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the power lines were fixed in the background is open. we won't get a name until he is summoned to court. right now he is being checked out of the trauma center at rhode island hospital. rhondella richardson, wcvb newscenter 5. heather: thank you. breaking news, a wild crash in natick. a driver lost consciousness and veered off route 9. ed: slamming into several other cars. mary saladna's life. mary: shopping plaza -- you can see over there that tire marks in the grass where that truck veered off the road and down an embankment that did a lot of damage the parking lot below. witnesses the truck came barreling down the embankment with a series of loud crashes following. >> it had just past the front of the building and proceeded over to the side before jumping the
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mary: police say it veered into this carpet store, slamming into vehicles. a woman was sitting in this mercedes and was taken to a local hospital as a precaution. but it appears the driver of the truck may have suffered the most serious injuries, on top of what may have been a medical emergency. >> a gentleman who was behind the vehicle pulled over, up to this he pulled the gentleman out. he was unconscious. mary: the driver was rushed to a hospital in serious condition. police say cbr was administered at the scene. that accident happened after 2:00 p.m. police are still investigating. mary saladna, wcvb newscenter 5.
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line tonight. this is a picture from back bay station, with firefighters and a lot of smoke caused by a faulty electrical panel. the chief says there are moderate delays on the line. heather: new tonight at 6:00, a high school warning parents about the social media account targeting students. the checkout may have included compromising photos of student s. the school's principal received information that no one had created a fake account and had been pictures of some boys. it's unclear if the creator is a student. police are investigating. ed: the boston police union in court today trying to delay the start of a new body camera pilot program. they say the city violated an agreement with the commissioner, assigning officers to awarwear the cameras after no one volunteered. shaun: the question is whether
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be assigned to those body cameras. the commissioner cited three local cases where video helped vindicate boston police officers and keep the public calm. >> we have nothing to hide. >> there are a lot of unanswered questions about body cameras and the realities and privacy issues. shaun: the boston police union president says that body cameras are in the future, but the union wants the say over how. he says officers were promised they could volunteer to wear them in a pilot program, but when none did, the department begin to assign them to 100 officers. the city says the union coerced officers, telling them not to volunteer. >> did you do any action to discourage her volunteers from volunteering? >> not at all, ever. shaun: they also said the debate came with bad timing.
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thing is timing. we talking 18 months and the city decides to release it on the heels of a police officer being murdered. and quite frankly, police are nervous, too. shaun: the aclu is also weighing in. we will have that tonight at 7:00. the court resumes at 7:00. shaun chaiyabhat, wcvb newscenter 5. heather: a used in a deadly hit and run crash comes face-to-face with the family of the victim. the 39-year-old was arraigned today on charges including motor vehicle homicide. prosecutors say he was speeding and drunk when he hit the woman as she was crossing a street. >> why did you choose to get in the car when there other ways to get yourself home? >> this is like a nightmare. my sister is going to show up. she is going to show up, you
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the video taken by ago pro will show in stopping before leaving the scene. bail was set at $5,000. ed: police are trying to track down a car that ran down a teenager early yesterday morning at the intersection near the cafe. police say the gray colored sedan hit a 19-year-old woman as she was crossing the street. while the woman was left unconscious in the three. >> based on the sound of the crash, i thought she would have broken bones and there would be blood everywhere. i was afraid to look at first. one of her shoes was off, and it was 20 feet away from her body. ed: the victim to go to the hospital but has since been released. police are reviewing video to see if they can get a better look at the car, which they say may have front-end damage. heather: student and employees
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after it abruptly closed its doors days before the start of classes. janet wu is live as the now shuttered cap this. janet: itt collected over a half billion dollars in federal student loans from the u.s. department of education and then they turned office they get. 500 massachusetts students were founding locked doors. one student who didn't want to be identified came by an empty parking lot, locked doors. he was $40,000 deep in federal loans and said he learned nothing. he did get a job at say all skills were learned in the field. >> it's a waste of time. i have to start over and get my loans discharged. will that interfere with me going back to school? >> i'm upset that i wasted all last year and my credits aren't going to transfer anywhere else. i wasted $8,000.
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woman among those who filed lawsuit colder that predatory -- called it a predatory, for-profit school. >> taking in as much money as possible by way of federal student loans, doing as little as possible for students, and making investors rich. janet: they said in a statement, "in what we believe is a disregard for due process, hundreds of thousands of current students and alumni and than 8000 employees will be negatively affected." but not all hope is lost. students can cancel payment as quickly as possible together all their schools documents. >> contact our office. we will work with you on filling of the application to make sure that you are able to receive a discharge of your federal loan. janet: 80%-90% of the school's budget, made up mostly of tax dollars, was toward marketing,
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ed: how a car crash changed his family's life. the unusual message they have for anyone behind the wheel. heather: big papi taking a big swing and donald trump. why he says the candidate is striking out this november. harvey: and as hermine continues to weaken, when that feg number. ed: if i ask you what do you think bill belichick thinks, what do you think the answer is? i won't surprise you, but it is
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ed: new at 6:00, a family was changed forever after this crash three years ago today. heather: the ways of one of the victims showing us how one mistake behind the wheel can cause rollins for a lifetime. -- can cause problems for a lifetime. >> a moment of normalcy as his son starts school year. the accident. >> three years ago today, this crash in jamaica plain's caused kevin a brain injury for which he would never fully recover. he loved playing ball with his boy and still loves his wife tina, who has left his side. she recorded this video blog to update everyone who cares about the family.
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weeks, good weeks. [indiscernible] he took it upon himself to sit down one day and highlight all the chapters he thought i should read. he's aware of the snowball effect. do something nice to someone >> the video cuts out. he had another seizure. >> the end of life as we know it. you never know what to expect day-to-day. you try to make the best of it. ed: he's being cared for at a nursing home in braintree.
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prison. new at 6:00, a calculated crime. heather: as many as a dozen teenagers swarming in apple store to steal thousands of dollars in iphones. and a massachusetts school
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heather: big papi doesn't talk politics too often, but he donald trump is a slap in the face. he told "usa today," "i walk around sometimes and i see mexican people trying to earn a living, and to hear someone make those kinds of comments, it hits you. as latin people, we deserve better. latin people here in the united states are the foundation of the economy; whoever opposes that is going to lose." ed: police are looking for a
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off with $14,000 worth of iphones. according to police, the group of nearly a dozen young men hit the apple store in what was called a swarm robbery. the group overwhelmed employees and other shoppers, quickly cutting off security cables and running off with iphone 4 samples. >> the witnesses were described -- they entered into a car with the license plate covered up, and the rest oe the parking lot. ed: police say no one was hurt during the robbery. heather: students at the holyoke elementary school are getting a surprise this school year -- no homework. the community elementary school, like the rest of the public schools is seeing poor performance of air trying something new.
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we want their brain to be tired. we want them to enjoy their families. we want them to go to soccer practice, football practice. we wanted to go to bed. that's it. heather: all schools have added an extra two hours to the school day in an effort to improve grades. ed: it has worked in some countries. i have to confess, i enjoyed the rain today. a lot more of it because we need more. we will talk more about that in a moment. there is still some circulation but it is slowly decaying and the wind no longer has tropical storm force. there are no warnings in effect anymore.
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pretty feeble compared to the wind we had yesterday. all of this was yesterday during the day or early last night and we are seeing some decent rainfall, the average amounts on the cape are a little over a half inch and about a third of an inch around norwood. we will take what we can get when it is hard to come the system and you can see most of the moisture is west and south of the center of the storm but there's a little bit of moisture trying to wrap onto the side and some of that is moving into eastern connecticut. so we can see how the band intensifies as they move in so we do have some rain all near fall river and we will see more of these off and on through the next 24 hours with some breaks
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total amount of rainfall will not be that high. expected to be off and on. thursday with less of a chance but after that we have a better chance of breaking into sunshine -- tomorrow will be a few degrees warmer than today and by friday, we will take you back to the middle of armor. 68 now, the wind off the overnight tonight and early tomorrow. it's a little bit humid -- and that will be a story through midweek as well. there is no official high surf advisory in effect yet but that could still happen -- it is expected to have a moderate to high risk of recurrent -- rough seas and significant action with the risk of rip currents, so
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down a little bit but will spike up as the weather gets dryer. there is hermine still spinning -- it tries to get close to us by midweek but by then it is pretty much gone. i don't expect too much cooling -- the next seven days, look what happens by the time we get to friday. i would not be surprised of it is 90. saturday night to early sunday of runs will approach but otherwise it looks like a very warm, summerlike weekend. it is still officially summer. we will see you in the next hour. >> now, here's mike lynch with sportscenter 5. mike: is the beginning of the week and the patriots have made another trade, josh kline to the
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round pick last year. the attraction is that he has the versatility -- he can play cornerback and safety and more versatile equals more valuable. today the patriots voted for captives and we have been told that 100% of the precincts are in and we can give you the results -- rob gronkowski, matthew slater, captains for the sixth time in their career, and dont'a time in his career. this lawyer did not practice once during training camp but he did practice sunday today -- he had to procedures in the off on his ankle and knee and is set for arizona. i just -- >> i just tell them.
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it, doing my job, trying to get ready for my teammates. just like every other year, just being there for week one. mike: you have probably seen this in a by now, tom brady on the lighthouse full. at the very top is number 12. there will be one reporter who will try to reaction and it was wholly predictable. >> we are focused on arizona right now. our focus is on the cardinals -- that is to we play this week. nothing else is the team's preparation. we are focused on arizona stop
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and tom brady in 2000. that was the year -- but without hand they are zero and two. they are keeping an eye on toronto and new york. here are the standings -- you have to keep an eye on these things. im yankees still very much alive, the wildcard situation has the red sox in the orioles and tigers tied. houston is right up there as well -- they will play the red sox tonight -- the tigers are playing the white sox in kansas any. lots talk about tonight -- we
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heather: is what's coming up tonight at 11:00. now that labor day has come and gone, the presidential campaign is entering its final stretch. we will break down the latest polls. ed: is coming up at 11:00, the new fleet to come up -- the new plea to help hundreds of
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narrator: "by almost every measure, public charter schools have been a success." "they are models of inspiration." with "impressive results" and "eye-catching educational gains." narrator: "charter schools amount to hope" for kids all across massachusetts. question 2 will give parents more choices and result in more funding for public education. vote yes on 2.
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ed: there is a city under the re. harvey: we have an ocean wind which is making it pretty soupy. heather: be careful if you are out there. this doesn't look
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i would not be surprised if we are 90 on friday full ed: so the patriots --
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