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road. the 27-year-old, as you know, was visiting family at princeton. she went out for a jog back on august 7. her body was found hours later. investigators are not giving out any other details of the suv. the field of possibilities is rather large. state police say the man who attacked may also have had injuries at the time. >> they are asking anyone any information to come forward. a dark colored suv sought. >> drivers spent more than an hour searching for a local pond connected to a case involving a missing person from westborough. >> boston police are searching for a man accused of breaking into his ex-girlfriend's home
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warrant for jeffrey -- and police say this 23-year-old ex-girlfriend was stabbed in the neck and her face dig figured. r 43-yr-old mother suffered a gash on the left cheek. uninjured, upstairs, 7-year-old boy an his family. entire neighborhood traumatized. >> violent attack in nearly every corner. a victim on the first floor, mother and daughter, saying last night the ex-boyfrien and tried to kill them. tonight they are on a manhunt for this suspect. 26-year-old jeffrey. >> he live upstairs. >> how do you foal about this? >> terrified >> the man arrived around 8:30 tuesday night to pick up his laptop and as the ex-girlfriend
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attacked her before fleeing. >> neighbors are shaken. >> it's something that i have never seen in this neighborhood before. there have been robberies but nothing to this level of stabbing, i can't even imagine. >> i'm just happy that something worse didn't happen. that he didn't have gun. >> the landlord cleaning the trail of blood says the ex-boyfriend is a regular visitor. >> sometime he talks too much.bu been fights before? >> yeah. >> police have not said how he got into the house but they are calling this a home invasion and say it was armed assault with intent to murder. they took a silver knife and hammer from the first floor into evidence. tonight we don't have a condition on those victims. >> live in hyde park, rhondella richardson, wcvb, newscenter 5. >> new it 5, one person is in custody suspected in the
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it happened near the corner of ash and lake streets. the pair suffered nonlife-threatening injuries in the incident. no word on a motive or if the victim and alleged shooter know each other. while president-elect donald trump remains mostly out of sight he's at some high-profile meetings. a familiar face walked through the doors of trump tower. maria is here with details. >> patriots owner bob kraft there he is. heading inside. that was right before 2:00. patriots not saying why he was there although he has a longstanding friendship with the president-elect. in the meantime trump's transition team says they are making excellent progress. >> the transition continues. joe biden sitting down with team leader mike pence in washington today, as pence deals with a
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critics say is clouded in confusion. one of trump's national security advisers reportedly forced to resign, governor chris christie ousted, carson declining consideration for a potential trump cabinet slot. democrats are up in arms over trump's new white house counselor, steve benn and his ties to the right. >> at the beginning, there is always turmoil. >> their transition trump continues to heaviest a steady stream of potential cabinet nominees, at trump tower in new york city. >> you don't form a federal government overnight and these are very serious issues and appointments. >> not everyone is excited to be associated. trump's name was removed from a few buildings in manhattan after residents petitned to have it changed last month. just like many parts of the country, protests have rocked trump's hometown nearly every
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elected. >> new york city mayor meeting with donald trump today to voice protestors' concerns. >> i also raise concerns about some of the messages and some of the rhetoric that, for so many people, have been hurtful. >> the backlash is being seen on southern media as well. twitter announcing that it's actually going to start to crack down on what they call hate speech. accounts of alt right leaders. >> rallying to make tough sanctuary schools safe from any potential deportation. >> live with this story. >> good evening. >> close to 200 students here joined thousands across the country pushing administrators to make their campuses sanctuary
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crowd of many -- >> we would like to invite all of you to join us as we march around campus. >> the takes could not be couldr for one young man what came to this country 12 years ago. today, he's a student at tufts. being undocumented, i fear deportation. it kind of follows through. but i will not accept that. i have lived here my entire life. i don't know mexico. i'll fight for my place to stay in this countr students joined in that fight. >> i think that immigrants -- have as much of a right to be here as i do. >> pushing administrators at the university to become a sanctuary campus, where undocumented students can attend classes without fear. >> even though i'm not undocumented, i became a citizen of the u.s. just like a few months ago, how can i not stand up for people who have gone through situations like myself. >> university president tony
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the president has a moral responsibility to do this, and we certainly have to explore what it means to be a saints wear campus. it's a complicated issue. >> i've always been fighting, and unfortunately there has never been a path. clear secure path that i could take. >> currently there are two dozen undocumented students right here at tufts. in medford, wcvb, newscenter 5. >> live look at the city of today, after all the rain we had yesterday, but havsh joins us and we have quite the temperature change coming up next. >> we do. first it's going to be the nice milder stuff for a while. clouds over a lot of maps but look at connecticut. most of connecticut is clear. rhode island and southeastern mass, it looks like that will be the overall trend there. will still be patchy clouds in eastern mass for a while but a much nicer and brighter day is
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40's and low 50's. as we go through the night boston will only drop into the 40's. some of the cool spots will be in the 30's. so as i mentioned, a lot of mild air but there are big changes, a little bit further down the road. it of the cool spots will will weekend. we'll talk about that in a little while. >> thank you. tonight the state's highest court is considering a request to throw out thousands of criminal drug cases that all had one thing in common. the involvement of a disgraced chemist. reid in boston with details revealed in court. reporter: this case has already cost the criminal justice system tens of millions of dollars and has reached its final legal hurdle. they must now weigh how the actions of one person should impact 20,000. >> they must now decide whether or not to dismiss more than 20,000 convictions in which disgraced state chemist
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remedy asking the court to vacate every conviction. >> we've known about this scandal since 2012 but progress has not been made and it's time to restore integrity. >> he worked in the massachusetts crime lab and admitted in 2013 to falsifying evidence affecting up to 34,000 drug cases. hundreds of defendants have already had those convictions overturned. state prosecutors want to proceed on a case-by-case basis. and it's mailed defendants of the right to appeal their conviction. >> we're prepared to roll up our sleeves and do the work that we do daily. >> but the aclu questions if defendants were properly notified. arguing thousands of letters were returned. another concern raised by the justices, are there even enough attorneys to represent the defendant should they want to retry their case. defense attorneys say the system is incapable of dealing with this enormous problem. >> there aren't enough lawyers
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system to provide lawyers for 24,000 people. >> keep in mind all of those defendants whose convictions were tied to him directly have already served their time. as did she, released from prison earlier this year after serving less than three years. reid lamberty, wcvb, newscenter 5. >> a woman is charged with arson tied to a devastating fire last august. st used mostly by homeless people and it quickly spread to other buildings leaving more than 50 people homeless. >> she remains in custody and is due in court last month. >> headed out of the city, all the headlights, a slow go. let's see how traffic is moving around in the region.
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headed north tout of town, 26 minutes. upper deck to 128. there is the slow ride on the pike. 25 minutes from 93 to newton corner and the delays continue out to 128. there is 128 from route 2 to route 9. half an hour. further out on the pike it clears up. 25 minutes. let's go way out on the pike. we had an earlier accident at the charlton service bla-- plaz. that's an 45 minutes a short time ago. >> check out this stunning site in groton. it's a bobcat captured in someone's back yard. the man said up lights, sensors, cameras, and eventually snapped this photo of the animal as it moved across his property. that would give me pause. >> would you leave the kids out in the back yard after seeing that. >> no, not without me going like this. >> caught on camera, this story,
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>> still to come, the police officers and firefighters whos risked their own lives to save the person trapped inside. >> back in court, man convicted of killing a massachusetts college students four years ago is asking for a new trial. >> drone delivery success. the very first pizza dropped
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>> caught on camera, man is saved from a burning car.
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please get him out. >> the car, which had been involved in a deadly crash, exploded. witnesses say the man was waving for help through the flames. >> the only door he could get out through was blocked by fire. >> the highway patrol officer used his cruise tore try town block that door while firefighters pull the survivor out of the car. two people in the other car involved in the crash died at the scene. >> yet another awful scene caught on camera in the war-torn city of aleppo. a young gir destroyed by an air strike on tuesday. the attack tying place the same day the seerian government and its russian allies kicked off a new bombing campaign after several weeks of calm. air strikes continue leaving at least 32 civilians dead in the past 24 hours.
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happened at oklahoma city airport, after tuesday's deadly shooting that grounded planes and had travelers sheltering in place. >> around 1:00 p.m. yesterday, shots fired in the airport parking lot. >> the airport going into lockdown. passengers stranded on planes for hours. tactical gear search for the shooter going from car-to-car for nearly three the suspect was located deceased, with an apparent gunshot wound to the head. >> the suspected gunman identified as an agent who worked at the airport. the airline reporting that he showed signs of being under the influence of alcohol at work one day back in 2015 asking him to be tested. instead, he resigned. >> abouted in retaliation against circumstances leading up
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we know his intentions were to ge to the airport and hurt someone. >> southwest airline employee michael winchester. >> the team tweeted support, our love and support is with james and the entire winchester family. our heartfelt thoughts and prayers are with you. the victim was not the suspect's supervisor and they don't know at this point if that was the gunman's >> a major mess in florida. two freight trains collide in the town of citra. one of the trains was carrying coal, other, nonhazardous material. there is no danger to the public. two workers on board one of the trains suffered minor injuries. >> wildfires are making it dangerous for people in parts of north carolina to breathe. officials have raised the air quality alert to code red and this is not in the middle of nowhere. these are areas right around
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the elderly to stay indoors to avoid the thick smoke. more than 30 relentless fires are still uncontained over a wide area across the southern appalachians. >> code red on there. air quality alert. >> yes. terrible. >> in fact, they have the alert for a good chunk of north carolina and pretty much almost all of south carolina. >> wow. >> just a tough situation over the southeast. >> no kidding. and something, i'm sorry, not ready for. whatsoever. >> yeah. >> first of all, it's not out west. you can see parts of south carolina, parts of minnesota actually under a blizzard watch. >> but there is cold air associated with that and we're going to be affected by that eventually. >> but not now. pretty reasonable out there. temperatures reached the 50'se today. look at it in bridgeport and new london, connecticut. they had the benefit of sunshine. they moved up to 60 and higher. connecticut, southern rhode island, southeastern mass had some sun.
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temperatures right now are still 60 or higher, from charleston, west virginia, to cincinnati, across to st. louis. so we're going to be mild tomorrow and we'll be mild friday even on into saturday. then the changes will start coming. 53 in boston now with a west-southwest wind at 13 miles per hour. we checked the current temperatures. 40's and low 50's. these will be your low temperatures tonight. certainly we've had many nights. chillier than this during the fall season, to be sure. and tomorrow, we're right back into the could be approaching or touching 60 in spots. as i mentioned, overall, a brighter day. there could be patchy clouds in eastern mass for a while but i do believe it will be fires. check it out. see how it's cleared in. connecticut, some of the clearing working northeastward. rhode island is nice and clear. extreme southeastern mass is nice and clear as well. so as i mentioned, we go out in time. yes, there are some patchy clouds in eastern mass for a while tomorrow but the rest of
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temperatures are on the pleasant side, as high pressure begins to be in control. not only for thursday, but also for friday as well. friday looks like a terrific day around here. there will be an ocean storm and some clouds may get close to the outer cape, but essentially most if not all of our area should have sunshine on friday. a really good day and we may even squeeze out the daylight hours of saturday before the next change occurs. then we're going to have a storm development our region. it looks like we're not going to get that much precipitation from that. probably some showers, maybe overnight saturday night into the di on sunday but as it moves northward it's going to drag much colder air in, and that will start to be felt by all of us during sunday. sunday night especially, and monday, will be windy and cold, with somewhat lower wind chills than we've experienced so far this season. what about the storm and any
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could be at least some flurries in the berkshires and some accumulating snow for the mountains of vermont and northern new england that would be late in the weekend into machine of next week. for us, it's going to be the change to wind and cold that we'll surely feel as we get to that point. there you go, mild and dry right on into saturday. sunday is your transition with a few showers, in a whole lot, turning colder and getting windier and windy and c weather into tuesday of next week. we have a shift in the jet stream and we wind up on the cold side of it. as we head into the middle of next week or to the start of thanksgiving there could be a small system as it appears now from the midwest. it may have an effect on us. some chilly rain is a possibly. maybe a part of new england if the storm can come close enough, could get a little bit of snow but it's very early and sketchy. just giving you a little heads up as something may be possible very close to us on thanksgiving.
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>> important to keep track of that because of all the travel that happens around the holidays. next in your health, are young people -- >> the startling rise among one specific group. >> caught on camera, a heroic catch by a young boy, his fast move to save his baby brother. >> we continue to follow breaking news. the new clue in the unsolved murder of a princeton jogger. police looking now for a dark
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>> suicide is the number three killer in young people in the u.s. the trend may be strongest in teenager girls. >> the prevalence of major depression is rising for young people but especially for girls age 12 to 17. a study published in the journal
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government data for more than 172,000 adolescents and young adults ages 17-25. the case of depression among all young adults, they rose from 9% to 10%, but the biggest increase was among the group that already had the highest rates of depression, teenager girls. >> data of major depression among that group jumped from about 13% to about 17% in 2014 over the same time period. the increase among boys was lower and moved from about 4% to about 6%. researchers noted that there was in a corresponding rise in the proportion of adolescents receiving treatment. more research is needed to understand why depression is increasing fastest among teenage girls and that more needs to be
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for all young people. emily reamer, wcvb, newscenter 5. >> new research shows soda, sugary drinks, are linked to an increase in pre-diabetes, but diet soda is not. the study shows adults who drink at least one can of soda or sugar tweetened drinks a day are 46% more likely to develop elevated blood sugar levels than those who rarely or never drink soda. researchers say the best line of defense is switching to water or an occasional diet soda. does that surprise you? >> no. >> no. >> fair enough. >> next here on newscenter 5 at 5:30, a pleasant surprise. an extremely high bill from a trip to the emergency room. the concerns about the cost of care. >> the special send-off, for the train that will light up boston
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>> police are looking for dark colored suv in connection with the murder of a jogger, 27-year-old vanessa marcotte. she was killed back in august. she was out for a run.
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hour involving a missing person from westborough. no body was found. >> police are looking for a man who broke into his ex-girlfriend's home stabbing her and her mother. >>out, could we have a chilly night? harv: yep. but not inordinately cold. you're right. the clearing trend is actually working from south to north. the clouds are breaking and that's good news. temperatures are currently in the 40's and low 50's. notice boston is only going to so that minutes some of the chilly spots will be in the 30's. good news if you like mild weather. want one more round? you'll get a couple of days. middle off to the west but there is some real cold air that's building. way to the north. a chunk of it is going to be headed here so we'll give you the timeline on the chilest weather so far this season. when it arrives and how long it lasts. >> we'll see you then. new hampshire's highest court has now heard the appeal of a

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