live in scituate. jim smith wbz news. now back to you. >> thanks so much. beautiful day on the water out there. we are turning or attention to the weather. here is a live look at boston. it's just very nice but there are storms we have to eye on for tomorrow and pamela the storms could create problems for rides in the pan mass challenge. >> arm no -- afternoon tomorrow through 5 p.m. we could look at the storms. sarday, we want to get to the hour by hour timing here. very spotty in tayture. we are looking -- nature. we are looking dry as they head out to the start by nonthe storms will pop up in the heat of the day. very isolated in nature and at that point in time, the storm potential shifts farther to the south and east and the storms move towards cape cod. by 6 p.m., we could be dealing with a chance for a strong to severe storm at that time. but very, very hit or miss. not a complete watchout for saturday but riders need to keep an eye to the sky. 88 for the high temperature. sunday a much better day for the pan mass challenge. 85 and plenty of sunshine

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four different beaches closed in sit wet. -- scituate. riptides and rip currents are a problem up and down the coast. these are from an earlier riptide warning in nan as it ket. if you feel yourself taken out panic. swim parallel to the shore and do not fight it and try to swim straight in when you don't feel the current anymore, then try to swim back to shore diagonally. coming back out live here yesterday at 2:30 in the afternoon, scituate put out the warning that the four beaches were closed and two -- to swimming here at humarock minot and egypt and >>> the american murdered in a knife attack is identified as a woman from florida. five others were wounded in the the rampage. investigators say the suspect is a 19-year-old from somalia who has mental health issues. they say the attack has no ties to terrorism. >>> meanwhile, president obama says the u.s. is making headway in the fight against isis. he said yesterday that top leaders at the pentagon tell them the terror group is losing ground and air strikes have and syria. >> we are goi

brown lawns are the least of the problem in scituate's. black earth shows a real crisis. >> we just got back from ireland where it rained every day. when you showed me that picture i had not seen it in two weeks. you could walk across it. jorge: some parts of the reservoir look like a moonscape. would be up to my chest. officials are issuing a total water ban on outdoor use, reinforcing restriction set in early july. >> it is tough. everything around here, as well as elsewhere, is all brown. jorge: not even handheld hoses are allowed. it includes not watering during the heat of the day. >> my wife has a vegetable garden. she needs water for the plants. we are trying to do things off-hours or very minimally. jorge: residents are asked to conserve anyway possible. >> is it time to shower together here? >> i don't know if anyone in my family would be up for that. jorge: the town is not kidding it is $50 for a first offense. they are praying for a rainy summer weekend. jorge quiroga, wcvb newscenter 5 . heather: the parents of a two-year-old b

heather: right now a total water ban is in effect in scituate. the reservoir has fallen to a dangerously low level. newscenter 5's jorge quiroga is live now. jorge: lots ofow restrictions in effect including, scituate, but the ban today makes it one of the toughest. the crisis goes way beyond brown lawns. the scene from route 3 a, as much bottom soil visible as water, the reservoir level at 28 percent, dropping at a rate of happen an inch today. >> you see the rocks, tre really low. jorge: with little rain predicted, the town ennacting a total ban on outdoor water usage topping restrictions set , in early july. >> apparently it was not enough. it looks like we have more drastic measures kick in today. jorge: the restrictions are pretty tough. this is tickly for demonstration purposes. effective immediately only watering cans can be used to only before 9 a.m. or after 5 p.m. have you ever seen it this bad? >> not since i have been here, no. jorge: the predicament here is beyond dire. the town has only a 30% to 49 30- to-45-day supply left. >> i do

jim smith is live for us in scituate with the details. good morning. >> reporter: good morning kathryn. beautiful morning at humarock beach but conditions about rip corns -- concerns about rip currents and riptides. it was one of four beaches ordered closed to swimming yesterday at about 2:30 in the afternoon in addition to egypt and pebgotty --pebgot-ty -- peggotty beaches were closed. throughout the coastline occasional problemsch these are from a few years back when warnings were posted. the government says about 100 people are killed by rip currents each year when they get caught in those currents get tired and panic and end up drowning. experts say if you are caught, and begin to be carried out to sea try not to panic. try to swim straight back in. instead, swim sideways. swim parallel to shore and then if you feel yourself out of the current, head back to land preferably at an angle. as we come back here live to humarock the beach ordered closed to swimming yesterday along with egypt minot and peggotty beaches. jim smith wbz this mo

this will impact areas like scituate and brandt rock as well. take it easy if you are heading out. >> julie: speaking of soaker. live pictures of the pike for a moment. >>> first, the pats, their off season has been anything but smooth and the hits keep on going. he for his acl against washington. a 8 to 10-week setback makes him available in mid-october. then sebastian balmer. he hurt his ankle last season and he has a hipier that will keep him off the field this season. tom brady will once again be absent from practice. brady was excused from practice yesterday and will be excused today for noninjury related reasons. cleaning out his cleats with a pair of scissors. the first game against the saints to attend a memorial service. no word from the patriots why brady is being excused from these two practices. >>> 4:47 is the time. take a look to the maps right now where we are still seeing some icons that are not typically on there. and that is for road closures because of downed trees and downed power lines. shiri will are more details on the wea

that's when the police come along, and that is why i say it scituate -- an igniter to an already festering situation. these ears coming out of ferguson, there has been a lot of focus on the police force and that is fine by me. we get our support from the consent of the government. we should have discussions about it. this thing has been hijacked for its political construct now, i manage and -- i mentionedhat it is a political construct, this war on police. it is the same thing that went on in the 1960's. same thing, same model, same groups involved. different names, different so, i was acutely aware of what was going on and as -- exposed it as such. we are going to get into what happened as -- last night. you all received a briefing from the police department yesterday afternoon as far as the traffic stop. officers got out of the car, the suspects were both armed. as we know. an officer felt his life was in ginger and used as weapon, and that is under investigation. and some of the residual anger that i opened up boiled over, and we had an untenable related to the rights of baltimore and f

scituate. provincetown you upper 70s. marshfield. 81 this morning and i can't find any cool readings westward into the worcester hills. all the middle 70s this morning, but there is some hope. see these numbers here. the dew points in the 60s. as you get well to the west. so this air is going to start coming in throughout the day. and help us to get rid of some of the oppressive humidity dew point still goes back to the sticky zone for most of us today m however, some will get into the comfort zone by late this afternoon. still on the oppressive side for wake-up hours by 11:30, 12:00 a lot of 60s out there will reserve the tropical feel to the cape and island and even florida a little bit of relief during the afternoon. look at these 50s popping up upper 50s on the dew point temperature today. that is going to make it feel a little bit better late this afternoon. right now, 8 degrees. noontime, 87 -- 80 degrees. noontime, 87. nearing 90 in the greater boston area and dry. and breezes are tapering off by sunset. keep this

the extreme drought conditions hitting scituate very hard. >> water restrictions are getting tighter by the day. >> reporter: this is one of the reservoirs that supplies about a third of the town's water. you can see stumps and boulders and grass growing in the mud. >> ever seen a summer like this one? >> i never have. we moved here in the late '60s and it's never been like this. >> reporter: the town's the summer and so does water usage. and the strain on wells and reservoirs is immense with the drought. now the town has instituted a complete ban on outside watering, even after the summer residents leave. >> people began irrigating after labor day but this year it will not be allowed. >> lawns are brown plants have not flowered, but he's okay with it. >> the shrubs are holding up well. >> at kennedy's nursery, they're stocking plants that don't require as much water. this drought has taken a toll on the business. >> when people can't water they get fearful of gardening and that's a natural thing. but there are things you can

we highest risk of seeing the storms from providence to scituate. this is the best chance for very heavy rain. there's a chance in southeast mass but a lower risk. sometimes it comes down to probabilities. more of the heavy downpours will be moving across, and eventually, we head to wednesday morning. the first batch of rain in the morning. and the highest is north and west of and we have storms likely. and we could have torrential rainfall and an isolated tornado. people get worked up about that. we'll have to keep an eye on that situation into the afternoon. so something to let you know about. and localized street flooding because rain rates could be 1 to 2 inches per hour in any of the storms. localized flash flooding and downpours and damaging wind with the storms and there's a tornado morning. we'll be keeping tabs on all the elements. june, july, and august, only 3 inches of rainfall. we're on pace for the driest summer on record. we'll see how things pan out. community will be on the rise, especially late tomorrow. and very tropical tuesday n

similar buoys are being in duxbury, scituate duxbury, scituate and plymouth. each one cost $2500. >>> usually we told but bears being captured, but this grizzly is actually getting released into the woods. coming up at 7:00, the national park where they are trying to increase the bear population. >>> a judge is shocked when she first lays eyes on a woman arrested. why the jail said they sent her to the courthouse without any pants. >>> and starting the day with david ortiz. capital one believes your bank should work for you, not the other way around. hopes so capital one reimagined banking... ?? with a place that feels nothing like a bank. with free checking accounts that are actually free... no minimums. no fees. and a top-rated app, let's you bank right here. that's banking reimagined. >>> we track traffic and weather together every ten minutes. good morning to you. if you were headed out. we are looking at those usual problem spots. 24 minutes on the expressway from the braintree split to the mass pike. reflected in this live look at the expressway, you can

scituate 81. north of town great beach weather, amesbury 85. dracut 85. barrie 85 with lots of sunshine, on the cape and the islands, ideal. edgartown at 79. the weekend much the same. lots of sunshine. there may be a, some pockets of low clouds and fog saturday morning and sunday morning but we should break those apart by 9:00. temperatures boat days into the 08's cape and the islands we're talking sunshine saturday and sunday. more humid into sunday. temperatures upper 70s to tomorrow. saturday, sunday up there building humidity. tropics, tropical storm fiona, this right now is winds at 45 miles an hour, moving northwest so that by tuesday, it's will southeast of bermuda, it's going to stay outside of bermuda, what they're inside that's when we take extra notice but this stays out to sea. this is almost what we window need to get out of drought. not a hurricane or tropical storm but leftover tropical have anything good coming our way in terms of rain, few isolated showers monday morning into the first part of the afternoon. >> jadiann: whales spotted ju

four beaches in scituate are closed to swimmers due to rip no matter what beach you go to officials urge everyone to check the white boards for the latest information warning and conditions as well. >>> new this morning, boston police union says officers don't feel safe. and believe the city and state are not doing enough to protect them. the boston herald got a copy of a letter sent to the police commissioner by three union presidents. among the demands, long guns for patrol officers, ballistics blult bulletproof vests. more officers to cover over-- bulletproof vests. more officers to cover overtime in summer and take over members of the s.w.a.t. and bomb squad. they are trying to get officers to follow through with the request of its own body cameras by september 1. commissioner william evans spoke and took questions at a public meeting in mattapan last night where community activists voiced concerns. some are questioning why only in the program and why they will be allowed to look at their body camera footage before writing police reports. >> sometimes an officer in the heat of the ev

. >> reporter: this scituate woman mourning the loss of her golden doodle named ben. >> it's been difficult. my daughter has nightmares, i have nightmares, flashbacks about the horrific scene. >> reporter: tracy says she went on vacation last month and left ben at brierwood route 53. when she returned she found the dog in terrible condition. >> i was horrified. he been bitten and bruised from neck to tail. >> reporter: after a an investigation found ben had been bitten more than 400 times and died after surgery. a vet estimated at least eight hours had passed from the time of a dog fight until ben's treatment. kennel owner david ricardo has been summoned to court to face felony animal cruelty charges. attacked could have survived had the operator of the kennel been more attentive, and so our concern really is the environment and neglect that exist within the kennel. >> reporter: ricardo owns a golden retriever named grizzly which apparently attacked ben. teresa says grizzly had bitten ben before and ricardo promised the two would be kept separated this time. >> he was such a sweet dog. you

. >>> getting a better understanding because double the number of shark buoys on from scituate down to plymouth. fox25 was with the harbormaster when the three new buoys were placed off their coast. the group donated money to help marshfield pay for them >> the more we understand about sharks, the more we can co-exist and cohabitate, because these animals do -- are here. >> reporter: the only activity detected was in plymouth, but the additional buoy also help provide a better snapshot of shark activity. robert goulston, fox25 news. mentioned picked up shark activity in plymouth but 30 shark detectors around massachusetts waters. the information is gathered all summer long and analyzed off of the off season. >>> a family got this up close look of this great white shark. took this radio on their boat near race point beach in provincetown. sharks like that area. two more were reported monday. officials don't know if the sightings were different sharks or the same great white. >> julie: that is really good video. >> daniel: good to know. >>> the red sox will wrap up a series with the rays

attleboro, -- in the distance towards scituate, you will see a good five degree difference. as we talk about tomorrow's forecast and we look down the day, we will see another beautiful day on sunday. if you pick this weekend to head to the temperatures 70, sony five degrees in the morning. the festivities are going on. brakes on sunday. great news there. let's talk about this weekend your it get the humid air. we are watching this cold front to the west. this is sunday evening we are talking about. most of this will not happen sunday into monday. perhaps a rumble of thunder early mock -- early monday morning. then dry air will come sweeping in here. tomorrow, beautiful. more muggy on sunday. then a chance of showers as we look at sunday night late into monday morning. tuesday though, we start to clear things off and beautiful sunshine -- tuesday, wednesday, thursday. actually pretty dry. out there. after that, low humidity, sunshine. all of this weather. does not look a whole lot worse than that. we need that shower activity and possibly we will see some of that thursday nig

that's the case in scituate, where the drought has forced a total water ban. 28 percent and dropping at a rate of a half-inch a day. today a total outdoor water ban took effect. that means only watering cans are allowed to water gardens during restricted hours. hand-held hoses are completely banned. residents are asked to conserve anyway possible. >> we are trying to do minimal. maria: police are strictly enforcing the ban with cash fines for all violators. after this crash in beverly. it happened on route 128 north at essex street around r 5:00 p.m. police say a 30-year-old gloucester man crashed into a guardrail, and was killed. his passenger, a 29-year-old rockport woman was seriously hurt. new at 11:00, the coast guard pulling three people out of the water off the coast of cape cod today. the coast guard says two men and a woman were out when their boat capsized near provincetown. they were all in the water the boat had already sunk. the owner of the boat was on land, one of the people in the water contacted him and he called for help. maria: a new hampshire couple facing drug ch

yesterday morning after someone driving by saw the car in the woods right off of main street in scituate. police say it looks like the vehicle went off the road and slammed into a tree. 21-year-old mills taken to cape cod hospital and pronounceed dead. >> sara: driver caught in horrific rollover on 95 and flipped the car friday night near exit 24 in weston on southbound side. you can see nearly a dozen people stopped to try to help the 52-year-old driver. man that recorded video a car. >> facing driver's side door and smashed the door with jack it would have hit the lady right in the head. >> driver went to the hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries. >> gene: fire crews in new hampshire called out to plum island to house fire. look at pictures sent to fox25 from a viewer. thick smoke and flames billows into the fire broke at 59 and get 61st 61st street around 7:30 last night. no injuries reported. the cause remains under investigation. >> sara: coast guard reminding people when on the water wear a life jacket. this after six people rescued from boston harbor when the boat sank. it wa

a couple scattered showers not richard now over scituate, but they are moving to the east. showers to the north fizzling out as well. we generally have a very why it weather pattern -- very quiet worcester, 86 boston, 87 lawrence. very comfortable outside. if you are stepping out this evening, no problems weather-wise area quiet weather through the twin cities and down toward raleigh, north carolina. you see a cold front was showers and forms over the carolinas. that is the boundary between our pleasant, dry air and real as i mentioned, changes will be coming. right now, very dry and comfortable. watch these red and orange these will continue lifting northward. tuesday night, certainly wednesday, oh, here comes that . that will be the fuel for thunderstorms wednesday as well. 60 to 65. there will be pockets dropping ck very comfortable. a good night to open up the windows. except in urban areas where you might want to have the air conditioner going as a failsafe. a sea breeze tomorrow right of the beaches. temperatures warming up into the low to mid 80's with a little bit o

on the southshore, went from 5 to 8 from scituate down to plymouth. fox 25 news was with the harbor master when three new buoys were placed off their coast. >> the more we understand about sharks, the more we can coexist and cohabitate because these animals are here. help provide a better snapshot of shark activity. >> right now there are more than 30 shark buoys in the waters and the information from them is gathered all summer and analyzed in the off-season. robert ghoulston, fox 25 news. >>> been a busy summer. >>> for the first time since the pulse shooting club massacre we are hearing the 911 calls made. he got shot. >> all new at 11:00, the reason these recordings had to be made public. >> plus, the connection between a low flying helicopter and convicted serial killer gary ley sampson. >> we have much to discuss about this forecast. what looks to be a fine weekend has a little bit of a speed bump to get over. still comfortable for august but that will change starting tomorrow, right back into sticky air that we've been accustomed to this summer

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all the from scituate, duxbury -- but inland we are talking about low 90's. on the cape, we may end up with the day mostly in the 80's with a little sea breeze in the afternoon. what could happen? west. tuesday night into wednesday morning, that is the best chance for scattered showers. chances for showers. late in the day, showers and thunderstorms will develop. i think the best opportunity may be tuesday into wednesday morning. there will be wednesday morning and really, it's not that great a chance we are talking about. it is a hit or miss for i-80. right now we need every drop of rain we can get. by the way, at the end of the week, the humidity drops down. sunshine, beautiful harvest weather. let's hope we get rain out of these showers. that's my latest forecast. broagir with sportscenter 5, powered by xfinity. josh: what a way to end a homestand at fenway. red sox about to leave for 11 straight on the road, getting fat today on diamondback pitching once again, pounding out 16 runs on 19 hits. the feast began in the first inning with mookie betts taking f

. >> daniel: dense fog and still lingering on the coast and looking at video from scituate here where visibility is still a problem. welcome back, it is 7:30 on thursday august 11th, i'm daniel miller in today for gene lavanchy. >> sara: i'm sara underwood. what a day, shiri. >> shiri: this is going to be one of the most uncomfortable days that you have felt all summer long. starting out mid-upper 70s, if it is 78? and it is 7:30 in the morning, i think that's a pretty good indicater that it is going to be a hot day. of course, we add the humidity on top of it and gets really uncomfortable and sat right and boston looking just fine. beverly over to lawrence, bedford, portsmouth, new hampshire where i have pockets of dense fog, even being reported last hour just goes to show how quickly some of the fog is lifting. even worcester visibility going up by 2 miles since we checked at the start of the hour, still dense fog in orange and that's where i think there will be the biggest problem. 7:00 a.m. temperatures, middle 70s around, we will slide up to 90? by noon but the heat index is goin

. >>> the drought is so bad in quit wat the -- scituate they are asking people to limit taking showers. they have banned all outdoor the reservoir is down more than 75%. their pop population nearly doubles in the summer but the restrictions will stay in place until after labor day. >>> you can get news, weather, and traffic on our webb and online. have a great thursday. we'll see you then. terests backers, the ads attacking maggie hassan on the heroin crisis have been called "despicable," "a vile smear," and "trash." the truth... david dubois: maggie hassan has been hands-on working with local police and community organizations. narrator: working across the aisle to secure millions in emergency funding for treatment and recovery. susan mckeown: maggie hassan. mark mitchell: to governor hassan, i know this is about people and families. mckeown: she's putting the families of new hampshire first. i'm maggie hassan and i approve this message. independent, strong voice for new hampshire. narrator: then why does kelly ayotte still support donald trump for president? independent minded republ

check out this photo from bob down in scituate. good-looking sky at the coastline. a little bit of red and orange in the sky for many photos coming in on twitter, and that is thanks to some mid to high-level clouds that have worked in from the west. good-looking start to the day and good-looking feel to the day, as well. as the numbers back down into the upper 50s and lower 60s. 70 in the city of bosto we have tracked a couple sprinkles and lying showers west across sturbridge or just west of sturbridge now back through south brink and down toward mansfield, connecticut. a couple sprinkles trying to enter rhode island. if you take a trend here, you may catch a light shower near the mass pike and south of the pike from about 7:00 until 9:00, once in a while. but i don't expect a lot of water out of it. in fact, much of the day is dry. so if you have beach plans this afternoon, go for it. no problems out there. clouds, temperatures running into the 80s. same case on friday into the weekend. most of new england should feature more dry weather than anything else. shower

to sterling mass where it's 58 this morning and coming to the sudbury area -- sudbury area and so scituate 67 right now. many places it's clear. it's a nice start to the day. there are a few spots where there's patches of leftover clouds from overnight like parts of the merrimack valley. it's hard to see that on the infrared imagery but there's patches around a few spots with a little fog in the valley and a few places are cool in the deeper valleys as well. most of the rain is going across southern canada maybe northern maine and perhaps far wouldn't expect a chance of showers here until tonight or tomorrow morning and scattered at that a mfume occur. but none during the day a sun- cloud combination. 8 is at the coast to 88 considering-- 88 at the coast. and pretty nice day with hightide at 8:30. see you in few minutes with the rest of the accu-weather forecast. nicole. >> thanks so much barry. >>> time is 6:33. fire crews worked well into the night searching for hot sps in a fire that destroyed a plum island home it. broke out yesterday afternoon and quickly-- it broke out yesterday afte