was mr. bonejangles expecting the perfect toy at an amazing price? of course not. he's a dog. but that's the beauty of a store full of surprises. you never know what you're gonna find, but you know you're gonna love it. >> from boston's news leader, this is wcvb newscenter 5 at noon. good afternoon. thank you for joining us. erika: here's a look at some of the stories making headlines right now. the mbta under fire after panicked passengers are forced to break windows to escape after smoke fills this orange line train. emily: the hero off-duty officer who took down an armed man at a taunton mall credits his training for helping him prevent further tragedy. erika: donald trump and hillary

with just days to go until the elections. emily: live radar shows the first snowfall. pushing into the state. rain, gusty wind also on the way. erika: this system could create issues for several commute starting tonight. cindy: if you look at the radar, snowing all into worcester right now but it is not. visibility's still up around 10 miles. springfield, seven snowing and that's no will accumulate. radar is depicting moisture in the air above and this will reach the ground for you around the worcester area as well. there will be accumulations in western massachusetts. three inches or more could fall. you may see a few flakes around the worcester area. a changeover to rain will occur.

hold in the 40's is that rain spreads in. should be dry in the boston area and there after we watch the rain come in. there may be a bit of a mixed early on by 2:00 and then notice how it does spread east. it gets west as we get into the afternoon. heaviest rain will come overnight. can't rule out thunder and this rain is going to be heavy during the overnight hours. strong winds wilco >> very traumatic experience. everything at that point reverted to my training. went into autopilot. erika: for the first time we are hearing from the hero off-duty officer credited with taking down a knife wielding attacker at a taunton mall. todd kazakiewich is alive with reaction from the officer, his wife and a survivor of the

his wife. she is a nurse and played a critical role that night. he was off-duty but we know he was armed. he says killing the suspect was the last thing he wanted to do but he had no choice. >> i can't describe it. a strange look in his eye. very serious. no emotion. todd: lieutenant james creed of the plymouth county sheriff's department standing with his right -- with his wife laura and rosemary george heath. the bristol da's report finds he was justified in shooting and killing arthur darosa. >> as he was charging at me he said summoned to the effect of were both going to die today. todd: darosa had attacked three women in macy's. before that he stabbed patricia slavin and wounded her daughter kathleen in their home.

fire when darosa was closing in on him. >> i think george is the hero. george o intervened without knowing what was going on. todd: rosemary heath and the creeds have become close friends. >> i would have been next. he was so close to me. todd: the creeds and rosemary heath are helping each other through the healing process. knowing their lives will n next story. we won't for a long time. if ever. todd: the da's file report also details the mental health evaluation that darosa had in the hours before the attack. in the health evaluation he tells doctors he was hearing the devil telling him to do horrible things.

hospital after she was struck by a green line trolley. it happened on beacon street in brookline. her injuries considered non life-threatening. she was taken to bring him and women's for treatment. emily: the mbta is investigating this scene on the orange line. passengers forced to break windows to escape after smoke filled the train. sera congi is live in boston with the serious safety concerns facing the tea today. -- facing the t today. seriously hurt but the incident is raising concerns about the system. even as the mbta is planning to spend billions on improvements. chaos caught on cell phone cameras by passengers trying to escape smoke inside an orange line train in back bay station during yesterday's afternoon rush hour. they pushed out windows because the doors remain closed.

on the live third rail. the mbta says a motor overheated touching off a trash fire on the rails. no one was seriously injured. >> i just happened to watch it as it was unfolding. sera: boston -- boston city council president michele will is a regular t ryder. >> even if all of the cars and trains were running at current capaci often the case, we would still not be surveying the needs of residents in cities. sera: the mbta board has approved billions of dollars in and for structure improvements. -- in infrastructure improvements. that includes $1.6 billion on new trains and buses and another $1 billion on improvements to track signals and power. after yesterday possible

walsh wants to speak to the governor about ways to improve. >> you need revenue. can't raise the fees i think they have to take a look at it on the tax front. sera: the t's investment plan overtone next five years includes new red and orange line trains due in 2018. erika: boston police and uber are st wheel slams into a beacon hill home. video from sky 5 over the scene at myrtle and grove streets. witnesses say the driver identified by his wife as jean-claude collett was speeding after possibly being involved in a hit and run when he crashed into that brick building. the passenger was with him. witnesses cannot believe no one was killed. >> i heard a boom down that and idiot i go to the corner i see

surprised they survive. they were going fast. erika: colette and his passenger were treated for injuries. emily: commitment 2016. hillary clinton and donald trump challenging each other's commitment with less than two weeks until election day. alana zack is tracking developments including new trouble for the clinton campaign. lana: a new issue for the clinton campaign. another batch of hacked e-mails allegedly from of abc news has not been able to validate the stolen document that shows that donors to the clinton foundation were encouraged to hire bill clinton for lucrative speaking engagements. the u.s. intelligence community has tied the documents to russian government hackers trying to interfere in the u.s. elections. in abc's interview with donald trump george stephanopoulos asked him about the connection. >> u.s. intelligence agencies believe the russians are behind the leak.

relations. you know what bothers me? >> you were told by the head of the -- mike mccall said the same thing. he told you that he thought the russians -- >> hacking is very hard to determine who did what. lana: trump also repeated his controversial remarks about the death of an american muslim military hero killed in iraq. >> if i were president at that time, captain khan would be alive today. called his comments cruel. >> no sincerity in those remarks. lana: henry clinton will be joined onstage by the person many believed to be her strongest advocate, first lady michele obama. -- in a poll numbers show this race is only getting tighter. clinton and trump separated by six points in the latest abc news/washington post poll. clinton's biggest -- in an

her election venue so that clinton will be standing literally under a glass ceiling on election night. emily: tomorrow. trump returns to new england. he will hold rallies at the radisson hotel in manchester new hampshire and at a christian school in lisbon, maine. recent polls have trumped trailing in both of those states which have key electorates up for grabs. erika: the efforts to save residents trapped several stories up. aftershocks rattled italy after two powerful earthquakes. cleanup efforts underway as residents fear more violent shaking. cindy: i'm tracking snow that will be changing to a cold rain as it heads our way. a thunder threat and where wind could be damaging. erika: more bad news for twitter. the major cuts it now says it struggles to keep up with

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an oklahoma man wanted in a string of killings. michael dale vance junior is wanted for murdering two relatives. also accused of shooting a police officer in the foot sunday night before he was hit. investigators say they have no idea where he may be hiding and they add it is possible he may have died from his gunshot wounds. erika: crews in italy are assessing the damage from a pair of strong earthquakes several aftershocks felt overnight. incredibly, no one was killed. jennifer: overnight central italy rocked by two powerful earthquakes toppling buildings. the first quake, 5.5 magnitude. two hours later, a more powerful 6.1. terrified residents running into the street.

several buildings collapsing in the town of camerino. rescue teams searching for anyone who may be trapped. old is blocking roads. -- boulders locking roads. this 15th century church already weakened by the 6.2 earthquake in late august in the same region that killed nearly 300 people. daylight brought the first assessment, extensive damage across the schools are closed at the quake zone and some residents have been moved to shelter. several people suffered from light injuries but so far officials say there are no deaths. residents say because of that deadly august quake just 12 miles from here, lies were saved because daschle lives were saved because people were out of their homes with a second much stronger tremor hit. emily: skywest pilot is under

police arrested russell duszak just moments before another flight after a tsa agent smelled alcohol on him. duszak has been removed from flying duties and placed on a ministry to believe while flying -- while police investigate. erika: cutting 9% of its workforce worldwide about 350 workers. twitter is struggling to snapchat and instagram. it is looking for a buyer as a continues to lose millions of dollars. emily: we started the day out cold. it's still not warm. cindy: still in the 40's but 40 is better than 30's. better than low 30's, which they have in the western part of the state and it is snowing as expected at lunchtime. that is going to transition east

the drought monitor updates every thursday morning. it did that this morning and it's virtually unchanged from last week. you are thinking how can that be because we got all that rain especially out in the worcester area, three to four inches. virtually unchanged. still 9.5 inches worcester into boston. we need more of these events to bring more rain while we climb our way out of this drought situation. this next event will bring some is coming. this is welcome news and it's going to be coming as we get deeper into the afternoon and especially overnight. we can see the heaviest of the rain. the downpours. that looks like a high impact that can lead to some localized poor drainage flooding briefly. there could be a rumble of thunder. strong wind also another component that's going to be developing with this storm system. especially just after midnight

a wind advisory for that reason a bid on the coastline. could be some gusts between 40 to 50 miles per hour and that would be enough to do some damage in these areas. we have some cloud cover over boston. we're 47 degrees. wind for the moment turning easterly. starting to pick up around 10 miles per hour at the cape. that wind off the water where the water temperature is 57 degrees has warmed us up into the lower 50's on capeod the deeper inland you go, it's only in the 30's. 38 in worcester but we have lower 30's from hartford to pittsfield and that is where we have the snow flying. the leading edge of that snow has made it all away toward worcester and providence it looks like you are about to get rained on. i'm sure you felt the air so it takes a while for this snow to reach the ground. where you see the white with reduced visibility that's where the snow is reaching the ground.

mile with snow flying around the hartford area. high pressure to the east and that will keep enough cold air in place that we maintain some of the snow especially in higher elevations through parts of northern, western mimi going to see several inches of snow locally or you do might be a few inches one to three toward berkshires and western massachusetts with trace amounts into the highest elevations of worcester county before we change things over to rain. we will be doing that as we go forward in time. the rain should get going around 4:00 this afternoon. you can see it getting into worcester around 2:00 this afternoon and pressing toward the coastline. there may be a little bit of snow through the highest elevations of worcester county but it will change to rain. during the wee hours of the morning can't rule out a rumble of thunder and this all pushes out first thing tomorrow morning and will try things out. tomorrow the temperatures come

gusts 40 to 50 miles per hour in the storm -- the wind shifts as the storm exits. dry and fairly mild start to the weekend. near 60 on saturday. could be rain developing on sunday area it's gone on monday. trick-or-treating looks dry this

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emily: the most decorated olympic athlete is officially hitched. erika: michael phelps and the cole johnson actually exchange valves and a secret ceremony way back in june. the couple married a month after johnson gave birth to thein medals in the rio games after his private nuptials. emily: it was the newlywed glow. cindy: exactly. watching for that rain spreading this afternoon. snow at the onset in worcester county. overnight could be some thunder and strong wind first thing tomorrow morning. we warm up this weekend. may actually feel like it's october again. erika: not bad for

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