>> from boston news leader, this is wcvb newscenter 5 at noon. >> donald trump getting ready to rally support in the grand the state, the key campaign issues he is targeting today. >> new action against the quincy schoolbus driver behind the wheel at the time of this crash, what we now know about the incident. >> commuters bracing for major changes on the mass pike, just hours away from the start of open polling in massachusetts. major demolition and traffic

>> we are at the weston tolls with the important information you need to know. >> tonight is the night it gets started, no more cash at the toll plaza, as the project gets underway, this could mean headaches for hundreds of thousands of drivers. this may be the last time you see call plazas along the mass pike look like this. as major changes get underweight in hours. will be a thing of the past. 10:00 tonight, open polling takes place, no more cash on the mass pike, told plaza demolition begins this weekend with new traffic patterns taking affect. for the next few weeks, while the coal plazas are being dismantled, you will have to drive around this works own, traffic will first be funneled to the sides of the plaza and

traffic moves through the middle meaning you have to slow down and stay in your lane. there are price changes. from i-84 to boston it will cost $3.60 with the massachusetts e-zpass transponder and from $4.95 to boston -- $2.55. all of these prices are slightly higher if you do not have that e-zpass and if you pay by plate or have a transponder from another state. hundreds of toll workers. a few are excited about early retirement or transferring to other positions but there are about 250 toll workers getting laid off. that is the latest. >> a new effort to accommodate drivers trying to get an e-zpass , long lines reported in some

we continue our team coverage at noon. >> i am excited to get my transponder. >> he is one of many signing up to get e-zpass, they are needed as they shut down cash lanes and begin open tolling on the mass pike tonight. now the rush is on to get the transponders and high demand is slowing down the website to apply online. >> >> mascot was shut down the websites and the phone line starting tonight and through the weekend to transition to the new system. the e-zpass service centers will have extended hours this weekend for those cash customers in need of transponders. >> i have been driving on the pike for many years,. >> to help those who cannot get transponders right away, they are offering a six month grace

drivers will get a bill and have to pay the full cash price but once the device is activated, the discount will be credited. in addition to the e-zpass service centers, you can pick up as fodder at r&d offices, they take five to seven days to activate. sera congi, newscenter 5. >> monday morning will be the first commute with the changes and we will be watching any hangups on the pike us traffic on a change and view of what we will face on the roads on monday morning, we started 4:30 a.m. >> early this morning, snow, not just a dusting. made worse by the cold temperatures. >> more wet than snow for us. >> the storm is winding up. winds increase this afternoon and snowing in northern maine.

showers and some drizzle. northern worcester county, orange. this extends eastward to billerica and we have some light showers filling in on the backside of the storm. you see the rotation, low pressure is pulling away and strengthening and as it does so it keeps the cold air locked into the north and the winds have started picking up from the west overnight and this westerly wind cranking and gusts over 30 and worcester and over 20 along because line. the wind strongest in cape cod where there is a wind advisory until 11:00 tonight and there could be gusts close to 50 miles per hour. western massachusetts, 37 in pittsfield, 41 in worcester and 48 in boston.

winds will make it feel like it is in the 30's so bundle up. >> new, firefighters quickly extent which flames on two boats at a yacht club stores lot in medford, the fire started around 7:30 this morning and spread from one boat to another. no one was hurt and the cause is under investigation. a quincy schoolbus driver on paid leave after this crash on corey street, police say there were the school bus. five elementary school student sent to the hospital tuesday after the chain reaction crash and the bus into a pole and an suv before -- >> one man dead after a standoff at a motel and hampton beach, new hampshire, police say he fired at officers. police arrived at the motel on ocean boulevard at 8:30 last night as part of a burglary investigation out of seabrook, a 38-year-old man been shot at

. police evacuated the building as they try to get the men to surrender but he would not come a no officers were hurt. >> police searching for a man approaching an elementary school student in concord, police say the man called out to the boy from his car yesterday afternoon. he offered him candy but the drought walked away and looked back and saw the man taking pictures with his phone and police want to find and question him. a security breach at the suffolk county house of corrections, soe calls made by aaron hernandez through a telephone database used by the jail in 2014 while he was waiting for his first-degree murder trial. the breach discovered during a routine security check, the herald reports it was never relate and prosecutors -- to prosecutors or the defense team, his phone calls were the only ones access. >> donald trump is about to start a roundtable discussion on the open your crisis in

where he will hold a rally in the granite state as hillary clinton campaigns in iowa, making another pitch to women about the importance of voting in this election. marci gonzalez with the new developments on the campaign trail. >> hillary clinton's lead narrowing, a latest abc-washington post poll finding among likely voters, 40% say they will vote for clinton while 44% say they are backing donald trump. the republican candidate in ohio. donald trump: we should just cancel the election and just give it to donald trump. why are we having it? >> with 11 days until the election come a close call on the trail, mike pence's jets fending off the runway in new york last night, the candidate on gma this morning discussing that scare and the financial disparity between the two campaigns.

with just $16 million. >> is a time for donald trump to write the check and close the gap? mike pence: he will make that decision but the strength of the campaign is not dollars and cents, it is the american people who are rallying behind donald trump's message. >> hillary clinton's message getting a big boost from michelle obama. michelle obama: more than barack obama, more than bill clinton, so she is and yes, she happens to be a woman. >> as the democratic candidate continues on the trail today, focusing on women's right. politico is reporting clinton has joe biden on her short list to be secretary of state if she wins the presidency. >> new numbers on early voting in massachusetts, thursday morning, as up, to 50,000 people

people have voted early. early voting is offered through november 4, you can find the locations on what -- on our app. >> parents outraged over a makeover to call which could cost over $100 million and people say the money should be put to the school, the proposal one day after the city announced $100 million in cost cutting there is no copy edition between the schools and city hall says walsh. the mbta response after the chaotic incident this week on the orange line, what the chief says the operator did right and the one mistake he made. >> controversy over a big scale on a texas university campus, the reason one group is charging different prices for different customers and the reaction from the university. >> strong winds now and they are

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>> you are watching newscenter 5 at noon. >> marathon bombing survivors continue to get their belongings back that were left behind at the finish line at 41 survivor it is bringing some closure. she says she was not sure if she was ready to cheat the close she was wearing over three years ago. she was cheering her mother on when the bombs went off. she says it was emotional seeing her shoe and the other items

time. >> i had 67 text messages and over 10 voicemails from that day. it was very emotional but a good feeling to come. go. >> the fbi says it started releasing evidence to survivors back in august. >> the mbta says the operator of the orange line that overheated did everything right except one th let passengers no what was going on exactly as smoke started filling the cars. passengers smashed windows to get out and the mayor is floating the idea of a new tax to help pay for needed mbta repairs. your economy, governor baker's administration holding off on midyear budget cuts as the state looks for other ways to close the budget gap. the state is facing a two under $94 million budget shortfall because of lower-than-expected

state employee buyouts will help those that gap without spending reductions. a bake sale caused controversy over the university of texas, the young conservatives of texas used the sale to make a point about affirmative-action. they were selling the same cookies at different prices, depending on the customer's race. some students critical of the sale gathered in protest on the campus, calling it offensive and a bad idea. fo point the group is trying to make was lost in the delivery. >> it was not a good idea. affirmative action is much more complicated than this but it opened up a gateway for people to talk about it. >> the university said the bake sale did not represent the ideals that they strive toward. >> we turn for the weather and the rain moving out and slightly coming back. >> we will get some backlash.

>> you can see the storm pushing the steadier stuff to our north and on the backside, a couple of showers and drizzle but the steady heavy rain came in overnight. rain totals impressive, we had over one inch and a third in stoneham, surely with over one inch and natick over one inch here in a lot of spots over the one inch mark. lynn with two inches of rain so beneficial first time we have had that this month. the rain events over the past few weeks and four october we have now had nearly 5.5 inches of rain and you know we have a drought. this is a long-term situation so the rain helps in the short-term but look at the yearly deficit, nowhere near the nine inch mark in boston and over two years eight inches behind. we need more rain events before we can creep out of the drought.

few showers working into the backside of the system. in worcester, all the way to 495 and closing in on 128, light showers and missed and drizzle, nothing too heavy expected in the afternoon but a good idea to have an umbrella with you because the showers pop up and a couple of raindrops on the lens in boston, 48 degrees. it is warmer than that -- it was warmer then that this morning. winds have shifted to the west th stay active, still a potential they could gust close to 50 miles for our from cape ann and kickoff. a wind advisory until 11:00 tonight. the storm getting stronger but pulling away, locking in the cold and the northern parts of maine, even northern new hampshire, the mountains looking at some snow, still accumulating. the storm spinning this way and the cloud cover is locked on

temperature starting to fall, 41 in worcester and 30's in the western part of the state. temperatures will continue to fall as we get the westerly wind feeding in the colder air, 5:00 this afternoon around boston, showers shifting back on in. it will take longer to reach the south shore indicate but by 6:00 this evening, eastern massachusetts, a couple of showers and deeper into the evening they low-40's at the coast line. tomorrow is warmer, saturday looks nice, mid-to-upper-50's, seasonal for this time of year and the storm goes out with a mildly southwesterly wind. a front will bring showers to northern new england and it comes through here dry. low pressure will try to cross the front on sunday evening and it could bring a touch of rain but the latest is the drops are too far self so saturday is a

city. read easy boston is a children's museum, free screening and admission -- looking to go trick-or-treating on monday d, looksr with sunshine during the day, like a 50's, trick or treat temperaturesy from the upper-40's into the upper-30's. chilly on halloween but dry and on wednesday, that is a six, we may be in the 60's toward the middle of nextee major lawsuit against johnson & johnson over baby powder. >> she says yes of using products with talcum cost her cancer, a jury awarded the woman over 70 million dollars and johnson and johnson was accused of negligence any marketing of baby powder, the latest lawsuit raising concerns about the effects of talcum powder. >> coming up, a daredevil test

nearly cost him his life and what he believes went wrong. this is where the oil billionaire koch brothers hostkelly ayotte... for this is where ayotte voted with the koch brothers 90% of the time. ayotte's campaigns collected millions from corporate interests. and voted for them, not you. llions in write offs for executive bonuses. voted big oil billions in tax breaks. but kelly ayotte voted against letting families refinance student loans. and against lowering the cost of prescription drugs. kelly ayotte's not working for new hampshire. dscc is responsible for the content of this advertising. i just want what's best for my kids. when i hear arguments that massachusetts needs more charter schools, i think: what about the students in all of our schools? every new charter takes away more money

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recovering after a near-death experience him he jumped off a mountain in the french alps in a win suit when something went wrong. he had his camera recorded as he basted jumped off the ledge and he ran out of airspeed and altitude, the priest coming at him fast. -- the trees coming at him fast. he woke up suffering from moderate brain damage in a hospital. >> on video. >> very windy the rest of the afternoon with a few showers. good idea to have an umbrella but saturday looks dry and a milder we can, private 50's and on sunday there could be rain late in the day or evening. we may have a dry weekend and halloween looks great, sunny, a little chilly but dry for

>> this is a notorious -- this is an editorial. >> during this election year, certain buzzwords and phrases have dwarfed important issues, the wall, deplorable, sex scandal, e-mail, we but also at another, the media. many partisans from both major parties frequently accuse the media of being biased agains and been abused by the so-called media appeared it depends on what lens you view from. the new gallup poll finds that confidence in the media has fallen to a four decade low. we will not quibble with the findings however many of these correspondents and much of the public in general share a common perception that the media is a single, monolithic entity. what really vexes us is figuring

media is. far from passive cooperation or collusion, all media outlets exist in a fierce, 20 47 competition, vying for any viewer, reader, listener, and visitor. there is no one-size-fits-all group that is the media. print, broadcast, web, social media, bloggers, cartoonist, all carry credentials, calling all of these outlets the media is as one washington post writer se virtually all ocean life the fish. it is too general a classification to be useful. from distinct media outlets to individual journalists, we can do better with a vast array of media to choose from, it is ultimately up to voters to choose, follow only the media which reinforces their worldview or shop to find a balance diet

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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

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