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WFXT FOX 25 News At 4 September 19, 2016

Info in this case, well continue to bring it to you as soon as they bring it into us. In the newsroom, heather hegedus, fox 25 news. New at 4 00, we spoke with some of our lawmakers today to find out what theyre doing to keep us safe. Fox 25 Sharman Sacchetti live in boston, no connection between these new devices and anyone here . Reporter no. No direct connection. But the governor told us we do questions for those elected officials. They were telling us, theres still a lot they dont know about this suspect, how he was able to pull this off. There are still questions here, though, about what theyre doing to keep boston safe. And the message from the beginning has been this does not have any connection to anything going on here in new england. Governor Charlie Baker telling us while there is no direct connection here there are happened in new york and how the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev brothers went about the boston marathon. If you go on the internet, its a onepage document drawing and descriptions. Reporter he asked Transit Police to increase visibility the same for the airport as well. I know in recent weeks some of the isis leadership have called for, you know, home grown attacks. Reporter congressman steven lynch points out the suspect is a naturalized citizen and it wasnt a question, it appears, of better screening. It all raises questions just about anyone can be radicalized. Lynch adds theres much more they still dont know. I havent heard yet that any of these individuals were on the radar screen of the fbi up to this point. Whether we can connect the dots after the fact and say we shouldve seen this coming, im not sure yet. Reporter and congressman lynch tells us, he is worried agreeing to take in refugees that were headed to grease. That agreement expires in october and is unclear what happens next. At 6 00, specifically the type of security measures that are being picked up at airports along our water ways and roadways. Live in boston, Sharman Sacchetti, fox 25 news. Blair and fighting terrorism now, of course, the focus of both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trumps campaigns still ahead at 4 00, how theyre reacting to what happened and their plans to keep america this afternoon, a higher than ever Police Presence in new york city. And the aftermath of that bombing and preparing for the u. S. General assembly, an additional 1,000 state trooper and members of the National Guard been added to those streets. Mayor bill diblasio, those will be assigned to major events crosswalks and subway stations throughout the week. Stay with fox 25 and fox25boston. Com for continuing coverage of the arrest in the bombings. Ahead at 5 00 and 6 00 with a live in new jersey where that in security right here at home. President obama ruled out a connection between the bombings and a knife attack at a minnesota mall over the weekend. At this hour, authorities are investigating that as a potential act of terrorism. Man police say stabbed nine people as a Security Guard working for a store in the mall. Has been identified as 22yearold dah here adan. Officials say he made one reference to allah and asked the before attacking. An off Duty Police Officer being praised as a hero who took him down. Given his Officers Training and abilities he was the right person at the right place at the right time on saturday night. To prevent this incident from getting worse. Elizabeth officer jason works part time at the Police Department but served as a police chief in a nearby town. All of the people who were hurt are now out of the hospital. The, still gray today outside of our studios, this is video from new bedford, people really sloshing through it. Blair chief meteorologist Kevin Lemanowicz with you will now. Heavy rain, but not out of the woods yet, are we . Kevin look at the difference. 3 inches in you saw the video in new bedford, over. 75 of an inch. You know how badly boston needs this rain. Hours. The latest live Storm Tracker radar and there are a couple of spots coming down heavily. Particularly out here, Marthas Vineyard and nantucket getting hit very hard with heavy rain still. As well as falmouth and mashpee through the beach area and hyannis and South Yarmouth too. Skip northward, request incidence see to weymouth and holbrook, spots for the evening drive time and north shore, merrimack valley, quickly into Southern New Hampshire now, to pass down to merrimack, new and finally southwest New Hampshire, where heavy downpours are right now. This rain moving out tonight. The best chance, when we need it, the best rain is already over for most locations. Ill keep track willing the heavy spots and big change in the weather. Blair there are new developments in the deadly restaurant crash in newton. Today the man behind the wheel was in court. Thats where we learned on the record that he suffers from debilitating disease but the prosecution says it played no role in the fox 25 Kerry Kavanaugh is live outside of the restaurant in newton, with what was revealed in court today. Kerry. Reporter yeah, the prosecution laying out their case for the first time publicly. They say that the driver was speeding when he came through this intersection here, went to the light that was red and of course crashing right into the sweet tomatoes restaurant that remains closed tonight. Now, the prosecution acknowledging that this man suffers from m. S. But they say its simply not playing a role Bradford Casler the driver of course. Made the first appearance before a judge today, six months after the crash that killed Eleanor Neely and greg morin and injured several others seriously. Earlier this month, indicted casler of two counts of Motor Vehicle homicide and one count of negligent operation. Today the prosecution acknowledging casler suffers from m. S. And says their investigation took that into account. We believe that it h had mr. Casler was not suffering any flare up from the disease at the time of the accident. The gentleman suffers from multiple sclerosis, he has for 27 years and we all know the affects of multiple sclerosis. Reporter the defense attorney there wouldnt elaborate on caslers medical condition nor would he answer if the prosecution also examined caslers vehicle what they discovered about it after closely examining it and the story were putting together in the next half hour. Live in newton, Kerry Kavanaugh, fox 25 news. Elizabeth driver being charged tonight after hitting a child at a local School Bus Stop in chelsea on scatterer street. Police tell us the man drove past the buses flashing stop sign and hit a 6yearold boy. That boy not seriously hurt. The driver cited with operating to en blue passengers planned to make an unplanned stop in boston after a lightning strike. It was headed from new york to bermuda. Landed safely after being diverted to logan this morning after noncritical equipment issue but lightning hit that plane. They checked for damage as well. Passengers were placed on new flights. Elizabeth right now police are trying to track down the gunman who shot a man outside of a allston nightclub on pratt street in allston. Investigating overnight. Several bullets hit the victim and hes now in Critical Condition. As fox 25 Jessica Reyes tell us, police have a rough description of the suspect. Reporter this all happened at the building down the street from here, at a nightclub called the garage. Thats what that building actually operates as on sunday nights and people who live in this area, do say it is especially busy on sundays, the victim nearly only in his 20s, shot in the parking lot on pratt street and then right around the corner from linden street w we do have video from the scene we want to show you now. Shortly after the fact. There was a pretty Big Police Response at that time. Police did initially say looking at lifethreatening injuries, they have since said, they do expect him to survive. And he is in Critical Condition in a hospital in boston. He was shot several times in his upper body. Now, police are still investigating, still looking into this. But they do say there was some sort of fight before he was shot. Apparently, there was an altercation inside and another were told. Again, thats something well address through the licensing board. But, again, were still very early in the investigation. A cameras will tell us a lot once we get those reviewed and well go from there. Right now, police are still working to get that surveillance video. But they do have a brief description of the suspect from a witness and that person apparently told police that the possible suspect was a black man seeing wearing a black hoodie and green pants last seen leaving the scene here in a red car. Boston police are with any further information about this to please give them a call. In boston, Jessica Reyes, fox 25 news. Blair the patriots only have three days to get ready for the next game. Still dont know if garoppolo will be able to play or not. The qb with the dolphins in the Second Quarter with a shoulder injury. Xrays reveal no broken bones. His availability may depend on how he deals with that pain. A sprained joint is the diagnosis. Elizabeth rhode island man who got stuck between a rock and a hard place after dropping his cell phone. Walking along a jet tee in narragansett and when he bent over to pick up his phone, his head got stuck between two rocks. Crews worked two hours before they finally figured out how to get him free. Olive oil. Lots of olive oil did the trick. Spray him down, applied a lot of olive oil and we were able to dislodge him. So smart. But expected to be fine. Glad hes okay. Yeah. Still ahead, the drug just approved that parents say will change the lives of children fighting muscular dystrophy. Plus in this with the child passed out in the back seat, the woman in this photo people are wrong about whats really going on in the picture. Live storm radar picture very busy today. Tracking where the heaviest rain is still falling right now. In the game. Next, ill tell you what one local teenager says the i dont want to live with the uncertainties of hep c. Because today theres harvoni. A revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. 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Its ready to cook. Just pop it in the oven and dinners ready. Delicious, fresh, easy. Wegmans ez meals. [alright] elizabeth developing right now, floridas governor announced a travel ban lifted to a miami neighborhood hit especially hard to the zika virus outbreak. He hut that in ban when wynwood was the first place in the u. S. To transfer the virus to people. Considered a zone of active zika transmission. Everybody came together about how to get rid of the mosquitos. We got rid of standing water. We educated the local residents the local businesses the county health department. Now the focus turns to miami beach, where more than 30 home grown cases have been confirmed. Blair a Senior High School Soccer Player at Saugus High School is the example of what team spirit is all about. He was put in duringhe thats just part of it. I went to Saugus High School today and found out what makes this game and that player so memorable. It started just like any other saugus High School Soccer game. They were playing Salem High School friday night when something happened. I was crying. It was unbelievable. One member of that team had said for weeks how badly he wanted to take this field. Hes always saying, coach, when were down, always screaming at us. And senior, matt, finally got that chance, who has Downs Syndrome. And he still cant believe it. Here you can see why. He was put in, with the help from the other team in salem, he was allowed to go for the net. Not just once either. He scored two goals. I feel happy. Comprised. Im happy fun game. Reporter fun and happy. Now four days later, Walking Around Saugus High School, raynade is still giving high fives and still high on life. Happy. Best friend ever. T i think raynade is always there for us, we have to be there for him too. I think its a really good thing for him to do. And i think it was class from the other team, really not one of them will remember anything but raynade scoring one of those two goals. Reporter what happened, especially for raynade, its much more than just a game. In saugus, blair miller, fox 25 news. Blair and you know, Walking Around that classroom, that cafeteria today, he is a rock star. Elizabeth big man. Hes Walking Around like a peacock. Blair kudos to all of the kids there. Particularly emotional for you to come together for him. Blair what really hit team spirit and the other team, Salem High School for letting this happen as well. Elizabeth absolutely. Blair champs. Elizabeth former red sox pitcher Curt Schilling and his business 38 studios reached a settlement with rhode island. His team will pay 2. 5 million over his settlement with the it will end by a lawsuit in this case. Close call for a driver in marblehead when her car nearly went over a sea wall on the cause way headed toward the neck. If the wall wasnt there, she wouldve gone over that edge. The driver was okay and told police shes not sure how it happened. Now your local forecast from chief meteorologist kl and the Storm Tracker weather team. Kevin outside of my window bone dry still. Thats really the story of today. Some places getting a soaking of rain. Others barely any at all. While in worcester at the airport, almost 2 inches of rain. Incredible difference. This is live Storm Tracker radar. Heavy rain here, nothing in between, a little light rain, and then nothing up in this area. A couple heavier spots to the north. Lets start here. Marthas vineyard and nantucket both getting some of the see the yellow orange and red popping up in here. Thats why the heaviest rain is happening on the Southeast Side of Marthas Vineyard. Up to cape cod here, heavy rain through South Yarmouthed and west harwich. Craigville beach, nice spot in hyannis, nice spot happening, hyannis to barnstable. And osterville, getting that heavy rain as well. Not many of you out at the beach this afternoon. Moderate and spots of heavy rain near liberty street and west east of route 37, coming down pretty hard in that one little spot. Most places light to moderate rain on the evening drive. Lake canopy, coming down hard here. In peterborough back to dean, then i noticed this, 293 up through manchester, hard there, commuting to and from there this evening. Rain reports coming in, theyre all over the board. Coming in on twitter. Send them to me legal man no wits. Thats incredible. Thats what everybody needs. East mashpee, the cape, coming down hard, 1. 2 inches thats a nice drink. Grafton, worcester county,. 3 inches. Thats it. Of rain. Dorchester, notice the same way matching up with the logan airport, that reading is. Drying out. The clouds sticking around, last showers along the coast, those push off as well. Look how we clear off to the north and west in the morning as well. The sun coming out in full force in the morning. If youre likely not getting rain right now, not likely going to get much rain tonight. Random showers to the north and west. If youre hoping for down busting in your town, most of it as well. Hour by hour in boston tonight, any showers ending around midnight. Staying near 70 degrees all night long. Temperature wont drop too much. The big temperature change, though, is yet to come. High temperatures tomorrow, still decidedly like summer. Framingham, 86 degrees. Last to clear the cape and islands your temperatures will stay in the 70s, but still kind of humid out there, not the real sticky air weve had. Gradually getting dryer. Check the out in the the sevenday forecast. 23rd. Bring us rain showers saturday morning. Not the rain we need but another batch. More importantly, look at the High Temperature average on sunday. Thats the change im talking about. Ill keep track of the showers out there, where your heaviest spots are for your evening drive. Elizabeth shifts in the Hillary Clinton and donald

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