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>> water crisisparking more protests in flint, michigan. protestors are calling for the governor's resignation. >> jadiann: here at 5:30 two people shot in east boston after a confrontation inside the maverick mbta station. police are trying to track down the suspect. >> investigators remain on the scene. kim khazei joins us with more on the breaking story. >> reporter: frightening police say this all began when two men started fighting inside one of the trains. one person was shot in the train with other passengers onboard. once the train pulled into maverick the fight spilled on to the platform and another man was shot. both were rushed to the hospital with nonlife threatening injures. the police shut down the station right away and bussed passengers to where they needed to go as police began to investigate their. maverick station is back open now but police are
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fired the shots. we're staying on top of the story and will bring you more. kim khazei, 7 news. >> jadiann: a quincy man facing a judge today accused of impersonating a woman on line. the 45-year-old man stole a woman's identity then asked others to assault her on an adult website. kelli o'hara is live for us in haverhill with the latest. >> reporter: yeah, good evening. that is not all we learned. we learned there are another women prosecutors say victimized by this man including one woman who we spoke to who said it came as a surprise to her because she hadn't spoken to the suspect in more than two decades. >> stating on the website she wanted to be kidnapped, rape and tortured. >> reporter: stunning allegation this is this man who prosecutors say targeted women he knew then pretended to be them on-line. by stealing their identity, photos and the addresses and
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>> shehan also solicited men to rape and torture other women. none of the women conextended to the rape requests that sheham made on their behalf. the investigation remains ongoing. >> reporter: this woman who doesn't want to us show her face or use her name says she was' victimized by the 45-year-old as well. >> had a detective contact me in early october that said that he was in the infancy of an investigation and that my name and picture was on this disturbing sex website. he pretended to be me said that it was my fantasy to be abducted, raped. >> reporter: the match's attorney said his client meant no harm and committed no crime. >> it was role playing only. no one was ever contacted. no one was ever accosted as a result of these conversations. >> reporter: the defense attorney also asked that his
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for internet addiction. shehan is eligible for bail. prosecutors say more charges are expected. in haverhill tonight kelli ohara, 7 news. >> ryan: a judge setting more court dates ahead of aaron hernandez's double murder trial. lawyers will be back in court then again on may 3 for a status hearing. hernandez is accused of shooting and killing two men after one of them spilled a drink on him. the victims in the shooting were murdered in boston's south end in 2012. guilty. >> is man is behind bars. video shows officers taking christopher horton to the grouped yesterday. organizers say he was handing outliers and they asked officers to escort him out. he was taken to the hospital after telling police he had a previous injury. chelsea police saying the woman who reported being
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weekend --/slashed made the story up. police say she was actually injured inside of a home trying to break up a fight between several men. she is charged with misleading a police officer. >> ryan: we're following more news today. outrage growing in flint, michigan over what some are calling a deadly decision. health offices say at least 10 deaths could be linked to the city's water cries in. michigan governor is expected to give a state of the state address but he is expected to be greeted by protestors calling for his resignation. angry protestors in flint, michigan calling for the arrest of the governor as res depths cope with lead contaminated water flowing into their homes. it started when the state temporarily switched the water source to the notorious dirty river. the water found by virginia tech researchers to be highly corrosive flowed through service lines
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the water source was switched back in october but the damage to the pipes was done. with the state using the national guard to hand out clean water. president obama declared a federal emergency on saturday but a flint city council man says more is needed and available. >> a state of emergency which the president has already signed for. if they would have submitted for a disaster declaration, million or more. >> reporter: the crisis splashing outrage among celebrities, activists and presidential candidates. >> what i did is demanded governor. a man who acts that in pour. >> reporter: snider responded finger pointing distracts from solving the flint water crisis. studies have shown lead levels measured 10 times
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lead in a child's body can negative effect development. >> jadiann: two criminal investigations related to the flint water crisis under way. e-mails were released to the flint water study commission. the exchanges showed warnings were ignored for months raising concerns that water samples were thrown warn requirements wouldn't be triggered. >> here we're talking about a public safety issue. we ek claude three potentially material samples of water because you don't like the results? i think that is fraud. plain and simple. >> reporter: the g says officials failed to tell him about the e-mails. the governor's e-mails would have to be subpoenaed by investigators. >> ryan: police officer is on leave after a problematic face book everyone. he urged drivers to run over black lives matter status. yesterday he called
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concerned citizens alerted offices who are investigating. >> the person that has sworn to serve and protect the people shouldn't be encouraging violence on peaceful proest isers. >> ryan: the officer gave advice saying no jury would convict someone who did that. >> jadiann: a church crime in atlanta, police say two children snuck into the building after a service and stole money and the pastor's vehicle. the pastor says one of the suspects could be as younging a 11 years old. their faces are blurred since they're juvenile but watch them work. >> come on, let's go. the other -- >> reporter: after the older boy walks out the younger one talks to the reverend in his office. >> the little one talk to us. he was the de." career criminals. they've done this before.
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intention of stealing and robbing something. >> i'm thinking he might have been hiding behind the column. >> reporter: something they wanted as monday -- money in her purse. >> he took the wag ut out and took the car keys out. >> reporter: the young thieves were only in the church for six and a half minutes before all they had to do after they got the keys was hit the up lock button to see which car lit up. they were' gone. >> it's totally mind bogleing how these kids look like one with maybe 11, the other one was maybe 14, 15. it's just disheartening that this is what our youth is coming to. >> jadiann: the reverend says someone from his church spotted the suspects in his robbery. >> ryan: jamie foxx jumping no a car.
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out of the car. the driver suffered minor injuries. he was charged with driving under the fluence. >> jadiann: world tennis authorities are dealing with corruption concerns as the australian open kicked off. bbc and buzz feed accusing 16 players who have been ranked in the top 50 have been flagged over suspicious throwing of matches in the past decade. those players are not being named. tennis authorities are rejecting those reports. some of the world's best tennis players are weighing in on the controversy. >> i just think that it should be tennis that does a better job -- they shouldn't have to read it in the press. you have to be proactive. i think with things like this and go and speak to the players rather than them reading about it in the newspaper. >> jadiann: the bbc and buzz feed say they need access to phone, bank and computer records to figure out the names of the 16 players involved.
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medical miracle. one man lucky to be alive after nearly freezing to death in a snow bank. >> jadiann: one broncos player delivering the blow. what he is saying about tom brady. >> ryan: crews racing to the rescue after a car plunges no an icy pond. -- into an icy pond. what would you do with five minutes to kill, and a smart phone? check the scores. probably post a pic. text a friend. how about register to vote? really? you can. five minutes online and a massachusetts drivers license is all it takes to register so you can vote for our next president. go to registertovotema.com. it's that easy. done. i just registered. that was easy.
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>> jadiann: a pennsylvania man discovered in the cold is speaking out for the first time. the 21-year-old was found nearly frozen in a snow bank almost a year ago. today he is alive and well. >> ryan: it is thanks to the doctors who refused to declare him dead. frozen nearly solid in a snow bank is where just insmith's father found him nearly one year ago. >> i through the car into park and i thought oh, my god. he was blue. his face, he was lifeless. i checked for a pulse. i checked for a heart beat. >> i tried to walk home in the storm and can i remember waking up 30 days later. >> reporter: the coroner was on scene when he was
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want to give up just yet and wouldn't pronounce him dead. >> initially they were almost questioning me like are you kidding me? >> we've very low temperature. it can preserve the brain and other organ functions. >> reporter: teams of nurses and the staff did c.p.r.on justin for two hours while the doctor got approval to try to warm the blood up. >> he held my hand that day and says, i'm going though throw everything i have including the kitchen sink at your son. >> we knew we needed a big miracle. >> reporter: that is what happened. justin was flown to another hospital and his started. justin woke up amazed. >> i never heard of anything like that. it's something i've never heard of and i can't thank everyone enough. >> when you look at the science of what happened to justin it was hard to imagine anyone on earth could survive this. >> reporter: now justin is missing his toes answer pinkies but he is back to school, back to golf. he is what doctors are
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>> this renewed the faith of why i do what i do everyday. >> ryan: what a story. there myth is back at school at penn state where he is working to a degree in psychology. >> reporter: windy evening. the wind will fade and the threat there for snow this weekend. details up next. >> jadiann: at 6:00 breaking news. a big blow for the patriots. pats line backer gerrard mayo done for the season. >> ryan: two people shot at the mav vic it. neighborhood,i feel like it's got a lot of what we were kinda talking about. we should definitely go see it. [agent] hi. melanie. maggie. living room. [dad]what about this? this looks good. [brendan] no. [mother] isn't it great? [agent] hey brendan,you might
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continues after a couple of dvastating tornadoes in florida over the weeks. two people were killed. at least five injured. dozens of homes were destroyed by the storm helped community come together. >> they brought buckets and big heavy construction bags and water. a lot of it for people to use out here. that was' nice. >> jadiann: a number of homes in the area remain without power right now. luckily we're not dealing with anything like that in our area. >> ryan: cold weather this time of the year. it's working the gloves getting a workout. the ear muffs all the big jackets and we're tracking the storm for this weekend. >> reporter: a lot coming at us, we had a lot of wind and cold out there today that. is from one of our twitter friend, stephanie. they took this picture around sunset. appreciate it because you you are taking pictures for 7 weather. it's cold out. there wind chills down to the single numbers and vehicle shot there.
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wind gusting 25-30 miles an hour, boston gusts to 33 miles an hour. the wind chill in the city around 7. down halifax the wind was gusting at times over 30 miles an hour so your wind chill running 20095-10 all -- between 5-10. that will be the case if you are heading out. the city at 23. worcester 18. the wind will back off a little bit. but it's still going to be a cold evening. cold overnight tonight even with west wind. the temperatures will be lower than this afternoon so that will keep the wind chills near 0 this evening and overnight tonight. numbers tomorrow upper 20s to the low ir30s still wind chills tomorrow down around 20 for much of the day even though the actual air temperature is 29-34. thursday more sunshine. chilly but i think even less wind on thursday. thursday. if there is any good news for those of you that have backyard rinks they have been backyard ponds for the start of the winter but this
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temperatures running below 32. stay off the pond because even though it's cold now, high pressure with us for the remainder of the week. that locks in the dry air. also as the h.gets closer to us we'll get rid of the wind. farther south the storms comes across country. tonight it's in the west coast. by friday into saturday morning, the east coast. so the question is not will it'll form. powerhouse storm in the middle atlantic. if you've travelled the 95 corridor, new york city south, philly, baltimore, d.c.in particular, you may want to rethink the travel plans especially friday afternoon friday night because this is coming. then once it comes off the mid atlantic coastline where does it go? track one or track two. track one would brig significant snow and wind up in new england. that would lead to coastal flooding. track 2 would still bring snow to southern new england
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northern edge. it would be manageable amounts of snow we would have to contend with but the track itself would be farther away but it's something we'll watch. again i don't think we can lock the track in until sometime probably tomorrow or better yet even on thursday. potential storm is there. if you have plans in southern new england on saturday, at this time i would keep them. restaurant reservations saturday night don't cancel them. not yet. the risk of snow is going to be there at this time. doesn't lock like a block buster in southern new england. we'll keep you updated. >> ryan: a little boy riding high in new york. his hometown working to replace a stolen go cart stolen off his porch. a volunteer firefighter put the word out to raise almost $1,000. the donations they keep coming in.
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got from a woman in plattsburgh is for herself sick with cancer. this made her feel so good to do this. >> ryan: the family is thankful for the community's help. they plan to give the rest of the money to a local family in need gentleman. tracy morgan opens up. when he had to say about his road to recovery. >> kim: we're following breaking news next at 6:00. police investigating a shooting in a blue line train and then at a t. stop at well. >> adam: at least two people were shot on the train platform at maverick station. >> kim: then a driver crashes into a frigid pond. how a retired firefighter's quick thinking help saved a man lives. >> adam: trash talking before the gig game. fighting words about t.b. 12 coming from a bronco's player. we hope you join us. >> announcer: for the
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>> ryan: tracy morgan talking about his near fate al car crash on the tonight show. >> jadiann: he threadenned to go back into a coma. >> it must be weird coming -- having this whole thing happen to you. coma, you come out. everything is different. >> yeah, things are different. donald trump is leading in the polls. [laughter] i'm going back. >> you can't go back. [laughter.] >> jadiann: all in good fun. there morgan talked about civil other cultural changes that happened while he was in the comma after the 2014 car crash including david letterman's retirement and the new "star wars" movie. >> ryan: pete rose is a hauler. he will be inducted in the cincinnati reds hall of fame. rose will not be indunted intoed major league baseball hall of fame. he was banned for baseball
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for 1989 for betting on the sport. >> jadiann: thank you for watching. i'm jadiann thompson. >> ryan: i'm ryan schulteis, 7 news at 6:00 starts now. >> announcer: at 6:00 breaking news, commuter chaos. a double shooting at an mbta station. police on the hunt for a gunman. >> reporter: nasty wind fates and we focus our attention on a potential storm for this weekend. >> announcer: more than a dozen schools across the state shut down. the f.b.i. on the case. and they should be used to it by now. the pats gearing up for their 5th straight a.f.c.title game. with revenge on their minds. 7 news at 6:00 starts now. >> kim: first at 6:00 breaking news this evening. boston police actively searching for a shooter right now. after two people are shot near and at the maverick t. stop. one of these people shot
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then the other one right on the platform. >> adam: scary, sense moments for people on the train, on the platform. byron barnett is live in east boston with the breaking details. >> reporter: this shooting took place around 2:30 in the afternoon. actually started with an altercation, a fight between a couple of guys on a moving blue line train just as it was pulling into the maverick t. station here in east boston. it all ended with two gunshot victims lying on the platform inside the station. a shooting inside the maverick t. station in east boston. witnesses say the scene quickly turn to chaos. >> as soon as i saw the doors open you heard the gunshots. people were trying to run back out but people were trying to run back in but no one knew where the gunshots were coming from. >> reporter: it started with an altercation between two men on a blue line train as it was moving into maverick station. >> one male pulled out a
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