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year-old kyzr willis drowned at carson beach while attending a summer program at the curley community center. now the family says boston police haven't given them any answers. >> i've asked for every police report, investigative interview, all records pertaining to their investigation. i have not received any response, not even an acknowledgment that they have received these correspondences, although i knha too overcome to speak but relatives summed it up. >> if you see something, say something. this is a 7-year-old. this is a devastated family. we're hurt. we want answers. we want answers now. how long do we have to wait? >> reporter: after the tragedy, new rules were put in place, including a head count for children every hour and added security cameras.
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late. >> just devastated. i cry regularly about my grand baby. he's supposed to be here with us. . >> reporter: the family is demanding answers to hard questions like who was the last person to see him alive and they say his personal effects have not yet been returned to them. boston police tonight are declining comment at this point. jim smith, wbz the mystery surrounding a woman lost at sea deepens tonight. linda carmen vanished after an overnight fishing trip with her son, 22-year-old nathan carmen, who was rescued 8 days later. >> reporter: today i spoke with one person who has unique insight into the lives of linda
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that is her lawyer, who's defended her a couple of times. >> like a lot of families, i guess there was from time to time disputes about money. >> reporter: attorney gerald klein, on his client linda carmen's life before she disappeared at sea and before police spent the evening searching her home, carrying out backs of evidence. her son has been under investigation since he was rescued from a life raft he week after the boat they were on capsized and he lost sight of her. >> he was and is very intelligent, honor roll. and she was very concerned about his health with this as asperger's syndrome. >> reporter: and nearly three years ago, an unsolved
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>> she was insistent that her son was not capable of the murder of his grandfather. >> reporter: in fact, linda carmen was the one who had had confrontations with her father before. his will shows he was worth nearly $44 million. police accused linda of assaulting him while the two were visiting nathan in the hospital for psychiatric care. the police report at >> reporter: the report said she punched and kicked her father, charged that were later dismissed, which made her a prime suspect in his murder until she passed a lie detector test, something her son refused to take. police from four new england
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breaking news, hurricane matthew is now a category 4 storm and could impact the u.s. next week. before then, we are about to get a good soaking. >> the rain is already starting to spread south to north at this time. we are getting steady showers south of boston. norwood, mansfield, all the way to the south shore, getting a good soaking rain right now. we need it but unfortunately it may put a damper on some of your plans. more rain and more waves of rain going into the weekend, especially saturday. sunday looks a little better. wind gusts are still strong to the northeast, 15 to 25 miles an hour. 58 degrees in boston, 57 in manchester, overnight to 54
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some patchy fog. we are staying gusty, especially along the coast. in a few minutes, the rain timing and when it could move out for your sunday, and seven- day forecast plus more on hurricane matthew. tonight investigators on the scene of this big train crash in new jersey. they are having trouble getting to a both will be used to explain why the train sped up and crashed into the station. >> reporter: ntsb investigators say they are having trouble removing the forward facing camera on the front of the train. >> we hope to access the cars we were not able to access before. >> reporter: train 1614 was traveling too fast and went air
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wall. the investigation will also look at whether technology called positive train control could have prevented the accident. it is scheduled to be implemented here within two years. >> gallagher was the engineer of the train, killed in the crash. travel nightmares for thousands of commuters who use the system every day. >> get off this bus, go to another area, change to the light rail. it will take me about three and a half, four hours to get to work. >> that train station was
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witnesses. tonight they are asking anyone who saw the crash to come forward. something sad and beautiful about this, the final home stand for david ortiz. >> at least we know we have him around for the playoffs. he's about to speak to reporters about what this weekend will mean. >> it's going to be over with. it is what it is just trying to get prepared for the playoffs and be part of what we tried to do in the regular season. i really appreciate the fact that so many take their time to honoring me and make me feel good about what my career has been. i think it was super nice of
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professional. and after this weekend, we're just going to prepare for the playoffs. [? question by media in spanish ?] >> we'll talk for a moment while he's answering this question in spanish. of course so many spanish reporters covering this weekend as well. it's amazing the numbers he's put up, that best final season ever for a star who's been retiring. >> and with that in mind, so many people who are saying one more year, he'll be the first to say that as well as he's performing right now, this
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body. he said, i'm 40 years old. it's really hard to keep up. although you would never know watching him at bat. even when he took that slide into home plate which looked painful, he did it. >> he told yahoo sports earlier in the year if someone gave him $25 million it would bed turn it down. but i don't think anyone's going to do that. he's doing great and knowing that he's going to play in the playoffs makes the story even better. >> on the left side of the screen, he's basically carved into the grass there at fenway park. a moment ago, the tarp was over the field. folks there right now probably
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>> it's pretty cool, man. like you know, like i was telling judy in spanish, asked how i feel about it and it's been happening. i tell him that everything happens so fast. and i'm like in it, haven't really had time to -- but i never expect everything to be this way. you know, we play through the season, get involved in everything we got to do sometimes. i mean, i don't expect anything ever. but everything is so beautiful, the way it's going. can't wait to have time with my family and start talking about things. meanwhile, we're just getting prepared for the playoffs.
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like i said, it's been an honor, you know, by this ball club. last night was a little nervous. i'm not going to lie, i didn't know what the reaction is going to be. i'm very concerned about my family, you know. but man, when i told them and the way everything went down in new york, that was like a relief for me. like i said, you know, really appreciate how everything went down last night and thanking the yankees for taking their time and doing what they did. >> of course he helped us break the streak in 2004, and hopefully will be doing another news conference a month from now after his fifth world championship. >> what a fitting end for
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the campaign battle now leads to a new twitter war. >> and trump may have been right about his microphone during the debate. >> plus our poll reviews the most popular politicians and who could take on the lawmakers in campaign 2018. >> and a heckler called out at the ryder cup, cut , put to the test. kelly: you know me. not from thousands of false, negative ads- but as your first female attorney general- appointed by republican and democratic governors. as your senator, i'm fighting for equal pay and against workplace discrimination, to expand access to birth control, strengthen and preserve medicare, and i reached across the aisle to protect access to mammograms. i approve this message because after all the
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i just want what's best for my kids. when i hear arguments that massachusetts needs more charter schools, i think: what about the students in all of our schools? every new charter takes away more money from the existing public schools. that's 400 million dollars, just last year. we can't afford to drain even more money from our kids' schools because they're already losing so much. i'm not just standing up for my own kids;
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. a popularity contest in massachusetts politics. tonight our exclusive new poll reveals who's the most popular. >> but that doesn't mean you're invincible. we have possibilities in a couple years. >> reporter: as the midterm of his term approaches, governor baker continues to have a 63% favorable rating from the 700 likely voters we surveyed, only 24% unfavorable. boston's mayor is not far
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rating. but anything below 50% is usually seen as a warning sign for an incumbent. and we tested her strength against potential opponents. warren would breeze by 19 points against former red sox pitcher curt schilling, who's talking about running. but the poll shows her beating the lieutenant governor by just 4 weld by just 3. both results were within our margin of error. and potential 2018 gubernatorial matchups, baker would be the state's top elected democrat by 8 points. but joe kennedy ties baker in a potential matchup. looks like the kennedy name
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comes to mind, baker's was dominated by words like moderate, competent, honest and fair. warren's also featured positive statements like strong, smart and fighter. the single most prominent word for her was liar. you're in about questions about the rain. >> what about 9:00 tomorrow morning right here for the soccer? >> i'll show you. we'll get to that in a second. the thing that just updated here, we have hurricane matthew, now a category 4, dangerous and strong storm moving through the caribbean now. max winds 144 miles an hour and
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perhaps making landfall there as a category 3 and continuing toward the bahamas and still creating tons of headaches. that through wednesday, it's a slow-moving storm. once it takes that turn beyond that, very uncertain on the forecast. we'll keep you up to date as we get the information. for us it will be a rainy night here in massachusetts. satellite and radar shs boston. heading to the red sox game, you'll want that rain gear with you. this is all progressing north and northeast slowly along the south shore, getting good rain there, too. we have more rain to the south and west still thanks to an upper level low pressure system. that's what created the clouds,
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up. hour by hour, if you have plans tonight or tomorrow, it will be soggy. 11:00 p.m., a roll of rain moves through and showers progress into massachusetts. by 7:00 a.m. saturday, it's a soggy stat to the day, heavy rain from time to time. 5:00 p.m., good soaking rain continues. overnight saturday into early sunday, 6:00 a.m. we start to let things up here. patchy still be around. cloudy skies and breezy conditions still here for sunday, but it won't be a washout for the second half of the weekend. saturday night through 9:00 p.m., projected rainfall about 1 to 3 inches accumulation. that will put a dent in the drought conditions. we are 58 in boston right now, cool night ahead. 54 overnight, winds picking up
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sunday's high 60 degrees and should get a few breaks in there for the patriots game. more 60s on the way and perhaps some sun by midweek. thank you. if you can't afford to take a vacation, not a problem. how one company is rewarding employees to get away. >> coming up at 5:30, a special good night message from an entire new england city to six hospital. and saying thanks to the people who saved his life. it's the ultimate case of the
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joe plaia: every three days, someone in new hampshire is killed with a gun. mothers, sons, friends. and yet kelly ayotte continues to play political games instead of making new hampshire safer. when she has the chance to strengthen background checks, she voted no, backing the washington gun lobby instead. then - on a bill to keep suspected terrorists from
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only fios can. paid vacation, no big deal. >> how about getting paid extra to go on vacation? one company called reimburses workers up to $2,000 for vacation costs, like hotel, transportation, and meals. the ceo says, we feel very strongly that personal life doesn't exist to support work life, but vice versa. >> how many people do you think are signed up to work there? >> at the end of the day they can talk about how they're interested in the employee. don't you think it's about getting productive employees?
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getting. >> absolutely. who can keep a president waiting? >> turns out, another president. that was president obama yelling to former president bill clinton to get on air force one, calling for clinton several times, even clapping and motioning for him to get on the plane. we know how social bill clinton is. the two were leaving israel after the funeral of shimon peres. >> that is a funny sight. you would think it would be someone else. a heckler at the ryder cup may have annoyed the pros at first but he got the last laugh. >> the man was in the crowd taunting some of the golfers about continually missing the same practice putt. so they said, why don't you do it? >> a fan had been heckling the guys, yelling out, i could make that.
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got. >> they pulled the heckler out and bet him $100 that he couldn't make that same 12-foot putt. in front of the packed crowd, david johnson stepped on to the green. . >> i will admit it wasn't the greatest putt, it just happened to go in the hole. didn't think there was any way the putt was go >> he admitted he nearly threw up as he tried to make the putt and he still can't believe it went in. the $100 bill they put on the ground for him, they signed it. they were good sports about it. they didn't have to be. he was heckling them. >> maybe now he'll be quiet with his hundred dollars. coming up, more than half a
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the outside corporate interests bankrolling question two are trying to deceive you. here's the truth: every time a new charter school opens, it drains money from the existing public schools. that's 400 million just last year - according to the state's own data. which means real cuts to our kids - in arts, technology, ap classes, pre-school, bus service and more. and school committees all across the state.
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. now at 5:30, two people hit by a tow truck and neighbors in newton say this busy intersection is dangerous. one of the victims suffered life-threatening injuries. i'm lisa hughes. >> i'm liam martin. bill shields is live for us with more tonight. >> reporter: this center, so everyone around here knows how crazy this can be with all the roads coming together here. this couple had dinner across the street, stepped out into the crosswalk and the tow truck driver had a green light but apparently didn't see them. >> definitely have to look both ways because cars are coming at you from every direction. >> reporter: pedestrians here know in this busy square, they
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