Eyeopener. creaming and laughing . Erika a great laugh. Doug also on the eye. A new experience for this grandmother is going viral this morning. Her step into Virtual Reality sweeping the internet. I still dont know what shes watching but she loves it. Good morning, im doug meehan. Erika im Erika Tarantal with cindy fitzgibbon. Randy and emily are off today. I know what cindy is watching. Cindy yes, i am. Doug ive heard her like that over at the computer. Cindy here comes the snow. Oh, my goodness. Weve waited long enough. Weve got our first snow of the season on the way. Its not a lot. Just a little. But bad timing with tomorrow mornings commute. Overnight tonight through midday tomorrow, we have Winter Weather advisories in effect for snow initially and then some icing and rain which is going to make for just a messy traveling tomorrow morning. Look at these temperatures out the door. This is what it feels like to you. These are the wind chills right now running mostly in the 20s. Ac
Course, where we have a soaking this weekend coming up. Julie grauert standing by with live drivetime traffic. Julie, a good time to hit the road julie julie yes, it is. The 5 a. M. Hour is when things are nice and quiet. Longfellow bridge longfellow bridge will be closed to all cars and vehicular traffic. And buses that start tonight at 11 p. M. To friday on 5 p. M. On mondays as they do work on the red line. I will be tweeting out those reminders as you plan the weekend. Route 1, 93 south moving along fine. Pike wide anticipate through hopkinton and the weston tolls and through brighton. 13 minutes on the pike from the weston tolls to the ted williams tunnel. 17 minutes on route 9 from 495 to speen street. 22 minutes from route 1 in peabody to the weston tolls. Sara and gene, back to you. Breaking news out of philadelphia right now, a Police Officer has been shot at pointblank range inside of his police car. The officer did fire back at the suspect hitting him multiple times. The sus
Its ahead in eyepoppers. Us. Good morning. Im randy price. Emily and im emily riemer with snow on the way later, right, cindy . Cindy your morning commute should be just fine. Its the evening commute that i can concerned about. Well start to see snow break out after 2 00 or 3 00 this afternoon. We could see some snow squalls. When you talk about a snow squall, it is a burst that is brief but its a burst of heavy snow that can coat the roads quickly, cover them with snow, make it slippery and reduce the visibility. Thats what were watching for right now mainly clear and it is is cold. Teens showing up north and west of boston. 19 beverly, 15 worcester. 23 in town but we have teens showing up all the way down to cape this morning. Fortunately the winds are light and again the skies are clear. What were watching here off to the west is racing toward us. It will hold off until i think after 2 00 or 3 00 this afternoon. By that time look at these temperatures. Above the freezing mark here.
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Though but look off to the west. You see this area of snow. It is racing in our direction. It will be here this afternoon. Any sunshine this morning fades behind clouds but were dry until 2 00 this afternoon. Notice by 4 00 p. M. 37 degrees in boston. This fact well be near 40 down on the cape. North and west of town though, temperatures hovering close to freezing so north and west of the city when this arrives it will be all snow. But you can see by about 3 00 this afternoon some rain showers firing up south of boston. But very quickly by 5 00 p. M. , notice how rapidly the snow is filling in along and north of the pike. That is going to continue and we are going to see the potential for a burst of very heavy snow with reduced visibility. And that snowcovered roads are a possibility as we go through the evening hours into early tonight. Snow will make its way to the coastline as well before this all winds down tomorrow morning. So the amounts are not all that high. Its just a coating