Any travelers to keene, New Hampshire get ready for steady rain in those location. A lot of those heavy showers will weaken as they progress in boston 68 degrees and currently dry. Lets time out those showers with futurecast by 7 a. M. To the boston area and they will be weakening and i think they will be a little weaker than futurecast painting them by 9 a. M. They are really saving fast and noontime the last hour we will see any kind of drizzle out there. So this afternoon, your hourbyhour for west have clearing skies and upper 70s. Julie grauert up now with live drivetime traffic. Shiri julie good morning. So far so good. A lot of green on the traffic map. Expressway wide open. 128 moving along fine from dedham, needham. North of the pike no issues on route 1 and 93 south. Live drive times. 24 minutes on the pike eastbound from 495 to mass avenue. 8 minutes on the expressway. 20 minutes from 495 to the leverett connector. Happening today, a Boston Community center is reopening to ki
With the wet towns and city this afternoon. Shiri soaking from auburn and westward up 190 to gardner. Shades in yellows and orange he can extending to rindge New Hampshire as well. That is the heaviest rain. Lightening up as you go eastward. The whole system will weaken toward bedford and boston, but it is on track to reach you folks around the 7 00 hour this morning. Around 7 in the boston area and continues to weaken as we go deep neither morning hours. By noontime, most of the showers will fade off the map. And then during the afternoon. Partial clearing. Highs inland in the upper 70s. Middle 70s at the coast and the cape. Julie grauert is back with an accident update and a little good news on the road. Julie yes improvement at the accidents right now, shiri. 24 northbound near route 23 in brockton and things starting to open up. Overall drive time not too problematic. Shift north, average speeds on the expressway 38 Miles Per Hour, but that will be slowing down the closer we get to
Gene power couple strengthening ties in another city. The new waterfront property they are reportedly buying. Gene good morning, everybody, it is august 2nd, thank you for being with us, im gene elizabeth im Elizabeth Hopkins in for sara underwood. Shiri spear is todays storm with todays showers. Gene hes right shiri lighter rain and worcester getting heavier rain, auburn, sudbury, clinton, shirley, leominster and extending into southwestern New Hampshire making way to mildford and lightens up as you patchy, lighter, almost drizzle out there, just north of the city, also as you head westward on the pike you will encounter the showers, but look at how it encloses on boston area. I say steadiest through 9 00 this morning and then it lightens up by latemorning, so here you have it, afternoon bringing clearing skies. Thats check on forecast for now. Lets get you over to Julie Grauert. She has the latest information on new accident. Julie accident on route 3 northbound, near route 139 in st
Police say theyve narrowed down the search but theyve not found the two remaining passengers. Weve also found kind of a debris field. We found different items that would have been inside the hotair balloon. This is very helpful for us in our search efforts, because now we have an area of concentration. And that appears to be the moment when youre seeing here what appears to be the moment when the burning basket fell away from the balloon. Weve got more on the accident now that happened just before 8 00 last night. Authorities say that hotair balloon participating in the midatlantic Balloon Festival near richmond drifted into power lines and caused the basket to burst into flames. The balloon then continued to fly away and that basket, as we saw, right here looking like a fireball in the night sky. The pictures are unbelievable. One witness reported hearing two people screaming as they jumped from that burning basket. And you could hear them screaming, please, dear god, sweet jeez sujes
The Federal Aviation Administration says a hot air balloon struck power lines before crashing to the ground over the weekend in northwestern Indiana. The pilot and the two passengers suffered