in boston. it continued to be, but before that in 1770 come on march 5, the boston massacre happened just outside the intersection as well. something we're very all familiar with and something that bob allison contributed to in the book as well as his own book on that. but another rambunctious event in the city of boston. so just right outside this building itself. now we're going to turn to a panel discussion, which will be in the fashion of question and answer session. this mic in the middle of the aisle here is for you to step up to after questions to the panel. right now going to introduce you to the panelists. so begin with bob allison, he's the chair of the history department at suffolk university just down the street. he's also written several books on boston and the american revolution. most recently, a 2011 book entitled the american revoluti revolution, a concise history. he is the vice president of the cornell society of massachusetts, a trustee of the uss constitution museum, also on

it's printed in boston. it was the front page account of george washington crossing the delaware and the battle of trn ton. and produce who contributed the battles called out the phrase that washington used that venderred because they knew they were about to be cut to pieces. it was harsh language to come from the future president. we read in the british newspaper about john joans the first american navel hero. he was also an american pirate to the british. during the account of the bomb or -- you read is in essence a fashion report. dennis conrad who wrote the con contextual ease ray for benedict arnold in that section of the book points to greene papers which he edited in all of the response he researched he found one instance where greene pointed to god intervening in the revolution their war. it was during the treason uncover i are of benedict arnold. nathaniel green as suggested in the report feels that god had interviewed in the american revolutionary war and helped the american uncover the treason of

it wasn't until 15 years later we had the second american newspaper printed, also in boston, the boston gazette. coincidentally, the next day the third newspapers started in philadelphia the american weekly mercury. circulation, the top 100 newspapers in america our circulation is approximately 200,000. at the time of the american revolution, the circulation is approximately 600. that sounds awfully low, but keep in mind these newspapers are also not allowed in taverns in meeting houses and private homes, so most subscribership or circulation may be low, actual readership is quite significant. distribution. we have internet, telephone, tv and radio today. back then it was done primarily through horseback and ship, commonly called paca boats. the timeline here today news is instantaneous. its on demand. you can flip open your phone and have almost real-time news is your fingertips. 200 plus years ago, the news came up, the news came weekly. i'm sorry, the news came weekly said the time like we open a newspaper and kinase anywhere from the d.o.t. several months old and a large part of tha

the boston school of music has just been my home.hat i want to be. what's going on, bec? sorry. is it too loud? a little. turn it down so you don't wake up dad. the faculty is very high-quality and i think students have some wonderful opportunities. so, are you going to this school? yeah... if i get accepted. i'm applying to other colleges, but this is my first choice. ( playing jazz ) hey, they're pretty good. yeah, this school is one of the best... announcer: make your dreams come true at the boston school of music. apply now! narrator: now let's review and discuss the story. rebecca casey. i'm rebecca casey. she's a singer. yes, she's a very good singer. ♪ i've got some dreams i'm going to hold on tight ♪ ♪ i'm traveling light... speaker: and she has a boyfriend. his name is matt. so, about our date on thursday...? i'll pick you up at 7:00, o.k.? sounds good. she is going back to school. to study music, yes. so, are you going to this school? yeah... if i get accepted. matt doesn't want her to go back to school. music school... wha

doctors and patients in boston's emergency rooms. >> fevers as well? >> on and off, yeah. not any higher than 102. >> reporter: cassie looks how many in boston feel. this two-year-old is in boston children's hospital emergency room. >> she's a toddler with a cold. she'll kick it soon but it has gotten really bad. >> reporter: dr. ann steck recognizes the symptoms. >> i think it's influenza because of the high fever and cough. >> reporter: cassie was born prematurely putting her in the highest risk category for serious complications and she is in a city under siege. where the mayor has declared a public health emergency in the midst of this contagious and fast-moving flu. >> this flu seems to have just spread really rapidly through large numbers of people. there are so many more people with it. >> reporter: so "nightline" spent the next 48 hours documenting this city in crisis. witnessing firsthand the human toll of the outbreak. children -- i've been throwing up and stuff. >> reporter: parents -- >> he's just not better. >> reporter: and health workers

east boston. >> do you know -- >> how many movies have they made on east boston? >> listen, you know the movie "the rat." whitey bulger. [ bleep ]. that's the claim to fame. >> no, he ain't! >> yes, sir, that's all he's got. that's all he's got. >> they're from chelsea. >> you live in chelsea? >> see you later. >> i'm out of here. >> the inmates in boston shared more than neighborhood pride. they also knew how to throw a punch. >> every day. we respond to fights every day, sometimes they're one-on-one fights, sometimes multiple detainees are involved. >> got hit with a tread. >> he beat the [ bleep ] out of me. >> we just stomped him. >> on numerous occasions, the "lockup" production team would be in the middle of an interview when a fight call would come over a deputy's radio. >> however, we've had him down. got to go. be right back. right back. got to run. >> you guys must do a lot of running if you're looking at fights. >> we just break the camera off the tripod, grab the boom as much as we can as quickly as possible and we head off to see what's going on. >> l

i just spoke to cuddy, she can't confirm whether house is applying for a job in boston. if i have to look for work, i have a right to know. [melancholy piano music] ♪ that's pretty. i wrote this when i was in junior high school. i could never figure out what came next. then dimwit came up with this. [emotional piano music] ♪ it's good. it's perfect. i could set up a tower on the roof during a lightning storm. help you switch brains with your patient. then you would be the brilliant pianist and he would be the doctor hiding brain cancer from his friend. it's nothing. you need to talk about it. you need to talk about it. at least let me look at your medical file. you're making a big deal out of nothing. who else knows? no one. and cancer isn't nothing. sorry, didn't mean to offend your specialty. why didn't you come to me? stein's good. stein's in africa for the next six months. he's given me at least six months. i'll go to boston, i'll get the treatment. everything'll be fine. no need to talk about it. you're right, surgeon found a bleed behind the kidney in the retroperi

boston gazette." coincidentally, the next day, the third newspaper started in philadelphia, the american -- circulation. the top 100 newspapers in america average circulation approximately 200,000. at the time of the american revolution the average circulation was approximately 600. now that sounds awfully low but keep in mind these newspapers were also read aloud in taverns and private homes in so while subscribership or circulation might be low, actual readership is quite significant. distribution. we have internet. we have telephone, or i'm sorry tv and radio today. back then the distribution of newspapers was done primarily through horseback and ship, commonly called tech abodes. the timeline. today news is instantaneous and on-demand. you can flip open your phone and have almost real-time news at your fingertips. 200 plus years ago the news came weekly. i'm sorry, the news came weekly and so the time like you would open a newspaper and he would find news that was anywhere from a day old to a 2-mo

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boston, life's boston, life's been getting a little more challenging for a group trying to go about itss. and by "just outside" we mean the boston harbor where, believe it or not, it's just getting too loud underwater for some of the creatures who live there. when this is the primary way a group communicates... then this is the sound of trouble. according to a recent study, that's exactly what's happening with the whale population off the northeast atlantic coast. >> i think we're trying to understand what kind of a crise this is. >> axelrod: leila hatch is coauthor of a government study of underwater noise in the shipping lanes of the boston harbor. increased traffic there is causing whales, specifically the right whale, to lose their ability to chat with each other. >> these animals have lost over 60% and upwards of 70% under some measures of the space that they used to have to communicate with one another. >> axelrod: researchers submerged acoustic recorders to track the sounds from ships and whales. the spike in noise they detected, disrupts the whales' basic functioning says the st

on the boston harbor a familiar sight. this is the u.s.s. constitution.it marks the early settling of the city back in 1630. pure fun across the street, an ice rink sits in the shadows of the massachusetts state house. you can see where the la alternatives were hung for the midnight ride of paul a veer where the decision was made to host the boston tea party. the burial ground is in the middle of downtown boston, only 2,000 vizzable gravestones. >> i often spend a significant portion of my tours here at the burial ground because so many famous american patriots are buried here. >> john hancock was the first governor of massachusetts. >> tim is a tour guide for the freedom trail foundation. he says heel you'll find ben franklin's family and the foot stone of paul revere's grave. >> an aebb chents hebrew tradition. >> there is even what is left of mother goose, really, the mother goose. the freedom trail is over two miles and you can pay for a tour or walk it yourself and these what these raven fans decided to do. >> there is not many cities outside of balt

being irish catholic in boston, he needed an anchor your he was born in east boston, as a kind of localroyalty. everybody knew his mother's family and his father's family. his father was a well-known, prominent boston politician, and very well respected, very well admired. and a very successful businessman. joseph p. kennedy went to boston latin. he was a star. he went out with a pretty school in boston who also happened to be the mayor's daughter, who he would later marry, was a star on the baseball team, everybody knew who he was. he was class president. then he went to harvard. and again, he felt part of the community. half of his class at boston latin went with him to harvard. 10% of the student population were catholic, and a large number from boston that the new from public schools. it was only when he graduated from harvard in 1912 that he understood for the first time, but not for the last time what it meant to be the irish catholic son of an east boston politician. he wanted to go into banking, into finance. he didn't get a job. he didn't get a job offer. he didn't get an inter

four of the people who have died died here in boston. that is compared to just one death here in the city of boston from the flu last year. boston health commissioner urging people to take this seriously. the strain is called type a influenza strain, it's supposed to have more serious symptoms, a worse outcome overall, but the cdc says it is actually covered in this year's flu vaccine. so if you go and get the flu vaccine, it should help to mitigate the chance you will have the very serious flu strain. dagen and connell? connell: how are the hospitals handling the increase -- so many more patients than they would usually have, i would think. >> well, part of the effort here is to really kind of the stop of the spread of the flu and hopefully tamp down what's happening here at the boston hospitals. they have had an incredible influx -- some hospitals had to open additional wings, additional rooms, they are in a juggling phase right now. boston medical alone, they have had 85 people in this season in this year and over at massachusetts gen

. >> folks headed up to the boston area providence, boston, something like that. here is where it is right now at fox borough at the airport another by. 38 degrees southwest wind breezy snow showers north of boston right now. what about tomorrow evening? it won't be as warm as sdrern. we expect a temperature range of 28 to 33 during the game with partly cloudy skies a breeze west 10-15. gusty during the day. the winds will be diminishing during the evening. still the windchills will be in the teens to near 20 or so. it is going to be a long night tomorrow night as far as the weather is concerned. we will see how the game turns out. we are looking for a good game there. we will be talking more about that coming up. >> the road to new orleans makes a stop in fox borough massachusetts. they will duke it out tomorrow night to advance to super bowl xxv xxvii, 24-hours from now the stayed yummed will -- stadium. the purple caravan road through town yesterday and pumped up fans all day and all night for a special purple friday. it is a surprise full effect. >> excited? y

virginia tech and boston college, and boston college got a big game out of brian anderson. they beat the hopis 86-75. the hokies go to 0-2. rgiii had reconstructive knee surgery this morning and maryland lose to florida state and their 13 in game 1 street comes to an end. >> thank you very much. [ male announcer ] now at your neighborhood subway: the big hot pastrami melt. we've perfected the pastrami sandwich -- filled with juicy pastrami pickles, yellow mustard and melted cheese. all piled-high on freshly baked bread. taste one at your local subway today! subway. eat fresh. >> ryan gossling and brad baisley headline jimmy kimmel. here you go, breakfast sandwich from dunkin' donuts. what's in it? turkey sausage. turkey what? amazing. riright? yeah. next one's on you. yeah, okay. introducing dunkin's new turkey sausage breakfast sandwich. the surprisingly great taste of turkey sausage on a pepper-fried egg with under 400 c calories. try it, you'll like it. america runs on dunkin'. hurry in for dunkin's new turkey sausage breakfast sandwichch today! >> a lot of sunshine on s

at boston's briggaman's women's hospital, veteran e.r. nurse jana gil has seen it all. >> i've been working here for 27 years in the er. >> but she has never seen a flu season quite like this. >> we have seen a huge increase in patients coming in, with the nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and upper respiratory infections with the fever and cough and body aches. >> i am declaring a public health emergency in the city of boston. >> boston's mayor is warning the threat is very serious. so far this season, there have been approximately 700 cases in this city alone. a ten-fold increase from last year's entire flu season. across the united states, schools in some areas are temporarily closed or postponing extracurricular activities. and it's now so bad that hospitals like the mayo clinic and others are restricting visitors or prohibiting them all together, at least for the time being. and it's getting worse. >> it's come back early and rather fiercely. it's a rather virulent strain so we're having a moderate to severe influenza season, just like the

they don't understand the wealth of opportunity in boston or just in any one field. challenge i think is getting more students to apply, to take those opportunities. >> reporter: now three years into the opportunity that paired him with alexander lynn, daniel says he has been able to sucssfully narrow his career focus. >> what this program has done is kind of guided me through like okay, so now that you know what science has to offer, what more specifically do you want to do. >> reporter: daniel's ultimate dream is to become an emergency room physician. it's a goal, he says, that stems from a tragedy in his childhood. >> the reason why i want to be an er physician is because it actually came from an experience i had as a young kid, with my grandmother. she was killed by a drunk driver. and thiwas in el salvadore. i don't want anyone else to experience the loss of another person, especially if it's not their time. so as an er physician i want to be that person that just looks at the person on the gurney and says you're going to be okay. you're going to make it out of

boston declares a flu emergency and the nra meets with the vice president to talk gun control. cnn's piers morgan is here. he's generated so much anger, the white house has had to react. >>> baseball hall of fame voters send a message on steroids saying no to everyone. >>> plus, the oscar nominations revealed in a new way. >>> but we begin this morning with a look at today's eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. >>> i am declaring a public health emergency in the city of boston. >> a deadly flu outbreak spreads nationwide. >> the number of flu cases is getting worse. the virus killed 18 people in massachusetts. >> all 50 states are affected and at least 41 states have a widespread outbreak. >> cough a lot, sneeze a little. i've been in bed all day. >>> the president and i are determined to take action. >> joe biden plans to meet with the national rifle association. >> he wants to advance his agenda through executive order. >> the president can do almost anything he wants to. the question is will he get away with it. >> the prts's cabinet continues to take shape. >> later, hilda

four among boston seniors. very serious situation indeed. the best thing everybody can do in the state is get a flu vaccine if they have not already. state officials are saying there is plenty of vaccinations available. others taking precautions at mass general hospital. they are actually making changes to their visitation policies especially on the maternity floor. they are cutting down the number of tours. the mbta the public transportation authority in the state is telling their cleaning crews to pay particular attention to any surfaces people might touch frequently. that's what's happening here in the state. certainly a situation people are taking seriously. other towns around boston are having more people come in for vaccines. the city of summerville have run out of vaccines temporarily because this is something people are taking so seriously. >> all right katherine. thank you so much. >>> and it's time now to brew on this. here's what we would like you do brew on today. do you have mornings where you want to rollback over and go to sle

the boston redskins, the boston giants, the boston titans or the boston braves. >> i know. >> i'm sure you know but we have to give our viewers a chance. >> don't google it. >> we'll share the answer coming up around 5:15 this morning. >> plenty ahead. weather, traffic and all your top stories this morning. >> fox 5 morning news continues right now. t now. >>> you are also helping us getting geared up for the big game on sunday with the help of the pictures that you are sending in. take a look at this cutie. looks like this little lady is ready. mackayla's mommy send in this picture. she looks so excited. look at her. upload your pictures and videos on our web page. just look for the link under the sports tab or e-mail them to us at redskins at wttg.com. >> and you know fox 5 ahas all your redskins coverage this sunday. it starts at 3:30 and it is kickoff time at 4:30. >>> taking a live look outside at the u.s. capitol dome this morning. wash is excited about the skins. and washington has also been excited that they actually got a deal done on the fiscal cliff, of course. we'll continu

i wanted the guys in boston to think that i had cancer.nna implant a cool drug right into the pleasure center of my brain to think that i had cancer. you faked cancer to get high? [sighs] i'm going to bed. you're right. i don't like you. sure, now that i'm not dying. i heard patrick's hemispherectomy went well. he survived the surgery. he's unconscious. how depressed are you? i'm not depressed. you faked cancer. it was an outpatient procedure. i was curious. are you curious about heroin? not since last year's christmas party. [exhales forcefully] i know this goes against your nature, but can we not make too much of this? you made people think that you were going to die. i didn't make them! i tried to hide it. but you idiots needed to get into my business. [laughter] i'm sure i'll regret asking, but why are you laughing? it's ironic. i'm sure i'll regret asking, but why-- depression in cancer patients is not as common as you think. it's not the dying that gets to people. it's the dying alone. the patients with family, with friends, they ten

the flu is so bad in boston the city has declared a public health emergency. free vaccinations are now being offered. ines ferre has our report. >> reporter: the flu hasn't been this bad in boston for years, more than 700 cases have been confirmed so far and statewide 18 people have died. city health officials are preparing for it to get worse. >> in the last two weeks alone we've doubled our number. so if we continue this rate to see new cases, we'll have an explosion of flu in the city of boston. so we really need to get ahead of this at this point in time. >> reporter: but it's not just massachusetts. cbs confirms the 48 states. nationwide the number of people going to the hospital with flu symptoms has doubled in the past month. >> we're seeing in our region patient volumes and acuity levels greater than the peak of the h1n1 flu epidemic we had about three years ago. >> reporter: while this flu season has been a moderate to severe one so far, it's still within what they consider to be a normal rangers but there are still months to go before it's over. this

cbs news, new york. >> to help prevent more cases of the flu, the city of boston is offering free flu vaccine at many local health clinics. >>> it is 4:34. if you're just waking up, here are some of the other stories making news. a judge will decide if james holmes will stand trial for the colorado theater shootings last year in aurora. prosecutors showed the judge photos that holmes took on his phone just hours before the shooting. they showed guns, body armor, and a gas mask neatly laid out on his bed just before the shooting. the defense presented no evidence saying the preliminary hearing was not a place to, quote, put on a show and present a partial defense. >>> today former penn state assistant football coach jerry sandusky is due back in court. he was sentenced to at least 30 years in prison after being convicted on 45 counts of child sex abuse last year. sandusky's attorneys plan to argue they weren't given enough time to prepare his defense. >>> cautiously optimistic, that is how the redskins are describing the mood of the team after hearing the results of rg3's knee surgery.

he wanted to put her in boston, in a place near boston.it was a home for retarded children, and they said don't do it because you can't protect the family's privacy and you can't protect your privacy. you can't protect her privacy most of all. they moved her to a convent home in winsconsin. all that, i understand. what i don't understand is that once he put her in this home, and she was well cared for, he never saw her again. the family only began to visit rosemary again after kennedy had a debilitating stroke, and they never told her. the only one who made sense of this to me was tim shriver. yunis began her work for the mentally disabled, you know, because of what the family went through, and tim shriver is an extraordinary young man who runs the special olympics now. he says, you know, you got to understand the shame that the family had because they couldn't do enough for their sister, you know? they couldn't do enough for her. they couldn't help her. they couldn't do anything. kennedy convinced himself and the rest of the family that s

molly lion -- line is in boston tonight.re is not like a widespread shortage of the vaccine, right? >> absolutely. the vaccine is still available all over the state and local cvs and walgreen's one particular clinic that ran out of dosage of the flu. still widely available. essentially authorities trying to get everybody out to get their flu shots. still encouraging people to do that to stem the tide. there have been 700 cases in the city of boston alone. that is up over 70 that were here at this time last year during the flu season. so they are trying to get people to take those precautions to wash their hands and stay home from work if they are sick. the office of the boston health commissioner has been reiterating the seriousness of these numbers that the mayor has been recording. take a listen. >> we have a terrible problem on our hand with lots of people sick with flu. the 700 cases that he mentioned are confirmed cases. but there are thousands of other people sick with influenza type illness. >> 18 people across the st

how bad is boston?> reporter: it is very serious situation. 700 people have fallen ill alone in the city of boston that is compared to 70 at this time last flu season. so the officials have gotten together. boston mayor tom menino and other officials declaring a public health emergency with the intention of getting the word out of the encouraging people to go get their flu shots and letting them know this is a very serious strain of the flu as well. 18 deaths statewide. four of those deaths occurred here if boston. that is compared to just one death here in boston from the flu last year. the strain that is out there that they're particularly worried about is the type-a h3 influenza strain and associated with more severe symptoms and more severe outcomes. jenna. jenna: how are the hospitals handling the increase in patients? we heard about ambulances being turned away in some parts of the country. what is it like in boston? >> reporter: all the hospitals here are experiencing a large amount of flu cases.

boston at 32. providence at the freezing line. it's all areas pretty much away from coastal new england are getting snow. i heard the snow is pretty hard right now in areas of connecticut. so the worst travel on 84 also on 95 traveling through southern new england. more or less a light snow but still slippery from albany to boston all the way there on the maps. scranton there right around 28 degrees. so that is the travel trouble spot. by the time it's said and done, by the evening rush hour in massachusetts, could end up with two to three inches there from providence to boston. just north of boston maybe around four inches. springfield, 5. the forecast today, major problems. travel this morning with the airlines also. it will slowly improve from 4:00 p.m. on wards. the rest of the country, a lot of rain in the southeast. but, you know, by far the worst travel trouble out there is in new england. let's turn now to sports. oprah winfrey confirmed that lance armstrong admitted to doping during her 2 1/2 hour interview with him on mo

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four flu victims were boston residents, all elderly.e pounding this year's impact, particularly dangerous strain. >> the type of virus is severe illnesses that start earlier and may go on longer and involve more people. >> they expect the virus will continue to spread. we are on pace to have a flu season five years ago and maybe as bad as ten years ago. >> they urge you to get vaccinated against flu to protect your family and your self-as well. wash your hands. it seems office but say people don't do it long enough. 20 seconds using soap and water. keep the clean hands away from the face. away from the nose, mouth, ey eyes. topping the list is something they want to drive home. if you're sick stay home. they will keep it from going forward. >> 20 seconds to wash the hands. good tip. who has been hardest hit by the flu there in boston? >> in boston they say there is a minority neighborhood that are urban areas where a lot of people are in the poverty section. they feel the need to go to work even sick. they go to the work to affect cowor

así lo anunció el alcalde de boston y dice que su ciudad enfrenta una severa temporada de gripe, losal día de acción de hoy en su ciudad se han superado en un 10% los casos en comparación a año pasado, el alcalde die que la población tiene que vacunarse porque las vacunas son gratis >>> tenemos horarios especiales de vacunación y ordenamos dosis extras de la vacuna. >>> segun el departamento de salud en massachusetts en lo corrido de la temporada que inició en octubre hay más de 20 personas muertas por la gripe ye s la más feroz en los últimos 10 años. >>> la temporada del flu comenzó mucho antes que el anterior causado por le virus h3n1 que es más contagioso que las otras cepas. >>> los médicos dicen que la vacunación es la mejor arma. >>> si la persona se bvacunó e año pasado no está protegida, hay que vacunarse con la vacuna de este año. >>> los hospitales en pensilvania no dan abastoto y tuvieron que improvisar carpas afuera, en dallas también se propaga la gripe con rapidez, la prioridad la tienen los niños y las personas enfrermas. >>>e s importante darles un poquito más de pro

dc 50, boston 45 degrees.ice temperatures close to 50 degrees again tomorrow but we might be able to add 10 to 15 degrees on to that 50-degree reading by the time we get to the weekend. we are looking at a warm up, tonight is not bad so many nights we have been looking at temperatures down in the low 20s at 11:00 p.m., frederick a cold spot, 43 degrees not a cold spot, dc 47, culpepper 36, we will likely drop into the 30s most areas tonight but it will not be bitterly cold. around the region, new york city 46, richmond 54 and raleigh at 49 degrees. so overnight, bottom line not a cold night. we will drop into the 30s some places may stay into the 40s. definitely warmer than other nights, clearing skies low 30s in the suburbs. a little bit of ableist morrow, out of the -- a little bit of abreast morr. not terrible. it is not particularly warm, 51 degrees is well above the average of 43, for this time of year. pretty nice for january. sunshine back with us tomorrow i don't think you will find the temperature too

you should shoot in boston. you do whatever you want. >> they won't let me do anything in boston. >> jimmy: you're going to have to go to another country. bottom line, it seems dangerous to be one of your friends, just in general. >> i didn't tell them anything that was going to happen. some of the guys were in "fighter," they were also in scenes where we boxed, but we had gloves. this was just bare knuckles. >> jimmy: you did beat the crap out of those guys. it was funny. i thought that looks really real. it was actually real. >> how else are you going to make it different? >> jimmy: we have a clip of the movie. i don't think it needs to be set up, actually. take a look. it's called "broken city." >> ahh! come on! >> jimmy: that is "broken city." it opens in theaters on friday. and you have a special treat for our audience here tonight, i know. >> yes, we actually have tickets for every single person in the audience if they want to. [ cheers and applause ] after the taping of the show, walk across the street to

fox 2 has the latest from the boston medical center.ey, mol molly. >> there have been 700 people with the flu diagnosed here in boston. up a great deal over last year at this time when there were just 70 people diagnosed. so the authorities have gotten together in boston's mayor and the health officials and declared this a public health emergency and urging people to get flu shots and take precautions and they're hoping to kind of stop this in its tracks because it is an overloaded area hospitals. 18 deaths statewide, four deaths in boston. that compared to just one death here in the city last year. officials with the boston health commission also say this is a particularly tough strain of the flu. >> the type a h3 viruses are associated with more severe illness with influenza seasons that start earlier and they go on a little bit longer and involve more people. reporter: going to be tougher for folks who come down with the strain of the flu. the cdc saying the flu shot out and available right now here in the city of boston does cover t

. >> reporter: take you to boston. at the airport reports of responding to a fuel leak of a japan airlines flight that was scheduled to take off from boston to tokyo. as we take a look at shares of boeing, let's point out we have not confirmed this is a 787 dreamliner but that's the type of aircraft flying between boston and tokyo for japan airlines. again, this would be a fuel leak with an engine completely separate if it is a dreamliner from what happened yesterday. the reason we showed you shares of boeing over the last couple of days, this stock has been pummeled, down 4% over the last couple of days. in part because a lot of people have headline risk wondering if there's a more systemic issue with the dreamliner. howard labelle with jeffries, highly regarded there, put out a note. listen, this might be overdone. i'm understanding this is pictures of the japan airlines plane and it does appear to be a 787. as we understand it, it was preparing to take off for tokyo narita when there was a fuel leak for one of the e

reagan national, 47 degrees. 42 in new york and boston. chicago is 26 degrees. we are not looking at any cold temperatures any time soon. it will be a week or so before we get a return to cold temperatures. we should remain dry, about 51 degrees your daytime high. >> all right. looking good. >> time now to check in with julie wright. she has a look at on-time traffic. >> just a reminder, if you ever want to get in touch with tucker, just tweet him at fox 5 weather. >> so if you are mad about the forecast. >> we are in the business of communication. 395 here at duke street, we have the lanes open in both the express lanes and main line headed out to the 14th street bridge. no problems to report on the inner loop headed from annandale towards merrifield. 66 traffic behaving nicely coming in out of manassas and you will find yourself at speed leaving bladensburg road headed in towards the third street tunnel. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. traffic. >> thank you. >>> this year's flu season is just packing a powerful punch rapidly spreading across the

we're live in boston. molly, how is the scene? >> number of people have the flu and have come forward. they've been trying hard to bring attention to this, convincing people to get flu shots and wash the hands and take all the processes needed to stem the flood of is because the hospitalser very busy in boston. there have been 700 cases. at this time last year there were only 70. and it's a particularly powerful strain of the flu, the type a, h3, influence -- influenza strain. >> how are hospitals handling the increase in patients? reporter: their doors wide open. they're asking people to take all these precautions to cut down on the number of patients. they're not expecting that to happen at any time soon. in boston, 85 people came in to be treated for the flu, and across town at massachusetts general hospital, they're also extremely busy. take a listen. >> it's a very crowded emergency department and it's significant flu season. certainly we're on pace to have a flu season at least as bad as one we saw five years ago, and maybe