engine seven was in route to a call at the time, lights flashing, sirens blaring. >> they were responding and coming through the intersection. it appears that the driver of a vehicle came out into the intersection and the engine hit them and then careened and moved off to the right side and hit the parked cars. reporter: this saab is also totaled. the extreme energy crushing the front and rear ends. >> it is emotional. thank god nobody was in it and thank god nobody w reporter: her audi is among the cars with damage. >> my daughter called me. she was -- i was at work and she said i think your car got hit. reporter: the force of the crash knocking down a tree. thankfully there were no pedestrians when it happened. >> it is a dangerous job and it shouldn't be dangerous responding. reporter: you a looking at -- you are looking at some of the vehicles affected.

the -- at this point, no charges have been filed. wcvb newscenter 5. ed: i know this is difficult to see, but many of these people are in wheelchairs and they are protesting. the school is the only one in the country still using controversial electric shock therapy on students. the protest is organized by adapt which of disability rights activists. >> maria: breaking right now we are hearing the phone calls before nightclub masacre. a florida judge ruling these tapes should be made public. now on these tapes you can hear dispatchers trying to get mateen to talk about the attack and then he references boston marathon bombing

>> my home boy did his thing. now it is my turn. >> maria: investigators say mateen had no direct connection to the tsarnaev brothers and he claimed allegiance to the islamic state on these tapes. he was killed when s.w.a.t teams stormed the building after he murdered 49 people. the judge has not ruled whether the other 9-1-juan call -- 9-1-1 cls public. ed: it is the first weekday commute with open tolling up. this morning's commute went smoothly with less traffic than usual. newscenter 5 is live. nicole? >> we have been out here all day keeping an eye on things. aside from a few minor slow downs things look great. let's take a look. no slow downs and that's really wonderful news

the first real one. it is happening as demolition continues. if you are one of the thousands of drivers who pass through following plazas along the pike today, you may have expected -- >> trying to avoid the rush hour. reporter: but instead you experienced -- >> so far no problem so far. i breeze through it. reporter: instead of the halloween nightmare expected for commuters it ended up being a smooth early hour. credit goes to month -- months of planning and coordination and execution. reporter: execution that is ahead of schedule. so far 13 of 23 following locations either demolished the process. they can navigate at 15 miles per hour no stopping. >> the toll booth makes you slow down and congest traffic and makes it so you are confused and hoping you get through. it is much easier. reporter: transportation officials are asking drivers

time as ridership may have been down partially due to halloween. >> it felt weird because i am not used to flying right through them. but it is good if you can go through them quickly. reporter: so all in all things really do look good out here. coming up at 7:00, i will tell you why transportation officials say the real test meant will come on the tuesday commute. wcvb newscenter 5. >> maria: nicole, thank you. a testify teen-year-old boy is at a party in lowell. another teenager is facing charges. newscenter 5 goes live to lowell with two very different stories of what happened at this party. diane? reporter: prosecutors say the victim allegedly stumbled into the suspect that night at the party. that's when they say the suspect slammed him into the concrete floor. 15-year-old ethan castello was

school with many hopes and dreams. all of that was shattered on friday night. was stall low was at -- costello was at a house party when the victim accidentally stumbled into another 18-year-old. >> he was a nice and caring kid. it is heartbreaking. reporter: prosecutors say castello was at a house party on boylston street when they say 18-year-old zacharello bragged about what he did. >> he grabbed him by the throat and the ground result there -- reporter: there is a report one of the friends saw him being dragged out of the yard by three people and others took castello to the hospital, but there was a delay. he started a fight to prevent him from being taken to the hospital. a number of teens were drinking at the party including the victim. castello suffered a traumatic brain injury and taken to

another side was there was a push and no one as thrown to the ground. >> unspeakable tragedy. the victim fell to the floor and it seems he hit his head, or at least that's what the evidence suggests. reporter: the suspect's family members didn't have much to say after the court hearing. >> i just know this is not the truth, the whole story. the whole story will come out. reporter: the suspect has been charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. his bail was set at $10,000 cash with several reqre need to wear a gps monitoring tau vees. wcvb muse center 5. ed: police hope you can help identify a suspect that attacked an mbta operator. it happened early yesterday and police say the suspect told the worker he didn't have money for the fare and then punched him in the face and then pulled him on to the platform before eventually taking off. ed: commitment 2016 coverage.

fbi director james comey over his disclosure that it may be relevant to hillary clinton. and a new round of hacked information revealed through wikileaks showed she contacted the clinton campaign about a question ahead of the primary in march. she was a commentator for cnn, but she is now the interim head of the democratic national committee. clto and she said she is confident there is no case connected to the e-mails and attacked trump's ability to handle a crisis. >> imagine him in the oval office facing a real crisis. imagine his advisors afraid to tell him what he doesn't want to hear. ed: clinton will head to florida tomorrow. >> maria: and trump took his

florida. he told an audience in grand rapids that he is like -- that she is likely to be indicted if she wins next week's election. he commands comey for reopening the investigation. >> it took guts for director comey to make the move he made this light of the kind of opposition he had where they are trying to protect her from criminal prosecution. >> maria: trump went on to tell the michigan audience he will bring themk of thousands over the past 20 years. reporter: a transportation company owner charged with stealing millions of dollars in taxpayers. what he was doing as prosecutors say he carried out. ed: and halloween cuteness. premies dressing up at a local hospital. harvey: it is getting chilly

>> from pro-bowl linebacker to on his way to cleveland.

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jc: the owner of a medical transportation company is accused of taking millions from taxpayers. ed: it is questionable billing from a year ago and the man in charge was living large as prosecutors say he ripped off reporter: the former head of one of the largest medical transportation companies in the state isn't talking to 5 investigates after being charged with bilking taxpayers for $19 million. they were paid millions in taxpayer dollars since 2011. twoos to drive people on -- it was to drive people on mass health to appointments across the state. investigators say they billed

were not provided. they even billed for rides for people while they were hospitalized and some who were dead. devini and three of his managers face charges in what the attorney general calls a false billing scheme. according to records object -- object pained by 5 investigates the company billed the state more than competitors. billing sky rocketed from $throughy 7 is 375,000 in 2012 to $16 million in 2015. during those years we discovered devini and wrig htway purchased many homes including this new hampshire home, and this five-bedroom ocean front home if maib and -- in maine and another vacation home on a small island in new hampshire. at the same time prosecutors say wrightway was billing for

devini and one of his managers were offering existing clients cash and gift cards for the new client referrals so they could bill the state for even more. >> number seven, medicaid kickbacks, guilty or not guilty? >> not guilty. they say they did nothing wrong and they never submitted false billing information to the state. >> michael devini and his three managers facerg including larceny over $250 and filing false medical claims. the company primarily transported clients to methadone clinics across the state. 5 investigates. ed: it is halloween, but salem is reaching peak party mode. >> we love it here. the at moss tear and the people. -- the atmosphere and the

this is new at seconds:00. a big night in the witch city as thousands are you -- thousands are arriving. hopefully there are more treats than tricks. jcjc you can -- jc: you can bring them back here, nicole. reporter: last year a record breaking crowd, 100,000 people and that was saturday night. they don't expect that many

ready. as the sunsets in downtown salem, the streets are filling up with the edibles, the adorable and the downright scary. from the nightmare enducing to the, well, nightmare enducing. >> he is a puppet. >> she is a puppet. >> the last time we saw these two this close was perhaps in the polls. >> the inspiration we koobt get away from the election fever for think. >> check your e-mail. >> linda and timothy are not the only two taking advantage of the election. no need to convince the regulars about the city's halloween greatness. >> i just love it here. it is the atmosphere. it is great up here. we plan on moving here in a few years. >> thousands are expected to join in the fun and perhaps a little bit of magic. jessica is joining the crowd from upstate new york.

everything that will happen tonight. reporter: mixed in with the halloween revelers you will find many dressed in blue, dozens of police officers keeping an eye on safety. and speaking of safety, if you plan on coming down here don't plan on parking on the streets. you want to stay to those lots marked for your safety as well as you don't want to get your car towed tonight. live in salem, wcvb newscenter 5. at this. paying it forward premie style. check out the costumes of these women in the nicu. that is ben carlson dressed as a baby giraffe. and there is carolyn gallant. ainsley and shay they are known as the rod squad of 15 costumes in all. they are all from build-a-bear which were donated by the

that's the sweetest. i love it. ed: harvey, what are you going to be for halloween. harvey: something i have tried to be all my life and i haven't been. ed: what is that? harvey: a sportscaster. of course i can't do that. ed: you can do it. harvey: check out that sky. it is so gorgeous in boston this evening of 47 degrees is the temperature. 10 mile an hour wind, but you get outside the city and already it is a few degrees colder. bedford is 43 and beverly at 43. worcester at 43. 42 in orange, mass, head to the south of boston and it is in the 40s everywhere too. plymouth and new bedford and hyannis. it is pretty uniform. with the clear skies and the dry air and the light winds are off to the west and the south and the north. that's going to make for the temperature dropping quickly

evening hours. it will be down to the cold spots and probably upper 30s by the time we get to 9:00. boston 43 or 44. overall i would say the chilly spot is in the upper 30s by 9:00. late tonight and early tomorrow many areas will be at frosty levels and that's what you can experience. if your cars are outside tomorrow morning you will have a good deal of post to scrape -- of post -- off. the milder air that has moved to the midwest will be ours for two days or most of two days on wednesday and thursday. there will be a fair amount of cloud on thursday. not so tomorrow. the high pressure is close enough to be in control. yes you get a little cloudiness on wednesday, and you get the benefit of a southwest wind and much milder air. that's the good news. here you see it mainly clear for tuesday. then you will also see some of

there are breaks of sun and at least partial sun at times. it gets interesting on thursday because we could still be very, very mild and then we will watch a front approach during the afternoon and the evening. a band of showers and maybe even a thunderstorm could move through later thursday, early thursday evening and then sharply chillier weather on friday. that's a notice along change. of course check it out here as we get to the weekend. right now it looks like it will be be staying chilly. and this is the weekend we fall back. so saturday night before you go to sleep, turn the clocks back an hour. you will be all set for, ouch, that's a tough sunset. we get temporary improvement and sunrise beginning on sunday. the sunset will be tough to take. always an adjust -- always an adjustment when that happens. >> now here is mike lynch with sports center 5 powered by

>> mike: bill belichick and his staff watch plenty of videotape. they were not liking what they were seeing out of jaime collins. collins is a free agent at the end of the season and there has been very little progress trying to resign him. he has shipped off to cleveland. reporter: the surprise of the day is really the shock of the season. an anchor of the patriots, jaime collins, has been traded to cleveland. an athletic freak who hurdles the line 20 the wheels to make the big plays. a freelancer who is not always where he needs to be or is taken out of the play such as this taylor run up the get for a bills touchdown. jimmy collins was both things and now goes from first to worst. from the 7-1 patriots to the winnless cleveland browns for a third rounder pick. bill belichick addressed the situation briefly on weei.

was best for the football team. there are a lot of things to take into consideration and we could bring up a lot of points to talk about, but in the end that's the bottom line. >> collins is making only $917,000 this season and was looking for a huge pay day at season's end. he would become an unrestricted free agent. the patriots would have received a pick had he left. still there are eight games to go and the playoffs and collins just turned 27. >> the patriots are on a bye week and will one week from sunday against the seahawks without number 91. at gillette stadium, wcvb sports center 5. ed: no sprays that bill belichick has a history of trading away players. seymour with a year left, shipped out. raible, shipped out. mankin shipped out. jones, to arizona. branch was super bowl mvp and he was shipped out.

up. and randy moss was traded in 2010. it happens to big name players will. smart has now played in the first three games of the regular season and sprained his ankle in the pre-season finale against the knicks, but he will play in wednesday night's home game with the chicago bulls. >> i went through a full practice. i cleared and will be playing on wednesday. it is good to be back out here with those it is great. i can say it now unlike last year. >> he is one of our returning, most contributing players. he was a big addition to our team. >> mike: it is halloween, trick or trick. big foot in tom brady's backyard. it is poll -- tom brady himself as big foot. i think last year he was a dinosaur with his kids.

for tonight. if you see him in the neighborhood -- >> wait, wait, no picture of gisele? what is she going to be? >> maria: all she needs to be is gisele. >> ben: at 7:00, premiere leather jackets made in massachusetts. the quality work that has everyone stopping here. >> and new on newscenter 5 at 11:00, look at this boy's halloween costumes. a tank that goes over his wheelchair.

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tonight, breaking news. the fbi pouring through those newly discovered e-mails right now. what we can now report. hillary clinton saying there is no case here. the fbi director now in the hot seat, why did he go public before the fbi even looked at the e-mails themselves? and tonight, donald trump on the attack. also this evening, the bomb scare on a passenger jet here in the u.s. the emergency declared. calm under pressure. the 911 call just released tonight from that nightclub in orlando. the shooter and the very calm fbi negotiator who was trying to save other lives. the father on trial tonight, his somebody dying in their hot car. this evening, the wife takes the stand. and what she says about her husband. and up in flames. the new condo completion, the inferno, and the race to clear