tv Newscenter 5 Eyeopener ABC August 21, 2016 8:00am-9:01am EDT
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doug: we're following breaking news overnight. pedestrians hit in east boston. the latest in from the deadly scene. antoinette: two children pulled from a swimming pool in lowell. the party that ended with a call to police. mike: a sunny start to your day. i am tracking a threat of thunderstorms tonight. i'll tell you when the rain moves in. antoinette: good morning to you. the 8:00 a.m. hour of the eyeopener getting under way now. i'm antoinette antonio. doug: i'm doug meehan. here's something to think about. today is august 21. one month from today -- mike: september 21. doug: first day of fall. mike: please, stop that!
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spot, doug. we can't think this early. mike: look at the numbers. 68 degrees right now. towards hartford, it's 76. humidity is coming up. warm air is trying to push along with the humidity. we need that to set us up for a chance of thunderstorms tonight. what's the timeline on the thunderstorms? this afternoon, by 4:00, notice the cloud cover thickens. we may see a few scattered showers or sprinkles out in the the real rain event doesn't show up until 10:00 tonight. you see a line of thunderstorms here that marches eastward. not arriving in the boston area and the eastern part of the state until 4:00, 5:00 in the morning. when this moves through, there could be the occasional downpour. watch out, there could be ponding of roadways for the morning commute. behind it, the skies clear. today, we'll start with sunshine, throw a few clouds in this afternoon. it will get cloudy and humid toward the evening hours. then the rain later tonight.
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antoinette: we're staying on top of the breaking news in east boston this morning. one woman is dead, two women are injured after a crash on route 1a southbound. this happened around 2:30 this morning. boston ems tells us it's not clear what happened but the crash took place near the courtyard marriott. the highway was shut down for several hours this morning but has since reed boston. boston ems telling us three people were shot late last night on stratton street in dorchester. the victims, a woman and two men. the woman was taken to boston medical center. the two men expected to recover. two kids are in the hospital after being pulled from a swimming pool during a party in lowell. antoinette: this happened at a
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people were at the house all afternoon before the kids, preschool age, were pulled from the above ground pool. one neighbor says he performed cpr on a little girl and that a little boy was also in need of urgent help. we're told one of the children was unresponsive. both kids were flown to boston hospital. it's not clear exactly how they're doing this morning. we'll bring you more information as we get it. right now, boston police are still trying to get information on a deadly shooting that happened saturday morning in dorchester near the corner of wendover street and dudley terrace. a man was killed and a woman hurt. she is expected to recover. the police commissioner says officers have few clues as they search for the shooter. >> all we had was a black male with a blue hoody seen running on dudley terrace taking a left on dudley and heading towards columbia road. we need the public's help. antoinette: anyone with information should call boston police. doug: boston firefighters are keeping an eye out for flare-ups after a brush fire in west
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nicole estephan was there at the height of the four-alarm fire. reporter: dry brush means plenty of fuel, feeding a fire behind the roxbury latin school saturday. >> extremely difficult to get to because we have no roads and hydrants where the fire is. reporter: firefighters forced to drag these hoses deep into the woods. a labor intensive feat. >> the firefighters have to drag the hose hundreds of feet, uphill, downhill, through the brush. reporter: as night fell, the effort to expose the fire continued. >> we have to pull back, could have dead branches. reporter: just 200 feet from the burning brush, a brand new home. >> it was a little nerve wracking. reporter: the family just moved in last month. they returned home saturday night to their house surrounded by red lights. >> we were concerned it was our house here on the end of the street. we could smell the smoke and the fire coming up the street. reporter: firefighters tell us
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with the lack of rain this summer, it doesn't take much. >> there's a lot of fuel for the fire to burn. reporter: the good news, there were no injuries and no homes were ever in immediate danger. in west roxbury, nicole estephan, wcvb newscenter 5. antoinette: to rio, where simone biles will carry the flag in the closing ceremony. she was chosen by team usa after winning four gold medals. while much of the focus lately has been on swimmer ryan lochte, finally speaking out about the armed robbery hoax, team usa hopes to continue dominating on this final day. a historic win in the men's 1500, matthew centrowitz, junior, blazing across the finish line, becoming the first american to medal gold in the event since 1908. in the women's 4x400 relay, the u.s. held off of the jamaicans.
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and six straight u.s. gold in the event. felix now has more gold medals than any other woman in olympic track and field history. in the men's 4x400 relay, the american team again dominant, winning gold. la shawn merritt running anchor. and team usa basketball strikes gold again. the women's team extending their absolute dominance on the court, beating spain in the final game. this is the american women's sixth consecutive gold medal. gwen jorgensen, overcome with emotion in the women's triathlon. jorgensen swam, biked and ran her way to the gold medal for the u.s. it is the first ever gold for any american athlete, man or woman, in this event. and ryan lochte, on camera for the first time since he told what brazilian police call a fabricated version of the now international incident at this
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he talked to nbc news. >> that's why i'm taking full responsibility for it, because i over exaggerated that story. if i'd never done that, we wouldn't be in this mess. antoinette: as the 2016 summer games officially close, host country brazil has something to remember them by. a gold medal in soccer. its first ever. it came with a high drama of this penalty kick, which won the match and set the home cro the united states has a commanding lead in the medal count with 116 medals, including 43 gold medals. china's in second place with 70 medals, followed by great britain. the u.s. hoping to add to the gold count today as the men's basketball team takes on serbia later this afternoon.
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about what it's like to be friends with the competition. heading west, the local firefighters ready to join the battle. against destructive wildfires. mike: a nice start to the day. we're checking the tropp i. i'm tracking rain moving in overnight. following that, a cooldown. i'll have the timeline. antoinette: we need a break from the drought conditions. the dry air is stressing out trees, making them vulnerable to disease. what you should watch out for in your backyard. doug: made in mass for staple. see how it's been produced for all these years. antoinette: staying on top of breaking news in east boston. one woman dead, two injured after a crash on route 1a southbound. boston ems telling us it's not clear what happened. boston police have been talking to several will nesses.
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in extreme conditions. >> we get to go see parts of the country that maybe we wouldn't want to go see, but we get to go see them and we get to go help people when they need it. antoinette: firefighters tell us the trips out west could provide valuable lessons here at home as new hampshire and really all of new england deals with drought conditions. doug: rain hasn't been falling on boston this summer, but something else has been. the trees. weakening tree roots and branches. david bienick has what you can do to avoid trouble in your own backyard. reporter: crews sawed up and hauled away what's left of the huge oak tree that came down in wellesley with a crash. >> there was no wind, no electrical storm, no anything. it was still as could be. reporter: a few days earlier in reading a tree fell on a house. in salem, new hampshire, this fallen tree just missed hitting a woman in her car. >> these branches are so brittle
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reporter: arborist ralph briggs says not just this summer, but four years of dry weather have been starving trees and making them vulnerable to insects and disease. >> we'll see lots of insects and diseases this year that we haven't seen in many years because of the drought. reporter: the state's most recent forest survey shows since last year, the number of acres of damaged trees has more than tripled mainly because of gypsy moths. briggs says among backyard trees, worry most about vulnerable species like sugar maples, beaches and birches. he says more drought tolerant trees are elms, locust, and london plain trees. to protect trees, he says spray a half inch of water not just at the trunk of the tree, but twice as far out as the extent of the leaf canopy. and how often? >> right now it's over 80 degrees fahrenheit, three times a week. if it's 90 degrees like it was for three weeks there, it's four times a week.
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it's yellow and brown. it will bounce back. for trees, the breaking point may be closer than you think. in wellesley, david bienick, wcvb newscenter 5. request. doug: what we really need is a soaker. a good place to look is behind us. mike: many times this time of year, the leftover remnants of a hurricane can give you nice rain. you don't want us. there's a lot flowing in the atlant atlantic. we have fiona. we've been talking about her looking for "shrek." fiona is still holding together as a tropical storm. thought it would be gone by now, but it's holding on. maximum sustained winds barely there. it's not doing much but the rotation here. the tracking puts it towards ber mude. it will probably hold in the tropical storm status for 32 hours.
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rain. the tropics, lots of activity going on. you have fiona and this very disturbed area of weather. we're investigating it. we call it invest 99. doesn't get a name until it becomes a storm. you have to sustained winds of 39 miles per hour. we put it in the computer moelds and get the spaghetti plot. you see where each computer model thinks it's headed. you see a we're talking about the end of this being seven days out so it's nothing imminent. right now, doesn't look like there's that much strength to it. look at the coast of africa, where all of our hurricanes begin or most begin. we see kluclusters of thundersts that get to the warm atlantic and become tropical. we have a large area here. i want to show you two computer models tracking this.
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hurricane. as it moves up, this is looking ahead to august 30. that's a long way down the road. i can guarantee this is not what's going to happen. but we get two models telling us there's a large hurricane off the east coast a week from tuesday. it's a long way out. a reminder that this time of year, keep an eye on the atlantic, because it can get very busy. this is prime season for east coast hurricanes. nothing like that around here. we have kristal clea beautiful morning. clouds are off to the west and here comes some rain. actually starting to get more activity going on with it. over the city right now, nothing but the clear skies and 68 degrees. a breeze off of the water keeping things cool. the temperature won't get that warm, a lot like yesterday. cool at the coast, warmer inland. humidity will come into the uncomfortable range this afternoon and evening. then the rain comes in. humidity starts to drop tomorrow, especially during the
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we'll talk about dry air across the area. for the next seven days, here's the way it shapes up. rain tonight doesn't arrive until after midnight. starts in the western part of the state. marches its way across the state. eventually arrives into the boston area probably around 4:00, 5:00 in the morning. could be a rumble of thunder with that when it moves through as well. behind it, here comes the dry air with plenty of sunshine and the low humidity. humidity does ramp up toward the end of the week. we reintroduce the chance for thunderstorms. but that doesn't happen until we may get much-needed rain overnight. antoinette: thank you. time right now is 8:17. stories we're following on the eyeopener. doug: turkey's president is blaming isis for a terror attack that killed 50 people. a wedding was bombed in the southeastern part of that country. near the border with syria. dozens more are hurt on top of the deaths. turkey has been hit by a wave of terror attacks over the past year.
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trying to find the motive for the deaths of five people. it's not clear how the people were killed but a suspect is behind bars after turning himself in. the suspect, derek deerman, knew at least one of the victims. they think he kidnapped a woman and child from the scene and drove to mississippi. police say that woman escaped and went to police, alerting them to what had happened in alabama. doug: right now, people in watertown are being urged to take precautions after mosquitos tested positive for west nile. the town's health department says it's not unusual for mosquitos to carry viruses in warm, dry weather. one woman in middlesex county is the first human case of the virus this season. antoinette: a soggy start couldn't stop the sox in detroit. rain delayed the start of the game but things picked up quickly after that. detroit's james mccann hit one out in the bottom of the third
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big papi casually stopping to take a selfie with a fan before crushing a two-run blast out to right. and that turned out to be the difference for the sox. they'd go on to win, 3-2 is the final score. needham native aly raisman is talking about the rio games. she won three new medals while competing against her friend and teammate, simone biles. >> though we're competing, what people think is against each other, we don't really take it that way. obviously, i knew going in, the bestou medal. for me, it felt like i had won the gold medal and the silver. antoinette: she won the silver all around and the silver for her floor routine and gold for the team final. the 22-year-old says she credits her parents and her late grandmother for giving her the extra push of confidence to win. doug: it's almost hard to believe. a mill that's centuries old turning out the same product all these years.
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time in this morning's made in mass. just past the headwaters of the west branch of the westport river, you'll find an example of one of the very first places to make anything in massachusetts. >> to me, this is a very special place. doug: george whitley is the latest caretaker of gray's grist mill in westport. for almost 300 years, they've been grinding out a new england staple, fresh cornmeal. >> by deed, there was a mill established here in 1717. doug: like dating back to the revolutionary wartime, rotating stones grind down a special corn grown just over the border. >> it's a large, hard kernel of corn. this is called narragansett or rhode island white capped flint corn. doug: when it's reduced to perfected, powdered goodness, it's bagged and sold fresh as is. >> i like to make a joke about
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table. nice to meet you. doug: from nearby store shelves to internet sales, a centuries old ingredient used in things like corn bread is now enjoyed around the world. >> my breakfast. doug: as the gears of time continue to spin and technology evolves at a rapid rate, at gray's they believe that taking things at a slower pace is key to keeping this important tradition alive. >> i feel i've really been given a gift to be here and be a part of this. doug: if you'd like to see gray's grist mill in action for yourself, find george grinding cornmeal on any given saturday. for more information, he has a facebook page dedicated to the mill. we got to give the guy a break, right? antoinette: how's the corn bread? doug: tasty. it's sweet too. i'm not a cornbread guy. this was good.
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to -- the rhode island corn. the white capped something or other. 8:21 is your time right now. a great story. from coast to coast a 93-year-old world war ii vet jogged across the country. antoinette: we'll tell you about his inspiring mission to raise some much-needed money. doug: the next step in virtual reality being developed at m.i.t. that ahead for you in this morning's "cutting edge." what the new technology can do that already has hollywood calling. antoinette: we go live this is constitution beach, i am told. nice day outside, 72 degrees as you get your sunday morning
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mike: we have rain in the forecast tonight. not a lot. some get a good downpour. this line marches across the state, arriving just in time for your morning commute on monday. so if you're an early commuter, you may have to use the windshield wipers. the other thing is watch out, there could be ponding on the roadways if a downpour happens during the commute. otherwise, a high temperature today, 84. tomorrow, skies clear away. we get plenty of sunshine in the afternoon, around 82. humidity drops off after that. very comfortable conditions for tuesday and wednesday.
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veteran is inspiring people across the country with a major atreatment. we ran from coast to coast. doug: he did it for his fellow veterans. ernie andrus is 93 years old. it took him three years, running three days a week to make it from california to georgia. he finished the journey yesterday, surrounded by 20of send a world war ii era ship in indiana to normandy, france, for the 75th anniversary of the d-day landing. he was a medic on a similar ship during the war. he says those are the people who deserve admiration, not him. >> give some people credit that built them and that sailed on them. almost every serviceman has been on one between world war ii and vietnam.
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pz. doug: he looks great. doug: i hate to disagree with ernie, but he deserves our admiration. he raised more than $16,000 to get that ship across the atlantic. doug: reaching out to minority voters. antoinette: donald trump's new efforts to revamp his image. doug: a teacher in templeton facing serious charges. the accusations that landed him behind bars and how the local school is responding. antoinette: live outside to hampton beach. another nice b we're hoping for some showers to move in later on.
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mike: we have a shot at rain to end your weekend. when it could hit and what comes after that. antoinette: we're following breaking news overnight. a deadly pedestrian crash under investigation right now in east boston. the search for clues this morning. doug: a local teacher under arrest. the allegations that have stunned the community in templeton. antoinette: good morning. thank you for joining us. it's 8:30 on your sunday morning. i'm antoinette antonio. doug: i'm doug meehan.
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everybody wins today. i wish it were more rain, but we'll get a chance for showers. that will help out a little bit. going on right now, not much. clear skies. you'll see scattered showers in western connecticut trying to work up through new york state. the area of showers will get stronger out there this afternoon. that will join up with this area of moisture and moisture coming up from the south. this will come feeding in. get the idea. that's why we have rain in the forecast. typically, though, as is usually the case, it's going everyone's going to receive it. here's the map at 4:00 this afternoon. scattered showers, more sprinkles than anything else in the berkshires. a lot more cloud cover coming in through the afternoon. here comes the rain. this is 10:00 tonight. marches its way across the state, arrives into boston before the morning commute. it's not going to hang around too long. the skies clear rapidly. we'll talk about the rain and the tropics in a few moments. doug: we're following several
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route 1a southbound. it happened around 2:30 this morning. the highway there shut down near boardman street. state police say it was closed for several hours overnight. it has since reopened. boston ems says it's not clear at this point what exactly happened. the crash took place near the court yard marriott there. boston police have been talking to several witnesses. police are investigating after a woman and two men were shot on stratton street. boston ems telling us the woman was taken to boston medical center with serious injuries. the two men, less seriously hurt. antoinette: two kids are in the hospital after being pulled from a swimming pool during a party in lowell. the kids, preschool age, were flown to boston hospitals. it's not clear how they're doing this morning. doug: boston firefighters are making sure a brush fire doesn't reignite in west roxbury. they spent the night watching for flare-ups after the
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nobody was hurt. antoinette: a teacher is in trouble, accused of having inappropriate conduct with a student. police in gardner say it happened at narragansett regional high school. the eyeopener's juli mcdonald has the response from the superintendent. >> everybody liked him. a lot of people said he was their favorite. reporter: a trusted teacher behind bars as police investigate inappropriate contact with a student at narragansett regional high school. 33-year-old matthew kacavich was giving obscene matter to a minor and trafficking of a person under 18 for sexual servitude. >> he seemed like a nice guy, but that's why it comes as such a shock. reporter: the investigation began earlier this month, when the school resource officer received information pertaining to the history teacher. investigators immediately interviewed a former student with whom kacavich had a relationship after graduation.
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with a current student, a minor, during this past school year. early friday morning, templeton and worcester police executed a search warrant of kacavich's home and he was arrested. >> knowing the people, very unsettling, thinking one of these teachers was like this, sending my kids there eventually some day. reporter: the superintendent of schools sent a letter to parents which reads, in part, we are currently developing a support plan for when our students and staff return to school. please know as a district there is nothing more important than the emotional and physical safety of our children. he added that the teacher was placed on paid administrative leave and must have no contact with students. he was held on $2500 cash bail and if posted, must be monitored by gps. in templeton, juli mcdonald, wcvb newscenter 5. antoinette: saugus police investigating a stabbing that left one person with serious injuries. police responded to 74 broadway around 9:00 last night where
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police do have a suspect in custody right now, though it's not clear what led up to the stabbing. the coast guard coming to the rescue off the coast of gloucester. a cape ann harbor tour boat was reported that it was taking on water just after 4:30 in the afternoon yesterday. a nearby charter fishing vessel offering some assistance as the coast guard got to the area to help pump out the water. all of the passengers were safely back on shore about an hour later. donald trump is headed to ohio tomorrow. he spent last night trying to win over hispanic and african-american voters at a rally in fred riggs burg, virginia. trump says the gop was and still is the party of abraham lincoln. he stuck to the teleprompter and told the crowd, republicans have not done well enough in appealing to minority groups. >> i want a totally inclusive country. and i want an inclusive party.
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from yesterday. our campaign is about creating a new american future. doug: earlier, trump convened the first meeting of his hispanic advisory board in new york. he's trying to change his image with hispanic voters. some of who have been put off by some of his comments. meanwhile, democratic candidate hillary clinton is going to be fund-raising in province town today after spending last night in nantucket. that was also a fundraiser held at the home of former ambassador to portugal. toda antoinette: on the record this morning, one of the most provocative ballot questions on the november ballot is the effort to legalize recreational marijuana in massachusetts. right now, four states, colorado, washington, oregon and alaska, have all decriminalized pot use. the district of columbia has done the same. question 4 would allow adults 21 and older to use and cultivate marijuana. the drug would be regulated and
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claims that pot is a gateway drug. >> i would like to see a scientific study that shows that because we haven't seen a single credible scientific study that shows that marijuana is a gateway to anything. if there's a gateway at all, it's two things. tobacco and alcohol. we have seen that early use of tobacco -- both legal. we've seen that early use of tobacco is a gateway to other substances. antoinette: watch on the record this morning at 11:00 a.m. legalizing marijuana in massachusetts. that's followed by "matter of fact" at 11:30. then grammy winning artist, darlene love, is on cityline at noon. doug: the second anniversary of boston's my brother's keeper initiative, the city is announcing a new $100,000 grant. nonprofits can apply for money for programs for young men of color. may ormarty walsh says the grant
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commitment to closing the achievement gap. >> we need to make sure we have programs, but they have to be substantial programs and it can't be just talk. when they graduate high school, we've got to put them on a path to something. we need to ensure that our youth successfully enter the work force. we need to reduce violence and provide second chances. doug: the mayor is sharing a progress report for my brother's keeper. walsh says findings show a need to coordinate programs across the city. antoinette: a consumer alert for co parents already strapped with high tuition bills. doug: also, the new warning from the irs. an amazing rescue, a toddler trapped under a boat. the air pocket that saved her life. antoinette: making virtual reality even more real. the cutting edge research that's bringing real life and virtual characters together, like never before. mike: showers and thunderstorms in your forecast for today. when the wet weather moves in and the changes i'm tracking for
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doug: we continue to follow breaking news from east boston overnight. one woman is dead, two injured after a crash on route 1a in east boston. the crash took place near the courtyard marriott. boston police have been talking to several witnesses and the road has since been reopened. ? ? one day a rider made a decision.
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antoinette: good morning. it's 8:41. a warning this morning on a scam targeting college students and their families. the irs says that people are calling up victims, pretending to be agents and demanding immediate payment of a fake federal student tax and they're pretty convincing. they know the victim's names and they know other information as well. but the irs says they will never, never ask for pay doug: this just in. pokemon go has become the hottest game of the summer. searching for virtual objects hidden in the real world. researchers at m.i.t. are working to take that idea a step further, bringing the real world into the game. antoinette: mike wankum shows us how in this morning's "cutting edge." mike: to win at pokemon go, you try to find pick chu and friends hidden all over the world.
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are just there, floating in space. what if the characters were really part of the scene in your phone? meaning that objects in the real world reacted to their presence and movement. abe davis, a 28-year-old researcher at m.i.t., is making that happen. >> we've developed algorithms that are good at recovering motion that we can't see. motion that's so small or so subtle that you or i wouldn't notice it. mike: everything has vibration, whether it's the grass in the background, this sign or even this building. here at m.i.t., they're studying those tiny vibrations and by doing that, they're trying to bring the real world into the virtual world. here's how it works. as abe pounds his fist on the table, look carefully and you might be able to see the wire figure vibrate. just a little. >> what does that motion tell you about the object itself? mike: he takes just a few seconds of video, capturing that motion. loads it into his interactive dynamic video program, and those algorithms show us how the
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prod it in a variety of ways. >> because different objects will prefer to vibrate at different frequencies and in different shapes. if you can learn that information, then it tells you a lot about how the object would respond to new forces. mike: what are the possibilities? better interaction with gaming. better engineering of bridges and building and hollywood is already taking notice. the system could create more life-like special effects for a lot less money. abe'ut thousands of views in just three weeks. >> since then, i've gotten a lot of emails. i haven't actually been through all of them, but people seem to be interested, which is exciting. this is why i spent all of that time, because this is cool. mike: abe and his two other team members, along with m.i.t., already have six patents on their work. you know people are interested.
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the big screen. antoinette: putting it into real use, pokemon go. people walking around, running into things, they'll see them actually move. mike: the pokemon will interact with a tree branch or you can make pokemon move a building. it's amazing stuff. doug: he'll be rich one day. mike: he loves academics. he's got a ph.d. the weather today, we start with sunshine. notice the cloud cover to the west and rain showing up as well. its way out in connecticut. we may see scattered showers. not looking for too much. the cloud cover is coming in and the humidity is coming in. eventually, this area to the south, that low pressure working over top of us gives you a good chance of seeing showers and thunderstorms overnight. crystal clear sky this morning.
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it's still not bad. it's 63 degrees. the humidity will come up through the afternoon. how about the high temperatures? near the shore line, we're talking about 70s, 80 degrees. inland, we go like yesterday, 85, 86, 87 degrees. warm and toasty. a little elevation and temperatures cooler from rut land through worcester. around it, clinton checks in at 85. the south shore, cool if you're headed to the beaches. last part inland, it's about 84 degrees. most of the cape today will feature high temperatures into the 70s. this happens to be your vacation week, you've got showers and thunderstorms early tomorrow morning. then the skies clear away and a little bit cooler tuesday. looks like a beautiful week ahead coming your direction. so let me break down the rain as it's coming in. the map at noon today. notice how we start to fade the sunshine away. cloud cover in here, a few sprinkles to the west. then as we head towards 6:00,
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thunderstorms to the west. midnight tonight, marching eastward slowly. around 4:00 in the morning, we'll have our best opportunity for seeing rain if you're an early commuter, do be cautious. you see the nature. it's not like one nice steady area of rain. here we get a downpour. where they set up is always difficult to judge. wait until you see them on radar until they happen. you get a downpour here, a few s much rain at all. behind it, low 80s but the humidity dropping. look at the water temperatures into the upper 60s to lower 70s. the clouds will be coming in just about in time for your high tide, which is at 2:11 in the afternoon. surf is busy, two to four feet. we've got a moderate threat of rick current risk. checking on the traffic, there's fiona still hanging in there.
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just will not go away. probably be out there for another 48 hours before it dissipates into a tropical low. tuesday and wednesday, sunshine is back, humidity is down. . humidity starts to come back up on thursday which gets us to another 90 degree day. we get thunderstorms. not an organized rain. best chance for rain in seven days will be tonight through tomorrow morning. doug and antoinette. antoinette: thank you. my mouth is watering. it's ice cream season and shaunna seymour says go big or go home. >> ice cream, nutella, chocolate sauce, brownies, marshmallows, vanilla wafers, coconut, whipped cream. it's going to be outstanding.
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deceiving you, this mound of goodness is real and i can't dive in fast enough. it's called a freak frappe. >> it's from australia, coming across the country. big in new york right now. we started jumping on it, wanted to be the first ones in boston to start the milk shake craze or frappe craze. we don't have milk shakes in boston. we have frappes. reporter: want to take one down, head to boston burger company, also known for outrageous burgers. owners chuck and paul say conquer if you dare. >> you're looking at a 16-ounce frappe with all the amenities. it goes a long way. reporter: each frappe is made with tender loving care and patrons give them two thumbs up. >> they come in, we want a frappe. we have burgers. no, no, we want a frappe. that's fine. whatever you want, we'll serve you. it's been great.
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say, has generated a freak frappe following. >> people come out, cameras come out. we put something down, the camera comes out. it goes to instagram, facebook, twitter, snap chat. you name it. reporter: some freak frappes, like the mass ave mudslide, come with a kick. >> we have kahlua and bailey's. a few cookies for decoration, and whipped cream. reporter: the freak frappes are calorie-free. yeah, right. doug: i want to know if she ate that whole thing. tomorrow on chronicle, vermont, step aside. baystate cheese makers are picking up awards. goat cheese, mozzarella and more, fresh as can be from massachusetts dairy farms. one request, cheese, please. tomorrow at 7:30 on "chronicle". antoinette: i don't know what's better, the cheese, the frappe,
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from the police. one woman is dead, another injured after a crash on route 1a southbound. both pedestrians were hit by a private bus near the courtyard marriott. the driver is cooperating. boston police have been talking to several witnesses. the road, which was close the earlier, has since reopened. antoinette: more breaking news out of boston this morning. boston ems told us three people were shotat stratton street in dorchester. the victims, a woman and two men. first responders tell us the woman had serious injuries and was taken to boston medical center. the two men were not as severely hurt and are expected to recover. doug: other stories, two kids are in the hospital after being pulled from a swimming pool at a party in lowell on frieda lane. neighbors tell us people were at the house all afternoon before the kids, preschool age, were
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hospitals. it's unclear how they're doing this morning. >> a toddler is alive this morning, thanks to an air pocket and a life jacket. little kennedy was on the water with her family in central florida when their boat hit something and capsized. her parents could hear her crying but couldn't find her. turned out she was under the boat, floating with her head above water in that air pocket. kennedy was under the boat for an hour but is expected to recover. doug: gymnast simone biles will carry the u.s. flag in the closing ceremony of the olympic games. she was chosen by team usa after winning four gold medals. the united states has a commanding lead in the medal count, 116 medals, including 43 gold. and as we learned this morning, it could cost phelps $55,000 in taxes. antoinette: i'm not so worried about michael phelps. i'm worried about the other guys
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mike: if you're paying taxes, you've got something before that that was good too. it would be nice to have that. antoinette: look at you raining on the parade. doug: we could use the rain. mike: we could. that was good on your part. we need rain. we've got rain coming in. we have rain coming in tonight. most of the day is looking good. we've got plenty of sunshine to talk about. heading to tonight, we have a chance of scattered showers. the afternoon, cloud cover thickens. then the area of rain off to our west starts to march eastward across the state. most of this arriving just about in time for the eyeopener tomorrow morning and your morning commute. could be some ponding on the roadways. do be cautious. a little early rain on your monday, sunshine by afternoon and lower humidity. tuesday and wednesday -- are you off? antoinette: i'm off monday and tuesday. mike: monday is okay, tuesday is
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then we warm up with more humidity by the end of the week. antoinette: great for naps. mike: the life of being a mother. antoinette: sleep when the baby sleeps. doug: you don't have to be a mother. we all love naps. this week is coming up next. hope you can join us. we'll be back in an hour. antoinette: have a great day. until then, enjoy the view
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