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WFXT FOX 25 Morning News January 5, 2016

Pinpointing the towns start nearing zero, shir. Shiri three degrees in worcester. One of the spots to batch for a potential 0degree reading. Boston 8 degrees. Beverly at 6. Norwood at 7. And then we start bumping into the clouds in southeastern massachusetts. I can give you temps a little warmer from the south shore from plymouth down to the cape and islands but thats where we have ongoing snowhours. Roads are going to be a little bit slippery here. Winter weather advisory. South shore and cape because of that potential accumulation. It will be very localized here where we see the stronger bands where we see the stronger bands. 7 a. M. , it is still continuing here and around the time we hit rock bottom. 10 in boston and a little overdone here. I am still expecting single digit readings. By noontime, 19 degrees in the city. Still hanging onto a couple of snowflake until 1 p. M. Over the cape and we are going to clear longer and the rest of the weekend enjoying sunshine all day long. Highs 20 to 28 degrees. Chilly. And we Start Talking wind chills, we are talking sub zero this morning. Over to you, julie, with a check of the roads. Warming up the is the best deal you can have julie julie to make it. One of our viewers on periscope said i love to see the green lines when i am heading out the door. Yes, all green which means our traffic flow moving along at a decent clip. Route 1, 93 south looking good. Pike looking good through the weston tolls into the Allston Brighton tolls area. 24 minutes on the pike. 13 minutes from the weston tolls to the ted williams tunnel. 9 minutes on the expressway from the braintree split to the exit to the pike. Gene and sara, back to you. Julie, not just the cold temperatures we need to watch out for this morning. Sara from the cape and south shore, we are expecting more snow during the morning commute. In plymouth keeping tabs along route 3 there. And you pretty much you look like you are in a snow globe, jess. Reporter i kind of feel like i am in one too. The snow is coming down along route 3. The wind has picked up a little bit over the past 30 minutes or so. The snow, of course, not the only issue this morning. I want to give you a look at the road here. You can probably tell a little on the wet side so the temperatures are getting colder and colder this morning is that the road can freeze up and cause major problems for the morning commute. This all started as ocean effect snow yesterday, but the force of it took people by surprise. Some of the roads here along the south shore werent treat the south shore werent treated in time and did cause major problems for last nights commute. In duxbury, police there got 20 calls. Several Car Accidents and people were heading home from work yesterday and four people had to be taken to the hospital had to be taken to the hospital. Thankfully this morning we know they are expected to be okay. Youll of hours as shiri has been saying, it is expected to get colder and colder throughout the morning and there is some concern about some slippery road as people head into work. We will be out here all morning long keepen on things. Live in plymouth, Jessica Reyes, fox25 morning news. These bitter cold temperatures are being welcomed by people who depend on the weather for their livelihood. In north reading, station cameras captured plenty of busy employees fielding calls from customers needing oil delivery to Welcome Change after a slow start to the season for them. Monehan lumber telling station they saw an uptick in business of bell lets for food stoves. The mbta is looking to see if they can keep the trains running in the bitter cold. Stay up to date. Iphone or tabbet. Police surround a church that became a crime scene overnight. One person was reportedly shot in the parking lot of st. Stevens on common street. Police are searching for the suspects this morning. A crew at the scene was told that the victim was rushed to the hospital with multiple gunshot wounds. Right now there is no word on the victims condition. The church wack backed off by hi last night. Police investigate a street. A car was shot a car was shotted a and crashed into a traffic light and fence. The car has been removed from the wednesday. People inside the car are not hurt. Police are searching for the suspect. Gun control Takes Center Stage at the white house this morning and bostons mayor will be front and present with the president as he announces an the violence. Why the white house called on mayor walsh. Walsh will stand beside president obama when the president announce executive orders to cu rb gun violence. The focus is to keep gun out of wrong hands. Among the new rules that partially closes the gun show loophole by expanding mandatory background checks for some private sales and also will provide funding to allow the fbi to allow to hire hundreds more examiners and staff to process background checks 24 hours a day. The president also wants to invest 500 million to increase access to Mental Health care. This morning, the atf is finalizing a rule that is that ensures that dealers who ship firearms notify Law Enforcement if their guns are lost or stolen. The president says the time to act is right now. I think everybody here is all too familiar with the statistic. We have tens of thousands of people every year who are killed by guns. Daniel president will also research on Smart Gun Technology that will scan fingerprints before guns can fire. The executive order means the president is sidestepping congress. Mayor walsh was invited on his work to prevent gun violence here in new england. He tweeted this not long after the announcement saying he is proud to join the president today and cant wait for congress to act. He hooded the hash tag stop gun violence. That hash tag is trending this morning. Stay with us for developments all day. In the newsroom, daniel miller, fox25 morning news. Again, the president is expected to reveal these executive orders during a News Conference at 11 40 this morning. We will bring that you when it happens. Police in marblehead looking for a thief that broke into two homes while the family there is were asleep inside. It happened in a home on Longview Drive where he walked around just feet of the family. And. Took lap top and ipads and the victims feel violated. I feel really sorry that someone is so desperate they would enter someones home and risk where they work and i am grateful that no one came down an confronted them. I think that is the lessons that we learned. Get a damn gun. Gene southbound gene somebody called the victim to say they found his medication. They took the bottle as evidence and using to track down the suspect. Probable cause to charge a dorchester man in connection with a theft of a highpowered weapon from a local armory. Fox25 has been following the story since november when someone stole 16 weapons from the u. S. Army reserve center in worcester. The telegram reports that a judge has ruled there is enough evidence to charge tyrone james evidence to charge tyrone james. He is accused of trying to sell some of the stolen gun. Names is back in custody and longtime girlfrienden done victored whitey mobster will plead guilty. Catherine greigs lawyers changed her plea in federal court. She serving eight years for helping bulger evade police. Greigs twin sister was in court as a plea change was announced. Outside the hearing Margaret Mccusker told fox25 that her sisters only crime was being in love. It not fair in if i snipe of mind. She went with someone she loved she went with someone she loved. The last person put away that she said she loved. Do you know anybody. Gene right now it is not clear if this new charge will keep greig in prison longer because it doesnt carry a mandatoryry. Been set. A man ray cuesed of taking a car full of weapons laughs in court. Matthew bronsan finds something funny as they list the weapon found in his car during a private classic. They wereed all to the parking lot by Police Officers and found soordz, knives found soordz, knives, a cross bob into the car. When asked if he had a ticket he said he entered the parking lot to party and scalp a ticket with the intension of going to the game. Not bron sans first brush with a law, a record in connecticut and massachusetts. He is held on 17,000 bail. A man is facing attempted murder charges for a violent assault to an Police Officer. Officers say the new years eve attack happened when officer russell was trying to help a man who he thought was being when argos rivera poked his eyes and choked him until he passed out. The defense argued that he was on drugs. And he end quitted that he had been drink a lot. He had a bottle of whisky that night. Five to six bottles of beer and on top of that smoking marijuana with friends. He is attending a hearing on friday. The officer will need followup care over concern of damage to his eyes. We track traffic and weather every ten minutes. Haverhill line suspended between lawrence and andover because of a track problem. They are providing substitute bus service. Affected stops are andover and lawrence. Shiri . Shiri here is what i have. Single digit temperatures. Sub zero. 7 in the boston area dipping down to 6 at 6 a. M. At 7 a. M. , i will tell you what time we hit rock bottom and to climb again next. Now 5 11. A teenager who used his affluent life as a defense back in the news. Coming up this half hour, how he spent thousands of dollars while on the run in mexico. It is brutally cold out here at the Commuter Rail, annual and all eyes are on how the team that sound. Like nails on a chalkboard. But listen to this family talking thats a different kind of sound. The sound of the weekend. Unleash the power of dough. Give it a pop. Its always worth remembering. That icing the Cinnamon Rolls is a privilege not a right. Give it a pop. After trying brookside chocolate, people talk about it online. Love at first taste. I would liquefy it and bathe in it. Curse you, brookside your nefarious plans have succeeded. Nefarious . Are we still talking about chocolate . Brookside. Talk about delicious. What if the sweet stevia leaf was discovered. Before the sugarcane. And everything had fewer calories. Truvia. Life with less welcome back right now. Meteorologist shiri spear here. And i have got snow, especially sandwich, forestdale, mashpee, seabrook. Drive carefully because oceanaffected snow will continue for the next several hours. Developing this hour, the family of oregon ravagers who sparked a standoff is distancing themselves from protesters. The group has taken over a Federal Building to protest the sentencing of two cattle ranchers. A controlled burn on their property spread to federal property burning down 127 ache hes of land. The sheriff are pleading on them to go home the hammonds have turned themselves in. It is time to leave your community. Go home to your family go home to your families and end this peacefully. Protesters have occupied the Wildlife Sanctuary since saturday. Other towns are providing back other towns are providing at a nebraska ranch where ranch hes were in a similar situation hes were in a similar situation. He hopes to serve as a mediator fearful what could happen could happen to protesters that dont stand down. Concerns for the commute this morning arent just for drivers dealing with snow. The single digit temperatures with help those who take the trains and buses shiver when they deal with the possibility of delays due to the cold. Michael henrich is monitoring the situation live in framingham this morning. Good morning, michael. Reporter good morning. Good morning indeed. A brutally cold morning and i can attest to that at the framingham Commuter Rail station. The first inbound train comes flew about 16 minutes. We see the outbound train approaching behind the camera right now. And we are going to keep is close eye on how things go. This will be, we had call it the second wln fest this past leak, just bun week ago first test of Winter Weather since the welldocumented performance issues for the mbta and many thought that the winter Preparedness Plan had come through, others, people who had to take shuttle buses on the blue line or had delays on the red and green line were less thrilled with how things went, but todays brutally cold temperatures are impacting other aspects of new england life. We enjoyed such a warm winter to this point that businesses like wood pellet supplies and oil Delivery Companies had slow starts to the winter, but now things are desperately picking up. Yes, a lot of emergency calls last night came some emergency calls. People fuss has in shut down, ones that havent done their cleaning for the year. So now people are starting to, you knee, get in mind that winter is finally here and they need to fire up those heating systems. Reporter of course back here live at the framingham Commuter Rail stop as things happen, if any delays do take place, of course, we will let back to you, gene. Gene lets go right now to jewel sdwrul see how the commute is shaping up across the area. You might as well go out there and warm up the car before you hit the car. Julie the best advice before the volume sets in. Bonechilling cold out there and it does take the car a little while to warm up. Route 1 moving along fine as is 93 south. Pike wide open as i mention from framingham to the alstonbrighton area. 25 minutes on strike 495 to mass ave. 9 minutes on the expressway from the braintree split to the pike. We value our own unique ways of trying to stay warm. I had to share this picture of shiri this morning. She wrapped herself in a blanket after she is in the studio. You know what, shir, i might even grab a blanket to the car, is we dont mean to scare you but very uncomfortable. Shiri i have an extra blanket, julie, that has your name all over it. Whatever you need to do weather adding longjohns or taking a blanket or taking that extra hot cup of coffee. The cold and the wind chill will be our big story and sub today. Snow is going be too far i want to say to all of of this because of the areas impact ready going to be so limitthese are my know reports from kingston, 2. 5 inches. Plymouth 2. 1. West warham over an inch. Halifax half an inch scituate and barn. Shiri, i will pass those alongs so twebing twebing be prepared. So twebing twebing be prepared. I do have for expected snow from plymouth to bourne to barnstable to 2 to 4 inches. Coming from the north. Anywhere from a coating to 2 inches in spots like marshfield inches in spots like marshfield, middleborough, down to mattapoisett. Outer cape and islands, 1 to 2 outer cape and islands, 1 to 2inch category. There is the snow as you wake up this morning. Plymouth, hyannis. Plymouth at 12 degrees plymouth at 12 degrees. Here is the problem not just the snow this morning but the bitter cold. I have 50mileperhour winds. Going to be a breezy day and makes it feel like 4 below as the snow is falling in plymouth this morning. This is one of the regions we are urging to you bundle up and take care in the cold. Temperatures dont get back to the 20s in plymouth until 11 he catholic. Boston even colder at 8 00 right now. Your wind chill down to 7 below bah because of that 12mileperhour breeze. Clear skies and sunshine all day. Completely different forecast cape. 10 degrees at 7 a. M. And dont worcester starting at 3 degrees worcester starting at 3 degrees. Most of the snow will die down around 10 00 but the south shore ends with the cape between 10 and 1 p. M. And here we come and a look at the highs for tomorrow. Lower 40s will do it but another round of sunshine for your sevenday forecast for the weekend always in view. A lot of sunshine again on thursday with a high of 44. 43 on friday. Late clouds. And over the weekend an icy mix to start your friday, a change over to rain and rain again on sunday. Julie encouraging antennas to drink alcohol. A new law that will give them a few sips to keep them from overdoing it later on. A roa you got people working incredibly long hours. Median Family Income today 4,000 less than it was in 1999. The bottom line of this economy is that it is rigged. What this campaign is about for all of us rather than a handful of billionaires. If you work 40 hours a week in america, you should not live in poverty. Im bernie sanders, and i approve this message. Our cosmetics line was a hit. The orders were rushing in. I could feel our deadlines racing towards us. We didn t need a loan. We needed shortterm funding fast. Building 18 homes in 4 months . That was a leap. But i knew i could rely on American Express to help me buy those building materials. 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His mother is helping him flee to mechanics koshing and expect to mechanics koshing and expected in court today. Also new report that couch max also new report that couch maxed out his credit cards at two mexican strip clubs and got so drunks that employees from the club had to carry them back to his moms hotel room to get her to pay off his tab. Gene and julie, not so smart. Julie not so smart, no. Gene i think that is the case all along with that particular individual. Anyevent, we want to check this out. Talk about roads in ma

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