Warm day if you are laying out poolside. You feel the warmth and humidity in place. Dewpoint levels a smidge below yesterday. Still near 70 in the combination of the heat and humidity giving heat index of 88 in boston. Feels like 90 degrees in beverly. Close to 100 this afternoon. Quiet conditions now across new england. The different i see today verses yesterday i think the common welth has a better chance of scattered storms. Theres across metro west Worcester County mass Southern New Hampshire scattered storm that develop this afternoon. Back to high heat and humidity. Temperatures running lowtomid 90s this afternoon. And then we get the scattered storms to develop. A few could be strong with gusty winds. More prone toreeavy rain. Its a tropical air mass in place. With the tropical air mass you get the tropical rains when the stl orep an on that later today. Lets get to w. Traffic is moving against on the fire. Lets get right to the scene with 7s victoria warren latest. Vicki . They
In. Nashua New Hampshire showing. Thatsingn your door step in pepper ril. Downpours in them onster. This continues to slide off to the east. At least the northern end before you tap into some of those showers. More showers down across rhode island. Thats going to slide into southeastern mass over the next half an hour or so. As you work away across albanargieo keep the rain chance today. Most widespread late morning around lunch time. Drops off a little bit early this afternoon. Maybe a couple of pop up storms later on this afternoon. Overall itws. We need the rain. Well have more on the 7day forecast ahead. Time now for fast track traffic. Heres danielle gersh. Its still slow going. 93 southbound notice the stop and go traffic. We are watching an accident north of town. You saw the traffic it stretche americaning. Britt of slow and go on route one. Braintree the boston northbound on the expressway still half an hour. Route 24 and route 3 south of town look good. A little bit of slowin
Oh my goodness, talk about competing when it matters the most. The first sweep in this event in olympic history. Its over. The United States has won the bronze. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the Olympic Games with matt lauer live from rio de janeiro, brazil, and Savannah Guthrie live plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to another split edition of our show on a thursday morning. Day 13 of the Olympic Games. Savannah is back in new york. I have hoda on the beach. Good day for usa yesterday and we wake up on this thursday morning and people still talking about this swimming situation. A few days left in competition and that seems to be topic one. At least this morning. Overnight that drama at the rio gunnar bentz released afford being taken off their flight ho home. They were on the plane and were taken off. Officials investigating their claims of being robbed. Ryan lochte already back home. We talked to him. Well tell you what he had to say. How about
It will be coolest at the coastline if you head to beach. Plan on temperatures in the 70s to near 80 degrees. Have had a few batches of cloud to mix in with the sunshine. It stays dry. Temperatures into the upper 80s inland Holding Close to 80 degrees along that coastline this afternoon with that sea breeze kicking on in. What about the weekend forecast. Mid 80s maybe a couple of upper 80s. Cant rule out a passing shower or two inland. Get scattered showers and thunderstorms will be sunday into early monday. More on that 7day forecast, ahead. Time for fast track traffic. Lets send it over to danielle gersh. Good morning, everyone. Were not watching any major traffic delays as you can see. The expressway looking pretty good. Lets go to maps because we watch a couple of accidents. This one in hanover. This is route 3 north bound at route 53. A car went into the trees. A little bit of slow and go traffic into town on the pike. No major delays. Route 2 looking good. 93 looking good back to
Couple of sprinkles throughout plymouth to cape and islands calling on down. Not much rain the talk about with this. Boston breaking into sun. Some little instability working from north and west later on today. We cant rule out a spot shower. Much of the time will be dry with mixture of sun and clouds. Temperatures this afternoon running back into the midtoupper 80s. It will be a warm one just like yesterday afternoon the humidity on the tolerable side. Were not dealing with high humidity. We deal with d the weekend. The forecast coming up. The latest on breaking news. Two tractortrailer collided on the mass pike east in auburn earlier this morning. Leaving people at a stand still for hours there in their vehicles. Lets go to Nicole Oliverio shes at the scene with an update. Looks like things are moving once again, nicole . Its no help for this morning hush hour traffic commute into work. If you take a look behind me. You can see this mass pike eastbound in auburn. You can still see wh