it i level. i called 911. >> he says that his engine cut out and he was looking for a safe place to land and this was the best option. john: the student pilot the only one in the small plane. amazingly, he walked away with only minor injuries. john atwater, wcvb newscenter 5. ed: the investigation continues into a deadly and heartbreaking mystery. a little boy dead, his sister ho our juli mcdonald is live in woburn. juli, what have you learned? juli: they're still have been no charges filed. newscenter 5 has learned within the last few minutes the department of children and families had no history, no prior cases with the child to died. dcf has taken custody of three children in connection with this

sister. investigators are still piecing together what happened here monday. 15-month-old noah larson's of a skull fracture. he died at children's hospital. no charges have been filed in connection with his death. the babysitter rushed past our cameras without answering any questions. department of children families returned here this afternoon. -- woburn police and the department of children and families returned her this afternoon. a note at the family's residents -- "the family would appreciate respect as we deal with what

the department of children families had no prior involvement with the family of that young toddler. three children in connection with the case are now in custody. the gofundme page for the family has raised $21,000. juli mcdonald, wcvb newscenter 5 . heather: tonight, a needham woman is charged with the chaotic crash that left 3 downtown crossing. and investigators say she didn't have a license. our david bienick is live in milford where two of the injured live. david. david: heather, good evening. the two victims from here in milford are a mother and her 9-year-old son. one neighbor tells us the mother's foot was run over and the son was dragged. meanwhile, the woman behind the wheel went before a judge. shanitqua steele wiped tears from her eyes as she appeared in court today. 25-years-old and from needham, steele faces charges, including driving without a license and

>> the defendant did flee on scene in front of numerous witnesses. in addition, 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. >> so i think this was truly an 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. a young man who answered the door today at steele's home declined to comment. in milford, a neighbor of the mother and son hurt, said she had not heard about the crash. >> oh, my god. i feel terrible.

>> you need anything? david: the third victim of the crash, a woman from spain, appears to be the most severely hurt. she has a broken back and a broken hip. live in milford, david bienick, wcvb newscenter 5. ed: absolutely spectacular. are we going to stay there for tonight? mike: we are here. if you look out in the pacific, a third went out there. that one won't bother us. i don't think fiona is going to, but we need to keep an eye on the other one behind it. let me show you what fiona looks like. the national hurricane center thinks this will disobey into nothing and not much more than that.

a little rain. not a big threat. if you look at this area, it's not organized. if you take our spaghetti models -- you will see an interesting track start to show up. if this thing can hold together, there is a 50/50 chance we will see something. i will have a timeline in just a few minutes. ed? ed: liam is expanding, and now includes an iconic tourist spot, south beach. the cdc is warning pregnant women to avoid travel to the area which has now been identified as an infection zone. that same warning applies to miami's wynwood arts district. some 36 cases of zika have been reported in the miami area. the cdc says pregnant women and their partners may want to consider postponing nonessential travel to all of miami-dade county.

the dramatic calls for help after police say a framingham teen stabbed his mother and brother while vacationing in florida. newscenter 5's maria stephanos is here with the chilling audio, maria? maria: it is chilling, heather. police took two 911 calls. the coming from the suspect's first mother, who was critically stabbed. >> please, we're going to die! my son is going to die. he stabbed my son. 16-year-old gust ramgren is charged with them to murder, stabbing his own mother melissa and 14-year-old brother wednesday night. his mom melissa is a school teacher from newton. and the second 911 call came from a neighbor who talked to police as the teenager sat on her front porch minutes after the stabbing. >> what exactly did he say to you?

his family. >> ok. >> and he said "they did it." >> he said he did it? >> he said "they did it." who is they? he is not saying. heather: 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 in the hospital. gust ramgren is held without bond. ed: a potential setback for the aaron hernandez defense. the state supreme judicial court has ruled that attorneys for the former patriots star no longer need one of hernandez's cell phones. the lawyers were holding on to it and prosecutors were previously denied a chance to examine the phone. this court ruling clears the way for prosecutors to get a search warrant for the phone's contents. hernandez is awaiting trial for shooting and killing two men in the south end. he's already serving a life sentence for the murder of his one-time friend odin lloyd. heather: tonight, a food service worker at worcester polytechnic institute is behind bars accused of telling her therapist she wanted to shoot up and bomb the

nicole? nicole: disturbing details outlined in a notebook. thankfully she shared it with a therapist to then called police. >> allegedly had printed out bomb making materials. nicole: 23-year-old heather lyons stood motionless in a worcester court friday as psychiatrists read disturbing details of a plot to kill her former boss and set off bombs on wpi's campus. >> she would then shoot and kill people at random. nicole: according to police lyons had printed put bomb , making instructions but had not purchased the materials necessary. the therapist reported she expressed anger at a boss she admitted fabricating sexual assault allegations against in 2015. a former employee for chartwell food services, she was moved to

it didn't quell her anger. >> i couldn't believe it. nicole: the details shocking to her longmeadow avenue neighbors who have known her since she was a child. >> i don't have a problem with heather. she was a good kid. nicole: our neighbors say they never saw any of the anger discussed in court. chest never, no, no. nicole: wpi officials issuing this statement campus wide active threat to our campus nor was there any evidence of imminent danger posed to the community at the time the threats were made. so here is the question did the therapist by late patient privacy? we took a good look at the statute. if a patient voices a specific threat and has the means to carry them out the therapist has a to warn the victims. the coalesced upon, wcvb

war pow laid to rest here at home. coming up, the culmination of a decades-long journey to bring him back. ed: also ahead, trouble at wahlburger. why some former employees are suing the fast-food chain founded by the famous dorchester clan. mike: rain seems likely for sunday night. i have an hour by hour breakdown. ed: in sports, patriots quarterback jimmy garrapolo looking good in pre-season action. thumb?

>> you are watching newscenter 5 at 6:00. [gunshots]

shattered the silence of everett's woodlawn cemetery, as a korean war vet was laid to rest. army corporal ron sparks of cambridge disappeared in 1951 while his unit was overrun by chinese forces. he was 19 at the time. sparks died in a pow camp a few months later. his remains were finally located, confirmed and returned home this week. colonel sparks was buried in a family plot alongside his parents and brother. ed: a lawsuit filed against the burger chain founded by mark and donnie wahlberg. five former employees of the wahlburgers in brooklyn are suing the restaurant for rampant violations of labor laws. in the class-action suit filed in new york federal court the ex-employees claim wahlburgers failed to pay them the proper minimum wage and regularly kept tips designated for servers. the company says it's working with the franchise to better understand the circumstances. heather: hundreds of people waiting in this long line on boylston street today. all attempting to get their hands on items inside a kanye west pop-up store. this shop around the corner from

around the world. you will find items from the rapper's the life of pablo tour , which comes to boston in a couple weeks, by the way. the store closes sunday. ed: mike wankum says the ruby rain around here. -- we will see rain around here.

heather: commitment 2016: another shakeup for the trump campaign. chairman paul manafort stepping down this morning. trump releasing a statement saying he accepted the resignation. it comes days after trump promoted two campaign aides to senior positions. heather: trump and his running mate, indiana governor mike pence together in louisiana.

before that, they met with victims of the devastating flooding that has hit the state, as well as volunteers. at least 13 people killed in this natural disaster. ben: the new york times reporting hillary clinton told the fbi that former secretary of state colin powell advised her to use a personal email server when she took over the state department. heather: -- ed: powell responding to that today. he tells the associated press he sent clinton a memo touting his use of a home eml communications within the department. powell says at that time the state department did not have an equivalent internal system. clinton's personal email use has been a huge issue in this presidential campaign. heather: if you haven't registered to vote in the september 8 state primary, time's almost up. in person and mail registration is now over. but you can still register online until midnight by going

? heather: -- ed: look up at the screen there. there is a young man doing that. the piano man, joel, invited the boston piano banged out the root beer rag on twin pianos. bradley also got to pose for a picture with the rock and roll hall of famer. not too many teenagers get to play for a packed fenway park. heather: cool. ed: i guess teenagers do -- heather: can he saying? ed: ah. because he is the piano kid? you know who can saying is mike

my mother great singer. raised ford tone deaf boys. [laughter] this month, really winding down the last half of it, only four degrees above average. if you thought it was high, you're as silly right. if were talking about the regular storm line -- inland we had temperatures well into the 80's. clear skies, beautiful night i am watching this. a cold front way out to the west. a strong thunderstorm. that line want to gets out here is passed to be overnight hours. if we are lucky, we will get some rain out of this one. it looks like a good opportunity sunday into monday morning. the dew point, 60 per degrees, pretty manageable compared to what we have had lately.

in the sticky category. not bad. we have gotten used to it. sunday, it ramps up really high in the morning. then the humidity is dropping off. it's getting much better toward the middle of next week. clear and comfortable. 66 degrees. tomorrow, sunshine. there will be clouds during the afternoon, primarily inland. this is bubbling up, 80, 85 degrees. if you are thinking about making it a beach d, temperatures. air temperature, 78 degrees. a little sea breeze setting up with a southeasterly wind at 10 to 15. very high uv index category. and high tide -- remember this -- comes up 1:24. set your beach and blanket in just the right place. speaking of the breeze, not much breeze, but notice how it builds

let's talk about the rain. saturday, clouds inland. that's about it. you notice the humidity come up. notice the timeline. 2:00 in the morning before the showers and perhaps a rumble of thunder moves through sunday into monday morning. behind it, a wage of dry air moving in. it will be with us about? it's going little faster than i thought. it looks like right now, a good half-inch of rain. we will see beautiful temperatures, mid-80's with the humidity ramping up. tuesday, about 80 degrees. what you will notice, humidity dropping off dramatically. with temperatures in the 80's, it will feel beautiful.

into monday. we do need the water out there. right now, the chances look good. that is about it. that's my latest forecast for right now. i'm it meteorologist mike wankum. >> now sportscenter 5, powered by xfinity. >> the quarterback who ended up starting the game last night for the patriots may not have been the one who was expected to, but jimmy garappolo showed he is one step closer to ready for the regular season, in a 23-22 win over the bears. the third year started with another 3 and out as he did last week against the saints, but then came on strong, going 16 of 21 for 181 yards including a 16 yard touchdown , pass to tight end aj derby, who had a breakout game of his own with 6 catches. jimmy threw a two point conversion to newcomer chris hogan, as well. coach bill belichick said all week garoppolo would get the bulk of the reps, but when did jimmy find out he was the

not think i was going to, and stuff came up. it was a good test, i guess. that is how coach always preaches, you never know when you will go in. you just got to be ready. >> so did tom brady cut his thumb with scissors before the game, as has been reported? last night, coach bech on a conference call today, he was asked for an update. >> i made the decision, and yeah, i don't really have anything else to add. >> not information. well after six straight wins, a , loss that just sticks in your craw. the red sox bullpen blew a 3-1 lead in the eighth in detroit yesterday, and manager john farrell is taking a lot of the heat for it. farrell went with reliever junichi tazawa, who gave up three straight hits to spoil a solid start by clay buchholz, leading to a 4-3 loss. the sox are looking to turn it

mound, looking for win number he 17. has been the ace of this staff, having his best season since 2014 when he won 15 games as a member of the tigers. game 2 of 4 in detroit is tonight at 7;10pm. -- tonight at 7:10 p.m. the orioles won in houston and are now again tied with the red socks, one - half not play yesterday and who start a huge series tonight against central leading cleveland. the sox and the o's currently have the two wild-card spots. the mariners have won 7 of 10 and are 3 back. the tigers need to havbe a big weekend to gain some ground they are 3.5 out. that's going to do it for sports. and he is one of those players that a lot of people thought would fit in perfectly with this brilliant roster -- apparently that's not to be. guys?

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tonight, several breaking stories as we come on. gold medalist ryan lochte breaks his silence. tonight, the apology -- 24 hours after this surveillance was revealed. and for the first time, michael phelps is asked about his teammate and the scandal. donald trump moments ago taking aim at president obama. asking why he's golfing instead of visiting the disaster in the south. just hours after trump toured the flood zone himself. the friday rush hour nightmare. the deadly collision. two buses crashing into each other. for the first time, we take you inside the fire zone tonight. moving at stunning speed, east of los angeles on the way to vegas. nearly 100 homes burned to the ground. and the new headline tonight