Lets have a big round of applause for the National Book festival. [applause]. Show your love. Excellent. [applause]. And a little tip you need to check out their amazing website, National Book. Org. I have been there, it is exciting, it is addictive. I have have made it my homepage. I start every day at National Book data work. If you go there you can literally spend all day on the faqs, because you know all of those questions that you have frequently asked about the National Book foundation . They are answered at last. For example, one question i have found myself asking frequently is what is the National Book foundation . If you do not know. You just applauded for them and you do not know who they are. Do not lie to me National Book award audience, you are better than that really. Okay so i went to National Book. Org faqs and heres what i found. In 1986, the Publishing Community establish the National Book foundation, a notforprofit notforprofit organization to oversee the awards, di
According to police. Investigators say the man and woman took crash and credit cards then ran off. The driver is in stable condition. In Boston Police releasing new video of a person of interest in a carjacking. Police reported the carjacking in late august on cumberland street off of huntington avenue. The woman was parking when a man got inside but she was able to escape. Boston police are still investigating. Airman Nathan Sartain of florida and khazei ruess of georgia dried. The aircraft crashed shortly after taking off. The cause of the crash hasnt been determined. Were following news across country. One person is dead and three others are injured after a gas explosion in a new York Building saturday afternoon. Fire Officials Say the blast tore through the front of the building and september debris flying into the street. They say the explosion may have been caused by a tenant disconnecting their stove. More than 200 firefighters responded to the scene. An investigation is under w
Reporter actually were able to get our shot up together. We have a crowd of protestors. Theyre protesting the minimum wage and they want it to come up to 15. We have a couple of hundred dollars people down here hundred people town here and some of these same workers were joining a protest earlier today outside Northeastern University. Lets show you from the air the crowd that gathered actually on huntington blocking the e. Line for about 25 minutes earlier today. These were protestors that were joined by these protestors, but they were from Northeastern University. From posting low wages for their parttime professors. They stopped the t. For about 25 minutes and if you go to the ground shot, you can see them there as well. At the same time, bus service was increased in the area and in fact protestors themselves said they tried to help anybody who was inconvenienced by this to get to the bugs and get around themselves but there were people there who were unhappy with what the protestors
Long gone now. Even the clouds melting away. Plenty of sunshine for the weekend. High pressure will be in control that will also help with the warming trend that i mentioned. Current temperatures close to 50 in boston and mid 40s still. We still have a bit of a breeze coming out of the northwest. Even windy as you get down into the islands. The winds will relax into the afternoon leaving us with calm, crisp and cool conditions. But those highs a little chilly today. 55 to 60. A jacket or sweater not a bad idea if you have outdoor plans this afternoon. You may not need it by the time we get closer to columbus day. That extended forecast just ahead in a few minutes. Breaking overnight. A bomb explosion in turkey killed at least 30 people and injured others. Two were two blasts near a train station. The attack apparently targeted a peace rally against the increased violence between kurdish rebels and turkish forces. Residents are on alert in newton after reports of a bear spotted in their
Set the house on fire as well but lining the doors to the building with gasoline. Neighbors are stunned. Your reaction someone would have set this . Im surprised. You know. Its a pretty quiet neighborhood most of the time, so its i wouldnt expect it here. Reporter troopers along with everett arson investigators collected hours at the scene for hours. Rico says he has no clue why anyone would do this, he is thankful everybody is okay. Were definitely to be alive but at the time of day if i would have sat there and paniked im going to die, i knew what to do, get us out the house, call the fires department to put it out. Reporter arson investigators telling us moments ago theyre offering reward money for anyone that can give them some information that will lead to an arrest in connection with the case. Again right now theyre help. The good news is nobody was hurt here but people are baffled by who would do this in the first place. Live in everett, steve cooper, 7 news. 7 news turning to t