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First tonight a loud bang resulting in a home burned to ashes. Good evening everyone, im joy lim nakrin. And im blair miller. Firefighters rushed into that home in taunton that now sits in a pile of ash and rubble. Tonight fox 25s ted daniels live in taunton where neighbors say it came out of nowhere, ted . Reporter the explosion was felt blocks away, joy and blair, within about 15 minutes the fire was through the roof already past the point of no return. The homeowner lost everything but her life. Reporter a image we pulled from google maps shows 40 christine lane before it disappeared in a ball of angry orange flames. Fire pours through every door and window of the two story colonial. Reporter with fox 25 they have never been so close to something so intense. The only thing it was like. Reporter paul heard an explosion before the fire. Steve roberts was a few houses down on the same street. He felt it. Something jolted the house i heard a noise. Reporter a woman believed to be in the 50s lived alone in the home. Steve says he saw her outside somehow she managed to make it out unharmed. Definitely his ter call. She mattered out okay. She wasnt hurt. She was in the house at the time. Est definitelily she was upstairs on the second floor from what im told. Reporter fire investigators have not released the cause of the explosion and fire. But they suspect it involves natural gas. Qhfs going through your mind . Manic panic. Panic. I knew it was a house explosion. Assisted by the red cross and Emergency Management officials here in taunton. New at 11 00, well have more on how shes coping with this horrible situation and some of her conversation with Emergency Management officials. For now we are reporting live in taunton, im ted daniel, fox 25 news. Today an afternoon cup of coffee could have cost people their lives. A Dunkin Donuts will need some serious repairs after a driver slammed right through the front entrance today. Fox 25s crystal haynes is speaking with witnesses to that crash. Crystal . Reporter blair, certainly a close call this afternoon. Plywood up behind me at that Dunkin Donuts two. People recovering from their injuries after an s. U. V. Went careening into the building. Its a miracle that the operator wasnt hurt more seriously, anybody in the store wasnt hurt more seriously and pedestrians. Reporter police and fire investigate an afternoon a Dunkin Donuts in the town center. I never seen anything like this. I had was conscious when the officers i arrived. Reporter police say a 52yearold canton woman was alone in the s. U. V. When she crossed over traffic on washington street coming from nearby mechanic street. Fox 25 cameras rolling as her family came to the scene less than an hour after it happened. We see a ton where someone hits the gas instead of a brake and that kind of thing . Preliminary investigations are indicating that. One of the Dunkin Donuts employees is caught up all around his head. And i guess the person in the car came out all right. Reporter firefighters were helping tim greffin when the call came in. Two people including the drive and dunk ain donuts employee were transported to the hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries. Two customers standing in the store were not seriously injured. I was sitting right there they come to me and then, you know, this happens two seconds late sorry thank god they were right around the corner, you know, otherwise you never know if you wait too long something bad will happen. Reporter certainly a close call again and i can tell you that this is still a very active investigation. I did speak with people who knew that employee that were injured in this crash. Theyre certainly very concerned they did not want to be interviewed but they were thankful that we did ask about this person. Now, again, coming up at 11 00 were going to hear more from that story from tim griffin who is just down the street 7eleven getting help, firefighters heard that call and were able to respond to this accident very quickly. For now reporting here in canton, im crystal haynes, fox 25 news. Turning now to the forecast, what started as a wet drizzly day turned into kind of a balmy afternoon. But meteorologist rob eicher you say its about to get chilly once again, right . This graphic tells you probably everything you need to know. 63 today this afternoon in boston, pittsburgh, portsmouth about 10 degrees colder so not antarctic blast by any means but noticeably cooler than it was out there this afternoon. Satellite and radar showing the rain has moved out and even the clouds have broken apart on that greyish whitish color would indicate the cloud cover that is gone. Did see some interesting cloud formations out there got a little pictures well talk a little bit more about that later in the hour. But in the meantime got 55 currently in boston. 47 the current temperature in worcester. 48 in orange its warmer now than it will be at any point during the day tomorrow. Overnight temperatures dropping back to around 40 in boston. But kind of a wide range of numbers more like mid40s out at the cape. There will be a couple of spots as you get up into the Higher Elevations it will be flirting with that freezing 32 for a High Temperature rather low temperature then highs tomorrow again only in the low 50s. Got a big chance of rain in the sevenday forecast. Looking forward to that, thank you. Tonight one person was killed in a violent crash in fitchburg. The sentinel is reporting that the crash happened on water street near beemas road. Police say the crash was between an s. U. V. And a car. Firefighters say that despite pulling the victim out alive from that car the person later died from their injuries. The victims name is being withheld right now until next of kin can be notified. The cause of this crash is under investigation. Tonight we now know the name of the woman found dead in her millbury apartment after a fire. Flames broke out at this building last night. Officials say 56yearold Deborah Mcnamara was found unresponsive while fire burned inside her apartment. The medical examiner is working to determine what went wrong. That fire is not considered suspicious. Tonight the ntsb continues to investigate what caused the plane to crash moments after takeoff and kill the pilot. Ntsb crews moved the plane from the crash site to examine the engine. 66yearold gary weller of putnam, connecticut was flying that plane. He was a den tivity and according to his business website he was once a professional pilot who flew for Eastern Airlines and u. S. Airways. Weller was flying a plane similar to one that crashed yesterday morning. This one here. A witness working nearby says it dropped pretty quickly. A little plane kind of just came up over the trees it turned sideways almost completely over and then just plummeted straight down. Ntsb Officials Say they will release a preliminary report within 10 days. A hyde park woman is due in Court Tomorrow accused of killing her uncle. It happened yesterday afternoon inside this home on wood avenue. Police arrived at the home to find a man shot in the head. 36yearold ilan lewis speeding away in an s. U. V. Hours later lewis was arrested in peabody. Neighbors say they were shocked to hear what happened. We i know them anywhere and i consider this a quiet neighborhood. Lewis previously worked as a switch Board Operator for the Boston Police department. In wyndham, New Hampshire a woman has died after a crash on 93 north. It happened around 3 30 this morning. Two women from london derry were thind car when it rolled onto its roof. 20yearold Suzanne Darcy was killed and 22yearold kelsey is still in the hospital. Investigators are also looking into exactly what caused that crash. Meanwhile police have identified the cyclist killed by a driver in east ham. Fox 25 learned this morning 61yearold maury sutton was hit and killed on route 6 friday night. Her daughter says she was just on her way to work at the time. The driver is a 21yearold woman from brewster. She did stop at the scene. The investigation is ongoing tonight. Meanwhile the search continues for the suspect in a stabbing in cambridge. This happened friday night near the North Cambridge Catholic Cemetery on wren street. Police say a 27yearold boston man was on his way to meet to a woman who he talked to on facebook thats when two men walked up tried to rob him and allegedly stabbed him. Thankfully that victim is expected to be okay. But youre asked to contact Cambridge Police if you can help solve the crime. A matchup today in foxborough the leagues best defense versus tom bradys offense. Tom lieden joins us now. Brady was leading in a very surprising category today . We may not see this one that you see tom brady atop the rushing list for the patriots but that was the case today. In essence an allout aerial attack to beat the jets but still surrendered 30 points. This game really turned with 12 minutes to play in the Fourth Quarter. Pats down four when brady went to work 27 yards and a first down to julian edelman. Then one of the more entertaining plays Rob Gronkowski carrying defendingers down the field. It ended up with brady finding Danny Amendola he was hit pretty tough. That put the pats on top 2320. The defense did get it back. And then brady put the final nail in the coffin. All out pressure on tv 12 and he looped it to gronk. Clear sailing from there. 3020 patriots win it 3023 to improve to 60 60 on the season. Wasnt easy but effective. We made the plays when we needed to make them and that was the most important thing. I have a lot of trust and a lot of confidence in everything that theyre doing. We just got to try to do it better against miami. Ahead in sports Brian Salmans story from the locker room. Two other times its happened both seasons ended with super bowl appearances. Thats latest. Tom lieden, forks 25 news. Thank you, tom. Big loss tonight for the minnesota timber wefls. Their president and head coach phil Flip Saunders had passed away. He was diagnosed with hodgkins lymphoma in june but had complications from his treatment. Kevin garnett posting a heartfelt honor in honor of his mentor. Saunders also spent some of his career here in boston as an advisor to the celtics in 2012. Ahead, police finding an arsenal inside one mans home. Theres like 150 chainsaws, probably 250 to 300 taxidermy mounts somewhere between 7,000 to 10,000 stolen weapons. Comingup officers were at that home in first place and what will happen request all those weapons. Plus, cooking something i will april that their hotel room. Police arresting three people in burlington. The clues that tipped them off and what one suspect was wearing when he was arrested. But next. One woman who was also been robbed in this area told our jim morelli about attacks like these. Th whos toughest on spending . Fox news did the analysis and jeb bush had the best record. Billions in pork, vetoed. Eight budgets, balanced. Right to rise usa is responsible for the content of this message. We get it. The crunchy bar was too hard. The Nature Valley crunchy bar. Still crunchy. Now easier to bite into. Sometimes you can feel the indulgence of nature. Sometimes, you can taste it. Sweet granola clusters, a touch of ooey gooey almond butter. 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Firefighters and also a bistander with a paddle board as you can see worked together to eventually get him out safely. In fenway a woman was violently attacked on the street. Tonight a suspect is under arrest. Fox 25s jim morelli explains the frightening robbery and he also talked similar attack in that very same area. Around 2 00 in the morning i was sleeping someone in the alley started screaming help. Reporter those cries for help heard outside 137 park drive in bostons fenway neighborhood. Where early sunday morning a woman was jumped and stabbed, police say, after attempting to fight off a robber. The attack actually happened in the rare alley behind number 137 park drive. The woman reports she was walking along when all of a sudden she heard somebody come up behind her when she turned around thats when he made his move. Police report he pushed woment to the ground attempted to grab her purse and when she resisted he pulled out a knife threatening to kill her. When people are desperate for money or possessions theyre going to attack you. Reporter Veronica Smith knows something about getting attacked with a knife. She was slashed in the abdomen a few years ago in the same neighborhood. I try to avoid the alleys at nighttime and robberies always the motive. People are always an easy pick. Reporter still smith considers the neighborhood safe if you play it smart. Like any city, have you your issues. I think today people need to realize you know dont wear your head phones, keep reporter a short time after the attack, Boston Police made an arrest, a dorchester man. Thats good. Something happened and something got resolved. Reporter as for the recover. 25 news. A bizarre car chase beginning in foxborough ends with the arrest of a worcester man. 28yearold stephen clarken was pull over for speeding. He gave police a fake name said he didnt have his license but then drove off when the officer walked away. He lost control of his car in sharon then ran into the woods when police eventually founded him he shouted at them to shoot them. Offers subdued him using a taser gun and took him into custody. Police in attleboro making an arrest in a Dunkin Donuts breakin. Timothy brown was arrested. Brown was wanted on six warrants. Police believe he broke into the Dunkin Donuts on main street in attleboro twice in february. Hes due in Court Tomorrow. A worcester man is also due in Court Tomorrow after being busted with a very large amount of drugs. An officer spotted 24yearold hector beating on prescott street friday when Police Stopped and searched him they discovered more than a pound of pot and Ecstasy Pills and they also found he was wanted on a warrant for violating probation. Now to husband, New Hampshire, where a teen has been indicted on pornography charges. 19yearold louis pilot was arrested in june after a month long investigation. Police say he had photos and videos of young boys engaging in sexual acts. A grand jury is now indicted him on eight counts of possessing child sex abuse images. 15 years in prison. Police in west greenwich, rhode island, asking the pilot public for some help to find a missing teen. This is 14yearold kayleigh friday night around 11 30. She left her argument apartment on foot. And leopard print pajamas. Anyone who may seen her is urged to call the police department. The pennsylvania woman accused of trigger an amber alert here in massachusetts will be back in Court Tomorrow. That amber alert went off last weekend when state police were looking for 36yearold Tiffany Chery and her sick infant son. Police say she left pennsylvania with him ignoring directions to get that boy emergency medical care. Cherry told me she wanted to get her son to a hospital here in boston. She now faces several charges. Tonight red line trains are running on a normal schedule again after some afternoon. Its all because of this right here. A fire there on the red line tracks in dorchester seen by more than a dozen people getting out of church today. Fox 25s Christine Mccarthy explains the mbta says it was only a minor electrical issue. And i saw this kind of like weird kind of arc out of the corner of my eye. Typical sunday morning for witness Sean Haggerty who pulled off the road and snapped these photos of a fire on Railroad Tracks in dorchester. Three, four pops then these bright lights. So i walked up onto the bridge kind of looked down and you see like this amber glow just build up, build up then bloom. This spectacle attracting at least a dozen onlookers and lasted about 10 minutes. Boston Fire Department and mbta Officials Say it was a small electrical fire on the third rail of tracks not used for Passenger Services but for moving trains in and out of the red Line Maintenance facility. No trains caught fire and no one was hurt. They said so sorry for the delay but were experiencing something with the Fire Department. Reporter commuter Christina Garcia experienced the delays that affected both the red line and Commuter Rail as power was cut and the firefighters put on the the flames. On top of us today it was even lower. Its not the fiery red line incident lately. Less than a month ago service was suspended as a crew extinge wished an electrical fire in the crews tex extinguished a electrical fire in the tunnel. Both caused rush hour delays that some commuters say were bearables. Itant the worst thing in the world its better than sitting in traffic. Reporter some commuters we spoke to say despite the delays the t has been very got on its twitter page both putting out tweets and responding to tweets and giving up to the minute updates on incidents and delays. In dorchester, Christine Mccarthy, fox 25 news. Saying goodbye to their loved ones. Still to come tonight families and soldiers getting together for one final time before deployment to the middle east. But next, facing some new charges after a fourth victim dies in this o. S. U. Homecoming crash. We are beginning to hear from the prosecutors survivors as prosecutors up do you think when you are president youll be paid as much as if you were a manmale. This is one of the jobs where they have to pay you the same. Examples where that doesnt happen. Im going to do everything i can to make sure every woman in every job gets paid the same. As the men who are doing that job. R im Hillary Clinton p announcer you are watching fox 25 news at 10 00. The woman accused of plowing her car into a crowd at the Oklahoma State homecoming parade has now been charged with seconddegree murder. Police say 25yearold adacia chambers was speeding and driving under the influence when she crashed into a crowd. Four people were killed, including a 2yearold boy. More than 45 other people were also hurt several of them critically. One of the injured says she just cant shake the image of what happened. I just saw something black coming at us i didnt know what it was at first until i started if ran and then the car hit me as it was stopping. The family thanked the community for their support and also remembered leo schmidt as a hard worker and a fun loving man. A starstudded event going on in iowa today for democratic president ial frontrunner Hillary Clinton. Singer katy perry getting the crowd going will in des moines before clinton took the stage. Perry even referred to hillary as her fire work. Former president b. C. Bill clinton also there. Some shocking comments tonight coming from republican frontrunner donald trump. In an interview with cnn, trump said that iraq and libya would be more stable right now if Saddam Hussein and Moammar Ghaddafi were left in power. Right now they are far worse than they were after under Saddam Hussein or ghaddafi. Sue sane fell in power in 2003. Qaddafi was ousted during violent civil riots in 2011 was killed by militants. A roslindale man is under arrest tonight after a massive heroin bust in peabody. Police found more than 100 grams of heroin in the car of 26yearold louis during a traffic stop on mason street. He will be arraigned at peabody district Court Tomorrow on trafficking charges and this comes as after Opioid Epidemic riddles our state. Now address that epidemic. Local politicians will attend a Panel Discussion tomorrow. Governor Charlie Baker will participate in the event at 6 00 tomorrow night in boston. State Health Officials and a Middlesex Police officer will also be there. Just last year in massachusetts, more than 1,000 people died from opioid overdoses. They say you can cook in your room but what police found how officers say three men tried to hide their drug lab and the clues that gave them away to Hotel Employees. Got a little bit of rain today. Our next chance of rain could be much more use future leadership isnt given. Its earned. Realized. Accomplished. Fulfilled. Won. Leadership isnt given. Want to get to you breaking news were following out of the Pacific Northwest tonight. Canadian Authorities Say at least three people are dead after a whale watching boat with 27 people on board sank off vancouver island. Crews say the vessel made a mayday near tofino british columbia. Back here look at the weather in dedham people heading to the supermarket most of the jackets and pants but still some people out there trying to get by with the shorts if they can. Im meteorologist rob eicher tomorrow. Gd a droll as next chance of rain but the rain has moved wednesday looking more and more likely that this can be a significant rain with the possibility of heavy rain and some strong gusty winds that leads to concerns along the south coast with the possibility of some minor coastal flooding. Now good news is that clears out all in time for halloween. Halloween will be a bit on the chilly side but at least it will be dry we dont have to worry about your costume getting wet. We have 55 currently in brewster double nickels in boston weve got 51 in brockton thrempts some of the areas where the temperatures could dip close to the freezing mark a little bit later on. Worcester at 47 we have fitchburg at 43. Again some of the Higher Elevations could get disclose that freezing mark tonight. Satellite and radar showing the clouds have moved out. The clouds and the rain that we had out there earlier today courtesy of a cold front. Out ahead of the cold front thats where you get the warm weather thats where you get the showers. Behind the cold front thats where you have the cooler drier weather that change just now starting to take place across all of new england and you will definitely notice a chill in the air when you wake up tomorrow. Next chance of rain coming from down here out in the gulf of mexico right along the northern gulf coast. The red box indicating a tornado watch box some of that moisture left over from what was once hurricane pattia. Now lets use future cast here and watch as that area of low pressure tracks to the northeast. Not impacting us tomorrow. Weather will be quiet tomorrow even off tuesday well start off with a good bit of sunshine. Clouds will increase late in the day on tuesday as this system approaches. Then the timing is getting a little bit more nailed down. At one point still some questions about whether this would come wednesday morning or thursday morning. It looks more and more likely that this will be mainly a wednesday night event and looks more and more likely that this will be a significant rain event. Our computer models are averaging with an inch of rain across the area some even a little bit more than. That now keep in mind we need almost eight inches of rain just to catch up to normal for the year. Overnight wednesday into thursday now as this sweeps through much cooler weather starts to pull in here. So next weekend will be a bit on the cool side. 52 and sunny skies to start off your workweek. Down to the low 30s monday night into Tuesday Morning. Next couple mornings especially Tuesday Morning a little on the cool side. 55 tuesday afternoon, warming up to 60 on wednesday and 68 on thursday. Downside is it does come with that rain. Mainly wednesday night into thursday. Well be watching for wind possibility of some wind advisory and also some coastal advisories due to that wind. Stay tuned. Feeling breezy on friday. But there go halloween looking clear. 50 for a high wednesday or rather halloween afternoon. But more like mid40s by trickortreat time. Hey guys at least we get an extra hour of sleep saturday night. That is a treat. Rob mentioned the remnants of Hurricane Patricia tonight theyre combining with a separate system to drop record rainfall in texas. Some spots saw as much as 20 inches from friday to saturday. San antonio broke a daily a. M. Yesterday and yet the rain continued to pour for the rest of the day. Its causing heavy flooding across the state creating Serious Problems for drivers. Also forcing homeowners to prepare for rising water. I started realize ing i was in deep water coming up on the sides of me. The car died. Officials there are issuing a voluntary evacuation in some areas. More rain is expected across texas through the beginning of next week as well. Now back here in massachusetts three men allegedly cooking up trouble in burlington. Police say the trio were making meth in a hotel room. Fox 25s malini basu is live in our control room tonight. Malini, you learned it was actually an alert Hotel Employee who tipped off police it. Certainly was. They said something they saw something tonight we could tell you fox 25 has learned that one of the employees noticed a man carrying paint thinner acetone and paint thinner and also wearing a gas mask. I have been at this place for the 15 years this is first time i hear Something Like this happen. Reporter morrow is staying at the hotel in burlington. He was stunned when he heard about three men arrested for running a meth lab in one of the hotel rooms. Are we in a movie . Is this really. Reporter Burlington Police are crediting Hotel Employees for noticing suspicious activities and reporting the three men ages 24, 32, and 52. Sources tell fox 25 the men had been staying at the four star hotel for at least two weeks. Employees saw one man wearing an ankle monitoring bracelet with a gas task over his face. You can cook your own meals and stuff. So as long as its legal thats fine. But you can cook other stuff i didnt know that. The whole cooking meth thing is shocking to me. In a hotel. I mean, who thinks of that . Reporter police tell us the men covered the smoke detectors in the room with plastic bags. Im truly shocked. I thought you were kidding when you first said it. Its unbelievable to me. Reporter some hotel guests even had to be evacuated after the bust. Those staying here now are just thankful no one was hurt. Theres a better way to make a living, there is because theyre not only hurting themselves theyre hurting other people. Reporter and tonight we can tell you we tried to get a comment from the hotel general manager and they tell us that of course the guests there are their number one priority. We can also tell you that all three suspects were arrested and they will be facing a judge first thing tomorrow morning in woburn district court. For now we are in the control room, malini basu, fox 25 news. Found in a dangerous spot. Coming up tonight new at 11 00 where heroin paraphernalia was picked up on the cape and what police are now saying about this discovery. But first, a mess of a the Punkin Chunkin festival d be ready. But demand for our cocktail bitters was huge. I could feel our deadlines we didn t need a loan. We needed shortterm funding. Fast. Our amex helped us fill the orders. Just like that. You can t predict it, but you can be ready. Another step on the journey. Will you be ready when growth presents itself. Realize your buying power at open. Com. We get it. The Nature Valley crunchy bar. Still crunchy. Now easier to bite into. Sometimes you can feel the indulgence of nature. Sometimes, you can taste it. Sweet granola clusters, a touch of ooey gooey almond butter. Savory almonds, and a hint of salt. Nature valley sweet and salty announcer youre watching fox 25 news at 10 00. The Rochester Community gathers for a candlelight individual nil memory of a teen found dead in a hotel room. 17yearold eve died last saturday of an apparent drug overdose. Her fell low students in Spalding High School organized this service which took place at the rochester common. They want to remember the life of their friend but also inspire others to find a solution to this growing drug epidemic. I want people to see that we have a problem in our town not just our town we have a problem with these drugs in that its getting closer to us as children. She would have grad thad school year. A Memorial Service held today for one of the massachusetts men who died on board el faro. 42yearold jeffrey mathighis of kingston was a graduate of Paper Academy and mass maritime academy. He was one of three massachusetts 98 i was and 33 people on board the el faro when it got caught up in Hurricane Joaquin earlier this month. The navy is now on scene searching for the cargo ships data recorder. A Graduation Ceremony taking place this week at lynns drug court. All 11 participants have finished an 18 to 24 month probation program. Drug court is one of four specialty courts here in massachusetts. It provides supervised and mandated treatment. It focuses on Mental Health or Substance Abuse issues that are causing criminal behavior. A heartfelt goodbye in looul this weekend. Emotions running high as reservists gear off and head off to the middle east. What families and soldiers have to say about the departure. Next armed to the teeth chainsaws and thousands of guns recovered inside one mans home. Wh announcer youre watching fox 25 news at 10 00. Welcome back to your fox 55 news at 10 00. An alarming discovery in south carolina. Deputies found thousands of stolen guns and other weapons inside a mans home and warehouse. As alex jones reports police came across that stash by stash while serving the suspect a subpoena for another case. Reporter the list reads like haunting store inventory. Theres like 150 chainsaws, probably 250 to 300 taxidermy mounts. Reporter somewhere between 7,000 to 10,000 stolen weapons. Reporter it was all seized from this property and its got neighbors like rusty fender asking a lot of questions. What was he thinking why he was collecting that many firearms. What he was planning on doing with them . Was he planning on starting a riot. Reporter all valid concerns but perhaps a simple answer . Gun hoarder. And knew that hoarder bars. He has always been good but people do things. Reporter but most people dont collect thousands of stolen weapons and the alarming. This is the biggest thing ive ever heard in my live years of living here. Reporter the big operation will continue throughout the weekend as investigators pulled stolen goods from other Properties Like nicholsons liquor store. Its just going to be a long tedious process of getting them back to their rightful owners. I dont understand why he done the things hes done. Im glad its off the street. Reporter and into the hands of law enforcement. That report from alex childs tonight. Boston Public Schools working to make sure students are doing less test taking and more learning in the classroom. Theyre reducing district required testing by half in lower performing schools. And this comes as a National Study finds that the average student in Public Schools spends up to 25 hours of class time taking tests. It also comes after president obama announced his push to scale back standardized testing as well. In a message on facebook saturday night, the president said kids spend too much time taking unnecessary exams in school. His administration has launched new guidelines on testing including capping the time at 2 of their total classroom time. A bittersweet farewell for soldiers heading overseas. Fox 25 there was as the families of 160 members of the Massachusetts National guard were sent off yesterday at umass lowell. Members of the 1060th Transportation Company will deploy to kuwait for nine months in support of probation spartan shield. This is the third time that this unit has been deployed since 9 11. But that does not make it any easier for soldiers or their loved ones. I was pretty concerned about joe. Is not on where hes headed its difficult leaving the family behind. Im lucky i have a good support network. They know this is what i really love to do. Hard to put into words. Its a roller coaster. Not sure what to expect. This will be my third deployment. They have been through it before but they were smaller. The same unit previously deployed to iraq in 2006 in support ofs support of Operation Iraqi freedom and new dawn. Officials rescue two hampshire. A brighton resident and arlington resident took a wrong turn off their trail yesterday and ended up on the opposite side of the mountain from where they began their hike. New hampshire fish and game officials led them down the mountain and gave them a ride to their car. We know massachusetts is Energy Efficient and tonight theres a list to prove it. The American Council for an Energy Efficient economy has ranked the bay state number one for the fifth year in a row. Other New England States are not too far behind either. According to last weeks rankings, vermont was ranked third, rhode island fourth, and connecticut was ranked sixth. If you walk through the rose kennedy green way this week you might notice something is missing. Earlier today crews started taking down the colorful sculpture that was hanging above it since may. It was called as if it were already here. It and was created by a local artist. That sculpture was part of a mission to bring contemporary art to boston on a rotating timeline. Unclaimed property will soon be up for auction here in massachusetts. Those items include valuable jewelery, high end watches, things that were found abandoned in safe deposit boxes. Everything will be displayed at the state house tomorrow. A live auction will start saturday on ebay. Even if an item is rightful cash the claim equivalent of the sale if they prove rightful ownership. The festival used to be held in keene but this year moved to laconia because of the riots that broke out in keene last year. No craziness this year people who went say it was a lot of fun. Good food. Varietyal and interesting. A lot of fun. Seeing the jackolanterns. Youre having just a good time, huh . Yeah. Business owners and residents are excited that steer city is now shining. New hampshire residents enjoying a second day of this. Pumpkins flying right through the air at the extreme pumpin chunkin event. Today teams are able to break their own record and the world record for the farthest pumpkin chucked. We crushed our own record we beat the world record right now. I dont know if theyll recognize it because its not in delaware. But its always been our goal. They beat it. Theyre there. It used to be held in dell dell but has been there in New Hampshire for last two years. After the competition ended they flung a piano and vw bug that they launched yesterday. Who has not wanted to do that before. I could watch that all day long. I have been to one of those it is every bit as fun as advertised. Its a lot of fun. But speaking of unusual sights in the sky i got a lot of pictures from viewers via twitter and facebook about some unusual cloud formations and some people saying we got this weird cloud formation. We posted those pictures along with a quick explanation on our web page myfoxboston. Com. But heres the basic idea. What you saw was likely a rope cloud. A rope cloud forms right along a frontal boundary in this case a cold front happens when cool air mixes with the warm air and usually behind the rope cloud it starts to get cooler and clearer and clear skies as seen here in this picture live shot over boston 55 currently. It is warmer now than it will be at any point during the day tomorrow so a little cool at the bus stop tomorrow morning. 40 degrees on average. Cape island more like mid40s more like mid to upper 30s. Areas north of and west more like low 30s at the bus stop tomorrow morning. Warming up only to the low 50s for tomorrow afternoon. Well have the full sevenday forecast coming up in the next half hour. Ahead tonight destruction in upton after a truck barrels through a fence. The charges one man is facing tonight. But first our top story tonight a home explosion some taunton. The miraculous way everyone survived after this blast and fire levelled a home. Our ted daniel joins us with an update ahead on your fox 25 news at 11 00. Its a 60 start but a game that was not easy for the patriots today. After the break im going to show you how the pats had to stay undefeated. Everyone is saying, hey you gotta get fios but why . Well, fios is a 100 percent fiber optic network, 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 ultimately, thats why. Get 50 meg fios internet, tv phone starting at 79. 99 a month. Plus get 300 back. Last chance, offer ends november 7th. As ski resorts in New Hampshire prepare for the busy upcoming many season many report revenue gains over the last year. This is due in part to the resort adding things like zip lines and festivals to their summer schedules. Weddings at resorts have also become more popular. 60 for the First Time Since 2007 and the patriots seem to be in the mechanical in their ability to focus when necessary. Sloppy through the first threequarters today. Trailing with 12 and a half minutes left. Then they really kicked into gear and got it done with the jets. Knotted at 3 in the second quarter. Second touchdown of the game from jeremy curly none of you predicted that. It was 103. Pats up three at the break six in the third. Thats when Ryan Fitzpatrick swung it to chris ivory. Jets added a field goal. Brady leads an 80 yard drive Danny Amendola in the endzone. Defense gets it right back that sets up the catch. You tell me how amendola gets up to catch this one. Called it himself a game jump i guess you get a bit higher when the adrenaline is pumping through the veins that is sweet. Brady under pressure will go up and over the defenders touchdown covers 15 yards. Patriots win it 3023. Heres brian salman with the players after todays win. Reporter the jets may have had the number one defense in the nfl entering the game but its the patriots who score 30 points with no dionne lewis tom brady leads his team in rushing and carries all that adds up to the patriots improving to 60. I say enjoy this because it will probably never happen again. And then the third down play was they play a pretty good coverage. I just told the team just kind of rumble toward the goal line. Good when i the ball in my hand not quite sure if they can drill me or not. I just try to keep pumpfaking as long as i can to keep them all at bay. We just stuck together. Obviously throughout the game everything was clicking the whole time which we need to be we cant be having so many three and outs. But in the Fourth Quarter we just dig down, dig deep. Players are stepping up making plays. Reporter and Rob Gronkowski has a career day 11 receptions 108 yards and a touchdown and its onto the Miami Dolphins who play here in foxborough on thursday. Inside gillette stadium, brian salman, fox 25 sports. Were also three days away from the celts Season Opener starting the year with three straight home games. The owner joined me earlier tonight and touched on how competitive the celts practices have been and how it helps the guys get ready for the season. They just want to get after it. When they go five on five theyre playing as hard as you ever see in regular season games. Theyre going at it. Luckily we came out of the preseason without injuries. They were flying around. Tonight on the sportswrap more on my conversation brian will go indepth on the patriots win and Butch Stearns asking what the heck is tom brady doing with the football but he is taking to the sidelines after he scores. Its always something. Well be you from 11 30 to midnight. Hope you can join us with the sportswrap right after the fox 25 news at 11 00. Now the 11 00, a fiery explosion tonight a home is leveled the rubble still smoldering. I thought oh, my god is everybody okay. I just wanted to make sure there were no fatalities. Reporter fox 25 speaking with neighbors who heard the blast and what firefighters say may have caused it. Plus, a stop for coffee turns into disaster. I never seen anything like this. Reporter the simple mistake that likely caused this crash. A bit of rain and a lot of areas this morning that has moved out but cooler weather moving in. Ill show which towns will be near freezing tonight