Transcripts For WFXT FOX 25 Morning News 20160902 : vimarsan

Transcripts For WFXT FOX 25 Morning News 20160902

Lower humidity. That humidity continues tomorrow. Late sunday into monday, the rain risk arrives and from the south to the north. Temperatures will be in the 70s coming up this Holiday Weekend. I have got much more coming up. Julie has a look at traffic. Julie things looking pretty good. The first slow spot on the expressway right after morrissey boulevard as you make your way up to the oneill tunnel. North of the pike bright green. Love seeing that especially at 6 a. M. Live look through sullivan are moving along at a decent pace. Live drive times. 23 minutes on the pike eastbound from 495 to mass avenue. 14 minutes on the expressway. 21 minutes on 93 south. Well, after days of waiting, gulf coast towns are slammed by thunderstorm hermine. The storm made landfall as a hurricane overnight bringing lifethreatening rain and windfall in florida and georgia. Reporter sustained winds of 80 Miles Per Hour that made it a category 1 hurricane and Daniel Miller joins us now with the latest on the storms dangerous path. Reporter gene and catherine, millions of people are in the path of hermine. And residents took shelter as it beared down on are the coast of florida. This new video in tallahassee as the rain whipping the wind as the storm hits. The first made it first made landfall in st. Marks florida. The area where the states peninsula meets the panhandle, the first hurricane to hit florida since 2005. As you mentioned tens of thousands of people are without power. Now rain has pounded the gulf coast since wednesday meaning residents need to fill up sandbags and flooded neighborhoods. Several counties have mandatory auto he evacuations for neighborhoods in the water and lowlying areas as another 20 inches of rain are expected to drop. Of course the storm heads the east coast. People in charleston, South Carolina dpeering up for hermine. Some people are already leaving town. Others are staying put and preparing for the rain. Now the storm is expected to be in the northeast by saturday where new york and new jersey will be hit. We are keeping an eye on the wave this is weekend. Meteorologist jason brewer will have much more on that. In the newsroom, i am Daniel Miller, fox25 news. 6 03 this morning. A 51yearold baby sitter is in trouble drunk while watching a 3yearold boy. Fox25s Jessica Reyes is live in medford where that woman will face a judge in the coming days and neighbors called police after they saw some concerning behavior. Reporter yeah, gene. Police arrested that woman on wednesday and they called police, those neighbors, because they saw this woman walking down the street with this little boy, and they said she was so drunk and so high, just ignoring name they became worried for his safety. She is 51 years old and watching that 3yearold boy in arlington on wednesday. That is when a neighbor first noticed something was off with her and called police. Officers did show up just as she were trying to get back into someone elses house because she was so as drunk she couldnt remember which one she was baby sitting for. They also found empty bottles and prescription drugs in her car. Neighbors on the street say making a big scene and barely paying any attention to the watching. Asaw a woman walking and little boy and no one else around and she was about 3 and 20, 25 feet ahead of him just walking and trying to keep up. Now crews did stop by debras house and said off camera the whole thing was a big misunderstanding and if the bottles in her car were from before. Police are not buying that. She is charged with Reckless Endangerment with a child and the family actually hired her and used her several times since then. We reached out to care. Com for a statement and will pass that along as soon as we get it. People in milford are mourning the loss of a popular town official that was killed when she was hit by a truck. Barbara sarge clement was not only an elected official but a former National Guardman. She was crossing main street when a tractortrailer dump truck hit her and drove away. Surveillance videos were released before turned herself in. It is possible that the drive didnt realize she hit clement. Still unclear if that driver will face any charges. Happening today, a teenager accused of stabbing his friend with a broken golf club will be back in court. Curtis day is accused of stabbing dow in a neck. He survived and will make a full recovery. The teens and a third friend will use lsd, marijuana and heroin before they started fighting. Know if that happens. A 11yearold remains hospitalized after being shot in the face. Investigating how the boy and his friend got hands. The key issue whether the gun was properly stored. The shooting happened at a home on lynwood street in abington. Counselors were at abington schools to help talk to students about the accident. The District Attorneys Office said that the boy is in stable condition. Shirtly police say a big scare involving a jogger approached by a stranger, an it turned out to be a big misunderstanding. Shared hundreds of time all started with en a man driving a van offered the woman water. The driver came forward and told police he was only trying to help because she looked dehydrated. He apologized for scaring her. The run in led to increased patrols in that area. Three different incidents of lasers being pointed to airplanes are being investigated by the faa. All happened wednesday night two near logan and near near the first incident happened just before 9 a. M. Near harriman airport and 20 minutes later, similar reports at logan. American airlines and delta flights both say it happened about ten miles northeast of the airport. No one was hurt in any of these incidents. Investigators believe a fire which destroyed part of a duplex in attleboro started in a garage. Neighbors tell us they heard several explosions coming from the home on needham street last night. We are told those explosions were caused by Carbon Dioxide cartridges one of the buildings had heavy damage. The other filled with smoke and water. Nobody was hurt. Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady have until tomorrow before starting his deflategate us is special. Brady played the first half. A slow start for brady intercepted on the first drive of the night. But brady turned thing around a little bit later on third down. He finds wide open Keyshawn Martin for the easy touchdown, last night. The giants win it 179. Bradys fourgame suspension starts tomorrow at 4 p. M. A bostonbased Fantasy Sports say they have a new source of funding. Draft kings raised 150 million in venture capital. Will move it forward following a series of legal battles in draft kings and fan duel received permission to operate in new york state but could stilt face lawsuits claiming practices. The state department will release records from Hillary Clintons time as secretary of state sooner than originally planned. The logs of clintons meetings will be released in october ahead of election day. The ap reported that last week many of the people she talked to at those meetings had donated to the clinton foundation. Those news came when they had a recordbreaking fund raising month. Raised 143 million in august. The mother of a milford man killed by an illegal immigrant is back only after appearing was dragged behind a truck by an i will immigrant. Supports defunding of cities including somerville but the citys mayor say it is doesnt make a difference. Reporter are sanctuary cities putting people in danger . Our crime rates are at record lows. Communities build each other up to make each other safe. The somerville mayor says trumps plan could harm the economy to come to somerville if he wants to know what america is all about. Julie we track weather and traffic every ten minutes. On the expressway, bumped up 16 minutes from the braintree split to the pike. Jason. Jason julie, i am tracking the latest with Tropical Storm hermine came in as a hurricane overnight. Right now noise and quiet in southern new england. Temperatures are nice too. 55 to 60 degrees. A little warmer right in the city at 65 right now. I will tell you how long this weather holds into the weekend coming up. And 6 09. A little boy disappeared from a Swimming Pool and never came home. At 6 30, the new tools police are adding to their investigation that started 40 years ago. Football players nrurt scalding hot fields. And now the feds are chiming in. The new alert from the government about dangerous artificial turf. Jetblue answering big New Hampshire College Students are packing their backpacks and heading back to school. And thanks to kelly ayotte, along with the textbooks and pencils, many students are carrying more student loan debt. Ayotte voted to cut pell grants and to raise student Loan Interest rates. Because she sides with special interests kelly ayotte is a heavy burden we cant afford. Nea Advocacy Fund is responsible it was just plain wrong. A new york mom said she was terrified when she showed up at the airport to pick up her little boy who was but was given someone elses son. Her son was put on a plane to boston instead. Jetblue airlines is coming under fire for that mixup. Reporter a terrifying mixup. Two young children, one headed to boston. The other to new york. And my son wasnt there. It was i was given another boy. Reporter speaking through an pwerpter, Maribel Martinez arrived at jfk to pick up her 5yearold son. When mornz got the jet blue terminal, agents brought her a different Child Holding her sons passport. That childs identity has not been revealed and that child was supposed to be flown to logan and instead landed at jfk. Not knowing what happened to her little boy, martinez was her attorney sanford reuben stein. For three hours she believed her son was kidnapped. Reporter her son andy was flying home from the Dominican Republic after a stay with relatives. She demanded to know where her son was. But no answers. Reporter a mothers Worst Nightmare that her 5yearold child was missing. This never should have happened. Jettblue tells fox25 news, that the airline quickly got destination. The boys were always supervised by their employees. Reporter an investigation is under way by jetblue. Martinezs attorney is asking the faa for an independent investigation. This morning a former Stanford University student convicted of rape will walk out of jail after three months. The case sparked outrage. A judge gave him a sixmonth sentence for raping a unconscious woman behind a dumpster. The victim was and a social media post after the sentencing went viral and a judge will no longer hear criminal. Many are released on a Good Behavior after serving half of their sentence. Moment the space x rocket exploded on the lunch it happened yesterday morning as the rocket was being fueled. No one was hurt, but the rocket and the satellite were be used by facebook to bring Internet Access to africa, the midle east and europe. Released a statement writing, in part, remain connected to the mission of connecting everyone and will keep working to have anyone to have the opportunity that the satellite will be provided. The satellite will provide 195 million to build the space x rocket that was supposed to launch tomorrow. We check traffic and weather together every ten minutes. Good mor north of the pike. Route 1, 93 south moving along fine. South will of the pike the first volume i am seeing is on the expressway. Usually the case. You can see a little bright out there right now, but things slowing down in hov and in those main lanes as you head pass the gas tank. Live drive times. 2 minutes from 128 to the tobin. 16 minutes on the expressway. So still not too bad. 20 minutes on 93 south from 495 to the leverett connector. Meteorologist jason brewer in jason, you are saying hermine will cause big problems for swimmers and boaters this labor day weekend. Jason hermine will add to to the problem. Tropical storm moving into south. And you can see all those bands of powerful winds affecting a wide swath of florida and even parts of South Carolina. This is south georgia right now around valdosta. That storm is pulling away it came in as a hurricane 1 30 in st. Marks florida and powerful storms across florida, tampa, orlando, Daytona Beach. Look at the rain it is all the way up into southern north carolina. The wide swath of locally heavy downpours affecting Northern Areas as well. So lets track this Tropical Storm hermine with 70mileperhour sustained winds. The latest advisory from the Hurricane Center as of 5 a. M. It is moving pretty quickly to Miles Per Hour. It will continue to move fairly quickly until it gets out into the atlantic again off of the outer banks on saturday. Then it will slow down and will be interacting with a an old front. High pressure over Northern New England that will literally push things down to the south. So it is going to just lose its forward momentum. One thing it could do is restrengthen some as it gets back over warm waters. So monday, tuesday, wednesday, we will be keeping close tabs on every movfr a post Tropical Cyclone at that point, but the effects remain largely the same with the wind, rain, wave action, the rip current. Sunday night into monday. That is when i start to get more concerned about any rain spoiling any plans. So with this to our south over of the weekend, just want to keep looking to us. Download the fox25 weather app. We will keep you posted on all fronts. Right now in boston 65 degrees. The dew point is only 54 now. Light northwest wind coming through. Temperatures in the 50s in a lot of spots outside of the city. So a nice, comfortable friday. It is going to stay comfortable right through sunday, then by monday, we get a bit schticker with that rain threat starting to rise. So enjoy these high temperatures today. Chatham, 72. Bridgewater, 76. Fitchburg, westborough, mendon, mid to upper 70s a little closer to the coastline thanks to winds that will be onshore later this afternoon. Currents the north and south shore. Keep that in mind. Check in with the beach patrol if you were headed into the water. Rip currents shouldnt be a problem all weekend long but especially areawide sunday into monday. Rain chances are low on sunday, but then monday into tuesday, we tart to see that scattered shower risk increasing. So for your beach plans, saturday, still looks dry, just high clouds. Sunday, going to be rain and Marthas Vineyard and late in the day. Even sunday doesnt look too bad. A bit breezier and cloudier. Your sevenday forecast. Watching hermine, sunday, monday, tuesday, possibly beyond. Temperatures do heat up next week after that system gets out of here. A New Hampshire Community Gathering to honor a woman killed during her weekly walk. Still ahead, the pricey reward being offered for any information one year after her death. And we have all had annoying passengers sitting next to us on an airplane, but artificial tur much playgrounds and fields are coming under fire by the federal government. The Consumer Product safety co investigate the safety of artificial turf. The cpsc is focused on playgrounds and the other agencies are researching the fields. Studies show strong evidence linking chrome rubber the prime component to cancer. The investigation comes just days after fox25 reported on a high number of High School Football players in framingham who got heatrelated blisters on their hands during practice last week. Those burns happened during a drill where the players had go to fox25boston. Com to watch the full report of how hot the fields were when we tested them and the concerns a nearby town has about those fields. Check out these bears taking a tour of one Southern California neighborhood. Here they are. The trio penitentiary the day taking a dip in the rerefreshing looking pool. Two cubs splashed and paddled around the pool water. Her here with their mama. Neighbors had a mixed reaction with the wildlife. Some sympathized saying they were trying to beat the heat and some were upset they were on their property. Hope they got the dogs and children inside as well. When a brave little beagle ran at the bears and chased them away. Gene isnt a bear like on the california state seal. Julie on the flag. It is natural. Gene no the a surprise. Look at him climbing in. [ laughter ] oh, good stuff. The guy in the helicopter and photographer there are right job. Julie bark larger than the bite probably. Check out this inflight workout. This woman doing a headstand in her seat. The woman stretches and live tweeted this site. Coming up with his own name for the moves. Started doing headstands the Flight Attendant stepped in and said knock it off. I dont know if they said that exactly but thats what i would have said. The woman said she was not feeling well and most people who are not feeling well do headstands. The passenger next snoozed through the whole thing. Didnt really care. I was in favor of flight Flight Attendants and long flights saying, okay, here we are we need to do our stretches. And everybody was together. Gene stand up, stretch, do whatever. Julie kind of entertaining and get the blood flowing. Gene they say in the long flights, keep moving around for me. Jason makes for great tv. I love the guy snoozing next to her. Waiting on a long flight. Got to get it done. Right now watching hermine, made landfall, Tropical Storm now closer to south

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