This case is not so easy to prove against either party. It could really boil down to he saidshe said. The reporter with the prosecution relying heavily on the other defendant, more medical evidence is crucial. It would be so helpful if they could determine the actual cause of death and the way it happened, because then it really could help clarify and show, indicate who might be the guilty party here. Heather Robert Goulston reporting there. The next step in the case is a probable cause hearing, that was supposed to happen today, but it was continued until next month now. And the attorneys say the third party autopsy is expected to be completed at that point. To other news, we have more details on some new steps to overhaul the troubled department of children and family. Meantime. Massachusetts new child advocate is testifying in favor of a bill to create more separation between her agency and the Governors Office. Maria masadus was sworn if last week, she wants to make sure the agency can act without worry of retribution. Right now the governor appoints the advocate, but a new bill would spread the power between two additional offices. The Governors Office admits dcf reforms are a top priority. A quincy couple is on the run wanted in a string of bank rob island starting up and down the east coast. Police in maryland are looking for joseph an jenny carrier for allegedly robbing a bank in aberdeen. The couple is also wanted in florida and here in massachusetts for robbing a bank in ludborn low last month. They are believed to be driving a dark buick encore. Believed to be stolen from the dealership carrier worked for. Heather the naval tug apache is scheduled to arrive saturday, it will spend two weeks searching the last known location of el faro, in hopes of finding wreckage, including the important voyage data recorder. Weve also learned the cast of the el faro made an emergency call on october 1, saying the water was in one of its holes. As you know, 33 crew members were lost at sea, including two massachusetts natives, jeffrey mathias, a father of three from kingston and keith grinch from winthrop who moved to florida. He and his wife were expecting twins. Mark now to a live look at the boston skyline. Thats a beauty. Thats a keeper. Turned out to be a nice fall day out there. Chief meteorologist Kevin Lemanowicz it was comfortable outside. Kevin and still is, mark. Temperatures are still in the 60s for your dinner plans underneath that beautiful skyline shot. Cambridge, 64. Nice. Off to the north and west of there, evening along 495 and beyond, youll find temperatures that are still mild like that. 63 lowell, 62 kingsborough and 62 in acton. Southeast vermont, windham county, temperatures are still in the 50s here, so its a little cooler this way, but in spot ford, New Hampshire. Warm temperatures out there for october. And the crowds rolling if tonight will keep the temperatures from dropping much from where they are now. Upper 40s farther northwest where its in the 50s right now. Coldest youll find around southern and central new england. Well have to watch for a couple of springs else making their way toward us later on tonight. Those are possibly in the forecast, something im tracking right now. A lot of clouds for you in the north shore. For your temperature, drop to the upper 40s and thats the worst of it and start to rise by the morning. Temperatures tomorrow will be affected by the cloud cover. Well talk about that and with the next rain arrives. Mark a New Hampshire man is charged with grabbing a teen at a concord restaurant. Michael he is known in the area as an advocate for bone marrow donations following its deaf of his son from a rare immune disorder. Transit police trying to figure out who this man is after he committed a sex act on an orange line train, wednesday afternoon. Surveillance video shows the man exiting the forest hill station if you recognize him, Contact Police. Heather pennsylvania mom accused of setting off a amber alert by driving her infant to a boston hospital. Tiffany cherry is facing default warrants on various cases, released on 250 bail yesterday after pleading not guilty to child endangerment. Her lawyers say police overreacted when she drove her 2monthold son to Childrens Hospital from wilkesbarre, pennsylvania for medical treatment. A lowell man appearing in court after a violent struggle with police. Jesis ocasio facing charges of assaulting a Police Officer and resisting arrest. Police were called to concord street after jesis ocasio was allegedly staggering in the road, and allegedly smashed someones car window and mirror. When police ride to arrest him, jesis ocasio did not go quietly. First officer there ended up getting down the stairs three times, other officers joined in were hurt in the struggle. They were treated they hospital, but they have been released. Mark two more people are facing charges after a body was found under a cement slab at a rhode island home. Weve been following the story for you since may when the body of ortiz was discovered. The states attorney general now says a pennsylvania man has been charged with murdering his girlfriend and failure to report a death. Two other suspects, steven pet ris and a woman have been charged with murder. Heather Worcester Police are looking for a group of armed men wanted in a frightening home invasion. The victim told investigators seven men were guns forced their way into his home, assaulting him and the family member. Suspects then allegedly tied up the two men before puppy doer spraying them, the victims wife and her two daughters were locked in a room while the suspects ransacked the home. Worcester police are now looking for your tips. Go to work, go to school or find a new place to live. Those are the strict new rules if place for all families in state funded Public Housing in worcester. Fox 25 newss Kerry Kavanaugh spoke with residents about the programs requirements and asked whether they are paying off. The reporter worcester state funded Public Housing is home to some 350 families. Rules. Everybody who lives in Public Housing who is not disabled, and who is not elderly is now required to go to school or go to work. Executive director of the Worcester Housing Authority calls this program, a better life. Become selfsufficient. We have people who are three, four, and five generations, residents of Public Housing, we found that 70 to 80 of the people who live here are unemployed. We found that 40 of them dont have a High School Diploma or ged. The court when it began three years ago, a better life was voluntary, a limited number of people stepped up. So he changed the rules, making it mandatory for new residents. This summer, it changed again. Mandatory work, school, or Community Service is required of all families. We doubled the number of people employed from 35 to 70 . We nearly tripled their wages. As the amount of money that the residents earn increases, the amount of rent that they pay, that also goes up, but the Housing Authority doesnt profit off those increases, instead, he says, the difference goes into an escrow account, which is available to participants with they graduate. I came in as a homeless applicant. The reporter we met with some of the original participants, two single moms today. Never, never in a million years did i think that i would have accomplished so much in my life to be where im at today. She has a fulltime job as a clerk with the Worcester Housing Authority. They worked with me step by step on doing the Community Service, getting an apprenticeship. I feel like ive accomplished something getting to where i am because i have regular pay coming in. If someone is willing to try, were going to find a way to make them successful. The reporter all right. The prom faces some crit Program Faces some criticism from housing advocates who say over anyones head and the feds made mayoron running the program because he says it was in violation of federal rules. Despite that though, worcester hopes this is something that will expand in massachusetts. Kerry kavanaugh, fox 25 news. Former School Bus Driver has been indicted in a nottingham, New Hampshire, crash that left three students hurt. Stephanie boyd was downloading her happen in february, when the school bus she was driving crashed into a tree. 112yearold student suffered a broken jaw, facial and nerve damage and two others had minor injuries. Plants for resort in springfield is downsizing. Mgm International Plans to cut the size of its casino by nearly 14 . Mgm planned to reduce the scope of the project by 122,000 square feet. The company was eliminate ago 25 story hotel tower and replacing it with a 26 story hotel. Mgm is committed to completing the project in september of 2016. Heather tom brady and the pats have forgotten their win over the Indianapolis Colts on sunday night and already on to gwinnett stadium where theyll whos the division rival, the new york jets. Sports director tom leyden is here to show us how the pats are moving forward, tom. This is one of those weeks when its easy to move forward, when the chiefs afc rivals comes to town. While much of the know campus is on Darrelle Revis, who was instrumental in the super bowl last year, but tom brady has been reluctant to extend himself in any way talking to the media and opted out after post game interview on nbc sunday night. He was asked about that on the callahan show this morning. Theres a lot of requests and demand for my time, and i think, you know, since winning the last super bowl, you know, a lot of Different Things have happened with my life, just in general, so you know, i just think, you know, having a concerted effort to save as much energy as i can, you know, when i can, where i can, and to give my teammates opportunities to do some of the real cool things that ive had a chance to do over the course of my career. Pretty clear hes the most comfortable letting his play on the field do the talking for him. Later in sports, bradys thoughts on fashion Darrelle Revis and his return to gwinnett stadium. Heather a scary crash unfolded on 495 this afternoon when a tire flew off a tractortrailer and into a camper traveling in the other direction. Next at 6 00 p. M. , hear from a driver involved and the close call that could have been much worse. Heather and happening right now, police are trying to track down a man accused of sexually assaulted a Bridgewater State student on campus. How a Smart Phone App led to the chilling encounter. Plus for Health Insurance companies are saying new proposed rules around lyme disease may hurt small businesses. Respectfully, the other side would just say, this is all about money and the insurance thats amazing. This is amazing. Thats amazing surprising things at chevy. Were sold. Its so pretty. Beautiful. It feels great. Perfect. Expect from a chevy at all. Get more than you expect for less than you imagined. The 2015 models are going fast. Find your tag and get cash back for 15 of the msrp on select 2015 vehicles in stock. Or, get 0 financing for 72 months on these remaining 2015 chevy vehicles. Mom this is hugely important. Is there anywhere in your house i can get a good signal . Anyway, you were saying. Its a tragic love story. I love tragedy. What is that noise . What . Im on set. What movie . Im shooting a movie about laundry. Leave slow internet behind. A movie about laundry . Yeah the 100 Fiber Optics Network gives you the heather a single tick bite can change a persons life. All that blue illustrates how serious it is in the northeast. Wow. Many say lyme disease and their patients battle the effects for years. Thats why today, parents of people took to beacon hill to fight for longer Insurance Coverage because as political reporter Sharman Sachetti long. The reporter just a bite from a tick is all it took. Donna came down with lyme disease, but her daughter a. L. S. And we were told she had the reporter donna got a Second Opinion and learned her daughter also had lyme disease. Since the misdiagnosis, donna had to fight with her insurance to cover antibiotics beyond 30 days. Delay in treatment, because Insurance Companies were denying the coverage, you know, really caused my daughter to become at the state house, she testified in favor of bills that would force all Insurance Companies to cover longterm treatment for chronic lyme disease. Right now, the federal government only recommends shortterm antibiotics, about a month, advocates say, the state needs to step in because the testing is not 100 , and new data is always coming in. Some Health Insurers will pay these bills, and others wont. State representative david linski, whose son had lyme disease sponsored one of the bills. Health insurers should be able to pick this up. Why wont they. Theyre trying to save money. He calls this dangerous territory and yes, argues it would cost small businessism e. When you start mandate ing medical practice into statute, that doesnt comply with actual evidencebased medicine, it becomes bad medicine. Respectfully the other side would say this is all about money and the Insurance Companies just dont want to pay out. But thats not true, because remember, health plans do provide coverage for lyme disease treatment. We did some checking hand found the c. D. C. Says massachusetts has the second highest rates of lyme disease in the country, second only to pennsylvania. Lawmakers up at beacon hill hope they have the votes this time around to pass one of these bills. Well stave on it. At the state house, Sharman Sachetti, fox 25 news. Heather a police k9 who responded to the scene of the marathon bombing is being mourned tonight by the Law Enforcement community. Rex worked with the Quincy Police department and helped secure the finish line after the marathon attacks, eventually helping to return that area to normalcy. The Department Says the German Shepherd served quincy and the state honorably before succumbing to a tumor. The guys now we have this capacity in the boston metro region and use these deposition to protect our citizens and got only knows how many incidents that rex and his fellow k9 bomb dogs prevented from happening, just by their presence. Heather in his seven years of service, rex also worked to alzheimers patients, he even used his keen sense to solve several critical cases. Mark all lanes on i95 in lawrence are back open. A tractortrailer lost its wheel while driving on 495. A camper rolled over on the other side while swerving to void the theyre. Fox 25 spoke to one of the drivers who was involved and said she was very shaken by what happened. The tire hit the front of my car, flew across in front of my car and then after that, i looked behind me and saw that there was nobody behind me, because they had all witnessed it, and i was able to slowly lane. Fortunately, no one was hurt, its unclear what caused the tire to come off the truck. Heather this is fascinating. A different kind of big dig is underway if boston. Archaeologists are getting the chance to search for artifacts on the boston common. A decades old survey shows that british troops camped there during the revolutionary war. And before that, it was home to a native american site. Well, take a look at this picture just posted within the last few hours by archaeologists. It shows a british gun flint that was just unearth on that revolutionary war campsite at the commons. Kevin that is cool stuff. Outside tonight, clouds mixing with the sunshine. The clouds will become thicker as a front settles over the top of us. We have to watch for a couple of showers to ride right along that boundary and into new england tonight. They will just be scattered. Were not talking about a rainy night but a risk of a shower or two. Nashua, 61 degrees right now. Under mostly cloudy skies, as the sun goes down. Your temperature dropping this evening into the 40s, but upper 40s, were not talking about a cold night like we saw over the weekend. Things on the mild side. Boston at 65 degrees, right now a mixture of clouds and clear skies and going down into the 50s. 54 for a low temperature tonight. Out on cape cod, chatham, 58 degrees this evening. Beautiful night out there on the and staying in the mid 50s once it gets there overnight tonight holding fairly sted definitely the clouds over the top of us will keep our temperatures from dropping too much. Well watch for a couple of the sprinkles. Futurecast shows them. You see the green around manchester and keene, New Hampshire, toward the seacoast. Much of this will stay north of the pike, like we saw earlier today with the showers, the front draped across us. Well watch for the showers to try to make their way in here, but notice, theres not much showing up. Every once if a while, you see a blip of green on futurecast. High temperatures tomorrow, will be a bit cooler, because of all the clouds. Let start with the south shore this time. 61 degrees if plymouth. Bridgewater, 63 and 59 for you in braintree. To the north and west of boston, temperatures will be in the upper 50s, lowell to billerica an over to redding. 55 amesbury and 55 in essex. Thursday, same clouds over the top of us start to retreat northward, so temperatures will be warmer than these 50s to low 70s, that were going to see across the area during the day tomorrow. This is what i mean. There are the clouds starting to notice the showers, also lifting northward too. But at the same time, a little more complicated than just that. A cold front to our west starts to push at us and it pushes more showers into new england, so the risk increases a bit thursday afternoon, more so thursday evening, as the actual front approaches from the west, western mass during dinner time on thursday. High temperatures thursday will be even warmer than we saw, wednesday because just like today, that push of southerly wind brings a warmer temperatures, so thursday afternoon, your High Temperatures are likely to look like this. The average 68, but notice 70 lowell, is 71 boston, 68 in orange. Cooler right at the water. Warmer eastern massachusetts and again, cooler off to the north and west. So averaging upper 60s, but there will be some low 70s coming up on thursday. Behind that front, it cools down friday and into the start of this weekend and your weekend in view on saturday and sunday, saturday looks like the cooler of the two days, but with more sunshine, then as the next front comes toward us again a push of southerly winds, gets your temperatures back into the 60s, so above average, but it also brings the theft of rainshowers on sunday. Once that front passes on by, its back to cooler, more seasonable weather for monday and tuesday, but what you do not see in here is the return to the freezing temperatures. Heather all right. It has to happen i guess. The American Cancer Society just changed its guidelines for mammograms and new at 6 00 p. M. , the new age group its recommending that women get them at now and how often. Plus, the new hints joe biden will run for press and the special request that donald trump and ben carson has made that no other candidate has just thats amazing. Its amazing. This is amazing. Thats amazing real people are discovering surprising things at chevy. Were sold. Its so pretty. Beautiful. It feels great. Perfect. This is not what i would expect from a chevy at all. Get more than you expect for less than you imagined. The 2015 models are going fast. Find your tag and get cash back for 15 of the msrp on select 2015 vehicles in stock. Or, get 0 financing for 72 months on these remaining for the girl scout meeting. Ok 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. How students with paper an pencil scored versus classrooms were computers. Today at 5 00 p. M. Heather welcome back. The American Cancer Society is changing its guidelines for when women should begin mammogram screenings. Instead of at 40, theyre calling for annual screenings beginning at age 45. Women can switch to every other year beginning at age 55. The guidelines apply to women of average risk, higher risk patients though should talk to their doctors. Really identify a group of women who are most likely to experience the benefits of mammography, and least likely to experience its harms including false positive results or false alarms, an overdiagnosis. Heather the revised guidelines also drop a routine physical breast exams by doctors. Mark donald trump is holding on to his lead at the head of the president ial pack. Trump has 27 support. Ben carson is behind him with 22 . Jeb bush and marco rubio tied for third place with 8 support and Carly Fiorina has dropped, tied for seventh place with Chris Christie and ted cruz. Heather two g. O. P. Frontrunners have requested protection from the secret service. Donald trump and ben carson have both asked for added security. Both have been known to make controversial comments, making them potential targets. And in the past three months, trump alone spent more than 55,000 on security. Mark 1 thing that isnt secure is whether or not joe biden will run for president , but experts say all you have to do is look between the lines to figure out hes going to. Here is joel waldman with the subtle hint he dropped today. During the washington forum, joe biden stayed silent about growing political grum, hell make a run at the white house, but the vicepresident appeared to take a shot at a potential powerful opponent democratic frontrunner hillary clinton, after clinton said republicans were among her enemies during her debate appearance. I dont think my chief enemy is the republican party. You know, this is a matter of, you know, making things work. The Court Speaking of work, clinton the reporter speaking of work, clinton takes a break from the campaign trail thursday, shes expected to be grilled about the murder of four americans, including u. S. Bass tore Chris Stevens during a terror attack in benghazi, libya, back in 2012. Still clintons lead has widened in the post recent polls, something political watchers warn could all change if biden enters the race. If he does, should he do that in the next couple of dates, i think everything changes what we know about the race is changes drastically due to that seismic shift. Its just, its all in joe bidens hands. Among republicans, personal attacks persist. Donald trump and jeb bush got into it over 911. Now, jebs brother, former president george w. Bush has taken a swipe at tea party favorite, senator ted cruz, admit, he just doesnt like the guy. Verbal assaults aside, a pair of new polls reveal that donald trump and ben carson are still firmly affixed atop the g. O. P. Pack. In washington, joel waldman man, fox 25. Mark right now, Police Need Help tracking down the man accused of sexually assaulted a Bridgewater State student. Hear from students who admit they were too scared to walk alone at night and the Smart Phone App that police say led to that scary attack. Plus the reporter the state releasing all the results for the controversy controversial parcc assessment. What it will cost to make sure all districts can administer it. Mark the mbta wants you to trains. Next at 6 00 p. M. , the two additional things that will also improve on the t. When the fox 25 news woman im here to fight h. I. V. And pandemics to come. Man to keep Boston Harbor safe and clean. Man because this is where robotics is happening. Man to help every student find their true words. Woman here to express myself. Woman here because math is the language of the future. Man to change the world through music. Man here for the commonwealth. Woman and the common good. Heather here is a look at your top stories at 6 30 p. M. A second autopsy will now be performed an the little girl once known has baby doe. The mother of bella bonds and her boyfriend were both in court today, the judge in the case approved the second autopsy to be performed by a third party. Conclusive cause of death. This means bellas family will have to wait to bury the little girl. A probable cause hearing in the case is scheduled for next months and a quincy couple is on the run tonight, wanted in a string of Bank Robberies up and down the east coast. Police in maryland are looking for joseph an jenny carrier for allegedly robbing a bank if aberdeen and the couple is also wanted in florida and in massachusetts for robbing a bank in ludborn low last months. Theyre believed to be driving a dark buick encore with plates from a quincy dealership that carrier worked for. Mark police say a man who looks like this sexually assaulted an 18yearold Bridgewater State student on campus and as fox 25s bob ward shows us, the sexual predator used a Smart Phone App to lure the freshman his way. An uneasy feeling on the campus of Bridgewater State university. Where police say an 18yearold freshman was sexually assaulted monday night. Met the suspect on line, using a social media app called kick, and had been communicating through that app. Before last night, the two never met each other. I think it just exposes the dangers in social media, like you dont really know who youre talking to, who youre meeting up with, so its too late. The app itself is kind of scary to me. A little bit sketchy. I personally would never use anything like that. The reporter this is a Police Sketch of the suspect, hes described as older than college age, hes about 510, and has a deep voice. He does not look like a 25yearold. He looks completely orlando. He could have completely lied, told her that, but no one knows what his intentions were. According to bridgewaters annual security report published last months, there were five forcible sexually sexual assaults on campus last month. Im on list afraid to walk night. Im always with my friend or something. Officials here at Bridgewater State university sent out an email to all students, telling them about what happened and that email included that sketch of the suspect. If you recognize the man in that sketch, you are urged to Contact Police here at Bridgewater State university. In bridgewater, bob ward, fox 25 news. We want to give you one more looking for. He is a white man, about 510, the Victim Told Police the man was older than a College Student and had a deep voice. Again, if you saw or know anything, youre asked to call police. Heather a quincy livery driver sentenced to up to eight years in prison for raping a woman who got if his car in boston. The victim flagged down saids car, hashi saids car last summer in the seaport think tv taxi and thats when said drove to a secluded location and attacked and robbed the victim. A man is under arrest after threatening another man with a hatchet in a road wage incident. 34yearold brian hart was driving erat cliff behind him on route 118, when suddenly, art stopped. Art then allegedly got out and began yelling at the man and threatening way. He took off but police later caught up with him. Cape cod man has been found guilty of stealing money from a local disabled veterans organization. 65yearold Richard Trott sr. Of East Sandwich has been convicted of transferring more than 100,000 from that organization accounts. An investigation was launched in 2013, trott has now been sentenced to two years in jail, with eight months to serve and ten years of probation. The wind turbine in hull having no trouble doing its job on it beautiful autumn day. Lemanowicz, youre already looking ahead though to our next chance of rain. Kevin looking at this well. We had a nice shot of the wind turbine. Look at the sky looking down toward the citgo area. In the beacon hill area where it is 65 degrees this evening. Thats above the High Temperature on average for the date and its still that warm for your didnt are plans out there around the common. There are a lot of clouds that will be streaming in tonight. Right now, there are breaks in the clouds. I expect those breaks to fill back in though and those clouds will keep your temperature from dropping. Well have to watch as these showers riding right along the front that will be stalling over us and seeing a couple of the showers make it in later on tonight, but the clouds stopping our temperature from free falling tonight. So dropping down northwest of worcester into the 40s, 45 degrees on average, no 30s tonight. It will stay 40s to 50s for loaf temperatures. This takes you into Middlesex County where youll drop into the upper 40s. 47 degrees on average by 6 00 p. M. Notice the clouds around overnight and final stop for us this time will be to marthas vineyard, where the temperature will stay steady in the 50s. In the water, you expect the temperature to stay fairly steady. A lot of clouds around there as well. Very little in the way of showers, but there can be some. You where youre likely to see showers the next couple of days. Mark a boston based sports fantasy site is add ago big name to its legal tone. Former attorney general Martha Coakley has been hired as an out size adviser to draft kings, assisting with regulatory mat terms. In the last few minutes, coke live coakleyreleased a statement saying she will help the company to implement the best practices to help the gain. Maura healey said daily fantasy sites need to be regulated to protect consumers. Heather massachusetts Liquor Store Owner is pushing to stay holiday. A bill before the state house would allow those stores to open, but owners testifying today argue businesses would not be worth the loss of family time. Christmas are the three holidays when Liquor Stores are already the mbta offering you a chance to help them pick out some new design for the subway cars. Take a look at these. People can go on line and vote for their favorite colored patterns for the new orange, green, and redline cars. And according to mbta general manager frank depaula, the cars wont just look better, they will also improve capacity and reliability. Voting is open until november 3. Mark happy ending for a horse rescued from a local natural. 30yearold flora was emaciated when the mspca found her in drakette in march. Other owner, Kathy Richardson is facing felony animal cruelty charges. Now, flora has gained more than 300 pounds since then and shes been adopted by a westwood woman who will receive a special welcome when she arrives at her new home at a millis barn tomorrow complete with signs, carrots, and apples. Heather new bedford crews are investigating an overnight fire right now. Firefighters responded to this triple decker two times in the span of four hours. The building on Nelson Street 7 30 p. M. Because of an attempted arson. Then at 11 30 p. M. , heavy flames started shooting from the roof. Fortunately, no one was inside at that time. Investigators say the cause is suspicious. And an electrical problem found to be the cause that forced dozens out of their apartments in chinatown after this fire last night. Flames broke out at this three Story Building on harrison avenue. We told you about it on the fox 25 news at 10 00 p. M. Two people were taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation, but they are expected to be ok. Fire investigators traced that fire back to an electrical short circuit in the second floor bathroom ceiling. Boston fire trucks on the campus of Harvard Medical School this afternoon. We are told there was a report of a burning odor, possibly an overheated motor and a mechanical room on the floor. Were still waiting to learn exactly more about the calls. Mark students across massachusetts may soon be faced with a new test to see how well they are doing in the classroom. This new test can replace the well known mcas, the massachusetts comprehensive been around since 1998. Classroom instruction often focuses on the skills students need to succeed on that test. The new test is called parcc, that stands for partnership for assessment with readiness for college and careers. Unlike mcas, parcc encourages classroom instruction focused on critical thinking, application of knowledge and research. State education officials will vote next month on whether to i dont parcc to see how well our to adopt parcc to see how well our kids are doing in english and math. Heather we are our first feel for how well students did on the mcas versus the parcc. Crystal haynes explains what the scores show. Theyre calling it mcas 2. 0 and the change could cost the state millions. The test results are in. The state department of elementary and secondary education releasing the online and paper test scores for the second year of pilot park testing. Just about half of all districts participated in this controversial common core assessments. We cant sit on mcas as it exists, it was a great test, it served us well, were 18 years into it. Its reached a point of diminished return. According to the new data, overall, students grades 3hate scored slightly worse on the mcas. 8 . So parcc and mcas are both the same in terms of an indicator for college readiness, why switch over . They both show that, but they show that based on very different assessments in terms of the level of material students are expected to learn, and in terms of the expectations for student performance. The reporter superintendents from three of the largest urban School Districts in the state say theyre on board with parcc. Its shorter, its clearer, and they see the connection between what theyre being taught as to what theyre being assessed. The reporter but getting districts, like superintendent says getting the state up to speed would cost billions. New bedford among the 25 that do not have technology to administer the test on line. And the overhaul would cost up to 12 million in computer purchases and about 2. 5 million in tech support. Were talking to the at a time treasurer about possible funds out of the state Treasurers Office to support School Efforts in this regard. There also was a lot of discussion about some parts of the parcc test not lining up with the current curriculum. And a third option may be necessary. There are several meetings scheduled between now and november 17th, when a final vote is expected to be taken. Reporting in maldin, crystal haynes, fox 25 news. Mark a devastating hit ended his College Hockey career and his first shift left him paralyzed. Tonight marks 20 years travis roy was injured. Next at 6 00 p. M. , how his foundation is helping others with similar injuries and the honor he received from mayor walsh. Heather plus, why apple is deleting some popular apps, including angry birds 2. Mark but first heres a look at whats coming up after the everyone is saying, hey you gotta get fios well, fios is a 100 percent so you can get 100 out of all your devices. So whatever speed you need, fios has it with the Fastest Internet and wifi available, from 50 to 500 mbps. But the main reason to get fios . Were rated number 1 in customer satisfaction. Ultimately, thats why. 79. 99 a month. Last chance, offer ends november 7th. Heather well today marks 20 years since Boston University hockey player travis roy was paralyzed during his very first shift on the ice for the b. U. Terriers. His story has inspired millions across the world. Mark its what hes done since his devastating injury. Fox 25s malini basu shows what honor him and help others. The reporter several kids tell me listening to travis roy today has really changed their lives. And they also tell us they really want to go after their dreams after listening to him. And today, that special event is being held right here. 20 years ago, it was travel roys first time on the ice, playing for b. U. s hockey team. In just a matter of 11 seconds, he took a hit into the board that left him paralyzed for life. Five, ten years ago, i would have said the same thing, i was crazy to think that we could hold an event and really kind of celebrate on my 20th 20th anniversary. Heather bostons mayor declared today as travis roy day, a day recognizing the work of the travis roy foundation, it helped and healed so many lives. A determined athlete, a guy that was a great teammate, a guy that wanted to help other players get better as well, so he never lost that. He never had that problem. Theres still some sadness involved. I wish that my life traveled a different path, but i recognize that ive had an opportunity since my accident, and trying to use it to benefit all of us that are paralyzed. The reporter well over 100 kids spanning from all over massachusetts packed Boston Universitys arena to celebrate his 20 years since the tragic accident. Even though if you dont like, make, one dream, like theres always another dream that you can do. To likely life at the fullest, because in any second, something could happen. Its not a story of tragedy, its not a story of sadness, but the work weve done through the travis roy foundation, nearly 7 million was raised for research. So far, 7 million has been raised in research. In the meantime, travis says he just want to find a cure for all of this. For now, we are outside of fox 25 news. Mark i was reminded i was part of an event for the travis Rough Foundation earlier in the spring, it was a wiffle ball tournament. Several teams showed up at Boston University and the one thing he did was outlined grabbed the microphone and told everybody where all the microphone goes and how much money and how much success that foundation has had and its truly inspiring. Heather you can see how passionate and how personal invested he is in it. He says its not about the tragedy or the sad this is, its about the sadness, its about the foundation moving forward. He could have just stayed in bed every day and felt sorry for himself, but hes chosen this as a platform to do something with the world. Amazing stuff. To other news now, to tech news, 300 apps are gone from Itunes Stores for secretly gathering personal information from users. Those apps were made in china, and allowed a chinese ad company to display their ads inside the app including angry birds two, the software was designed to gather team peoples email addresses and iphone serial numbers, so if youre concerned, we do have a list of the banned apps on our web site, its up right now on myfoxboston. Com. Kevin had a couple of showers around earlier today. That was the worst of today. Some clouds mixing in with the sun and how about mild temperatures, well into the 60s. Even a few towns just about to 70, up to 69 for instance in norwood and now im watching the showers here, theyre going to be riding along the front and coming forwards southern new england, they dont have to make it all the way eastward is the question but a few sprinkles will get in here later on tonight. Temperatures are misdemeanor. Worcester, cooled to 59. Boston, 65. Both of those above average highs for the day for your respective towns and cities, but still, this evening is going to be a mild one. In fact, the morning low temperatures will average 50 degrees. There will be upper 40s, even mid 50s, upper 40s north and west of boston, mid 50s to the southeast an even in boston. But on average, 50 degrees in the morning with cloudy skies, there will be some sun that breaks out, but your temperatures will still be curtailed a bit tomorrow because that were seeing an you see it here on futurecast, the clouds taking over as the front sinks southward and that front wants to stall at least for a day and a couple spots of green that show up on futurecast means there can be a shower or two. Impossible to say with the showers are going to hit any one area, but there are going to be a couple out there. Later on tonight at 10 00 p. M. And 11 00 p. M. , the showers are coming from the west and great lakes and see if theyll make it this far east. Showers will be around in spots during the day tomorrow. It will be mostly a dry day. Most of you will not get a raindrop during this tomorrow. Cooler. 60 sandwich to hyannis. Edgartown, 62 degrees tomorrow afternoon. On the south shore, quincy 58 but brockton, 62 degrees and to the north shore, ipswich, 54. But 60 in worcester, and 57 in winchendon in northern Worcester County tomorrow afternoon. That front that stalled over us, that starts to go back to the north. Still some showers along it, but to complicate things, a cold front coming in from the west also has some showers, well see a few of those make their way across massachusetts and New Hampshire and vermont during the middle part of the day. Again, just scattered. But a line of showers likely on the cold front during the evening hours, that will progress into western mass and make its way eastward. Can be a thunderstorm or two along that front too, something well be watching for closely. Sevenday forecast, shows the cooler, slightly cooler temperatures tomorrow, then thursday. There will be towns on thursday, that make it into the 70s. The average temperature across the area will be in the upper 60s, but look at the 70s that are showing up. Lowell, boston and beverly for High Temperatures thursday afternoon. Cooling back down again friday and to start your weekend. Heather joining forces to cheer up patients at bostons Childrens Hospital. Mark halloffamer jim rice, joe andruzzi, and others, had some fun as you can see along the wave and spent time decorating cookies with kids and their families. We have more details about that failed fake by the colts on sunday. The punter stepped up for one of his teammates, the guy who snapped the ball and the jets are coming to town this sunday, which means, get ready for this brady had to say about him next. Does this 20 family fill up meal have eight pieces of original recipe chicken . Yes. [ding] two large mashed potatoes and gravy . Yes. [ding] and are you the real Colonel Sanders . Yes. [buzzing] it is jets week, which means the intensity level will be raised a bit in foxborough. Darrelle revis makes his return to Gillette Stadium and that is not lost on tom brady who has to face a guy considered one of the best in the league. Tom was talking about that this morning. I think both, you know, hes got obviously an intimate knowledge of how we do things, and you know, kind of skill set of our players and how formations and you know, vice versa, so i know how he likes to play things, you know, his play style is very similar to the way its always been. Hes a phenomenal player. Interesting explanation for what we saw on sunday. Pray totes patriots punter makes a radio experience and further explains why the wheels came off the bus when this play was called. In the center all week was clayton gathers, clayton gathers gets injured in the second quarter, in certificate whalen, who had never done it before. We added something to draw them offsides if they dont do their substitution. This was happening because its not in the playbook, so he has no idea were going to draw the guy offside, because it says if we get under center, snap it. Switch gears to something much more serious. More details continue to emerge from the story surrounding the a tell all book, revealing recruiting efforts including brad stevens, the head coach was asked about it tonight at the celtics shamrock gala. Any time you see allegations of that, you know, from the whole big picture of everything thats been alleged, is just, you know, saddens you. But i have not talked to him today, no. Do you think it will be a distraction . You know what . Obviously, those guys, theyll have to answer that for you. Baseball news, Jason Varitek reported to be among those in line to interview for the manager. Looks like kansas city is about to take a 31 lead in the alcs. The royals jumped all over r. A. Dicky this afternoon, scoring four runs in the first hearing. Ben sew brings went deep in the first and kept it going in the second inning. Alex rios stepped up and watched this, 415 feet. Royals are up 42 on fox sports 1. Did you see the latest creation of Julian Edelman . He released this along with the latest trailer for star wars, the force awakens. You can always counts on julian to be creative. Heather Danny Amendola is Princess Leia . Mark hes the artist, he can call the shots, right. Im guessing he didnt consult anyone on that. Mark i dont think so and hell probably get it back in the locker room. Sevenday forecast includes warmer temperatures on thursday, higher risk of a shower. The shower risk and how coo theres a better way to specialized surgery thats right for you lahey hospital and medical center. Cardiac teams pioneering innovative treatments. And neurosurgeons at the forefront of spinal surgery. Right here. Americas largest livedonor liver transplant program. Right now. And quality outcomes among the nations best. The right outcomes. For who matters most. Lahey hospital and medical center
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