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>> i want give my deepest condolences to the family of mit police officer sean collier. >> what do you want people to know about your brother?>> he's a good kid >> reporter: his older brother says he will turn his life around. this is something that stephen silva promises as well. >> no more drug dealing for sure. i want to help the needy. >> reporter: kate merrill wbz news. rain showers and upper 50s, it feels like early april with christmas just three days away. where is winter? >> it looks like we're going to see a repeat again tomorrow. chief neurologist eric fisher is here with the first look at our forecast. -- >> flowers are starting
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we are checking showers, heading into hudson and 495, heavier rainfall, a downpour. merrimack valley is having rain as well. these are moving quickly to the east. it should all be finished by 8:00. 59 degrees in boston right now, 3 degrees shy of the record for today. even warmer weather will be coming in. plenty of mild air continues in the ease. this will continue to come from the southwest which makes are temperatures warmer than normal. temperatures will be holding in the 40s tonight work in area of rain moving in for tomorrow as well. it looks like a wet commute. the real warmth will move in after that. we will have more details in a few minutes. for weather updates anytime
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it will give you forecast right to your phone or tablet. it is free and you can find it in the itunes and android app stores. a teenager convicted of killing his math teacher is facing life in prison, during a status hearing defense asked the court to ban everyone accept for the victims family from wearing pink. pink was colleen ritzer 's favorite color. the judge said wearing pink would make no influence. valerie magrath appeared in court today. rusty kidd to say she took off with her two kids after a sunday visit. police arrested her last night. investigators say they found a suicide note in her car, talking about how she couldn't live without her son and daughter. the children are safe and have been reunited with their
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flames damage a vacant building and brighton. firefighters had flames. investigators are still trying fire. you will soon have to pay more to ride the t. and a measure has just been approved that will allow them to raise fares 10% every two years. this now goes to be can help. about 5%. any fare increases are frustrating for passengers, especially now that we know that the higher -- the t have the higher -- highest hourly wage of any other public transportation in the country. -- >> next july riders will be paying more. all of the money is paying for a lot of overtime and big salaries.
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to dig deeper into -- riders are being asked to dig deeper into their pockets, we are discovering that transit workers are making six figures.>> this is shocking. something is not right details --. >> reporter: details of stunning salaries are not making people happy. we have learned that dungeons -- dozens are doubling and even tripling their salaries by having massive overtime. >> it floored me.>> reporter: more than $315,000 has been raked in by this worker. the base salary is much lower. 52 hours of over time -- overtime per week are what he has been paid for.
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you can't even do that. you wouldn't get any sleep. this reduces the safety on the system. >> reporter: they blame this on the crippling winter as well as back pay from contracts settled with the union. the manager agrees this is unacceptable. sphere we are -- >> we are trying to look into why these pages are so high. >> you would think especially with all of the scrutiny that they would have been audited way before this.>> reporter: tonight i talked to 2 members of the t's newly organized the school board. they want to see that all of the overtime is residue from the horrific winter or is this a pattern and staffing has to
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back to 2010. after their arrest. police say the two killed a man while he was sitting on the steps of his home. they are being held without bond. we now know the chipotle is expected to reopen by the end of the week. 140 people became sick with the norovirus two weeks ago. tested. one manager was let's go. the city is now waiting for paperwork showing that the disinfected. donald trump is taking heat for his latest criticism of hillary clinton. about her bathroom break which debate. >> i know where she went. it is disgusting. i don't want to talk about it.>> [ laughter ] >> it is too disgusting.
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>> he went on to use offensive language. he is demanding an apology from clinton after she called him isis's biggest recruiter. clinton's camp says that won't happen. meanwhile a new poll shows some americans may be getting tired of donald trump work the quinnipiac poll says 20% say trump was president. 23% they would be proud. jon keller is here. what do you make of this? >> only 50%? i'm kidding. no angry emails. that won't bother donald trump because only 25% of republicans say they are embarrassed. that is who he is trying to impressed, at least right now. if you look deeper into the poll results, you could see that he could bring those numbers down if he cleaned up his act a bit. nearly 60% see him as a strong
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the same percentage find him dishonest, on caring and someone who doesn't share their values. that's it just to me that his disregard for facts, casual use of vulgarity and submission this -- dismissiveness toward criticism is turning off voters. hillary clinton is also seen in that same poll as just as dishonest and untrustworthy. she is still under water when it comes to caring about voters. they are both suffering from the voter's -- voters' skepticism. they don't especially like candidates. remember gary hart with the blonde on his lap and the monkey business. it doesn't necessarily ruin things either because we have
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husband.>> there's a long way to go. >> on this date for years ago newt gingrich was leading the new hampshire primary. he ended up finishing 30 points behind mitt romney.>> it's a long road ahead. gearing up for sunday's big game against the surprisingly good jets. they would like a playoff by but -- they are happy with their playoff bye but they would really like home-field advantage throughout. this normally would be a something. >> no question. they want to come and play in new england. the patriots made it official, they signed 32-year-old stephen [ name indiscernible ] to beef up the running game. >> after having monday off the
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gillette stadium on tuesday. they begin preparations sunday -- for their big game sunday against the jets. the big game -- the big story is stephen jackson the veteran running back was signed yesterday. he joined them in the pats fieldhouse. he will were 39 for his new team. if all goes well the 12 year veteran will have a chance to help the patriots and play in his first playoff game, post season time.>> you have some guys stay and some guys go. it's great to have a season with some of the people that i saw growing up. i am loving the locker room. >> i am not sure if jackson will see any playing time against the jets but it's a big win for the patriots nonetheless. if they win sunday they will be the number 1 seed in the afc. dan roach wbz sports >> they will have a full practice on wednesday and thursday and have christmas day off and then they will head to new york for the game against
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be nice if they get this win so that they can have some extra rest. >> they have to get healthy.>> be sure to catch patriots all access here. you can't catch it anywhere else. game day it will start at 11:30. 1:00 is kickoff time. the post game will be on wbz as well. police say he broke into homes and lied about his identity. >> and then he became violent. coming up wild surveillance video. call it the great getaway. a daring leap. x-ray vision is not just anymore.
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facing several charges. no one will face any charges in the police custody death of sandra bland. earlier this year she was found hung -- dead in her jail cell, she had hanged herself. she was jailed after a traffic stop. bowe bergdahl has been arraigned on desertion charges. he did not enter a plea. he only had simple yes and no answers to the judge's questions. he could face life in prison. investigators say he walked off the base in 2009 and on the taliban captured him. he was released last year as part of a prisoner swap. we have a cool image tonight from outer space we want to show you. a nasa orbiter captured this
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the large tan area in the upper part of the screen is the sahara desert. the lunar reconnaissance orbiter has been on the moon since 2009. not a bad picture. on christmas expect to see a rare sight in the sky, a full moon on christmas day is known as a full cold moon. it should probably be called the ironic moon. we have not seen a full moon on christmas since 1977 and won't happen for another 19 years. it certainly won't be cold for the cold moon. we are celebrating winter ironically this year. [ laughter ] >> how about square glasses. [ laughter ]>> i'm working on my handlebar mustache. [ laughter ] 59 degrees is the temperature right now. it's if you degrees shy of the
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wister is at 55. this is almost becoming -- worcester is at 55. this is almost becoming normal. were at 60 degrees in norwood, mostly 50s regionwide, even low 50s in southern new hampshire. we are in the warm sector of another one system coming through. we will continue to see the mild southwesterly flow of air. the cooler air locked up in canada will not make its way to us in the short term. i just showed you a shower that was in bolton earlier. now they are making their way all the way into boston. watertown, newton, brayton, manchester as well having rainfall. we have about two more hours to go for this.
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the computer model is trying to clear up the skies but i don't think there's a good chance of that happening. i think the fog and low clouds should be there for the start of our day tomorrow. the temperatures will be in the 50s tomorrow afternoon is it. the rain will increase in the afternoon, it will be here for the evening drive and most of the overnight. it's a very springlike feel. notice by the morning of christmas eve, 6 am, we are already at next he degrees. the record is 61 degrees. we could set that -- a new record even before the sun comes up that day. a midday we will be back up around 50 on christmas day. it will be gray and damp. the rain will move up west to northeast -- southwest to northeast. were in the warm sector right now. there will be a couple of
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sunshine and some gusty winds. we will jump into the 70s and quite a few towns if we see the sun. we're certainly going to get into the 60s and smash records. on christmas day, high pressure will fill-in briefly and give us dry weather before the wet weather returns after that. how unusual is this? when we look up and down the eastern seaboard, all of the major cities are running 30 degrees or more above average. the last time that happened was all the way back in 2007. there was a day in january that hit 70 degrees in many locations. it's the same idea across the southwest. our warmest christmas eve on record was 61 degrees set in 1996. we are forecasting 68 with a low temperature of 64 that evening. gusty winds in a chance of shower, a muggy feel to the air . christmas day will be bright and we are looking at temperatures close to 60 degrees. it will be an unusual holiday. it's the warmest christmas eve/christmas day on record. we are back into the 50s on
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monday. soon superman might not be the only one with x-ray vision. >> thanks to researchers at the massachusetts institute of technology, this could become reality. >> reporter: it sound like science fiction but graduate students just developed software that uses wi-fi signals to recognize silhouettes hide walls. >> we were able to detect this and then we discovered we could detect it and then started asking questions. >> reporter: to see movement in real time students use a simple red ball that tracks this person making his way through the room and taking a seaburg of the signal can also show when he falls. >> businesses elevation. when he falls we see there is a short a change in elevation and we see that his location is on the ground. >> reporter: researchers say the technology will help healthcare providers and
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>> this is a device that tracks people through wireless signals . it can do so in a variety of different ways from motion to identifying who a person is based on the shape of the skeleton as well as measuring the breathing and heart rate. >> reporter: it could also be used in law enforcement. >> we could know where the people are standing and where the hostages are and where the guns are before we send the police officers in. >> reporter: they want to bring this to market by 2017. chris mcginness wbz news. a recall ahead work i hundred -- a recall ahead.>> hundreds of thousands of
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cub want to make its first public appearance until january 16. as weijia jiang shows us there has been an earlier introduction. >> reporter: 1 million people have come to look at bei bei since he was born four months ago. there was a video competition for a chance to get up close to the biggest star of the zoo, the response was overwhelming. >> it was heartening to know that we struck a chord. not only did the video capture people's passion for pandas but some also show was sparing -- why sharing -- say evening this endangered species is so important. >> people came from across the country. >> a lot of people know that i love pandas. > reporter: heather says she went a little nuts when she found out. >> i was a costco when looking at my email and i found out i
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>> -- >> reporter: she was able to go inside and watch the panda. it was pandemonium when they saw the baby panda. >> we had to wait a long time jumping up and down. >> is one of my a guest christmas present i have ever gotten. >> the winners will become digital ambassadors, the zoo was hoping. they expect many more to take up the cause after bei bei makes his first public appearance next month. weijia jiang cbs news washington.>> bei bei is so cute.>> if you had a choice, pet panda or pet koala bear, what would it be. >> definitely a panda.
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-- claws are scary on the koala. there is one single panna -- panda in this picture. do you see the panda? it has been shared 1000 -- over 1 million times. we are going to show you. there is the panda. >> there you go. >> i didn't see it. you saw it right away? >> i did. >> i didn't see it. people are also talking about our wild weather. >> cherry blossoms are blooming in december? we will have a closer look. too close for comfort, and uninspected -- unexpected
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