Ed we want to check in with Karen Anderson on the situation in merrimack. She is with the moderators. Give us the latest on merrimack. Karen the polls are still open one hour after they were supposed to close. Open because of the traffic problems. Many angry voters waiting for an hour in line to go a couple miles to get in here. We are joined now by len christianson, the town moderator. She is the woman in charge here right now. We are what is the latest year . Lynn w about to close the polls. E we are about to close the polls. Ed reporting that donald trump and Bernie Sanders have won the maria again, already projected trump. Ed these were the ones who had the larger numbers. Ap is saying they have both won. We are sorry for interrupting. Latest in merrimack. Christiansen lynn christiansen. One voter called this a traffic apocalypse. Lynn that is about right and we know it and we admit it. We changed the traffic pattern because past years we have had some congestion. Not huge but some
Investigators are trying to pinpoint what triggered the flames. President obama announcing an historic trip to cuba. He will become the first sitting president to do so in 70 years. First, those major delays on the Commuter Rail and mbta. A ripple effect. Todd is live where it all started. Problems are still lingering at this hour . Todd that is correct. Amtrak is still working to figure out what the problem is and repair the issue. At this hour, virtually every train coming or going from south asian is delayed south station is delayed. Normally, it arrives at 7 42. What time is it now . Todd 8 34. Yes, right. And they want to increase the fares. Todd outrage after get another slow commute. Station today. Passengers on other trains had to switch to disembark at other stations and take the subway or bus to get to south station. It took about an hour for a 20 minut trip. Todd some commuters walked between back bay and south station. They said they were not coming this way and the orange
Choice on who will become the republican and democratic nominee. Joining us today is james jennings, professor of emeritus cap tufts university, aaron o brien, professor of Political Science at humid boston, and paul weston on d, director of the institute for Asian American studies at the college of liberal arts also at umass boston. Let s jump right in. We have already seen the results in New Hampshire and iowa , but i wonder, these states are predominately white. Should they, in today s world, have so much influence, and immediate attention that comes along with it, in terms of picking president ial nominees . Should they . The answer is no. Do they . New hampshire and iowa is the American Election process on speed. The general election would set up a voting rules to discourage communities of color from voting. Iowa and New Hampshire put that on further display. Interest groups have undue influence. It is wildly unrepresentative, but it mirrors the way in which the general election i
S mike wankum. Look at that. Mica you probably didn t notice it this much this afternoon, we have a number of advisory warnings. That is a wind chill warning. The windchill the cave is in this windchill advisory. You talk about winchell s way below zero. This goes all the way back to the great lakes. This is some cold stuff in the east. Pittsburgh is already already don t five. Wurster down to one. We are still in the teens. Here is the windchill index. It feels like 23 degrees below zero. Record low temperatures. This will be the coldest night we had we have had in a decade. It is going to be brutally cold tomorrow morning. There is some improvement. There is some big improvement coming down the road. We will talk about those temperatures and when we flirt with 50 again. Reid as mike just told us we are looking at dangerous conditions tonight. Newscenter 5 s Nicole Estaphan is live in boston with some of the precautions you should take, nicole. Nicole it s cold out here, getting colde
Welcome to matter of fact. I m fernando espuelas. The president ial Campaign Among republicans has gone into full attack mode against the man they say is a lame duck, president barack obama. Republicans could mount an effort to stop any nominee he proposes for the Supreme Court. It s the political fallout from the death of justice antonin scalia. Politico s chief Investigative Reporter ken vogel knows the risks and rewards of the various strategies. Ken, welcome. Ken great to be with you. Fernando thank you so much. So how is the scalia replacement process, the nomination of a new justice, coloring the whole political system . Ken well, the Supreme Court has always been a top issue for the bases of the respective party, that is when president ial candidates, or Senate Candidates are running, they often use it to motivate their hardest core activists who are most cornered other lightning rod issues that are really often the purview of the base. However, in this situation, scalia s death