he's 48 years old, he's been confined for about a year and a half. he likes to fly every day. he experienced engine trouble. he look around, only place to put the helicopter down was in the reservoir. we just spoke to the pilot a few minutes ago. >> i flew over from arbor. buzzing around, to see if i could see my wife daurnd at the house. i was going to wave to them but rise a little bit on my engine. that concerned me soishgs sta, d to the airport. i wanted to get over the trees and this is the only place i could drop it. >> diana, he hit the water, went under, was able to unbuckle himself from his belt. there were a couple of kayakers in the area who came and helped

you can see him talking to the state police. at this point, the rescue crews here are trying to get that helicopter out of the water. as far as gasoline, it's not a big problem the helicopter only carries about five gallons. he says the way he hit the water he's pretty sure there is no gasoline spilling into the water here. again, helicopter down. the pilot is out and he's okay. live in ashland, wcvb, newscenter 5. >> that comes one d engine problems forced a pilot to land this mall plane in the reservoir. the pilot was not hurt. also breaking, suffolk county d.a. says he's not going to seek criminal charges in last year's police shooting of a terror suspect in rosindale. >> we're seeing new photo evidence as the family speaks

-- atwood is in boston. >> after a lengthy investigation, the district attorney says their actions were justified. newly released vans slows shows the suspect moments before he shot walking into a cvs in rosindale. the chord dangling at his side was used to secure the military style knife he's later accused of using when he lunched at them in the parking lot. >> mr. officers. investigators say his plans changed that morning, and they feared he was getting on a bus to go attack police officers. but his family says police should have brought a warrant. >> were four or five armed law enforcement agents who spread out in a military like formation, surrounding him. >> usaamah raim was upped surveillance for months. investigators say he was in

surveillance video of his confrontation with police is very grainy, but investigators say all the evidence suggested those officers were justified when they fired their weapons. >> the video are not conclusive. there is nothing we can do about that we wish we were closer, had more clarity and so forth in. this instance we relied heavily on the 1 on the 18 witnesses. >> two p continues. john atwater, wcvb, newscenter 5. >> a race against time. people are still being rescued from the rubble of major earthquake in central italy. >> this right here is drone footage. it shows the scope of the damage. three towns all destroyed. right now the death toll is growing. >> rapidly. live at the breaking news desk. tracking developments. >> the death toll stands at 172.

tourists visiting for summer's final day. >> the suspect for survivors continues. firefighters asking everyone in the area to be quiet so they can hear the cries of those who are trapped. it's too soon to know the true death toll. some who perished lying on the street covered in blankets. this image capturing a nun sitting vigil. >> i the bed and then i went out to ask -- but no one heard me. >> the town was at the epicenter, buildings are now nothing but chunks of rocks and concrete. thousands had visited for the annual food festival this weekend. >> there is nothing left standing. i'm so sorry for so many people under the rubble. people i love. >> the 6.2 magnitude quake

of the night. after shocks were felt along the length of the country. >> pope francis now asking for the world's prayers and the historic clock tower now a haunting reminder of the exact moment the quake truck, 3:36 at home. the state department is urging americans, those i am patted, reach out through social media. >> an italian community spent the day ch some met at the north end restaurant watching coverage. another said his cousin lived 50 niles from the hard of the hit region. the only way they could communicate was flew facebook. >> i don't know -- fortunately, we're all okay. but we were scared very much,

area of italy, considering the age of the buildings they expect recovery to take a long time. >> overseas, an attack on the american university in afghanistan that's left one person dead and several people hurt. witnesses in a classroom say they heard this explosion outside and then at least two troifts, they say, started shooting right into the building. at least two grenade were thrown into a classroom. local police say a university guard was killed. secu for those attackers. >> boston police are investigating a fatal hit-and-run in the south end. a pedestrian was struck and killed on east newton street around 5:15 in the morning. no details about the driver or the supreme have been releasedt -- as of this morning. a man and woman in the car went to the hospital. neither the bus driver or the

witnesses say it looks like the car was learning left on-- turn. >> a convicted rapist is back behind bars. the defends is rodriguez. he's seen right here in this booking photo. he was allowed to stand behind a door during his arraignment today that door right there. prosecutors say the attack happened around 1:00 monday morning >> gabd her, told her, he had a knife, he threatened to cut her throat with a knife if she did not comply. >> in addition to rape prosecutors say rodriguez robbed his victim of cash and her iphone. rodriguez was released from prison late last year after serving eight years in prison for rape back in 2007. he was put on probation at the time. he was wearing a gps tracking device during the rain early

hours later. new at 6:00, a caretaker accused of take advantage of days aged elderly woman for years. what prosecution say finally tripped him up. >> the next chance of storms and tropics, very active. which of these systems could eventually affect the united states? >> in sports, the key piece t field, two others are gone. a love report from gillette coming up. >> we continue to follow breaking news out of ashland where an ultra-light aircraft

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able to pull him out. we'll continue to keep an eye on that new at 6:00, a man facing charges. >> accused of taking advantage of an elderly disabled woman he was taking care of and stealing house from her and a neighbor. newscenter 5's reid lamberty has more. >> charged with two counts of larceny, stealing people's money to support his drug habit, prosecutors say it got so bad this house was auctioned off and the homeowner never even knew. reduce hissed $10,000 bail days after the 36-year-old was arrested for stealing. more than $60,000 of other people's money. >> he was using to it support his drug habit. >> a $500 a day habit according to reports. he had been caring for an elderly disabled woman for the past nine years. police say he stole more than $10,000 from her and borrowed

needed the money for food and bills. >> he said she should go to jail for what he had done. >> he never paid the house bills resulting in the home being auctioned off, unbeknownst to the elderly homeowner. it came to a head. >> he was trying to do a walk through, and the caretaker was acting suspiciously and would not let him in. >> inside the house piles of trash, an overwhelming stench of cat urine and feces. >> it was so bad they asked him to come outside to speak to him. >> kevin did get his bail reduced to $2,500. wcvb, newscenter 5 >> we're there as an limb peculiar gold medalist makes her

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>> you're watching newscenter 5 at 6:00. >> in the air over the reservoir. you can see one of the boats in the area just by the breaking news banner. an ultra-light helicopter is in the reservoir the pilot is okay. swam to safety, after a crash in the reservoir, the pilot's name is david diana, he said he was okay. landing you walk away from is a good one. >> getting support from city officials. boston city counselors agreed to right a letter saying they are not opposed to the dispensary. happy valley ventures does need a letter of support to gain state approval. boston has only one dispensary which opened recently in the

>> the 11th white great shark of the season has been tagged. 14-footer yesterday. that's obviously the picture you see. major new development in a story that you saw first on five tonight. a thief has made good on his promise to return signed patriots helmet to a foxborough burglar. the man was caught on video, you've seen the video, hopping over the bar and grabbing the helmet. he later called the restaurant to apologize send it back. let's take a look. it arrived and it's still in the box. it included a note from a peter saying, sorry for the trouble, and the box also had cash, because he not only stole a helmet but skipped out on his tab. police say if this man is a season ticket holder, he could leave his seats. >> two massachusetts olympians are back on home stars. that's a great reception there.

to the cheers. you can hear them with young athletes, from the wakefield center where the two medal winners trained. stevens won a sir in rio and the other olympian bringing home gol gold. >> harrison plans to judo. stand by. she won a gold medal in june. imagine what she'll do. >> holy cow! >> that's what you call a winner, no question. >> amen. >> we've actually been following events in indiana because we know there is some strong action that's gone through here. before we show you video, there is currently a tornado warning east of indianapolis, indianapolis is over here but there is also action to the north. a couple of tornado warnings. it's still an active situation there and it's active in the tropics.

tornado that came through parts of indiana. look at the damage. at one point there was reports, this was about two hours ago, of large tornado that was on the ground for a while. so it continues to be a very fluid and active situation. as for the tropics, storm -- that's stronger right now is gas tron. the other one, even though it's not a tropical storm yet, it's a tropical disturbance bluk at the ac somewhere very close to parts of the bahamas and southern florida over the next three to five days. it won't get into this position until three, four, five days from now, and it may affect the eastern gulf, u.s. southeastern, it doesn't look like we have it set to come up the east coast. anything can change so far down the road. gaston likely to eventually become a hurricane and be somewhere, a few hundred miles east of bermuda five days from

almost four degrees above average. both jewel and august, as you know, very hot and very dry overall. but it's another great vacation day if you've been lucky enough to be on vacation. it's still in the 80s in most locations. yes, 70 at worcester but that's the airport a thousand feet up. downtown in the low 80s. slowly we've been transitioning from this refreshing air for a day and a half or two to sticky conditions and eventually the more humid a west will start to move in. it will be more humid tomorrow than todayened the most humid day of the week will be on friday. that's also the day that could feature a spot thunderstorms. we only drop into the upper 60s to around 70 at boston and tomorrow, right back up to the upper 80s, near 90, but with higher tumt than today, a good deal of sun and high clouds coming in from west to east later in the day.

southwest wind getting stronger so with that stronger wind tomorrow, there is a somewhat stronger chance of rip currents. a moderate risk as those southwesterly winds increase. otherwise, highs in the low 80s. and as for changes this front will press closer on friday. that's our best chance of getting a thunderstorm. we'll see clouds before friday is out. maybe a spot storm. front comes through, we clear up beautifully for the weekend. sound and days. if ragweed is a problem it's certainly been spiking up in recent days so we'll keep track of the pollen counsel. there is your next seven. tomorrow, still another good vacation day, warm, more humid. friday, a little bit more in the way of cloudiness. maybe a spot storm, and less humid saturday and sunday. both saturday and sunday look like they will have refreshing sea breezes along the coast. so figure 70s to around 80 at the beaches for high

i'm meteorologist harvey leonard. >> a familiar face back in practice. shoulder pads and shorts. gronkowski on the field for the first time since last monday. gronk tweaked something while running a route last monday against the bears. worth noting, we also saw tom brady looking at his thumb after a throw. he injured it last week. washingt but center brian stork has been traded to the redskins for a conditional draft pick. >> number 66 is no longer at the offensive line. the redskins say they acquired senator brian stork on wednesday. maybe not a shock that he lost the starting job with the emergence of number 6 andrews but perhaps a surprise that he's no learning on the patriots o patriots roster. >> that it's time of year, there

teams and players and everything, and it's tough to see one of your guys go like that but that's the best, i guess. >> jimmy was drafted two rounds before brian in 2014. stork had played 25 games in two seasons including the playoffs. last year, concussions kept him out of the first 10 after an excellent rookie season, in which he came back and played in sb -- super bowl biggest test yet against carolina friday night. >> we're not taking it lightly at all. they are a very talented football team. very good defense, front seven, they are really talented, so we've got our hands full. >> a day ago, brady said he would like to be in there against carolina. >> whenever my number is called i'll be ready. >> not clearing much up one day later. >> like always, your guess is as

preparing like i'll be the starter. you never know. the last week is a good example. you never know what will happen and we'll go from there, i guess. >> another siding, the six string on his back. close friend of bill belichick, rocker john bon jovi. the red sox winners of 10 of 12 games. fake on the rays again tonight. they are one of the hottest teams in baseball. an mound that would be rick porcello going for his 18th win of the season and lead the majors should he get it. the red sox are 19-6 in games porcello has started in 2016 and especially solid of late going 9-1 with a 2.28 e.r.a., in his last 10 starts.

made throws to first and second as he recovers from season ending left shoulder surgery that he had in may. he hasn't been cleared to hit but is expected to be ready for spring training. that will do it for sports, in foxborough, wcvb, newscenter 5. >> looks like a perfect night for football. >> it is a perfect night for football. >> it's time to flash forward to newscenter 5 at 7:00 this evening. >> a boston district fire chief fighting to keep his woman. >> fivee investigates with the new details on the case and the deals reached. >> coming up, breaking news, the tornado emergency in this country, pictures coming in right now. italy why, you will hear the woman trapped under the rubble, a tiny opening to breathe through, and the american university under attack at this hour. a lot to get to. >> on chronicles at 7:30, bed

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tonight, the race against time. the massive and deadly earthquake. our team on the scene in italy. the trapped, the children rescued. search teams talking to a woman through this tiny slice in the rubble. our chief foreign correspondent is there. at this hour, the tornado emergency in this country. classrooms today. and we're tracking a tropical system headed to the u.s. that could become a hurricane. also tonight, american university under siege at this hour. attackers rushing in. students barricading themselves inside. martha raddatz standing by. donald trump turning up the heat on hillary clinton. b but the trump team has asked, doesn't donald trump donate to the clinton foundation himself?