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breaking news at 5:30, brockton police want help identifying this man in a series of sexual assaults. he's in his 20s, they say, about 6 feet tall and weighs 180 pounds. he may drive a dark blue or black sports car. police say he could have ties to easton and he's wanted for questioning in several rapes that took place in boston in 2013 and 2014. a south bridge teacher accused of sending lewd pictures from a student hiding from the cameras outside of court before facing a judge. prosecutors say the young teacher admitted to the crime. >> investigators say he used facebook messenger to send the teenage student nude pictures of himself. nicole jacobs has the details. >> he turned his back to the
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when called before the judge, joseph zuniga was exposed, just as the photos he was accused of sending one of his teenage students. >> the defendant has sent the photo to him when he was 16 years old last year. >> reporter: according to prosecutors, the 22-year-old admitted to sending the batch of nude pictures first when the student was 16 and then again when he was 17 all throw facebook messenger. rumors the south bridge high school resource officer heard through the mill and reported. >> some of them we could clearly see his face attached to the image, so we knew it was the teacher. we interviewed the teacher who was cooperative and agreed to come to headquarters with us for questioning. >> reporter: new from court, the south bridge high schoolteacher is said to have custody of his younger brother and sister. he, himself, celebrating his 23rd birthday today. his parents had no comment on their son's alleged actions.
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came, avoiding the cameras but facing the charge. zuniga was ordered to stay away from children under the age of 16 with the exception of the two children to which he is legal guardian. he is to have no social media, no contact with the victim and no contact at all at south bridge high school. in dudley, nicole jacobs, wbz news. tonight, a brookline firefighter is facing drunk driving charges. newton police say jeremy josephs drove into another car early saturday morning. officers say joseph tried to take off from the scene. right now, he is out of jail. the judge ordered him to stay away from alcohol until his next court appearance. we have new details tonight. two more suspects have been identified in the 1988 lockerbie bombing. scottish police want to speak with two libyans in tripoli who are believed to have had contact with the only others who have been jailed. 259 people were killed on board
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york when a bomb went off over 35 students from syracuse university were on that flight all flying home for christmas. oscar pistorius will be released from jail in just a the south african corrections department says he will be moved to house arrest on tuesday. pistorius is serving a nearly five-year sentence for shooting and killing his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. tonight, secretary of state john kerry is condemning the terrorist attacks in israel. tonight, hundreds of security forces are on guard after a attacks. jerusalem's mayor is urging israeli citizens with gun permits to carry their weapons. jonathan tonight, new questions about the standardized tests exam. a study comparing the mcas and park test found that the two were about the same when it
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comes to predicting college readiness. the state plans to vote on replacing the mcas next month. police officers in dan berry, new hampshire decided to taunt a couple of marijuana growers on facebook posting this picture. it's some dug up pot plants sitting on a cruiser's hood. it says "if that person would like to talk to someone about the loss of her summer horticultural project, please give the department a phone call." tonight, an i-team investigation. taxpayers subsidizing rent for people making six-figure salaries. as ryan katz discovered, state officials know it's happening and don't think it's a problem. >> reporter: angelina knows how tough it is to find an affordable place to live. >> the wait list for some of the programs are ten years long. >> here's what they are making. >> oh, wow. >> reporter: so the dorchester working mom was surprised when we showed her hundreds of families around the state
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>> i think it's a smack in the face honestly. it's really disgusting because there truly are individuals who are really struggling. >> reporter: at orchard gardens in roxbury, one family of four reported $228,000 of income. at this housing development at mission hill, five different families bring in six figures. >> what it boils down to is, is it fair? no, it's not fair. >> reporter: nobody is telling them to pack up and leave. in this scathing report, the federal inspector general revealed more than 25,000 families across the country are now over income. why should people making that much money continue to live in taxpayer-subsidized housing? >> they are helping support the housing by paying the rents they are paying. >> reporter: over-income residents pay the highest rent amounts at a time federal funds are strapped. while high-income families only make up a small percentage, administrators believe they serve as good role models.
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>> we don't want to create communities where all of our resident population is very low income, and there are no working families. >> reporter: the i-team reviewed public housing reports and found eye-popping dollar amounts all over the state. tenants making more than double the income limits in places like lynn, new bedford, somerville and worcester. here in cambridge, the highest earning families make $200,000 per year. the family of six bringing in four different salaries while paying just $1700 per month. >> people with excess income shouldn't be in subsidized housing. >> reporter: mike capuano doesn't believe people should get kicked out the moment they go a dollar over the limit. >> if you go over with did is 100,000, i wish -- go over $100,000, we'll say good for you, move on. >> the system is definitely flawed and needs to be readjusted. >> reporter: somehow authorities told the i-team
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guidance on when and how they should evict overincome residents. news. today we have wild video out of kosovo. a protest in parliament has opposition lawmakers setting the session. they are upset over a european syria. kosovo has had the second time setting off tear gas in the past two weeks. we thought our politicians didn't get along. bad? >> lost in translation. the cable hit "homeland" might want to have someone proof read the graffiti on set. >> a father's love and dedication to be there for his daughter on her big day. >> our weather watchers are tracking in the upper 50s to around 60 degrees. fall colors are in full swing. greg sending in this picture,
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it's just gorgeous outside. we have a look at the forecast
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on the bz feed tonight, thanks but no thanks. >> starting next month, an award-winning restaurant owner is eliminating tipping at his 13 restaurants in new york city. danny myers says instead he will raise prices on the menu but insists that your bill probably won't change in the end. he says this will boost pay for all staff from chefs to dishwashers. a lot of people applauding him for doing -- are applauding him for doing this because the dishwashers and kitchen staff typically don't get in on the tips. >> what do you think some. >> he is a visionary and so well respected. i think he is trying to take away the two-tier system to balance it out and let more people in on it. i think it's great. i don't know if it's catching on.
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>> if i am the server, i would say i will do an even better job because i'll get the best tips. whereas this, it's a flat pay and it take as way the motivation. >> -- takes away the motivation. homeland unknowingly aired criticism of its own show. they hired graffiti artists to tag a set but they were anything but fans. the characters walked past this arabic graffiti that reads "homeland is racist." got to check those out. a dream just became reality for a new england bride. >> her father walked her down the aisle. heather's dad is a lieu coo 'em ya surviver. during -- leukemia survivor. hep walked her to her future husband. heather says about a year ago, she and her dad more or less agreed he probably would not be able to walk her down the
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surprise, and so was the father/daughter dance that the two of them shared later. >> okay. >> right? is that not a beautiful picture? >> i can't imagine there was a dry "there because there's not one here. coming up, no more passwords. the tech company's solution to never forgetting another password. >> the event taking over the welt and why this year it's
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you'll definitely notice this tonight. the zakim bridge will be aglow in red. we're not just talking about the brake lights that are so common. the bridge is lit with red lights for dyslexia awareness night.
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we've also seen it in blue. one in 68 kids is diagnosed with autism. >> boston holds its walk for autism speaks. so the grandmother and grandfather here who started it all. >> it gap with a very heel jim boy, our grandchild. >> reporter: there was a time when these two knew nothing about autism. >> we didn't even know what it was. >> reporter: their grandson christian became the cutist little crash course in this maddening disease. within a year of christian's diagnosis, bob founded autism speaks. that was ten years ago. >> we doubled the awareness levels. that's very hard to do. awareness drives action. >> reporter: awareness illuminated in blue on world autism day, which autism speaks started. the group is now focusing on improving services for
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families, creating jobs and housing for people with autism. of course bob wright's ultimate goal is to find a cure. he says he's not discouraged by how slow that's going. >> appeal say you don't know -- people say you don't know what causes it. you don't know how to cure it. i said do you know how to cure cancer, muscular distrophy, et cetera? i'll go right down the line for you. >> reporter: this weekend it's boston's turn to walk. >> when we grow to the walks, i see the families. you can just tell, these people are winners. they just have a real tough challenge. >> as for christian, he just turned 14. his grandmother says he takes one step forward, one step back, but every step, for ten years, has been motivation to his grandparents. >> christian, you are changing the world, because he is. now we have the world's attention.
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>> certainly do have the world's attention. it is one of those things where you may not know anything about it then suddenly you know everything about it. >> they have been instrumental about teaching so many people. it's only about about ten years since autism speaks was created. i feel like we know so much. >> i'll be there with my family. if you'd like to walk or donate, go to autismspeaks.org. >> be bundled up there. >> it's a marathon, of course. >> thank you. hopefully things will cooperate. bundle up. a taste of november is ahead for us. we'll be a chilly weekend. a few showers and sprinkles mainly tomorrow and again on saturday. then sunday night is when we get our coldest temperatures, a widespread killing freeze as
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so the gardens will say good- bye for a season. take a look at current temperatures out there right now. 50s to around 60 degrees with a typical october day. clear skies, tons of blue. looking to the west, the cold front is back toward toronto. this will bring us a few rain showers, not significant rain but a little bit of wet weather late tonight into the day tomorrow. by late tomorrow, we're starting to move in for the commute. you might want an umbrella or rain jacket. then the afternoon, a few more stray pop-up showers and sprinkles are very far between. the wind's starting to kick up and the temperatures are starting to fall back. for tonight, the increase in clouds, late shower and temperatures in the low to mid- 40s. tomorrow morning, we're looking at the spotty showers but the wind has picked up out of the southwest 10 to 18. they are worried about the 10 to 25 range.
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by the evening, the winds are starting to drop back. all told it should be a quiet but cool friday night for us. the coldest is on track. the coldest readings since back in april. april and october are similar months when it comes to temperatures here in new england. for the head of the charles in general, mid-50s on saturday will be in and out of the clouds. a couple of brief showers moving through and breezy conditions out of the west- northwest. as we head into sunday, a high northwest winds. for all of the rowers heading out here at the head of the charles, outside of bu, that's waters. cold enough where upslope snow is likely in northern new england. if you are a photographer or you have plans to move up there, still great foliage. you mix in a little snow, there could be great opportunities there. it's not going to be adding up to too much snow. then on monday morning, these
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temperatures out the door. it is not an easy one to get out offed by. 32 in downtown boston. so most of the gardens will be long gone. the mums, the plants can survive, the flowers do not. cover them up or bring them inside as we head toward sunday night. speaking of foliage, great shot here from nancy. basically at peak. you want to catch it now because after this weekend, a lot of the leaves will be falling off. shear a look at the accuweather seven-day, sunshine and 40s after the frigid start. we're back toward 70 by the middle of next week. the danielle niles school visit here. this one is in rockland. they asked some great questions, how long you need to be in school to become a meteorologist. we love when they ask school- related questions, what you need to study, math and science, the two courses most important for a couple of future meteorologists.
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>> the hardest ones for me. >> thank you, eric. yahoo took the first step toward getting rid of passwords. the new yahoo mail app has an option called account key. it lets you sign in by pressing on a notification that's been sent to your phone instead of typing a password. users can also opt out of this. you can continue using a tradition ale password. -- traditional password. >> pass ward 123 -- password 123 is a good one. >> for sure no one breaks that one. the acts of kindness that are warming people's hearts tonight. >> tonight at 6:00, governor baker vows to fight the addiction crisis. we looked at the toll addiction can take on families including one man's story of how an overdose left him brain damagedp. >> we're continuing to follow breaking news in brock continue where police are on the hunt nor this man, wanted in a series of sexual assaults. the breaking details coming up
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tonight, a massachusetts family is trying to track down the good witch of the north shore. you see eileen, her kids and grandchildren got together for a pizza dinner tuesday night in salem. it was the first night in three years they could all be together. when it came time for the bill, the waitress gave them a note. a woman dining by herself paid their entire tab more than a hundred bucks and wrote "enjoy salem. the family left the restaurant
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returns. the note reads "there are good witches in salem mass with a thank you." now. >> this has got to stop. >> governor charlie baker says enough is enough. taking aim tonight at the massachusetts. >> plus -- >> i probably would be dead or living on the streets somewhere right now if this didn't happen to me. >> tonight, we take a closer look at the real human toll of addiction. >> refusing to give up their fight. the scituate parishioners stand their ground. >> it's been a great run but the coldest air since april is on the way. the time line on when the chill arrives is coming up. captions by: caption colorado, llc (800) 775-7838 e-
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breaking news at 6:00. this man wanted. he's in his 20s about 6 feet tall, 180 pounds. he may be driving a dark blue or black sports car. police say he's been in downtown brockton but could have ties to easton. he's wanted for questioning in connection with several rapes. our big story tonight, the addiction crisis here in massachusetts. >> it is a problem, sadly, that we've been talking about for years. now the governor, charlie baker, is taking action. here's why. there have been more than 1200 overdose deaths in massachusetts since 2014. a staggering number. charlie baker says something has to change. christina hager is here now with more on the governor's plan. >> reporter: david, this has got to stop, said governor charlie baker today, announcing proposed legislation aimed at getting to the problem before more people die. the new law would give
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hospitals the power to
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