Evening and that changed to rain and now just a little bit of very light stuff as you watch the radar. Youyou can tell these showers are moving away from glocester and march field so getting out of the picture here and that should be it. The clouds out there should start to break apart as we head to the afternoon hours. So call it mostly sunny later on this afternoon. At least eventually. Highs in the upper 40s for the cape and the island where we will get that influence from the cooler water temperatures but get away from the water well up into the 50s. Lower to mid 50s high temp for this afternoon. Very mild tonight. Our temperatures tonight more typical of what you would normally expect to find in the middle of the day. One more mild day tomorrow and then things get a little interesting as we head into the work week. 7 on 7 forecast is coming up in a few minutes. Thank you. We are following breaking news out of fall river this morning. Crews fighting a massive fire at a mill on weav
Going to be fixed tonight. Amtrak crews continue to work frantically on the switching system here that failed. Governor baker said it failed when something crashed in this gray building called tower one. That shorted the switching system that handles all Commuter Rail and trains coming into south station. Its just like a traffic signaling system or an air Traffic Control system. It tells you whether its okay for the trains to safely travel along the when this system particularly one goes out it has an enormous impact because trains cant get in and out of south station. As we all know, that is the main station for the southern part of the mbta Commuter Rail system. Reporter with amtrak switching systems the issue, some computers were willing to give the company a pass. The state. On the feds. Reporter workers have been manually operating the signals here but that is only happening a fraction of officials have given up on fixing the problem for tonights commute. Hoping to fix things for
The orange line is a mess. We crammed on and waited. Reporter t. Station, plasms and trains were jammed with passengers forced to finish their trip. I got off at downtown crossing. It was a half hour wait to get to the tunnel to get to the train. Im like im going to walk. Reporter governor baker says a system crash at this building labeled tower one shorted the switcher that direction trains coming into south station. Only a fraction could get in. The rest stopped short at stations where passengers would connect with the t. Some commuters credited the Commuter Rail plater with doing a better job of warning them. Theyre doing a better job being transparent about what to expect. Reporter with the big board showing lots of unknowns, operators are warning passengers to think we say to our passengers we get it. We know. We know you are frustrated. Were frustrated to. This is not the way we like to run the Commuter Rail service. Reporter a new problem here at south station tonight, the big b
That is streaming towards us. We start off partly sunny but we end up mostly cloudy. The breeze will pick up. Rain tonight to the north and for everyone overnight into tomorrow morning. Speaking of tomorrow morning, sal will be probably pretty busy. Put your feet up on the desk today and enjoy yourself. I hear what you are saying. Lets start off in the san jose area, southbound 280. We have a crash that is blocking most of the freeway. That is the noncommute direction, southbound 280. We do not have a big back up there. It is relatively early for the Santa Clara Valley but that crash is there. He will come up on it and you may be detour. Northbound 280 is going to be okay. The alternate would be Stevens Creek or some other side roads. Right now, southbound 280 there is a problem. Lets look at northbound 280 on the right. This is in san jose. The accident i just mentioned is not affecting the northbound direction which is what most people care about. Lets look at the bay bridge. You can
Unfortunately were not talking about a lot. Thats good. Tomorrow we will be. Tomorrow will be different. Right now it is quiet out there. Good morning, everyone. Lets go see what we have in the morning commute. Traffic is moving along nicely at the bay bridge toll plaza. A little bit of a backup and some of those liens. What you make it onto the bridge it looks good. Also looking at interstate 880. Traffic looks good if you are trying to catch a flight at the airport. Traffic looks good heading down to the airport. In san jose in the south bay, traffic looks good on 101, 85 and 280. Lets go back to the desk. New traffic signs are going up at a San Francisco intersection where a woman was killed last month. Alex savidge joins us live. Market and seventh to talk about the changes being made their. Reporter good morning. The mta has started to install these new signs. They put a few in already to make it clear to drivers that you cannot make a left turn from seventh street onto market at