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WFXT FOX 25 News At 4 November 3, 2016

And in the lungs, in the chest, in the throat. I slit his throat. Why . I do not know. Reporter you can see the expression on some of the victims family faces as they had to listen to this all over again. This was used in that 2003 case against him that led to him being and then, also, of course, that first death sentence. Coming up at 5, we will have a little bit more of what he told those state Police Investigators about how these murders made him feel. We are live in boston outside the federal courthouse, robert goulston, fox25 news. Turning now outside. Pretty much all day long. Chief meteorologist Kevin Lemanowicz joins us now. You are forecasting some cooler weather as we head to the weekend. Kevin a gradual cooldown northwest will bring in that cooler and drier air. Talking about showers coming in and heaviest north of the massachusetts border. Remember we talked about that yesterday . That certainly has happened. Thoughts of more showers coming in during evening commute. Not much out there at all. If you really want to look closely, you will find a couple of sprinkles in Worcester County around Anna Maria College in paxton, northward toward boxborough. But these are very light showers. Any the moderate to heavy showers came through fairly quickly just a this is being picked up by our live Storm Tracker network and just a couple of sprinkles and looking to the west to find if there is anything more. A few his or her showers and we will track them this evening and not expected to blow up into anything that we can talk that much about. The heaviest push into maine through canada over the next few hours. The one thing we can talk about, mild, 63 near boston. 70 in providence. Norwood at 68. Back here in the 50s, that southward into our area. I will show you how much we cool down to start the weekend just ahead. Elizabeth kevin, thank you. Commuters can change their routines due to that toll booth demolition work. Now drivers on 128 need to steer clear of another big construction project. Mark ockerbloom joins us with the detours. Ock. Reporter after toll booths starting disappearing on the pike now on 128. Be prepared. Starting tomorrow, worker will start tearing down highland avenue bridge in needham and you can highlight what is left of the old bridge. This is higher stretch of the highway between 19 a and 19 b will be shut down in both directions at some point. You can check out the map. This will impact local traffic in newton and needham and anyone who drives 128 in this stretch. Work starts tomorrow night at 8 when the northbound lanes will be closed so they can take down the east side of the old bridge. Then on saturday from 3 to 6 p. M. , all lanes of 128 north and for saturday night at 6 00 to sunday afternoon at 3 00, the southbound lanes will be closed. Mass dot says it is too dangerous to let people drive under the bridge while crews are working. The new highland ave bridge highlighted here will also be closed while the demolition is ongoing. Mass dot says it is important to plan ahead and know your detours. We know a lot of information to take in. We got you covered. All the suggested detours posted on our web site at fox25boston. Com. Mark ockerbloom, fox25 news. Elizabeth ock, thank you. A car slammed into the south side of the hospital in weymouth leaving only minor damage. Skyfox over the scene just before noon and shows the car being loaded on to the flat bed. Police are investigating how that crash happened. No word on any injuries. As link day draws closer, the excitement certainly building. Live pictures of Boston City Hall plaza where there are pretty long lines of people waiting to cast their ballots right now. It has been like this all day long. Early voting ends tomorrow in crystal haynes will show us how many people have cast their votes and why the turnout is bigger than expected. It is the last thursday before election day. Just five days to go, and this race could not be any tighter. We learned when president obama will be in New Hampshire to campaign for Hillary Clinton. As Diane Gallagher reports, the candidates are pulling out the stops of big names and big money in the final days of the campaign. Reporter big names, big money, little time left. Five more days. Reporter it is coming down to the wire, and Hillary Clinton is maintaining her election edge over a latesurging donald trump. The cnn poll of polls which averages the five most recent National Polls show her leading 4642 . Surrogates for both candidates are out in full force crisscrossing the country. Melania trump who until this day did not deliver a speech since the Republican Convention made a rare solo experience this man i know so well, donald trump, with your help and gods grace will make America Great again. Reporter but the plan to catch up or pull away at the last minute is an expensive one. A multimillion dollar closing arguments. Clintons camp ramped up its spending to roughly 32 million in the final week alone, inundating Battle Ground states with ads like this one. This is all it takes is one i would bomb the [bleep] out of them. Just one. Reporter but trump is getting in on big spin too, dropping 20 million on spots airing this week. I am tons and i approve this message. Reporter while clinton may be the a cubs fan, both candidates in game 7. World series watchers got a side of politics with their baseball wednesday night with each Campaign Running three ads during the primetime broadcast. Elizabeth the gaps have closed in New Hampshire. The suffolk poll show clinton tied with trump at 42 each. A new poll donald trump edging out Hillary Clinton by a single point well within the margin of error but first time the republican has led the state in months. Good news in the same poll for republicans in the senate race as well. Incumbent Kelly Ayotte Hodes a sixpoint lead over her democratic Maggie Hassan. Which party will control the u. S. Senate. The trump and the clinton campaigns are set up for a furious final two davis campaigning. The granite states four electoral votes could be crucial. Donald trump will be in atkinson and manchester on tuesday. His daughter ivanka had events in hollis. And as we said moments ago, president obama will be at unh elect the president 2008 and 2012. Chelsea clinton will speak at keene state and dartmouth tomorrow. Elizabeth we will have complete coverage. Blair join us starting at 4 00 and stick with us through the night. Results on both the president ial and senate races an hotly contested ballot questions. A car hit a woman and her dog in newton that happened just before 8 30 this morning as they crossed com ave. Hit by a suv. The woman was rushed to leahy no word how she and that dog were doing. That driver did stay at the scene. No crosswalk where they were crossing. A woman was trying to catch a bus when she was hit by a car leaving her with serious injuries. It happened in dorchester around 10 30. The 18yearold walking across galavan boulevard when she was hit. The driver stopped and called for heaven. Police tell us he is not facing charges. A busy intersection in cambridge is changing and may impact your commute. New traffic laws are in effect for drivers and cyclists. Fox25s jason law has more on you what need to know before you drive through inman square. Reporter there are bicycles all over cambridge, but in white bicycle and its memorial is a reminder of just how dangerous the intersection at inman square can be, and city officials are hoping a new traffic pattern will save lives. My issue is visibility. Reporter brian rides through inhahn square every morning. He says this intersection is the most dangerous part of his what the brits called a smitze, sorry i didnt see you mate. Reporter cyclists have been calling for a change since 27yearold Amanda Phillips was hit and killed by a truck in april. The city outlawed three lefthand turns affecting traffic on to cambridge, hams hire and atnrum streets. Benefit the cars as much as the cyclist. Horrible intersections anyway. Reporter he says this bike just to be safe. It can be very harrowing if you are going straight, its totally fine. But i tend to get off my bike and walk across. Reporter we checked and during the years of 2005 and 2014, there were more than 260 crashes involving bicycles at this intersection. Now drivers are going to see new signs and new lights letting them know about the changes here. In cambridge, jason law, fox25 news. Campaign against sexual harassment. The t teamed up with the bay Area Rape Crisis Center and other groups. Hundreds of signs have been posted and post cards to help raise awareness. The goal is to improve passenger safety and encourage victims and riders. There is one too many. Many survivors of these assaults hesitate to come forward for the fear of losing or not being policed. Elizabeth the campaign through february. Who killed Vanessa Marcotte. The Crime Reporter bob ward heads to virginia and spoke with a world renowned investigator and what she thinks happened to vanessa. No one showed up to celebrate one boys birthday. How the local author of the diary of the wimpy kid books dime his rescue. No importantly how much cooler it is joanne shes not fooling me. Britt kelly ayotte sides with the special interests. Vivian now, shes even playing politic games with medicare. Vo kelly ayotte voted to cut medicare and cost seniors up to 1,700 more for prescriptions. While protecting tax breaks for the wall street banks and Big Oil Companies that fund her campaign. Fred kelly ayotte sold us out. Britt with kelly ayotte, its all politics. Joanne shes not looking out for New Hampshire anymore. Right now we are following breaking news out of iowa. A man has been charged with two counts of firstdegree murder in the shooting death of two Police Officers there. Des Moines Police say 46yearold Scott Michael greene was put into the handcuffs that belonged to one of those officers killed. He wednesday morning. Officer martin and minine was killed in two separate shootings. Both were shot in the head while sitting in their cruisers. Investigators are now trying to learn greenes possible motive. I dont know if we will really ever know. There is oftentimes with a lot these investigations unless they provide us with the reason why they did it, we dont know. Blair an explosive to the suspected gun used in the attacks. Greene faces life in prison if convicted. Two servicemembers were killed and two others wounded fighting the afghanistan during a raid against taliban fighters. 26 afghan civilians died in that gunfight. The identities of the americans killed and wounded have not been released. In iraq, thousands of civilians are being rescued from parts of mosul once controlled by isis. Reports from the battlefront cautiously from house to house. 5,000 residents have been moved to refugee camps. The third week of a major offensive to force isis out of iraqs second largest city. Thousands of gifts and toys destroyed in a fire will be replaced in time for christmas. Toys for tots have pledged to replenish all of the gifts for the Cape Cod Military foundation. Last week, this fire destroyed that building where the toys and gifts were housed. The military Foundation Donates turns out our wet october did a lot to help the drought of new england. The latest survey shows the significant drop of areas under extreme drought. After a dry summer, more than half of massachusetts was in extreme or severe drought conditions. That number has since dropped significantly in the last month. Boston area saw five and a half inches of rain in october snapping a fourmonth dry streak. And finally won it all 87 blair are you sleepy today . A long night for a lot of people. Chicago cubs fans i am sure celebrating still. The teams first world series title since 1908 that you saw on fox25 last night. The cubbies beat the indians in an epic game 7 showdown. It went on and on and 10th inning. I said i am going to bed now. Elizabeth glad it was the cubs. A local woman is 108 years she finally had a chance to see that tim win. Elizabeth our jim morelli had a very long night. She was in New Hampshire during last nights magical moment. Yeah [applause] finally. Reporter and so it is over, a world series drought of 108 years and for cub fan hazel wilson so happy. Reporter 10 waiting for it. Happy, awesome. Great reporter nelson was born in chicago in 1908 the last year the cubs won a world series. That was a long time ago. Everything was. Reporter tonight at an assisted living facility in New Hampshire, nothing but here and now. Game 7 of the world series, hazels beloved cubs one game away from the clinch. There were stressful moments during the game. Never certain, until it is. Yes oh, that was great. Reporter cub fans understand this about baseball. It is a bipolar sort of thing where hope and heartache walk hand in hand fused together by fate. Tonight, nobody knows that better than hazel nelson. I never lost faith in my cubbies. Win or lose, i love them. Reporter and Nothing Better to boost confidence than breaking the hazel nelson says she welcomes to come back next fall when she feels certain that the cubs will be going for backtoback world series wins. We will see. In southie, New Hampshire, jim morelli, fox25 news. Blair she stuck with it. The game went past 1 a. M. Elizabeth she is fiery, i love it. Blair watched the game with jim. Elizabeth absolutely. A lot of people watched that game. Incredible. 40 Million People watched it i think if you are a sports fan, a true sports fan you love the whole dynamic on both sides. Blair did you watch it. Kevin i was here until the last out. I had to because the rain delay we had to deal with. Nothing but streaming services that probably arent being counted yet in that number. An amazing feat to do in a whole different world now. Look what happened with that rainfall deficit and drought situation. You mentioned it earlier how it improved a b average in boston, but at least that area of extreme drought is shrinking. It started that way because i thought some rain that will help us out a little more today. We had a little rain but certainly not the amount i thought we would have and still a chance of a cup of showers popping up. We talked how north of the massachusetts border through the morning it would be the heaviest and certainly panned out. The one through southern new england havent stuck around for the evening drive. What is out there right now. Will keep an eye into the metro west area to west boylston, near the pike into Worcester County. We are seeing some showers. Not a lot of them. I cant go anywhere else in massachusetts and show you what is happening because nothing really happening. Just those showers. Whats next . Well, track the showers throughout evening, of course, i will keep you updated on that for the evening drive, and behind us and drier and much cooler air is on the way. Temperatures are in the 60s right now. 68 in norwood. Although to the north and this is something we talkedbo the Northern Tier of massachusetts and New Hampshire. That warm front was setting up we will be a little cooler, more clouds, and a well, just cooler air sitting on that front in the 50s. What would be warmer the farther south you went. That is certainly working this afternoon as well. 51 dropping down to the 40s in gardner. Dropping and cooling off but not becoming freezing cold and even less of that cool down in cape cod around 50. Where is the cool down coming . Coming to start your weekend. You see the drier air moving in because the clouds start to break up and that will continue. That trend will continue into friday and noontime, mostly sunny, and in the afternoon totally sunny and the dry air pushes on in here. Could be a bit brisk too. High temperatures on friday cooler than today even with the sunshine. 52, boston to quincy. 51 for you in newton. On the north shore in Merrimack Valley in the 50s. Lowell to essex. 51 to 52 degrees. You get the idea. With that cool air, starting will drop a lot tomorrow night and the winds go down and cool down into the 20s and 30s and you can see that here. Watch as the system starts to drop southward. A little mixing in the elevations. Not a lot, i get that. An indication of the cooler air and . In northern vermont that comes through. A mixture of clouds and sun on saturday. Not expecting much as far as shower activity. Any time cooler air comes in like that you have to watch for a Little Energy in the atmosphere that is pushing on disturbances, short waves in meteorology, a small chance, 30 chance of the shower popping up and with the cold air in the could be a temperature in in some of the hill towns especially saturday morning. Not real exciting but this is, an extra hour of sleep on sunday morning. That is not changing in this forecast at all. We are hanging on your every word here, kevin. Coming up new a helping veterans, an inside look into a program that is giving those who served our Code Enforcement chance to get some mothers who want to breast feed their baby but cant produce enough milk, a new place to turn. A milk station depot. A heinrich all about the process they use to make sure the milk is safe for babies. Reporter one ounce of breast mill it can provide up to three meals for a baby and especially for preemies and sick newborn. It is medicine they need. These babies at south hospital nicu depend on donor mill tock get them through highrisk times. Donor mill it can be life saving and prevent necrotizing enteritis that can kill the baby. Repo

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