Also on the eye this morning, bargoers will certainly be relieved to see these. The cylinders, sparing cities from some sloppy behavior. Good morning, i m emily riemer. Randy and i m randy price with cindy fitzgibbon. A pretty decent start to the day. Cindy were getting closer to spring. Some of at 6 37 a. M. The wind will be active and bringing in colder temperatures. Right now it is 30 degrees in boston. Look at worcester counties back towards the Connecticut River valley, 20 s and the westerly wind kicking up, active all day long, colder air to our west. Six degrees in syracuse. Four degrees below and ottawa. You will feel it out there today. Some sunshine, but wind chills no higher than the 20 s. Dress for it. It is a cold day ahead. Let s look at the roads. A quiet start on the roadways. No accidents to report. Some volume picking up, but not on the pike. Let s get to those maps. 93 south down to dexcom road. Eastbound on the pike, wideopen, 15 minute ride. Also volume starting to
Investigators are trying to pinpoint what triggered the flames. President obama announcing an historic trip to cuba. He will become the first sitting president to do so in 70 years. First, those major delays on the Commuter Rail and mbta. A ripple effect. Todd is live where it all started. Problems are still lingering at this hour . Todd that is correct. Amtrak is still working to figure out what the problem is and repair the issue. At this hour, virtually every train coming or going from south asian is delayed south station is delayed. Normally, it arrives at 7 42. What time is it now . Todd 8 34. Yes, right. And they want to increase the fares. Todd outrage after get another slow commute. Station today. Passengers on other trains had to switch to disembark at other stations and take the subway or bus to get to south station. It took about an hour for a 20 minut trip. Todd some commuters walked between back bay and south station. They said they were not coming this way and the orange
So you can see its a mess. Its hard for people to even board the trains or get off the train because so many people are here waiting to board their train. Going on. Hour. Its a mess and also amtrak just told Mass Department of transportation that the problem with the switches is not going to be fixed for this evenings commute and may not even be fixed for tomorrows commute. So you need to check mbtas website as well as their twitter. Check our website at whdh. Com to see the latest because again, i mean this is an absolute mess. Live in signed Back Bay Station, Brandon Gunnoe, 7 news. Jadiann it is a packed house in there right now. Track trouble proving to be a challenge for engineers to fix. Adam doing it by hand. They have a been out there since this morning so lets get to dan hausle continuing our coverage. He is live at bostons south station. Dan . Commuters heir but some of the commuters are facing the same problems. Only stoughton and providence line that is leaving here. Look a
31 in boston. 23 in worcester. 29 bedford. Busy brees adding to the chill. Winds about 15 Miles Per Hour. Were dropping the windchill factor down into the teens. It feels like 11 in worcester. Boston. Sunshine. Well hold on to that sunshine through the afternoon. Some clouds making their way back toward the cape and island even a late day snow showers orrening snow showers across the cape. 34 the best we can do in the city of boston. Lots of lowtomid 30s through the south shore. Up into southern 1 21 2 this afternoon. And upper 20s through the worcester hills. Hard time warming up much from where we are right now. Its just a pattern that were in for the day with the breeze and again more clouds down through the cape cant rule out a passing snow shower or two this afternoon into the evening. Especially across the outer cape. Well take a look at the weekend forecast coming up in a bit. Back to breaking news. Traveling in and out of south station. Amtrak signal causing problems on the Com
Outside. Overall a quiet stretch of weather over next several days. There may be a few snow showers and some sprinkles working in late friday night into early saturday. But the weekend looks mainly dry and temperatures over the weekend in the 40s to near 50 degrees. We track a midweek storm in here next week. More on that sevenday forecast coming up. Sarah time now for fast track traffic with danielle gersh. Danielle thanks, sarah. Good morning, everyone. Lets head outside. Heres a look at the zakim bridge. Traffic looking good so far this morning. Lets go to the maps. Heading into town on 93 southbound, route 1, no issues to tell you about this morning. South of town from braintree into boston on the expressway northbound, that drive just ten minutes. No issues there. Route 3, 24, 95 all looking good this morning. The pike from framingham eastbound into boston is a wideopen ride. Lets take a lack at those drive times if youre getting ready to head out the door. Ten minutes on the expr