cape cod closed to swimmers because of great white sharks spotted around a whale carcass. the beaches in truro now shut down are noons landing, beach point, and cold storage. heather: also, battleship cove shut down for the day because of aces vicious package. -- a suspicious package. ben: tom brady now calling the end to his deflategate legal battle a personal decision. he spoke about it for the firs season, and says he'll deal with the 4 game suspension when the time comes. heather: mike wankum joining us and it sounds like there is a storm threat for our saturday? mike: yes, this is the kind of storm where you get a lot of rain fast and furious, and it cannot soak in. once it gets here, we will have maximum heating going on and the humidity will be coming up as well.

tomorrow afternoon. in boston, temperatures will drop, but not as much as the last couple of nights. that tells you the humidity is coming up. what will happen tomorrow is, we start the day with partly cloudy skies. by lunchtime, here we start to see those lines of showers and thunderstorms. one place you get a heavy downpour, a few miles down the road, you don't get anythou i will have much more on the timeline and what to expect tomorrow coming up. ben: all right, thank you. new at 5:30, the state of new hampshire asking for federal help tonight to deal with drought conditions in the state. the request by governor maggie hassan is for grafton, rockingham, and strafford counties. farmers say the lack of rain has effected their corn crops. the corn is now several inches smaller and the supply is cut in half. another challenge is the that they cannot irrigate. if the request is approved,

help. >> it will help us preserve the land, pay our taxes, pay for our equipments. and help maintain the open space and the world character new hampshire has strived for the past 50 years. ben: the governor says more than 30% of the crops have been lost in those three counties. heather: sky 5 over haverhill where a large pot hole caused traffic delays earlier today. the hole opened up on 495-south the merrimack river. crews expected to the repairs to take up to four hours. a budgeting program at plainridge park casino bringing in more than 3,000 users. the play my way program started in june. so far, more than 3200 people have enrolled. the program let's players set a budget before they begin gambling. the slot machine will notify you as you reach preset limits but won't stop you from playing. the mass gaming commission says

gambling. ben: it's the end of an era for a popular brookline deli. heather: rubin's kosher restaurant and delicatessen is shutting down after 9 decades on harvard street. newscenter five's juli mcdonald has more on the surprise announcement. >> a lot of mixed emotions. this is something i really did not want to do. actually, made this decision at 4:00. landmark -- the doors ofrubin's closing after 90 years. >> rubin's is closing. juli: the decision is bittersweet, but simple -- he wants more time. >> ice and my kids to college.

again, live a life together. juli: patrons were emotional. over the years it was more than food that drew them here. it was culture. >> it is sad to see these places shut down. the people that come here, these are the people we connect to, and when they go, they go. >> lot about life. to respect their elders, respect the dollar. juli: loyal customers cannot help but feel they are losing part of their family. >> i know it is a restaurant, but it just grabbed your heart rate it really does. juli: though the decision was somewhat sudden, he made phone calls and found employment for each one of his workers.

the doors are closing for good. in brookline, juli mcdonald, wcvb newscenter 5. ben: all right, next, a ninth shooting linked to a serial shooter in arizona. heather: the desperate search for the killer right now in phoenix. the reward now being offered for information. plus -- >> we do not want this to happen again. ben: 5 investigates, tonight changes in security and policy after 5 investigates exposes what happened on the night a young man died in the back of a sheriff's van. let's check your friday night traffic. lo investor actions. not such a nice ride elsewhere in the boston region. 93 getting better. the five minutes on mass ave to route 3. the pike, nine minutes out of town. everyone must have left early today, heather. what is going on?

let's go to for 95, a little slow on the southbound side.

ben: we have that breaking news in fall river. fall river police confirming a hoax device found on a ship there. battleship code was shut down. heather?w closed for the day. heather: right now, an urgent search for a serial killer in phoenix. police linking him to a ninth attack. seven of them have been fatal.

clayton: this morning, police in phoenix on the hunt for a serial killer who has strucky doga notn care who was ie clayton: the lay 11, when the gunmen shot at a -yr-old boy in a car. luckily they were not hurt. >> it is too close to home. clayton: b series of seemingly random shootings has tfi the youngest victim, a 12-year-old murdered in june while sitting in a car in front of her own home. two women, including her mother, also killed. >> my daughter did everything with her kids. whatever they did, they did it together. clayton: police believe that the suspect may be driving different cars.

frustrated. >> the randomness, the geographical area is presenting a challenge. what is more frustrating, we know somebody knows who is doing it. heather: there is a reward for information that is up to $50,000. ben: wow. a group of wyoming people lucky to be alive tonight after a car smashes through a laundromat. it's all caught on camera. watch as the car speeds into the parking lot and right into the building. boom. the shop's owner is pushed up in the air by the impact and tossed to the side. the car sped right through the building. >> he hit the car door to door, side to side. shoved it a spot and a half over. and came right through the front window. ben: the building is still open for business. the owner says he's lucky he wasn't standing closer to the window. i would say so. heather: that's a frightening one. your health next. ben: cigarette smoking rates on the decline. the one group not seeing a

living single. a harvard psychologist with a new study on how staying unattached can be good for your health. mike: thunderstorms are in the forecast.

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255,000 jobs in july, even amid sluggish growth. the labor department says the unemployment rate remained a low 4.9% in july. more americans launched job searches, and nearly all were hired. american airlines has reached a deal with unions to raise wages for about 30,000 employees. the wage hikes are effective immediately and range from 15 to 55%. that's a pretty big increase. american airlines expects the increase will raise costs by nearly $200 million this year. the airline says the increases makes their hourly wages the highest in the industry. heather: in an effort gain more control over its delivery process, amazon has unveiled its first branded cargo plane. it is one of 40 jetliners that will make up the e-commerce giant's own air transportation network. amazon's parcel volume was an estimated 1 billion packages in 2015. internet speeds have reached an all time high. speedtest's latest report shows the internet is 42% faster than last year. reports say xfinity has the fastest download speed while

not everyone gets to enjoy the benefits of better technology. the fcc says internet in rural areas is still much slower. ben: to your health tonight -- the number of adults who smoke cigarettes continues dropping, but there are ethnic disparities. the only groups where smoking rates have gone up heather: ok, there are benefits to staying single, according to a harvard psychologist. abc's maggie rulli has the reporter: mike being single not be so bad after all? one harvard psychologist presented fightings from more than 800 studies looking at single people.

may be more connected to family and friends. they may also be more likely to report experiencing growth and development. the report more freedom when it comes to making their own decisions. with nearly half of u.s. adult single, more americans are looking to capitalize on the benefits. for some, that could mean financial freedom. for oer not getting the final rose may not be that bad after all. heather: got saturday plays -- plans all mapped out. do you see how i just went right on. ben: yeah, i did. you need to grab an umbrella just in case, i guess? mike: an umbrella will not do you much good. it's one of those where it comes

fast. let's set the stage. here are the high temperatures today. humidity comes up tomorrow and the temperatures are very similar to today. that will set us up for thunderstorms. still 87 in boston. the dew point is relatively manageable. that humidity will be coming up and that will set us up for the cold front coming in. southwesterly winds will usher in more humid air through the overnight hours. i think there will be more punch when they get through tomorrow afternoon. overnight highs to overnight lows. 60 through 70's, and humidity coming up. it will be a sticky night. tomorrow, high temperatures will look like this. with southwesterly winds -- we will see a little bit about -- of a breeze on cape ann.

county, a lot of 90's showing up again. the south shore, it is going to be warm through here. it will be a little bit cooler in where him. we will see readings in the lower 80's. humidity will drop off and monday as well looking very nice. tomorrow, tomorrow afternoon and the evening hours, that is our biggest threat for thunderstorms. here is what happens. not much evening, but there goes a thunderstorm during the afternoon. that line will punch on through and if you wait long enough it will move out of here. it's really looking less humid and slightly cooler air moving in as well. here is an hour-by-hour breakup. tomorrow, 6 a.m., partly cloudy skies. as the day goes on, the cloud cover thickens and you're

error is humid. it looks like it will be in the boston area. probably will not make it to the cape until 4:00, five :00. there will be showers and thunderstorms up until the time the sun goes down. after the sun goes down, it all clears away. the low humidity will come in as well. let me break it down for you. highlighted tomorrow and read because this is going to be a high index weather day. gusty winds and have the -- heavy rain of it. if you hear thunder, go indoors. that is the best advice i can give you. low humidity, sunshine is back out. it stays that way monday and tuesday. it will clear away thursday and then we have another chance of seeing thunderstorms.

those thunderstorms could be strong. i know you want to keep it outdoors, but when clouds are threatening, time to move indoors. ben: all right. this is what it looks like when a comet traveling more than one million-miles-per hour plunges toward the sun. that white circle in the middle represents the disk of the sun. you can see the comet enter from the right side of the screen and disappear. despite the way the video looks this comet didn't fall into the sun. it actually went around it, but was torn apart and vaporized by the sun's heat. presidential race, a rhode island company is taking data into their own hands. ben: forget the straw poll yacht club bottling works is holding a soda pop poll. they're pitting hillary's blue raspberry liberal limeade against donald's strawberry peach populist punch. doesn't his sound better? heather: no, i like limeade.

keeping track of how many bottles of each are sold as a way to gauge voters tastes. >> me and my wife were watching the debates, and it just popped in my head. they have a slight acidity to them, so they have a bite. they meet the candidates; they have a little edge to them. ben: owner john sgambato says before this, orders have only gone as far as oklahoma. but with the hillary and donald pop they're sending soda out to california. so far sales are right down the middle. heather: i don't believe that. ben: i don't believe that either. heather: middle. coming up, one man fell tragic death. ben: up next, changes in security and policy after 5 investigates exposed what exactly happened on the night he died. ed? ed: we have more breaking news in fall river. battleship code evacuated after someone left a hoax device on board a ship.

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ben: new security measures in place right now, after 5 investigates exposed what happened the night a young man died in the back of a sheriff's department van. heather: here's investigative reporter kathy curran. >> the cameras were right up top there? kathy: these cameras in essex county sheriff's then's will

provide an extra layer of security. the state of the arts vans were bought by the department in the wake of a tragedy. do you think this could have made a difference? >> it might have made a difference. to me, the real question was what was going on inside the facility in bridgewater, waiting for three or four hours? kathy: the move after 29-year-old sam dunn found unresponsive in in essex county van in january where it sat parked for four hours in bridgewater, which was in lockdown. surveillance video obtained by 5 investigates showed correctional officers only checked the van once. he died after ingesting opiates the day before. at the time, none of the

cameras inside. they also change their policy, adding checks on passengers every 15 minutes if there is any delay. >> you look at technology. you look at ways to improve. you try to make sure it does not happen again. kathy: 5 investigates looked at in sport security all across the state. teen of other departments right now, nine of 14 sheriffs departments across the state either have cameras in their transport vehicles or are in the process of letting them -- adding them. in norfolk, all 14 transport vans have cameras, one in each compartment. >> it is for the security of inmates, supervising inmates, making sure medical issues are dressed, making sure drug birth

is not passed. we have a altercations in the back of vans. it has advantages. >> i think about it every night. kathy: he is troubled it took his son's death to prompt changes, but hopes other lives will be saved. >> it means he did not die for nothing herein his life was important and there were steps that could be taken that would have changed the outcome. kathy: state's sheriffs association tells us they will take a deeper look at transport policies. they are all sing hoping to come up with -- they are also hoping to come up with an alternative when a facility is in lockdown. kathy curran, 5 investigates. ben: a change for boston's most famous street this weekend. heather: looking forward to it.

tom brady after ending the deflate-gate battle. heather: a baby does after being pulled from a camper. >> the call that brought police here and what else they and covered. >> the demand as the reservoir sinks. >> from boston's news leader, this is wcvb newscenter 5 at 6:00. heather: several breaking stories at 6:00 -- first, police looking for whoever is behind a hoax device found at fall river's battleship cove late today. visitors in the area evacuated. ed: newscenter 5's john atwater live at the scene. john: ed, police have been here for hours taking this potential threat seriously. they have determined it was a hoax device. the museum is closed down.

a bomb technician in a green suit. he appeared to be going through a door on the upper deck. world war ii naval vessels on display. the big question right now -- how to this hoax device get on board the ship? investigators have been going through each vessel as a precaution. we are hoping for an update soont worried about any potential threat. live in fall river, john atwater, wcvb newscenter 5. ed: also breaking right now, truro, where three beaches are closed to swimming until sunday after as many as six great white sharks were spotted around a whale carcass. take a look. this is video of some of those sharks taken by the center of coastal studies. as a result, noons landing, beach point, and cold storage beaches are all closed to swimming. swimmers at other nearby beaches are advised to use caution and

heather: a new hampshire man has been arrested for climbing a security fence at manchester-boston regional airport. londonderry police took 22-year-old mohamed elchabbi into custody last night. elchabbi faces several charges including assault. , police say passengers were never in danger. ed: beverly now -- and it is breaking were a motorcyclist is dead. a crash on 128 north. the crash happened just before 4:00. the but given the time of day and the fact it is friday, you should expect delays. heather: he's ready to move on. tom brady, talking to reporters for the first time since ending his deflategate appeal. ed: the quarterback says it was a personal decision to end the legal battle newscenter 5's mary saladna is live at gillette right now. mar? mary: ed and heather, it was a