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WHDH 7News Today In New England March 1, 2016

Over the next couple of day. High temperatures today about 20 degrees colder than yesterday. We have Winter Weather as vicery for north and west of 128 begins at 8 00 really more worried about the hours between midnight and 4 00. Notice how it doesnt include the seacoast north shore boston or the south shore. Really only the higher terrain on a few slick spots middle of the night tonight. Currently at 36 winds have calmed downs really gusty recorded a gust of 56 earlier today. Winds will calm down temporarily then jet again we could see 50 to 60mileanhour gust. Theres the storm now. We have several hours of clear weather no excuse not to get to polls today. Early sun, cloud increasing. Breezy at times today and rain beginning later on tonight possibly mixed with some wintery weather in some spots well north and west. More on the 7day forecast including big cooldown coming up in a few minutes . Time for fast track traffic. Heres danielle gersh. Morning. Lets go to maps now. A couple of incidents to tell you about. 495. This is an Accident Route 9 multivehicle accident and then on route 2 westbound alternate there. Again you saw the drive into town from 128 on the pike its slow as you can see there. 128 into boston slow drive as is route one this morning. The expressway from braintree into boston over half an hour. South of town we have some slowing on route 3 through weymouth and then route 24 some minor slowing as you approach 128 the same on 95. Lets take a look at the drive times if you are getting ready to head tout door. 25 minutes on the expressway and the pike into town and then 19 minutes on 93 southbound from 128. Busy day for the candidates. 7 of them still in this race for the white house. All hoping that todays packed primary day will give them the boost they need to secure a nomination. Here in massachusetts the polls are open. They have been for sometime now. People start lining up early to cast their vote in the race for the white house. Among those out this morning marty walsh who blasted the republicans after casting his ballot for Hillary Clinton. You cant tell whats going on in republican side. The way they are behaving and campaigning for this high office is cars embarrassment to the ogs. Reagan. Ronald reagan would be sad to be watching whats going on there. And although the mayor said who he voted for Governor Charlie Baker did not. I voted for the person i thought was the best candidate. Ive said before that i was trump or ted cruz. Of course he endorsed Chris Christy who is in the race. We know more than 1400 up are up for grabs. And they are saying here in massachusetts we could see a record turnout. The stakes are very high. We have Team Coverage of the big day 7 victoria warren covering the republicans for us. Lets start with Byron Barnett. Hes live in worcester with more on the democratic race. Byron . Were at polling place here in worcester where voter have been coming in pretty steady all morning since the poll opened at 7 00. Now for the Democratic Candidates who made one final swing through massachusetts yesterday the stakes are high. Reporter Bernie Sanders up bright and early in burlington, vermont casting his vote. Hes hoping voter give him a super turnout on super tuesday. Im confident if theres a country, we will do well. If theres not, we will not. He kept supporter in packed gym and Milton High School. He think he has a good shot to win the massachusetts primary even though most of the state democratic accomplishment is backing Hillary Clinton. She has governors and mayors and congressman and senators. Thats the reality. Weve taken on all of that. It aint easy. Hillary clinton also made a lastminute appeal to baystate voters she filled the Meeting House in boston and then travel to virginia where she took on the republican. I really regret the language republicans. Scapegoating people finger pointing, blaming, thats not another. In worcester president bill for his wife. Thats what i want you to drag everybody you can to polls for her tomorrow. Thats why we need to sent a we are not tearing it down. And officials here at this polling place in worcester sefar heavier than usual. Thats the story line from worcester, Byron Barnett, 7news today in new england. Lets head across the aisle to the republicans where the race is on to see if anyone with stop trumps momentum. Things got out of town at one of his rallies yesterday. No doubt things are intense on the republican side of things. They have been leading up to this super tuesday primary day as voters go to the poll today in massachusetts and several oeft states they dough so after fight broke out at several campaign events. A photographer grabbed around the neck and thrown to the ground by a secret service agent. The violence comes during a things were heated. Dozens of protestors getting escorted out. Protestor reacting to Donald Trumps refusal on national tv to condemn the kkk and david duke trump now blaming equipment for his controversy stand. Im sitting in that house in florida with a very bad earpiece that they gave me. And you can hardly hear what hes saying its very nice to know that three Bernie Sanders supporter got lost. Meanwhile heckler at ted cruz event in texas escorted out. Texas cruises he state and polls there have him ahead of trump donald trump represents everything you are mad about washington. The deal making that doesnt stand with the working men and women. And marco rubio prepped for super tuesday with insults of his own for the frontrunner. How can a person with worst spray tan in america you know what they say about trust them. He was hugging a man with cancer who stood up, earnestly asking kasich to win. That i intend to remain the Adult Campaign for president of the United States. The secretary of state said he expects high voter turnout in massachusetts especially for the republican primary when asked why he said past races were like a tennis match. This one is more like a wrestling match. Live in waltham. Victoria warren 7news today in new england. Patriots owner robert craft said hes not comfortable talking about politics publicly. He is comfortable talking about his longtime friendship with donald trump. In a statement he said that he went to trumps wedding and the republican president ial candidate supported him after his wife passed away. In 2011 and in the statement he said donald has been a very close friend of mine for over two decades. I will always be grateful to him continued friendship. Kraft however did not endorse trump. You got to know well have the super tuesday coverage for you right here on 7 nbc tonight and nbc nightly news is expanding to one hour. Nbc will be having a 10 00 Election Special. Of course well have full recap on super tuesday right here on 7news at 11 00. One man is dead another seriously injured after this crash in randoph. State police say a van rolled over the guardrail and crashed into the road on route 24 south early this morning. Driver was thrown from the van and died at the scene. The road is back open. Happening today services will be held for the Virginia Police officer and new england native who was shot and killed during her very first ship. Kris anderson is here with how she is remembered. This service for that officer. It will be held in virginia today in the viewing will be funeral set to begin at noon. Last night hundreds of officer escorting hearst. She was killed saturday while she and two other officers were responding to a Domestic Violence call. The suspect now faces capital murder charges for shooting the officers. Police officers from hometown are among those paying respects to. Its such a tragedy. Not only because shes a law en enforcement officer. Doesnt matter if Police Officer here locally, regionally or across the country. A little piece of us dies with every officer struck down in the line of duty. She will be buried next to her father. Kris anderson, 7news today in new england. Right now part of boylston and gloucester street that were shutdown overnight have reopened. Thats currently under construction there. This is between street. You can see the building here all roads have reopened. Police are monitoring the old holyoake armory building. You can see the building brick wall and roof came crashing down thankfully no one was hurt. Police are on the seen to keep the public safe. The buildings ability more than ten years and set to do demolished. Police look for robber on the run. This video youre about to see of the man robbing a Convenient Store on florence street released overnight. You can see the suspect holding a needle and struggle with the clerk. So the clerk eventually chased a bat. Police also released this picture of the suspect as well. Nay say he didnt have his face covered. Right there. When he first entered the store and were told he got away with cash. If you recognize this man youre asked to contact police. Also this morning its all hospital lab building this morning. Fire Officials Say a blasting container melted dripping on the floor creating a haze in one of the room last night. No one was in the room at the time and there were no patient in that building. Firefighters evacuated workers and thankfully no one was hurt. Melrose Police Department paying hundreds of dollars in order to get back online. Hackers got into the computer system. And they planted a virus that made it impossible to access some of the files. The city had to pay 500 to fix the problem. In fact last Spring Police paid a few hundred dollars to get back online. Few years swampscott had a similar problem but they instead paid to have an outside firm take care of it. Much more to come this morning including Aaron Andrews emotional testimony. What she had to say about the an astronaut set to make historic strong wind gust out there this morning. That may be the warm up. Danielle and i will outline that for you. Your 7 on 7 forecast coming up a gas station burst into flames. What happened at this california pump. As a Small Business owner, you know things have a way of moving fast. But if your network cant keep up, it can really slow you Optic Network of verizon fios. Youll get 99. 9 network reliability, and the fastest wifi available. For a network that moves as right now, upgrade to fios 50 meg or higher internet and phone and get 250 back. Small business is better gusty winds this morning. Those have calmed down the rest of the day really no problems. No concerns getting out and voting. But midful to night tonight around midnight to 4 00 a. M. Could be brief mix mainly areas well north and west of town and then that will change to all rain and the concern will be gusty wind as we head into tomorrow. Winter weather advisory issued for north as west of 128. Not expecting problems inside 128. Only the higher terrain and green and White Mountain as we head into overnight hours. The advisory begins at 8 00. But again more worried about hour between midnight and 4 00 a. M. Currently sitting at 37 if norwood. 35 bedford. 3 in boston and 28 in worcester. Far cry from where we were yesterday. We got up to 64 degrees yesterday afternoon. Tying a record that stood since 1880 in boston worcester beat the record getting up to 57 degrees. High temperatures today honest average about 20 degrees give or take colder than what we had yesterday afternoon. Big day where theres not such a big difference. Not a huge difference as we head into the afternoon. Just enough cooler weather to keep an eye on storm as it rolls in later tonight. Good amount of sunshine through the morning into the early afternoon. Theres the storm as that approaches later on today. Well see the clouds start to increase. More so in the evening hour. Then after midnight the green would be the rain pink would be the mix. Northern Worcester County southern section of vermont could see a little bit of mix middle of the night. Here we are. Theres the monday morning commute 6 00 a. M. This is all rain everywhere. Then and out quickly. Thats only half the story got wind gust of 56 Miles Per Hour in boston. This morning could see a lot more of those as we head into tomorrow with more on that heres danielle. Thanks. Rob. We will deal with the winds against as we head into tomorrow. They are picking up tomorrow around 8 15. During many commutes. You can see the wind from the south gusting 50 up to 55 Miles Per Hour. Notice whats happening. By thursday morning the direction of the wind has shifted. That will help bring in the cooler air. That will feel cooler and look what happened. We hit our High Temperature early in the day and then that cooler air moves in. By thursday morning temperature have dropped down into the 20s. Keep in mind we have that wind too. That means its going to feel like 7 on 7 00 a. M. On thursday morning. And temperature will only climb up to the lowtomid 20s for your thursday. Much cooler as we head into the second part of the week. We will have the cold air in place. We also keep an eye on the storm. For more on that back to you. Thats key it will be cold. In fact a little bit more winterlike as we head into thursday and friday. That means we need to keep a close eye on the next storm coming friday. That will be ocean storm. Looks like most impact will stay out in the ocean. A slight change in track could mean a big difference in the forecast again anything that falls will be cold enough friday that it will fall snow. Right now looks like maybe a few stays cold through the weekend. It will warm back up more march like numbers for next week. After nearly a year in space astronaut scott kelly ready to return home. Kelly heading back to earth today. After spending the past 340 days on the International Space station. He set the american record for the longest duration in space. Nasa will study effects of space on him to prepare for future missions. Thats really interesting on today show they talk about why hes the perfect study. Because he has a twin brother also an astronaut. Pictures have been incredible that hes posting beautiful. Just ahead at 9 30 late night teacher caught. When you will see that special all coming to an end. Were hearing Aaron Andrews emotional testimony as her trial continues a people are both soft and strong, which is why our products are too. And we believe in value, so we give you 60 more sheets than charmin ultra strong. Angel soft. Be soft. Be strong. Your daughter wants to stay organic. 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Kris anderson is here with more. It got emotional. Aaron andrews said her life simply has not been the same since that videos released back she said this entire or deal could have been prevented. I felt so ashamed. While on the stand monday visitably shaken aaron andrew talked about the video taken of her and posted on the internet. Ist so angry. This could have been stopped. National marriot could have called me and said were putting this man that requested to be next you is this okay. And i would have called the cops and we would have gotten him. It could have stopped. Andrew suing the owner and manager of the nashville marriot and the man who took the video for 75 million. The jury saw the man deposition on monday. The plan was to videotape without her knowledge . After she first watched the she she called her parents. I was screaming. I was naked all over the internet. My dads like he thought i had been in the car accident. Why are you screaming. I was like, im naked all over the internet and i dont know what it is. Andrew suffers from depression. Panic attacks and anxiety on a daily basis because of the incident. All i wanted to do be respected. All i want to girl next door that love sport. Now im the girl of hotel scandal. Its embarrassing. Hotel here said aaron andrew said this was in no way a publicity stunt. Live in the newsroom. Kris anderson, 7news today in new england. Still ahead for you this morning how a New Invention created just north of the border could help in the spread of the zika virus. Its a fun award season for one store. Adding a few members to his squad. 9yearold actor happened to meet some of his favorite characters at the oscars. He posed with daisy ridley who plays ray in star wars. An avid star wars fan got to meet cp 30 and. Hes cuter now. Hes a star wars fan too. The old harry potter book may be collecting dust on your shelves. They could be worth a pretty penny. Web site specializes in rare book said that early editions of harry potter could be worth thousands of dollar. Harry potter could garner you 55,000. So the rest of us across the pond. American version less. 6500. Can you send me my brother harry potter book. I want to catch up and read them. Not yours. His. Still ahead this morning our team 7 coverage of super

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