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and joyce's neighbors near his office were taken back somewhat. >> a little scary. it's a little scary. it's not something you want to hear or see about your elected officials you know. you don't know what's going on and it makes you wonder about the you know them all. >> reporter: democratic senator from milton has been under the spotlight for sometime now. the state ethics committee has been looking into senator joyce's use of campaign funds and there have been reports of influence pedaling. governor baker addressed the issue this evening. >> i was troubled by some of the issues that were raised previously with respect to the senator's relationship to some of the folks in his district. and obviously, i am not going to comment specifically on the investigation because i have no information on that. >> reporter: today his attorney said it's unfortunate that recent stories appeared to have sparked an investigation. senator joyce has been cooperating with each
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date resulting from the stories and believes that he has done absolutely nothing wrong. yet all of this has not gone unnoticed here in canton. >> i knew he did something wrong around christmas or something. but not to this extent. whatever it is, i don't know i moon i still don't know what he did. >> reporter: and right now the feds don't know either but they are digging deep in his background as for senator joyce, himself, we have not heard from him all day. reporting live from canton, bill shields wbz news paula. >> thank you. there's breaking news in norton a worker has been hit and killed by a truck at the corporate office of for bernie and phyl's. he ands about identified 63- year-old michael haset of foxborough. the company says he was a long time valued member of bernie and phyl's. the truck belonged to a
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state deto thives from the da's office are investigating. reliving the painful past. >> i reported that i was living in constant fear. i asked for help. they refused to act. >> a harvard grad says the complaints about sexual violence were ignored by the school and now see that is suing harvard to try to make sure something changes. >> alyssa leader says the school ignored her complaint but let her accused attacker live in the same dorm and live in the same play. cambridge. >> reporter: lisa or paula and david, the title 9 lawsuit says harvard had an obligation to her safe. instead it says harvard counseled the male student and had the deliberate indifference in terms of alyssa's complaints. >> my name is alyssa lead. er i am a graduate of the harvard class of 2015.
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a survivor. but she expects her school to make certain her nightmare is not repeated. >> the person who repeatedly sexually assaulted me chases me through my harvard dorm my resident dean house masters and other administrators look on. as i scream for help they look away. >> reporter: sophomore year she been a gating -- dating a dorm mate and claims he was abusive and when the relationship soured harvard wouldn't help. >> she went to harvard because she was told and expected that the university would take action and do something to protect her safety at school. she was wrong. >> reporter: attorney irwin filed a title 9 lawsuit saying only a permanent restraining order from cambridge district court convinced harvard to move the male student nearly two years after her first complaint.
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widespread and complicated thanthr aware -- thr aware means they would have to take lot of action that would be difficult. >> reporter: harvard -- hard vard -- harvard declined to comment and did send us background information about procedures they enacted in 2014 which was the same time alyssa was making the complaints about her ex-boyfriend. three months after the pair graduated, harvard concluded the investigation finding that nothing wrong had happened and that no punishment was warranted. live in cambridge bree sison wbz news. now team of lawyers will handle dzhokhar tsarnaev defense. attorneys from new york and boulder colorado will handle ate peal of his conviction and death sentence. however, death penalty expert judy clark will remain on the team for now. the paperwork incates that is routine decision and re-- indicates that that is routine decision and requirement what
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divers went into boston hash r look for zachary marr who disappeared this weekend he stepped out and never was seen again. skyeye was over the harbor as the dive team packed up after not finding anything. police are look for tips on where he may be. a lowell prosecutor said an argument led to a 21-year-old man running into a 15-year-old. calvin sousa was charged with the hit-and-run that left the 15-year-old boy seriously hurt. prosecutors say they had an argument on lawrence street after the argument sousa allegedly hit the boy with the car and took off. david you may have looked out the window and asked where's the snow. this is route -- where's the snow. this is route 1 in saugus. last week plenty of snow and here's same stretch today. no snow plenty of grass eric remarkal in few -- remarkable in a few days. >> we oblib rated the snow packp it was the perfect conditions and we had warm temperatures and high dew points and heavy rainfall and
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now cooling off. most towns are in the 30s and there's colder air off to the north and west around buffalo and cleveland and the colder air moves in tonight and it will feel like winter tomorrow morning a chance for a couple flurries. this is ahead of the cold front at that will move through overnight. partly cloudy skies and falling temperatures. heading through the next several hours, going back through the 30s and then into the 20s and a few areas in central massachusetts you may fall back into the upper teens by the time we wake up tomorrow to start the day a little change in air mass. and boston will be back around 26 to 28 degrees by tomorrow and we stay in the low 30s. there will be legitimate chill but by friday we are on the warming trend a feel of spring returns. we will look at that forecast for you coming up in few minutes paula. >> it will feel nice. then there's this broken water pipes continue to be a serious problem. this is what it looked like in school library in haverhill one
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comes to an end. >> thousands of gallons of water came pumping out. >> reporter: this week answered record breaking cold leading to this scene at the middle school in haverhill. >> these are the parts that froze up and broke off. >> reporter: jared is the director of strategy for the public schools and says this heating coil froze expanded and cracked and then when it that you had opened the -- thawed opened the floodgates. >> we will take that down. >> reporter: thousands of gallons destroyed the lie peary and 2,000 books and damaged classes. >> i was devastated we put a lot of time and effort into the library. >> reporter: the principal says the library will be closed indeaf if the i did -- indefendant inly. cool is closed through -- indefinitely. and school is closed through monday. >> this is buildings back in the 1960s you know there is hazardous materials asbestos that was up above the ceiling that was used as fireproofing. >> reporter: the school had to
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crews to carefully remove that mess and they are worried it could be summer before the running. >> this is sometimes the only place where students have access to reading and access to books so when the library is damaged it makes a difference. >> reporter: all that damage at this point is estimated at least half a million dollars. the school is hoping insurance that. paula and david. >> thanks so much liam. drivers in the dark. >> why aren't the lights on in some of the big dig tunnels? we started to ask questions and we have a surprising answer tonight. >> plus mayo's retirement a former teammate pays tribute. >> and a new idea to bring
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at top of everyone's mind. >> including the viewer who e- mailed us when he saw so many lights were not work. christina hagueer is live. christina. >> reporter: hagueer is live -- hagueer is is live christina. >> reporter: they sent anexplanation for why part of the sunday is dark it goes back to something that happened last fall a routine inspection holding light fixtures were cracked and in the process of fixing that crews have not gotten the lights back up. drips of lights along the ceiling on both sides of the way. but about halfway through, one side goes dark and that's because a massdot project to replace fixtures held with up cracked spring nuts is running three months behind schedule. >> it's like total darkness and look if you look up close at the lights it looks like there's wires or some type of bungee cords holding lights in place. and you know for 15 billion
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project held together with bubble gum. >> reporter: steven noticed it while driving in to boston with his wife both nervous after a drain cover that had become dislodged near the exit of another big dig passage the o'neill tunnel flew into a car killing the driver. as i am driving through the ted williams here on this side, the lights are working fine. on this side completely dark. and when drivers exit, the bright sunlight seems blinding. limo driver robert. >> on a bright day like this especially you go in and your eyes have to adjust of course and at nighttime it's not much better. >> reporter: a sign of the tunnel entrance says light maintenance is underway. but this truck driver who goes through every night wonders. >> and there's many tombs i been -- tombs i been there and no crew i thought it would have been fixed by now. >> reporter: when the project is fixed the lights began last fall, transportation officials
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and today, when i asked why it has been three months since then, and they said they still consider the project to be on scheduled and plan to get back to that set of lights to fix them next monday. in boston christina hager, wbz news, back to you. >> good job getting answers. thank you. if you ride around boston and it's getting rougher the pothole crews are on the case. they added a dozen repair crews. roller coaster in temperatures is the recipe for potholes. the mare says if you see one in the neighborhood, call sit they hall. they will get out there as fast as they can. and in fact, they are keeping this statistical score to see how well they are doing. >> very smart. >> they try to getous as fast as they can because that's what makes people unhappy. >> with the temperatures you know it's like a video game you are out there and. [audio not understandable] night going to be a mess because i think we will go back and forth between cold shots
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going to be an issue heading into the spring. look at snow cover across the country. there's a pretty decent amount of it. the storm yesterday put down a thick blanket of snow across northeast ohio and into western new york but for us just vapor iced during the day today -- vaporized during the day today. bangor lost a foot of snow in 24 hours. today's high temperatures well into the 40s. taunton 48 degrees. not too bad this evening. a chill. 33 in orange and new bedford at 37. hyannis down to 35 and we are watching a cold front that will usher in more of a return to a wintry feel by late tonight and into tomorrow. along it, snow showers most these will dry out we might see a flurry in a couple towns that's about it. there are clouds moving across. problem mat he can but an international space station flyby at 7 so just a short while from now it appears in the west northwestern part of the sky and goes to the south southwestern part and visible for two minutes.
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horizon. check it out if you have clear skies in the neighborhood. overnight low temperatures ranging from 19 in worcester to 25 in taunton and providencetown down to 29 degrees and tomorrow breeze out of the north will add extra chill. also, might endues a couple -- ebb indouse a couple oh -- induce a couple ocean effect showers. it will be bright and chillier and a february day. as we look towards friday a cold and bright start giving way to cloud in the afternoon. but no big storms no ice or rainfall over the next two. tomorrow morning bright chillyrise at 6:37. bundleed up during the midday -- bundled up during the midday a breeze with a chance of cape cod snow shower during the evening quiet anding back tomorrow night from highs close to freezing and a couple into the teens tomorrow night as winds go calm and skies are clear. this weekend, we are watching a weak storm system travel to the north. might bring snow to northern new england. good news for the ski areas there.
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here on saturday. especially early in the day but doesn't look like much. towards up is, colder -- sunday, cold he air is -- coater air is -- colder air is bottled up. close to 50 on saturday. and on sunday partly sunny skies and mid to upper 40s pretty comfortable considering the high was 8 in most towns last sunday. and 40 degrees warmer sounds pretty good. now the next storm system we are keeping an eye on is the one that develops late tuesday into wednesday of next week. looks like a coastal track for this. still a week out and there's questions as to where exactly the track is going to go. if it moves towards the coast, to the west, this is a wet storm for us and think i would trend at that way for now. if it moves a little farther east, we might be able to get into a more snowy regime. but that's the next one on the calendar. a system to watch week from today. accu-weather 7-day forecast after a couple killie wons mild one and rain and snow showers on monday. not as dramatic as the weather over the last few days.
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>> i think so. >> we would like calm weather thank you. what warms us up is spring training. >> yes spring training. too dramatic. >> it would be nice if they went in and every one is healthy and they win games and have a interesting season. >> yeah. let's make it interesting. here's something that's interesting from the get go work tomorrow. ramirez reported today which is good of days -- 6 days early and talked about winning a gold glove but here's problem he doesn't have a -- here's the problem he doesn't have a glove. as far as making the transition was days after last year and started fielding ground balls at end of the season and slimmed down over the winter and arrive at fort myers looking better reportedly. he said he is ready for the challenge. >> i just want to make my self comfortable to catch and throw it that's the main key. not. [audio not understandable] they know where they got to
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you will be find don't worry i got you. >> how did you not have a glove yet? dan roche reports for duty tomorrow in fort myers and he will have live reports beginning at 5:00. jerod mayo announced retirement on instagram e spent 8 year career with the patriots. he was always a favorite in the locker room and defensive back harman says he will be missed. >> he is the life of the patriots locker room. when he walks in to any room, he he brings light into it. everybody looks to him for advice. he is just that definition of a true patriot. >> after a all star break celtics go out in utah gearing up for friday night's game again the jazz but fans are curious the trade deadline is tomorrow at 3. danny ainge is yet to make a move but the
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of the favorites to acquire al horford from the hawks. lanta is shopping to send him out because he's free agent at the end of the season. he's 4th time all star averaging 15 points and 7 rebounds a game. bruins nation the b's picked up 2 points last night in columbus. 28 saves and including a couple from point blank range. the game would go to overtight tied -- time tied at one and -- overtime and tied at one. he finds him for the game winning goal. b's win 2-1 in overtime and by the way that's his 20th goal of the year. 6th time he scored 20 or more goals in a season. bruins are now 3-1 on current 6- game road trip. game 5 tomorrow in nashville. now back to ramirez how do you not have a glove? isn't that what the truck is for? guys over to you. >> yeah they sell them about everywhere. >> thanks dave.
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>> scott pelley joins us live from new york with a preview. hi scott. >> hey paula and david. great to be with you in boston. remarkable case now involving apple and the fbi that could define privacy for a generation. apple is refusing to hack into the phone of the san bernardino terrorists. the fbi says it has to have the information apple says that it would seat terrible precedent. we will have that story and the rest of the world news all coming up on the cbs evening news in about 10 minutes. >> we will be there. scott thanks. up next, he made to do homework and the governor and creature he is worried about
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restaurant with seating for 500. and it would overlook a rink in the winter. it would have two names in the winter it would be called the polar bar. and in the summer it would be called the city bistro. the anthem group presented the plan to city leaders today and i think the one thing we can agree on is they need something. >> it would be nice. boston making plans to take down the old northern avenue bridge. globe reporting the city filed a perknit with the u.s. army corpse of engineers which mft approve a demolition plan. city's idea is to take it down in sections and float it to a jarred in east boston. coast guard says the bridge is in such bad shape it could simply fall into the four point channel. and maine's governor is criticized again for something that he said about asylum seekers. >> governor paul lepage said when they come to maine "you
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the wall street banks that triggered the financial just settled with authorities that put seven million and millions out of their homes. how does wall street get away with it? millions in campaign contributions 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,
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tomorrow boston auction house those make a lot of money by selling someone's trash. >> rr auction will sell letters books notes checks and other things that author john updike threw out a man who lived near his home in beverly picked through his trash for years. he died in 2009 a rr auction expect the collection to sell for as much as 30,000 dollars. >> wow. >> i have a bid in an an old banana kneel i have a bid on a piece of paper. >> there you go. >> weather? >> doing well. colder tomorrow and it will feel like winter. imagine that for a day.
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but other than that a pretty quiet stretch until the middle of next week. >> all right. thanks. >> no one playing tonight. >> get a nice dinner. >> thanks for watching. >> see you at 11. >> pelley: the battle lines of privacy are drawn. apple refuses a court order to hack the phone of the san bernardino terrorists. also tonight, criminal hackers have seized a hospital's computer system, and they're holding it for ransom. trump talks up torture to fight terror. >> torture works, okay, folks. >> pelley: and a veteran who saw so much death get the gift of life. >> probably the best wake-up calls. >> pelley: so why won't the v.a. pay for the treatment? this is the "cbs evening news"
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