Transcripts For WFXT FOX 25 Morning News 20160129

Catherine. Yes, this is the big picture right now. One where we have one disturbance over the great lakes. That is going to move in with snow later today. Another one offshore but the rain is barely even getting in. Where is the rain this morning . Just over nantucket. The rest of us are checking in nice and dry this morning and check out these temperatures, boston right now at 34 degrees. I have hyannis at 33. 33, bedford. 31 in fitchburg. 28 in keene, New Hampshire. Morning. The warmup will be a little slow but there will be a warmup today. At 6 00 this morning, i am still going to be watching the cape as well as nantucket for a couple of raindrops, but likely we are tapping into cloud cover here. Temperatures are going to sit where they are now, again, at 6 a. M. At noontime today, it is still cloudy out there but 38 degrees in boston. 40s over southeastern massachusetts and only the middle 30s back across keene and orange and for the afternoon into the early chance for very patchy light rain and snow showers. 36 to 42 for your highs today. Cool and cloudy. Kind of all day long, but the light snow is going to have a real tough time sticking. I will show you where to expect a dusting of snow coming up. But now, catherine parrotta, back over to you. Catherine all right. 4 02. Live drive time traffic right now. Start with that big map. You are doing very well at this early hour, 128, 93 from the north moving fine in both directions. A look at one of our live cameras, the mass pike. Some Police Lights flashing there but not impacting the traffic at all to the extent there is traffic. 24 minutes on the braintree split to the pike, 8 minutes. From 495 to the leverett connector, a 20minute ride for you. Breaking news groton, a fire consumes a home leaving nothing but just the frame. This was the scene when our photographer arrived just before 1 00 this morning. Two people were unaccounted for at this house. Fire fighters say heavy flames when crews first arrived. Pictures a neighbor gave us overnight. The fire is out now and the state Fire Marshals Office is on scene helping the Groton Fire Department with this developing news this morning, World Health Leaders say the zika virus is spreading explosively. That as massachusetts confirms the first case of the virus here. The Boston Public Health Commission Said the man con tracked the virus while traveling abroad. Health and leaders are telling pregnant women to avoid going to countries where the virus rampant because of birth defects linked to it. They are looking at the possibility that the virus spread through sexual contact in two separate cases. Up until now they said it was only spread through mosquitoes. The World Health Organization says zika is on the rampage. This virus has been on the move for some time. A lot of people have been posed continue to move is the expectation. Catherine the World Health Organization says 4,000 cases linked to birth defects in brazil just year alone. It is estimated 3 million to 4 Million People in the americas could be exposed to the virus in the next 12 months. Donald trump is heading back to New Hampshire today. He skipped the gop debate last night which gave other candidates a chance to make some news. Foxs joe waldman has highlights from the debate and what trump was doing instead. Before we get to the issues, lets address the elephant not in the room tonight. Reporter dominating the news cycle for months, donald trump was in the headlines again tonight, skipping the gop debate just as he said we do, but the billionaires promise became promising for some of his political rivals capitalizing on trumps absence by getting more face time for himself. I am a maniac, and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly, and ben, you are a terrible surgeon. [ laughter ] trump instead holding a counterrally three miles down the road in des moines raising money for veterans and no coincidence it began the exact same time that he would have been taking center stage at the debate. I didnt want to be here. I have to be honest. You have stick up for your rights. When you treated badly, you have to stick up for your rights. Reporter may have ignored the fox dram where, the fox moderators tried to bring the focus to the real issues sparking heated exchange. Did not support amnesty. You said earn path to citizenship is basically code for amnesty. You supported earned it absolutely has been. The time and context of that was 2008 and 2010. You have said we should not profile. How do you square that with the san bernandino case . Because you can do it without profiling, megan. You can do it on the facts. Reporter trumps event sold out quickly reportedly raising 5 million for veterans in washington, joe waldman, fox news. Up next, the eye caucuses. Fox25s blair miller will be in coverage. You can watch his live report starting sunday at 10 00. New this morning, a person is hurt after being hit by a car near boston college. It and around 9 30 last night at the corner of beacon and Hammond Street in Chestnut Hill Hammond Street in Chestnut Hill. Police told fox25 that the victim was in the cross walk when they were struck. The driver did stop. Take a look at this car, the driver narrowly escaped serious injury when parts of a fence flew through the window. The driving going down main street in norfolk when that person crashed into a fence sending a large dmooung the windshield. You can see all the damage on the front end and the windshield but luckily that driver walked away without scratch. Investigating a dual police that there was a shooting at the mayor of weymouths homes. There has been a shooting reported at address multiple shots fired. Catherine that call came in on wednesday and they are investigating a slew of fake bomb threats. The ongoing calls have residents concerned. Kind of a nuisance, you know kind of a nuisance, you know, you get them and you dont you dont know where where they originate from, and you dont know who is on the other end of the line. Catherine earlier this week shops and Grocery Stores in weymouth got similar calls followed a string of automated the state. A man is in jail accused of killing his estranged wife in front of their four young kids. This is developing on the fox25 news all day yesterday. Martin mcdonald is accused of killing his estranged wife julie meede by stabs her to death. He was arraigned yesterday. The oldest of their four children 11 years old called 911. After mcdonald left the murder scene, that 11yearold went to a neighbor for help. All upset. She had blood on her. You know, she she kept saying he killed her mother. Catherine police say that mcdonald crashed his fluke another car on 495 and told police he just killed his wife. He will be back in court for a probable cause hearing. The four kids are in dcf custody. The fbi has arrested a man accused of buying grenades and rockets from an undercover agent. Daniel muso was arrested. The fbi raided his homes in east kingston. Muso told the undercover agent that he was part of a group hope hoping to bring forth the original constitution. He is charged with violating federal firearms laws. A huge stash of drugs is off the streets this morning in boston. Police arrested 36yearold jerister garrero. They stopped his car and found a secret hiding spot under the central console that can only be accessed by flipping a switch. Heroin and 80 grams of cocaine heroin and 80 grams of cocaine. Guerro faces multiple charges. Police are two suspects in custody this morning in connection with a double shooting and stabbing in brookline, and they are still looking for two more people involved in this violence. Police say Carrie Wilcox of dorchester and Antonio Brown of cambridge and two other men stormed an apartment on st. Paul street wednesday looking for money. They entered the apartment with guns and the person living in the apartment attacked them with a knife. The fight escalated into gunfire and stabbings and three men were hurt including wilcox and brown. They were charged while they were their hospital beds yesterday. The two missing suspects are considered to be armed and dangerous. This morning we still dont know what caused a crash that sent 10 Elementary School students to the hospital. The kids were on a dunning Elementary School bus when it collided with a white sedan yesterday afternoon. It happened at the intersection of edgele road and lineman street in framingham. The students were sent to the hospital, but all only had minor injuries. They were leaving the hospital. I hit my head on metal. I saw a bunch students crying. They miss their mommy and dad. The school alerted parents about the crash right away. New this morning, south korean media reports say california man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for a deadly stabbing. According to a news agency, Arthur Patterson stabbed a south Korean University student at a seoul burger king. His friend was sentenced in that murder but a new investigation found patterson gift guilty. The mbta is suing amtrak because of service in the north corridor. Will would to pay because of use of the line. But in massachusetts, the t has owned the northeast corridor right away for 40 years. The t says those charges are a breach of contract. Weather every ten minutes. 4 10 on your friday morning. Drive times. Route 1 take you 13 minutes. 9 3 from the braintree flit spo the pike 9 minutes. And 95 to 495 connector, a 12 and 95 to 495 connector, a 12minute ride. Shiri. Shiri upper 20s to 30. 21 degrees. Mostly cloudy skies all morning long but, guys, the rain showers very, very limited and take you through it hour by hour and when to look for a couple of drops and flakes next. Passengers say Flight Attendant Flight Attendants were getting sick left and right. The mysterious outbreak that had an entire International Flight turn around. One of the Top Charities for veterans is facing tough questions of how they are spending their donations. Is justify after trying brookside crunchy clusters, carlybeyar tweeted at this point, i should just be a brookside chocolate ambassador. Well, i am sorry, carly. It s something you earn. Brookside. This morning, we are hearing from a hingham native recently freed from iran. Math knew trevicic was released after spending 40 chase in custody. He was one of five americans you freed. He was studying in iran but interrogators didnt believe thieves a student. Until now nobody knew what he had been accused of. I was accused of trying to overthrow personally the iranian state, personally trying to overthrow the iranian government. I was accused have access to Bank Accounts of millions of dollars and knowing location of weapons caches you put around the country to prepare for my catherine he said his last interrogation took place two hours before his release. The pentagon have Family Friendly initiative to make military career nor appealing. Extending maternity lead to 12 peeks weeks, but in doesnt benefit anyone. Fox25s kylea campbell has details washington. Reporter defense secretary Ash Carter Says one of the reasons people leave the military because their work conflicts with having a family. Women have have 12 weeks of fully paid maternity leave. It is an increase from six weeks, but a drop from the 18 weeks provided by the navy and marines. Carter said women in the navy and marines who are currently pregnant can still take 18 weeks leave. 12 weeks of that tern tee leave across all of the force establishes the right balance between offering a highly competitive leave policy while also maintaining the readiness of our total force. Reporter the pentagon is of paid ma person tee leave up to 10. The pentagon is add can mothers room to facilities that have 5 him. To getter to better accommodate breast to better accommodate breastfeeding mothers. The military said child care will be extended to 14 hours a day to better accommodate parents with demanding schedules. The pentagon says it will work with families who dont want to be transferred to another base next change, those members need to agree to additional active duty obligations. In washington d. C. , i am kylea camp bell. This morning the Wounded Warrior project says accusations against the charity are absurd and they are demand an apology. A network news report say the organization spent 60 of their donations on veterans. The report showed tax forms in 2014 that 26 million was sent on conferences and meeting some included day at a fivestar hotels. A spokesperson for Wounded Warriors say all of that money was on veterans and their Services Like Mental Health programs. 4 16 on your friday morning 4 16 on your friday morning. I want to give you a look at your live drive time traffic right now. Look at your map. There is plenty of green on it and zoom in south of the city. You can see the expressway 128 moving north, moving fine in that direction. A little sluggish moving south on the expressway as you approach quincy. Probably some roadwork. Something like that. Shifting west, the pike moving nine both directions. A look at pike. Two cars out there, perhaps three if you look really far in the distance. Smooth sailing for you. Drive times on the pike from 49 drive times on the pike from 495 to mass avenue, 12 minutes. The ted williams tunnel, 13 minutes. On the braintree split to the pike, an 8minute ride for you. Shiri, you say most of the weather we may be having our way will not affect us too much. Shiri the morning portion offshore and the afternoon portion can i be frank, a little bit windy out there. The thing we will find this morning is a bit of fog to worcester and travel to but rain and the snow will have travel plans. We have got two systems, one out in the ocean. I mean we are barely even getting clipped by that rain. The next one spreads in a light mix of snow inland and rain at the coastline. Here we have it, nantucket and looks like there is rain over place. Just checked the observations that were newly taken after 4 00 this morning and still going with cloudy skies. It is possible you are getting a couple of sprinkles but parts of the island certainly coming in dry. 40 in nantucket now. Obviously it will be warm enough for just plain rain. We dont have any icing concerns here, but check this out, you potentially got the risk for rain all day long. Just not going to amount to very much. Go somewhere to lawrence at 33 degrees. Right now, with those clouds. Dry weather expected throughout morning, but as we get into the afternoon, you see how there is both rain and snow in that forecast. The further inland you are anywhere, lets say west of 128 anywhere, lets say west of 128, 95, there is a potential but high temperatures are going to be a little too warm to actually get anything to stay, so at noontime today, it is still looking just simply like cloudy skies. A lot of moisture staying offshore and we have got our next front rolling in bringing western new england snow showers at lunchtime today. Best bet against central and eastern massachusetts and southern New Hampshire ends up being between 1 p. M. And 7 p. M. So 7 p. M. , we have a cup pockets of those snow showers out there. Not going to give us anymore than a dusting. But north of boston, we are likely going to be in the form of flurries if you get any of these evening snow showers out there. Waking up tomorrow morning, guys, to sunshine. Yesterdays system long gone. By 10 00 tonight, we wake up to the sun, but we see Building Clouds during the day tomorrow. Notice that there is some snow impacting just northern new england. Saturday night, and then by sunday, we are back on tap with partly cloudy skies, but we have got this giant warmup on the way. So today we get up to 39 in 41 in plymouth. 40 in bedford. And 36 in worcester. And you can see along the coast and you can see along the coastline, in the form of drizzle and rain showers and further inland, you have to knicks a couple of those snow. As for any kind of accumulation, you can see just not much out there. You almost have to go in the mountains to get it to stick here out into vermont. Locally we could see somewhere like worcester, perhaps Lawrence Beverly and portsmouth Lawrence Beverly and portsmouth, New Hampshire with a little dusting of snow with those passing flurries, but the best bet for any kind of weekend snow showers certainly will be out across northern new england. That the we are only getting a couple of inches even that way. The sevenday forecast for the weekend falls view, 42 tomorrow weekend falls view, 42 tomorrow. Followed by 47 on sunday. 50s are back next week. 52 with some showers on monday, and by wednesday, we have a solid soaker but that is our warmest day at 54. Back to you, catherine. Where a handful of protesters remain camped out at a wildlife refuge. Shootout from the group that left one person dead. Why the feds made these images public. It will set you back less than appear dollar at the Grocery Store but a simple a Mysterious Illness forces an American Airlines plane back to london. It was an hour into the flight when some passengers and crew became ill. Passengers said like nothing they have ever seen. We are on the plane and about two and a half hours into the plane into the plane ride, they ask if there is a doctor on board. I didnt think too much of it because, you know, i have been on planes with sick passengers before and a lot of commotion and they immediately threw the lights on and then maybe five minutes later they announced attendant Flight Attendants on board had either passed out or were too sick to fulfill their duty sick to fulfill their duties. Catherine passengers and crewmembers were evacuated evaluated by Health Officials and no one required immediate attention. They couldnt quite pinpoint what the incident was. Apple is recalling adapters. It could cause electrical shock. It was sold in europe and a number other countries. Apples world traveler kit is also affectno reports that power adapters sold in the u. S. Are being recalled. Big news from facebook this morning. Soon you will be able to do more than just like something. Facebook officials confirm that all users will get buttons for love, wow, angry, sad, halloween haha. Reaction buttons will be available in the u. S. In the next few weeks. And facebook may be treading on a ubers turf. Patent operation for a ride patent operation for a ridesharing feature was published yesterday. It will help users carpool to events and find people to take Public Transit with. The feature will map out the best routes to the event. The patent was filed in 2014 and yet to be approved. Well, how much would you pay for a print of a potato . This photograph was taken by celebrity photographer kevin abosh and sold at auction for abosh revealed that he sold a simple portrait of an organic irish potato. If the sale price is verified the 15th most expensive photo ever sold. Well, a video of a little boy reciting his abcs with his grandma this morning is going viral. You will see why. Take a look. U. U. V. V. W w w. W. Good job x. X. Catherine recute. John david from alabama has down syndrome and this video proves he is a typical little boy. Gotten more than 14 million views this morning. Good job getting that letter w. That is a tough one. Well, young patients with congenital Heart Defects show how brave they are. They started their stuff on the catwalk at the westin. The boston go red for women celebrated the lives of a dozen many of them were treated at bostons childrens hospital. Fox25s. Heather emceed that event. We are following breaking news groton. New video from the scene overnight. What we are learning at the scene about two people who may be unaccounted for. Plus, donald trump makes good on his promise to skip the gop debate. Ahead, the new caramel macchiato from dunkin donuts. Let handcrafted layers of espresso, milk, and a caramelflavored swirl uplift your mood. Indulge in a hot or iced macchiato today. America runs on dunkin. 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