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Officer from the district attorneys office. Neighbors say there was concern of nearby propane tanks. She first heard, like, snap, pop and snacking. She told me she saw the deck in flames and that is when she called the fire department. Then we really saw flames shooting. Saw it coming out of the house on the hill. We are over across the street. Reporter again the unfortunate news, one person has died in the fire at 84 ellisville road in plymouth. Firefighters not releasing the age or the identity of the victim at this point. State senator investigated over sunglasses, dry cleaning and graduation party. I was troubled by the issues that were raised. Reporter now it is so much bigger. The feds raiding his office and the governor has questions too. Calling for him to step down. Ken macleod live in cant wherein the raid can canten where the raid can canton. With possible evidence. Brian joyce is no stranger to allegations that he improperly used his office tobenefit himself and his law practice. We dont know if this raid relates to that or something else. No answer at the home tonight as free agents scoured his low federal agents scoured his law office. Aligations many raised by allegations that he used his position as a senator to secure Campaign Funds to pay for his sons graduation party. Today the fbi and irs moved in. I had no idea what was going on. Surprised to see it involved him. Reporter joyce denied the accusations and today his attorney said it is unfortunate stories in the media sparked an investigation. Believing he has done nothing wrong. Some republicans called on him to resign or step aside isnt biting. Call. I think that is probably as it should be. Reporter no one is saying what the feds are looking for but a day long swarm of agents boxing everything in sight seems to hint at something more favors. It is a little scary. Underway. Reporter joyce did surrender leadership positions his attorneys say she cooperating with the feds and the feds are saying nothing. Live in canton, ken macleod, thank you. New tonight at 11 00 p. M. Police identifying a woman found murdered in hes apartment. Colleen russell in her apartment. Colleen russell. No one has been arrested. It is unclear how she was cleared. A terrible loss for employees at bernie phyl. A delivery truck hit and killed an employee. The victim is 63yearold michael hassett. The driver is a subcontractor who delivers for the chain. Police are investigating. Looking live at Downtown Boston tonight and at Mother Natures magic making the snow disappear. On the right, same shot, no snow. Eric fehr here now. Tomorrow colder air moving in tonight, not too bad. 29 worster. Tracking a cold front through Central New York arriving before day break tomorrow. With that chillier air mass for thursday. Morning 20 worser. 18 jeffrey. Boston 28. Plymouth 27 degrees. You want the winter jacket. Low 30s tomorrow. We will watch the chance as winds turn northeast during the afternoon and evening, could see clouds and a few snow showers moving across cape cod. I dont think it will accumulate to that much but a chance for snowflake. A 24 hour cold shot. Friday we warm up and the weekend is looking like spring again. A look at the forecast coming up. Thank you. School vacation but no rest look at the mess at this school library. Now it is a rush to fix everything before vacation is over. Jim smith is live. Jim, a lot of towns dealing with this right now. Reporter david seems like we are seeing a new Community Every night and now it is their turn. The leak cost half a Million Dollars in damage and it ruined the library. But now there is another issue. Abestthose has to be removed asbestos has to be removed from the library. This is the culprit. These are the parts that prose up and broke froze up and broke off. Reporter last weeks frigid weather was too much. Aging pipes giving way. 2,000 books gone. Books, computers, anything that existed in the library was we will take that down. Reporter the principal found the devastation. I walk in. As soon as i got to the front doors i could see the water coming out the front doors. Reporter and that is not all, crews will have to remove asbestos. They are concerned about asbestos. Really . I didnt know that. Reporter schools inschools schools have been hit with severe water damage. They hope to have the school open by monday but the library will be off limits for months. We have had crews come in, removal. Any of that asbestos that was wet or damaged will be removed by the crews. Reporter and the School Department tonight says it will work with state environmental officials on the best procedure the work will take place only during the evening, not during the day while classes are being held. Jim smith, wbz news. Thank you. A teacher is facing Assault Charges tonight. She is accused of smacking candy out of a students hand. She turned herself in to police this afternoon. Tonight taking action after this scene on the orange line. Smoke filled the station when two trains ran over a metal panel that fell on to the tracks. Passengers climbed out the windows to escape. No one was hurt. Boston marathon bombings bomber is getting new lawyers. He asked the judge to replace his defense team. He is locked up at the super max prison in colorado. Missing man expanded into the water. Today dive teams went into Boston Harbor and the Charles River looking for the man who disappeared after a night outlet with friend over the out with friends over the weekend. The man who carjacked a mother and her baby is behind bars. He pointed a gun at them, and took off in her car. He crashed and police say not long after that accident he confessed to the carjacking. Campaign 2016. A shift in the race for the white house. A poll shows ted cruz ahead of donald trump. The poll shows marco rubio in third. Tonight several gop candidates fielded questions in town halls. Jon keller talks about that. You were keeping an eye on the way they answered the questions . Reporter yeah. You can tell a lot about how response to questions and tonight voters got an eye full of the styles of three of the candidates donald trump, marco rubio and ted cruz. We will bring back our jobs. Bringing them back from china. Reporter Donald Trumps lead reflects his eye for cutting edge issues and his answers could be crowd pleasers, other responses like this one to a question about apples refusal to help the feds hack a terrorist iphone are as vague as can be. [ talking at the same time ] it. We should do whatever we have to do. Reporter by contrast marco rubio prefers to smother questions with solutions. How do you deal with cutting costs for students but still maintaining a high quality of education. I have a bipartisan agenda. The first is alternative marco rubio sometimes prefers to change the subject. You said yesterday you have a candidate that sponsored a bill that i supported and he is running away from it president obama has no standing to talk about immigration. They said you lied. You are a liar. Are they lying about that . [ laughter ] i have to say, this is a strange election season. Reporter and ted cruz a bit of the best and worse of marco rubio and donald trump. The aggressiveness of donald trump and the agility of marco rubio without the charm. How many voters care about a candidates command of detail and the directness of the answers . We are about to find out. Thank you. President obama is planning to travel to cuba next month. The white house is expected to announce the trip officially tomorrow. President obama will become the first sitting president to new video of pope francis border. A cardinal joined him before the pope flew home. Patience. Someone grabbed his robe pulling so hard he nearly fell over but he reprimanded the man. He just didnt have a license. How a teenager tricked people he was a real doctor. Weighing Homeland Security and your privacy. Why apple is refusing an order to help the fbi unlock a hackers. The outcome could effect a lot of people. 700million, that is how many iphones have been sold since the iphone went on sale in 2007. The law for pretending to be doctor. A teenager. Police say the 18yearold opened a Doctors Office and performed exams on patients without a license. Investigators say this went on for a month. These allegations and accusations will be cleared up. 18yearsold. It is not the first time he did this. He was caught at a local hospital last year. 2015 grad who said she was sexually assaulted on campus is suing the school. Harvard officials ignored her complaints and refused to move the attacker to another dorm and one official encouraged her not to report the attack. I carried pepper spray in the halls of my own home. Harvard said it responds fairly to all allegations of a florida couple had 500 million reasons to remember it because today they cashed in the second of three Winning Tickets in the powerful jackpot. They will buy a new car and get a massage. There is one more winner out there, it was sold in california. A life time of massages. Love the picture we put up showing the snow from last week versus what happened today. We had so much melting. Friday lets do it. Make the tee time. Got to take advantage of what Mother Nature deals you. This winter different than last winter. We had warming and felting. Todays high 40s for much of the state. And the satellite tells the story today. Everyone had snow before the storm yesterday and all the brown area you see here, east massachusetts, boston metro, a few patches here and there, that is it. The parts of the northeast yesterday lost 30 of its snow cover in 24 hours. Maine lost a foot in one day. Not great news for the skiers out there. Winter on the way for thursday. Colder temperatures in south eastern canada. That is what we will wake up to tomorrow. A cold front moving through the albany area. As it passes tonight into tomorrow morning, gusty winds and colder temperature. The east is quiet right now. The storm track moved to the west. Storm system needed needed for california with rain and mountain snow after a warm and dry start to february. For us on the quiet coast bright and chilly for tomorrow. The wind will add extra edge to the air. Gusty breeze during midday and and the chance for snow showers on cape cod. High temperatures near 36 boston. 34 bed ford. Bursar 30 worser 30 degrees. 10 degrees colder than today plus more wind. As the winds turns during the afternoon we will bring clouds along the coast line, snow showers again coming down across the cape. I dont think it will add up to that much. Friday bright and towards the afternoon clouds increase, no travel issues. No big storms to track. This weekend no big storms to track. A weak one movers across northern new england, wet snow and rain on friday night and a chance for rain showers on saturday that is it. A weekend that looks like march weekend and since high temperatures were 8 on sunday last week, 48, 40 degrees warmer there and a good couple with the weak fast moving storm system it is due to a zonal jet stream. That changes next week. It will dig again and we expect a strong east coast storm. I would favor what we have seen a lot of so far, a mix to rainfall. We will see over the next few days. 7 day, up till that a couple weak events and over all mild temperature. Back to you. Thank you very much. For too many babies breathing is not just automatic. Their brains forget to remind them to do it. A team of local doctors and researchers may have come up with a life saving solution. Reporter maxs arrival was more wild than his parents expected. Two months early. 3 pounds, 2ounces. He would stop breathing for short periods of time. First couple times it is terrifying. The alarms are going off. Possible treatment for this common but serious condition has been tested. He treats babyalize the time for these babyalize the time for this babies all the time for these spells. The mattress is simple. Reporter this is a vibrating crib mattress. This stimulus that appeared to improve breathing in infants. Reporter using technology he teamed up with engineers to design and build the mattress. A speaker delivers the soft vibrations. It is slight but enough to trigger the babys brain. To wake up correct. Right. Reporter it was used by three dozen babies and the number of times they stopped breathing was cut in half. The dream would be that most infants would benefit from this. Reporter a bigger dream down the road to offer in home prevention of sids. There is the hope this could prevent those events. Reporter first it must go through Clinical Trials in hopes of winning fda approval. I could see this used throughout the country. Reporter for parents, a healthy child helps everyone breathe easier. Took a while to outgrow it. Reporter wbz news. Important discovery. The trade deadline is now well, less than 24 hours away, will the silltics make a move celtics make a move . We have sports right after wbz sport is driven by. We are 151 2 hours away from the nba trade deadline, tomorrow at 3 00 p. M. Will danny aims make a move . There. Usually the big deals dont happen till the final minutes. 5 minutes before the deadline, they aquered thomas from the suns and that was steal. Last season thomas helped them make the playoffs and this year he became an all star for the first time. However the thomas deal wasnt an easy one to make. When we made that deal we knew we would get better and, you kn, it was going to take minute away from players that were developing but we knew he would make us a better Team Immediately last year. And at this time last year it wasnt a no brainer to do. Get the 15th pick in the draft, make the playoffs and so forth. That took a lot of thought and discussion and we felt he was too good to pass up at that time. He is fun to watch. Bad news, kelly will not be in the line up this weekend. He is headed to los angeles to get a Second Opinion on his he got hit during the 2nd quarter of last weeks game against the clippers and didnt return. It was announced it was only a bruise but maybe not. Baseball, pitchers and catchers report to work tomorrow morning. Many players have already arrived including Hanley Ramirez who showed up today with mike napolis old first baseman glove. He started taking grounders at first base last season. Many fans are skeptical he could make the transition to first but that is the plan unless he is traded. He slimmed down and said he feels more athletic and hopes that translates to the field. Yeah, i mean, like i say, that is the key. That is the key. You know, stay healthy. [ indiscernible ] been working. Feel really good and stronger. Interesting to watch. That is for sure. Tomorrow and he will have live reports beginning at 5 00 p. M. And the bruins continue tear road trip tomorrow night in nashville. That is sports for now. Were living in a very competitive global economy, and if we are going to succeed, we need the besteducated workforce in the world. We should be making public colleges and universities tuitionfree. Were going to pay for it with a tax bailed out wall street. It is time for them to start helping the middle class of this country. Im Bernie Sanders last night it was breaking news right now, the dog show ended and the winner today getting Royal Treatment in new york. 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