Transcripts For WFXT FOX 25 News At 4 20160822 : comparemela

Transcripts For WFXT FOX 25 News At 4 20160822

Its reminder that Mother Nature can be one heckuva force when she chooses to be. Hor you just heard from Governor Charlie Baker that we got lucky. The damage could have been a lot worse. He gave credit to First Responders and other crews. Anchor hugely ck think of what could have happened overnight while most people were sleeping. It was an all hands on deck situation. We have more coverage. Fox 24. Do not walk under them, and live line and stay away from it. Now, having heard that, the electricity has supposedly been cut to the area because there are so many lines down. This morning, there were about 1,000 people who were without power. We understand that some of those have now gotten power on. That is the biggest concern for residents now, aside from the immense cleanup. We are told that perhaps power will not come back on for some, until sometime tomorrow, which is going to make it kind of a rough afternoon and night because it is quite warm o here. Coming up at 5 00, we will see where the tornado started, where it went, and we will take another look at the big clean up ahead. Live in concord, jim morelli, fox 25 news. Thanks very much, jim, we look forward to checking back in with you. Before the storm hit concord it passed through marlborough and jessica raez reports many people woke up to no power. Reporter a busy morning in marlborough where crews spent an power lines after a fastmoving storm. Just heard a noise and a loud bang and the house shook, and then the power blew. The storm initially came in as the Tornado Warning after 3 00 this morning. You know, when youre in the dark and its raining like crazy and, you know, you get that notice, then you dont know what to do. Mike farrell lives on a street with power lines down and he heard the storm early this morning but it was dog that heard it first. Just t power went off. She made more noise than the storm. Right after the storm came through, we found big branches tossed onto framingham road. Diane clemmons lived there and woke up to find the power was out. Even though we dont get many Severe Weathers in new england, now is a good time to put a package together, candles, light, extra water. Curtis avenue was another trouble spot, winds tossed the tree onto the street taking down many are thankful it wasnt much worse. Its wild. If thats all the damage it did, i guess we were lucky. And for much of the morning after the storms there were 125 people in the town without power, many of them along walker street here but National Grid was able to turn the power back on for them later this morning. And as of this afternoon, everyone in this town has the power restore. In marlborough, im jessica raez, fox 25 news. Chief meteorologist Kevin Lemanowicz rushed to the warning came out. He is with us now. Kevin, you and sherry suspected it was a tornado based on what you saw on the radar. No doubt about it. Sharry was all over it. You can tell there was heavy rain coming through. That is something jason warned you about, he told you there would be strong winds but to see a tornado come through in the morning, we have not seen that happen at night since 1970. Thats how rare it is. This is a storm we are seeing a atlantic coastup view between marlborough and concord. Right here that you find the tornado on radar. Where we would be suspicious of tornado. This is the area. I will switch over to the velocity scan. This is what it looked like for rainfall. You are used to it. We show it to you all the time. When we get to a situation of spinning reds, we get this. It is going away from the radar site. The green is coming back out at you yo. When you have that lined up next to eacho especially the bright area, right in here, right next to concord, over fact, thats where you have spinning motion. I can flip this, and show you a 3 dimensional view. And what you will find here is that the red and green are going from the cloud all the way down to the ground. That is, in fact, a tornado. And what it looks like in a three dimensionnal scan on the live Storm Tracker radar using the velocity mode. Again, into the screen, out of the screen, and this gap here . That is flat to the radar. Its like a zero or an eye of the storm. That, indeed, is where the twister was this morning. Thats how we are able to locate radar. Then the weather ser viz goes out and surveys it as you have been told to show what the damage looks like and confirm, indeed, there was a touchdown this morning. All right. Kevin, ahead at 4 30, Daniel Miller was in concord when the nationality Weather Service inspected the the j da. His report on how cell phones kept everyone safe coming up. And we have the my fox boston 25. Com, there was a slide show of all the damage and links on the tornado, continues at 5 00 and 6 00, and kevin will be back with the full forecast in a few moments. Breaking news on i93 near hoetons pond, a car veered off the driveway seriously injuring the driver this. Is the scene near exit 4 from sky fox 0 minutes ago. You can see First Responders working on the driver next to his car. We are working to find out his condition and if anyone else was involved. A park ranger is charged tonight with video taping women as they used a bathroom at a local bathhouse. Milton . They arrested 30 yearold raymond ken ton, he secretly taped women getting undressed. Another employee found the camera. We have a crew at mckinnons arraignment and will bring you a live report at 6 00. Hundreds of people forced to evacuate the state house. State police say it was just an accident, construction in the building trip add fire alarm just before 11 00 this morning sending everyone inside, streaming outonto 20 minutes when police determined there was no risk of hazard. The city of somerville is dropping its lawsuit at the casino being built in the adjoining town. The mayor said his goal was never to stop the casino. He km pained against legalizing casino, he said he was concerned about the quality of life for president s. The state environment atm officials grant add key permit to the casino project which somerville was trying to stop. Today was the citys deadline to appeal in state court. He said the city resolve add number of the communitys biggest concerns for the casino so he decided to drop the legal fight and cited Ferry Service that is expected to reduce traffic to and from the casino as well as an increase in the amount of the projects public space. He added the city and Wynne Resorts have reach add deal to other issues but didnt given specific details a. Wynne spokesperson said no other legal challenges stand in the projects way and construction on wynne Boston Harbor began earlier this month. It is set to open in 2019. Vanessa . Ock, we are learning more about how the states overhead tolling system on the mass pike is going to work. It will not only scan your e. Z. Pass, but it will have a license plate recorder that can alert the amount drivers pay will depend upon where they enter and exit the highway. It is scheduled to begin in october . A woman picks up the phone and is shocked by what she heard. When they called me, they said i have your husband, john. How the scammers took their plot to a whole new level by getting her husband involved by phone. Parent, dont let the backtoschool supply list scare you, we will show you ways to save cash on everything your child needs for the school year. O you that damage from the tornado in concord, we will talk more about new england tornadoes and look ahead to our forecast when more rain showers are on the way. Swimmer ryan apologized for this week donald trump plans to deve immigration but at this point the campaign is sending mixed signals on what will be in the plan. As Diane Gallagher reports, he once again called for the deportation of 11 million undocumented immigrants but now said he may no longer strick to the plan. Since coming down the escalators on day 1 of his campaign, immigration has remained a central issue for donald trump. Thank you. We will build it. Immigrants in the u. S. We are rounding them up in a very humane, nice way. They are going back where they came. They will go out. They will come back, some, will come back. The best. Through a process. They have to come back legally. But, over the past couple of days, the Trump Campaign has been ramping up its minority outreach and hinting the candidates deportation stance may not be set if stone. As the weeks enfold he will lay out the specifics of the plan he would implement as president of the united Deportation Force the kind he talked about during the republican primaries . To be determined. The billionaire insisting now that this is not a stance reversal, per se. You are not flipflopping . No, im not flipflopping. We want to come up with really fair but firm answer. Meanwhile for Hillary Clinton its the battle of the secretaries of state, Coe Lynn Powell pushing back that he the media saying quote her people are trying to pin it on me and he explained he used a private email during his tenure. President obamas Marthas Vineyard is over, the first family arrived back at the white house last night after spending two weeks relaxing in our necks of the woods. President obama managed to send most of his time golfing only squeezing in one official al perience appearance i. Was a Fund Raising Event for Hillary Clinton. Tomorrow he is damage. New at 4 00, ryan lochtes rio controversy is costing the olympic swimmer two mayor sponsorship deals. Raffle lauren and speedo dropped lochte hours after the rio games ended. Lochte has apologized for overexaggerating a story about being robbed at gun point with three team mates, the police said he vandalized a gas station. In a statement, speedo said it cannot cone done behavior counter to the values this brand long stood testify before a to let Public School students use the bathroom of their choice. 13 states are challenging the obama trabs gender policy. The administration failed to allow for public input. In may, the justice and Education Department required Public Schools to provide transgender students with, quote, equal access. The white house said the directive is not legally binding. The Justice Department is now reviewing its options. Can see it, rain wrapped around it, even if there was light out there, and no injuries . How does that happen . We have fox 25 weather app, you were alerted as it was coming toward you, concord. Luckily everyone stayed safe despite trees coming down a. 400foot wide, 4 footballfield wide path of the storm going for half a mile. Winds 100 Miles Per Hour. Falling trees and all different directions. Weather service could determine this, indeed, was a tornado that touched down. We were talking about it all morning on the fox 25 morning news. These are last four tornadoes that touched down in massachusetts prior to today. Had to go back a year to find a couple e. F. 0 in westminster and wrentham on the same day, then on august 31st in worcester in 2014, of course remember the ve veer tornado which also was a morning storm, but it was closer to 10 00, as opposed to happening at 3 00 in the morning. Something like that hasnt or nocturnal tornado here in ningd land. As this line of storms is coming through, meteorologist jason brewer was talking about it on our fox 25 news at 10 00 and 11 00 and telling you there would be strong winds with some gusty storms coming by. Ended up being severe thunderstorms and yes, even that Tornado Warning. We have talked much about that, but we have not talked about the rain. The rain we needed. Its a shame we had to have a tornado to get this rain. Nearly 1 months in boston, half well. These are the areas where that severe drought is in place. Worcester is in a severe drought as well. So, it was good to have that beneficial rain come on through. And some more rain reports, spencer, 1 1 2, lowell nearly 1 and franklin over 0. 75 of rain. Evening plans now, it is all clear. It is beautiful outside. Couldnt ask for better. 74 degrees by 8 00 at 69 and staying that way through 10 00 this evening under clear skies. The temperature will drop over an august day right now. That means your low temperatures will have a chance to drop quite low for this time of year, into the 50s and even some upper 40s possible, northern portion or northwest portion of Worcester County into Southern New Hampshire and vermont, upper 40, not talking about diving temperatures toward the 30s, but still chilly for this time of year. 65 at 6 00 in worcester dropping down to the 50s overnight. And then boston, in the 70s at 6 00 and dropping down through city of boston. Lunchtime temperatures tomorrow back in the 70s. Going to be pleasant and a coolish feel, thanks to the low humidity. But still a great looking beach day if thats what you want to do tomorrow, Hampton Beach is 80, rex psalm 78, raleigh 78 degrees in quincy. Sevenday forecast with the weekend always in view, you can see how nice its going to be by the time we get there. We are back into some dry weather this week. Tuesday and wednesday and thursday, our next chance for rain showers comes friday morning, another front cutting on through. We do we saw today, including not the heavy rainfall we saw in some places today, it will just be rain showers that come by the way it looks right now. But when you have temperatures like this and humidity increasing and its something we have to watch for changes in the timing of the front because then we might have to deal with thunderstorms coming on through. Either way the front cuts on through and we are back to dry weather for this upcoming weekend. We will look at the weekend in more detail and talk much more about todays tornado coming up. The summer olympics wrapped up but you know what that means, overnight they ticked up trash left behind from visitors around the Olympic Stadium including beaches, the concern now will shift back to the citys polluted waterway, which are loaded with sewage and trash from the millions of people who live in rio. Pizza for everyone, next at 4 00, what one boy gave up so he could hand deliver pizzas to the flood victims in louisiana. And now here is Mark Ockerbloom with what we are working on for fox 25 news at 5 00. Ock . Our Live Team Coverage from concord covering at 5 00, the governor seeing the damage for himself a few short moments ago. The phone alerts woke people up in the middle of the night. How the alerts worked and how to make sure you will get one on your cell phone if there is an emergency. Plus, how mitt is fighting on mom im a mom, not a millionaire. I can give permission. I can give hugs. But i cant give millions of dollars to a campaign. Narrator but thats the way to get Kelly Ayottes attention. Corporate special interests like the Koch Brothers have spent millions helping ayottes campaign and she voted with them 90 of the time supporting tax breaks that help millionaires and oil companies. Mom in washington, kelly ayotte responsible for the content of this advertising. 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More than 100,000 people have registered for federal aid. President obama will tour the damage in person tomorrow. A fourth grader spent his birthday handing out food to those flood victims in louisiana. Carson bout turned 9 on sunday and got the idea to feed flood victims of from a drain in which he saw himself delivering food and water to his flooded out neighbors. He actually asked his mother to take all the money she would have spent on his birthday presents and spend it instead on pizzas. Were going to give them lunch so they dont have to stop what they are doing. You dont see children that heart. 363 pies were delivered to lafayette area flood victims. What a great kid. You know, we are both parents. All you want is for your kids to do good deeds but you can never predict what they will do and what specific situation will present, but that is unbelievable. It was coming to him in a dream . His mom is doing it right. A tornado caused destruction in concord and the middle of the night. Up next, we are on the ground as National Guard and the national Weather Service surveys the damage. A even though we can warn you about a storm coming through, you cant see it at night and then the heavy vain. We will talk more about the tornado and the weather ahead into the weekend. Plus phone scammers targeting a local couple. The same man that just called my phone answered. And he was angry and he said why would you hang up . Next at 4 00 how the suspect scared the wife to take scared the wife to take advantage of the introducing dunkins new cold brew coffee, steeped slowly in cold w

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