A mother and her baby, both struck by car, badly hurt as they crossed the street, the baby only five months old. They were rushed to boston medical center. The baby is in bad shape with severe head trauma. The driver did stop at the scene. We got an update from investigators. Our Accident Team is here, they will ascertain whether speed was a factor or not. But we have a cooperative motorists that stopped and tried to render assistance. And made himself known to boston police. Back here again live. Police still at the scene a couple hours later as they try determine facts here. The big concern tonight for the mother and her fifthmonthold baby girl. Jim smith, wbz news back to you. Thank you. The scare at umass amherst. Reports of an armed man on campus forced the lock down tonight. Police tell us it turned out to be an arm assault on a studentane dorm room. Wbzs student in a dorm room. Julie l wbzs julie is live. Reporter an arm asult on a student assault on a student. The student was i
New at 5 30, federal investigators are determining that a tent in this summer s fatal collapse was not properly built. Jc newscenter 5 s ed harding has the story. Ed jc, federal safety officials are proposing more than 30,000 in fines in the collapse that killed two and injured dozens more in lancaster. Osha s inspection found that the tent operator, Walker International events, failed to heed repeated severe thunderstorm warnings the day of the collapse. Tent s stakes were not properly anchored in the ground. With warnings of 60 mileperhour winds, the tent should have come down. We need to understand Going Forward how they will prevent this kind of incident from occurring in the future. Ed osha will meet with Company Officials next week to discuss a settlement. Jc right now, one of two men charged with stealing bones from a graveyard in worcester is being held on 100,000 bail. Felix delgado jr. Pleaded not Police Arrested him earlier this month during a drug investigation in bridgepor
Home seized on water street. It is believed to be connected to the incident here they also search 2 homes and believe 2 framingham residents are connected. The attack happened at pierpont hall. 2 men rushed in with a gun, assaulting the student who severed cuts to his head, but was not seriously hurt. The school warned everyone to stay in place. I live here. At the same time, we didn t feel safe. No one knew where the guy was. You are safe tonight, that is what is important. Neither suspect is believed to be umass students. The campus has been deemed safe. A Boston Police officer on paid leave. The officer is under investigation in connection with the shoplifting ring involving whether or not he was profiting author harper lee has died at the age of 89. She wrote the 1969 classic to kill a mockingbird. That defined the racial troubles of the deep south. A second novel was published, go set a watchman which she wrote before to kill a mockingbird. New video after a mother and her fivemon
You are watching wcvb, boston s news leader. This is newscenter 5 eyeopener. Emily as we follow breaking news, all trains will make it to south station this morning after a signal problem was fixed moments ago. Antoinette and alexa will have much more for you in a minute. Randy the weekend is here. Cindy what a change from last weekend. 50 s this weekend. Big changes coming. Starting out clear and cold. Sun is up this morning at 6 36. Look at these temperatures. You need to just 415 out the door and beverly. Single digits. Boston is 21. Notice lower 30 s. The cape overnight and ocean affect clouds and snow showers are dissipating. We will start with a lot of sunshine for the first half of the day today. Notice off to the west a warm front. This is the leading edge of the warm air that will be here for the weekend. A touch of rain and snow overnight. Throughout the morning hours, lots of sunshine into lunchtime. Clouds come in this afternoon. By lunch, 30 five degrees making it ran towa
I can tell you a few minutes ago, the platform was crowded with people looking for the strained, even more people upstairs at the station. It has been a frustrating day. Mbta workers have to shout over the massive crowd jamming the station tonight as frustrated home. This is a disgrace. People are screaming. There are no cops. This is disgusting and disgraceful. It is total chaos. I don t see any emergency personnel. John hundreds of people are funneling into the Back Bay Station as a rescheduled starting point for dozens of rushhour commuter trains. People rushed to the platform after sporadic news schedules were announced, hoping to cram into packed trains. These commuters understand that amtrak is to blame, but that does not call their frustration. John we are just on the escalator right now, headed from underground to above ground. This is the Back Bay Station. If you just wait for one second here, you will be able to see the crowds. Obviously, a lot of people impatient, but there