22 days left in office. He promised he would go after russia for meddling in the u. S. Election and today he made good on that promise. President obama today retaliated against russia for hacking u. S. Commuter computer s to influence the election. Along with economic can sanctions and possible sign isser attacks, a handful of people were targeted. 35 Russian Diplomats will be expelled and two russian compounds shut down. In a statement the president said all americans should be alarmed by russias actions. Mr. Putin is a kgb thug and any interference in our elections or anything that is outside the interest of america should be met with an appropriate response. Reporter the Obama Administration is convinced that Vladimir Putin was personally involved in the hacking. And the kremlin is promising to strike back. President elect donald trump dismissed the controversy yesterday saying i think we ought to get on with our lives. Even if trump agree, he cant argue with the vast amount of inte
And until then, chilly start this morning. We zipped into the dipped into the single dints. 10 in nashua. A lot of teens in suburbs north and west of boston. 21 in the sit they. And then a lower 30s in parts of the outer cape where the clouds have been a little thicker overnight with ocean effect cloud cover. Real feel right now Single Digits in worcester is zero in keene 10 in boston. Theres still a bit of a breeze but the wind will subside over the next several hours. Clear skies and sunshine going to greet you today. We have had ocean effect clouds from plymouth to the cape and they will taper and gradually dissipate through late morning. So the planner goes this way. Bright sunshine sunrise coming earlier. Nice winter day on tap. 38 for lunchtime and the wind will be light and dipping into the mid30s for the ride home. Cloud will increase pretty rapidly late in the day. With the sunset at 5 21. Tonight. All the details on your weekend coming up. We will get you on the road together
In the lighter shade of brown, high wind warning until 10 00. The highest winds are with the rain and immediately following it. Pretty Quick Movement by 6 00, already be back edge moving through the worcester area. The boston area around 7 00. At about 8 00 or 9 00, it pushes its way toward the atlantic. Its very mild right now but as we had deeper into the night it will go subfreezing again, after midnight especially. We will start to ice up by tomorrow morning. More on the storm in what follows it for the rest of the week coming up in a few minutes. The storm unfortunately could not have hit at a worse time, right in the middle of the evening rush. The traffic not map shows a lot of red, all of it having and go traffic. Ken has more. Reporter we are on the pipe westbound and we havent encountered the heavy traffic you talked about on your map. This is a look at the road. Believe it or not, things are moving pretty well. Judging by what eric said, we are starting to get to where the m
Harry granahan who was in the traffic. Police were blocking it so no one would hit the manhole cover and there was a steel i could imagine if it hit a car it would have it could hit a person and would do some serious damage. Reporter transportation officials insist its a rare situation but because it was so tragic they wont leave anything unchecked. Police have taken the drain cover into inspection to inspect it for defects or excessive wear or anything that might indicate it was not secured the way it should have been. Christina hager wbz. News now back to you wbznews, now back to you. The 35yearold caitlin clavette. For her colleagues and student its terrible loss. Beth germano is live in milt reporter well, a gifted and art teacher is how they describe her here. I spoke with the superintendentof schools in milton and she says the news hit very hard. This morning faculty were given the news and given time to process it and returned to the classrooms and continued with the studies whi
40 right now proprovidence to taunton. Theres cooler air north and west. 28 in keene and the teens in burlington vermont. We have had had showers overnight mainly alodge south coast and cape. Along the south coast and cape. We will see increasing sunshine through the course of the morning. Quiet start to the week. Your planner goes this way, sunrise at 6 31. Temperatures will dip a few more degrees right around the freezing mark. Up to around 40 again by lunchtime so seasonal. The wind from the north northwest about 5 to 10 Miles Per Hour and fair and quiet heading into the ride home. Temperatures in the mid30s andset at 5 25. We will and sunset at 5 25. We will breakdown details coming up. Traffic and weather together back to reality today. Reporter good morning. School vacation week is over so we can expect increase in volume. Lets look at the expressway no trouble from braintree to routes from the south look fine. Same from the north as we pop up that map. Its early and that will ch