that bans texting while driving, and any cellphone use for those under 18. but that's where it ends. you can still dial and talk. >> four and a half years ago when i was six months pregnant, my dad was killed by a woman programming her g.p.s. >> emily stein who lost her father to a distracted driver testified the texts ban is unenforceable and wants lawmakers to update the law. >> bill banning hand-held cellphone use has been proposed for years on beacon hill, but so far nothing has passed and we found public support. >> going hands-free, it would be safer by everybody. >> talk, text, anything. it shouldn't be done during -- while you're driving. >> we asked the transportation committee chairman, senator tom mcgee, who told us technology has changed enough so that he believes this legislation could pass. >> it just makes sense to get this legislation done. >> and when that ban was first proposed, some five years ago, well, there were some concerns about costs and availability, of all those hands-free devices. well, there is one person's opinion that does matter a lot and that's the governor and we asked him all about this issue and he wants to hear from one group of people. find out who that is coming up at 6:00 p.m. live, sharman sachetti, fox 25 news. >> elizabeth: for more details about distracted driving laws across the country. as you'll see from the map, most states allow drivers to talk on their phones. those are the states that are in gray there. the 13 states in green include vermont, new hampshire and connecticut, they require drivers to be hands-free. and the states in blue have partial bans on distracted driving. >> mark: right now, there's a massive search to find any sign of life for the crew on board the doomed ship the el faro. that ship sank in the bahamas while sailing into hurricane joaquin and so far, only one body has been recovered and just within the past hour, the coast guard posted these pictures of the debris field in the atlantic. we do expect to learn more about the investigation when the ntsb holds a news conference at 9:00 p.m. tonight. two men from massachusetts were on that cargo ship and tonight, the heartbroken families of jeffrey and keith grinch are waiting and holding out hope. bob ward is live in winthrop where friends will hold a vigil for griffin tonight. >> mark: that's right, mark and i did speak to katie griffin, she is the wife of one of the victims. she is just devastated. she told me she wants everyone to know how much she appreciates what everyone is doing tonight by holding this vigil for her husband. she says she's holding out hope, but knows that time is running down. >> for katie griffin, there is no end in sight to her agony. pregnant with twins, katie is desperate for word of her husband keith, a crew member on board the doomed ship el faro. the coast guard has located a debris field, including pieces of a life boat and life rafts. there is no sign of the el faro. and no sign of the 33 people aboard the ship. >> you have family that are with you that are helping you through this. >> the reporter: i spoke to katie grinch over the phone today and is in fort meyers florida and did not want her voice recorded. katie told me she is clinging to hope, but the hope is fading. i think about people who get to know how their loved ones died. i may never know what happened to him. >> i ask for your optimism, for your hope, for your support. to jeff, keith. >> at mass maritime academy in buzzard's bay a morning moment of preflexion reflection for two members on board the el faro. keith, a married father of three young children, ages 3, 5 and 7 and in a statement released through mass maritime, jeff's family said this, the family would like to thank everyone for their love and support during this difficult time. he is the center of our world. please, continue to pray with el faro and for their families. and so the agonizing wait continues. the candlelight vigil of keith grinch begins here in winthrop at 6:30 p.m. we're right across the street from where keith lived and spent part of his childhood. bob ward, fox 25. >> mark: as the situation grows grim, we are looking into the ship's inspection record. >> elizabeth: federal investigators are also on the scene in vermont tonight, looking into the derailment of an amtrak train. seven people were hurt when rocks fell on to the tracks in northfield. amtrak says crews are out now working to pull the cars back up and get them back on to the rails. the company's c.e.o. says the tracks should be back in working order soon. >> well, we don't have a real estimate because we don't know the situation we're going to really face bringing them up out of the kind of the embankment that's really there, but we expect it's a matter of days and maybe a week. >> >> elizabeth: amtrak is now running buses between st. albon's and springfield, massachusetts, until the tracks are repaired. >> mark: also tonight the narrow streets of the north end of boston turned into rivers of break. crews working all day to repair streets. this is a very popular spot for going out to dinner. tonight and ted what a mess for the local businesses. some had several feet of water in their basements this morning. >> the reporter: a big mess, and it's been ongoing all day. i did speak with a representative from boston water and sewer and he tells me the pipe is now fixed, and the water done yet. they obviously had to dig a pretty big hole to get to the pipe and right now they're in the process of trying to fill it in and repair it right now. it all happened here at the intersection of prince and salem. take a look at this. long after the pipe ruptured around 6:00 a.m. this morning. you can see the water shooting up about 20 feet in the air. it took only about a half an hour to stop the flow, but that was long enough to cause some big problems for some of the surrounding businesses and homes. a lot of flooded basements, some places had as much as four feet of water and the cleanup continues. >> the water was shooting up like ten feet up in the air and then it was just like a river. >> you know, the water was just like crazy. it was like south carolina. it was just like a river. >> back to a live picture now. boston water and sewer tells me that they do not know what exactly caused the water main to rupture. but they say there has been construction in the area, and a lot of times, when there's construction, the vibration and the pounding, that causes these old pipes to break. this one here was installed way back in 1932. so the water is running again, going to have to fill in that hole, a paver is here on standby, but this could go on for several more hours. reporting live in the north end, ted daniel, fox 25 news. >> elizabeth: well, with the exception of the north end, it really was a beautiful fall day out there in boston and we're looking at a nice stretch, even right now, a gorgeous shot right there, but chief meteorologist kevin lemanowicz says there is some rain coming our way this >> kevin: there is and even in the north end, elizabeth, as long as you were looking up it you just didn't want to be in the water and that's the way it was all over new england. look at providence at 70. norwood, 69. these are the major reporting stations, you can bet there were a few towns in between or around norwood that did hit 70 degrees. many more tomorrow that get into the 70's, low 70's especially. worcester, 65 this evening. under sunny skies, it is just gorgeous out there, no doubt about it. dropping to 50 under mostly cloudy skies. a few clouds work in ahead of a front coming our way. boston is at 59 because of a light breeze that kicked in off the water with a sea breeze, but overstaying in the 50's right through the night, so a coolish night tonight, a few more clouds tomorrow. it's going to warm up and i'll talk about when the timeline is for the next chance of rain too. >> mark: we have new details about a worcester toddler found dead. the worcester telegram found the city's inspector ordered to treatment the apartment for bugs in july and loose outlets and baseboards. both are dangerous to a child. an autopsy is still pending. >> mark: an arrest in the deadly shooting of a brockton man, charged with murder, arm robbery and drug possession. police say garnner shot and killed a 27-year-old man on rodney street. the victim's name was matt tangerlini. >> elizabeth: lights and sirens on the campus of bridgewater state university, but it was all just a drill. university police tell us they were testing the response to an active shooter situation. staff were asked to think about what they would do in that scenario. emergency response drills are held at the university every six months. >> mark: president barack obama will travel to roseburg, oregon, friday to meet with the families of victims from last week's shooting. nine people were killed and nine others were hurt at umpquat community college. >> elizabeth: a pennsylvania community in lockdown after a man reportedly pulled a gun on another man. no one was hurt at the community college in philadelphia. two nearby public schools were also placed on lockdown. one teen was taken into custody. on monday, philadelphia area colleges and universities increased security after an f.b.i. warning about an on-line posting threatening violence. the top u.s. commander in afghanistan now telling congress, he thinks president obama should revise the troop withdrawal plan. nearly 10,000 u.s. troops are in afghanistan right now. the current plan is cut that -- is to cut that to 1,000 troops by the end of the year. pentagon says it's given new options to president obama since conditions have changed since those cuts were approved in 2014. >> in the past, when flexibility has been requested of him, he took it under serious consideration and made his decision. he provided flexibility this year. >> mark: the speech comes days after a u.s. airstrike killed 22 people at a doctors without borders clinic. general campbell called that strike a mistake. requested by afghan forces reportedly under taliban fire. aaron hernandez is back in court. >> mark: why the convicted killer's defense team wants a judge to throw out a search warrant that led police to a war involved with a double murder in boston's south end. plus, the damming testimony revealed by prosecutors. >> arming themselves against a heroin epidemic. >> we think it's absolutely necessary. up on the overdosing reversal drug. >> elizabeth: major changes coming to airports across the country. the new plan to step up security screening. >> mark: but first, her husband died in the cockpit of a boston-bound plane. >> as far as we knew in perfect health, when he left yesterday, he seemed perfectly fine. >> mark: healthwise, he seemed fine, but looking back why that pilot's wife says it's almost as if her husband knew it would be the last time he would be home. 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in-night and was pronounced dead with they got to the ground. and i just kind of sat there and didn't say anything. it was -- i didn't even know how to say anything. >> the reporter: when his wife bj speaks of him, it's still in the present tense. >> he's an amaze, amazing person. >> the reporter: she admits, his death doesn't seem real. as a pilot, johnston leaves on sundays and returns on wednesdays. she says it just feels like he's >> we've all been together just comforting each other, and it's kind of a surreal, you know, you just feel like -- you just feel numb. >> the reporter: johnston had a double bypass in 2006. he was under biannual examination to ensure he was fit to fly. recently, he lost ten pounds and told his wife he felt in top form. >> went to his family's, to his mom's house and was staying with his brothers and sisters before he went off on his flight. >> he felt fine. as far as i knew, he was doing great. >> the coroner told her he is almost certain michael died of a heart attack. b.j. knows the grief will soon flood in, but finds solace in knowing her husband was living his dream. >> his mom told me years ago that when he was a little boy, about four years old, watching the airplanes take off and he says, i'm going to fly me one of them some day. >> and he did. >> elizabeth: bj says her husband's body may be released to her tomorrow as the family makes burial arrangements. new at 5:00 p.m. now, a united airlines flight from houston to san francisco making an emergency landing in new mexico after, again, the co-pilot passes out. the plane landed safely in albuquerque, just before 8:30 a.m. this morning. that co-pilot was able to walk off the plane and was taken to the hospital. no word on his condition tonight. >> mark: house of representatives is set to pass major new security standards tonight for the nation's airports and airline employees. right now, nearly a million employees don't have to go through a security screening when they go to work. surveillance video highlighted the security gaps with a former delta employee walked through a terminal allegedly carrying a bagful of guns. still, congress is not requiring 100% screening of employees. >> a lot of airports aren't going to be able to afford that. if they can do employee inspections, randomize those and it's just as effective, that's better for everybody. >> mark: the legislation requires airports to reduce the numbers of entry points for employees and also create a plan for random screenings. the u.s. attorney general says she's working to end the mystery surrounding how often police use count deaths while in custody or how often police open fire. right now, the justice department is studying how to define and record those deaths. a report is due within the next six months. out there. all kinds of sunshine. 70 degrees. we'll do even better. coming up tomorrow. futurecast shows, yeah, there are a couple of clouds that will drip on in here tonight a front pushing our way and develop some clouds, but i expect it to be mostly clear in most towns overnight and into the early morning hours when those clouds become more prominent, so let's keep it clear all night long in worcester. temperature all the way down into the 40's one more time, bottoming out around 47 degrees. towns around worcester, especially to the northwest getting into the lower 40's tonight. a couple clouds around middlesex, 46 degrees. a few towns getting lower than that in and around the middlesex county area, especially toward the new hampshire border. cape cod, in the 50's all night long. steady to 51 degrees first thing in the morning under clear skies. let's pick futurecast up from there 8:00 a.m. in the morning. you'll notice some clouds around through lunchtime, but even into the afternoon, but what you will not see is the green blotches that denote rainshower activity. that will stay close to the front and off to the west but the front for us will come through dry. most of the energy with this front in the atmosphere is going to our north as it swings through new england, plus a very dry atmosphere right now, so i don't expect anything in the way of a shower threat with this front coming on through and that will lead us in to thursday. so let's talk first about tomorrow's high temperature. it is going to be a mild one for october. 71 in somerville, arlington will be 72, braintree at 72 degrees tomorrow afternoon. even back here into worcester county, i expect many towns hitting 70 degrees or better. fitchburg, 72. southbridge, 71 degrees for a high temperature. tomorrow afternoon, out to cape cod of course with the winds off the water, even with a southerly wind, your temperatures will be a little cooler, but still 68 in barnstable. 66 dennis and 65 for you in chatham. nice looking day. coming up. now to thursday. thursday is looking just fine as well, but you see the front will have gone by, brought in some cooler air despite it coming in dry and then we'll be waiting for the next front to arrive, so thursday is looking fine to me. a couple clouds mixed in with the sun but a nice looking day. it's friday when the next chance of rain i spoke about earlier in the newscast when that's coming along. it are get into western new england after the morning drive it looks like or toward the tailend anyway for whoever is driving in the burlington vermont area, for instance into southern vernin upon the and makes its way into southern new england and central new england during the early afternoon hours. there's a cold front coming on through, and for now it looks like most of the rain will be to the north around the area of low pressure, the actual storm through. that front will come through friday night. cool us back down again for saturday, but overall, temperatures and this should be thursday, will be a little lower on thursday, around 61 boston and 59 in sandwich. but you'll see in the seven-day forecast, of a thursday's cooldown for a day, right back to warmer temperatures on friday, because even though the rain is approaching, it is going to come with milder air streaming in from the south but after that front look what happens on saturday, one more time, we cool it back off before the next batch of clouds start to arrive on sunday. sunday looks like a dry day to me, but i am forecasting more clouds to be in the area, so 61 degrees on saturday, with full sunshine after a very cool start and on sunday, 64 degrees with clouds mixing in and i want to caution you, a few of these mornings, saturday in particular, will bottom out in the up are 30's in and around the boston area. we may have to entertain the thought of '40s farther to the north and wells. no advisories right now, just something i'm thinking about and i'll keep you posted on. latest timeline on the showers for friday. through the evening, i'll have it for you. >> mark: new england toddler has died after what his family claims began with a trip to the oxford county fair if maine. 20-month-old colton paine of auburn passed away monday after contracting hus, after his family says he was exposed to e. coli bacteria from the petting zoo at the fair. the state's health commission has not confirmed the connection, but colton was one of two toddlers who have contracted hus in the state and both were present at that petting zoo. >> elizabeth: put that phone away. a new study says texting can change a teenager's performance in the classroom. >> mark: but first a major home improvement project coming to boston. how much the city is about to people your dream kitchen awaits breathtaking beauty. legendary durability. american craftsmanship. cambria. find your new kitchen >> mark: boston housing authority is looking at a major home improvement project. mayor marty walsh announcing $3 million in upgrades to the housing, improving the lives of elderly and residents with repainted ceilings, and updated furniture. >> elizabeth: the mbta preparing new schedules for the commuter rail in an attempt to eliminating frustrating delays. there are conflicts where several trains are scheduled to use the same track at the same time. the changes will go into effect tend of november. and the t coming up with a new way to pull in money for the aging system. the mbta is trying to reverse a 2012 decision keep alcohol ads off the t property. the t could collect nearly $26 million a year if alcohol ads are put back in the train. >> mark: the flyer will be back for another summer. the cape cod regional transit authority confirm to go fox 25 that the train will return in 2016 for a fourth year of service. this summer, more than 13,000 people rode the rails to the cape. >> elizabeth: new statistics show that more high schoolers are taking s.a.t.'s in worcester. worcester school officials tell us the number has gone up over the past few years and that push by the district. however, the test scores have dropped to new lows especially on the reading and writing section. home schooled students may soon be able to join school activities in peabody. the district is debating a plan to let home schoolers participate in activities open to public school students, including clubs, sports teams and possibly even some classes. >> mark: big expansion coming for boston's ride share program, including new stations in brighton an 15 more in other parts of the city. there will also be significant expansion in dorchester, roxburyry and charlestown. pushing the number of stations in the city to 108 with more than 1,000 bikes for use. >> the reporter: school nurses offices stock up on narcan. where the heroin overdose reversing drug is in demand. >> if we save one life it will be worth it. >> elizabeth: there's a massive search to find any sign of life the crew on board the doomed ship the el faro. that crew includes two massachusetts men. coming up, we're looking into the ship's inspection records. all new in a live report from jacksonville. >> 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[snoring.] take the roar out of snore. yet another innovation only at a sleep number store. >> mark: convicted killer aaron hernandez back in court as his defense team prepares for another murder trial. hi everyone, i'm mark ockerbloom. >> elizabeth: i'm elizabeth hopkins. this is all in connection to hernandez' latest legal troubles. he's facing charges in a drive-by murder in boston's south end, one that killed andrew abreu and safiro furtado in 2012. ted daniels was live in court as the former patriots defense team tried to get evidence tossed out. >> the reporter: nearly six months into a life sentence for north attleboro, aaron hernandez was back on the defense today, here in boston. the former patriot appeared in good spirits for a guy preparing for another big legal battle. sporting a suit and prison tatoo we first told you about in may, aaron hernandez was joking and laughing with one of his attorneys before the camera turned on and things got serious. >> united stated to him, don't -- united stated to him, don't tell anybody. the only thing i recall him saying was they better not saying anything, keep this between us. >> that's the warren hernandez gave his former bff alexander bradley. hagan revealed that and more in response to a bid by hernandez' lawyers to get a witness intimidation charge dismissed. the charge stems from a 2013 shooting in florida that took bradley's right eye. bradley claims hernandez shot him after the two left a florida strip club. >> mr. hernandez realized that he could no longer trust mr. bradley as of that point and the only eyewitness to the crime, he could no longer trust him to keep that a secret. >> the secret according to prosecutors is hernandez other criminal case. a july 2012 double murder in boston's south end. the drive-by shooting killed two dorchester man. bradley was in the car with hernandez the night it happen. >> if hernandez shot bradley, which we certainly don't concede, that he did so in any way, shape or form to intimidate them as a witness. this is their theory, but this is basically a concocted fantasy. >> aaron hernandez' lawyers are also asking that evidence be tossed, that evidence was collected from the vehicle they say he was driving the night of the drive-by. the judge, he says, he will consider all the motions and issue a decision at a later date. in boston, ted daniel, fox 25 news. >> elizabeth: we continue to follow developments in the search for survivors of the sungen container ship el faro. the coast guard posted pictures of the debris field in the split hour or so, but still -- in the last hour or so, but still, no survivors. hurricane joaquin sunk that ship in the bahamas and so parks only one body recovered. among the 22 people on board, two men from massachusetts. the families of jeffrey math department of health and human services --and keefe keith griffin are holding out hope. >> mark: tonight, we are learning more about the alfar inspection records. span -- el faro inspection records. samantha joins us live with new information. >> the court: mark, the ship's >> the reporter: mark, the ship's owner said it had no records of inspection before, but it did have equipment problems and a power outage in the past. incidents investigation reports on el faro from the u.s. coast guard reveal the ship had two equipment failures over the last five years. i found in 2010 a port boiler was losing water because of a rupture of superheater tubes. then in 2011, the ship had a temporary loss of power, because the generator breaker tripped off line. in both incidents, the ship was repaired. a ship maintenance expert tells me these problems are typical wear an tear for a ship. the maritime attorney rod sullivan tells us he believes the ship should have been replaced with a newer model. >> it's like our bodies, you can't do at 60 what you could do at 20. >> records with the coast guard showed the ship faced heavy winds from hurricane irene in 2011. the eye of the storm was well north of the ship the report says but el faro was hit with an extreme weather event that could have been a microburst or a localized tornado. the stern of the ship was damaged but no one was injured or killed. a former maintenance worker for el faro tells me the ship was supposed to be taken out of service to be replaced by a more fuel efficient ship. sullivan says that kind of around exchange could have saved lives. >> when you have an older ship like that and put it under extreme stress, like a storm like this, you are substantially increasing the risk there's going to be a major casualty. >> the reporter: el faro was scheduled to have its next inspection with the coast guard if february. reporting live in jacksonville, fox 25 news. >> and we will continue to bring you every development of this search for el faro. look for updates on air and on line the a myfoxboston.com. >> elizabeth: here at home, it's been a beautiful day in the city of boston and kevin is talking about a really nice stretch of weather coming our way, maybe a little bit of rain mixed in there. >> kevin: i'm tracking the next shot for rain, it's a beautiful evening out there and that's the way it's going to stay through the evening hours. i'm expecting as the sun goes down for skies to stay clear. temperature in boston is 59. the dewpoints are dry, that means you don't have any chance for rain, even with a front coming at us tomorrow. we're going to see clouds start to increase in the north and west and see a couple starting to get into the screen there, but overall we are staying dry from this. clouds tonight, a few dotting{ the sky{ eba+ eftm* and 7:21 p.m. this evening f{ you're{_msq so inclined to sigh a fast dot moving across the describe, that will be the international space station, look off to the northwest, you'll see the light flying on through. how we're looking by the morning is clear. this evening's temperatures, 59 boston, 65 worcester but 70 out here in westfield. tomorrow, many more towns will hit 70 degrees. i'll show you that and the next chance for rain with a timeline ahead. >> mark: ten people are under arrest after a drug bust. police executed search warrants for nine people for the sale and distribution of meth. one person was arrested on an unrelated charge and police are still searching for this man, 42-year-old christopher rugles of bow. a winthrop man threatening to burn down his house out of the hospital and in a courtroom today. the man barricaded himself in a basement with a pellet gun, knife and hammer that fired shots before he was pulled out. both the suspect and one officer were treated for cuts from the the suspect is facing weapons and assault charges. >> elizabeth: fire officials in marlboro working to determine what caused a fire at this broad street home. flames quickly spread to the second floor. no one was hurt but the house sustained a lot of damage and nine people have now been displaced. a campus threat putting worcester state university on alert. the school received a tweet from someone, fearing violence on campus today. worcester police investigated, they found no real threat. they did not make any arrests. >> mark: franklin community on high alert after a string of coyote attacks. pets have been attacked recently around stewart street in meadowlark. it happened three times in a month and up-and-down with of the dogs did not survive. -- and one of the dogs did not survival the owner's dog is devastated and worried that the coyotes could become bolder. >> if they go after a do, who's to say they won't go after a child. >> mark: police are being urged to keep cats and small dogs inside unless supervised. fox 25 was told coyotes are not nocturnal, so seeing them out during the day is normal. >> the reporter: localco" seniors say this communities was supposed to be their final stop. >> i don't know what happens when it gets up to $1,000 a month. >> the reporter: why they're being priced out of their homes, plus the concerns they brought to the state attorney general new at 6:00 p.m. >> elizabeth: how texting could change your teen's performance in the classroom. >> mark: but first, there's a new ride sharing company in town, how it expects to compete with uber and lyft and why it claims it will save riders big you're watching >> mark: clear. >> elizabeth: president obama withdrawing the nomination for a former boston mbta head, to the national transportation safety board. >> mark: beverly scott had been nominated for a term with the ntsb until 2019. scott was the general manager of the mbta, resigned in february, following heavy criticism of the mbta's handling of the winter storms. >> elizabeth: tax season ride share companies like uber may face some new competition. the boston based startup company is called fasten, already raising more than $9 million in the spring and it began operations last month according to the herald. fasten could potentially be cheaper for passengers. because it doesn't use surge pricing. it will also take a smaller cut from drivers. >> mark: more improvements coming to the green line this week. a new countdown sign unveiled today at kenmore station, here it is, amongst several others that will be installed within the next week, including copley, hay market and north station and a heads up if you take the orange line starting today. buses will be replacing night service between oak grove and sullivan station. the buses will run from 8:45 p.m. >> elizabeth: dangerous chemicals sold in stores all over the country. new mat 6:00 p.m., the feds new plan to keep the chemicals away from your family. >> mark: also ahead, schools stocking up on a new supply at local districts where administrators say they need to arm themselves against the heroin epidemic. >> kevin: a bright sunshine afternoon fading away to an evening that will be clear and cool in southern new england. warmer tomorrow and >> mark: schools across massachusetts are stocking up of a new supply of the overdosing reversing drug narcan. >> elizabeth: mashpee is the latest district considering narcan. christine mccarthy talked to several school officials across the state and christine, soon every district could have narcan narcan. >> the reporter: that's right, and we're here at haverhill high school, right now, which will soon be equipped with narcan in the next month or two, but this school district is no different from others. i talked to school officials in several different school districts across massachusetts and they tell me that this is an issue that is affecting nearly every community from inner city schools to small suburban district. the medicine locker in haverhill high school's nurse's office will soon be stocked up with a new drug. >> there's really no downside to giving narcan. it's not addicting, you can't overdose on it. >> a nasal spray that reverses opiate overdoses. narcan has been used by police and emt's for years and school nurses are training to administer it. >> we need to be prepared, should we have somebody who is in one of our buildings who has had an overdose. >> lead nurse katie plans to have narcan in all of haverhill school district's 16 buildings within a month or two, whether for student, staff or visitors. >> if we save one life it will be worth it. >> haverhill has been plagued by stagger overdose and heroin use you but it's not a unique problem. about 77 school districts have narcan. >> it happens, as you know, within seconds and our school nurses are our first responders when there's an incident. >> haverhill superintendent jim skullly is helping to line up the fund are through a grant through funds and donations. >> we have hundreds of people come to our schools every day. god only knows with something unfortunate can happen. >> skullly says haverhill schools haven't had an overdose in recent history, but he won't wait until they do. >> you say to yourself, it can't happen, that's impossible, but it does. >> the reporter: now that lead nurse tells us that she has already been trained by the state to train other nurses in administering narcan and she says, that could soon happen in the next month or two. 30, 40, 45 days. she says that all of the nurses in this school district, that number being around 25, will soon be ready to administer narcan. we're live in haverhill, christine mccarthy, fox 25 news. >> elizabeth: it turns out compulsive texting may lead to poor school performance in teenage girls. researchers studied 400 boys and girls in eighth and eleventhing grades and found a connection in lower grades, only to female students. the study's author note compulsive texting is more complex than frequent testing and advise parents to keep an eye on their child's behavior to make sure their texting remains in check. a new hampshire teen is recovering tonight after an e-cigarette exploded in her hand. the 17-year-old from brookline, new hampshire, was sent to the e.r. with burns to her face and body. smoke shops in the granite state can't sell to anyone under 18, but there are knockoff e-cigarettes that are accessible to teens. customers say the batteries pose the big of the danger. >> they might start smoking, leaking a little bit of acid out of them. they put holes in the ground. >> elizabeth: 17-year-old family says that they may take legal action against the e-cigarette company. >> mark: developing story tonight in south carolina. the storms are moving out, but people are still dealing with the devastating effects over this past weekend's record rainfall. at least nine dams have breached since the flooding began. mandatory evacuations are in effect for some of the hardest hit areas. it could get much worse before it gets better. >> because there is no rain and because the sun is out, we are now looking at downstreams, waters, an other areas that are going to be affected, starting to go see that the midlands, now all that water is going to start moving down to the low country and so we are going to be extremely careful. >> we made the priority of saving lives, our number one priority and then making sure that people have some basic quality of life, shelter, food, have clean water to drink. >> >> mark: at least 14 people have died. early estimates put the damage from the storms in the billions of dollars and kevin, is south carolina in the clear now, at least for the next few days? >> kevin: well like they said the water will have to run off the hills and into the low country mark but as far as any additional rain. here's what was happening. we had the spin in the atmosphere out here that was continuing to push all of that rain on in. that's the rain we're talking about. this was connected to joaquin out in the ocean, that's the same spin the early forecast had this catching joaquin an pushing it or spinning it back toward the mid-atlantic coastline. they didn't match up and that's why joaquin took offhand that rain is offshore and they won't get any more falling on them, it's a matter of what's running into the basins. quite a big problem obviously. satellite-radar back home is clear, it is a beautiful night out there. no question about that. it is 59 in boston. nashua is at 6 section degrees. -- 66 degrees. providence at 69 degrees. a real pretty evening and as the sun goes down dropping through the 50's, 58 in boston. this takes you through the evening, hour by hours after midnight, dropping down to 56 degrees and the low 50's for a low temperature in boston as the sun is. coming up, but there will be plenty of 40's in the suburbs and especially farther to the north and west into southern vermont, southern new hampshire, outside shop dropping to 39 degrees tonight. not a frost issue but still a cool night ahead. 64 by lunchtime with beautiful sunshine again tomorrow. there can be a few more clouds tomorrow. there was a front pushing toward us and you're going to see that, pick it up around lunchtime with futurecast and there are the clouds that will be dotting the sky, while keeping the showers out of the forecast and here's why. the front still way back here. a lot of the so-called energy with this front will be farther to the north, you have a better chance of seeing a shower if you're going looking for leaves in far northern new england, but just a passing shower. not expecting anything significant with this. it will come through southern new england dry and what it will do is cool us back off coming up on thursday. but enjoy this. high temperatures tomorrow will be warm. 70 sciate. lakeville, 71. wellfleet at 66 degrees at or just slightly above average for the day. 71 for you in quincy. 72 bridgewater tomorrow afternoon. plenty of sunshine. just a couple of clouds around. 70 in loudon, new hampshire and 72 in the city of lowell tomorrow. beautiful day coming up, even with that front coming on through. let's fast forward into thursday. you want another nice day? you've got it. sunshine thursday, a little cooler though on the other side of that front, so we get cooler air working in, but i told you, you have to watch for the next threat of rain coming on friday. it looks pretty certain we'll get an area of low pressure or storm moving toward northern new england, dragging a cold front through southern new england. the latest information coming in. at 9:00 a.m., southern vermont and points north will likely have rain already in. the front dragging on through during the early afternoon through western and central massachusetts and making its way eastward through the evening hours, so again, that day just didn't change, will it? this is for thursday's high temperature. 61 boston. so we'll be cooler on thursday, but look what happens on friday ahead of the front. we'll get the showers to come on through, but a couple of source with warm temperatures. 68 on friday. a few towns touching 70. saturday we'll cool it back down to 61. by sunday, a few more clouds get working on in here, but still milder. 64 degrees on sunday, so that's looking good as well. overall, all three days of the upcoming holiday weekend looking dry with varying degrees of warmth, a few degrees warmer still on monday and columbus day coming up as well. i'll take that forecast right into the end of the holiday weekend in a few minutes. >> elizabeth: we are following self-defense new stories ahead at 6 -- several new stories ahead at 6:00 p.m. two sailors are missing in bahamas, after their ship sank in hurricane joaquin. >> the reporter: local seniors say they're being priced out of their homes. >> we started out at $500 an we're now paying 704, 7 something. >> the clause in their leases that caught the attention of the attorney general. >> elizabeth: what congress is doing that might mean more security at airports without longer lines. >> mark: next hat 5:00 p.m., do you have a box of cheeros your pantry. the huge recall you need to know about. "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 wi-fi available, from 50 to 500 mbps. but the main reason to get fios? we're rated number 1 in customer satisfaction. ultimately, that's why. get 50 meg fios internet, tv & phone starting at $79.99 a month. plus get $300 back with a two year agreement. get out of the past. get fios. leadership isn't given. it's earned. realized. accomplished. fulfilled. won. leadership isn't given. >> mark: a boston company winning big on a sports gambling site, but there is some suspicion surrounding his good fortune, the employee works at draft king and won $350,000 in a competition hosted by fan duel. the "new york times" reports draft kings has now banned its employees from playing on competitor's sites. lowell sports company is moving its headquarters, oil sports says they are looking to move from abbington to marlboro. the company makes figurines that look like professional athletes. they've outgrown their space in abbington and the move would bring about 200 jobs to marlboro and another boston based sports company has filed for bankruptcy. city sports is planning to shut down eight stores and sell the rest. the company launched in boston more than three decades something ago, but officials say it hasn't been able to cut enough costs to make up for a drop in sales. city sports says it will honor gift cards and returns purchased before the bankruptcy filing. >> elizabeth: sally kidd salmonella concerns causing a huge recall. 5,000 pounds of frozen, ready to eat chicken products are being recalled. they have a best by used date ranging from august to december of next he year. so far, five people have become sick. the same company recalled two million pounds of frozen chicken in july. and cheerios is also issued a recall after more than a million boxes of cereal labeled gluten free was possibly contaminated with flour. the recall affects honey hut and classic cheerios in the yellow box with the bermuda and puerto rico terms of accumulation if used by date of july 14th. pumpkin supplies may be running low before thanksgiving. crop experts say record rainfall in june washed out pumpkin crops in the top producing state of illinois. they say there are plenty of pumpkins for halloween, but supplies for canned pumpkin could be scarce by thanksgiving and i'm frightened by that ock. i love pumpkin pie. >> mark: absolutely. social media, all atwitter this morning. twitter unveiled a new feature called moments. the lightning bolt icon appears near your notification and messages. it let's users follow events. think of following a football game or a presidential debate rather than just following a person or a company. the events are selected by twitter, when it ends, the moments will end. mcdonald's launched all day breakfast today. we still have time. in fact you have time all day. fast-food chain says it is also switching to using only -- it will take a wild. mcdonald's says it will take about ten years to get enough the drive through chain uses more than two billion eggs a year. now at 6:00 p.m., time is running out to find survivors of a sunken ship but the wives of two massachusetts sailors aren't giving up. what they told fox 25 today after a monster hurricane destroyed the boat their husbands were on. >> elizabeth: plus, priced out in plymouth. why some seniors say the rising cost of their leases has them feeling trapped and in trouble. >> kevin: all that sunshine cooked some towns up to 70 degrees, but now the next chance for rain. >> mark: pet suspected ebola exposure soon, you might have to avoid your cellphone altogether when you're behind the wheel. new at 6:00 p.m., governor baker's take on a hands-free law that could stick this time around. happening right now, a live look from winthrop where in 30 minutes time, family, friends and community will come together to pray for a well known sailor who is currently lost at sea, keith griffin is a mass maritime academy graduate, he and jeff mathias, another mass maritime grad from kingston were on the u.s. cargo ship that sank after sailing into the path of hurricane joaquin. about an hour and a half ago, we got these new pictures in from the coast guard, she showed debris from el faro, that's the ship they were on, along with 31 others. tonight the search for survivors is not over. the family members admit time is running out. hello everyone. i'm mark ockerbloom. >> elizabeth: i'm elizabeth hopkins. tonight we're hearing from the families of both massachusetts men. our bob ward is live in winthrop, where a vigil will be held tonight. bob? >> the reporter: this vigil tonight is for keith griffin, one of the people who was on board that cargo ship that sank down in the bahamas. i spoke to his wife today, she is pregnant with twins, and as you might expect, she is absolutely devastated as she waits for word of what happened to her husband. she tells me she's drawing strength from the fact that so many people care about what is happening to keith, what is happening to her. but she tells me, she does fear

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