drying in today. only a breeze to help us out today. meteorologist yais jays is tracking the last sprinkles of rain, hey, jason yais yais last sprinkles. the leftover shower chance if you are going to see anything. otherwise, temperatures are running in the 80s this morning. a warm and humid, oppressive start, but do you have breeze as you mentioned. take it baegory this afternoon.ng humidity day long. they change out of the northwest, and taper off later in the day. as we head to the high temperatures, how about mid- to upper 80s. a couple of 90s are certainly possible, and a few spots. temperatures remaining above normal for now. tomorrow, slight chance of rain returns. i will show you where the best chance of rain is for that in just a bit. right now check traffic, catherine. >> reporter: early on your wednesday morning looking at the map. should be cleared out wi south of the city., 128 moving t getting in your way now. the drive times. the pike 25 minutes. 93, 9 minutes. 93 from 495 and the leverett a 20 ride. three people are in the gety a car in roxbury including a father who is being credited aughter's life. it happened around 8:30 on blue hill avenue. the father and his 10-year-old daughter was walk their friend in a wheelchair to a bus stop when they were hit. a relative tells "the herald" the father pushed of the way before being hit by that car. all three people are expected to survive. witness at the bus stop seemed the driver lost control when he turned around on blue hill.looked like the car was going to slow down to let them get by and the car went faster a pond in way to get out of the way, stop and before i air. >> daniel: the driver did stop, and so far no charges have been filed. another person was hit by a car in quincy last night. police tell us the man was hit on washington street outside wild willie's burgers. he was sent to south shore hospital with serious head injuries. police say it was nonlife-threatening. the car did stop at the scene and not clear if that drive was facing charges. breaking news overnight. donald trump is shaking up his campaign again. the gop nominee announced he has hired steven ceo of brightbart news. an runs a rightpop ewe list peb site. his campaign chair paul manafort will maintain his current role despite a link to recent fund raising the ukraine. trump will receive his first classified intelligence briefing as the fbi delivers a rare classified report to mary maloney has more. >> reporter: the cloud that continuously hangs over hillary clinton's campaign her e-mails, but doesn't look like the candidate will be out of the shade any time soon. the fbi released a new report to congress about clinton's messages from her private server during her time as secretary of state. the classified report contains notes from investigators abouter about rues with clinton and other witnesses. it also outlines why the fbi recommended that the department of justice not charge clinton. incredibly rare, especially since clinton was not criminally charged. clinton didn't let the report stop her from stumping on the trail. >> we want you all to register to vote. >> reporter: but the e-mail issue continues to give her republican rival fodder. >> hillary clinton lacks the judgment.orr: donald trump hoping to make up ground after lagging in the polls. he posted this plceedgeok callil protection and an end of bigotry, hatred and op ads against trump using his own words against him. >> when mexico sends its people, they are bringing in drugs, they are committing crimes, they are rapists. >> reporter: i am mary maloney reporting. donald trump met with law enforcement outside milwaukee. the city has been recovering from violent protest after police shot and killed an unarmed man. clinton is helping to spread the message h are racist. indiana governor mike pence told the crowd in new mexico that trump will end the war on police. the investigation into the murder of a 27-year-old woman killed while out for a run is still a mystery and focusing on who they are focusing their attention on. they are looking at sexual offenders. two level ii sex offend he derrs live in princeton and princeton. if they don't have dna samples from them already, they are collecting new swabs now. and they are looking at sex offenders who have not yet been classified. only police can access those names. family amend friends finally are a chance to say goodbye to vanessa marcotte. her church was held at the same church she was baptized 27 years ago. leominster's mayor a close friend of the family and they are finding comfort on focusing how vanessa lived rather >> the hallmark of her life. >> catherine: have a necessary a's casket was escorted by police to nearby westminster. we are learning more about a 15-year-old shot monday night. the teen was sitting in a car when he was shot three times. neighbor tell the "herald" known around the mary mccormick housing complex for skills on the basketball court and volunteer work feeding kids. police ahe suffered serious a dedham man killed in a car in west roxbury. his pick uptruck veered off the road and hit a tree at stony brook reservation. that area was closed for a while as police investigate the crash. the drive's passenger was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. one massachusetts most wanted sex offenders is finally behind bars after more than two decades on the run. investigators tracked down jack harden of dorchester living in nx. and yesterday he was back in massachusetts to face charges that he raped back in 1991 and 1992. prosecutors say the boys are now grown but scarred by what they went through. >> they descris of the sexual ae experience and explained there are times when they each witnessed the sexual abuse of the other. >> reporter: harten is held on 1 million bail and will have to be wear a gps monitor if released. 4:7. police are investigating after a string of homes in lowell are hit with bullets. sunday morning on hilldred street. a 81-year-old woman was sleeping when someone fired a gun to her home. it passed through an open window and for through a wall close to her bed. she didn't want her face shown but happened around 4:00 in the morning. >> it was very loud. i thought it was fireworks. just going up at the window. they threw it up at the window. >> i think she wasn't getting up to -- i thank god she wasn't getting up to go to the bathroom thirsty. anything could have happened a that the moment. >> daniel: day four homes have been hit by bullets in lowell. unclear if connected. a woman is the first person in the state year. officials tell us she is in her 70s and remains in the hospital while they try to figure out where she was exposed to the infected mosquitoes. the state public health department athe key time in conditions are producing large batches of mosquitos that can spread west nile. a shake-up at the olympics. carrie walsh jennings and carrie ross fall to a town from brazil. the first one she has lost. won three different gold medals. after the match, they both you blame themselves for the loss. they will play for the bronze against another pair from u.s. looking golden. kristin taylor grabbed the gold medald and grabs a silver. and the women's gymnastic the top two spots. simone biles coming in first and needham's own aly raisman. biles has four gold and one pwrounz. raisman finished with one gold and two silver. from the stand in rio to gym held a special viewing party for all of her teammates from massachusetts. the girls watching were between 10 and 17 and some have been training with aly for about a decade. several say they can't wait for her to get back and give her this giant big hug. simone biles gold medals making a appearance at the cover of "sports illustrated" by katie ledecky and michael phelps all they won in american summer. the 11th time that michael phelps have been featured on "sports illustrated". the second cover for ladecky and biles. the u.s. leads all nations with 84 total medals. china second with a total of 51. great britain is a very close third with 5. a little more than six weeks left in the season, the red sox are just one game out jays and the orioles. the first of two games in. another stellar night for mookie betts with two men on. betts hits a bomb and 3- orioles tie it up and betts hits a second home run. sox win 5-3. the 0s and sox are tied one game behind the jays in the american league east. drive times as we check traffic and weather. 128 university avenue to the tolls, 12 minutes there. jason? >> jason: a breezy morning, 33-mile-per-hour wind gusts in worcester. 20, norwood. gusty, humid winds coming through, and i am tracking a change in the wind direction that will change the humidity and the temperatures for us coming up. a woman is finally facing a judge for the murder of her baby. still ahead at 4:00, how a and developing on the west coast, homes completely swallowed up by flames and more than 80,000 people are forced to evacuate. . more than 82,000 people are out of their homes as crews get a handle on a massive fire fighter out of southern california. take a new video of this fire and you can see homes completely wallowed up by the flames there. tv cameras captured thousands on the ground. this all started yesterday morning. it burned more than 18,000 acres in less than 24 hours. that more than 14 square miles. cameras also captured a fire-nado whipping around on the ground. six fire fighters were trapped by walls of flames evacuating homes and residents. fire fighters were able to take shelter and two had to be treated for minor injuries. both were released from the hospital and are back out fighting that fire. the flames forced a main highway between southern cafo down. >> daniel: incredible video there. the fire is the latest in a series of destructive ones to hit california as the state endures the fifth year of drought. relieve for one community as they announce the arrest of a man accused of starting a fire in the northern part of the state. >> we were able to arrest on 17 counts of arson. >> daniel: authorities athey expect a man may be connected to several fires in the same already destroyed 175 buildings and homes. there are more than 2300 fire fighters battling that fire that spans 4,000 acres. and it is only 35% contained. at least 11 people have died and about 30,000 people have been rescued in severe flooding in louisiana, floodwaters are now receding and exposing the magnitude of the damage around the baton rouge area. the governor says 40,000 homes are been impacted in some in a hotel when the water started to rise. >> and the tv went out and we lost power and witched off the water in the hotel and at that point, it was just a question of how they wanted us to evacuate and whether we were going to stay here or they will take us out. >> catherine: a rain storm that swept through that area carried enough rain to rival a hurricane. even though the water receding, they are till in each and rescue mode. in response to the weather activated a response page. it affects those in the affected area find shelter. people who have their homes listed with air b&b can host people in need for free. the company did this for the first time during hurricane sandy in 2012. 4:17 now. take a look at how those roads are doing very early on your wednesday morning. you may expect no real problems south of the city. taking a look north. same situation. 93 the pike eastbound through brighton. few vehicles getting in your way. take a look at the drive times. route 1, 12 minutes. 93 from 495 to the leverett connector a 20-minute ride there. jason, that air is heavy and humid out there this morning. >> jason: absolutely. really feeling it. we are still waiting for a front to completely clear and shut down some of this oppressive humidity. it is balmy and breezy. 80 in boston. upper 70s around wellesley. upper 80s norwood. brockton good morning to you. 77 degrees. p-town. upper 70s infork almouth and bridgewater and temperatures in the 70s and near 80 all the way back to the west here in southern new hampshire around jaffrey and it is 80 in maynard. wayland and 79 degrees. dew point temperatures way up in the lower to middle 70s. to that's why we are feeling quite oppressive, but we have sticky zone. not going to get into the dry zone and we will see improvement. in fact i don't see any oppressive humidity readings on the dew point scale coming up any time soon. the best shot of that will be next week. more on that in the seven-day forecast. afternoon highs in worcester county, here we go, 80 to 85 after the bought with rotating storms yesterday. no threat for any additional rain today. we will dry it out and heat it up today with the middle 80s brockton, braintree into the middle 80s with an offshore wind. couple of spots could hit 90 degrees, even with the coastline. the cape and island forecast breezy with scattered clouds. but we are going to keep it dry, just a sprinkle left over this morning possible. so the breezy winds with us all day today and increasing sunshine. but mostly cloudy tart. mostly sunny finish to our day. now if you go to sunset, the breezes taper down and we are left with fairly light winds and mainly clear keys overnight tonight. as we get started tomorrow morning, we will see a couple of pots out to the west and the valleys, possibly dipping just below the 60-degree mark and then in the boston area, about 70 degrees to start the day tomorrow. then tomorrow afternoon, a chance for a shower or a rumble of thunder popping up and looks mainly tbeerin here ie worcester hills, possibly the. these showers will drift toward the coast. the cape and islands looks to te fairly dry once again. by 7:00 tomorrow evening, anything out there is losing for. look at the seven-day forecast for your weekend always in view. tomorrow, we will be in the upper 80s before we can get a chance for a cooling shower. to a warm day, but, again, the humidity in check. on friday the middle 80s. and over the weekend. we are looking pretty good so far with temperatures middle 80s to upper 80s both saturday and sunday. right with that dry forecast, and rain holding off until next week. much more coming up. apple's most expensive store yet is ready for shoppers. coming up new at 4:30, why this new store just opened and why the mall it's in haven't seen a store in nearly 15 years. and plus curt schilling says he wants to run for president one day but he will in nashua the trial continues for a new hahampshire mother accused of beating her young daughter to death. police repeatedly. marin claims she and her daughter fell down the stairs together. when she found out her daughter was dead she changed her story and blamed everything on her boyfriend. in an emotional testimony, marin said her mother was told to her own child and never wanted her. don't acknowledge her. don't pick her up. >> catherine: the trial expected to last another week. unclear if marin will testify on her own defense. a everett police atheed his wife when she was 7 months old pregnant. he said he hit her in the face and kicked her in the stomach. he is being held on bail on a long list of charges. police are look for two men that stole expensive drones from a local store. look at these surveillance photos of the suspects. natick police think they were talking to each other on their phones and coordinated their robbery. so they each grabbed a drone from opposite sides of the store and took off. $2,000. the city of lowell is stepping up efforts to end panhandling. city leaders unveiled this three-point plan and plan to put up signs in areas that panhandlers hang out. and they will work with charities to increase ways people can donate and finally the city will work with the homeless to connect them with charities. 4 :25 right now. attorney general maura healy is standing on her crackdown of copycat assault rifles. first sit-down intervi a endingntate, healy tells us she has been enforcing her massachusetts law. the rule has infuriated gun rights advocates who believes she is overreaching. healy says she is enforcing the law and has support from others who are doing the same. >> reporter: the police don't answer to you specifically. >> the good news is police have been very supportive of our enforcement initiatives. >> daniel: she tells us she is running for reelection and right now will not be seeking sox ace curt schilling may be ready to run for senate. last week he said he would like to run for president one day. now appears the first hurdle on the road to the white house is elizabeth warren. schilling said that he has what it takes to challenge senator war inner loop 2018 and with a like to be possibly for getting her out of office. a homecoming for a war hero 65 years in the making. coming up this half hour, how a local family honored finally are some closure. 100 random police officers will be assigned to wear body cameras. coming up at 4:30, why the 0. a chaotic keen, a father young daughter and a man wheelchair are hit by a car his little girl t > a young womo rest while her killer is still on the loose.ortell us they are shifting their focus ten days after her body was found in the woods. plus a local woman is shocked that her home was hit with a bullet. where she was during the gunfire that may are saved her life. >> complete new england news coverage starts right now. this is the fox25 morning news. >> catherine: just a little bit before 4:30 on this wednesday, august 17. i am catherine parrotta. >> daniel: i am daniel miller. the threat of storms is gone, and we are in for a dry day. meteorologist jason brewer in for shiri spear today. warm and humid, jason. >> jason: absolutely. a steamy start of the day and we have a breeze with thisont te area. right now temperatures are running around 80 degrees in many locations. mostly cloudy skies. that oppressive humidity still with us. afternoon. we will take that. breezy winds out of the west and initially turning more into the northwest late in the day. breezes taper off from sunset and that humidity will lower throughout the afternoon, increasing sun for the afternoon as well, with temperatures running in the mid- to upper 80s. so plan tee warm out there, and for the rest of the week. but there is a slight chance of a few showers returning tomorrow. the when and where on that coming up. i want to give you a look at the map right now to see early hour. you can see on the map no real problems getting the way north of the city; however, a crash still did pop up. the corner of your screen north of boston not on the main road. it shouldn't impact you too much at this early hour. the pike, 128, expressway, all doing well south of the city. the pike eastbound through brighton and smooth sailing. a look at those drive times. route 1, 12 minutes. 93, it minutes. on the pike to mass avenue, 23 minutes right now.