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until now, it was believed zika-carrying mosquitoes were just in miami's wynwood district. the new cases bring the total number of locally-transmitted zika cases in miami to 36. ben: more breaking news. sky 5 over littleton where a small plane crashed this afternoon. we are told the pilot, a teenaged flight student, was not hurt when the plane lost all power and went down in this wooded area near harwood avenue. the teenager was on his way back to the air registered to a local flight school out of stow. now to a search for answers in the death of this little boy who was rushed from this apartment in woburn with traumatic injuries. tonight, his twin sister is hospitalized with injuries of her own as the investigation zeroes in on their babysitter. heather: newscenter 5's juli mcdonald is live in woburn tonight. juli?
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there have been no charges filed. the baby in the case -- the babysitter and the case was not home today. but she wouldn't tell us anything about how noah died, and his sister was hurt. this woburn babysitter rushed passed our cameras without saying a word today. she was in charge of 15-month-old noah and his twin sister on monday, when an ambulance was called to this apartment on kilby street. noah suffered a skull fracture and other traumatic injuries; he died at children's hospital on thursday. in this toddler's death, nor has there been any information released about how noah died and his sister was hurt. the middlesex district attorney's office is investigating, with woburn police and the department of children and families, who returned to the apartment this afternoon. at the parent's home, a sign reads, "the family would like to thank you all for your love, support, kind words, and prayers.
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events and time to deal with what lies ahead." noah's twin sister was also hurt, but suffered less-severe injuries. she is still recovering. there is a gofundme account set up to benefit the family, help them with funeral costs and also medical expenses. so far donors have raised more than $21,000. i'm juli mcdonald, wcvb newscenter 5. heather: now all eyes on the tropics. tonight, tropical storm fiona is still swirling way out in the atlantic. but there's another disturbance that's starting to gain momentum. and, mike, that could be the one to watch. mike: i think so. fiona will probably die away. years ago we did not even see the systems. when we look at fiona up close, notice how you are not seeing a well-defined eye in this thing?
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coast of africa and heading into the middle of the lannett read what is it going to do? by the time it gets closer to bermuda, we are talking about sustained winds at 30 miles per hour and rain. not a big threat at all for the east coast. we do have this out here, not a name yet. if it were given a name, it would become gastonia. aston. that is several days out, not until the end of next week to read we will have more what you can expect this weekend coming up. heather? heather: tonight, we're hearing the dramatic calls for help after a local teen allegedly stabbed his mother and brother while vacationing in florida. newscenter 5's ed harding is back with the chilling audio, ed? ed: chilling indeed, heather. police took two 911 calls the first coming from the suspect's
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stabbed. listen. >> i don't know what is happening. please help. we are going to die. my son is going to die. ed: 16-year-old gust ramgren of framingham is charged with attempted murder accused of stabbing his mother melissa, a schoolteacher in newton, and his 14-year-old brother wednesday night. the second 911 call came from a neighbor when the teene porch, -- from porch. >> what exactly did he say to you? >> he said that somebody has attacked his family, and he said they did it. >> he says he did it? >> i don't know. he just said they did it. ed: the dispatcher talked melissa ramgren through the process of applying pressure to her son's injuries until police officers got there. melissa ramgren and her 14-year-old son are still
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ben? ben: all right charges tonight , against the driver accused of running down 3 people in downtown crossing yesterday before running away. newscenter 5's david bienick is live in milford where two of those victims live. david? david: good afternoon. the two victims from here in milford are a mother and her 9-year-old son. a neighbor who has spoken with the mother says they are still in the hospital. meanwhile the woman accused went before a judge. shanitqua steele wiped tears from her eyes as she appeared in court today. 25-years-old and steele faces charges, including driving without a license and hit and run. >> the defendant did flee on scene in front of numerous witnesses. additionally, your honor, the defendant did make admissions that she did drive the vehicle and leave the scene after the accident. david: steele's lawyer said the mercedes she was driving was a loaner that her husband had received while his car is being repaired. he said the car suddenly accelerated and may have had a mechanical malfunction.
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that people were injured. but they were injured through no intent of ms. steele. david: steele's lawyer did not explain why she was driving without a license. he said she ran into a nearby building because she knew she could find her husband there. shanitqua steele was ordered locked up on the 5,000 dollars bail. meanwhile, the third person hurt, a woman from spain, appears to have the most serious injuries, including a broken back. live in milford, david bienick, wcvb nen heather: new at 5:00 -- a food service worker at worcester polytechnic institute is behind bars accused of telling her therapist she wanted to shoot up and bomb the campus. newscenter 5's nicole estaphan is live in worcester where that worker faced a judge today, nicole? nicole: according to police, and heather lyons went as far as sketching out those plans in a notebook. we can consider it good news she shared those plans with a therapist who call police.
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: lyons was in a worcester court on friday for a competency hearing her longmeadow avenue , neighbors still digesting the disturbing news. >> i never thought it. no, no. i would never think so. she might be a little bit strange, but other than that, no, no. nicole disbelief over what : brought her here -- the former chartwell food services worker, who spent her days at wpi, allegedly told her therapist this week she wanted to kill her former boss. >> nicole: according to police, lyons had purchased bomb making
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she admitted fabricating sexual assault allegations against in 2015. wpi officials issuing this statement campuswide friday -- there is currently no active threat to our campus nor was there any evidence of imminent danger posed to the community at the time the threats were made. lyons has been committed for the next 20 days for an in-depth mental health evaluation. at 6:00, more on therapist and client privacy. wcvb newscenter 5 commitment 2016 -- shifting strategies in the donald trump camp. today, campaign manager paul manafort abruptly resigned days after the republican nominee brought in new advisers. trump also visited flood-damaged louisiana, telling struggling residents he was just there to help. and the billionaire businessman released his first tv ad of the general election in four battleground states. aixa diaz tells us, this comes as trump tries once again to re-start his campaign.
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searching up caffeine -- campaign staff and strategies while touring flood ravaged louisiana. donald trump and mike pence visited baton rouge floodwaters have devastated neighborhoods. mr. trump: they need a lot of help. what has happened here is incredible. reporter: this after trump softened his tone and a knowledge past comments have caused personal pain. mr. trump: sometimes in the heat of multitude of issues, you don't choose the right words. and believe it or not, i regret it. reporter: maybe this is the beginning of a donald trump into tour, to show he is not some angry protest candidate. reporter: the republican nominee moves forward without campaign chairman paul manafort, who resigned amid news of previous work in ukraine.
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>> make america safe again. donald trump for president. reporter: meanwhile, he released to be first tv ad and battleground states. >> donald trump has been lagging behind hillary clinton on tv advertising. he has been doing. reporter: the chum campaign is spending $5 million in tv ads. -- the trump campaign is registered to vote in the september 8 state primary, time's almost up. in person registration ended at 5:00. mailed-in forms must be postmarked today. and you can still register online until midnight by going to registertovotema.com. ben: all right. let's take a look at your friday first alert traffic. not looking bad actually. do people just leave early on fridays in august?
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32 minutes -- pretty typical for mass avenue down to route 3. upper deck to 128, not too bad. 128, slow southbound, as usual, down to the work zone. further out on the pike, 35 minutes now, weston tolls to 495. southbound, 495, i'm guessing that could be traffic. minutes. all right, still to come -- an apology from ryan lochte. heather the olympic gold : medalist speaking out after lying about being robbed in rio. ben: the zika virus spreading in florida. the new warning after several new cases are detected outside the initial transmission area. heather then at 5:30 a search : underway for the man accused of stabbing another man outside a local sports bar.
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disclaimer: independence usa pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. heather: right now, one person is dead, 18 others hurt after two buses collide in new jersey. it happened this morning in newark. investigators think one of the buses ran a red light hitting the other killing one of the drivers. the intersection where it happened had been the first in that state to feature a surveillance camera meant to catch people running red lights. but it was discontinued in 2014 after several lawsuits were filed.
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faces the death penalty for a vicious attack. today, austin harrouff was charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder after police say he was found trying to bite the face off a victim after stabbing the man and his wife in their driveway on monday. blood tests on the 19-year-old show no signs of meth, cocaine, marijuana or heroin. but additional testing is underway and police are looking into possible mental health issues. back to the top story -- zika infections are spreading to a second location in florida, and the governor announcing new cases of the vir mosquitoes in miami beach. sally kidd is live at our washington bureau with details, sally? sally: that's right. the cdc is warning pregnant women to stay away from a 1.5 square mile stretch of miami beach, known as south beach, because of zika-carrying mosquitos. florida officials found five new cases of the zika virus linked to mosquitoes in south beach. two of the people infected are from miami the other three cases
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they've all returned home. florida governor rick scott says an aggressive campaign to get rid of insects carrying the virus is underway. and he says progress is being made in wynwood, where the first zika-infected mosquitoes were found. governor scott we all have to do : our part to wear bug spray and dump standing water. if you see standing water, no matter how small, dump it. sally: say when they found the first case was discovered in south beach but the cdc is warning , anyone who has been in the area since july 14 to watch for symptoms. live in washington, sally kidd, wcvb newscenter 5. heather: an apology from olympic gold medalist ryan lochte who is now accused of lying about being robbed at gunpoint. yesterday, police in brazil released video showing what really happened. newscenter 5's maria stephanos
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maria: olympic swimmer ryan lochte now saying he's sorry after disputed claims that he and 3 teammates were robbed at gunpoint in rio. lochte posting online, "i want to apologize for my behavior last weekend-for not being more careful and candid in how i described the events," describing a confrontation at lochte initally told police and nbc the athletes were targetted -- targeted by armed men posing as police. >> the guy pulled out his gun. he cocked it, put it to my forehead. maria but police in rio say the : men were only approached by an armed gas station security guard after this, one of the swimmers pulling a sign off a wall one breaking down the bathroom door. investigators claim the men were detained, forced to pay $50 to cover damages. brazilian officials say they're considering charges against all
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still in rio but struck a deal to get his passport back after paying $11,000 to a charity. >> from ryan lochte, nothing. he is now in the united states. he's not going to get extradited. jimmy feigen is the one who needs to be concerned because he is there. maria: after all of that, still no explanation for the conflicting accounts. said it was disorienting to be in a strange country with a stranger pointing a gun at his head. adding, regardless, he should have been more responsible. ben: hurricane bob -- 25 years since hurricane bob hit the east coast. the category two storm was the last hurricane to make a direct hit on new england. it was also one of the costliest in new england history causing
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damage, of that in $1 billion massachusetts, alone. heather: it left some really visible scars. mike: it looks like fiona will fall apart. we talk about bob. bob was a category three storm at one point. the strongest winds on the right-hand side, we had very powerful winds. 125 mile an hour wind gusts the a landing, we keep a very close eye on it just in case anything comes out of it. here is what we are watching now. fiona. it looks like the next before hours, this will diminish. that will not be much more than rainstorms as it moves toward bermuda. if it did get strong enough, it would be known as gaston. it would be the latter part of next week that we would start to
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coast. i do not want to say impact, because we do not know what it will be doing. temperatures near the shoreline, a little bit of a sea breeze. inland it was a toasty one. the satellite which are showing us clear skies. out to the west, cloud cover and a cold front. we're talking about sunday night into monday morning. for the day, check out this. it was cool. inland, very close to the 90 no hitting 90. several 89's. so, over the city, just a few hair with -- fairweather clouds. 75 degrees at logan airport. easterly wind at 15, dew point, manageable. overnight tonight, we will see temperatures dropping into the 60's, the city of boston holding on 67 degrees. we get into the western area,
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comfortable evening for us. tomorrow, not as warm inland and we will keep things cooler near the coast, especially along the cape and north and south shores. inland, we should get to 80, 85 degrees. if you are thinking of making it a beach day, temperatures as mild as they can get. uv index -- you will need the sunscreen. the rate -- the rip current ri 47 in the afternoon. when you setup your towel and every thing else and you dude in the morning, keep it back from the water -- talent everything else and you do it in the morning, keep it back from the water. it otherwise it will be chasing you out. monday morning commute could be a little on the wet side. here is the way it shapes up the next couple of days.
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about rain. rain on monday, about 80 degrees. how much rain, it could be a little bit more than that. then behind it, we have sunshine. and with the sunshine, lower humidity. we have beautiful weather. we could get decent rain out of it. heather: that is the best, overnight. a lot of to get their children vaccinated against hpv. ben: still to come, a new study reveals the main reason they're holding back. heather neighbors take the law : into their own hands after an alleged drunk driver slams into two homes then tries to run away. ben: and on newscenter 5 at 6:00, final salute. a korean war p.o.w. laid to rest here, at home. the decades-long journey to
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doctors say it is an important way to prevent cancer in children as young as 11. heather: and tonight, we're learning more about why parents seem so reluctant to get their kids the hpv vaccine. miracle supplements, electronic gadgets, futuristic manipulations of the human genetic code. people, it seems, will do anything to fight cancer, no matter how odd it sounds. so if they heard there was a proven way to prevent cancer, and there were really low side effects most would probably do it. not so fast, say parents in a nationwide vaccine. research shows many parents do not support the vaccination, to the frustration of doctors. 60% of parents said they thought the hpv vaccine was ineffective. one third believing the major push for the vaccine is to give big bucks to pharmaceutical companies. since the hpv vaccine was approved in 2006, doctors in leading pediatric, women's health, and family medicine organizations have praised its safety and effectiveness.
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children -- boys and girls -- get this vaccine to prevent against cancers. parents are encouraged to take their concerns to their doctors and talk to their children about the vaccine which experts insist is an important part of preventing cancer. ben: our doctor brought this up recently. an hour daughter is only four. heather: she's really young. ben: head-on by car. heather: next at 5:30 the troubling discovery about the driver following the crash. ben: firefighters finally getting a handle on this raging wildfire out west. the work still left to be done. heather: popular shoemaker crocs
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>> from boston's news leader, this is wcvb newscenter 5 at 5:30. ben: breaking news right now at 5:30: a warning about new zika cases in florida's south beach. the cdc says the zika virus is being spread by mosquitoes in a second area of miami. the cdc is warning pregnant women to avoid south beach, a major tourist spot. there are now 36 locally-transmitted cases in that city. heather: more breaking news in littleton.
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this crash landing. his cessna experiencing some sort of apparent engine failure as he headed back to the airport in stow this afternoon. the plane is owned by a flight school at that airport. this was a student pilot. ben: yeah, a teenager. rhondella: walked away without injuries. remarkable. -- heather: walked away without injuries. remarkable. right now, pe stabbed a man in the neck outside this woburn restaurant. it happened overnight at jack-n-joe's sports grille. ben: newscenter 5's antoinette antonius spoke to the manager who was stunned by what took , place. internet: crime scene cleanup. a man's stabbed in the neck. >> devastating, devastating. reporter: he says nothing like this is ever happened here

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