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through the weekend. >> catherine: holiday travel rush is here and whether you're at the airport or on the road, the route to grandmother's house is going to be crowded. >> gene: driver that drug 2 officers down the road and why they say the suspect could be armed and dangerous. >> put it in salad and la where spinach leaves are being engineered to detect bombs. this is fox25's only news at 7:00, fox25 news. >> gene: 7:00 and good morning, everybody, wednesday, november 23rd, hope your day before thanksgiving warning is going well. >> holiday rush is definitely here as everybody heads home for
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shiri, julie, do you have your stuff done? >> shiri: we both need salt. really random thing to run out of. be on the road and temperatures right now lower 30s in the boston area and 32 in ipswich, 33 in norwood and lower 30s framingham and hopkinton and 28 in hampstead, new hampshire and lots of 20s in central massachusetts to get the day started, 31 in plymouth, 37 in brewster and looking mostly cl i will start for the look at somerville here hour-by-hour and this applies to most of new southern new england, 9:00 a.m. 34?, 11:00 a.m. 39, get into the low to mid-40s here this afternoon and clouds start to creep in along with the 30s once we get into the evening hours. those clouds eventually pulling in flurries, pulling in drizzle and ice into the thanksgiving. i got the timeline, back with you in about 10 minutes. julie grauert up now with live drive time traffic this morning.
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>> julie: thanksgiving travel this morning it should be okay and this afternoon 1, 2:00 in the afternoon when really starts to set in and stays with us through the evening. tomorrow morning actually traveling on thanksgiving day, should get a bit of a pass. things much lighter than usual as people mix-up schedule slightly to accommodate for the thanksgiving holiday. route 1 wide open and 23 minutes on pike easou the expressway, 26 minutes on 93 south from 495 to the leverett connector. back to you. >> gene: we continue the team coverage from logan airport this morning where the lines are starting to get along, although they don't look it too bad in that shot. passengers heeding the advice to arrive because record 27 million americans are expected to fly home for thanksgiving this year. >> sara: catherine parrotta has been monitoring the crowd.
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>> catherine: you know, so far people are in high spirits and haven't been too many snafus and going through the door to terminal c and long lines there behind me and went out and checked out the tsa line as well, that's pretty manageable right now. however, official do expect a million people will be flying in and out of logan airport during the thanksgiving travel period and 1369 people we spoke with this morning, they are trying to beat the rush. >> headed home to buffalo for thanksgiving, went to sister's >> travel with family and enjoy sunshine for a couple days. >> catherine: the reasons may vary but travelers may have something in common. they are all taken to the skies the day before thanksgiving, the buttiest travel day of the year. >> first time traveling on the wednesday before thanksgiving? >> it is for me. >> so what are you expecting today? >> i was expecting more delays and more crowds but not too bad so far. >> catherine: that could change. massport officials expecting million passengers to flight in and obvious of logan during the
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nationwide 27 million are expected to take to the skies between november eighteenth and twenty-ninth and seems like everyone has strategy to getting to destination in time for turkey and pumpkin pie. >> get here in enough time. >> catherine: you will likely want to build in extra time if you are traveling over the river and through the woods by car. mass dot heavy traffic and advising drivers to check the live drive time cameras online. here at logan there has prepared for the volume and getting through the line and poll lay plans. >> know it is busy and people moving as quick as they can and doing what they can. >> catherine: if you're headed out to the roads this morning, between 6 to 7:00 a.m. that would be the best time to hit
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busiest at 3:00 p.m. and here at airport more people streaming through the doorways and keep eyes on condition this morning. catherine parrotta at logan airport, fox 25 news. >> sara: amtrak adding trains and extra seats to make sure everyone going somewhere from the holidays can make it there, and they have a message for anyone dreading the traffic or last minute air fare prices. >> with record amount of people to hit the roads this year, our advice is hey, skip the traffic and take the train. >> sara: to get perspective right now amtrak planning on using every available passenger coach in its fleet. last year about 750,000 people took the train for the holiday week. we will have continuing coverage on the holiday travel all day long. we do expect things to get really busy on the roads later this afternoon. be sure to watch the fox25 news at 4:00 this afternoon for the latest on the roads and logan airport.
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2 of the officers were dragged down the road. the officers are expected to be okay but the driver was able to get away. fox25 jessica reyes is live in dorchester with description of the car they are looking for this morning. good morning, jess. >> jessica: good morning, gene. well the description is a bit vague but they believe they are looking for a gray or silver car possibly a chevy, possibly with connecticut plates. they have been looking for the person since 12:30 last night. officers first called to the bar you see right here on stoughton and report of person s officers went up to that car and asked the driver to get out, instead he hit the gas and dragged those officers down the street. seconds later he came inches from hitting 2 more officers. happened at 11:30 and pretty big police response at the time. all 4 of the officers they were taken to the hospital. superintendent, did speak with them last night. he didn't say exactly what kind of injuries dealing with but
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be okay. >> 4 officers that went to the hospital subsequent to the injuries, nonlife-threatening. thankful for that considering what's going on in the world across the street right now. >> jessica: last check we know police were searching mile away and car they are looking for is either gray or silver, possibly a chevy, possibly with plates with police and bring you any new information as soon as we get it ts reyes, fox25 news. >> sara: transit police want more information on woman that attacked employee on a bus at talbot and colonial avenues. if you recognize her you can call them and remain anonymous. >> gene: following breaking
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picked nikki haley. she endorsed both marco rubio and ted cruz during the primary. haley is the first woman tapped to be in the president-elect's administration. gene: this morning also getting a bit of clearer picture, some of the other people that could make up donald trump's cabinet. it seems mitt romney is trump's favorite to be secretary of state. that's according to wall street journal. ben carson has asked to lead development. during sitdown with the new york times yesterday trump was asked about republicans that did not campaign for him including kelly ayotte. trump said the new hampshire senator would love a job in his administration but he said he told her no thank you. ayotte narrowly lost the re-election bid to maggie hassan. after the election she was briefly rumored as candidate of defense. gene: meanwhile president-elect is officially on vacation. trump arrived in palm beach last
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thanksgiving at a club. he would not be conducting any business while in florida. >> sara: this morning former house speaker sal dimasi is almost a free man and back home in boston for the first time in 5 years. dimasi's plane brought him to boston logan last night. he ridership in a wheelchair and was emotional as he talked about his plans. >> trying and difficult experience for me and i'm looking to the family, community, friends, looking forward to regaining my health and taking care of by my own doctors. >> sara: dimasi was convicted in 2011 for taking $65,000 in kickback for steering software contracts to massachusetts. a judge granted a compassionate release, 5 years into 8-year sentence as he deals with health
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months. >> sara: >> gene: next person to challenge mayor of baker could be mayor of newton. 2 sources say they have already been asked for campaign contributions. democratic held office since 2009 but earlier this month said he would not seek re-election. warren hired a advisor to governor deval patrick. >> julie: good morning, we track traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. 93 south is part of your morning ride, right now we are at 30 minutes. a little bit quicker than usual as people alter the schedule for the thanksgiving day holiday. shiri? >> shiri: keeping close eye on that national forecast, many of you hitting the skies today and i do see weather slowing things down in minneapolis or chicago or st. louis or indianapolis and pacific northwest. so far no delays to report but watching this closely more on
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>> gene: reached boiling point and massachusetts college student may lose her arm after violent clash with police and joining us with confrontation that involved grenades. >> daniel: things getting violent and standing rock reservation in north dakota say at least 26 protesters hospital from protest monday you see here. most seriously injured is this woman here, 21-year-old sophia would linsky. she was in north dakota with protesters when things turned violent. her father said she was hurt when police threw a concussion grenade at unarmed protesters and her arm was pretty much blown off and did it to themselves by blowing up own explosives and small propane canister and believe that's what
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nurses say 1 of the most difficult tasks they had was reuniting kids with parents because many of the kids were so young they didn't even know their parents full name or they were so hurt they were unable to communicate their own name. the ntsb towed the bus from the scene and inspecting it and charged with 5 counts of vehicular homicide. parent of 1 victim says she had complaint about the driver august. >> sara: kansas city water park aplowed for demolition of water slide investigation into the boy's death was complete. the boy was riding slide with 2 women in august when he broke his neck and women also suffered
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>> julie: route 193 south moving along fine. really only red seeing on map is expressway and braintree split up up to around morrissey boulevard and cars moving along fine and space between them as well and here are live drive times, 13 minutes route 1 from 128 to the tobin. 20 minutes on the expressway and half hour on 93 south from to the leverett connector. bright and chilly day to start and don't be fooled by traffic and cans because they will both be changing throughout the day. >> today easy going travel day and tomorrow thing ivy especially in the afternoon now. so today's forecast there it is, we got low and mid-40s, it is looking magnificent across the area, a little bit breezy to start, cold to start, but temperatures will be a-okay, especially given the amount of sunshine.
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lawrence, 26 in worcester, let's head down to plymouth now at 31? with feels like temperature of 22, so it is a lot like yesterday in the respect that we have the wind chills if the teens and 20s to get things started. high temperatures make it into the low and mid-40s all day sunshine and into the evening we find those increasing clouds and temperature dropping back to the freezing point. so by the time you wake up tomorrow morning it is going to be very cold. here is game plan for thanksgiving, 10:00 a.m. football games, temperatures risk for freezing drizzle or a little bit of flurry. i think most of us there will be dry, same goes for 1:00 in the afternoon, temperatures gradually warming especially in the boston area, up to 38? and mid-30s and light and scattered showers. best bet north of the pike and inland towns and cities and for
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takes a little bit of that or freezing drizzle in the morning to make for some slippery roads and that's why i'm putting the word of warning out there. tomorrow's high temperatures low and mid-40s out across boston, southeastern mass. i have a feeling points to the north and west are really going to get stuck in the upper 30s or lower 40s and that's it. i think the temperature could even be a little bit overdone. future cast here first thing tomorrow morning 7:00 a.m. looking dry and step in and say i have the slight chance for something incredibl at 7:00 a.m. and all it takes is a little bit of freezing mist here in boston year to make for some slippery travel. once we get into the afternoon and evening it will turn juicier and best bet with significant rain or snow actually ends up being late in the day, especially out across the mountains here and easily at 7:00 p.m. still have snow mixing in as worcester, lowell or derry, even ipswich and get into
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near freezing so that could end up being ice for some of you up early on friday to hunt down the deals and watch out for black ice. 7-day forecast with weekend always in view and going to be very light out there, especially during daylight hours, get something a little more substantial during the overnight and into friday morning, mostly in the form of rain and temperatures highs in the 40s straight through the weekend and saturday and snow mixing in and western max and working out details of upcoming storm. >> man sentenced 11 years behind bars for part in ponzi scheme. scheme stole tens of millions of dollars. he is now out of prison and fox25 investigates learned he is working at state run university. >> think that convicted criminal is somebody that should be
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refrigerator right now. >> >> gene: 40 of fighting terrorism and future is spinach. >> take the leave and we will infiltrate it. >> gene: water from nutrients on the soil and pollutants and chemicals and researchers at m.i.t. infused the plant with nano particles that can defect from bombs and ied's and sense them. >> root system brings up the explosive material up to where the sensor is. >> gene: they give off infrared light and camera attached to a system that sends out an e-mail. >> explosives in the ground water and touch the leave will trigger the sensors and send that information to your
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would be alerted if a threat has been detected turning growing areas into bomb sniffing devices that can communicate concerns. >> we think of them as high-tech plants. >> gene: market technology and like to extent the chemicals detected or use plant technology to let farmers know if drought may be coming or pests are attacking crops. >> sara: warning for parents. recalled toys still available to research group found more than dozen of former toys recalled over the past 2 years are still being sold online. those include toys recalled for serious dangers like overheating chargers and high level of lead and toys sold in stores are safe and says to double-check any online deal that seems too good to be true. >> shiri: thanksgiving forecast involves flurries and
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>> sara: cold and clear but no major problems today. grab extra sweater if going shopping. >> gene: dress the part which is what thanksgiving to me means yeah, get to wear the sweater that you gate for christmas. >> i love that 1. >> another positive to this, shiri, fashionable and keeps you warm. >> >> shiri: i thought it was ugly christmas sweaters. better for us, round of applause for that. still got winds gusting 20 to 30 miles per hour, breezy start to the day, making it feel like it is in the teens and 20s, wind chill still down to 16 in worcester, you have been sitting since 6:00 a.m., 19 is wind chill in keene, 22 in boston, down to plymouth. this is hopefully the hour that
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wind chills a little tougher to shake off because it does stay breezy through the morning hours so i got a temp of 36? here at 9:00 a.m. in boston, got mostly sunny skies, noon time 41. 43 here at 3:00 this afternoon and then for evening travel plans in come the clouds, it stays dry until we get into thanksgiving, time like and reason and snow and clouds, all of it, that's coming up, back in about 10. live drive time traffic this morning and look at travel hot spots. i'm watching -- just want to put on radar, pike eastbound at 84 in sturbridge. 128 route 3 in burlington and then route 3 southbound as you head from braintree to hingham, all of those will start to slow down significantly as early as 1 to 2 in the afternoon. right now though things nice and quiet out there, even the expressway seeing some relief. north of the pike route 1 wide open, 93 south just a little volume as you approach the zakim, but as you can see,
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well over the leverett connector and zakim bridge. here are live drive times, only red slow 1 on the expressway with 21 minutes from the split to the exit for the pike. back to you. >> gene: we continue the team coming from logan airport this morning where travelers being told to arrive early. we have seen some long lines this morning. right now it is not so bad. things pretty efficient and moving along okay, so no real major issue right now at logan at least. >> >> sara: fox25 catherine passengers about flying on 1 of the busiest days of the year, catherine. >> catherine: as you can see mention here in terminal c, doesn't look like it is the day before thanksgiving. pretty calm in here right now despite the fact there's a steady stream of people coming through the doors to get into terminal c here but logan airport and massport official, they do say that million people are expected to fly in and out of logan through the thanksgiving travel period. that is something that they are gearing up for in a variety of
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at logan either. this is the busiest travel day for airports across the country and official do say that they do expect about 27 million travelers who will take to the skies between november 18th november 18th and the twenty-ninth. officials are advising travelers to arrive early and check in online at the airport if you can. if you are flying out of logan, there will be additional silver line service to the airport today and we did speak with some travelers and here is what they >> first time traveling on day before thanksgiving and what are you expecting? >> not bad so far. >> catherine: they will be congested today as typically day before thanksgiving and drivers to use live drive time camera and be flexible when it comes to travel. tsa at airport, they have geared
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prepare for extra people and not too bad right now and things moving smoothly and terminal c and catherine parrotta, fox25 news. >> sara: family of lowell mother demanding justice with murder. she is not basing murder charges. our michael henrich live in lowell this morning with what was an emotional day in court michael. >> dismay and how upset about the loss but also about the charges that were leveed against the suspect in court. >> michael: difficult day for
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arrangeo. >> she was a lovable person and hurts. >> michael: gloribel orengo's family expressed dismay against amirilies huertas-perez at 1st 1st court appearance tuesday. lowell police say a group of people beat orengo to death outside a party at westminster apartments saturday night. >> should be charged with murder and other kids still on the huertas-perez hit orengo over the bed with a full liquor bottle. police say orengo's adult son with special needs saw it all. >> traumatized, can't sleep, blaming himself, when see crime scene, right there mommy died, right there. >> short time later over the weekend state police told fox25 a black suv crashed into a northborough home after a high-speed chase and prosecutors
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into the passenger seat of stolen black suv and led police on high-speed chase and crashed into a home in northborough before she and the driver ran away from that scene. december 19th, that's when amirilies huertas-perez is expected back in court. prosecutors say that charges might get upgraded for her at some point. at this point though no other people have been arrested in this case. live in lowell, michael henrich, fox25 news. car matched description on stoughton street in dorchester. hit the gas dragging 2 officers and narrowly missing 2 more. the car a silver chevy with connecticut license plates disappeared on columbia road.
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be okay and keep following the story. >> sara: homicides are up 20% in boston this year. new numbers from the boston herald shows the city had 40 homicide this year compared to the 33 during the same period in 2015. boston police have also reported a 54% uptick in shootings for october and november. community activists that talked to the herald blames recent surge on gang witnesses who are reluctant to get forward. >> gene: 3 children ages 3, 5, 6 found wearing diapers and unable to speak. donna turned herself into connecticut state police yesterday after a 4-month investigation. another suspect nicholas emery arrested in arizona and police tell us they were legally responsible for the children. kids were found in home in daniel son, connecticut.
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the house. >> gene: allegations of sexual assault between students on a bus and parents outraged after they say the renaissance charter school was slow to notify them of repeated incidents involving a 6-year-old boy. fox25 has learned because of budget cuts just 37% of all boston public school bus trips have an adult monitor and that's reserved for students special needs. >> a lot of issues very sad situation. >> gene: failed to notify elementary and secondary education which is required of all charters. >> sara: saved 800 people
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addiction can go to any fire station called safe stations. from there they will be brought to 28 day recovery center. this is part of national program being tested in cities across the country and so far participants say so far it is working. >> when i was active addiction, i didn't know there was so much support behind the disease. >> sara: officials say they have 150 people show up each month and program has b expanding to other cities in nashua and new york. >> gene: nakerly -- driver responsible for halloween crash works for ride-sharing service lyft and tells us because he did not have a passenger in the car and not picking up anyone at the time of the crash the insurance is limited to $25,000.
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over $100,000 for the cars and fire truck. owners of the cartel us looking at all the options and they say the fire truck will be scrapped. >> sara: barnstable suing 3m that make fire extinguishing systems. the chemicals have made their way into the water system and threatening the health of thousands. the town wants the company to pay for the testing, treatment and monitor of the water systems. new sign had drivers scratching the contractor installed misprinted sign last week. it reads cod cape instead of cape cod. crews took it down monday as soon as it was brought to their attention. mass dot apologized saying workers are responsible for double-checking signs for any errors before they go up. >> no spell check on sign making even though the spelling would
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cloverleaf to the leverett connector. >> shiri: no spell checkers but all looks okay. picture perfect conditions today, thursday, friday, saturday combination of snow and rain moving your way. i will time out the showers coming up next. >> gene: on zika virus troubling research show some aren't showing symptoms until after birth.
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>> that's what doctors are saying about the condition. >> i was slapping with his face saying stay with me, stay with me as eyes rolling back in his head. >> daniel: karen's husband putting christmas lights and using metal pole when severely shock. >> he was trying to decorate, 20-foot pole. the wind must have taken the pole back just live electrical wire and sent the whole how many volts in that wire through the whole body. >> 2:00 tuesday afternoon and happened in merrimack, new hampshire. >> heard the explosion, saw the smoke and came running out, he was on the ground, semi
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>> still smell the burn marks on the grass. >> right here somewhere is burn marks. >> daniel: hoping christmas will bring them a miracle because doctors told her. >> they can't believe he is alive. >> daniel: doctors working to figure out how bad the damage is and worried about severe internal damage and running tests to figure out the the best plan for treatment. in the newsroom, i'm daniel miller, fox25 news. >> daniel: tragedy at ski season at nashoba valley. 70-year-old died on the property yesterday. >> gene: middle of the woods on ski mountain property in westford. investigators are not -- have not released man's name and osha tells us they have opened an investigation. >> sara: this week's cold snap has been officially hard for woman living in south boston. she says she has been without heat for 3 weeks.
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and tells us an electrical surge at apartment building. she says eversource crew was working outside building and offered to pay for new bridge and when get the heat back. >> everywhere and bring more heat into the house and with medical condition it is making it 10 times worse. >> sara: when called eversource they said the claim had not been processed yet and plumber was unable to fix the furnace because it is too old and offered to pay for a hotel while the situation is fixed. >> julie: 7:46. we track traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. morning lighter than usual as
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braintree split down to hingham will be jampacked later today. 24, 95, looking good. expressway nothing major going on there from the braintree split up to columbia road and head out to live pictures and things looking good as head out past the gas tank. 9 minutes route 3 and 12 minutes on 24, 19 minutes on the expressway from the braintree split to columbia road. meteorologist shiri spear joining us now tracking a clear and crisp day ahead as approach thanksgiving. >> shiri: big travel day, weather worries, none out there. risk for slippery travel conditions during the day tomorrow and north of the mass pike and for inland towns and cities. also the potential for a little inland black ice on friday morning and heads up for black friday shoppers and saturday we are looking at potential of showers. and looks like mostly rain. smooth sailing, out across the
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and this is system that slides toward us tomorrow but in a modified tomorrow and dryer, lamer once it gets to us, 33? right now in boston, feels like 22 because we have got more wind finally this is the day that wind starts to relax and once we get into the afternoon features same sun, less wind, highs in the low to mid-40s here in the boston area, 30s back by 7:00 this evening and clouds only just starting to and highs today 46 in norwood, 43 in lawrence and beverly, 39 in worcester and 40 in keene, new hampshire. between the sun and relaxing winds it is actually going to be a decent day and yes, still need the warm coat out there and tomorrow potential of drizzle in cape and islands and into the boston area and should see transition over to drizzle and some rain but don't be surprised if a couple snowflakes mix in
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chance of light snow, looking at light and very patchy accumulation staying under an inch and wake up tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m., have 5k road race for thanksgiving, temperatures are likely going to be near freezing. any kind of light precipitation that makes it in the early and not much of it but any light stuff we get potentially some flurries or even a little touch of freezing drizzle, i want you to be real careful out there, nothing widespread but there could be slippery roads within morning. noon time still looking mostly dry, not going to rule out something light once we get into the afternoon and showers pick up in intensity a bit, i think future cast struggling a little bit, expecting more mix toward worcester and fitchburg and lawrence, perhaps even into bedford and should be mostly sprinkles and rain in the boston area and 7-day forecast and thursday features light and
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and leads us to friday. of course black friday shoppers potential for again, inland spots seeing some ice in the morning, otherwise widely scattered showers, temperatures in the 40s for the afternoon and rain and snow potential continues, especially across eastern mass into the weekend. back to you guys. >> 7:51. ellen degeneres was in tears as she accepts the medal of honor at the white house. why
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small to notice in first year of life. >> gene: ice bucket challenge, this is the bucket that started the viral campaign. next week it will be on display at smithsonian campaign as part of giving in america exhibit. millions for als and symbolizes hope for their family. >> 1 person can change the world and never give up shown keep fighting. >> show how philanthropy has shaped the country. >> sara: skeleton of cow could show more about the pilgrims.
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were likely sitting on early settlement. this is 1 of the first discoveries that helps peace together the day-to-day lives of the pilgrims. team says the next step is to examine the findings to try to figure out exactly how everything was used. mayflower 2 getting makeover. plymouth plantation says it has raised almost $7.5 million to repair the replica of the ship that brought the pilgrims to america. the 60-year-old is suffering from rot and beetle and hopes ship can be repaired by 2020, just in time for the four hundredth anniversary of the pilgrim landing. >> gene: clarify, the mayflower did not bring beetles to america. this video will make you nervous. makes me nervous. consumer product safety
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safe especially when frying the bird. it has been popular and could be a problem and make sure to use pot holders at all times and do not put a frozen turkey into the boiling hot oil and keep it away have the deck and safe distance away and if really concerned have fire extinguisher ready. >> sara: you should know because you're a fan of making these fried turkeys. >> gene: if you are worri it. >> shiri: rain from chicago all the way down to louisiana. here we are in the clear, i will show you when this system gets
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>> jessica: what police asked man to do before he took off. >> sara: good morning, everybody, it is wednesday, november invent third, i'm sara underwood. >> gene: >> sara: julie grauert monitoring drive times on the road and talking to travelers at the airport. >> gene: fortunately mother nature is cooperating for that and let's be thankful and quiet and cool for today, shiri. >> shiri: absolutely. we have temperatures starting out again in the 30s. hey, it is so nice to see the temperature going up in boston to 36?. still 33 in ipswich, 34 in norwood and freezing in burlington, wellesley and back into framingham. temperatures in the upper 20s
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mass and southern new hampshire and southeastern massachusetts here. temperatures above freezing and sandwich at 33? and at least we got a lot of sun in forecast, somerville forecast i think it is nice for many of us today and see ample sunshine throughout the day, noon time 42?, highs in the low and mid-40s across the area and into the evening start pulling in the clouds eventually leading to some light snow, light ice, rain here into thanksgiving and timin julie grauert up now with live drive time traffic this morning and look at some worsening volume. >> shiri: >> julie: this afternoon you will see significant delays starting as early as 1:00 in the afternoon and then lasting at least through 6, 7:00 p.m. thursday though anyone driving on thanksgiving day shouldn't be too problematic. new accident this is 128 southbound, near route 9 in wellesley but the accident is
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north of the pike things look good on route 1 and 93 south. live drive times, 24 minutes pike eastbound from 495 to mass ave. 18 minutes on the expressway and 25 minutes on 93 south from andover to the leverett connector. back to you. >> gene: team coverage continues at logan airport. pretty quiet right now. a lot of people still at work and may be getting a little bit later start. 27 million americans are expected to fly home in thanksgiving this year. what's the mood like right there. >> catherine: aren't too many people right now and people taking it all in stride and long lines they may have anticipated, maybe a lot of people couldn't get today off, i'm not quite sure, pretty much smooth sailing inside terminal c right now. however, logan airport and massport official they do anticipate million people will
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during the thanksgiving travel period and many people we spoke with, they were trying to beat the rush. >> headed home to buffalo for thanksgiving and see all the babies. >> travel with family and get out of the cold and enjoy sunshine for a couple days. >> catherine: travelers have something in common and taking to the skies busiest travel day of the year. >> first time traveling on wednesday before thanksgiving? >> it is for me. >> what are you expecting today? more crowds but not bad so far. >> catherine: expect million passengers to fly in and out of logan during the travel period. 27 million are expected to take to the skies before november 18 and get twenty-ninth and seems everyone has strategy for getting to destinations in time for turkey and pumpkin pie.
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want to travel and heavy traffic in advising drivers to check the live drive time camera available online and be flexible. here at logan there will be extra silver line mbta service and increase staffing to prepare for higher volume and line into the holiday plans. >> they know it is busy too so people moving as quick as they can and doing >> catherine: staffing paid off and going through and peak volume to be between noon and 5:00 today with the worst of the congestion around 3:00 this afternoon and tweak travel plans might be in best interest to do so. live report from logan coming up in a bit. live at logan airport, catherine parrotta, fox25 news.
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dreading traffic or last minute air fare prices. advice take the train and amtrak planning on using every available passenger. we will have continuing coverage on holiday travel throughout the day and expect thing to get really busy on roads this afternoon. be sure to watch fox25 news at 4:00 this afternoon for the latest on road conditions and what's going on over at news all morning long. 4 boston police officers were hurt during a traffic stop overnight. this is video in dorchester where 2 of the officers may have been dragged by car. those officers were expected to be okay but the driver was able to take off. jessica reyes is live in dorchester with description of the car that police are now looking for. jess? >> jessica: it is either gray or silver, may be chevy possibly
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this all started around 12:30 last night outside the bar you see behind me here and first call about the suspect around that time because someone called said sitting in a car with gun and officers got here and went up to the car and that is when they say the guy took off and seconds after dragged 2 police officers we understand he came just inches from hitting 2 more and if you look at the video you could see the scene here was very big response last hours. we did speak with the superintendent and says that all 4 officers, they were taken to the hospital but thankfully all 4 are expected to be okay. >> 4 officers that went to the hospital subsequent to the injuries, nonlife-threatening. we thankful for that considering what's going on in the world for us across the united states right now. >> jessica: suspect in question last seen taking off down columbia road and earlier
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away from here but again search does continue and police say they are looking for a gray or silver car possibly a chevy, possibly with connecticut plates. >> sara: intersection of talbot and colonial avenues and if you recognize her call >> gene: president-elect donald trump has picked nikki haley to be next ambassador to the unated nations. endorsed both marco rubio and ted cruz during the primary. she is the first woman tapped to be in the president-elect's administration. >> clear picture some of the other people make up donald trump's cabinet.
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favorite for secretary of state. being considered for the secretary of defense and dr. ben carson see nikki haley she is in line for the ambassador job and doctor ben carson reportedly being considered to lead the department of housing and urban development. during sitdown with the new york times yesterday trump was asked about republicans that didn't campaign for him, including kelly ayotte. trump said the new hampshire senator would love a job in his administration but he said he told her ayotte narrowly lost to maggie hassan. after the election she was briefly rumored as candidate for secretary of defense. gene: transition said not be conducting any business while in florida.
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first time in 5 years. he arrived in a wheelchair and emotional as he talked about the plans. >> it has been a trying and difficult experience for me and looking forward to being united with family, communities, friends, looking forward to regaining my health and taking care of by my own doctors. steering software contracts to massachusetts. a judge granted a compassionate relief, 5 years into 8-year sentence as deals with health problems related to past battles with cancer. he will be under house arrest for 6 months. >> shiri: keeping close eye on
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most serious injured this person here, 21-year-old sophia, she graduated from williams college and her family says she was in north dakota with protesters when things turned violent. her father says she was hurt when police threw concussion grenade and her arm was pretty much blown off and protesters did it to themselves by blowing up own and sophia's father says it is >> exploded right as hit forearm and themselves and brought own bombs. >> father says she will have to undergo invent surgeries and may not save her arm and hand and
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close to $300,000 in just 1 day. in the newsroom -- in the control room, daniel miller, for example 25 news. >> sara: police say thomas mayer shot and stabbed cox. hope was full of nazi memorabilia expect he pled not before lawmakers are set to vote on brexit. >> gene: man accused of killing a police officer in san antonio got married. few hours later he was arrested. mccain ambushed 20 year veteran of the force that was conducting traffic stop on another driver on sunday. mccain told reporters he was upset and lashed out because of
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getting outpouring of support as they deal with the deaths of 5 young children and school bus crash. parents, teachers and students came together and released balloons to remember children killed and hurt. 1 of the most difficult tasks they had was reuniting kids with their parents because many of the kids were so young they didn't even know their parents full name or they were so hurt they were unable their own name. the ntsb toad -- towed the bus from the scene and bus driver 5 counts of vehicular homicide and parents of 1 of the victims complained about the driver since august saying he had slammed on brakes on purpose at
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their heads. >> julie: a lot of green out there over all volume extremely light. because most people are home getting ready for the thanksgiving holiday so nobody hit the road quite yet. if you head out now you will be all alone and won't be stuck in massive traffic begin to accumulate 1:00, 2:00 this afternoon. expressway and moderate volume as you head past the gas tank. live drive times, and not even seeing any red coloration and 13 minutes on route 1, 17 minutes on the 93 south from andover to the leverett connector. meteorologist shiri spear joining us now and, shiri, look gagged today for boston. however, can't say the same what we will be encountering tomorrow. >> sara: get into ice, snow, rain, how does sunshine sound? we have travel conditions prime across new england. we got 44 in boston this afternoon, 45 in fitchburg, 44 in hyannis and so low to
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get into the afternoon and we have to get through some pretty chilly temperatures though first thing this morning. 27 right now in worcester. 33 in lawrence. and 33 in plymouth as well and forecast and right now has wind chills 10? below those temperatures. felt yesterday as far as the winds, chill in the air goes, but i think this afternoon, even though it is the same lower 40s today with sunshine, with less wind probably going clouds really start coming into play once we hit the evening hours, not to fear, 30s and clouds here this evening in plymouth and really across new england and i'm holding back on any kind of rain or snow until we bet into the early hours tomorrow morning. so by 10:00 a.m. here, i know we have some football game going on, got temperature close to freezing and i got the slight risk of both some light snow and some freezing drizzle. nothing widespread but any little patchy amount of wet
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to icy roads, heads up right now, shouldn't be an issue for all of us but you need to be really careful. 1:00 still many dry towns out there but scattered light rain and snow and 5:00 dinner plans and temperatures in the upper 30s, tough to squeak out 30s, warm spot southeastern mass, not expecting the snow to so much stick down there but north and west boston very minor accumulation. notice totals are all under an inch. tomorrow's highs at boston, 46 in plymouth, 49 in new bedford, 39 though in worcester. 39 in keene, new hampshire. again, north of the mass pike, inland towns and cities and watch for the minor accumulation and even in the boston area i'm concerned about some slipping and sliding early in the morning, even if we just get sprinkle throughout, 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning and future cast looking mostly dry and sarah wroblewski looking at latest information and we still believe there's going to be light and
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of snow and icy potential is there and get more significant showers during the evening hours and going to continue into the friday and replacing snow with rain showers still watching out for icy conditions inland, otherwise friday few showers around at 45?, watching potential both rain and snow into the weekend and looks like eastern massachusetts is the most at risk. back >> sara: why the driver's insurance won't cover a cost and president obama gives out last
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scholars and famous hollywood names and a lot them to push america forward and inspiring millions. but before the tears ellen degeneres tweeted out the photo of herself stuck outside the white house and she forget her id. >> long >> we should never travel with tom hanks. maroon, airport purgatory, volcanos and somehow we can't resist going where he wants to take us. >> other recipients included bill and melinta gates. diana ross and michael jordan,
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>> gene: apple flexible display device, designs in patent feature a touch screen that can fold in half and still unknown if the feature is something that will be worked into the new iphone and apple patent give glimpse of the company's products. gene: facebook wants to help you find public wi-fi and identify open internet connections through the mobile app. apple likely they are located and mission to connect more people to the internet across the globe. >> looking ahead to the thanksgiving forecast. looking at sprinkles and touch of ice out there, not much accumulation and show you times where needs to be very careful
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perfect weather for driving and black friday shopping you will want to look out for ice. >> i will be sleeping. be careful. there you go. >> gene: aware of that. >> shiri: a lot of changes coming into play next couple days. and nothing unusual and this wind with us for days and wind gusting right now 20 miles per little bit weaker than they were even when checked them last hour. over time you will find that the winds really lighten once we get into the afternoon. check out wind chill, feels like 15? in worcester, 27 in boston, 24 in hyannis and you're going to deal with wind chills for the first half of the day. feels like teens and 20s now. it is cold out there. here is warm-up today. 38? at 10:00 this morning. breezy and bright. mostly sunny skies this
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boston. by 7:00 this evening, i will say 38?. keeping it dry. tomorrow that picture starts to change, we got the potential of some very slippery conditions here developing and i have that ongoing concern into your friday as well. so i'm going to break down the threat coming up in a couple of minutes and let's send you over to julie grauert with live drive time traffic. >> julie: hot spots sloping people down, pike eastbound at 84 in surgery. burlington 128 at route 3 and from braintree to hingham and it becomes really jammed. so keep that in mind. worst of it is going to start around 1:00, 2:00 this afternoon and continue until around 6 or 7. right now though things looking great. if you can get out of door before 10:00 a.m., even 11, that's going to be a real positive -- much more positive experience than driving later today. route 193 south are clear and see things moving over the zakim with these. here are live drive times, 23
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minutes on 128 south from peabody to the weston tolls. back to you. >> gene: team coverage continues over at logan airport. live look now at jetblue terminal. a little bit busier right now and pretty calm situation throughout most of the morning. >> sara: catherine parrotta about their experience flying on which is 1 of the busiest days of the year but doesn't look so busy >> catherine: haven't been too bad in terminal c throughout the morning, despite the fact there has been a steady stream of people coming through the door. still massport official expect million travelers flying in and out of logan airport during the thanksgiving travel period and telling you to plan ahead of time. 1 thing official have been saying is arrive at the airport early and also trying to check in online ahead of time if you can. of course, not just busy day here at logan airport but airport across the country and
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between november 18 and get twenty-ninth and if you are flying out of logan there will be additional silver line, mbta service to the airport and staffing for the higher volume. spoke with travelers heading out first flight of the day today and here is what they are expecting. >> what are you expecting today? >> expecting more too bad so far. >> catherine: mass dot saying roads won't be too bad today and drivers use live drive time cameras online and also flexible when it comes to travel timing and easiest time between 6 and 7:00 this morning. miss that window the more congested time suspected to be between noon and 5:00 according to mass dot officials. busiest hour there expected to
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and catherine parrotta, fox25 news. >> sara: 1 woman arraigned in connection with the murder and live in lowell with new information about possible connection to hit and run might away, michael. >> >> michael: car into a house in northborough and fatal beating in slow prosecutors saying the 2 instances might, in fact, be connected. emotional vigil capped off difficult day for family of 44-year-old gloribel orengo. >> she was a lovable person and hurts. >> expressed utter dismay at
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1st court appearance tuesday. lowell police say group of people beat orengo to death outside westminster apartments saturday night. >> knowing she should be charged with murder and other kids. >> hit over the head twice with full liquor bottle and fox25 reported earlier this week orengo's adult son with special needs >> he can't sleep. said mommy die over there. >> michael: state police told fox25 a black suv crashed into a northborough home after a high-speed chase and prosecutors now say after the beating amirilies huertas-perez hopped into passenger seat of suv, crashed into a home in
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the driver ran away from the scene. amirilies huertas-perez due back in court on december 19 and get prosecutors say the charges could be upgraded at some point. now, at this point no other arrest have been made in this case. live in lowell, michael henrich, fox25 news. >> sara: boston police searching for a car that sent 4 officers to the hospital. police got call about a person with gun around 12:30 this matched the description on stoughton street in dorchester and when officers asked the drive to get out, police say he hit the gas dragging 2 officers. chevy with connecticut plates disappearing on columbia road. all the officers are expected to be okay and, of course, we will keep following this examine bring updates as they come in. >> gene: new numbers from the
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city -- city had 40 homicides this year compared to same period 2015 and also reported 54% uptick in shootings for october and november. community activists who talked to the herald blamed recent surge on gang violence and witnesses who are reluctant to come forward. >> sara: 3 children ages 3, 5 and 6 found wearing diapers and unable to donna roadheifer turned herself in after 4-month investigation and arrested in arizona. police tell us they were legally responsible for the children and kids found in home in daniel son, connecticut. police say they were underweight, had missing teeth and rarely left the house and they were never enrolled in school.
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recovery program. residents that want help with addiction can go to night fire station called safe stations and brought to 28 day recovery center and part of national program being tested across the country and so far participants say it is working. >> when i was active addiction i didn't know there was so much support behind the disease. >> gene: officials say they have 150 people show up to the safe stations each month and program has been so to cities to nashua and new york. >> sara: nearly 1 month ago suv hit a boston fire engine and sent careening into row of parked cars in the back bay. now fox 25 investigates learned there's not enough insurance money to pay for the all the damage. the driver responsible for the halloween crash works for the ride-sharing service lyft. the company tells us because he did not have a passenger in the car and was not picking anyone up at the time of the crash the
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we have learned that damage could be more than $100,000 for the cars and fire truck and owners of the cars tell us they are looking at all the options, and city says the fire truck will be scrapped. >> gene: town claims chemicals threatening town of thousands an the testing treatment. gene: new sign had drivers scratching head in dartmouth. installed this miss printed sign last week. it read cod cape instead of cape cod. crews took it down on monday as soon as it was brought to their attention mass dot apologized saying workers are responsible for double-checking signs for any errors before they put them up. >> sara: football field that was trashed now ready to the
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central catholic and veterans memorial stadium to check out the new turf. the field was damaged last month during a brazilian festival. it made the field unusable and city's insurance paid for most of the repairs. >> gene: ice bucket challenge movement inspired by man here with als going to the nation's capital. this is the bucket that started the campaign. it will be on ownian and pete frates raised millions for als and his mom tells us it is inspiring for family. >> 1 person can change the world and never give up hope and keep fighting. >> goal of the smithsonian exhibit to show how philanthropy has shaped the country.
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on the expressway it is a holiday and when it will be coming up. >> shiri: i have ice, snow, rain, i have some concerns and break down the weather threats examine show you when the best and worst time to hit the roads coming up. >> sara: scary new finding about the z still ahead what doctors are saying about more than dozen babies who were born and then months later showed signs of debilitating condition. >> gene: dangerous mistake that landed him in the hospital. as head to t be noisy. be silent. be near. be far. be joyful. be together.
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america runs on dunkin'. fios is not cable. we're wired differently. that means incredibly fast 150 meg internet for the holidays. so in the 3.7 seconds it takes gary watson to beat the local sled jump record, fly, gary, fly. ...his friend can download 13 versions of the perfect song... ...his sister can live stream it... ...while his mom downloads how to set a dislocated shoulder.
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>> sara: man using metal pole to hang christmas lights was electrocuted. he survived but not out of the woods just yet. the man's wife explains how it all happens. >> daniel: doctors say he is lucky to be alive. >> i said stay with me, stay with me. >> putting up christmas lights in front of their home and using this metal pole when he was severely shocked. >> real lon pole, 20-foot pole and wind must have taken pole back just muff enough and hit live electrical wire and sent the whole whatever how many volts are in that wire through the whole body. >> daniel: happened in merrimack, new hampshire. >> i was in the kitchen and saw the explosion and smoke and came
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>> the shocks were so intense his hands and feet were burned. >> burnt the socks off the feet and metal burn holes in them. >> daniel: still smell the burn marks on the grass. laclair tells fox25 hoping this christmas will bring them a mer kel because doctors told her. >> they can't alive. >> daniel: they are worried about severe internal damage so running test to figure out the best treatment plan. in the newsroom, daniel miller, fox25 news. >> sara: tragedy at the start of the ski season in nashoba valley. sky fox flew over the scene in ski mountains property in westford and investigators have not released the man's name but say his death is not suspicious.
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>> gene: cold snap has been especially hard for a woman living in south boston. she has been without heat for 3 weeks. she says electric camsurge and apartment building fried components of her furnace, fridge and stove back on november 1st. she says when it happened eversource crew was working outside the building and eversource replaced oven and covered to pay for new fridge but she says she has no idea if or when she will back. >> candles everywhere and more heat into the house and medical condition is making it 10 times worse. >> when called eversource says the claim has not yet been processed and spokesperson tells us a plumber unable to fix the furnace because it is too old. they have offered to pay for hotel while the situation is
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weather together every 10 minutes. everyone sleeping in and get ready for the thanksgiving holiday. moving along route 3 fine, later today though it will be jampacked from the braintree split through hingham. 93 -- 24 and 95 also moving along without issue. even the expressway we are seeing relief around morrissey boulevard. a lot of space between the cars. later today guessing around 1 or 2 you will start to see the volume build and throughout the rest of the day. here are live drive times, 10 minutes route 3 from 1028 to the split and 10 minutes 24 and 10 minutes on the expressway from the braintree split to columbia road. shiri spear joining us now and trying to decide if it is better things are calm today. >> probably. we will have most people out heading to destination today. >> today better than tomorrow especially on the roads here in new england and we got slippery
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category and he although still expect some slippery roads and precipitation coming in lighter and later and watching for black ice and potential of both rain and snow and clear skies right now in northeast. i mean it doesn't get better than this for 1 of the busiest travel days of the year if you any flights headed out into the midwest, that's where i think we are going st. louis, columbus dealing with mostly rain and up further north in minneapolis and got snow and that band of rain extends all the way down into texas, just checked some of the flights and area with delays because of thunderstorms and 36? in boston and mostly sunny skies and wind chill 27 and all day sun, highs in the low to mid-40s and
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worcester about 39? this afternoon and weather conditions tomorrow and breakdown of although light weather risk we have tomorrow and mostly drizzle over the cape and islands but up toward the south shore and parts of the north shore, we could be looking at slippery travel, perhaps first thing in the morning, a little bit of patchy freezing drizzle and potential for light mix and best chance snicking worcester hills merrimack valley, southern new hampshire, even parts of northern massachusetts but any accumulation is under an inch. future cast struggling a little bit here is a little too dry, believe there's going to be a little bit of light moisture out there, even a little light mist and we have temperatures in freezing norwood and bedford, enough to slicken the roadways, so be very careful from the time you wake up straight into the afternoon and dealing with rogue sprinkle further inland and temperatures gradually warmer and i think we will get stuck in
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the inland towns and cities and even at 7:00 p.m. as it gets a little steadier i still see a mix in central mass and good chunk of southern new hampshire. overnight you will find the snow and mix replaced by rain into the black friday. 7-day forecast with the weekend always in vow, mostly light rain and snow tomorrow at 40?, 45 here for friday, watch out to ice on roads in the morning, otherwise scattered rain and over the weekend, both days unsettled, highs in the 40s turning the coastline. back to you guys. >> sara: man sentenced 11 years for his part in ponzi scheme that stole tens of millions of dollars from local people out of prison and fox25 investigates it is working at state university. >> really think that convicted criminal is somebody that should be helping students. >> career counselor at public's
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didn't have the unusually small heads associated with the virus at birth developed condition as they got older. none of the babies in the study was diagnosed with microcephaly at birth but soon most started developing significant brain problems that got worse as they aged and culminated with a microcephaly diagnosis. doctors are not sure why the onset was delayed and now expect to start seeing older children
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small. >> daniel: if you use store brand aloe vera gels they contain no traces of real aloe. instead they contain chemical that imitate the real thing. company that makes the gels for target or wal-mart still stands behind the product saying they use organic gel. wal-mart was sued saying they were not using >> gene: this year industry experts estimate holiday spending will be the biggest on record and staying home to do the shopping you're not alone. last year 1 in 3 products were not purchased online but on a mobile device to boot. >> sara: booming industry and work being done to make counterfeit and potentially dangerous toys out from under
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