Good morning. Im jane pauley and this is sunday morning. Its oscar sunday. Hollywoods biggest night. As well be noting through the morning, from barbie to oppenheimer to kill a mockingbird, its been quite a year for moviegoers. But it almost didnt happen. Last years paralyzing strikes by writers, actors and other film workers all but shut down the industry, even putting tonights oscars in doubt. The strikes are now history and screens, large and small, shine brightly, a true hollywood ending thanks, in no small parts, to the efforts of one very leading lady, as tracy smith will tell us. The strike is one of the most powerful tools we have. Reporter in a strike lasting nearly four months, Fran Drescher was the face of defiance. Workers unite reporter now she is helping the town get back to business and doing to her way. What about your career on camera and producing . What . Im never going to work again. There is a plaque list with one name on it. Reporter the nanny and hollywoods new n
The size of an m80 into this glue stick and tossed the Smoking School supply towards a teachers desk. We are fortunate. Sometimes you are fortunate that in this case that it didnt explode. Luckily the flame in the glue stick container diffused keeping it from going off but it did cause panic in the classroom that was evacuated. Margaret wright was not in the class but saw the aftermath. After it happened, they had kids running around upstairs from that had to go get the School Officer and stuff. Police found a note with a teachers name on the potential explosive and the words you will pay on the boys facebook page. Officers tracked a threat to kill the teacher and explode a grenade at the school. He was charged with inducing panic and suspended for ten days. You can hide stuff and talk to us. But some say did the district did talk about it enough. Parents did not receive any notification. It is a judgment call. Where we lock the building we automatically do a call to everyone home. And
Colder spots, merrimac value, southern New Hampshire. Even there, you shoot up to 50. Winds gusting 20, 35 Miles Per Hour out of the south. That will continue to increase, a couple of showers in here across Worcester County as well as south and west out toward bon of. Back into hopkinton, these north. Expect scattered showers over the next few hours. Later this afternoon, this line of rain yesterdayed down pours and strong wind gusts has to work on through. It looks like the timing of that between about 4 and 8 p. M. Temperatures even this evening are running into the 50s. So contend with that strong wind at times, gusting over 50 Miles Per Hour over eastern mass. In between 4 and 8 p. M. Quick, half an inch, to an inch of rain. Do expect standing water on the roadways. Reduced visibility. So a slow go for the rain and evening commute. Isolated wind damage too. Tree branches falling down when the winds start gusting. This all wraps up by midnight tonight. More on that sevenday forecast
Around trying to get into work. Slick sidewalks. Downtown boston at 27 degrees, but look at the difference. Down 93 to randolph, its 46 degrees. 29 in dedham. 31 in waltham. So its essentiallies be north and west, subfreezing temperatures giving us those icy conditions, and a lot of the secondary roads, the driveways and sidewalks very slick. Southeastern mass, different world here. 50 degrees in West Bridgewater, 50 in dighton, 48 west wareham. That milder air working up from southeast to northwest as we go through the morning. So icy inland over next few hours. Of us will be mild this afternoon. Wind and rain the story midafternoon into midevening. Well talk more on that and potentially how strong the winds will gust and how much rain to expect coming up. Sarah all right. Lets get a look with marshall hook in the traffic tracker. To the leverett connector. As you can see, were down to wet pavement. There is some of that slush off to the side. This is one of the major roads, the major
Directions here. You see the scene behind me. It is a messy one. Massachusetts state police say route one should be shut down for possibly a couple ohours as they work to clean all of this up. You see this car hit a utility pole. It snapped it and pulled the wires down on to the roads. 10,000 volts are running through those wires. The power has been cut at this point. It was a very precarious scene earlier this morning. This was a twocar accident, actually. Route one on the southbound side here. She decided she was going to turn into this carwash here on route one. Driver who hit the utility pole, forcing her off of the road and into the pole. She was not seriously injured. People here at the carwash were in a panic. That woman was in the car. The pole, the wires and trchlers were on her car. The owner of the carwash says the driver got out on her own. I was really nervous. Vehicle in case it was charged with electricity and just touched the person. Very quickly. And away from the wire