Was a cruel dictator. Antoinette live pictures from havana where it has been very solemn overnight. Good morning to you. Thank you so much for joining us. Just after 8 00 on this saturday, november 26. Im antoinette antonio. Doug im doug meehan. We will have more on Fidel Castros mark on the world in a moment. First we want to get to kelly ann who might what is behind you . Kelly ann that would be the fog were seeing for this morning. It is dense in spots. This is Downtown Boston where were ll seeing the buildings at this point. That fog is something thats rather strong, especially along the coastline. So you want to be careful with your travels for the next hour or two. That fog will eventually give way to gray skies for this afternoon. Temperatures right now in the upper 30s. Thats the case for much of our region. Its all about that fog as we are seeing visibilities significantly below that 1 4 mile mark, especially for Downtown Boston. That continues onto the north shore and really through the new see a dense fog advisory in effect. As we move throughout the forecast today, were keeping an eye on the potential for a few showers. Right now, were in the clear, but we do have a few showers barely skirting by as we move on the eastern portions of the cape and island and tracking whats next with showers to the west in the pipeline. Doug and antoinette, ill have a look at the track. Doug kelly ann, thank you. Breaking news, the world reacting this morning to the death of former cuban president fidel castro. Antoinette castros cubas current president , raul castro, announcing his brothers death saying he will be cremated this morning. A funeral will be held sunday, december 4, followed by a period of public mourning. Fidel castro was one of the longest serving heads of state in cuba. He was selfappointed president for life, banning free speech, freedom of assembly as well as a free press. Hes responsible for thousands of executions and incarcerations of political opponents. On january 1, new years day, back in 1959. Overthrowing a dictatorship that had been in power for a quarter of a century, promising cubas citizens a new future, sharing the countrys wealth with its poorest citizens. April 16, 1961, castro declares cuba a socialist state. What would follow . The bay of pigs, washingtons ban on all cuban imports, and decades later, the fall of the soviet union crippling the countrys economy. He years, formally resigning on february 19, 2008, giving power to his brother raul. His resignation only coming after he underwent intestinal surgery tied to a still unknown health issue. He would not be seen in public for four years. Antoinette as you know, we are entering a new era in cubau. S. Relations. In march, president obama became the first sitting u. S. President to visit the communist nation in cuba in 2014, ending more than 50 years of tensions. Fidel castro, a critic of these recent changes. Castro commenting on president obamas trip to the country saying in a letter to state media, we dont need the empire to give us any presents. President obama did not meet with fidel castro during that visit. He did, however, meet with raul castro several times. Doug meanwhile, news of castros death triggering this is in little havana. People filling the streets, waving flags and dancing. Miami, as you know, has a large cuban population. Continuing coverage of this mornings breaking news as it develops here on the eyeopener and count on the wcvb app for the latest information. And if youre just joining us now, longtime cuban leader fidel route 9 in framingham sending a pedestrian to the hospital. The eyeopeners Julie Loncich explains what happens and has a warning for those who live in that area. Reporter police say the 50yearold woman had left the walgreens when she attempted to cross busy route 9 in framingham just before 6 00. Police say the framingham woman had an armful of groceries when she was hit by this honda accord. Pulling out and driving around. We were trying to figure out what was going. Then i realized there was a person on the ground. Reporter the victim was conscious but rushed to umass memorial, where doctors determined she sustained a skull fracture. Police say her injuries do not appear to be lifethreatening. Residents in a nearby Apartment Building say pedestrians frequently attempt to beat the traffic here. A lot of people do cross over when its red, a lot. Its sad. Its sad to hear. Its very sad to hear. Reporter the driver remained on scene. He is cooperative. Face any charges. The victims name is being withheld. In framingham, Julie Loncich, Wcvb Newscenter 5. Antoinette an Investigation Underway after a rock outside a school in harvard, massachusetts, has been vandalized. That rock at the Broomfield School was covered with swastikas as well as racist, sexist and homophobic slurs. It was discovered yesterday morning. According to the lowell sun, one of the swastikas is covering the star of david. A report was filed with police, d they plan to take action, intensifying efforts to include tolerance in the schools curriculum. Doug st. Anthonys shrine is asking for the publics help to catch a vandalism suspect. The shrine says this is that suspect. Its believed he vandalized the first floor and stole sound equipment and keys. A kiosk ripped off the wall. The crime happening early yesterday morning between 4 00 and 6 00. Anybody with information is being asked to contact boston caught on camera. This morning, police in newton have charged this man they say robbed a gas station last week. 33yearold Matthew Skinner from newton walked into Police Headquarters yesterday morning turning himself in. The Surveillance Video youre watching shows him storming into that gulf station armed with a long gun. Nobody was hurt. Friends are reacting this morning to the death of a young man in a wrongway crash on thanksgiving morning. State police say James Keating was going north in the southbound lanes of 495 in plainville when he crashed into an s. U. V. The 22yearold from norton died. He was a Football Player at bridgewater state. Childhood friends are remembering the young man they knew so well. He always had a smile on his face. He was always having fun. I couldnt say anything bad if i tried. I feel horrible for his family at a time like this. Antoinette the other driver, a woman from barnstable, was taken to Rhode Island Hospital with serious injuries. Doug big additions to announcing two more names to his administration. Donald mcgahn is named white house counsel. Hell help separate trumps duties as president from his global businesses, trump telling the New York Times he can do both all at once. Trump naming k. T. Mcfarland as his Deputy National security advisor, serving as a former aide to henry kissinger. Those appointments come amid internal trump team division, the sides split between mitt romney and Rudy Giuliani as giuliani saying he wouldnt discuss the selection. Jill stein getting her wish, a recount in wisconsin. The Green Party Candidate made the request after raising more than 5 million. Her Campaign Says it plans to file for recounts in pennsylvania and michigan as well. The deadline to file in pennsylvania is monday. Hillary clinton is behind in those three states by a combined 103,000 votes. Ignored, all of them centered around that driver who was behind the wheel in a Fatal School Bus crash in tennessee. Police say Johnthony Walker was speeding when he crashed the bus, killing six children earlier this week. Both students and administrators had raised concerns about him in the weeks before that crash. Records released by the School District showing several complaints about his erratic driving. One student writing earlier this month, quote, we nd charges of vehicular homicide. Doug 8 09 right now. Can you hear it . Sigh of relief from patriots nation. Tom brady returning to the practice field on friday. He missed practice two days following that win in san francisco. While he was back out there yesterday, he is still listed as questionable for his potential 200th win. But whos counting . Coach belichick says brady will be listed on that Injury Report tomorrow. Antoinette maybe he just needed doug giselle is an excellent cook. Brady doing the cooking. Never mind. I did. I watched. I looked. Doug a special request for jetblue. Antoinette state lawmakers asking the company to make their planes more quiet. Well have the response right now from the airline. Doug an abducted mother reunited with her family and this morning were hearing from that family as the search for the suspects continue. Kelly ann . Kelly ann another cool day in store for us. Where will the rain fall . A look at the forecast coming up. Antoinette if youre just waking up this morning, we are following that breaking news coming out of cuba this morning. Former leader fidel castro is dead. This photo, the last public image of castro when he met with the president of vietnam on november 15. Continuing coverage on air, kelly ann your 12hour forecast, starting near 40 we continue through the afternoon. Clouds are thick. But the shower chances are looking scant. So dont be surprised if you miss out on that rain completely, because at this point a lot of that rain will stay confined well off to the coast and really as we move down south as well. Those clouds will stick around until we clear tomorrow morning. Clouds are in place. Rainfall mainly tracking into the cape and islands, and were massachusetts, which as it initially approaches will move in cool enough where we could see snow mixing in for the highest mountains of the berkshires. Not going to see that for much of the region. As that pushes eastward, that initial batch of rainfall will weakens. So were seeing a few spot showers trying to make their way through the afternoon. Much of the region seeing a lot of dry opportunities today despite those heavy clouds that are sticking around. Moving into the forecast tonight, its mainly dry. We do eventuall they push off the coast. That means the breeze will kick off and well see temperatures stay rather cool and still in the 40s. 48degree high expected for boston. Mid 40s through much of the coast as we move inland, though, a few upper 30s cant be ruled out with pittsfield about 39 degrees. Sevenday forecast is looking cool through the rest of the weekend. Were moving toward next week we have a jet pattern thats allowing for warm air to push in from the south, so warming us for the midweek, but theres a price to pay, and that price will be the chance of showers moving in by late tuesday evening, sticking around through much of the late portion of the sevenday forecast. Those showers stick around with temperatures in the 50s, but that also means that were kicking off the month of december at 54 degrees on thursday. So, doug and antoinette, very strange pattern. Eventually well dry out by next friday. Thank you. Time is 8 18. Other stories were tracking, state lawmakers with a special request for jetblue. Doug this is all over noise complaints. Members of the states congressional delegation asking jetblue in install the older planes with noise reducing equipment. The hope being the descent into logan would be less disruptive. Jetblue will respond after a necessary changes. Antoinette a warning for patients of a massachusetts hospital. Personal information of more than 1700 patients of Berkshire Medical Center have been compromised. The information was on thumb drives found and recovered from a former employee of an outside service vendor. That vendor based in delaware says theres no indication the personal data was misused. The information did not include Social Security numbers or any insurance information. Doug right now, a police with a skateboard and this is no joke. The officer is listed in Critical Condition with traumatic head injuries. The suspect was arrested and according to police has a lengthy criminal history. The police chief saying in a statement that his thoughts and prayers are with that officers family. He is a husband and a father of two. Announcer now heres Josh Brogadir with sportscenter 5 powered by xfinity. Josh two teams, one day, but two losses at the garden. Bs not the start they wanted. Sam bennett with a rush to the net. His fifth goal of the season. 10 flames in the first. Bruins havent been able to score many goals of late, but theres a commotion in front. David pasternak going to get his 12th goal of the season ties it 11 in the third. Bruins with a chance. Back to the scoring, but the wrong team. Alex chiasson past anton 21 final. Bruins lose their Third Straight and four of five. Celtics hosting the spurs. Close game in the fourth quarter. Kawhi leonard the spin through the parking lot for two. Spurs lead 10094. Then later in the fourth, Isaiah Thomas has really been the m. V. P. Of this team, i think. From the corner, he had 24 points. Three of them here. Celtics within three. But patty mills all on his own. The d wasnt there at the very end. Brady back on the field yesterday after missing two straight practices. Patriots jets on sunday. Im Josh Brogadir. Have a great day doug all right. Josh, thank you. This mornings 5 for good, the tireless efforts of a newtonbased group reaching the most remote parts of haiti. Antoinette as Erika Tarantal explains, thousands are still waiting for the first signs of help after hurricane matthew. Erika lines out the door. So many sick, hu this is the scene every day at st. Boniface hospital two months since hurricane matthew. Most of the time we have over 500 patients in our waiting room. Erika the doctor updating us from the only fully functioning hospital in the hardest hit southern peninsula. One pressing fear cholera. The storm tore apart haitis water is scarce. You go to a village and they just have rain water. People hear haiti and disaster and have heard it before. Erika connor lived in haiti through the 2007 earthquake. Heading up st. Boniface, he implores people to pay attention, saying the tragedies are similar in scope. The same people were affected, 1. 5 million pe the big difference is the ongoing issue people are confronting. Over 90 of crops are destroyed. Its in a much more rural, isolated part of the country. And so the devastation is definitely different from the earthquake, but in many ways comparable in terms of a longterm effect. Erika to address this, st. Boniface has gone mobile to reach the desperate population. Already, theyve vaccinated some shapiro says theyre opening a new Surgery Center but the ability to do this lifesaving work hinges on others. In my opinion, for our organization, this is our largest challenge. Weve gotten a lot of support and will need more support from those in the boston area to confront that challenge. Erika charities report a fatigue in giving to haiti, but as you can see, the need is greater than ever. St. Boniface saying theyve never seen demand like this. Theyre 25 over capacity. Erika nt doug its amazing when you see those aerials. 8 23 is your time on this saturday morning. No surprise to anybody. Boston traffic can be a nightmare. Antoinette yes, some spots are worse than others. The worst bottleneck areas and were staying on top of breaking news out of cuba this morning. Fidel castro is dead at the age of 90. He, of course, was known for ruling with an iron fist. The selfappointed president banning free speech, freedom of kelly ann the main concern as youre heading out this morning is some of the dense fog which has developed a problem along the coastline. High travel impacts early this morning. As we head into the late morning, well see coastal showers start to develop, weak as they move through, and eventually by tonight, we see more dry opportunities as we clear out heading into your see temperatures staying relatively mild in the 40s, eventually, doug and antoinette, by next week, were warming up into the 50s. Antoinette thank you. Thousands of people travel on 93 every day and they know traffic can be absolutely horrible. Doug yeah, good times. Researchers are agreeing. Massachusetts has three of the nations worth bottlenecks according to a new report from the highway users alliance. The worst is on i93 from the zakim bridge through the oneill tunnel to th and quincy also made the list of 50 trouble spots. And the third local trouble spot is on the mass pike going through the Fort Point Channel tunnel. 8 27 is your time. We continue to follow breaking news out of cuba. Fidel castro is dead at 90. Antoinette his brother making announcer now on newscenter 5 eyeopener antoinette breaking news this morning. Cubas former president fidel castro is dead at the age of 90. Details overnight on Fidel Castros death. Kelly ann a cloudy start to your weekend but sunshine is on the way, plus the next chance of rain moving in this week. Doug what about the snow . How much will we get this winter . The big question answered by a weather guru. Antoinette the Movie Reviews this morning from the reallife announcer youre watching wcvb, bostons news leader. Good morning. This is newscenter 5s eyeopener. Its a moment that weve been waiting for for more than 55 yoors. Year. We are free at last. Doug the Cuban Community castro is dead. The longtime leader passing away last night according to his brother. Antoinette and donald trump tweeting fidel castro is dead. Thanks for joining us. Im antoinette antonio. Doug im doug meehan along with Kelly Ann Cicalese who has a damp start. Fog. Kelly ann travel is troublesome. We had our own trouble trying to get to work. Doug i didnt know i was on 128. Kelly ann its true. Visibility below 1 4 mile, especially along the coastline. So that is why we definitely have travel advisories for this morning. Dense fog advisories, especially as youre moving from the New Hampshire sea coast northward. Thats where were seeing some of the worst of the fog right now. Thats not to say were not seeing it elsewhere. Downtown boston, light fog with our live look right now. Temperatures are now climbing into the upper 30s. So still snowing pretty chilly out there with clouds in is why temperatures are going to struggle to get out of the 40s this afternoon. Satellite radar showing the clouds moving through. Showers relatively quiet. A few light showers moving along the cape and islands. Were waiting for the next batch for later today. As you can see, temperatures are staying cool with those clouds in place. Doug and antoinette, we top out in the 40s this afternoon, but a warmup is headed our way soon. Antoinette kelly ann, thank you. Now back to that breaking news castro is dead. Doug castro widely known for ruling with an iron fist under a socialist regime. His brother, current president raul castro, making the announcement overnight on cuban tv from his office. He will be cremated this morning. His funeral scheduled for sunday, december 4, followed by a period of public mourning. Fidel castro born in cuba but fled to mexico as a young man only to return in 1956. He led a guerrilla war to take over that country. Castro promised democracy but o 50 years as a socialist. Thats something he never made an apology for. Heres a clip from a 1993 interview with abc news. I am not afraid of saying i am a communist. I am honored to be a communist and i hope i will be till the last breath. Doug in 2006, castro temporarily handed over power to his younger brother, raul. Antoinette news of castros death triggering celebrations in the streets of miami overnight in the rain. This was the scene in little havana. People filling the streets, waving flags, and dancing. Over his nearly half a century reign as cubas leader, there were more than 600 assassination attempts on castro. His wouldbe assassins alleged to have plotted to kill him in a variety of ways, i poisoning him, dosing his dive suit with fatal botulism and blowing him up during a speech. He is responsible for thousands of executions and incarcerations of his political opponents. Continuing coverage this morning of the breaking news as it develops here on the eyeopener and you can count on the wcvb news app for the latest information. If you are just joining us, longtime cuban leader fidel castro has passed away at the age of 90. A woman is recovering after she was hit by a car on a busy route 9. Antoinette it happened at 6 00 last night in framingham. The 50yearold woman was taken to the hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries. The driver did stay at the scene. No charges have been filed. Doug signs of hate on the campus of a school at harvard, massachusetts. A rock outside the Broomfield School covered with swastikas as well as racist, sexist and homophobic slurs. According to the lowell sun, one of the swastikas is covering the star of david. A report was filed with police. Antoinette a roxbury man accused of driving twice the legal limit when he slammed into a state police cruiser. This was the scene on 93 south on the bostonmilton line yesterday. The state trooper inside that cruiser was taken to the hospital with neck and back injuries. He is expected to be okay. The driver has been identified as reginald pyram. He is now being held on 5,000 bail. The boston man accused of before a judge friday. As the eyeopeners Todd Kazakiewich explains, the suspect says this is all a big mixup. Reporter 34yearold vincent weaks of dorchester showing little reaction during his arraignment for injuring four Boston Police officers with a car. He ran over four cops. All right. Were getting e. M. S. Over there. Reporter the incident happened early wednesday morning on stoughton street in dorchester. Police were responding to a call about a person with a gun. Weaks was behind the wheel of a officers approached, ordered him out. He allegedly refuses and reaches for the shifter to put the car in drive. Officers reach for the shifter too and the keys. The officers were reaching in the car. He drove off with the officers hanging onto the car. Reporter weaks allegedly drives into two other officers while hes escaping. All four officers are recovering from minor injuries. Weaks attorney argues police she indicates that he was at home when the incident allegedly occurred, so it could not be him. Reporter despite the claim that this is a mistaken identity case, some of the strongest evidence comes from weaks own sister, who heard about what happened here on stoughton street early wednesday morning, and she went to Police Telling detectives she rented the car involved and she rented it for him. Vincent weaks i 75,000 cash bail for this case and being held without bail pending a hearing regarding alleged probation violations for prior convictions on drug and assault charges. Todd kazakiewich, wcvb, newscenter 5. Doug todd, thank you. Another case of a car being used to assault a Boston Police officer. This happened at around 3 00 yesterday. Officers were called to the report of a domestic disturbance on julian street in dorchester. Police say a man was in that car talking to a woman standing on the outside. One of those officers was struck rolling onto the hood. The suspect, whose name has not been released, was arrested after crashing his car on i93 northbound near exit 16. The officer was taken to the hospital to get checked out. Hes since been released. You cant ignore it. We will not let you build this pipeline. Doug standing in solidarity with Standing Rock, protestors chained themselves to the entrance to the Downtown Crossing td bank yesterd investment in the Dakota Access pipeline. Td bank is a primary lender for that project on the Standing Rock reservation. Hundreds of demonstrators have been facing off with police in north dakota. Three protestors were arrested at the rally in boston. Antoinette the u. S. Army corps of engineers plans to take action to close the makeshift campground for the protestors by december 5 according to a letter sent to the leader of the land will be considered a trespasser and may be prosecuted. The letter also says anyone who stays on the land does so at his or her own risk. They lived through the horrors of the Boston Marathon bombing. Now local heroes are seeing themselves portrayed on the big screen for the first time. Doug the eyeopeners mary saladna has their early reviews of the new patriots day movie. They say half a Million People watch the Boston Marathon. Are you behaving yourself . Reporter the early critical reviews for Mark Wahlbergs patriots day are overwhelmingly positive, but its the opinion of the people who lived the bombing and the aftermath that wahlberg has always cared most about. I think Mark Wahlberg, the director, i think they went to Great Lengths to really get this down right. Reporter Watertown Police Sergeant Jeffery pugliese is good. He was shadowing me and trying to get my mannerisms down, my speech patterns. Reporter pugliese played a Critical Role in the watertown shootout. He came face to face with marathon bomber tamerlan tsarnaev. We were exchanging gunfire. And, you know, he misses me and im hitting him. And its afterwards, you go back and you look at that house, and you see all the bullet holes. Reporter pugliese says the filmmakers got the watertown scene right. It was explosive and violent. He says other events were also depicted faithfully, from the showdown in the boat to the joint f. B. I. Police Investigation and the bombing itself. Was it hard to watch all that again . It was. Honestly, it brought back a lot of emotion. Reporter Boston Police commissioner is also giving the film high marks for respect and sensitivity. Throughout the whole process, they were concerned how it would play out. Every inch of this city is were shutting it down. Reporter mary saladna, Wcvb Newscenter 5. Doug its still hard to watch at times. Patriots day opens in select cities, including boston, on december 21. It will be showing nationwide on january 13. Antoinette it being a big hollywood movie, it gets people in theaters, but its nice that Mark Wahlberg did it right. Doug shifting gears, wallet feeling lighter after black friday . Antoinette youre in luck. Maybe. Doug please tell me im in luck. Antoinette just how much tonights Powerball Jackpot is worth. Doug and no luck here. Winter is on the way. So how much snow can we expect . Well let you know what our weather guru says. Kelly ann . Kelly ann sunshine is coming, but temps are staying cool today. The timeline on when it warms back up into the 50s. Antoinette breaking news out of cuba this morning. Well have continuing coverage doug welcome back. Were following that breaking news of the morning. Cubas longtime leader fidel weve learned his funeral will be sunday, december 4, followed by a period of public mourning. Fidel castro has been in poor health for years. He was 90 years old. Continuing coverage all morning long for you on air, online, and on our wcvb mobile news app. Antoinette we have learned beloved tv mom Florence Henderson died of heart failure. He was 82 years old, best known at carol brady, the mother on the 1970s tv sitcom the brady bunch. Its the question how much snow are we going to get this winter . Our weather guru, judah cohen, sees the signs. Hes the director of seasonal forecasting at atmospheric and Environmental Research in lexington. By studying the snow cover in siberia, he estimates well see 75 inches in boston this season. Thats about 30 inches above normal. Cohen says Climate Change could the warm arctic decreases the ice, but also makes more moisture available, and we get these snow blitzes across siberia. Thats where we get these more severe Winter Weather episodes. I think its all connected. Antoinette he also says we could see outbreaks of those severe cold snaps like when we set a record with 9 below in boston on valentines day. Doug well, looking on a brighter side of that, we really do need antoinette we do. Doug we do need the water. Antoinette all 75 inches. Doug we dont need the 9 degrees below zero but we need the water. Kelly ann speaking of needed water, we have a chance of spot showers, more so into next week. Thats when we get good rainfall heading into the area. Were looking forward to that. Thats going to bring a warmup as well. Things are looking up. Heres a look at what were seeing right now, because right now, although the rain isnt quite as prevalent, we have a Downtown Boston, were seeing some improvement just within the last hour. Weve gone from 1 4 mile visibility up to 2 miles. That is starting to improve. Worcester at 10 miles. Thats where were seeing the clearest of conditions. Starting to see as youre moving to the cape where the worst fog is as you move from the north shore through the New Hampshire sea coast and toward maine where theres still a dense fog advisory in effect for this morning. Temperatures as youre heading out right now are mainly in the starting to lift, were seeing start of us starting to cross into the 30s. Springfield at 38 degrees. Our satellite radar imagery is relatively dry for the bulk of our region. Were kind of the cream in the oreo cookie. We have the rain to the east and rain to the west. Were smack dab in the middle waiting for that rain to try to break into our area. Nantucket. Outside of that, the rain is in new york and that will skirt by in the late morning to afternoon forecast. So were watching a storm system, and because it is following such an easterly track, youre heading out today, expect a sprinkle or two. But its that cloudiness thats going to be impacting your forecast this afternoon. And also the dampness as well. Moving into the forecast showers moving off the coastline. Were getting in on drier conditions. But the price to pay will be some breezy conditions that push into the area as well. Tomorrow well see winds occasionally up to about 15 Miles Per Hour gusting near 20. And so thats going to make those 40s that are expected yet again tomorrow afternoon feel like theyre in the 30s for many spots. For todays highs, were hitting a high of 48 degrees in boston, marshfield and boston. Massachusetts, thats where we see a few upper 30s on the board. Thats something well see as we head into tomorrow as well. Sevenday forecast, were drying out into your sunday. Monday, brighter. We start to see things warming up. But with that warmup were seeing some showers heading our way. We actually have a system moving in from the west helping to bring that warmth in from the south initially with a warm front, but eventually that cold front pushes through, brings those showers into the area. Well be tracking that from thursday. And, yes, thursday is the first day of december, and look at that, we are seeing temperatures well into the 50s, doug. So a very strange pattern as were kicking off the next mo month. Doug i love how you dropped in dessert in your forecast. Thank you, kelly ann. Programs perhaps many of you are busy putting up the christmas tree. I met a local man whose family has been in the business for my familys been selling christmas over 60 years. Doug nino lambert and his Family Business of the same name is ready for all of santas helpers that will be descending helpers that will be descending upon their 10 locations around the state. And theyre prepared for it. A seemingly endless amount of trees stand at the ready. Just to give you an idea of how many trees were talking about, this is all one truckload, 1,000 trees coming in from quebec, canada. The wreaths are ready as well. Theyre already waist deep in them. Nearly a dozen trees already sold before that thanksgiving turkey even hit the table. It was pretty funny. They came in with the santa hats and reindeer antlers. And theyre all excited. But its fun. Doug getting a bad tree is not fun. So nino has a few tips for finding the perfect tannenbaum. First, make sure its a fresh fraser fir thats flexible. You want to take the branch and bend it. If it snaps, stay away from it. Early, make sure that newly cut base sees water asap. In three hours, the sap can seal it shut. Even if youre not going to put it up, put it in a big bucket of water. The first day its going to soak up a ton of water. Over a gallon. Doug as far as fake or real . Is there really a choice . I dont know what youre thinking. You walk in the house. You smell it. I cant even imagine having a fake tree. Doug in short, to keep christmas reke antoinette i cant even show my face around here anymore. Doug come on. Shall we try it this year . I dont mean we, but i mean you. Antoinette are you going to get my tree . Water it every day . Doug ill get your tree. It doesnt have to be every day. Just the smell. Well get you one. Throw it in the back of your car. What the heck is this . Antoinette okay. Doug ill buy you two if we win the powerball ticket. We, like were buying together. The powerball ticket. Antoinette okay. Well, the powerball, getting back to that, tonights jackpot continues to grow. Its gone up to 403 million. Thats the cash value of nearly 244 million. So if youre buying a ticket, doug, good luck to you. Doug should i pick up one of those for you as well . Antoinette get my tree. My morning drink. Doug youre ready to go. 8 52 is your time right now. We continue to follow that breaking news from cuba. Former leader fidel castro is dead at antoinette his brother and current president making the announcement overnight. Antoinette 8 55. Were following breaking news from cuba this mo former cuban president fidel castro. Doug he was 90 years old. Hell be cremated this morning. The funeral will be december 4 followed by a period of public mourning. Antoinette news of castros death triggering celebrations in the streets of miami overnight. This was the scene in little havana. Into the Morning Hours waving flags and dancing. President elect donald trump tweeting this. Fidel castro is dead pope francis also reacting in a telegram to castros brother saying i express my sadness, i offer my prayers for his eternal rest. Doug in local news, a sign of tape on the campus of a school out in harvard, massachusetts. A rock covered with swastikas as well as racist, sexist one of those swastikas is covering the star of david. A report was filed with police. Antoinette time right now is 8 56. And it is still foggy and damp out there. Kelly ann thats the main concern initially this morning. As we head into the afternoon, its those gray skies that will lead to the chance of spot showers along the coastline. Temperatures today are topping out in the 40s. Tomorrow in the 40s again. But the good news is were trying out. Well see the sun break out. The patriots are going to be at theyll see sunny, dry, with highs approaching 50 degrees. Monday is sunny and dry before next rainfall on tuesday. Antoinette dont forget today, Small Business saturday. Go out and support your local businesses. Doug indeed. A great idea. So when youre out there, drive safe. Well see you back here tomorrow morning. Antoinette have a great day. Energy costs go up and down. At eversource, we dont like it any more than you do. It doesnt mean more money for us. It means that the market price of the energy we buy for you is changing. But were working to increase and the communities we serve. 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