But the melt is now here. For a lot of us theres temperature close to the freezing mark and some icy spots here. If you head out the door for the first time this morning out in bedford nearby towns out of route 2 into merrimac valley you have to walk like a penguin down the driveway. 47 in boston. Almost feels like a beach day along the coastline compared weather weve had the last couple of day. Winter weather advisory extended until 11 00 this morning for slick conditions inland. I think for the most part we will win the battle here. With this milder air. You see in boston winds out of the south at 18. 21 out of the southwest in worcester. Higher terrain is warming up a lot faster out through the worcester hills than the lower elevation. That will happen over the next hour or two. Then we chase the slug of rain the best chance for widespread downpours between 4 00 and 8 00. Widespread temperatures into the 50s. Not only do we have the rain but gusty winds at time gusting over 50 Miles
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
Are rising. Play not happen before the commute start. Lets turn now to dave murphy and karen rogers and good morning. Yeah, right now on the big board we still have a Winter Weather advisory in the poconos. This area in pink, northern bucks, northern montgomery county, a good portion of chester couldnt and points north are still under a freezing rain advisory until 5 oclock this morning. Even if that expires then in the northern suburbs right down through the i95 corridor and even into parts of south jersey and delaware there are some lingering icy conditions on sidewalks, side streets and even some main roads. Now, the good news as matt and tam mentioned temperatures are rapidly rising but its not like you turn a light switch and the ice goes away so it might take a little while for that ice to totally disappear. So rising temperatures this morning but ice is still lingering again especially on sidewalks and id streets. Satellite and radar shows you that the precipitation is mainly go
Changing the debate over abortion in brazil. So this is the final full day of campaigning before supertuesday, the biggest voting day of the primary campaign. The candidates spent today making their final pitches. For the democrats 865 delegates and 11 states, republicans are fighting for 595 delegates in 13 states. And we begin with al jazeeras senior Political Correspondent Michael Shure. He is in miami for us. And a lot of fire has been directed at donald trump today. It all started last thursday in houston during the debate, marco rubio, and ted cruz deciding rather than fight each other, lets go after donald. And only in this year does the ku klux klan make it into the conversation in 2016. And that is what is happening now as donald trump is trying to disavow the endorsement of david duke, saying he didnt know who it was, so it continues on. And of course, one of the great things, tony about supertuesday, is that supertuesday eve always falls on a monday. Donald trump is nothing
Cover in place as their atmosphere perric warm weather. That could change by the middle part of the workweek. Ill volume those details coming up. We have something serious to talk about here at the macarthur causeway. Westbound lanes affected. About three lanes closed. Looks like only one lane getting by after this crash. That palm frond is covering part of the roadway. One lane getting by. From miami beach people, if youre in a hurry this morning, the macarthur causeway, its going to slow you down quite a bit. Lets check to see what our drive times are here. 38 Miles Per Hour is what it is. If youre in a big hurry, take the julia tuttle causeway, thats your bestlternate. Broward county another crash to get to, if youre traveling north on the i, and at approach to the atlantic boulevard, a crash not affecting our travel speeds though at 71 Miles Per Hour. Alert arrests a woman behind bars accused of stealing her cousins twol month old baby. Your phone might have been buzzingith that al