home at the time when the shooting happened. he was not aware if there were any adults inside the home. so the boy taken to boston, we re told, he is in stable condition right now in the hospital and doctors are working on him now. as for that weapon, the gun and the and gun in that house, the d.a. declined to same who owned it, but he said the gun was legal. whoever owned it at that home. we are working to get more updates, and we will be adding them on line, and we ll be back tonight on t 10:00 p.m. reporting live in abington, ted daniel, fox 25 news. vanessa: right now, we are tracking the tropics very closely. this tropical storm is brewing in the gulf, and it could change the labor day forecast here at home. within the past hour, our fox 25 storm tracker chief meteorologist kevin lemanowicz got new information on tropical storm hermine. kevin? kevin: well, this is a storm we re talking about here, not the one you just saw. this is the storm that we re more concerned
right now south of boston where temperatures are near 70. and it just feels sticky out there. a muggy start of the day for the cape and islands. 70s too and hold on to that humidity. temperatures today climbing into the upper is efforts to near 80. watch for scattered showers in the morning and a pop-up shower in the afternoon. drier air filters on in the next couple of days and talk more about that in the next few minutes. a check of your traffic julie: i like what we are seeing. north of the pike, everything moving along fine. the icons on the map, overnight construction projects that wrap up at 5 a.m. 9 minutes on the expressway. 20 minutes on 93 south from 49 to the leverett connector. 4:31 right now. taking a look at our top stories. counselors will be at schools in abington as a little boy hot in the face fights to recover at a local hospital. investigators tell fox25 this playing with a gun in a home on lynwood street after school. it is not clear if the victim sho
coverage starts right now. this is the fox25 morning news. gene: good morning, everybody, thursday morning, september 1. a brand-new month. let s make it a good one. i am gene lavanchy. sara: and i am sara underwood. a cooler day to start off the month of september, and happening right now in florida, a tropical storm is making a beeline for florida, and is growing stronger hour by hour. rain and lightning has already hit parts of tampa north to tallahassee. dozens of counties have states of emergency in place as forecasters warn it could become a hurricane before landfall tonight or early tomorrow morning. meteorologist sarah wroblewski is in the fox25 storm tracker weather center with a look at the forecast and how the tropical storm, sara, could affect our holiday weekend. sarah: we will have to watch the track very closely, sara, because could be impacts into labor day. the impacts greatest across there are hurricane warnings in place for tropical storm hermine that
meteorologist sarah wroblewski is with a look at our forecast and how this tropical storm could affect our holiday weekend. reporter: the current storm path will continue to push it to the north and northeast and that is the movement it has right nows a it is well in the gulf of mexico and it is forecast to make landfall later on tonight as a category 1 hurricane. the wind speeds are tropical storm force at 60 miles per hour. and the outer bands already pushing into the panhandle and the winds will hour. there is a hurricane warning for parts of the coast. tropical storm warnings too. i will talk about the rain falling across our region coming up in a few minutes. a check of your traffic with julie. julie: traffic or lack thereof the morning. things moving along route 1 and 93 south. south of the pike, the expressway starting to see slightly more volume, but nothing major yet, and nothing slowing you down on the pike to the tobin. already in our first drive time on the
but really noticing the impacts of the winds as we go on through the day and evening hours. as for us we will be watching it very carefully and i will have the track coming for you in just a few minutes but i want to show you we have rain out there right now, getting reports from twitter, especially south of boston, across the southeast, southcoast, cape, seeing mostly light at times pockets of moderate rain as temperatures are in the 70s for the most part, 60s to the north and west, we are going the south as we go on through the day in boston temperatures getting stuck in the 70s but look at what happens, see a few membranes in the cloud cover especially late, we will watch for a pop-up shower and have the timeline of the risk of rain for us today and how hermine may impact the area this weekend in just a few minutes. let s go to check of traffic now with julie grauert. julie: accident over route 3 northbound at route 18. this is in weymouth. two of the three lanes getting