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for the plan today we will go from 30 right now boston with cloudy skies to noontime 39 degrees and still dry there. the average area southeastern massachusetts and this morning we get these light and very scattered afternoon showers in the form of a little bit of rain at the coast. accumulation will have a tough time getting going. early for the cape and islands and this afternoon far north and west of boston. hour-by-hour look coming up back over to catherine parrotta with live drive time traffic. here it is. mostly green in that picture. a couple of spots west of the city. you can see the pike moving well in both directions. zooking back out to look at the north, 128, 93 moving south toward the city doing fine. route 1. zakim bridge, leverett connector. traffic moving just fine and not much of it out there. and a look at those drive times and a look at those drive times. on the pike from 495 to mass from the braintree to the pike, 9 minutes and from the weston tolls ....
a look at one of the cameras, traffic moving past the gas tank on the expressway moving at a pretty good clip. a look at drive times. 24, eight minutes on the pike to mass avenue. 24 minutes from 23 from 495 to the leverett connector. you are looking at a 20-minute ride right about now. daniel and sara, back over to you. daniel: 5 with 01 right now daniel: 5 with 01 right now. breaking news. a tragedy overnight in groton. sara: a two people have been killed in a house fire. jessica reyes is there this morning, and you got information from investigators. reporter: we did, sara, we just spoke to the fire chief, and he said unfortunately despite fire fighters doing their very best, two people were killed in the fire. take a look behind me, you can see a very active scene out here this morning. this all happened just before midnight at this home on wilie road in groton. you can see the flames just ripping through the house in this photo. the fire chief said the flam ....
first it was i did not have communications with russians. which was not true. since you have qualified your denial to say you did not, quote, discuss issues of the campaign with russians, what in your view constitutes issues of the campaign? let me say this without hesitation, that i conducted no improper discussions with russians at any time regarding a campaign or any other item facing this country. mr. chairman, i don t have to sit here and listen to his you re the one without having a chance to respond. give me a break. you don t recall whether you talked about issues. not being able to recall what you discussed with him is very different than saying i have not had communications with the russians. the ambassador from russia is russian. that s al franken saying that sessions is being less than truthful while the doj says he is clarifying the record of forgotten meetings that didn t seem important at the time. a second takeaway is news that bob muel ....
a story until donald trump made it one. it s actually more than that by now. it s deeply disturbing to most folks because it involves something all folks regard as sacred, the loss of our men and women in uniform and the gold star family members they leave behind. first the president compared his handling of gold star families to his predecessors and made false claims by doing so about president obama. then last night came the story of the condolence telephone call he made to the widow of u.s. army sergeant la david johnson who was killed in an ambush in niger in africa earlier this month. johnson s widow, mieshia, is 24. they have two young children. she is expecting in three months. and about that telephone call, it was playsed two weeks after this ambush killed four u.s. service members and wounded two others. former democratic congresswoman fred rico wilson was in the car with the family. this is what she says happened. he said well, i guess he knew something to ....
senator franken read off of the adjustments to jeff sessions testimony to his story since his confirmation hearing. yeah. and jeff sessions today insisting to senator franken as far as he s concerned no surrogates for the trump campaign met with the russians. when he himself now admitted that he s one of the trump surrogate that is meat with russians in the campaign. that shrug and response from the attorney general is going to end up being important and senator franken got that out of him today, too. one of the things that s stunning to me as a student of the senate is jeff sessions used to be the chairman of that committee and former chairmen are treated like gods in those committees for the rest of their lives. no matter what they re doing in that room. and this guy has had the roughest ride that any former chairman s ever had appearing before his own committee again. well, you know, if you want to avoid that, lying to the colleagues, a, pretend it s an accide ....