. >> reporter: for boston thayer upon sur -- marathon survivor adrianne haslet each step is how far she has come and how to inspire others. >> it's a way to gib back to say a giant thank you to everybody but to remember those who are sitting on the couch without legs because of insurance coverage. >> reporter: she lost part of the left leg in the bombings. now three years later she will be the first boston marathon survivor amputee to runt entire 26 -- run the entire 26.2 miles running to provide money for limbs for life. >> this is going to give them

who are's what we look at 4 to 8 inches from boston to 495. outside 495 some smaller amounts 2 to 4 inchs from the cape and island as well. more rain expected to mix in and that snow later on in the the morning. so traffic and weather together now with susie. >> reporter: mother nature knows when to start when the commute gets busy. h-ov of 93 is closed while they and a crash blobbing the center lane of 93 south at med foreatroosevelt circle and a

let's look at the sit they of boston. -- city of boston. it's a quiet start and temperatures are in the 20s and 30s. check out currently at logan airport, 36 degrees. 40 in chatham. 26 nashua and taunton. clouds in place and the clouds will thicken up over the next couple hours. there's actually some pockets of snow back along the canadian border right now. but we are waiting on the rain just starting to advance into eastern new york now and western keck cut in the next hour and a half or so. so for us hour by hour, there may be a couple pockets of

and it looks like it will happen again. 50 in boston right now as well as new bed fore. 39 in orange and 37 pittsfield and colder air is encroaching on the area. and we have this straw of rain right now and rain showers moving up across southeastern massachusetts. it will be a wet night but as colder air makes end roads we will see that flip heading through the overnight. timing it out wet and southeastern parts of the state through the evening. and once we hit midnight, the temperatures have been falling into the mid-30s across central massachusetts and you go over to snow quickly. so the change will be happening first as we head towards the morning hours, now at 5 a.m.,that snow line is moving through boston and moving through taunton and providence and it is coming down at a pretty goodclip. temperatures above freezing which means you will have a very cement like snow as they shovel as you go. much because it will be heavy. and then heading into the morning, we will look at snow

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we are in the 50s. 55 in boston and we have a few leftover showers out there. the steadiest rain is gone but a couple spritz from northern rhode island stretching into bristol and plymouth county. a couple in eastern massachusetts between now and late morning. and temperatures will stay in the 50s from start to finish today. it's tonight that the changes start to move in. our overnight lows will drop back into the 30s. especially towards dawn tomorrow. and that's when we are tracking the next round of moisture coming in. so the front that came through

green tree to boston, 30 to 35 minutes. -- braintree to boston, 30 to 35 minutes. randy: what you' re seeing really depends on where you are. emily: stormteam 5 meteorologist a.j. burnett is live in worcester >> we have seen conditions rapidly deteriorate on the sidewalks in the roadways. there is a slushy coating on the sidewalk. it does not look like much, but if you went to bed last night and said it is raining, 40 degrees, you woke up this morning, saw the snow, said not a big deal, conditions are starting to change now, with the intensity of the snow coming down. we will ramp this up. we are expecting about four to eight inches of snow. happy anniversary, 38 years ago today, this is when the blizzard of 1978 formed. >> the snow is falling here. look down boylston street. the roadways are wet. they have been treated since the a light level of slush starting to accumulate. boston schools are closed. there is no snow emergency declared in the city. emily: we are watching the roads in the state very carefully. randy: nicole, how' s it going? >> it is the hub of co

kelley: good morning from boston's beautiful north end. we're driving down andover street which you can see has been pretreated ahead of this storm. so has just about every other street in the city of boston.

. >> i just want to show you that though it is clear in boston the edge of the storm is now showing on our doppler radar rain. almost to nantucket where it is currently 42 degrees. it may start as rain, maybe very briefly on the cape but then flip over. cold air will get drawn down from northern new england.

just jumped up to 47 degrees in boston.

by the time the moisture is moving on in, we are in boston at 10:00 a.m. we are in the 50' s into the evening. we have a strong southeasterly wind. we have a cold front approaching. so, we will watch the rain

it's colder this morning though. 23 in orange. 30 in worcester right now. 38 boston. plymouth all the way down to the cape with the clearing skies. we have high pressure nosing in from the north and west. this will give us lots of sunshine on this ground hog day. so mostly sunny skies. not as warm as yesterday. temperatures in the 40's to around 50 degrees.

victim number one of the self-proclaimed victims, the boston college eagles. the eagles are now 0-10 in the a.c.c., never had a chance in this one. louisville scored 19 of the game's first 21 points and built on that lead. the eagles fall 79-47.

. >> daniel: school system tells the boston herald they wanted to safeguard students in greater boston community. doctors have confirmed that patient in texas has acquired the zica virus through sexual transmission. the patient was affected having sex with someone coming back from venezuela and infected with the virus. this is the first known case in the current outbreak where the virus has been transmitted the virus is carried by mosquitoes and can be truly harmful for women who are pregnant or become pregnant. the world health organization have declared it a public emergency. it is now prevent in at least 27 countries. it is also been detected in number of u.s. states, including boston man who was diagnosed

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.

we we cut it in boston back to worcester county and the north shore. but jason, right now the winds continue to be the big story. >> a windy start and already wind gusts in excess of 50 miles per hour.

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

> also breaking first responders are working on a hazardous materials situation on beacon street in boston as we speak this happening just outside of kenmore square there. investing is telling us that a fedex truck had a box with a bottle of hcl leaking in it. just within the past 45 minutes we've been told now that has been safely neutralized. however as you might imagine is creating traffic tieups from the area were told no one was injured. >> we want to send things back to our election headquarters and manchester new hampshire where the nation's attention is now shifted to as we take a live look.

and if you are perhaps looking at your fox 25 app and thinking, is it really 57 in boston? yes. take a look at the high temperature for today, sure and that we climbed to nearly 60 in

a boston man was diagnosed last week but is now recovering. we know you may have a lot of questions surrounding this seeker virus that way posted of the need to know this website also learn how it spreads and how you can invent it go to the help section our website myfoxboston.com. >> present obama speaking to a mosque in maryland the present came to the islamic society baltimore to meet with muslim leaders the roundtable meeting focused on religious tolerance and anti-muslim prejudice this comes at a tense time for terror attacks religious extremists in the us and abroad. >> grizzly we've heard inexcusable political rhetoric against muslim americans.

boston itself 38 degrees. salisbury, 31. 31 in duxbury and 36 in harwich. temperatures 20s and 30s as we wake up this morning. it will be all about the sunshine today. noontime, 45 degrees. by 3 p.m., 47. it is not 50 degrees in your community. so that means temperatures 10 degrees above average and if that is not warm enough for you, i have got an even warmer day tomorrow but i am going to be having some of the hardest hit areas we are expecting the heaviest downpours coming up in less than ten minutes. now let's get you over to julie

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

if you're headed into boston on 39 southbound, you're slow and go from lawrence over 128 into boston. route 1 looking good so far this morning. will let's take a look at those drive times if you're getting

downtown boston gusting 25 to 30 miles per hour. from that storm system there moving away but

amir johnson grabbing the offensive board, kicking it out part of 15-2 run for boston. celtics turn it up in the fourth quarter. j.r. smith off the mark. evan turner keeps it himself and blows by lebron for the bucket. 9-0 run, giving the c's a seven-point lead. james starts to take over. taking it at tyler zeller, drawing contact and hitting the runner. cavs up by three, but a loose

around the metro you have steadier pockets of snow, boston out toward lexington, worcester, amesbury, westford, and then you have another plume of steadier snow western mass. this whole thing has to work up across southern new england over next several hours. here are the temps again. 34. that's not quite cold enough for the snow to really accumulate fast. yes, it could, but it's not snowing that heavy in worcester. plymouth, you have rain. new bedford rain. norwood 33. it's right there through southeast mass where you'll have that heavier plume of snow.

ahead here on 7 news at >> reporter: boston 54 at this time. fitchburg 49. clouds and here comes a batch of some rain approaching long island, south fork of long island. that looks like the north forking a well. that will work up to narragansett bay later this evening, this is the beginning of our storm system. but again as this precipitation reaches southern new england the temperatures are going to be near 50 degrees. so the fronts of the storm is rain. then as the storm gets closer to us, it'll

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,