And he should have notified Central Command about the incident. Neither of those things happened, the train just continued on. Metro staying tight lipped about all of it. Again were going to have the investigation go through all those things to see if all the procedures were followed. Reporter no one was hurt, just some shaken up. The train operator is now off the job as the investigation into this incident continues. What metro can say right now is this was a human error factor. What about the firings of those 21 that the tinspectors t . Reporter metro says it is done with the firing at this point. Metro says some track inspectors falsified reports before that derailment there. So 21 people now fired. Metro says that is the extent of the firings, but that is onethird of metros track inspection department. Weather, of course, another big story here. The winds have been a huge factor this afternoon. Weve had numerous trees down across the area. Now those winds bringing in the next round
To near 40s. Well stay this way to 8 00 and start to jump up in the low 50s as we dry out and get the sunshine back. We could certainly use some drying. Damp pavement causing some problems. And we have an update from metro. Heres melissa. Nice and open. We dont have any worries this morning with the exception, of course, of the safe track that we just heard about. Single tracking there. We still have this problem here as far as dark traffic lights theyre on the way. Route one at mount vernon memorial highway. It might be a little slow until they get that under control. You can see were nice and clear. Same thing if youre headed northbound. No worries on 270. No roadwork here. Same thing when youre looking at the beltway. No roadwork and now finally nice and dry. Guys . All right, melissa. When a gunman fired a shot inside a popular pizza company. This morning the Restaurant Owner is speaking out. Derrick ward has more. Reporter the pea stay store owner hes more worried about theeps con
The Foxboro Police chief is answering questions about the Chandler Jones investigation. Phil newscenter 5 s sera congi is live in foxborough tonight. Sera . Sera this is the first time we are hearing from the police chief since the incident on sunday. He is defending the department s actions and he says any talk of a coverup is being driven by the media. A lot of scrutiny on this department about a coverup potentially. Those are the media s words. Sera Foxboro Police chief ed o leary refuting any criticism of a coverup over the incident with Chandler Jones. We ve been very open. We have provided the media with a report of what happened, a timeline of what happened. At this point, there is no case. Sera sunday morning, the defensive end allegedly showed up at the back lot of the Police Department shirtless and in sweatpants. Police say he fell to his knees and put his hands behind his officers had him transported to the hospital. After pressure from the media, a redacted Police Report w
To bomb scarce at Arlington Catholic and saint agnes schools schools. Officials evacuated both of those buildings and you see there k9 units were in to search for any sort of threats, but police say the building have been given the all clear. Officials evacuating Falmouth High School this morning when it received a bomb threat. Police also searching that build building as a precaution. We should point out that so far police have not said that any of these threats are credible. We said that off the top and well say it again, but we are story. Well keep you posted here on. At the breaking news desk, adam william, 7 news. Anchor were also following breaking news on wall street. Stocks tanking again today. The dow down a little over 390 points ending the day at 15986. The nasdaq down more than 126 points hitting 4488 there, almost 89. A plunge in oil prices and a selloff in chinese stocks all global economy. Experts say today wraps up the worst two opening weeks of the year ever for the st
We have rain, fog, they will cause some issues as you leave the house. Meteorologist shiri spear in the Stormtracker Weather Center with a timeline when the rain will stick around. Shiri. Reporter showers out there. Redeveloping around providence, rhode island and push into southeastern massachusetts. The vineyard, hyannis, chatham. We have fog in place this morning and a couple of sprinkles from nantucket. Coverage is going to grow over the neck couple of hours. Maybe a little mist or drizzle from boston back through worcester and we will have to watch the fog reaching those locations, but it is the Morning Hours that we see that rain focused. Once we bit noontime, it is restricted to the cape and islands. Boston at 53 degrees. Worcester at 49. We tend to brighten up for a period this afternoon, but we are not done with the rain yet. It actually comes back during the evening hours, changing over to snow by this time tomorrow. 48 to 56 degrees today. Especially south of boston. And bri