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WCVB Newscenter 5 Eyeopener September 6, 2016

Kind of gray. I want to show you a city cam right now. Oh, yeah. Kind of gives you an indication that that is boston. Can you tell . Yeah, no, not really. We have got mist and drizzle, so its producing visibility with the fog. Five miles in town but worcester, three miles up on the north shore so nothing nice to start at the bus stop with the areas of mist and fog. Lower 60s now, low 70s thi seeing a few gusts at 20 Miles Per Hour, and the winds will gust between 20 and 30 Miles Per Hour. Not nearly as strong as yesterday. Still, though, associated with hermine, which is spinning 100 miles to the south, and the storm is weakening but it is tracking westward, and thats going to carry the core of the strongest winds towards the coast of connecticut and long island today. But you can see the bands of light moisture, still spinning around with areas of mist and drizzle. 60 degrees in worcester. You are stepping out, so were in the 60s this morning. Coming up into the low 70s by lunchtime, and holding there into the early afternoon with pockets of mist and drizzle at times. We get towards late afternoon, and we may see the skies try to brighten with the least a few breaks. Notice the surf is still kicked up, talking about waves of two to five feet at the beaches but higher waves offshore. We want to get you out to standing by in new bedford, how are we looking down there, doug . Doug not too bad compared to yesterday. Were outside of fort robman, but you can see the skies and the bands from hermine. We experienced sprinkles moments ago but not too bad compared to yesterday. The departure of hermine being felt here, but conditions were rough enough to close the beaches, and suspend Ferry Authority even canceling service. Today all Ferry Service for the vineyard and nantucket, they are going to operate on a trip by trip basis. The coast guard by the way, they are urging boaters to use extreme caution. Were not sure what conditions were going to see, maybe worse than right now, but definitely if you dont have to go out, dont go out. Its the safest way. Well, the coast guard is also asking boat owners to m secure and also make sure you label those kayaks and personal watercraft with your name and phone number in case that they break free. They certainly dont want to come across one of the boats out here and wonder whether or not there is somebody that might be missing. Were live in new bedford, doug meehan, Wcvb Newscenter 5. Ok, thank you. Right now hermine is being blamed for making this fire more difficult to tackle. Firefighters called last night narragansett belongs to the late pawtucket red sox owner james skeffington. Crews helped to fight the fire, and no one was hurt. You can track hermine even when you are away from the tv with our app. You will find cindys forecast, as well as the latest information on any storm. Back to work and school and now the Holiday Weekend is over. Lets get a check of the roads and the rails. Olessa has that. Olessa i am seeing some of those delays, tnk expressway, heres a check by the gas tank. The northbound side heading to the stop of the screen. Lets check out the travel times. 24 is slow out of brockton and route 3 from weymouth, your ride on the expressway, a halfhour from braintree to boston. The pike looks ok. 15 to 20, 495 to 128, and 93 south, delays out of methuen, and as you travel towards the lever connector. Trains and buses running on schedule. Breaking overnight a driver is in custody after this crash. Cruiser on 93 south near exit 18 in dorchester. The crash happening at 1 00 this morning. Nobody seriously hurt. The driver was given a sobriety test and then taken into custody. And right now both sides of a Controversial Police Body Camera Program in the city of boston are getting ready for arguments ahead of a hearing today. The eyeopeners john atwater is live with a preview of what could be a tense court hearing. John . That pilot supposed to start last week but the union filed a temporary injunction to block it, so that has led to some delays. The program was supposed to be voluntary. The patrolmans union reached an agreement in july but no officers signed up, so Commission Bill evans assigned the cameras. It calls for 100 officers from different districts to wear the cameras for six months. That was supposed to start september 2 but the date has now been pushed to september 12. The officers would get 500 for the commissioner could also be called to testify at this hearing, and this hearing could potentially last two days. John atwater, Wcvb Newscenter 5. Thank you, and right now Boston Police are looking for the suspect in a sexual attack. Police say that this happened around 4 00 in the morning yesterday morning. The greenway in boston. Police say that the victim was walking towards the carousal there when she was attacked she says by a man. She did not know the suspect ran off after the a Framingham State University came Police Officer is going to be before a judge later today. Wilter dormevil is charged with committing a lewd act on campus. Fsus command staff was notified about the incident over the weekend. He is on leave, banned from the campus. Hes been suspended from his job as a revere auxiliary Police Officer. Commitment 2016, a new poll showing Hillary Clinton is not doing much to prove her trustworthiness with voters. The eyeopeners Erika Tarantal clinton and trump. Both Hillary Clinton and donald trump will be on the campaign trail today. Clinton has an afternoon event in florida. Trump will be in virginia. And he will head to North Carolina for an evening rally. And new this morning, yes, evidence clinton is not making much progress in gaining the trust of voters. A new Franklin Pierce Boston Herald show showing clinton has a 3 lead over trump. The numbers are unchanged when the same question was months ago. Clinton allowing reporters on her new plane. The secretary of state answering their questions and talking to reporters on his plane, trump criticized the move. Everything i did at the state department i did in furtherance of americas interest and our security. The state Department Said that there is no evidence of in i kind of external influence, and three weeks away, trump insisted yesterday he would be at all three scheduled debates after rumors circulated he was planning to skip one. Thank you. And abcs davidman uir sat down with both clinton and trump, and you will see those interviews at 7 00 right after the eyeopener. Conservative activist Phyllis Schafly has passed away. The outspoken woman who amendment in the 1970s died at the age of the 92. She rose to fame with her self published manifesto for the far right called a choice, not an echo. Witnesses tracked a woman down from a hit and run incident. Mary elliott was arrested after the crash on taunton avenue in see ifs konk, they say she hit a jogger and kept on going, two prups followed her for a mile they were very upset because they saw the whole thing, and they chased her down and boxed her right in. The guy said she aint going anywhere. Shes going to hit my truck, shes going to hit it. The victim is identified as a man in his 50s, treated for a serious injury. A massachusetts lawmaker says its time to revisit ride sharing schools, senator linda dorcenaforr why this shes disturbed by this, she backed an unsuccessful effort to fingerprint drivers. The department of Transportation Holding its first of seven hearings on open tolling. The new Electronic System is set to launch october 28 on the mass pike. Technology used to collect data on easy pass responders and license plates, but privacy advocates have voiced concern about the information collected through the system, and the the meeting starts at 6 30 at Union Station in worcester. Americans are saving money at the grocery store. Not on everything. The items with the deepest discounts right now, and a group caught passing eve a natural landmark, the bizarre reason they gave. Travel planning made easy. The app using Text Messages to plan your next vacation. And breaking overnight, a driver is in custody after rearending a state police south in dorchester. Luckily no one was seriously hurt. Cindy. We are still tracking hermine. Still spinning to the south right now. It is moving towards the west and weakening. The time line on what to expect and when the heat and humidity returns ahead. First take a look here. Still some lingering showers spinning around out there this morning. So grab an umbrella. 60 degrees in worcester right four hundred million dollars. Thats how much Charter Schools will drain from massachusetts Public Schools this year. Four hundred million siphoned from local districts that desperately need it. Four hundred million that wont fund more science and technology, arts or preschool, counseling, or smaller class sizes. Four hundred million unavailable to the ninetysix percent lets improve Public Schools for all students, not just a select few. Good morning eyeopener, happy birthday party. Were learning a lot. Very good morning to the kids at Mission Grammar school in roxbury. A lot of spirit on this first day. Looking good so we would love get everybody together, your classmates, record a wakeup call right on your phone. Its easy, and upload it to ulocal using our Wcvb Newscenter 5. Maybe do it inside today. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yesterday the winds were whipping up. Took all day for some rain to get in here, and then it is lingering this morning. Oh, yeah. Lingering. Right. This is what it looks like outside. Very light, we have drizzle and mist, and very light showers across the area. Some fog, as well, but this midnight, under a tenth of an ch overall, but thats about the extent of it here, as we have got wind gusts as you can see up over 20 Miles Per Hour. And i am very tall. I will step out and see if i can get shorter. See whats happening here, but you can see the winds are kicking up right now, and not nearly as strong as they were yesterday. When we had gusts close to 60 Miles Per Hour in nantucket, and there we go, not as tall right now, and anchor town had gusts at 50 Miles Per Hour, and rockport, brookline, gusts over which yesterday had winds of 70 Miles Per Hour, and now it has winds of 65 Miles Per Hour, but its to our south and kind of shifting westward and will weaken as the winds step down, but notice this is still kind of hanging around into tomorrow, as well, and a little further to the south and west, but its really going to be wednesday night and thursday, before it really dissipates and kicks out of here. Lingering impacts. And were getting the strongest winds closer to the center from brock island and the coast of connecticut back towards long island but were talkingut hour at times throughout the day today. And could be some gusts closer to 30 Miles Per Hour. There will be a few showers, some drizzle at times, but rough surf or rip current risk, that is going to be the big issue today, and a lot of you are probably venturing into the water but if you are, at the beaches, two to five foot seas and the rip current risk will remain high. The waves sitting off the shore. We can see the bands of showers, break in the action on south shore, more in boston through where we have the fog, visability, 2. 5 miles under a couple of miles up on the north shore, and low 60s for many of us as you are heading out the door although closer to 70 degrees on the cape. And this storm is a good 100 miles south of our area but it is spinning back a lot of clouds, and so were locked in tight with the cloud cover today. And there may be some breaks by mid to late afternoon, but its not going to rain all day long. Have the wet weather gear with you. Some mist and drizzle, and low to mid 70s and with the wind blowing it will feel cooler, so you are going to see widespread rain but periodic showers and light rain and drizzle at times, and this goes right through tonight, and still tomorrow morning when you are waking up, and unfortunately more of the same. Hermine will be hanging around through tomorrow, and eventually the showers wind down, and were in the upper 70s tomorrow, and then just like that with hermine out of here were bringing back warmer temperatures, lots of humidity, and by friday we are playing a run up to 90 degrees. Very humid so feeling like summertime and looking like were in the 80s this weekend. With drizzle and fog. We need the wipers this morning. Its not the most pleasant driving conditions. A live look at the expressway. Heres a look at the gas tank. A slow ride, normal this time of the morning. Stop and go, as well, lets get to the maps and check out the rest of your ride as you head south side. 24, slow out of brockton, also route 3 from weymouth into braintree, and 25 minutes on the expressway, from there into boston, and the pike, 20 to 25, and 495 to 128, and 93 south, stop and go ride for you out of methuen down into andover and then picking up that volume in wilmington, a slow ride down to the spot pond, trains and buses are running on schedule. Do you have something thats been bothering you about your commute or something that you want to know about your traffic . You can go ahead and ask olessa on facebook, twitter, or email us at askolessa hearst. Com. Well get answers for you and answer them here on the eyeopener. 17 after 6 00, a natural landmark in oregon has been destroyed by vandals, and this morning the group that did this could be facing criminal charges. Seconds here. And was witnessed by a couple of people who recorded what happened and confronted the group. They say the group told them that they were getting revenge because a friend had broken their leg on that rock. Necessity told me that it was a safety hazard, and that they did like the world or oregon like a favor that they knocked it down. State police in oregon are morning, american shoppers are enjoying the longest streak of falling food prices in 50 years. Thats because the nations Food Supplies have been steadily growing. The average price of a dozen eggs has dropped nearly 40 to 1. 57, and a gallon of milk is about 40 cents cheaper along with ground beef, down 50 cents. Not everything is cheaper. Prices for fruits and vegetables have increased over the last year due to a drought in overnight and quiet trading because u. S. Markets were closed for labor day. Right now stock futures are higher and investors are awaiting the Consumer Spending report due out today. And new this morning do you love travel but hate the planning . There is a new bostonbased app that could be your answer. Lola travel combines texting, travel agents and Artificial Intelligence for a trip that is uniquely you. Travel made easy through messaging, thats the promise from l travel agent in real time, someone who will research, plan, and even book that trip for you. When you are doing Something Like this, you would type this in and probably just put it down and walk away. Totally, yeah. Lola cofounder paul english, the man who also cofounded popular travel site kayak, says that the app freeze you up to do other things, you started by texting what kind of trip you are looking for with as many details as you would like. Usually within minutes, you will get a response from one of 15 their suggestions tailored to you coming from Artificial Intelligence or a. I. En and accomplish and english says the more you use it, the better you get. We can pick the three most exciting hotels for you that are within the budget you want to spend. Right now it is only available for iphone and only in the u. S. Its also free at the moment but there is a wait list to join. The app also acts when you cant so if you have a agents will work to rebook you before you even know that anything happened, so convenient. It does open to the general public later this fall but they will start charging something then. And they are not giving out the details on that yet. And they will know you better than you know yourself. Event essentially. Right. You will like there. And texting is so easy we all do it, you know. Tomorrow morning on the eye living small. No matter how confined your space is we have expert ways to and a baby with more cord coordination with some adults and a burger with as much flair as flavor. Thats ahead in eyepoppers. And new at 6 30 the president of the philippines making new comments after insulting president barack obama. His new statements after using some choice words. Also more than young minds growing at a connecticut daycare. What police found, and we are live in new bedford as hermine weakens. Th s well still see effects into you live a portable life. New dannon oikos nonfat yogurt drink fits right in it. With 10 grams of protein. And zero added sugar, zero artificial sweeteners, zero fat. Just what you need to help keep you going. New oikos yogurt drink. Hey, welcome back to the eyeopener, there is a tracker that i couldnt go off but we have showers, and i will just cover it up, scattered about the area this morning, and there is a closer look at the radar showing the light rain, and the areas of mist and drizzle, and have anum yelle bird have an umbrella with you. There might be a few breaks in all of this courtesy of hermine hanging around, so breezy, still some showers around tomorrow, but they will be ending. And we snap out of it on thursday. Its warmer and more humid. Were back into the mid 80s. All right. Thank you. The red sox cannot get it done against the padres. Scoreless when the pa

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