In a pod. Complete new england News Coverage starts right now. This is the fox25 morning news. Gene good morning, everybody, thank you for being with us this thursday morning. It is august 18th. Im gene lavanchy. Sara we have a warm day ahead, but it is not all sunshine. Shiri seeing patchy showers, but at least the humidity down. Shiri actually feels pretty comfortable but if you are in worcester, for example, or douglas, might want to grab the umbrella, a little bit of light rain this morning. Attleboro to rehoboth and norton and plan on a little bit of light rain there as well, not going to be high impact because it is so widely scattered, 71 in boston, this is all going to slide south of the city. City stays dry today, 60s in the suburbs as youre waking up this morning and we got these showers that are going to be drifting eastward through about ten or 11 00 this morning. Southward. Thats where we are going to get the scattered stuff the next couple of hours. Metrowest, it is cloud
Reporter his daughter and their family friend were crossing boot hill avenue in roxbury last night. They were hit by the driver of this toyota. Fox 25 spoke with ernestos brother jose outside of the medical center. The guy didnt stop then all of a sudden he kind of revved up and my brother turned around and pushed the gentleman in the wheelchair over as much as he could and yelled at her to get out of the way. Reporter the 40y has several facial infrastructures and swelling in his brain. My brothers injuries were swelling in the brain. Reporter the daughter has hairline hip fractures and she keeps saying the same thing over and over to her uncle. All i saw was my dad push me and says run, run. Reporter the driver of the car seen here in the its still unclear what really happened. If it wasnt an accident other things involved then i hope he works through those thoughts. Reporter and tonight the driver of the car has not been charged. Now coming up at 11 00, well get into ernestos progre
Wheelchairbound friend. He knows that my father is ao. Make sure that Everybody Knows that he is the greatest guy in the world. Reporter his daughter and their family friend were crossing boot hill avenue in roxbury last night. They were hit by the driver of this toyota. Fox 25 spoke with ernestos brother jose outside of the medical center. The guy didnt stop then all of a revved up and my brother turned around and pushed the gentleman in the wheelchair over as much as he could and yelled at her to get out of the way. Reporter the 40yearold hit the windshield camacho has several facial infrastructures and swelling in his brain. My brothers injuries were swelling in the brain. Reporter the daughter has hairline hip fractures and she keeps saying the her uncle. All i saw was my dad push me and says run, run. Reporter the driver of the car seen here in the black shirt stayed on scene. Its still unclear what really happened. If it wasnt an accident other things involved then i hope he work
Showers and last us the next hour and drift over the cape for the most part and falmouth get ready and this isnt really a big deal and only bringing us trace amounts of rain. 74 in boston right now, clouds thinner toward worcester, fitchburg and nashua, New Hampshire and clouds are never going to totally leave us behind and 11 00 a. M. Mostly cloudy out there and in the afternoon and coast including boston and 86 . Examine 88 and cape and 82 . And thats going to be the last spot to dry out, time it out with future cast coming up in just a fews. Catherine mass pike crash and all lanes of the mass pike are open in auburn. Video from earlier this morning. Two tractortrailers collided on pike eastbound around 2 30 this truck was seriously hurt and in the hospital and checked the map for that situation and really traffic has thinned out in the area and thats good news. All lanes reopen there and look at how other areas looking. See on 93 coming through medford there, still jammed up, 128 lo
Lenghi has more from the news room on what happened here. Reporter this is what it looks like when a tree falls on a car. The man driving the car was traveling north on rock creek parkway and exited on beach drive, a heavily wooded area when out of nowhere this tree crashed down on his sedan. The officer tells me at least 30 people helped him lift the tree up and slide the car backwards fromunder the tree. Reporter the 30 or so people were bystanders who were in the area. It was critical those people stopped and helped. Three or four people could not have done it. It would have taken an army, and it did. Reporter before the army moved the massive tree, it crushed the roof of the car on top of the driver. The First Responders finally peeled off the roof to extra to he remains to in the hospital tonight with lifethreatening injuries. Adam, back to you. Thank you. That stretch of beach drive is expected to be reopened by the morning rush. You can download our app for the latest developmen