and even massachusetts. into the wee hours of the morning. there could be a line of storms, thunder and also wind damage. by 8:00 it's restricted to the cape and after that it's offshore. there is another severe episode going on down south. all tornado watches, washington is including, philadelphia, southern new jersey, and several tornados are possible, right now you can see, centered around raleigh, north carolina, much to follow, more coming up in a minutes. >> a cambridge police officer has been cited in a weekend hit-and-run. ryan callinan is accused of hitting a bicyclist. the victim is out of the hospital the officer has been put on administrative leave. the woman has been found in waterford, connecticut. she disappeared on monday before she was supposed to pick up her son. investigators say she was found this afternoon inside her car in a mall parking lot in

had to go to the hospital. police say she was in good health at the time. >> breaking news. a new setback. plans to rebuild that resort casino in wynn everett. >> after years of mrpg a ground breaking was scheduled for this site for april but now all of that has been put on hold. today, wynn everett officials announced the casino project will be delayed for possibly as long as a year. because of environmental concerns. construction is halted and so is the hiring of the projected 4,000 jobs needed to build the $1.7 billion resort casino. the mayor is appealing a permit that wynn everett got from the state to develop the waterfront property. wynn everett says summerville already signed an agreement. however, the mayor says that this is a public health issue. with so much traffic and

claims wynn everett has been aware of his plans to appeal. back to you. reporter: also breaking, sources telling the "washington post" president obama is considering nevada governor brian -- as his supreme court nominee. a republican, judge, who supports abortion rights. he met with senate democratic leader harry reid on monday. mick colonel has said there will not be hearings or a vet on an obama pick. >> right now our community is in shock after a teenager is killed. >> the young girl struck by a car last night. rhondella richardson with the story. circumstances. years old this sunday. she took the bus here last night and then is live with she crossed the street here against the light, walking, and hit in the crosswalk. laura viera of east boston suffered multiple injuries before dying.

north main street. the driver who hit her, a 21-year-old man, stayed on the scene. police say he had the green light. police are now investigating if heavy snow just before 8:00 last night contributed to him hitting girl. he has not been charged. viera, a boston public school sophomore, is sad policed. she's survived by her 9-year-old brother and her 19-year-old sister, both parents full of grief, no one able to speak on camera. rhondella richardson, wcvb, newscenter 5. >> this is new at 4:30. the driver charged with operating under the influence arraigned. >> it happened as he recovers in the hospital. let's get to jack harper. he's live tonight with new developments. jack? reporter: that's exactly where the suspect was arraigned this afternoon. about an hour ago in his hospital bed. he's thomas -- 51 years old.

no wonder, he took a header yesterday when he was being subjected to a sobriety test by the police. actually, it was captured on video, too. someone took pictures as he was taking sustain or two and he fell on his face. >> $15,000 cash bail on this and the young man he injured, 39 years old is in much worse shape than he is, in critical condition at this same hospital. back to you. >> 2016, chairman of the republican national committee not ready to call donald trump the party's nominee. he says the party will stand behind whoever wins the nomination. >> whoever the nominee becomes, they will inherit or they will join, i should say, the biggest rnc operation that weaver ever put together. >> trump won 45% of the vote in nevada's republican vote picking up 14 delegates.

second. ted cruz was third. >> we're in this race to win and i think we're going to pull off one of the great political upsets. >> that's bernie sanders talking a big game in south carolina. holding an event in columbia. that state holds its democratic primary this weekend. >> a new poll shows most americans have absolutely no interest in voting for michael bloomberg into the white house. bloomberg has hinted that he might run as an independent. the new poll from the associated press shows six in 10 democrats and republicans alike rule out reelection. >> an indictment against former texas governor rick perry has been dismissed. he was facing an abuse of power charge. he was accused of carrying out a threat to veto funding after a d.a. refused to resign over a drunken driving arrest. >> my officer is going to get more involved in this conversation.

concerning me. >> right now marty welsh is weighing in on the calls for the to schools. >> here's that story. maria? reporter: this is a pretty several civil rights groups including the local naacp. they met with students and parents last night over the handling of racial slurs school. the recent report found that the school did handle most of these incidents properly. however, groups we just talked about, they disagree, they are the justice department to conduct a civil rights probe into the use of racial slurs and taunts online. the boston mayor says he doesn't think that's necessary. he says his office is looking investigation. >> my biggest concern is the impact on the students, and their education that's happening right now. there is a lot of outside voices in this conversation, and i think it's distractsing the going to get more involved in this

>> the boston naacp has called on the head master to step down. new at 6:00, you're going the hear from leaders calling for that federal investigation. back to you. >> thank you. first, it was big papi. now it's team owner john henry delivering his annual spring training address. >> and he's making it clear, he expects a much different result in 2016, from the last two years, mike lynch is live. ritchie? >> good evening, welcome to a rain soaked fort myers has the cold front has come through. they held their first official team workout. normally that's a story in itself but as you mentioned john henry gave his annual spring training address and that made news off the field. some of the bullet points from john henry's address, more than 25 minutes with the media. he said if they could sign jon lester last year it wouldn't have made any difference. he was very shocked at how bad the red sox played last year. >> what pushed them over the edge last year was the red sox

this was kind of a surprising statement. he said the red sox rely less on analytics. he's made his fortune through an it will an analytics. >> they have got play and produce. it's important to get off to a good start because we have one goal and that's to win the division. that's not an easy thing to do, we can't afford to get into a hole at the beginning of the season. >> coming up at 5:00, john henry addresses the physical condition of pablo sandoval. all i can say is, don't miss it, brace yourself. >> look forward to it. >> new claims that the coast guard was not prepared to help

ill-fated ship. >> on the ship's sinking officers testify their initial calls for help were complicated by a lack of available resources, and a classification of the circumstance as an alert rather than days stress. all crew members died when that cargo ship sank last october. three had ties to massachusetts. >> new at 4:30, a man charged in connection with the december murder of a woman in worcester has been released from jail. luis was one of two men charged in that case. his release comes as police find new evidence that he hadding in to do with the murder. her body was found december 2 in the middle of murray avenue. a hearing that could possibly clear him will be held next month. >> new at 4:30, bail has been lowered for the suspect in an assault. 19-year-old mcewen was in court where his bail was reduced to $7,500. he's accused of pistol whipping

inside the dorm. it was a two-hour lockdown of the campus. >> police need your help in identifying this man. he's accused in an assault sunday at the forest hills station. it happened just before 2:30 in the morning, if you know who it is, call. >> you're looking -- eight people are in jail tonight and three police officers are recovering, after being attacked by a knife wielding suspect. more than 2,100 bags of heroin were seized and $4,400 in cash as well. off prostitutes at a hotel. he faces human trafficking charges tonight. police say the 55-year-old recruited two women to sell techs for money at an extended stay america hotel. he'll be back in court in march. >> new bedford police have made an arrest in a bar. the man is accused of stabbing dublin sports bar. survive.

investigators to suspends the search for a missing harvard man in boston. police believe the man fell into the charles river after a night at the tavern. more than a week ago. >> new developments tonight, apple's fight against the federal government. the company hoping that congress, not the courts, will make the ultimate decision on whether or not it should help the f.b.i. unlock the phone number of a terror suspect. >> apple plans to make that request no a federal judge. tonight, apple's c.e.o. tim cook speaks exclusively to david in a.b.c.'s world news at 6:30. you can watch it right here. >> time to flash forward. >> a new push today to restore the murder conviction against michael skakel. the message from the victim's mother. >> a new attack on john perry coming from donald trump. targeting the secretary of state. >> and then new at 7:00, boston booming.

garden. the transformation into the hub. >> looking at our temperatures around the region, from boston northward, it's only in the 30's. but look at it as you said down cape. it's in the 50s. big changes, lots of active all. >> cambridge police officer has been sided in a weekend hit-and-run. officer ryan callinan is on administrative leave.

>> a life look at the turnpike. they seem to be moving okay. you're affected as much by the weather as the volume. let's take a look. you know where it's red, it's slow, a lot of rain so it will be slow. just a tad quicker. first leg of the turnpike around 20 minutes. 128 is very bad and once you get to the tolls, you're going to get slow. it's 31 minutes western toll to 495 right now. it will only get worse. mass ab, seven minutes. that's what it looks like at 4:45. >> look at this. three people dead tonight after tornados ripped through parts of the united states. this is

larks larks where you can see powerful winds ripped off the sidewall of the gym. damage stretching from texas to the mid atlantic. talking about what's happening in north carolina. >> if you look behind us, those are all tornado watches from the atlantic. >> including the nation's capitol, philadelphia. the obvious question is will it run right up the coast >> we're some significant weather. not expecting tornados but we could get damaging winds and heavy downpours. and possible thunderstorms late tomorrow. we not only have all of those watches in place but we, in several tornado warnings in place. this extends from just south of raleigh, north carolina, all the way up to just south of virginia. that threat there extend northward. this is the most severe line of

those warnings to pop up. for us, later tonight into very early tomorrow, the chances of getting heavy rain and downpours is very high the chance of getting gusty to strong or damaging winds are high. chances of a thunderstorm, moderate. coastal flooding is low but there may be a little bit along south facing coastal areas along the southern new england coast at the time of high tide tomorrow morning. this is city cam. look at the fog that surrounds boston. the temperature in boston is only 39 and the wind is light per hour. where the wind is light out of the north we've got low clouds, fog, drizzle or rain. that's the way it is, until you coast. winds are out of the south. they have shifted now in new bedford. the temperature spikes up when that happens. so while it's in the 30's to around 40 locally, as soon as we get to new bedford and the cape it's now in the 50s. that warmer air will work its way northward but until that warm front gets here a lot of visibility.

of a mill at worcester and half a mile in boston. >> up around a thousand or 1,500 feet. there is still borderline icing going on. winter weather advisory until 7:00. here's what will happen. we see temperatures start to jump after 7:00 in or 1,500 boston. probably around 8:00 or 9:00. then late tonight, everybody turns warm, but that's when it starts to get windy, and that's when we have the risk of the downpours. so it's warmer, windy and wet, but this is significant. at our winds around 7:00 tonight, nothing to speak of in boston. but now they have picked up where the warm air is moving in. as the warm air comes up the southerly winds gust. this may be overdone but the idea is there. we have a wind advisory. when we get those heavy downpours that's when the take place. showers, you see some of these downpours further to the south

their way into the region. what's left of that severe works up as downpours here. mostly just west and north of boston until we get later tonight and some of those downpours east of new england. the threat continues into the morning commute tomorrow and ends after 8:00 on the cape and after that we'll see some weather improvement. but as we check out the next seven days, look at the temperatures early tomorrow. in the 50s, and it will only cool to around 50. still quite windy. the storms will end during that commute from west to east. then it turns much colder and windy, friday, friday night, by sunday afternoon we're back to around 50 degrees so a lot of roller coaster temperatures, but going to follow hours. most significant. >> no survivors after a plane carrying 23 people crashed in nepal. the crash site has now been located. investigators say it appears to have flown directly into a mountain. that flight was hopping from one city to another. it was only

>> it was a mistake. that's word from officials in egypt after a toddler was sentenced to life in prison. >> a toddler, that story went viral and officials say this is a case of mistaken identity. a 3-year-old boy was mistaken for a 16-year-old. charged in connection with the deaths of three people in a public demonstration. they share the same name. >> a death investigation is under way right now in las vegas after a woman's body is found in a laundry chute. i believed the 26-year-old fell from the 18th floor to the third floor at the d hotel and casino. the california woman was in vegas celebrating her birthday. she was with her husband. >> more legal trouble for volkswagen. >> the latest ties of fraud tide to the company's emission scandal. >> let's take a

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their lifetime. it predicts people living in the south are also at a greater lifetime risk of h.i.v. with the highest rates projected in washington, d.c. >> we turn to your economy and more legal trouble for volkswagen. >> a class-action lawsuit has been filed against the auto giant claiming top executives engaged in widespread fraud. this moves follow's volkswagen's admission last year that it cheated the emission tests. in addition to this latest lawsuit the company faces regulatory fines up to $46 billion. >> the massachusetts lottery is seeing more green thanks to more than 130% increase in powerball ticket sales. lottery revenue is up 6% in the first half of the fiscal year. you will remember powerball had rain of historic jackpots last month until a $1.5 billion drawing. >> a grocery chain is expanding into massachusetts. the company opening its 11th

it will be located on commerce way in plymouth. it got its start in germany by the same family that owns trader joe's. >> today, governor charlie baker, as you can see on the right, marty walsh there, a few of the neighborhood favorites, sandwich shop with much fanfare in 2014, after more than 87 years in business, the owner is keeping the menu as it is. >> a new feature from facebook. >> giving you more ways to express yourself. >> construction workers on a mission after discovering a blast from the past. reuniting a man with his wallet

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>> facebook is rolling out more options to express yourself. starting today, in addition to liking the status update you'll be able to click "love." wow! >> i'm sad. >> you'll get the feature automaticallially automatically on web browsers. >> a lost wallet has been returned. look at the age of this thing. 71 years later a construction company found the wallet while renovating an old movie theater in iowa. it had been buried in the floorboard since 1944.

down, believe it or not, 85-year-old claire mcintosh who remembers losing his wallet as a teenager. it still had his boy scout card and world war ii era stamps. >> and the memories. >> a great story. >> newscenter 5 at 5:00 is next with phil and maria. coming up right now. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> the everett casino on-hold again. >> new trouble for a cambridge police officer accused in a hit-and-run crash. the punishment just handed down. >> john henry's expectations for the sox in 2016. >> his surprising stance on one star's weighty problem. >> heavy rain and wind making its way into our area. >> you can expect several inches

could be daging. storm team 5 is tracking that and some big issues in our nation's capitol. let's get to harvey leonard. >> we've got fog issues with a visibilities of only a quarter of a mile in worcester and providence. then we have wet weather. above a thousand feet there is still borderline icing going on. >> this is like waves of moisture coming at us, and a lot of heavy-duty moisture down to the south will play its role as we go through tonight. through the first part of the evening commute mostly metro twhaeft has the rain. as we get into the latter part of the it in that's when the heavier rains moving into boston and any of these could contain some damaging wind gusts. warm with a strong southerly wind. during the morning commute it ends from west to east. the winds will really ramp uppal 8:00 or -- ramp up after 8:00 or 9:00. wind advisory in effect until