No more than a mist and drizzle. Inland. Fog will be the Biggest Issue here especially anyone you traveling down 95 to providence traveling down 95 to providence, rhode island. Fog over the cape and island, and find it between those reporting stations as well. So future track here by 8 00, mostly lower 30s along with the clouds and dry weather. The only risk of a shower still going to be over nantucket, but here comes the snow that we have been talking about. After 1 p. M. , we have got some of the patchy showers coming on through. Outside of 495 is where you get the snowflakes. 495, 95, you have a little mix in at the coastline itself. A couple of sprinkles. The 36 to 42 degrees today. I will go over where to plan around a little bit of the patchy coating coming up in a couple of minutes. Now we have got Catherine Parrotta in for Julie Grauert with live drive time traffic. What is happening on the road right now, catherine . Catherine the volume starting to build on the expressway. A
The rest of the day, whats going to happen, very cold up above and what is able to fall is going to come down with flurries. Fog that lasts us through the next hour here. Noon time comes along, how about upper 30s, even 40s southeastern massachusetts and pause things up 5 00 p. M. , because the latest update here to future cast does involve a little more snow, a little more rain. This is still going to be generally light, it is going to be mostly patchy here, but notice even out toward the boston area, we got some snowflakes mixing in here for the evening commuted, so we are going to be looking at mix in much of the area, except for the cape where it should stay, 36 to 42 today, going to be cool and cloudy, got the rain and snow to talk about today. I will show you the few spots where we could get a little dusting coming up, but lets get you back to catherine with look at live drive time traffic. Catherine look at map, trouble spots on there and north of these accidents, pair of accide
Admits the zika virus problem when the first thoughts but for more than 20 countries and now massachusetts. Zika virus is spreading explosively and time is running out to contain it. Thats the word from the world health organization. Warning on thursday the virus countries. And the number of cases could year. We need to take action now. Whatever we can do in terms of control environmental control. Every member of the community can do something good. If we can control the vehicle we can minimize the impact it outbreak is largely in latin american countries but the cdc says there at least 31 cases in the us. The good news all of those cases are travel related and is been no transmission within the us so far. We dont have outbreaks of local transmissions in the United States the continental the cdc issued a travel alert to pregnant women warning them not to go to countries where the outbreak is occurring. Local officials now urging residents to he that warning to them promising to work wi
Dr. Paul sacks heads up Brigham Womens Infectious Disease department. Zik is a tropical viral infection that was known about for some time. Its been in africa. Its been in polynesia. Reporter recently it jumped to the americas. It first appeared in may of last year in brazil. Reporter he says most people may not even realize they have it but that pregnant women need to be especially cautious. Pregnant women who have contracted zika virus appear to have a higher chance of having a baby with a malformation called micro severally. Or being born with a small head and brain. Reporter the National Security teams have been alerted to the situation. We dont expect a major outbreak in the United States despite the fact that theres considerable problems in south america. Reporter that includes nearly 4,000 cases of zika linked birth defects reported in brazil this year alone. Back in boston, as in the rest goes out to women planning or expecting a baby. Women who are pregnant and women who are p
Three Iowa nursing homes have been added to the federal government’s list of the worst care facilities in the nation. Over the past two months, the three homes were deemed eligible for inclusion on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ national list of Special-Focus Facilities. They join seven other Iowa care facilities already deemed […] The post Iowa nursing homes added to national list of worst care facilities appeared first on Iowa Capital Dispatch.