. live from the channel 4 studios in boston this is wbz news at noon. >> breaking news now at noon a bus filled with elementary school kids can on the way to camp crashes head on the way to school with car. kids can on the bus are okay. >> the driver of the car was rushed to the flight. ken macleod is live with the latest on the breaking news. ken. >> reporter: accident reconstruction teams are working here at this very difficult intersection of route 140 and bait street. you can see the black sedan there that clearly got the worst of this impact when it apparently pulled into the path of the school bus right over there carrying 6, 7 and 8-year- olds.

swarmed around a bus where the ride the ymca camp came to a end after 8:30. april hodge ran over to help. >> they were shooken up but very sweet and happy to sit and be calm and wait for the parents to get there. there were tears they were worrying about how to get to camp. >> reporter: the 15 youngsters were camp bound when the hyundai sedan accelerated into the bus's path at blind intersection. >> it sounded like metal-just heard crash. >> reporter: the man driving had to be cut from the wreckage as wan med flighted to the hospital. his female pass ver was transported by ambulance -- passenger was transported by ambulance. the bumped and bruised children were put in a yard where neighbors brought them water and taken to the bathroom. >> counselors and police were talking to them. i didn't see anybody crying or anything like that and i think

>> reporter: most boarded another bus and went onto camp still talking about what one described as being tossed into a pig pile on impact. >> some of the kids in the back said they landed on top of each other because they were seated so close together so it happened so quickly. >> reporter: we are told that none of the youngsters had to go to the hospital for the cuts and bruises although a couple neighbors seem to think that one young boy might have. we are check on that and we -- checking on names or conditions can on the man and woman inside the mangled black sedan. obviously you can see the accident reconstruction is ongoing so this road 140 in menden is going to be shut down for a while. ken macleod, wbz now is. >> thanks. more breaking news this noon. this time in italy war powerful earthquake rocked the central part of the country. nearly wiping out a entire

heavy equipment and dogs are trying to fiend anyone who may be trapped under the rubble. nicole jacobs is live with the latest. >> reporter: as the death toll continues to rise rescuers have made contact with many people who were trapped and frightened. 24's no -- there's no word if any of the victims are americans. an early morning earthquake in italy rocks the central region tumbling buildings and leveling homes. rescue crews rushed rubble at daybreak searching for survivors. a man with a bloody apron freed and the young girl carried away to safety evening a -- even a dog pulled from small space of the it was after 3:30 in italy when the 6.2 magnitude quake hit about 100 miles northeast of rome. rescuers using buckets bulldozers and their hands to reach for any signs of life. and making a plea for more

the way. at the vatican pope sending blessings and prayers. wbz has learned rhode island bryant university man's basketball team was in italy. all are safe but rattled. according to the assistant coach. >> the building felt like it was swaying back and forth and it was certainly very scary and woke us up and we hopped out of bed like what's going onto try to assess so it was pretty powerful. >> reporter: but in some of the mayor says the town is no longer there, dozens are dead and many others injured. as the desperate search and rescue continues. the u.s. department of travel is rnlging u.s. u.s -- any u.s -- are urging u.s. citizens that are safe to contact family members via social media. nicole jacobs wbz news. more breaking news

believed to be trapped inside the campus with hundreds of students. witnesses tell cbs news they heard gunshots and a blast and we are following the breaking story and will bring you updates as they become available. this noon, a convicted sex offender is being held on 500,000 dollars bail accused of attacking a woman in a south end playground. >> he served part of a 10-year sentence before being released last december. wbz anna meiler is live in boston with the latest on this story. anna. >> reporter: rodriguez girlfriend who is 2 months pregnant with his baby was in court. she was very emotional during the arraignment but says her tears were not for him but for the alleged victims. eduardo rodriguez didn't show his face in court can as he was arraigned on charges of kidnapping and rape. his girlfriend says she is devastated. not for him but for the woman he is accused of attacking.

heart. no woman deserves to go through that. >> reporter: court documents show it's -- shows he approached a woman one monday morning and threatened to cut her throat with a knife. prosecutors say he forced her to follow him to carter playground and raped her behind the bleachers. police say then he stole her money and took off. >> just want to thank her very much for having the courage to step forward and work with us to get this dangerous felon off the street. >> reporter: police say this is not the first time rodriguez court documents from 2007 show rodriguez similarly threatened a student with a knife on rugel street and kidnapped and raped her. police say he was released last december with a gps monitoring device. >> he he cut that bracelet -- he cut that bracelet off and that's why we weren't able to locate him as quick as we wanted. >> reporter: rodriguez girlfriend says she didn't know about his past and says if the new accusations are true, he has to pay the price. >> i don't think -- i hope they

held on 500,000 dollars bail and he will be back in court in september. reporting live in roxbury anna meiler wbz news. former pastor accused of sexually assaulting a minor. police say they have been investigating stephen jesmer for several months. the 37-year-old turned himself in to police monday night and he was working at the dialogue church on pine street when the assaults occurred. boston police officers officially begin training on the city's new body cameras prra to use the cameras and what they are used for. the participating officers were chosen randomly by a police consultant acording to the -- according to the globe 55% are white 13% hispanic and 3% are ashan. state police and faa are meeting to figure out what to do with a plane that landed on a sand bar in the quabbin reservoir. water levels are so low because of the drought the plane wail down on the sand bar.

he was having mechanical issues that forced the landing. and an investigation is underway. and crash investigators are trying to figure out the reasons behind an early morning accident in charlestown. a truck rolled over in sullivan square and the truck was carrying scrap metal and debris that spilled all over the road. >> turning to the weather a picture perfect summer wednesday. >> a lovely day as we wind down the summer but it won't feel like that nextth next days. pamela gardner has the look at the forecast. >> plenty of sunshine and temperatures warmed into the 80s. a south wind too keeping temps in the 80s. 83 in taunton. 81 in boston. worcester up to 76. lawrence 82 but we are not going to stop there. we are running warmer compared this time yesterday 5 degrees warmer in boston and on our way

-- 88. plenty of sunshine. no rain heading our way. and -- in the immediate feature here but over the next couple days we are watching the center of low pressure and a cold front moving through the great lakes and into the boston area. for the end of the workweek forecast. i will have the hour by hour timing and how much rain we could see and more warmth prior to that and then we are tracking the tropics the latest on two disturb ands in just a bit. back to you. >> thank you. campaign 2016 now, and it's coming tomorrow donald trump will be in manchester for a rally. it will be held at the radson. this week he has begun softening his stance on immigration. he is no longer talking about deporting all undocumented immigrants in the u.s. only what he calls the bad ones. today hillary will be in california as her -- hillary clinton will be in california. more than half of the people from outside of government who met with hillary clinton when

donated money to the clinton. clinton's campaign says the ap report relied on flawed data. time is running out for the pats fan who stole a autographed patriots helmet. video shows him hopping the bar and taking the helmet and walking out with paying has bill and he he admitted to it -- and he admitted to it. >> the next day he called and admitted to it and says he was >> the opportunity he had to try to do the right thing has evaporated once he is identified. >> the stolen helmet is from the 2014 championship year worth a couple hundred dollars. dramatic video of a drive in the ted william tunnel. see the car slam right into the construction zone sign sending debris everywhere in the tunnel. the driver was charged with driving drunk and speeding. he was not badly hurt. police say this happened on monday night. and a daring rescue caught

and hit a guardrail before his car erupted in flames. a state trooper construction worker and a fellow driver rushed to help the man. they were able to pull him to safety and the driver was taken to the hospital. new at noon, changes coming to fenway park. >> the city's landed mark commission signed off on a proposal to install a new peskypole and update the grandstand with a bar. stadium forward. and bridge connecting new ham shower and maine is closed. it was scheduled to close november 1 to make way for construction on a new bridge that will open up next year. coming up on the wbz news at noon a robbery suspect supriseed hiding spot in the scary situation it created for one family. >> also ahead this noon, diet dangers for moms to be.

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north korea fired off a missile fired from a submarine this morning and went 310 miles. north korea has several land base missiles that can reach the distances but this is the first one that can go that star after being fired from underwater. vice president joe biden is in turkey which sent some of the forces into syria. he arrived this morning and went to meet with the turkish prime minister. special forces in tanks entered syria to clear out border town. he is trying to prove relations. antiamerican sentiment is high right now. back home a brookline family gets a surprise of a lifetime when they find a man wanted by police hiding under the bed. brookline police wanted to talk to harry castillo pujols about a series of package thefts and searched several houses including the bensons to try to find him. >> my son was home first timewhen the police came and he came upstairs and they were

and then the police left and my wife and daughter came home a hour later and that's when they came to that room and she saw a foot under the bed. >> benson says his wife screamed and the man took off. police arrested him in missionhill. he is charged with several felonies including breaking and entering and larceny and receiving stolen property. >> >> you should spend the entire day outside whatever you are doing stop what you are doing and go outside. >> so nice. >> so it's beautiful low humidity again temperatures running warmer than the last couple days. and we have that south breeze helping to keep temperatures a little more elevated than say the last couple days where we had a northwest breeze. here's a live look over the charles and not a cloud in the sky on that picture there. now the cirrus fairh clouds may move across the sky -- weather clouds -- fair weather clouds may move across the sky. high pressure is in control and

why we have the southwesterly airflow. that's going to keep us dry at least for the next couple days. humid conditions to the south and an area of low pressure and a cold front extending from it in the midwest. that's moving in for the end of the week affecting our forecast. what is not going to affect our forecast necessarily but could can impact the u.s. is the invest 99l and we are keeping up-to-date with the national hurricane center on the latest information on that. also watching prop cal storm gaston -- tropical storm gaston and that doesn't look to the u.s. it will stay out to sea. aid strong tropical storm with -- it's a strong tropical storm moving nest west at -- northwest at 16 miles an hour. it goes up to a cat one but downgrades back to to a tropical storm and back and forth to a hurricane but still you can see it stays well out to sea. and the next wave we are watching invest 99l this one max winds 35 miles per hour moving west northwest at 20. the big question is what does

inside. hurricane hunters were out at 11 this morning trying to get the latest stats on here. wind speed 54 miles per hour. so, it's unorganized but if this system does organize it could become a tropical depression and perhaps a tropical storm when it becomes tropical storm status we name it hermine it's a area of low pressure bringing gusty winds and eventually that will move into the bermuda area orexcuse me bahama spaghetti plots this showsous the forecast models that we put in one picture where could can it go. it impacts out to sea to the gulf coast. stay tuned we will keep you up to date as the forecast models don't have a good handle on it as we get towards the weekend. temperatures here sitting pretty. 81. full shop shine and on the way to high of 88 degrees -- fun sol -- full sunshine and on the way to a high of # 8 degrees.

degrees. high temperatures close to 90 inland. 90 on the dot for some communities but cooler to the south and east where on cape cod you will be in the low to mid-80s. beach weather all around. 85 to 85 with the water temp up to 76. overnight tonight, 68, and mainly clear and we keep it dry. cape and islands forecast wednesday and thursday and friday you see we keep it dry and our next system starts to push in as we get into friday but notice, hour by hour we hold off on the rain chance until late thursday maybe until eafr isolated showers and storms. nothing too widespread and too soaking at this point. we will keep you updated. going into the weekend we couldn't time it better. 86 saturday and sunday 87 and lower humidity and dry both days. how about that. >> we appreciate it pamela thumbs up thank you. the price of a life saving device is skyrocketing and lawmakers want to know why. a two dose epipen package costless than 60 dollars and

pay for the executives of the drug maker soared. those with allergies rely on them to counteract a potentially deadly reaction. one senator wants the federal trade commission to investigate the reasons for the price spike. researchers say a bad diet during pregnancy may be linked to your child developing adhd. according it london study moms who consumed high amounts of fat and sugar saw a increase in the numbers of adhd researchers suggest mothers to eat diets high in diet and omega 3 fatty acids. paying up for a fake out. >> retailer now shelling out millions of dollars to customers when they didn't get

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starbucks workers can put as much ice in your drink as they want. the judge dismissed the lawsuit accusing the company of putting too much ice in the drinks. starbucks says if you are not happy with the drink they will remake it and you can order a cold drink without ice. britney is back. she is taking a break from the show and helping late, late show james corden. >> they teamed up for a little carpool karaoke and spears is showing off her [ music ] ? ? [ music ] ? >> you can see more of britney this thursday night amazing and catchall james cordens antics week nights after the late show. >> so funny. coming up on the wbz news at noon. >> an unlike lie find. why the massive pearl was

we continue to follow breaking news out of afghanistan this noon. american university in kabul is under attack. professors and students are trapped inside. witnesses heard gunshots and an explosion and a police spokesman tells the ap there's one attacker. we will continue to bring you the latest tonight on the wbz news at 5. and incredible find hidden

a fisherman in the philippines kept this a 75 pound pearl he kept under his bed and found it in a giant clam more than a decade ago. possible record breaking pearl could be worth more than 100 million dollars. the fisherman who was unavailable of the value was keeping it as a good luck charm under his bed. >> i say it's good luck so that's good luck. 100 million dollars. >> surprise. >> i would have cashed in on that 10 years ago. >> one final look at >> beautiful day once again. low humidity 88 degrees. cooler at the coast and for thursday 90s still low in the humidity returns for friday. 90 and there's a chance for a couple spotty showers and storms but we clear it out for the weekend. picture perfect. mid-80s both days. >> it's summertime and we can'tcomplain. >> no complaints. thanks for watching everybody.

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