boston public schools have come under serious skoyt in the wake of students protests at the boston latin school. they have been protesting racist taunting on social media but after they took it to administrators last year they were ignored. boston mayor and superintendent tommy chang have weighed in on investigation. this week black leaders forced a meeting with the superintendent where they pushed for justice and reforms across the boston public schools. this morning we have on the show three who met with superintendent chang earlier. kevin peterson, a civic leader in boston and founder of the new coalition. and darnell williams president and ceo of the urban league of massachusetts and bob marshall a member of the black educators alliance of massachusetts. welcome to "urban update" guys. an important issue, in the papers and everything. kevin, i will start with you, why did you feel the need to go and meet with the superintendent earlier this week? >> because the issue of racism in boston latin school is urgent and this issue is lingering way and there needed to be leaders from the com

temperature in boston, down to 33 degrees. a lot of 32s and 33s through metro west in interior southeastern mass, as well. this is the really the area where we pick up most of the accumrating snow. heavy wet snow, 5 to 8 inches of it, tapering off between 3:00 and 5:00 p.m. from west to east. about 3:00, 4:00 in the boston area. about 5:00 down through the cape.

this afternoon for your super bowl festivities. 40 degrees in boston. and we're melting snow too. tonight clouds increase 30 degrees, we're still okay, but this first system moves in monday morning and monday afternoon especially. storm to our south, there's another system, that second storm is still well to our west in the great lakes. with that first storm sitting to our south

. >> it is 8:56. city of boston. radar around the berkshires. there could be ocean effects but much of the day will be dry. we are 22 in boston, temperatures creep up near the chilly one. better chance of snow showers

including the city of boston, between 5 and 8 inches of snow. i would plan on 6 in downtown boston. north of there, 4 to 5 inches of snow, southern new hampshire. 4 to 5 inches of snow right on the water's edge of the south coast on to the cape and upper cape and east of hyannis. it's 1 to 3 inches. there chris, more on the travel. roads go downhill, foxborough, worcester county, the city of worcester where we have seen the morning. that continues to overspread.

let's check the people from framingham eastbound into boston. mostly green. so no delays to tell you about there. 93 from lawrence over 128 and into boston looking like a good drive, as is route 1 this morning. take a look at those drive times if you're getting ready to head out the door. 11 minutes on the expressway. 93 southbound, 128 to the zakim bridge, that drive 11 minutes.

warm-up in the boston area, 40 at 9:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. 46, 49 by 1:00 p.m. high temperatures crack the 50s today, so going to be mild in fact, it is light rain at first, heavy rain we are saving until the evening commute. so future cast hehir over the next couple of hours, see at 10:00 this morning, we got the steadier rain, filling in across southern new hampshire, parts of northern massachusetts as well, keeping a close eye on temperatures northern worcester hills to merrimac to southern new hampshire and icy spots until then but this afternoon we got the focus of the heavy rain to the north and west of boston, southern new hampshire back to western massachusetts and worcester if you have on and off rain through most of the day here, and lunch time in boston will likely involve some scattered light showers but look at that evening commute. this is going to be some of the worst of the weather that we have. play, we will have gusty winds, we will have fog on top of that and it will include most of the area. travel plans here during the evening south of bosto

let's go to the maps from the braintree split into boston expressway northbound, that drive 27 minutes. and keep in mind, the hov lane not opening today because of the weather there. route 3, 24, 95, no major incidents to tell you about, but you can see the yellow

city of boston storm warning through the day and night because of this here, huge storm that really intensified during the day yesterday. in fact, it reached its maturity. it's not going to get any stronger from this point out, but it's quite strong. it's a formidable storm. it will pass well to the south of new england, but we're going to be right on the edge of this storm system and have quite the reach this storm. and this will bother us through the day today. it's already doing so in the wind is the first element to show up.

here's a look actually at first light in boston now. you can see a lot of clouds overhead.

part of a 50-2 run for boston. off the mark. evan turner giving himself and blowing by lebron for the bucket. james starts to tick over taking it rite at tyler zeller. cavs by three.

look for it to be slick. 16 bedford, 29 boston. finally just getting to the freezing mark at p town. skies are clear. we got just a few passing clouds. we'll call it mostly sunny as we head into the afternoon hours. mid to upper 30s. we will see a little bit of it will refreeze tonight. still below freezing. already looking at our next chance of snow.

snow, not close to boston. for southern areas of the state,

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boston college with their 20th bean pot title.

the evening and show you what to expect in boston and first get look at traffic with julie, how are things going now. >> julie: things are getting worse and great representation and zakim bridge and then camera route 1 in saugus and rest of these are snowed out and that's what you will be dealing with if you heading out the door, speed reduction 40 miles per hour,

now some of the numbers, as we go to the south of boston. mansfield had 9.5 inches. milford had a inches. -- 8 inches.

oversouthern new england with temperatures on the colder side and a few spots still, 18 in bedford, 30 in boston, i have 28 there in hyannis. temperatures this afternoon under mostly sunny skies, anywhere from 42-4410 rung about 5, 6, 7 degrees above normal for this time of year. one milder day before thinks start to go downhill tomorrow morning. let's wake up with futurecast,

the way down to sandwich, plymouth making changeover, new bedford making changeover to snow as well, boston 34 with snow showers in place and 32 in nashua and temperatures will continue to drop over the cape and islands which is why we see the flip. 10:00 reaching the upper cape

and logan, almost 7 inches of so that's our deficit in boston at 8 inches for the annual season snow total. we're still running a little more than a foot behind in worcester. but you see it only takes one

and now steady snow filled in all across the boston metro as catch up here. aid long duration storm and snow moving in this morning and it's going to continue well into the night starting to taper off after midnight tonight. but the most persistent areas

and this is the first time -- first time it's being done and started in boston. good luck with the pageant and fining the beautiful women. >> and thank you so much. >> i am sure you won't have an issue. >> thank you. >> and thank you. >> for more information, on the beauty pageant, call 857-221- 2013 for a direct link to their website and visit us online at cbsboston.com/centro and we want to invite you to connect

boston took control early on. at one point, they picked up a loose ball and got it to isaiah thomas who took it in for a reverse lay in and the foul. erin: it was national signing day for high school athletes and unh football.

high tide does not include metro boston or the north shore chill chills at 21 overnight tonight snow fade away by top, cold 16 to 22. tuesday is dry all sky so no issues for the morning commute i will allow for a little extra time if you will wait until tomorrow to brush off the car tops or sidewalks one more

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eight to up to foot of snow, eight inches up to foot of snow on south shore, south of boston, braintree andampuincy and weymouth and five to eight inches boston to worcester and whipping around hard to measure.

a boston man is now recovering. >>> woman not invited. men hold a gather to a popular

fox 25 team joined the climb up 41 flights at one boston place yesterday. the goal was to raise money and also give people the same breathing experience people with lung disease live with each day. >> 1700 climbers today heading up the building to fight for lung health and fight against lung cancer all to support the lung association's mission. >> daniel: the money will go toward research, education and advocacy, more than 2,000 people participated including, fox 25 katherine burcham and kerry kavanaugh. >> heather: still ahead on the fox 25 news, the reservoir where it gets it water is way down now. next the threat that could come, come summer, and why there might not be enough water even with the recent snow. >> daniel: and it's super bowl

temperature 32 in plymouth, boston right now at 20 , it is going to be a mostly cloudy day, and although light risk 30 this afternoon, better chance cape ann, south shore and north side of the cape and for anyone that's heading out to vote in new hampshire today, i do have some flurries up in manchester now. mostly cloudy day with just next hour, and then we dry out with temperatures into the upper 20s. 31 in boston, 32 norwood, 33 in plymouth, 29 in worcester, 29 manchester, new hampshire and today you will see the focus of those snow showers really do hover very close to the coast and they waver from time to time, coating to inch of snow in couple coastal communities today into the evening commute couple light snow showers into the cape and tomorrow around 5:00 a.m. we have the next batch of snow moving in and scattered snow through the day possibly as you could see burst of heavier snow. results as coating to two inches of snow and where we get the burst heavier snow and now expected in western new england, we do have the potential of going slightly over that. so, of course, keep you

but over the years it made its way to this man stephen silva who lent it to convicted boston marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev. indeed, the week before the

should get there around taunton. 58 boston. 52 worcester. valley as well. it's a warm day but not setting

marcus smart led boston with 26 off the bench. it was all-star weekend in the nhl. three on three, and teams from four divisions playing two 20-minutes on to determine which teams would play for the championship. patrice played for the atlantic division. his team advanced to the title game against the pacific division. corey perry fires one inside the far post. it was four on three with the goalie paul. patrice bergeron had a chance for a deflection. pacific winds 1-0. the team gets a cool $1 million to spread around, and john scott

has a tough weekend ahead at number 4 boston college friday. congratulations to the 600 or so nhiaa student athletes in divisions two and four that were honored today in concord. the governor declared it scholar athlete award day. i was on hand to enjoy the festivities. students need a b plus average and to earn a varsity letter. and over 1400 statewide have been able to do that. jennifer: thank you, jamie. tom: right now on wmur.com,

a sandwich woman is being held on bail, accused of dragging a woman under her car through boston. she hid her face in court yesterday as she pleaded not guilty. police want her blood tested for alcohol and drugs in yesterday' s crash. as we look out across the sky line, we' ve got the sunrise this morning. - cindy: a nice day for groundhog day. sunshine and light winds today.

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>>> boston right now at 41. fitchburg at 35. hyannis at 3. we had a high of 50 today in the city and we're going to head for 50s again tomorrow. so this is our next storm system. it's only about the rain drops. the storm does have snow in the top and backside of itself but we will be on the front side of this storm and here is the warm air that's loading up and it will come racing into new england by tomorrow afternoon an tomorrow night. for tonight it's dry all evening. increasing clouds overnight tonight. temps only dropping into the middle 30s which is where we should be for afternoon highs. periods of are in arriving midday worcester hill, monadnock region. wind will pick up tomorrow afternoon. it's a southerly wind to the numbers, the temps will jump in the lower 50s in the day. tomorrow evening's and quite windy as well at the coastline. occasionally 40 miles per hour out on cape cod so that's the weather system coming at us tomorrow afternoon,

i think a coating to an inch possible in boston. 7news at 5:00 coming back after

would be running fairly normal skeleton and use public transportation if they plan to come into the boston region, we will run the grestem all day long. >> gene: , frank you satisfied with how it has respondedsar3 >> procedures and equipment put into play seems to be doing the trick and today will be a little bit of sterner test of this but we think the warm-ups we havead we are up for the task. >> sara: frank depaula, thank you for joining us. >ankgene: blizzard in effect and live look at plymouth harbor, snow falling, stronger now and watching the waves too. kevin tracking every inch of the storm. >> kevin: deeper track on radar and flurries as far

all throughout the day boston police officers and homicide detectives have been in and out of this roxbury. around 10:00 last night police were called to this house after the boy suffered traumatic injuries. >> came downstairs because i saw all the police cars and e.m.t.s it. >> breaks my heart to think injuries on him. it really breaks my heart. >> reporter: he may have been kicked or beat onto lower part of his tiny body. we've learned a relative who has mental health issues may

. >> kelli o'hara with the story in east boston right now. >>reporter: hi, good evening, guys. that car was trying to avoid an accident but got into an accident of its own. it went right under all of the scaffolding. they thought the entire building of scaffolding was going to come down but luckily that wasn't the case and no one was hurt. an s.u.v. driving right

erin: the all-star is over for the boston bruins. they skated at home last night with the toronto maple leafs. brad marsh and scored the only goal. the maple leafs tied it in the second. the third, only to lose it and lose the game. the maple leafs won 4-3 in overtime. sean: the celtics played at the new york next last night. -- knicks last night. isaiah thomas had a team-high 20 points last night. that reminds me of myself. the celtics won the game and hosts the detroit pistons tonight. erin: you are as tall as all those guys. wmur dropped by the unh hockey practice last night. unh is looking ahead to two

coming to me tv in boston later this month but she'll be on tomorrow at 7:00 and 11:00. new payroll figures show the number of state workers making a six figure salary is up 25%. more than 13,000 employees made

this will hang out south of town of the metro boston again some light snow with some steadier pockets of snow, merrimac valley as well as on cape ann and one way over there in worcester county. western worcester county but most of the action today has

22nd time in the 64 year history since 1993, it's been bc winning it and it's boston college for the sixth time. no score in the first period wild sequence. mcguire makes the stop and back comes bu the other way. he doesn't score but goes crashing. the second round pick, they remain scoreless. they head to overtime and in the

the winds are up in the north shore in the north of boston. we also caught side of another

but san francisco was second here, followed by boston and chicago. and then on to new york. >>> march madness right around the corner, and march madness isn't just for basketball teams. but women's gymnastics. george washington ranked as high as seventh in the nation this season. now with an eye on the postseason, thanks to experience. and not just how they practice, but how they start practice. carol maloney reports. >> the sign doesn't say "we will try." it says "we will." we're holding ourselves and our teammates accountable. we're getting in and doing our job. >> we will give our all. we will conquer the day. >> they are committed and focused and ready to be taught. >> reporter: educated by a teacher with over three decades of experience. in margie foster cunningham. >> people will say, how can you do this for 31 years? it's different every year. it's never the same. >> she is going to get the best out of you as an athlete, and not even as an athlete. as a person too. >> big, big, big. >> physically, we came here, we had our skills. but she's ama