. now at 4:30 a young boy in the hospital after being shot in the face. the latest on the investigation and the offer for other students and police in the area. >> a warning for joggers this morning after a woman says she was approached by a man in a van. the incident just a few towns murdered. >> drivers in boston get ready, college students are moving in. how it will i am fact the rest of your week and the holiday weekend. 0. all eyes on hermine this morning. ment the trops already causing problems in parts of florida. heavy rain, powerful waves and

>> thanks for joining us on thursday morning. a state of emergency now in effect for parts of the gulf coast and the storm could impact our holiday weekend. so let's get right over to barry who is in for danielle. the storm is gaining strength zwlj it looks like it should become a minimal hush before it makes coast. it does become a minimal hush it will be the first land falling undercover in florida in 11 years. can you believe that? it's been a long it's moving off. it will accelerate. the max wind sustained 60 miles per hour. we have spiral bands ever rain moving onshore. there's a undercover warning from apalachicola near cedar key. so this is potential track of the storm as it moves right about like this by thursday, this evening at 7:00 it should

storm. then it weakens over land. it's going to become a trops and then extra tropical as it comes up here toward us. so this is the conditions what we expect here. it's still uncertain the precise track, but once it gets out here, it's going to get stuck in place and whirl around for days and days. it's going to meander enough so we will spiral bands working its way in here. so probably on monday it will be the stormest day of high seas, rough that. some holy heavy rains. this morning we've had scattered showers. it's very muggy out there. it feels really tropical. we had a few showers early with thunder and lightning. most of the showers today will be right along the mass pike and points south will get the heaviest showers. more weather coming up in just a few minutes. >> all right. thank you very much. right now police are stepping up patrols and issuing a warning for joggers after a woman says she was approached by a man in a van.

a few towns away from princeton where a jogger was murdered last month. the woman says she was out for a run tuesday morning when a man pulled up yesterday next to her and offered her woman. she was so scared, she ran from that van as fast as she could. >> she was like backing up to get away from him and then she saw someone in the back and she's like that's even stranger. so she high tailed it to get away from him and they called authorities. >> the jogger gave the police a description. it was massachusetts license plate that had the numbers 9-3-0 on it. new this morning a water running says a strange man was run her. it happened last thursday night around 6:30 am a woman says she spotted a man behind her on common street and approached her twice near summer and mount awe better. when he got too close, she told him she was going to call 911 and he walked away.

call watertown police. counselors will be at all abingdon schools today as a young boy recovers from being shot in the face. officials say the young boy is at a boston hospital right now in stable condition. it happened at a home yesterday afternoon. investigators say two 11--year-old boys were inside and somehow got ahold of a gun. >> it's early but it's fair to say we believe there was not intentionally -- somebody did not try to intentionally hurt somebody. but notwithstanding that, it's -- it still has hapd aftermath with that. >> the d.a. says the gun was legally registered. police officers who responded are also receiving counseling. the police body camera program set to start at a is on hold. the union filed a lawsuit saying the city violated the agreement. for 100 orss to volunteer for the -- officers to volunteer for the six-month program. when no one volunteered, they

until september 12th. this morning inspectional services will meet with the owner of an illegal apartment after a fire burned through that home early yesterday morning. the apartment on high rick street had inadequate or no smoke detechs. if the tenants on the third floor would have been home they may not have made it out alive. the fire consumed the former jb paper company o officials want to know if it was intentionally set. you can remain anonymous. there could be a reward of up to $5,000. state police investigate whether criminal charges should be filed in that deadly crash in east boston yesterday morning. a car rear ended a shuttle bus. a man and woman from texas were killed after being thrown from that shuttle. it was heading to a hotel at the time. the driver a 27-year-old man is still in the hospital.

up for one of the victims joseph rodriguez was killed yesterday, his wife is being treated at mass general. the family had just arrived in boston for a vacation. any donations will be used for medical expenses and bring his body back home. rome arrives in hawaii with a message on climate change. the president says even a powerful nation like the u.s. isn't immune and all countries have to work together. hawaii is hosting the world's environmental conference which begins today. campaign 2016, this morning donald trump has is in cincinnati to decrease the american legion national convention just a day after hillary clinton did the same. yesterday the republican nominee outlined his plan for immigration reform. cbs's hannah daniels with the story. >> reporter: a defiant donald trump is sticking to the super piece of his immigration plan. >> we would build a great wall

and mexico will pay for the wall. >> reporter: while stressing no amnesty for living in the country illegally. >> you can't just smuggle in, hunker down, and wait to be legalized. >> reporter: and calling for undocumented immigrants who commit crimes to be deported. >> i am going to create a new special deportation task force focused on identifying and quickly removing the m dangerous criminal, illegal immigrants in america who have evaded justice, just like hillary clinton has evaded justice, okay? >> reporter: trump unveiled his ten-point plan hours after flying to mexico to meet with the country's president. >> we did discuss the wall. we didn't discuss payment of the wall. >> reporter: while the republican nominee insisted plans for the wall were discussed, mexico's leader later tweeted he made it clear from the start his nation would not fund the wall.

clinton panned the visit all together. >> dropping in our neighbors for a few hours and then flying home again, that is not how it works. >> reporter: a fox news poll out wednesday shows the race has narrowed. with clinton leading trump 41% to 39%. hannah daniels, cbs news. and a local family was from and sent at donald trump's speech last night. >> my name is maurery and our son was 23 years old when h dragged a quarter of a mile to his death by an illegal alien while horrifying witnesses were banging on the truck. >> she was just one of the parents trump brought on stage last night to say a few words about lost loved ones they blame on illegal immigrants. in the case of matthew denise, a native ecuador, nicholas is serving prison time for motor vehicle home side, drunk driving and manslaughter. after more than 40 years of

out what happened to a 10 year old from laurens. police know he was kidnapped from the higgins pool in 1976 but despite an intense search and investigation no trace of the child was ever found. today police will update the case and offer new ways for the public to get involved. well, unless you're a college student this may be a good weekend to get out of boston. thousands of students will be moving into dorms and off-campus apartments in the that will mean road closures, furniture, lots of traffic and possibly u-hauls stuck under those overpasses. we put a complete list of traffic restrictions on our website. zmr all right seeing them trickle into the area. >> the traffic alone with no problems is a nightmare. >> yes it is. coming up on wbz this morning, ranking the best cars.

warnings about your favorite cup of coffee. >> why more adults are using the

. in today's health watch, chick-fil-a unveiling in healthier options. plus is your morning cup of coffee in jeopardy. >> that does not sound good. the cars that best fit car thiefs. jill wagner is at the new york stock exchange with those. >> reporter: food and coffee that's all i ever want to talk about. but some important info actually for some new parents. a study finds, the audi, lexus use child seats. they were eval waited. the hardest to use are the ford fiesta, the silverado and q70. here's that coffee story, unfortunately our morning coffee could be in jeopardy. a study found half of the earth's land that is suitable to grow coffee would be lost by

of us coffee drinkers, but also the 25 million coffee farmers around the globe. and a sheikh new twist at chick-fil-a. they're trying out new ingredients. there is new menu items like the harvest kale and brain bowl, and also the egg white grill grain bowl. of course, you can add chicken. this move comes as a lot more americans are looking for quick but h i think i might actually eat a chick-fil-a now. >> jill, if you've never had their waffle fries or chicken nugget, they don't need to sell anything else. >> and their sauce ass. >> i've never eaten at chick-fil-a. >> you need to come to boston and we're going to go to the ball and get a kid's meal and you're going to die. it's amazing. >> by the way we should point out, jill, you and kate have

today. >> great minds, jill. good taste. jill, thank you. i'm glad she got the cayenne color memo. >> is that the color? >> yes. >> okay. all right. well, it is thursday as you can tell, let's bring in barry burbank. while we're already in september, what we're talking about is hermine. >> changes to the month and changes to the weather. >> i guess i didn't get the memo, i did? >> nope. >> come on. i'm out of the loop here. but we're in the loop where you know what's going on weather-wise established, august is a done deal now. this is september 1st, so good morning and welcome to september. it is certainly turned out to be the warmest august on record in boston ever. and the driest summer ever at 3.92 inches. so we can change this and put 3.92 up there. we'll change that soon because it's been established now the driest summer ever. and we need some rain badly. and some rain has fallen overnight. it's very muggy here over

as you can see. opening up the shot, there's cooler and drier air off to the northwest and really cooler air as you move up into canada. going to say hi to everybody in baker lake. 39 degrees. my good buddy tom going up there on vacation. enjoy the cool, dry air. 70 degrees. the dew point in boston right now, upper 60s near 70. but 58 off to the northwest. this is drier air which is going to seep in today. so it's going to comfortable in northwest new england. it will get here not until tonight. it will be humid all day. we had a few showers when i was coming to work this morning, saw a couple flashes of lightning. but now the most of the showers are down in connecticut. some local downpours in rhode island. that's where most of the action is going to be happening near and south of the mass pike. once in while there could be an isolated shower north of the pike. but most of it here and it may regenerate again this afternoon.

thunderstorms down here while the dry air starts seeping in from the north. while it does seep it, it's going to become partly cloudy. so areas north and west of boston will see the most sunshine. tomorrow have changing amounts of clouds and sunshine. we may start out with bright sunshine and a clear sky. as far as the rain for the rest of this at a looks to me like the most of it is going to be happening down here in connecticut, rhode island, southeastern massachusetts where a half inch is possible to the north of the mass pike not much going on. er to become a minimal hurricane before it makes landfall here on the florida coast. so it's going to be intensifying. it has winds at 60-mile-per-hour. by the time is makes landfall, nearly 70 miles per hour winds or so. then it weakens over land as it moves in this position, drops a lot of very heavy rain over the coastal state and moves in here and gives us some wind and rain.

the precise impact. we'll be watching hermine as rain moves on the coast sunday evening. and some heavy rain at times with gusty winds, maybe 25 to 45 miles an hour on monday and then some leftover showers on tuesday and wednesday. this thing is going to last for a while but probably the worst is going to be labor day. >> all right. thank you very much, barry. a shark sighting closes two beaches. >> lifeguards called swimmers out of the 2:00 yesterday. the white shark observe sy new app sent out several alerts. they said a spotter plane saw four sharks about 300 yards offshore. no word yet if the beaches will reopen today. two sharks were also spotted off of provincetown on monday. north atlantic white whales are already endangered, now experts worry they may never recover. more whales are becoming

researchers are trying to develop fishing lines that break easier. still ahead, a new push to go green in one community. >> the city rolling outs a ban on plastic bags. a closer look at what you need to know. >> plus you may want to think twice about getting ink. the new health risks associated with tattoos. the roast looks good dad. how good? 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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while she was out jogging. the woman says the man pulled up next to her and offered her water around 10:00 tuesday morning. the woman ran away and notified police. officers say she described the vehicle as a large green van with a massachusetts license plate that had the numbers 9-3-0 on it. counselors will be at elementary school school today in abingdon according to the "boston globe" as a student remains hospitalized after being shot in the face. officials say the 11-year-old boy is at a in stable condition. the shooting happened at a home yesterday. investigators say two 11-year-old boys were inside and got their hands on the gun. the gun was legally registered. police officer who respond ready also receiving counseling. attorney general maurer raheely will submit her recommendations today on the transgender rights law. it allows people to use

corresponds with their identity. however anyone who uses it the law improper could be arrested. they want to educate businesses on what is improper use. starting today, somerville will be one more place where your groceries won't come in plastic bags. oath the largest retailers will have to stop using sing- use plasti b other towns already have restrictions inch the family of a former nfl player taking on the fight over concussions right to the supreme court. the family of late buffalo bills fullback charlton gilchrist filed file an appeal to review a settle between the league and players diagnosed with cde. the appeal will delay payouts for months. the family says the settle does not include future payout it's

light. a shift in opinion when it comes to marijuana. new research shows cults -- adults are using pot more often and fewer think it's risky. experts say it makes sense now that dozens of sense allow medical marijuana and four states have legalized it for recreational use. only a third of adults say weekly use is dangerous down from half of the adults in 2002. on health watch this morning, tattoos are so common. but some doctors worry that ink may be making you s referencers are studying the long-term effects of a tattoo ink. some colors like yellow tend to break down and it's not clear whether that can be dangerous. since pour, the -- 2004 the number of reporting itches and scarring has gone up. the patriots play their final preseason game of the year tonight. and tom brady made the trip. the big question will all three quarterbacks play tonight. wbz is your home for the game. tonight's preseason finale

fifth quarter post game show. long before tom brady was one of the greatest quarterbacks of all-time. now he says he wants to translate the feelings he got at that time to the small screen. according to the hollywood reporter, he is forming up with michael strahan to create a series called religion of sports. brady hasn't said whether he will have an on-air role. >> i would prefer he do a reality s avocado ice cream. a post on facebook has one student a star. >> it's a far cry from his social standing before a group of florida state university football players visited during lunchtime. take a look. travis, is sixth grader beau eating by himself. it turns out he has autism and doesn't usually get guests. his mom posted the picture calling rudolph a hero. yesterday there was a whole

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in maine. wessie has been monday -- been on the months for -- loose for months now. someone snapped a picture of something slithering across the water. >> key is 100% convinced it's all a hoax. >> snakes don't shed like that. they're going to go under a tree, orne a rock, in a crevice. some of it will out in the open but not all of it laid out like that the water. >> mike from rain forest reptile says there's several in captive at this. he thinks someone got a snake skin and laid it out in the river bank. i'm not -- i'm still not going to maine, i don't care. i'm knot going. >> man, mike knows his stuff. >> well, he is an expert. but i'm still not going to maine. not until they know. >> not until they know for sure. your stop stories, weather

on alert after a woman running alone says she was approached by a suspicious man. it happened just miles from where another jogger was murdered. >> a community shaken after an abingdon boy is shot in the face. the latest on the investigation plus the helping offer for other kids and police in that area. >> and about face for the boston police why officers will not start testing body cameras today. >> and they're back, students taking over the city today as they start moving back in for college. 0. and this morning, all eyes are hermine. the tropical storm already causing problems in parts of florida with heavy rain, powerful waves and flodding there. the storm could become a hurricane later on today. good morning to you. >> thanks for joining us on this thursday morning. a state of emergency now in effect for parts of the gulf coast and this storm could