morning to find survivors. 0. good morning to you. it is 5:00 right now. thanks for joining us. >> it is thursday, august 25th. hopefully a lot of you are taking a long weekend and ditching out i. what a great day and stretch of days we have. >> another beautiful forecast for you. and we keep it mainly dry, although there is a small risk for an isolated shower late today, mainly to the north and to the west. but otherwise, it's going to picture perfect once again we're already warm, warm start here in boston. 68 degrees, 67 in manchester. 57 degrees in keen. one of the cooler spots there. but midday 85 degrees, increasing clouds and that wind picking up from the southwest. the dry home, 88 degrees. a stray shower to our northwest of our otherwise we're going to keep it dry. satellite and radar shows a few clouds that will continue to push offshore and an area of clear skies back to our west. this all prior to our cold front

tonight into tomorrow. tomorrow a better chance for spotty showers and storms and in just a few minutes i'll have that hour-by-hour timing. traffic and weather together now. kate. >> all right. thank you. taking a look at the pike right now, seeing some action there and some police lights but as you can see construction has down to one lane there in the pike. but so far so good at 5:00 as we wait for the commute to pick up here on a thursday. we're following several breaking news stories this morning. we begin in lawrence where crews you can see just how intense those flames are. >> let's get rate to nicole jacobs she is live on scene with the very latest. >> reporter: an extremely active scene here on summer street in lawrence. you can see right here beside me the firefighters are really coming up with a game plan as to how they will continue to fight this fire. but if you take a look up, you can see those efforts are ongoing. firefighters still putting water on this building.

this fire. it originally started in what we're told was an abandoned building. that was at 29. at this point the fire chief tells us everyone is accounted for, everyone is safe. he did have two firefighters injured as a result of fighting this fire, but he believes those injuries are minor. of course, this is a very early stage of this fire. but you can see when crews first arrived here on the flames were absolutely fierce, piercing through the roof there, an incredible fight and scene for them to fight. the challenge here, there are some very narrow alleyways, the road here is very narrow as well. so that has opinion a challenge for them to get all of the apparatus in, all of the ladders, everything they need to get the flame out. again, four buildings effected by this, so the fire spread and

in that number are children. we spoke with one of those children with the permission of his mother here's what he had to say. >> it was, like -- it was just fire at first. but then it started getting out of control, getting to other houses. it turned down a whole building. >> reporter: again, taking a life look here, you can see firefighters are feverishly hotspots here, making sure the situation is contained and that is the case according to the chief. he says the fire is contained, they have been able to just keep it to those four buildings that he says -- this is a very narrow street. the homes and the buildings are very close to one another so that is a challenge as well. they said that they've done some miraculous work here in assuring the fire does not spread further. we're going to continue to keep

chris, kate back to you. >> all right. thank you for that. we're also following breaking news overnight in boston. police investigating a shooting in dorchester. >> let's get right to brianna pitt. >> reporter: chris, kate, the shooting happened on 23 page street which is just off of mcclellan street. this shooting happened around 1:00 a.m. boston e.m.s. officials confirmed that they went inside the residence at 23 page and they found one person inside suffering from that person was transported to a legal hospital with life-threatening injuries. it appears that a dog may have been injured in this shooting as well. we did see officials on the scene wrapping the front paw, leg of what looks like a pit bull and they loaded some towels into the back of the car. and also loaded the dog into the car as well. just to set the scene for you, this is a neighborhood, it's a residential area. pretty quiet right now. but of course that wasn't the case a few hours ago. now it's unclear if that dog

shot as well or if he was suffering a different type of injury. boston police don't have anyone in custody for this shooting right now. reporting live in dorchester brianna pitts wbz this morning. breaking news from italy right now. 247 people now confirmed dead in that earthquake that hit three towns in a central part of the country there. this morning, the search for any survivors continues. cbs' tina crouse has the very latest >> reporter: rescue teams and earthquake ravaged italy worked into daybreak trying to find people feared buried alive under mounds of debris. armored tanks are joining the effort in hard-hit towns. yesterday, crews there carefully pulled a girl named julia to safety. she had been trapped for 17 hours. the scene did little to comfort this firefighter. julia is being taken to the hospital and that's good news,

the images speak for themselves. the powerful quake struck wednesday leaving hundreds dead, many of the victims came from here which is packed with tourists this time of year. several guests of the damaged hotel roma in the town lost their live when's the quake hit, including an 11-year-old boy who was first found alive in the rubble. a.m. reese was set to hold an annual food festival this weekend. now thousands of those left homeless by theis around the devastation. wondering how they'll rebuild from here. tina crouse, cbs news, italy. now to breaking news from afghanistan this morning. cnn is reporting 12 people have been killed in an attack on the american university there. seven of those victims are said to be students. the attack began with a suicide car bombing at the university entrance last night. more than eight hours later, police killed two attackers.

responsibility. this morning, police are investigating a hate crime targeting new england's largest lgbt publication. this surveillance video shows seven people loading explosives into the rainbow times newspaper box in downtown salem tuesday morning. they leave and it blows up. the publisher says the box has been vandalized nearly a dozen times in the last two months. in fact, the city moved it there so it could be seen by that camera. >> everyone should be outraged because this touches on the fabric of everything we know and everer here. it's not -- we are not scared. >> the newspaper has ordered two new boxes and state police bomb squad has joined the representation. a 15 year old was killed. he was one of three teenage boys stabbed last night near the intersection of the middle and kansas ry streets just before 6:30. friends say the juried boy ran home to his parents' apartment and his mom called 911. neighbors say he was a good kid

15-year-old baby. he's a baby. he didn't get a chance to experience life and you'll take some kid's life over something stupid? don't you think it's time for new bedford to wake up and realize what's going on. >> the original two boys are expected to recover. police have not yet released the victim's name and so far no arrests have been made. a woman is in critical condition this morning. the eagle tribune is reporting she was shot in the head on freeman court around 6:00 last night. police found at lea f casings on the ground. the street was closed for a short time. no arrests enter this case. this morning, there are no serious injuries but a lot of damage from a series of tornadoes in indiana. right now thousands in the middle of that state are without power as many as eight funnel clouds were reported including one that passed directly over an apartment complex and ripped its roof right off. >> i got out and called 911. she said go somewhere safe. i tried to push the door. the wind was blowing so fast.

like this in my life. then i shut the door and then it blue my -- blew my window out. that was it. i just ran downstairs. i was just so scared. indiana's governor mike pence who is also donald trump's running mate will tour that damage today. campaign 16 returning to new england, donald trump will be in new hampshire today the republican presidential nominee will hold a rally at the radisson hotel in manchester at 1:00 this afternoon last night, mississippi trump called hillary clinton a big ot and said the democrats have taken a support of minorities for granted. mean tile, hillary clinton will be in reno, nevada today, this is her campaign and family defending their foundation. an associated press reports criticized the clin town foundation for who it takes donations from and whether those donors got special access to hillary clinton. combined those donors

don't be alarmed if you see low-flying helicopters flying around buildings in downtown boston. this video posted to twitter had a lot of people wondering what was going on. the department of defense tells us it's conducting training exercises through today. the dod says this was planned and is not, quote, in response to any world events. this morning, a pilot is safe, thanks to a good samaritan who saw him crash. david dianna says he lost power over the ashland reservoir. when he couldn' patch of land, he decided to put down in the water. dianna wasn't hurt. luckily a man fishing with his son saw the crash. >> i put in reverse as quick as i could, is you know, went over there. he popped out of the water. >> i was is swimming over, had my hell met still on. >> for whatever reason, we got here late. but i'm glad because there was really nobody else around. there were some people in tubes

>> the ashland reservoir is not a water supply. officials say no fuel leaked from that plane. a helicopter helped recover a small plane stuck on a sand bar. the pilot told state police mechanical issues forced him to make an emergency landing there on tuesday. an investigation is now underway to determine if any charges could be filed. coming up, new details about the el faro. >> the message from the ship's captain minutes before it >> doubt causing problems in the bay state temperature the southshore community now telling residents to limit their showers. pamela, good morning. >> we're going to keep it dry once again for much of the day. 86 degrees by 2:00 p.m. and your forecast tracking some rehab for -- rain for some. not a complete wash out. i'll have the hour-by-hour

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. the drought is so bad in a, the town is asking people to limit taking showers. >> they have banned all outdoor watering. the reservoir is down more than 75%. the population nearly doubles in the summer but the restrictions will stay in place after labor day. we say this has been one of the greatest weather, but this is the flip side to it that

that is a really serious problem. >> pam whether says there's a chance later on today. >> it's a very slim chance. most of the rain is going to stay to our north and west for later today. with a better chance for rain tomorrow as the cold front passes through. your friday afternoon. but it's not going to be the wall of rain like what we had, say the last couple of nights, two nights ago. going into monday morning, that's when it was, where we had a good soaking rain. we'll keep you up-to-date on that drought monitor. i want to keep also on the tropics. we have hurricane gaston. as i was talking about yesterday this morning, it has receiptenthed to a category one hurricane. this not impacting the u.s. which is good news here. it's going to continue to skirt out to sea, actually and avoiding a hit in bermuda, even. it's going to say in the northern atlantic beyond next week as well. what we're tracking for a potential impact in the u.s. is

the max wind speeds are 45 miles per hour moving west northwest. moving through the leeward islands. any friends on a cruise, you'll want to keep a close watch on this, because we do expect it to move through the baemz at least producing some -- bahamas at least producing some heavy wind. at least nothing concrete at this i am too. but as we get into the later part of the weekend, if it does the way along the eastern coast. so stay tuned. we'll keep you up-to-date. temperatures in the 60s. no weather worries this morning. 68 in boston. a comfortable 67 in manchester. later today, 88 degrees increasing clouds this afternoon. stray chance for a shower to the north and west. otherwise we're try. overnight, 72 degrees with some scattered showers and storms. muggy conditions. you'll notice the humidity slowly creeps up during the day today, overnight and definitely for your day tomorrow.

today, notice mostly clear with the clouds increasing from west to east. overnight, here's a 11:00 p.m., isolated shower, maybe a storm, nothing severe expected but tomorrow morning we start off dry again. so off and on rain chances as we get into friday as well. 3:00 p.m. along the cold front as it moves through the boston area right in the later part of the afternoon. that's when we could see our best chance of organized shower and thunderstorm activity. some of the storms could produce some gusty wind and brief heavy wn risk with any storm that develops. but after 7:00 p.m. friday, we're drying off and it's going to be a picture-perfect weekend. i can't believe this. cape and islands forecast, a brief shower. saturday and sunday low 80s, plenty of sunshine and lower humidity. sunday 86. and next week, we're getting hot again. high temperatures back in the 90s. traffic and weather together now. chris. >> thank you very much.

pike this morning. you can see there is a little bit of volume out there this morning. very light for your thursday morning. things will be picking up later. you are reduced to one lane at parts of the pike because of construction this morning. well the black boxes of the el faro are giving investigators some new information. audio recordings from the bridge caught the captain ordering his crew to an baaen done ship ten -- abandon ship. the recording ends ten minutes later. the four-year-old ship had open life boats unlike more modern ships. it sarng last october after sailing into hurricane joaquin. all 33 on board died, including six with ties to new england. an autographed helmet stolen from a restaurant back where it belongs this morning. the general manager at skip jacks tells us the helmet was mailed back to them with a card containing a written apology and enough money to cover the bill the thief skipped out on.

surveillance camera but skips jacks says they will not press charges. ac track's service heading south of boston could be interrupted. the boston business journal says a legal dispute between ac track and the mbta could put service on hold. they are feuding over a rail line. it allowed amtrak to use the line if they provided maintenance and other services. but a federal commission called for states to share more than a million dollars. it works in schools and in new york city, now boston is switching to a letter grade system for restaurants. boston city council has approved the letter grade system. a restaurant will receive an a, b, or c based on the number of violations found during city inspections and how bad those violations are. eventually restaurants will have to post those letter grades out front. massachusetts high school students had the country's

the class of 2016. the average massachusetts student scored 24.8. that's out of 36. nationally that average was just under 21. the a.c.t. is a college entrance exam that focused on english, read, math and science only 26% of students nationwide met the college students in all four years. but 53% of massachusetts students did. no surprise. >> smart people. >> all right. well up next good news for patriots fan. >> ron gronkowskik what they are doing to prepare for their first road season. >> plus another milestone for david ortiz. was it enough to keep -- get on top of the race? steve burton has the highlights

. ok the patriots finally as gronk gets back on the field. >> plus another injury for the red sox. >> well good morning, everyone. you want to talk about a brutal ending? this was a brutal ending. not only did the sox lose last night, they may have lost the kid for a while. benintendi had to leave with a left knee sprain. david ortiz sent see you later, making history. giving him 30 home runs and 100

the fifth man in history. joining ruth, aaron, gehrig and pulse hotels for the company. mookie betts drives a single to recognized. pedroia on his score. betts gets caught in a run down for the final out. but the damage, done. top of the seventh, now 3-2. runners on second and third, nobody out. pedroia grounds one to short. benintendi gets tagged ou double play. benintendi is down and hurt. after he gets tagged his left ankle turns out. he didn't even know he rolled it. he will be helped off the field but the team announced he has a sprained left knee. still 3-2. porcello on the mound. he not pitched to longoria. solo home run, tying the game up at 3-3. would stay that way until the

a tap of the first, travis sharp, but he dropped it. comes home to try to get the runner. never catches the ball and that's your ball game. a frustrating loss. 4-3 the final. to the patriots. here's a nice sight. ron gronkowski back at work yesterday. he hasn't been on the field since last monday when he left practice early with he had no idea if he will be the starter on tomorrow night when the pats face the panthers in carolina. generally the third game is when the starters see the most action. since he is slated to start the game, he's likely to get plenty of reps. >> it will be good. it's a good test. like i said before, it's a very talented defense, you know, all the way across the board. they have good players everywhere. so it will be a good test. we're on the road so it's pretty

it will be good for us. >> patriots and panthers. we have it all covered right here on wbz. i'm steve burton, guys over to you. >> looking forward to the game. till so come in the next half hour, more on the breaking news we're following out of italy. >> a closer look at the rescue efforts underway this morning and the local families with ties to the area. >> this is john keller there are big differences between hillary clinton and donald trump. but in one key area, they are continues. >> it's going to be a dry day today. another warm one. increasing humidity. 88 degrees for that drive home. more clouds moving in ahead of our next chance of rain. how much of the rain we could see, when we could see the storm chances too, your hour-by-hour timing, coming up.

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fire in lawrence. the flames spreading to neighboring buildings. >> the death toll still rising after an earthquake in italy. the race to find survivors buried in the rubble. 0. welcome back everybody. 5:30 on your thursday. >> august 25th, we'll start it off with pamela morning. >> beautiful once again. pretty low humidity for now but the humidity will increase as we go trout the day. plus ahead of our -- throughout the day. plus the next chance of rain. we'll see an increase in your showers and storms. buff that's for tomorrow. so today, enjoy. 68 degrees to start off your day. 67 degrees in taunton. you see a southerly wind will continue throughout this afternoon. lunch hour, we're all dry. 83 degrees in boston with the upper 80s expected later today

evening commute and there's a chance for an isolated shower to the north and west. but this all ahead of our cold front that will move into giving us a better chance for scattered showers and rmz so. coming up i'll have that timing and we'll keep you up-to-date on the forecast. >> taking a look at the rods right now. you see the volume is building at 5:31. although no big back-ups getting into town. build. at 128 northbound in lexington right after route 2 but the rest of the city free and clear. two stories breaking overnight first a shooting in dorchester. one person rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. police were called to mcclellan street at 1:00 a.m. right across from the golf course and franklin park zoo. the investigation then moved a few blocks away to page street. the victim was found inside a home there. police are still investigating. emergency crews were also checking out a dog at the scene. we're hearing that dog may have

legs. and breaking news in lawrence, crews battling this big fire. it spread to at least four buildings there. the red cross says 25 to 35 people are displaced because of the fire and two firefighters were hurt, according to the chief. police are telling people in that area to avoid it if you can. we do have a crew on the scene. we'll have an update coming up. also breaking overnight, 247 people now confirmed dead earthquake that hit three towns. last night a ten-year-old girl was pulled from the rubble about 17 hours after the quake. live pictures rit now as rescue crews are using bulldozers and they're bare hands to try to reach any survivors. one of the collapsed buildings is a hotel believed to have 35 guests. the region is a popular summer holiday spot for italians. the -- many residents there have relatives in italy and those who

>> of course they were scared, and they didn't know what was going on because, is of course, in this case it's difficult to communicate because sometime the lines were down. so we're not easy to make sure that all the family members were okay. >> a few friends of mine of the family that are trying to get in touch with people via, you know, facebook, phone call, whatever, just to make sure everyone is okay. ir know some people have been able to get in touch, some eventually heard back at all yet. >> some restaurants in end yesterday had their televisions tune toed to italian stations. cleared of a wrongdoing of a terror suspect. the suffolk county district attorney found that members of the joint terrorism task force shot raheem because he posed a serious threat to their safety. investigators say raheem came at them with a military-style knife last summer. the 26-year-old was under investigation for possible ties to a plot to kill police.

past year proved beyond a reasonable doubt that mr. raheem was armed with a large military-style knife and posed a threat of death or serious bodily injury to the task force officers. >> raheem's family says it still has questions about whether police plan to arrest him without a warrant. in campaign 2016, both candidates have been criticized for having conflicts of interest. and this morning, our john the issue. >> reporter: hey, good morning. are you sick of hearing about politicians and their conflicts of interest? well, i have some bad news for you. you better get used to it. that's because both hillary clinton and donald trump would come into office with a ton of con predict -- conflict of interest baggage. after years of scrutiny and calls fore greater separation between the clintons and the charitable foundations.

the presidency and stop taking donations from foreign governments and corporate interests. however, the candidate herself still won't acknowledge the appearance of conflict in many of the foundation's past aesos. and what about trump? he has said little about how he would prevent conflicts between his presidential decisions an his vast business interests. other than to rule out placing his holdings in a blind trust as trump says he will turn his company over to his children. but that won't solve anything. keep in mind, there's no law preventing him from using his power to line the family's pockets. there's a reason why these two people are the least trusted presidential nominees in modern history. they seem to share the view that ethical standards and expectations of transparency just don't apply to them.

a huge edge over trump in voter trust in the scheme, i have some bad news for her. it seems to me in this aspect of the campaign, it's a close race for last place. share your take online at keller . >> whichever candidate wins, chances are they have a big financial boost from massachusetts. the bay state is number five on e the u.s. just behind the more pop list states of california, texas, new york and florida. hillary clinton was the top recipient with just less than $11 million by the end of july. donald trump raised 674,000 in the same time period. president obama creating a new national monument in maine. he made the announcement yesterday. one of the founders of bert's bees donated the land in maine's

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. welcome back. just about 5:40 right now. the mailman coming a thing of the past. plus the tom cities to visit in the u.s. >> jill wagner is live from the new york stock exchange. good morning, jill. >> reporter: good morning. southwest pilots are walking the picket line at the airline's hub in dallas. they're not on strike, but they're trying to get attention for their fight for better pay and benefits. they say executives have been giving themselves had he at this raises and they're not putting if you remember a couple weeks ago a computer problem grounded hundreds of flights. the airline does offer generous benefits an compensation. well the summer travel season wraps up. trip advisor is named the most popular attractions of the season. number one is one world observatory it's on top of world trade center. in the top number, newberry treat in boston.

test robots as mailmen. small six-wheeled pods will soon be cruising down swiss sidewalks. if the tests go well, one day they could deliver food and medicine. they insist officials insist they're not going to replace mailmen. they'll be in addition to them. they say that now. chris and kate. >> they're so cute though. they need to paints a little face on them or something. >> welcome greetings. >> yeah, right. >> that would be nice. >> help out the mailmen. give them --. >> reporter: i feelik stub my toe on them. >> jill, be aware of the robots. >> it's a weird angle, sorry. you guys were loving on them. sorry about that. >> we'll see you tomorrow morning. thank you very much. all right. coming up, new details about a convicted sex offender accused of raping a woman in a south boston neighborhood. >> a closer look at the legal loophole that kept his name off the sex offender's registered

injuries after an overnight shooting in dorchester. it appears a pet may have been hurt too. we'll have the details coming

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>> the 32nd annual tomato contest is open to commercial farmers and home gardeners. there are different categories from everything to heirlooms to heavy weights. all you need is some cheese and wine you have yourself a party. >> perfect. >> amazing. >> one of the great thing for summer for sure. >> summer is changing on. >> pamela, keep it going, we love it. >> okay. i will. in the next seven days we're actually going to keep the summer-like temperatures around even getting into the 90s toward forecast. for today we'll get close to 90 degrees. it will be a dry forecast too. you notice the pollen count is going to remain high throughout the weekend. actually the high range today, tomorrow and yes this saturday and sunday as well. rag weed is that season again. you probably have already noticed. the current temperature in boston 68 degrees. dew point temperatures 65. that's an inindication of how much moisture in the air. once you get dew points 65 or

the dew points will continue to slowly creep up ahead of our cold front that moves in tomorrow that will eventually bring in some more drier conditions for the weekend. wind from the southwest at eight miles per hour. that's an indication that our temperatures will, again, be warm, close to 90 degrees, even with mostly sunny skies. temperatures now in the 60s for most. but chatham, the hotspot with 71 degrees. keen down to 57. manchester 67. and lawrence also 67 degrees. hour by hour temperatures will 79 by 10:00. increasing to 83 degrees for the lunch hour. we don't stop there. mostly sunny skies, that south southwest wind those temperatures will boost into the upper 80s even along the coast here. right around 80 degrees for those highs with on the cape and islands. along the beach, 80 to 87 degrees. wind from the southwest and the

degrees. low tide this morning 1:28 and then high tied 5:21 later this afternoon. overnight low 72. scattered showers and storms push through and it does become muggy. hour-by-hour timing, we're dry here for the rest of today. 5:00 p.m., even the evening commute is going to be easy go, plenty of sunshine. the chance for a spotty stray storm or shower to the north and west of us. but thefrn the rain moves into boston 11:00 p.m.ve not everyone will see the showers. overnight, mostly dry but friday morning deal with some areas of touchy fog and expecting overcast skies ahead of this cold front, very humid conditions, too, and temperatures once again nearing 90 degrees. cold front moving over boston by 3:00 p.m. on friday will help to produce some brief heavy downpours, a couple thunderstorms, they could become strong with damaging wind gust threat, maybe some small hail but that rain is going to be the

we need t dry conditions continue. here's your seven day. cool, and at least dry for saturday and sunday. cooler by a couple degrees. mid-80s both days back to the 90s. next week, traffic and weather together. chris. >> thank you very much. let's take a live look at the express way. you can see volume is starting to build out there. but things are still moving along pretty well as you make your way up. we are seeing a little bit of a slowdown right now at the brain tree split as am too. so far no accidents out there which is good news inch the death toll continues to rise following the devastating earthquake in italy. >> plus breaking news here at home. a massive fire in lawrence and an overnight shooting in boston. our top stories begin with that breaking news. >> reporter: i'm lye in dorchester where an overnight shootering has left one person with life-threatening injuries.

scenes. they first arrived in mcclellan street where they found shell casings. then they found a victim inside on page street. it appears a pet may have been injured in the shooting. we saw people bandage ago up a dog -- bandaging up a dog's front paw. 0. >> reporter: i'm nicole jacobs live on the scene of a four-alarm fire. if you take a look behind me, you can still see purring fire on the direct building. this is 29 summer street is where it all happened. the building you see with the most extensive damage looks like that's 31. though you can is still see smoke is still coming up from those buildings. i do want to get you ride to some video from where firefighters first arrived here on the scene. you can see just how intense those flames were. we know 25 people have been displaced as a result of this fire.

is accounted for this morning. two firefighters were injured. he does believe they will be okay. we spoke with one gentleman here on the scene as soon as we got here, he was carrying a suitcase of all of his precious belongings. let's listen. >> i was sleeping and someone called me that there was a fire. so i just grabbed everything i could and got out. >> and what was the -- what was the extent of the fire at that point? could you see it? >> yeah, it was, like, terrible already. >> reporter: taking yet another live look here on summer street. we know this fire has spread to four buildings. so four buildings total have been damaged as a result of this fire. the one you're looking at right now, the roof completely damaged. completely collapsed as a result of this fire. a lot of mutual aid we're told by the fire chief here.

extensive damage here. it looks like they are starting to clear out just a little bit because the fire is contained and at this point they're just working on hotspots. but the good news here, everyone made it out safely. the two injuries, minor injuries, we're told with those firefighters. chris, kate back to you. >> thank you. also breaking overnight, 247 people now confirmed ted in the earthquake that hit italy. last night a ten-year-old girl right rubble. about 17 hours after that quake. right now rescue crews are using bull towsers and their -- bulldozers and their bare hands. one of the buildings is a hotel believed to have 70 guests. the region is a popular summer holiday spot for italians. >> a convicted sex offender held on a half million dollars bail accused of raping a woman at a south end playground. rodriguez was previously convicted of raping a high school student. he was released from prison less

offender list. that's because all sex offenders are entitled to a hearing to determine how they should be classified and whether they should be put back on the list. until the process is over, their names are left off of it, even his former girlfriend didn't know he was a sex offender. >> every rapist should be on that website so people can know who they are and decide, like i said, if i knew all of this, i would have never, never been with him. >> the state department of public safety says the sex offend r move cases through and get serious offenders back on the list within a year. on health watch this morning, a new reason to keep your weight in check. a new study in the current new england journal. medicine finds excess weight or obesity can lead to several kinds of cancers, including stomach, liver, brain, and thyroid. previous studies have linked weight gain to colon, breast, uterine, and kidney cancers.

star leslie jones hacked. the hackers took over her website yesterday scomploezing explicit photos. all likely from her apple cloud account. this wouldn't be the first time she's been targeted in an online attack. in july she temporarily quit twitter after receiving sexist and racist tweets. hope solo has been suspended for six months from the soccer team from her comments following a loss at the olympics. eliminating the women, solo called them quote, a bunch ever cowards. the president of u.s. sockers says the olympics are supposed to be about fair place and respect. well if you're working on a team project, turn up the music. a cornell team finds listening to happy up beat music can actually boost your productivity. songs including brown eyed girl and walking on sunshine also led

metal songs made participants act selfishly. how can you not be happy with walking on sunshine? >> cue the music. >> still to come this thursday, is up close and personal with a bear. >> how wildlife experts captured one wild encounter. stay with us you're watching wbz

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extreme close-up. you can see the eyes of the top corner. up close with a camera on a massachusetts conservation. the camera was set up to keep a close eye -- a really close eye on local wildlife. >> the bear my teenage daughter, sort of the same. they do the same thing. >> what filter is that one that turns it black and white. >> yeah, i don't know. that's a good question. well keep it here at wbz this morning. your top stories are straight

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. good morning. thanks for joining us. >> it is thursday, august 25th. >> we are following several breaking stories right now at 6:00. massive flames shooting from a home. it's already spread. the the damage. >> and breaking news news dorchester. police investigating a shooting that sent one person to a hospital and injured a dog. >> plus a search for a group of vandals who set off a explosion in salem. why it's being called a hate crime. >> we'll have the latest on the seven for survivors. >> let's get a check for the forecast. it is thursday, the weekend is right around the corner. things looking great? >> not bad. we're off to a warm start. you notice the humidity, it's going up a little bit.