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>> now on newscenter 5. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> a weather alert. >> breaking news, the latest on the injuries and what caused this accident. also breaking, an oklahoma city lockdown shooting. what we know right now. >> right now, newscenter 5 at 4:00 is wet and gloomy. many people are experiencing downpours as rain sweeps through the area. >> here's how it look along the south coast. water lapping up into some people's back yard. >> boston harbor overflowing. very high tides caused in part
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super moon that we saw on sunday night. >> rain and, as you can see, from the radar, heavy rain. >> some of the heaviest rain metro west, worcester county, points north, and the next couple of hours will be the wettest. add to that the early sunset, when it's so gray and dark out already it makes it seem like the sunset is even earlier. here's a wider view and you see those elements of yellow. many south of the island. let's take a wider view of this whole thing as it lifts up. steadiest and heaviest is lifting through the region and will over the next one to three hours but here's a look at the wide area. let's localize some of it for you, from new hampshire across, bands of moderate to heavy rain, very heavy rain down to hudson and right in worcester. of course, framingham affected
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mansfield, norwood and southeastern mass not left out. plymouth and parts of the cape getting heavy rain. we take this out in time. it's still with us at 5:00. most of the heavy stuff by 6:00 or 7:00 starts to lift north but there are still a few heavier hours that could linger along the coastline. then finally all of it lifts north. we'll let you know what follows in a few minutes. >> will rogers airport is locked down shooting. ben is following this. ben: it's still a very fluid situation. we know one person has been shot. police are searching for a possible second victim the airport remains shut down. people are telling anybody inside airport to shelter place-to-place. people have been going from car-to-car. all roads that lead into and out
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we do not know the condition of the shooting victim at this hour. no information on the shooter has been released. we do know this happened near the departures area. not clear if it was beyond security. to give you some comparisons, it's about the same size as the airport in manchester, new hampshire. we'll continue to monitor the situation and bring you updates as they happen. wcvb, newscenter 5. >> more breaking news. eight ppl hospital after a silver lined bus crash at herald and washington streets a little more than an hour ago. a driver pulled out and hit the bus. the injuries are believed the be minor. police are searching for the cab driver responsible for a hit-and-run crash in boston's back bay that involved a police cruiser. here's sean with the latest at the scene. sean: a lot of damage was left
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including the state police cruiser. state police spent the morning searching for security cameras that might have caught video or the taxi that took off. that chain reaction crash happened around 2:30 at commonwealth an berkeley. the trooper had been following the cab for driving erratically the cab and another car collided, knocked into the cruiser and a parked car. then the taxi took off. state police are still searching for the cab driver, starting with finding the cab company. white with green markings. thankfully, though, no one was injured in this hit-and-run crash. >> new at 4:00, police in quincey are asking for the public's help to find a thief and this man is a person of interest riding on a scooter. police want to question him in a series of burglaries that happened on quincey avenue. anyone with information is asked to call quincey police. >> a worcester man is hospitalized in intensive care with a serious head injury after
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for a suspect or suspects in the assault outside the i've street apartment. investigators believe the victim was struck over the head with a blunt object as he got out of his car. the 46-year-old was able to reach his door and pound it for help. as president-elect donald trump fills out his cabinet at least one of his highest profile supporters is now saying no thanks. >> dr. ben carson. he's reportedly declined the position of secretary of health an human services. instead he'll continue to from outside the courthouse. dr. carson, a retired neurosurgeon ran for the republican nomination and threw his support behind mr. trump after dropping out. his spokesperson says dr. carson never wanted the role in the administration. >> new at 4:00, head of the securities and exchange commission is stepping down early before the trump administration takes over. mary jo what it has been working to imimplement financial reform. many of these reforms the president-elect trump has said he'll roll back. among the reforms trump is
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frank, a bill that assures for wall street accountability and transparency. the team at the sec was -- his term was not up for another three years. mike pence meeting with the republican governors from around the country including massachusetts governor charlie baker. baker sat next to pence yesterday at the republican governor's association meeting in orlando, florida, pence tweeting this photo that you see here saying it was a great meeting discussing president-elect trump's plans to work with the states. >> what a difference a week makes. they were at odd most of thee election but today signs of the ice between meeting discussing the presiden and paul ryan has actually thawed. the house unanimously nominated paul ryan for a second term. ryan promises g.o.p. colleagues that he'll work hand and glove with mr. trump. >> we're going to focus on doing our job. he'll focus on populating his administration. we'll do everything we can to help him be as successful as he's going to be, which i think he'll be a very successful
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the agenda of the ongoing lame duck session will be and after democrats suffered major losses in 2016, nancy pelosi leadership, she was the minority leader could, be in jeopardy. today house democrats decided to delay their leadership vote until after thanksgiving. democrats are working to put up a challenger to pelosi. >> new at 4, president obama in greece, athens, the first stop on his last planned international trip as president. today in athens he held a joint country's prime minister. the president repeat his call for unity saying mankind is stronger when we stand together instead of focusing on our differences. >> i do believe separate and apart from any particular election or movement, that we're going to have to guard against a
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in a crude sort of nationalism or ethnic identity or triballism that is built around an event. >> the president faces the task of reassuring u.s. allies in the quake of trump's election victory. he'll also visit germany and peru as part of 4 trip. right now police are asking for help identifying a man in connection with an incident over the weekend. the department posted this sketch to its facebook page. detectives boy told them that this man -- the driver stopped, got out of his car moving towards the boy. police say the man was possibly driving a v-w passat similar to this car. the man drove off when the boy screamed. anyone with information is asked to call weeft on police. >> two workers were killed in this trench collapse. walsh wants to make new rules to make sure the construction companies are in good standing
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work permit. this was the scene at the intersection on october 21 when maddox and higgins were killed after the trench flooded. the men were working for atlantic drain service. 5 investigates uncovered previous safety issues with that company. those included eight different violations earlier this year and fined $25,000 by ownertia. mayor walsh's proposal would allow city agencies to reject or modify applications and companies would be tell city hall of all violations. the proposal still needs the approval of the baptist city council. no criminal charges have been filed as the d.a.'s office continues to investigate. >> let's take a look at traffic. look how dark it is. it looks like the middle of the night already. the headlights are coming through town. the taillights on the right are trying to leave town. you can see brake lights.
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the drive times. let's begin down -- we'll hit this one more time -- how does that work? look at all the urgencies. 93 and newton corner, 16 minutes. if you're going from where the tolls used to be, slow at 128. 495 south is a little low. the pike to 290, a seven-minute ride. let's go down to the split. that's bad. already 40 minutes. might be 45 in a time. 120, about the same, 33 minutes. traffic is not good and it's only, what time is it, 4:10 in the afternoon. an airline pilot takes charge when a political argument turns nasty on-board his flight. what he said to that unruly passenger that earns him cheers from the rest of the folks on the plane. >> a look at some of the huge wildfires that are still burning in the southeastern part of the united states. investigators believe we're intentionally set.
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tonight. now, we do he a coastal flood advisory for that one as well like we had for earlier today. we'll explain the differences and how all of this heavy rain is affecting us. breaking news, an airport in oklahoma city placed on lockdown because of a shooting. the latest information as fios is not cable. we're wired differently. that means incredibly fast 150 meg internet for the holidays. so in the 3.7 seconds it takes gary watson to beat the local sled jump record, fly, gary, fly. ...his friend can download 13 versions of the perfect song... ...his sister can live stream it... ...while his mom downloads how to set a dislocated shoulder.
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>> a united airlines pilot takes charge after a political squabble breaks out on his flight. two passengers got into an argument over the election and that's when the pilot got on the loud speaker and intervenes. >> have the common decency to accept each other's there is another flight tomorrow. >> united airlines has confirmed that the incident happened but obviously you just saw it on videotape but the flight proceeded and says yuld and no one was removed from the plane. dozens of wildfires continue to burn across the southeastern part of the u.s. eight states are battling smoke and flames with fwhoirl and georgia hit the hardest. >> most of the fires are the result of arson and at least one person has been arrested so far. >> raging flames carrying across
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wildfires overnight. all fueled by the drought in the south and many believe to be manmade. we ask for cooperation on anyone who may have started these fires. >> johnny warned people on facebook to beware of flames. >> the aspiring weatherman later allegedly confessed he set the fire in eastern kentucky to get re are still under investigation. in north carolina, the situation is so dire a mandatory evacuation is in place. >> we're to 10 to 25% of normal rainfall. leaves that are usually only a few inches deep and moist and wet are completely dry and fluffy, and you couldn't ask for a better situation for a fire to move through. >> the widespread smoke also prompting air quality warnings, code red in western north
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parts of georgi georgia. >> hopefully, it will rain but i don't see any rain in the forecast. >> i came into work this afternoon and this is the truth. i felt like summer was pouring a pitcher of water on me. >> especially around the 495 belt coming from southern new hampshire. >> there is more behind it too. >> more lifting up from the southeast. heavy bands of rain around providence. the next couple of hours, very, very wet around here. here's a look at our live doppler. you see a lot of those yellows from worcester northward towards scituate as you can see but there are other areas as well. along the pike, even over southeastern mass but the most condensed area is right in here.
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we have. this is the wider view of the system. notice even down here, we're still getting some development. so so we still have a few hours to go through. how much rain so far? this is as of 4:00. fitchburg was approaching half an inch and worcester has gone over half an inch. orange mass approaching pretty quickly. look, over an inch in providence, rhode island, almost an inch in newport andst widespread to 1 1/2 inches total. northern rhode island and southeastern mass we still have elements of heavy rain. a rumble of thunder is not even impossible in a couple of spots with this. so from amherst, new hampshire, to fitchburg, that's some heavy rain and moderate to heavy rain extends to holden, hudson, framingham, whalen and southeast through norwood and brockton and
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cape, new bedford all the way across to falmouth, all heavy bands of rain and downpours. be careful on the roadways. we take you hour by hour. you will see that the aerial coverage is getting less but there still are these embedded downpours. they start to lift more to the north but a few hug the coastline. then the action is to the north and then the action will be coming to an end. there will still be low clouds early tomorrow. maybe a touch of miss here or there but no heavy rain will around. clouds should break partially tomorrow afternoon. it looks like a fairly mild day. then it looks like a brighter day coming up on thursday. pretty poor visibility with the rain and wind at 20 miles per hour out of the north-northeast. that's why there is a coastal flood advisory for the next high tide. between 10:00 and 2:00 a.m., by then the winds will be lighter but they pick up now, so that
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top of the high tides. a foot lower later tonight than during the day today but still enough for some roads to take on some water. we're in the 40's to the north and west. 50's to the south and east and that's the way we're going to stay pretty much overnight tonight. tomorrow, pretty mild. 55 to 60 looks generally to be the high temperature. the next seven days with mild temperatures right on into saturday. so we have an improved stretch of weather, even some brighter weather for thursday and friday to look forward to. w, the second half of the weekend. showery and starting to turn colder and then windy and cold for the early part of next week as we approach thanksgiving. >> j.c.? >> thank you. today we invite you to check out the new wcvb.com. designed to deliver you breaking news and weather not only faster but using new technology to give you a better experience every time. the latest weather conditions, alerts will be front and center
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