heather: stormteam 5's mike wankum is tracking some mike: potentially strong storm here, it will have more energy to work with. right now, not that impressive, but it is way off to our west. in boston, temperatures only in the 70's. what you'll notice, humidity tonight. it's a little muggy out there. tomorrow morning, it is fine. once we start to get towards lunchtime, the showers and torrential downpours. ed: right now, a total water ban in scituate. take a look. jorge quiroga joins us live with more on how people are coping. jorge? jorge: ed, the water shortage here is as critical t supply. brown lawns are the least of the problem in scituate's. black earth shows a real crisis. >> we just got back from ireland where it rained every day. when you showed me that picture i had not seen it in two weeks. you could walk across it. jorge: some parts of the reservoir look like a moonscape. would be up to my chest. officials are issuing a total water ban on outdoor use, reinforcing restriction set in early july. >> it is tough. everything around here, as well as elsewhere, is all brown. jorg

maria: stormteam 5's mike wankum is joining us. mike: you statistics together and there is not been much rain -- we are going down as number one right now. not a record you want to be holding onto. this is the driest summer on record. back to 1957. that is the number two spot. we still have several days to go. right now is going as the driest on record. he saw that little bit in avon. we saw this area. that is it though. if you are in it, you might get a little shower out of it. just clear skies and they drier air mass moving in. today was so muggy. now we are a little drier air in here. overnight, skies will clear down to the cape and we will wake up with plenty of sunshine, but humidity will be lower. ben: thank you, mike. a rewas arrest in connection with an lgbt newspaper box that was blown up this week in salem. newscenter 5's juli mcdonald is there live salem explosion -- is there live with what we know tonight. juli: a car turned onto washington street and a pedestrian on the other side. investigators are hoping that witnesse

let's get to meteorologist mike wankum for the timing. mike: the record high, which is 101, but the thing is today we had humidity along with the heat. a very, very unstable air mass. we are not getting a triggering mass. this area down in connecticut, it was actually severe thunderstorms a few moments ago. that warning has been allowed to expire. if you look at it, there are scattered showers.

ed: mike wankum says the ruby rain around here. -- we will see rain around here. heather: commitment 2016: another shakeup for the trump campaign. chairman paul manafort stepping down this morning. trump releasing a statement saying he accepted the resignation. it comes days after trump promoted two campaign aides to senior positions. heather: trump and his running mate, indiana governor mike pence together in louisiana. before that, they met with victims of the devastating flooding that has hit the state, as well as volunteers. at least 13 people killed in this natural disaster. ben: the new york times reporting hillary clinton told the fbi that former secretary of state colin powell advised her to use a personal email server when she took over the state department. heather: -- ed: powell responding to that today. he tells the associated press he sent clinton a memo touting his use of a home eml communications within the department. powell says at that time the state department did not have an equivalent internal system. clinton's personal email use has been a hu

mike: hello, i'm meteorologist mike wankum. showers and cloud cover to the westheaded this way. it will be a slow process. sunshine this morning, clouds this afternoon. the rain holds off until after midnight. after that, look for cool, dry weather by midweek. >> much more coming up in about, ten minutes. >> why do you look so surprised to be on camera? >> i forgot that they were coming back to me. ron and i got talking about the yanke yankees. that's what happens. >>> the u.s. women's basketball team is celebrating a record medal. the win is one of many pushes the american medal count even higher with just hours of competition left. the u.s. has 43 golds and 116 total. let go back to matt. >> reporter: good morning, sara. this has been an historic games for the women. the u.s. women's gymnast eks taim team destroying the competitio allyson felix and her record sixth gold. overnight, another victory for u.s. women's basketball. a dominating performance by a squad made up entirely of uconn alum. led by die yoon thana taurasi a s

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rhondella: mike wankum shows us mike: to win at pokemon go, you try to find pikachu and friends hidden all over the world. lots of fun, but the characters are just there. floating in space. what if the characters were really part of the scene in your phone, meaning that objects in the real world reacted to their presence and movement. abe davis, a 28-year-old researcher at mit, is making that happen. >> we've developed algorithms that are good at recovering motion that we can't see. motions that are so small you and i mike: everything has vibration. whether it's the grass in the background, this sign or even a building. here at mit they are studying those tiny vibrations and by doing that, they are trying to bring the real world into the virtual world. here's how it works. as abe pounds his fist on the table, look carefully and you might be able to see the wire that motion, tell you about the object itself? mike: he takes just a few seconds of video, capturing the motion loads it into his interactive dynamic video program and those , algorithms we mentioned show us how the figure behav

let's get a check of the forecast with mike wankum. mike: we had thunderstorms overnight. in the last three hours it was winding down and now it is going. we have partly cloudy skies. you may have noticed how the humidity is coming up. we have a warm front pushing through. the hot air is back along with issued for everywhere. we have an excessive heat warning until 7:00 tonight. air temperatures will look like this. mid 90's. partly cloudy day. we have to watch out for some thunderstorms. to the west is where it will be the warmest. around 3:00 we start to see the possibility of the few thunderstorms going on. this is not a guarantee will talk more about a minor threat we have going on this afternoon in a few moments. antoinette: we are following two breaking stories overnight. doug: six people clinging to their sinking boat rescued from dorchester bay. the boaters put out a distress call around 1:30 this morning. a few of them were wearing life vests. they were taken to a pier in south boston and checked out by ems. antoinette: also breaking right now. violent protests af

announcer: now your stormteam 5 forecast with meteorologist mike wankum. mike: we all love being number one. antoinette: except when it comes to the drought. mike: we have been monitoring this since 1995. you are starting to see the trees. there is not the structure underneath their. june and july is going down as the driest ever recording in austin, records going back -- in boston. it would not take much, just an inch of rain to knock us out of the top 10. august is going down as one of the largest on record. we had 90's, yesterday 83. look all day today. today is like yesterday. we are trying to get the sea breeze going. relatively comfortable. is not the lower 70's we saw on 70's. today we are sticky. tomorrow we drop back on a little bit. we could see a scattered shower or thunderstorm. the chances are very slim. look at the west. if you look really carefully, you see raindrops, the taste -- basically a few clouds. it looks like north of new england. as we mentioned, most of us will not see any rain out of it. near the coastline, 80, upper yesterday. th

antoinette: i'm antoinette antonio, along with mike wankum this morning. is it a good day to maybe grill outdoors? mike: are you having ice cream? antoinette: yes mike: doug and i will show up. it's looks good for it. there will be clouds this anything. there's no rain until we talk about tomorrow night. antoinette: perfect. mike: the rain maker in chicago right now. chicago may have good thunderstorms before this morning is out as the line pushes eastward. but you get the idea, look at how much room we've got to go through. that's why it's not going to get here. it's running into a lot of dry air. humidity will come up tomorrow. don't plan on a lot of rain, but we could see a quarter to half inch of rain as the line moves through late tomorrow night into early monday morning. 'r this morning, keen was down to the mid 50s. it was nice and cool and comfortable. now a lot of 60s and 70s showing up. near the shore line, temperatures only going to go up another eight, nine degrees at most. inland, they can go up 15 to 16 degrees. we'll see readings into the mid

mike: they are starting to leave town. todd: they listened wankum. mike: we always tried to have beautiful weather for visitors, but now that they are leaving, we could use the rain. another beautiful day with lots of sunshine. i wish this would happen more often. funny, beautiful days like we had today and rain overnight area there it is right now. as we take a closer look, i put the lightning scan on it. i do think that we will have a few thunderbolts overnight start to see showers. we cool into the 70's and it will mean muggy as well. different than lately. here is the timeline. 9:00, we are in the central part of the state. it will be with us for the early, early part of the day tomorrow. i will have more on the timeline in a few moments. still tropical storm fiona in the tropics. i will have the timeline on it. at todd: -- todd: in these dry conditions firefighters have been carefully monitoring a brush fire in west roxbury. the area was still smoldering this morning. the 4-alarm fire broke out yesterday off eagle street in the area of roxbury la

saturday, august 6 let's check in with mike wankum and talking about changes. mike: this afternoon, chance of seeing severe weather but what a beautiful morning we have going on. a little buggy and temperatures warming up quickly. you see what is happening -- a little muggy out. if you are traveling up in that direction, downpour may be to see the thunderstorms coming from this afternoon. as this cold front approaches. i think we will see a couple showers this morning. most of us will just enjoy the sunshine. heat and humidity and place this afternoon. any time after lunch time and for boston until 4:00 this afternoon. after that, the threat will diminish. the threat will continue towards the cape towards early evening. 2:00, that new round of thunderstorms getting strong timeline and what kind of severe weather you can expect in a few moments. antoinette: right now state police are investigating a deadly crash in sutton after 9:00 last night. 2% of the route 146 in flames. the name of the driver has not been released. no one else was hurt. right now three popul

mike wankum. mike: gorgeous, randy. we're off the morning lows, a lot of places dropping into the 40s last night, and in boston right now it's 65, and here's what's going to happen over the next several days, sunshine today, about 84 degrees, and now tomorrow we start with sunshine, but it fades away, cloud cover comes in, and the storm stays off the shore but gives us a chance of rain late tomorrow night and into thursday. and behind that system, here comes your weekend with lots of sunshine and low humidity, and beautiful conditions. how are the roadways this delays if you are heading out south of town, we have got that accident, 95 northbound delays stretching back to mansfield with that crash, as you travel the expressway, 30 to 35 braintree into boston, and pike, a half-hour, and 495 to 128, and the accident on 128 still working as well on the northbound side by win street and another crash on 93 south over by the lever connector. trains and buses doing ok. >> thank you, and right now one man is dead after trying t

it looks like it might be the same story for the weekend, mike wankum? mike: all nice and quiet out there. you do start to see showers and thunderstorms over the great lakes. that may impact the weekend. for now, upper 70's, just a gorgeous day out there. i am watching that line of i will have more on the timeline in a few moments. in the tropics, nothing in the caribbean. tropical storm fiona and also this tropical wave out there. much more on their tracking and what they will do for the east coast of the united eight in a few moments. heather? heather: commitment 2016 another , shakeup for the trump campaign. chairm saying he accepted the resignation. it comes days after trump promoted two campaign aides to senior positions. from manchester, former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski talking about the latest shakeup. >> they know how tough it is. that being said, the campaign should never be about eight staff person. it should be about the candidate . at all of the focuses back on mr. trump. heather: manafort's resignation also comes in the wake of

we have mike wankum with us this morning. someone may have outdoor plans, possibly a barbecue around 2:00 p.m. mike: did you get invited? i didn't. speaking. mike: oh, oh, figuratively. what's your address? you actually have pretty decent weather for it. there will be clouds coming in this afternoon. show you what's happening on the satellite picture this afternoon. kristal clear skies. look at block island. we've just got enough of a disturbance in the atmosphere for the area through there, pop-up showers develop. we could use rain across the way low for us. where is our next rain maker coming from? clear out by chicago right now. that's a good road trip that's got to come down i-90. it's going to take a while to get here, probably not until tomorrow night. in between, not much going on. you can see showers, thunderstorms going on. it's possible tomorrow night, we could have a rumble of thunder into the overnight hours. checking out the temperatures this morning, we've got upper 60s in boston. some places lower 60s, a few upp

maria mike wankum shows us in : ton' mike to win at pokemon go you : try to find peek-a-chu and friends hidden all over the world. lots of fun, but the characters are just there. floating in space. what if the characters were really part of the scene in your phone, meaning that objects in the real world reacted to their presence and movement. abe davis, a 28-year-old researcher at mit, is making that happen. >> we've developed algorithms and i wouldn't notice. mike everything has vibration. : whether it's the grass in the background, this sign or even a building. here at mit they are studying those tiny vibrations and by doing that they are trying to bring the real world into the virtual world. here's how it works. look carefully and you might be able to see the wire figure vibrate. just a little. as abe pounds his fist on the table. >> what does that motion tell you about the object itself? mike: he takes just a few seconds of video, capturing the motion loads it into his interactive dynamic video program and those algorithms we mentioned show us how the figure behaves if you grabbed a

. >> now your team 5 forecast with meteorologist mike wankum. antoinette: for all the people probably the better of the days. mike: sunday is looking spectacular. there is the map at 3:00 this afternoon. cold front coming through. showers and thunderstorms. antoinette: cold front? mike: relatively speaking. here is the thing. we need some rain. so far this month we have had a few sprinkles. in boston we are running seven inches to the dry side. once the afternoon, this is your best opportunity for rain by tonight, it moves out of here. the thunderstorms are fast and furious and if you are in the right place at the right time you might get a decent rain. right now 71 degrees, dew point that has come up overnight. 64 degrees. right now we are kind of in this uncomfortable range, but i think by this afternoon we feed into those thunderstorms and we head the dew point plunges way down. much more comfortable weather. what is happening this morning? not much. a little bit of sunshine to start your day off. as you look to the west, notice how we see a f

let's get to meteorologist mike wankum. mike: unfortunately, that humidity will be with us the rest of the night here in it is really thick out there. this marched itsay way to the ocean. at one point, we were getting 10 lightning strikes every minute. it was really flashing up in the sky. depending on where we are at, we got some rain. what's left of it is way out over the ocean. we are done with that for tonight. we are left with partly cloudy skies but the air is thick out there. overnight hours, partly cloudy skies. we start the day with a bit of sunshine. for degrees in boston. and i, we will be lucky if we drop below 75 degrees. but i do have some cooler weather, lower humidity and another chance of rain in the or cast coming up in a few moments. rhondella: breaking news from new york city tonight, a huge -- also breaking tonight this fire on plum island. the flames broke out at a house on 59-th street around 7:30 and the fire has gone to three alarms. fire crews from throughout the merrimack valley are on scene assist

antoinette: mike wankum shows us how in this morning's "cutting edge." mike: to win at pokemon go, you try to find pick chu and friends hidden all over the world. lots of fun, but the characters are just there, floating in space. what if the characters were really part of the scene in your phone? world reacted to their presence and movement. abe davis, a 28-year-old researcher at m.i.t., is making that happen. >> we've developed algorithms that are good at recovering motion that we can't see. motion that's so small or so subtle that you or i wouldn't notice it. mike: everything has vibration, whether it's the grass in the background, this sign or even this building. here at m.i.t., they're studying those tiny vibrations and by virtual world. here's how it works. as abe pounds his fist on the table, look carefully and you might be able to see the wire figure vibrate. just a little. >> what does that motion tell you about the object itself? mike: he takes just a few seconds of video, capturing that motion. loads it into his interactive dynamic video program

mike wankum explains how local entrepreneurs are changing our frantic search for a charger into a cutting-edge moneymaker. mike: the sound and the service are the same. it offers an energy service so customers keep moving. >> you activate and one location, travel with it all day. ke program testing the service with 300 chargers. >> we manage all of the inventory and monitor battery wellness across all of our locations. mike: here is how it works. you log on to the website to create an account. >> inter-the code. mike: northeastern covers the cost for 24 hours. students pay late fees, a big incentive to return them. activations over four months. it is through the roof. mike: the cofounder and ceo used to be a student and remembers the pain of carrying a plug-in charger, searching for desperately for a wall outlet. >> that helped flush out the details behind the business model. and northeastern student maybe switch. >> i think i lost a two or three like that. mike: his friends showed him the service. >> i take it around for two hours, it's already. mike: that kind of plug is boosting business. >

oomf is also available at some terminals at logan airport or it mike wankum, wcvb newscenter 5. reid: incredible video from nafta -- surface of the sun. the rain you see in the video is actually plasma returning to the sun's surface. i think we need aj to explain this. scientists call this phenomenon coronal rain. according to nasa, coronal rain is often triggered by solar flares. back here on earth, a record opening for the movie "suicide squad." the movie raked in about $135 million its opening night, despite poor reviews. so far, it's one of the year's biggest openings and set a new record for an august film debut. however, audiences dropped sharply on saturday and could hint at further declines in the firefighters putting out a brush fire in new hampshire got a chance to help them out. the five-year-old saw the firefighters dousing flames and they all stem if you wanted to help run the o's, and as you can see, he did. the boy from other centers the video and wants to thank the nashua firefighters. reid: diane: maybe. we have a check of the wet fios is not cable. we're wired

mike wankum is here to help us out on a sunday morning. mike: you like showing up on a day like today. you're delivering nothing but good news. other days too. mike: talk to me when it's pouring rain. look at the sunrise. it's great. sunrise is at 6:06 this morning. but beautiful colors out in the sky. a nice lead-in to a sunday. hope you get a chance to enjoy a nice leisurely wakeup this morning. let's show you the satellite picture. very little going on. widen out the view, you start to see a few things to the west. this is going to come through later tonight. it is a very slim chance, but we've been so try, we're most probably won't see a thing late tonight or tomorrow, but some may get a quick, brief shower out of it. as far as temperatures right now, upper 60s. mid 60s. a few upper 50s showing up. the next 12 hours in boston will look like this. ramp temperatures up with lots of sunshine. boston will be in the upper 70s today because we have a sea breeze going on. inland, like yesterday. 85, maybe the upper 80s in a few locations. high

maria: mike wankum is here. mike: it's really, really drive. they will be tapping into other towns. pretty bad situation. we had a little relief. did you get one of those rain showers? maria: not one. mike: i drove through one. it was like a car wash. let me show you where the rain is right now. we are pushing down toward the cape and really winding down. if you are in one of these, you're going to s a goes by and about five minutes in your back and sunshine. that is what we are thing inland. we're not looking for to much more development out of this. you see what is going on down toward the cape. nice little downpours. the strongest one offshore. you put a tracker on it. then this area here might altogether and get toward been inside a little bit -- a few out of that. maybe a sprinkle or to do. any rain we get is all come at this point. what is going to happen? the rain will push off. by 8:00, it will clear most areas that clear all areas. i'm looking for the humidity to drop off, not the temperatures were a. more on those in just a few minutes. ben? ben: all right, thank you very

mike wankum is here. mike: why go outside at it in virtual reality? jc: there you go. mike: today, look at this. we hit 90 degrees again. you may not have noticed because the humidity was so high. if you're looking at the record books, we have hit it 19 times. we hit 13 days in an average year. we have gone as high as 30 days. the humidity has been so high and the rain so sparse -- right now we are going down as the there are opportunities out there, but we are talking about very dry conditions, the extreme category. boston and worcester, both well over seven inches, almost eight inches below where we are supposed to be. the rain does not amount to anything. we got a few scattered showers this afternoon. it pushes its way to the cape. look how quickly they are falling apart. this one was looking more impressive a few moments but again, these are just looking like they are scattered at best. maybe a downpour there, but offshore into buzzards a very, very shortly. by 9:00, look what happens. we have clear skies moving in and with that, humidity will be dropping. it will

let's get to meteorologist mike wankum for the timing. mike: the record high, which is 101, but the thing is today we had humidity along with the heat. a very, very unstable air mass. we are not getting a triggering mass. this area down in connecticut, it was actually severe thunderstorms a few moments ago. that warning has been allowed to expire. if you look at it, there are scattered showers. and move into the central part of the state within the next hour or so and push and to boston around 8:00 tonight. at right now, i am not looking for anything severe. after that, not much going on tonight except another muggy night for us and not much relief for tomorrow even though there is a cold front coming through. temperatures in the 80's and 90's. the of us will get that cool tonight. we will talk more about the timeline of those thunderstorms and when the humidity will finally break in a few moments. rhondella: thank you, mike. stormy weather this morning likely sparked a house fire in southborough. firefighters think a lightning strike star

a line of heavy rain is moving acrohe mike wankum is tracking all of it. mike? mike: not just one, but three areas. one to the north, one to the west. as they move eastward, they lose punch, but we have seen nice downpour so far. this one is winding up. it does look like it has been losing a little bit of its punch the last hour or so. this one has a little lightning and thunder associated with it this one here might just clip the cape and the islands with shower activity tonight. we need the rain. we are extremely drive. timeline on this -- just after midnight they start to close in on the city. the threat will be with us through the overnight hours and tomorrow morning fell commute. if you are an early riser, you may be running into rain showers out there. the timeline and arrival of showers and the arrival of babies and 90's back in the forecast in a few moments. reid? reid: right now, a state of emergency in maryland from devastating flooding. take a look at that. how would you like to be caught in that? two people are dead. a historic town is ravaged. newsc

first, let's check in with mike wankum. we've got a nice day on tap. mike: another beauty, lots of sunshine. we're in the midst of a drought. we need the rain, may get it tomorrow night. where you don't have it, it is spectacular. one rain shower south of block island is the only thing on otherwise, toward chicago, there's a line of showers and thunderstorms that will be moving in as we talk about tomorrow night. right now, step outside. boston, off the morning low, 72. beverly at 72. 50s showing up, it got chilly out to the north and west this morning. 70s starting to show up all the way down through the south shore. new bedford right now, 76 degrees. falmouth checking in at 73. same thing as the vine yard. what's happening in boston today? temperature is not going to go up that much. water. that will keep things cool officially in boston. you know where the readings' taken. out of logan airport. from copley square inland, 85 degrees this afternoon. high temperatures, if you're at the shore line, cooler. inland, we'll see a lot of 80s showing up. worce

mike wankum in for cindy. this morning a pleasant start. >> very pleasant. >> they don't look happy at all. >> it will be awful but the weather is decent. we have got sunshine to start the day, and low humidity, relatively cool this morning. so if you are going for an early morning walk or a jog or heading to the car to head to work, a beautiful start to the day. you will need the sunglasses all day today. as far as what's happening around us though not much. high pressure is in control. a little nice northwesterly flow into the atmosphere, keeping things dry. look at these temperatures. 53 degrees, there was some pockets of chilly temperatures just outside the city. temperatures were nice and cool. so what will happen today? we'll go to the day with the pop-up clouds. billow up, and as soon as the sun goes down they go away. yesterday we got sprinkles out of them. i don't think we'll get that much out of them today. fair weather clouds with the cobalt blue sky. what's going to happen? the temperature will cli

heather: mike wankum joining us and it sounds like there is a storm threat for our saturday? mike: yes, this is the kind of storm where you get a lot of rain fast and furious, and it cannot soak in. once it gets here, we will have maximum heating going on and the humidity will be coming up as well. tomorrow afternoon. in boston, temperatures will drop, but not as much as the last couple of nights. that tells you the humidity is coming up. what will happen tomorrow is, we start the day with partly cloudy skies. by lunchtime, here we start to see those lines of showers and thunderstorms. one place you get a heavy downpour, a few miles down the road, you don't get anythou i will have much more on the timeline and what to expect tomorrow coming up. ben: all right, thank you. new at 5:30, the state of new hampshire asking for federal help tonight to deal with drought conditions in the state. the request by governor maggie hassan is for grafton, rockingham, and strafford counties. farmers say the lack of rain has effected their corn crops. the corn is now several inches smaller and

heather: mike wankum joining us and it sounds like there is a storm threat for our saturday? mike: yes, this is the kind of storm where you get a lot of rain fast and furious, and it cannot soak in. once it gets here, we will have maximum heating going on and the humidity will be coming up as well.

mike wankum is joining us. it is beautiful now, but we have changes in door. degrees. average temperature is 78. we see some clouds in the west, even scattered showers. these will push in overnight, but it is relatively dry, stable air mass. 10:00 tonight, you see this air mass. it stays basically to the north. to the south, we will not see it, but north of the pike, you may get an occasiodo showers. temperatures near the shoreline cooler, warmer inland. over the next 12 hours, temperatures won't drop off as much. it is relatively warm, keeping an eye on the tropics as well. 1, 2, 3 separate systems. how they will have impact on the east coast and where they are heading. diane: thank you. a deadly crash on a highway in louisiana. earlier crash get hit by an out of control charter bus. one of those firefighters was killed. the bus then hit several other cars, killing a passenger in one of those vehicles. the bus was carrying volunteers heading to help out with the flooding. police say the driver does not have the correct license and will face charges. todd: right now, t

mike wankum, what did you do today? >> meteorologist: enjoyed the weather. temperatures from grateful that the humidity was low. sunshine was out. this is bonus day for august. we'll pay for it coming done the road. the humidity coming back in. 79 the high. all at 86 today. throughout. what a great evening we have. still 70 with the southwesterly wind at 9 miles per hour. here is the reason. today felt so good. the dewpoint down at 59. in the 50's all day today. typically, this time of year. you can plan on the 60's. tomorrow, another fairly decent day for dewpoints. remaining in the 50's. then notice, friday comes up. saturday goes way up. this sets us up for thunderstorms on saturday afternoon. then behind. boom. it drops off again. we got a couple of would be muggy hear as we talk about later on this week. here's the satellite. try to find a cloud anywhere. none to be found. you widen out the view. go to the south. away out here to the northern plans before you run into cloud cover. the area to the north. this thunderstorms across here. tonight it is clea

antoinette: i'm antoinette antonio, along with mike wankum. mike, temperatures right now? mike: humidity not bad. sun is up. antoinette: maybe outdoor plans today mike: that would be a good idea. i'll be napping. doug: a better idea. mike: a beautiful day like this, lay on a hammock outside. on radar right now, not much happening unless you're offshore at block island. look at the one shower. picking up some patchy, dense fog into worcester right now. otherwise, that's about it. there's not really any cloud here, west of chicago. this area of rain is coming in here. you get the idea. that's a long way to go. so as it travels down i-90, mass pike, it looks like it will take coming in here as we talk about probably tomorrow night after midnight before it gets here. could get a quarter to a half inch of rain. temperatures this morning, boston off the morning low, 70 degrees. look at the pocket of cool air with readings in the 50s. we cool things off a little bit. you get in the valley, t get fog here or there. it will burn off quickly once the sun starts to warm us up. over t

. >> good morning, i'm meteorologist mike wankum. high pressure, firmly in control, that means the high temperatures today, around 80 degrees, moore cooler at the shoreline because of the sea breeze, tomorrow it's 86 degrees, and by thursday, the humidity is back, and setting us up for thunderstorms onor >>> and coming up here on "gma," a deadly love triangle. a former executive on trial for the second time for killing a romantic rival. was it jealousy or insanity? >>> and travel alert. we're going to tell you how to score the best and the biggest deals and the catches to look out for. sfwlnch and ryan lochte's million-dollar mistake. sponsors are dropping deals after the scandal in rio. we'll have what's next for him. and ask, can he recover? all coming up on "gma." i've been taking fish oil from nature's bounty to support my heart. i'm running, four times a week. eating better, keeping healthy. so that no matter what happens in the future, my "future self" will thank me. thank you! hey listen. whatever you do, don't marry dan! hey

mike wankum is in for city. emily: at least it is cool and crisp. mike: not hot and humid. when you get to a certain temperature you have to get out of school. but let me show you, speaking of those cool outside the city we are seeing a lot of readings into the 50. if you look to the south, from norwood to taunton, readings can get up into the 60's. our next rainmaker is way out to the west and you have to find sunny and partly cloudy and if this rain doesn't get here until late tomorrow night and then on thursday as well we could have the chance for showers. here's what's going to happen, the temperature will ramp into the mid to upper 70's and then it cuts off because you have this sea breeze, but inland we will see temperatures around 85 degrees and it makes for a really nice day. the temperatures are going to be a little bitar we will talk more about the rain and check on the tropics, but now on a tuesday morning let's check on the traffic. olessa: this is a live look at the expressway, by the south bay mall where traffic is moving well in both directions. the rest of y

we're back in two minutes with >> mike wankum, a beautiful the same thing, crystal clear skies, and this afternoon we may get a few of the puffy clouds that develop but no rain today, no rain tomorrow, and in fact, tomorrow, probably a couple of degrees warmer than today, and the humidity, still manageable, however on wednesday, the humidity is back and so is the threat of thunderstorms. some of those storms could be strong, and that that's why we indicated a high impact weather day. 92 degrees, we'll get to friday through sunday, and it's unsettled again, watch out for the scattered thunderstorms in the commute, olessa, how does it look? >> not too bad. we're watching some delays, luckily no accidents to report, south of town, 24, stop and go on randolph, route 3 from weymouth into braintree and once you get there it will be a 30 to 35-minute ride into boston. eastbound on the pike, it's a 20-minute ride. maybe up to 25 minutes and 93 south looks good out of methuen, and that volume does pick up around spot pond, stays slow, and the trains and buses so far are on schedule. go with the w

some of the coolest weather we've seen in more than a month >> good morning, i'm meteorologist mike wankum. after an active morning this morning, between 3:00 and 4:00 we had strong thundor through, and you can see what's happening now, skies are clearing away, and most of the showers are sitting along the coast or towards the cape, still seeing some downpours here, but these will be moving off the shore, very shortly, lots of sunshine, and temperatures into the 70s today, with a >> and coming up on "gma," ryan lochte comes clean about his scandal in rio. i'm embarrassed for myself, for my family and for my country. >> the 12-time olympic medalist may not be out of hot water yet. >>> miracle rescue. a toddler trapped under a capsized boats and rescuers trying to save her. how she managed to survive. her parents opening up about the ordeal next on "good morning america." n taking fish oil from nature's bounty to support my heart. i'm running, four times a week. eating better, keeping healthy. so that no matter what happens in the future, my "future self" will thank me. thank you! hey listen

mike wankum is coming by. when you said it's going to be a duplicate yesterday as it is today, that's exactly the case, because it's 66 degrees. yesterday, exact same temperature. mike: eat the same meal. antoinette: cheese burgers and hot dogs for everyone. doug: it's summer, you can do that, okay? mike: the satellite picture, crystal clear, beautiful sunrise coming our direction. off to the west, we have a few clouds. maybe the difference being overnight tonight, we may see a scattered shower. most of us won't see anything. most activity will be up here to the north. but there's a slight threat north of the pike, as we talk about, later on tonight. right now, temperatures in the 60s. a few 50s showing up. boston at 67. sunset tonight, we keep losing a little more each day. 7:24 for the sunset for tonight. what's going to happen today? today, it's revolving around sunshine, comfortable humidity. about 84 to 88 degrees. however, if you're near the shore line, might be a few degrees cooler because we've got the

emily: i'm emily riemer along with olesa and mike wankum in for cindy. we were saying it's feeling pleasant. mike: the manageable. in the desert southwest they have the low humidity and it's 112 and you go it doesn't feel that warm. yes, it does. emily: are you trying to give us perspective? mike: it will be a warm day but the humidity is down and makes it manageable. check out what's happening on the satellite picture. not much. widening out the view we don't see anything related to the rain until you get to the carolinas or virginia or kansas. high pressure is in control of keen at 54 degrees. much warmer in the city with the concrete heat keeping it in and why it's warmer in the city overnight but away from the city the temperatures cool off nicely tonight. what's going to happen? here's the way the map looks at 8:00. still no cloud. what happens this afternoon around 1:00, remember yesterday how the clouds popped up a little bit. that's what you'll see again today. yesterday we had a few sprinkles and don't think we'll see much of it. look at the line