More than 20 years of this show up until 2001. She is survived by her daughter lisa jones, her two grand daughters and her partner of 24 years, steven hamm whether was living with her in colorado. Vicki was 71 and had been battling cancer for three years. She was a pioneer and trail blazer, not only president of Boston Association of black journalists in the 80s and 90s who pushed the envelope with unique programming such as the question of race, an hourlong news program that discussed diversity and race relations. Lets not take a quick look at her journ eye of courage a onehour prime time special in 0988 on the 3 forestyear history of blacks in massachusetts. Im telling you i hailted bag slave from the day i was born a struggle for freedom. Ly be as harsh as truth as uncompromising as just is to this subject. Reporter a search for identity. Through the american slave is your 4th of july. Fraud, deception, and hypocracy. She paid homage to we get a peek of the tribute to late great duk
Around. S continue through 8 a. M. Lower 50s through 10 a. M. And highs today from 66 to 72 degrees. Watching for those inland popup thunderstorms that will time out next. Julie grauert is up next with live drive time traffic this morning and a look at the expressway. Julie shiri, expressway moving along fine. New accident on route 3 near route 18 as you make your way northbound up to the braintree split. North of the pike. Pike itself moving along fine. Volume or at least heavy speeds around 10 Miles Per Hour which is pretty low. Eastbound after the ted williams tunnel. North of the pike, things look good on route 1 and 93 south. Live drive time. 4 minutes on the pike eastbound from 495 to mass avenue. 18 minutes on the expressway. 13 minutes on 93 south from 495 to the leverett connector. Back to you. Tom brady is back as of six hours ago it became official. Deflategate suspension ended to buffalo and focusing on cleveland. Live at gillette where brady is all the buzz. Good morning,
Outside studios and not going to last and track for the fox25 Stormtracker Weather Center and that gray condition going to linger and in the 50s now and 60s pop in some of the brightest towns and cities but still got fog from New Hampshire with half mile visibility to the sea coast with dense fog still in place and hour that the fog really going to be mixing out because temperatures finally moving and responding. So we got on and off clouds that basically continue in boston, temperatures here by lunchtime today that should be in the lower 60 and hang out almost all day long and depending where you are the risk for shower activity specifically inland and looking 62 to 72 range of highs today and overall mostly cloudy because more clouds than sunshine and i have a timeline, hourbyhour look at showers coming into play coming up. Back to julie now for live drive time traffic. Julie things improving, route 1 opened down to the saugus area. 93 south a little relief as make way through woburn
The shooting. The District Attorneys Office is responding. Some more breaking news for you right now a crash in roxbury, 3 cars damaged, debris all over the street. Witnesses say the driver who caused this chaos was trying to get away from police. This happened just as the morning rush was wrapping up. Were live from roxbury. Reporter witnesses tell us it was a wild scene earlier this morning. They say a man was this intersection and took off running down the street. That red car that youre seeing in video witnesses say the man ran away. And witnesses also telling us that there was a woman and a baby in this nissan. You can see the drivers seat air bag deployed after it drove into the million box. Woman trapped inside the car. Now, this whole incident is still under investigation and the intersection has since reopened. You can look for an update in our later newscasts. Also breaking news in the Whitey Bulger cases. The u. S. Supreme court says they will not hear the appeal. He appeale
The chief Leonard Campanello as a result of his actions and devoicing evidence contained on the cell phone, especially in deceiving the city by suggesting that other employees of the Gloucester Police department had broken into his office and had mailed the cell phone to his attorney. When in fact he had done so himself. Anchor attorney for chief campanello releasing a statement saying this investigation has been a witchhunt from the beginning and the reasons given by the city for terminating the contract had noin the original inquiry they were conducting. Chief campanello untends to hold the city of er it to its contract youll obligations despite the fact that throughout this process representatives of the city continually stated they didnt care about his contract youll rights. Campanello has been the chief of list in gloucester for the last four years and been in Law Enforcement in the state. He was recently honored for his work on fighting the opioid anchor investigators looking int