Increasing clouds in worcester at 67 and keene New Hampshire at 64. Keene will be one of the first spots to get in on these showers. They are coming in out of new york state and you can see they are streaming toward western new england right now. They are going to weaken as they travel eastward. Start off a little sticky. Oppressive humidity by the afternoon. Our big transition day here. We will see increasing clouds this morning in metro west. 7 a. M. 68 degrees. By 9 a. M. , 7 degrees. We get into the 80s and hit late morning through the afternoon. Inland best chance of storms at the coast including boston. Slight risk there. Cape will run mostly dry and i will time out those showers with futurecast. Julie grauert with live drivetime traffic. Good time to head out there, julie. Julie great time to head out. The forecast and this is you what need to know about the roads. You will be all alone on the expressway. 128 moving along fine. To the pike, clear from 495 to 128. And then into t
And gun control. Although the Second Amendment maybe there is, i dont know. Sara why some people are calling this comment a death threat. Complete new england News Coverage starts right now. This is the fox25 morning news. Our team of reporters are live across the area this morning covering the big stories as you head out the door. We will get to them in just a few minutes. Good morning, Daniel Miller in for ge sara underwood. It is wednesday, august 10. Thank you so much for joining us. We have got increasing humidity today, and it is going to stay sticky throughout the weekend. Fox25 meteorologist shiri spear is in the Storm Tracker Weather Center with a look at some muchneeded rain in the forecast today. Reporter rain that is already on the map right now in western new england. This is sliding into parts of vermont over the next hour. Dry in New Hampshire and sunny skies at 70. Sunshine in hyannis at 72. We get into more and more clouds. Lawyer reigns at 59. Worcester at 56. And sho
The history of the United States through objects. Up next, we visit capitol hill to talk to house historian Matthew Wasniewski and house curator Farar Elliott about the history of africanamericans in congress in the 19th century. And to see a selection of artifacts from the house collection. The story of how africanamericans come to congress in the 19th century is not one that a lot of people are familiar with. We actually had 22 africanamericans serve between 1870 and 19 01. 20 in the house, 2 in the senate, largely a house story. And it has to do with the role of congress during the civil war, and in the decade after. During the civil war there were a group of radicals in congress, radicals because they believed in the equality of africanamericans and wanted to create a society in the south after the war that was a multiracial society. These were radicals in the house like Thaddeus Stevens who was chairman of the ways means chairman of the ways and Means Committee and a very powerful
Selection of artifacts from the house collection. The story of how africanamericans come to congress in the 19th century is not one that a lot of people are familiar with. We actually had 22 africanamericans serve between 1870 and 1901. 20 in the house, 2 in the senate, largely a house story. And it has to do with the role of congress during the civil war, and in the decade after. During the civil war there were a group of radicals in congress, radicals because they believed in the equality of africanamericans and wanted to create a society in the south after the war that was a multiracial society. These were radicals in the house like Thaddeus Stevens who was chairman of the house ways and Means Committee and a very powerful leader. Also people like henry winterdavis, elihu washburne. In the senate, people like Charles Sumner and benjamin wade. And they really drove the agenda and pushed the Lincoln Administration to not only prosecute the war more vigorously but also to have a recons
Happen. Video from sky eye 4 shows a small plane. On board was an 18yearold student pilot. Greg palmer was alone at the nearby construction site early friday afternoon. He was working on the second story of an isolated home in littleton. I looked out the window and saw a plane flying by around eye level, and thought that was a little too low. He saw the plane go into the trees at the edge of the property. He called 911 and ran. I was expecting the worst and then saw him walking back towards me, so it was shocking. Later greg took these photos of the wreckage. The plane was a wreck. It was in bad shape. I couldnt believe he was alive. The first thing he said is that he was fine, that he was okay. He just had a cut on his knee. I said i cant believe youre alive right now and yeah, youre so young. The young man is a student pilot tat the stone minute man airfield. Engine cessna plane. I could tell he was kind of panicking and that he called his mother immediately, said he was in some trou