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stormteam 5' s danielle vollmar joins us. danielle? danielle: you' ve got that right. we have that advisory, the area you see in pink, until 7:00. this is the reason why. temperatures are borderline if not just a notch just above. and you see this on the map, the pink color here. these are the areas to be concerned with the slick spots. also the heavier rain falling along the south shore on the cape and the islands. mid-40' s there. s associated with an area of low pressure. we will see heavier downpours as we had through the weekend -- evening and overnight. more rain is associated with the
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farther out in time, by 8:00, everybody has seen rain. heavier downpours i-8 :00. then there is a little bit of a then the showers really ramp up. phil? phil: breaking news, sky 5 over a massive house fire in bedford, new hampshire this afternoon. take a look at these pictures. crews from close to a dozen communities worked to put out home on burleigh terrace. smoke could be seen for miles. at one point, a section of the roof collapsed. good news is nobody was hurt. jc: more breaking news, two teenagers accused of killing a new bedford cab driver just went before a judge. and tonight we are hearing from the victim' s devastated family. newscenter 5' s jack harper spoke with his children today he' s live in new bedford tonight, jack? jack: the prosecutor says this was a brutal murder. the details are really terrible, the daughter leaving the courtroom in tears, hearing how
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>> my family could care less -- it' s the fact that he is gone. jack: the part-time cabdriver was robbed and shot. alexander mills and a 16-year-old friend have been charged. >> they took a really good person away from us. jack: police followed a clear trail, the 66-year-old vietnam >> it' did to them. the worst part, if they were trying to rob him, they could have asked him for the money and to them. >> we are going to get justice for my father. he was a great grandfather. we all loved him. jack: he was helping out the teens because they were short on
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>> that was my dad. he would give you the shirt off his back. jack: the teenagers were spotted going into local stores, trying to use the dead cabdriver' s reddick cards. -- credit cards. wcvb newscenter 5. phil: the obama administration is announcing is described as a new way to defeat isis. ed harding is following the developments. ed: it is simple. more forces on the way. ashton carter outlined that . he says the specialized force will have "multiple missions." secretary carter: these special operations will be able to conduct raids, free hostages, and capture isil leaders. ed: he did not specify how many special ops forces will be sent,
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the change in strategy follows isis attacks in france, lebanon, and egypt. phil, jc? phil: thanks. we have this to show you. violent attack in turkey. 5 people are hurt when a pipe bomb explodes in istanbul. the bomb was left near a subway station at the height of rush hour. it exploded seconds after a bus carrying police drove past , suggesting they may have been the target. so far, there' s been no claim of responsibility. jc: an fbi investigation in a norwood home today. agents executed a warrant on this home. they would not elaborate on what they were looking for, only that it is connected to an ongoing investigation. lawyers in the philip chism murder trial began defending him today. the first witness, the teenager' s grandfather. newscenter 5' s rhondella richardson was inside the courtroom.
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rhondella: building the insanity defense, the attorney recapping his childhood. an emotional family friend shared how the chis tennessee. claudia rodriguez cried, recalling tough times before moving to massachusetts. >> she did struggle. she did not receive support from her husband, financial nor emotional. rhondella: she testified for the defense that philip' s behavior changed in the days before the murder of his teacher. he is accused of attacking her and the school bathroom. just but i thought it was strange. i knew him as a very excited person, very outgoing . talking a lot, getting to know us a, and all of a sudden, he got quiet.
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insanity defense, and his attorneys argue that the danvers teen murder the 24 -year-old high school teacher while suffering from undiagnosed psychosis. his grandfather spoke of mental illness in his grandmother and aunt. >> the illness came on suddenly as far as you knew? >> yes. rhondella: after a short day of visit the crime scene. rhondella richardson, wcvb newscenter 5. phil: thanks. we are breaking news from the camp. desk. desk. lynchie: they have reached a david price.
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going to go after david price. he has a history with him. he brought him to detroit when he was with the tigers. price will average $31 million a year over seven years. right now it is one of the largest free agent deals in recent memory. $31 million, over seven years. 217 million dollars. david price, of course, tampa bay, finish the season with toronto and went deep into the playoffs with the blue jays. also the patriots have confirmed rob gronkowski has a bone bruise as well as a knee sprain. that is, of course, the game against denver, the broncos. his foot was not anchored. he did have a bad bruise right away. that' s what the mri showed yesterday.
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we will be back at 6:00 with more. see you then. jc: thank you. additional security at schools in cambridge today after a bomb threat. police say an anonymous email stated a bomb was placed in a middle school. five buildings impacted by the threat were checked out. nothing was found. all cambridge schools remained open despite the threat. phil: lawyers for boston marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev back in court today, asking for a new trial. millions of in restitution to dollars his victims. reporter: lawyers returned to court to ask for new trial. was not present, remaining in prison. the u.s. supreme court decision came down in june, two days after tsarnaev was sentenced to
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people. it called for stiffer penalties when a gun or explosive is used in a crime of violence. argued it is impossible to unpack what weight s deliberation. the preceding. the prosecutor says there is no reason to. the jury carefully among the death penalty counts. at trial, tsarnaev ' s lawyers admitted that he was responsible for the bombings and the 22-year-old apologized to the victims. restitution was ordered to be paid to the victims, a figure of $80 million. at a minimum, he could be required to contribute $100 a year to be 57 individuals who have submitted claims. the judge did not immediately rule. wcvb newscenter 5.
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donald trump returns to the campaign trail in new hampshire. he will hold a rally. this as trump considers charging cnn for his appearance in the next debate. trump said he would donate the money to help veterans. new jersey governor chris christie making several stops in new hampshire, including this meet and greet in londonderry. afterward, he held a roundtable in concorde. phil: former governor deval patrick is part of a new panel that will examine problems in the chicago police department. patrick, who is a chicago native, will sit on the panel that was announced by chicago mayor rahm emanuel, which also fired the police superintendent. this after dash cam video shows a white officer shooting a black teenager 16 times. oversight.
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necessary steps to build trust between police and the residence and communities they serve. phil: the panel will recommend new rules. the shooting of laquan mcdonald was kept secret for more than a year. and rates dropping once again. natural gas customers will see a 5% decrease in their total bill. that is on top of a reduction last month. they cite an anticipated drop in the demand for natural gas and it excess of supply during warmer months. coming up next -- the sentence when now faces. jc: after this weekend' weather.
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doctors and his family knew help he will not need a breathing suit anymore. jc: time for personal or traffic. you are looking live at bunker hills. traffic is moving, i' ll be a slowly. red indicates slows was. 93, not too bad. 25 minutes, projected on route 128. 93, newton corner, farther westward western tolls, force -- 490 five, southbound side, a little slow.
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>> you are watching news center five at 5:00. phil: a new bedford marine will spend up to 12 years behind bars for the murder of a transgender woman in the philippines. overnight private first class joseph scott pemberton was convicted of strangling the woman and leaving her body in a hotel room last fall. witnesses say the two left together after meeting in a bar. jc: another delay in the trial of the accused south carolina church shooter. it has been delayed a second time as defense attorneys continue to review evidence. dylan roof is charged with shooting -- dylann roof his church with shooting 10 people. if convicted. phil: representatives for more than 200 countries are meeting at the climate change conference, but the war on terror is high on the unofficial agenda there. prison obama says a deal is critical to global community.
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say why would we dedicate resources to climate change? i' m a change affects all trends. -- climate change affects all trends. phil: president obama says parts of the agreement should be legally binding. jc: a monster ice storm over oklahoma over the weekend. tonight, thousands of residents still in the dark and it could be several more days. no power, of course, means businesses, grocery stores cannot open. even gas pumps are not working . and we have been there, done that. danielle: that is why we are concerned with patchy freezing drizzle. the temperatures are still below the freezing mark. jc: this is one of the first times we are in countering this.
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you can see this. this is through hillsboro and cheshire county' s in new hampshire. this extends all the way back through northern new hampshire, even into northern maine. if you are traveling this way, you definitely want to take your time and exercise caution. here is why. concorde is holding up at 32 degrees. it is right around the freezing mark. that is how we get some slick spots. notice boston is that 34 and 38 already at nantucket. so, here is that patchy freezing rain. basically showing up in the area of pink. light showers through boston, say, through metrowest and worcester county, and then heavier rain along parts of the south coast, the cape, as well as the islands hitting in on these downpours.
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their way in. it is associated with an area of low pressure that will be bringing us heavier rain into the overnight and first thing tomorrow morning. then we watch a secondary batch down here. all of this is pushing to the north and east. that will bring us another shot or another round of rain. i think this will come around tomorrow. we really have two rounds of rain to deal with. here comes the first bit of it tonight. closer to midnight, heavier downpours, concentrated on the east coast of massachusetts. notice temps are still holding in the 40' s and low 50' s on nantucket. then, around 4:00 in the morning, we get a brief break, some light showers, that' s about it. lunchtime, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, more heavy downpours and temperatures start to warm up into the upper 40' s, low 50' s,
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the rain impact looks like this. tonight, very high. tapering off, winding down on the day thursday. when all is said and done, expect half finished human and in some locations and we could use -- half an inch to an inch in some locations and we could really use the rain. as we head to the overnight hours, temps should hold steady. also, we have fog developing and that could be problematic for tomorrow morning. there could be patchy , dense fog to be aware of. highs tomorrow warming up into the upper 40' s, low 50' s. grab the umbrella. kind of a gloomy forecast, at least through wednesday. there may be one or two spotty showers. then the winds really pick up.
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s. we will start to moderate over the weekend. sunday, we are at 50 degrees. jc, phil? phil: good news. it is the perfect reason to pick up a toy for tots. jc: he helped kick off the toy drive with the marines. you can drop off a new, unwrapped toy at any state police fair right through december 16. donations. and a big celebration at the boston children' s museum today in honor of the new charlie brown christmas stamps. the booklet of 20 stamps features ten still frames from a charlie brown christmas. the dozens of children who attended designed their own the iconic lucy booth. phil: totally deserving. jc:
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phil: i will give you jc: the 10. work in this local lab critical in the fight against hiv and aids. phil: on world aids day, a look at advances made right here that have changed the lives of patients. jc: he thought it would be fun, but when this little guy made it to the top of the tree he realized he couldn' t get down. the group effort to save him from 50 feet up. phil: it would be the experience of a liftime for most pats' fans. new at 6:00, how you could win the chance to catch a pass from
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first cases were documented in the united states. jc: there are advances helping people everything living with the virus. erika tarantal tells us, some of the most important advances have come right here from boston. reporter: he had just been diagnosed with hiv. he had been sick for 18 months, but nobody put the pieces together. >> i was never offered an hiv test. reporter: his condition improved. >> i was in good hands once i found the study in the clinic. reporter: he joined the study . researchers were helping change the course of the way that the virus progressed. >> managing drug resistance was probably the most important thing we did in the lab.
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than they discovered a cocktail of drugs could attack the virus. >> suddenly we went people get sicker and weaker and eventually dying to really being treatments. reporter: the doctors of the virus is no longer a death sentence. >> if you have an hiv infection and you' re still healthy, you will live and essentially normal day and that' s really the goal. finding a cure. another 10 years. the brigham and women' s team is focused on the problem with the >> it feels like im giving back. reporter: ed is involved in his third study of the hospital. his advice to everyone is to get
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>> it is treatable. it gives me hope that those who have hiv can live long, prosperous lives. reporter: wcvb newscenter 5 erica tarantella., jc: searching for a man who threatened a clerk with lighter fluid. phil: next on newscenter 5 at 5:30: the scary details of the crime that happened overnight at a gas station.
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>> from boston thrown news leader, this is wcvb newscenter 5 at 5:30. phil: breaking news. the red sox hit the first home run of the free agency. jc: they landed david price with a seven-year $200 million deal. he price was the main target this season. and part of a roof on a million-dollar home collapsed. firefighters from several towns help battle flames. phil: an 18-year-old and 16-year-old are charged with a cabbie' s murder in new bedford. his family says donald depina was giving the teens a ride because they were short on cash, when they allegedly shot and robbed him on sunday. jc: a terrifying night for a gas station clerk when a robber with
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