Police say this happened monday morning around 8 30 when a 31 yearold sturbridge woman driving a Chevrolet Cavalier was traveling eastbound on route 20 in objection ford. Inside her car was an 8 month old boy and a 24 month old boy. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene as police say the female driver for reasons under investigation crossed that centerline and entered the westbound lane where they she cement truck. The 8 month old boy is on life support. The 2 month oldies at u Pass Medical Center receiving emergency treatment. The Impact Police say was so severe it pushed the car into a third vehicle driven by 55year old south bridge man. That man and his passenger were well. The truck driver i am told is a 34yearold oxford man. He was transported to st. Vincents hospital in worcester and is expected to be okay. This is a very windy hilly road residents that live around here say they have seen many accidents on this dangerous stretch of road. Its very loud when it goes across the center strip this morning it sounded like that or something dragging. Reporter david i can tell you right now this remains under investigation. Its still very unclear what made that woman cross that centerline and collide headon with the comment truck. Folks who live around here are very devastated everyone is very concerned about those two baby boys that were in this accident. Were live in Oxford Paul Burton Wbz news back to you. Heartbreaking story thank you so much. We are hearing now the desperate calls for help just moments after this house exploded and burst into flames. Tonight we know what caused this taunton home to blowup. Jim smith is live in taunton reporter it turns out this gas explosion was caused when the homeowner tried to fix her natural gas hot water heater by herself. She ended up accidentally breaking a connector of some sort allowing natural gas to flow freely into the house and this is the end result. My neighbors house just blew up. We felt the ground shake. Reporter paniced 911 calls for help. The inferno on christine lane a roaring fire in taunton fed by family home. Fortunately the homeowner 52 yearold laurie was able to may make it out safely she was the only one if the house. When i first saw the flames i ran inside the house and called 911. I just told them like you need to get over here quickly as possible. The fire just it happened so reporter investigators say the explosion was touched off when she try to repair the gas hot water heater herself. She allowed gas to flow into the basement where it ignited. Once that happens you know you have a heavy fast moving fire. You have a gas explosion. Reporter the chief says hiring a licensed contractor can avoid big trouble. We found one today driving by the fire scene. He has the same advice. I always tell people know your limitations. If youre not a licensed plumbing and heating contractor or gas fitter youre not supposed to be touching the gas at all. Reporter the state fire marshal tonight is also sending out the warning that it is not a good idea to have a do it yourself project especially when it comes to natural gas appliances. As for this homeowner fortunately amazingly she was not hurt. Shes staying with relatives. Live in Taunton Jim Smith Wbz news. Just incredibly lucky. Jim thank you. A Bridgewater State student is being held without bail on charges that he sexually assaulted a woman on campus. Police say musa sandi was arrested after a student reported the assault. He was then arrested a second time on sunday and charged with intimidating a witness. Also scare at a school in carver. The governor Carver School went into lockdown this morning when a teacher spotted someone unusual a stranger inside the school. They evacuated the kids they brought in police dogs, searched the billing and found no threat. A woman accused of driving her car into the homecoming parade Oklahoma State will undergo a psychological evaluation. Shes facing murder in the deaths of 4 people. Reporter graphic cell phone video shows chambers slam her sedan into the crowd blindside hundreds of spectators in bad daylight. Them. Mode them down like cattle. Reporter . Reporter don after the crash. You saw the scene bodies on the ground. Yeah. It was horrible. This was not a fat disaster a manmade disaster. Reporter the collision killed 4 people. 2yearold, and 3 others. Combined the married couple spent nearly 6 decades working at Oklahoma State university. 46 others were injured. The cars driver 25yearold a damage dish a chambers was arrested for suspicion of dressing under the influence. Shes a sick individual. Reporter her Attorney SaysMental Illness not column and drugs may have been a factor. Has she been reimportance full. Thats one of the areas that causes concern it seems as if there was an inability to be remorseful right now. Reporter her drug blood is being tested for drugs and alcohol. We have a developing story, 7. 5 magnitude earthquake causing this cause. Pakistani officials are reporting 147 deaths in their country. Hundreds of homes have been destroyed more than a thousand have been injured. All new tonight at 5 00 some big problems for a Little League team after vandals hit their building in bedford New Hampshire. The team says somebody graffitied the outside of the building broke a window and just tore the place apart. League officials suspect the vandals did 5,000 in damage. Now the bedford teen made the new england regional champions in this years tournament and everyone around them is saying they will pitch in to make sure that team has what they need. Turning to weather, beautiful way to start off the work week felt like fall out there. Perfect weather for football, of course which is what well be talking about in a few moments. Of course eric is here thursday night the patriots play this week. Hate to ask you about thursday. Its only monday but thats what im going to do. Its a running joke around here any time the patriots have a nurse night game it seems like it rains its the perfect week we have football on sunday. Weve had the sunshine. Remnants of patricia the huge hurricane off the coast of mexico. The remnants becoming a new area of low pressure that will be moving our way wednesday. Short term its the chill in the area. Area where its not marthas effect. Low to mid 0s west of boston. Close to the freezing mark around the cape. If you have plants tender vegetation the plants you want to go longer into the season you want to cover them up tonight for sure. Were going to track that storm system. Tomorrow is a quiet day wednesday the rain starts to move in heavy downpours arriving on wednesday evening plus quite a bit of wind which is going to kick off raking season inson new england. The un feeted patriots putting up a big win against the jets. No time to savor for the team. They are getting ready to get back on the field thursday. This was fun to watch yesterday, although a little nervous. Ill admit it now. Slightly nervous. Steve burton is live at the cbs steve . Reporter no you know why . Because they always know how to they do it so well. We all foe this is a short week the Miami Dolphins come to town for thursday fight football. Yesterdays win against the jets the patriots will look at it and move along quickly. We can go there though and we will. Patriots actually trail by 4 in the 4th quarter before tom brady rallied the troops. First it was Danny Amendola making a spectacular catch put the pats up by 3. Later in fourth. Some breathing room when brady finds wide open Rob Gronkowski 15yard score. They win it 3023. But no rest for the weary. The dolphins come to town on thursday night coming off 2 straight blowout wins. Sort week here we got to watch the tape and have a quick playing well. I dont know what their score of that game is but i think it was pretty high 410. That was very happen happy with the win. 60 its a good feeling. Got to turn the page right. Reporter certainly right about that. Coming up at 6 00 facing a miami team hitting their stride after firing that coach. Back to you. Thanks steve. Patriots get ready for thursdays game we have you covered. Watch our live one hour all access special airing wednesday night at where. Then thursday our coverage starts at 5 00. We have patriots game day coming up at 7 00. Kick off 8 25 thursday night football after the game you can watch patriots fifth quarter on my tv 38. A then stay tuned right after that wbz news at 11 00 were coming up right after the game. Campaign 2016 came to New Hampshire today the republican frontrunner donald trump was in atkinson where he addressed the democratic rival Hillary Clinton. I cant take another hillary, hillary. How bad is it . What a mess. There can never be lets run the country its always a mess. Trump also took swipes at his fellow republican president ial hopefuls calling jeb bush and ben carson low energy. He brushed aside a new poll that says hes actually trailing carson in iowa. Meanwhile Hillary Clinton celebrating her 68th birthday she instagramed a gift from katy perry. Theres the gift right there. The democratic hopeful will be in New Hampshire wednesday as part of the politics and eggs series. Till to come health news that may have you saying hold the bacon. Hold off on the hot dog. A new warning about some of your Favorite Foods that may be linked to cancer. Plus shes a fan of the future but almost out of time. That was until the 9 yearold wish of a lifetime was grand. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stuff left in that could be yours. Smells like spaghetti with johnsonville italian sausage. My favorite. The johnsonville factory burned down brian. I may as well move out. Well, if thats what yo. Youre right. Ill stay. Delicious johnsonville italian sausage. Big story today some concerning news about some of your Favorite Foods. Bacon, hamburgers hot dogs, all of them now linked to cancer. The World Health Organization put out the warning today calling processed meats car sin 0 general carcinogenic. A lot of people are concerned. Reporter world cancer researchers say people who fill up on processed foods bacon sausage and out dogs face a real risk of colon stomach and other cancers. Scientists from the World Health Organization say eating processed red meats toes smoked cured or salted poses the same cancer risk as smoking. Put that into perspective is 5 . If you have a hot dog every day your risk goes to 6 so its very, very small. Reporter while doctors have much meat. The who goes a stepfather. As long as you take it within moderation. Reporter the northern American Meat dispute is calling the report quote dramatic and alarmist and argues that cancer ace complex disease not caused by single foods. But the who says it has hard evidence that came from the evaluation of 800 studies from several continue fence about meat and cancer. The the new report says grilling pan frying or cooking red meat at high temperatures produces the highest amounts of chemicals suspected of causing cancer. 800 studies. Lets put it into perspective most of us dont eat these things every day those who do should cut back for reasons other than this study or this report. David. I looked ahead i saw you have a great story coming up very interesting. Techniques were used to using dummies imagine a robot it can replicate a laboring woman down to the contractions and birth to victoria. Thank you. Does she even yell at her husband during the contractions. Get oust get out of my room. Video taken recently by Michael Griffin using a drone flies over the public garden copley over the commons, finest. Look at that. You can see the trees changing just a beautiful shot. Great day to be out there looking around the city. I went for a long walk myself all around the city everyone had their cameras out everyone still visiting boston. Welcome to the city. Trees showing off all their colors. We had so many great photos. This one from eric. Upton. The top of the water. Its been a stunning fall for us. Its also been very dry and that is going to change quickly. 49 degrees portsmouth boston as well as plymouth. Low to mid 50s. Well have a similar temperature line up tomorrow. Well be falling into the 20s for most locations. 35 in downtown boston. Frost advisory for the overnight. Vicepresident had a killing frost for cape cod or martha s vineyard. Tomorrow morning frosty start. Halloween around the corner. Midday mostly sunny skies cool right around 50 degrees. Light winds tomorrow. As we head toward the evening whisk by cirrus clouds. High temps again very similar today in the low to mid 50s across the region which is right on target for this time of the year. Then we start to yet into our changes. Patricia which was once a strong hurricane strongest recorded in the western hemisphere will some of its coast states. A new storm forming with some of that energy also with a lot of tropical moisture and thats wednesday. Heres a look at the timeline. Time stamp as we head into wednesday morning. Clouds will start thickening up. I do think most of the showers will wait until later on on wednesday afternoon for us. The heaviest rainfall is probably not going to arrive until wednesday night. So as the evening progresses and we head into the overnight there will be downpours a little lightning and thunder thats going to linger into thursday morning before this all starts to sweep its way out to sea coming to an end on rain totals this is computer model its not the exact forecast. Pretty good idea. I think most of the region is going to see 1 to 2 inches of rainfall where these heaviest downpours move over the same towns we could see up to 3 inches of rainfall in a few locations a good soaking rain no river flooding expected with that because it is so dry and the rivers are very low. Notice the rainfall deficits for the year. They have crept all the way back up to 8 inches for deficit in boston 7. 5 in worcester. There could be some street flooding, but the good news is with the heaviest rain coming overnight hours that means youre not going to have as many people on the roads hopefully a lower impact. Its going to be the start of raking season as we head into wednesday afternoon evening the winds will start to increase out of the south southeast. Our strongest winds on wednesday night. A rocking stormy kind of evening. Wind gusts 25 to 35 Miles Per Hour. But i think we can see gusts 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour south Coast Cape Cod and the islands. We could see scattered outages maybe a few limbs coming down off the streets the strongest winds will start to wind down into thursday morning. So most of us happening on wednesday night. Looks like there could be a spray sprinkle or shower for tailgating. Terms way into the 60ed nice and mild on thursday. Kick off low 60s toward the end of the game cooling back into the 50s. Most of that rain will be done. Heres your accuweather 7day towards the weekend seasonal weather for friday and saturday. Halloween and Daylight Saving time ends. Were going to talk more about that next half hour. All right eric thanks. Visitors you can make your own spending plan at the statehouse right now. Solong forgotten items are about to go up for sale. Rare coins red sox memorabilia l all on display its a sampling of what the state seized from safe deposit boxes nobody claimed. The items on display and many more will be hitting ebay on saturday. Coming up next 97yearold woman wish of a lifetime granted by google. Were going to show you the new target ad that has gone viral why so many parents are cheering this halloween flier. For the girl scout meeting. Okay. For the soccer team. For the girl scout meeting. How many meetings are you having . Stop shop just dropped prices on thousands more items. Which makes the checkout lane, victory lane. Electricity no indoor plumbing but insatiable curiosity. The on profit grants wishes to seniors. Shes 97 years old. She grew up in rural montana she wanted to see the future she chose a visit to google headquarters. She created her own Google Doodle and quizzed the staffers on whats next. Im intrigued with the things changes ive seen in my life. Its a real learning experience for me today. Life has got to be fun and i think i spent a lot of my time creating fun things in my life. Theres a reason shes healthy and 97. Olive who lives in a nursing home even got to ride in googles self driving car. She said it was a long way from the horse and buggy that she rode in as a child. Great choice. Love her. Take a look at this lobster in beverly notice anything strange about it. Of course you do. Its blue. Tom september us these pictures a lobster he and his crew caught. Its a 1 in 2 million fine. Thats not a ben midge moore color. Come on thats really blue. If you rub it your hands turn blue thats a problem. One robber had it all what the owner did that had him running. Well have the veryest on a deadly accident on a whale seeing boat. A live look at the conditions on the mass pike not too good heading westbound try to focus on the sunshine. Ah come on lets hide in the attic. No. In the basement. Why cant we just get in the running car . Are you crazy . Lets hide behind the chainsaws. Smart. Yeah. Ok. If youre in a horror movie, its what you do. Shhhh. Be quiet. Im being quiet. Youre breathing on me if you want to save on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do