Investigate, and as he fled, they say he hit fred pica, whose wife says he clearly showed no regard for her husband he was a coward from the getgo. Maybe he would have done time for hitting the officer, but don t go and destroy someone else. Reporter a long road ahead for fred but of course he and his wife very thankful he survived. Heather also breaking, a federal judge in massachusetts rules that bill cosby s wife must answer questions under oath in a defamation lawsuit filed by seven women who claim cosby sexually assaulted them decades ago. But Camille Cosby can also claim marital privilege and refuse to answer some questions about their private conversations. Anchor it s difficult to show but temperatures are dropping and they could be dangerously low. The first is here already. We drop to the teens in boston. It is 11 now. This is a bitter cold night. This isn t the most severe portion of the cold. We can t emphasize enough it is cold out. To above in boston. The air temperature
S check it out. We are down to 22 in boston. One of the reasons is elevation. We have a call in New Hampshire, it is down to eight degrees. Also, with elevation. This is a cold air mass. Watertown, new york. Up. When is gusting to 30 miles per hour. Windchill is below zero. Single digits in boston. The air temperature starting out will not be as windy as it is now. It will be quite cold. Single digit full show up and we will struggle to get to the upper teens tomorrow afternoon but the cold i am talking about is still to come. The really harsh cold is on its way beginning saturday afternoon with strong wind. Been issued saturday afternoon. We talk more about this, some snow for some of us coming up tomorrow night in a little. Jc now to 5 on the opioid crisis. Lawmakers in washington calling for hundreds of millions of dollars to combat the heroin crisis. That includes Democratic Senators from both massachusetts, New Hampshire and new york. But as newscenter 5 s janet wu tells us it wil
Berkshires, no surprise there. They are getting heavier snow skwaulgs. 3 4 of a mile visibility. Shows up on radar. An area on the south shore. An area around the north and west of 495. Everything moving east. Enough aerial coverage that one of us will be getting some flurries and a few could be briefly heavier and when the temperature drops down it could make things slippery briefly. Fairly light and the temperatures just above freezing. Ground warmed a little from the bright midday and afternoon. Marshfield at this hour, you see them from worcester, and you can see that they are all going to be moving eastward. Want we get to 7 00 or 8 00 they will dis sipate. Another disturbance tomorrow may cause this to happen again. That will usher in the first of the two surges of bitter told air. Much more in a little while. Three decades in prison for rape is now free on bail. The judge man is innocent. Karen . Karen a stunning moment in this courthouse here, as george, who has been locked up
Cover weighing more than 200 pounds went crashing through her windshield as she drove on i93 in boston this morning. Right now emergency inspections of 500 Manhole Covers and utility panels is underway as we speak. Team coverage begins with jack harper live in boston. Reporter the crews are out there now, they will be out all night. They are looking for issues, trying to fix them and make sure this does not happen again. Caitlin clavette was 35. Active in athletics in arlington she was an art teacher at the Glover Elementary School in milton. Quite she was nice. I liked how she would work. She had how we would do in her class. Every time we get good it would does she would give us a sticker. Reporter she was heading there this morning when her honda was hit by this 200 pound plus manhole cover. The windshield on the driver s side was blown apart she never had a chance. Her car continued on 93 south for a short distance before veering into the wall on the high speed lane and stopping in
Eyepoppers. Good morning and thank you for joining us. Emily and i m emily riemer. Cindy make sure the water s off on the hose because we have called we have not seen coming in for the weekend. Today is deceiving because temperatures are not that bad. Around 20 degrees in worcester and boston can. You want to bundle the kids up this morning. Temperatures don t change much of this afternoon. The air today is coming from the west and it is colder there than it is right here. Temperatures will have a hard showers are round and the wind will get gusty a frontal boundary will apologize and it s triggering a couple of snow showers west of worcester down through connecticut and eastern long island. Some of the snow will shift east toward late morning at midday and into the afternoon. We are talking about scattered snow showers. We could see a quick burst of snow with some of these two maybe one inch of snow and it could made make the roads a slippery. It dies down this evening. The windchill