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is. go to the cape. the area, made kate, outer her cape, falling apart. one i am watching, it can hold together if it can get over to falmouth. falmouth, you have a storm going on now. they fall apart. they happen, they move on through. what is behind it? not much. are pushing these offshore. look at the clear skies. one good thing about this forecast -- it would the -- it would be better if we had rain, but the humidity will be dropping. 78 degrees for a high temperature. it will finally drop off. but with crystal-clear skies, not a bad evening headed our way. i will have details on our weekend forecast.
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alert after an alarming attack in a quiet north shore town. antoinette antonio has the pictures rockport police want you to see. reporter: the community of rockport on alert after an unusual crime, targeting a woman in her 50's. >> she was taken from behind, knocked into the ground. she did everything she was supposed to do. she screams. she got someone's attention. reporter: talk to the man seen these surveillance photos. they say that he matched the description of the attacker who try to take the woman's clothes on after -- clothes off after knocking her to the ground. >> she believes her continued screaming scared him off. he got on a bicycle, left the area toward the train station. >> rockport is a very safe community.
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despite the fact that an attacker still on the loose, they say they feel safe because they look out for each other. >> on the street, everyone is aware of their neighbors. reporter: police do not know if the man is a local residents to know when they have spoken with recognizes him. if you have information, call rockport police. antoinette antonio, wcvb newscenter 5. ben: new at 5:30, charges stabbing his mother and brother. the metrowest daily news reports 16-year-old gust ramgren is now facing two counts of attempted first degree murder as an adult. he was arrested in siesta key , florida after the alleged attack last week. jc: a new hampshire child psychologist is going to jail for molesting a 12-year-old patient. dr. foad afshar, who's treated children for 30 years, was convicted of assaulting the boy during a therapy session last year. his sentence, 3-to-6 years in prison, and completion of a sex offender program.
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brother. >> my little brother was, is a victim. he was abused and victimized while under the care of a professional. his trust was broken. jc: ashfar's lawyer plans to appeal the prison part of the sentence. ben: also in new hampshire, closing arguments were given today in the murder tria katlyn marin allegedly beat brielle gage to death 2 years ago. prosecutors say marin was angry at the girl for wetting herself, and beat her so badly there were 50 separate injuries on her little body. marin claims the girl got her injuries by falling down the stairs. the judge says he will issue his verdict on monday. jc: to your economy -- boston and the rest of the northeast could lose amtrak service because of a maintenance dispute. the globe reports amtrak is threatening to end service along the northeast corridor in response to the t's lawsuit over $30 million in maintenance fees
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an mbta spokesman says the amtrak threat is just that, a threat. just today, the federal government announced it is lending $2.5 billion to amtrak for more trains and other improvements along the northeast corridor. a new hint that interest rates could go up. federal reserve chair janet yellen saying today the fed is moving toward raising interest rates in light of a solid job market and an improved outlook for the u.s. signaling any timetable for the next rate hike. a new report showing most american and united airlines workers are seeing significant pay raises. american airlines pilots got a 23% raise last year. united pilots, 16%. also of note, 30,000 ground workers for american are getting raises. the raises come after years of cuts in the industry.
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seen a big truck or bus rumbling down the highway at 70 miles per hour? that could be stopping because washington wants to forcibly limit how fast trucks, buses and other large vehicles can go on our highways. two federal agencies say all large rigs should have electronic limiters that don't allow them to go over a certain speed. they're suggesting the limit could be 60, 65 or 68 miles an hour. a government spokesman says capping speeds would save hundreds of lives and a billion dollars in fuel costs. millions of teens, a first taste of real independence. jc: but one that brings with it concerns about staying healthy away from home. ben: checking the volume at stadiums across the country. concerts at the venues can be exciting, but should you consider skipping the show? jc: the first families moving into a brand new nicu at brigham and women's. in your health, the new features to help infants and families through a health crisis. right now though, want to check out the roads on this friday.
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bridge. ok. let's go to the map find out how 93 southbound is doing. it is still close to 40 minutes. mass ave to route 3. west on pike, 93 to newton corner, nine minutes. it is a slow ride, weston tolls -- slow on the southbound side of 495 and the northbound looks to be traveling
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>> you are watching newscenter 5 at 5:30. jc: many parents will be dropping kids off at college this week. but getting them out of the house, doesn't mean you can't help keep them safe and healthy. for millions of teens, the first taste of real independence is happening right now, moving into their college dorm. they're thinking of their classes, their roommates, their social life, but one of the things they're not thinking of is their health. to help college kids, and their parents change that a little the , cdc has updated its guidance on what studenan first, they need to know to get out of that dorm and stay active. adults need at least two and a half hours of exercise each week. ultimate frisbee out on the quad, running on a treadmill, biking to class, it all counts. get moving. next? to remember that not every night can be an all-nighter. to manage stress, get the grades, and just generally function, the average college student needs seven to eight hours of sleep each night.
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loose. being drunk and binge drinking can increase the chances of risky sexual behavior, car crashes, violence, even, believe it or not, cancer. when it comes to alcohol? it takes less than you think for a situation to turn bad, and less for women to get drunk than men. there is one less thing to worry about, the freshman fifteen has proven to be a myth. then and i disagree on this. ben: freshman year. all right, an urgent security update for iphone users. experts say spyware can take advantage of weaknesses in the mobile operating system. apple says it fixed the -- didn't we have to upload an update couple weeks ago? apple says it fixed the vulnerability as soon as the company learned about it. but they say you need to update as soon as possible to fix the security flaw, which can give hackers complete access to your iphone.
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apparently i don't have enough money -- enough memory, blah, blah, blah. a teen down on his luck, gets a break after a chance encounter with a south dakota highway patrolman. tanner romerein was walking about eight miles a day to and from work. most of the 19-year-old's family is either sick or in prison. things got a little easier when a patrolman spotted him on the interstate. >> i just asked him what he was doing. he said he was on his way to work. >> i thought, hey, just continue. jc: the patrolman was so moved by the teen's plight he bought him a bike to help him meet his responsibilities. and he intends to keep in touch in case tanner needs something else. which is great. he's only 19. ben: very cool. all right, a new look at a deadly police involved shooting. jc: it happened in north carolina, the victim was deaf, and there are questions about possible miscommunication see the new cell phone video of the incident. ben: plus, how loud is too loud for the big game? experts weigh in on the impact
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deaf driver. 29-year-old daniel harris. in this newly obtained video, you can see what appears to be harris's blue volvo stopped perpendicular to the road a trooper is standing outside the car. suddenly the driver reverses and pulls away the trooper following the chase ends tragically after at least 7 miles in all, just feet from harris's charlotte north carolina home. >> he stopped over here. if you seconds later i heard a , gunshot. ben: police have said they were trying to pull the deaf man over for speeding saying he didn't stop until making it home and getting out of his car. authorities say there was a brief encounter, and harris, a husband and father is killed by , a single gunshot fired by trooper jermaine saunders. >> highway patrol has been involved in a shooting.
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language with officers. his brother, also deaf, says police aren't trained enough in dealing with the hearing impaired. >> if the officer had known that he was deaf, it would have ended differently. ben: residents holding a vigil writing justice for daniel on his street and demanding answers. >> i can't understand, you know, why it happened the way it happened. you know, why did you have to kill him? ben: investigators have been searching through police dashboard and body camera video to find out why the deaf man was shot to death. the abc affiliate in charlotte has learned that state bureau investigators plan to review this latest cell phone video as potential evidence. jc: president obama is making his virtual reality debut, to help support the national park service. he appears in tour of yosemite national park. it may look a little funny because it's made for virtual reality gear. president obama: one of my most vivid memories of my childhood was visiting yellowstone when i
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bison and moose and bears for the first time. jc: it was shot during the first family vacation earlier this summer. if you don't have vr gear, you can watch it as a facebook 360 video as well. ben: all right. i would like to see this 360 -- jc: we have that right here. ben: we could step outside -- except we can't do that yet. mike wankum is here. mike: why go outside at it in virtual reality? jc: there you go. mike: today, look at this. we hit 90 degrees again. you may not have noticed because the humidity was so high. if you're looking at the record books, we have hit it 19 times. we hit 13 days in an average year. we have gone as high as 30 days. the humidity has been so high and the rain so sparse -- right now we are going down as the
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there are opportunities out there, but we are talking about very dry conditions, the extreme category. boston and worcester, both well over seven inches, almost eight inches below where we are supposed to be. the rain does not amount to anything. we got a few scattered showers this afternoon. it pushes its way to the cape. look how quickly they are falling apart. this one was looking more impressive a few moments but again, these are just looking like they are scattered at best. maybe a downpour there, but offshore into buzzards a very, very shortly. by 9:00, look what happens. we have clear skies moving in and with that, humidity will be dropping. it will not dropped her magically, but a little bit. it will feel more comfortable tonight. how about the temperatures right now? still holding onto 90 degrees in boston.
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. it was not just the heat. it was the humidity. we are in the impressive range. notice the dry air starts to push its way in. overnight hours, we start to get into the pleasant to sticky category. sticky is better than what we were going through today. overnight, a little cooler than last night. lows in the 60's. last night, a lot of them stayed in the 70's. we saw today, temperatures close to 90 degrees. humidity will be down a little bit. perhaps a few degrees cooler and worcester hills. a sea breeze setting up along the shoreline. if you are on the cape, temperatures pretty much in the 80's with 20 of sunshine. the tropics, two systems to watch.
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does not even have a game. it looks like it will be headed pretty much into the gulf of mexico. that is where they are going to get a lot of moisture, a place where they do not need it. what we would like is that to work of the coast. that's not going to happen. we have comfortable humidity, temperatures in the mid-80's. we do have thunderstorms coming in here. the chance could pop up as early as late sunday night and we ha afternoon. not a great chance, but it is our next chance for rain. maybe a chance for rain on wednesday. i will point out, next week, thursday, friday, it looks like the temperatures will be dropping off with lower humidity as well. jc: it looks so good. mike: it does. ben: i need nice weather. jc: it will be. ben: thank you, mike.
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-- the roar you hear during concerts and games can be so loud it seems deafening. ben: as newscenter 5's erika tarantal reports, experts now say all the cheering could seriously damage your hearing. erika: this sunday the vikings are kicking off their first pre-season home game at a brand new stadium and fans listen up you're in for an earful -- in for an earful. when the u.s. bank stadium , nearly 50,000 fans packing the seats, the concert not only brought on the house, it had some complaining about the noise levels. one fan tweeting i think i've , suffered long term hearing damage. another posting the next morning , my ears are still ringing. the metal music not necessarily to blame. the stadium itself has the acoustically reflective material
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this means noise levels during a football game here could sound 10 times louder. >> the thing to remember with noise exposure is is cumulative. after several decades of concerts, football games, you can wind up with a permanent noise-induced hearing loss . erika: for the biggest roar at 142, 2 decbiels that's louder than a jet taking off. seahawk fans have clocked in at 137.6 decibles and in new orleans the mercedes-benz stadium has reached 122.6, ~ -- 122.6. jc: have you ever been to a boy band concert? those are the loudest. ben: i think i have 10 years before that happens.
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new utility of brigham and women's and your health. maria? maria: and we are falling breaking news out of ashby. two bodies have been found inside a home. new it's it's a got, more than 1000 flags on display in a local town. who is behind this powerful show of support for families caught up in the opioid crisis and talk ? about gettin ?
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ben: your health tonight, the first patients are moving into a brand new critical care unit for infants at brigham and women's. jc: the approach, a different kind of care for the baby and their whole family. emily riemer takes a look. >> what do you think when you look at him? >> how lucky i am. emily lucky that twin boys, finn : and mack, are making progress, little by little, day by day. mom, shannon carlson, came to brigham and women's for an ultrasound at 24 wee routine test with a frightening finding, the boys needed to be delivered. >> the doctors were amazing, the nurses were amazing. they are the reasons these boys survived. they really are. emily: and now, 11 weeks later, the boys are among the first patients in the hospital's new nicu area. perhaps the biggest change, they are together in a private room, compared to the original open bay environment. dr. michael prendegrast is one of the nicu directors.
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be functional from the medical, clinical and nursing team but also to create an environment that also put the patient and the family at the center of it. emily: those changes can make a big difference. a 2014 study in the journal pediatrics found babies in single-family room nicus weighed more at discharge and required fewer medical procedures, due to more developmental support and family involvement in the single room environment. and the other improvements, the family room, the natural light, even live music to soothe babies and families. they are aimed at making families more at home while they're here. something shannon carlson appreciates. >> they all make you feel like you're a part of their families and so are the babies. so for me, it's very it's the only place i'm comfortable. emily: there are 27 patients in this newly opened area, and when it's done in november of 2017, the unit will have 66 beds.
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open bay environment making it , the largest in the state. emily riemer, wcvb newscenter 5. ben: that is awesome and so important. jc: newscenter 5 at 6:00 starts right now. ben: breaking news. tito dead at a home in ashby. the investigation right now. maria: a reward being offered in hopes of cracking the case. the temperatures along with it. maria: needham's golden girl back from the olympics and showing off new hardware. >> from boston's news leader, this is wcvb newscenter 5 at 6:00. maria: we begin at 6:00 with the breaking news we've been following all afternoon.
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that's where we find newscenter 5's david bienick. what do we know? david: then, good evening. the crime scene -- video shows the house. two bodies, amended me a man and a woman, found on the front lawn, not in close proximity to one another. authorities have said they do immediate threat to the public therein we have not seen any ground search going on. they have not said what sort of crime they think might be committed here. here is what a neighbor told us a short time ago. >> it is a dead end road essentially. there is not supposed to be traffic up there. you know, it's a quiet place. there are teed of houses on the
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neighbor told us it is a very peaceful neighborhood. there has not been much crime until recently, he said, where there have been break-ins because of drug addicts looking for money. this investigation make carry-on later into the night. wcvb newscenter 5. maria: david, thank you. right now, the drought problem in massachusetts is only growing. it's so bad some areas in massachusetts will soon be at historic lows newscenter 5's nicole estaphan is live in ipswich, where the water district says it is a couple weeks away from being bone dry. nick cole? no coal right. 75% of massachusetts is abnormally dry. i can show you here. tonight, not a drop. >> it really is -- i think the

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