Welcome to The World Today an hour of International News from the bbc. The former hollywood film producer, Harvey Weinstein, has had one of his convictions for rape overturned by new yorks highest court on the basis that he did not receive a fair trial. Its ordered a new hearing. Weinstein will remain in prison for a separate conviction for rape. Emma vardy begins our coverage. When one of the most powerful men in hollywood was charged with rape, it led to an outpouring over a culture of Sexual Assault and misogyny experienced by women around the world. A number of actresses came forward, accusing Harvey Weinstein of forcing them into sex, saying theyd been afraid to speak out, because of his ability to make or break careers. But now the Rape Conviction against Harvey Weinstein that sparked the so called me too movement has been overturned in a Shock Outcome in new york. The Court Of Appeal said prosecutors had called witnesses whose accusations were not part of the charges against him
In for david and matt pellman has traffic. Reporter you got to love the philly if phillie phanatic. Its cool out there, 48 degrees in slatington, 49 in quaker torn. 48 in coatsville, 47 in kennett square. I think these numbers will dip a little bit more this morning. 54 degrees currently in center city. On the cool side this morning you need the sweater or sweatshirt before you head out. 53 in south jersey and hammonton. 53 in vineland. 54 in cinnaminson and 56 in dover, delaware. We have a Beautiful Day ahead. Severe storms tore through yesterday. If youre dealing with cleanup, they are long gone. We have a quiet weather pattern for the next couple of days. Were talking bright sunshine, although temperatures are below average, it will feel good under a sunny skies. Wind relaxed, but we have the potential for Severe Weather in the sevenday forecast. Ill tell you when it can hit in a couple of minutes. Reporter we could use quiet, it was a nightmare getting home with downed trees around
Center timing out some storms. We are 20 minutes away from the sun coming up right now. And dark icons out there, but it is getting brighter. A beautiful start to the day. 65 in boston. 4 in lawrence over to beverly. 64 in plymouth. Lower 60s in worcester and national New Hampshire. Upper 60s across the outer cape. Quiet weather but this mass of clouds and storms is going to pass through this afternoon. What you will find here, your hourbyhour forecast for boston, 8 a. M. 70 degrees lunchtime at noon, 81. Here comes the clouds. We have increasing clouds during the afternoon leading to just after 4 p. M. , the threat for thunderstorms in and around the boston area and that is where we will drop temperatures. As the rain moves in, temperatures will cool. Up ahead of the rain, 84 to 88 degrees with those gusty afternoon storms. We will time them out hour by hour coming up. Julie grauert is here with weather and traffic every ten minutes. The 6 25 from readsville have been cancelled becaus
Severe weather possible for the afternoon. Fox25s shiri spear is in the Storm Tracker Weather Center to time out the storms. Shiri big turn around today. Nice and quiet and mild out here. A few 50s on the map. Spots like norwood in the upper 50s right now. Same in orange. Mostly low to mid60s in boston to the north shore and it is a pretty comfortable i want to say morning out there now. But you can see we have clouds and showers off to our north and west and that will be it is also a little sticky out there that is allowing for the warmer mornings and gets that summerlike feel to that hourbyhour forecast in boston. Notice 66 degrees at 7 a. M. With sun. By noontime, we will see increasing clouds and by 4, 5 00 we will be tracking that risk for strong to severe thunderstorms. Highs today, 784 to 88 degrees. Julie grauert is up now with live drive time traffic kicking things off north of the pike. Julie moving fast on the road things good route 1, 93 pike. Pike wide open from 495 to 128
And im mark ockerbloom. It happened in worcester. Ted, a witness told you the suspect actually threatened to chop off someones head. Well, Worcester Police are calling this a roadrage incident, mark and vanessa. They say the driver of the car pulled out a machete simply because another driver had slowed down to let students cross the near a high street near burncoat high school, cell phone video obtained by fox 25 shows a guy with a sharp blade and a sharp tongue. And i heard someone say [bleep] your head off. Reporter he lives across from where the road rage incident ended. Noticed and amid shorts and worcester and thats a machete in his hand. Police say he threatened the driver in the white car with the machete before punching the man in the chase. Becky sullivan says shes glad she pulled out of the neighborhood just minutes before it all began. This was a quiet nice neighborhood and people could feel safe. But you dont think we feel safe anymore. Alder riviera has been charged with