At 7 00. Apparently was a prop left ver behind. Jotw is at the scene. We now know what that device actually was. Yeah. A bit of a misunderstanding. There was a star wars themed event and one of the people left led to a lengthy investigation the bomb squad ended up searching all of these ships here. Just as a precaution. The prop was found on a soviet warship. From sky five yo see a bomb technician investigating onboard the ship. They went from vessel to vessel to ensure there was no threat here that tourist noticed the suspicious prop around 2 00 this afternoo obviously did not know what it was. The staff immediately evacuated the potential threat. Everything, of course, much calmer now and the battleship is preparing to be opened for tours again tomorrow. Live in fall river, john atwater, newscenter 5. Also breaking at 7 00, a motorcyclist has died after this crash in beverly. It happened on 128 north at essex street around 5 00. Police say a 30yearold gloucester man crash interested
Some of those coolest spots this morning are the spots dawning that fog. So looking okay over the cape and islands. Looking okay. And fog in taunton. Dense fog in norwood and more fog in keene, New Hampshire. Not the extent of the fog we had yesterday and still a little bit out there. 7 a. M. , 73 degrees. I will keep things nice and bright in metro west in the greater post area. 11 a. M. , 83. We are headed into the middle 80s cities and our range of high goes anywhere from the lower 80s at the coastline to upper 80s inland. A few foggy spots will last through 8 a. M. And then sunny, comfy and warm. Julie grauert is up with live drive time traffic. Good morning. Julie shiri, good morning. Love to report on these conditions nice and light. 93 south fine. South of the pike expressway moving at a speed limit. Live drive times. Nine minutes from the braintree split to the exit to the pike. 23 minutes on 93 south. 10 minutes on 128 northbound from University Avenue in westwood to the westo
Thunderstorms in the forecast. I will have an breakdown of when they move through your neighborhood. Doug communities feeling the impact of a widespread drought. The new ban for one coastal town. You are watching wcvb, bostons news leader. Good morning. This is newschannel 5s eyeopener. Antoinette ahh, look at that. We begin with a live look from lynn. Sunrise just a gorgeous day ou know, changes on the way as we always do. Doug good morning, everybody. Antoinette . Saturday, august 6 lets check in with mike wankum and talking about changes. Mike this afternoon, chance of seeing Severe Weather but what a beautiful morning we have going on. A little buggy and temperatures warming up quickly. You see what is happening a little muggy out. If you are traveling up in that direction, downpour may be to see the thunderstorms coming from this afternoon. As this cold front approaches. I think we will see a couple showers this morning. Most of us will just enjoy the sunshine. Heat and humidity a
Tomorrow afternoon. In boston, temperatures will drop, but not as much as the last couple of nights. That tells you the humidity is coming up. What will happen tomorrow is, we start the day with partly cloudy skies. By lunchtime, here we start to see those lines of showers and thunderstorms. One place you get a heavy downpour, a few miles down the road, you dont get anythou i will have much more on the timeline and what to expect tomorrow coming up. Ben all right, thank you. New at 5 30, the state of New Hampshire asking for federal help tonight to deal with Drought Conditions in the state. The request by governor Maggie Hassan is for grafton, rockingham, and strafford counties. Farmers say the lack of rain has effected their corn crops. The corn is now several inches smaller and the supply is cut in half. Another challenge is the that they cannot irrigate. If the request is approved, help. It will help us preserve the land, pay our taxes, pay for our equipments. And help maintain the
Another area here, it looks very week. Down here to the south, we put were in the likely category of this it is trying to work eastward. There may be showers left out but not much after midnight area we see some downpours developing. I where we will see heavy rain. The National Weather service has a Flash Flood Watch out through tomorrow. We will talk more about that and what lies behind it. Ben sky 5 over somerville where two demonstrations are happening now a black lives matter protest. Now underway and just starting a police rally in protest over a black chaiyabhat is live in somerville tonight shaun . Police across the area are here. Can see more than 100 people are here. A lot our friends and family of police officers. They have their own banner. They want this put up. They want the black lives matter taken down from city hall. The site has been year. Until recently this controversy has grown. They sent a letter to the mayor saying it is troubled by this banner calling it demorali