We are so mckinnon. Thursday february 18th. We are so close to the weekend. You know when you wake up and think its friday. That happens to me every week. A little friday. And at least the weather is quiet a chilly start this morning. Temperatures will be about 10 degrees colder this afternoon, too. Compared to yesterday. 32 degrees in boston right now. Dew points in the 20s and wind out of the west at 8 Miles Per Hour creating a real feel. 25 degrees not too bad across the board. 25 in nashua. 27 in keene. 25 in worcester too and low to even middle 30s on the cape and islands. 30 in falmouth. 34 in chatham right now. We have scattered clouds this morning. Clouds from the cape back to the island and a few additional clouds across the interior. In and out of them during the course of the day today but plenty of sunshine. We will fall a few more degrees. Theres a cold front coming through right now. We dop to 26 on drop to 26 on average for the morning rush 32 by lunchtime. 20 Miles Per Hour gusting occasionally higher. So you can knock off 10 degrees. Thats what it is going to feel like. Real feel around 20 but quiet and dry for the ride home. Temperatures in the upper 20s and sunset at 5 20. We have another big warmup over the weekend. Thanks. A deadly house fire in plymouth now under investigation and this morning we have learned the house was about to be sold. State fire marshal and district torns office were investigating all night long. Neighbors tell us the home he belonged to a husband and wife with grown children. That fire broke out at the hole around 8 last night and you can see the intense huge flames. Fire crews from several communities responded. Neighbors say before the fire was out there was some concern about propane tanks near. She first heard like snap popping and smacking and she told me and than she saw the when she called the fire department. We really saw flames shoot and thought it was come out coming out of the house on the hill because we are across the street. Investigators have not released the name of the victim but that same neighbor tells us she believes the wife was not home at the time. A late night for the fbi combing through the contact on canton law office of senator brian joyce. The long time legislator is the target of an ethics investigation. Joyce has repeatedly denied wrongdoing. Governor is weighing in. Wbz ken macleod has more. Reporter no answer at the senators milton home as agents spent the 12th thundershower scouring the canton law office and the governor lamented the warning signs. I was troubled by some of the issues that were raised previously. Reporter he is talking about allegations many raised by the globe that brian joyce used his position as a veteran state senator to secure a decade of free dry cleaning and a discount shipment of designer sunglasses. Even used Campaign Funds to pay graduation party. The governor requested a state ethics probe but fbi and irs moved in. I had no idea what was going on i was surprised to see that it involved him because i thought he was a nice guy. Reporter joyce has denied the accusations and his attorney said its unfortunate that recent stories in the media appear to have sparked an investigation. Adding the senator believed he has done absolutely nothing wrong. Some republicans called on joyce to resign or at least step aside temporarily. But the governor is not biting. The voters ultimately get to make the call with respect to whether someone is allowed to tern to continue to serve on elect day and thats probably election day and thats probably as it should be. Reporter no one is say what the feds are look for but a day long swarm of agents boxing everything in sight hints as something more than dry cleaning and party favors. Its not something you want to hear or see about elected officials. Theres an investigation reporter joyce surrendered a couple leadership positions under some pressure. His Attorney Says he is cooperating with the feds and the feds are saying nothing. In canton, ken mcleod for wbz. President obama is planning to travel to cuba next month. The white house is expected to officially announce the trip today. He will be the first cities sitting president to visit. For the first time a National Poll shows ted cruz inching ahead of donald trump. The wall street journal nbc poll shows marco rubio in third. And a big endorsement for rubio in south carolina. Governor haley backing the florida senator and appearing with him on the campaign trail. Several other gop candidates field questions in a televised town hall. Political analyst jon keller takes a closer look at candidates contrasting styles for answering the questions. From china. Reporter trumps lead in the race reflects his keen eye for cutting edge issues and while his blunt answers can be cloupleaseers other responses like this one about apples refusal to help to hack a iphone is as vague. What do you do as far as changing laws to make. We will deal with the situation. Tech companies to comply with the needs of the company. We should force them to do it. I dont have a magic solution for it today. Reporter by contrast rubio often prefers to smoother questions with specific solutions. How do you deal with cutting costs for students but still maintaining a high quality of education. I have a bipartisan agendathe first is alternative acrediting. Reporter but like trump rubio prefers to change the subject. You said yesterday you got a candidate who sponsored a bill i supported to covelet running away from it. But president obama has no standing. Donald trump and marco rubio said you are liar. Are they lying about that . You know i got to say this is a strange election season. Reporter and ted cruz a bit of the best and worst of both rubio and trump. The aggressiveness of trump and the verbal agility of rubio he either one. So how many voters really care about a candidates command of detail and the directness of the answers . We are about to find out. Jon keller at large wbz this morning. In other news a man chfter New Hampshire manchester New Hampshire teacher is accused of smacking candy out of a stewed antihand leaving a mark on his wrist. That 14yearold student at South Side Middle School was allegedly disturbing the class while eating it and refusing to listen to the teacher. Lamay turned herself in yesterday and she is charged with sim approximately assault. Malden police say they found 36yearold colleen russells body monday night after going to her home for a wellbeing check. Its unclear how she was killed and no arrests have been made and police dont believe it wasa ram done attack. A long time employ random attack. A long Time Employee at bernie and phy l was killed. Michael hasett was hit by a delivery truck yesterday afternoon. The driver is a subcontractor who delivers furniture for the chain. Police are investigating. A new team of lawyers will handle the marathon bombers appeals. Attorneys for gentleman car tsarnaev filed Dzhokhar Tsarnaev filed papers asking them to be replaced with attorneys from new york and boulder colorado. This is standard in Death Penalty appeals and also ask for judy clark do to remain on the team. The mbta is taking steps smoke filled the station when two trains ran over a metal panel that fell on the tracks. Passengers climbed out of windows to escape. Luckily no one was hurt but now the mbta will inspect bolts and rifets every 8 or 9 weeks as part of each trains scheduled maintenance. If you wonder why theres a lot of lights out in the ted williams tunnel you are not alone. Is since a routine inspection uncovered structural problems with the lights last fall, massdot has been working to remove clean and reinstall lights but some drivers believe that project should be done by now. I thought it would is have been fixed with the amount of time but you know its surprising its not. Its just like total darkness and look if you look up close at the lights looks like theres wires or bungee place. And you know for 15 billion dollars its like the project held together with bubble gum. Transportation Officials Say the lights up now moat or the work should be finished by monday. Its about 4 40. Pet owners getting on board with amtraks new policy. Coming up, new rules and restrictions. Plus drunk giving gronk giving back. Charity event organized by him and his family. How you can can attend. A local College President letting loose. The spontaneous challenge that had him showing off dance kills. And the invention that could make cleaning up after meals faster if you have the appetite for it. Stay with us. 4 43 on your thur morning all aboard for your pets amtrak says its expanding a Pilot Program allowing rideers to bring small pets riders to bring mall pets. Small dogs and cats must be in carriers and animal and carrier combined cant weigh more than 20 pounds. Travelers will have to pay a 25 surcharge and pets will be allowed on the acela express routes on the weekends. Pretty good. There you go. Pet friendly ride. Good. Planes losing leg room but gang comfort and comcast is crediting customers for an outage. Shake up the cable industry. Jill wagner is live with todays money watch. Good morning jill. Reporter good morning. The fcc votes to whether to ban or letous use cable boxes from other than your provider. They said it would bring down costs. Companies like apple and amazon and roku could deliver cable directly to customers. Cable companies no surprise have lobbied against it. Comcast is offering customers credit for a Service Outage on monday. The company apologized to customers for a 90 minute outage. They say that affected customers could get credit to a days worth of service. And if airplanes are not crowded enough airbus wants to turn a row of airplane seats into a bench. There would be different ways to configure the seats and adjusting for people who are different sizes. And why wash dishes when you the edible spoon maker lets you bake crisp spoons and you can eat with the the meal and it comes with premade dough and takes about 3 minutes to bake and no word on how much it cost or when it will hit the market. Chris and kathryn. I am thinking you are trying to save from extra dishes but then you have to wash that saying baking the edible spoon. Didnt think about that i was thinking thats like a cheesy. Reporter i didnt think of that and thats more annoying thing to wash. I will wash the spoon. Pop it in the dishwasher. It was fun while it lasted. I thought that through did you see that. You did. You thought good long and hard about that. I am always thinking about the least amount of dishes i have to do the better. Now you know. If it doesnt fit in the dishwasher i dont use it. Danielle we have to check the weather on this thursday. And its pretty calm out for the moment. Its calm and quiet for the next couple days. This is remarkable. What a difference a day makes. Last year how can we forget. Bob and millis took this picture ready for this, look at the scene this year, you can see the shed the grass is out there and we have had a lot of melting over the last couple days a mild stretch with some of the warm temperatures that were earlier this week and, of course, we had a record warm start to the month as well. Now we have cooled off a bit. Today in fact we will be probably 10 to 15 degrees colder than it was yesterday afternoon. Its 25 in worcester right now. Same in nashua. 32 in boston. We will drop a couple more degrees between now and 7 a. M. And rebound into the 30s this afternoon. Theres a bit of a real feel touch of a breeze. The wind will be with us today. Real feel is 14 in worcester. 25 in boston. This is what you want to dress for because the winds will increase a bit and even though the temperatures dont go up that much the wind may gust over 20 Miles Per Hour occasionally a cold front is crossing the region right now. Not a lot of moisture. Thats about it. And we are in for a good amount of sunshine through the course of the the day today. Big area of High Pressure will lakes. One thing we may contend with this evening is ocean effect snow showers and flurries i dont think they amount to a lot. Maybe a dusting here or there but dont want you to be caught off guard. Tomorrow morning sunshine out of the gate. Looks like a beautiful start to friday. We get clouds late in the day and the wind is going to be very light too tomorrow, as the high builds overhead. So it will be a different feeling day not as chilly temperatures in the upper 30s and the clouds that come in late in the day tomorrow are a sign of a warm front. Lifting across Northern New England friday night and saturday morning. And that will bring a few inches of snow to the mountains of Northern New England changing over to rain showers. We may see an isolated shower on saturday but i think a lot of the day is going to be spent dry just a stray shower or two in the afternoon and the sun breaks out we come up 45 to 50 the weekend is look fantastic. Todays highs a little cooler than average actually. 33 in boston. Keep in mind we are 32 right now. So we may drop and come back up. Upper 20s in worcester today. Tonight we drop back into the teens. We will be chilly mainly clear skies except for the scattered clouds on the cape and a couple ocean effect snow showers. Tomorrow, upper 30s to right around 40 degrees. A little bit of a warming trend to end the week. 45 to 50 this weekend. Pat thely cloudy on sunday. Monday there may be a rain or snow shower early in the morning. We cool off through the middle part of the week and the next significant storm could come our way on wednesday and looks like its going to impact the entire east coast. Depending on the track of the storm looks like it will be mainly rain maybe some wintry mx across the interior. Chris back mix across the interior chris back to you. Ron gronkowski tomorrow he will set sail on bahamas cruise and Just Announced the gronk it will benefit the gronk nation youth four dane supporting local youth sports programs. Its hosted by Mercedes Benz of burlington on april 14th from 7 to 10 p. M. General admission tickets are 500 each and can be purchased at the gronk gala. Com. I bet it will be a lot of it will be. A new idea to revitalize city hall plaza. Anthem group which organize as events want to put up a restaurant and bar on the plaza. It would be a glass enclosed restaurant with seating for 500. In the winter it would be called the polar bar and would overlook an ice rink. In the summer it would be called city bistro. They presented the plans to city leaders yesterday. The president of Northeastern University making serious moves. During an event at the School Last Week he challenged noble peace prize laureate to a at first she refused because there was no music but to the delight of the crowd both leaders stood up and got down. There you go. They got moves. I like that. A little dance challenge. You have to love that. Dancing. Ahead on wbz this morning a harvard grad suing the university. She claims they didnt do enough to protect her after a Sexual Assault. Plus the bizarre connection between a Disney Cruise ship andinvestigation into a hacking competitive global economy, we need the besteducated workforce in the world. We should be making public colleges and universities tuitionfree. With a tax on wall street speculation. The taxpayers of this country it is time for them to start helping the middle class of this country. Im Bernie Sanders 4 52. Checking our top stories this morning. A deadly house fire in plymouth is under investigation. The fire broke out at the home on ellisville road around 8 last night. You can see huge flames here. Very intense. Fire crews from several communities responded. Neighbors tell us the home belongs to a husband and wife with grown children and the house was about to be sold. Nicole jacobs is on the scene and will have a live report coming up at 5. Some massachusetts republicans are calling for a state senator brian yois to resign. Yesterday, the fbi raided joyces law office in canton and they spent more than 12 hours searching files and removing boxes. Joyce is accused of using his position in the legislature for personal gain including years of free he dry cleaning and a claimfirst reported by the the boston globe. The fb hospital has been found after being rescued at sea by a Disney Cruise ship. Two years ago childrens was emboiled in a controversy. Justine was put into the hospitals custody because worries about her health. Many were angry over the case and the fbi says that included martin godsfeld and a short time later hackers knockout the Childrens Network for a week e was part of that attack as the fbi closed in on him, he vanished until yesterday. Thats when a Disney Cruise ship rescued he and his wife from a disabled sailboat near cuba. He was taken to shore and appeared in federal court yesterday. The search for missing man from the town of harvard is expanding. Yesterday dive teams went into Boston Harbor and the Charles River looking for any sign of zachary marr. The 22yearold disappeared after a night out with family and friends at boston bar last weekend. A man is being held without shooting outside the city limitssaloon in randolph yesterday morning. Gregory wright pleaded not guilty. Police say he shot and killed 23yearold scott drake. Drake had just participated in the bars open mic event. Investigators say the motive is still unclear. A recent harvard grad sexually assault on campus is now suing the school. Alyssa leader says harvard officials ignored her complaints aonly moved the accused attacker when he got she got a restraining order two years after the attack. One official encouraged her not to report the incident. I carried pepper spray in the halls of my own home. Harvard doesnt to admit they have a Sexual Assault problem. Harvard says they responds fairly to accusations of Sexual Assault. Today and the next several days work crews will be racing against time to try to get a school cleaned up before in haverhill a burst pipe flood the library. And two,000 2,000 books were destroyed and water soaked into the old asbestos fireproof material in the ceiling which specially trained workers. They hope to reopen the school by monday. Although the library will be sealed off for months. Not good there. What a mess. Responder. Dollars . The is second winners of the giant power ball jackpot come forward and share their plans welcome back. Florida winner of the can of the 1. 5 billion dollar jackpot have come forward david and 70 yearold Maureen Smith of mel bourn beach claimed the 328 Million Dollar prize yesterday. He wants a new car and she plans to get a massage. They say they also plan to help out family and donate to charity. Theres one more winner out there 8 tickets sold in california has yet to be claimed. She is like i want a massage you can get a lifetime of massages every day. Yep. Uncle david. Good to see you where have you been remember me. Aunt maureen. Calls. Your top stories traffic and weather ahead on wbz this morning. The news at 5 starts now. Developing right now a deadly fire in plymouth. The new details we are learning this morning. Plus an fbi raid in canton. Why a state senator is now the subject of an ethics investigation. And a new front runner in the race for president. The new poll numbers released plus the candidate picking up a key endorsement. From the channel 4 studios in boston, this is wbz this morning. Good morning to you. Thanks for waking up with us. Its 5 00 i am chris mckinnon. I am Kathryn Hauser thanks for being here on this thursday february 18th we like to call it little friday. And we have to check the forecast with danielle. Sounds like its going to be decent day. It will be a little chillier than yesterday by 10 to 15 degrees. But the sun will be shining. Boston right now sitting at 32 degrees. The dew points around 20 and the air is dry and wind out of the west at 13 Miles Per Hour. And the wind will be a factor today