live from the channel 4 studios in boston, this is wbz news at noon. breaking news, right now, a powerful category 4 hurricane matthew making landfall in haiti, bringing violent wind and rain to the battered island. forecasters say matthew could have a devastating impact on haiti. >> i'm kate merrill. >> hurricane watches are being issued in florida and let's check in with terry -- barry burbank, tracking it. it looks like a powerful storm with the eye going over the western tip of haiti in the worst quadrant of the storm, over haiti as it moves slowly to the north, nine or 10 miles

northwest as we go through time and it has maximum sustained winds of 145 miles per hour, a cat for storm moving north and it will turn northwest with time. as a result, we have a hurricane watch up for portions of the florida coast, hurricane warnings to the south of that and in much of the bahamas. they are in trouble, for sure. where is it going? by 8:00 tomorrow morning, in winds at 130, there will be some weakening and then around 1:32 to 1:40, east of florida, the strongest wind is to the northeast side of the hurricane and it will be battered by a lot of rain and wind and to the east of jacksonville, 8:00 on friday morning with top winds of 125 and closer to the carolina coast and eastern

along the outer banks, they will get clobbered on saturday and from there, a tough call and it may make a close pass to new england with wind at 90 miles an hour and that is what we are looking at. more in a few minutes. more on this possible impact here and our forecast for the next few days. back to you, chris and kate. the impact is being seen in haiti. >> streets are flooded and reports are coming in. nicole jacobs has more on the devastating blow to the island. >>reporter: there have been some evacuations in haiti, but many residence are often afraid to leave their homes, fearful that everything they own could be stolen. the storm has claimed three lives, so far. hurricane matthew continues to roar over haiti, making landfall as a category 4, wringing wind upwards of 145 miles per hour and the

hemisphere nation and at least three people are confirmed dead. santo domingo, feeling the impact. flood waters make inroads nearly impossible and in jamaica, a mudslide washed away this one. in cuba, residents are evacuating, 300,000 of them as matthew makes its way up the east coast. >> you can expect impacts in florida wednesday through florida has already declared a state of emergency. >> leave before it's too late. we can rebuild a home and business, but not your life. >>reporter: north carolina, they have also done that.

expected to remain a powerful hurricane in haiti through tomorrow night and could reach florida by friday night and new england is holding out to see what impact matthew has. back to you. as nicole mentioned, we are on the alert waiting to see what happens. you can track hurricane matthew and the possible impact of the cbs boston weather app that is free on google and the app store. an explosion and part of a new je people reported smelling gas near these patterson new jersey homes and firefighters were called and heard a hissing noise. an explosion took out buildings, reducing them to rubble. 15 other homes were damaged by the blast and officials said no one appeared to be inside the buildings at the time. at this point, it appears to be a gas explosion and they are

university. reports of an armed clown. >> it was a hoax. it is the latest in a string of disturbing nationwide reports. we have the latest. >>reporter: things are back to normal at merrimack college. police did not find clowns or suspicious activity on campus. this bizarre hoax caused moments of chaos here and at several other colleges. >> phenomenon is scaring people across the country and the latest target appears to be college campuses, including merrimack college. hundreds were evacuated from a dorm on monday night. >> i was here when everyone ran out of the building and my friends said that people were screaming in the hallways to get out. >>reporter: staff never saw a threat posted to a twitter account called clown watch saying there was a clown holding a rifle in a dorm. that building was evacuated and

shelter in place. >> i went to my room and locked the door and hung out with the shades shut, to be safe. >> i was very nervous that this was real, that he was armed and had weapons. >>reporter: police did not find anything suspicious and gave the all clear around 10:00 p.m. merrick of those merrimack officials said they take every threat seriously. this is a frustrating distraction and the misuse of resources. >> very disrupting. our students are midterms. this is disrupting their studies and the campus police and other departments show up armed and there is a state of anxiety. >>reporter: reports caused mayhem at umass and penn state. cell phone video shows hundreds running through campus trying to hunt down the clowns. officials at merrimack have reached out to twitter asking them to shut down the terrorizing accounts.

thing at the university of new hampshire. they said there was a person dressed as a clown, yelling into a bullhorn at some of the dorms. the person has not been found. wbz news reporting. travel troubles in charlestown. take a look. the water main break sent water gushing on aero street and the cruise turned it off. they are starting to clean up, house fire and revere under investigation. the home on crescent avenue, at 2:00 this morning, fire damaged the second floor. no word on how bad it was and no injuries have been reported. dragon campaign 26 dean, new hampshire senator kelly ayotte said she misspoke when asked if she would tell a child to aspire to be like donald trump. >> certainly, there are many role models that we have and i

president, so absolutely i would do that. back a few hours after the debate, she said she misspoke and repeated that when we caught up with her a short time ago in new hampshire. >> certainly, i hope all of our children aspire to run for president. i would not hold out either donald trump or hillary clinton as good examples and i wouldn't hold role models for my children. >> ayotte said she plans to vote for trump but will not endorse them. the vice presidential candidates will take center stage as they face-off in their first debate. it's a chance for them to introduce themselves to the national audience. craig boswell reports. >> mike pence and tim kaine will introduce themselves to a national audience when they

>>reporter: they have served in government for years. a new poll shows a majority of registered voters don't know enough to have an opinion of them. >> surprising things may happen. >> longwood political science professor, bell harbor, said the vps need to sell themselves while trying to boost running mates low approval ratings. >> never have we seen a vice presidential debate where the two candidates have to make up of the two people at the top of the ticket. >>reporter: mike pence could face tough questions about the latest controversy to hit donald trump, his tax returns. the businessman reportedly claims $1 billion in losses from the 90s, possibly shielding federal income tax for years. >> i heard brilliantly use those losses. >> what kind of genius loses $1 billion in the first place?

leads, 45% to 41% and tonight, tim kaine will look to hold onto that lead. pence will try to move the numbers for the clinton -- for the trump campaign. >> see the debate between tim kaine and mike and a wbz at 9:00. police investigated deadly crash in melrose. they set a landscaper was standing by a park truck on howard street last night and was hit by a car and killed. the car hit an suv and flipped over. been filed. police are stepping up patrols around boston college after reports of a man committing a lewd act near campus. boston police college -- boston college police said the suspect may be in a white sedan and students should stay alert, avoid walking alone and report anything suspicious. accused of destroying

campanella deleted several hundred text messages from a city-owned cell phone part of an investigation about a relationship that he allegedly had with two women. the city said the women may have feared for their safety and the chief lawyer called the case a witch hunt and said the chief has received a lot of support. >> the chief would like to thank hundreds who reached out during this expedition, who expressed concern and hope that he will continue to be a voice for those suffering from edition -- from addiction. october 2nd and has a right to a hearing. tom brady is back with the patriots after the deflate- gate's is renton. >> he said he can't wait to play ball. >> it's great to be back in the building, great to be back to work and it has been a long four weeks. i'm excited to get started on my preparation for cleveland and i'm anxious for the week

product this field. it's what i love to do and now, i can do it. >> julian edelman was on the field with the latest last night, women's clinic at gillette. he spoke about brady's return. >> when you have a teammate come back but hasn't been playing, it's exciting. it was exciting to have tom around. >> you can see brady's return on wbz this sunday with the patriots game day at 11:30 in the morning followed by patriots and browns kicking off at 1:00 and flip to my tv38 for fifth quarter. coming up, visiting the disaster zone. the surprise trip for pope francis. stay -- saying goodbye to a legend. saying goodbye to golf giant, arnold palmer.

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pope francis is making a surprise visit to the side of a devastating earthquake in italy. he arrived in amatrice this morning and is visiting hard- hit areas, including a portion still sealed off to the public for nearly 300 people died in

news with hurricane matthew battling the island of haiti. the storm made landfall after 7:00 as a category 4 with wind up to 145 miles per hour and witnesses said the storm has uprooted trees and torn roofs off homes. storm surges are expected with possible mudslides. hurricane watches are under way in florida. matthew is heading north and we are watching how it >> it looks like they will get clobbered in parts of florida and the carolinas and it looks like a close path this weekend. pay close attention to the forecast over the next few days. the most powerful sector went right over haiti this morning and it is clobbering that area. in boston, it is quiet with a high of 63 and the average high for this date is 66. we are not far from that and

come out. the record is 86 in 2007. these are the current numbers. upper 50s with thick and overcast cloud cover. it may have turned sunny and is getting warm in some places. this afternoon, a changeable sky with the sun coming out and clouds, it may be tough to speak europe does to figure out , but most of the satellite imagery in new england and new hampshire and maine, uc temperatures and drizzle in some locations and clear skies in new hampshire and on the south coast and parts of the cape. the clouds seem to be inland. the next 24-48 hours, varying amounts of clouds over the next 24 hours. it will try to clear up with lower clouds filling in and not too much wind with a cool breeze from the ocean, and tomorrow, a better shot of breaking out some sunshine and

tomorrow night and thursday morning and those will break off and thursday will be sunny with low temperatures mostly in the 40s in the suburbs and 50 in boston, a bit of the breeze coming in and highs tomorrow, low to mid-60s and upper 60s with sunshine more widespread tomorrow and high pressure will be in control. we get rid of low-level moisture that will develop each night to burn off next few days with the high pressure in control. for the probability of rain, there won't be much until we get into sunday. we will get rain coming up the coast from matthew that will dump a lot of rain on the coast of the carolinas, and the mid- atlantic states along the coast and up into new england. it's too early, but there is potential coastal impact and this weekend, dangerous rip

only a .5 to nine feet. with matthew, we have other storms with a minor tropical storm and then wind of 145 miles an hour, and what is this, in terms of the amount of damage? it's extreme damage wind in this category, up to 156 miles per hour. near the bahamas, bad news with the strongest wind they get battered wind and rain with strong wind over the carolinas and the coastline may have this close to new england on sunday as strong wind comes our way and strong and heavy rains, as well. my seven day forecast, lots of clouds and then cloudy and partly to mostly sunny tomorrow with beautiful weather thursday and friday and clouding over on saturday.

increasing wind and rain later on the day and on sunday night. more on matthew coming up, throughout the next several days. the golfers remember arnold palmer. there is a memorial cemetery outside of pittsburgh. tiger woods, rickie fowler and several other high profile golfers are expected to attend. exciting news about boston's fourth of july spectacular. the boston pops, and every year, more than one half million people lined the banks of the river to look forward to it. >> i suspect people will find changes between 2017 and 2016. they are built on the great traditions and we make sure the boston pops is the center of this great birthday party and this great boston event.

this year show but stays on as an advisor and said the pops are in talks with organizations about funding for the event. we wish we could skip winter and go right to the fourth of july. coming up, finding the deal. >> holiday travel is fast approaching. when you should hit the buy

it's starting to feel a little bit like fall. already time to think about the holidays. according to orbitz.com, this is a secret week to book airfares. after this, prices for thanksgiving and christmas will go up. that is early! a serious food safety concern over seafood. >> mussels and clams harvested in maine are being recalled after potentially dangerous neurotoxins. the toxin remains dangerous even after the seafood has been frozen or cooked. there been no reports of anyone getting sick and this is the first time for a recall like this. a big battle. >> the challenge pitting police officers against firefighters and why it comes down to the taco.

that some places icing sunshine and some seen clouds. let's check out temperatures in the 60s right now with 60 in lexington and 61 in bradford. cloudy, but the sun is trying to come out and it looks like we will be watching hurricane matthew through the next several days. it shouldn't affect dust until later in the weekend. sign up to be a wsbe dose to be a wbz weather watcher. go to wbtv joe plaia: every three days, -someone in new hampshire is killed with a gun. mothers, sons, friends.

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the outside corporate interests bankrolling question two are trying to deceive you. here's the truth: 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. that's why question two's opposed by the massachusetts pta and school committees all across the state.

welcome back. the battle of the badges national taco day. >> the fire and police departments go head to head in an eating contest. they will space off to see who can finish a two-pound taco first. the winning team gets $250 for their charity and the runner-up gets $100. what are we looking for? not at matthew, quite yet? >> we will have to keep an eye on that. it could affect us sunday into monday. we have varying amounts of clouds and sun.

matthew arrives. thanks for watching. see you tomorrow morning and

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