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point, this is a recovery effort, not a rescue for those trapped workers. >> these two people's families and everyone's families, just a tough situation. construction is a dangerous job, and you know, it's just a tough situation, the water and sewer are working really hard right now to get these people out. >> i heard the officers screaming on the air very quickly, to get fire, to get everyone down h realized very quickly, we had workers trapped in the hole. >> the reporter: so as you can see, a very heartbreaking day here in the south end. behind me, out here on dartmouth street, what's taking place is that the workers here are trying to drain out that hole, they're trying to get water out, they're trying to shore up the size of that trench to make it safe so that the bodies of the two workers can be recovered. very, very sad day here if the guys? >> mark: thanks, bob. bob, what are you hearing about the investigation on the scene there? >> the reporter: well, the investigation, boston police have sent their homicide unit here to investigate, they're working with osha. the police commissioner said just because the homicide department is here, that doesn't mean that they believe there's any foul play. they believe this is a tragic accident, not the result of foul play, but the men and women of the homicide unit of the boston police department tools at their disposal. they're going to be spending a long time processing this scene, going through, so they have a clear understanding exactly how and, more importantly, why this took place. >> mark: fox 25's bob ward reporting live from dartmouth and tremont streets for us tonight, the scene of that tragic accident today. the tragic scene is taking place if a very busy part of the city. there were dozens of witnesses and several people rushed to actually help the victims. in this video, you can see at background. he's reaching in to the trench as water flows around him. another man is also standing just above the trench. and fox 25's jacqui heinrich talked to the witnesses who shot that video. we'll hear from her coming up at 6:00 p.m. >> vanessa: be sure to stay with fox 25 for continuing coverage of the deadly trench accident. we're digging deeper into the atlantic drain services which is the company involved. we've learned they've been in trouble before several times with federal safety officials. we'll tell you what fox 8 live investigat 6:00 p.m. -- what fox 25 investigates found all new at 6:00 p.m. tonight, we are on a weather alert. rain has started moving through the area and it will be heavy aft times, causing a concern for drivers out interest tonight. fox 25 storm tracker chief meteorologist kevin lemanowicz here now and kevin, you're saying some places could also see flooding. >> kevin: watch for street flooding. flood advisory for instance in connecticut right now from the rain moving toward ums. you saw it's not raining hard in boston, but if you're in boston, and about to travel west outside of a rude awakening in you haven't heard this just yet. this is massachusetts turnpike going through framingham, metro west, 495, route 2 off to the northwest of boston, you're running into this members. that's some heavy rain, you can see red and orange between hudson and marlboro, coming down very hard, right along route 85 coming through town, and then off to the south of there, it's not just there, but look at all of this heavy rain, southwest of boston, from needham to holliston, worcester county, along the pike through auburn and on route 22, route 20 also getting some heavy rain. south shore, you're not out of it. duxbury, marshfield, heavy rain, just north of plymouth into king ton as well and there's been some out on cape cod as well but plenty more to the south moving toward us and we haven't even touched the cold air ahead this weekend. we have a lot to talk about. >> vanessa: stay with fox 25 for continuing coverage on air and on line with it weather alert. can you get weather updates any forecast it just a few minutes. >> mark: a man heads to court in connection with a shocking crime. >> >> vanessa: he's accuse much kidnapping and sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl as she walked to school yesterday. chris flanagan live in lawrence where that man is facing several charges. >> the reporter: yeah he certainly is. angel mateo charged with kidnapping and raping the 13-year-old, but also accused of attacking his neighbor five months ago. that neighbor came forward saw mateo's picture on social media. shackled and in a jail issued white jump suit, 21-year-old angel mateo did not look up once during hsbc arena arraignment if district court. mateo is charged with raping and kidnapping a 13-year-old girl on her way to school yesterday. he was wearing a g.p.s. tracker, because of an impending charge that he black mailed a girlfriend with nude pictures last spring. police say yesterday's kidnapping and rape happened at mateo's apartment on phillips street. court documents show he told with anyone, then said, it was consensual. >> i'm sick about it. you know, i think it's disgusting, and you know, what i don't want is for families and parents to think this is something that can happen to any kid in the city. >> the reporter: the neighbors say, they're outraged by the alleged incident. i think he should pay for that. there's a lot of kids passing by, and no, i don't have a child, and i don't want nothing like that to happen to my >> the reporter: just hours aftermatho was arrested on rape and kidnapping charges yesterday, a 27-year-old neighbor came forward with she saw on social media that he had been arrested. seclaims, -- she claims mateo attacked her at 3:00 a.m. in the morning when she was getting out of her car. she told police then, she struggled to get away but the man was able to get her into a head lock and began tracking her to boxford street. police investigated but an arrest was never made, because the woman says she did not though they are neighbors, so she saw mateo's picture yesterday. again, it took police five months to crack that case, coming up tonight all new at 6:00 p.m., why neighbors tell us police they feel should have done more. we're live tonight in lawrence, chris flanagan, fox 25 news. >> mark: sincere phuket in the shooting -- the suspect in a shooting of a 13-year-old chelsea boy is being held on $100 bail. christian garcia hid behind a door when he was arraigned on charges. juan delgado was shot if his shoulder. he was on the third floor of an apartment building on bellingham street when he was hit. police say garcia is the person shot several fires in the area of the home. three bullets went through the bedroom of his apartment building. this suspect is wanted for questioning for something that happened on saturday, october 8th. police say interest was an wonderland situation and lynn. >> vanessa: a bicyclist was killed in a collision in worcester overnight. police say he was riding his bike on southbridge street when he collide with the back of a parked tow truck. he was rushed to hospital but did not survive. investigators are hoping to look at area surveillance cameras to see if they can find out why the crash happened. two men 0 police say they confessed to blowing up a newspaper box in salem were order today stay away from the area. john gilman and richard plead not guilty to charges, including placing an incendiary device. prosecutors say the pair targeted a box belonging to the rainbow times, an lgbt in august. the surveillance video captured the vandals, putting the explosive device in box before running away. >> mark: we are still waiting to hear what caused this car to smash into a home in brockton overnight. you can see a lot of first responders on the scene after a car took out the stairs to the home's front porch on wilson street. running after the crash. the top judge in massachusetts wants to get to the bottom of potential racial bias in the justice system. chief justice ralph gans is asking harvard to examine the law system. they want to figure out were african-americans and hispanic are locked up at a much hue are rate than whites. the ratio of imprisoned minorities compared to whites is higher in massachusetts than justice tonight want to know why that is. when supreme judicial court justice ralph gans looked at the numbers, he knew something was wrong. last month, the massachusetts sentencing commission found african-americans are locked up eight times the rate of whites. hispanics, nearly five times the number of whites. the commission found the disparity in massachusetts is significantly greater than the national average. >> when i learned that our disparity is greater than the nation as a whole, i thought we of it. gans asked the harvard law school to create an independent research team to find where there may be implicit bias from the arrest to setting the wall, to sentencing the defendant. >> of the opportunity to bring in harvard law school and their research experts and their independent review allows us to do something we couldn't possibly do ourselves. >> the reporter: paula kerry is the chief justice of the trial courts in massachusetts. she says the review needs to start at the top with judges. >> one of the challenges really is just decision makers in our system the ability to be reflective on what they do and styles, it's that reflection that helps you counteract some of the implicit bias issues. >> it's not easy to do, because obviously, some share of that disparity relates to differences in terms of the criminal history and in terms of the nature of the charges. >> the reporter: gans is hoping all of the district attorneys and police departments participate if the study he says he has to expectations of how >> vanessa: the man who inspired the ice bucket challenge has now inspired a fully accessible park in his name. pete's park off middle bury lane in beverly is names after pete frates, who is battling a.l.s. the park is slated for a complete makeover. planners say it will be designed for children's with disabilities. frates is a beverly native and the park was renamed for him in july of 2015. some shoppers are on edge tonight, following a brazen robbery. >> mark: coming up at merchandise stolen from a local palm and why police are concerned this is becoming a trend. >> kevin: rain is moving in from the south to the north across our area for the evening commute, especially along 495 into the east where some of the heaviest is happening. in southern worcester county, i'm tracking every bit of it. don't worry, i have an update. >> vanessa: election day is fast spent 21 years in the navy, defending america. if i only showed up half of the time, i'd have been court-martialed. but that's what senator kelly ayotte did. she missed nearly half of her homeland security hearings. vo: on critical homeland security hearings, ayotte was mia... even missing a hearing the same day she went to a washington fundraiser. for ayotte collecting campaign y: when it comes to fighting terrorism, fifty percent doesn't cut it. afscme is responsible for uh, first of all, i plan to vote for donald trump. when it served her purpose, ayotte buddied up to trump, even calling him a role model. would you tell a child to aspire to be like donald trump? oh absolutely, i would do that. but she kept playing politics and flip flopping around. ayotte is running away from trump as quickly as she can. know. kelly ayotte. the politician. looking out for herself. independence usa pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. >> kevin: ok. we are on the alert, because of some heavy rain rotating in here from the south. tropical stream of moisture. coming on through and producing heavy rain for the evening dry. out to 495, northwest of boston, you see hudson and stowe up that way, really coming down hard where the red is showing up and dudley and webster seeing heavy rain come on through too and finally, you go to the south shore and this has slid off to northwest with live fox 25 storm marshfield, duxbury, sciate getting heavy rain. i'm tracking every bit of it. back in a few minutes with a live storm tracker update. >> mark: a new phase of siberia tax in internet service along the east coast. the new hampshire based firm has reportedly confirmed a third denial of service attack is underway. the company's computer server's optimize internet traffic from big internet companies. twitter, net flex, spotify and visa not yet clear who was behind t >> vanessa: there's a little more than two weeks to go now before election day and the presidential nominees are campaigning very hard for every vote, but some new polls indicate a tough road ahead for donald trump. rival hillary clinton is challenging or beating him in southern states, once firmly in the g.o.p.'s corner. >> get out and vote. >> the reporter: fresh polling shows donald trump struggling in states that were once republican. puts hillary clinton up in virginia, 45% to 33% and atlanta journal constitution poll shows trump with a narrow two point lead in georgia. 44% to 42%. bill clinton was the last democrat to win georgia back in 1992. hillary clinton, speaking in ohio friday, as her campaign releases a hard-hit new ad, featuring gold star father, kazir kahn. north carolina and pennsylvania, after getting slammed for rigged election claims, and getting boo'd during remarks at the al smith charity dinner thursday night. smith's great great grandson explained why attendees reacted negatively. >>ykg minutes early on, and eventually, he crossed the line and took it a little too far. >> the reporter: but cardinal timothy dolan, who sat between trump and clinton, told nbc that the candidates were much more >> mr. trump turned secretary clinton and said, you are one tough an talented woman and she said to him, and donald, whatever happens, we need to work together afterwards. >> the reporter: but with just over two weeks to go until election day, we're likely tov?u see less courtesy and more conflict on the campaign trail. i'm kim hutchison reporting. >> mark: we are getting our first hints at voting results. hillary clinton is looking strong in until and florida. clinton has an advantage in ar to be holding ground in ohio, iowa and georgia. more than 4.2 million votes have been cast already and they won't be counted until after polls close on november 8th, but some states report the party affiliations of early voters as well as breakdowns by race and gender. >> vanessa: the new hampshire senate race is no longer neck and neck. according to a new wmur-granite state poll, governor maggie lead over kelly ayotte. >> mark: fox 25 is your home for complete coverage if the days leading up to the election. stick with us for the latest on polling, campaign stops and speeches. >> kevin: all right. here's what radar and satellite looks like right now. you'll notice a lot of water headed towards southern new england. green stuff on radar. this northward from a stream of tropical moisture offshore coming out of the bahamas and now offshore of southeastern new england. then a cold front back here, pushing our way too. both of them are going to impact our weather it weekend and right now, impacting us for the evening drive. there is heavy rain pushing on through and it's going northward, right along 495, but also into southern worcester county, seeing some of the heaviest rain too. spots in and around stowe, massachusetts, maynard and foxborough, with the red that's showing up in here, that's heavy harvard road, peabody, all getting some of that heavy rain. then to south of there, in southern worcester county, some of the heaviest rain happening. webster and dudley too, where it's coming down very hard. the mass pike to the north of there is all headed toward the mass pike. baker pond road, corbin road, did you do live shall getting some of the heaviest rain. we'll focus off to the east there. this takes you to 495 once again, but through the franklin, milford, bellingham stretch and stretches back it to bellingham, along golfers who know this area, coming down very hard in and around that spot right now. then, to south shore, between plymouth and sciate, we're seeing some heavy rain. it's really up around marshfield and sciate where the heaviest is coming down right along the coastline and the beach roads, jerusalem road in sciate getting hit hard. heavy rain, the high risk, it's there, it's happening. along with that cops the potential for flooding. a moderate risk of localized street flooding, particularly where leaves have come down and raining in your town, you want to clean out the storm drain before heavy rain comes in, good idea. go ahead, but wait nil commercial break. low visibility, moderate for you if you get a levy downpour, low visibility. rain gear a must everywhere tonight. not saying it's going to rain every minute during the game for our game of the week or your high school football game, but the one we'll be going to on the the -- and one our fox 25 sports team is covering is north reading, thanks to your vote. it will be raining at least part of the game if not all of it. the h through the area. by midnight, last of it drifts on through. we get a break in the morning hours. afternoon, another area of low pressure, a storm, along that front to our west, spins more showers our way. those come on through during the afternoon tomorrow, so not a perfectly quiet day tomorrow. in fact, this is the lead edge of the cold air on the way. we'll get back to that in just a moment. as far as high temperatures tomorrow in and around the boston area, 64 quincy, 63 brookline, 62 it watertown. all of this happening by the the afternoon, these temperatures are going to start to fall back through the 50's. and the cold air, well, you can see what it's doing. the raindrops change to snowflakes, anywhere it's green, it's rain. blue, it's snow. the pink area tends to be the changeover line and this is just a rough estimate where that's going to be happening, but it's clear to see, it's in the berkshires, back here, it's in the green mountains and into the white mountains and maybe a little bit of flurry activity mixing in the worcester hills. not accumulating in the worcester hills late tomorrow night and early sunday morning. 4:00 a.m. sunday, that's where the snow will be flying. if you're going to get accumulation, it's going to be in the mountains, particularly the green mountains. seven-day forecast shows what's happening. the winds blowing the cold air in here on sunday, maybe in the 50's in the afternoon, but feeling quite a bit colder than that and we're going to stay autumn cool all week long this week. i'll be back in a few minutes with an update on the rain is falling. >> mark: to animal lovers, a pet is a pet, even whether it's a goat. local family and the special attachment they had to young girl who raised them from birth. >> vanessa: a special honor for the victims of the orlando night club shooting. advil liqui - gels work so fast you'll ask vil liqui - gels make pain a distant memory nothing works faster stronger or longer what pain? advil. you wouldn't believe what's in this kiester. a farmer's market. a fire truck. even a marching band. and if i can get comfortable talking about this kiester, then you can get comfortable using preparation h. for any sort of discomfort in yours. ayotte,. >> mark: downtown l.a people are now under arrest in the shooting of four students outside -- >> mark: two people are under arrest in the shooting of four students. police believe girl is the intended target. she is in the hospital. the boys were treat and released. new mural stands at the site of the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history. the gates surrounding the pulse night club in orlando were also open to the public for the first time since the june 12th shooting. hundreds of people gathered to see the mural, which features the rainbow flag. >> there is a statement that we are here, you know, we are not forgetting, we give love. >> mark: funds went to the one foundation glad. >> vanessa: a child pornography case out of former subway spokesman jared fogle have been lawyers for fogle say there was no settlement. fogle is serving 15 years if federal prison for child porn and sex with a minor. a rolling stone reporter is on trial for an article she wrote about a gang rape at the university of virginia. a uva administrator is suing the magazine, after they learned the author made up details for that stormy. the story centered around allegations of a student who recounted a vicious gang rape at a frat house. police investigation showed no evidence that it those takata air bags. >> vanessa: coming up, many vehicles with those air bags are still on the road tonight. what's not required that may have prevented this from happening. >> mark: are you over the election and can't wait until it's over? how the race could be impacting your health. >> vanessa: how a brazen robbery inside a local mall caught on camera. what thieves were able to get away with and why police are now ?? it'll be here before you know it. hello, halloween. it's the one night when everybody dresses up. and that includes dinner. it's baking season. warm up with pillsbury. you can never tell from the outside just how many warm, flaky layers are on the inside. it's baking season. warm up with pillsbury. >> mark: we are updating breaking news in boston's south end. firefighters are going through the somber task of trying to recover two workers who were killed while water filled a driven much. >> vanessa: it happened as the workers were digging under dartmouth street. jason law joins us with por. >> the reporter: firefighters are removing the dirt in the trench with their hands to be as respectful as possible. we have confirmed that those men were workers from atlantic drain a co-worker told us they were great guys, great workers and great family men. this tragedy started around 1:00 p.m. this afternoon and from sky fox, you can see the size of the hole that they were working in. we're told the men were digging near a fire hydrant when somehow a water main burst and water quickly filled the hope, trapping the workers. firefighters say it will take a while to secure the trench so they can recover the victims. >> we had to drain the water, bring if a trench it's safe for people going in. we'll do it as fast as we can, but it's a long, drawnout effort. at 6:00 p.m., we are uncovering new information about the safety record of that company where those men worked. i'm jason law, fox 25 news. >> vanessa: jason, thank you. log on to fox25boston.com for continuing coverage of a deadly trench accident. there you'll find the latest breaking details on the investigation as well as sky fox video from the scene. >> mark: we are also under a weather alert tonight. means the rain has moved in as fox 25 storm tracker chief meteorologist kevin lemanowicz is tracking it could be heavy in some spots, leading to flooding. >> kevin: the heavy rain continues to drift in from the south and the tropical stream of rain continues to push on in lear. there's rain to our wisniewski defending. we'll zoom in with live fox 25 storm tracker radar and the rain continues to move on in. i'll take the magical hand showing the towns off of there, so we can see it better without interruption. we'll zoom into northwest of boston. notice the green shading in for flooding along some of the streets that's being noticed out that way in worcester, heavy rain along 495. lowell, drakette, methuen, seeing rain but not torrential rain we've seen in other spots. this takes you along the mass pike, route 12 through auburn, dudley and webster, all of this torrential tropical rain is. coming on through. same thing for you franklin, bellingham, northward and medfield and north off sciate. this is the heavy rain. coming in through marshfield and sciate. we'll continue to track every bit of it through evening. the drive is going to be a mess out there. watch for some of the localized street flooding. never try to cross a flooded roadway. i'm back in a few minutes. >> vanessa: kevin, thank you for. right now, police are searching for a group of thieves who stormed the apple store if natick mall stealing more than $13,000 of merchandise. >> mark: investigators say these type of flash mob robberies are becoming more and more common >> it's terrible. you hear about that stuff all over the place, but i'm surprised out here. >> the reporter: a brazen crime leaving natick shoppers stunned. >> natick has been one of the -- [indiscernible] and keeps that notion in jeopardy. the whole incident captured on surveillance cameras. these seven people walked through the mall with hats and >> there were other people in the mall, but that's unfortunate. >> the reporter: unfortunate, because police say, in that busy store, group cut security cords and got away with 19 phones. a loss totaling about $13,000. >> i think it's shocking. >> the reporter: the theft comes as apple is experimenting with a new method of displaying merchandise, leaving phones untethered in some stores if canada and the u.k., so customers can get a feel for them. a change slated to be tested in the u.s. next year. this isn't the first theft of last month, hingham police said 10 to 12 teens went into the apple store and took off with 22 phones. natick police are investigating to see if that incident is connected to this most recent theft, one leaving shoppers feeling uneasy. >> what's next. am i going to see people with guns. >> the reporter: as natick police continue to investigate this, they are, of course, asking for public's help. if you have any information about this, give natick police a call. in natick, katherine perrotta cooperative bank. it happened after 2:00 p.m. yesterday afternoon. surveillance footage shows the man approaching the teller and tanking cash and leaving it a small blue car. >> vanessa: students in roslindale have a place to play for the first time since arsonists destroyed their playground. community donations paid for a temporary structure to replace the playground set on fire in may. three juveniles were charged in kings with that fire. a permanent replacement for that playground is in the works. >> mark: new hampshire police arrested a man driving drunk on the wrong side of 93. officials safe michael drake of meredith new hampshire was going south in the northbound lanes around 2:30 p.m. this morning. police found drake after receiving a call from a driver who said he was almost hit by an on coming car. drake's blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit. he is expected in court next month. >> vanessa: only on fox 25 news at 530, a mystery over the disappearance of a pair of goats. they're devastated over this loss and hoping someone will come forward and return them. fox 25's jim morelli live for us in milford, where jim, the goats had a special meaning for one young girl. >> the reporter: she raised the goats from when they were very little, keeping in mind, these are domesticated goats, so essentially, they are pets. we are at milford police headquarters, where they are actively involved in case, knocking on doors, tracking down leads, trying to find the goats who were very special to t special to her father. >> they're like family to me. they are not your average pets, but to 9-year-old cassidy and her dad gary, they are everything. the two goats father and daughter raised since birth. >> some people have dogs, some people have cats, like, they were like a dog or a cat to me, they were really special. >> the reporter: but cassidy doesn't know if she'll see her goats again. >> people build a bond with animals, and it's something you can't replace. it all went down on chestnut street. neighbors posted pictures of the wandering goats on facebook and called police. one neighbor agreeing to deep the goats in this fenced-in backyard, until police could locate the owner. >> four hours later, two men in a red pickup truck, you have our goats. >> the reporter: but the men didn't own the goats, something people didn't realize until the next day when the cave looking for his property. >> that's false pretense. they took property that didn't belong to them. >> the reporter: since each goat is worth northern $250, it is considered felony larceny, but to gary and cassidy the value of the goats can't be measured in dollars. >> it's not about the money. it's just about the love we have for them. >> i dearly miss them. i dearly miss them. >> the reporter: and deputy chief harris tells us that animal welfare authorities are indication, because it is not a case of livestock wrestling. this is more aiken to having pet dogs stolen. they're looking for a red pickup truck, they say the two men inside spoke spanish. give a call if you know anything. live in milford, jim morelli. >> mark: police officers in massachusetts are reaching for their stun guns more often a report from the herald shows bay state cops used their tasers 1100 times last year. that number is driven by more departments turning to the less lethal but costly weapons. 230 agencies had been approved to use the stun guns by the end of last year and that is up from just 82, six years ago. vice-president joe biden told the vermont crowd this afternoon, he is hopeful people will be able to get a vaccine against cancer in next decade or so. biden is continuing his tour, promoting the obama administration's cancer moon shot through new england. the white house is hoping to double the rate of progress if cancer research and treatment. biden's son beau died of cancer last year,. off a school bus this week is talk only to fox 25 news. >> mark: the change that child's mother is asking for since the accident. >> vanessa: sometimes it's hard to keep kids away from electronics. ahead at 5:55 p.m. tonight, the one form of communication that pediatricians say is now ok for toddlers. >> mark: and a pilot is forced to make an emergency landing. up next, the quick change of ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? great rates for great rides. most banks are all the same... capital one isn't most banks. ?? it's a relaxed place with helpful people focused on you, not trying to sell you things you don't want. and free checking accounts that are actually free. no minimums. no fees. no nonsense. what's in your wallet? >> vanessa: time evidence shows girl while his today remember son was dying in the back of a hot s.u.v. the young woman who exchanged those texts with justin ross hair rigs testified today that he asked for lewd photos on the afternoon of june 18th, 2014. harris' 22-month-old son cooper was found dead just a few hours later in his s.u.v. harris is charged with the murder in the boy's death. >> mark: an arizona man is rescued from a tight pop. he got stuck in a pipe near a power station in phoenix. the man was trapped for several hours. eventually freed by firefighters and the taken to a hospital to be checked out. >> vanessa: a pilot is being credited with saving -- with a great save for a landing that he made in oklahoma city. it was all caught on camera as a pilot got close to the runway, he noticed his nose gear wasn't dropping, so he rerouted to a longer runway and carefully, very carefully touched down. >> this is something that you train for all the time and hope you have never have to use. a way from it is how calm he was. >> vanessa: no word on what caused the equipment malfunction. no one was hurt. >> mark: one county if mississippi isn't taking any chances when it comes to clown craze. they banned clown costumes and makeup. they say clowns have become a public safety issue and don't want anyone to be frightened. a local law is in place from now until the day after halloween. anyone seen in a clown costume will have to pay a $150in >> kevin: ok. there's now a flood advisory out this way into worcester county, middlesex county and this is the reason why. heavy rain is. coming through right now. not going to fill up the streams and rivers, but there's going to be street flooding to contend with. i'm tracking it all just ahead. >> vanessa: another death connected to faulty takata air bags. up next, the troubling number of imagine if your child were trapped in a failing school. imagine if your child couldn't read or write at grade level. imagine if your child were stuck on a waiting list. 32,000 kids want to go to a public charter school. but they can't. if you like your public school, question 2 won't affect you. but for kids stuck in failing school districts, question 2 will let parents and give all our kids hope. please vote yes on question 2. ?? dylan: anybody can do parkour. our whole aim with the gym is to get people moving, and want to have people understand that you own a body. we can do some crazy things with it. having blue cross blue shield, i've always felt comfortable being able to try something that i might not know if i'm going to land, because i've always had this security behind me. >> kevin: here is the rain we're tracking this evening. we're going to take the radar off just for a second. you can see the outline in green. that is where a flood advisory is in place. when you rain this heavy, moving on through, worcester county into middlesex county especially, you'll get localized flooding. that will be a problem form the rest of the evening drive. i'm back in a few minutes with an update. >> mark: now a link to a faulty takata air bag. it's regulators confirmed it side to the exploding air bags. >> vanessa: justin gray reports from washington. officials believe there are tens of thousands of drivers who don't even know their cars are at risk. >> the reporter: air bags meant to save lives instead spraying shrapnel in a crash. federal officials confirming latest victim -- the 11th fatality tied to faulty takata air bags. the driver was behind the wheel of a 2001 honda civic like this one on september 30th, that had first been recalled all the >> it's a tragedy that simply did not have to occur. >> the reporter: the national highway traffic safety administration stays in spite of the warnings, the recalls, and the tragedies, 300,000 high-risk vehicles are still on road with defective air bags. millions of cars are affected, but the danger for these, honda and acura models from the early 2000's is so great, federal officials say they shouldn't be driven until fixed. many drivers don't know their car has been recalled because to disclose that information to buyers. >> puts them in a terrible position, because they're not even being notified many times that the recall is out there. >> the reporter: a bill proposed in congress could notify car owners when they go to register their vehicle, if it had open recalls. no votes scheduled on that bill so far. reporting in washington, justin gray, fox 25 news. >> mark: a new study has found that road rage affects women more than men. researchers from the u.k. the wheel. they say women have an insting i have warning system. on average, women are 12% angrier than men while driving. >> vanessa: cigna has agreed to make it easier tore doctors to prescribe medication to treat opioid addiction. cigna will no longer require doctors to fill out paperwork, hoping it will reduce opioid abuse by consumers. >> mark: british american tobacco is making a bid to requir world's largest listed tobacco company by net sales and operating profit. the current industry leader is philip morris. >> vanessa: sour grapes for wine drinkers. 2016 is shaping up to be one of the worst years for wine production in last two decades. harsh weather conditions in south america and france have spoiled grape harvests throughout the year. experts say that could cause the world wine output to fall 5% streaming in to southern new england. it's coming from two spots. right now, the initial spot and the one most concerning is this tropical stream of moisture that's coming on through. it's right back here. there's also been thunder and lightning reported. connecticut, there's a flash flood warning in southeastern connecticut. that's the rain pushing northward toward us. we have a flood advisory in this area of green, much eastern and central worcester county, including the city of worcester, into middlesex county a that flood advisory. what that means is this heavy rain that's coming through now can produce localized flooding. it's not the kind of rain that's going to fill up the rivers and streams and cause that kind of widespread flooding, but coming down at the rate of one inch an hour in some places, that can get the flooding going, especially coupled with the leaves that plug up the drains. we'll take you to worcester. look at the reds that show up right there along route 9 and route 12 this worcester. hit hard with some of the heaviest rain. city streets, pleasant, elm, oxford in the heavy rain and over to 290. southern worcester county, same idea, dudley to webster and points west of there, 131, 169 coming through town, mass pike to the north. uxbridge and northbridge with pockets of heavy rain and plenty proper to your south. wellesley in the heavy rain, along pike in wayland. 128 through needham and deadham and back through sherburne and medfield and dover, seeing this stripe of heavy rain happen right now. this is all the town of sherburne, route 16 that comes through the area and 27 that cuts it off at the pass. the weather concern will be the heavy rain this evening but also the potential for the low visibility and the heavy rain and the street flooding, localized as it may be. we're not going to see cars floating away everywhere tonight. don't want you to be alarmed by that, but there will be places could stall out in. you don't want to cross flooding waters, turn around, give yourself extra time. rain through eastern massachusetts, going northward. we'll get a break in the action overnight and into the early morning hours. 5:00 a.m., not much happening anymore. the heaviest rain has passed on by, but by saturday afternoon, tomorrow afternoon, another batch of rain, pin wheeling on in here. some of it will be heavy, but behind it, the cold air starts to come in too. adirondacks, turning over to snow by saturday evening. football games, will be wet most places. some places, incredibly wet. 65 degrees on average. same thing at halftime in the 60's with rain around. our game of the week, newburyport at north reading, it's homecoming at franklin high school, they'll have heavy rain to contend with too. high temperatures to the north and west of boston will be in 60's tomorrow. this will be just about everywhere. in the 60's. through lunchtimeuntil the showd then the cooling starts tomorrow snowflakes in the high elevations. you have to go to the berkshires, to the mountains, perhaps some mixing happening in the highest worcester hills. it will not be snowing in boston at the coast inside 495 at all, but flurries in the light bluff and the potential for some accumulating snow in darker blues, especially in the adirondacks and portions of the greens and whites here in new england. don't get the skis ready just yet, but it's good news. you would rather see this happening early than not if you're a sunday windy conditions, blustering to 40 miles per hour. we'll keep you cool into next week. >> mark: all right, the cincinnati zoo is back on twitter, after a two month break sparked by outrage after a shooting of harambe the gorilla. the zoo employees were forced to kill the gorilla in may after a poynette into his enclosure. imposters tried to pass themselves off as the official researchers say this year's presidential election is causing major stress across the ignition. 52% of adults are stressing over the election despite party affiliation. the american psychological association in fact surveyed both republicans and democrats. health experts are weighing in on the results, giving tips on ways to cope ahead of election day. >> turning off television, not being home alone. go outside. spend more time with family members. don't argue and conflict about your beliefs. talk on common grounds. >> plenty of suggestions there. researchers say the group with the most stress -- seniors. and millennials follow closely behind. >> vanessa: it is a busy night of news and we have you covered. at 6:00 p.m., we continue to gather new information on a tragic breaking story in boston. two workers killed when a trench floods and collapses in the south end. all new at 6:00 p.m., witnesses describe the chaos as crews desperately try to rescue the people trapped. the company's past violations. >> the reporter: a lawrence man accused of raping a 13-year-old girl. now a second alleged victim has come forward. >> vanessa: a boy who fell out of a moving bus is talking only to fox 25 news. >> i just said stop the bus, stop the bus. >> vanessa: what he says happened moments before that dear fellow citizen, time spent with my son really makes me appreciate "the now". but i also have to plan for my family's future. on debt. in a smart way. like my mortgage - it's working for me. and if he needs a college loan down the road, that'll be worth it too. it's all about having a strategy, that fits your life. so, if you have a question about how to make debt work for you, ask me. uh, first of all, i plan to vote for donald trump. when it served her purpose, ayotte buddied up to trump, even calling him a role model. would you tell a child to aspire to be like donald trump? but she kept playing politics and flip flopping around. ayotte is running away from trump as quickly as she can. and what she values is her seat. and she's trying - to keep something she values. - i know. kelly ayotte. the politician. looking out for herself. independence usa pac is responsible >> mark: wells fargo's big account scandal may cause locations. the company hasn't announced wide scale closures, but the crisis may eventually force the bank to do so. not only does wells fargo need to find ways to pay for legal costs linked to the mess, but the legal branches may not make as much money, because the bank's unrealistic sales goals which employees said led to the creation of as many as two million fake accounts have been scrapped. >> vanessa: it seems kids, no matter the age are using digital tablets and devices and now there are new recommendations young children. fox 25's jacqueline feld is in washington with the new do's and don't's for parents. q. the nation's leading group of pediatricians is updating its advice on screen time for kids. the american academy of pediatrics once said parents should avoid all screens for toddlers. given today's ever-changing technology, the group now says, children younger than 24 months should see screens, but only in the form of video chatting. doctors say members through skype or face time can actually help build relationships. the new recommendations vary by age. children 18 months to two years old, the guidelines say that they should be shown media only with an adult, never alone. doctors advise, no screen time, one hour before bed, and don't leave devices in bedrooms overnight. pediatricians acknowledge there are benefits to these devices, doctors suggest parents power down those ipads and tell kids to get outside. in washington, jacqueline feld, fox 25 news. >> mark: nintendo is hoping to change the game with the newest console. nintendo switch let's players seamlessly change between gaming on the tv and gaming on the go. pull the unit out of its dock and take you with it anywhere. the company is working to fill a niche and stay competitive after its last console. of the switch no price has been announced. >> mark: and first at 6:00 p.m., a tragic accident in boston's south end today. two private contractors were killed when a water main broke flooding a trench they were working in and trapping them inside. right now, crews remain on the scene working to recover their bodies. heartbroken co-workers tell us the men who died were great family men and great co-workers. ockerbloom. >> vanessa: i'm vanessa welch. just a horrific situation on dartmouth street this afternoon after 1:00 p.m. police say the workers became trapped in a 20-foot wide trench when the water main gave way and rushed on top of them. the men work for atlantic drain services out of roslindale. dartmouth street from warren to tremont closed until further notice. water in that area has also been turned off. >> mark: fox 25 has team we are uncovering new information about the company's history and hearing from witnesses who saw this all happen, but we'll begin with fox 25's bob ward for the latest on the investigation and recovery effort. bob? >> the reporter: well, mark, right here on dartmouth street, there is a lot of delicate work going on right behind me. the bodies of the two construction workers who were killed today, are still inside that collapsed trench. i have want to show you some -- i want to show you live pictures behind me. a short time ago, the boston workers right now are on their knees carefully removing dirt, so they can reach men. this process could take hours. earlier today, i talked to witnesses and they described pure chaos right after the trench collapsed. this is cellphone video of the tragic scene as it happened at tremont and dartmouth. chaos moments after a trench collapses, trapping two construction workers, water flooding the streets, workers running for help. >> we saw people running around, like, worried, had their hands on their head like something happened. we have to get someone down, i think. we saw some guy, i think, came out, all wet and then we saw a person with a green shirt running around, yelling at someone, hey, we've got to do this. we have to do it right away. >> i'm looking up, seeing the guy, hysterically trying to move the planks, trying to take out the planks that were in the middle of the street, and that's when all the ambulances and

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point, this is a recovery effort, not a rescue for those trapped workers. >> these two people's families and everyone's families, just a tough situation. construction is a dangerous job, and you know, it's just a tough situation, the water and sewer are working really hard right now to get these people out. >> i heard the officers screaming on the air very quickly, to get fire, to get everyone down h realized very quickly, we had workers trapped in the hole. >> the reporter: so as you can see, a very heartbreaking day here in the south end. behind me, out here on dartmouth street, what's taking place is that the workers here are trying to drain out that hole, they're trying to get water out, they're trying to shore up the size of that trench to make it safe so that the bodies of the two workers can be recovered. very, very sad day here if the guys? >> mark: thanks, bob. bob, what are you hearing about the investigation on the scene there? >> the reporter: well, the investigation, boston police have sent their homicide unit here to investigate, they're working with osha. the police commissioner said just because the homicide department is here, that doesn't mean that they believe there's any foul play. they believe this is a tragic accident, not the result of foul play, but the men and women of the homicide unit of the boston police department tools at their disposal. they're going to be spending a long time processing this scene, going through, so they have a clear understanding exactly how and, more importantly, why this took place. >> mark: fox 25's bob ward reporting live from dartmouth and tremont streets for us tonight, the scene of that tragic accident today. the tragic scene is taking place if a very busy part of the city. there were dozens of witnesses and several people rushed to actually help the victims. in this video, you can see at background. he's reaching in to the trench as water flows around him. another man is also standing just above the trench. and fox 25's jacqui heinrich talked to the witnesses who shot that video. we'll hear from her coming up at 6:00 p.m. >> vanessa: be sure to stay with fox 25 for continuing coverage of the deadly trench accident. we're digging deeper into the atlantic drain services which is the company involved. we've learned they've been in trouble before several times with federal safety officials. we'll tell you what fox 8 live investigat 6:00 p.m. -- what fox 25 investigates found all new at 6:00 p.m. tonight, we are on a weather alert. rain has started moving through the area and it will be heavy aft times, causing a concern for drivers out interest tonight. fox 25 storm tracker chief meteorologist kevin lemanowicz here now and kevin, you're saying some places could also see flooding. >> kevin: watch for street flooding. flood advisory for instance in connecticut right now from the rain moving toward ums. you saw it's not raining hard in boston, but if you're in boston, and about to travel west outside of a rude awakening in you haven't heard this just yet. this is massachusetts turnpike going through framingham, metro west, 495, route 2 off to the northwest of boston, you're running into this members. that's some heavy rain, you can see red and orange between hudson and marlboro, coming down very hard, right along route 85 coming through town, and then off to the south of there, it's not just there, but look at all of this heavy rain, southwest of boston, from needham to holliston, worcester county, along the pike through auburn and on route 22, route 20 also getting some heavy rain. south shore, you're not out of it. duxbury, marshfield, heavy rain, just north of plymouth into king ton as well and there's been some out on cape cod as well but plenty more to the south moving toward us and we haven't even touched the cold air ahead this weekend. we have a lot to talk about. >> vanessa: stay with fox 25 for continuing coverage on air and on line with it weather alert. can you get weather updates any forecast it just a few minutes. >> mark: a man heads to court in connection with a shocking crime. >> >> vanessa: he's accuse much kidnapping and sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl as she walked to school yesterday. chris flanagan live in lawrence where that man is facing several charges. >> the reporter: yeah he certainly is. angel mateo charged with kidnapping and raping the 13-year-old, but also accused of attacking his neighbor five months ago. that neighbor came forward saw mateo's picture on social media. shackled and in a jail issued white jump suit, 21-year-old angel mateo did not look up once during hsbc arena arraignment if district court. mateo is charged with raping and kidnapping a 13-year-old girl on her way to school yesterday. he was wearing a g.p.s. tracker, because of an impending charge that he black mailed a girlfriend with nude pictures last spring. police say yesterday's kidnapping and rape happened at mateo's apartment on phillips street. court documents show he told with anyone, then said, it was consensual. >> i'm sick about it. you know, i think it's disgusting, and you know, what i don't want is for families and parents to think this is something that can happen to any kid in the city. >> the reporter: the neighbors say, they're outraged by the alleged incident. i think he should pay for that. there's a lot of kids passing by, and no, i don't have a child, and i don't want nothing like that to happen to my >> the reporter: just hours aftermatho was arrested on rape and kidnapping charges yesterday, a 27-year-old neighbor came forward with she saw on social media that he had been arrested. seclaims, -- she claims mateo attacked her at 3:00 a.m. in the morning when she was getting out of her car. she told police then, she struggled to get away but the man was able to get her into a head lock and began tracking her to boxford street. police investigated but an arrest was never made, because the woman says she did not though they are neighbors, so she saw mateo's picture yesterday. again, it took police five months to crack that case, coming up tonight all new at 6:00 p.m., why neighbors tell us police they feel should have done more. we're live tonight in lawrence, chris flanagan, fox 25 news. >> mark: sincere phuket in the shooting -- the suspect in a shooting of a 13-year-old chelsea boy is being held on $100 bail. christian garcia hid behind a door when he was arraigned on charges. juan delgado was shot if his shoulder. he was on the third floor of an apartment building on bellingham street when he was hit. police say garcia is the person shot several fires in the area of the home. three bullets went through the bedroom of his apartment building. this suspect is wanted for questioning for something that happened on saturday, october 8th. police say interest was an wonderland situation and lynn. >> vanessa: a bicyclist was killed in a collision in worcester overnight. police say he was riding his bike on southbridge street when he collide with the back of a parked tow truck. he was rushed to hospital but did not survive. investigators are hoping to look at area surveillance cameras to see if they can find out why the crash happened. two men 0 police say they confessed to blowing up a newspaper box in salem were order today stay away from the area. john gilman and richard plead not guilty to charges, including placing an incendiary device. prosecutors say the pair targeted a box belonging to the rainbow times, an lgbt in august. the surveillance video captured the vandals, putting the explosive device in box before running away. >> mark: we are still waiting to hear what caused this car to smash into a home in brockton overnight. you can see a lot of first responders on the scene after a car took out the stairs to the home's front porch on wilson street. running after the crash. the top judge in massachusetts wants to get to the bottom of potential racial bias in the justice system. chief justice ralph gans is asking harvard to examine the law system. they want to figure out were african-americans and hispanic are locked up at a much hue are rate than whites. the ratio of imprisoned minorities compared to whites is higher in massachusetts than justice tonight want to know why that is. when supreme judicial court justice ralph gans looked at the numbers, he knew something was wrong. last month, the massachusetts sentencing commission found african-americans are locked up eight times the rate of whites. hispanics, nearly five times the number of whites. the commission found the disparity in massachusetts is significantly greater than the national average. >> when i learned that our disparity is greater than the nation as a whole, i thought we of it. gans asked the harvard law school to create an independent research team to find where there may be implicit bias from the arrest to setting the wall, to sentencing the defendant. >> of the opportunity to bring in harvard law school and their research experts and their independent review allows us to do something we couldn't possibly do ourselves. >> the reporter: paula kerry is the chief justice of the trial courts in massachusetts. she says the review needs to start at the top with judges. >> one of the challenges really is just decision makers in our system the ability to be reflective on what they do and styles, it's that reflection that helps you counteract some of the implicit bias issues. >> it's not easy to do, because obviously, some share of that disparity relates to differences in terms of the criminal history and in terms of the nature of the charges. >> the reporter: gans is hoping all of the district attorneys and police departments participate if the study he says he has to expectations of how >> vanessa: the man who inspired the ice bucket challenge has now inspired a fully accessible park in his name. pete's park off middle bury lane in beverly is names after pete frates, who is battling a.l.s. the park is slated for a complete makeover. planners say it will be designed for children's with disabilities. frates is a beverly native and the park was renamed for him in july of 2015. some shoppers are on edge tonight, following a brazen robbery. >> mark: coming up at merchandise stolen from a local palm and why police are concerned this is becoming a trend. >> kevin: rain is moving in from the south to the north across our area for the evening commute, especially along 495 into the east where some of the heaviest is happening. in southern worcester county, i'm tracking every bit of it. don't worry, i have an update. >> vanessa: election day is fast spent 21 years in the navy, defending america. if i only showed up half of the time, i'd have been court-martialed. but that's what senator kelly ayotte did. she missed nearly half of her homeland security hearings. vo: on critical homeland security hearings, ayotte was mia... even missing a hearing the same day she went to a washington fundraiser. for ayotte collecting campaign y: when it comes to fighting terrorism, fifty percent doesn't cut it. afscme is responsible for uh, first of all, i plan to vote for donald trump. when it served her purpose, ayotte buddied up to trump, even calling him a role model. would you tell a child to aspire to be like donald trump? oh absolutely, i would do that. but she kept playing politics and flip flopping around. ayotte is running away from trump as quickly as she can. know. kelly ayotte. the politician. looking out for herself. independence usa pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. >> kevin: ok. we are on the alert, because of some heavy rain rotating in here from the south. tropical stream of moisture. coming on through and producing heavy rain for the evening dry. out to 495, northwest of boston, you see hudson and stowe up that way, really coming down hard where the red is showing up and dudley and webster seeing heavy rain come on through too and finally, you go to the south shore and this has slid off to northwest with live fox 25 storm marshfield, duxbury, sciate getting heavy rain. i'm tracking every bit of it. back in a few minutes with a live storm tracker update. >> mark: a new phase of siberia tax in internet service along the east coast. the new hampshire based firm has reportedly confirmed a third denial of service attack is underway. the company's computer server's optimize internet traffic from big internet companies. twitter, net flex, spotify and visa not yet clear who was behind t >> vanessa: there's a little more than two weeks to go now before election day and the presidential nominees are campaigning very hard for every vote, but some new polls indicate a tough road ahead for donald trump. rival hillary clinton is challenging or beating him in southern states, once firmly in the g.o.p.'s corner. >> get out and vote. >> the reporter: fresh polling shows donald trump struggling in states that were once republican. puts hillary clinton up in virginia, 45% to 33% and atlanta journal constitution poll shows trump with a narrow two point lead in georgia. 44% to 42%. bill clinton was the last democrat to win georgia back in 1992. hillary clinton, speaking in ohio friday, as her campaign releases a hard-hit new ad, featuring gold star father, kazir kahn. north carolina and pennsylvania, after getting slammed for rigged election claims, and getting boo'd during remarks at the al smith charity dinner thursday night. smith's great great grandson explained why attendees reacted negatively. >>ykg minutes early on, and eventually, he crossed the line and took it a little too far. >> the reporter: but cardinal timothy dolan, who sat between trump and clinton, told nbc that the candidates were much more >> mr. trump turned secretary clinton and said, you are one tough an talented woman and she said to him, and donald, whatever happens, we need to work together afterwards. >> the reporter: but with just over two weeks to go until election day, we're likely tov?u see less courtesy and more conflict on the campaign trail. i'm kim hutchison reporting. >> mark: we are getting our first hints at voting results. hillary clinton is looking strong in until and florida. clinton has an advantage in ar to be holding ground in ohio, iowa and georgia. more than 4.2 million votes have been cast already and they won't be counted until after polls close on november 8th, but some states report the party affiliations of early voters as well as breakdowns by race and gender. >> vanessa: the new hampshire senate race is no longer neck and neck. according to a new wmur-granite state poll, governor maggie lead over kelly ayotte. >> mark: fox 25 is your home for complete coverage if the days leading up to the election. stick with us for the latest on polling, campaign stops and speeches. >> kevin: all right. here's what radar and satellite looks like right now. you'll notice a lot of water headed towards southern new england. green stuff on radar. this northward from a stream of tropical moisture offshore coming out of the bahamas and now offshore of southeastern new england. then a cold front back here, pushing our way too. both of them are going to impact our weather it weekend and right now, impacting us for the evening drive. there is heavy rain pushing on through and it's going northward, right along 495, but also into southern worcester county, seeing some of the heaviest rain too. spots in and around stowe, massachusetts, maynard and foxborough, with the red that's showing up in here, that's heavy harvard road, peabody, all getting some of that heavy rain. then to south of there, in southern worcester county, some of the heaviest rain happening. webster and dudley too, where it's coming down very hard. the mass pike to the north of there is all headed toward the mass pike. baker pond road, corbin road, did you do live shall getting some of the heaviest rain. we'll focus off to the east there. this takes you to 495 once again, but through the franklin, milford, bellingham stretch and stretches back it to bellingham, along golfers who know this area, coming down very hard in and around that spot right now. then, to south shore, between plymouth and sciate, we're seeing some heavy rain. it's really up around marshfield and sciate where the heaviest is coming down right along the coastline and the beach roads, jerusalem road in sciate getting hit hard. heavy rain, the high risk, it's there, it's happening. along with that cops the potential for flooding. a moderate risk of localized street flooding, particularly where leaves have come down and raining in your town, you want to clean out the storm drain before heavy rain comes in, good idea. go ahead, but wait nil commercial break. low visibility, moderate for you if you get a levy downpour, low visibility. rain gear a must everywhere tonight. not saying it's going to rain every minute during the game for our game of the week or your high school football game, but the one we'll be going to on the the -- and one our fox 25 sports team is covering is north reading, thanks to your vote. it will be raining at least part of the game if not all of it. the h through the area. by midnight, last of it drifts on through. we get a break in the morning hours. afternoon, another area of low pressure, a storm, along that front to our west, spins more showers our way. those come on through during the afternoon tomorrow, so not a perfectly quiet day tomorrow. in fact, this is the lead edge of the cold air on the way. we'll get back to that in just a moment. as far as high temperatures tomorrow in and around the boston area, 64 quincy, 63 brookline, 62 it watertown. all of this happening by the the afternoon, these temperatures are going to start to fall back through the 50's. and the cold air, well, you can see what it's doing. the raindrops change to snowflakes, anywhere it's green, it's rain. blue, it's snow. the pink area tends to be the changeover line and this is just a rough estimate where that's going to be happening, but it's clear to see, it's in the berkshires, back here, it's in the green mountains and into the white mountains and maybe a little bit of flurry activity mixing in the worcester hills. not accumulating in the worcester hills late tomorrow night and early sunday morning. 4:00 a.m. sunday, that's where the snow will be flying. if you're going to get accumulation, it's going to be in the mountains, particularly the green mountains. seven-day forecast shows what's happening. the winds blowing the cold air in here on sunday, maybe in the 50's in the afternoon, but feeling quite a bit colder than that and we're going to stay autumn cool all week long this week. i'll be back in a few minutes with an update on the rain is falling. >> mark: to animal lovers, a pet is a pet, even whether it's a goat. local family and the special attachment they had to young girl who raised them from birth. >> vanessa: a special honor for the victims of the orlando night club shooting. advil liqui - gels work so fast you'll ask vil liqui - gels make pain a distant memory nothing works faster stronger or longer what pain? advil. you wouldn't believe what's in this kiester. a farmer's market. a fire truck. even a marching band. and if i can get comfortable talking about this kiester, then you can get comfortable using preparation h. for any sort of discomfort in yours. ayotte,. >> mark: downtown l.a people are now under arrest in the shooting of four students outside -- >> mark: two people are under arrest in the shooting of four students. police believe girl is the intended target. she is in the hospital. the boys were treat and released. new mural stands at the site of the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history. the gates surrounding the pulse night club in orlando were also open to the public for the first time since the june 12th shooting. hundreds of people gathered to see the mural, which features the rainbow flag. >> there is a statement that we are here, you know, we are not forgetting, we give love. >> mark: funds went to the one foundation glad. >> vanessa: a child pornography case out of former subway spokesman jared fogle have been lawyers for fogle say there was no settlement. fogle is serving 15 years if federal prison for child porn and sex with a minor. a rolling stone reporter is on trial for an article she wrote about a gang rape at the university of virginia. a uva administrator is suing the magazine, after they learned the author made up details for that stormy. the story centered around allegations of a student who recounted a vicious gang rape at a frat house. police investigation showed no evidence that it those takata air bags. >> vanessa: coming up, many vehicles with those air bags are still on the road tonight. what's not required that may have prevented this from happening. >> mark: are you over the election and can't wait until it's over? how the race could be impacting your health. >> vanessa: how a brazen robbery inside a local mall caught on camera. what thieves were able to get away with and why police are now ?? it'll be here before you know it. hello, halloween. it's the one night when everybody dresses up. and that includes dinner. it's baking season. warm up with pillsbury. you can never tell from the outside just how many warm, flaky layers are on the inside. it's baking season. warm up with pillsbury. >> mark: we are updating breaking news in boston's south end. firefighters are going through the somber task of trying to recover two workers who were killed while water filled a driven much. >> vanessa: it happened as the workers were digging under dartmouth street. jason law joins us with por. >> the reporter: firefighters are removing the dirt in the trench with their hands to be as respectful as possible. we have confirmed that those men were workers from atlantic drain a co-worker told us they were great guys, great workers and great family men. this tragedy started around 1:00 p.m. this afternoon and from sky fox, you can see the size of the hole that they were working in. we're told the men were digging near a fire hydrant when somehow a water main burst and water quickly filled the hope, trapping the workers. firefighters say it will take a while to secure the trench so they can recover the victims. >> we had to drain the water, bring if a trench it's safe for people going in. we'll do it as fast as we can, but it's a long, drawnout effort. at 6:00 p.m., we are uncovering new information about the safety record of that company where those men worked. i'm jason law, fox 25 news. >> vanessa: jason, thank you. log on to fox25boston.com for continuing coverage of a deadly trench accident. there you'll find the latest breaking details on the investigation as well as sky fox video from the scene. >> mark: we are also under a weather alert tonight. means the rain has moved in as fox 25 storm tracker chief meteorologist kevin lemanowicz is tracking it could be heavy in some spots, leading to flooding. >> kevin: the heavy rain continues to drift in from the south and the tropical stream of rain continues to push on in lear. there's rain to our wisniewski defending. we'll zoom in with live fox 25 storm tracker radar and the rain continues to move on in. i'll take the magical hand showing the towns off of there, so we can see it better without interruption. we'll zoom into northwest of boston. notice the green shading in for flooding along some of the streets that's being noticed out that way in worcester, heavy rain along 495. lowell, drakette, methuen, seeing rain but not torrential rain we've seen in other spots. this takes you along the mass pike, route 12 through auburn, dudley and webster, all of this torrential tropical rain is. coming on through. same thing for you franklin, bellingham, northward and medfield and north off sciate. this is the heavy rain. coming in through marshfield and sciate. we'll continue to track every bit of it through evening. the drive is going to be a mess out there. watch for some of the localized street flooding. never try to cross a flooded roadway. i'm back in a few minutes. >> vanessa: kevin, thank you for. right now, police are searching for a group of thieves who stormed the apple store if natick mall stealing more than $13,000 of merchandise. >> mark: investigators say these type of flash mob robberies are becoming more and more common >> it's terrible. you hear about that stuff all over the place, but i'm surprised out here. >> the reporter: a brazen crime leaving natick shoppers stunned. >> natick has been one of the -- [indiscernible] and keeps that notion in jeopardy. the whole incident captured on surveillance cameras. these seven people walked through the mall with hats and >> there were other people in the mall, but that's unfortunate. >> the reporter: unfortunate, because police say, in that busy store, group cut security cords and got away with 19 phones. a loss totaling about $13,000. >> i think it's shocking. >> the reporter: the theft comes as apple is experimenting with a new method of displaying merchandise, leaving phones untethered in some stores if canada and the u.k., so customers can get a feel for them. a change slated to be tested in the u.s. next year. this isn't the first theft of last month, hingham police said 10 to 12 teens went into the apple store and took off with 22 phones. natick police are investigating to see if that incident is connected to this most recent theft, one leaving shoppers feeling uneasy. >> what's next. am i going to see people with guns. >> the reporter: as natick police continue to investigate this, they are, of course, asking for public's help. if you have any information about this, give natick police a call. in natick, katherine perrotta cooperative bank. it happened after 2:00 p.m. yesterday afternoon. surveillance footage shows the man approaching the teller and tanking cash and leaving it a small blue car. >> vanessa: students in roslindale have a place to play for the first time since arsonists destroyed their playground. community donations paid for a temporary structure to replace the playground set on fire in may. three juveniles were charged in kings with that fire. a permanent replacement for that playground is in the works. >> mark: new hampshire police arrested a man driving drunk on the wrong side of 93. officials safe michael drake of meredith new hampshire was going south in the northbound lanes around 2:30 p.m. this morning. police found drake after receiving a call from a driver who said he was almost hit by an on coming car. drake's blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit. he is expected in court next month. >> vanessa: only on fox 25 news at 530, a mystery over the disappearance of a pair of goats. they're devastated over this loss and hoping someone will come forward and return them. fox 25's jim morelli live for us in milford, where jim, the goats had a special meaning for one young girl. >> the reporter: she raised the goats from when they were very little, keeping in mind, these are domesticated goats, so essentially, they are pets. we are at milford police headquarters, where they are actively involved in case, knocking on doors, tracking down leads, trying to find the goats who were very special to t special to her father. >> they're like family to me. they are not your average pets, but to 9-year-old cassidy and her dad gary, they are everything. the two goats father and daughter raised since birth. >> some people have dogs, some people have cats, like, they were like a dog or a cat to me, they were really special. >> the reporter: but cassidy doesn't know if she'll see her goats again. >> people build a bond with animals, and it's something you can't replace. it all went down on chestnut street. neighbors posted pictures of the wandering goats on facebook and called police. one neighbor agreeing to deep the goats in this fenced-in backyard, until police could locate the owner. >> four hours later, two men in a red pickup truck, you have our goats. >> the reporter: but the men didn't own the goats, something people didn't realize until the next day when the cave looking for his property. >> that's false pretense. they took property that didn't belong to them. >> the reporter: since each goat is worth northern $250, it is considered felony larceny, but to gary and cassidy the value of the goats can't be measured in dollars. >> it's not about the money. it's just about the love we have for them. >> i dearly miss them. i dearly miss them. >> the reporter: and deputy chief harris tells us that animal welfare authorities are indication, because it is not a case of livestock wrestling. this is more aiken to having pet dogs stolen. they're looking for a red pickup truck, they say the two men inside spoke spanish. give a call if you know anything. live in milford, jim morelli. >> mark: police officers in massachusetts are reaching for their stun guns more often a report from the herald shows bay state cops used their tasers 1100 times last year. that number is driven by more departments turning to the less lethal but costly weapons. 230 agencies had been approved to use the stun guns by the end of last year and that is up from just 82, six years ago. vice-president joe biden told the vermont crowd this afternoon, he is hopeful people will be able to get a vaccine against cancer in next decade or so. biden is continuing his tour, promoting the obama administration's cancer moon shot through new england. the white house is hoping to double the rate of progress if cancer research and treatment. biden's son beau died of cancer last year,. off a school bus this week is talk only to fox 25 news. >> mark: the change that child's mother is asking for since the accident. >> vanessa: sometimes it's hard to keep kids away from electronics. ahead at 5:55 p.m. tonight, the one form of communication that pediatricians say is now ok for toddlers. >> mark: and a pilot is forced to make an emergency landing. up next, the quick change of ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? great rates for great rides. most banks are all the same... capital one isn't most banks. ?? it's a relaxed place with helpful people focused on you, not trying to sell you things you don't want. and free checking accounts that are actually free. no minimums. no fees. no nonsense. what's in your wallet? >> vanessa: time evidence shows girl while his today remember son was dying in the back of a hot s.u.v. the young woman who exchanged those texts with justin ross hair rigs testified today that he asked for lewd photos on the afternoon of june 18th, 2014. harris' 22-month-old son cooper was found dead just a few hours later in his s.u.v. harris is charged with the murder in the boy's death. >> mark: an arizona man is rescued from a tight pop. he got stuck in a pipe near a power station in phoenix. the man was trapped for several hours. eventually freed by firefighters and the taken to a hospital to be checked out. >> vanessa: a pilot is being credited with saving -- with a great save for a landing that he made in oklahoma city. it was all caught on camera as a pilot got close to the runway, he noticed his nose gear wasn't dropping, so he rerouted to a longer runway and carefully, very carefully touched down. >> this is something that you train for all the time and hope you have never have to use. a way from it is how calm he was. >> vanessa: no word on what caused the equipment malfunction. no one was hurt. >> mark: one county if mississippi isn't taking any chances when it comes to clown craze. they banned clown costumes and makeup. they say clowns have become a public safety issue and don't want anyone to be frightened. a local law is in place from now until the day after halloween. anyone seen in a clown costume will have to pay a $150in >> kevin: ok. there's now a flood advisory out this way into worcester county, middlesex county and this is the reason why. heavy rain is. coming through right now. not going to fill up the streams and rivers, but there's going to be street flooding to contend with. i'm tracking it all just ahead. >> vanessa: another death connected to faulty takata air bags. up next, the troubling number of imagine if your child were trapped in a failing school. imagine if your child couldn't read or write at grade level. imagine if your child were stuck on a waiting list. 32,000 kids want to go to a public charter school. but they can't. if you like your public school, question 2 won't affect you. but for kids stuck in failing school districts, question 2 will let parents and give all our kids hope. please vote yes on question 2. ?? dylan: anybody can do parkour. our whole aim with the gym is to get people moving, and want to have people understand that you own a body. we can do some crazy things with it. having blue cross blue shield, i've always felt comfortable being able to try something that i might not know if i'm going to land, because i've always had this security behind me. >> kevin: here is the rain we're tracking this evening. we're going to take the radar off just for a second. you can see the outline in green. that is where a flood advisory is in place. when you rain this heavy, moving on through, worcester county into middlesex county especially, you'll get localized flooding. that will be a problem form the rest of the evening drive. i'm back in a few minutes with an update. >> mark: now a link to a faulty takata air bag. it's regulators confirmed it side to the exploding air bags. >> vanessa: justin gray reports from washington. officials believe there are tens of thousands of drivers who don't even know their cars are at risk. >> the reporter: air bags meant to save lives instead spraying shrapnel in a crash. federal officials confirming latest victim -- the 11th fatality tied to faulty takata air bags. the driver was behind the wheel of a 2001 honda civic like this one on september 30th, that had first been recalled all the >> it's a tragedy that simply did not have to occur. >> the reporter: the national highway traffic safety administration stays in spite of the warnings, the recalls, and the tragedies, 300,000 high-risk vehicles are still on road with defective air bags. millions of cars are affected, but the danger for these, honda and acura models from the early 2000's is so great, federal officials say they shouldn't be driven until fixed. many drivers don't know their car has been recalled because to disclose that information to buyers. >> puts them in a terrible position, because they're not even being notified many times that the recall is out there. >> the reporter: a bill proposed in congress could notify car owners when they go to register their vehicle, if it had open recalls. no votes scheduled on that bill so far. reporting in washington, justin gray, fox 25 news. >> mark: a new study has found that road rage affects women more than men. researchers from the u.k. the wheel. they say women have an insting i have warning system. on average, women are 12% angrier than men while driving. >> vanessa: cigna has agreed to make it easier tore doctors to prescribe medication to treat opioid addiction. cigna will no longer require doctors to fill out paperwork, hoping it will reduce opioid abuse by consumers. >> mark: british american tobacco is making a bid to requir world's largest listed tobacco company by net sales and operating profit. the current industry leader is philip morris. >> vanessa: sour grapes for wine drinkers. 2016 is shaping up to be one of the worst years for wine production in last two decades. harsh weather conditions in south america and france have spoiled grape harvests throughout the year. experts say that could cause the world wine output to fall 5% streaming in to southern new england. it's coming from two spots. right now, the initial spot and the one most concerning is this tropical stream of moisture that's coming on through. it's right back here. there's also been thunder and lightning reported. connecticut, there's a flash flood warning in southeastern connecticut. that's the rain pushing northward toward us. we have a flood advisory in this area of green, much eastern and central worcester county, including the city of worcester, into middlesex county a that flood advisory. what that means is this heavy rain that's coming through now can produce localized flooding. it's not the kind of rain that's going to fill up the rivers and streams and cause that kind of widespread flooding, but coming down at the rate of one inch an hour in some places, that can get the flooding going, especially coupled with the leaves that plug up the drains. we'll take you to worcester. look at the reds that show up right there along route 9 and route 12 this worcester. hit hard with some of the heaviest rain. city streets, pleasant, elm, oxford in the heavy rain and over to 290. southern worcester county, same idea, dudley to webster and points west of there, 131, 169 coming through town, mass pike to the north. uxbridge and northbridge with pockets of heavy rain and plenty proper to your south. wellesley in the heavy rain, along pike in wayland. 128 through needham and deadham and back through sherburne and medfield and dover, seeing this stripe of heavy rain happen right now. this is all the town of sherburne, route 16 that comes through the area and 27 that cuts it off at the pass. the weather concern will be the heavy rain this evening but also the potential for the low visibility and the heavy rain and the street flooding, localized as it may be. we're not going to see cars floating away everywhere tonight. don't want you to be alarmed by that, but there will be places could stall out in. you don't want to cross flooding waters, turn around, give yourself extra time. rain through eastern massachusetts, going northward. we'll get a break in the action overnight and into the early morning hours. 5:00 a.m., not much happening anymore. the heaviest rain has passed on by, but by saturday afternoon, tomorrow afternoon, another batch of rain, pin wheeling on in here. some of it will be heavy, but behind it, the cold air starts to come in too. adirondacks, turning over to snow by saturday evening. football games, will be wet most places. some places, incredibly wet. 65 degrees on average. same thing at halftime in the 60's with rain around. our game of the week, newburyport at north reading, it's homecoming at franklin high school, they'll have heavy rain to contend with too. high temperatures to the north and west of boston will be in 60's tomorrow. this will be just about everywhere. in the 60's. through lunchtimeuntil the showd then the cooling starts tomorrow snowflakes in the high elevations. you have to go to the berkshires, to the mountains, perhaps some mixing happening in the highest worcester hills. it will not be snowing in boston at the coast inside 495 at all, but flurries in the light bluff and the potential for some accumulating snow in darker blues, especially in the adirondacks and portions of the greens and whites here in new england. don't get the skis ready just yet, but it's good news. you would rather see this happening early than not if you're a sunday windy conditions, blustering to 40 miles per hour. we'll keep you cool into next week. >> mark: all right, the cincinnati zoo is back on twitter, after a two month break sparked by outrage after a shooting of harambe the gorilla. the zoo employees were forced to kill the gorilla in may after a poynette into his enclosure. imposters tried to pass themselves off as the official researchers say this year's presidential election is causing major stress across the ignition. 52% of adults are stressing over the election despite party affiliation. the american psychological association in fact surveyed both republicans and democrats. health experts are weighing in on the results, giving tips on ways to cope ahead of election day. >> turning off television, not being home alone. go outside. spend more time with family members. don't argue and conflict about your beliefs. talk on common grounds. >> plenty of suggestions there. researchers say the group with the most stress -- seniors. and millennials follow closely behind. >> vanessa: it is a busy night of news and we have you covered. at 6:00 p.m., we continue to gather new information on a tragic breaking story in boston. two workers killed when a trench floods and collapses in the south end. all new at 6:00 p.m., witnesses describe the chaos as crews desperately try to rescue the people trapped. the company's past violations. >> the reporter: a lawrence man accused of raping a 13-year-old girl. now a second alleged victim has come forward. >> vanessa: a boy who fell out of a moving bus is talking only to fox 25 news. >> i just said stop the bus, stop the bus. >> vanessa: what he says happened moments before that dear fellow citizen, time spent with my son really makes me appreciate "the now". but i also have to plan for my family's future. on debt. in a smart way. like my mortgage - it's working for me. and if he needs a college loan down the road, that'll be worth it too. it's all about having a strategy, that fits your life. so, if you have a question about how to make debt work for you, ask me. uh, first of all, i plan to vote for donald trump. when it served her purpose, ayotte buddied up to trump, even calling him a role model. would you tell a child to aspire to be like donald trump? but she kept playing politics and flip flopping around. ayotte is running away from trump as quickly as she can. and what she values is her seat. and she's trying - to keep something she values. - i know. kelly ayotte. the politician. looking out for herself. independence usa pac is responsible >> mark: wells fargo's big account scandal may cause locations. the company hasn't announced wide scale closures, but the crisis may eventually force the bank to do so. not only does wells fargo need to find ways to pay for legal costs linked to the mess, but the legal branches may not make as much money, because the bank's unrealistic sales goals which employees said led to the creation of as many as two million fake accounts have been scrapped. >> vanessa: it seems kids, no matter the age are using digital tablets and devices and now there are new recommendations young children. fox 25's jacqueline feld is in washington with the new do's and don't's for parents. q. the nation's leading group of pediatricians is updating its advice on screen time for kids. the american academy of pediatrics once said parents should avoid all screens for toddlers. given today's ever-changing technology, the group now says, children younger than 24 months should see screens, but only in the form of video chatting. doctors say members through skype or face time can actually help build relationships. the new recommendations vary by age. children 18 months to two years old, the guidelines say that they should be shown media only with an adult, never alone. doctors advise, no screen time, one hour before bed, and don't leave devices in bedrooms overnight. pediatricians acknowledge there are benefits to these devices, doctors suggest parents power down those ipads and tell kids to get outside. in washington, jacqueline feld, fox 25 news. >> mark: nintendo is hoping to change the game with the newest console. nintendo switch let's players seamlessly change between gaming on the tv and gaming on the go. pull the unit out of its dock and take you with it anywhere. the company is working to fill a niche and stay competitive after its last console. of the switch no price has been announced. >> mark: and first at 6:00 p.m., a tragic accident in boston's south end today. two private contractors were killed when a water main broke flooding a trench they were working in and trapping them inside. right now, crews remain on the scene working to recover their bodies. heartbroken co-workers tell us the men who died were great family men and great co-workers. ockerbloom. >> vanessa: i'm vanessa welch. just a horrific situation on dartmouth street this afternoon after 1:00 p.m. police say the workers became trapped in a 20-foot wide trench when the water main gave way and rushed on top of them. the men work for atlantic drain services out of roslindale. dartmouth street from warren to tremont closed until further notice. water in that area has also been turned off. >> mark: fox 25 has team we are uncovering new information about the company's history and hearing from witnesses who saw this all happen, but we'll begin with fox 25's bob ward for the latest on the investigation and recovery effort. bob? >> the reporter: well, mark, right here on dartmouth street, there is a lot of delicate work going on right behind me. the bodies of the two construction workers who were killed today, are still inside that collapsed trench. i have want to show you some -- i want to show you live pictures behind me. a short time ago, the boston workers right now are on their knees carefully removing dirt, so they can reach men. this process could take hours. earlier today, i talked to witnesses and they described pure chaos right after the trench collapsed. this is cellphone video of the tragic scene as it happened at tremont and dartmouth. chaos moments after a trench collapses, trapping two construction workers, water flooding the streets, workers running for help. >> we saw people running around, like, worried, had their hands on their head like something happened. we have to get someone down, i think. we saw some guy, i think, came out, all wet and then we saw a person with a green shirt running around, yelling at someone, hey, we've got to do this. we have to do it right away. >> i'm looking up, seeing the guy, hysterically trying to move the planks, trying to take out the planks that were in the middle of the street, and that's when all the ambulances and

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