Good evening. Welcome to the National Museum of mathematics and a very special event. I think we are all delighted the museum is putting on this event tonight and even more delighted they are doing it with the support of the Mathematical Association of america helping out tonight. In particular, loaned us james tanton who i will introduce in a minute. My name is john ewing, i am president of math america. I am a mathematician. [applause] this was not meant to be an aa meeting by the way. Every professional mathematician those mathematicians and their subjects have a certain reputation. A worldfamous mathematician walking in the countryside one day comes upon a huge flock of sheep. Being a worldfamous mathematician goes up to the shepherd and makes a proposition. 100 against one of your sheep and i could tell you instantly how many sheep are in the flock. The shepherd, knowing there are an awful lot of sheep says okay, i will try it. The mathematician looks around and says there are 937
Not as expensive as yesterday but will last in those few pots until 7 or 8 00 this morning. Those are also my chilly spots. Norwood at 52. Keene, New Hampshire at 54. Look at all these 60s in between. Worcester at 62 degrees. Boston at 65. Lawrence at 63. We have mid60s mid50s in plymouth and hyannis where it is feeling a little cool. 7 a. M. Temperatures will h to, rer around 60 degrees. A little patchy fog sunshine. 84 at 3 p. M. And 78 by 7 00 this evening. I will take you to out to that beach forecast coming up. Julie, back to you with live drive time traffic. Julie shiri, the icons on the map are overnight con trunks that will wrap up by 5 a. M. Route 1, 93 south clear. Pike open from 128. And then over to the altonbrighton tolls. 13 minutes from 128 to the tobin. 23 minutes on 93 south. 24 minutes on the pike avenue. Coming up on 4 32 this morning. A local woman blacked out behind the wheel of her suv and crash into an utility pole and chainlink fence. Part of that fence smashed
Humidity impact. You can see the uncomfortable and oppressive areas are not that far south, and they will be moving in for the latter part of the week. We will start to feel the difference tomorrow and as it moves in, the chances of getting a couple showers and thunderstorms in the area mo then there could be a few additional ones in the late afternoon. We will check more on that and tell you all about the heat and humidity in a few minutes. Ben now at 5 30, state police trying to figure out why a driver on the mass turnpike last night was going the wrong way. Jc it led to an horrific crash in southborough near the i495 interchange. The wrongway driver was killed and 4 others hurt. Newscenter 5s David Bienick is live with what the statistics say about these kinds of crashes. David . David good afternoon. State police of the driver pike here at exit 11a. Then travelled about a mile before making a fatal mistake. This mangled piece of metal is all thats left of a ford focus, that state p
Forecast. Shir. Shiri off to a quiet start. Northeast in the 50s to the 70s. 52 in norwood. 57 in bedford. 72 in boston. Lots of 60s into lawrence and nashua over to worcester. 66234 hyannis and 54 on the vineyard. Some of the cool spots leading to fog in the usual spots like around the norwood airport and down to the vineyard. A little bit of fog in place forecast have temperatures starting close to 60 degrees at 6 a. M. Moving near 70 degrees by 8 a. M. And by lunchtime today, we will be back into the mid80s. Expecting inland towns and cities. Cooler at the coastline and a town by town breakup coming up. Back to you for live drive time traffic. Julie more on that accident off the pike. You see the maps, things moving along fine on route 1 and 93 south. Southbound in the dedham area as you approach 135, but otherwise things look good. The live drive times, eight minutes on the expressway from the braintree split. 23 minutes on 93 south. 11 minutes on 128 northbound from westwood to th
Tracker Weather Center to time out comfortable conditions come to an end. We have got at least one day of perfect weather even as you wake up tomorrow morning. A little bit quiet and tomorrow is the big transition day. Today we will soak up the sunshine from tart to finish. Right now nice and bright in boston at 71 degrees. Upper 50s in beverly and down to plymouth. 53 in norwood and bedford. 57 in nashua and we have got some low 60s over the c 50s and 60s for the most part this morning, just a little touch of light fog in norwood. Fog not a big issue at all. Of course sunshine what a big issue if you dont have the sunglasses. 8 a. M. 69 degrees and we jump by another 10 degrees by 10 00. Lunchtime in metro west. 8 and upper 80s close to 90 degrees. Inland towns and cities with a shot of getting up to 90. Boston and the cape in the lower 80s. The town by town look coming coming up. Accident update. Shiri a an accident at freeport to the right hand side that is slowing things down. Nort