That was stopped for the pedestrians in the crosswalk. The vehicle that was rearended was pushed into the crosswalk. Again, you have one vehicle that stopped at the crosswalk. A second vehicle comes up behind it and rare and, pushing that first vehicle into the crosswalk , striking that pregnant mother and her three children. They were all rushed to the hospital and one of the drivers also taken to the hospital. Witnesses on scene describe a pretty the mother was pregnant. She had presence of mind to tend to her children. Witnesses came running out of their houses, tending to her. This is still an active investigation. No charges have been filed. The chief says they will be stepping up patrols because there are a lot of pedestrians and this is a street where people tend to speed. Newscenter 5. Emily more breaking news a federal judge says he needs more information before making a decision on whether former House Speaker sal dimasi should be granted a compassionate release from prison.
17, 21, 23, 32 and the powerball 5. No word yet on who has this lucky ticket. Its so exciting, though, to have it right in our backyard. Good morning, everyone. Im sera congi, filling in for doug. Antoinette im antoinette antonio. Lets check in with mike wankum, who didnt win the powerball. Maybe were getting a prize in the form of rain. Mike its been a while since weve shown radar with ath friday was supposed to be a big rain event. It fizzled out. This morning, were getting a rain shower. Not a lot, but theres some. To the north, theres scattered showers. Most is really light stuff. As you travel to the west, it gets intense beyond greenfield, especially. Through the berkshires, theres nice downpours going on right now. As you travel south of the line, were seeing less intensity going on. Working eastward as we head through the morning hours. South shore. You had a little bit predawn. This is about it for today. Most will be this morning. Could be a hit or miss shower this afternoon.
We start off, temperatures in the 60s. Comfortable outside. Humidity is down. Humidity is coming up and so are the clouds. There are broken clouds off in new york state, but this is the area pushing this direction. As it moves in, the cloud cover will thicken. The rain will arrive overnight. Could be a rumble of thunderstorms with it. So in boston, were going to see temperatures warming up. Start to see clouds coming in this afternoon because of a sea breeze inland, we should be 80 to 85 degrees. High temperatures inland, which are very hot into the mid 80s, and the humidity is coming up as well this afternoon. After that, here comes the clouds, the chances for thunderstorms. Well talk more about the exact timeline, but you get the idea. Its after midnight that these come roaring through. All details in a few minutes. Antoinette breaking noogs out of east boston this morning. One woman is dead, two women are injured after a crash on route this happened around 2 30 this morning. The hig
Spot, doug. We cant think this early. Mike look at the numbers. 68 degrees right now. Towards hartford, its 76. Humidity is coming up. Warm air is trying to push along with the humidity. We need that to set us up for a chance of thunderstorms tonight. Whats the timeline on the thunderstorms . This afternoon, by 4 00, notice the cloud cover thickens. We may see a few scattered showers or sprinkles out in the the real rain event doesnt show up until 10 00 tonight. You see a line of thunderstorms here that marches eastward. Not arriving in the boston area and the eastern part of the state until 4 00, 5 00 in the morning. When this moves through, there could be the occasional downpour. Watch out, there could be ponding of roadways for the morning commute. Behind it, the skies clear. Today, well start with sunshine, throw a few clouds in this afternoon. It will get cloudy and humid toward the evening hours. Then the rain later tonight. Antoinette were staying on top of the breaking news in
I thought the skylight was going to collapse on me. It was pretty bad. Reporter National Grid quickly rolled in of the more than 3,000 that lost electric truss tee by late morning only less than 200 were still off line. Weather officials will be touring the affected areas to determine what exactly happened here. Residents say it doesnt matter what they classify it. They are calling it scary. Ed was that a tornado, harvey . Harvey the other damage could have been microburst. We have talked about microbursts can do as much damage as relatively small or weak tornadoes. This was an ef1. A half mile was the length. 400 yards was the width occurring at 3 20 a. M. Thats an ef1 on this scale about 100 mile per hour winds. That was only one of the damaged areas. And to have something that severe at that hour, that is very, very rare here. And it shows an incredibly strong disturbance. It did produce some beneficial rains in the Greater Boston metropolitan area. That was definitely welcome. Righ