mississippi for the poor. their bodies were found after they did not report to work at a nearby hospital. officialssay there were signs of a break in at their home and their vehicle was missing from the driveway. it is unclear at this point if that attack was at all motivated by the nuns' religious mission. a fuel investigation is underway in durant, mississippi. that's about 60 miles north of jackson. sister paula from massachusetts once said that, quot simply do what we can wherever god places us. we will keep you posted on this investigation. lisa and david, back to you. >> liam, thank you. and also tonight, igniting a call to action, a fast-moving fire that damaged several buildings in lawrence has officials looking at a bigger property problem. the mayor satisfied he was fighting for years to have the abandoned building where it started torn down. >> and city officials promise that does they will prevent

happening again. bill shields has the latest from lawrence. >> reporter: that's right. the fire started in the white house behind me and spread to the adjacent buildings. but the city was going after the owner of the white house for two years trying to get him to do something with it, whether to clean it up, fix it up, or do something and they had just about come to terms when the fire happened. they don't know what started the fire but there may have adjacent apartment houses. in all, three buildings destroyed and another uninhabitable, and 13 families homeless. this 12-year-old boy lost a school uniform. >> it then started to get out of control and spread to houses. >> reporter: the abandoned building is owned by a man that the city was working with for

demolish it. and they were almost there. >> the process had brought about a situation where we were on the precipice of getting demolition. >> reporter: this building was neglected until it burned but it's not the only one that concerns the mayor. >> we know where most of the places are. we have over 150, close to 200 of the place -- places that we know are fire victims at one they were going after him and they had reached an agreement but because of his lack of action, 13 families are homes, 53 people. reporting from lawrence, bill shields, wbz news, back to you. breaking at 6:00, a well- known defense attorney facing charges in a deadly crash in brockton. policesay that the 66-year-old was behind the wheel in june when her suv went out of

crashed into a man doing community service and now is facing charges of motor vehicle homicide and negligent operation. a guilty plea from a former state trooper you see in the skyeye video punching and kicking a man. he was charged in the role and he said he took full responsibility for his hampshire. ken? >> reporter: lisa, because he was a sworn officer on duty at the, andrew monaco faced simple assault but instead, he will do no time. prosecutorssay evidence of his guilt was overwhelming but so was his remorse. >> i severely regret my actions. i always promised myself i would not do this.

andrew monaco continued something he began minutes after the incident, admitting that he was wrong. on may len, news helicopters captured him punching and kneeing a car chase suspect, richard simone, a dozen times even as simone was clearly surrendering to other officers. he will serve no jail time. >> it sets a rule by letting the officer walk with little more than >> reporter: the attorney for simone called the plea deal too lenient. monaco must do community service, get anger counseling, pay his victim's medical bills and never again work in law enforcement. >> losing one's chosen progression is not typically an outcome of a plea to simple assault and represents severe punish on the his own. >> reporter: the judge

brought in the heart-felt apology. >> i apologize to the members of law enforcement especially those there on that day but most importantly, i apologize to the citizens of new hampshire. >> reporter: the state attorney general said no ordinary citizen with a clean record would serve time for simple assault. a massachusetts trooper, joseph flynn, faces similar charges an month. ken mcleod, wbz news. also pleading guilty, the mother of a 17-year-old girl who died of an overdose at a hotel. policesay that the girl overdosed on fentanyl. prosecutors will only ask for a little more than 10 years but this man admit he is gave the

years. a passenger in a vehicle accident yesterday has passed away. the driver of the car is still in the hospital tonight. there were children on the bus involved. they were headed to a camp. and none of them was hurt. the crash is under investigation. the weather, another nice day but this weather comes at a cost, and eric, i know you have more on the drought report. >> an upda comes in every thursday morning, and here in massachusetts and new hampshire, a slight increase. so we are staying in the same spot, mainly in far northern new england, and central northern new england, there is no drought at all. it will be hyper local this

the start and end dates. by august, it hasn't been terribly bad but june to august, we are still on ace for the driest summer on record in the city but january 1, we are at the 12 spot and the biggest problem is it's been a long duration drought and started last spring and has been going for quite a while. once you get to worcester, 17th, very dry, but providence, 42nd driest year on record. any rain in the forecast? just a touc coming up. >> sounds good, eric. donald trump is campaigning in new england and comes out swinging. >> don't accuse decent americans who support this campaign, your campaign of being racist which we're not. it's the oldest play in the democratic playbook. >> trump addressing hillary clinton's criticism saying she

>> christina hager is live with more. christina? >> reporter: david, for a donald trump rally, there was a lot of talk about hillary clinton, hammering her for her latest attack ad for trump and accusing hereof selling out to special interest. but as we talked to people heading into the rally, some haven't made up their minds about trump. there's a reason new hampshire is considered a battle ground state. every vote requires a fight. >> hear what the man has to say. if i'm not convinced, then. >> reporter: you're undecided? >> i am undecide but maybe i am decided. we'll see. >> reporter: inside, comfortable ground for trump. >> if i didn't win here, who knows where i would be. maybe i would be building buildings or something. >> reporter: and he focused

state department like a personal hedge fund. >> reporter: one day after trump called clinton a bigot, she came back at him with a political ad tying trump to the hateful fringe of the right wing. now, this response. >> when democratic policies fail, they are left with only this one, tired argument: you're racist. you're racist. you're racist. >> reporter: supporters had elaborate on recent indications he may be softening his hard- line on immigration. >> he is anne tag eyewitness newsing the base and the people that got him here in the first place. >> reporter: for supporters like him, trump had this reassurance. >> we will build the ball 100% and mexico will be paying for

on very short notice. so it lacked some of the loud protesting and crowds we normally see at trump rallies. this was the candidate's last planned appearance. christina hager, wbz news. lisa, back to you. >> thank you. and campaigning in reno, nevada, hillary clinton argued back saying that bigotry was the hallmark candidacy. >> from the start, donald trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia and is taking hate groups mainstream and helping the radical fringe taking over the republican party. >> she said he was unfit to hold the office of president. an unusual sight in boston, low-flying helicopters close to

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the sights and sounds that had many in the city buzzing, helicopters flying low around boston. a lot of people are wondering what's going on and whether they should >> tonight, we have answers with beth german oa. what's going o beth? they flew in very low with a lot of racket, rattling windows. the north end waterfront captured this video with the helicopters seeming to buzz downtown buildings. we are told by the department of defense it's part of a training exercise that will continue until tomorrow. it's planned and, quote, not in response to a world event but

>> it's intense. they were flying around in circles and coming right over our building and circling around the clock tower and did that for like half an hour. >> it was something to have some kind of notification. in this day and edge, any military activity makes me concerned. >> reporter: this is a new picture sent by a producer of three there was a tweet about the training exercise but not everyone got the word. so the sky around boston's waterfront, if it comes alive again tonight, you will know what the. beth germano, wbz news. >> beth, thank you. and nbc n -- mbt workers went the extra mile to save an

track, bringing the bird to tufts university for treatment. they said that the injuries are serious. fortunately, the bird is still alive. let's talk with eric about the weather. it did get more humid and we were hot for late august. >> exactly, and it wasn't so much that way when we woke up, eric. no, things are getting steamier as the day goes on. take a along at the calendar the red squares are days of above-average reading. can't tell you the next time we'll have a blue square. september looking well above average for us, too. and i think the summer days are not going anywhere as we look at the next several weeks. 83 in boston and we had cloud cover increasing across parts of the area.

with us for 24 more hours and then drier stuff this weekend, and tracking a few spotty showers across southern vermont and new hampshire with a couple of raindrops but nothing that will help the dry landscape. tonight, a few towns may get lucky with a downpour. otherwise, warm and humid and overnight, a widely scattered showers or downpour remember down -- and tomorrow t especially towards the cape a few raindrops. it doesn't look like we have the greepts for a big severe weather day which is a good thing but we want to zen rate at least downpours. i think midday through the early evening, this is the best chance especially in eastern and southeastern massachusetts, the best chance of seeing rainfall and a steamy and warm day. approaching dinner time, things

in terms of temperatures, 85 to 90, another very warm day and the dew points will be high. tonight muggy and saturday, we'll introduce drier air that will be here for saturday and sunday. a look at the weekend, high pressure will glide across northern new england and turn the winds and we'll have slightly more comfortable air along the shoreline and warmest temperatures will be inland. mid-80s on saturday and sunday, and closer to upper cents to around 80 at the coast, and all told, it's a summery weekend. for the red sox tomorrow, any storms will be done by 7:10. shouldn't have an impact at the ballpark and for sunday night's game, upper 70s, great evening for baseball both of the nights. to the cape and islands, a slight chance of showers and

towards the weekend, guys, near 80 and sun, and the same thing to the lakes region with a chance for an isolated storm tomorrow, cooler and pleasant, and sunday night, a chance of a thunderstorm. most of the weekend, completely dry, and that's just an operative term, and next week, dry, also, and a very warm start to next week and thursday, the 7 day, september 1. labor day weekend around the over to you. >>thank you, eric. harvard has done it again. >> this time, inventing the world's first robot that runs out batteries. this is a look at it, and it runs on hydrogen peroxide. right now as cool as it looks, it doesn't do anything in particular but scientists say one day it could be used in

>> impressive for the future. >> but right now, it doesn't do anything. the red sox finishing up an 11-game, 4-city road trip in st. petersburg. >> and steve burton is here to tell us what happened in the finale. uh-oh. i wish i had better news, sox nation. not only that dilose to tampa but an drew benintendi is on the 15-day sox and rays, the game was scoreless to the 6th. the sox could not muster more runs. moving to the bottom of the 7th. 1-1 when this one goes into the

down. but a run scores. shout out but he gets greedy. 2 out and nobody on, top of the 9th, and big papi goes down looking to end the game, couch. the reds win 2-swrn and split the 4-game series and the sox and with the loss, the sox fall half a game behind toronto in the al east and are just half a game ahead. and now for beni ntendi, he is on the 15-day dl. he got hurt last night after he was tagged out at 2nd.

need to be done tomorrow. the patriots are gearing up for the third pre-season game tomorrow night when they take on the panthers tomorrow. wondering about tom brady? time will tell if he will play. and the sox acquired a former first-round big from cleveland. mingo was the 6th overall pick but hasn't panned the linebacker's numbers have dropped off considerably and he was a backup last season. the pats are hoping that a change of scene can revive his once-promising career. wbz is the place to be for tomorrow night's pre-season matchup with patriots' game day

and after that, we'll have the post game. he said it would be all work and no play. a framingham cop shows off his

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