette: before she retires. morning, an urgent plea for a former police dog going viral. antoinette: the dog is in need of a new home. the social media effort underway to help him get adopted before it's too late. and the search for bargains online. some key advice before you buy. a live look over the city of boston this morning. it is a mild start to your day. 06 degrees. and i think we're staying right around this temperature for the rest of the day. danielle has more on your

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frank: if you think it's too balmy to go ice skating, think again. take a look at the folks enjoying this gorgeous night at the frog pond on boston common yesterday. antoinette: it's never too warm to lace up the skates, thanks to the new state of the art ice chiller that keeps the rink frozen solid no matter the temperature. and the temperature, danielle, my goodness. we're talking about ice skating. right now it's 50 degrees. not ideal, i guess, holiday.

if they have that chiller on, we're good to go for that ice skating because temperaturewise we're in the 50's in a lot of spots this morning. 51 degrees in boston. 49 in worcester. 41 nashua. and 52 degrees in plymouth. now through the day today, here's what's going to happen. our temperatures are really going to hold in the upper 40's, low 50's. we're going to see a lot of cloudy skies. those winds will be out of the north and east at about 10 miles an hour thanks to the back-door cold front coming in and that sunset time is still 4:12 so it's pretty early. in terms of the month of december, we have been very warm running well above where we should be. today will be no different. we should be around 42 degrees. of course being near 50 we're going to be well above that. we're in the 50's tomorrow with a lot of rain coming especially at night. it's the overnight hours. then we start to drop tuesday afternoon into wednesday back into the 40's. frank and antoinette.

this morning we've got a warning for all of us procrastinators who haven't finished our holiday shopping yet. frank: not even started. before you click your way to the checkout, abc's gloria riviera has the holiday scam causing some big holiday headaches. gloria: this holiday season, beware of scammers online waiting for you. shopping for her daughter, mindy hayes clicked on an ad in her facebook feed for ugg boots, over 80% off. mindy: great deal. gloria: too great. those boots never arrived. the online retailer apparently a fake. mindy: when i got my confirmation email, it just didn't look legitimate. gloria: mindy, an avid online shopper who works in i.t., was out $83. experts warn it could have been worse. more money or even her identity. mary power: clicking that link puts you in danger. it also puts your family and friends in danger. gloria: all of that can happen with just one click. mary power: absolutely. gloria: what should you be looking for? safe sites have an "s" with a lock in the url. fake sites often have typos and

real on-line businesses have extensive privacy policies. facebook quickly investigated telling abc news it has blocked this website from placing future ads. as for mindy hayes, she's working on getting her money back. mindy: it's hard to know really who you can and can't buy from online. gloria: gloria riviera, abc news, washington. antoinette: i know we've all but if winter sports is your thing, the season is off to a rough start. frank: the efforts underway to make the best of a tough situation on the slopes. and the ongoing investigation into the runaway red line train. the next step for investigators, and the action that's set to get

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>> now on newscenter 5's "eyeopener," antoinette: an arrest after a deadly crash. the charges the driver is facing and the victim who was just trying to get to his christmas tree lot. frank: authorities zero in on a suspect wanted for firebombing a mosque. the new information on the attack. antoinette: and the warm temperatures taking a toll on winter sports. how local ski areas are trying to make the best out of the unseasonable conditions. >> you're watching wcvb, boston's news leader. good morning! this is newscenter 5's "eyeopener." frank: it's 5:30 on this sunday morning. i'm frank holland. antoinette: and i'm antoinette antonio along with danielle vollmar. we saw the tease for that story.

loving these temperatures. danielle: it's hard to go skiing because they can't make the snow because it's so warm out there but there are big changes coming. there's a big storm system in the middle of the country. this is headed in our direction and will event ally bring us cooler air. but first off, let's talk about how mild we are this morning. starting out in the 40's and 50's. we're in the mid 50's on the vineyard this morning. 55 degrees down there. 53 on nantucket. 51 in boston. even the 40's in worcester. as we go through the next 12 hours, say, in worcester. we're going to hold steady pretty much in the mid to upper 40's through the afternoon. notice we're going to be pretty cloudy down there. now down along the south coast, the cape and the islands we're going to stay pretty much in the the low 50's through the afternoon with cloudy skies. the reason those winds have now shifted to the north. they'll be shifting to the northeast and finally the east. associated with a back-door cold front. anywhere from 47 to 5 today.

we could even see some areas i think of drizzle if it does persist. here comes that cold front coming across our region right now bringing down the cooler air but still it's mild. we should be running around 42 degrees so we will take it. but notice a batch of showers and thunderstorms from minneapolis back through kansas and dallas, texas. this whole weather system is headed in our direction. so we'll have the timeline on the rain and talk about how much to expect where you live ahead. frank and antoinette. antoinette: danielle, thank you. it's 5:32. stories we're following right now on the eyeopener. frank: a taunton man under arrest right now for the death of a pedestrian. 33-year-old michael burns is accused of driving under the influence of drugs in stoughton. 71-year-old joseph brady was hit and killed trying to cross park street friday night. burns is expected to face more charges. antoinette: leaders from nearly 200 nations have adopted the first global pact to fight climate change.

then eliminate greenhouse gas pollution, but there are no sanctions on nations that do not. people around the world are both praising and protesting the deal. frank: closing arguments in the philip chism murder trial will be heard tomorrow. they were postponed last week because one of chism's lawyers was sick. chism is charged with first-degree murder for killing danvers high teacher colleen ritzer inside the school two years ago. antoinette: a shooting investigation underway in brockton right now. 21-year-old edward andrews was found unresponsive and suffering from a gunshot wound on haverhill street just after midnight saturday. he was taken to an area hospital where he died. investigators are piecing together clues and searching for a suspect. this is the city's ninth homicide this year. anyone with information is asked to call police. the lynn man charged with shooting and killing two people in revere thursday night is expected to face a judge tomorrow. michael deleon will be arraigned on two counts of murder for the deaths of peter pitari and

police say a third person who was shot gave them deleon's name before losing consciousness. it's believed the shooting was drug-related. frank: new hampshire state police nab a man for driving the wrong way down interstate 89. 26-year-old sean list is charged with drunk driving and reckless conduct. multiple drivers reported that the vehicle was speeding, at one point narrowly missing a tractor trailer. police had to use spike strips to stop list's vehicle. the train operator faces a disciplinary hearing tomorrow. the red line train left the braintree station on thursday morning. it rumbles through four stations unmanned before transit workers stopped it by cutting power to the rails. about 50 people were on board at the time. "5 investigates" finding the operator did not follow several procedures. those actions could cost him his job. a disciplinary hearing will be held on monday. one man is in custody after a california mosque is set on fire. the 23-year-old is accused of arson and a hate crime.

it was fire bombed. is this a hate crime? that's what police in coachella, california, want to know after the lobby of this mosque went up in flames friday when eyewitnesses say a firebomb was thrown at the front door. >> a commercial structure fire on avenue 49. antoinette: authorities say it was an intentional act. ray brewster, security guard for mosque: there's this huge plume of smoke. mushroom cloud. antoinette: and they have arrested this man, 23-year-old carl dial, on suspicion of arson. the situation could have been worse. the lobby burned. coachella valley mosque is just 75 miles from san bernardino. incidents that officials are backlashes to those terrorist shootings. in all, there have been three times as many cases of vandalism and harrassment at mosques this year than last says the council

in philadelphia, surveillance video captured a pig's head being thrown at a mosque. threatening voice mails left at a mosque in st. louis. voice mail: come my way and i'll (bleep) you all. cut your (bleep) off. antoinette: and in phoenix, arizona, windows shattered at this islamic community center. reymundo nour, acting imam for mosque: all we want to do is to be left alone to worship as we worship. antoinette: for now the mosque is doubling security. frank: nearlry two weeks after the san bernardino terror attack, the investigation covering new ground. f.b.i. agents recovered a number of items from a lake after receiving a tip that the two shooters had visited the area left four people dead and 21 wounded. authorities would not specify what the items were. they believe the couple may have gone to the lake to dump monday marks the the third anniversary of the sandy hook school massacre. 26 people were killed at the elementary school in newtown,

tomorrow will be the first time the anniversary falls on a school day. there will be no organized public remembrances for that solemn anniversary. congressman bill keating, "on the record," over the fight to ban people on the no-fly list from being able to purchase guns. keating says the objections to the bill don't make sense. >> the real issue is the gun lobby. we have to stand up to that gun lob eevment this is something that i know the american public has strong feelings about in terms of changing particularly on the terror watch list issue. antoinette: keating also talks about the investigation into the california shooting rampage. morning at 11:00 right here on channel 5. and then catch "matter of fact" with fernando espuelas. this week's guest-- republican presidential candidate lindsey graham. a korean war vet. his funeral comes 65 years after he was declared missing in full honors and a horse-drawn carriage brought him from this

resting place. in 1950, army sergeant robert dakin was 22. his parents are deceased. only one sister is living. but other relatives joined neighbors. a great nephew remembers. >> the news in 1950 that he was missing in action had a lot of my grandparents and aunts to hope that one day their only son and brother would return home. louise his mother never gave up hope, and that hope has been fulfilled today. frank: dakin was identified through d.n.a. analysis. still unaccounted for from the korean war. a massive fire at a mental health clinic. antoinette: the deaths and the people who are still missing. hundreds of babies may have been exposed to a dangerous disease. the concern and the steps that must be taken to keep the infants from getting sick. and a lack of snow is putting a

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season at local ski areas. never mind the real thing. even making snow is next to impossible! as our juli mcdonald reports, at wachusett mountain they're trying to make the best of the situation. juli: the staff and the customers at wachusett mountain are dreaming of a white christmas. they've been open since the day after thanksgiving and are still relying on snow made that week. today's temperatures in the 50's are way too mild for making snow. ideal conditions are between 15 and 22 degrees with low humidity. jeff crowley: it's to the point now where we're actually making snow the night before a rain. normally you wouldn't do that; but it's just been such a mild year, we take every opportunity to get out there. juli: even though temperatures are too high for great snow making, spirits are high regardless. skiers and snowboarders told newscenter 5 they're just happy to be on the mountain in their gear. lincoln waterhouse: my first run of the season and i'm happy. how can you not be happy? it's 50 degrees. we have music. we have snow. life is good. >> i mean, the snow is soft.

>> it's amazing, honestly, what they can do without the cold weather. i'm really impressed. juli: to make up for the lack of snow, wachusett is looking to drum up some business in other ways. today they hosted an outdoor concert featuring g. love and the aldous collins band. >> i love g. love. i love wachusett. i'm stoked. i hope they do this all year. i'm up here at least three days a week. it's early season. that's what happens. >> right now wachusett is open on the week ends fridays, saturdays and sundays but once we see a good stretch of those ideal conditions between 15-22 degrees they can open about a trail a night. right now they're taking it day by day. at wachusett, julie mcdonald, wcvb, newscenter 5. >> now your storm team 5 forecast with meterologist danielle vollmar. antoinette: that reminds me of my younger days snow boarding

danielle: that's normally how northern new england does it this time of year. because it's been so warm, look at these temperatures around us. antoinette: most of us love it. danielle: most of us love it. although it will be cooler than yesterday. about 10 degrees cooler. believe it or not we're still running above average. we should be around 42 degrees this time of year. we have much of needed rain coming on monday. it looks like now the timing is slowing down just a touch so we really don't get any real rain in here until pretty much after dinner time and through the overnight hours and then mild temperatures are going to continue into tuesday before they start to drop back. by the end of the week, if you like the feel of winter, you will feel it by next weekend. so the temperature trend is actually on the way up from today. but yesterday, remember, we hit a high of 60 degrees in boston. today 51 is what we're going for. 53 on monday and 58 degrees on tuesday. that is after this warm front

then we're going to drop back into the 40's which is actually where we should be this time of year. 50's. 51 degrees in boston. 52 in plymouth. 53 on nantucket. but it is dooler up for you folks in the merrimack valley. 39 in concord. but even 55 degrees in keene this morning so if you're stepping outside, it's a mild start to your day. the other thing you're going to notice, we have a lot more clouds around today. in fact, we're going to have clouds pretty much all day long with us as those winds turn from the north to the north and east. at about 5-10 miles an hour. so temperatures today only warming into the upper 40's and low 50's for highs with cloudy skies again throughout the day. same. cloudy skies. 30's and 40's across the map. now our next storm system is the west. it's the one that is bringing a lot of heavy rain and some texas. yesterday they had some tornadoes there.

east and will impact our weather beginning really tomorrow late afternoon into the overnight hours. so the rain chances really look low monday morning. i think you should skirt by okay. maybe areas of patchy drizzle but once we get towards late monday afternoon and monday night that's when the rain really ramps up. theb we could see a couple of embedded thunderstorms as temperatures start to warm associated with this warm front. so here is the whole idea with this. today just socked in with the clouds. we're still cooler. tomorrow a touch warmer. there comes that warm front with all that heavy rain coming through and bringing in milder air. on the backside of this on tuesday those winds really start to ramp up out of the north and west and blow anywhere from about 20 to 30 miles an hour sustained gusts to near 40. in terms of how much rain, probably a half an inch to an inch in most locations. we could really use it since we're down over ten inches now for the year in boston and down

so then behind us, we are really going to drop back on wednesday and even tuesday afternoon temperatures start to fall but these are your wednesday highs. only in the mid 40's. this is what we're experiencing this morning. this is what you're going to experience all day on wednesday. it's going to feel a little cooler too with those winds. we're pretty cool through the workweek. thursday and friday another dose of some rain coming in pretty much thursday night into friday. and if it tapers off, their might be wet snow flakes mixing in at the tail end of this. not accumulating though. we will turn much cooler by saturday. frank and antoinette. antoinette: frank just nods his head. did she say snow flakes? (laughing) it's 5:47. stories we're following on the eyeopener right now. frank: a deadly fire overseas in russia. 21 people died when a fire swept through a home for people suffering from mental illness. 51 other patients were rescued. investigators have not yet determined the cause of the fire at the facility. antoinette: california medical specialists scrambling this

of babies could be at risk for a dangerous disease. the santa clara valley medical center said a nurse tested positive for tuberculosis. she works in the mother and infant care center in san jose. as a precaution 350 infants who may have been exposed must now be tested. they aren't calling it an emergency but concede it's a serious situation. >> when a baby gets tuberculosis, it can unfortunately get into the bloodstream and then travel throughout the body to other areas. including the brain which is the most feared complication. antoinette: medical specialists are recommending all babies born at the hospital this fall get antibiotics for 6 to 9 months. frank: for holiday shoppers, another day chance to get some great deals tomorrow. it's the third best sales day of the year. monday with price points identical to black friday deals. ebay to describe its best december deals but has picked up

game day for the patriots and it's a win-win. either gronk plays or the texans have wasted time game-planning for him. gronk did make the trip to houston with the team but is still listed as questionable so it'll be a game-time decision whether he plays. he only missed one game with a bone bruise and sprain to his right knee. so a return this soon is a bit unexpected, but he may be ready to give it a go. >> he's a great player. i always wish we would have these guys out in everyone whether jewels or gronk but different guys are dealing with different things. it's part of football season. i think you still have to be mentally tough to overcome whatever adversity you face. try to win a game. antoinette: the patriots take on the houston texans tonight. kickoff is at 8:30. frank: the celtics coming off their loss to the warriors friday with a much better night

24 hours after that double-overtime thriller, the celtics jared sullinger serving up an old fashioned hook shot. hornets' jeremy lamb nice off the inbound pass. late in the game isaiah thomas gives it up to evan turner who gives it back, and the celtics go on to beat the hornets 98-93. bruins back at home against the florida panthers. another solid outing at the garden. they get two goals from ryan spooner and a solid outing from tuukka rask. b's win, 3-1. we have a question. what's in a name? a number of local town and landmarks have some unique monikers, but how did they get them? antoinette: this morning, chronicle's ted reinstein introduces us to a duck tour guide and shows us how he explains the names of some spots to his passengers. reporter: what's in a name is the name of the game at boston

joseph zamperella's persona. >> team 75. i was asleep. when paul revere comes riding through town. (telling a story) 10:30 at night. give me another minute, man. reporter: names are spelled out in detail on these entertaining tours. >> the back bay was did bay at the back of boston because this is all filled-in land. i was all charles river at high tide and mud flats at low tide. this was the back section of the city. the bay that wasn't open directly to the sea. it's almost like a little da vinci code right in here. if you can pick out the names and the stories, you can really start to put together how things are happening. reporter: boston gets its name

from in lincolnshire county england. as for bean town. >> i'm giving away one of the good jokes here. on sundays there was only one thing you could do and that was go to church. the women couldn't cook on sunday either because that was considered work. so they would come up with dishes that could be put by the stove to heat slowly over hours from saturday night into sunday afternoon. one of those favorite dishes was beans. and some people say that this is why the benches in the churches are called pews. antoinette: tomorrow on "chronicle," together for a life-changing charity. what they couldn't have predicted-- how their lives would change. "dance with me" tomorrow night at 7:30 on "chronicle." love those duck boat tours. i've been on like five of them. they are a blast. frank: you quack too much though. you almost got in trouble.

a former police dog dumped at a shelter. the effort to find that pup a new home the plea to save his

anncr: when the attacks come here... ...the person behind this desk will have to protect your family. will he be impulsive and reckless, like donald trump? will he have voted to dramatically weaken counter-terrorism surveillance, like ted cruz? will he have skipped crucial national security hearings and votes just to campaign, like marco rubio? 27 generals and admirals support jeb bush. because jeb has the experience and knowledge to protect your family. right to rise usa is responsible for the content of this message. danielle: welcome back. i'm meteorologist danielle vollmar. a lot of you are looking for snow.

on average at this point we should around 3.4 inches of snow. last year we were at 2.9 inches of snow. in worcester 7.5 inches of snow. we're waiting for it but what we do have in the forecast is some rain coming through. it looks like heavy bands are going to come through at night associated with our storm system. let me take you on the future cast real quick and show you this. notice we're pretty much dry through the afternoon but the rain becomes heavy as we get towards, say, 8:00 or 9:00 at night. we could see rainfall rates in excess of a half an inch to an inch when all is said and done. frank and antoinette. antoinette: danielle, thank you. the story of a retired police dog looking for a new home has gone viral. frank: last week, buster's owner left him with the new york city animal control in brooklyn. the eight-year-old german shepherd had been with his owner almost all his life. the two served together in the police department until his owner retired. he says he can no longer care for the dog because of "personal problems" so buster is looking

antoinette: on the way this morning, a growing tribute in honor of fallen heros. frank: the volunteers who hang wreaths on the graves of soldiers at national cemeteries. the ceremony marking the annual event. and a brazen museum heist. the stolen gems and the suspect accused of swiping them. antoinette: a live look outside over the city of boston this morning. it is still dark out there. more than an hour until sunrise this morning. but very mild.