When damage to the third rail caused the motored to overheat and smoke filled the platform. Passengers on another train were in such a panic then kicked out windows to escape. They actually found a piece of sheet metal and believe it caused the damage to the third rail to begin with. There was a lot of smoke, you know, people were kicking out the windows on the orange line. It was chaotic. It sounded like a bomb. People were really scared, they thought it was something happening. People were panicking, running around, breaking windows and trying to rip open the doors. Reporter service was disrupted for more than an hour, its since resumed, but theyre trying to figure out where the piece of sheet metal came from. Back to you. Thank you. To the other big story now. High wind and heavy rain taking down trees. Wires as well, triggering power problems for homeowners, in fact at one point it left thousands across the state in the dark. Some of worst damage was in wellesl y. And one unanimous
Reporter he has a long road to recovery. Police say delgado was in woburn at the office of a former employee trying to caught deal for money he stole. When police were alerted they say he became desperate because jail. He will be in court tomorrow. Thank you. The temperatures are changing and we have arctic air on the way. We are looking at incredibly cold weather. Wind chill watch in effect on saturday afternoon. Eric fisher is tracking the forecast and when does it get here. It arrives heading into saturday. Especially around lunchtime. Pretty cold in the meantime, before we get there. The core of it saturday and sunday. And the wind chill watch is out statewide. The wind chill may not be as low but the Weather Service may add that in as we head into the next 48 hours. Temperature wise tonight, falling back into the teens as part of berkshires in the Single Digits. A very cold thursday night. Some towns close to zero factoring in the wind zero to 10 below heading out and about. You s
Doug what a great name, too. Greyson. Everybody is healthy, feeling amazing. A little tired. Mom, dad, everybody is exhausted but doing great. You went over to the hospital yesterday. Danielle i did. He is so cute. Cuter in person. I want to say he was born during the eyeopener yesterday. 8 30 in the morning. Good timing. Lets talk about those temperatures outside this morning because were starting in the lower 30s in worcester, upper 30s boston and points south. Already in the mid 40s on nantucket. So you can tell its going to be a mild afternoon. A big key ingredient with this is those winds that are out of the south and west right now anywhere from 1020 miles an hour sustained. Were going to the low 50s in and around worcester, mid 50s through the Merrimack Valley. In boston the south shore, upper 40s on the cape, the islands i think seeing the lower 50s. There is some cloud cover out there this morning but those clouds should break apart this afternoon. It is a dry forecast for tod
John . John well, maria, he didnt think he would survive, so, yes, he is lucky to walk away a broken foot and ankle. The man who hit him. He is waned for several different crimes. The pain, i cannot describe the pain. John fred is recovering with bruises, cuttings, breaks after this car crashed into him, and carried him down the street. By the time i saw the car, the car was on me. And i just, i got on the hood. I held on for dear life. John fred grabbed what he could. If i let go of this hood, i am a dead man. John knowing any sudden turn could end his life. Fred says he pleaded with the driver to top. He finally did sending fred tumbling to the ground. So oh blisseas to what is around you and no conscious soever. John as fred recovers with his wife at the side, police are behind the wheel. The 29yearold suspected in the nearby theft and accuse of assaulting ap investigating an officer before hitting pread in a getaway. S with a desperate move that nearly killed an mnt man. Thank god,
Accused of stabbing a teenager on a dorchester street. Newscenter 5 s Julie Mcdonald is breaking details. That s right, we need the public s health help. Boston police are investigating after a teenager was shot in dorchester this afternoon. Commissioner William Evans told newscenter 5 they were called to columbia road and demonstrate around 4 30. 816 office offi cers found a young male suffering from a gunshot wound to the upper body. He was rushed down to boston medical. He is in critical condition. Witnesses told police they saw a blue atv takeoff from the area this is the same neighborhood where one person was killed in an officerinvolved shooting a little more than one week ago. Reid all right, thank you. And let s go over to Harvey Leonard. Harvey let s back up a little bit and we will show you what we are talking about first of all with this situation. We have temperatures that are just too warm to support snow around the region. What we see is really touching the ground is rain