. >> reporter: michelle carter, the massachusetts teenager accused of urging her boyfriend to commit suicide by a text message is now facing up to 20 years in prison. the state's highest court ordering her to stand trial. deciding friday to uphold carter's grand jury indictment on a manslaughter charge for the death of conrad roy. he died of carbon monooxide poisoning. prosecutors say he was on the phone with carter for 47 minutes. she allegedly convinced second thoughts. >> she told him to get back in the car. >> reporter: in a series of text messages leading up to roy's death, prosecutors say carter was essentially bullying him into suicide. texting, you need to stop thinking about this and just do it. and there is no way you can fail. tonight is the night. it's now or never. >> when are you going to do it? stop ignoring the question. >> reporter: carter's lawyers argued the then 17-year-old's texts were protected by the first amendment and didn't cause roy to kill himself. saying roy was the one who convinced carter he should commit suicide. >> he has brainwashed her to the point

the trial of michelle carter, roy died of carbon monoxide poisoning after locking himself inside of her truck. carter convinced roy to stay in the vehicle when he was having second thoughts. >> he brain washed her to the point where she is accepting his idea of this is my only option. the justices ruled that carter engaged in a quote systematic campaign of coercion that could be traced back to his death. if convicted she faces up to 20 years in prison. a hot holiday gift is under a new massive recall for the fire risk is posed. the consumer product commission is recalling a half million hover boards made by 10 different companies. there is the risk that the lithium battery packs could overheat or catch fire. we have the list at 6abc.com sfoo. >>> a boston cabby is being praised for returning $178,000 that was left if his cab. he took it to the police station because he couldn't find the owner. he told him he was homeless and received the cash in an inheritance. he gave him $100 as a reward. >>> if you are a fan of blackberry's key board, you will not be a fan of what the company is goin

lawyers for michelle carter filing a motion to suppress statements she made to police. it was earlier this month that the sjc ruled the involuntary manslaughter case against carter will move forward. her trial is set to begin in december. 18-year-old conrad roy killed himself by filling his truck with carbon monoxide in 2014. ed: bill cosby has dropped a lawsuit demanding the accuser in his criminal case repay the money from their confidential settlement back in 2006. cosby sued andrea constand for violating the contract by speaking to police, who reopened the criminal investigation last year. a judge upheld constand's right to speak with police. his lawyer says cosby just wants against him. maria: a former school bus driver in new hampshire has been convicted in a crash that injured three students. stephanie boyd admits to looking at her phone while operating the bus in nottingham. she crashed into a tree. she'll be sentenced at a later date area and she faces up to 7 years in prison. ed: one person is dead after a crash involving a car and a tractor trailer in plainvi

michelle carter was in court for that hearing. 18-year-old conrad roy killed himself by filling his truck with carbon monoxide in 2014. prosecutors say carter encouraged him to do it through text messages. carter's trial on involuntary manslaughter charges is set to begin. that will be in december. new charges tonight for the wittman man charged with attempted murder and drunk driving. after crashing into his girlfriend according to police 42-year-old and driving to endanger charges. he was arrested wednesday after police say he ran down the 35-year-old brockton woman before flipping his car on brockton avenue. the woman suffered serious injuries. maria: using uber is apparently not decreasing the number of drunk driving deaths out there. researchers looking at statistics from the 100 most populated areas in the country from 2009 through 2014. and here's what they found. that the rise of uber did not drunk driving deaths. uber insists, though, that its service can help decrease drunk driving. using it actually is a selling point the company says that 80% of riders say uber has helped them

catherine: plainville teen due in court allegations persuaded friend to kill himself. 19-year-old michelle carter involved with involuntary manslaughter. two years ago her friend conrad roy died of carbon monoxide poisoning after connected a generator to truck's exhaust. prosecutors say roy and carter talked on the phone >> julie: jurors convicted stephanie boyd on charging of reckless conduct and assault. last year her bus slid into a tree in nottingham, 11 students were on board, several were hurt she said she was downloading an app at the time and faces up to seven years in prison. >> daniel: >> catherine: fox25 jessica could be the key to determining that woman's identity. >> jessica: investigators believe both sets of remains belong to the woman. mystery as who she is grows deeper and around 11:30 human remains found on the site and earlier this month a single day understandably upset and hoping for answers. and wearing sporto boots, long sleeve t-shirt and black sleeves and critical thing right now trying to identify the woman. she says investigators believe died her and remains weren't mov

. >> michelle carter. >> it is a difficult thing to find clothes that fit, especially for a thrower. >> these are not skinny jeans. >> usually guy for tighter clothes, but when you get over the fact that your muscles are bigger than any of the guys and you can't help it. >> and teri puts it away. dow ow >>> well, it has been a pretty tumblely couple weeks in the stock market. the markets are dipping a little bit today. so far, the dow, we don't see the big board there, but it is down about 30 points for the day. >> ups is introducing a new driverly plan. they will put a sorry we missed you slip, and the door containing your package will open right up. that is handy if you live in a theft prone area. they test it'd at their new sight in chicago, first. >> apple is making it easier for those of white house have iphones to become organ donors through your phone. apple ceo tim cook says this was inspired to get people signed up because co-founder steve jobs was waiting so long for a liver transplant back in 2009. >> right now, a developing story out of italy. police say they arrested a h

michele carter, the massachusetts teenager accused of urging her boyfriend to commit suicide by a text 20 years in prison. the state's highest court ordering her to stand trial deciding friday to uphold carter's grand jury indictment on a manslaughter charge for the 2014 death of 18-year-old conrad roy. roy died of carbon monoxide poisoning after locking himself inside his truck in this kmart parking lot. at the time prosecutors say he was on the phone with carter for 47 minutes. his girlfriend allegedly convincing him to stay in the truck after he had second thoughts. >> he was scared. she told him to get back in the car. >> reporter: in a series of text messages leading up to roy's death prosecutors say carter was essentially bullying him into suicide texting "you need to stop thinking about this and just do it." fail. tonight is the night. it's now or never." >> when are you going to do it? stop ignoring the question. >> reporter: carter's lawyers argued the then 17-year-old's texts were protected by the first amendment and didn't cause roy to kill himself. saying roy was the one wh

michelle carter's lawyers asked the judge to suppress statements she made to police. that motion will be discussed in the fall. carter is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the 2014 death of conrad roy iii. the case could go to trial as early as december. >>> daughter of former vice presidential candidate al gore, vice president i should say al gore faced a boston judge today, karina gore and five other activists face charges for a protest against the natural gas pipeline in the city. in a zprench refusing to move. it happened in west roxbury in june. they pleaded not guilty. >>> lawmakers on beacon hill are working for the weekend. they have a lot of bills to get lew and a sunday night deadline. the focus in the final 48 hours is on five major bills. they deal with the energy policy, economic development, local government reform. noncompete agreements and regulating the ride sharing industry. bills that do not pass would have to be refiled in of her power to regulate firearms. the republican leader in the state senate filed a bill today to remove that authority

. >> michelle carter coming off her sixth title. >> i think it's a challenge for a lot of athletes toind clothes, especially a thrower. i have these thighs and shoulders and arms. >> my body just because it's -- my legs happen to be a little bigger than normal. these aren't skin any jeans. they're not supposed to be. >> tight clothes. once you get over the fact that your muscles are bigger than any of the guys and you can't help it. >> i have to wear spandex kind of jeans that stretch out. >> kerry puts it away. nats of fireworks explosioand so wow-- that was not suosed to sheÑ and firefighters were able to get the dog and remove it from any danger. and get the dog back to the owner and it was a very happy reunion. >> crews did eventually put out all of those flames. return dog to owner. but there's still a lot of damage to the house. no injuries were reported. >>> grass fire broke out in pittsburg yesterday just across from bay point, not far from homes. you can see in the video how close it was. the fire quickly spread to several acres in a new subdivision off leland road just sout

michelle carter's lawyers asked the fall. carter is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the 2014 death of roy iii of mattapoisett. the case could go to trial as early as december. >> mark: an hours long s.w.a.t. standoff is happening in the namesake where a san diego police officer was shot and killed during a traffic stop. police say the man barricaded inside the home is a suspect. another suspect suffered a gunshot wound and is in critical condition at the hospital right now. de officer wade erwin was seriously injured but expected to survive. investigators are waiting to talk to him to find out exactly whrape a woman just feet from his 3-year-old daughter. >> she out of the aliway holding her -- alleyway holding her eye and i immediately saw es: ahead in the next half-hour, we're talking with the witness, what he was able to write down that helped police showers, even downpours, southern new hampshire and back to western massachusetts. we'll show you exactly where those are going and a look ahead to a weekend shower t

michelle carter's lawyers asked the judge to suppress statements that she made to police. the motion will be discussed in the fall. carter is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the 2014 death of a man. >> mark: turning to the weather half a rainy start to the day in boston, this evening, the skies, gorgeous afternoon along the water right here. kevin says the weekend is looking pretty good as well. >> kevin: at least half of it. we're trying to break into the drought conditions. we haven't done a good job. the rain stayed mainly to the south. we saw rain coming to the south shore. the heaviest along the south shore and showers popped up, they replaced the storm, but it's not going to do much for us either. it's a nice drink of water, athal to lempster, through the springfield area too. these are m southeast and holding together well. there we go, put any to gardner at 6:20 p.m. fitchburg, 6:44 p.m. clinton, 7:17 p.m. here in southern new hampshire, this shower has popped up, has become a heavy shower but it's small, moving toward the south as west, just to the west o

reporting live, brianne carter, abc7 news. michelle: thank you. a lot of you have done this already. we are encouraging you to sign up for the metro text alerts. do that by logging on to wjla.com/text. or text the word "metro" to 43817. jonathan: we have breaking news right now just coming in the newsroom. a stabbing outside the addison road metro. maryland bureau chief brad bell is on the scene. what happened? brad: we got here a little while ago. we believe the stabbing happened 45 minutes ago. take a look at the scene behind me here. you can see a number of melt row transit officers are still -- metro transit people are coming and going from the station. you can see the metro worker pointing them in a direction. they are being detoured around the crime scene. if you lack here to the left you can see, well, a puddle on the ground. there was a metro worker out here a little while ago with a mop. trying to clean things up. now, take a look down this way. you can see on the metro platform, here comes a train rolling in. that is one of the things we

michelle: this is a big deal. as mike carterneen reports some worry that players are wandering around disrespecting memorials at the national mall and that is where mike joins us. mike: the national park service is trying to tap in the popularity of this game. even encouraging players to come down to the mall. the facebook page saying that the rangers will be available to help them. but the rangers are also reminding visitors to be respectful. especially around sites like the interior chamber of the lincoln or the jefferson memorials where the rangers say pokÉmon go should not go. using the wildly popular augmented reality app pokÉmon go, players are flocking to the national mall. >> whoever played the game or watch the show wants to catch a pokÉmo >> there is concern that the pokÉmon characters or other game features are at many sensitive sites, world war ii, korean or the vietnam war memorial. >> if the developers make it available here, kids will play it here. it's wrong. >> as a player myself you should be aware of where you

michelle obama. host then university event and it is that 7 p.m. eastern. jimmy carter talks about refugees and individual freedom. that conversation took place at the carter library. that is followed at 9:00 by the latest technology trends with google ceo eric schmidt. he talks about technology that will eventually allow body parts to grow stem cells. here is the quick look. >> there was the industrial revolution and then here we are now. what is the next one? >> there are two movements. there is help and biology and knowledge. breakthroughn a with a way to jean added. gene edit. they tried to reassemble components. thatombination of doing databases of genes and so forth allows us to really probe into the biological structure of life. it is true that in the next 10-20 years you will be able to get a body part generated from stem cells out of your blood. an extraordinary achievement. former google ceo eric schmidt, who serves as executive chairman of google's parent company. you can see the entire composition from the economic club of new york tonight at 9:00 eastern. c

michelle: did you see the smoke billowing from bowie by the airport? don't freak out. it was a staged crash. we'll let you know why it was done next. >> i'm mike carteronneen. hot spot for the pokÉmon go players. we have seen them here throughout the day and the nearby businesses hoping to cash in on the friend. coming up, details on a business where you might be surprised to find c michelle: look at this scene. a crumpled airplane, flames over bowie and it was done on purpose. you might have heard warnings about this. film company recreated a crash for filming a crash for a tv show. police and firefighters are expect many residents didn't get the notification and they are prepared for influx of calls. leon: i know. what show is it filmed for? why are they not telling us? is there a reason for that michelle: maybe it's popular. leon: there is a reason for next thing you see. maryland has a new fishing record holder. 9-year-old emma. she spent 20 minutes reeling in this more than 94-pound covia the previous record was 79 pounds. so with a four-foot, 65-pound frame she had he from the family friend. i believe it was her dad to help reel the fish in. >>

speakers, including michelle obama's chief of staff plus chief of staff to laura bush and hillary clinton. eastern, jimmy carter in conversation with at the war refugee carter library focusing on civil rights and individual freedom. jimmy carter talked about america's diversity as a strength. best characteristic of america that gives me hope is the fact that we have such a heterogeneous population. it is not a melting pot. i think it is more of a mosaic. where each individual still has a shining bright different characteristic and you put them all together and you have a picture of courage. people who go to a foreign country to demonstrate a commitment to a higher ideal. you have an inherent characteristic in our country. so, theyyears or grouped commitment to improve ourselves. because oftakes but our society, our mistakes become increasingly apparent. when they become adequately apparent to a majority of our people, they are self-correcting. can see the entire conversation with former president jimmy carter and ugandan war refugee derek ka yango at 8:00 eastern. at 9:00 eastern, a discussion on the latest tec

michelle: thank you. covering metro today. and some bumps on the first day of the fifth safetrack surge. transportation reporter brianne carter is live at the ballston station as we hit the brianne: well, so far so good. some reporters are riding stop and go. but take a look here at ballston station. we have shuttle buses and the local buses that are showing up at this hour. the work now underway along the track after we learn that the work here was delayed this morning during rush hour after a power issue. while crews executed a power plan last night on the track, this morning the crews discovered power cables that needed to be disconnected to keep the workers shafe. shutting them down would interrupt the section of track where trains were single tracking in rush hour so the crews waited until after rush hour to minimize the impact but ultimately delaying track work. metro said the priority was safety over service. service was further disrupted for many, even longer than the expected wait of trains every 18 minutes. riders tonight confused and frustrate have attempted to -- this is the first time i attempted to take metro si

michelle: also ahead, how you can help a dog left on the side of the highway and hear for yourself his special talent. mike: i'm mike carter-conneen live on the national ball. coming up, the sites here where the national park service is using users of the popular app not to play and put it away. doug: a very comfortable evil ahead. but the heat and the humidity will make a comeback in the next few days. because you can't beat zero heartburn! i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heartburn prilosec otc. one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. leon: new court documents show the onetime head football coach at penn state joe paterno knew about the child abuse since 1976. documents say he went to tell paterno about it but he said he didn't want to hear about it. he said the first inkling of the assaults came in 2001. 25 years later. michelle: bill cosby maki according to the spokesperson, defense attorney christopher tabak will be replaced in cosby's pending and criminal litigation. no reason was given for the firing. more than 50 women accused cosby of sexual misconduct. but there is only one criminal case.

carter, abc7 news. jonathan: you can stay a step ahead of the safetrack issues with text alerts from abc7. just text "metro" to 43817 or sign up for those at wjla.com. michelle: she made a promise to a high school friend if anything happens to you, i will take care of your kids. and now a virginia mother of three is mother to nine and honoring her friend's dying wish. stephanie says beth asked her to care for her children if she didn't survive her battle against breast cancer. temporary custody papers were drawn up in april when the cancer spread. she died in may. on tuesday, she and her husband were granted full custody. relief that it was over. that we can move on. that we won't have all of this hanging in the back of our heads. we can sleep easy at night knowing this is where everybody will be sleeping at night for the rest of their life. and everybody is happy about that. michelle: the children's father initially said he wanted custody but when the kids said they wanted to be part of her family he did not contest the adoption. their mom was just 39 years old. heartbreaking. jonathan: the only thing nice to see there is the kids seem to get along great. b

michelle obama so much. this is torn from ronald reagan's playbook. talk about how jimmy carter has ruined the economy.r has ruined foreign policy. talk about how jimmy carter has made america look weak across the globe. but then talk about how great the american people are, how great history has been and how we are going to be better in the future. again, america's strength. [ applause ] >> i will say it's pretty darn remarkable what you said about -- what you all have said about michelle obama's speech last night. everybody, even republicans, the last time that happened that i can recall, barack obama, 2004, my chief of staff in congress who had never voted for a democrat in his life said uh-oh, i like this guy because it was the united states of america. this is, again, the huge takeaway is we have had politicians and we've had media outlets saying, hey, if we divide the country up, then we can get these small sections. you've got somebody who has the guts to put their arms around everybody and unite america, just wait and see what happens. >> you can talk about how negative campaigning works and th

known color school painters andr michelle obama chose one of hero works to happening in the white house. >> he's full of all kind off a d information.form final question. carterthe study of african american history, two inventing the traffic light, three being agh medal of honor winnert, or fourr being the first black supreme sp court justice.ti i'll let you answer answer this one. >> definitely for the study of f african-american history. dipping ding ding.g. with the steal. greg, what do you to tell us about carter g woodson.on. >> i'll pass to alex.lex. >> what do you know about cartee d woodson. >> he was the father of blackwae history. he started the association the study of african-american blackk history and lived at 15,389th street service is in the process off renovating and stabbing and oned of the newest national historico sites in washington, d.c.s was >> so someone wants to come dowd and learn more about shaw is sw there anyone place in particulau you would advise them to go todo learn all about the history off this wonderful community? commui >> they can go to our website www.shaw minute street.org andtr we have links there to a numberm of diffe

will also hear from michelle obama's current chief of staff, plus two former chief of staff to former first ladies laura bush and hillary clinton. at 8:00, for president jimmy cartersation. the event at the carter library focusing on civil rights and individual freedom. at 10:00, a discussion on the latest technology trends with former google ceo eric schmidt. he now serves as executive chairman of google's chair -- parent company. it is this evening on c-span. >> the hard-fought 2016 primary season is over, with historic inventions to follow this summer. watched c-span as the delegates consider the nomination of the first woman ever to had a major political party, and the first non-politician in several decades. watch live on c-span, listen on the c-span radio app, or get video on demand at c-span.org. you have a front row seat to every minute of the conventions on c-span, beginning on monday, july 8. -- july 18. k, staractor george to of the broadway musical allegiance, based on his story of living in japanese-american internment camps. he sat down for a conversation with kermit roosevelt, great-great-grandson of teddy roosevelt at the japan society in new york