the preventative measures involve 15 to 20 different offense here in wellfleet. juli mcdonald, wcvb newscenter 5 . ed: right now, police in easton are searching for a suspect after a woman is attacked while out walking her dog. it happened just after 6:00 yesterday morning in the area of 41 foundry street. the victim says she was kicked from behind and briefly lost consciousness. it's unclear if she was sexually assaulted. heather: mask try to rip up her close. now the bridgewater student is taking it back. reporter: the student is recanting her story, but not before a lot of concern on campus. >> it is a huge relief. reporter: a crime alert lifted.

morning e-mail alerting students to a crime on campus after a woman reported a man with a ski mask put a bag over her head and tried to take her clothes. >> people should not lie about things like that. it makes everyone panic. >> i told them if they need someone to walk late at night, i am a text away. i will be more than happy to do it. ourselves. reporter: you can press the like, call the police if you need help. reporter: they go to bed less concerned. chest but i feel already 10 times safer on campus. reporter: no word tonight if the reporting student will face charges.

a man and woman convicted of raping a teenager in which video of the crime was posted to snapchat were sentenced to prison today. 21-year-old rashad deihim and 20-year-old kailyn bonia were convicted in july of the assault on a 16-year-old girl behind a saugus elementary school 2 years ago. both suspects were sentenced to 4 to 5 years in prison, plus 3 years of probation. mr. trump: president barack obama was born in the united states, ed: born in the usa. donald trump finally admitting the president is american-born, but the birther dr. hersey -- controversy still going. john atwater joins us. john: donald trump has been fueling the conspiracy for years and today, quite abruptly, he changed course. donald would not give up four years. mr. trump: whether or not that

because a lot of people question it -- i certainly question it. john: today the questions are over. mr. trump: president barack obama was born in the united states, period. john: the abrupt reversal as trump tries to court african-american voters, many who have seen the birther controversy as a way to legitimize -- delegitimize the first african-american president. >> he is a con artist. president obama: i was pretty confident about where i was born. i think most people were as well. john: the president says there are more pressing issues. hillary clinton says the president did not go far enough. ms. clinton: barack obama was born in america, plain and simple, and donald trump owes him and the american people an apology. john: he did not offer an apology and did not explain why he has just now changed his mind.

2008 campaign started the birther controversy. that is false according to politifact. if there is nothing that clinton herself for anyone with her campaign ever advanced the charge. the rumor appears to have started on a website run by anti-obama clinton supporters. heather: the mbta testing out a partnership with uber and lyft to subsidize rides for people with disabilities. new at 6:00 the governor is , answering questions about security and how the program could impact the current ride program. newscenter 5's jorge quiroga is live at the perkins school for the blind in watertown. jorge: at the perkings school for the blind, it was a big hit, but there are concerns about the

relying on uber and lyft for on demand transportation, the new partnership with the mbta, making their out of pocket costs cheaper as well. >> you have to tell the ride when you're going to be done. how does anyone know when they're going to be done? jorge: but what about security some of the most vulnerable? new regulations don't require fingerprinting. governor baker we passed : leat in place the most comprehensive background check process in this country. jorge: governor baker getting a warm welcome, announcing a high tech program that allows disabled to hail a ride anywhere, anytime. by comparison a trip on the mbta's the ride has to be scheduled a day in advance. >> if you have to go to the drug store, or go to the grocery store, you can call nd uber and

jorge: it is easy to use. the customer pays the first two dollars, the mbta the next 13, and the customer pays the remainder of the trip. success could eventually phase out the ride. if it matches the success of a similar partnership with the taxi industry, independence for the like never before. live in watertown, jorge quiroga, wcvb newscenter 5. >> i had not heard any of this before. heather: the family of a local veteran discovers his wartime past. and for other families who want to do the same, there's now an app for that. ed: you expect to see a lot of green in the woods. but not like this. how many pot plants police found in a bay state forest. mike: your weekend -- starting

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brenda willis: when washington bureaucrats threatened access kelly ayotte stopped them. david goethel: and when red tape threatened ught to save us. cheryl coletti-lawson: kelly's legislation on the heroin epidemic will help save lives. jamey french: kelly reaches across the aisle to conserve our environment... becky stafford: kelly is so committed to our veterans and cares about our needs. marc baillargeon: kelly protected our jobs at the shipyard. kelly is one of us. veteran: she's not forgotten where she's come from. brenda willis: she cares. dean kamen: that's kelly - an independent leader, fighting for new hampshire. kelly: i'm kelly ayotte

>> you are watching newscenter 5 at 6:00. heather: new at 6:00: a second person has died as a result of a collision during a boat race on a taunton pond on saturday. our partners at "the brockton enterprise" reporting 67-year-old stephen joy of bangor, maine, died at rhode island hospital. 39-year-old mark greene of moultonborough, new hampshire was declared dead at the scene after a three-boat pileup during the bill giles memorial regatta. a third boat driver suffered minor injuries. the crash is still under investigation. ed: 5 investigates tonight -- the norfolk county d.a. is making a move to help prevent another evidence room scandal like the one playing out in braintree that's setting drug dealers free. d.a. mike morrisey will use drug

departments in norfolk county in need of an evidence audit. the head of the mass police chiefs association also tells 5 investigates they're sending a reminder to departments to check to make sure their evidence rooms are in order. 5 investigates was first to report that a recent audit of the braintree police department found missing guns, drugs and cash. today another drug case, where a man was accused of dealing heroin and cocaine, was dismissed. heather: this is new at 6:00. western mass take a look at all the pot plants. last night, massachusetts environmental police officers located this large marijuana grow site within the daughters of the american revolution state forest in goshen. officers seized a total of 47 pot plants. no word on any arrests. ed: it is starting to feel a wee bit like fall. in the morning? heather: new at 6:00, which

heather: to your economy tonight -- national grid today submitted its proposed massachusetts natural gas prices to the department of public utilities. the prices, if approved, will

monthly bills beginning in november. heather: -- ed: a unh library and left his entire for million-dollar estate to the school. more than half of the estate paid for the new student career center. but $1 million went to buy a giant video screen at the newly renovated unh football stadium. reaction has been mixed among donors and students but the school isn't apologizing. >> for two half years. heather: veterans opening up about their memories of war. and now new technology, developed here in boston, is making sure those memories are never lost. new at 6:00, david bienick shows us how a computer app is helping write history. david 92-year-old navy veteran : arnold marcus got a box full

sit down and tell what it was like to survive two kamikaze attacks during world war ii. >> if i had been in my battle quarters five decks below, i would not be here. david: since 2000, the library of congress has been collecting veterans' memories. but until now the process involved making a physical recording and mailing it to washington, d.c. >> now i go back and i click this. david: now, a new computer app umass boston lets veterans and their families record interviews, tag key words and phrases, then upload the recordings within seconds. >> the app provides you with questions if you want to use what they give you, or you can come up with your own and plug them in. >> do you remember if you were drafted or did you enlist? david recordings like this will : exist permanently in the nation's archives. the library of congress is testing the app in kennedy's district before promoting it

>> the idea is to spread the word. >> we want to make sure the stories are not lost. chest but i had not heard any of this before. david arnold barcus' family says : for decades he never talked about the war. the hope is the app will help other vets open up. stories of war, stories of survival that hundreds, or thousands of years, from now will still be told by the people who lived them. newscenter 5. ed: that is the point. heather: a traffic idea. ed: i don't want to be morbid, please do not get me wrong -- but the world war ii veterans are dying at a rate of 500 a day. heather: once in a generation. edand the app is free.

you. no pressure. mike: patriots look ok. monday looks very wet. 37 degrees. a real feel of fall. mid-to-upper 70's in a few spots. marshfield, a few places down on the cape. we have a tropical storm system down off the carolina coast. it may throw extra moisture our direction. that's why i have rain in the forecast. it's looking more and more like a late sunday night into monday morning event. so gorgeous. and tomorrow, almost a repeat of

54 degrees. the air is extremely dry right now. tomorrow, same category. very pleasant. then the humidity comes up. that is good news. that means more moisture in the air and that allows us to bring it out. a clear, harvest moon. gorgeous out there tonight. then we start to talk about sunday. as the notice the gray skies around. the front is way out here to the west. we have to get closer for a real opportunity for rain. i think most of the rain is going to be holding off sunday night into monday. monday morning's commute could be on the slow side. let me break it down for you. sunday morning, a lot of clouds. sunday is cloudy.

or two scattered showers developed. i don't think it will be a big problem for us. we have more and more showers developing, and this is our best opportunity for seeing some rain. only two systems to talk about. julia and karl. karl is going to meander towards the east coast, maybe even becoming a hurricane. we will the weekend. the other one, julia, is going to meander. here's the forecast for the weekend. your saturday, miles. this is where we have the showers coming in. and it is muggy over the weekend. how much rain are we talking about out of this estimate? we could see well over an inch of rain.

more than that. some will get less than that. wednesday and thursday, if you like today, you will like next week. they look just about the same. friday, we could see some clouds. overall though, beautiful weekend. much-needed shower sunday night into monday. that is your best opportunity we i meteorologist mike wankum. >> now here is josh brogan here -- josh brogadir. josh good evening, everyone. : beautiful night at fenway park. in the midst of a pennant race a comeback for the ages. classic red sox/yankees. on the night david ortiz hit his 34th home run of the season to pass mickey mantle on the all-time home run list with the 537th of his career, hanley's

9th, the sox got 5. ramirez's shot to center bailed out eduardo rodriguez's ineffective start and validated an impressive 6 2/3 innings from 4 pitchers in the red sox bullpen that did not allow an earned run. no question this 7-5 win was the signature come from behind victory of the season for the red sox. >> we just keep the game close. then that was a moment for me. >> it is a win at a pivotal time. the deeper you go into september, the significance of those wins starts to grow a little bit. josh: the yanks are five back and the red sox have the rays to

clay buchholz to the mound tonight in the second game of the series against luis cessa who has never faced the sox. to fall now. patriots back on the practice field. gronk was there but once again no dont'a hightower. third straight day without him, out with a knee injury. he is now listed as doubtful for sunday's game against the dolphins. new dback eric rowe is out. running back arian foster had been on the injury report earlier in the week for miami. he practiced in full the past two days and is listed as questionable for the game. he looks healthy. he is the same powerful runner, plays really hard behind his pads and is going to be a big challenge. you've got to swarm to the football with a guy like that. josh: the question had been lingering, who would tom brady throw to during his 4 week

his old how wes welker. >> i hit him up to do dinner. he said, i am flying in from ann arbor. he said, how about that morning we go throw? and i am like -- i am just thinking about dinner. but, yeah, sure. i will get over there early and we can throw a little bit, but that is the only thing we really have planned. it's just funny. i am sitting there trying to have dinner, and -- let's just go throw. man, he is going to be running two-minute drills in his backyard. josh: that is it for sports. live at fenway park, josh broad gadir, wcvb sportscenter 5.

newscenter 5 at 7:00 11:00. maria? maria: donald trump filtered around on the birther issue. how it could help or hurt his campaign. and miami police shutting down an area after men with assault rifles spotted. but first abc's world news tonight with david muir. plane. what we have learned from an attack in new york. the officer opening fire. michelle obama on the attack after newscenter 5. >> on chronicle, meet the maintenance man who is tied to beyonce. the musician channeling stephen hawking and the artist obsessed with "the golden girls."

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." it's turned my son's life around. 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.

v.o.: kelly ayotte says she's on our side, but on our rights, she's squarely with donald trump. trump: planned parenthood should absolutely be defunded. v.o.: ayotte agrees, voting six times to do just that,

safe and legal abortion. ayotte: well i certainly think that roe should be overturned... trump: there has to be some form of punishment. matthews: for the woman? trump: yeah, there has to be some form. v.o.: ayotte and trump, wrong for new hampshire women. planned parenthood votes is responsible for the content of this advertising. heather: an amusement park on the south shore posting his first autism weekend. it will help educate others about autism. it will host a variety of family activities, including the touch

on the thomas the tank engine train ride. ed: so, as the weekend approaches, we do have the red sox game and the patriots game -- mike: patriots, i think, looks ok. i would have some rain here just encase. red sox, more of a question.

tonight, the breaking news. the fallout. donald trump's about face on whether president obama was born in the u.s. now, 53 days before the election, trump suddenly changes his mind. tonight, the angry reaction from members of congress. from hillary clinton. from first lady michelle obama, who late today took aim. indicted. opening fire on a car full of teenagers as the car pulls away. there is breaking news coming in now. the air scare. the smoke on the plane. the passenger's battery. and it comes amid the massive smartphone recall already. the meat cleaver attack here in new york city. tonight, new images. and what we've learned about the vicious attack. and the 3-year-old adopted, who left behind her best friend in the orphanage.