. good morning everybody. i am kate merrill. >> i am chris mckinnon we are talking about developing news we are looking at a crash thatta deadly accident that happened just outside the tip o'neill tunnel overnight. we have the te >> also breaking overnight nearly a dozen people foxed-- forced out of their homes by a fast moving fire in boston. >> and donald trumpp getting ready to head to mexico today ahead of a big speech on immigration that he is preparing for. we will have the latest from the campaign trail. >> live from the channel 4 studios in boston, this is wbz this morning. >> good wednesday morning everybody. i am kate merrill.

we have developing news this morning increased security on the first day of school. stewed ain't cuesed of making a threat at pen tucket regional high school we will have more in a minute. >> first barry burbank another first day of school for a lot kids. my kids are going back today and it's going to be a warm one. >> it's going to be a warm one. it's going to be warming into the 80s kate and looks like we will be watching the tropics. this system likely will a tropical storm and whether it affects us late in the week reason mains to be scene but it may be -- remains to be scene but it may be caught in a block and come back at us. it's warm this mork. -- morning and some places it was cool but it's starting to warm up and get more humid and we are seeing more and more cloud cover. if we didn't get all the cloud cover today we would easily hit 90 again but there's going to be quite a bit of cloudiness cutting down the temperatures a

out first thing this morning. rises at 6:09. by midday mostly cloudy with a little dim sb shieb -- sunshine. 82 degrees and more hiewp it's and mostly cloudy this -- more humid and mostly cloudy this afternoon. there shouldn't be rain through the daylight hours. more weather in few minutes. >> all right barry thank you. two stories breaking overnight. first nearly a dozen people forced out of their homes by >> state police investigating a deadly accident just outside the ted williams tunnel. >> reporter: this happened on route 1a north a half mile after the exit from the ted williams tunnel. two people were killed and at least one other person has been taken to the hospital. state police say a car and what appears to be a small livery vancollidedch the ted williams

trapping at exit 26. drivers are diverted into the airport on a service road and back to 1s past the scene. state police are investigating. no word when they will clear the scene. chris and kate. >> thank you. also breaking overnight crews on the scene of a fire in allston flames broke out around 12:30. the fire was spreading inside the walls at one point everyone was ordered out. firefighters are working to put out hot spots. officials say displaced and none hurt. but one firefighter is being treated for a back injury and damage is estimated at 1 million dollars. we have a crew out at the scene and we will bring you the latest as soon as we get it. a 17-year-old from troveland -- groveland areted -- arrested accused of making a threat against his high school arrested. he was holding what appeared to be a gun and referencing the first day of school which is

pentucket regional high school the middle school and four elementary school and the security plan is normal and schools are safe todaych steen is-- the teen is held without bail and will be arraigned in juvenile court later today. a officer has been cleared of wrongdoing in the shooting of a man last month. this is the man shot. 27-year-old michael clark. investigators with the district torn's office say police have been chasing clark when he officer shot clark and the da says the use of force was justified both clark and the officer survived. now to campaign 2016, donald trump heading to mexico. he made the announcement on twitter last night he accepted an invitation to meet with mexico's president as he gets ready to deliver a major speech on immigration later on today. hillary clinton e-mail scandal getting new attention.

confirmed today's high-profile meeting with mexico's president in a tweet tuesday night. but gave little insight into the address on immigration in arizona this evening. >> we are also going to secure our border and stop the drugs from pouring in and destroying our country and i will be talking about that tomorrow night in arizona. big speech on immigration. >> reporter: that big speech comes amid speculation republican nominee is softening his stance on deporting millions of undocumented immigrants. at a rally in washington state yesterday, trump used the issue to sway minority voters away from hillary clinton. >> hillary clinton's immigration policy brings in illegal immigrants and refugees to take jobs from our hard working african american and hispanic citizens. >> reporter: clinton who has been off the campaign trail

e-mail server during the time as secretary of state. the fbi could release documents including interview notes as early as today related to the probe. despite recommending no criminal charges against her. >> this is something we wanted to have happen and we are glad it's going to. >> reporter: with the first debase less than a month away democratic nominee hoped to move away from the controversy. she hits the campaign trail again today in cincinnati. hena daniels >> the head of phillips acad hiin andover says 5 former faculty members engained in sexual conduct with students. school referred to the -- referred the cases to the state and says they have taken steps to protect students from abuse. the young woman who accused st. paul prep school graduate olen labrie of rape is speaking out. she was 15 when it happened labrie was convicted of misdemeanor assault and felony

lure her. until now the courts hid her identity but she doesn't says she doesn't want that anymore. >> it's been two years now since the whole ordeal and i feel ready to stand up and own what happened to me and i am going to make sure other people other girls other boys know they can own it too and they don't have to be ashamed either. >> the family is suing st. paul's saying the school should have done more to protect r. bail his attorney tweeting he is out and well and the allegations against him are false. that singer was arrested yesterday after an who you're long stand off with police. liam martin has more. >> reporter: chris brown is back in trouble with the law. >> he will be transported downtown where he will be booked with assault with a deadly weapon. >> reporter: police spent hours outside brown's home. the singer refusing to come out

>> have you seen my house? i am a bear cave myself. i am not coming out for what? when you get the warrant you can walk up in here and see nothing you idiots. >> reporter: police came to brown's home initially to follow up on a call for help from a woman around 3 a.m. tuesday. former beauty contestant bailey curran said she had been partying at brown's house and called 911 when he got aggressive. >> pulled out the gun and f out and they tried to get me to sign a waiver and end a md amount or whatever and i didn't. >> reporter: police served a search warrant and emptied the house of a half dozen people patted them down and interviewed them all separately including brown. brown has had numerous run-ins with the law and spent 6 years on probation in 2009 for assaulting his then girlfriend rihanna. and chris bound completed the

of hitting a woman at a club and no charges were ever filed there. and police were called to his home again earlier this year for a report he was illegally riding atvs on his neighbor's property. liam martin wbz this morning. back here at home an uber driver is banned from the app after a disabled woman accused him of stealing from her. victim called wilson bria deckly for -- brea directly for a app. he was arraigned yesterday. bail was set at 500 dollars. a donation jar stolen in chelmsford and the security video shows kids walking up stopping at it and one of the kids grabs the jar and they both leave. this happened at the new england tropical pet store in chelmsford and the money was meant for the lowell humane society. today is international overdose awareness day and they

four overdose survivors will take part inform free panel discussion and at 5:30 there's a candlelight vigil behind worcester city hall to remember those who lost the battle with drugs. there will be events in north hampton lynn hall. show your support by wearing silver. a big night for gronk rob grone counsels can i -- gronkowski honored for his work in the community winning the ron burton community rv steve and paul burton. it's given annually to the player for their off field charitable work. >> football tonight last forever. -- doesn't last forever. people can judge how you play football but they see -- they see character what you do off the fieldworking with the kids or whoever whenever you have the chance. >> pats wrap up preseason tomorrow night when they take on the giants. kick off at 7:00. the 5th quarter post game show

and speaking of that coming up in sports, tom brady will talk about what it's like to watch his teammates on television. >> a historic flight taking off from florida today. jetblue launching the commercial flights to cuba. >> a bizarre accident on the hudson river. a ferry runs into a group of kayakers. >> and a local boy is up close and personal with gray whites. what he is saying about the

4:# 4 on your wednesday -- 4:44 on your wednesday. ordering your pizza with your nd jetblue. >> and changes to obama care. jill wagner joins us live from the new york stock exchange with those stories. good morning jill. >> reporter: good morning chris and kate. the government wants to make fixes to the affordable care act or obamacare one idea is the fees from the marketplace for marketing. to reach young people and get them to sign up. etna and unite and humanna are cutting back because policyholders are older and

dollars. jetblue plane will make a short trip today. it's long on historic significance. the 72 minute flight from florida will be the first u.s. commercial flight to cuba in more than half a century. there will be more than 400 flights a week. travel was stopped during the cold war. and now you can order pizza from your tv. papa john's has rolled out a new apple tv app. the chain says it's the first cuom platform with the option to build a pizza topping by topping. customers who order from the apple tv gets 25% off chris and kate. >> can we get any lazier? i don't understand how hard it is to maybe pick up the cell phone which is next to you and order a pizza. it's crazy. >> well now you can just change the channel and order your pizza all at once. >> reporter: seamless sort of changed everything for me do

talking about.>> reporter: oh. get ready. >> okay we will be ready. >> reporter: it's an ordering app basically tips included and it's life changing. >> wow. >> amazing. >> that's great. that's included as game changing. >> pretty soon we will go to our phones and order the weather cast from barry how we want it. >> you will control what i say. >> that's nice. here's what's going on this morning. it's a okay warm morning out there but how about august? yep we are in the record book as the warmest august on record here in boston surpassing all those years 1988 by a big margin and likely to go in the record books as the driest month as well. driest summer i should say june july and august because it doesn't look like boston will have rain before midnight but there will be rain coming up

deal. we say good-bye to august and it's starting out a little on the cool side in some outlying locations again this morning. mid to upper 60s around boston so it's going to be a warm day going to school today as the temperatures go well into the 80s. doesn't look like it will hit 90 because of so much cloud cover. it looks like it should be around 86 for an overage high 80 at south facing coastal locations including the outer part of cape ann. so at water it looks like it's going to be mainly in the 80s be mid-80s. water temperatures dropped and i know this for sure because i went in swimming and doing body surfing the last couple days with a strong offshore wind. the water got really cold at east coastal beaches compared to what it was and south facing beaches are warm. water temperatures mostly in the 60s some around cape cod around the low to middle 70s. watch a lot of cloud cover come in today and therefore it's going to cut down the amount of bright sunshine and the temperature will be cut down by

bright and sunny all day we would hit 90 or 91. we are watching showers and doesn't hook like anything happens in boston until well after midnight and tomorrow morning, we get the showers and they will expand into showery rains and maybe scattered thunderstorms especially in southern new england and southeastern massachusetts by late in the day and then it clears out and coming up for friday. so that's it let's look at the high temperatures around the area and look first of all national hurricane center in the next 15 minutes to he see what's happening with -- see what's happening with this potentialtropical storm as of last night at 11 it was just a depression. but likely will be named hermine today and therefore what happens as it curls back to new england. that's a possibility that could happen starting late sunday, monday which would bring wind and rain into southeastern massachusetts at least. it is still up in the air and we need to look at the charts

days. i can tell you tomorrow will be rany and we need the rain and we will get rain 78 and it's going to be beautiful much of the weekend and clouding over on sunday and as the cloud come up from the south and probably turning stormy on monday and into tuesday. that's it for now. back to you chris and kate. >> looks like a great forecast for the weekend barry thanks very much. a thrilling encounter for a duxbury boy and his dad. >> a great white circling their boat off the cape caught on camera. louisa moller takes a look. >> he is getting er closer to the boat. >> reporter: the cell phone video still has jack gib bones and family -- gibbons and family stunned. it's a lifelong dream of the 8- year-old to see a great white shark in the wild and last weekend. >> how many times have we been look for a great white. >> reporter: and we are-- >> and we are not looking and we see one. >> reporter: it happened in a close and personal encounter. >> i am just like i am just hike what and i run over and i see this great white shark the

when the lurking format next image unforgettable for the young shark enthusiast. >> when i saw it coming towards me it's like eyes were just pointed to the sides so you couldn't see his eyes but you could see its white and it was the nose was coming at you. >> reporter: the shark circled the boat for nearly 15 minutes. >> holy. >> don't share. swear. >> reporter: showing a pattern of behavior that hadder are din dinner. >> reporter: until it disappeared. >> there it is right here right here he is right there. >> reporter: jack says he still is eager to learn about sharks. >> they can smell blood up to 3 miles which is interesting. >> reporter: if he is safely on a boat. >> what do you think? >> yeah. >> absolutely. >> reporter: the gibbons boy spotted the shark off race point beach and there's been

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breaking overnight a deadly crash in east boston at least two people were killed. one injured when a car and a small livery van collided on route 1a north a half a mile outside the ted williams tunnel. eastbound traffic is being diverted. breana pitts will have a update. crews are working to put out hot spots right now at the house on -- one firefighter something treated for a back injurych the chief estimates damage at one million dollar we have a live crew on the scene and will get a update coming up. >> 4:54. a concord new hampshire father drowned trying to save his children on monday and this morning we are hearing from the woman who rescued three of those kids. christine lemuiex was with 7 of her own children when she realized a family playing on the nearby rocks was in trouble. she says the children were bobbing in the water the father

water and rescued three of the children. she says she wants everyone to know what drowning can look like. >> i can't believe how silently the children were drowning. i never realizeed that drowning could be so -- realized that drowning could be so subtle. they weren't making any noise or splashing. no one was culling for help. >> -- calling for help. >> she performed cpr. 3 children are expected to recover. their 39-year-old father did not survive. the coast guard to a helicopter crew lifted an injured lobsterman off the boat yesterday. coast guard says a crew member contacted them when the 41-year- old was accidently impaled and he was taken to cape cod hospital. an unusual accident on the hudson river. >> new york city a ferry ran into a group of kayakers. 5 people were injured. authorities think sun glare may have blinded the ferry captain. after more than 100 years one of the oldest racetracks in

today. >> live racing stopped at rockingham park in 2009. the track continued to simulcast other races and host poker tournaments. businessman plans to turn thepark into a walking town with office space and retail stores and restaurants. still to come for us on this wednesday a tw any of the case of a illusive snake in maine. >> what officials discovered when they tested a 10 foot long skin the snake left behind. 162 likes. did i get any retweets on those green beans? yep! and they're blowing up on instagram. honey, your rump roast just broke the internet!!!! as it should. life is family mealtime and everything you need to make it picture perfect. now be sure to tag your mother

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a new twist in the case of a 10 foot snake they thought it was pight on but took the skin in and it's a anna conda. >> it could -- anaconda. >> it could reach 20 feet as last week was swelling across a river-- swimming across the river. >> it makes me think of the weather dmiept want to know anymore twist of the wessie saga. >> go to florida it's nice. see you later. top stories weather and traffic are straight ahead on wbz. >> the news at 5 starts right now. >> a deadly crash in east boston outside the ted williams tunnel. the latest details from state police plus what drivers need

>> braying overnight crews batel a fire in a neighborhood popular with college students. the scare as firefighters fight the flames. >> developing news increased security on the first day of school. student accused of making -- the student accused of making a threat. >> and a teen fighting for his life after being stabbed with a gel of -- golf club. what police say started the fight. >> from the channel 4 studios in boston this is wbz this morning. >> for waking up with us i am chris mckinnon. >> i am kate merrill. it's wednesday august 31st. the final day of august barry and you have your eyes on the tropics. >> yeah it's crazy that the end of august already the summer has gone so fast and here we go getting closer and closer to the peak of the tropical season here and we still have this tropical depression latest advisory from the national hurricane center shows it's a