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gloucester's police chief has been fired. jc: this comes after the chief was put on leave last month. julie mcdonald is live in glaiser with break -- live in gloucester with breaking details. julie? reporter: it is what the city calls disturbing allegations with two women whom he had relationships. both of those women told the city they were in fear. his termination, the mayor says, is based on what happened next. an inves allegations began which would be largely based on leonard's city owned cell phone. he told the mayor it was in his locked office in the police department, but it ended up overnight at his attorney's office in everett. he suggested to investigators that someone from the police department broke into the office and then mailed the phone. surveillance video shows campanello himself mailing the phone. when the city obtained it, the
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settings. >> he testified that he had given overall communications with that woman. we know that's not true because we have the telephone records. on one day the chief and one of them texts 634 times. we don't have those texts because he did to the provide them. reporter: now, campanello and his attorney held their own press conference praising his work with the angel program which helps addicts get treatment. hunt hunt -- a witch hunt from the beginning and gloucester city leaders would be violating the contract. you will hear from campanello's attorney. live in gloucester, julie mcdonald, wcvb newscenter 5. >> ben: julie, thank you. a dead looy confrontation in lynn. jc: it broke out when officers tried to serve a warrant in connection with an armed
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reporter: the officer involved shooting took pleas on the fifth floor of this condo building after officers came to serve a search warrant of a man police identified in an armed robbery from last monday. a week after the armed robbery here at the porthole restaurant he is still shaken up by the terrifying ordeal. >> what do you have to say? of course you want to go home an c live. reporter: two men pointed guns at his head asking where the money was. they also said they knew where he lived. >> at that time it was getting late. another guy walked in the office to pick up some stuff he needed for the kitchen, aprons and towels. the cook said we're coming in. when he came in they grabbed him and he got down in front of me and then they said we'll be back in a minute or something like that.
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employees tied up and put him in zip ties before they grabbed his keys and left. >> it was very traumatic. reporter: the district attorney's office said officers were trying to search a search warrant at one of the suspect's homes off lynn shore drive when the officer involved shooting took place. they identified themselves at the suspect store, but they said police were not going to take him. they say officers forced their way in, but once the door was breached they saw the officer pointing a gun at the .ing the gun at officers and that's when they opened fire. >> it is tough. i never knew it would get to this much. reporter: he was pronounced dead at the scene and officials have not released his name at this time. wcvb newscenter 5. jc: a live look at hurricane matthew, the category 4 storm about to make landfall on jamaica and haiti and a state of emergency was declared in
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the latest on the track. >> the latest numbers came in about 10 minutes ago. it is still at a category 4 hurricane with 140 mile per hour sustained winds. they are gusting much higher than that. this is wobbling toward the north. it looks destined to have the the greatest impact on the western tip of haiti just to the west of port-a-prince. there is a large storm that into cuba in the coming days. here is the track of the system. this is new information that just came into the weather center. by wednesday it is moving into the bahamas. this is a slow-moving system. by thursday just off florida, mind you, it doesn't necessarily have to land here. it can be anywhere in this cone of uncertainty. to the north by saturday this is spinning off of the carolinas. it could move inland and it could stay out to sea. its impact on new england of
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at the least we are talking about churned up seas. we will talk about a larger impact in the system coming up in the forecast. ben? >> ben: a supreme court will not hear the appeal of james "whitey" bulger's conviction and sentence. reid spoke to the family of his victims and has more. reporter: he called the trial in boston a sham saying he was not able to add enc to the jury. an argument that did not make a difference to the u.s. supreme court. the supreme court withheld comment that they will not hear waity bulger's appeal speak volumes. the decision comes as no shock to steven davis whose sister was one of bulger's victims. you may be surprised to hear davis believes bulger deserves a fair trial and the crime boss was perhaps not given his
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trial and i believe in my heart he should have been able to say what he wanted to say. reporter: he said a former federal prosecutor who died in 2009 promised him immunity decades ago for all of his crimes including murder. bulger previously uh -- appealed to ay loor court -- a lower court who said he had in fact received a fair trial. >> that's what a lot of us would want. we know behind it all it wasn't there were others behind it. reporter: that's why davis makes a case of sorts on bulger's behalf that the man responsible for so much death and carnage should have still been able to say what he wanted to say. >> he should have been able to and i think the public would have loved to have seen what was the outcome of that. reporter: steven davis says had bulger been able to testify openly and say when he wanted to say during the trial it would have made no difference on his guilty verdict.
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5. >> ben: thank you. the everett man accused of crashing into a state trooper after yesterday's patriots game is staying behind bars. jose perez rodriguez pled not guilty to assault and reckless driving charges. police say the trooper was trying to stop the motorcyclist on route 1 in foxborough yesterday when he slammed into him. the captain is expected to be okay. perez rodriguez ordered held without bail because he is also facing charges from a similar incident back june. jc: commitment 2016 and donald trump's foundation is ordered to stop raising money in the candidate's home state. new york state attorney scwen eric schneider man, a democrat and vocal opponent of trump said the foundation does not have the proper license to raise funds in new york. the ag wants the foundation to turnover the financial reports within 15 days. a trump spokesman says the foundation will cooperate. trump is coming under fire for comments he made regarding
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the panel interview suggesting they may not have been strong enough to handle the post traumatic stress of war. >> when people come back from war and combat and they see things what a lot of the folks in this room has seen many times over, but a lot of people can't handle. it. jc: some say the media is taking the comments out of context. hillary clinton took a few verbal record. clinton says the stories speculating trump could have avoided paying taxes for years and contributed nothing to the system. over the weekend clinton endorsed the star and reining nba champ lebron james. he says he is voting for clinton . >> ben: sky 5 shows trash being left after a brazilian
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across the field. neck coal estephan joins -- nicole estephan joins us now and the mayor is outraged. reporter: the trash may may be gone, but look what is here, sharp pieces of glass all over the field. >> it is a travisty for us. reporter: not mincing words he is talking about massive clean up, the mounds of trash covering the field on monday morning. >> it was a mess. reporter: broken pieces of glass littering the turf and leaving the fat ball team out of luck. >> it was messed up. we are trying to represent and now it is trash. reporter: all of this left behind by a festival that touts itself as the biggest brazilian country in the city. the group rented the feald for $20,000, more than 2,000 people created the mess and
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the city does have recourse here. it is part of the contract that anyone representing the field is responsible -- renting the field is responsible for cleaning it up jievment we will go after them for breech of contract. we will make sure the monies they made doesn't disappear. reporter: it was not just the trash, but the message left behind. the school super inen it dent said who ever rented the field from the city and trashed it, you should be ashamed of yourselves and i am towing your beerru kids? the mayor tells us the same group rented the same facility the previous two years without a problem. we reached out several times and we have not heard back. wcvb newscenter 5. jc: yesterday's painful loss to buffalo is in the rear view window. tom brady is back at gillette stadium.
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foxborough and in meetings most of the day. he was not spotted and he will not speak. today is the day off, but you can bet he is at gillette the whole day tomorrow. there is practice on wednesday. yesterday while the patriots were playing the bills this is video of tom brady spotted working out in full pads at the dexter school in brookline. now he is back full time and his teammates are talking about him like he is the invisible man. >> was there any sort of icebreaker with tom in the anything to break the ice. >> i haven't seen him. >> have you seen tom yet today? >> no. >> what was it like when he walked through the door this morning? did he say anything to the team? >> i haven't seen him yet. >> is he here today? >> i can't answer that question. >> mike: the invisible man. back at 6:00 we are live from gillette and the starting times for the first three games of the series between
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>> ben: hurricane matthew is staying strong. jc: millions are bracing for strong winds and catastrophic flooding. the preparations are now underway as the hurricane approaches. >> ben: and 17 days for a former firefighter convicted of arson. jcvc kim kardashian is back in the u.s. after being robbed at gunpoint. the millions in jewelry the thieves got away with.
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isis suffered heavy losses in the strikes. the airstrikes were part of the government's operation to recapture areas under exteam mist control from the western anbar province. jc: a firefighter is going to jail for starting two brushfires. he pled guilty to two counts of arson and he admits torching two areas of southern new hampshire forest. one fire burning almost 200 acres. prosecutors say plan suspicion with a strange request of other firefighters on the scene. >> he asked them to take a picture of him with his cell phone. right then the bells and whistles started going off with the police officers involved in the investigation. jc: besides his jail time he will pay restitution and have a psychiatric evaluation. >> ben: hurricane matthew is churning across the caribbean. four deaths are blamed on the storm. the outer bands are bringing
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haiti. reporter: hurricane matthew is churning in the caribbean. packing powerful winds and marching toward the island. it is already forcing businesses to close and residents to board up their homes before hunkering down and seeking shelter. >> my family. i just want to know they are safe and secure. we want people to heed the warnings coming from the authorities and take them seriously. reporter: emergency storm from jamaica to haiti and cuba. the storm could dump up to 40 inches of rain and trigger mudslides in areas still reeling where 50,000 people still call these makeshift tents their home. the state department is now warning americans in the region to get out. 700 military family members
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from florida to north carolina on high alert. >> i am hoping this is a false alarm, but we can't gamble and we won't gamble with people's lives. >> here is matthew moving very slowly. we know there will be an impact on the southeastern coast, but no question it won't impact us. >> the models are still at this point everywhere when it comes to areas north o carolina. to resolve that the models need data to pull into their long equations. we will start launching the weather balloons much more frequently to feed extra data into the models in hopes that there is a coin -- coinciding with all of the data models. >> ben: we are looking at a week away. >> yes. if we were to get a direct impact, there is plenty of
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preparations. i wouldn't rush to any sort of judgment at this point whether or not it is going out to sea or whether or not it will have a direct impact. it is just something we need to continue to watch. north of the outer banks of north carolina, anybody's guess as to where this may go. more urgently in the here and now we have scattered showers and even rumbles of thunder that are moving south of the pike right now. these moved through palmer half an hour now heading toward monson. we have some lightning with this cell. looks like it is weakening, but there are more cells off to the north. most of the activity will be outside the 495 belt and will melt away after sunset. that's just before 6 oosm 30 this evening. right now 62 degrees with an easterly wind in boston. the pressure is holding steady. we have 60s to near 70 and lawrence was in the lower 70s and now it is falling
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springfield. there is a spin of low pressure that is spinning to the west right now. this will meander overhead and then out to sea. allowing high pressure to build in from the north. it will channel our winds like today out of the north and the east which means some patchy fog and drizzle. 50 to 56 degrees. mostly cloudy skies and areas of fog and some patchy drizzle. as the high pressure builds in from to start the day tomorrow. the clouds will be really tough to break until lunchtime or so. as we head into the afternoon the skies should brighten northeast to southwest. this is what the weather map should look like close to midnight. a lot of clouds around and then watch as the drizzle comes off the atlantic. the waters are spotty and that will be around for tomorrow morning's commute. and then slowly, but surely after about lunchtime we will
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hue. we'll have more sunshine building in throughout the afternoon. it stays cool though. the temperatures either side of 60y dr.s. a mostly cloudy sky to start and then we'll go to sunshine in the afternoon. the latest on the tropics and all eyes on matthew. winds of 140 miles per hour as of the 5:00 advisory. you can see all of the rainfall. the brighter yellows indicating more like 10 to 20 inches the track takes it to the north and by wednesday it is into the bahamas. and then the latest track is taking it farther west. the impact potential, florida into the carolinas. we have to watch that closely. with the westward jog that would mean it would travel potentially over more land and weaken some before it tries to come at us for later this weekend. again tries to come and may gt
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quiet. patchy fog and drizzle in the next morning. then we watch for matthew later this weekend. guys, over to you. jc: kim kardashian held at gun gun -- gunpoint and robbed. >> ben: it happened in her paris hotel room. the pricey items they got away with. jc: and a generous donation to the norman rockwell in the birkshires. special interests that oppose question 2 claim district schools lose money to charter schools. that's "absurd," says the boston herald.
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>> ben: one of the biggest reality tv stars robbed at gunpoint. jc: and tied up before being robbed. reporter: she is back after being the victim of a violent robbery in and kanye west arriving at an apartment in new york city. kardashian-west was robbed at gunpoint of more than $10 million worth of jewelry on sunday night. a source telling abc news that five gunmen dressed as prefers participate -- as police officers participated. two made their way into the private residence where she was staying. police found kardashian-west tied up and locked in a bathroom. her rep says she is badly shaken, but februaryly
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unharmed. she was in fashion week posting pictures from events on social media. her husband finding out the news during a performance at a music festival in new york city and causing him to abruptly end the show. >> i'm sorry. there is a family emergency. i have to stop the show. reporter: other celebrities there for fashion week reacted to the news. >> i know it is terrible, but thank god she is okay. thank god she is okay. the only thing i can say because it could have been worse. jc: french police are looking into video where the kardashians are staying hoping to learn more . >> ben: and drivers in tending to be safe. jc: and an over night fire claims one life. the latest on the investigation. plus -- reporter: when you lay your loved one to rest you think you will never have to do it again. that's not the case for some
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>> from boston's news leader this is wcvb newscenter 5 at 5:30. >> ben: breaking news at 5:30, the police chief in gloucester fired. leonard campanello was put on leave after the mayor said several women contacted the city with safety concerns after relationships they had with campanello. >> he lied to investigato after being put on leave. campanello's investigation is being called a witch hunt. >> ben: officers were serving a warrant on lynn shore drive. the suspect was wanted in connection with a restaurant holdup and he was shot and killed when he pointed a gun at officers.
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matthew is moving toward the u.s. and as aj has been talking about, the path is not clear yet. >> ben: everybody up and down the east coast is watching this. >> it is clear through the bahamas at least and then it spreads out. scattered storms are moving across the pike and to the east of am hurst. you can see they are producing some lightning in the past hour or so anden there is a quick burst and maybe a down burst of heavy rain as well. as we slide off toward the north and the east here, we are going to find more in the way of scattered showers and thundershowers working through concord and heading toward manchester. these will fizzle out as we head through the evening and the overnight. a very powerful hurricane matthew continues to spin just south of haitiy with winds of 140 miles per hour sustained. i'll have the latest on this
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