Today's Top Headlines

Friday, December 26

Good morning Wypierdalaj,

It's a very cold start to this Friday with wind chills below zero for many. We're expecting snow late tonight, with parts of New England possibly seeing half a foot. Other news we're following includes a deadly fire in Providence, a double shooting in Cambridge, and a wrong-way driver on I-95. I'm Kaitlin McKinley Becker, and these are our headlines.

We’re waking up to some of the coldest air so far this season with wind chills below zero for many, and there isn’t much relief coming for Friday afternoon.

We keep a mostly cloudy sky with temperatures stuck in the 20s — far colder than it should be for this time of the year.

By Friday evening, a push of snow moves in, first clipping western Massachusetts. We’ve marked this as a First Alert because we know a lot of people are on the move.

Police said they arrested a driver who went the wrong way down a Massachusetts highway on Christmas night.

The driver was heading south on the northbound side of Interstate 95, according to Massachusetts State Police, who responded shortly after 9:30 p.m.

“The vehicle traveled through several communities before the operator was taken into custody and transported to a local hospital,” a state police spokesperson told NBC10 Boston Thursday night.

One person has died and three others were hospitalized after a fire early Christmas morning in Providence, Rhode Island.

Crews responded around 4:45 a.m. to the fire on Princeton Street, which started in a basement and spread rapidly, according to Providence Fire Chief Derek Silva.

One victim died from their injuries after being taken to Rhode Island Hospital, while two others who were taken there are in critical condition. Another patient was hospitalized after suffering from smoke inhalation.

Four Northeast governors on Wednesday demanded a classified briefing from the Trump administration to understand the national security risks underlying the pause on offshore wind project leases.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont and Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee also called for the pause to be lifted immediately on the five offshore wind projects, including Vineyard Wind 1 off the coast of Nantucket.

“It strains credulity to believe that vital, substantial projects that underwent many federal reviews and processes, including by the DoD (Department of Defense), all of a sudden present new, existential, unforeseen threats,” the governors wrote in a letter to U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.

Two people were hospitalized with gunshot wounds early Christmas morning, according to police in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Police responded to a home on Howard Street for a report of a fight around 3:20 a.m.

Officers found two people shot. They were treated at the scene before being transported to area hospitals.

Police officers in Stoughton, Massachusetts, delivered a baby in a car on Christmas Day.

The mother was in labor when police responded at 6:12 a.m. to Glen Echo Boulevard.

“Sergeant Medeiros, himself a proud dad, was the first to arrive on scene,” the Stoughton Police Department wrote in a Facebook post. “Moments later, Officer Guzman, a mom, arrived to assist.”