Still some drier slots there, Merrimack Valley up into southern New Hampshire, but i think for all of us by the time we get into the rush hour commute, good chance of wet roadways and a breeze coming in off the ocean. Another wet day. More on the weekend forecast ahead. Sarah time now for fast track traffic with. Kris Kris Anderson in for danielle gersh. Kris morning, everyone. Smooth traffic rolling into town. Yes, its early. Well show you what youre dealing with if youre headed out this morning. Everything looking good on route 1 in saugus. South of town, ten minutes from the split to the tunnel. If only we can keep it that way. 3, 24, 95 connecting with 128. Good shape there. The pike from framingham from 495 in fact all the way into boston, no real backups. A couple construction zones out there picking up those cones around 5 00. They should be clear. 93 headed from the north enter boston, looking good, as well. Split to the tunnel just ten minutes. 12 minutes 128 to 93 and 11 minu
Guard. Same with cuba and weakening back into a category 2 hurricane and back into the da hamas middle part of next week towards wednesday. And then the east coast will be on eye remember the on alert but matthew may be scoop out scooped out to sea. Lots to watch and hear at home with the rain advancing along the south coast coming up from south to north so there are a couple light showers from the ne mid to Late Afternoon the rain will advance north so. Places along and south of the pike will turn wet and it takes longer to reach the mass New Hampshire border. But there will be downpours in here. So your friday evening commute is wet in sports and overnight plans at areas of rain pushed through and continue heavy at times overnight tonight and our saturday does look wet. Tomorrow morning this is even midday and areas of rain continue and then gradually showers tomorrow and sunday looks like a drier day overall. In fact not a ton of green on the map. Perhaps a few scattered showers sun
Mark it started with a fire, it lasted his whole career in boss. In boston. Wow. But he was also there for our most emotional moments. The jersey that we wear today, doesnt say red sox, it says boston. Mark he showered victory. A drive to high r. Right field. Did he do it again . Mark as his fans shower him with love. How do you say thank you to someone who brought three championships to the city . You almost cant. Mark a lot of red sox fans tonight for sure. Big, big weekend. Were heading down the homestretch and david ortiz storied career in boston as a probaseball player. Elizabeth this weekend is all about number 34. Enjoy the last few days. The reporter you know, else. It has been an amazing career. Its the first time the sox are back at fenway since they clinched the American League title. David ortiz trying to soak it all in. Hes going to soak in some rain. The tarp son the field behind me. The game set for an hour for now. One of three ceremonies planned for tonights pregame. I
They seemed like it was on one side. You put them on their feet, and they just fell. Almost like one side was, like, paralyzed. Reporter there was no sign of people feeding birds and no sign of poisoning. So Inspectional Services is checking to see if anyone used a control agent called avatrol. There are three types of birds you can do control measures on. You can use a chemical called avatrol. It has to be mixed in a very safe way, not its made to disperse. It is a shocking agent. Reporter no other species of birds were affected, only the grackles which are only ash here in the summer. So the Animal Rescue league of boston and Inspectional Services are trying to figure it all out. Were not sure whats going on if there is an environmental toxin or some disease thats being spread around the birds. Reporter you heard Inspectional Services mention avatrol. To use it, you have to have a permit. To figure out if anyone in the area has a permit for that. Reporting live from dorchester, im bi
Precipitation. This is not a blockbuster storm so that helps us out and most of the wintery precipitation does fall later on this evening and very early tomorrow morning. The other thing that helps us out is the fact that the kids dont have school tomorrow, at least in massachusetts. They do in New Hampshire so you kids in New Hampshire may be on School Delays but metro boston again you are out of school. Its School Vacation week. As we run through the time line midnight tonight there is the sleet and freezing rain working up from the south cher and also what will happen is the precipitation will shut down for everyone around 5 00 or 6 00 tomorrow morning. At that time the numbers continue to climb into the 30s. Now before the changeover, plan on one to two inches of snow worcester hills, route 2 corridor about two to four inches of snow in southern New Hampshire, city of boston inside 128 a coating to an inch with just a lit glaze on top of that tomorrow. Wheel talk more about that. A