and sparked obviously large fire. this is west of slachx as long as, in the woodland hills area. there is no word right now on the condition of the operator. this just happened. we'll continue to follow this again on the west coast and l.a., where it's just past 1:30 in the afternoon. president obama commuting more than federal inmates this afternoon. this is the largest single day grant of commutations in u.s. history. unlike pardons, commutations shorten prison sentences and leave other conditions intact. 214 inmates were convicted on low level drug offenses, longest, a kansas man sentenced to 40 years for dealing meth. he'll now be released december 1. more break news, we're learning more about a plot targeting police officers in portland, maine. >> there is some new information for us on the suspect. sean? >> portland police say that they have made an arrest and we're just now learning that that

days ago and also had a return trip to norway. we do not know the name of that person but police say the threat against their officers is now over. police were on high alert after online threats to use assault weapons to kill as many police officers as possible, from a parking garage. local police started getting calls about 8:45 this morning from media and other law enforcement agent those threats. police surrounded that parking garage in downtown present land. there were there. police did clear the garage. they found nothing but heavily armed portland police also spent the day guarding their own department. officers there still keeping the public safe while under these threat threats. >> i don't know. it's just scary. it doesn't seem to be getting any better.

off a week of threats in the downtown portland area. yesterday, a bomb threat to the planned parenthood there. that turned out also to be nothing. now, tomorrow donald trump is going to be campaigning in portland. police have plans in place to keep that safe. >> it's been called first in the fight against isis >> for the first time terrorism charges have been brought against a law enforcement officer here in the ute states. here's more. >> young with a metro transit will police officer in washington, d.c. this afternoon he's now been fired. we'll show you the video. you can see f.b.i. and police going in and out of his home in fairfax, virginia. just outside district. prosecutors say he was caught buying $250 worth of gift cards fortis lamb mcstate group. he then gave the gift cards to an undercover f.b.i. source. young was arrested this morning at metro headquarters in

upped surveillance since 2010 and he's traveled to libya twice that happened in 2011, where he said he joined rebel forces seeking to oust the dictator. these same documents report that young was deeply paranoid about law enforcement spying on him. he would often take out the battery of his cell phone when he wanted to go somewhere and talk. prosecutors say he posed no threats that they know of the other transit system in washington. new opioid related deaths. >> peers more from todd. >> fentanyl is a highly illegal drug and mixed with opioids like heroin. it produce as highly let's that will combination and today the state department of public health released statistics for the first half of this year

death and 60% tested positive. up from 67% last year that statistic is troubling for everyone especially people in recovery who work to keep their peers clean. until we deal with the substance abuse as seriously as we deal with other illnesses, i don't see that these numbers are going to go down. >> the number of for the drug is the lowest since it's been last year. vital to preventing overdose. >> the first marijuana dispensary is opening its doors. >> it's the seventh in massachusetts. this facility extremely secure. a guard at the front controls entry doors, vaults where products are stored.

oils, all of which are grown at the company's dispensary in lowell. >> it's a place where patients with feel safe but also very comfortable while they are waiting to access the product that they need so badly. >> proponents say the dispensary could play a vital role in the epidemic. you'll hear more coming up at 5:00. >> 2016, trouble inside the grand ole party. >> it's all centered around donald trump. here's newscenter 5's maria. >> according to the g.o.p. insider, stock republicans are not happy with donald trump, after a series of what some are calling missteps and they include trump's refusal to endorse senator john mccain, refusal to endorse house speaker paul ryan, even though his vice presidential pick mike pence did endorse ryan just hours ago.

the head of the rnc called personally to express frustration with the attacks on the parents of a fallen muslim american soldier. the candidate is in control and very prepared for the fight. trump also going with that narrative. here's what he had to say in florida just moments ago. listen? the campaign is doing really well, it's never been so well united as -- we 16. i would say right now, it's the best in terms of being united that it's been since we began. >> today one of trump's biggest supporters, newt gingrich called him very self-destructive. newt newt said that on fox news. >> trump's behavior needs to shift to that of a general election candidate. that's what newt gingrich went on to say. >> new at 4:30, texas agrees to weaken its voter i.d. law deemed discriminatory by a federal

law passed in 2011, discriminates against minorities and the poor. texas is now willing to let those voters sign an affidavit and cast a ballot. the state will also send at least $2.5 million. more than 6,000 voters lacked a suitable i.d. under guidelines. >> we now know the cause of this inferno in disposal of smoking material sparked this six alarm fire that destroyed two buildings. 24 people lost their homes. but no one in the end was seriously hurt. >> let's take you to dubai where a firefighter was killed here while rushing to this fire on an airport tarmac. the plane arriving from india crashed during landing and caught fire early this morning. 300 passengers were on that boeing 777. 10 were hospitalized.

its way to becoming a hurricane. will it become a hurricane? >> it might. it's only four miles per hour short of being a hurricane. they just sent the hurricane hunters into the eye of the storm and they didn't measure any hurricane force winds that water is very warm. it's very likely it could get those extra four miles per hour and become a hurricane. winds sustained at 70 miles per hour and should manage to get just a few more miles out before it moves inland. here's what the models are the various solutions. headed through belize into mexico. we could see anywhere between six to 12 inches and some places could get as much as 16 inches. that's the big concern. here's the official track, becoming a category one hurricane just before it moves inland and a tropical storm as it moves into mexico. that's what's going on around the tropics. around here we're talking about the least that's headed back this way. i'll have the timeline and arrival of that and the humidity

thank you >> a funeral will be held tomorrow for this beautiful little boy. he died last week at carson beach. he drowned after he wandered from his summer camp at the curly community center. >> a dishing bike rider is dead tonight. he did not have his headlights on the two officers in the cruiser were checked out at an area hospit f that crash is under investigation. >> right now police are searching for an armed robber wanted for holding up two stores in the same hour. the first call came just before 9:00 last night at 129 liquors on salem road followed by another car at jim's quick stop. a clerk there was so upset that she had to be hospitalized. the man who held members of hillary clinton's 2008 presidential campaign team hostage in new hampshire is under arrest again tonight.

led to eisenberg after reviewing surveillance video from a robbery at tell. street citizens bank. officers found him last night with cash as well as 6 1/2 grams of kcrack cocaine. he demanded psychiatric help before taking several hostages. >> an elite rhode island boarding school has agreed to a settlement with 30 former students >> the school says it will provide an undisclosed amount of money to settle those claims. dozens of people have said they were abused by the teachers and staff at the school. the school has acknowledged it did not report the abuse. earlier this year state police investigation ended with no criminal charges. >> new at 4:30, a man is accuse

the 23-year-old is being held on $50,000 cash bail. two men are in jail charged in a violent home invasion in new hampshire. >> here's what we know. ryan chase and jack are accused of breaking into an apartment on church street last night. police say three men in ski masks pistol whipped the person inside before tying up that person with another victim. police say the suspects were looking for drugs. >> some traumatic video of a fight with police in oklahoma. a man is attacking an officer. he even tries to grab his another officer runs into the screen. runs into the fight and tries to help. before a third man who was just passing by runs in. body shams the suspect. officers were initially called to the scene for a man trying to buy a gift card with a stolen credit card. >> an illegal campfire is to blame for sparking this wildfire. it destroyed at least 57 homes. it killed one person and it has

43,000 acres. police are now looking for the person who lit the campfire back on july 22. they could face some criminal and civil penalties. >> time to flash forward on newscenter 5. >> here's what's happening. >> how a local researcher says -- stuff like this to help to prevent type two we have gorgeous weather. we're tracking some thunderstorms and we'll have an early look at what could be happening. on the west coast, a back-hoe hit a gas line sparking this large fire. pictures west of los angeles in the woodland hills area. firefighters have just arrived

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>> let's take a live look at the expressway. the traffic in the foreground is heading towards the split. in the background heading into the city and both moving at the same pace. let's check the drive times around the area where it's slow. down to the split, it will take you over a half an hour. 33 minutes. a lot of concern in the core of the city. if you're going up north, it

will be in your face. 128 is a little slow. 128 south heading toward the wesley area. it will take you 19 minutes to get to 495. mass pike to 290 is a seven-minute ride. 495 is a little slow through the stretch where it meets the turn bike. >> now maybe something worth staying up for. spectacular images, these come from mount washington. early this morning, of the northern lights captured around 2:00 in the morning at the observatory. >> on top of mount washington you can see montreal. >> we're clear around here. >> it's a hit-or-miss thing. if you want to get out there away from the city lights, you might get a chance to see them. it's in a guarantee. >> it's fun when you go out and

see that. seems like there should be sound effects. >> we get the charged particles coming off the sun and as they come into our planet they interact with the upper atmosphere and so we get these glowing colors that develop out there. that's the effects. >> we get reason you see it mostly in the northern hemisphere, we call it the northern lights. here, we typically see the greens and yellows. further north, sometimes you get the purpose unless there. some beautiful spectacular colors. it's the colliding with the earth's upper atmosphere. it's spectacular to look at and neat. let's talk about what was going on, on the ground. today's temperature averaging below normal. look at the month. 2.8 degrees below average. last month, july, 2.8 degrees above average. the flip-flop. 78 degrees. check out the dew points. way down at 55 degrees. remember over the weekend it was close to 70.

easterly winds right now at 13 miles per hour off the ocean. keeping things cooler if you're near the water. what will happen with the dew point? how comfortable will you feel? tomorrow, feel pretty comfortable but notice what happens. we start to ramp it up on friday. into saturday and then it dropped off on sunday. you've got a few more muggy days coming in before you get to the weekend the humidity also sets us up for the possibility of thunderstorms. mostly on saturday. so temperatures right now, upper 70s to around 80. a little cooler over the cape and islands where reading are only in the mid-70 up for the possibility ofs. check out the satellite picture. it's hard to find a cloud anywhere. widen out the view and it's still hard to find clouds. way down here to the south or west. our forecast, looking pretty quiet with lots of clear skies. tonight clear and comfortable sleeping weather. 58 to 64 degrees for the overnight low. tomorrow, another sunny day. 70s at the cape because we've got the breeze blowing in across the water. that will keep things cooler.

cool start. high pressure is in control. as it moves off eventually, eventually, and it's a slow process, we start to get that muggy weather moving in and that will set us up for the chance of thunderstorms as we talk about saturday's forecast. here's how it breaks down. sea breeze in here tomorrow, otherwise, 84 degrees. warm on friday. near 90 degrees and then saturday, front coming in from the west. as this slides in it will be running into hot and humid air. we get the not a washout and it's not the rain we need to be a drought buster but there will be a very good chance of scattered showers over the weekend. after that, cooler, drier weather moves back in with temperatures back into the 80s. >> we'll take you back to breaking news. a back-hoe, i'm sure you can see

it's right above where it says breaking news. that's the back-hoe, completely burnt out. it hit a four-inch gas main igniting a fire. homes are being evacuated west of los angeles. homes are being evacuated in the area. so far we don't have it's rightf anyone getting hurt. the zika virus has many people thinking more carefully about protecting themselves from mosquito bites. >> consumer reports put 16 bug sprays to the test to see which ones are most effective. three ingredients did the best. deep, oil of lemon you can little eucalyptus. they incapacitate the bugs when they land and hopefully that happens before the mosquitoes bite you. >> the brands that got the highest marks from consumer reports -- with 30% deet. >> alarming statistics with teenage drivers. >> recent constituted find that is 68% of american teenagers admit to using smartphone apps

based liberty mutual and students against destructive driving and they found 80% of teens do not think using aps is distracting. it is. drivers under the age of 18 are banned from using mobile devices behind the wheel. >> an idea to make pokemon go off-limits to certain players. >> the people the state wants to see band, and google getting into the home delivery business. the new opportunity on the way to lift-off. first, as we go to take a look at the numbers on wall street. losing streak has been broken.

>> new hampshire is reducing the number of moose hunting permits as the state tries to stabilize the declining moose population. this year's lottery is down to 71 permits from last year's it's estimated there are only about 4,000 moose in new hampshire. a state lawmaker wants to make pokemon go off-limits to sex offenders. >> the game allows players to capture cybercreatures by using their cell phones to locate them in real-life places. democratic state representative jonathan says pokemon go is an open invitation to sex offenders looking for children to abuse. he's introduced a bill banning offenders from playing the game.

to begin on that multibillion dollar casino in everett. the ground breaking will happen tomorrow. it has the final license it needs to start the project after ms of delays. neighboring city leaders recently asked the state department of environmental protection to stop that project, but they lost that battle. >> goingtle is getting into the drone delivery business the tech giant will start testing a program called project wing here in the united states. an announcemt larger drone initiative announced yesterday that plan also includes $35 million in funding, to research the best way to use drone technology. >> the u.s. women's soccer team plays its first olympic match tonight. opening ceremonies to the game are friday night. >> still look forward to it. with all of that in mind, a big

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gets. >> how scientists think stuff like this could help to prevent type two diabetes. >> there are more than a hundred allegations of abuse. >> heather, it was a report issue bid the boston public schools. it bias-based incidence here at the elite high school dating become to 2012. the findings indicate several cases where administrators, faculty and students directly violated school policy. the report comes on the heels of allegations of racial discrimination, brought to life earlier this year by some. students, and as a result of that, school's head master accepted down back in june. >> not shocked that there are