Short time ago. Youre looking at live pictures, again, looking down tremont street. You can see boston police, e. M. S. , fire apparatus, all here on the scene. Again, city officials confirms that two private construction workers were trapped in a trench and killed this afternoon over on dartmouth street. Right now, efforts being made to drain the water out of that trench so that the bodies of those two construction workers can be recovered. Reporting live from the south okay. Bob. As bob just showed us, viewers sending us video of the coverage all afternoon. Mark ockerbloom continues our coverage. It paints a picture of the desperation the workers had to help those workers. It does. In a very busy part of the city on a friday, especially. Dozens of people who helped to try and help the victims. This is the area of what it this is dartmouth and up here tremont street, thats the intersection right here. What you have right here, the fire hydrant. This played an active role because at on
Reid the Sanders Campaign says it has already fired the staffer to exploit of bridge, but has filed a lawsuit that would force the dnc to allow them to access the database. Reid lamberty, Wcvb Newscenter 5. Erika it is sure to be a big topic at tomorrow night s debate. This is the setup at the carr center at saint anselm s college in manchester New Hampshire where sanders, clinton, and Martin O Malley will face off. Abc s david muir and Martha Raddatz will moderate. You can see the debate live right here on channel 5 tomorrow night at 8 00 right after a , special edition of newscenter 5 at 7 00. Now to a wild crash in foxborough leaving a family out , in the cold this christmas. Phil a teenage driver smashaing right into their living room. Newscenter 5 s jack harper is live at the scene, where the homeowners are taking it all in stride. Jack pretty much. They have you do not see the damage. Look at that crack. This house took a really big hit. Five more minutes, and i would have taken
Doug how about them apples . This is great. Although, as i walked out the door this morning, i said to myself, you are no longer in arizona. It is 30someodd degrees out. It felt like winter. Sera it has been a great december for you to return home because weve had great weather. This weekend though it sounds like it will take a turn. Danielle it feels a lot mover like wintertime out there. Thats what were talking about. I want to show you whats going on currently if we can. Temperaturewise we are in the 30s and 20s across most of the region. Most of us this morning checking in in the 30s. 31 degrees in worcester right now. It is 36 degrees in boston. 40 on nantucket. But its not just the air temperature this morning. We have very strong winds out there, folks. Wind gusts in excess now of 31 miles an hour in pittsfield. Very strong winds coming out of the westnorthwest. It makes it feel more like 19 degrees in pittsfield. More like 25 in orange. So its that wind chill value. We havent r
Kept him off the field. Youre watching wcvb, bostons news leader. Good morning this is newscenter 5s eyeopener. Sera it is a special day here at channel 5. Saturday, december 19. Im sera congi in for antoinette with the lovely danielle vollmar. We want to welcome doug meehan to the weekend eyeopener. Doug thank you, ladies. Nice to be here. It feels really good to be home. Were excited. Were excited to be here. Danielle how about we welcome you with cold weather. Doug it makes me feel like im truly at home in december. It hasnt felt like it. Danielle weve been running 10 degrees above normal for the month of december. Look at the beautiful shot this quiet waters out there. But if you actually look at the water, that wind is going across it pretty strongly because we do have strong winds today, and thats making it feel even colder outside. Worcester. 3 in concord. 35 in portsmouth. 40 on nantucket. On the map. Winds that are sustained anywhere from 1416 miles an hour. Gusts to 25 to 30.
Courtesy of our photographer dave in winthrop this morning. You could just stare at that. Doug not warming things up though. Sera it is not. There is a wind chill out there, danielle. I havent heard you talk about that forever. Danielle welcome, doug. Doug thank you very much. Danielle glad to have you. Doug ive been here since 5 00 so people are over it, i think. Its nice. Danielle sometimes people sleep in until 8 00. Doug good morning. Thank you. Danielle were talking about wind chill values, guys, in the 20s and teens this morning. It is cold out there. If youre headed out first thing, you want to grab a winter coat. Youre going to need it. Even the gloves, the scarf. Its a cold one. 37 degrees in boston. 31 right now in worcester. This is the current air temperature. But then you factor in those winds and theyre gusting now upwards of 35 miles an hour in pittsfield, up to about 22 miles an hour now in boston. And it makes it feel more like in pittsfield. So again these wind chill