Sarah hollenbeck is live. These 20 linemen are needed there . Reporter people have been living like that more than two weeks. Now they are getting help from tampa, including the bucket trucks. They sent five of them over to the bahamas today and those guys just left less than an hour ago to get over there. Hurricane matthew battered homes, it tore off roofs, it picked up an power poles across the tropical island. The damage is so severe in the bahamas that in some areas the electrical system has to be rebuilt from the ground up. Its going to be strenuous work. Right now 20 tampa electric employees are on a bus headed to ft. Lauderdale. Then they will get on a ferry and take that to the island. They will be working 16hour days doing extremely difficult work. Its extremely difficult. Materials you are trying to get on. Especially on an island. Its isolated from the mainland itself. Getting materials over there to work with materials without running out of materials, thats an obstacle in
Texas tech defense putting all the bodies around the line of scrimmage. There is no one in the back end as far as the last line of defense. So once joe mixon gets through the line of scrimmage, it is just green grass, green turf, whatever you want to call it. Another big night, another big run for joe mixon versus this texas tech defense. Joe we sought a year ago, another career record for himself tonight. 251. Oklahoma now within 25 yards of a schoo game. 852 tonight. Google Assistant i found a few places. announcer vo the only network than can power the first phone with the new Google Assistant, unlimited photo storage, and a stunning vr experience. How is this possible . announcer vo so buy a pixel, only on verizon, and get up to 300 back. And right now get four lines and 20 gigs for just 160 with no surprise overages. Shes the reason the good times are great. And the reason the tough times are easier. Because shes your best friend and your true love. Presenting the ever us twostone
Think the most rain in years for a single calendar day. Now we are watching the downpours line up along the coastline, areas in central mass getting the chance to dry out. Lets zoom in and take a tour around the south, buzzards bay region, heavy rain around marthas vineyard, looking into parliament, sandwich, carver into plymouth, right up 3, heavy downpours, marblehead adding up the coastline into manchester and gloucester, ipswich all seeing heavy rain. That extends to the seacoast although heaviest rain is about to move offshore. This whole line is pressing to the east. Also such a vivid lightning show out there tonight. Pretty wild stuff when it comes to october weather. There is a Flood Warning in effect for the boston area down to way myth, stretching up the seacoast into Coastal Maine until midnight. Water. Sterling, 4. 5 inches, nearly 4 in stowe, three inches in hopkinton and a couple more from our wbz weather watchers. Generally 2 to 4 across the region. A few more rangers pl
In a moment. Here you can see. Sliver of rain. What happened earlier tonight. Was sitting in the area. Now finally starting to move the way eastward. This is where we are seeing the heavier downpours. South shore in the city ofs aboutton. We lifted it north and down to lighter showers. The north shore heavy downpours and this extends all the way to Southern New Hampshire now but starting to push its way offshore and continuing to did that. You can seat is letting up in area stuff today. Just gray skies . Another batch of showers tomorrow. Much more on the timeline of that coming up in a few moments. All right. As mike said central mass. Really go soaked by this storm. Our Nichole Berlie is live in worcester with more breaking news coverage. Nichole. Reporter just coming out of this water. Let me step out of the way. Take a look at this water. Lots of stranded cars out there. We have seen emergency crewses, closed roads, lots and lots of stranded cars. You may jor are flooding on the st
Cicalese, the newest member of stormteam 5. Shes here to tell us how the weekend will shape up. Kelly i brought rain with me. Did you hear that thunder . We had flash flooding through much of Worcester County. Youre heading out, heavy showers of last night have pushed off to the east. So now we have a nice little dry break, and thats the case for all of boston right now and really through much of massachusetts as well. Our next chance of showers creeping in for later this Late Afternoon time period. Well talk about 2 00, 3 00. Those showers right now are creeping through in new jersey and through much of new york, inching eastward for later on. This will be bringing a big cooldown in temperatures. Youre heading out, its warm, huge, and its warm as its going to get. This is the high for the day. Were in the 60s and well cool progressively into the 50s. Antoinette kelly anne, thank you. Breaking news this morning six people rescued from an todd as newscenter 5s Nicole Estaphan reports, t