>> from boston's news leader, this is wcvb newscenter 5 at noon. antoinette: making headlines right now. four boston police officers recovering after a violent confrontation. two were dragged by a suspect's car. the other two, nearly hit by the vehicle. another busy day in the skies and on the roads ahead of the thanksgiving holiday. this year the number of travelers is expected to be up. so far, the weather in new england is cooperating with

now but them may not be the case for the holiday itself or for your black friday shopping plans. let's check in with cindy fitzgibbon keeping a close eye on the system. cindy: store moving through the midwest. wintry precipitation around the cleveland area stretching up through parts of michigan back into wisconsin. this is moving in our direction. as it does so it's bumping into chilly air. see off to the west 20's and 30's. going to beat half to dislodge the cold air as the moisture starts to move in tomorrow morning. great shape the rest of the afternoon. clear skies up until the sunsets at 4:16. low to mid 40's. once the sun goes down clouds begin to increase and you can see that on futurecast with clouds filling in overnight. sunrise tomorrow is quiet but

snow starts to shift in and along and north of the pike that may persist until mid to late morning where we could see a dusting of snow. we will break down the full-time line just ahead. antoinette: today is expected to be a busy one of the roads. let's take a look. live pictures from the southeast expressway heading south. in recent years the tuesday before thanksgiving has been the busiest travel day but that does not mean you're out of the woods today. aaa is than 5% increase in travel this holiday season. most of that is on the roads. today the busiest travel times are expected to be about 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. the usual chokepoints are on the mass pike at the 128, 495 and 84 interchanges. open tolling should make that a little better this year. four police officers injured overnight in a violent

officers are doing. doug meehan live in dorchester right now. doug: first and foremost those officers have been treated and released from the hospital. this was a violent confrontation outside dublin house. the suspects car is in the street. does off best two officers approach. those two officers reach inside the vehicle to try to get the keys takes off dragging those officers and hitting two more. >> we got a car that just hit a police officer. flying of columbia road. doug: capturing the chaotic scene earlier this morning. it was around 12:30 a.m. when somebody called police to report seeing a person with a gun outside the dublin house. two plainclothes officers were

other uniformed officers. they approached the suspect vehicle when the situation quickly escalated. >> when the officers had to handle and ask to get out of the car, he accelerated dragging a couple of officers down the street. doug: those officers were transported to brigham and women's hospital. the suspect fleeing of columbia road with police losing sight of him several blocks away neighboring business may have captured images of what happened. investigators hoping it provides them with additional information. bpd brass actually feeling thankful on this, the day before thanksgiving. >> four officers that went to the hospital subsequent to their injuries, non life-threatening. thankful for that considering with going on in the world

or silver chevy perhaps with connecticut license plates. if you have information give them a call. antoinette: newly released data shows homicide in boston have gone up dramatically. there have been 40 homicides this year so far. but what he percent jump over 2015 community leaders telling the herald the trend is tied to an increase in gang activity and the reluctance of witnesses to come f hotspots for these crimes. franklin field at blue hill avenue and about in geneva it neighborhood. a school bus driver has been placed on leave after student was allegedly sexually assaulted on their bus. investigators say the seven-year-old who attends the boston renaissance charter public school was repeatedly assaulted by a six-year-old student. the mother of the victim told the globe her son is supposed to sit in the front of the bus next to the driver through she says

the new push in massachusetts to get funding from congress. ed markey calling for -- sera congi is live for us in boston. sera: senator markey spoke along boston's so-called methadone mile to make his point. at the lame duck conference has two weeks will provide $1 billion for opioid treatment. >> the terrorists flocking our streets is opioids, fentanyl, that is the threat. here in massachusetts this year 2000 people are going to die. sera: that 2000 number is the

the number of actual overdose deaths three years ago. senator markey is rallying support to get this done now in the next couple of weeks. he says it has been a fight with the outgoing republican congress . he thinks the odds of getting it passed will diminish with the incoming congress and new administration. antoinette: this push comes as we learn the impact of new rules on prescription monitoring. daily sear quadrupled after rules requiring doctors before prescribing opioids with a high rate of abuse. since october 15 doctors have searched an average of 28,423 times per weekday. in july that number was just a low 6000. in the trunk transition now. -- the trunk transition now. nikki haley accepted the post as

president-elect takes a few days off for thanksgiving at his palm beach estate. lana: the president-elect has named south carolina governor nikki haley to the position of u.n. ambassador rice. the 44-year-old -- has accepted. the first female, the first minority and first critic of mr. trump to be named to his administration. rhetoric. -- trump's campaign rhetoric. following mr. trump's election she called him a friend and released this statement today. "when the president believes you have a major contribution to make to the welfare of our nation into our nation's standing that is a calling that is important to heed. " the question over mr. trump

have a conflict of interest" indicating he may continue to mix public service with business rules. mr. trump may run afoul of the constitution. here is legal analyst dan abrams. >> the thing i would be most worried about with regard to these conflicts is the possibility that if he stays involved in any way he is then subject to lawsuits as well. out over secretary of state. david betrapetreaus indicating e would be interested in the position. antoinette: more evidence that newton mayor setti warren is lying the groundwork for a gubernatorial bid. stating he plans to challenge governor baker in 2018 should

earlier this month warren announced he is not seeking another term as mayor of newton. he has also hired democratic organizer john walsh who was a top advisor to former governor deval patrick. a massachusetts liberal arts college campuses sending prayers to an alum who was injured while protesting the dakota access pipeline. 21-year-old sophia wilensky is a graduate at williams college violent. she was hit by a grenade. her left arm might have to be amputated. the prayer service was held for her last night. wilensky's father talking about his daughter's recovery. she's focused on the fact that it's not about her. it's about what we are doing for our country, for the native people. antoinette: wilensky's father says the grenade was thrown directly at her.

they weren't even using so-called concussion grenades which are nonlethal. a police officer was hurt in that overnight clash. she was shot and killed a week before the brexit vote. the sentence handed down to the man who murdered british lawmakers. a suspect in custody in the shooting of a campus police officer. what police say the shooting may not have been an ambush. cindy: rain, areas of snow moving across the country timing when it arrives here and the impact on your holiday travel pls. to know how much snow we will get this winter. cindy has long-term predictions from a guy whose track record is spot on. >> a half hour of news at the top of the hour. newscenter 5 at 4:00. casey monahan, ed harding, newscenter 5 at 4:00, part of the afternoon lineup.

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antoinette: a white supremacist who shot and stabbed a pro-european british lawmaker while shouting written first was convicted of murder today.

without parole for killing jo cox. the murder shocked the united kingdom. mair attacked the parliament member in june outside a library one week before present vote. the shooting of a wayne state to unity police officer. colin was shot in the head while investigating car break-ins. police do not believe office arose was ambushed. a suspect has en a series of bad choices of florida man creating a wild scene in the streets of orlando. police say william robert edwards left the club drunk then fell out of his moving pickup truck the back wheels running over his legs. the truck plowed into a nearby house. that 28-year-old somehow managed getting up and staggering away from the scene turning himself in a few days later.

makers to block out most apps when the phone is being used by someone driving a car. the guidelines unveiled today are designed to reduce crashes caused by drivers distracted by phones. the feds also want automakers to make infotainment systems easy to pair with smart phones. a safety recall for toyota's sienna minivans. the japanese automaker says the sliding doors ofhe open while the van is moving. models between 2011 at 2016 are included in this recall. toyota will repair the doors for free. it is still developing a remedy for this problem. the company says it will notify owners about the fix but mid-january. a federal court is blocking the new rule which gives overtime to 4 million more workers. a district court in east texas as granted a nationwide preliminary injunction that

sued to block the rule which was supposed to take effect december 1. the smithsonian museum will display the first bucket used in the ice bucket challenge. it will become a permanent part of the exhibit "giving in america." the movement raised $100 million for the als help scientists discover gene linked to the disease. we don't want to think about ice buckets right now. cindy: we do not. we do that in august. a lot of people thinking about the holiday and trying to get there. weather-wise in the northeast it is quiet. looking at some delays right now are in new york. when the busiest travel days of the year we are doing ok. the weather is on our side for

up to the great lakes we got a storm and on the northern end it is wintry precipitation. snow around minneapolis into parts of michigan as well. our winter weather advisory's now extended to parts of new york state in the north offense -- and northern pennsylvania. it's been cold around here. beautiful blue sky sort of day in boston. we have managed to since sunday the winds are down under 15 miles per hour. wind out of the west northwest at 12 miles per hour. high pressure is nosing in. the winds are going to come down as weak it deeper into the afternoon. temperatures are still in the mid-30's around the worcester area. lower 40's and the cape. one of the warmer spots at 44. in boston we are 42 degrees. it

the past few days but we are still below average. typical high this time of year is 49 degrees and we're not going to quite get there. cooler than average day but at least we have the sunshine. not too much of a wind chill. winds died down especially after the sun goes down. we will see the clouds start to increase as we get past sunset. tonight lowe's will drop back down into the 20's to around the freezing mark of us you are on the cape were beholden the mid-30's. that can be problematic for tomorrow morning. will watch moisture begin to move in. after sunrise the midmorning. along and north of the cape likely holding up for snow and is that whole area expands closer to the coast in a mix with rain. up until about lunchtime tomorrow if you have plans to do traveling you may encounter snow . if you're headed to football games in the morning hours there

well but it's not going to amount to much. as we go through the afternoon we left the clouds and not much else. a dusting of snow near north of the pike. northwestern massachusetts southwest new hampshire we could see a coating to up to one inch. midday we left with patchy drizzle samples into the mid-30's or the afternoon is cloudy and cool. temperatures run 40 degrees. starts to fill the right back in. another period of rain thursday night into friday morning. heading out to do black friday shopping deals during the wee hours of the morning there could be icy spots north and west of town. looking at rain around sunrise and still areas of rain around noon coming up on friday. it's a little unsettled. temperatures sneak up on the lower -- the morning hours north and west of town. temperatures hovering your the freezing mark. it could be a little icy in spots. temperatures come up into the

we'll watch the system get out of here. still lingering rain around. could be a few flurries in the morning and improvement finally. sun is back on monday but we have to wait until then. you may be wondering this winter, how much snow are we going to get. antoinette: we sat down with judah: and he -- the director of seasonal forecasting at atmospheric and environmental research in lexington. by studying the snow cover inside. he estimates we will see 75 inches of snow in boston this season. about 30 inches above normal. cohen says climate change could be a factor. >> the warm climate makes more moisture available and we get these snow blitzes across siberia and that is where we get

antoinette: he says we can also see outbreaks of severe cold snaps like when we set that record low with nine below zero in boston on valentine's day. antoinette: let's hope f

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political discussions and clashing ideology have proven to be very thorny subjects. it's a recipe for difficulty around the dining room table and perhaps continuing over leftovers all weekend long. is your family among those declaring politics off-limits for discussion this weekend? excel look at the bright side. that could mean at her helm things -- extra helpings for football other topics. how many movies, theater and hit shows like maybe thanksgiving comes at just the right time this year. many voted for president-elect trump to express unease and anger over the how they see the nation. others voted just as passionately against him because of his unprecedented style of leadership and how he may change the nation. neither side can pretty the future but amid the angst perhaps we are fortunate to also have these few days where we can all take a collective breath and

that still bind us regardless of party and persuasion. whether or not your family chooses to engage in the steady stream of political dialogue currently engulfing america or take a break and find safer ground to share we can all give thanks we live in a country where the freedom to choose our

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