Good morning. So this meeting will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of doe, during covid19 pandemic. Members will be participating in todays hearing finally in person or remotely via video conferences. And just as a reminder weve had some technical difficulties in making sure that our remote video was operating up to standard. As part of this hearing, the microphones of members participating remotely will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members participating remotely will need to unmute their microphones each time you wish to speak. For members and witnesses participating in person, i encourage you to wear your mask whenever you are not speaking. Dr. Monahan, our physician, stressed in attending physician covid19 guidelines that use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case someone was unknowingly infected and does not have symptoms. But wearing our mask when we are not speakin
Shooting but we are hearing many stories about the shooting survivors and victims. Allie rasmus is outside the hospital where there are victims. Reporter there people still recovering. There ages fall from 69 years old and their conditions are either the same as they were yesterday or they have improved point they know they are expected to recover from physical injuries but there is sadness and devastation to the other people who attended the festival and did not survive, including sixyearold Stephen Romero who is with his mother and grandmother at the festival. Mom and grandmother survived after being shot, the little boy did not. The sixyearold boys father spoke is disbelief when he got a call from the mother that their child had been shot. I couldnt believe what was happening. Reporter 13yearold Keyla Salazar began separated from her family. She initially thought she had slipped and fallen trying to run from the gunfire and did not realize until later that her daughter had been shot
Track rain and its humid. Its a soupy start to the day tracking rain light rain in some communities and its pouring in others. South of boston light ran along 128 from Quincy Braintree split and medfield a little light rain and a break north of boston inform you run into the substantial downpours from lowell and east into boxford greens an reds and reds and oranges is where its pouring and you will get responding ponding water. Downpours extend from southern new hamture temple and new boston and ware crossing 93 in the next halfhour. And theres downpours on the south side from concord stretching back up to barnstead areas temperatures warm and its humid. You will notice that right away. Back into the rain back to new jersey so whats happening here is the downpour that is are over us right now kind of fizzle out through late morning and then it south coast that gets into rain case and islands. Otherwise, breaks of sun come out and that will help fuel a few additional showers maybe an is
I daresay even grab the sunglasses if you will be out there in the next half hour because we have got the sun coming up. And north of boston, a little sunshine out there. Beverly, 24 degrees. Fitchburg, 23. Boston itself waking up to 28 degrees and 25 in plymouth. The clouds are going to continue to thicken up, so by 8 00 this morning, we have 31 in boston. But we have 20s across the burbs. The warmup continues. So at noontime, get ready for near 40 degrees. Mostly cloudy. And dry as you have any afternoon plans. It is more between 4 and 7 that you will see that snow pushing up to the mass pike. So that means during the evening commute, especially south of boston are going to start getting slippery. 46 to 42 the range of highs. Clouds take over with that late snow moving in and how long it lasts before making that changeover to rain coming up. Now Julie Grauert with live drive time traffic starting at route 9. Julie shiri route 9 in the a rollover accident that took out a power pole. T
Marriage. And toronto the mayor that has big news that may keep his name in the punchlines for years to come. We begin with a winter storm of 2014. This is a live picture of midtown manhattan, the wind and snow picking up. Its bad, worse in boston. This is a live picture from there. Parts of new england have two feet of snow on the ground as 1 million americans are in the path of this extreme weather. John terrett has been following the situation and brings more. A good evening to you. This is the end of the boston marathon. You know where we are. We are in the square in the downtown, as you can see, the snow is coming down steadily and its been this way since lunchtime today. I have to say we were expecting more blizzard conditions by now than we have, to be honest with you. Its freezing cold. And its important to remember that what we have is two storms coming together. One is a noreaster and they clash and the effect is a huge dump of snow, and massachusetts is the epicentre of the