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media appeared to have sparked an investigation. senator joyce has been cooperating with each inquiry taken place to date resulting from those stories and believes that he has done absolutely nothing wrong. yesterday all of this -- yet all of this has not gone unnoticed in canton. >> i know this were looking at him previously but had never came to anything. and then all of a sudden, there are helicopters and i came outside to see what was going on. >> reporter: and governor baker up until now stayed out this issuing some statements but nothing too substantial. now expected to have a news conference within the hour. we can. reporting live bill shields wbz >> thank you. breaking story. skyeye is over norton war long time myee of bernie and phyl's was hit by a truck. and police have been at the
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bernie and phyl released a statement saying it's with deep sad any we mourn the loss of a treasured member of the bernie and phyl's family we are keeping the employee's family in our prayers during this difficult time. las breaking -- also braking-- breaking, the boston marathon defense team wants to step down. two other lawyers have been asked to take over. sarn every's lawyers say they are -- tsarnaev's lawyers say they are exhaust and time and money to travel to see the client is too much. he has given his consent to this. battle between privacy and national security and tech giant apple is right in the middle of it. now fighting a ruling to break into the iphone of one of the san bernardino killers. the phone in question belonged to syed farook and apple has been ordered to hack into it. >> the company says they would have to a build a back door to the iphone the c-eo tim cook
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why does this matter to you? louisa moller is here with aimportant look at this. >> reporter: cook says it's this simple. once the back door is created, it's bound to be found by malicious hackers and used against all innocent iphone users. when so much of our lives is in our palms privacy is bound to crash headlong into public safety. >> i feel like if need be leek i would give up my data. >> reporter: that's exactly what happened this week. when a federal judge ordered apple to help the fbi break into the iphone belonging to one of the perpetrators of the san bernardino shooting. apple c-eo tim cook said no way. >> the reality is if you put a back door in, that back door is for everybody for good and bad guys. >> reporter: you see apple usesinincrips and no bush encryption and no back door
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back door around that exist. >> it gets discovered or compromises the problem and suddenly all the users of that say iphones in general whatever the device is are put at risk. >> reporter: massachusetts cyber security expert says think of it like a master key to your apartment building. >> even if you trust you note building manager, he could lose the key, it could fall out of his pocket and it could be stolen from him or you could be targeted. >> reporter: why do we need encryption? identify what websites were advice -- we are visiting and protect the information for there. >> when i go to my bank's website and look at my balance on the screen, i know that's my is protect and encrypted. >> reporter: found a laundry list of back doors gone arye one was found to the fire wall
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into you will have ncial devices tech giant juniper networks allowed hackers to target government systems and bear cuta networks as well. consider this one last thing if apple does this for the u.s. government do they have to do it for other nations like china? on the other hand, many law enforcement say there's got to be some kind of compromise to get them around encryption. louisa moller. >> thanks you. we want to take the governorlive addressing the raid fbi and irs raid on senator brian joyce's office. let's listen in. >> as i said when the news and issue with respect to this broke out i was hoping ethics investigation. [audio not understandable] >> do you think the senator can continue to serve. [audio not understandable]
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will see what the results of the investigation are. i think the voters ultimately get to make the call with respect to whether someone is allowed to continue to serve on election day. and i think that's probably as it should be. but as i said, the issues raised here were troubling to begin with and obviously there's now a pretty aggressive ongoing investigation and i think you know, to some extent we should wait and see where it goes. >> you support the republican party's call for resignation? >> i certain support the republican party but, i tend to be careful when it comes to using terms like that. and in this particular case what i would say is that there's an investigation underway we should see where it goes. >> governor have you talked to senator joyce. >> i haven't talked to senator joyce for quite a while. >> thanks everyone. >> thank you. >> okay. take care guys. >> listening to governor baker
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this morning on senator joyce's office and fbi, and are the is -- and irs race. harvard grad is suing the school for the way it treated assault. she says harvard mishandled the case and failed to proteth her from harassment and retaliation. bree sison is live with the details. bree. >> reporter: lisa harvard declined to comment but sent us background information about title 9 procedures and implemented in 2014. that's when the national conversation around title 9 shifted away from athletic opportunities to sexual assault. coins didn'tly the young woman's attorney says she was making complaints about assault harassment and retaliation. >> harvard doesn't want to admit it has sexual assault problem. >> reporter: alyssa leader braves a dozen media outlets
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about what she says happened on her college campus. >> i carried pepper spray in the halls of my own home. >> reporter: she lived at cabot house as did another student she began to dating and since a the -- says the remaining time on cal campus was sexual assaultharassment and intimidation n a title 9 lawsuit she claims she reported the events to harvard but harvard failed to act despite leader reporting fear for her personal safety. changeand affecting change. >> reporter: her heavyweight attorney says the school had a obligation to act when she record the situation but a retraining order from a judge at cambridge district court finally convinced harvard to before graduation. >> i came back to the dormant first thing i did was -- dorm, and the first thing i did was
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and cry because finally i could feel safe. >> how will they handle the cases in the future i don't know but they have done a lousy job to date. >> reporter: three months after the graduation harvard concluded alyssa leaders' case finding there was nothing wrong had happened and there were no grounds for punishment. as for criminal case alyssa's attorney says "that ship has sailed and that statute of limitation would be an issue in the case. and he notes that not all sexual assault case make it through thecriminal process. bree sison wbz news now back to you. >> thank you. we just got this in we have learned that president obama will not attend the funeral for conservative supreme court justice scalia. he died over the weekend from natural causes at the age of 79. a political fight has begun over who should replace him. coming up tonight at 5:30, jon keller will look at the
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to the funeral. what this could mean. dive teams were out on boston harbor and in the charles river looking for any clues to what happened to a missing 22 year old man. zach marr was last seen on surveillance video saturday morning leaving the bell and hand bar near faneuil hall. a corrections officer is accused of trafficking heroin. stephen lebreux appeared in court. undercover officers say they made multiple heroin buys from him while was off duty. he was ordered to be held on cash bail even if he does make bail he will be required to wear a gps bracelet. a man accused of carjacking a woman with her baby in brockton is behind bars. prosecutors say jose robles .ed a gun at them stole the -- pointed a gun at them stole the woman's purse and is sped away in her car e crashed into a pole and police say he admitted to the whole thing when taken to the hospital.
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this month. today is bell melt may be to blame for the mess in hav erhill. this is the school covered in water that started on monday when a pipe burst in cold temperatures and it spread down to the library which needs extensive repairs. schools are set to reopen on monday but the library will stay closed. the fixes could cost up to a half a million dollars and may not be complete until the summer. in seekonk a water main break forced dismissal of noon. the area around coal street road was shut down service was as the main had to be repaired. another drawback of that warmer weather. potholes opening up all over the place. more than a dozen repair teams were out in boston today. and mayor walsh says if you see a pothole in the neighborhood
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the roads took a beating when we had the bitterly cold temperatures and then that very quick warmup. and if you will had to replaceyour times a-aa confrms it. we spend 3 billion -- confrms it. we spend 3 billion -- confirms it. we spend 3 billion dollars every year repairing cars because of potholes in this is captures a sign of strength. >> it's a twin sister holding her brother's hand in the womb. aid sorry that left our -- it's story that left our newsroom speechless. >> riders hear what sounds like an explosion and the train fills with smoke. what the t is doing to make sure you have a safe ride. >> and later, a holy smack down. find out what it takes to get yelled at by the pope on live television. >> and a beautiful day out there. we have sunshine temps in the 40s and winter makes a rebound tonight.
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tonight it's a touching moment between -- touching moment between twins a brother and sister in the womb holding hands. it was taken after a expectant mom got heart breaking news one of the unborn twins will not survive. >> as paula ebben shows us
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leaning on one another for support it appears the babies doing the same. >> reporter: ean -- ian and brittany didn't plan on muchhaving more children much less twins. >> we went in for the 6 week sonogram and they said there's one and here's another. >> reporter: from shock to excitement to hearing the news no parent expects. with a hole in his heart and abnormal brain one baby was to the growing as he should. >> he is only weighing 9 ounces pounds. his only chance of is survival is heart surgery but they wouldn't do heart surgery because of his brain. >> reporter: at each appointment it's more bad news until tuesday. when the doctors captured this. >> we didn't see hutch he said there's his hand and her hand and it looks like they are holding hands. >> reporter: mason on the left and he has his teeny hand wrapped around the finger -- tiny hand wrapped around the finger of twin sister madeleine. >> most twins they are kicking
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other and she said, with our twins it seems like she was very protective over him. >> reporter: because mason may never get to know his twin, or his family, this special moment siblings bonding before birth is something these parents say is no coincidence. >> we know -- coincidence. >> we know we have a piece of them together that will last forever and it's special to have. >> i am holding him and carrying him but i just want to be there for him you know not knowing and she is the only one that can actually be there and holding onto him and so, it's comforting to know that if he does pass he won't be alone. >> reporter: something neither baby has ever been from the beat. >> we pray for them and we love on them huh? >> uh-huh. >> every moment we have them. >> so if the baby makes it to the entire pregnancy, doctors
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babies by c-section to allow the familiarly to spend the most time as possible with both babies before mason leaves them. and when you think about past generation never had a chance to see such a comforting moment. beautiful image for them to always have. >> that looks like the little girl is extension of her mom. >> yeah. >> in there doing the motherlyduties holding the baby's hand and the big sister little brother relationship is something special. >> he he will always be a part of their lives. thank you paula appreciate it. now we want to give you a unique look into boston's history. the city's archaeology program releasing the video today and it shows nathaniel hall area today and then through time and it takes you back to the beginning of its 400 year history as a city dock. we talk about how half the city used to be just under water. and when you see it in pictures it's neat he. >> it's extraordinary -- neat.
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and what a day we had today spectacular. >> you want to go for a stroll and the long wharf which is not as long as it used to be. beautiful outside. bob and millis is a great weather watcher and sent the pictures. this is the yard last year on this date and what most of our yards looked like. a lot of snow and big banks and then the transition to what it looks like today. all that snow just nowhere to be seen. looks like spring outside. >> it does. >> the snow is gone so thanks to bob for the side by side comparison. with the clear skies in eastern new england a great satellite image. snow pack was obliterated across new england with the rain and warm temperatures yesterday. bangor maine went from 11 inchesof snow to nothing left from yesterday's tomorrow and we can see where the brown ground is here and that's where no snow is on the ground around boston area all of southeastern mass and cape and islands and patches here and there and all of it has melted away.
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of spring and 43 still in boston and 31 pittsfield we are watching colder air that will filter in tonight. and tomorrow we will have mort morest wintry feel. so the front will be moving through during the overnight hours. ushering in a brief area of colder air. it had stick around for 24 hours or so. so hour by hour as we head through the night, the temperatures start to fall back and most of this will happen after midnight. with that the winds will pick up after midnight if you have to be out and about later this evening it will be gusty and colder and moving toward tomorrow morning most temperatures ranging from the upper teens in central massachusetts to the middle 20s working towards the eastern end of the state under partly cloudy skies. in the next couple days the weather drama goes away. we are talking about a few snow showers across the outer cape and don't think there will be a lot impact and clouds right near the coastline. most of us are in full sunshine for thursday and we are in full sunshine on friday morning. heading towards friday afternoon, the clouds will begin to thicken up again but no major weather issues for us.
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chilly start breezy and in the 20s and you want the winter jacket and midday gusty breeze and chance for a snow shower on the cape. and by the evening, it will be a dry and quiet night and cold tomorrow night. we will fall back through the teens. as for high temps from 30 to worcester and 36 in boston and 35 in plymouth for tomorrow afternoon. looking towards the weekend, not a lot going on. but a couple weak systems. one moves through on saturday and the gusty breeze and couple rain or snow showers and i don't think it will be accumulating to anything. it will be too warm and moving towards sunday the colder air is bot led up to the north. and clouds moving through but temperatures way up above average. we will be near 50 on saturday and a chance for a couple rain showers and on sunday we are in the mid to upper 40s partly sunny skies and good pair of days to be out and about and a big change compared to what we saw on valentine's day weekend. notice the trend average high is 39 and we get one day of cold and one night tomorrow night and we are right back the above average temps and snow pack is not growing soon.
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day ache chance for rain and snow showers on a monday and mild wednesday is the day to watch in the forecast. that's the next chance for a significant east coast storm. >> all right. looks pretty good. thanks eric. let's think about summer for a second and a warmer season. in boston, this summer, daredevils are going to take over the charles river. in august red bull is bringing the flewing to competition --flew to go is -- flewing to is taking a run at sailing them over the charles. >> i like how that one is doing pretty well. >> yeah. >> the others not so much. >> i don't know. still to come, medical experts recommend every child get one. >> so, why are parents shying away from the hpv vaccine. tonight dr. marshall will look at the controversy. >> and maybe there's such a thing as being too honest. a man lost his wallet and then gets a leatherback from the man who found it. the reason the guy didn't send
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that triggered the financial meltdown -- goldman sachs. just settled with authorities for their part in the crisis that put seven million out of work and millions out of their homes. how does wall street get away with it? millions in campaign contributions and speaking fees. our economy works for wall street because it's riggedt by wall street. and that's the problem. as long as washington is bought and paid for, we can't build an economy that works for people. sanders: i'm bernie sanders, and i approve this message. why the -- >> national cancer institute is calling for more children to get the hpv sax. >> en as dr. mallika marshall reports while doctors say it's safe and effective and can prevent cancer he, many kids are not receiving it. >> reporter: 12 years ago boston emily a mother of 6 was
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>> it was pain and surgeries and telling doctors i have cancerous cells that's scarry. >> reporter: hpv cause almost all serge cal cancer and can cause genital and neck cancer in men and women. >> no one wants cancer. >> reporter: dr. mary brown gives the hpv vaccine to patients. >> the vaccine is recommended for all kids both girls and boys beginning as early as age 9. given as a series of three shots. >> reporter: why is it only 40% of girls and 21% of boys are actually getting it? fall short of the 80% goals set by the u.s. department of health and human services? in a is survey, many pediatricians admitted they don't strongly recommend the vaccine for their patients. in part because they worry parents will refuse. some parents believe because hpv is sexually transmitted vaccinating kids could send the message it's okay to have sex.
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but, part of the whole goal of vaccination is to prevent so if the kids are protected before they become sexually active then it's more likely to prevent hpv and prevent cancers. >> reporter: emily who just had her 11-year-old daughter vaccinated agrees. >> i don't think that getting my daughter vaccinated means that i am telling her that it's okay to be active. i am giving her a chance that when she grows up she doesn't have to this v complication the same way i did -- have complications the same way i did. >> reporter: manyly's daughter said she didn't want a shot she knew her mom was trying to protect her from getting sick in the future and she wishes the vaccine had been around when her mom was her age so she didn't have to suffer the way she has. because she seen her mom go through a lot of the procedures so. >> you can see the emotion in that story. you have another story you have for tonight tell us about it. >> reporter: okay so it can be
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problems newborns and preemies forgetting to breath. >> the first couple times it happens it's terrifying because you have no idea what happens. >> part of what makes what we are doing is it's something-- exciting is because it's new. >> reporter: tonight at 11 the team of local doctors who come up with the is simple and potentially life saving solution. you don't want to miss this. >> no. a lot of people will watch that tonight thank you. >> thank you. a new job for the future queen of england. >> still ahead, kate middleton penning a passion project where you can read it. >> a scare on the orange line. what caused smoke to fill a train car and what the t plans to do about it. clear. >> president obama will not attend justice scalia's funeral and that has angered some but is that anger justified?
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live from the channel 4 studios in boston wment bz news starts right now. the fbi and irs raiding canton law office of brian joyce. his attorney issued a statement saying the client is cooperating and he believes he wrong. >> also breaking a deadly accident at the bernie and phyl's warehouse. a employee walking in the parking lot was hit and killed. state police are investigating. >> also tonight a former harvard university student who

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