pamela: i'm pamela wright. we have some fog, but this should be the last morning that we are talking about the fog. then, we will talk about cold weather. here we are this morning in many areas, looking good. visibility greatly reduced. northern greenville county, the winds have stayed light. temperatures not bad. know that for many of you, that is as warm as it will get. the cold air is on the way. we even find low 50's from the moisture in place -- a pretty hazy shot there. 46 by 7:00. temperatures will touch the low 50's today. most of you are there. it will stay there long before the cold air arrives. here is the rain. most of that has ended for now. the rain chances -- the precipitation will stay with us for today. not raining today, but more clouds around. as the cold air comes in, we will watch it turn into snow in the higher elevation. not enough to be a problem for most areas. the northern counties, we will keep our eye on. you see the 50's briefly in the upstate today before we hold down. look at this

pamela: balance. tim: nice. good job. >> the other aspect of this is this is the year for you to say tim: i want to know t the answer to that. >> you know what people think, but what do you want them to think? you have one year to start being that person. pamela: posse. >> -- bossy. >> i would say direct. i have to encourage people to live their best life ever. i will embody that. when i want to rip somebody on facebook, that will not work. i want to encourage somebody. tim: it is a great, different pamela: at 7:56 -- look at that beautiful shot. a beautiful day. chilly start. temperatures near freezing all across the state. at noon, we will be at 50. by tomorrow, we are in the 20's. rain chances pickup, but the windy and cold tomorrow. if santa brought you a scarf or tim: a little warm-up today, then -- pamela: the bottom pulls out tomorrow. good luck getting back to school and everything tomorrow. tim: thank you for watching. news continues tonight at 6:00 here have a good day. [captioning performed by the nat

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pamela's point earlier was correct.he result of years of anti-government sevent sentimenr system. that we ought to be addressing all the time and there will be more flints if we don't tackle this. flint was a combination of some serious mistakes but we could see this again. we saw a problem in charleston west virginia last year, and it's one of the most amazing things this country has. >> pamela, in the minute we have left, it seems like there's no catalytic moment. we see the west virginia disaster, what happens in flint and other parts of the country and no one ever says that's it. >> no we don't. we saw it in d.c. not too long ago. epa was aware of lead poisoning in washington in its own home territory. again, i think we're rightly focused on some of the expenditures that cities and governments need to make in order to kind of provide those basic services. but the real answer to avoiding the flints of the future is by investing more in this economic opportunity and just kind of not getting into the dire straits of wh

pamela, peter and trashelle are still with me.better understand the events that led up to a city of 100,000 people tainted with toxins. peter, what are we talking about as far as the minimum best practices after worst practices, what has to be done in flint, since obviously we haven't saved any money, we're going to spend much much more money. >> they're going to have to find a water source that provides high quality water to put into the system. the second thing is they're going to have to identify which parts of the system, which pipes in which homes are going to have bad water delivery systems. street by street, house by house and test every single source of water to make sure that the clean water that goes into the top is clean water that comes out at the tap. and the third thing they're going to have to do is going to have to build back the public trust in the system. and the only way to do that is by education, by careful monitoring so people trust what's coming out of their taps throughout the system. and then by helping to

pamela: happy new year. last year. pamela: you have already broken your perfect attendance. as cold as it could be. look at temperatures in the 40's. even a lower 50 on the map. closer to freezing would be normal across the upstate. we are pretty mild. here is our skycam views this morning. you will run into dense fog of this morning anywhere and western north carolina and the upstate. live super doppler hp is not -- super doppler hd is not picking up the drizzle, but rain is on the way. the first half of the day is more dry. we have big changes to temperatures on the way. you will make it into the lower 50's. near 50 and spartanburg. i do not think you will make it out of the 40's and asheville. rain chances pick up after 4:00. a big drop in temperatures to come. we will talk about that as the morning goes on. myra: the countdown is on for monday's championship game. they got a proper sendoff from hundreds of fans on friday. it was only fitting that the weather was misty as they left. fans let them know they were not on their own on the road to the title. watching it is the

going over to pamela. pamela: extremely gusty winds. 13-plus inches came down and down and blow around. reduced visibility because of this. temperatures in the 20's all day. it will not feel that warm. here is a look into greenville. some light snow still blowing around. spartanburg is covered. the day will eventually write up a little bit more. wind chills in the single digits. near 34 across much of the upstate. this snow is winding down. we will find rain for the week ahead. we will talk about the big lizard it just a bit. geoff: sky 4 is in the air this morning. allyson: we are giving you the you can see quite a few cars on the interstate. the interstates are not too treacherous. geoff: you see the roads close to the highway. south carolina dot doing an excellent job of getting the snow and ice off the highways. allyson: to get over greenville and spartanburg to see the snow on the ground. geoff: some different areas. in our area, greenville county, the totals have been different. we saw 1-2 inches yes

pamela: we have another couple days of it. not as sunny as we will be today. pamela: it is windy. i thought you would guess earthquake. this is on top of paris mountain. as the day goes on, it will become quite breezy today. we are talking about wind gusts year 20 miles per hour. look at how steay the temperatures increase today. by 10:00, 50 degrees. 11:00, 55. here is where we are starting. it is chilly in franklin. he will be close to 60 today. we will have these chilly morning temperatures and then warm up nicely during the day. 43, greenville. only 47 in lawrence. you also make it into the 60's southerly winds coming in. they will pick up as the da on. look out nicely that temperatures pick up. early afternoon in clemson, temperatures in the mid-60's by clouds on the increase, yes. these are not rainmakers, but by 2:00-3:00, he will notice the clouds. temperatures will be on th again after the daytime highs. check this out. the last day of january, and we're talking about 66. clouds encroaching from the south and west today. 60' franklin and close to the 60's and henderson. h

first, pamela wright. pamela, you are talking about the wind picking up. the snow is coming down outside. pamela: it really is. you can definitely see the snow on the ground, and know that there is more coming down. this is the last big push to come through. do wake the kids if they did not get to see it falling yet. some of you getting the heaviest you have seen so far. the winds out of the north, watching those pickup. it has been called, but eight miles in greenville, and more to come. look at this. especially in pickens county, fairy heavy snow. in lawrence county, some good widespread moderate snow. to the west, breaking up a snow coming down n albert's county. that is the last edge of it as this moves to the south and east. pretty strong over pickens county, what has he any, anderson county, wars, here comes. some areas thinking of a quick inch -- picking up a quick inch. this is the last hurrah, as far as snow goes. more often on through the day, where we will see a very much lighter by late morning and into lunchtime across the upstate. our woodruf

pamela: and they don't have to be men. north greenville u getting ready to roll out the red carpet, let's welcome, alyssa, christal, and jake. good morning. myra: we want to begin with some drama. real life drama. she is going to tell us about this picture. not this picture. that's video. we want to show the picture. maybe we will get to the picture -- >> a lot of drama. there we go. myra: ms. columbia to not try to grab that -- >> no, fight. i got ready as slow as i normally do, got here, but on the way walking in, splits. i made it in one piece. myra: you still look beautiful. it is nice to have all of you with us. we were showing clips from the film contest. tell us how this got started. 2009. supervisor. she was one of the top-of-the-line broadcasting majoshe came up with the idea to use north greenville students as a way to showcase their talents and love of filmmaking. now, the exciting thing about this year is it is the first ti ever that is made open to homeschoolers, public, private schools, high school, college.

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pamela: let's see. gorgeous weekend we can be have lined up. st with a beautiful shot from our paris mouniswhat a different view this was one week agowe are going to warm up steadily today. let's talk temperatures. we will be at 36 degrees in greenville at 8:00. by lunchtime, the lower 50's. that is close toward typhigh this time of the year. we will be above that. a beautiful morning in spartanburg. we will warm up nicely today, nearly 30 degrees from where we are now. the northerly wind is with us, but that will be weakening as the date goes -- day goes on. a beautiful chris 23 degrees. colorful over the balance. a little bit of snow on the ground. actually, a lot of it on the ground where you wanted to be in the -- want it to be in the ski locations. temperatures in the lower 30's. lawrence, 29. a pretty cold start for us with a light north-northeasterly breeze. on the return flow, we will tap into some southwesterly breezes this afternoon. that really will b effect for tomorrow. we will be even warmer in the plenty of sunshineupper 50's to

okay we have pamela fired up. at heft we are talking about about that here. our forecast. that. >> i am so mad about that. >> that lambo could be ruined that's his problem. >> there you go. lesson learned here. well, for us thank goodness we conditions. and we are not even talking about snow unfortunately ski resorts we might see snow once we get towards the weekend and temperatures will be cold make more snow. weekend. boston is 42 degrees. it's vied mild and we have no wind at the time and the real temperature. 37 in nashua 42 taunton and 42 chatham. glorious high temperatures and we may gain about another degree or two before the afternoon is all said and done. high 44 in boston. lows tonight back in the the 30s but most locations in the 20s and upper teens especially in the outlying communities 18 degrees in keene manchester 17 degrees. tomorrow's high temperatures comparable to the last couple for the highs. if you are heading to the north to go skiing anywhere across new england here temperatures will be col

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pamela: i pamela wright -- i am pamela wright. the earlier, the better as far as getting out. you will find some low clouds, a little drizzle, and patchy fog. all that said, for much of the

pamela: i'm pamela wright. as these these cold temperatures the mosquitoes. we still have about 30 minutes unl thes up. lots of sunshine on the way today. temperaturg up nicely. by 10:00, 47.

we start with pamela. good morning. >> good morning and the first think this we did is look at the forecast model. there is several of them, so many of them and we had to go change the weather map or not and we tweaked some of the numbers and we're the extreme northern edge of the storm. that hasn't changed but how far north the storm is creeping and looks to get farther to the north and that little change has made a bit of an impact on snow totals and this is the current radar picture and some heavy snow and thunder reported. and the lightning tracker is showing nothing at this time. twenty minutes ago, there were lightning strikes there. interesting storm and a lot of power with the system. so far so good. we have no snow fallling from the sky in massachusetts, although we have some flurries developing and this is in central connecticut and drying up before hitting the ground and probably in southwestern connecticut and this snow shield will left to the north. hour-by-hour in the forecast, late this morn

it is 8:10. with pamela. downtown boston, we have abundant sunshine, clear sky and only a few clouds in the distant horizon. that's the end of our storm. fenway park, beautiful picture. we have fresh snowment we picked . we picked up 6.4 inches at logan airport. total for the season in boston, 10.4 inches. 9.6 inches below average for this particular date at this time in the season. no more snow in your seven-day forecast. satellite radar picture, even the cape, the islands, you're starting to dry off as a little noon and through the later part of today, mostly clear skies expected. a few more clouds late in the day. temperatures around freezing. we're tracking all the snow totals coming in. we'll go back out live to danielle standing by in sandwich. that was our jackpot zone. but across the country, impressive numbers coming out here, right? >>reporter: pamela, little shift in track. we could have been in the one to two to three feet of snow. so i don't know about you, i'm kind of thankful we're only dealing

pamela? pamela: here at home, a bit of mist and fog, as well as light snow in anderson county. here is a live look. winds are like now, but that just look at the wintry scene geoff: 7:40 five. more on our winter storm coming up, but this winter storm is impacting many other areas, particularly washington, d.c., which frankly has been swamped. beau: good morning. washington, d.c., the epicenter of the blizzard of 2016, you might say. it has been coming down for the past 19 hours straight. we're talking about one inch-three inches per hour. this is new jersey avenue off to my left. we have about one foot-1.5 feet of snow. about eight suv's. a dozen of police officers had to post up in a hotel last night so that they would have access to the capital for their normal security duties other than them, not a lot walking around. we are close to the capital. high winds, 30-40 mile-per-hour winds. they with a on occasion. that is why i have the skied goggles -- skied bottles on. -- ski goggles on. the capitol police car had to get unstuck from the snow. geoff: when i see a reporter with

allyson: pamela? pamela: it is beautiful. the snow is heavy across northeast georgia pickens, and oconee county, greenwood -- getting snow. this is the last big batch. let's talk snow totals, coming look, i know you're a cow and all. and you may not know what i'm talking about, but, uh. the yogurt made from your milk, is delicious. geoff: a storm turned deadly in charlotte. a crew was sent to the queen city to see what conditions are like. >> the storm in north carolina turning deadly. 4 have died and weather-related car crashes. charlotte remained a ghost town on friday. roads, as rain, sleet, and snow came down. most of the roads had slush and/or slippery, but the crews were trying to keep them clear during the storm. we know at least one hundred 10,000 customers in the carolinas had power outagesovernight. we know that crews are working to restore power to these people . we know the focus today turns to cleaning the city and getting it ready for the nfc championship game. the cleanup effort will take time. allyson: you are

she says pamela was a loving mother. she greatly loved her daughter, she walked her daughter around down here where she lived at and she took her everywhere she wanted to go. the neighbor says pamela's daughter, who has down syndrome, would often spend time with her at her apartment in kelly acres. oh i loved her to death, she'd come over here and sit with me two and three hours at a time. she could not talk, she could not do anything, but she'd just sit and look at you. the neighbor says she was shocked to hear that on tuesday, pamela was arrested by spartanburg police -- accused of trying to poison and kill herself and her daughter. police reports say pamela told officers she was worried that when she died, no one would be daughter.she told me she was worried about, she didn't know who was going to take care of vicki. that's a worry to every mother, who's going to take care of their daughter like that i mean you don't want them in a home. john cocciolone with the greenville county disabilities and special needs board s

pamela: it's beautiful the cold this morning. look at that. it's 31 in asheville and only 30 we have some 20's this morning. it's even colder for the work week. tim: covering the nation now, the site of the san bernardino shooting rampage that left 14 people dead and 21 injured is set to reopen monday. there will be tighter security as the inland regional center's 600 employees return to work. the center has been closed since the december 2 mass shooting. a massive cleanup in oklahoma city after a house exploded. the force of the blast sent debris 200 yards away yesterday morning three people were hurt. a natural gas crew was reportedly working on the home when a fire started near a meter. that sparked the explosion that left eight homes in the neighborhood damaged. the us department of justice is investigating how blue bell creameries handled the ice cream contamination linked to 10 reported cases of listeria. three of those believed to be sickened by blue bell frozen treats died. prosecutors are examining committed wrong-doing in their handl

pamela: good sunday morning. a bit milder this morning. temperatures almost 16 degrees warmer than yesterday. again! again! again! again! again? again! again! so you can love cereal... >> now, your live super doppler pamela: 5:45. good sunday morning. let's talk about t headlines weather-wise. warm, but turning wet. it will be quite mild through the middle of the week. we are looking at a wet wednesday. it will turn colder. here we are, the la of january. it will be the warmest day of the month so far. here we are with the camera in lawrence. nice and quiet. none of us are as cold as we typically are this time of the year. the surface winds, just out of the southwest at five. winds for all of us will pick up. behind that, you can know the clouds will increase shortly after. 37 and spartanburg with the southwesterly breeze. those clouds, not too far away. increasing clouds, but increasing temperatures with this tropical air mass coming out of the gulf of mexico. what is coming ie west? of lot of moisture streaming in from the pacific. cold

pamela: good sunday morning. we take a live look in lawrence this morning printed the parking lots are nice and clear. it's nice and selling -- snowing on the grass. a wet, chilly wind is coming in greenville. this is a wonderful job on all the roads. there are some icy patches up this morning. it's 24 degrees and we will have a lot of melting todthat's good news/bad news i guess. it could be slippery on the roads tomorrow. here we are as far as the total scope. it was five inches in greer. spartanburg was over 7.5. pickens was just over three inches. in georgia, the amounts ran the gamut from the mountains, almost nine inches to just a trace in livonia. here we are in asheville this morning, it's really cold but not as windy. that will make things much more comfortable for you today.a northerly wind at sign, that amounts to more of a chill in the air. that snow added up a little bit yesterday. mount mitchell is blowing everyone away with 19. it feels like 25. it's only 18 in spartanburg. it's 22 in anderson. tha

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pamela: 7:45. we look out this morning in asheville, fighting those clouds, but no rain. 44 degrees. comp conditions -- calm conditions. we have had some fog this morning. as far as the rain goes, most of us are in the clear. it picks up around 5:00. in the overnight hours, the heaviest rain will come through. there is a front, and ahead of it, the rain will come in. let's check things out. 43 in spartanburg. 44 in lawrence. fog this morning. woodruff, 44. we are all in the same boat. the rain will come through and some cold air for next week. we have had high pressure and northeasterly winds around with writing- riding up over it. a big blast will come in. the real heart of the system will go with the energy ----the real cold front itself will come through tomorrow. we will get some sunshine behind it tomorrow and quickly, some cold winds will kick in. we have had rain around phoenix. bitterly cold air moving into the northerly plains. temperatures will plummet. this will be the high temperature f

i'm kerry along with pamela. i was ready for it this morning and i got out there and was like it's not that bad. >> not at all. we have some over cast skies out there. some areas have a wintery mix but other locations too warm. boston in 39, we might experience some drizzle out there. norwood 40. we're in the mid 40s on the islands. where we're dealing with that wintery mix in the worcester hills you might find some slick spots on the roads. we have one little batch of a wintery mix moving towards 495. outside 495 that's the better potential to see some slick spots on the roads. bigger picture on satellite and radar showing another system moving our way giving us another potential for heavy downpours tomorrow. first visibility this morning reduced in some spots. worcester a quarter of a mile or less, 10 boston, marshfield 10. hour by hour forecast, you see the drizzle will stay be in place for this afternoon and temperatures will be in the mid 40s. warmer air tomorrow but dealing with heavy rain and wind. who has

once again for us cnn justice correspondent pamela brown, pamela, you're very busy. about these two men? >> well, these two men were here in the u.s. they were born in iraq, came here as refugees. one of them is 24-year-old omar al harden from houston and the other of sacramento. they had been living in the u.s. for several years and had apparently communicated with one another according to the fbi about linking up with terrorists in syria. now, both men are from iraq. they were born there. one of them actually immigrated from syria and then later returned to syria a year later after being in the u.s. to fight with terrorists that later joined isis. he was allowed back into the u.s. a year later. the other man from houston had a lawful permanent residency since 2011. he is charged with providing material support to isis john, these arrests come amid a heated debate about whether refugee screening in the u.s. is sufficient. mike mccaul held a press conference today saying these arrests show why the u.s. should clamp don oun letting refugees in from syria. the process

pamela is here now. i was a little concerned driving from the south shore. it. >> yes. >> it will take a while to dig yourselves out of there. we did have slightly more snow than expected. the big band moved a little bit farther to the north. in this one didn't she? those snow showers are all across the south coast. nothing too heavy. this is the last little bit of snow before we get sunshine out here. by 9:00 a.m. and beyond the snow is gone. temperatures in the upper 20s, low 30s. not warming up too much. but how much snow did we see? 4.5 inches of snow. 13.3 inches of snow. danielle has been monitoring the situation where we did have the jackpot snowfall. how is it out there? >> reporter: it's cold, pamela. it is a little chilly. from the north now. i have been reading gusts over 30 miles per hour. when that wind whips in it's so pasty down here. it is really a sticky wet snow. a lot of the poles, banisters, signs have the snow kind of plastered on. now it will be watching the coast sign. check out th

carrie. >>> all right pamela thank you very much. we do want to talk about some other questionable things with the forecast and timing rob gronkowski, yesterday he still officially listed as questionable for today's afternoon game against the chiefs. while the patriots are actually on a two-game losing streak the chiefs, they have not lost a game since the middle of october. and they are coming off a dominant 30-0 win over the texans bill belichick says the patriots have been getting ready for the chiefs not their winning streak. >> we can't control what the record was or wasn't o and 12, 12 and 0, 15 and 0, we don't have any control over that. all we can control is the team we try to do, try to prepare our team, don't worry about their record what it was or wasn't, worry about how many yards they gained or didn't gain, this week in kansas city. it is the same way we do against any other team we face, it is really not that hard. >>> only lineman tray jackson ruled out for today's game we'll take a look at some of the questionables. e

pamela: they actually got some offers, but they took down the listing. myra: it is a prayer heard around the world, literally. more than 1.3 million euros. pamela: after an upstate mother posted her toddler's bedtime >> even now kathryn whitt can't , help the smile that creeps upon her face. she just took it upon herself to say her prayers. who is that? >> on sunday, kathryn n d her husband recorded this video of of their two year old in her crib. the family got home late, didn't go through their normal bedtime routine, moments after putting sutton down, they heard noises, turned on the baby monitor, and watched through teary eyes. sutton not only thanked god for her family, but santa claus too, . wanting to spread the innocent kathryn posted the video on facebook, tagging relatives who were mentioned. it was shared and shared again, now being watched worldwide with more than 1.3 million views. >> she's done more in her two little years of life for jesus than i have in my whole 23 years of life. >> sutton isn't much for conversation with this camera, but

very nice person at the library of congress would go get them in the back room and pamela lived withthem a lot during the war, so there was a lot of close observation and they were quite close, clementina and pamela, so that was terrific. they had not been gone through before, but also she employed them very young and it she worked for the church shows, you became part of their family, so i can i cut wonderful insight to churchill's life and because they were clementina's and two or three of them had never been interviewed before and no one had bothered to track them down and talk to them and there was a lot, actually because it came from clementina's angle. files, transcripts and some of them had been closed and still no one had looked at them because it said clementina churchill and not winston churchill and all of this material gives great insight into him as well as it does to her, so i was fortunate in the more i felt at the more i realized it was also this new material, i mean, there it was in the fact that there was a blurb about how surprised she was. it was simply just looki

she says pamela was a loving mother. she greatly loved her daughter, she walked her daughter around down here where she lived at and she took her everywhere she wanted to go. the neighbor says pamela's daughter, who has down syndrome, would often spend time with her at her apararent in kelly acres. oh i loved her to death, she'd come over here and sit with me two and three hours at a time. she do anything, but she'd just sit and look at you. the neighbor says she was shocked to hear that on tuesday, pamela was arrested by spartanburg police -- accused of trying to poison and kill herself and her daughter. police reports say pamela told officers she was worried that when she died, no one would be able to take care of her daughter.she told me she was worried about, she didn't know who was going to take care of vicki. that's a worry to every mother, who's going to take care of their daughter like that i mean you don't want them in a home. john cocciolone with the greenville county disabilities and special needs board says t

pamela? >> long time in the making.red pleitgen, thank you. >>> my next guest is an iranian american journalist who spent 101 days in the same iranian prison as jason rezaian. r roxanna was arrested working on a book about iran and sentenced eight years for espionage. her charge and sentence were later reduced and she joins me for more. thank you for coming on to share your experience with us. it is hard to imagine what these americans must be going through. walk us through what it's like to realize you are free. what goes through your mind? >> pamela, you don't really accept or understand that you're free until you land in another country, outside of iran, and then you think, well, they can't take me back now. i really am free. i understood what ali rezaian was saying about his brother. that his brother was starved for information because he had been relying on iranian state-run tv in his cell for information. i just wanted to read everything i could about what was being said about me. it was surreal to see so much med

this is about half an hour. >> and we are back with pamela ? fletcher. she is with gmgm vehicles.he thank you so much for being here to talk about the future of electric cars. where does the technology stand right now? what progress has been made? >> i think the bolt ae that chevrolet introduced in las vegas is the perfect example of where does technology stand. what it represents is the first long range affordable battery 0 vehicle. more than 200er miles of pure x electric range. under $30,000. roomy, functional. the technology and connectivity that people haveve come to love and want in all their cars. >> how does theest: technology ? and how has it improved since ta firstrt introducing electric ca? >> we electric cars, the battery is obviously the part that gets the most attention. and at general motors, we have the largest battery lab at our engineering facility in warren, michigan. so capability like that, the lab will be available to, to find continue toin test and develop d evolve the technology and an working with suppliers and ant. partners and

pamela? >>> so far, we have dense fog but heavy rain is starting to push into southern portions of the viewing area. more heavy rain on the way, quite a washout this afternoon, plus the wind becomes very strong. we'll have the hour-by-hour timing in just a bit >>> first weather trivia time. "how much snow have we had so far in this winter in boston," specifically logan airport?" half an inch, .9 inches, 1.2- inches, or 2 inches? >>> well, go,, everyone. with both afc wild card games playing on saturday, the patriots didn't to wait to find foxborough, and it's the chiefs. the pats will host the chiefs saturday at 4:35, a game you can see on wbz. the game you saw last night, crazy. bengals hosting steelers in a physical and nasty matchup. 9-0 in the third quarter when roethlisberger find print for the 10-yard score. what an ask are bake catch. 15-0 steelers. they were looking good but burfict drives roethlisberger into the turf. he injures his shoulder on the play and would leave for x-rays but

pamela? >> here is some sweet weather on the way temperatures in the 40s today, this is going to be one of the cooler days we'll see highs in the 50s and close to 60 degrees in your seven day forecast. weather trivia time. the second question of the morning approximately how much of the heat energy from global warming goes into the ocean? a, 10%, b, 30%, or 90%? hmm hmm hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm-hmm let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together [ cheering ] i've got some real estate here in my bag counting the cars on the new jersey turnpike [ cheers and applause ] all come to look for america all come to look for america all come to look for america i'm bernie sanders, and i approve this message. mom! baby! i love that we're spending the weekend together. oh, i know! hey, why don't you turn off your phone and all your stuff? good idea. it's off. mom? oh, my internet is so slow when did you like want to dot something? need more bandwidth for all your devices? switch to fios fo

kerry. >> all right, pamela. thank you. >>> and checking our top stories, the largest powerball drawing in history is just a few hours away. up for grabs, oh, just $800 million. and this week, we have heard all of the things that are likely to happen to you than a jackpot win, like getting hit by an asteroid and being elected president, giving birth to quadruplets without the help of fertility treatments, and being struck by lightning while drowning. and still, it's only $2. if you want to give it a shot, we'll have the winning numbers tonight on wbz news after the football game. >>> and a boston police officer shot in the line of duty is recovering this morning. the suspect and the gunman is in custody. the veteran officer with the department's drug unit was shot the police are trying to pull over 27-year-old grant headily in dorchester. he started shooting and officers returned fire and tackled hedly. >> a philadelphia police officer suffered serious injuries and is expected to survive after he was ambushed sit

i'm kerry, along with pamela. >> we're playing next time. >> we're playing again. we didn't win but there's always next time. >> yes, there is. >>> there's another day. if you plan to travel, it's not a good day because of the strong wind and a ton of rain as well. so far, here's the current radar picture locally and you can see a few showers on the south coast. more rain is heading from the southwest. here's the bigger picture as we zoom out. lightning tracker -- i put that on here because we anticipate the chance of a thunderstorm today, although lightning tracker updating. we had one lightning strike in this particular picture that and has gone away. the heavy rain will be the main concern for today as well as the wind. visibility reduced ahead of the rain with dense fog from boston, half mile or less. notice as we get past 8:00 10:00 a.m., heavy rain in boston, low-to-mid- 50s for highs. afternoon, soggy. rainy by 3:00 p.m. and beyond that, we'll keep the showers in, plus the wind will be a big concern here. we have wind advisories as well as high wind warnings

pamela gardner in for danielle niles. people have the day off because martin luther king day. >> relax and enjoy the beauty of the snowflakes. >> right. >> less cars on the road which is a good thing. >> if tough travel out there, this is going to last for the next couple hours. get to where you need to go. we will look live and local looks at radar. heaviest snow where it's starting to move in to downtown boston at this time and most of the snow concentrated around the coastline. temperatures in the upper 20s and so we are dealing with some light and informy snow allowing for slightly higher snow totalsthan if we had temperatures around freezing. boston came brag -- cambridge and all of the heavier snow is piling up and pushing towards the airport and we are awaiting the latest information with how much snow the airport has recorded. so far newton and watertown getting a heavy snow burst but heaviest snow pushing out. woburn get a down burst of snow and you could experience a gusty wind in the snow squalls as well. the h

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pamela? store with a chance of a few flurries, mostly sunny and high temperature of 38 degrees all though feeling more like 30 when you factor in the real feel temperature. we'll have colder air on the way when we'll have highs in the 20s coming up in your forecast first weather trivia time, a first question of the morning the diameter is 12,151- miles less than what two u.s. cities? d.c. to las vegas, chicago to new york city, boston to l.a., or seattle to miami? . >>> good morning everyone, a top winter classic day for the boston bruins and their fans, got smokes by the canadians, said it was probably the bruins playing their worst game at the worst time. sometimes just not meant to be, yesterday one of those days. the winter classic banner up with the past banners hoping to give the home team a lift. this one was montreal right from the get-go. up 2-0. into the net, the canadians did that on three after the bruins pulled within 3-1 early in the third, making it 4-1 on this breakaway all mo

pamela: it is cold this morning. most areas colder than yesterday , starting us out in the low 20's in the upstatespartanburg, you are only at 19 t9 right now. today, a nice warm up, into the sunshine will be melting the snow. myra: trader joe's is recalling its store-brand raw cashew pieces over possible salmonella contamination. the product was sent to stores in more than two dozen states. trader joe's is asking customers to throw out the cashews, or return them for a full refund. so far, no one has gotten sick. you can read more about the recall on the trader joe's website. everyone loves french fries and everyone loves chocolate. so, mcdonald's figured why not combine them? i'm wondering, why do that? they did it anyway. it is called the mcchoco potato. it has two types of chocolate sauces, dark and white. you don't have to hurry up and order them just yet because they are only available in japan. what a sweet laugh. to her, the concept of snow is a hilarious matter. this video was uploaded on friday, and has alr

i'm kerry along with pamela. kind of chilly this morning. >> temperatures around freezing in a lot of spots. overnight the standing water and what little snow accumulation we had out in has frozen to the roads. will help evaporate moisture and temperatures will be slightly above freezing later this afternoon. 33 in boston. nash wood 27. chat am 33. real feel temperatures in the 20s or teens for some. 26 degrees boston. you want to bund le up tight as you head out. temperatures not changing too much. satellite and radar shows two systems moving our way. the stronger system will actually pass just to the east of us offshore, giving us the chance for snow showers tonight. i'll have the hour-by-hour timing in just a few minutes and let you know how cold we'll be in your seven-day forecast. >> pamela, thank you. >>> the new england patriots playing in the afc championship game next weekend. streak of the kansas city chiefs. rob gronkowski had two touchdown catches. julian returned to spark the team with ten catches. >

i'm kerry connolly along with pamela gardner. the great temps heading right into the >> we'll have 50s on tap for the high tfz the next few days. -- temperatures the next few days. temperatures warmer than normal already. 39 boston. 42 taunton. overnight we had the southwest wind and clouds acting like a blanket to trap in daytime heat. keen, 30. nothing we can't handle as we check out the temperature change. we're running eight degrees warmer in boston compared to this time yesterday. ten degrees warmer in taunton. satellite and redar. >> you can see -- satellite and place. other than that, we're keeping afternoon. a few bursts of sunshine with a this afternoon. more heat on the way. when we could get close to 60 and tracking rain showers in just a few minutes. stories. boston medical center thanks to quick work of some nuns. the man was trapped for nearly two cutting. he cried out for help and was heard by a sister from the nearby mount saint mary's abby. >>> two teenagers accused of killing an everett man. he was shot and left

back to you. >> pamela thanks very much. now at noon investigators are trying to figure out what sparked an overnight fire in groton that killed two people inside the home. nicole jacobs reports. taking a closer look at the charred remains you can see how intense the fire was. tucked away on wiley street in groton a little red house many on the rural street recall telling us off camera the couple once had horses and seeing the now charred home and the story behind it makes this day a sad one. >> during the course of the fire, we did discover that two fatalities had occurred. >> reporter: a deadly fire, the two people inside have not officially been identified. we know they were found on the first floor when crews arrived. along with the incredibly difficult conditions. >> due to the amount of fire and also the advance stages of fire the building was compromised and we weren't able to send firefighters inside to try to make any sort of rescue attempts. >> reporter: fire leaping from all front windows the chief says. crews fro

. >> hey pamela. >> hey definitely. and we were tracking what seemed to be a pretty big storm for us thankfully. saturday morning. and although showers get out just in time for kick off. couldn't have worked it out any better for you. temperatures this morning in the 20s and we have nothing falling from the sky. aid dry start 27 degrees in boston and we are running warmer in most locations compared this time yesterday. 5 degrees warmer in boston. not quite as windy making it feel better. we will take it this time of the year. why not. 38 degrees for the lunch hour. peeks ofshoin and the clouds will rule most of the forecast today. by the drive home temperatures in the 30s and keeping it dry. rain moves in after midnight tonight and we could see wet snowflakes mixing in and who's more likely to see the snow and we will have the details the hour by hour timing of when the rain gets out of here in the seven-day forecast later on. traffic and weather together. >> reporter: i have a easy ride with a couple minor slow downs.