and which areas could start as snow. >> voters say it's the most important issue in the campaign. focusing on the economy, and where the presidential candidates stand. >> potential game changer. >> the medication -- is given through the lens. >> the new way to treat diseases that could rob your vision. >> this is wcvb newscenter 5 at 5:00. >> we have some breaking news at 5:00. beacon hill, an suv has slammed building. >> two people taken to the hospital. breaking details. >> police, firefighters and inspectional services, they are still here on the scene along with this tow truck that's now removing that white toyota suv that was stuck into that brick wall. this is at grove street and myrtle street. crews were trying to see whether or not that brick wall or the building itself was structurally sound.

in the car were taken to the hospital. non-serious injuries. witnesses that we talked to saw that car speeding up grove. it did not appear to take any brakes, slammed into the wall. two people again were inside. a male driver and woman passenger. the man got out on his own but the woman appeared stuck inside. take a listen to what one witness described happened. >> the guy got out and wobbled a little and another pedestrian had set him on the ground. i'm surprised that they survived, because, that was, they were going fast. 70 miles per hour coming down from that end. >> the entire front ebbed of that vehicle was underneath that pile of bricks, so as this tow truck removes that vehicle, of course, they have to do it gingerly to make sure that pile of bricks doesn't come tumbling down this.

>> wcvb, newscenter 5. >> thank you. to weather. some substantial rain coming for some of us. and some snow for others. >> that's right. ed harvey is tracking it all. harv: no need to panic. that's why you live in eastern massachusetts. you don't have to worry about any snow accumulation. the system is over the great lakes now. a band of rain and some snow in parts pretty cold air. an easterly wind will take over and that takes eastern massachusetts out of the picture for any snow but look what happens tomorrow afternoon. we start to get snow by early afternoon in the berkshires. could be a pretty good thrust of snow. the highest elevations could pick up a little accumulation. by the evening commute it still may be happening. maybe as far east as the worcester hills, there could be some wet snow mixed with rain for a little while at the start.

commute it will be rain. as for snowfall accumulation, a couple of inches are possible in the higher elevations of the berkshires. not here. but we'll talk about how much rain we're going to get and the wind that will accompany this for part of the storm and following the storm all coming up in a few minutes. >> thanks. >> don't forget you can track the rain and snow with our mobile app. police are searching for a suspect in an alleged sexual assault. >> the victim was walking on a path when she was attacked. live from marblehead. >> police are still looking for the man responsible for that mid morning attack. taking place on this very popular path. >> shortly after the 911 call police canine units were nose to the ground trying to pick up the scent of an attacker from this heavily traveled fitness path. >> there is always that vulnerability. >> it was 11:this morning.

runner saw the man on his bike. he sensed something was about to happen before he attacked. >> a mel approached the woman. exposed himself, and reached out and tried to grab her. she backed away. >> after escaping her attacker's grasp the intended victim screamed alerting other pedestrians on the path who dialed 911. >> how often do you hear somebody saying this is a quiet place. nothing ever happens here and something happened there. >> the attack happened just steps away from the tower school which is a body of about 250 pre-k through eighth. no child witness what is happened or was ever approached and the school immediately went into lockdown. >> that means making sure all the doors are closed and we account for everybody who enters. >> for those who use this popular path daily no plans on changing the routine -- >> i think i might start carrying pupper spray. >> police looking for that attacker, described to be about 5'6". wearing dark clothing, pack gi

mask pulled up halfway over his face. he was riding a mountain book. he was taking off towards salem. live in marblehead, wcvb, newscenter 5. >> new at 5:00, an east bridgewater high school senior has been accused of raping a 14-year-old girl. the enterprise reports that 18-year-old david was arrested yesterday and pled not guilty this morning. the victim's name is not being released, but police say she is the same girl who was raped by a level t offender in a whitman cemetery october 17. the suspect in that case, 31-year-old charles love joy is now back in police custody. new at 5:00, a woman missing since sunday has been found alive. the woman, who suffers from dementia and parkinson's, was found underneath a boat off pleasant street. she was able to speak when dracut firefighters found her this morning. she's being treated at a lowell hospital for exposure.

dracut community for their help. >> a private funeral service held today for a connecticut woman lost at sea. linda and her son went fishing off rhode island when nathan says their boat started taking on water and sank. he was rescued eight days later but she was never found. he's now the focus of a federal investigation for reckless endangerment resulting in death. attend the services questioning the timing of it with the sinking still under investigation. >> the whole family was invited. i'm glad that many of my mom's friends chose to attend. and i think the service was a good time for us to come together and support one another. >> nathan carmen wentn to say he hopes his mother's body will still be found. >> a vigil will be held on the cape tonight in memory of the

way crash on 495. rhondella richardson is live with more. rhondella: you may be able to hear the music. prep is under way. it begins within the hour to-or the three young men who, by all accounts, were very conscientious to give back to their community and families while moving forward striving to get their college educations. you will remember, 19-year-old jordan fisher, he was a freshman, jordan galvin worked and his college roommate was craig digs. cousins, all three killed and well known, remembered for a good work ethic. they were car-pooling to college when killed monday by a wrong way driver in middleborough. the organizer emotional remembering galvin by nickname.

>> the wrong way driver also killed, and the brother grieving. told me by phone, she was a good person and always fried to help others. police still investigating what caused her to drive southbound on 495 north around midnight on monday. this vigil gets under way right around 5:30 to honor, and for the community to grieve. live in hyannis, rhondella richardson, wcvb, newscenter 5. >> we have breaking news on the line happening right now. ed has details. >> it's a rather chaotic scene. overheated orange line has caused firefighters to come to the scene. chaos on the scene. let's take you above it. we have sky 5 in the air. services have been suspended. the shuttle bus service provided between jackson and copley. this is important to note, too. all commuter rail service as well has been suspended. you can see a number of people

itself has not been evacuated. we've seen video and we're working to get the video to you of people pushing through dwoins and getting out of the t car and then coming out of the station. they went through the car and then got out of the station on their own. the t itself is saying that the station wasn't evacuated. an overheated juniors line train. firefighters clearly on the scene right now. you can see the truck right in front of it. service suspended -- shuttle service between jackson and copley. commuter rail has been suspended. sky 5 is in the air. we're working to bring the video to you. ben, back to you. >> commitment 2016, trump and hillary doing some celebrating. >> one marking a birthday. the other, the opening of a new hotel. >> clinton was still pushing for early votes in florida today. trump took the morning off the

the nation's capitol. [applause] trump just blocks from the white house this morning opening a new hotel. >> my theme today is five words. under budget, and ahead of schedule. >> trump weighed in on the fox news showdown last night between megan kelly and trump backer newt gingrich. the former house speaker told kelly she was fascinated with sex when she defended fox's coverage of trump's female accusers. >> by the way, congratulations, newt. an amazing game. we don't play games. >> hillary clinton celebrating her 69th birthday, warning trump about trump's refusal to accept the election results. >> in america we don't say we're going to keep new suspense about whether we'll accept the outcome of an election. >> while the hotel may be new it's the same old story.

relied on undocumented workers to make his project cheaper. and most of the products in the rooms were made overseas. >> as you know both campaigns consider florida a must win state. a new bloomberg poll gives trump a two-point edge in florida, while a new florida atlantic university survey has clinton leading by three. newscenter 5. >> thank you. >> a potential hate crime under investigation tonight school in "business first with angela miles." >> still to come, the claims that a football player was forced by white students to wear a noose. >> a man falls through his porch. >> open road tolling starts friday at 10:00 p.m. traffic patterns will change as construction crews tear down

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try to get through the windows and out, obviously not knowing what's going on but that's what the station looked like. the t says it hasn't evacuated the station but people as they get out are getting out of the station. if you're just joining us we have another piece of video, we can show that. an overheated orange line train. firefighters are on the scene. es is has been suspended between jackson -- shuttle bus service has been provided. this has also affected the commuter rail service so if you're after fekded as well. you can see what's going on inside the station itself. now, above it, you can see that there are -- some people are getting some attention as they come out. the whole chamber was filled with smoke. it was an overheated train on the orange line and that's what caused it but it looks like the number of people on the sidewalk about 10 minutes ago has thinned a bit. >> breaking news. >> back to you.

jail for killing a man on a bike path nearly two years ago. stephen pled guilty this morning and was sentenced to a minimum of 28 years in prison. he admitted punching and killing benjamin mark um who was targeted for a robbery. in court today the victim's sister spoke about her loss. >> -- will haunt me rest of my life. i can feel my brother's pain. >> the suspect accused of stabbing markum during the attack goes on trial next year. >> outrage in mississippi tonight after claims a white student threw a noose around the neck of a black classmate. the student has been disciplined but the school district is not saying much else. >> families at stone high school in wiggins, mississippi, are furious, after hearing a white football player put a noose

teammate. >> no child should be walking down the hall or in a locker room and be accosted with a noose around their neck. >> the team's coach, who happens to be the school's first black coach ever threw the white teen off the team. >> an attorney for the district, where about 75% of students are white, confirms one student had been disciplined but the mi they are calling for the student to be expelled for a federal hate crime investigation and formal charges filed. >> this is 2016, not 1916. this is america. >> former f.b.i. profiler brad says all of that is possible. all of those situations that would appear to have some sort of racial ethnic religious overtone as far as the

f.b.i. to look at it. >> the school district says privacy rules prevent them from identifying the offending student but he was disciplined according to district policy. >> we remember last season as being brutal. it wasn't a good one. >> the fact that you're already seeing snow this early is hopeful. >> for people who would like to take a trip up this weekend, let's say, to maybe sugarloaf or sunday river. >> they are going to be in luck because they are going to get a pretty we're going to get rain. and we can use the rain but right now it's kind of chilly and it was this morning and it stayed that way all day. these are the low temperatures early today. many spots were below freezing but some of the shorelines still not below freezing. plymouth was at freezing this morning. the cape was a little bit above. we have another chilly night coming up. we do have freeze warnings again just back from the coast and a frost advisory along the shoreline that will depend on whether or not it stays clear. the wind may start to become

and that's chilly air over warm ocean so that may produce some loud and prevent the temperature for bottoming out. we'll see how it works out but for most of us clearly a chilly night and chilly air mass with 46. wind is still out of the northwest. 37 right now. that's pretty indicative of the fact that it's a chilly air mass, and this is the parts of our state, massachusetts, that's going to get a period of snow for tomorrow afternoon. low temperatures to expect tonight. another chilly will really be achieved late in the day or at night. it will start out a lot chillier than that. 38 -- it won't be until the evening hours. that's why during the afternoon it could be cold enough for appeared of snow. the system i'm talking about is in the midwest. rains passing through michigan. by the way, for the world series one strip of rain is north of cleveland and hopefully they will get the game in before more rain moves in there. now, also keeping an eye on the

front. the leading edge of warmer air. we won't get into the real warm air here but as it approaches it increases the precipitation and so i do expect a healthy amount here of rain in eastern massachusetts. when it finally gets here. it's not a problem for the morning commute in our area, by time we get to midday and into the afternoon, that's when we have the snow breaking out in the berkshires, and maybe even as far east as the worcester hills area of n snow before flipping to rain. the entire system will be winding down on friday morning. here's a closer look. you see some ocean cloud. maybe a sprinkle in a few coastal communities. otherwise, clouds thicken from the west. band of snow tomorrow afternoon. breaking out in northwest connecticut and the berkshires. otherwise, the mountains of

tomorrow night and overnight and the heaviest rains ending during the friday morning commute. residual showers on friday. a lot of clouds hanging around friday as well. a weak bash lack. where could there be some snow accumulations? some flakes are possible. maybe one or two inches around parts of the berkshires. but it's the mountains of maine, i believe, that are really going to get significant snows here. we could be talking a solid six to 12 in the higher mountains of western maine out of this. rainfall an inch around our region or a little more. something we need. >> we have some wind gusts coming here around the cape overnight tomorrow night and into the day on friday. maybe 40 miles per hour or greater. otherwise, we're improving on saturday. maybe some clouds. a few showers have possible saturday night and early sunday but i don't see too much rain for this upcoming weekend but die for later tomorrow into early friday. see you in the next half-hour. back to you. >> thank you. in your health, kid and cholesterol, the new research

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they are breaking windows and squeezing through openings in doors the rain we understand overheated and start it is smoking. firefighters are on the scene. big delays on the orange line as you can expect through the back bay area. also delays on the commuter rail service at back bay. here's some video inside the train. all commuter rail service is suspended. let's go to ed with the breaking details. >> you've been showing the video. let's go through it one more time. we can bring you up to speed on a couple of things. >> from the scene, people were coughing like crazy. you can see the smoke. obviously, they would be coughing like crazy and notice that the doors to the trains can't open. the engine overheated. that created the smoke. that created the chaos. look, stepping out of the window. people at this time of day, trains are filled with people so as they are filled everyone is trying to help as many people as they can get out. this person who is shooting the video managed to shoot it as he