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to learn more, contact us for our free medicare guide with no obligations. you can call us at 188-800-8813 or visit us at bluecrossma.com/medicareguide. anchor: two flight recorders have been recovered at the scene of an airline disaster in columbia, a plane carrying a soccer team that crashed into the mountains. maria: they are imperfect condition and could determine why the plane went down killing as crews are move bodies from the crash site. you can barely make out this was a plane. incredibly there are survivors. 75 others were on board. many members of a brazilian soccer team on its way to a tournament. they were all killed. the brazilian president offered his condolences calling the the circumstances are under investigation. the britisaerospace r.j. 85 was near its destination flying from boliviao columbia. the final moments, the planewing circling several times. the soccer team poed this on , a 27-year-old said to be one of the survivors. >> he's the most badly hurt of those survivors. he suffered a spinal fracture. students returning to classes today

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to learn more, contact us for our free medicare guide with no obligations. you can call us at 1-888-800-8813 or visit us at bluecrossma.com/medicareguide. >> we want to take a look now at some of massachusetts. congressional races that we have been flowing closely as well. >> before we d that let's send it out to christa delcamp live in new york with more on this. hey christa? >> we'll check with her in a little bit. >> we want to look at congressional races. >> take a look at this for the massachusetts house third district. >> fourth congressional dic third re-elected with 71% of the vote. and congressman steven lynch re-elected for the 8th district with 72%. >> congressman bill keating re-elected for ninth district. he reeled in 56% of the vote. >> and there are four incumbent candidate whose are heading back to congress. jim mcgovern, cathleen clark seth multoun and all democrats political. what he had to say about donald trump and the letter he wrote congratulating the now president-elect. >> dry start this morning. that will change by midday. we'll trac

to learn more, contact us for our free medicare guide with no obligations. you can call us at 1-888-800-8813 or visit us at bluecrossma.com/medicareguide. . >>> breaking news overnight building on a hospital property. >>> president-elect donald trump sitting down for his first tv interview since the election. what he's saying about protests across the country. >>> and a bicyclist killed in a hit-and-run crash and this morning two people are facing charges. we have the latest on the investigation. >>> live from the channel 4 studios in boston, this is wbz news this morning. >>> welcome back, everybody. i'm kate merrill. >>and i'm chris mckinnon. thanks for being here on this pretty nice forecast out there. >>yesterday it was beautiful. more of the same no it looks gorgeous. the sun -- >>it looks gorgeous. we're climbing into the 60s this morning. it is all about the wind or the lack there have. where we've gone calm that's where we've cooled into the 20s. norwood, 20 degrees right now, 31 in taunton. we are 42 in boston and 50 in province town. it depends on

to learn more, contact us for our free medicare guide with no obligations. you can call us at 1-888-800-8813 >>> a train slams into a car ripping it in half. >> a new lead in the murder of a jogger, a new clue that could crack the case. >> and the latest on donald trump's transition, the key meetings setup for today. >> live from the channel 4 studios in boston, this is wbz news this morning. . >> welcome back, everybody. >> it is thursday, november 17th, let's get you our forecast. >> not bad today, a blend of sun and clouds temperatures running in the 40s for many of us, 47 in boston, same in lawrence right now 46 in taunton and lower 40s out over the cape. most of us are in the 40s but there are some 30s on the map. a few spots on the cape and south coast though, 37 in new bedford. a lot of it has to do with the wind and the clouds cover. so the wind is pretty light in clouds of that filled in over the last couple of hours in eastern massachusetts there's a little piece of energy high in the sky. we'll see the clouds give way to breaks of sunshine today a

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that's why we're he. learn more, contact us for our free medicare guide with no obligations. visit us at bluecrossma.com/medicareguide. ? jc: the demand for answers following alletions of sexual actsnvolvi young children on a boon school bus. live in hyark wi more. the criminal case. >> we ar requesting tt the superintendent show their true concern. they urgedents to respect students privacy promising details. monito.e now calling for bu re there are monitors on these buses. boston public schools operate busing for the independent charr. bpis now investigating whether protocols were followed. only 37% of bus routes in the city have monitors. putting monitors on every bus would cost $7.6 million according to boston public schools. the mayor now weighing in but stopping short of promising any further action. >> when the boston police department first recieved the concern there, the complaint, they turned it over to the family justice unit in the district attorney's office, and because of the young person, a juvenile under the age of 6, its very complicated under what processes hes going

to learn more, contact us for our free medicare guide with no obligations. you can call us at 1-888-800-8813 or visit us at bluecrossma.com/medicareguide. >> sarah: all right. a live look overs. >> you know what's really sad? i have not stepped outside of the building since, like, 3:00 a.m. this morning. >> christa: you know what? when late october arrives, up until april, there are a lot of reluctant folks here in the building. >> reporter: no, it is not. temperatures in the's. pool weather. mild conditions here. we keep it that way until saturday as well. our next shot at moisture will be this sunday. a big cooldown after that system pulls through. right now, again, very mild. the sun trying to peak through. so far, mostly cloudy for us. 53 in p-town. a bit gusty as well on the cape. wind gusts up to around 20. even 25 miles per hour and radar, we are still con tenning with some cloud cover. the sun is trying to peak through here. we are going to see some peaks of sunshine fbs. decreeing cloud cover, actually. as we head into the afternoon hours. more suns

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to learn more, contact us for our free medicare guide with no obligations. you can call us at 1-888-800-8813 or visit us at bluecrossma.com/medicareguide. >>> some patriots players lending a hel an off day building a home for a veteran who lost his leg serving in iraq. malcolm butler and others served inside of a house on tuesday. being built for chris gomes who lost his right leg back in 2008. the new home adapted to allow him to use his prosthetic and his wheelchair. >> it's incredible. it gives me a chance to, you know, recover, i can push myself a little more. and live without some fear in my life. >> there's a lot of veterans out in. i just say it's a good job and you know, supporting our troops, you know, protecting us and then us being able to do what we do today in america. >> so true. the organization homeless for our troops is building the house for the family. chris, his wife, and their son are set to move in just in time for the holidays. >> so they have to bring the crew back to do the decorating for the holidays as well. >> yeah, i would like t

to learn more, contact us for our free medicare guide with no obligations. you can call us at 1-888-800-8813 or visit us at bluecrossma.com/medicareguide. >> kris: mean calls telling you to pay back some money that you owe to the government. and called them up. hank investigates these i.r.s. impostors. >> reporter: guess who we are about to call? not the i.r.s. but crooks who pose as tax collection agents. >> the i.r.s. is filing a lawsuit against you. . >> lawsuit filed against your name. >> reporter: the ones who leave threatening messages like these. >> final notice from i.r.s. >> this is the last message. agent told her... >> there was discrepancies in my tax return. reporth then the guy ordered connie to pay $15,000 in back-taxes or else. >> i'm going to send the detective down to arrest you. >> reporter: terrified, connie, as instructed, bought these 30 gift cards worth the $15,000. she had to read off each number to the scammers to pay off her tax bill. >> i was scared to death. >> these crooks are would hit massachusetts hard. >> a million dollars sc

to learn more, contact us for our free medicare guide with no obligations. you can call us at 1-888-800-8813 ? >> sarah: months of wlirl wind campaigning and polling all boiling down to today from this point on. it would be a day of watching and waiting for both candidates. this morning, both hillary clinton and donald trump casting their votes in newyo >> nancy: kris and sar remarks both candidates heading to the polls this morning to vote. donald trump made haze way to the voting booth around 11:00. you see his wife melania and his daughter ivanka aby his side. big day ahead. tonight the trump family will be at the hilton hotel in election results come. in meantime, hillary clinton heading to the polls in chappaqua, upstate new york just after 8:00 this morning. she was joined there by former president bill clinton. her running mate tim kaine voted in virginia today. here is what hillary clinton had to say afterwards. >> it is the most humbling feeling, dan. becausest, you know, i know how much responsibility goes with this. so many people are counting on

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to learn more, contact us for our free medicare guide with no obligations. you can call us at 1-888-800-8813 or visit us at bluecrossma.com/medicareguide. >>> now at 5:30, a new direction for the united states. donald trump wins the white house. the republican party is securing their majority in the house and the senate. donald trump defied all the critics and made history. i'm paula ebb en. and today, pro and anti-trump deem -- demonstrators came to trump tower n his acceptance speech, he acknowledged the impact of the movement that supported him. >> america will no longer settle for anything less than the best. we must reclaim our country's destiny and dream big and bold and daring. for our country and beautiful things and successful things once again. >> late this morning, hillary clinton spoke about conceding the election saying the loss is a painful one. she acknowledged that the country is more deeply divided than we thought but she added that she is optimistic about the future of the nation. >> i still believe as deeply as

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to learn more, contact us for our free medicare guide with no obligations. you can call us at 1-888-800-8813 >>> there are many local traditions associated with the thanksgiving holiday. >> and a new one has taken its place alongside them. jo biggest turkeys of the year. and turkeys from the national headlines. >> what is aleppo? >> you're kidding? >> no. >> this was a beauty. libertarian party gary johnson unable to identify the city at the center of syria's bloody knew what to call it, an aleppo moment. >>> he grabs turkey of the year honors for this diatribe against a state rep he thought called him a racist. >> i want you to record this and make it public after you. >> thank you so much. thank you. why was this crowd heckling debbie wasserman schultz. she violated her vow of neutrality. to think it was bad. to put it in writing hello resignation. he's a jack -- >> when he said that about kanye west, little did he know -- the latest headlines, west said he would have voted for trump. and abruptly canceled his tour. what's next for the superstar turkey? >>

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