Harry granahan who was in the traffic. Police were blocking it so no one would hit the manhole cover and there was a steel i could imagine if it hit a car it would have it could hit a person and would do some serious damage. Reporter transportation officials insist its a rare situation but because it was so tragic they wont leave anything unchecked. Police have taken the drain cover into inspection to inspect it for defects or excessive wear or anything that might indicate it was not secured the way it should have been. Christina hager wbz. News now back to you wbznews, now back to you. The 35yearold caitlin clavette. For her colleagues and student its terrible loss. Beth germano is live in milt reporter well, a gifted and art teacher is how they describe her here. I spoke with the superintendentof schools in milton and she says the news hit very hard. This morning faculty were given the news and given time to process it and returned to the classrooms and continued with the studies whi
Cape anne at 4 1 2. Peter said the heaviest snow is falling boston logan at 2. 2 with likely a couple more in. At the least going to inches at least going to fall. Widespread one to three and here Plymouth County parts of the south shore could see 3 to 6 inches of additional snow if the band could be persistent into the evening. We will see ocean efent bands into tomorrow morning effect bands into tomorrow morning. Travel will improve because the winds will be less of an issue. Barry burbank is watching the storm from the studios and has an update on how things are progressing tonight. Thanks eric. Everybody lets look at whats going on for the tides in the Early Morning hours. Thats the next high tide cycle midnight. So between 10 p. M. And 2 a. M. Coastal flood advisory. That means there could be pockets of minor coastal flooding as opposed to the coastal Flood Warning which was up this morning causing areas of moderate coastal flooding we still have the wind blowing but its going to
We are trying to sort out the details of a minor accident. Minor except for the fact it involves one of the big political names in boston history. Now at about 1 this afternoon paramedics and police were summoned here to flint place war ford suv slammed into the front of the house from the the home former booster mayor flynn you can see the damage in the video. According to the statement flynn was driving the suv and was not hurt but the 76year old was taken to the hospital just as a precaution. We dont know what caused the mishap. Now flynn was the 52nd mayor from 1948 to 1993 when president ing about 19 1984 to 1993 when president clinton appointed him to the vatican. He has been active on local political scene interviewed many tombs by news crews and crossing party lines to support scott brown back in 2012. Private way as we come back here live, and some of the neighbors have sort of chased us off to the end of the street. Again, former boston mayor ray flynn involved in a minor acc
Topped 100 inches of snow in the city of boston last winter. It was the second coldest month recorded. This time around you know snow is above average this february. But today thunderstorms 60s and big difference in the weather. We will look at the last few days of february coming up in little bit. Lisa. All right thank you. New tonight, role reversal a Police Office here used to go after drug offenders is charged with the same crimes. Investigators say the officer was one of 4 people caught and arrested making a drug deal yesterday. Tonight he is out of jail but headed to treatment beth german yoi is live where he er germano is live where the officer faced a judge. Reporter the officers were neighborhood yesterday when they withinned a drug sale and one of the people buying pills from a street dealer think say turned out to be one of their own a salem Police Officer. His job is to uphold the law but 35yearold salem police the wrong side charged with drug possession after police say he
Morning as clavette headed southbound. Police say the cover labeled boston drain came from a hole just at the tunnel exit. After it hit, the car continued out into the left lane of the expressway. Eventually hitting a wall along the shoulder. We spoke with Terry Granahan who was in the rush hour traffic. The the state police were blocking us so no one would hit the manhole cover and theres steel i imagine if it hit the car it would have hate person it would do some serious damage. Reporter of course there are surveillance cameras all along the expressway and people are going through the footage particularly before this incident look for anything that might point to why that cover was not secured on the hole. In boston, Christina Hager wbz news paula david back to you. Thank you. Early this morning the womanwas killed was likely on her way to work. She was a teacher in milton is live with more on her life and who she is beth. Reporter you can well imagine how difficult it was to receive