>> from boston's news leader, this is wcvb newscenter 5 at noon. breaking news. a federal judge approved -- ruled former house speaker sal dimasi can be released from prison on tuesday. the 71-year-old has served five years of an eight-year federal corruption sentence, battling cancer during much of the time. prosecutors say dimasi's cancer is in remission but his health issues have made it difficult for him to function normally in prison. current house speaker robert

elated and believed that it speaker dimasi will be released in time to be with his family on things giving. ." . erika: director of national intelligence james klapper announcing he is stepping down as the white house prepare president-elect donald trump. klapper has said he long planned to retire at the end of president obama's term adding he submitted his letter of resignation to the commander in chief last night and it "felt really good." emily: the driver whose car is seen in this video colliding with a commuter rail train in revere is out of police custody after surrendering this morning. erika: rhondella richardson tells us why police -- tells us why he and his passenger fled

of this one reason to run according to police. the driver this morning turned himself in to transit police saying he was on the run fleeing the scene of a prior motor vehicle accident in revere. that one was minor. this turned into a major scene. his car totally mangled in revere's oak island road neighborhood. it is not even a commuter rail stop. >> i could not believe it. a train. when i got out, i saw police officers all over the place. kind of scary. rhondella: carlos bartolome points out you can see the men crash and run away. transit police are only identified the driver is a 25-year-old lynn man. police say the gates were down around 10: 30 wednesday night when he maneuvered around and

>> i could not believe it. it was very quick. rhondella: transit police will summon the driver to court. rear pulled -- revere police say his earlier accident was a hit and run minutes earlier in the same neighborhood. emily: a powerful fire westminster. the mbta layer pe over station. no one was hurt italy took firefighters about five minutes to get it under control. emily: an arrest in the fatal shooting in mattapan. police arrested julian coach in the death of andrew flory. investigators identified the

circumstance of flonory's death and ask anyone with erika: any information to contact them. in their skin is asking the public for help in tracking down a vehicle seen near where vanessa marcotte's body was found. todd kazakiewich is live with more. information from anyone who saw a dark colored suv near the scene of time of the murder. throughout the small town of princeton, signs. the landscape calling for justice for vanessa marcotte. the body of the 27-year-old woman was found in these woods on the seventh of august. she had been out for a job when she was attacked and murdered. marcotte was up from new york visiting family at the time. now investigators may be closing

announced wednesday detectives are looking for a dark-colored suv that was parked on brook station road at the time of the murder. investigators returned to this rural neighborhood tuesday night to canvas for more clues. they asked whether we had seen anything that particular day. anything strange. they came to the house and they took a sample of saliva and stuff like that. trying to rule out as much as they could i guess. the dedicated to line 508-453-7589. the da's office says more than 1000 tips a court in over the past three months. it seems they may need more help from the public to crack this case. emily: attorneys for the man accused of assaulting his girlfriend's son will be back in

to be suppressed. the five-year-old's body was found of interstate 190 in sterling back in 2013. no one has been charged in his death which is being investigated as a homicide. the boy's mother also faces assault charges. boston police continue to search for this man in connection with the stabbing in hyde park. police say jeffrey th tuesday night. both women survived. erika: live pictures of boston, really mild temperatures today and that is expected to last a couple more days until big change. cindy: an example of those big changes that are coming, take a look at the temperature in denver. 36. it was 80 degrees there yesterday. they set a record high. it is an indication of what's

time of year in the low 50's so we are above that today. we will stay above at first or saturday. we see those changes coming in. and bridges likely won't get out of the 40 starting on sunday. : pattern will be with us for a while. mid 50's on the north shore. low 50's on the cape. locked in the cloud cover all morning. from time to time we are seeing breaks in the clouds. a few that is going to become more prevalent through the afternoon. disturbance rotating down the coast but high pressure to the west is building in. as we go forward in time notice how those clouds are shrinking. the last place to clear will be cape cod. you may hang onto most of cloudy skies before the sun goes down the clearing skies for everyone overnight. temperatures well into the 50's this afternoon but once the sun goes down with clearing skies

pattern coming up and we are watching the storm out west developing wintry storm. talk about what that means for our weekend. emily: to the transition of power at the white house. resident elect donald trump says efforts to fill his cabinet are going smoothly despite reports of turmoil. maggie rulli reports we are also hearing from hillary clinton as she makes her first public appearance since conceding the election. maggie: another busy day for mike pence stopped by the hill. >> we are exciting about moving the trump agenda forward. maggie: president elect donald trump hosting more meetings with cabinet contenders and greets prime minister abe of japan. sources tell abc news the transition is full of internal fighting and disarray. one potential problem, jared kushner cultural's son-in-law. reports have the family member

by essex chiefs -- ethics sheets. >> jared was incredibly important to our campaign effort to the election and he's a trusted advisor of his father-in-law. maggie: trump's choice of stephen bannon as well as counselor. former head of breitbart news with ties to white nationalists and the alt right. states should not have a racist at his side. maggie: as trump that's his future cabinet every clinton returns to the public stage. >> i will admit, coming here tonight was not the easiest for me. maggie: she speaks to thousands of supporters who are still protesting the election across the country and tells them not to be discouraged. >> stay engaged on every level.

maggie: clinton's lead in the popular vote continues to grow now up by more than 1 million and is on track to receive the second-most votes of any presidential candidate in u.s. history behind only president obama. emily: when it comes to alt right media leader steve bannon as donald trump's chief white house strategist, stephen lynch think annan could be more of a bridge burner that a bridge builder when it comes to congress. the south boston democrat is speaking out on >> i don't think it was a wise choice on his part. he gets to make that choice. i don't . we will deal with what he decides in the realm that he has the ultimate say. emily: lynch also gives his take on the trump kids as advisors and where he stands on the issue of nancy pelosi's leadership. sunday at 11:00 on on the record.

general shows an estimated 21 million americans have a substance abuse disorder. 1.5 times the number of all cancers combined. every year 88,000 deaths are treated to alcohol misuse. 47,000 or two drug overdoses and only 10% of people get treatment . substance abuse and related disorders cost the u.s. more than $442 billion every year in health care, criminal justice, lost encourage better diagnosis and treatment. emily: new figures on the number of homeless people in the u.s. officials say homelessness has declined nearly 3% nationwide in the last year especially among military veterans. there are parts of the country like hawaii where rates are increasing. in the baystate the number of homeless individuals dropped 7% in the last two years. erika: one person killed in a

blast. emily: her murder mystery in manhattan. the clues surrounding the death of a college grad whose body was found miles away in a shallow grave. cindy: tracking temperature changes. when parts of new england could see rain and snow this weekend. >> a half hour of news at the top of the hour. newscenter 5 at 4:00. casey monahan, ed harding, newscenter 5 at 4:00, part of

erika: crews scouring the scene of this deadly natural gas explosion in the illinois. it canton shattering windows blocks away forcing evacuations. angelica spano's has video of the moment from that blast. angelica: residents in canton, illinois will spend the day picking up the pieces after a deadly explosion in the city's downtown square. historic buildings are destroyed and businesses remain

everything crashing down at one time. angelica: it happened before 6:00 on wednesday. a utility worker was killed in the 11 others injured as crews were repairing a natural gas leak. this surveillance video from a store in the area of the glasses shattered and debris flies everywhere. >> glass and stuff everywhere. >> it sounded like a bomb outside. we all stopped cache ran to the window to figure out what's wrong. angelica: the ntsb will be joining the investigation. the explosion left many residents in shock. >> never experienced something that loud. very scary. shocking. angelica: authorities are urging residents to stay away from the downtown canton area as the

emily: police in new york city trying to solve a murder mystery . yesterday the body of a hostile university graduate found in a shallow grave in new jersey two days after he left home to go out with friends in manhattan. police say his clothes were soaked in blood. what stayed sheets and towels were also found in plastic bags tossed down the garbage chute in a high-end new york apartment building. >> an individual who lived -- emily: the tenant is the son of a prominent jeweler whose list of clients include oprah, jennifer lopez, even donald trump. police say they found evidence inside his apartment that suggest foul play. erika: thick smoke hanging over much of the south as wildfires can you to rate on. -- to rage on.

the smoke causing major issues on the roads causing at least one deadly crash in kentucky. going on and on, that situation. emily: dry conditions down there . we are having a nice day and there is word -- erika: i don't even want to look at. cindy: it has been a while since that word has appeared on many maps. it is for someone northeastern south dakota those are blizzard warnings. the storm just getting organized . it was 80 degrees in denver. snow in the western part of colorado. it has to do with cold air drop into the lower 48. kansas city is 72. temperature gradients helping to field storm is going to get

into minnesota and great lakes. for us it's going to bring mainly rain and most saturday is fine. saturday night and sunday will get in on some of that rain. there will be some snow across -- the drought monitor updates every thursday. you can see the area that is in red has expanded and includes a lot more of the western part of the state. it's actually gone covering more than 40% of the state of 11.5% from last week. it was calculated tuesday morning. we got that heavy rain tuesday afternoon and evening. we did get some beneficial rain but it was calculated before that came in. we will take any rain the can get around here. none coming for the next several days. we have a lot of clouds over the

an active northerly breeze close to 10 miles per hour. warmest readings are north and west of the city really have more breaks in the clouds. nor what, 56. a cool day on cape cod. stuck in the lower 50's all morning long. prior to the west and as we have are disturbance, shifting out in p are going to shrink up some notice how it gets brighter by 4:00 this afternoon before the sun sets at 4:20 in the skies do clear as we go through the evening hours. a little bit of brightening especially from the west. the less pleased to see that clearing will be southeastern massachusetts. we may hang on to the clouds after sunset the overnight notice how skies clear. with a light northerly wind and

some 40's along the coastline including downtown boston. tomorrow looks at the fantastic day. more sunshine from start to finish and temperatures will run close to 60 degrees. on cape cod, wind gusts in the morning over 20 miles per hour. the wind slacking off in the afternoon. most of us have light wind in sunshine put on the cape you are stronger wind. storm offshore moving further away but in the morning hours of a pick up the wins for you. but in parts of western new england, northern new england, whether could be snow in your methods especially required through the weekend. clouds start to increase later in the day. as early as saturday night we will see showers developing and as that storm sits to our north it's going to wrap in colder air. the temperatures are stuck in the 40's on sunday and we will

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will president-elect trump surround himself with more traditional confidants in the mold of his new chief of staff reince priebus or lean towards more political operatives like steve bannon, his new chief strategist? the transition team is already in transition. we should know soon. trump is reaffirming some of his campaign promises and already softening others. reflecting consistency with his campaign pro-life judges on the supreme court. the second amendment seems safe while the first amendment may be in jeopardy. the wall he says now might actually be offense infections and impractical to build in other -- offense -- a fence in some sections in a practical to build in others. he may not try to throw his defeated opponent hillary clinton in jail. with the drain the swamp or

obamacare he's opened the door to reform rather than repeal and replace. his supporters and detractors are not sure what president trump will do. it rethinking and or moderating a large number of his campaign promises would be a welcome

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