. breaking news. right now at noon, a space x rocket explodes on the launchpad in florida, black smoke can be seen billowing up from the site. it happened during a routine test this morning, >> witnesses say several explosions followed. brianne ma pitts has the latest. what do we know? >> reporter: in a is a says that right now emergency staff at the kennedy space center are monitoring the air for any toxic fumes. today was supposed to be a test. had a launch planned fore this saturday. -- planned ford this saturday. this is a big set back for space x. the california based company has

by another launch accident last june. nasa says she haven't notified about the explosion. this was an unmanned rocket. no injuries were reported. kate. >> thank you. more breaking news this noon. a new investigation shows one in five female students was sexually abused a boarding school in the '70s. the report claims those girls were abused i the trail refresh it uncovered ten additional school employees abused at least 51 students through the '80s. new breaking news this noon. a major misunderstanding. >> police now saying a man was only offering help when a jogger mistook him for something more sinister on. anna meiler is with the latest. anna. >> reporter: and kate, police say they were able to track down that driver. and it turns out he's a

an investigation into a suspicious man who approached a woman out for a jog ended just the way police were hoping, is it turns out the driver was just trying to be nice. >> the good samaritan stopping because he thought this woman could use a bottle of water. >> reporter: people in shirley were on high alert when a post went sigh ral on facebook warning people to be on the lookout for a man in a green van. a woman says she was jogging alone down hazen road around 10:00 tuesday morning when a van drove t the road. her friend says happened next, raised red flags. >> he said would you like some water. she's like that's weird. and he was -- and she was like backing up to get away from him. then she saw someone in the back, she's like that's even stranger. so she high tailed it to get away from him. she called the authorities. >> reporter: police say that driver is a 71-year-old vet ron who lives in town and transports handicap people to medical appointments which is exactly what he was doing at the time. >> the gentleman he was

of water. that's why there was water in the van. and it was nothing more than that. >> reporter: police say the jogger did the right thing and they're haepg this was a misunderstanding with a happy ending. >> i'm happy for that because there are still good people in this world. >> reporter: police did stress this jogger did the right thing by reporting something she believed to be suspicious. police say they would rather find out a concern is unfounded than not investigate it at all. reporting live in shirley, anna meiler, wbz news. right now, tropical storm hurr mown is as it looks to make landfall in florida as a pong hurricane. a state of merge has been issued as -- emergency has been issued. >> it could play a role in our holiday forecast. barry burbank here with the latest. >> good afternoon to you. here's the situation with the storm. it looks more organized today than it has. it still is a tropical storm with winds at 65 miles per hour. it looks like it's going to take a track which is going to bring

southeast of apalachicola. it's about 175 miles south of that town right now. it's going to make landfall as a minute mull hurricane as it looks right now. that will be the first landfall, falling hurricane in the state of florida in almost 11 years. that's an unbelievable statistic. the last one to strike florida was wilma back in 2015. -- 2005. this moved right along the carolina coast during tomorrow and then just offshore a little bit. from there it gets trapped in the atmosphere. it can't go east, it can for quite a few days. it may actually lose some tropical characteristics and then regain them, whatever. the story is what impact is it going to have on us. as it whirls around, some of the bands of rain will spiral in here. we will have some high seas, rough sees seas. and perhaps northeast gales as well with the wind i didn'test weather on cape -- windy evident weather on cape cod.

immediate forecast with some nice weather ahead when my -- in my forecast just ahead. >> all right. -- all right. all right. thank you very much. you can keep an eye on the forecast with the boston weather app. get your seven day and any weather alerts for free in the google and apple app stores. a crushing fall in the south end. part of a large tree came tumbling down on a car this morning. you see et front of the silver car in east brookline street is smashed in by the tree. so far no word on what brought that tree to come crashing d trying to figure out how two young boys got ahold of a gun. >> one of the boys was shot in the face. nicole jacobs is live with the incident that has shaken this community. nicole. >> reporter: kate, chris, neither abingdon police nor the district attorney's office has provided any information for us today. with regards to this investigation that they continue to say was an accidental shooting. certainly school is back in

on hand to help students cope. this is the scene of a tragedy in abingdon. inside this lynnwood street home. >> i've never seen anything like it. >> reporter: residents here didn't see what happened but they would see aftermath. >> i saw the kid in the ambulance and he was just covered with blood on the face. >> reporter: according to the district attorney, two young boys got ahold of a handgun. in the end one of them, an 11 year old, was shot in the face. >> it's a fair thing to say that we believe it was not not try to intentionally hurt somebody. >> reporter: the superintendent of abingdon public schools confirms both boys are students at woods dale school where counselors are poised to assist. meantime, neighbors told wbz no parents were home at the time of the shooting but say both families are respectable. >> they are a fantastic family, so it's just been a big mistake. >> reporter: the gun was legally owned and the owner is

while the situation remains under investigation. >> it's still has happened and we have to deal with the aftermath of that. >> reporter: at last check, the boy was in stable condition after being airlifted to boston. his neighbors remain shaken and worried. >> you don't expect anything like that to happen here. >> reporter: at this point authorities have not said which of the two boys might have pulled the trigger here. again, still an accidental shooti remains in stable condition. wee flye abingdon. >> nicole, thank you very much. today, jet blue is apologizing after two young boys were flown to the wrong cities by themselves. jet blue says the boys were traveling from the dominican republic. one was heading to new york, the other to boston. but the airline somehow switched them around. the daily news says the boys were both five. the new york mother tells the paper she thought her son had

children were always under the care and supervision of jet blue crew members we realize the situation was distressing for the families. they have refunded their flights and offered credits toward future flights. police are investigating are where -- where criminal charges should be filed. yesterday a car rear-ended an airport shuttle bus near logan. a man and woman from texas were killed after being thrown from that shuttle. it was heading to a hotel in revere the car's driver, a 27 year old man is still in the hospital this noon. joseph rodriguez was killed in the shuttle crash. his wife is being treated. a go fund me page has been set up. the family says the couple had just arrived in boston for a vacation. they say any donations will be used for medical expenseds toon bring rodriguez's body home. the owner ever a apartment building is being cited today

property. boston inspectal services have cited the owner for operating an illegal rooming house. the building on myrick street had been divided up into illegal apartments which had inadequate or no smoke detectors t officials say if the tenants on the third floor had been home when it started, they might not have made it out alive. donald trump is back meeting with votered today, just a day -- voters today just after a day after going to mexico. craig >> reporter: donald trump spoke to the same veterans group this morning that hillary clinton addressed yesterday. he promised to create a new american future. >> in this future, we will have an honest government that includes an honest state department, not pay for play. she probably didn't mention that to you yesterday. >> reporter: trump's american legion event follows his meeting wednesday with mexico's president and a major speech

along the southern border. >> reporter: the president said he told trump mexico will not pay for the wall. but the nominee has a different version. >> we did discuss the wall. we didn't discuss payment of the wall. >> reporter: despite the discrepancy the trump campaign said it set a new record on online donations. the clinton campaign says trump choked. and later the campaign amended its statement saying it turns out trump didn't just got beat in the room and lied about it. >> he didn't have the guts to look the mexican president in the eye and bring up the central position in his campaign. it was a diplomat i can embarrassment and it shows that the guy is not ready for prime time. >> reporter: the latest national polls show the two vie values in a statistical tie. clinton leads trump by just two points when the libertarian and green party candidates are included. craig boswell, cbs news, the

longfellow bridge will be finished obtain sooner than we thought. they have figured out to speed up the project and reopen the bridge in june 2018 which is three months earlier than planned. construction began back in 2013, then it hit a two-year delay. no word on how much the project will ultimately cost, but contractors don't think they will exceed the $303 million budget. a lot of people pumped for tonight. the patriots will play their final preseason game of the year against the giants. tom brady is there but the big the quarterbacks play. wbz is your home for the game tonight's preseason finale starts at 7:00. see it right here on wbz. it's followed by the fifth quarter post game show right after the game. tom brady's four game suspension begins saturday afternoon. >> and he's already figuring out how to fill that time. the hollywood reporter says brady is teaming up michael strahan to create a tv series called religion of sports. it's inspired by the fact that

brady hasn't said whether he will have an on-air role. coming up on wbz news, a surprise like no other. how dozens of navy officers wound up on one man's front lawn. >> and don't forget your reusable bags. the one community ditching the plastic as of today. >> and a little bit later, a studio guest gets a little out of hand.

. this weekend mother teresa will become a saint. a ceremony will be held sunday at the vatican. a new exhibit celebrating her life opened up in rome. it's chronicles her liar from a young girl to a -- f tens of thousands of people by the way are expected at the vatican for the ceremony. a surprise for an american war hero. >> naval officers from the u.s.s. constitutional saluted 19 engineer old captain thomas on his birthday happy birthday to you happy birthday. >> reporter: hs a med al after honor recipient.

intentionally crashed his own plane to try to save his friend. >> he gave his life for an african-american, for another sailor just in general. it's amazing i'm honored to have met him. extremely honored. >> huge honor for him and huge honor for me and all of our family. >> he stood tall as each of the navy chief peay officers selectees shook his hand and presented him with a piece of the u. >> that's awesome. >> awesome. so great. so well deserved. all right. we are looking at a holiday weekend coming up pretty soon. >> maybe a spoiler. >> i think it probably is going to be a spoiler. it depends on right now the exact track of the storm. but it looks like it could give us some rain and wind and some of it good amount of it. here we are today looking outside it's kind of cloudy w we've had sprinkles and light showers going across boston the last several of hours.

weather service it's a done deal, the meteorological summer is over with. this is the first day of meteorological fall. it is september 1st. but 3.92, very, very dry summer. terrible situation going on here in much of the region. we need rain. of course it turned out to be the warmest august on record as well. looking ahead to september, we cool off. we get less daylight, sun sets are earlier. 77 d temperatures. sun sets go down as well. and it gets earlier and earlier. highs this afternoon, lower 80s well off to the north and west of boston. but mostly middle 70s to the south where it's staying cloudy. off to the north and west it's going to -- going to brighten up a little bit. it may come out in northern massachusetts as the afternoon goes along as continued scattered showers continue to break out in areas mainly south of the mass pike later in the

clear tonight. just the slightest chance of a brief shower during tomorrow afternoon. we should have some beautiful weather here for saturday before the high clouds come out from the south from that approaching storm. so lows tonight 58 to about 64. a little cooler in western new england where it's mostly clear. and then high temperatures tomorrow should be in the lower 70s to middle 70s long the coast. middle to upper 70s inland with that partly sunny sky. not too much wind will be coming right on shore to keep cooler. there goes the front offshore. we're watching hermine down here and what it means to florida is quite a wind and rain event coming up first landfalling hurricane there in 11 years, it's coming up tonight at 65 miles per hour winds. on the east coast we have a tropical storm warning now which has been extended all the way up to southern portion, southern half of north carolina. so the track brings it up here making landfall is a minimal hurricane this evening up just

storm then sort of hugs the coastline and then moves offshore. from there it gets trapped in the atmosphere. it can't deposit anywhere, so it's going to wobble and whirl and do loops out here for a few days. so it looks -- appears at this point we are going to be in for some rain as it's going to be a lot on the eastern seaboard here tucked along the coast. and that rin will come up to new england, eventually spiral in here. it looks as this comes up here, it's going to start looping and looping. so to be precisely accurate gh could get, it may be very small area or it may expand a little bit more. i think it's going to be expanding as the late weekend goes along. the so potential is for high seas and rough surf. periods of heavy rain in some of these spiral bands do come in. it's not going to be a hurricane but we'll have to watch it closely. whens this the rainiest -- most rain and wind around, it will be the coolest on monday, in the 60s. tomorrow sand saturday beautiful

coming in here sometime on sunday afternoon. eric has the next check coming up today at 5:00. kate. >> barry, thank you. a popular snack is being rauld because it could contain pieces of -- recalled the pieces it contain please of plastic. their little bites and brownies. there was a manufacturing problem which allowed to plastic to get into the food. at least one injury has been reported. summerville is rolling out the new plastic bag ban today. rightow other large retailers have stopped providing the bags for customers. smaller businesses have until december 1st to make the change. brookline in cambridge already have restrictions. still ahead on the wbz news at noon, celebrating decades of drama. >> lisa hughes with the cast of the young and restless as they

have been a success." "they are models of inspiration." with "impressive results" and "eye-catching educational gains." it's turned my son's life around. narrator: "charter schools amount to hope" for kids all across massachusetts. question 2 will give parents more choices and result in more funding for public education. vote yes on 2. for stronger public schools. . history for cbs this afternoon. >> the young and the restless will air its 11,000th episodes. the show has been on the air since march of 1973. our lisa hughes recently had the opportunity to sit down and chat with some of the cast who say today is special.

is really kind of freaky. i never in my wildest imagination thought i would be here for that length of time. >> longevity really speaks to keeping as much of our audience as we can. there's a kind of continuity that's always been here, time together. if you haven't watched the show for ten years and tune in, you'll do pretty well. >> you can see the young and the restless weekdays after the wbz news at noon. >> tha everything and know everything. well a surprise guest in our studio gets a little bit rowdy. >> it's almost too much for our sports director steve burton to handle. >> do they -- they -- hold him tight. hold him tight. >> i am. i am. >> hold him tight. >> i am. i am. >> got him. >> i am. >> that's okay. all right. >> so steve add that alligator

feisty. don't worry, though, steve and all the guests, all for -- four of them weren't hurt in the taping of the segment. >> he is. he was holing him very tight. -- holding him very tight. he was doing it, i swear. up next on wbz news at noon. >> giving it his all. the adorable first steps for a panda cub. 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

four hundred million unavailable to the ninety-six percent of students who don't attend charter schools. let's improve public schools for all students, not just a select few.

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. researcher may have foun the cure to curing alzheimer's disease. the drug they're calling a game changer coming up at 5:00. a milestone caught on camera. >> the cub known as baby p is pictured taking his first steps get his legs. but the three mold will not give ---month-old will not give up. momma and daddy are there with their little phones recording it all. look how cute. >> baby p. >> i would love a little baby p. >> until it becomes a big p. >> all right. >> stick muggy. it's nice the next couple of days. check air -- check eric at 5:00. >> have a great one everybody.

>> dylan: we believe adam newman, the prisoner, is being aided and abetted by his wife, chelsea. [ camera shutter clicks ] we now have a lead on the car she and her son used to flee genoa city. it's a gray sedan, wisconsin plate tah 7m2, last seen headed west on market street presumably headed out of the city limits. now, if you have seen this car, its whereabouts, please contact the gcpd tip line -- the number's on the screen -- or our website. though the passengers aren't considered dangerous, it is urgent that they are found safely. >> chelsea: no. you are not turning yourself in. our new life, our new plans -- >> adam: compared to connor's health, none of that matters, babe. he needs to see a doctor. >> chelsea: okay, adam, you just need to just take a second and think about this. >> adam: his fever's not going away.