and in january, we had 9 and a half inches of snow in boston, 6.8 and we picked up in boston from the fresh no that moved through and the storm exited

. >> boston pb lib schools closed. the latest timeline for a -- public schools closed.

worcester picked up 12.5; sharon, learn; shirley, 10 inches of snow and in boston, we picked up an additional 6.8 inches of snowfall for the

boston to braintree on the expressway. south of town is doing okay as well and as you travel the pike west about 15 minutes to 198. there was an accident involving an overturned you will find some residual delays and then as you travel good shape. the trains and buss are back on schedule. phil? phil: rhondella richardson is live for us now. rhondella? reporter: between friday and today, this is how brockton snowfall has piled up. the snow starts and stops, but the wind has been a consistent pain and a lot of blowing of the snow as the temperature dips. you will have black ice. be careful because it is beneath some of the snow. >> digging out is a chore. >> this is fluffy. it is not that bad. this is quite a bit to cover here. >> driving is a challenge, but emergency managers are thrilled there are no power outages like during friday's storm. >> they just finished getting people connected at 4:00, 5:00 yesterday. we convinced the national grid to keep those crews here in the city. they are on stand by right >> 180 pieces of

expressway start to go build a little bit of volume. 10-15 braintree to boston. looking good on the pike this morning.

. >> you are watching wcvb, boston' s news leader. good morning. this is newscenter 5 eyeopener. randy: 5:30 thursday morning as we look over the expressway. as you step out, you are going to wonder where you are. on a february morning, it is so mild. i' m randy price. thank you for joining us. emily: and i' m emily riemer with cindy and olessa.

phil: to make boston prettier, we have to do something like that. done. jc: that' s right. phil: google fiber is trying to give back. it plans to offer high-speed internet to thousands of low

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ed: do keep this in mind, boston public schools have already canceled for tomorrow, so even though it is warm and not snow we tomorrow, it is going to be colder and snow we tomorrow.

emily: but for some people around boston it' s a real life story of ruin. george christin and his daughter audrey watched last night' s debut but they already know how it ends. george lost much of his retirement fund to madoff' s scheme. he says richard dreyfuss' character is spot on. >> absolutely ruthless. at the same time, very personable.

. -- talking about for the city of boston. i will look at all the computer models because many of you like to see these. this is one of the models i like the best. it is the europ model. forecasting. a 4-6 inch category. if we look at the u.s. model, again, timing and that same ball park it does want to push it further to the west. here'

from the game of the 64th beanpot tournament boston college boston university take the square off again. the snow nor rain nor boom of night can stop the beanpot 64 year history this event will be bu versus bc for the beanpot championship. the bu terrace will be looking for the 31st championship overall. bc eagles looking for their 20th title. in both head coaches now this is a big deal. >> always talk about that.

seeing south of boston and closer to new bedford and boston you're going to get a little mist out there but norwood, millis light rain to the north of that, dry and 50, worcester 53 nashua, new hampshire at 48, so all day i wanted you to dress for temperatures that you have now.

here in the boston temperature trending down. clear skies in worcester though and the temperature drop to 18 back to 28 by 10:00 in the morning. it is going to be the colder of the on two days tomorrow. warms up sunday but our next storm system i'm already tracking for early next week.

bridgewater, over to fall river, brockton as well three to six inches and one to three in and around boston area, back through sudden burr and he worcester and coating to an inch but i will warn you every model this morning numbers have gone up slightly or still working to fine-tune the forecast. for the time being we are expectation accumulation friday

o'clock fox25 morning newscast boston's right on the cusp of changing over that continues southward to plymouth about 6:40 a.m. south shore getting the snow sticking snow eventually but again mild very beginning and then on to the cape cod bridges by 8 o'clock through all of cape cod not until 11:30 a.m. and then up to nantucket last to see the snow on cape cod and the islands but there you going to bless us know amounts because you're going to have a late start. so 1 to 3 inches out that way for 26 area going to be

. >> former boston police chief daniel lynnsky testifying before a state hours hearing in favor of a workplace violence bill that would require health care people to protect their workers. he was brought in to investigate after the murder of dr. michael jacobson last january at brigham women's. >> i walk through the hospital with no reason, to ability to have been there that day aibd went into the.

i get to be the bearer of bad news for the thousands of children in the city of boston and the vowrding community. it's back to school today after that extended four-day weekend thanks to two snow days, one on friday and then, of course, one yesterday. so what that means is it's back to work. this gentleman here has been actually scraping the sidewalks at condon elementary school in south boston this morning. we have some video of the busses that were rolling out from the bus yard this morning. buses hitting the road for the first time in four days now. most of the roads are cleared and that's good news for students who are heading back to class today because they got to

and has been marching north into the city of boston. malden, 1.5 inches of snow. inches of snow. the doppler radar shows snow all over the place. and unlike the storm on friday

so your storm time line, we have the steady snow happening boston, weston to the metro west area of worcester hills,

snow tomorrow morning in metro boston. a slow go with many cities and towns between 5-7 inches of snow.

boston and if it keeps

the pike back to framingham, if you're heading eastbound into boston, looking pretty good so far. lets take a look at those drive times if you're getting ready to head out the door. 93 southbound, 128 to the zakim bridge, 11 minutes. the you're taking "t," it's on time so far this morning. back to you, guys. >> christa: danielle, thank you. with the new hampshire primary in sight, the presidential hopefuls will be making stops all across the granite state in the coming day. >> sarah: even if you don't

. >> marshall: right in downtown boston we are right now, and you can see that the snow here

so 93 northbound heading out of boston. you can see it looks like some

boston went on to win this game 100 2-95. manchester monarchs fans will be seeing a lot of pink at the home game this weekend. it is the annual pink in the rink game to raise awareness for breast cancer. the monarchs will wear pink jerseys that will be sold at auction to benefit the breast cancer center. erin: a road race scheduled for primary night in manchester has

pit was a 6-3 boston college win, pbut the game was much closer pthan the score indicates. p>> it was a pretty good game puntil the last five minutes when pthey kind of took it away from pus. pwe' re looking forward to it. pthey are physical. pyou know they are going to be a pchallenge. pthey play good defensively. pblock shots.