that people appreciate what an is. reporter: for now to decision on chens future. back? i hope soon. look, whatever resolution allows me to get back to these guys as soon as possible that's what matters. reporter: tonight the superintendent of schools here in brookline declining comment. meanwhile larry chen remains decision. live in brookline jim smith wbz news. jim thanks. developing now at 6:00 just a day after a pilot died during a flight to boston more trouble in the cockpit. today united airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing after a co-pilot lost consciousness mid-flight. the plane was headed from houston to san francisco but was diverted to albuquerque new mexico. the co-pilot did regain consciousness and was able to walk off the plane. this all comes as we're learning employer about the american airlines pilot who

passed away during a flight from phoenix to boston. 57-year-old michael johnston was from utah. his wife says his passion was flying. johnston's family believes he suffered a heart attack behind the controls. >> as far as we knew in perfect health when he left yesterday he seemed perfectly fine. he said he'd spent the last week couple of weeks working on losing weight had lost about 10 pounds and said i feel better than i felt in a long in a long time. >> these two incidents in two days raises concern about the health of airline pilots. captain sully sullenberger security consultant says pilots undergo strict health checks. >> every airline pilot in the country is required to undergo medical exams by faa designated examiner a doctor and for those under 40 it can be once every year for those over 40 it would be twice a year.

to retire when they reach the age of 65. >> convicted killer aaron hernandez wants to stop his second murder trial before it ever begins. today his lawyers made their case in court to throw out some key evidence. hernandez was at the hearing in boston. of course he's accused of killing two men in 2012 outside of a nightclub there. hernandez' lawyers say the state found the alleged murder vehicle based on statements from hernandez' associate carlos ortiz. and they argued today the search warrant should never have been granted because ortiz failed to polygraph exam. the judge will rule on that argument at a later date. the trial itself is slated to begin in early december. tonight the search continues for any survivors from a cargo ship that went missing during hurricane joaquin. among those onboard 7 people with ties to new england including jeffrey mathias a graduate of mass maritime academy. the coast guard just tweeted out these pictures of debris

the coast guard confirmed that the ship sank they are holding out hope survivors will be found. the ntsb is expected to give us an update at 9:00. in the wake of the umpqua community college constitute national guard oregon many schools want to make sure they are doing everything they can to keep the kids safe. bridgewater state university police tested their lock down protocol. they tested their emergency siren and text messaging system this morning. university's remote locking system actually allows police to lock exterior doors on buildings all throughout campus with a flick of a switch. the phone alerts, text and call mobile classroom and office phones flag flew at half staff to honor the victims of the massacre in oregon. flags were lowered to honor army sergeant christopher vairs of redding missing in action fighting in north korea in 1950. he was buried today with full military honors. he was finally brought home last month when his remains

family 65 years after he went missing during the korean war. the military offered him a burial spot in the arlington national cemetery. but he was burred in a family plot in everett. a request vairs older brother made when he died 20 years ago. all new tonight at 6:00 a local mom looking for a place to pump breast milk is literally sent out with the dogs at dulles airport. tonight she's getting an apology. what happened here cate. reporter: united airlines is apologizing tonight and changing their policy after a newton mom was forced to pump her breast milk in a public terminal. the other option she argues were disgusting and dirty. >> i can't believe that in 2015 this is happening. reporter: new mom live cooper is outraged. >> i'm not looking for free drinks. eye i don't want free meal i don't want anything i want a secure private location for 15 minutes to express breast medical milling and i'll be on

my merry way. reporter: when she asked united airlines during her lay over where to pump her breast milk two options family bathroom or pet relief area. is there there was a red fire hydrant for dogs to relieve themselves. that's obviously not where i'm going to pump my breast milk for my baby. reporter: she posted pictures to twitter calling united harold and the airport. they said this was her only option. instead she sat in the terminal. she says this is a choice no mother should have to face. >> people just don't get it it's 2015 of it's not like i'm a pioneer breast pumping woman. there are a lot of working moms out there that need to pump their breast milk. this is not groundbreaking. reporter: united called liz a short time ago they say they are sorry and there will be a place to pump at dulles. they are glad she brought the issue to their attention.

liz tells me she hopes this will help other moms. by the way logan airport does have a breast pumping area for new mothers. got to love liz and how fired up she is. cate thank you. a massachusetts man who says a shark attack saved his life. >> i feel like i've gotten a second chance at life and i'm not going to blow it. >> claims of insider trading in fantasy football causing a big shake up did an employee of one of the most popular sites have an unfair advantage? >> a perfect fall day out there today but however rainfall in the forecast before the week is done we'll have a timeline and take a look at the

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. saved by a shark attack. a fitchburg pan says if it wasn't for hester firing encounter in the ocean he wouldn't be alive. he was left cut bruised and in pain when a shark smashed into

him off the california coast. >> it's what happened next that has him crediting that shark with saving his life. this is a wbz exclusive tonight. >> the shark was a real message to me. reporter: it was just a family vacation on huntington beach, california. eugene his two kids and girlfriend having a carefree time. then during a swim. >> something struck me from behind. i had never been hit like take before. it was pretty jaring. it gave me an instant whiplash. reporter: it was a shark. eugene struggled out of the water. >> that's when my daughter said to me daddy how come your back is all bloody, this was the damage. a mean gash down his back. the headlines blared the news. >> that night i started having pretty serious chest and back pains. reporter: when he got home it only got worse. so he went to st. elizabeth's in brighton. >> the pain was caused by interior bruising of the thoracic cavity due to blunt force trauma. reporter: it was what they

told him next that hit harder than any shark. >> they had discovered a growth or a tumor on my right kidney about the size of a walnut. reporter: it was cancer and two weeks ago a doctor took it out. >> if this hadn't happened with the shark causing me to go in with this chest pain i would have never known about this cancer. >> the situation saved his life that's pretty fascinating when you think about it. >> i feel fortunate. i feel like i've gotten a second chance at life i'm not going to blow it. >> the doctor says catching the cancer early even if it was by accident made all the difference. his prognosis is great. he doesn't need radiation or chemo. >> he is lucky. >> i love that surgeon. >> you can watch the entire 12

minute interview on cbs boston.com. >> very lucky guy. >> very lucky man. >> we're trying to work to get the shark and eugene together to reunite so that he can thank the shark. >> you have to save that for the november ratings book. great story before thanksgiving. set your dvr. this morning a lot of chill in the air as we kicked off a tall day. cold morning and really pleasant great afternoon as temperatures rebounds. norwood down to 32 this morning. pep really 34. taunton at 37. beverly low 37. patchy frost across the area still haven't seen a region wide hard frost to really kill off a lot of the gardens or mosquitoes but we're getting closer for sure. we got to 64 in boston. many towns up around # 0 degrees. right on target for this time of the season. currently down to 5 in plymouth. 62 worcester. chilly air that sun is going down pretty much as we speak looking off toward the west seasonal airmass in place. the excitement of has week some heavy rain moving through things have calmed down for the

mainly clear skies high cirrus clouds working their way in from the west. cold front out by the great lakes. doesn't have a lot of moisture or energy all we'll see are a couple of clouds and that's about it. temperatures tonight going back through the 40s not quite as cold as last night. as we head toward tomorrow another pleasant day after that cold start we warm right back up. you have a jacket on in the morning. 60s at lunch time. mostly sunny not too much wind west northwest 5 to 15. few frisk he gusts mixed in. mildes day of the week many towns hitting 70 degrees. worcester at 68. nantucket staying in the 60s as will. as we head toward thursday a blast of cooler air moves down behind that front. we have a lot of sunshine still but highs struggle to get much above 60 degrees. there will be that chill in the air. friday we switch the wind around that comes from the south. it's going to bring in more moisture. by friday afternoon and evening

we should see some showers and downpours with a bit of lightning and thunder on friday afternoon. something we'll keep tabs on through friday night. if you have friday evening plans it is looking pretty wet. over that front should move offshore on saturday mornings. we'll see clearing skies on saturday. pretty cool air behind it. highs will stay in the 50s higher terrain about 60 in the boston area to kick off our columbus day weekend. feels weird that it's here already. felt like summer a couple of weeks ago now we're all rehe the mid point of fall. a lot of school weekends off parents weekends. 60s on sunday into the 70s on columbus day itself. warming trend as the weekend continues. now fall foliage peaks columbus day weekend. this picture more green than anything else. that picture was today. we've seen photos from northern vermont more green than color. starting to get where we're near peak. adirondacks. green mountains but well behind schedule compared to most

years. warm august september the reason for that. if you're wondering where joaquin is it's impressive but very far off to sea. shoe bring wind to great britannias britannias it crosses the atlantic. temperatures changes. >> he capitalized on boston's bad winter offering to ship snow from our city to anywhere in the u.s. now he's back again. this time he's sending you a bundle of fall foliage. kyle wearing says he is using a unique preservation process so the leaves last for years. three leaf bundle will cost you 20 bucks which he says is a steal considering the piles of snow were $89. the web site ship foliage.com began accepting orders today but you just heard eric say if his forecast the foliage is a little bit behind. so something tells me kyle is

driving pretty far north to grab those three leaves. >> imagine guys going up to his girlfriend here's a lovely three leaf burned. >> merry christmas. >> time to talk temperature. >> kind of weird steve we haven't talked about celtics to top off the sportscast. >> . when you can't talk about baseball you talk about basketball right. as you go pick up a place to open up the preseason why not italy? that's where the celtics were today. taking on olympia milano in milan. preseason italy. avery bradley. 7 rebounds in his first game an wind. isaiah thomas. the steal takes it the other way he's dunk in the pregame but simple lay in here. he had 18 points. four assists. 0 amir johnson had 6 points five boards. marcus smart he attacks the hoop for two.

second year point guard. isaiah thomas. hey, jared sullinger wide open for the easy dunk. had 14 points. david lee he finds avery bradley for three. bradley had 14 for the game. 124-91. they play real madrid in madrid on thursday. paths they are off today. they will be back on the practice field tomorrow getting ready for sunday's match up with the cowboys in dallas. crazy finish on monday night football last night. in case you missed it. lyons calvin johnson late touchdown to give detroit the lead. cam chancellor punches out the ball. linebacker k j wright knocked it out of the end zone. after the game the nfl admitted wright should have been flagged for illegally batting the ball out of bounds. lions should have got gotten

the seahawks got a gift from the refs. miami's up. vernon knocked the ball the other way. nature solder would fall. pile was flagged for illegal he batting the ball which wiped out the two yard loss turned it into a ten yard gain. paths went on to win the game. bill belichick talked about making sure his guys know the rules in all those situation. >> the whole sideline ball security, whistle, you know, all those kind of ball plays those are very important for everybody to understand. >> we vest those a lot any time the ball's looks like it was in last night's game to try to make sure they understand what they can do can't do. >> you got to know the rules. be sure to catch patriots all access friday night at 7:00 for all behind the scenes stuff you cannot see anywhere else. start sunday patriots game day at 11:30.

4:25 on wbz postgame show over on my tv 38. the texans host the colts on thursday night football this week. kickoff is at 8:25 right here on wbz. finally chara was back at practice with the bruins today first time since suffering an upper body injury on september 24. now hopefully he can go on the season opener against winnipeg of that's sports for now. >> the food's good. slow them down on the court though. at 6:30. >> scott pelley joins us from new york with a preview. boston. we're going to leave the broadcast with the worst flood go carolinas have ever seen. they found more dead today and we have a remarkable story with a family that was rescued after being chased up into their attic by the floodwaters. also spring awakening. it's an old play but it's being revived on broadway with a

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. want to take you live to the mortgage bend where the water has been turned back on. but you can see the road is a mess. this is because of a major water main break that flooded the neighborhoods crowded streets. this is what it looked like early this morning. you can see how bad it was as water poured on to prince street a number of businesses and homes without power for hours. officials say the pipe that broke was old. but they are not sure if that's why it broke. >> david two fantasy sports sites including boston based draft kings could face a congressional investigation

if you watch nfl football ads for draft kings and rival fan duel are everywhere the season. a draft kings employee recently won $350,000 playing on fan duel. a professor following the controversy expects more regulations. >> it's going to come either from outside or from within. there's no way that i as an individual would have confidence in the game unless i had some method of saying wait a minute, i can trust that there isn't somebody in there who's cheating on me. >> draft kings says no evidence that insider information created an unfair advantage but both companies have temporarily banned workers from playing. >> first he was known as the fist bump kid then man of the year. >> a new monday honor for liam fitzgerald we have the details

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. >> s coming up at 10:00. boston is hot. the hub has earned top honors as the best city of the country for one parts of our population. our guest tonight has been called the saint of boston he is devoting his career as a doctor to treating the homeless on the streets. we're going to talk to him coming up on the 10. >> liam thank you. coming up at 11:00 a child dice after being infected with e. coli how a trip to a popular new e fair may have made him sick. >> 9-year-old liam fitzgerald will be recognized tonight for being an inspiration to all of us. you may remember this viral video of liam fist pumping bruins players as they headed into the locker room. he's be recognized by the boston globe being the most inspirational fan. earlier he had down's syndrome success any battled leukemia was named man of the year.

from all of us at wbz congratulations to liam well earned. >> we love him. it will be probably have some great pictures of him on the red carpet tonight. >> can't wait to see. >> final check. >> final check things are looking pretty good. couple of degrees warmer still bright skies towns topping 70 degrees. pretty good stretch the only rain on friday. >> tossing at the commercial break. >> all this rain in south carolina how much rain is that? >> if you took all the rain that fell across south carolina you could give a 20-ounce bottle of water to every american every day for over 300 years. >> wow. >> better way to use our water. >> we need to start ending