Into the afternoon hours and ten sustained in boston and 16 in p town and notice a little bit of breeze and gusty winds at times through the Morning Hours and winds will start to calm down as we head throughout the day and there are afternoon highs really not any different what we have out there now. Then tonight it really starts to get chilly, down below freezing and worcester down 31 later on and back if the 60s before long and good news theres no fog for the commuters to deal with this morning. Julie, what are the commuters dealing with. Julie Accident Route 3 south of town and route 53 in rockland so slowing things down just a little bit. Otherwise 24, 95, route 1 moving along at decent clip up to 128. Pike very sluggish eastbound through framingham even though weston tolls has cleared. Through brighton things still nice and light. Here are the live drive times to help you plan your day, 17 minutes weston tolls to the ted williams tunnel and 30 minutes on the expressway from the br
Will calm down as we head into the afternoon hours. There you go, high temperatures this afternoon not whole lot different from the numbers that we got out there currently, so good news is whatever youre comfortable wearing this morning you will be comfortable afternoon hours and spots down below freezing and coming up in a few minutes we will talk to you more about Hurricane Patricia. Julie lets look at roads where things are calming down as well, scenes pretty typical slowing on 93 south through the medford area as well on 128 southbound through burlington and lexington. Expressway still very sluggish as you head past freeport street and up into boston. Over to those love drive time 14 minutes on route 1 from 128 to the tobin bridge and 36 minutes on 93 south from 495 to the leverett connector and 38 minutes on 128 south from route 1 in peabody to the weston tolls. Daniel we continue to follow breaking news out of boston this morning where police are looking for a suspect in julie it
Contracting zika while traveling outside the u. S. The first case of the zika virus is confirmed. The patient is from boston. Health Officials Say the patient contracted it in a country where transmission is ongoing. 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 we dont expect a major outbreak in the United States despite the fact that theres considerable problems in south america. Reporter that includes nearly
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
Into snow and rain and then a sleet mix and then the rest of the morning commute from 6 00 on looks very snowy in boston with the snow shifting south and east. For a few hours, we will have some heavy, wet snow at the cape. My best estimate is to how much as to how much to expect is a wide swath of four to a maximum of eight inches of snow. So then the question comes with the temperatures in determining how much snow and the snow to rain ratio and mike has been working on that. Mike remember last winter that we had so much cold air on top of us and in this case, we are really going to be watching that. Snow and 35 degrees could lead to about eight inches of snow. When the temperature goes down, it starts to fluff up a little bit. Fluffier snow. Tomorrow, we are talking about temperatures just barely able to support snow, then the temperatures just keep dropping off and off. As we had late into the day and towards the evening hours, we dropped the temperatures back into the 20 s. By thi