Great to see you there this morning, jr. We have a lot of clouds live in revere. Its a good day to check out a movie this afternoon. As we work through the morning hours, clouds continue to thicken up, temps near 40 degrees. For december, 41, thats our normal high. Were talking rain drops, not snowflakes as this weather system moves through new england. The evening commute is wet, if youre doing Holiday Shopping after work, make sure you have the rain gear ready to go. Temps, upper 40s to around 50. Time for fasttrack traffic. Lets go to the maps, youll notice a lot of green. Fallen power cables at route 1a northbound at fordman street. Thats the only trouble spot we have right now. The pike is all green back out to 495. South of town, route 24 looking good as well. 93 southbound, 128 to the zakam bridge. Star wars fans gearing up for the force awakens tomorrow night. For more, lets head out to nicole oliviero in boston. Reporter this is the day waiting for. So, a lot of excitement has
Take look at the radar and satellite composite. And a some are beginning form low level moisture from a south and east overnight tonight. So dont be surprised to see few patches drizzle even early tomorrow morning. Bigger part of storm system, thats down through the southeast. This is marching off to the northeast. As it does so, it will work through southern new england tomorrow, bringing us a higher rain chance we get into afternoon through the evening hours. So out of two morning commutes expect more issues more issues more sustained wet weather for an evening commute patchy drizzle around for morning commute. In terms of temperatures tomorrow afternoon, warming up low to mid 50s, down through southeastern massachusetts. Holding in low to mid 40s farther north you go. So a little bit tough to scour out that cooler air farther north you go up merrimac valley into Southern New Hampshire. Colder over weekend. Seasonably cold and right back to mild weather next week. More on that 7 day
And 38 in fitchburg. Upper 80s. Even if you do see one or two flurries not going to stick to anything. What i have at 8 00 this morning a couple more pockets of drizzle. Temperatures are not moving very much and a gradual warmup very much and a gradual warmup. By noontime mid to upper 40s. Even 50s over southeastern massachusetts. We have drizzle turning steadier then during the afternoon and after about 4 00 this afternoon, it is actually going to start turning heavier and that means your evening commute right here features temps near 50s and features downpours and developing fog on top of that. 44 to 54 degrees. A lot warmer south of boston. A lot cooler north and west of boston. Boston kind of right in the middle at 50 degrees. I am going to time out the heavier showers to see how long they last in calmling of minutes. Julie grauert with a check of live drive time traffic. Julie, good morning. Julie seeing issues route 1 a in east boston closed at boardman street because of fall fal
Fentanyl abuse currently stands at 292 lives in the state this year. Look inside the numbers and at new funding headed this way to help. Called the heroin epidemic but fentanyl is driving the overdose role in 177 fatalities. And those are just the confirmed there are still dozens of toxicology reports still New Hampshire Drug Overdose deaths have already set a new record this year, and the tally continues to mount. According to the office of the chief medical examiner, the current confirmed total is 342. 292 of those lost their lives to an opioid overdose. And the state says there are 73 cases pending, awaiting final toxicology reports. That means whatever the final total is it will be far higher than the 326 drug deaths in 2014. But some help is on the way in the form of funding. The budget bill on its way to million or 284 increase in funding for programs aimed at combating opioid abuse. Plus a big bump in the dollars dedicated to the Substance Abuse prevention and treatment block gr
New hampshire is likely to finish 2015 having averaged at least one Drug Overdose death per day. Good evening, i m shelley walcott. The grim toll of heroin and fentanyl abuse currently stands at 292 lives in the state this year. Adam sexton joins us now with a look inside the numbers and at new funding headed this way to help. Adam this started out being called the heroin epidemic but fentanyl is driving the Overdose Deaths this year having played a role in 177 fatalities. And those are just the confirmed numbers. There are still dozens of toxicology reports still pending. New hampshire Drug Overdose deaths have already set a new record this year, and the tally continues to mount. According to the office of the chief medical examiner, the current confirmed total is 342. 292 of those lost their lives to an opioid overdose. And the state says there are 73 cases pending, awaiting final toxicology reports. Total is it will be far higher 2014. But some help is on the way in the budget bill