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WFXT FOX 25 News At 4 July 27, 2016

Live in curly center, kathryn burcham, fox 25 news. We want to give you an idea of the timeline. Kyzrs mother dropped her off at 10 35. The camp opens at 10 00. He was last seen at 2 05 or 2 15. First police thought he may have wandered out the door before heading west out of the day camp. The Police Commissioner says search crews were dispatched immediately. Kyzrs mother tol she arrived to pick up her son shortly before 3 p. M. They found his body not too far from the camp three hours later at 7 00 or 9 00 p. M. By the Boston Police marine unit. We continue to stand by mayor marty walsh, well bring that to you live when it starts. Fox 25 investigates public records about this camp all day long. Including who is supposed to be watching the children every day. We uncovered coming up in the next hour. Jason were following breaking news right now on the cape. Area. We understand there may be some kind of standoff situation happening at the dear crossing plaza and south cape village area on route 28 near the falmouth town line. Mass. State Police Posted on facebook that this is not an active shooter situation but asking people to stay away any way right now. Sky fox on the way there and well have a crew headed to the cape on the ground as well. Bring you updates and live pictures as soon as we get them here. Elizabeth a man and a woman were killed in a wrong way overnight near exit 13 on i495 near the foxboro line. We were there as this was breaking this morning. Right now fox 25 crystal haynes is live at Foxboro Police barracks where the investigation is still very active. Reporter elizabeth, theyre still trying to term did how this 24yearold middleboro woman was able to get on the highway where she was able to get on to the highway and travel it was around 2 a. M. On 495 in mansfield near foxboro. Police say there was almost no one on the road. But tragedy struck when a 24yearold middleboro woman travelling northbound in this southbound lane in a Nissan Sentra struck and killed a 27yearold taunton man in his chevy cruise. Both pronounced dead on the scene shortly after First Responders arrived. They were called there when another driver came crash and called 911. The names of the victims were withheld late wednesday. Because police were still notifying family members. I spoke with the woman who says it was her boyfriend who was struck and killed by that middleboro woman in this crash. She says one of his last Text Messages was to her, saying he was getting ready to leave work and that he was coming home. This was at least the second wrong way driving incident state police have responded to this you can see 22yearold steven esry of rockport drive more than 20 miles down route 128 and i95 before he was stopped by police early sunday morning. No one was injured. But according to an ntsb investigation, 300 to 400 people are killed in wrong way driving crashes every year. More than half involve alcohol and the overwhelming majority of wrong way crashes happen between 6 p. M. And 6 ask if alcohol or any other substance was involved. I was told the toxicology reports would take several weeks to get back to have a definitive answer on that. Meantime in our next hour, i did ask state police how often these wrong way crashes actually happened. And whats being done to prevent them. The answer coming up. Reporting in foxboro tonight, im crystal haynes, fox 25 news. Jason all right. Humid weather continues. Chief meteorologist Kevin Lemanowicz is here now. Boston may have not seen rain for at least a week. Kevin it seems that way. I was hoping to get this thing rolling. Boston shot up to 87. Looked good and sea breeze knocked it down to 81 just a matter of an hour. Now bouncing back to 81 to 82 degrees. We know were going to hit the 90s tomorrow. So why not boston temperatures the official one for the heat wave. And right now 5982 degrees. Can it bounce all the way to 90, certainly can. Just a little wind shift will do it. To do that, get up to number six, longest consecutive heat wave days in boston on record. But its going to be sunny through the rest of the day, until sunset tonight. Wake up tomorrow sunny as well. Tomorrow another hot day coming our way. Timeline just ahead. Big night at the Democratic National convention on the way. This as a live look at all of the action in philadelphia right now. Tonight the president hits the stage for another democrat in the white house. Live at the d. N. C. In philadelphia, Sharman Sacchetti and also a big night for president ial nominee. Absolutely. Tonight were expecting to hear from tim cain, Hillary Clintons choice for vicepresident. Earlier today, he walkthrough on stage. Cain, of course, the senator from virginia. Hes set to give the biggest speech of his career. Not because of who is in the Convention Hall but because of everyone watching at home. Today while speaking at a florida delegation breakfast. He held the party line and blasted donald trump. Donald trump has been very willing to make fun of people with disabilities. Donald trump uses racist and demeaning language. Language when he talks about women. The next president is going to be the one celebrating 100 years of women getting the right to vote. Is it too much to ask for it to be a woman than it to be someone who offends women every time he opens his mouth . Reporter and of course today we are also expected to hear from vicepresident and president obama as well. They are expected to speak to Hillary Clintons credentials as a leader. Li sacchetti, fox 25 news. Elizabeth boston mayor marty walsh is speaking about the death of a city boy at a city run camp in southie. Jason lets listen in. Any support they needed certainly we have counselors helping them and working with them on arrangements and working to try and get them through this very difficult period of time in their life. No family ever has to go through this type of loss. This is a tough day. It was a tough day yesterday. You know, for just a horrible day. And i want to just, you know, very difficult to put in words. Thousands of families entrust their kids every single day to us here in the city of boston through our different programs. And we take this trust very were immediately taking and then talk more and take some questions. The first, were placing the director of the Curley Community Center on paid administrative leave pending the investigation. Our plan is to reopen the facility tomorrow for adults. Theres three different entrances in the can you remember curly. And were going to reopen it our arrangements same as today, vans available to take any parents and kids who want to go to a different facility tomorrow and over the weekend, well have access for them to get there like we did today. Today went well. Im not sure the exact number of kids we had that showed up there. But on any given day between 50 and 70 kids that use our facility at the Curley Community Center. Depending on the weather and the ability of what the parents can do with their well launch an immediate review of all of our protocols at all of our centers. All of the protocol through our entire system. The buses the families operates 37 facilities across the city. Those facilities host hundreds of summer programs, including 50 truck and day program and summer camps of the incident occurred at the summer youth activities program, a free drop in center at the Curley Community Center. Affordable options for parents, looking for summer activity for their kids. We also have different from summer were ca, we have Boston Center center for youth and families a little more flexible for their families. This has been the program in the city for a long long time. An assessment of all of our camps and free drop in will be completed this week. We started that process. Actually, will morales started that process last night. And we continue that process through today and it will be complete by the end of the week. Were going to ask quickly potential improvements if it reveals in the study or report reveals any improvement well do that. And my Office Open Daily to monitor and discuss all of the review. To make sure that nothing like this tragedy ever happens again in the city of boston. Outside, as far as the investigation, its still somewhat an ongoing investigation, we still dont have a lot of questions that people asked earlier this morning. You can ask them again. If we have answers well give them to you, if we dont, well get them to you when we do have the answer. I want to end with thanking the press for your patience, i guess, for understanding and we went by and other times of the day. So thank you for that. And ill open up for questions. Let me just ill get reporter you said going to be moved to [inaudible]. No. What was happening was the counselors came in to the curly center today to sit down with professionals to talk about what they experienced yesterday. And i believe theyre going, they went back to other sites sites and will be coming back to this site. Theyre still going to continue to work on the site. Were reviewing what exactly happened. Because you cant blame 28 people working the center for what happened. Again, we dont know what happened. So were going to find out what happened and well take appropriate action when we do. Reporter reports that a counselor failed to notify the mother immediately upon the childs disappearance . No. Theres a little bit of a im not sure exactly. Were frame together. Were not exactly sure in the paper it reports that at 2 15 one of the counselors or lifeguards saw kyzr come out of the water. At 2 45 the police were notified. Theres a half hour period there. Im not saying he was missing the entire time. Were not sure, were trying to piece together. When exactly did the center realize that he was missing. We dont have all of that information yet. As soon as i get all of those facts, you will have them. We were talking today about [inaudible]. Reporter that a woman not be allowed to see the childs [inaudible]. I dont know if thats a question all the way through today. Thats a question you have to ask the medical examiners office. The Mayors Office does not control the medical examiners office. Sthats a state run facility. Thats a question you have to ask the state. Ill get to you everybody. Reporter with regard to who made contact with the famil cousin . Yeah, i cant speak to that right now. All i know is what was in the newspaper. Were piecing all of that together. Reporter lastly, they claim their older child, the 9yearold, heard their brother scream prior to the camp the family told me the same thing today. And, again, i have not had a chance to debrief with these guys about that yet because i came back from the family a few minutes ago. Reporter who regulates it, how many children, are there how many counselors are required . So as the mayor talked about earlier, the program is a drop in program. On any given day, its not in line with enrollment camps you know who is coming in, this is more drop varies day to day. We have a counsel director, program director, who oversees the staff program, just a director and assistant supervisor and then we have this is just a rough number, 25 counselors. That work there and then above that, we have city of boston full time staff that theres two supervisors above that Camp Director program. And 8 lifeguards down at the beach as well. Reporter who regulates the Program Different from the camp . The city of boston. Reporter this morning, you said you only had there was no video for no video day boulevard, i asked if the state police had its all state is supervised all by state police. We supervise Boston Police department supervises the front door curly Recreation Center out to the back as far as Public Safety goes. The curly facility, including the beach are behind curly, the city of boston, Everything Else around it, all of the other beach is state and all of the roadways in front of state, all of the walkway in front of state as well. We just have the building. Unless something comes up. No. Just to clarify what we understood earlier that the boy was last seen in the facility . Just to be clear and just so we get it right, you know, the last were working on exactly the time frame, the last time the boy was seen, according to the boston globe story, if i read it correctly, i believe its at 2 15, the young boy come out of the wa supervisors, lifeguard or somebody saw him at that particular moment. And then from 2 15 until 2 45, were trying to piece that piece together until the police were notified. I know at some point, again, i dont want to get into it right now. Because i want to get the full report. So we can go over the course of next few hours, tomorrow, we can get the fulfill story out. Exactly what happened inside, when the search began inside the building for this young boy and then what was the time lapse reporter your Police Department [inaudible]. Conflicting reports on where he was last seen. Reporter [inaudible]. 50 50 yesterday. Reporter [inaudible]. 22 staffers. Let me just clarify the staffing positions so you know. Center, the executive director of the center is kind of the boss that oversees the whole program, sees the drop in center but all of other programs that goes on in the facility. Thats the gentleman placed on administrative leave. Then you have this particular program supervisor, we have an assistant supervisor, we have roughly 28 successful counselors that work with these these from 15 to 18 years age. Also on top of that, 8 lifeguards that patrol the curly record center. And the where the kids are, theres always at least two lifeguards on duty, every single time. So thats kind of the staffing of the two thats kind of the staffing of this particular facility. Reporter [inaudible]. No. Yeah. Reporter [inaudible]. Im not theres reporter [inaudible]. I dont know. I dont know the answer to that right now. Ill have to ask that question im not sure. Reporter [inaudible]. Again, its about how is the program run. Thats what were looking at right now. Because of the programming, because its a drop in center, i dont know if anyone is familiar with a drop in center, anyone who goes to a boys girls club, youre in an organized effort and sometimes you have open gym. Drop in center is like an open gym, where they kind of come and do different activities across the board, thats the difference with having a summer camp and drop in center. The drop in center kids come in, go out the back. Staff throughout the facility, where they manage the program. We dont have the particulars of what happened. Theres a lot of questions that we have to figure out. Reporter away. Because these kids that come to our center, their families have no other option for them. They dont have the ability to send them to summer camp, tutoring if they want to send them. This is a last resort for a lot of families and these drop in centers arent just during the summertime. Theyre all year long. Sometimes this is a safe haven for a lot of our kids in the city of boston. Thats why its important to get the summer help through thats why we fund the kids that are part of our 10,000 summer jobs, thats how we do that, so we can get Young People Working in our centers as well. Reporter [inaudible]. Well, we dont know yet. Obviously were awaiting the autopsy results as far as how i cant tell you in the water probably about 15 yards from the shore behind the bath house. And so, again, we worked hard to find that child. Like i said, you know, we had a lot of conflicting information. When the mayor talks about, you know, certain people calling you can imagine, we had a lot of different kids telling us different things. Its hard to figure out what actually happened. On land, we had copters up and unfortunately, around 7 p. M. , we made the worse discovery we could. And that was the young child in the water. Reporter [inaudible]. 3 00. Part of the house. If you go around the centers today and im sure you have. And i would suggest you go around to Different Centers you see our centers are parents in our city, some parents in our city dont have other options for kids. And they were able to drop them off at our facilities today and were going to continue to work and take this tragedy and see how we can improve what we have. Its not going to bring back kyzr. And i talked to the family about that today. And i think it was the grandfather said, if something positive can come from his give us a little bit of peace. But they were very upset today and very devastated. Reporter [inaudible]. No, i went there to pass on my condolences. Reporter [inaudible]. Again, were still working through this. I just ask when you report this, make sure you confirm that we get the right information out on the street. Because you asked me a question i didnt know. I was following the newspaper account. You asked me a specific question and i was using the newspaper as a point of reference, thats why. Reporter [inaudible]. Again, no, ill comment on that later on. All right. Thank you. Elizabeth weve been listening in to mayor marty walsh address the death of kyzr willis. We understand hes now replacing the director of the Curley Community Center. That person on administrative leave. Theyre also reviewing er we heard Eric Rasmussen ask the mayor about the timeline of everything happened. Jason theres a big gap. Elizabeth theres a big gap. Theyre trying to figure out. Also asked where he was last seen. The mayor said there was conflicting reports where he was last seen. Jason youve got to remember there were lots of kids witnessing pieces of information. He was last seen 2 05 to 2 15. Youre talking 30 to 35 minutes in between. Elizabeth in the meantime, how devastated they were. They still have to be in shock over this. And still a lot of questions to be answered that we have to stay on top of. Jason we do have a team of reporters and Investigative Reporter Eric Rasmussen there and theyll bring that information to you next. Elizabeth in the meant

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