of this message. >> from boston' s news leader, this is wcvb newscenter 5 at noon. emily: breaking news. skype 5 -- sky 5 live over this red line train. it sped down the track packed with passengers without an operator. it made it all the way up to north quincy. the t is investigating whether the train was camper -- tampered with.

juli: that' s right. an mbta official said he heard an emergency call over the radio at the -- this morning. a a train packed with writers taking off on its own -- a train packed with riders taking off on its own. mbta officials are trying to figure out how a red line train carrying passengers traveled multiple stops without an operator. an operator stepped off the inbound train just after 6:00 in braintree to check a problem. the train kept moving, hitting him, and continue to travel four stops -- travel four stops before mbta personnel howard the -- stopped the train.

no passengers were hurt and the operator was treated for minor injuries. the mbta general manager is incident. he released a statement this morning saying that passenger safety is their highest priority. wcvb newscenter 5. emily: thank governor baker is saying believes that train was tampered with. frank holland is live at the jfk-umass station. frank: the cause of that runaway train is under investigation by t police. the fbi has also been notified. governor baker is confirming that the runaway train was tampered with, but not providing any other details right now. fortunately, all the passengers were able to get off here safely . this is a live look at that

we expect investigators to take an especially close look at the entire train and a safety device within the cap. that might have been the with. no specific details about the nature of the tampering, but governor baker says it appears whoever was responsible had and how it works. cooperating with law in the investigation. they are currently interviewing several people, including the gentleman who was the operator of the train. the most important thing, from my point of view, is the investigation is ongoing. nobody was hurt, thankfully. this train was tampered with and by someone who knew what they were doing. frank: back live, this investigation is ongoing. the operator of the train is now being treated at a south shore

injuries. the operator and witnesses will be interviewed as the probe into what happened continues. emily: frank, thank you. we are getting a firsthand account of what it was like to be on that train. a passenger e-mailing newscenter 5 saying, "someone my car said we should have stopped back there and that i looked up and we were about ready to blowback the quincy center station, as well. the train was not traveling at a high rate of speed. it was a little slower than the normal pace. the there was a train ahead of us stopped." all clear in newton after reports of a suspicious bag at the newtonville t station. an unattended bag was left on the platform, but nothing suspicious was found. a disturbing trend in boston -- thousands of hypodermic needles being found littered throughout

todd is life outside city hall with the numbers and the reaction from city hall. todd: the threat is hypodermic needles being found all over the city, including right here at city hall plaza. the city lost a team in may known as the mobile sharps team to pick up the needles. 7000 syringes have been picked up since then. over 500 of those needles were found by residents who then reported via the citizen hotline or the app. nearly every neighborhood is affected. citizens found 98 needles and roxbury. 77, downtown. 68, dorchester. 60 in the south end. we spoke with mayor walsh about the heroin epidemic. mayor walsh: we are looking about -- into how we are going to combat this addiction issue.

issue and figure out how to deal with it in a different way than simply just arresting people. todd: the mayor says he may improve funding for the mobile sharps team, in addition to improving the lighting and security. if needles are being left behind, that means drug dealing is taking place, as well. emily: todd, thank you. a westford woman is facing charges, accused of poisoning a neighbor' s dog to stop it from barking. daovone nokham slipped the miniature schnauzer prescription medication last month. the dog is now recovering. this new hampshire woman is under arrest, accused of driving drunk on the wrong side of the highway. chelsea cormier was spotted driving north in the southbound lane on the everett turnpike overnight. state police say she drove through the bedford told several miles through the hooksett

live pictures of boston. cindy. hoping this is going to stick cindy: you can see the 63, st. louis. is going to be coming from. weekend. much warmer than average. december is only 43 degrees. morning. east of nantucket. connecticut, rhode island, southeastern massachusetts -- this is working on in. think the skies will brighten. providence. temperatures will climb another

just after 2:00 this afternoon, around 57. after the sun goes down, we will have partly to mostly cloudy skies and temperatures holding near 50 right through midnight tonight. emily: thank you. commitment 2016. donald trump postponing his trip to israel, saying he will meet with prime minister benjamin netanyahu after he becomes president. this decision comes after netanyahu condemned the presidential' s hopeful demand to ban -- hopeful' s proposal to ban muslims from the u.s. >> donald trump on the rise after his polarizing claims to keep muslims from traveling into the u.s. >> i' m leading every single poll. >> a new cbs poll taken before and after his anti-muslim stance shows he climbed to 35%.

marco rubio, 9%. marco rubio said he does not have a chance. marco rubio: he is not going to be the nominee, i' m pretty confident of that. >> on "the o' reilly factor" trump pushed his muslim ban and said it is not about religion. >> this is about security, not about religion. we cannot allow people to come into this country that have horrible things in their minds. >> in the wake of the global backlash, he announced he is postponing his trip to israel to meet with prime minister benjamin netanyahu until "after i become president." he has alienated hispanics and muslims, so he is making a move to court blacks. the shift comes after he recently met with a group of black pastors. the billionaire has a four-step plan to win 100% of the black vote, bringing god, jobs, tax

african american communities. he is back on the campaign trail in new hampshire, where he will receive a big endorsement from the new england pba. nbc news, washington. emily: jeb bush is also in new hampshire. he will be holding a town hall meeting at 6:30 tonight. carly fiorina campaigns -- she will be making several stops in the granite state today. she met with the new hampshire bankers association and held a meet and greet in bedford. later, she will meet with the associated general contractors of new hampshire. officials have pinpointed the cause of a fire that gutted a popular new hampshire restaurant . they say the flames broke out in the ductwork of the woodfired grill at the gas light company in portsmouth. flames ripped through the building yesterday.

the damage is estimated in the millions of dollars. governor charlie baker is about to speak on the runaway red line train. let' s listen in. governor baker: as many people know, there was a train that left braintree that was unmanned this morning. it passed through four stations and stopped. the passengers were let off. thankfully, nobody was hurt. the train, it was determined that it was unmanned traveling from braintree -- within a couple of minutes after it left, the power on the third rail was shut off, but the train coasted because it had momentum at that point through several stations before it came to a stop. inspection of the train determined that some of the controls had been manipulated. there is an ongoing investigation right now that involves folks from the mbta,

from what we can tell at this point, it appears to be an isolated incident. >> governor, is the fbi involved in the investigation? governor baker: to my knowledge, they are not involved at this point. >> you said it was tampered with? governor baker: manipulated, tampered with. it is pretty clear that it was set in forward motion, which is why it moved in the first place when the signal was manipulated. as i said, within a couple minutes of it leaving, the third rail was turned off and it coasted through several stations. >> [indiscernible] it was explained to me that he got out to check something wrong.

i think that the system overall in a normal way. this incident is being investigated on its own. as i said, they cut the power within minutes of that train leaving the station. >> is it conceivable that this man put something in gear and then saw the signal and made a mistake? governor baker: i don' t want to get to hypothetical about this, but i think the big question at this point is the right one. the discussion is going to take place.

versus something else. right? >> is tampering a question? governor baker: it is pretty clear that the main control that drives the train was tampered with. as bill just said, the big issue is whether it was a negligence issue or something else. >> thanks, everybody. governor baker: thank you. emily: we have been listening into governor baker talking about the incident this morning on a red line train. the operator got off that train and then something happened. it may have been tampered with. it is clear that this train went through several stops with no operator, no conductor. we want to talk to someone who as it was happening. fe what was happening? as this was going on? did you know that there was no operator?

it was just a regular train with nothing different. i was in the second car. the train was on the left side. the train on the right side had just left. so, nothing unusual. we closed the door, it started moving. nothing that would cause any type of alarm. emily: you even aware that the operator had gotten off the train? did it seem like just another regular stop on the commute in? fernanda: we did not stop in quincy. we did not stop at that one. is coming. you never know what is going on. that is when the lights started completely went off. the train stopped between quincy a little over 30 minutes. emily: over 30 minutes. enough time to realize, what the heck is going on?

fernanda: one person was calling the mbta transit police. the first view that we had -- we thought it was a medical emergency and that someone had got shot. we did not know exactly where. that was the first information we had. the second information we had -- they opened the in between doors , that is when they started knocking on the driver, so we could know what was going on. was no driver. emily: ok. resolved? did t workers come and get you off the train at that point? did you get off at the next stop? fernanda: yes, we did went to the next stop. two mbta officers arrived. they walked in all the cars and

they asked if anyone was injured. we did not get any new information. we were asking what happened and they just kept walking. "we just want to make sure nobody is hurt." they had an issue with the exit doors. then we were able to stop at jfk. then we all had to get out of the train. emily: fernanda , not the way you were expecting to start your morning, but glad everyone is ok.

emily: updating news, a red line train packed with passengers speeds down the tracks without an operator. tampered with. investigates that the operator stepped off issue. the train kept moving and hit him. no passengers were hurt and the minor injuries. we sound like broken records.

cindy: chalk up another one. every single day in december has temperatures. except for one and that was on the first day. 54 degrees, boston. very light wind. southwest. that is a warm wind direction worcester, 51. hampshire. look at new bedford and the cape and the vineyard, very close to 60. back to providence, we have seen the clouds break apart south of boston. this dry air is punching north and eastward. showers from this morning traversing eastward, east of nantucket. a little cogent disturbance shifting eastward -- potent disturbance shifting eastward. this storm will not impact us.

a powerful one slamming into the pacific northwest right now. this energy is dropping southward and as it digs into the middle of the country, it is forcing the jet stream to lift northward. it is going to get even milder for the end of the week and the weekend. clouds breaking for a little bit of sunshine. temperatures climbing near 60 degrees. tonight, we are dropping down to the 40' s. the coldest suburbs could hit the mid-to-upper 30' s. the skies break apart a little bit this evening. overnight, the clouds filled back in. there are a lot of clouds around tomorrow. through the day, the skies brighton and the clouds burn off -- brighten and the clouds burn off. i think saturday is the warmer weekend day. sunday, we are backing off on the temperatures a little bit. a backdoor cold front is going to cool off the temperatures a

40' s on the north shore. the record high in boston is 63. that looks out of reach right now. the system brings us rain on monday from the pacific northwest. temperatures in the lower 60' s on monday. we will cool down briefly, but we are cooling back down to around 50 degrees by tuesday of next week. the warm weather pattern is sticking around.

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emily: more on our breaking news. a red line train packed with passengers speeds down the tracks without an operator. the tea is investigating if that train was tampered with. sources told 5 investigates that the operator stepped off at braintree to check if problem. the train kept moving, hitting him . it traveled four stops before mbta personnel disable the train. the operator is being treated for minor injuries. let' s get a last check of your weather. cindy: you know, average high temperatures this time of year in the lower 40' s.

very unseasonably mild through the weekend. early next week on monday, that is the chance of widespread rain. behind it, we cooldown a little bit. a lot of people wondering about christmas and such. for the end of the month, we may start to cool it down and change this pattern. until then, we are talking about warmer weather.

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