breaking news at 6:00, an enormous fire erupts on plum island. jumping from one house to another. we are live with the very latest. also, a midair scare. part of a plane's engine falls apart in flight. the major malfunction and under arrest. a man charged with the brutal murders of two nuns who were dedicate today helping the poor. -- dedicated to helping the poor. when we have the next chance of rain in the seven day forecast. a massive fire jumps from home to home on plum island. as black smoke billows over the

sounding. at least three homes were involved in this and firefighters from several towns scrambled to plum island to help. our jim smith is live now with the latest on this breaking news story. jim? >> reporter: ken, this fire was obviously terrible. but the good news tonight, the incredible news, is that there are no serious injuries. unfortunately, as you can see, the damage has been done. take a look at what is left of this home. just a shell of -- charred steaming timbers and bun of the biggest -- one of the biggest chng thing from spreading even further. the roaring fire broke out at 1,120th street a blaze that quickly went to five and then six alarms. from land and from the sea it could be seen for miles. the flames threatened other nearby homes, a serious situation made worse by the intense heat. >> very hot in the eat. that's why -- heat. that's why it took double the manpower to fight it with heat like this.

attack. that makes it better but still, a tremendous effort in the heat like this. >> reporter: fire departments from at least five different communities were called in to fight the flames. finally, by late afternoon, the fire was brought under control. somehow the flames didn't spread further. two other homes were slightly damaged but the house where the fire started looks like a total loss. >> it's very upsetting. yeah. it's very upsetting. to see soin flames. it's so surreal. it hasn't set in. tonight i will not go back to my house. >> reporter: back here live on plum island on a saturday evening, we talked about the heat. take a look at that melted siding there on the house that is all just one mass of just damage right there. and the fire obviously also damaged some cars and if you look in front of the primary home that was damaged, you can see that these vehicles are also a total loss.

news, no civilian injuries really no serious injuries at all and one firefighter we are told was treated for a heat related condition but he's going to be okay. the cause of this now under investigation. live on plum island, jim smith, wbz news. >> all right jim thanks. back in boston, police are investigating a string of violence overnight that has claimed at least two lives. wbz is live in dorchester right now and shop tea, this is tied to the caribbean festiv commissioner bill evans with bpd was here earlier today. he says three of the four shootings overnight is tied to this festival. >> i was aleap in the house. and -- asleep in the house and heard gunshots. >> in the middle of the flight. >> reporter: bulleting in jamaica plain outside center street strikes and kills a man. he was sitting in a wheelchair. >> it's very surprising. there hasn't been much violence at all in the neighborhood.

sufficient that goes down like any other major city but generally a pretty safe spot. >> clearly he was targeted. i know he was in the area and i think he's out panhandling quite a bit. and you know, it's troubling. >> reporter: that was one of four shootings overnight. the three others were from parties indirectly tied to events surrounding the annual caribbean festival parade. >> yesterday, i went out in front of the media and sort of said this is always a challenging night for us. i think we by the time we -- this time last year. we had four so far this year. and so we're working hard. we had a lit of extra visibility out there. >> reporter: a man shot and killed on westville street in dorchester was indirectly tied to the festival. >> i hate to always tie it to the parades because those events themselves are great family events. but unfortunately people are up all night partying. >> reporter: mayor walsh who stopped by the festival vows to make a change. >> we're on top of it. we're out there and doing our

bring the violence down. >> reporter: and boston police say so far, no suspect information or arrests in any of the four cases. they're leaning on the public right now for help. live in dorchester, shop thailand, wbz news. back to you ken. >> thanks. now a developing story, police in mississippi have made an arrest in the brutal murders of two nuns including one who glue up in -- grew up in stoneham, mass. this is 46-year-old rodney earl sanders now char their rural mississippi home. police have hinted at evidence of a break-in but have not yet been specific about motive. the bodies of sister paula merrill a stoneham native and her lifelong friend sister margaret held were discovered on thursday. after the 68-year-olds didn't show up at the medical clinic where they worked. >> they actually spent their entire lives searching this community -- serving this community right here. i'm sure our community is

than three decades, as seen in this video, the nuns who are worked as -- worked as nun practitioners helping and providing low cost or free medical care in a place where 44% of the residents live in poverty. paula merrill's sister and brother still live in stoneham. >> patients always love -- absolutely loved her, she was so good to them. they both went so far above ande expected of a normal human being. >> reporter: police began looking at sandsers early on but won't say why. he was not a patient at the nuns' clinic. the victim's stolen car was found less than a mile from the murder scene. sanders has been charged with two counts of capital murder. meaning he could face if death penalty in mississippi. rose marie merrill says she knows her sister would have urged forgiveness but she's not sure she can do that.

hingeham cafe. jeffrey ma hoe knee went right into the front of the square cafe on north street last night. two customers inside were seriously hurt and a passenger in the truck was also injured. police say the driver is okay. and was not under the influence. he's now facing traffic violations. today hundreds of people spent the day outside gillette stadium tailgating in preparation for tonight's kenny chesney concert. here's a live look at the ad night of he has knee. will it stick around in meteorologist pamela gardner has a first look now at the accuweather forecast. oh, yeah it will. the low humidity levels and warm temperatures are going to lead us into the second half of the weekend as well. and great conditions for o concert. on the -- a concert. tonight temperatures in the lower 80s and 83 norwood and 85 degrees in boston and we're at 75 degrees in boston actually we have the onshore flow transto a sea breeze. along the coast we have stayed

inland temperatures have soared into the upper 80s from time to time. dew points are nice and low. 57 degrees in boston. that's going to set us up to a very refreshing overnight forecast with a few areas of patchy fog and the typical spots that normally see it. otherwise mostly clear and a low of 66 degrees. tomorrow, just picture-perfect once again. cooler at the coast and with some mid- to upper 80s once you get further inland. coming up in a few minutes in the seven day forecast, when we could have some more also a fall-like feel at some point. i'll have the details later. ken? all right pamela thanks. scary moments on board a southwest airlines jet part of the engine came apart in mid- flight. sending shrapnel flying. take a look at these images obtained by wbz news. it shows the front engine cover torn away. there's also some damage to other parts of the aircraft caused by flying debris. nobody was hurt when the flight from new orleans to orlando

ntsb is looking into it. still to come on wbz news at 6:00, needham flips for hometown girl aly raisman. we'll take you to the celebration for the olympic star who had a message for fans. >> and also ahead, trump's latest tweet controversy. the message sent from the republican candidate that is sparking more backlash. >> and a truck that was just too tall causes a bridge to

[ sirens ] needham rallies for raisman. hundreds of people gathered

aly raisman was cheered along the streets where she grew up and now she has a special message for girls looking to follow in her footsteps as wbz's paul burton explains. [ chanting ] >> reporter: it was an olympic homecoming for needham's own aly raisman arriving on a fire truck with thunderous aplus. she took part in a rally for ali on the town common. >> thank you so much for coming today. >> reporter: she grew up in needham class of 2012. today august aly raisman today for the town of needham. >> the beautiful rio 2016 olympics right. >> there is all a dream and it doesn't feel like it's actually all happened because i've spent so much time you know, stressing about competing and then it actually kind of just all came together. >> reporter: during the rally, ali took questions from her fans. >> what is it like being one of

very rewarding but a lot of hard work. >> just to see her put herself to this level and go at it again is unbelievable. i give her so many congratulations for that. >> now that ali is back, she doesn't plan to spend a lot of time here in needham. in fact she's about to go on tour with her teammates and then come back and spend much- needed time with her family. >> it's just great to see her represent needham a little small town. >> the best advice i would give is that the harder days are at really hard, you make certain sacrifices, you're very displained then i think you can really accomplish whatever you want. >> reporter: ali thanked her coach and parents and fans for their incredible support. in needham, i'm paul burton, wbz news. >> and let the endorsements roll in right? [ laughter ] >> seriesly. good for her. fantastic. >> a time to make some money. all right joining us now to talk about the forecast. sweet day out there with that lower humidity and i saw the cooler temps sliding in here at

>> oh, yeah. we have some fall-like temperatures moving in a little bit of the canadian air mass moves our way but it's a briefer transition the cooler temperatures -- to cooler temperatures and the second half of the labor day forecast looking much warmer and a great way to end the summer. but here we go, so far it's still the driest summer on record in boston. and by driest summers we mean meteorological summers, june, july august and only picked up 3.92 inches the number one spot, 3.97 inches of rain set in 1957. well, we're going to make a run at it. as we track our next chance of rain going into monday but it all depends on whether or not that rain falls right over logan ate. radix -- airport. ridiculous but that's what it is. in the next couple of days here rain probability very, very low. we don't show you the probabilities too too often but just to give you a better

very slim chance of rain on monday, tuesday no chance. wednesday and thursday, next round of some rain that could give us a brief soaking and isolated spots but again, it's not going to be a drought buster or anything like that. hour by hour forecast, for the evening, we'll notice the puffy clouds go away. overnight tonight, we're all clear, 7:00 a.m. waking top maybe -- up to maybe areas of patchy fog in low lying spots and by sunday afternoon, more of those fair weather cumulus clouds developing in the heat of the day. still dry sunday night. and then mond showers but notice, it's not too big of a deal here. monday afternoon, we're mainly dry monday evening another round of some spotty showers as well. big picture is we're going to continue to stay ultimately dry. and very warm. one of the warmest augusts on record here in boston. since 1872 at this point in the month and we still have more time to go but76.8-degrees is

currently 75 degrees in boston. 80s further inland and overnight lows dip into the 60s and upper # as. it's going to be a 50s. it's going to be a comfortable night for us, tomorrow cooler along the coast thanks to the onshore flow with your water temperatures sitting between 68 and 76 degrees. tomorrow's high temperatures in the upper 70s along the coast with the mid 80s getting inland and here's the seven day with the roller coaster temps. 9ed 0 for monday and 84 tuesday and wednesday 91 and then we'reo ken? >> ooh. lot cooler. all right. thanks. it was a stunning sight in edge land when a tractor- trailer took out a bridge. the truck was too high but tried to get underneath the underpass anyway. the structure ripped apart the truck and then came crashing down on the roadway. the wreck forced the closure of the busy highway which was just outside of london. turning to campaign 2016 now, hillary clinton has been given her first national

nominee. today clinton met with intelligence staffers at the fbi office in white plains, new york. the briefing is customary for the two major party presidential nominees. clinton's opponent donald trump was briefed earlier this month. today speaking of trump, he's in iowa stumping for votes. this, as his campaign faces yet another controversy. the republican has been under fire for this tweet sent out today. in it. he claims the deadly shooting of nba african-american voters will back his campaign. the libertarian ticket was no boston today for a campaign stop. gary johnson and former massachusetts governor bill welds here a rally morning on the boston -- rally this among on the boston common. they are pushing to be included in any televised debate with donald trump and hillary clinton. still to come on the program -- brady is back. for now the q is get -- quarterback is getting his first snaps of the season but

backup. why coach belichick says the team isn't quite ready for the

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that booing you hear is because tom brady is in the game and on first down he throws and throws it complete to aaron dobson who has some yards. gets it down inside the 20 near the 10-yard line. tom brady says hello back doing what brady does. jimmy goo after low came in first and then tom came in. in his first completion was on his first throw of the game. his second completion? a thing of beauty as well. the pats' often end practices with quarterbacks doing the bread basket drill and tom brady does it as good as anyone from. 33 yards out just dropped it

tom 3-9 if you have 76 yards and a -- for 76 yards and a touchdown on the night. that was a thing of beauty. meanwhile jimmy goo of low got the start and in the red zone on the first drive but almost gets picked here but julian edelman stops the route and kuechly drops the interception. later he's under pressure and loses the ball and pats recovered but jimmy just never got into any kind of rhythm last night. >> it's different you know, but i mean that's just -- you know, you don't know what to expect. going to be taken out. just kind of have to react to it and you know respond to it. in the right way. like i said before, i mean there's little things here and there you know. overall there was some good things that we did tonight. but you know, we have to get the little things corrected. >> finally you know who looked good at quarterback? rookie quarterback brisset. completed all nine of the passes including the t. throw to cart -- touchdown throw to carter, from the third round pick out of nc state. he played the least of the three quarterbacks but looked

carolina 19-17 was your final. and despite being a perfect 3- 0, coach belichick says everyone has room for improvement. >> you know, we've moved ahead in a lot of areas but we're certainly not where we need to be. i don't think any player is, i don't think any coach is. i don't think any team is at this point. but we're all making progress and it's -- you know it's good. just got to keep our foot on the gas and try to make it as quickly as we can. >> the patriots wrap up the preseason thursday playing the giants kickoff at 7:00. fifth quarter postgame show after the game all here on wbz. to baseball, red sox returned home last night to take on the kansas city royals winners of 16 of the past 19 games the sox will try to slow down the defending world series champs tonight when david price looks to win his fourth straight start. something has to give at fenway. last night the sox got wright back off the disabled list and he was solid. in the 1st inning, wright gave

home run to whose more and another two run -- hose more and another two run homer all in the 1st inning. they were down 5-0 before they even batted and never recovered losing by 6-3. and finally multiple reports saying that the patriots have signed linebacker jonathan frayny to a two year contract extension through 2018. roster shuffling maybe get down to 75 tuesday ken. and then 53 after that. >> right. you had no time to hear that except on the plane probably right on the way back? all right danny thanks. dozens turn out to greet a famous face. the celebrity sighting that had

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find your walk near you at alz.org/walk. four hundred million dollars. that's how much charter schools will drain from massachusetts public schools this year. four hundred million siphoned from local districts that desperately need it. four hundred million that won't fund more science and technology, arts or preschool, counseling, or smaller class sizes. four hundred million unavailable to the ninety-six percent of students who don't attend charter schools.

vote no on question 2. finally this evening, a celebrity meet and greet for the four-legged and those who love the four-legged. manny the frenchie greeted adoring fans in boston today. the dog has nearly two billion likes on facebook believe it or not. and 1,000 followers on twitter. he travels the country to promote different charity events. >> oh look at that >> leading with your paws is very tough by the way. ? very popular. one more look at the forecast here. >> beautiful weather again tonight. very refreshing. temperatures in the mid 60s. and then for sunday, 88able degrees but cool -- 88 degrees but cooler at the coast and monday 990 degrees and isolated storm chance not everyone is going to see the rain. and then it's going to be a pretty dry stretch with canadian high pressure system moving in for next week. >> blame it on canada? >> yes.

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