chandler jones in the hospital. the globe the first to report that it was a reaction to synthetic marijuana that caused jones' reaction. >> many questions about the police response remain. our team coverage begins with rhondella richardson live at foxborough tv. reporter: with the news it was a bad reaction to synthetic marijuana the police chief is not commenting. the town manager only putting out a statement saying all documents must be reviewed by the town attorneys before they comment. for neighbors in the area they are shocked that jones, who they consider a very private resident, is make such news. >> i'm not sure of the situation. reporter: the patriots defenseman had a medical emergency. he arrived at the police station down the street. there are no specifics on his condition but a neighbor says he wasn't dressed for the weather.

like running around with his shirt off. >> jones did not answer the door today to explain what happened but as police were transporting him by ambulance to norwood hospital, an officer sent to secure his home radioed in this. >> able to lock the front door. if you want to pass along, he was definitely involved in class e delta before it happened. >> a class d substance in massachusetts would include marijuana and other derivatives. >> i don't know why he would be doing something like that. you get tested, you know. often. >> hopefully it's nothing. >> and chandler jones was treated and released from the hospital on sunday and has been participating with the team. live in foxborough, rhondella richardson, wcvb, newscenter 5. >> the patriots very careful with their words today but still showing support for jones. sports center 5's mike lynch joins with us that part of the

the chancellor jones story has fortified the patriots locker room. to a player, they endorsed jones since being discharged from the hospital on sunday afternoon. the media was given less than five minutes to shoot at the beginning of practice. all guys before locked on number 95 instead of the usual suspects. jones was the center of attention during stretching exercises. he did not grant any interviews but his teammates were quite supportive. >> as a member of this team, we support all 50 or 60 guys on this team. we have their backs regardless of the situation. and that's no different with chandler. he has our support. >> a player makes a mistake in his personal life, does he owe the team an apology or should he address the team in some way? >> you know, i don't know. i don't feel strongly one way or

as i said before, i don't have enough knowledge and information about the situation, nor do any of us. >> i know a lot of you have a lot of questions. tonight's developments could land jones in the league's substance abuse program but he would not be subject to a suspension because it would be considered a first time offender. >> general electric announcing boston as the company's new home. global headquarters moving to the hub this summer. janet is live in boston. janet? >> mayor wall said as far as he's concerned he won powerball bringing the $130 billion global industrial company here to boston's seaport district. it's his biggest business deal since he was elected mayor almost two years ago. now general electric will how's 800 workers. they will begin the move this summer and it will take to 2018 to complete. there are two or three parcels of land under consideration. no word yet on whether they will

structure. but the company said it will not move. tax incentives from the city and at this time as well as selling their properties in connecticut and manhattan will pay for it. g.e. announcing they have picked boston over new york, providence and atlanta. it's the eighth largest company on for the church 500 list and it could move boston up another level on the world stage. wcvb, newscenter 5. >> a frantic search is under way for five people miss nag deadly avalanche. this happened in the french alps. three of the people are dead. two of them, french school children. heather with the latest. reporter: crews worked well into the night trying to find some sign that the five missing people were still alive. hundreds of searchers are fanned out across the area. they are looking for any signs of life in mountains of snow. the victims were part of a high school skiing group. searchers arrived to find four people in cardiac arrest, a teacher unconscious.

two students died. the avalanche happened on a trail that was closed to the public. a avalanche warning had been issued for the general area earlier in the week. j.c.? >> dorchester police have made an arrest in a deadly hit-and-run. sarah is live in dorchester with the breaking details. sarah? >> j.c., police have not released the name of the suspect but she's a 34-year-old woman from dorchester charged now with motor vehicle homicide. she's accused of hitting a man here on washington street and then driving off. surveillance video shows a vhs transportation van quickly driving away clipping the curb as it makes a right turn. it was around 8:00 this morning a man believed to be a construction worker was killed just outside a work site. >> somebody came to work early this morning just to die like this. >> soon after a similar van was

street with a cracked windshield and front end damage. police have not confirmed the van was involved but the owner of the surveillance video that shows the vehicle speeding off says investigators dubbed it -- >> the people have to be careful when they are crossing. >> the crash happened near the busy four corners of washington and bodden. one business owner says she was hit five years ago while walking in the crosswalk with her young son. >> just pull out. just like that i was rushing. >> several hours after this morning's crash two agents with osha were on the scene taking photos. a representative with the construction company would only say they are cooperating with authorities. reporter: osha says it was only here to determine whether or not this was a matter for the agency. the suspect, again, not identified, but a 34-year-old woman from dorchester, she'll be arraigned tomorrow. live in dorchester, sarah, wcvb, newscenter 5.

24 degrees roughly in the needham area. a very chilly day. the wind made it worse. i was on the 12th floor balcony goodness. >> i know you're telling the truth. first, you always do but second, look at the report of a 57 mile per hour wind gust. officially at logan 47 but many gusts were over 50 and it was enough to produce some damage. these are all areas that today. with those powerful gusts, importing the cold air in. notice it's still gusting up to 36 in providence. 31 in springfield. 25 in boston. the wind advisory is down and the wind will continue to ease slowly. right now it's only in the upper teens in worcester. 20's in boston. current think wind chills are in the single digits and low teens. through the night the wind chill won't change very much even though the temperature will drop a little more. we're going to see the wind abate some. it will be a stand-off. it's very cold and i'll let you

up. >> the trial of a boston teenager charged in a crash that left a young father paralyzed today. that accident happened on the way two years ago and kelly was inside the courtroom tonight. >> j.c., trial got under here at the district court more than a year after this young unanimous guilty plea. he's now 20, lives in west roxbury. negligent operation of a motor vehicle. it was september 2013 when police say he was driving on the arbor way at speeds up to 80 miles per hour. that's when his suv jumped the median and hit a pickup truck head on. the driver of the truck was kevin -- he was critically injured and is still hospitalized with a traumatic brain injury a. passenger in the truck told the jury today about

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tomorrow night in south carolina, trump is warning his opponents as he's done in the past, if he's attacked, he'll hit back much harder. >> treacherous driving in the midwest after two rounds of snow whipped through. this is a 40 vehicle pileup in indiana right along the border in ohio. several tractor-trailers were involved, completely blocking the highway. six people were treated for nonlife-threatening injuries. obviously, the combination of low viblts and slick roads were just too much for many of those drivers to handle. >> this is our own little bit of snow. >> we d. we had some snow squalls. poor visibility and driving. i'll show was the amount of snow that he will. it's not an epic form

way above average because of all the warm weather. not warm now, though. still a little bit of daylight. temperature in boston is 26 degrees. it's cold. the wind is steady at 18. still gusty, not as powerful as earlier but still with temperatures in the upper teens to mid 20's. it's cold, wind chills are in the single digits and teens. another cold night. tomorrow will be also very cold but not quite as cold as today. breezy but not nearly as windy as today. so you will feel the difference. bigger difference on friday, because we'll have a slightly higher wind and the temperature will average pretty close to 40 for a high temperature on friday. so compared to the way it is out there now that will feel very nice indeed. a couple of other things, we have another area of snow that's cutting through the midwest. our air is very dry and our winds will stay out other west which is very dry. it's very hard to saturate the lower part of the atmosphere but nonetheless it's possible that we could get just a couple of

here's something i want to share with you. we're at the beginning of january. the hurricane season for this coming here, this year, 2016, begins on june 1. but, you know what? we already have our first named storm. that's right. in early january. unusual. its name is alex. it's way out there. you can see it near the azores. it will start to move northward. it won't hit there and it will become a nontropical type of storm but it's acquired tropical characteristics and that's kind of interesting just to note. let's get back to our local weather. clouds will begin by tomorrow morning and before tomorrow morning's commute is over anywhere from the berkshires into boston there, could be a few snow flurries. i do not expect there would be accumulating snow even if there are some snow flurries, but a couple are shown here in one of our computer model projections. clouds will be around at times on friday. i want

happen overnight friday night after midnight. this pink area that could be a touch of freezing drizzle that may break out in some areas which could make it slick on saturday but a storm from the south will give us more meaningful precipitation. especially saturday morning to about midday but it looks like most of us will be too warm to support snow. so it looks like it will be a chilly rain. windy on the coast, especially at the cape. now if the heavier precipitation gets to the higher terrain of worcester county or the berkshires, that's where there could be some wet snow with very borderline temperatures. right now, the odds favor rain over snow for most of our area with this but it's still a fairly close call, so we'll continue to monitor that carefully. the track of the storm is slightly uncertain as to just how close it comes to us. let's talk about tomorrow. maybe a flurry in the morning. high temperature should be around freezing. there is your milder day on friday with a high around 40. as i mentioned, it's that storm that comes up for late friday

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limit prescription opioid have pushed some people toward heroin abuse. but today, a new paper questions the conventional wisdom that these two wishes so closely linked. researchers at that time national institute on drug abuse, the nih, and the f.d.a. suggest heroin use was already on the rise before policies to curb prescription painkillers were put into place. the researchers examined the trove of past studies to make these conclusions saying instead a number of other reasons may be to blame for the rise in heroin use. among these reasons, fact that find with lower prices, and with a higher purity product. this is a potentially controversial paper and unlikely to be the final word on the topic. >> today state lawmakers discussed a bill to deal with massachusetts growing opioid crisis. the placalls for several changes including limiting painkiller prescriptions and adding evaluation requirements for overdose victims who go to

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