Transcripts For WFXT FOX 25 News At 5 20160822 : comparemela

Transcripts For WFXT FOX 25 News At 5 20160822



is that amazingly, nobody was hurt. an early morning weather shock in concord. >> at about 3:17 a.m. this morning, we received a report of a tree down. it would be the first of many reports of trees down. as the tornado rated in strength at ef-1, tore a tight corridor of destruction through one of the state's most historic town. >> 400 yards wide, half mile long. >> the reporter: the tornado started somewhere near mill brook farm on cambridge turnpike, where it sent a tree crashing through a greenhouse. >> i heard this real strong wind, you know, real heavy rain, and it scared me a little bit. >> >> the reporter: it then traveled north-northeast, causing the heaviest damage on independence road. estimated wind speed -- 100 miles per hour. >> it did a lot of damage, just in a small area. 39 houses were damaged, but only one suffered significant not fairing as well -- the trees, snapped, toppled and in some case, ripped right out of the ground. >> concentrating now on opening the roads, getting good access into the neighborhoods. >> the reporter: as for residents in the center of the storm, they were concentrating on getting back to normal. >> my tree man is coming here in a half an hour, and my insurance company has already got an adjustor calling me, so i feel very lucky that they're taking charge of it >> the reporter: now, obviously, during the tornado, it was a dangerous time, but town officials are telling us that there are still dangers out there. you're looking at a snapped tree, a dangling tree, obviously, this could come down, so there will be lots of little things. the town has to get to, homeowners have to make it safe. trees just hanging, limbs just hanging, so they are warning people to be careful if tier walking through the neighborhoods. now, they did kill the power to some people have had power restored and we certainly have power crews down this way, working very, very hard, there's like ten trucks down there. coming up at 6:00 p.m., we will find out what the drought had to do with this storm, whether it made it worse. live in concord, jim morelli, fox 25 news. >> vanessa: governor charlie baker toured the damage left behind, just before the top of our 4:00 p.m. newscast. the governor said hundreds of trees were knocked down in seconds. he said given the fact that no one was hurt and none of the homes were town was very lucky. >> it was an extraordinary amount of damage, because it was a short hit and i literally find it hard to believe that in one minute, anything could do what this storm did up there. it's a reminder that mother nature at the end of the day, can be one heck of a force when she chooses to be. >> vanessa: officials say they will continue to survey the damage before they will decide if the town is eligible for aid. >> mark: we made a map to show you the path this tornado took. area of chestnut street in concord and ended on lexington road. fox 25 storm tracker chief meteorologist kevin lemanowicz is tracking the storm on fox 25 morning news with meteorologist shiri spear overnight and you and shiri both suspected this could be a confirmed tornado becaused on what you were seeing. >> kevin: don't suspect that time of the day or night here in new england, but this line of storms we knew would have strong winds and then as we were watching it come out of marlboro, that's a hook echo, turning noticed in the radar, normal radarsc mode and we could clearly see there were winds going in a different direction. red, into your screen, green, blowing out toward you and concord, you could see a little brighter pattern. so we looked at this more closely, turned it on its head, three dimensionally and we could see from the cloud all the way to the ground, there was that rotation and likely going to be at least a funnel cloud, if not a tornado touchdown, that's indeed what happened this morning. >> mark: more details now as soon as the weather service issued a tornado warning, it alert on every cellphone in the affected area. the director of nema lives in concord and explained how the alert works. >> if you live in the impact or warning area, you get the alert. if you don't live in the area, your didn't hear it, but for those of us who live here, my cellphone went off, my wife's went off, we were awoken with 15 minutes advanced notice. >> mark: if you want to check to make sure your emergency alerts are activated on your if you have an iphone, go to settings, click notifications, scroll to the bottom and make sure government alerts are turned on. if you have an android, search messages, click on emergency alerts settings, abandons make sure extreme and severe alerts are both on. >> vanessa: fox 25 crews were on the ground early this morning, shortly after the tornado touched down. fox 25 morning news anchor daniel miller spoke to one neighbor, who found he wasn't going to be driving anywhere soon. >> all of a sudden, right and i didn't really hear anything happen, but it was unusually strong wind. i never really heard a wind like that before. and then we went back to bed about 4:00 a.m., and then, you know, i just came out here to see what was going on. i see this tree sitting on my car, which it's surprising a little damage, but there is a whole tree sitting on my car, so i have to figure out what to do about that. >> got a lot of cleaning up to do. >> it's going done a while and there's no power arounder >> vanessa: coming up in the next after hour, we're talking to other concord residents about the damage they're seeing around town and in their own yard and kevin is back in a few minutes with the full forecast. >> mark: a driver was seriously injured on houghton pond. first responders are actually working on its driver next to his car right here. we are working to find out his condition and if anyone else was involved. a night on a local party bus fall out through the window. now, tonight, witnesses tell fox 25 the women were trying to get some air when they fell out of the bulls. bulls -- bus. fox 25 has been following the story since the weekend. only on fox 25, our malini basu got inside the accident scene. the company owner says his company has a good safety record. here we are, entourage limo, the general manager tells fox 25, his bus has never even gotten actual crowd that was in the bus, we're being told, they were "calm" and the mystery remains what happened inside of that bus. for the first time, we are getting a look inside of the actual party bus involved in sunday's accident, where one woman died and another was hospitalized. fox 25 spoke exclusively with the general manager of entourage livery. he doesn't want to be identified because he feels it will hamper people. >> it was around 2:00 a.m. in the morning, boston police got a call saying two women were hit by ra bus on east mcclelland highway. on the bus, were 20 high school friends who rented it out so they could party. >> the driver was doing about 45 miles per hour around within just one minute, it just happened within one second. >> the reporter: a woman, who was on the bus, told fox 25 yesterday, that two women fell through a window, while it was traveling down the highway in east >> the client came up in front and said to the driver, you know, we think somebody just fell out a window and the driver pulled over, and they jogged down the street for about a half a mile, and until they finally found him. >> the reporter: the general manager says that bus has sliding windows, which are pictured here. he says, the only way the woman could have fallen out -- >> somehow, this handle would have to have come up and you know, that handle also, for the vehicle to -- window to open up. stickers on them, saying emergency exit. another woman on the bus tells fox 25, they tried to open the window to get some air in, and that no alarm went off. the bus driver and entourage on board told investigators, they had no idea what happened. >> saw some prayers go out here. we feel horrible, we're at a loss of words. >> the reporter: and tonight, the general manager describes that bus driver as "conservative," and he has a squeaky clean driving record. a man in his 50's, who was worked for the company for a couple of years now and coming up at 6:00 p.m., we will tell you exactly with the last time that bus was inspected, as for the victims, one victim has been released from the hospital and police are not releasing the identity of the other victim that passed away. for now, live in north attleboro, malini basu, fox 25 news. >> vanessa: new at 5:00 p.m., a woman studying to be a catholic nun is robbed in broad daylight. she tells us the thief had a beads. the woman was -- her rosary beads. fox 25's bob ward is live in quincy with how that woman is doing tonight. bob? >> the reporter: well, i understand she's doing very well. she was not hurt in this ail tack. but this was a very scary thing. a short time ago, i spoke to the mother of this convent, she told me she's not angry about this, but she is sad, and she believes those stolen have saved the lives of not only the victim, but both of the suspects. 26-year-old vanessa young and 26-year-old crystal young, both of somerville, are charged with robbing at knife point a woman studying to be a nun of her rosary beads. the incidents took place sunday afternoon just down the street from the quincy convert where the 27-year-old victim is living and studying. police say the victim was wearing civilian clothes and just out for a walk when the two suspects approached, one carrying a knife. just a small pocket, we call it the rosary pocket, so she had this with her. >> the reporter: mother olga tells me the victim showed the suspect heroesry pocket and then mother olga says something special happened. >> as soon as she showed the rosary, she took the rosary and put the knife away and walked away, you know, got forbid, it could have happened, you know, something even worse, but thank god, she took the rosary and put the knife away, and she walked away. so it was really, i truly believe, it was the grace of the holy rosary. >> do you forgive them? >> absolutely. absolutely. no doubt. i'm already praying for them. >> the reporter: well, bail was set for vanessa young at $5,000, crystal young police say acted at the lookout. she was released on personal row cognizance. -- recognizance. both of the women are due back in court next month. live in quincy, bob ward, fox 25 news. after overnight storms. >> heard a noise, a loud bang, like the house shook and then the power blew. >> vanessa: we'll take you to some of the worst damage in marlboro. >> kevin: tasers the same storm that came through concord causing damage in marlboro, but showers and storms are gone. more showers in the forecast. >> mark: m.i.t. is spending big money, hoping congress will >> vanessa: let's check out the roads with live drivetime traffic. traffic is stop-and-go traffic in somerville. we don't have any accidents to tell you about, but you can see plenty of reds and oranges on 93 southbound from boston all the way to the braintree split. we go to the live drive times for you. the leverett corrector, to 495, 32 minutes. o'neill tunnel to minutes. ted williams tunnel to the weston tolls, 17 minutes. >> mark: park ranger is charged tonight with videotaping women as they used a bathroom at a local bath house at a unisex bathroom at houghton's pond. police arrested 37-year-old mckennon. he set up a camera. he appeared in court today. >> hundreds of people forced to tonight, state police say it was just an accident. construction in the building tripped a fire alarm, just before 11:00 a.m. there morning, sending everyone inside streaming out into the sidewalks. they were all allowed back in after 20 minutes, when police determined there was no risk, and no hazard. >> mark: we are learning more tonight about how exactly the state's overhead tolling system on the mast pike will work. starting tend of october, the system will scan your e-z pass as you hop on the mass pike. people who don't have e-z pass will get a bill pay a higher rate. the system will have license plate read there's will alert police if the car is involved in a crime. that's bringing up privacy concerns. we'll take a closer look at that debate at 6:00 p.m. new at 5:00 p.m., the scramble to fund efforts to prevent the spread of the zika virus has local governments and schools, like m.i.t. turning to lobbyists in the washington area for help. >> vanessa: fox 25's justin gray reports that dozens of city and to congress to get get. >> the reporter: lobbyists in washington are still hard at work on the issue. we dug through lobbying disclosures funds and more than 150 organizations turned to congress. many are county and city governments, looking for tax dollars for prevention efforts. the center for responsive politics says local governments often turn not just to their an emergency, but also to lobbyists. >> it's absurd to have governments lobbying governments, but that is often how a local government shakes loose money from the federal government. >> the reporter: it's not just government. m.i.t. is among the colleges and research groups lobbying for zika research funding. boston dana farber's cancer institute also lobbied on zika issues. there is opportunities for research institutions, communities colleges, associations. >> the reporter: m.i.t. spent $15,000 over a three month period on lobbyists, but these disclosure forms don't break that down by topic, so there's no way to know exactly what was spent on zika. reporting in washington, justin gray, fox 25 news. >> kevin: what a start to the day. 3:00 a.m. in the morning, we had a tornado warning. by tree concord, massachusetts, of course, myself and meteorologist shiri spear telling you how about it. here's the happy side of the severe weather. much needed rain falling over an inch in bedford, an inch in lawrence and beverly. boy, did we need it. the vineyard got nothing from these showers that came on through. other rain reports, spencer, an inch and a half of beneficial rain and franklin, over three quarters of an inch of rain from didn't nancy reagantime this evening, it is beautiful out, sunny, dry, not too hot. 78 degrees if boston right now. worcester, it's down to 71 degrees. the sun goes down this evening, it will slip into the 60's quickly. futurecast shows we're staying clear all night long. you are going to wake up to sunshine tomorrow morning. 6:15 a.m., not a cloud in the sky over us, so hour-by-hour on cape cod, sunshine going down this evening, from 74 and down to the 60's under the comes up. 53 degrees on average across the state. upper 40's in southern vermont, southwest new hampshire. closer to 60 downtown boston. so an average of 53. by 8:00 a.m., 61 and by 10:00 a.m., back up to 70. lunchtime temperatures in the 70's, all around southern and central new england tomorrow. the beach is a good idea. new hampshire seacoast, 71. cape app, 71. wollaston, 80. plum island, 81 degrees tomorrow where you look. cambridge, 82. newton, 83 degrees. cape cod tomorrow afternoon, upper 70's. dennis, 75. falmouth, up to 79 degrees alano finally the north shore, cape ann, 76, inland, into the low 80's. mid 70's to low 80's, little cooler right at the beaches with a sea breeze that will develop. nice looking day and nothing like this to worry about at the beaches. at least not yet. it's that time of year. we're getting active. this is a tropical depression fiona. and farther east, now wants to swing to the west of bermuda. last week when i talked to you, it was going to the east of bermuda. that would bring rain, a little bit of wind, but wind is only 30 miles per hour. continues to weaken and will be a tropical depression, becoming an area of low pressure. two other storms are trying to form. these are investigative storms, this is invest 99l and 99, closely. it takes it all the way in to next week, so it's a ways off, but keep an eye on this one. i'll be updating you as we get new information. it would take a storm into the bahamas area, which is with we have to start watching very closely, for a named storm. of course, whether it actually holds together by then is still a question. we're going do watch it. there's the seven-day forecast, next want for rainshowers, temperatures warming and by friday morning, we'll get some more rain. a better timeline on that. i'll put it together for you. >> vanessa: see you again shortly kevin. a surprising prince's mansion. coming up, the labeling mistake that may have cost the mega pop star his life. >> mark: a man killed, five people were trying to protect his girlfriend. >> mark: legal advocates are pushing back against a court ruling that borbon take the sexual history of a murder victim public. 19-year-old lindsay marriott was killed? 2012 while a student at unh. the court ruled that the sexual history that was sealed should be made public on the appeal. >> vanessa: a man accused of headed back to alabama. we're learning why derek dear man committed the act. dear man stormed the home after his girlfriend was' sleep. everyone except the 4-month-old baby was killed. >> somebody falls down and it's over. this was a horrible, horrible scene. >> vanessa: police say dear man kidn ex-girlfriend and drove to mississippi. he eventually let them go and turned themself in. he signed extradition papers this morning. >> mark: new at 5:00 p.m., a guest at disney's grand floridian resort saw an alligator in the area where a 2-year-old boy was playing and even alerted staff at the hotel. this according to a sheriff's office report obtained by tmz. 2-year-old lane graves was attacked by the gator minutes later the gator pulled the young boy under the water. the report says graves was walking into the water with his >> vanessa: firefighters are having a tough time keeping this wildfire here in central california from spreading tonight. the fire has already destroyed 47 buildings, and forced the closure of the famous hearst castle. right now, it's just about 5% contained and heavy smoke is making it difficult for fire crews to attack the flames from the air. more than 50 square miles have been charred so far. historic storms and flooding killed at least a dozen people, and destroyed 60,000 homes in louisiana. nearly 3,000 people there are more than 100,000 have registered for federal aid. >> mark: shocking new numbers are shedding light on teens and opioid abuse. now, doctors say there is a new way to treat the problem, but not everyone agrees. coming up at 5:45 p.m. tonight. the medication that may cut the risk of relapse. >> vanessa: and immigration has been a send l transformer issue for donald trump. coming up,. campaign outreach that could mean his stance on deportation is not set in stone. >> mark: up next, we'll show you some of the hardest hit areas of dear fellow citizen, i know what it's like to live a full life. but living for today doesn't mean forgetting about tomorrow. most people spend more time planning their vacation than they do for retirement. but i like to think of retirement ? don't worry. it just takes some planning. and i can help. so if you have a question about retirement, ask me. sincerely, bernard tynes fellow vacationer and fellow citizen. >> vanessa: now at 5:30 p.m., tornado touchdown. the cleanup continues here in concord, massachusetts, where an ef-1 tornado ripped through overnight. >> mark: storm passed through several communities including here in middleboro, downing trees and knocking out power to residents. a rough day for homeowners for sure, but fortunately, no serious injuries have been reported. >> vanessa: we have storm tracker weather team coverage tonight. fox 25's jessica reyes talked to meteorologist kevin lemanowicz. >> kevin: there was damage in marlboro from the same storm, but that looked like thunderstorm, straight-line storms, it was not officially surveyed, and it's possible there was damage. the places that have the most damage, can't go to every single downed tree after all and that was concord. from this line that came on through with some heavy rain, and it came on through with those strong winds as well. and you'll see that as is cycles back, this one right here, coming through concord, had a bit of a hook to it. this is the one that had damage. when we saw this on radar, myself and meteorologist shiri spear were here this morning tracking these storms, of course, she had it go from 3:00 a.m. in the morning, i joined midstream and we're looking at the storm as it went back through the radar, could have have been a tornado. we're hearing the damage reports. we're looking at the velocity scan. there was something in here with the red and green close to each other. from the cloud to the ground. imagine this is the cloud up here, this is the ground, and this is a stripe of circulation, red and green, ualr the way down to ground level. that was a tornado that touched down in the town of concord earlier this morning. >> mark: cleanup continues tonight in marlboro, where downed trees and power lines, line local streets. as fox 25 jessica reyes continues our storm tracker team coverage, many people say there were aweakened by the storm. >> the reporter: a busy morning in marlboro, where crews spent and power lines after a fast-moving storm. >> just heard a noise, a loud bang and like, you know, the house shook. and then the power blew. >> the reporter: the storm initially came in as a tornado warning just after 3:00 a.m. this morning. >> when you're in the dark and it's raining like crazy and you get that notice, then you don't know what to do. >> the reporter: make farrell lives on walker street, where we found some of the worst damage. high winds toppled a tree into the streets, taking down power lines with it. mike says he heard the storm early this morning, but it was >> just that loud bang and the power went off, and then she made more noise than the storm. >> the reporter: right after the storm came through, we found big branches tossed on to framingham road. diane clemens lives there and woke up to find her power was out. even though we don't get many severe weathers in new england, now is a good time to put a package together, candles, lights, extra water,. >> the reporter: curtis was another troubled spot this morning. winds tossed the street, taking down power lines with it. many are thankful this wasn't much worse. >> it's wild. if that's all the damage it did, i guess we're really lucky. >> the reporter: for manchester of the morning after the storm, there were 125 people in this town without power. many of them along walker street, here, but national road was able to turn the power back on them for later this morning and as of this afternoon, everyone in the town has the the hardest area of concord today. coming unat 5:00 p.m., storm tracker meteorologist jason brewer will explain the way the trees toppled, proved a twister did touch down. >> mark: head over to fox25boston.com, you'll find a gallery of the photo damage, a map showing the storm's path, plus details on how to get storm alerts on your cellphone. >> vanessa: new at 5:00 p.m., the former security guard accused of murdering a man outside of a worcester boarding house has been found guilty voluntary manslaughter. a jury found howard pen guilty of manslaughter in the death of 52-year-old lloyd worcester. pen's lawyer argued he shot worcester in self-defense. sentencing is set for wednesday. >> mark: a man has been arrested for crashing his car into a construction site in new hampshire, while driving drunk on i-93 in canterbury. romeo kabrel of chelsea is accused of driving drunk and drifting into a construction standing along the side of the road where the crash occurred. two preschoolers are still in critical condition, pulled from a swimming pool over the weekend. the little boy and girl were at a birthday party in lowell saturday afternoon, when they were found unresponsive in the pool. a neighbor heard screaming, and ran to the backyard for help. it's unclear if either child lives at the house where it happened. >> vanessa: new at 5:00 p.m., this pair is accused of operating a counterfeit money operation in new hampshire. police in laconia charged with multiple felony counts. they say the money has been circulating around the city in the last several months. we are told this investigation is on going and others could also be charged. >> mark: victims of the deadly 2012 meningitis outbreak will not have a chance to speak in court. a federal judge ruled victims statements will not be heard in the new england compounding case. people with ties to the compounding pharmacy pleaded guilty to financial charges. they are scheduled to be sentenced in november. the pharmacy was linked to illnesses from contamination. >> vanessa: the first family is back at the white house tonight. they arrived last night after spending two weeks relaxing in our neck of the woods. president obama managed to spend most of his time golfing, only squeezing in one official appearance. it was a fund raising events for hillary clinton. tomorrow, he is set to head to louisiana to tour the flooding damage. >> mark: this week, donald trump plans to deliver a major policy speech on immigration. but at this point, the campaign is sending mixed signals about what will actually be in that plan. as once called for the deportation of 11 million undocumented immigrants. but may no longer stick to that plan. >> since coming down the he is crater on day one of his campaign, immigration has remained a central issue for donald trump. >> thank you. we're going to build it. >> the reporter: signature part of his plan, deporting the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the u.s. >> we're rounding them up-and-down in a very hue -- up came. >> they will go out, they will come back, some will come back. the best, through a process. they have to come back legally. >> the reporter: bruski over the past couple of days, the trump campaign has been ramping up its minority outreach and hinting that the candidates' deportation stance may not be set in stone. >> as the weeks unfold, he will lay out the specifics of that plan that he would implement as president of the united states. >> will that plan include a deportation for us, the kind that he talked about during the republican primaries? >> to b insisting now that this isn't a stance reversal per se. >> so you're not flip-flopping? >> no, i'm not flip-flopping. we have want to come up with a really fair but firm answer. >> the reporter: meanwhile, for trump's opponent, hillary clinton, it's a battle of the former secretaries of state. colin powell publicly push back on the notion he planted the seed for clinton to use a private sale server while in office, telling the media, her people are trying to pin it on me. and that he believes clinton had private email address during his tenure. in washington, diane gallagher. >> vanessa: a park ranger is accused of videotaping unsuspecting women at a local bath house. >> mark: new at 6:00 p.m., the suspect faced a judge today. the charges he is now facing. >> vanessa: a. -- local man is in custody after going to great lengths to avoid police. the reason he wore this old man disguise everywhere he went. >> mark: ryan lochte losing two major sponsorship deals. the saying goodbye to the u.s. olympic swimmer. now time to check out the roads, with live drivetime traffic. heavy volume on the pike, but things are moving along, always headed west this time of day, you've got company. now to the map, where you can see there are heavy delays on 495 up to lowell. an earlier accident shut down all lanes of middleton. the accident has since been cleared. here are the live drive times for you now. tobin bridge to 128. to the split. 56 minutes from the weston tolls td bank's new intern, bart, is one of those robots from an other bank, we're training him to bank human. uh-uh, bart? why are you winding the clock back? the clock stated 11:35 pm, but they are still working. the clock is fine. our live customer service is available all night, and all day for that matter. he's learning. at td bank we do things differently, like live customer service 24/7. bart: hello? hello! >> mark: former aid to new york governor andrew cuomo was killed in a crash on long island. five people were killed, six others seriously injured. among the dead was a 29-year-old who worked for cuomo's office for tour event years. vogt investigators say one car another vehicle head on. >> they probably didn't see the vehicle until the vehicle was crossing the roadway, so there was no opportunity for them to be able to negotiate out of the accident. >> mark: police are investigating whether speed was a factor. >> vanessa: police are still looking for two suspects after a house party in new england ended in a hail of gunfire injurying 13 people. about a hundred people were at a home in bridgeport, connecticut, when the gunman showed up and opened fire. one person is still in critical condition. the rest are expected to be ok. a off the bridge tracks over the weekend in texas. 26 cars fell off the bridge, into this creek here last night. now, we don't know what caused this accident. fortunately, no one was hurt. >> mark: wow. federal judge is temporarily blocking president obama's directive to public schools that they must allow transgender students to use the bathroom they identify with. the obama administration sent out the directive back in may, but texas and 12 other states asked for an injunction. it was granted yesterday. the decision comes as the bathroom law. >> vanessa: ryan lochte's rio controversy is already causing the olympic swimmer, two major sponsorships. lochte has since apologized for overexaggerating a story about being robbed at gunpoint with three of his teammates. police later said the swimmers vandalized the gas station. >> kevin: it is a spectacular evening for your dinner plan week, including when the next rain arrives. >> >> the reporter: being addicted to pain pills or heroin. i'm jacqueline feld in washington. the new recommendations for fios is not cable. we're wired differently. so we wired the wagner's house with 100 meg internet. which means that in the time it takes mr. wagner to pour a 20 oz. cup of coffee, tommy can download 30 songs, and jan can upload 120 photos. speeds, tv and phone for just $69.99 per month online. cable can't offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good. only fios can. so much. >> mark: the side by side images everyone is talking b. hyannis man dodging police by disguising himself as an old plan. police on the cape surrounded a miller on drug trafficking charges. he had been wearing the $2,000 mask everywhere to avoid arrest an even tried strolling right by the officers on friday. but they finally arrested him. miller is due in court later this month. >> vanessa: reports say the pills found in prince's mansion after his death had been mislabeled. the minnesota star tribune say the pills marked as hydrocodone were prince had so much of the drug in his system, he had no chance of surviving. >> mark: teens hooked on powerful painkillers and heroin could soon be prescribed more pills. >> vanessa: jacqueline feld is in washington with the recommendation for young addicts. federal health officials call opioid addiction, a national crisis and for people between the ages of 12 and 25, illegal opioid use has more than doubled in the past decade. the american academy of pediatricians to treat drug abuse and addiction among people people with medication. these types of medications can suppress withdrawal symptoms, decrease cravings, and cut the risk of relapse. only specially trained doctors can prescribe these types of drugs. sometimes, they can only be dispensed at special clinics. think of methadone clinics. just last month, the obama administration increased the number of addicts, those specially trained doctors are allowed to treat. now, however, some critics say, taking similar pills don't cure addiction. and is just a substitution for another drug. the pediatric group is urging its members to refer patients to doctors who prescribe these types of drugs, if they themselves don't prescribe it. reporting in washington, jacqueline feld, fox 25 news. the labor day weekend. according to aaa northeast, the average price of regular unleaded in massachusetts is $2.07 a gallon, that's up 3 cents from last week, but it is still 33 cents lower per gallon than last year at this time. higher crude oil prices are driving up the prices at the pump. >> vanessa: people in michigan dealing with similar problems as parts of our area tonight as they clean up after an ef-1 tornado hit one of their towns today. the storm swept through western michigan on sunday, cup rooting causing all kinds of property damage. there was no reports of serious injuries. >> kevin: it is clear out there now, but didn't start that way today. we've been talking extensively about the tornado touchdown in concord, but there was rain around the area that was beneficial. we've had an inch of rain or nearly an inch of rain in boston, from the storm system, worcester over an inch, beverly, over an inch. check out the vineyard, as reported by a young lady, brittany sent in a report from about a quarter of an inch there. alsos seeing another report, four inches. i showed you zero earlier. the airport, martha's vineyard, center of the island, is reporting no measurable rain from the storm. it's very possible the parts of the island had some rain, but that's why you see some breaks in the blue pattern on here, because there would be no rain reported there. but other places did. we're going to just take it off there, because i don't like that zero, considering some of you had rain out on the vineyard and none are living at the airport. lawrence, over an inch. beverly, .85 inches in that report. i had a report that had nearly an inch of rain, so. so reports differing even within the same town. bottom line is had beneficial rain, we needed it, we did not need this that went with the rain. the concord tornadoes,ef-1 touching down, four football fields wide, 100-mile-per-hour winds, incredible damage of trees. hardly any damage to -- well, no catastrophic damage to building, 39 buildings were damaged to some degree, and no injuries or amazing, considering this happened in the dead of the night, at 3:00 a.m. in the morning. just after 3:00 a.m. 78 boston, 75 bedford. 75 at hyannis. temperature out to the north and west will be dropping tonight. this takes you out to northern worcester county, gardner specifically, all the way dawn to 51 by 5:00 a.m. there will be towns, northwest worcester county, southwest new hampshire, that will drop into the upper 40's tonight. how about that for a little touch of fall in the air already. 53 by 6:00 a.m. on average. 10:00 a.m., we're up to 70 degrees on average for lunchtime, 70's everywhere across southern new england. worcester, just getting there. that temperature about to drop below 70 anyway. tomorrow afternoon they beaches, rexham, 78. 82 at wollaston, all kinds of sunshine. wall-to-wall sunshine tomorrow. 70's out on cape cod. 82 in bridgewater. to the north and west, generally low 80's, a couple of 70's right at the coast, and in the elevations to the west. the tropics are getting active. one storm we know about, fiona, we've been tracking her since east, or excuse me, to the west of bermuda, it was looking like the east last week. it keeps jogging to the west. either way, it's weakening. it wouldn't be much more than rain for the island and gusty wind at this point. something we'll watch closely for fiona. two other systems here and here, being tracked as a tropical depression number 7 and here's where they're looking to go. keep in mind, this takes you all the way out to sunday at 8:00 p.m. in the evening. we are a long way from this and these paths may not tropical moisture depression 7 gaston, going off toward the east, out into the ocean. this one looks more peculiar, coming toward caribbean islands and swinging up to the coast. even though it may make it all the way here, there may not be much left to it. there are a lot of days to look at and track the storm system. seven-day forecast keeps us dry until friday. when the next chance of rainshowers arrives, most likely early on in the day. >> mark: bad news for tourists heading to washington, d.c. technicians try to permanently repair an elevator. the old elevator has been out of order since wednesday. the elevator broke down twice, stranding employees. the monument has been closed for a total of ten days. >> vanessa: former first lady nancy reagan was known for her classic style and now you have a chance to own some of her jewelry. kristy's is set to auction off items. some of the items up for bid is a necklace the one you see here and diamond savefy and ruby flag ring. some of reagan's belongings are up for grabs, including a pair of cowboy boots, featuring the presidential seal, it will benefit the ronald reagan presidential foundation and institute. people from all over the world have come together for a pink flower sprint shirt. debra put out a call for help. you see, her daughter has autism and she loves this pink shirt. but she wore it so much, it had holes in it and she couldn't fix it and the designer no longer could send her. she's received more than a dozen shirts with more than 100 100 justlike it on the way. >> mark: a park ranger facing a judge. the common gadget he's accused of hiding in a bathroom to videotape women and how they caught him red-handed. new electronic toll collectors in the mass pike raising privacy issues. the information being gathered about drivers and why some say it a privacy. plus, our team coverage of the concord tornado continues, the telltale signs you can see from the sky that prove this was indeed a twister. and where is tom brady? have you seen him? what we're learning about why the pats qb skipped practice the let's feed him to the sharks! squuuuack, let's feed him to the sharks! yay! ya! and hide it from the crew! ya...? squuuuack, they're all morons anyway! i never said that. they all smell bad too. no! you all smell wonderful! i smell bad! if you're a parrot, you repeat things. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. fitzge announced it's bioo tech company met aviation. shares of met aviation were up 40% so far this year. the deal still requires shareholder and regulator approval. >> mark: change at the top of via come, after the company's c.e.o. accepted a massive bio. felipe del man will leave the company with $72 million. that certainly is golden. the agreement settles a long running complicated dispute between various executives and members of the via come. >> vanessa: say goodbye to gawker.com. most staffers were told, will be assigned to other roles, at one of the other six sites, or at spanish language broadcaster, univision, which bought the company. univision agreed to keep 95% of gawkers' new york based employees. >> mark: japan unveiled what it calls the most underwater advanced car in the world. it looks like any or submarine. is much more. it can reach the ocean floor and travel up to 100 miles per hour. it can use for finding wreckage and monitoring the ocean floor. life stage allows kids to upload pictures based on feels, likes, and dislikes, turned into video profiles. creators say the goal is to connect members of the same school, but some media experts are concerned about the lack of privacy settings. >> vanessa: it making it easier to talk about death and mourning in public. researchers at the university of washington found people who use twitter to react in a way that differed from other social media sites. twitter users appeared to link death to social issues, such as mental illness or suicide and facebook posts tended to be more personal. >> mark: talk about facebook, twitter, how about this. a study suggests instagram picks can tell if you're depressed. researchers from harvard and vermont say people who are depressed people in the study were also found to post more frequently, a play more filters and be more likely to include faces. >> vanessa: when it comes to versus, it turns out, -- divorce, it turns out there may be a peak season. researchers found americans are more likely to file for divorce after winter and summer holidays. filings consistently peaked in march and august. study authors say family holidays geared at bringing people together may be exactly the opposite. >> mark: a tornado touches down in concord. >> i've never heard anything that loud in my life. >> the reporter: wild weather packing a punch, damaging homes and ripping up yards. i never heard a wind like that before. >> the reporter: we're showing you the damage from the ground and from the air. find out why the drought might have made that damage much worse. >> kevin: we'll explain how the weather service was able to confirm on the ground what we tracked on the radar all morning. this was a tornado. fox 25 has team coverage. >> the gadget police say he used to secretly tape women at a popular park. >> the reporter: the state's tolling system collecting more than cash. the other information being captured and stored every time you hit the pike. >> mark: now on fox 25, blown away in the middle of the night. >> caused by an >> mark: neighborhoods torn apart. the wind, it was crazy, crazy, crazy. >> mark: trees shattered. >> there is a whole tree sitting on my car. car. >> mark: and power lines ripped down. tonight, the close calls. >> oh, scary. >> mark: and the cleanup, after a tornado tears through concord. good evening everyone, i'm mark ockerbloom. >> vanessa: i'm vanessa welch. that tornado was only on the ground for about ten minutes in concord, but the damage was just after 3:00 a.m. it packed winds of 100 miles per hour. the twister left a path of damage about 400 yards wide and half a mile long. it uprooted trees, knocked out power and damaged dozens of homes, but no one was hurt. >> mark: fox 25 was the first team on the air, overnight, whether that tornado warning was issued and tonight, we have team coverage from the air to the ground. we'll begin with jim morelli, who spent the day in the neighborhoods hardest hit. jim? >> the reporter: well, mark, one of the most tornadoes is that despite the fact they are violent, they usually follow a distinct path of destruction, and we definitely saw that here today. right behind us, on lexington road, numerous power lines down, they are trying to get them fixed, lots of people without power. trees being taken out. you go in the other direction and there's is the alcot house, it was a museum, and it was hit

Related Keywords

Louisiana , United States , Bridgewater , Massachusetts , Alabama , Middleboro , Vermont , Cape Ann , Minnesota , California , Bahamas , The , Connecticut , North Attleboro , Hyannis , Cambridge , Cambridgeshire , United Kingdom , Hearst Castle , Spain , New York , Laconia , New Hampshire , Japan , Texas , Washington , Boston , Florida , Manchester , Cape Cod , Michigan , Mississippi , Braintree , Worcester County , Bedford , Falmouth , Cornwall , Bermuda , Americans , Spanish , Floridian , American , Jessica Reyes , Lloyd Worcester , Vanessa Welch , Ronald Reagan , Daniel Miller , Diane Gallagher , Tom Brady , Andrew Cuomo , Jim Morelli , Ryan Lochte , Jacqueline Feld , Colin Powell , Charlie Baker , Bernard Tynes , Diane Clemens , Dana Farber , Malini Basu , Lindsay Marriott , Nancy Reagan , Hillary Clinton ,

© 2024 Vimarsana