live in sandwich, jim morelli, fox 25 news. >> heather: hold onto that hat, jim. our team coverage continuing this morning in scituate where falling. just wind but also flooding. >> gene: stokz stephanie coueignoux is there for us this morning. stephanie, the wind last hasn't started yet but the wind is still going pretty strong now. >> reporter: yeah, these wind gusts are continue to go pick up. you get a better idea with this american flag flapping in the wind. jim, we're talking about power outages in sandwich. i checked with eversource here in scituate. they're still reporting 622 storm related power outages. so that is a big concern. but taking a look at the water. we've been showing you this all morning long. maybe a little bit more wavy than what we showed you just half an hour ago. but we were here yesterday and we were showing you those waves with those white crests. so it seems to be a little calmer this morning. but if you're looking at that line there of that water, we have been seeing it creeping on up, and that's because high tide is expected around

jim morelli has more in tonight's health minute. (lipi roy, md. mph/massachusetts general hospital) "there's no single treatment or intervention that can have as diverse benefits as exercise" the journal of the american medical association recently published a "call to action" its authors recommend that health care professionals prescribe exercise for all patients... calling it "one of the most important prescriptions a patient could receive." (lipi roy, md. mph/massachusetts general hospital) studies have shown that when a health care professional a doctor or nurse advises a patient to adapt a healthy lifestyle behavior that patient is more likely to adapt that behavior. the 'call to action" recommends health care professionals -- treat physical activity as a prescription for exercise -- and encourage record-keeping of daily activity how much daily activity is needed? hint: you don't have to run a marathon. (lipi roy, md. mph/massachusetts general hospital) it can be as simple (lipi roy, md. mph/massachusetts general hospital) high blood pressure

let's go right now live to fox 25's jim morelli for an update on the progress. jim? >> reporter: well, bob as you know in news we're very sensitive to the whole idea of wires hanging down because we have trucks that can also snag them. so one of the things i asked the driver of this concrete truck was look, didn't you look and see how low these wires were. his explanation was well, it was dark it was supposed to be a routine concrete delivery and it turned into anything but. that here's the situation right now. take a look behind us. views have been working hard you can see how low those which caused this to even pole to snap. let's take a look at how we got this this point. down the an arrest dark delivery gone way bad in roslindale it tears down a spaghetti of wires trapping the driver and at least 4,000 volts of electricity. >> everything in this truck is metal. i just stayed exactly where i am. >> reporter: the issue was one of height the driver says. he says the wires are supposed to be 15 feet off the ground. you always look to make sure that the wires aren't g

in copley square, jim morelli, fox 25 news. >> only the forecasters know. last year we had snow starting about the same time after a very slow winter. and now we just get started this winter we had our first inch snowstorm that happened sunday sure we had more monday but january 17th will be the day we had the latest this winter. february 14th account 2007 still ranks as number bun. last year this coming week we had six inches of snow in some spots a little more in others then the blizzard on the 26th . then we just didn't stop worcester 13 right now. feels like -6 with winds blowing steadily from the west at 23 miles per hour and some higher gusts. your temperature bottoming out right around 10. boston stubbornly holding on it feels like 4 either way with that strong westerly wind and going down through the teens overnight tonight. check out back here keene, new hampshire is 14 fitchburg is 16 always feels like one degree right now into the low teens overnight for. gusty winds out there right now. you saw that with the different towns i. just pointing out

as fox 25's jim morelli reports tonight the city is rolling out a new plan to stop the overdoses and help addicts. >> before you know it you're shooting it and before you know it you're a full-blown addiction. >> reporter: the city of champions is a city with drug addiction problems. stephanie knows firsthand about that. >> i was a functioning addict and i worked two jobs and i supported my addiction and nobody knew for a long time until it started to all fall apart. >> reporter: to stephanie and others it feels like brockton where in the past week dozens of people have overdosed. >> fwroo in -- 42 in four days. >> the mayor announced a new plan calling it the champion plan to channel addicts to places where they can get effective short-term help then longer term help. >> an individual will be able to walk into the police station or any 81 of our six fire stations so several different locations in the city that will be safe havens. >> reporter: this will help relieve the strain on city emergency departments baus in most cases patients don't need to go there. stephanie has been clean

fox 25's jim morelli joins us from outside boston public school headquarters in roxbury where he spoke with that little girl's mom. jim, i'm sure she was terrified? >> reporter: yeah, initially she was terrified then she i guess one of the lessons here you have to be very careful what you say to a 5-year-old. from what we can glean is what went down. the teacher wanted to speak privately with this 5-year-old and asked her on to step outside the classroom but the teacher that hallway. that gave this little girl who took that instruction very literally time to wander away. >> i went to the park then i went home. >> reporter: she's 5 years old weighs not even 50 pounds, but today little rain givens raised awareness about a glaring security issue at this boston public school by walking out of school in the middle of the day. >> unacceptable because it just shows you that the school doesn't pay attention to kids. >> reporter: rain was in gym class at john winthrop elementary school in dorchester when she says the teacher asked her to step outside the classroom. so she did, literally walking

in the control room, jim morelli, fox 25 news. >>> strong weather video showing intense winds sent to us by a viewer in rhode island. you can see the surf here will kick up against the rocks there. fox 25 storm tracker meteorologist sarah wroblewski joins us now. it will be cold won't it? >> i seriously hope you got to enjoy those 50s i know it was hard to enjoy them with all of the rain and wind today. boston a record high for the date. we soared to that later 56 in worcester, 59 in providence and hey, it hit 60 degrees no places like hartford breaking some records across southern new england. it's currently still in the 50s 40s through the interior and while we're watching a few raindrops a few snowflakes as this system is departing. so increasing cold i guess you could say is heading our way as you can see there's a pocket of much colder air back the to the west. this is all going to continue to push into our region on some breezy westerly winds. by the time you wake up tomorrow we're actually going to have a drop in temperatures back into the 20s. near freezing in boston. southeas

jim morelli tells us why this prescription could make you "there's no single treatment or intervention that can have as diverse benefits as exercise"the journal of the american medical association recently published a "call to action" its authors recommend that heal care professionals prescribe exercise for all patients... calling it "one of the most important prescriptions a patient could receive." studies have shown that when a health care professional a doctor or nurse advises a patient to adapt a healthy lifestyle behavior that patient is more likely to adapt that behavior.the 'call to action" recommends treat physical activity as a vital sign -- write a prescription for exercise -- and encourage how much daily activity is needed? hint: you don't have to run a marathon. it can be as simple as walking times a week.consider all the bay. high blood pressure, type two diabetes, obesy, stroke, depressioiond the list goes on... no wonder doctors are increasingly saying... exercise "is" medicine. in boston, jim morelli for c-n-n we'll telelyou why a recent lawsuit has the iowa pork congre

fox 25's jim morelli is live in dedham where the search is on for an owner. jim? >> reporter: mark, we are on bridge street right along here that a dedham animal control officer found this abandoned dog around noon today. we had an opportunity to meet this pup tonight and despite all he suffered at the hands of humans we're told that the one thing he seems to crave is the human touch. i will warn you the images of this dog are rather disturbing. >> reporter: he is young, he is starving and tonight he's lucky to be alive. >> he was found like in a plastic tub. if the dog had gotten out of thattet to and wandered off it probably wouldn't have survived. >> reporter: they are calling him stitch just just as plausibly could have called him bones he was found in dedham abandoned. >> awful condition. severely emaciated. its body wasting. >> reporter: this bridge street in dedham. authorities can't say where the dog was left but they say he was abandoned outside of a business on this street. a dedham animal control officer found stitch after a tip came in by phone. he tur

jim morelli has today's health minute. " " (lipi roy, md. mph/massachusetts general hospital) "there's no single treatment or intervention that can have as diverse benefits as exercise" the journal of the american medical association recently published a "call to action" its authors recommend that health care for all patients... calling it "one of the most important prescriptions a patient could receive." (lipi roy, md. mph/massachusetts general hospital) studies have shown that when a health care professional a doctor or nurse advises a patient to adapt a healthy lifestyle behavior that patient is more likely to adapt that behavior. the 'call to action" recommends health care professionals -- treat physical activity as a vital sign -- write a prescription for exercise -- and encourage record-keeping of daily activity how much daily activity is needed? hint: you don't have to run a marathon. (lipi roy, md. mph/massachusetts general hospital) it can be as simple as walking for 30 miutes three times a week. consider all the diseases exercise c

fox 25's jim morelli there was for this emotional reunion. >> reporter: they were gone a long time. >> it's been almost 11 months. >> over 300 days. >> reporter: but this afternoon for dozens of new hampshire families the wait of all those weeks and were home. >> feeling two and anniversary it was -- under it was definitely a lot. >> reporter: more than 120 members arrived back in manchester this afternoon. after spending nearly a year in the middle east training allied troops. many of the soldiers who left all those months ago are young dads who in serving their country missed big events with their little ones. >> this little guy wasn't walking or talking and he is now. er on the rachel hayes has been counting down the days of this deployment. >> 329 days. >> this is what it looked like when the countdown ended. >> it's amazing. >> reporter: overwhelmed, overcome and yes, over the moon. >> can you say hi. >> hi. >> can you say daddy. >> daddy. >> reporter: welcome home. that happy emotional scene tomorrow morning when the final group of 100 soldiers comes home. in manchester, new ham

reporter jim morelli has more. lipi roy, md. mph/massachuse tts general hospital "there's no single treatment or intervention that can have as diverse benefits as exercise" the journal of the american medical association action" its authors recommend that health care professionals prescribe exercise for all patients... calling it "one of the most important prescriptions a patient could receive." lipi roy, md. mph/massachuse tts general hospital studies have shown that when a health care professional a doctor or nurse advises a patient to adapt a healthy lifestyle behavior that patient is more likely to adapt that behavior. the 'call to action" recommends health care professionals -- treat physical activity as a vital sign -- write a prescription for exercise -- and encourage record-keeping of daily activity how much daily activity is needed? hint: you don't have to run a marathon. lipi roy, md. mph/massachuse tts general hospital it can be as simple as walking for 30 minutes three times a week. consider all the diseases exercise

let's get right to fox 25's jim morelli who spoke with the police commissioner earlier tonight. jim? >> reporter: blair, we ran into william evans at a martin luther king, jr. day celebration in roxbury and he did confirm that kurt is out of the hospital. officer stokinger was shot in the leg during a traffic stop in dorchester on friday that stop made because the driver was a known drug dealer and known to have no driver's license. the suspect's name grant hedley. he's 27, and he will be arraigned tomorrow according to the police admissioner. as for the officer evans says yeah, he's looking forward to getting back on the beat. >> i'm eager to get back to work butut again, i'm happy he's doing very well. >> reporter: we'll hear more the wounded officer coming up at 11:00, specifically he'll talk about the emotional price police officers pay when they get shot on the job. live in the control room, jim morelli, fox 25 news. >>> right now on myfoxboston.com we have a lot more information on this story. you can find out what fox 25 has uncovered about the suspect's past. you can hear

fox 25's jim morelli is live in boston now with people are bracing for a bitterly cold temperatures and snow. jim? >> reporter: yeah, they sure are. if you were here last winter you can understand the sense of dread the idea of a snowstorm this week that's the last thing some of us want to hear. but we also found people for whom snow is joy and snow is money. >> getting ready for the here we go again. >> a little snow is always nice. i hope it's not too much. one year after a record-setting winter that powerful word is in the weekend forecast. >> we're possibly going to have a snowstorm on saturday what do you think about that? >> it is still five days away a near lifetime in meteorological terms. but the mere idea we could spend saturday shoveling even had the mayor um, reminiscing. it didn't seem like we had break. i'm hoping we have a break. >> reporter: we were told last winter was historyic that it couldn't happen again but the timing downright eerie. but how soon? >> let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. >> reporter: they forget. >> i love the snow. i do. i don't know it's a bost

our jim morelli is in roxbury. jim a frightening situation for that mother? >> reporter: first came fear, vanessa, then came anger. this all started when a teacher asked to speak privately with this 5-year-old and asked her to step outside the classroom. let's just say that little girl took those teacher's instructions to the extreme. >> i went to the park and then i went home. >> reporter: these 5 years old weighs not even 50 pounds but today little rain givens raised awareness about a glaring security issue at this boston public school by walking out of school in the middle of the day. >> unacceptable because it just shows you that the school just doesn't pay attention to the kids. >> reporter: rain was in gym class in dorchester when she says the teacher asked her on to step outside the classroom. so she did literally. walking through these doors and into the park next door. >> and the fact she's out without a coat it was chilly. >> it was very cold outside. without a coat. people sitting in the dark drinking and dug doing a whole bunch. anybody could have

jim morelli has more. (lipi roy, md. mph/massachusetts general hospital) "there's no single treatment or intervention that can have as diverse benefits as exercise." the journal of the american medical association recently published a "call to action" its authors recommend that health care professionals prescribe exercise for all patients... calling it "one of the most important prescriptions a patient could receive." (lipi roy, md. mph/massachusetts general hospital) "studies have shown that when a health care professional a doctor or nurse advises a patient to lifestyle behavior that patient is more likely to adapt that behavior." the 'call to action" recommends health care professionals -- treat physical activity as a vital sign -- write a prescription for exercise -- and encourage record-keeping of daily activity how much daily activity is needed? hint: you don't have to run a marathon. (lipi roy, md. mph/massachusetts general hospital) "it can be as simple as walking for 30 miutes three times a week." consider all c

jim morelli sorts it all out for us tonight roar it's a brewing battle new hampshire over breasts and it's getting ugly. >> in 2016 there shouldn't be any law that begins with a woman may not. >> reporter: state representative andy bolden of manchester is talking about a bill that proponents say would allow cities and towns so outlaw women exposing their nipples except in the case of breast-feeding. the legislation was filed after a movement to make female toplessness acceptable called free the nipples came to new hampshire last summer. >> it's sexist and unconstitutional. that should be enough to kill a bill. >> reporter: bolden's comments met with stinging rebuke from two of her colleagues including the bill's sponsor. representative josh moore writing if it's a woman's natural inclination to pull her nipple out in public then you should have no problem with a man's inclination to stare at it and grab it. the representative responded no disrespect, but your nipple could be the last one i would want to see. >> what else that was really rude it and hurt my feelings a little. >> i'm a

fox 25's jim morelli live in dorchester with the story. >> reporter: mark, a dorchester couple spent the day going through their belongings trying to figure out what was missing after their apartment was burglarized while they were away. one thing they were pretty sure about is a lot more might have been missing had >> reporter: half husky and half german shepherd and fighter. that's roxy a 35 pound pup from dorchester who it seemed foiled a capper. biscuits. >> reporter: it all started when roxy's owner took her out for the morning walk. he spoke with fox 55 by phone. >> she ran and started barking her aggressive something is not right tone. >> reporter: this is what got roxy so worked up. a young male cowering on top of a car. >> i asked the gentleman property? >> his response was he was visiting his grandmother. >> reporter: just one problem with that story, nobody of grandmotherly age lives in the house. so he called 9-1-1 and said. >> i have a kid trespassing on my the property i need someone here immediately. at that time the kid did jump off the car run away from me. >> report

live in dedham, jim morelli, fox 25 news. >>> new at 11:00 quite a bit of damage done to this car here after it got caught in the wire from a utility pole. this happened friday morning at the intersection of bond and watson street. no one was hurt. >>> in your area fox 25 chief meteorologist kevin lemanowicz a warmup is on the way. when these temperatures are cold enough to take that snow that melted today and put some water on your walkways and driveways and refreeze. you are have to go far it's down to 32 go. so temperatures throughout to the north shore there's some cold temperatures here to the beach there's only 20. newburyport 25 . out here in the lowell area seeing temperatures below 28 . lowell at 29 . down to 27 now in holden and 26 in north borough. 32 chatham at 33 . those temperatures crept up. >> take a good look at this man. police say he's wanted for robbery. he handed the teller a note demanding money. display a web and ran off with the cash. call police if you know this person who is about six feet tall. >> new tonight we now know that firefighters are expected to stay

in seabrook, new hampshire, jim morelli, fox 25 news. >>> celtics in brooklyn tonight's looking to help their playoffs and lottery chances. but we've got a patriots update. tom brady's find your sweet spot today with dunkin's chicken apple sausage sandwich. enjoy sweet apple and savory sausage together america runs on dunkin'. i drive a golf ball. i drive to the hoop. i drive a racecar. i have a driver. his name is carl. but that's not what we all have in common. twe talked to our doctors about treatment treat and help reduce r the risk of dvt and pe blood clots. p xarelto is also proven to reduce the risk of stroke r in people with afib, not caused by a heart valve problem. r for people with afib currently well managed on warfarin, t there is limited information on how t xarelto and warfarin compare in reducing the risk of stroke. p you know, taking warfarin, i had to deal with that blood testing routine. ri couldn't have a healthy salad whenever i wanted. i found another way. yeah, treatment with xarelto . hey, safety first. like all blood thinners, don't stop taking xarelto without t

when shakespeare once asked, like to see a name for, dishonor of jim morelli who died at the alamo is in a think we should change. >> if we get a chance i would probably cry tears of joy but if we don't, we did our best. >> man who put out the david bowie scientist he plans to file a petition toid rename the road. >> mall to see artwork, these seuss he also made art and paintings of the grinch, and kat then cat in the hat, a lorax and bluefish, though they're all here and just take it all in. >> it is known as midnight pages because he he did these that might. >> cannot believe the sophistication of some of the artwork and the different types that he produced.a >> the artwork is not in our reach, only at a shopping mall in palm beach it is family-friendly, they will be on display through valentines day. jacinth suter money and save the date for the hottest ticket in town and. 6:00 a.m. tickets for the saint jude dream home built by cleveland custom homes and red tail golf community and avon will be on sale valued at more than half a million dollar. >> tickets are $100 each proceeds be

and some colleagues responded with what some are calling crude comments and one is telling our jim morelli they are not apologizing for it. >> i am not apologizing for nothing. see the breast of a colleague. >> julie: the legislature returns to session this week and this bill could come up for discussion any time after that. >>> and everybody is talking about this on social media and typed in amanda bolden's name and tens of thousands of people are actively talking about it. >>> the 2016 presidential candidates are gearing up for the election, president obama will spend much of his final year in office traveling the world. president obama has two trips to arab that, two to europe and one to latin america on his calendar. white house officials say he is focusing on finishing strong on his foreign policy agenda. the president is also taking many trips around the united states to campaign for democrat states to campaign for democratic candidates. >>> deja vu for the celtics tonight. facing the nets for the second straight game this time in brooklyn. lost a close one to the nets on the garden.

in boston, jim morelli for c-n-n a former pastor who suffers from alzheimers in north carolina-- is hoping his beloved carolina panthers will help him beat the desease. he says he saves the team's game stats from the local paper after every game. and reads the articles over and over again--then tapes them to his bedroom door-- so that he will remember them. "about a year ago, i was diagnosed with a blow." "the average person who's diagnosed with alzheimer's will die in 11 years, and my determination is to slow that down." setzer says he has a whole list of things he does to keep his mind active. and looks forward to adding another article to his collection when his team wins the super bowl. the deadline to sign up for health insurance through nevada's state exchange is today. you can enroll on the nevada health link website through today. now you don't have to use the state exchange... but it's the only way to see if you qualify for a tax credit to help cover the premiums. nevadans who don't have health insurance face a minimum tax fine of 695-dollars per adult and 350 per child. hollywood

jim morelli has today's health minute. " " (lipi roy, md. mph/massachusetts general hospital) "there's no single treatment or intervention that can have as diverse benefits as exercise" the journal of the american medical association recently published a "call to action" its authors recommend that health care professionals prescribe exercise for all patients... calling it "one of the most important prescriptions a patient could receive." (lipi roy, md. mph/massachusetts general hospital) studies have shown that when a health care professional a doctor or nurse advises a patient to adapt a healthy lifestyle behavior that patient is more likely to adapapthat the 'call to action" care professionals activity as a vital -- write a exercise -- and encourage record-keeping of how much daily activity is needed? hint: you don't have to run a marathon. (lipi roy, md. mph/massachusetts general hospital) it can be as simple as walking for 30 miutes three times a week. consider all the diseases exercise can keep at bay. general hospital) high blood press

fox 25's jim morelli reports tonight the city is rolling out a new plan to stop the overdoses and help the addicts. >> just before you know you're a addict. >> reporter: the city of chammions is a city with a drug addiction problem. addict and i worked two jobs. to stephanie and others things are falling apart and dozens of -- bill carpenter he calls it the champion where they can get effective short-term help and then longer term help. >>> it will be -- for any one of our six fire stations. there will be certainly different locations in the city that will be safe havens. >> reporter: carpenter says this will help relieve the strain on city emergency departments because in most cases patients don't need to go. there stephanie has been clean for two years but the toll from drug addictions has been devastating. >> every time i look on facebook, rest in peace, rest in peace. there's like four or five a week now. >> reporter: she praised first responders of going 42 of 42 all those overdoses and not one life has been lost. there is a role in this plan for volunteers as well. they're callin

live, jim morelli. >> blair: firefighters in ransom credited with saving a man after eve. you can see a van badly damaged in these photos that crashed happened yesterday afternoon near 495. two rhode island firefighters going to gillette stadium saved that man's life. they say he stopped breathing after the crash. he was taken to the hospital before being moved to providence. not clear what caused that crash. rob: overall temperatures as we head through the weekend will be fairly seasonal, not what you would expect for early january in boston, 35 in bedford, 36 in fitchburg. light breeze out there, about 15 miles per hour, nothing significant, but that is enough to make it feel just a couple degrees colder so feels like 37 in boston, feels like 36 in fitchburg, windchill in worcester, 24 there. these numbers typical through the evening hours. upper 20s to make it feel like the mid 20s but that westerly wind is picking up moisture off the great lakes and sending it in this direction. combined that with the fact the atmosphere is unstable, allowing a few flurries to make nig

live in roz roslindale, jim morelli, fox 25 news. >>> video of a little girl being placed into an ambulance just minutes after being found alone in a school van. we've been following this story since 6:00. erica richie have you been girl's mother? first of all, she's heartbroken to know that her little 5-year-old daughter was alone on that school bus van for nearly six hours, can cold, crying and hungry, she tells me. at the same time she's happy to know that her little girl was overall okay but then she's also mad tonight. she's mad at that bus driver for allowing this to happen. >> reporter: you don't need to see their faces to recognize the safety this 5-year-old little girl feels in her mother's arms. following the girl's six hours of solitude in this school bus van. the girl's mother talked to me through this scene in mattapan earlier this afternoon but emotionally could only do so over the phone unidentified. her preschool daughter's first words to her still fresh in her mind blast. finally saw you? >> that she's really, really scared and she was screaming for help and she wanted to g

live in medway, jim morelli, fox 25 news. >>> new guidelines for mammograms saying they do the most good for women 50 and up. the u.s. preventive services task force releasing those guidelines today. they recommend women between the ages of 50 and 74 get a mammogram every two years. younger women are urged to weigh the pros and cons and make their own choice about whether to have the new cancer test is getting some serious investment from two of the richest people in the world. microsoft founder bill gates and amazon's jeff bay zos have led a $100 in -- bay zoz have led a $100 million braille that has -- he claims that the test will cost $1,000 or less and be available by 2019. >>> bail for the affluenza mother teen tonya couch's bail is down to $75,000 now from $1 million. a judge making that decision today saying he felt it was a more appropriate number for the case. couch is accused of helping her son ethan couch leave the country to avoid a probation hearing that may have led to jail time. ethan was on probation for killing four people in a 2013 drunk driving crash. he is being held

one tells our jim morelli that he will not apologize for it. >> i am not apologizing for nothing. i mean i -- i have no i mean i -- i have no reason whatsoever to see the breast of a colleagues a colleague. >> sara: the legislature returns to session later this week and this bill could come up to discussion any time after that. >>> and everyone is talking about this story on social media. we typed in amanda boldman's name on facebook, and as you can see, ten of thousands of people are still actively talking about it. >>> 5:38 this morning. it is deja vu for the celtics tonight. they are facing the nets for the second straight game, this time in brooklyn. cs lost a close one saturday night to boston gordon. boston marathon the feature of a film simply called "boston." it will go beyond the 2013 bombings and go back to the very first race in 1997. two feature films -- two feature films by hbo are in works along with the play and will focus just on the deadly attack. the documentary is scheduled to come out in april of 2017. >>> father homeowner, you could soon be hit with a higher i

fox 25's jim morelli is live in boston now with people