right now at 4:30, an unusual case of west nile. the local man fighting the virus from a wheelchair and the message he wants everyone to hear. >> a police officer thrown down a flight of stairs. the investigation that turned dangerous in lowell. >> plus, draftkings hiring a big name. the former massachusetts leader joining their team. captions by: caption colorado, llc (800) 775-7838 e- mail: comments@captioncolorado.com good morning, it is tuesday, october 20th. it's great to have you with us. i'm kathryn houser.

>> you step outside, and it's a little nicer. it's not frigid. >> good morning, barry. >> good morning. the temperatures are so different than yesterday morning. for example, norwood was down in the teens yesterday at this time. the 24-hour temperature change is amazing. it's like almost 30 degrees in some locations higher than yesterday morning. we had a few showers overnight. another batch is on its way as you can see there coming down from southern new hampshire heading toward extreme northern corridor. we'll be moving into the merrimack valley soon. we have a lot of wind out there as well. the wind is on the cape with potential wind gusts up to 45 miles per hour. there could be minor damage with branches coming down. so 48 for the morning drive.

48 to 52 and up to 60 to 62 by lunchtime and 62 this afternoon. not all that much sunshine, but we'll try to get a little bit out now and then, especially north of boston on the north shore and along the new hampshire border. so we'll take a look at the rest of the forecast in a few minutes. kathryn? >> thank you very much, barry. a healthy man in his 40s fighting for his life. his message could save yours. he got a mosquito bite. >> now he's partially paralyzed. bree? >> reporter: chris and kathryn, mark maynard wants people to know that moss skeet stow pro cautions should be more serious and extensive than you might think you need. he says diseases like west nile and eee can be devastating for more than the already sick and elderly. mark is partially paralyzed by something he says he never dreamed possible. >> we've been bit been i mosquitoes our whole lives so

it's unusual to think that you time. >> reporter: he says he got bit at a cookout at his mom's place in jersey in august. couldn't stand. well into the fall, he's come to terms of what could be a two-year recovery process. >> that hurt me when i realized i'm getting worse, not better, and time's running out. >> reporter: co-workers and cliented starts a go fund me campaign to help mounting medical bills. >> it's clear now. i have a lot of support. >> reporter: he hopes folks will take precautions more seriously than he did like using repellent and covering exposed skin after dark. for many, west nile virus has not become anything more than a cold. a brattry of tests have yet to explain why mark's case is so different. he says it's much better safe than sorry.

chris, back to you. >> scary message this morning. three lowell police officers attacked while questioning a suspect. this morning that man heads to court. police say an officer went to the home to talk to a suspect. a witness started hitting the officer, and that's when eventually he threw the officer down the stairs three times. >> the cop knocked on the door. the kid answered the door, and some scuffle ensued. he threw the cop down the stairs. stairs. stairs. he wept back up the stairs and he threw him back down the stairs and slammed the door telling the cop to stay out of his house. >> two backup officers suffered minor injuries as well. they are expected to recover. casio faces numerous charges including assault and battery on a police officer.

she will be a local consultant as the company faces mounting questions about its business. meanwhile, draftkings says an internal investigation cleared one of its employees of using insider information to win big on a rivalling site. a boston lawyer hired by draftkings found that the worker didn't get the information until 40 minutes after his lineup was locked. that employee won $350,000 on fan duel. it is 4:35 right now. the two people charged in the death of bella bond are due back in court today. michael mccarthy is charged with killing the 2-year-old and dumping her body. the girl's mother rachelle bond is charged as an accessory after the fact. both pleaded not guilty. it's unclear what will happen in court today. neither bonneau mccarthy will -- neither bond nor mccarthy will be in court today. according to the globe,

the state's new child advocate will testify today on behalf of the bill that would require the governor, attorney general, and state auditor to jointly appoint that position to a five- year term. currently, the job is appointed to just the governor. an appointee says it's important to be as independent as possible following the death of several children in dcf care. and answering questions following the arrest of a teacher. joseph zuniga is out on bail. he's charged with sending nude photos of himself to a 17-year- old high school student through facebook. whitey bulger's girlfriend ordered to return to federal court in boston next month. kathryn greg refused to testify before a grand jury. prosecutors want to know who may have helped the southie mobster hide from police during

she could face more prison time on the charges. the spcs rescued animals in deplorable conditions. they found a horse, dogs, cats, pigeons, chickens, and even an iguana. a veterinarian on site said the horse appeared to be suffering from malnutrition. the animals were voluntarily handed over. the cia isn't commenting on claims that someone hacked the director of the agency's personal e-mail. the hacker claims to be a high school student. he posted documents online, including a list of e-mail dresses said to be from director brennan's account. homeland security secretary j. johnson's attack was also reportedly hacked. it may have been motivated for his support in palestinian. democratic candidate jim

an independent bid for president. web is considering difficulty and most polls show less than 2 2%. joe biden's under intense pressure to make a decision to run. sources close to him say he feels he has the right to decide on his own timetable. meanwhile a new poll shows hillary clinton is still the front-runner whether or not biden jumps into the case. clinton will step off the campaign trail this week to testify on thursday about the deadly benghazi attack. the "wall street journal"/nbc numbers put donald trump at 25%, the highest since entering the race. following close behind, dr. ben carson with 22%. in a distant third, florida senator marco rubio with 13%.

requesting protection from the secret service. they won't receive it until homeland security secretary dave johnson consults with five senior members of congress. oscar pistorius is under house arrest this morning. he was released to house arrest after serving ten months of a five-year sentence for killing his girlfriend. reports this morning say lamar odom is now in a los angeles hospital. he was transferred from a las vegas hospital last night less that be a week after he was found unconscious after a nevada brothel. odom has been showing signs of improvement, but doctors say he still has a long road ahead of him. coming up on wbz this morning, assessing your cancer risk. >> how one part of your body could predict your chances of getting melanoma. >> plus, pregnancy and alcohol, what's safe? >> the new "star wars" trailer

how fans craft web sites across

good morning, once again. elsa and anna take to the skies. >> and oprah's making a big investment. hannah daniels has today's money watch. good morning, hannah. >> reporter: good morning. oprah winfrey is buying a 10% stake in weight watchers. they are paying $42.2 million. winfollowing the news, weight watcher's stock doubled making winfrey about $45 million on paper. the rest of wall street finished slightly higher. here on wall street, the dow rose 15 points. thed in dark rose 18. canadian airlines west jet's "froze own" plane led its first flight. it has been custom painted inside out with the beloved

the force wasn't with too many online ticket sellers monday night. fandango and movietickets.com crashed after fans tried to secure presales. the tickets went on sale hours earlier than expected. chris, kathryn? >> wow. fans. they will break the internet. >> you've got to get your tickets. >> and it's, like, two months away. >> it is. >> reporter: never too soon. >> i wish i got that weight watcher's stock. >> right? >> doubled its value? >> i know. quite the investment. we need a check on the forecast. when you step outside, you will notice a difference, barry. >> what a difference a day makes because it feels so good. 48 degrees, you might think that's kind of chilly. after what we had yesterday, it feels nice out there.

48 degrees in boston and norwood. all in the 50s on the capep in is quite a change from yesterday morning. in fact, so much so that the temperature's gone up 15 to almost as much as 30 degrees in a few spots, especially in the deeper valleys, which were down in the upper teens yesterday morning. that is amazing. enjoy the warmth we have this morning. the wind is out there as well. it's from the southwest coming up here. the national weather service says a wind advisory up because a potential wind gust of 35 to 45 miles per hour today could bring down small limbs and branches so there could be some minor damage there and isolated power outage. we have showers as well. a first batch went across northern massachusetts a couple of hours ago or so. pretty heavy in parts of essex county briefly. right in the string of showers, the batch here close to manchester, milford and sort of

slipping down into townsend, massachusetts, lowell. these showers are moving on. you folks in essex county will get showers shortly. as we go through the day, we'll see the showers wind down and sort of disappear across the map, although we just can't rule out an isolated shower or two this afternoon. there may be breaks of sunshine here and there, but the clouds will tend to rule for much of the day and even into tomorrow, mostly cloudy with that front stalling to our south. the temps will be down because to the north, it will be kind of a front. highs today will be up in the middle 60s. so what a difference yesterday got into the upper 40s. today is in the low to middle 60s. we'll take that with the brisk wind, though. tomorrow will be coolest across the north with the front lying to the south of us along the coast in the 50s and the southern new hampshire into the 50s. south of the front will be in the mid and upper 60s. we've got a 64 today. we've got a 60 tomorrow. 50s up north, light wind

tomorrow compared to the gusty winds we'll have today. then it is a brisk wind back on thursday when we could be sizzling towards 70 here with a few showers mostly in the afternoon and windy and colder weather on friday. the sun comes back out. saturday looking good, showers will be here on sunday. maybe we'll be all done by the time we get to the pats game at 1:00 in the afternoon. that's it for now, chris. >> thanks, barry. there may be a new way to predict getting skin cancer. if you count more than 11 moles on your right arm, take a look at that. the theory is a lot of moles in your arm correlates to a lot of them across your body. people with more than 100 moles on their body have a greater chance of developing melanoma, cancer. also on the healthwatch, doctors are take a zero tolerance approach when it comes to pregnant women and alcohol. even a drop is too much.

>> as dr. mallika marshall reports, that's prompted a new warning about the dangers of drivenning during pregnancy. >> reporter: when lauren found out she was pregnant six months ago with her fist child, she instinctively put a cork on her drinking. >> i would say i am a social drinker, you know? a couple of drinks a week with friends and a nice meal. >> reporter: the recommendation from the american academy of pediatrics says completely abstaining from wine, beer, or hard liquor is just common sentence. >> what weep now are finding is that even small amounts of alcohol throughout the pregnancy can increase the risk of the spectrum of the fetal alcohol syndrome. >> reporter: studies show women who drink are 12 times more likely to give birth to a child issues. >> a baby's brain and central nervous system is exquisitely vulnerable to what we call things that can call damage,

and alcohol is one of them. >> reporter: lauren is expecting her little girl on new year's eve. until then, she'll use other ways to relax like baths and walks in the park. 8% of women say they drink alcohol during pregnancy. i'm dr. mallika marshall, wbz this morning. support for a mother who sparked an amber alert. >> plus, why a school superintendent could face charges for what happened

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it's 4:52 on your tuesday morning. four local police officers were attacked while investigating truck. suspect. the suspect began hitting the officer and screaming "get out of my house." eventually throwing the officer down the stairs three times. boston based draftkings has hired martha coakley as the fancy sports web site fights

current attorney must are a healey is looking loo worth the state can regulate the site. it has been banned in nevada. a courtroom erupts for a pennsylvania mother who was arrested after bringing her son to boston's children's hospital. tiffany cherry is facing charges after setting after an amber alert. she brought her 2-month-old son to a clinic in wilkes-barre pennsylvania after he was losing weight and breast- feeding wasn't working. the nurse said he needed trauma care. instead, she drove to massachusetts. the lawyer said it's because the mom thought her son would get better care in boston. she has family here and they are standing by her. >> i think in her head she really, really believed that this was the right thing. too.

child endangerment and was released on $250 bail. boston university police are looking through surveillance to find a suspect after a female student says she was sexually assaulted in her dorm room. as many as 30 people left homeless by a fire in chinatown last night starting in a building on harrison. it houses a public housing, storage and restaurant. the superintendent of the mashpee school district could be facing criminal charges for breaking into a student's home. brian hyde was trying to see if the student actually lived in mashpee, but the police chief says the actions can be considered breaking and entering and has applied for a criminal charge. a court magistrate will decide whether there is enough

governor baker joined fire officials and families of the fallen firefighters at the statehouse last night. 24 names will be added to the ring of honor after their families chose to have them honored this year. a young woman from walpole received a life-changing gift. wbz first introduced you to hillary cohen last week as she prepared for her first steps on a new leg. here's bree with a look at the big moment. bree? >> reporter: heather abbott lost her leg in the bombing and made headlines when she received a one of a kind prosthetic that allowed her to wear high heels. that is expensive and not covered by insurance. abbott set up a foundation to pay it forward. 26-year-old hillary cohen is the first recipient. hillary amputated her leg after tumors were left growing on her leg and foot.

her first walk in 3 inch heels is what her family dreamed of. very tall. i feel really good about myself, very confident and really, really glad with the results. >> it makes me feel good for her to see her smiling. >> i think she's earned some new pumps. >> i knew you guys were going to say that. thank you. very cool. a high school student handcuffed for a science project, remember? >> his special invite to the white house is up next. pumpkin excitement is back at dunkin'. pick up your favorite pumpkin-flavored baked treats and beverages, like the new pumpkin macchiato

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