Sera an ef one tornado just to give you some perspective, it ef0 is the weakest. One of 39 homes to suffer damage, residents getting an earlymorning wakeup call for Mother Nature. It was incredibly scary. I dont think my heart has ever beat that fast in my whole life. Alone when Mother Nature swept across her home around knocking 3 a. M. , tree limbs down around the house. It was literally 2 to 3 minutes and then it was all done. Sera the tree in the front yard, uprooted and toppled, but luckily not crashing into her home. The powerful storm pulled down utility poles and snapped tree limbs, power lines draping across lexington road, the hit section. I heard this ungodly noise. Sera a pine tree came down onto breaking under the weight of the tree. Weve got to take the whole thing down. Sera owner sal caccavaro says he has insurance, but the expense comes after a slow summer. The last eight weeks with the drought has been a nightmare. Sera as the cleanup and repairs get underway, most re
Did he mistake sign language for a threat of violence. Did they know . A new report out on that alligator attack at disney world. At least two tourists telling disney employees that an alligator was near the beach just hours before a 2 year old was killed. Were their warnings ignored. And dropped. Ryan lochte loses four major sponsors over the false claims he was robbed in o. Could it threaten the bid to bring the games back to los angeles, today, tuesday, august 23rd, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Its a Tuesday Morning. We still dont know what the usoc is going to do in terms of punishment for these four already speaking out. Paying a heavy price indeed. Lets start with new developments in the president ial race including the revelation that investigators found 15,000 additional hillarys that Hillary Clinton never turned over. Our decision 2016 team
The end of the week. But will we see any rain . Sevenday forecast ahead. Sarah time now for fast track traffic with Danielle Gersh. Danielle thanks, sarah. Good morning, everyone. Much quieter start on the roads today. The expressway only about ten minutes from braintree to boston. Lets go to the maps now. South of town a lot of green. No issues on routes 3, 24 and 95. Problemfree heading in or out of town on the pike. A couple work crews still out there. Theyll wrap things up as we head into the 5 00 hour. 93 fine back to 495, and no issues on route 1678 lets check those drive times if youre getting ready to head out the door. Ten minutes braintree to boston northbound on the expressway. Just 12 minutes enter town on the pike from 128. 93 southbound, 128 to the zakim bridge, just 11 minutes. Both the t and the Commuter Rail starting the morning on schedule. Back to you, guys. Sarah breaking overnight, one person rushed to the hospital after a shooting in dorchester. It happened on nor
The governor turning the area and talking about how lucky he felt. It was an extraordinary amount of damage for such a short hit and i literally find it hard to believe that in one minute anything could do what this storm did up there. So its a remind their another nature at the end of the day can be one heck of a force when she s to be. Anchor the continue 1,000 homes lost power about half of them have it back. Were told by night fall most of those homes will get all of the power restored. There are a couple of homes up in the neighborhood thats hardest hit. They say it may have to wait until tomorrow. I told but that one worker injured. He was caught by one of these branches snapped back against him going into one of chipper machines. He was taken to the hospital were told his injuries are not lifethreatening but its interesting that the only injury so far was not during the tornado but in the cleanup. News. Anchor all right, dan, thank you. Also on 7 a park ranger facing charges acc
Any arrests. And right now Boston Police certaining for a suspect they say sexually assaulted a woman at a local playground. Anna miler is live in the south end with what police want you to know. Reporter kate, police say a woman was walking right here in the south end around 1 00 yesterday morning when a man came up to her, said he had a knife and forced her to follow him. Boston police say the man approached her when he was riding a blue bmxstyle bike in claremont street. Investigators say the suspect forced her to walk to the careter playground where he sexually assaulted her. He then took off toward davenport street and is still on the run. Police are now putting out a Community Alert warning the public to be on the lookout for the suspect who they describe as a hispanic man in his late 20s to mid30s. Hes 56 inches tall has a medium build. He has tattoos on his right arm Boston Police are asking anyone with information to give them a call and you can stay anonymous. Reporting live