studios in boston, wbz news starts right now. our top story, the owners of the pilgrim nuclear power station say they'll shut down the plant by june of 2019. the plant needs millions in safety improvement, and analysts tell us the move could mean higher energy rates here in new england. jury selection on hold for a danvers teen on trial for killing his teacher. and tonight the democratic presidential hopefuls face off in las vegas. five candidates for president will debate for the first time. vice president joe biden plans to watch from home even though cnn says they'll have a podium for him. and a firefighter faced a young accused of beating up a homeless man. >> >. he's accused of punching

enough. >> reporter: this brook line firefighter fighting accusation he beat a man said to be homeless after the 53-year-old took too long to order food. the first officer who arrived on scene found a bloody mess. >> blood was spurting out of his eye area. >> he jumped on, and straddled his chest and beat his face in. >> reporter: david happened to pass by sunday night and saw what prosecutors say the surveillance shows. >> after he was in the ground he threw his glass bottle as his back, and it broke. >> reporter: ward's defense attorney says there's more to the story. >> reporter: the investigation is still on going, and police have to do further investigation, and so are we, so i requested some evidence. according to the police report

behind him was taking a long time, and when he asked him to please hurry up he says the man said let's take this outside. was the victim ever fighting back? >> no. >> reporter: did he seem he was threatening the person beating him? >> absolutely not. he didn't even throw a punch. >> reporter: ward who's not being held now is on administrative leave. his department not saying whether it's paid leave. after a decade fighting fires, it was a fight over food that could get him fired now. christina hager. >> and the lawyer may have looked familiar to you, he's facing charges of his own. back in may a woman jumped off his boat, was hit by a propeller and lost her arm.

>> >. fightening moments for people at a condo complex, members of a swat team had to use a flash grenade to get into the building. a man had stabbed someone, and refused to come out. the rest of the neighbors were ordered to stay inside. the suspect is now in custody. three south coast men are facing charges tonight for vandalizing a land mark in the free town fall river state forest. investigators say the men sprayedingly if ity on a historical rock. and investigators are saying there were more people at a circus than they realize the night of a deadly tent collapse. originally officials thought there were about 100 people there, and now they know they were more because adults could bring kids in free.

the collapse -- the cause of the collapse is still under investigation. and a wave of deadly attacks in jerusalem. two palestinian men stormed a bus shooting passengers, and then a driver rammed his car into a crowded bus stop, and started stabbing people. three were killed, dozens of others injured. we're learning more about the malaysia airlines flight shot down over ukraine. the report came out today about exactly what happened, and who's responsible. liam martin has more. >> reporter: the flight was brought down last year on a regular route, since then dutch authorities have been collecting the wreckage, and reconstructing it to find out what happened. investigators determined a surface to air missile traveling up to 5,000 miles an hour exploded just four feet

from the cockpit, and was likely a russian made missell. the blast was to powerful -- so powerful it ripped the clothing off some of the passengers. the debris scattered over several mile, and while the report doesn't name who shot the missile, the area named was controlled by russian backed rebels, but russia calls the report flawed, and now there's a criminal investigation underway to find out who shot the plane down. the drug company that raised the price of an aids drug is 1st basing an antitrust investigation seeing if they're trying to prevent other companies from creating generic versions. the company promised to lower yet. we could soon see the

the big screen. there's a book being written about the case, and leo dicaprio has bought the rights. looks like we may see a big crowd at brook line town hall as parents and students plan to rally around an. battled teachers. last week they said he should get a second chance after being taken off the job after some students heard him swear. the outgoing superintendent sent him a notice of termination. the case starts in about an hour. the governor is weighing in on the charter school debate testifying today that adding charter schools could help close the achievement gap. there are about 80 in massachusetts right now, but critics say they drain

public schools. secretary of state john kerry host was in boston today with the prime minister. and kudos to a redding police officer and the home depot. together they replaced a couples american flag. it was the second time it was stolen, and it was too expensive to replace it again. the officer went to buy them a new one with money out of his own possibility, and the manager -- pocket, and the manager heard the story and decided to donate the flag. a 12-year-old boy facing a six figure lawsuit. >> plus shoo fly don't bother me. danielle niles gets an

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a new york woman sued her own nephew for more than $125,000 just lost. >> >. the nephew is 12 years old and just tried to hug her. she says when she came to his eighth birthday party he acted unreasonable, jumped into her arranges and caused her to fall and broke her wrist. she says she loves her nephew, but thinks he should be held accountable for his actions. >> apparently she couldn't hold a plate at a cocktail party. that was one of her complaints. >> >. really?

>> she loves her nephew. >> right. and twitter lay off is the hashtag, the social media giant is laying off 8 percent of their staff. >> they're struggling to live up to wall street expectations and attract new users, so could a new slogan help? the hashtag give twitter a slogan is tweeting. a place for facebook statuses you don't want your families to see, and another user says quote everything wrong with the world in just 140 characters. kind of surprising they don't have a slogan. >> i love twitter. >> right. >> they're thinking about allowing people to use more than 140 character, but i think that's against everything. >> i like it when we're economical with words. and one of our coworkers has a

viral moment. >> this happened to danielle niles this morning on air. >> this is another mild one, oh, my goodness, there's a huge fly. it was like that big. but hey, come -- why does this always happen to me? >> cooler air is on the way, more coming up. we'll see you after the break. >> that's crazy. >> she was very gracious, and the fly is not dead we should mention. >> you saw it couple of moments ago. it was right around my nose. it's here. a generation of helicopter parents impacting college? >> and change in the weather, pretty mild outside and some

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i hate to say it but it looks like a lot of college kids are getting a failing grade in growing up 101. a local professor claims students are derailed by issues that used to be considered routine. >> and he trace it is program back to early childhood. he talked to him about the resilience deficit. >> yes, this is something that's really been brewing for years, starting with the phasing out of unsupervised play time for kids, and then mushrooming into the startling

sight of parents baby sitting their college-aged teens. >> >. more and more there's parents on campus at the college level coming to solve their children's problems. >> right there in your office? >> right there in my office. >> reporter: chances are you've heard about helicopter parents who hover all through the teen years. >> they haven't had the experience of solving their own problems. >> reporter: but this psychology professor, author of free to learn, why unlush leashing the instinct to -- unleashing the instinct to play will make children happier says parents are swamping college campuses for hem with emotional issues. >> it appears students are becoming very much used to the idea that if they have a problem, the way to solve it is to go to some adult to solve it.

>> kids today are spoiled. >> reporter: here on the boston university campus we didn't find anyone who disagreed. >> our parents babied us, and when you neat to college and the real world it's not like that, and you get reality. >> when you have that much social interaction online you lose touch with more people- based things. >> and we talked with a number of student, not a single one of them challenged the claims the professor made. they see nit class mate, and even themselves. >> i'm thinking a college freshman now was probably born in 1997, and a lot of tough things have happened things then, and i wonder if that's why we hover over them. >> but you know, baby boomers, their parents were no tortured use for everyone gets a trophy,

most precious, and raised these delicate little eggs that crack at the slightest impact in life, and that's not how life works. >> good story, thank you so much. talking act weather now, and taking a look outside. what an patrolman overyearier. >> >. yes, some -- improvement from earlier. >> yes, so nice, and the color starting to pop. >> yes, everything a little late this year, but things come ago long very quickly. just a stellar long weekend. and the theme for this week is gradually cooling down all week long. last couple of days into the # 0s. warm -- 7 90s. next round of showers friday, and the coldest air of the season is this weekend, and have the woodpile ready. low 70s today for many locations. humidity in the air, but

in the city right now at 69 degrees, the dewpoint near 60, which is pretty muggy by mid- october standard, and the wind is from the south. ushering in cooler air over new york state and great lakes. cleveland and buffalo into the 50s. just a little baby step down tomorrow. rain fall, we had that big batch this morning. few showers swinging through along the cold front. couple of rain drops here, not expecting much more though. tonight's temperatures stay mild, humidity will fall back. in terms of cloud cover slowly overnight. tomorrow morning brilliant sunshine, if you want to get outside tomorrow it's the first half of the day that will be most enjoyable f. lunchtime on clouds start to fill back in. partly cloudy in the afternoon, and sticking around until

sunset, then the clouds start to melt away tomorrow evening. sun rise at 6:55, inching hour. well up into the 60s in the afternoon, most warm in the first half of the day. friday afternoon and evening more clouds, sunset at 6:04, and winds 10 to 20 miles per hour out of the west southwest. low 60s in the higher terrain, central massachusetts into southern new hampshire, mid and upper 60s across eastern massachusetts and down toward the cape. pretty nice day thursday. good amount of sunshine, quiet condition, seasonal temperatures. friday's front will usher in a few showers for friday, and much colder air. looks to be the coldest air of the season. not record break, but maybe close, and could bring the first wide-spread freeze of the season mainly sunday night. that would be 18th into the 19th, if you haven't seen a frost yet this season, the average date for the first

we've had a long growing season. temperatures haven't cooled off too much just yet. here's the zaire, and a lot of focus -- seven-day, and a lot of focus on the weekend. the oyster festival, the regatta, the cranberry festival, and i don't want to say winter jacket, but maybe winter jacket conditions sunday, and here's the schoolyard shout out into new hampshire, couple photos showing the students. wide receiver in full swing with -- we're in full swing with our school visits. >> >. and as soon as the camera was put up they jumped up and down. >> towed put the camera into burst mode. >> >. all right, thank you. how about this story, a grandfather survived nearly a week lost in the harsh australian outback by eating

no water, he was found six days later, nine miles from where he was last scene. extremely dehydrated, but president examed to be okay. >> wow. >> how many ants do you have to eat to be full? >> i don't want to find out. and tips from positionals don't always transfer to the golf course. >> rory mcillroy was giving tip, and one player teed up and this happened [ laughter ] >> oh, that's the ultimate swing and miss. the player let go mid-swing, sent it flying. everybody cracked up. rory posted the video on his facebook page with the cooperation new driver needed this week. >> be careful making fun of a rugby player. local teachers given the

gift of breathing for free. >> -- reading for free. and a medical examiner say's district attorney pressured him to alter in evidence a murder case. and can you imagine giving away half of what you make? this couple is doing it, and they're not millionaires. how they're pulling it off next at 6:00. ready to head out when others head home. at eversource, we prepare for ugly weather all year long. upgrading technology, managing vegetation, improving how we get information to you, because we know you're counting on us. we're ready for winter, and we want to make sure you're ready, too. visit eversource.com to learn more and sign up for storm updates. and be sure to follow us on facebook and twitter.

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a teachers union posted this time lapse video on youtube showing them getting ready for to school fair. thanks to some volunteers, they were able to distribute 50,000 books over three day. happy reading everybody. we have much more still ahead. now. pulling the plug, the owners of the pilgrim nuclear plant decide to shut down. how the surprise move could effect your bill. and did a victim accidentally try to kill himself trying to escape? >> 70s right now, mild, but we're heading in a downward direction the rest of the week. and this couple gaves away half of their -- gives away half of their income every single year to charity. and they're enjoying live. wbz news at 6:00 starts now.

time for the state's only nuclear power plant. it's powering down. >> neighbors are thrilled. they've worried about the plant's safety for years, but they produce enough energy to power 600,000 homes according to management. now that power will have to come from somewhere else. we have team coverage starting with bill shields live in plymouth. bill? >> reporter: you kind of knew this was coming because in recent years they had a lot of maintenance issues, then they were downgraded by the nrcand now economically it was no longer a viable plant. >> it means a loss of revenues of over $40 million annually for the pilgrim facility. >> reporter: because natural gas and oil prices are so low, officials say the plant was no longer feasible. that and the nrc ordering