Relations between us and cuba. The countries will reopen the respective embassies. John kerry travel to havana to reopen the embassy in august. And the president wants to go to cuba. Also, if the conditions are right. That means enough progress has to be made in human rights issues of bilateral relations and if he can meet with political dissidents as part of the plan to nudge the cuban direction in a new direction. An official announcement is expected from the white house as early as tomorrow. Similar take a look at these Associated Press pictures for some perspective. This is pres. Calvin coolidge in havana with his wife and the cuban president on january 19 the cuban president on january 19, 1928. According to the state department 88 years ago was the last and only time a sitting us congresswoman ilianainvited us to her home tonight. He said when the conditions are right and i asked myself, what happened to make additions, right . They deteriorated since the president made his speec
Temperatures still near freezing if not below it. And we have a high wind watch in effect for southeastern mass plymouth county. Cape and island that goes into effect midnight tonight until 8 00 p. M. Tomorrow for wind gusting 40 to 60 Miles Per Hour. 40degrees in boston now. 31 worcester. 33 fitchburg. This is area west of 495 with temperatures close to freezing. We do have some slick spots. Mainly the secondary roads, the driveway and sidewalk with patchy freezing drizzle here. For the rest of us its light shower activity. That will be the case through about midafternoon. The evening commute there may be a couple of heavier showers that roll in. And then overnight tonight once its mild air surges in fair game to get downpours in here from midnight through about 5 00 or 6 00 in the morning. Anytime you get under the heavy downpour they will likely drag order of 40 to 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour especially across southeastern mass. This pretty much wrapped up by thursday morning commute i
Meteorologist Jeremy Reiner for us i think we can get through this Winter Weather advisory in effect for worcester hills since 6 oclock newscast the Weather Service has pushed back the advisory farther west meaning they think inside 495 youre just going to have wet roads for morning commute. We have aseen that snow begin to change over to rain especially south of town. There are couple left off pockets of snow flurries around metro north side of metro outer here through rhode island connecticut and southeast mass. Thats the milder air. And that will work north. So if you havent seen snow flip over to rain it happens tonight and it will be patch light rain rain. Morning commute features rain drops in worcester hills and southern new hampsire there may air. Slow to move out. And so in those locations you may have some patchy freezing drizzle. But even up in southern new hampshire, the freezing rain rain. This is part 2 of the storm. This is the main event. This leading to severe this swe
495, leominster, worcester, orange, athol up into southwestern new hampshire. So well continue to see that over the next several hours. Then by early this afternoon, even there temperatures warming up just above the freezing mark. Showers around through the afternoon. The temperatures continue to climb into this evening. By 7 00 p. M. In the city of boston, i think well be just shy of 50 degrees, and well be in the lower 50s down through southeastern mass. At noontime, barely above freezing out through the worcester hills up into southern new hampshire. So well keep an eye on those temperatures throughout the day, but the theme here as we go overnight tonight is for everyone to warm up, in fact, all of us seeing temperatures running into the 50s as we work through the overnight hours and into tomorrow morning, and thats when we have the highest chance of downpours. More on that to come. Christa for a closer look at roadway, lets go to marshall hook and our traffic tracker this morning.
Light showers at that. Some of the wind gusts, laguardia officially 55 Miles Per Hour. Teterboro, 55. Larchmont, 67 miles an hour. The east end of long island, about 57 Miles Per Hour. Right now, its calm and quiet. Mostly cloudy, couple of sprinkles in spots. Temperatures will drop. Bounce back to the 50s and drop to the 40s towards the end of the day. Brisk and breezy. But no heavy rains to worry about or damaging winds. More on the forecast in a bit. Surveying the damage on the roads, heres lauren. Thanks. Im going to talk to you about two closures that will get in your way. Well start with the bronx River Parkway. All lanes shut down. Its a small stretch here. You can get around it. Head over to route 100 instead. Heading over to new jersey, we do have a closure on route 22 westbound. This starts at king george road. Thats also because of floofding. Two things to beware of. Lauren, thank you very much. The nasty storm, we all felt it. Knocked down trees and power lines and scenes l