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>> most of them were very calm. there were a lot of adults with them escorting them, holding their hands, talking about other things of the day. >> and now tomorrow morning they have to step on a bus again. they must be traumatized. that's what i feel sad about. shaun: she owns the home that now has a bus stuck in its side. thankfully, none of her family were home at the time. police still don't know why the bus driver lost control. he and the woman driving this suv were also taken to the hospital. pulling out of a driveway and snapped a telephone pole before slamming into the home. >> i haven't heard anything about the speed, but clearly something happened with the driver of the bus. shaun: neighbors complained to the mayor about the road's curve speed and history of drivers losing control. >> can we talk about changing this road instead of a four-lane to a two-lane? because up the hill, if you come down, it's 45 and here's it's 30
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shaun: the bus driver will be tested for drugs and alcohol customary for bus accidents. police just updated the number and say that 32 kids were on board, not 34. everyone is relieved that there were no serious injuries after this crash. shaun chaiyabhat, wcvb newscenter 5. maria: breaking news from waltham where a pedestrian has been struck, actually trapping the victim between two cars. in what's described as a chain-reaction accident. our john atwater is live in waltham with breaking information. john. john: that victim is 66 years old and was pinned between two cars right outside this convenience store and waltham. right now she is being treated. police tell us she was walking
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a gold sedan with another car slammed into hers, which pinned her. witnesses who ran over to help say she had several broken bones. she was crying in pain a and the man who owned the sedan had to move forward so she could be freed. >> she was screaming to me, my legs, my legs. that is why i had to move my car. that's about it. >> how scary was it? >> i'm shaken right now. i'm so worried about the lady. that's my main concern. that woman. a 42-year-old woman was in the blue jeep that caused the crash. a five-year-old had minor injuries. police are still trying to determine what caused the woman to crash. john atwater, wcvb newscenter 5. ed: right now, a dedham man held without bail after a family tragedy. a son charged with killing his father. the victim had once taken out a restraining order against his son, but they had been living together recently. our todd kazakiewich is live in
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todd. todd: that restraining order shows a pattern that repeated itself overnight, but this time the assaults turned deadly. >> last night at 2:00 a.m., dedham police received a 911 call from 62 lower east street in dedham, massachusetts. todd: that 911 call coming from 25-year-old alexander anderson, seen here during his murder arraignment in dedham district court. anderson was calling to confess father, paul anderson. police arrived on scene and arrested him, who waives his miranda rights, says his father had been aggravating him, and confesses to attacking his father with a knife and a hammer. >> used the hammer to strike his father's head a number of times. and then, mr. anderson admitted that he then threw his father down the stairs. todd: family members are seen here comforting each other today, as a crime scene cleanup crew removes biohazards from the home.
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restraining order paul anderson took out on his son alex when they were living in easton. in the handwritten affidavit, paul anderson says he proceeded to jump on top of me and punch me. we struggled for a bit. my middle son, chris, came and helped settle it down. paul anderson writes that he gets ice for his eye, a short time later, alex approached me and asked if i would talk to him down cellar. i followed him down and he immediately jumped on me. alex anderson was arrested for that assault in july of 2011 that left his father with a black eye. a restraining order was issued but lifted a month assault in je of the reasons given was his changed behavior. todd kazakeiwich, wcvb newscenter 5. ed: no bail for this 16-year-old fugitive charged with murder in
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arrested right before midnight in fall river. he was number one on the city's -- maria: a live look at the city of boston on a wednesday evening, chilly, even a few snow flurries to our north. harvey: there have been some snow flurries in parts of forster county, but there is a much more significant system over the middle of the country just developing, and going to be significant precipitation for us. part of new england and maybe even part of our area might get snowflakes. notice that it is already down to 39, so we obviously have a chilly night ahead. we still have wind gusts over 20 miles per hour, wind chill around the freezing mark in much of forster county.
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these areas that hasn't happened yet. further west, it will be just as cold. you can see the readings overnight down to the upper 20's and low 30's, just barely above freezing along parts of the coast line. then we will have a timeline to show you which parts of new england could get a substantial snow, coming up. ed: donald trump on the campaign trl battleground state in this election. trump attacked the affordable care act and the report premiums will be going up as much as 25% next year. >> i am going to repeal it and replace it. she is going to expand it and it is going to get more and more expensive. ed: trump is trailing hillary clinton by a small margin in florida, but clinton is taking
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girls should be treated with respect, if you believe that marriage equality should be protected, if you believe in science and believe we should take action, then i hope you will come out and vote. ed: clinton is staying in florida for another rally tomorrow. trump will be moving on to washington, d.c. maria: question two on the massachusetts ballot asks voters if the cap on charter schools should be lifted. it's a question that has split public school advocates, but governor charlie baker has come down firmly in the yes column. our janet wu is live in dorchester where the governor went door-to-door today. janet. janet: he wasn't just going door-to-door, he made a television ad supporting question two, an unusual step for a sitting governor. governor baker walked woodrow avenue just as schools let out asking these dorchester parents to vote for question two, it's a one two punch starting with this
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charter schools give parents a choice. janet: dawn foye is one of those parents with a 7-year-old son. >> i didn't do too well with the school that was assigned to him. he was in a traditional school. we had a lot of challenges with him academically. and i wanted something better for him. janet: she said he's now in a charter school and it's been a 180 degree turnaround. but the money for each students follows them from the public district school where officials say it's already a financial disaster. >> we just lost $245,000 last year alone and next year, using state data, public schools across the commonwealth of massachusetts are expected to lose $450 million. janet: the state hasn't kept up with its promise to reimburse schools losing money to charters. the governor said he's happy to revisit those funding issues but right now some families most of them in nine cities can't wait. >> if you're a parent here in the commonwealth of massachusetts, you get up every day and you send your kids to a school that you know isn't getting the job done for them and you sit on a waiting list for several years, watching your kid go through second, third
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-- feel? >> the state continues to underfund public education and this is a punitive message by the yes on two folks against public schools across the state of massachusetts. janet: governor baker also has been outspoken on question four. he opposes the legalization of marijuana, but he said today, he won't be making television ads for that. all of his political capital is going to charter schools. janet wu, wcvb newscenter crash, best friends with one survivor. emotions run high in the courtroom. to this case end with an emotional plea? maria: experience in the voting booth and then some. a 105-year-old woman taking advantage of early voting. what she thinks of this wild 2016 race. harvey: and chilly temperatures continuing to move into new
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england. ed: and later in sports, the red sox connections in the world series in full force today. francona and lester detail their close relationship on and off
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uh, first of all, i plan to vote for ld uddied up to trump, even calling him a role model. would you tell a child to aspire to be like donald trump? oh absolutely, i would do that. but she kept playing politics and flip flopping around. ayotte is running away from trump as quickly as she can. and what she values is her seat. and she's trying - to keep something she values. - i know. kelly ayotte. the politician. looking out for herself. independence usa pac is responsible
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and ed: a crash changing the lives of two best friends, but only one survived. maria: the young man considering a plea case. reid lamberty was in the courtroom. reid: two mothers emotional embrace, moments after a gut wrenching court hearing. one mother's son killed in a car crash, the second mother's son charged with causing the crash, driving drunk. >> my sons life was in his hands when he decided to get behind the wheel of a vehicle while intoxicated. reid: joe castano has been charged with motor vehicle homicide and manslaughter for the april 22 crash that killed his best friend, and endicott college sophomore craig sampson. castano's blood alcohol level was nearly three times the legal
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was my son in class at college. reid: sampson's father held up a picture of his son taken the day before the crash, one of six family members of the stand, using words to express the loss they feel, the anguish was clearly exposed. >> i don't hate joe, i don't hate joe he was like an older brother to me i looked up to both of them. >> i hope he finds forgiveness for himself. i know that craigy if he were here today he would embrace him and say it's ok. reid: today's hearing to determine how a judge might sentence castano should he plead guilty, the 20-year-old himself making a tearful apology. >> it's difficult to express in words my emotions regarding my responsibility for my best friend's death but i owe it to craig his family and the countless number of other lives i've altered. reid: should he plead guilty,
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in salem, reid lamberty, wcvb newscenter 5. ed: it's an interesting assignment. maria: in a classic video. but he is saying about tom brady as he drives along.
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the outside corporate interests bankrolling question two are trying to deceive you. here's the truth: every time a new charter school opens, it drains money from the existing public schools. that's 400 million just last year - according to the state's own data. which means real cuts to our kids - in arts, technology, ap classes, pre-school, bus service and more. that's why question two's opposed by the massachusetts pta join them in voting no on question two. maria: new at 6:00, a 105-year-old woman from wellesley has just voted in her
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ed: and she says this year's race is like none she's ever seen before. with early voting available for the first time in massachusetts she has already cast her vote. newscenter 5's david bienick tonight with this veteran voter's view. >> this is my great-niece. david: herlda senhouse looks back proudly through 105 years of family pictures but shakes her head when she thinks about this year's race for president. >> i think it's the most stupid david: born 9 years before women could vote senhouse graduated from woburn high, married, and worked in rich people's homes. she's cast 21 votes for president, beginning with franklin roosevelt in 1936. >> they had the votes, this nasty stuff they were talking about. david: she saw truman come from behind, kennedy use tv to shine,
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but she has a special place in her heart for barack obama, whose family portrait sits in her living room. >> this to me is historical. to have a black president. david: now senhouse hopes to see history again, casting her vote this week for hillary clinton who she hopes will be the first woman president. and after that? do you think you will ever get the chance to vote for a black woman president? senhouse will be keeping up on issues measuring candidate's claims, and ready in 2020 to make her choice again. in wellesley, david bienick, wcvb newscenter 5. maria: 105! incredible. ed: she voted in that is wonderful. way to go. god bless her. harvey: i know it's only
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the snow guns are out. and this is the storm coming up late this week, basically thursday night and friday. there could be some snow in the berkshires at the onset. the mountains of vermont will likely get some, and also the mountains of new hampshire. but the mountains of western maine could really score big. if you are thinking of some early season skiing, head skiing. check this out -- what a gorgeous looking sky. 46 degrees is the temperature, 13 mile-per-hour wind, chilly through new england. the summit of mount washington is only 14 degrees. feels like 32 in worcester. the actual air temperature will
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freezing just away from the shoreline. we have freeze warnings in effect. further west will also be below freezing. freezing just away from the shoreline. the areas that might barely escape our right along the shoreline and cape cod. another chilly day tomorrow, not quite as much wind. that night system in the upper midwest -- here is what happens. initially it is a chilly high-pressure front and it marches eastward. tomorrow is a dry day with high pressure in control. the clouds come in late tomorrow night or thursday morning. break out, and this is a closer look at a timeline. right there, up toward the monadnock region, those areas will flip over terrain. but the highest mountains of vermont, new hampshire, and maine coasuld score pretty big with rain or snow. here's a look at your next
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will be cold to start out with enough wind to keep the windchill in the 20's or even upper teens. the other thing i wanted to point out is the rainfall we will get with this system as it moves in thursday into friday. look for the possibility of about an inch of rain, which is beneficial and significant. the heaviest is likely overnight thursday and first thing friday. we should be trying out later friday into saturday, late saturday or sunday. >> now, sportscenter 5, powered by xfinity. >> one guy wanted me -- >> he's off-limits. >> i'm not trying to deal with him, i just want to meet him. >> what's up? [laughter] maria: that is the best
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new undercover promotion for lyft. harvey: i love how he said it -- i just want to talk to him. does anyone have more fun in life? mike: that is a guy you want to party with. moving onto baseball, who are you with new england? francona, nap and cocoa or lester, lackey and theo the sox curse lasted 86 years, the cubs billy goat curse kept them out of the world series 71 years and they haven't won it for 108 season so who are you with? they have a great relationship -- he never lost a world series game, he swept the cardinals in '04, and jon lester is four and oh it from 2013. >> i grew up with him, basically, as my manager.
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the right direction as far as professional baseball players. >> i lived through him beating cancer, and i have known him for a long time. he is one of my favorites, one of everybody's favorites. >> is a pro. he communicates so well. he cares about each individual player. i think it treats everybody like family. >> he is very speci a long time. he's pretty special. mike: the last time the indians won the world series was 1948 at nickerson field. this is the mascot for the bu carriers, shoveling dirt into the mailbox to arrive in cleveland. they wanted to spread it on the field for good luck.
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a little piece of the dirt from the field. now it's on the field in cleveland. here is a question -- where were you 30 years ago tonight? it was game six of the 19 a six world series. sox one strike away from winning it all, and then -- >> a little roller along first -- it gets buckner, here he comes on the next win! mike: one of the most improbable wins in world series, two outs and nobody on base. that was game six. game seven was postponed because the rain and the mets won game seven after they lead. that what have been the end of
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i was at the stadium that night. i was downstairs after the red sox went up. we had to break into "nightline" with the historic news. then they wheeled out the world series trophy. then they wheeled out world series champagne. remember, no cell phones or monitors. i had no idea until i heard the clickity-clack of keys and guys screaming about winning the world series. maria: great story. ed: coming up at 7:00, more than 100 markers stolen from a seven cemeterya.
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g this november? woman 1: working late. man 1: lines -- i hate long lines. woman 2: no babysitter. william f. galvin: for the first time ever we have early voting. if you're registered, you can vote any day between october 24th and november 4th. avoid election day lines -- vote on your schedule. man 1: wow, that helps! william f galvin: early voting is easy voting. interviewer: so what do you think? woman 2: it' a timesaver. i love it. william f. galvin: it's easier than ever for you to vote. learn more at massearlyvote.com ed in a failing school. imagine if your child couldn't read or write at grade level. imagine if your child were stuck on a waiting list. 32,000 kids want to go to a public charter school. but they can't. if you like your public school, question 2 won't affect you. but for kids stuck in failing school districts, question 2 will let parents choose something better and give all our kids hope.
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the pilot then declaring a medical emergency at 37,000 feet. on edge. the manhunt at this hour, now statewide. two dead, two officers shot. the officer who managed to shoo and where is the suspect now? donald trump telling supporters, we are winning. and what trump asked his workers to do in front of the cameras today. then, taking aim at obamacare. and colin powell tonight, revealing he's voting for hillary clinton. the deadly ride. what we've now learned tonight, after four were killed on the kind of ride so many of us have been on. saving his life. someone who saw something and alerted this olympic swimmer.

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