Degrees in cavr i dont know. Afternoon hours are spending right around that freezing mark right around that freezing mark, and we get a little more cloud cover along the coastline and the sunshine inland. Boston fairly bright sun and scattered clouds for you and mostly cloudy toward the cape and we will have to watch for the risk of ocean effect snow showers. 28 to 36 for your highs. Brightest skies inland. The risk of snow for everybody on friday night and i will time that out for you in just a few. Now over to Julie Grauert with live drivetime traffic. Hey, julie. Julie good morning, shiri. I am liking what i am seeing on roads. 128 moving along clear. Pike moving along and expressway is wide open. A live look at brighton. 17 minutes from 495 to speen street. 22 minutes from route 128 from peabody to the weston tolls. Sara all right, julie. Orange flames and thick smoke along the shore where one person lost their life inside of this house. Gene the story is developing as we are learning more about that victim. Fox25s Jessica Reyes is live at the home in plymouth. And jess, we had a string of tragic fires over the past few weeks. Reporter we have, gene. The fire marshal says this is the 8th house fire in less than a month in massachusetts and urging everyone to be vigilant and make sure that your smoke detectors are working to prevent Something Like this for happening. We know it happened at this home here. This is pretty far back from the road and as you can probably tell, it is Still Standing but just a burnedout shell of what it once was. Now crews were called to the home on ellisville road right before 8 30 last night and in this video, you can see the flames just engulfing this house. We learned one person was trapped inside the home and along with crews from plymouth, Fire Fighters from bourne and sandwich were called here to crews last night that a couple this home. We checked in with plymouth Fire Fighters just a couple of minutes ago and they said although the fire is now out, they do plan to be here for several more hours watching this scene. The road was also closed and will be closed until further notice we understand. Live near plymouth, Jessica Reyes, fox25 news. This morning the calls are growing for a state senator to step down. The fbi says the lawmaker is unaesthetics cal and even used Campaign Funds for family parties. Fox25s Christine Mccarthy is live at senator brian joyces law office in canton where the fbi spent hours for the case against him. Good morning, christine. Reporter we are live outside canton, outside senator joyces private law office. Just hours ago that the feds actually cleared out of here and spent hours into the night coming and going and this will he resign. Fox25 tried to reach senator brian joyce at his home as well as the statehouse but got no comment. The fbi spokesman said the bureau and irs for n connection with an ongoing federal investigation. Joyce had some ethics issue in the past. In january he agreed to pay 5,000 for using Campaign Funds to pay for his sons graduation party. Last year he came under fire for handing all 40 state senators coldplated designer sunglasses he got at a discount from the manufacturer. And last month, the governor called for an ethics probe into his relationship with a randolph dry cleaner where he allegedly received tens of thousands of free drycleaning. The governor says he is unsettled by the investigation. All of news public life take the fact that we have to play by the the rules seriously. I was troubled by some of the previously. While joyce wouldnt comment, it is unfortunate that recent stories have and to spark an investigation. Senator joyce has been cooperate cooperating with each inquiry that has taken to place to date resulting from those story resulting from those stories and believes he has done absolutely nothing wrong. The governor responds to questions whether or not he should resign. Live in canton. Christine mccarthy, fox25 news. We are just two days out from the South CarolinaSouth Carolina primary, and the candidates are making a last candidates are making a lastditch effort to move up in the polls. Mary maloney reports. Struggling to keep his campaign afloat, ben carson resurrected a line from Hillary Clintons 2008 president ial bid. It is 3 a. M. , who do you want answering the phones. I can guarantee you more 2 a. M. Phone calls than any other the rest of them put together having to make life and death decisions. Reporter carson broke party lines saying if he was in nominate a Supreme Court justice in his last months inform office, something that the president vows to do and republican promise to block buy is take the opportunity to nominate someone. Reporter marco rubio slammed president obamas plan to visit cuba. They are a reprison sieve regime. Reporter he boasted about his campaigns divorce endorse spiments got the endorsements of a governor of indian descent who endorsed a president ial candidate of cuban descent and had be campaigning along a africanamerican republican senator. Reporter but marco rubio called out fellow you republican ted cruz. I said he was lying because if you Say Something over and over again and you know it is not true, floss other word for it. Reporter cruz focused on someone else, donald trump, saying Donald Trumps attempt to sue him arent serious. I confess. I laughed out loud. Reporter he stopped by breaking out in song i just called to say i love you reporter donald trump participated in his own town hall on msnbc and lashed out against the latest wall street cruise the edge. I have never done well in the wall street journal poll. Ping somebody there doesnt like me. Gene trump, john kasich and jeb bush will be from a town hall tonight. Kasich is polling between fifth and six in South Carolina. Kasich it hoping to build on the momentum in neighboring New Hampshire where he scored a you surprising secondplace finish. Things are getting closer than ever heading toward South Carolina and the nevada caucuses. A new cnn orc poll suggests that Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are in a dead heat. 48 of likely caucusgoers support clinton and 47 are behind sanders. President obama will be the first u. S. Leader to visit cuba in 88 years. Expected to confirm the trip later today. You before previously planned visit to argentine into. Last year the countries restored diplomatic ties for the First Time Since 1961. The trip is expected to be quick. The president said we only visit cuba if he was allowed to meet with of the castro regime. A local correction officer is pled not is pled not guilty for trafficking heroin. We were in court for steven lebros arraignment. Prosecutors said he sold heroin to an undercover trooper. He was in uniform during one of the sales. The department of corrections has suspended him while they investigate. This morning, police will continue their investigation into a deadly workplace accident in norton. Michael hassett was hit by a delivery truck in the back parking lot of the bernie and phils furniture warehouse. s father of five and worked at that warehouse. The family that owns the chain posted a statement on facebook expressing their sorrow. The truck that hit hasset is owned by a subcontractor that delivers furniture to the warehouse. Charges will be filed. A local man rescued from a truck that crashed into the ocean is in critical condition. The 61yearold you driver crashed into the water near long island. Still no word what caused him to go off the road. This morning boston has more money to prepare for disasters. The city has received a nearly 18 million grant from the department of Homeland Security department of Homeland Security. The funds from the urban Area Security initiative will be used to train and prepare first responders, and improve communication between agencies during emergencies. And this morning a new effort on capitol hill that could charge sales tax for things you buy online this morning two new england lawmakers are trying to prevent that from happenings. The senate will take up a bill that will enforce the online tax for purchases made in every state that currently has a sales tax. The union leader reports New Hampshire two senator have vowed to fight in this in congress. Internet taxfree helps drive economic growth. Wild temperature swing creating a dangerous situation on our highways. This massive pothole opened on 9 3 north near the exit for sullivan square. Mass state police they say helped the drivers of six vehicles to damaged their tires on tuesday night. Last night mass d. O. T. Crews patched the pothole but state leaders say more need to be done. They need to work and making sure it is not just temporary which is important, because it is preventing other cars from getting destroyed, but having fix. Mass dot said that section is scheduled it have bridge and guardrail work done in the spring, then the road will be resurfaced. Good morning, everyone. We check traffic and weather together for you every ten minutes. Right now, if you were taking 93 south, you are looking at a 19minute drive from 495 in andover down to the zakim bridge. Shiri . Shiri temperatures dropping into the upper 20s. About 28 degrees right now head about 28 degrees right now heading in or out of boston. I have got temperatures falling so by the time we hit 6, 7 00 this morning, i will show you when the warmup begins next. 5 10 this morning. A local man has thousands of dollars in credit card debt, but it is not his fault. Coming up at 5 30, how an elaborate phone hacking scheme put his personal information in the hands of criminals. Plus the government wants appear toll help him crack a terrorism case, and they wont budge. How protesters are lining up geico for your boat. Welcome back. Protesters rally around apple as the tech company refuses to work with the fbi to unlock the cell phone at the center of a terror case. Apple says they wont cooperate because it will set a dangerous precedent. Jackie ivanes has the latest on the controversial debate sweep the controversial debate sweeping the country. Reporter the fight between apple and the federal Government Health government heats up. This as investigators and Law Enforcement say it is harder to fight terrorism because encrypted phones. Going forward, we are increasingly blind for terrorism purposes and general Law Enforcement purposes with the new devices and the continuing effort to make them even more secure against even authors authorizing Law Enforcement to have access. Reporter the Court Ordered iphone used by the suspect in the san bernandino attack. Investigators say the information on the phone is crucial to the case and national security. Googles ceo defending apple saying it could compromise users privacy. But some lawmakers are saying there needs to be a middle ground. An individual case, but you cant just litigate this on a case by case bases. Takes too long and it hampers Law Enforcement. We need a solution. And we need to solution that protects privacy rights, but at the same time, gives Law Enforcement the tools they need enforcement the tools they need. Reporter but apple says it is not just about privacy. It is about security for the customers. They claim they would need to create soft aware that will make phones vulnerable. The government is claiming that no one should worry because it is only going to be used in this one case, but what apple is saying, this is just not a onedimensional key, but it is basically a master key that is ending up in the wrong hands could really violate the security of everyones iphone all over of the world. Reporter while apple has publicly said it will fight the five days to formally appeal the decision. In court, jackie ibanez, fox25 news. Daniel protesters who support apple will be organizing more rallies. We will be following this story for you all morning. In the newsroom, Daniel Miller, fox25 news. Some call it insensitive crime, drivers who misuse disability placards to get parking perks. Now fox25 investigates a new way the state plans to crack down on the abuse. Photocopy of a placard laminated and semi laminated. Reporter made their own. Made their own. Sara photocopy sara photocopies, fakes, even placards that belong to dead people all illegally use. Sharman sacchetti spent a day police, and it didnt take them long to find people suspected of cheating the system. Tonight at 10 00. What some towns are already doing now to put the brakes on this abuse and learn the steps the state plans to make. Good morning, everyone. It is now 5 17. Still nice and quiet out there you can see on our maps, bright green traffic flow Means Nothing is slowing you down. Expressway looks fine. 128 moving along nicely. 93 south at route 1 also clear. A live look at the zakim bridge where volume nice and light on the zakim bridge and over on the leverett connector. Meteorologist shiri spear is going to join us in a minute, but first here are our live drive times 1237 minutes on route 1 from 128 to the tobin. 19 minutes on 93 south from 495 to the leverett connector. 21 minutes on 28 from route 1 in peabody to the weston tolls. Speaking of shiri, she is tracking near steady temps today. Dress for the 20s and 30s. Yeah, 20s and 30s all day, julie. Not often i have the same temperatures in the morning dane who for the evening commute as well, but just so little warmup. In fact we are still in the process of seeing those temperatures drop. Right now 32 degrees in boston. A little bit of a breeze make it feel like 20 degrees. So you should take away 5, 10 degrees when you want to contract wind chill, since winds will not be absolutely stick with plain ol temps. 30 in norwood. 30 in new bedford, next hour, you guy also probably be in the upper 20s. 23 right now in worcester. Well. Morning. The temperature still dropping, so dont be surprised here between 6 and 7, if we actually bottom out in the lower 20s there. 23 degrees 7 a. M. , 9 a. M. , 28 degrees for your high. At least it stays nice and bright there. We get a little more cloud cover close to the coastline today in boston, we are going to stick with some upper 20s at 7 and oclock this morning. This afternoon we get back up to 32 degrees and we do bring in scattered clouds. More so down across the cape and the islands, with High Pressure driving today, we have got all the sunshine, but these north winds almost counter acting this warmup a little bit as it draws in the cooler air and will help stir up some ocean effect clouds impacting the coastline especially cape anne and cape cod in those will have to watch out for oceaneffect clouds and even bands of oceaneffect snow showers. At 10 p. M. Tonight, a chance of a couple that will impact a few communities over the cape with about a coating of snow. Futurecast as we head into bright skies and chilly conditions to get your friday started. Friday increasing clouds throughout the day, but not until the evening, probably after midnight that we will have to start pulling in the chance for snow. Highs today 32, boston, beverly and plymouth. 33 in bedford. 35 in norwood. But only 28 in worcester. 29 in keene, New Hampshire. 33 in nashua, New Hampshire. Down across the scape and the clouds are the thickest with the slight risk of afternoon snow coming in off the ocean. Tonight low temperatures back to the queens and 20s. Even boston down to 19 degrees. Worcester, 11. Keene only 8. But 21 in plymouth and 25 in chatham where the clouds again will be a little bit thicker hoping to hold in some of that heat. Up to about 40 degrees, but with the 40s, we are going to see those clouds coming in from west to east here. Your sevenday forecast now with the he weekend falls view. Check it out. Friday night we will see a develop. This is when we could be facing a coding up to an inch of snow overnight into dead. Because saturday is still mild with a high of 48 degrees, we will see it transition over to sprinkles, and ending, and look at that the clouds break apart during the afternoon. On sunday, we have high temperatures coming close to 50 degrees. I have 50 in boston sunday, 52, plymouth. 54 in foxborough. Overnight again, we will deal with a wintry mix into monday morning and the next big one tuesday night into wednesday, and a change over to some heavy rain. Back to you, guys. Sara all right, shiri. A harvard graduate said she was forced to live in a dorm with the person who abused her. How the Prestigious School turned a deaf ear to her complaint. The major safety feature that the world a president has to grapple with. Sometimes you cant even imagine. Thats the job. And shes the one whos proven she can get it done. Securing a massive reduction in nuclear weapons. Standing up against the abuse of women. 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