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developing news right now at 4:30. new information on a deadly knife attack in londonch the suspect in custody this morning. >> a big win for wynne. what's happening at site of the everett casino. >> a close call for a woburn woman who is a -- how a poll in boston, this is wbz this morning. >> good morning to you thanks for waking up with us. bright and early 4:306789 or dark and -- 4:30 or dark and early i am kathryn hauser. >> i am chris mckinnon. overnight hurl cane earl making landfall. the storm came ashore in belize strong winds and big waves and
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closer look at the hurricane and our forecast of course. >> so earl chris and kathryn hit pee lees city over coastline -- belize city over the coastline. moving to the west at 14 miles per hour so here is belize impacting all of the current area and going to be moving westward over mexico over the next 24 to 48 hours. weakening as it comes over land and likely staying as a tropical depression and weakening after . weekend impacting area of mexico with rain obviously flash flooding becomes a concern can. our weather at home is quiet. temperature is 65 in boston right now. low 60s worcester to manchester and it's 52 in taunton. mid to upper 50s on cape cod a cool quiet start to the day. temperatures in the 50s for most of the suburbs. bright sunshine in the forecast today. look like a beautiful day. and the temperatures are going to rise pretty quickly out of
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5:30. -- 5:40. 82 by lunchtime. wind from the south southwest will be a -- wind from the south southwest. we top out in the mid-80s for many of us. 70s on cape cod looks beautiful. sunset before 8 p.m. first night we have had that at 7:59. i am tracking thunderstorms as we head into the weekend. we will talk about those in a few. >> thanks so much. we begin with a developing story this morning. police investigating whether a deadly attack in london was an woman was killed and 5 others injured. it happened near the british museum. the 19-year-old suspect is in custody after a officer used a stun gun on him. police say it appears mental health was a significant factor in the attack. security is being stepped up in the city. a couple inches makes the difference between life and death for a woburn woman. luz so i year was -- sawyer was
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pole from the fence pierced her front windshield missing her head by only 6 inches. the pole went through the center of the car. even digging into the back seat. >> kind of the thing that made everything inside me drop and i almost kind of freaked there. >> sawyer is in the hospital and was told to stay there overnight as a prepree caution. her family don't know what cause-- precaution. her family doesn't know what caused her to black ute. a man is of attacking a officer who was directing traffic. he tried to get into a driveway that was closed off and punched the officer and tried to gouge out his eye. officers had to pepper spray him several times. boston residents can weigh in on police body cameras. the public hearing will be at the mildred community center in mattapan. they announced they would conduct a pilot program where 100 officers will wear the
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civil rights activists pushed for the use of body camerasbecause of police- involved shooting. boston is one of the largest police departments in the country to not use the cameras. aing about day for casino gambling. wynne will start work on the casino in everett. they will hold a construction kick off this afternoon. yesterday, they received a state environment permit clearing one of the projects final hurdles. somerville chal eked the permit and -- challenged the perm pending lawsuits against the project. wynne says the hiring and building will start today. the casino is expected to open in 1019. the fight to wipe out disease-- mosquitoes carrying diseases intensifies. ground spraying began at 2 and will continue until sunrise. they are focusing on public parks and location that is host large events.
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spraying by contacting bristol county mosquito control. yesterday, 8 like cats were removed from a home and they think more are hiding be inside. investigators strike the two sisters who lived at the house at hoarders. neighbors say the home has been a -- describe the two sifters who lived at the house as hordeers -- hoarders. neighbors say the home has been a problem for years. >> they have to take measures to prevent this once and for 60s were checked out of the hospital and are now staying with family. they are not facing any criminal charges. over to campaign 2016, donald trump heads to maine. the gop nominee is trying to get the campaign back on track.hena daniels has the latest. >> reporter: campaigning in florida wednesday, donald trump sought to refocus attention on hillary clinton. blaming her for the creation of isis. >> she should get an award from
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accusations that the obama administration made a ransom payment to iran in january. around the same time four american hostages were released. >> 400 million dollars in cash. how does a president do that this was something all started by crooked hillary clinton. >> reporter: the attacks came amid signs of a deepening rift between the gop nominee and members of his own party. ye was latest republican refusing to support trump in november. angry over his feud with a gold star family. trump's running mate mike pence endorsed paul ryan. >> i am stongly support paul ryan -- strongly support paul ryan. >> reporter: a fox news poll out wednesday shows trump trailing clinton by 10 percentage pointses in aally -- national -- points nationally. she attacked her opponent's
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why he paid chinese workers to make trump ties. this is one of them it's got his name on it of core. >> reporter: today clinton continues to talk about jobs and the economy at an event in las vegas. hena daniels, cbs news. >> new this morning a good night for the red sox newest member but not enough to beat the mariners. andrew getting his first major league start in left field last night. he got the first major league hit two but three home runs were begin up on the night. they wrap up the series with seattle tonight. it's 4:37. coming up on wbz this morning, major confusion at a busy intersection. >> green usually means go but in quincy, some mixed signals are driving people mad. >> and an i-team investigation on the safety of our drinking water. the secrets that the cities and towns withheld from homeowners for decades.
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first they ban tobacco products now they are issuing a
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drivers in quincy are getting mixed significant false
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that use -- signals from a new traffic light system. the idea is to help pedestrian on hancock street in the city center to cross safely. right now, signs for both pedestrians and drivers try to explain the signals. >> you need a sign initially to understand the signs but the signals themselves are already familiar to every motoristss or should be. >> it's rather confusing. this is why i have to here several times. >> the city says it takes a little time but people are learning the new lights. the new system has been in place for a month. and today's money watch walmart may be making an online purchase and our self-service checkouts costing companies monday. >> a bold move from cbs jill wagner joins us live with those stories and more. >> reporter: good morning. cvs health will add 35 products
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next year and no longer covertreatments for cancer and diabetes. it's the first time brand name cancer drugs has been taken off the standar list. official say they are taking a stand against egregious drug pricing that adds cost for clients and -- clients and hems. bush -- members. walmart is in talks to buy jet.com an online retailer that launched to take costco or sam's club and members save 10% on products walmart is trying to boost web sales as it competes with amazon. and self-service check outs could turn us into thieves. a study found retailers suffered losses up to 170% with the self-scanning check out machines. compared to a normal check out where cashier rings you up like
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losses are because of theft orperhaps user error as in people just forget to ring up their stuff. chris and kathryn. >> that's interesting though. >> yeah. >> i had self-check out moments where you have to have someone come over and they can't find the person and you want to go. >> you are like hello, help. >> thanks so much we will talk to you in the next hour. we need to get a check of the forecast really. a nice day yesterday. >> looks like another nice >> mid-80s for highs. it's going to be beautiful. hopefully you can soak it up and enjoy it. temperatures in the 50s and 60s for many of us. 65 in boston. 52 in taunton. lower 60s from manchester we arester. middle -- worcester. and the fog is not nearly as widespread as it was yesterday. there's just a couple patches out there though so plays like taunton sitting at half a mile visibility right now.
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come back up to keen. keene. fog in the couple isolated spots will burn off by mid morning. nothing going on satellite and radar until you get back into the midwest. fastly line of thunderstorms -- nasty line of thunderstorms pushing through fog and minneapolis and minnesota. this is the next disturbance a cold front through the midwest but won't arrive until the start of the week he end until saturday for us. so it's dry stretch until then. highs today, lower 80s at the coastline from plymouth to boston back up looks beautiful. just away from the shore and we will be running in the mid-80s. 86 and 87 bedford and norwood 88 in fitchburg and 81 in worcester and cool spot. a little relief out over cape cod. beautiful day with mostly sunny skies. highs in the 70s and humidity will be in check. clear skies and cool tonight. just like this morning. 65 counsel town. but the -- downtown but suburbs dip into the low to mid-50s. clear skies and fairly light southwest breeze and the wind
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humidity is still going to be fairly low tomorrow. dew points should be running in the 50s but we will heat things up a bit. 909 forecast high in lawrence. most of us in the upper 80s from norwood to bedford boston sitting at 86 tomorrow. and upper 70 toss low 80s on cape cod a hill fog on the cape tomorrow morning too. that burns off and gives way to sunshine. friday night into saturday here comes the front. saturday morning, ahead of it there may be a couple showers and notice what happens. we fire up scattered showers and thunderstorms any time from midday onward and they will push off coastline to north and west of boston. we are drying out through the second half of the day and pushing from the south coast back down to cape cod by early to mid evening. after that we get much drier air that comes in for sunday and so it looks like the second half of the weekend features plenty of sunshine and temperatures in the mid-80s not a washout saturday just the
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indoors should a storm head your way. humid for pmc riders but drier and less hume i and a dry start to next week. we will warm back up to 90 on monday. pmc is proud to be the official pmc station wbz join us for opening ceremonies beginning tomorrow night at 7 p.m. on sunday we are going to be live streaming from the finish line right on our website cbsboston.com and find more info on pmc and how to support a rider. now back to you. >> danielle will the whole weather team and david and lisa. an exciting weekend. this morning an i-team investigation how safe is our drinking water. >> there are lead pipes undergrouped to thousands of massachusetts homes. as i-team ryan kath explains many cities and towns have knownthis but are not telling homeowner. >> reporter: safe drinking water, it's something we take for granted. >> what color cup you want.
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water pipes leading to her newton home. >> your service line has been identified as possibly containing lead. >> reporter: susan was one of 641 newton property owners to recently get a letter from the city. >> it was apparent what's -- a railroad-- >> reporter: as a parent what's the moment like. >> scary and feeling a little out of control and wanting a immediate fix. >> what letter does this look like. >> reporter: and with good reason. experts have known for de problems in young children. here's the closer look at the problem. a pipe is connecting the water main under the street to the home. the city is responsible for the section that runs from the water main to the property line. and the homeowner is responsible from that point to the house. either section could be made of lead or it could be the entire line. >> that is high property. >> reporter: martin suuberg is
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environmental pronext. >> we need to demonstrate -- protection. >> we need to demonstrate to citizens they know we are on top of the situation. >> reporter: many communities are not publicly sharing the location of lead service lines. after surveying dozens of communities marlboro has 1200 melrose and wind winchester has 700 and malden has thousandss. >> the fact cities and had the records for decades is so disheartening to me. >> reporter: the i team learned the federal government sent a letter to states in february urging trance apparent sigh about the location of lead service lines but the state -- transparency about the location of lead service lines but the state department do that. they said they wanted to make sure they had the most up-to- date information before moving forward. >> there's emphasis on trance
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efforts. >> reporter: it's important to note just because you have lead service lines doesn't necessarily mean that the toxin ends up in your water. as a precaution susan had the kid blood tested and the results came back normal but she can't help wonder about the what ifs. >> if that test had come back differently, my heart would be broken and i would be enraged you >> reporter: if you can concerned it can be inhe can pensive to have your water tested for lead. experts say running the fought et cold for two minutes should flush lead out of the tap water. if you are not sure what the service line is made up the water department should be able to tell you. for the i-team ryan cralgt wbz news. >> there are more tons across massachusetts with lead service lines. we posted that on the website
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story. ahead it could be a key clue in the fight against asthma. >> the surprising discovery from new study of the amish community. >> the first olympic action underway in rio. how the u.s. women's soccer team did in the very first match.
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they say the hiring and building process starts this afternoon. yesterday, they received a state environmental permit clearing one of the project's final hurdle. somerville challenged the permit and lost but has several pending lawsuits against the casino. the two billion dollar casino project is expected to open in 2019. new information on a developing story in london this morning. security being increased in the wake of a deadly into attack. a 19 yeerd suspect is ---year-old suspect is custody. it appears mental health was a significant factor in the attack. one woman was killed and five other people were injured. that attack happened near the british museum. new details about the transit police officer in the nation's capital. charged with attempting to support isis. 36-year-old nicholas young was arrested yesterday. court documents say he bought nearly 250 dollars in gift cards that he intended to give to isis to buy mobile messaging apps. if convicted he faces up to 20
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law enforcement officer in the u.s. to be charged under the federal government's terrorism law. after months of tension, a new report details allegations of racism at an elite boston school. school district investigators revieweded more than 100 biased based incidents and found more than a dozen chaims violate school policy. -- dozen claims violate related overdose deaths are on rise a report shows the number of overdose deaths in the state has more than tripled in the last 5 years. 66% of overdose deaths so far this year were linked to fentanyl. that's up 57% from last year. fentanyl is considered 50 times more potent than heroin. new york state back in the game. governor signing a law allowing the return of fantasy sports. it calls the popular online
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man dates player protection that include explaining the rules to new players and identification of highly experienced players and prohibiting minors. massachusetts put similar regulations in place. the rio olympics officially kick off tomorrow but there's competition underway. u.s. women's soccer team faced off against new zealand yesterday. carly lloyd with the header to make the 1-0 early. alex morgan adds another goal in the 46th minute and wins 2-0. and american goalie hope solo was booed by the crowd who chanted zika zika at her. solo is upset he with some of the brazillians and upset some brazillians i should say with the tweet in july with her wearing a mosquito netting and package of a large amount of insergeant repellant on her. on -- insect repellant on her. the amish helping as mass
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new england journal of medicine suggest bacteria from cows ends up in dust that is tracked into homes and that helps build the kid' immunity. to have you thought the -- kids' immunity. if you thought the original ice bucket challenge was
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a pennsylvania man is putting a twist on ice bucket
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all 50 states and continued of ice and water he is dumping one of the state's signature items on his head. in boston yesterday it was baked beans of course. his next stop portsmouth new hampshire where he gets a clam chowder shower. all to raise money for als research. this is cadey -- crazy the stuff he puds on his head. >> i am trying to figure out what's worse baked beans or clam chowder. >> i would be okay with -- with be okay with the the clam chowder because i like it. your top stories traffic and weather are ahead on wbz this morning. >> the news at 5 starts right now. developing route now at 5, a deadly-- developing right now at 5, a deadly knife attack in london. >> and today the public gets a chance to weigh in on a plan to have boston police wear body cameras. >> a big win for wynne.
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project finally begins. >> from the channel 4 studios in boston, this is wbz this morning. >> good morning it's 5. thanks for waking up with us i am chris mckinnon. >> i am kathryn hauser. we appreciate you being here year night -- overnight herl cane earl ma bringing strong winds and heavy rain. and you have a update for us on earl that came out minutes ago. >> earl weakened slightly chris and kathryn. 75-mile-per-hour wind right now as opposed to 80 miles an hour. it's just a category one hurricane. you need 74-mile-per-hour winds or greater. earl is moving to the west at 15 miles per hour. here's guatemala and belize and going to continue to be impacted today. parts of mexico too as earl he comes ashore and continues to

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