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plunges to the ground, the life saving decision he made with just seconds to spare. >> the rescuer who raced to a horrible crash in boston relying on his military instincts to help the victims. >> and double take, the bizarre disguise this fugitive thought would trick police. >> live from the channel 4 4 studios in boston this is wbz news at 11 life saving decision moments before he crash landed in littleton. the plane's engine suddenly stopped and the student pilot had seconds to react. >> katie brace is live in littleton tonight. you talked with the witness who called for help. >> reporter: that's right, lisa and david, and first responders here in littleton were amazed when they arrived at that crash site and saw the student teenage pilot was okay, and so
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happen. >> video from sky eye 4 shows a small plane. on board was an 18-year-old student pilot. >> greg palmer was alone at the nearby construction site early friday afternoon. he was working on the second story of an isolated home in littleton. >> i looked out the window and saw a plane flying by around eye level, and thought that was a little too low. >> he saw the plane go into the trees at the edge of the property. he called 9-1-1 and ran. >> i was expecting the worst and then saw him walking back towards me, so it was shocking. >> later greg took these photos of the wreckage. >> the plane was a wreck. it was in bad shape. i couldn't believe he was alive. the first thing he said is that he was fine, that he was okay. he just had a cut on his knee. i said i can't believe you're alive right now and yeah, you're so young. >> the young man is a student pilot tat the stone minute man airfield.
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engine cessna plane. >> i could tell he was kind of panicking and that he called his mother immediately, said he was in some trouble. >> at about 2,000 feet the teen lost power. he was about 6 miles from the stow airfield. he knows the area and the large fields up harwood avenue. that's where he aimed. he maneuvered the plane towards the field before crashing into the trees. >> what do you think about the fact that he was able to walk away. >> amazing. unbelievable. >> reporter: and the to maneuver toward those fields because he lives down the street. reporting live in littleton, katie brace, wbz news. tonight a man police describe as a violent felon is in custody accused of stabbing another man outside a woburn restaurant. police arrested jamie lyons this evening. all new at 11, saved by a
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man who pulled the person from the wreckage of this horrible crash. the man was at a pizza place nearby when he witnessed the accident. wbz's louisa moeller is in south boston tonight. his time in the military certainly played a big role. >> reporter: all that training came back in a flash. joe pasi says he ran down the block over this light post where he saw that absolutely horrific crash anyone else would do. >> i was covered in blood up to my elbows. >> joel pasi remembers almost everything, the spray of debris. >> the front left tire to the honda civic was about right here last night this this area. the stunned onlookers, the sound. >> what sounded like two freight trains hitting each other. >> a gray volkswagen jetta and white honda civic careened into each other late thursday night
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year army veteran says what he did next was pure muscle memory. >> i just immediately ran across the street, ran over here, and i was just like, you know, is everybody okay. >> joe says he heard a response from a jetta, a man with a broken leg, but there was no sound from a sink. >> he was hurt bad. he was knocked from the driver side to the passenger side seat covered in blood. >> and that's when the soldiers training kicked in. he tried to break down the driver side door but it wouldn't budge. >> i ran around to the back side, to the passenger side, reached in, reclined the seat, and at that moment that's when boston police came over ask they were just like we got it from here. >> his actions so fast. joe slow to call it anything but instinct. >> it's just something that everything should i do. i mean it's not a big deal. >> reporter: witnesses told police they saw the honda civic
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this very busy intersection. police, we're told, say that those victims, the 26-year-old man and another man and a woman in the gray volkswagen all suffered nonlife-threatening injuries. live in south boston. >> taking a live look at the city right now, comfortably cool out there, some areas could actually feel the 50s overnight. let's get to our meteorologist pamela gardner who is tracking our next chance for some rain tonight. >> and that chance for rain is really going to hold off until the second half of get outside and enjoy another summer weekend here. 69 degrees in boston down to 69 in lawrence as well. 70s still in worcester but down to 65 degrees in taunton. overnight 67 degrees for the low in boston and many of the suburbs dipping into the upper 60s and lower 50s. tomorrow afternoon we'll be dealing with those puffy cumulus clouds developing in the heat of the day. temperatures in the low 80s
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chance for an isolated sprinkle. sunday better chance for widespread soaking rains. sunday night into monday, i'll have that hour-by-hour timing with the rain in just a minute. suddenly tonight one of the most popular vacation spots in florida is in the zika zone, and health officials are warning pregnant women to avoid south beach and miami. wbz's julie loncich is live at logan airport tonight. julie. >> reporter: lisa, there certainly some concern here at logan and ahead of the cdc is worried that tourists won't heed his warning. >> southern florida now has two zika zones, five more people acquired the virus in miami beach including three tourists bringing the total number of u.s. infections to 36, and governor rick scott is now under fire for not informing everyone sooner. >> cbs news confirmed this information yesterday and your
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wrong. >> it's very important that the information the state puts south accurate and timely. >> it's very frustrating not getting information from the governor's office. it's a little frustrating when the governor is having a press conference at 12:00 and he's informing all the elected officials and the public at the same time. >> and fighting this spread in miami beach poses several problems, high-rises and millions of tourists. >> you also have high levels of winds which may blow some of the products applied, and of course you have large numbers of people and wear long sleeve shirts and long pants there would be somewhat challenging. >> here in boston the concern among locals traveling to the area varies. >> not quite yet. i do use a lot of common sense with me and my three step kids. my husband and i just stay away from stagnant water, kind of hard. hopefully they find a way to treat it. >> mosquito repellant, bug spray. we kind of have more than what we should probably. you know, the usual two cans. now we have three or four, but
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but we have done everything we can to prepare. >> senator harry reid is now calling on congress to return early from its summer break to deal with zika. congress you might recall left washington last month without approving the emergency funding requested by the president. we're live outside of logan airport, julie loncich wbz. thank you. new information tonight on the investigation of a baby's death in woburn. tonight we have learned the department of children an twin sister and two other children as well. 15-month-old noah john died last night from traumatic injuries after his baby-sitter found him unresponsive in her home on monday. the infant's twin sister is still in the hospital tonight. it is unclear who the other two children are who are in dcf custody, and we do have video of that baby-sitter leaving the woburn police department today
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said when or if charges will be filed in the case. tonight sources tell wbz that state police are testing dna samples in their search for the killer of a young woman who was murdered while jogging in princeton. the body of 27-year-old vanessa marcot was found earlier this month hours after she left her mother's home for a run. they say they're also checking nearly 900 tips, but so far no arrests. tonight we're seeing the first video of a framingham teenagerac kill his family members on vacation. the 16-year-old is behind bars in florida. his mother and younger brother are hospitalized tonight with stab wounds. ken macleod is live in our satellite center. we're also hearing the pretty desperate 9-1-1 calls. >> yeah, lisa we're hearing some of the horror of a family vacation turned nightmare. now the ramgren family was spending the week in siesta key florida when 16-year-old gus stabbed his mom and younger
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authorities released those 9-1- 1 calls. >> as he was booked on two counts of attempted murder, his calm demeanor was in stark contrast to his mother's hysterical 9-1-1 call explaining that she and her 14- year-old son had been stabbed. my son is dying here, help me, help me. >> where's the person that did this ma'am? >> she says the attacker has been locked out, but it takes several minutes for the di assailant is her other son, gus. >> he never did anything like this. i don't know what's wrong. >> at roughly the same time a 9- 1-1 call comes in from a neighbor saying a teen is at the door saying someone stabbed his family. >> he's a young man, and he says he's not injured but he's on our front porch. >> you said he has no injuries correct? >> you have no injuries right? they're asking me. >> no. >> no, he's okay. >> the dispatcher hangs up but
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realizing she is unaware that the teen on her porch is very likely gus. >> and again, i'm just going to stay on the phone with you until -- until the police arrive there to meet you, but you didn't see any weapons on him or anything like that? >> no, no,. >> did he have any like blood on his hands or anything like that. >> not that i can tell. >> within minutes sheriff's deputies arrive to arrest gust who quickly confesses. >> a female police officer is asking him to come down our is and he said i threw. >> gust ramgren was a student at newton south high school. police have not discussed his motive. his mother is in critical condition. his little brother listed as critical but stable. live in the satellite center tonight, ken macleod wbz news. a needham woman accused of running down three people in boston shouldn't have ever been driving. she's accused now of driving without a license and leaving
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and a 9-year-old boy yesterday. witnesses you saw there actually lifted the car and freed the boy's mother who was trapped under the frame. it could be a key piece of evidence. the state's highest court saying that aaron hernandez's cell phone has to be handed over to prosecutors: the former star is accused of killing two men in the south end in 2012. the trial is scheduled for next february. now he had given his cell phone to his lawyers after the odin lloyd new tonight, a passenger on the red line capturing this piece of video. it shows the back door of the moving train wide open. we reached out to the mbta, and they told us that the door was secured immediately after it was reported. tonight american swimmer james feigen is cleared to return to the united states but he is not talking about ryan lochte's tall tale in rio.
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call a halfhearted apology. officials say lochte, feigen and two other swimmers trashed a gas station restroom in rio before an armed guard confronted them. a fugitive on the run arrested on cape cod, but it's what he was wearing that caught everyone's attention tonight. >> coming up next at 11, the realistic disguise that he used that even had police doing a double take. >> plus a group of women looking for love got ripped off and how they say one man tricked them into giving away a small fortune. >> and this is out of police custody, the crash that prompted a second man hunt.
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the officer was badly hurt in the crash. a south shore man is behind bars accused of ripping off women he met through online dating. chris winter preyed on women meeting them on a website called plenty of fish. he romanced them, even won over their family members and then lied to get their money. >> about 28,000, and it was little bit at a time saying he needed to pay this cancer bill or this doctor bill. >> and he didn't past two years winter ripped off at least eight women and their families. a bizarre arrest on the cape, police captured a fugitive wearing a very realistic disguise. take a look at this, on the right is sean miller disguised as an elderly man. police also released a picture showing the actual mask that the 31-year-old was wearing at the time. police say that he was wanted
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rocked fenway park yesterday, but it was the piano kid from boston who helped to make it a night to remember. ? [ music ] ? billy joel invited 13-year-old bradley bartlett roach up to play. the teen plays regularly at faneuil hall and for the last three years brought a sign saying he wanted to play billy joel. last night his dream became a reality. >> it was a euphoric moment of my life. words can't describe it. >> billy joel even autographed his shoes and wbz played a role in bradley's big night. billy joel said he saw the profile we did on the teenager last month after bradley's mom sent it to billy joel's people. there you go, he desperately
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did. very cool. i was at billy joel's concert two years ago and he did the same for another local teenager. >> clearly these kids are so talented and they earned that spot in the limelight so it was nice to be able to follow up in that way. >> here we are on the weekend. >> with a lot going on. falmouth road race, looks like it's going to be great. >> it is actually. sunday morning it's going to be nice and dry. then we're tracking a chance for rain late sunday. that's really our only shot at rain for quite some time. we've been extremely dry. what else is to expand here, and today another dry block on the calendar count and we're 0.82 inches of rain total for this month so far. 1.24 inches below where we should be and all the way back since january 1st in boston we're actually running with the 8th driest on record for that period of time. with only a shot at rain sunday night, i'll go through that timing in just a minute. today 81 degrees for the high in boston, just a touch above average, which is 79 degrees
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record highs still stands at 1983 for this date with a high of 92 degrees. temperatures have cooled into the 60s and 70s. it's very comfortable out there. 69 degrees in boston and lawrence. 65 degrees in taunton, manchester 73 and 70 degrees on the dot from falmouth to chatham. hour by hour you see temperatures will stay in the 70s. for a good first part of the night dropping into the 60s. early in the morning 72. once we get that sun higher in overnight tonight, a few clouds passing by. 67 degrees for the ultimate low in boston. 68 to 64 degrees in the suburbs and we could see some areas of fog developing, too. very patchy, not widespread, not for everyone, but that could hinder some of your -- maybe some driving tomorrow morning. it may reduce your visibility in some spots. high temperatures tomorrow in the low 80s, along the coast and that's prior to a little bit of a sea sea breeze kicking in late in the day. much of the day will be spent
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a high of 82 in boston. low to mid-80s as we get farther inland there, and if you're heading out to the beach, another picture perfect forecast. 78 to 83 degrees as you lay out there. if you're getting in the water, 68 to 76 degrees and low tide at 7:33 p.m. cape and islands forecast tomorrow 80s sunday, 79 degrees, and we keep it dry farther to the south and east with a chance for rain moving in late, now the falmouth road race, sunday morning 9 a.m., 76 degrees. breezy with the wind from the south, southeast, but very mild and dry. here's your hour-by-hour forecast. high pressure moving offshore, 9 a.m. saturday, we're starting off with a little bit of cloud cover. the clouds break apart, and by afternoon we'll have a mix of clouds and sun, but then there's also a chance for a brief shower, maybe an isolated sprinkle. ultimately dry. sunday morning same deal, we could see some areas of drizzle developing due to some patchy
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moves through sunday night into monday morning. as the front approaches we'll see a clean sweep here, and by monday morning that front moves out. we're going to dry off and get a little bit of a taste of fall and by that i mean gusty northwest wind on monday, high of only 80 degrees. much of the day will be in the mid-70s. plus it's going to be very, very dry. the humidity gone. the air just kind of has that crisp feel. tuesday, 80 degrees, mid and upper 80s for the end of the week. thank you. by th both running for the march of dimes in the falmouth road race. >> that's right. we're going to be with 7 ,000 other runners and running for a great cause. >> it is a fight for first place with the red sox. >> and leading the charge tonight against the tigers. stan roach is going to break it
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wbz sports is driven by bmw, test drive a bmw today at your massachusetts bmw center or visit us at bmw.com. frustrating loss to the tigers thursday afternoon. red sox were looking to bounce back tonight in detroit, and they had the right guy on the mound to do it as 16 and 3 porcello got the start. red sox wasting no time jumping
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to right field, 2-0. 28 home runs and 95 rbi for papi and we're still in august. jackie bradley junior, another 2-run shot, again to right field. the red sox had a 4-0 lead. porcello made one mistake a home run pitch to j. d. martinez. aside from that the tigers didn't have much luck at all. 7 strong innings, 4 hits, 2 17 for porcello. with 2 out of the 6, the red sox continue, a pair of runs on 4 straight singles. and handler ramirez a big night, 4 hits with a couple of 2-run doubles he's hitting 521 with 10 rbis. and the sox picked up some ground in the standings courtesy of a dramatic indians
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>> make another drive deep right field, thunder's back at the wall, can't make the play! he'll go all the way to 3rd! unbelievable >> good stuff, an inside the park walkoff home run for qu allowing the red sox to climb within a half game of first. it will be at least sunday, maybe monday before we have a chance to see tom brady in person and maybe find out just what happened to knock him out of last night's game with the bears. bill belichick said all three quarterbacks would play, but brady was never seen on the field, even for warmups. reports surfaced he had cut his thumb with scissors, reportedly lisle while working on his cleats. the coach said again it was his
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an accident occurred and tom will be okay in time. we'll see. meanwhile a disappointing day for the bruins and their fans as free agent jimmy v es cie chooses to sign with the new york yankees. his rights traded to buffalo but he opted to be a free agent and he was cornered by a handful of teams including the bruins, but they lose out and bc going to the rangers. a good kid from a good family as we cleveland game. >> that was insane. >> yes, it was. >> thanks dan. >> she braves heights and a homemade flying machines. >> watch what happens when our
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wbz's danielle niles took quite the wild right this morning. >> she really got into the covering the red bulls competition. she boarded the larry bird just above the charles and after a running start here, danielle was airborne ever so briefly before the bird crashed into the water. now check it out, that's quite check it out from danielle's point of view. she wore a go pro camera on her helmet. you can see the moment she goes office desk here and quickly into the charms. if you want to check it out it's going to be held tomorrow. we're back right after this. good job, danielle. with an ultra-smooth, full-bodied flavor. discover the craft of cold brew today and keep on.
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? livin' in a dunkin' paradise ? what are you doing? papi, i'm making sure cuppy doesn't burn. ? dunkin' iced, oh, yeah, in the summertime ? ? livin' in a dunkin' paradise ? so often you try to plan around the weekend weather, not necessary this weekend. >> not at all, a chance for rain only late sunday night
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