They added the city to the watch list. Today a new round of closures and reopening delays go into effect. Affected shopping malls, restaurants and other businesses. Scott budman is tracking these changes. The Building Space for street seating in San Franciscos north beach because of the rise in local covid19 case, many Small Businesses here that planned to fully roo he open now have to make do serving takeout in outdoor diners. We were excited to reopen safely. North beach had reopening plans and today they had to put them on hold indefinitely. Which means about a dozen people wont be coming back to work. Theres no business. Trying to survive for now. Hoping for the best. Many San Francisco nonessential offices and indoor malls also have to reclose or postpone reopening plans. City Officials Say there is no timeline for when customers or employees will be allowed back in. When you plan to reopen, try to hold off on preordering major amounts of stock, especially if you are dealing in pe
With investigator, trying to get to the bottom of this. The reporter well, mark, i asked transportation secretary stephanie pollack about these passengers reports about a cord being wrapped around what they believed was an accelerator in the cab of this operator and she said its all part of a very active investigation. An investigation she says that focuses specifically and primarily on operator error. And we know tonight, that it was a nightmare commute for about 50 passengers on the redline. Take a look at this video. Sources tell me, 28 years, mbta veteran David Vasquez was the operator of this train. Pollack would not confirm his identity, but she told reporters the operator could not start the train this morning. Because of a signal issue. And put it into whats been called bypass mode, what is called bypass mode and then that operator stepped off the train. Both sets of brakes on the train vasquez sustained minor none of the passengers on the train were hurt. Transit police tell f
As temperatures well, no, they are not 52 they are not 52. They are in the 30s and 40s. Cloudy, but we are talking about dry conditions. By this afternoon, sure, we will be climbing into the low to middle 40s. Upper 40s this afternoon and some locations with a few breaks of sunshine. And by this evening. Sunset 4 11. We are going to notice those clouds thickening up further clouds thickening up furthermore. The risk of showers moves on in. Coming up we will take you through a timeline when to expect the rain and the warmup. A check of your traffic with Julie Grauert mroup things going. Julie sarah, looking good julie sarah, looking good. Ramps from the logan arrival and departure levels to the tunnel westbound are closed for another half hour until 5 a. M. That is why that section of the map is purple. Moving out, bright green. 93 south route 1 looks good and zakim bridge is open. 24 minutes on pike from 495 to mass ave. The pike. 22 minutes from peabody to the weston tolls. We begin w
Bit. 7 00 the rain is offshore. We are going to get breaks in the clouds thats likely going to allow fog to form. When the clouds go away, the fog can start to develop, so be aware of that. First thing in the morning there will be fog and also sunshine. Big warmup coming our way. No matter where youre heading for the holidays, you can take our weather app, keep a eye on weather alerts and the all for sevenday forecast. Its free to download from your apple or android device. A friend. Marathon bomber is free. He walked out of federal court after telling a judge he was young and dumb and thought he could outsmart everyone. Just want folks to know im human. The tsarnaev brothers used sean collier. There was emotion in that courtroom. Reporter mark, there certainly was. In fact the family members of silva collapsed out loud. 17 months time stefrd and silva walked out of court to join his family for christmas. Like you said, he actually was providing this gun to dzhokhar tsarnaev. The prose
Julie i am julie grauert. We are keeping a close eye on temperatures this morning. Shiri is watching where icy spots may form during the morning commute. Shiri, how are things looking right now. Shiri out there i am fairly optimistic. Above freezing. 40s in boston. 41 degrees. Bedford and lawrence at 40. 43 in hyannis. 36 in worcester and 36 in portsmouth, New Hampshire. Nashua and portsmouth under a freezing rain advisory. Could get to freezing and if we get any drizzle could cause patchy conditions. Look at that drizzle. A couple of spot sprinkles forming around 7 00 and continuing in a very widely scattered fashion through noon scattered fashion through noontime. Still plenty of spots and the dry spots are filling through the afternoon. Widespread drizzle at 3 p. M. Kids coming home from school. Make sure you are sending them with any rain gear because wet degrees during the afternoon hours and there are some of your steadier wind as you shift toward the evening commute. 44 to 54. M