Course, where we have a soaking this weekend coming up. Julie grauert standing by with live drivetime traffic. Julie, a good time to hit the road julie julie yes, it is. The 5 a. M. Hour is when things are nice and quiet. Longfellow bridge longfellow bridge will be closed to all cars and vehicular traffic. And buses that start tonight at 11 p. M. To friday on 5 p. M. On mondays as they do work on the red line. I will be tweeting out those reminders as you plan the weekend. Route 1, 93 south moving along fine. Pike wide anticipate through hopkinton and the weston tolls and through brighton. 13 minutes on the pike from the weston tolls to the ted williams tunnel. 17 minutes on route 9 from 495 to speen street. 22 minutes from route 1 in peabody to the weston tolls. Sara and gene, back to you. Breaking news out of philadelphia right now, a Police Officer has been shot at pointblank range inside of his police car. The officer did fire back at the suspect hitting him multiple times. The sus
Areas especially prone, the north shore and the seacoast. Notice by noontime, you guys have that little bit of moisture on the map boston 39 degrees at lunch and to the south and east in the 40s my friends and during the afternoon hours we hold steady here. We dont see that much of a warmup until after lunchtime. 36 to 44 degrees. Increasing clouds. Also a chance for drizzle. I will show you when it starts to a more. Julie, how are things shaping up right is now in. Well, we are seeing a car being towed off the zakim bridge right now. A tow truck just arrived. A stall on the far right hand side of the northbound lane where all the flashing lights are. Within the next 15 minutes, i expect it to be cleared out and reopened. So we head over to the maps, things are moving along fine on route 1 and 93 south. Waiting for this accident to clear on 128 southbound right before the braintree split. The live drive times. 23 minutes on the pike from 495 16 minutes on the expressway from the braint
Early to tell but they can rule out anything suspicious. The fire marshal said they are winding down for the evening and they will come back here at 10 am, and they have to bring a bomb squad with the robot to get to this tube that is filled with potentially very dangerous chemicals. The explosion at dow chemical in North Andover was so powerful neighbors felt it. A loud boom and the house shook and my dog barked and i went outside to see if there was an accident. Reporter four workers were critically injured suffering from what hospital officials and burns. This is a chemical reactive to water and for some reason that will come out, this chemical reacted with water, which resulted in the explosion. Reporter the four employees were rushed to the hospital, the rest of the staff at the dow Chemical Plant were evacuated. Are you okay . Reporter the Hazardous Materials crew internet hours surveying the scene to make sure it was safe for investigators to get inside. Fire officials told thos
The soaking rain awrying sunday zmchlt 34 degreeings in boston. 42 in plymouth. Frosty start in the suburbs. We have more frost this morning. You can see the wind in city of boston 7 Miles Per Hour. East at 9 Miles Per Hour. Once that ocean air works in well warm up near 40 in the city of boston this afternoon. Further north and west temperatures running into the middle 30. Mainly dry this morning. I expect some patchy drizzle this afternoon. Low level moisture backing in across the ocean. As far as more clouds that will bring more moisture and more chances of drizzle beginning later on this afternoon. Even some patchy freezing drizzle deep inland later tonight and starting off tomorrow. Heres that soaking rain on sunday. Well have that coming up in a bit. Time for fast track traffic. Heres danielle gursh. Lets head outside and take a look at expressway. Still slow. Tree split into boston on expressway. That drive 24 minutes. The pike fine through frame ingham but then from 128 into bo
Meteorologist shiri spear joins us with what time things will start to go downhill. Shiri thats right, they start to go downhill today. Our big transition. 30 in boston. 28 in beverly. 28 in plymouth. Teens in norwood and bedford. 40 in chatham and already the clouds are leaking in off the water a trend that will continue this morning. We have 33 in boston at 6 a. M. Still teens and 20s in the burbs. See those clouds continue to push on in. By noontime, we will have to account for the chance for a little bit of drizzle coming in on that breeze as well. Temperaturewise, a lot of upper 30s, lower 40s by lunchtime. We stall out basically through the rest of the afternoon. We see blips of green from the north shore up into the seacoast of New Hampshire. 36 to 44 today. Increasing clouds. We will see freezing drizzle overnight. And one thing you have to watch out for this morning is a little bit of black ice. Julie shiri, you and i will be tag teaming on to make sure we see those specific s