Close eye on things because there is a changeover that is happening to sleet. And it is a messy morning out there on the roads, weve got our team of meteorologists tracking the storms, eric fisher is live in fitch berg. Reporter chris and kathryn good morning to you. Slick conditions for sure, its not the worse i have ever seen the roads, go nothing patches where there is still ice on the roads, now here you can see the ice covered streets, a little more difficult starting to pick up that sleet as it adds up as opposed to snow fall, tricky to drive on as well, just a word of caution. Taking a look at headlines for this particular storm, for those of you watching through the course of this one, a big time sleet event for us, more sleet than anything else type, snow fall over to the north. Travel troubles mostly about this mornings commute, we have fewer people on the roads because of vacation week and no school, heavy rain in southeastern massachusetts as temperatures warm across the cape, south shore, islands and south coast. In terms of totals not a big event, most towns, sleet as well on top of that. 24 moving into New Hampshire, bigger shows, northern New Hampshire and interior parts of maine, barely seen snow fall. Throes of winter weather, especially to our north, those folks have had a touch start to the year. We will talk about what is going on with the storm, here in the low 20s, seeing sleet instead of snow, lets get array car check and look at the time line, Danielle Niles standing by in the studio with that. At least you know we are seeing that changeover start to occur better. Lets zoom in on the current radar, 34 degrees, 37 in the vineyard, weve had sleet pellets on the cape, making that changeover as well. So right along route 3 you encounter raindrops then the sleet mixing in. Boston. 22 in worcester, cold i remember area cross the interior. Even though we have a little bit of snow showing up on radar, it is maybe about 995 sleet with a coup. 75 sleet with a couple flakes stretching done to the Merrimack Valley, sleet on top of that making a crusty mix out there. So hour by hour that rain line will continue to make northward progress mid to late morning, coming into the city of boston say around 9 00 a. M. Temperatures in the 40s on the cape at that point, still cold enough across the interior that we get sleet through late morning and early afternoon, is 1 00 p. M. Rain and some downpours in there, that will reduce visibility, but the evening a up could he will leftover showers, there might still be icy patches north of could be cord and back into new england. Pamela, you said its mostly sleet but slick out there. Reporter yeah, its slick out here and we have that sleet still accumulating out here, i want to show you, if you can see off my glove, the sleet is bouncing off of any surface out here. We have these little ice pellets. We have warm air at the loft, cold air at the surface, so we get these sleet pellets, a bummer, we were hoping for snow. We had the changeover earlier than expected. Well get you through this morning commute, so the roads little bit of snow between 1 00 a. M. 3 00 a. M. On our way out here, now there is a layer of ice on top, we had many of ice trucks out here, middlesex road as you lead up to pheasant lane mall out here in nashua. But, yeah, just want to let you now its slick out here. And again its ice covered, snow covered so use caution on the roads, well continue to keep you posted at nashua, New Hampshire. Pamela, the roads are becoming slick, the winter mix is hitting the pavement, we are getting word of an accident involving a truck on route 24 at exited 18 in lowell, the ramp from route 3 north to route 495 has been shut down due to an accident. And mass dot says there is a 40 mile per hour speed limit from sturbridge to the new york border, lets take a live look during the School Vacation. There are no problems on the leverett connector inbound. The ride looks fine into the city from the south shore well see if that changes throughout the morning, mobile had 49 unit in and around boston you can see some of the snow on the roads, its the side roads that are tricky ones. Chris and kathryn back to you. Thank you very much, susie. Our Team Coverage continues for you on this tuesday, some people just a few daysing a put perspective wearing shorts and now there is a rush to get ready for this winter weather. Folks lining up shopping for shovels, snow blowers, salt and sand, a lot of people didnt get those for christmas. Nicole jacobs is live in andover on what people are saying about the first storm of winter, hi there, nicole. Reporter chris, would you really want a shovel for a Christmas Present . I would have to say no. But on a serious note, this an insignificant storm in the grand scheme of what we know. But certainly you dont want to take these roadways for granted this morning. They are quite slick, we had to take it pretty slow here this morning getting to and drover, this is interstate 93. But really if you havent already prepared for what we are experiencing now, time is running out. On a scale from 110 this one maybe pretty low. Have i people here at 8 00 in the morning, the doors were open, its like black friday. But the preparation for winters first appearance is all the same, starting with the virtually untouched. I would say see a couple be excited about that. This is set to be nothing like we know. I was really hoping, to im tired of of snow. A little elbow crease can wear down the best of them. I broke two shovels last year. To break, the t has a deicing remedy for that sub born third rail. Very similar if you take a flight during the winter and they spray the wings. No need to worry about the amount of Energy Experted during this storm, there is sure to be left in the tank for winter as we really know it. Reporter taking a live look here at interstate 93, in just about a minute weve seen traffic kind of slowdown a little bit, that is because all of these cars that are moving so slowly right now are behind a line of plows, so certainly crews are out treating these roadways over a thousand crews were told mass dot has really treating the roads making sure things are safe. Lets hope that everything pans out especially as we know things will get worse, well will get more significant as the winter guess on. Thank you very much, that is take your time out there. Remember you can track this storm with the cbs boston weather app, always look at the live radar as the storm continues to move through our area. Thanks for staying with us, its 5 09, coming up a check of your top stories. An anonymous threat to the city of boston, what the city is doing to ease fear. Did hackers target other banks in the area . Good morning, danielle. God, chris, we are tracking the snow, sleet and rain, and when the changeover occurs, with have the big holiday coming up, a little bit of snow out there, changing to sleet. Stay with us you are watching. Welcome back, it is 5 12 on tuesday morning, if you look out the window you can see we are dealing with our first winter storm of the season bringing snow, sleet and rain across the area. I feel like saying hello, old friend. Making for a messy morning commute, lets get right to eric fisher who is tracking the conditions in fitchburg, luckily a lot of kids dont have school this week. Reporter that is a big about school closures, this week is statistically good time of of year to have a winter storm system, easy for me to say roll through, sleet, the absolute worse, for any kids who want to make a snowman, snowball fight, cancel that out. Sleet is mocking you, it looks like sand except of course its frozen to taking a look back to summer and saying here is what you got as we approach january, icy grains, it also holds down accumulation, so the whole overall scene is not going to be the beautiful wintery scene, for this storm, not my favorite. Lets take a look at why were seeing sleet from this particular event instead of just a snow fall, even though its so cold outside, it has to do what is going on over our head, this is typical of an el nino winter, we get these type of system where is warm air is moving aloft. Just a small layer near the surface you get freezing rain, you have sleet, the warmest temps are actually thousands of feet above our head that is is refreezing, you need of course below freezing temperatures to get that snow fall. When you look at all of it, the sleet on top of snow is not southern and central New Hampshire, staying off toward the north. The main impact is not a major storm, we dont have coastal flooding or strong, damaging winds, just nasty travel, making sure everyone is caught up with our changing conditions, staying safe with our first winter storm of the season. Danielle niles is tracking the storm, it feels invigorating, always a little bit fun. Invigorating with the sleet pelting against your face that will certainly wake you up, eric,. We are talking about the sleet in a lot of places as you like eric reported, 2 degrees in worcester, i see a lot of pink on the map, making that transition over to a little bit of rain in the cape and islands, sleet pellets mixing in right along route 6, that is the key this morning, slow your speeds down just saw a couple reports on twitter of a few spinouts, p 92 in the city of boston, 24 in lowell, so there is colder area across the interior, still snowflakes mix in, its not accumulating that much. 34 now in boston, but 20s across the interior and there is just a bit of a wind out there, 28 Miles Per Hour in the city right now, gusts over 20 in the cape. The real feel is 10 degrees in worcester right now. 22 in boston, 17 in lawrence. So you certainly want to be bundled up as you step outside, the storm itself is lifting that extends back to the midwest, but for us its this bulk of moisture coming through from the morning until the early afternoon for most of is. So hour by hour that rain line going to be lifting over the south coast over the next hour or so, south shore and the city of boston by the time we get to 7 30 and 8 00, 34 degrees, still cold in the 20s from manchester to worcester, it is going to be that sloppy, crusty mess with areas of sleet continuing to fall, at least from Merrimack Valley until late morning and as early as early afternoon particularly when you get north of manchester and then back to keene. The afternoon, its plain old rain but its a cold rain, temperatures only around 40 degrees, the evening commute will be much drier, with just a couple leftover showers, so a couple isolated outages may occur with the sleet changing over to pockets of freezing rain, along the berkshires and a few spots patchy here across is likely and that may be just enough to bring down a couple isolated branches or at least cause a few isolated outages, dry. Now the same storm coming to us right now could stall south into moisture, wednesday night into thursday there may be a couple rain showers clipping the southeast of new england, we clear the skies out, new years eve night looking like the skies will be partly cloudy and temperatures won be that cold, it will be breezy though. Manage to come up around 40, day there during the day tomorrow, high temperatures on thursday, so new years eve day will be above average, mid to upper 40s, then as we take it up through the ball drop at midnight, we are go to go cool back into the 30s, windchills probably going to be in the 20s, if you are heading out for festivities, it could be worse up around 40s for new years day, we take it through the couple flurries around, only in the upper 20s for the start of next week. Traffic and weather together, susie, good morning. Good morning, danielle. The conditions continuing to get slick out there in stoughton on route 24 southbound an accident has shoulder blocked on 20. And in lowell the ramp from route 3 north to route 4995 has been shut down due to an accident there, that is at exit 35. Lets take a live look now at the southeast expressway, traffic is moving nicely in dorchester by the gas tanks, a live look at our timesaver map this morning, the ride looks okay coming into the city from the north. Well see if that changes. We also have a live look out at mobile 4 out on the roads in boston, can you see a little bit of coverage, snow probably slowing a couple people down, so be careful out there, chris, susie thank you very much. Boston police and the fbi are looking at a anonymous threat against the city, the threat was made yesterday, that caller mentioned no specific target, time or what the threat was. Boston police questioned the credibility of the threat but residents say even vague threats make them worry. You hear that you get nervous, times right now everyone is a little unsettled, hopefully not actual threat. When you have a noncredible threat its hard because they can create a lot of havoc in the city just by doing that, you dont know what to do. Boston police say theyll continue keeping a high visibility presence at all large public gathering. Protesters taking to the streets of cleveland, ohio, after a grand jury declined to date a Police Officer in the death of a 12yearold, police shot and killed tamir rice in toy gun and the two officers involved in the shooting said that it looked real, the incident was caught on surveillance video. Federal prosecutors are conducting a civil rights investigation of the Cleveland Police department. New developments to the everett man, we are learning he will face a judge again to determine if he is a danger to the community. Mark lavoine surrendered to police, he was in court yesterday and will remain behind bars until his hearing later this week. It is 5 20 right now, three Police Officers are being called heros for saving a woman inside of a burning home in webster, the group forced their way into one apartment yesterday to save the woman inside. She is being treated for serious injury, we are told two of the officers also suffered smoke inhalation. Police are investigating if other banks are involved in a major hack attack at a local Quincy Credit Union customers were targeted by thieves, the hackers stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from bank accounts. Making sure other banks were not hit. Still ahead, donald trump on the offensive in the Granite State. Why he is taking attacking papers in New Hampshire. Be prepaid for a slick and slippery commute, well be welcome back, it is 5 24, over to campaign 2016, donald trump campaigning in New Hampshire. He called the lieder a pile of gar been, trump made the comment wednesday after the paper published a scathing front page report calling trump candidacy an insult to the intelligence of voters in the Granite State. Its not a good paper, you know its dying, i dont think it is going to be in business no more than two years, you dont try to hurt somebody that has been helping you, you dont do that. Trump also fired back at the paper about their endorsement of republican rival chris christie. Meanwhile former president bill clinton is heading to the Granite State next week to campaign for his wife hillary. Bill clinton is scheduled to appear next monday in nashua and petter. Its the coins to people still cant stop talking about, should Bill Belichick have taken the ball in overtime, bill bill check says there is no confusion. That is what he want the and he doesnt regret it. That is how we it it, didnt like the way it worked out, but i that was to me that was the right decision for our team at the time. The pats looking ahead to mashup against the dolphins, wbz gets you started off on sunday morning with patriots between the pats and dolphins at is, immediately following 5th quarter post game show on my tv 38. Thank you so much for staying with us, still to come, more Team Coverage of this winter storm. First one of the season, how long before it clears out and the impact its having on your morning commute. Went wither weather makes a return, im Nicole Jacobs live in andover with a live report, coming up, danielle. Nicole we are changing over to sleet and rain back down through the south shore, cape and islands, tracking that line, taking a look at mobile 49 in boston right now, traveling through some of that crusty snow that has changed over to sleet. Right now at 5 30, we have an eye on the storm, snow changing over to sleet. It is a wintery scene out that, all the way back in march for most towns, a walk through the forecast this morning and when things will start to improve. From record warmth to snow and sleet within a week, how people across the by state with their first taste of winter. Good morning, everybody, great to have you with us on this tuesday, im kathryn hauser. And im chris mckinnon, dealing with our first winner storm of the season, we have a team of meteorologists tracking the change as we go from snow lets go live to fitchburg with eric fisher. Over there . Reporter what we are seeing here is a lot of sleet mixing in with snow fall, it has a coming down, the sleet is icy pellets, you can probably hear pinging off my jacket and off the windows in your house, take time to get outdoors, we understand that. It is not so nice in fitchburg, everything coated in sleet and snow, continuing as we head through the morning. Taking a look at temperatures, even though its cold at the surface, we will warmer air over our head that is melting our snow make flakes and refreezing, that is why we have all the sleet. 2 in orange, keene is at it 1, for most of the interior 4995 and north, that cold air is going to stay locked in most of the day keeping us in sleet and freezing rain. Biggest impact on your commute is going to this morning, boston in particular, as the day goes on, we will start to see warmer temperatures and rain. Things will improve toward lunch time and beyond. Farther north and west in places like fitchburg, along 495, places farther to the sleet and freezing rain through the course of the day, and so roads will stay icy and dose he, i have to talk dicey. He is already but he loves the storm, first snow for him, he loves it, it is a california boy you he loves new england. What is the little guys name. Dude. Yeah. The dude, enjoy the sleet this morning. Thank you. Everyone seems prepared out on 0 streets of fitchburg, the dude is ready for an icy morning, pretty naturally out here in fill burg, tracking the latest on the radar,. That is fantastic, i love that he still is in the holiday spirit