Believe there was only one suspect. The university sent out a series of tweets saying there was an active shooter on tweet. Thats because a Campus Police officer radioed, shots fired. They say it did not appear the suspect used a gun in this attack. Well continue to monitor the developments. The campus sent a message to students telling them to run, hide, fight. This is part of the response recommended by the department of Homeland Security in an active shooter situation. The first have an escape route. Leave your belongings behind. Next, lock the doors and silence your phone. And as a last resort, and only if your life is in danger, fight. Call 911 when its safe to do so. Its been a nice sunny day. Colder air is moving in. With it comes rain that would i expect the evening commute for everyone to be affected, elizabeth, but in spots, especially northwest of 495. This is happening in the morning after 4 00 a. M. Thats a freezing rain advisory. With temperatures dropping this evening, w
It is. Its showing signs of really getting organized now, kate. It is a Tropical Storm, 60s Miles Per Hour winds. Looks like its going to be the first hurricane to make landfall in the state of florida in 11 years. Almost 11 years. You can believe that . There it is right now. Its moving off in the northnortheast 250 miles southwest of apalachicola. Its going to be become a minimal hurricane sometime late tonight. Then it moves right up along the coast. It gets out monday, tuesday and just whirls around. Its got nowhere to go. Its in a traffic congestion. So for us, what does that mean for us, really . Well, we dont know the precise impact at this point. But for the most part its leaning toward spiral bans. Late sunday night and certainly little through monday, high seas and rough surf, gusty wind will be on the cape cod and islands and some beneficial rain coming out of that. Were not getting mump rain today if youre north of the happening in southeastern massachusetts. Its going to s
Meteorologist Sarah Wroblewski is with a look at our forecast and how this Tropical Storm could affect our holiday weekend. Reporter the current storm path will continue to push it to the north and northeast and that is the movement it has right nows a it is well in the gulf of mexico and it is forecast to make landfall later on tonight as a category 1 hurricane. The wind speeds are Tropical Storm force at 60 Miles Per Hour. And the outer bands already pushing into the panhandle and the winds will hour. There is a hurricane warning for parts of the coast. Tropical storm warnings too. I will talk about the rain falling across our region coming up in a few minutes. A check of your traffic with julie. Julie traffic or lack thereof the morning. Things moving along route 1 and 93 south. South of the pike, the expressway starting to see slightly more volume, but nothing major yet, and nothing slowing you down on the pike to the tobin. Already in our first drive time on the expressway, 18 min
Home at the time when the shooting happened. He was not aware if there were any adults inside the home. So the boy taken to boston, were told, he is in stable condition right now in the hospital and doctors are working on him now. As for that weapon, the gun and the and gun in that house, the d. A. Declined to same who owned it, but he said the gun was legal. Whoever owned it at that home. We are working to get more updates, and we will be adding them on line, and well be back tonight on t 10 00 p. M. Reporting live in abington, ted daniel, fox 25 news. Vanessa right now, we are tracking the tropics very closely. This Tropical Storm is brewing in the gulf, and it could change the labor day forecast here at home. Within the past hour, our fox 25 Storm Tracker chief meteorologist Kevin Lemanowicz got new information on Tropical Storm hermine. Kevin . Kevin well, this is a storm were talking about here, not the one you just saw. This is the storm that were more concerned about, and the ce
A storm significant south of us and if it came close enough there would be some rain and wind impacts with it. So with the wind impact that chance doesnt really come into play until the sundaymonday time frame. South coast and cape has the best chance of getting somewhat significant wind. In terms of rain from the storm itself, that, too, doesnt happen until sunday and could continue on monday. Much more about this coming up in a few minutes. Thank you. Shark sightings shutting down two cape cod beaches. Sky five, where a great white was spotted this morning. Swimmers were ordered out of the water. Coast guard beach was also closed. 5 investigates tonight, fallout from a story that we first brought you last night. Thousands of criminal cases are found review. This after they found a Police Evidence room in disarray. Kathy with the new details for us. The d. A. Met with the mayor and police chief for about three hours today. The we learned there is police unaccounted for in cases dating