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in addition to his time as senator, scott brown has also served for over 30 years in the army national guard. nancy: now he is being considered for secretary of veterans affairs. amaka ubaka spoke to him at his home in new hampshire. reporter: scott brown may have a new job come january. as secretary of veteran s affairs, part of president-elect trump s new cabinet. my phone rang. i had his number i said good evening, mr. president-elect. reporter: then they got down to business. what is your real passion? it is currently veterans. i m making the highest recommendation to my team that you be strongly considered. reporter: scott brown reached the rank of colonel before retiring in 2014 after and veterans affairs committees. he would be responsible for managing the benefits and health care of millions of veterans. there are some angels at work at the v.a. there is also some real systemic problems. i think you need somebody who understands the issues, whi ....
seriously hurt here. as for jose do you feel like a hero? no, i m not a hero like a normal person looking out for a neighbor. and stuff. reporter: fire chief says the injuries are described as nonlife threatening. damage is around $400,000. no word on a cause. the red cross is telling us that as many as 30 people have been displaced by these fast moving flames here today. live in lawrence tonight, steve coop e 7 anchor: one person is dead after a crash on route 495. emergency crews raced to the scene just after 2:00 today. authorities are working to determine the cause of the crash. kim: tonight long ride home thanks to some rain moving through the area. we need it. we re in a drought still. let s go to jeremy reiner who is tracking the weather. how long will the showers stick around? reporter: i think for another 2, 3 hours the brunt of the storm, round one. it s right on top of you, steady rain and lighter rain. met wen through lawrence, carlisle up to nor ....
jason brewer is in for kevin. sarah: we re getting a couple of rounds, even within this night, blair and elizabeth. i m tracking the showers up and down our heaviest traveled areas, the pike, the expressway, 95, 128. there are some breaks, not everyone is getting the heavy rain. southern new hampshire right now, you ve got wet roads everywhere, but they re just spotty scattered showers, coming back in from the wells. then, peabody, boston, brockton, all the way down the pike here. now there is a break here as well. western norfolk county, southern brief lull, with you there s plenty more back to the west that will fill this through the evening and this heavy rain, the yellows you re seeing, duxbury, in a fewer more minutes over to marshfield by 5:10 p.m., an increasing intensity of the rain. also, some scattered showers, not the solid deck of rain for the cape and the islands, it s not as heavy here. but that could change overnight, as a new wave of low pressure appro ....
what happened. but for a relationship to end this way, it s terrible, it s tragic and we need to make sure we find out what happened. the reporter: and in order to do that, police will need a warrant to get inside this home. they re also questioning the grandmother, to find out how this all unfolded. we ll have more, the latest on this family tragedy coming up tonight on the fox 25 news at 10:00 p.m. for now, live in brockton, john monahan, fusion. fusion fox 25 news jimmie howard. blair: round two outside for the second night in rains are slowing down evening drive. elizabeth: let s get over to fox 25 storm tracker meteorologist jason brewer, tracking the rain. jason: we have the rain right now and we re going to see a lull this evening. i m watching the heavy rain coming up right across the pike, right now, impacting the greater boston area, but edge of the heavy stuff is moving up, say as far north as nashua, by 7:00 p.m. so it may start to lighten up in bo ....
be so well behaved all this month. report back. what s the elf s name? birkie i love it. our elf on the shelf arrived too just after thanksgiving. we re drying out this morning. december 1st, can you believe it? we re tracking rain instead of snow on the map this morning. still have a couple of showers out there too, a few sprinkles down towards paxton and you re getting into downpours again stretching up along route 91. those are lifting north and east. we have another batch of rain that s coming out of southern rhode island, bristol and plymouth county in the next hour, so light showers for the mid and outer cape all the way from chatham, wellesley and providencetown as well. these continue to shift towards the east. 61, 61 in taughton right now, that is not a mistake, december boonest. we are mild. any leftover showers here between now and 7:00 a.m. notice this is the map at seefng. some breaks in the cloud cover will be coming out. leftover sprinkles from the af ....