It happened at a sears a u toe center at the rockingham mall. Jim smith is live in salem with the top story tonight. Reporter well, this is certainly a very strange and sad story. Police here in salem, New Hampshire do tell us that this appears to be an accident, but tle also certainly investigate exactly how this happened. The tire exploded off the machine. Reporter early saturday morning, a customer was getting a large truck tire fixed, at the sears auto center, at Rockingham Park mall, suddenly the tire exploded. Killing the tire worker, and badly injuring the customer. 911 callers were frantic. This two, this two, this two. Two is unconscious. Yeah. How about the second patient . Were in route by the way. Yeah, i did see him move a little bit. Okay. A tire. What exploded . A tire, they was filling up a reporter the tire worker killed is 22yearold justin almon. The customer adam sprole of booth bay, maine, air lifted to the boston medical center. Its an industrial tire changer with
Shiri dont say it like that, daniel, i know youre excited about the warmer temperature. Here is what we have, 42 in norwood and bedford and beverly, 42 down to plymouth. I still got some 30s out there from portsmouth 38 just updating there, nashua at 35 and worcester 37 but a warm start to the day even though it is 30s and 40s and warmer than the typical high temperatures for this time of the year and 50 extend to thicken up during the afternoon at 4 00 p. M. , temps in the 50s what ive im planning around and southwest sustained winds ten to 20 Miles Per Hour, Even Stronger gusts under mostly cloudy skies. Going to break downwindy spots when we come back and if first isnt warm enough for you, wait until hot it gets from christmas eve. Julie things looking relatively stress free commute and finding slow spots on 93 south with average speeds about 12 Miles Per Hour through medford. Pike though moving along nicely and look at this, 9 01 wide open as you head eastbound or westbound through
Of your forecast with chris lambert. Final sunday before the Big Christmas holiday. Reporter, the weather is working out just fine. 34 in boston, 28 norwood. Drive throughout the day. The numbers closer to seasonal levels than what weve seen in quite sometime. In fact cold enough to get the snow guns blasting up there in Nashoba Bally last night and early this morning. A little bit of snow making weather for some of the ski resorts. 13 miles an hour wind. 12 miles an hour in worcester. The wind not as gusty as yesterday. Weve even see a few ocean effect flurries to north of the cape but otherwise dealing with scattered clouds mixed in with the sunshine. Also quiet throughout much of new england this afternoon. Less wind. Temperatures Holding Close to 40 degrees but were talking close to record level warmth by Christmas Event talk more on the sevenday forecast ahead. Kris an air France Flight headed to paris forced to make a landing board. Police say the pilots of the boeing 777 request
Have the upper 40s but to the south and east we got the lower 50s. So it is going to indeed be normal, 39 , temperature outside right now, that is the normal high this time of year and 50s into the afternoon and very low risk today and highs 48 to pix, mostly cloudy, mild and breezy, so coming up we will talk about what kind of winds we should plan around today, but for now Julie Grauert standing by with live drive time traffic. Julie, how are things doing out there . Gene . Julie things are slow on 93 south after since the accident happened about an hour ago and we are still seeing slower drive times than issue starting right after the cloverleaf in woburn and heading there you woburn and into somerville. The expressway also problematic, awful speeds of 18 Miles Per Hour. As you could see bumpertobumper as you pass the gas tank and here are live drive times, 19 minutes on route 1 from 128 to the tobin, 29 the braintree split to the pike, 50s minutes on 93 south from 495 to the leveret
Your day. Im kris anderson. We will have details of all those stories and more straight ahead for you on 7 news today in new england. First up, we get over to Chris Lambert with a peek of whats left of the weekend forecast. Could be a busy sunday. I drove by some of the mall parking lots yesterday. Insane. I bet you those mall parking lots insane again. You wont catch me anywhere near them. Trust me. This time of year, a lot of procrastinators out there like myself. Im still dodging going to the mall. 36 in boston right now. 33 in norwood. If you have to get out this morning, yes, it is cool. Yeah, we have a breeze. Still at ten miles an hour. Just fine. We have a lot of sunshine with us in place. I expect that sunshine to hold. Had some cold weather overnight last night. We havent had too many of it. Wachusett mountain, nashoba valley, finally able to use the snow machines last night. Temperatures running into the 20s to near 30 last night. All right. Temperatures this afternoon, tail