And he categorically denies he would do anything like that. It has been said it appeared he rigged a cord around the throttle and forgot to set emergency brakes before leaving a train to manually flip a switch to bypass signal problems. It could be mr. Vasquez deployed the brakes and they failed. Vasquez did not attend his disciplinary hearing today. His lawyer says he was following Doctors Orders to limit stress. He is having a very, very difficult time with the cushons as well as the incident itself. His lawyers say their probe should focus not only on the operator but also on aging equipment. Talking about a system and tracks that have problems and outages and tracks that would require in order for the train to continue at the point it was at to actually disable safety systems. The investigation does continue tonight. No word on what may have been hearing earlier today. John atwater, newscenter 5. Right now the woman hit by a Commuter Rail train is under investigation. The 50yearold
Erin good morning, New Hampshire. Thanks for waking up with us. Sean good morning. If you needed a reminder it was wintertime step outside this morning. It is bitter cold out there. Kevin it was a matter of time. We were waiting for the cold air to get here. It eventually starts to retreat tomorrow afternoon. Early, we are in Single Digits above and below zero. 17 is the coldest we have seen in the state up in berlin. Notice the wind chills statewide, they are below zero. We will have much more on your forecast in just a bit. Let your traffic watch. Good morning. Deb good morning, kevin. If you are starting your Early Morning commute on this brisk morning, all roads in new speed. I would suggest starting your car a little bit early, so it is warm when you jump in. There is going to be construction at 7 30 this morning in manchester. Detours will be available and Traffic Control will be onsite. Commuters are urged to seek an alternate route. 95. 7 wzid s deb davidson from the wzid traff
And again when the storms rapidly develop like this one is generates a lot of wind that will be your weather issue for the remainder of the day. Right now wind speeds not too bad. Ten to 15 Miles Per Hour. But i think as we work through the Morning Hours we will see the wind speeds pick up and occasionally gust over 40 Miles Per Hour. We have a wind advice are i in effect primarily this afternoon. Winds gusting over 40 miles per pour. Its not a bitter wind. Boston at 50. Norwood, 55. Bedford 51. Through the day windy and mild with mix of clouds and sunshine. Temps this afternoon 53 to 58. Time now for fast track traffic. Gersh. Still slow out there. Following nicely. If i show you the maps we have a lot of route. This accident in brockton blocking the left lane at 139. Over a half an hour. Lets go north of town. About. Office in wilmington blocking the left lane. Street. This accident is blocking two lanes. On the pike youre slow all the way back to frame ingham and then we supera new
Coverage starts now, this is the fox25 morning news. And good morning, everybody. 6 00 now on this tuesday morning, december 15. Hope your morning is you off to a great start. I am gene lavanchy. Sara i am sara underwood. Way. Storm tracker meteorologist shiri spear is watching the radar for us. Shiri more on the way for about the next two hours. So we have rain from boston all the way back into worcester and all the way up to keene. This is the end of it though. Once we get this splash of heavier rain out of the picture, the drying process begins. The rain is still yet to push across all of southeastern massachusetts. Parts of the northern south shore seeing some downpours shore seeing some downpours. Morning, but really plymouth, you are just start plymouth, you are just starting to get a taste of it right now. Really, really mild with 50s and 60s. By 8 a. M. , temperatures do take a hit, because we have got a cold front coming through. Temperatures will drop as it does. So we go bac
Cindy fitzgibbon. Cold today, cindy. Brutally cold. Cindy it is. The last time we were below nine degrees in boston was last hour and then we dropped to eight. You have to go back to february 24 to find a morning that was as cold as it is right now in boston. The skies are clear but notice the wind. It is still active out of the northwest at 12. So that is making it feel like it is below zero. Wind chills running as cold as 12, 13 below out in Worcester County. It feels like its below zero on the north shore. Notice the south shore down to the cape it feels like its in the single dij its above zero right now. Well hang on these wind chill sub zero through 7 00 or 8 00 this morning. Notice they only creep up into the afternoon. The wind chill is going to get no higher than the teens as we get into the afternoon. Actual temperature, as you saw, eight in boston but three in worcester. We do have some 20s on the cape. That is also where weve got clouds and a little bit of this oceaneffect