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WFXT FOX 25 News At 6 October 21, 2016

Workers were trapped in a trench, 12 feet below the ground, when the walls suddenly collapsed on top of them. Efforts to reach the two men futile and quickly turned from a rescue effort to a recovery one. My thoughts and prayers are with these two peoples families, and everyones families, just a tough situation. Construction is a dangerous job, and you know, its just a tough situation, the Fire Department and water and sewer are working really hard right now to get the reporter the two construction workers work for a Company Called Atlantic Drain Services. Fox 25 news reached out to the company and we were told both men were good workers and most importantly, great family men. This is a very sad day here in south end. Report live, bob ward, fox 25 news. Unfolding on dartmouth street when crews realized those men were trapped. Take a look, you can see at least one person on his hands and knees, desperately reaching in to the trench as water was flowing all around him. Fox 25s Jacqui Heinrich spoke to the witness who took that video and continues our team coverage. It must have been gut wrenching to be there when the workers realized there was no to do. The reporter just horrific stuff, vanessa. There is so much screaming, that heard all the commotion, came outside to see what was going on and what they witnessed was heartbreaking. This was scene, julie came out to find when she heard screams while shopping in a store at tremont street. Saw all of these men on their stomachs in this kind of work zone, an they were reaching down into like a manhole cover. The reporter workers trapped inside a trench in a construction zone, rapidly filling with water after a nearby hydrant started flooding them. Jewel leave watched as the water trench and started flooding the street. The construction workers started backing away. They were totally frantic and screaming and hollering and there were three or four men crowded in the manhole cover at first, and then, i think once the water started just getting a little too out of hand, like they were all completely covered in water, they backed away, waiting for help. The reporter fire officials tried draining water from trench, before we could begin recovering bodies inside, not saying how many people were initially stuck but two were killed in the incident. As i was Walking Around i caught the faces of a lot of the workers and the men were absolutely inconsolable and weeping and crying and it was just like the most somber, awful atmosphere to walk through. My hearts go out to families and the crew members. It was absolutely horrific. A routine day at work is just turning into a night player. A nightmare. Now again, those construction workers worked for Atlantic Drain Services out of weve not been able to get the names yet. But when we learn more information, well continue to update it story. Live in buries, Jacqui Heinrich, fox 25 news. Mark again, we have reached out to the Company Involved in this accident, Atlantic Drain Service Company Refused comment over the phone and asked our crews to leave their headquarters in roslindale. A federal inspector from osha is on the scene and we have learned atlantic drain has a history of violations with osha. Fox 25 investigates looked into atlantics history with federal safety officials over the last since 2007, atlantic has been cited for sincere just violations. 16 serious violations, two willful violations and lags fines totaling 95,000. Most of the violations involved issues with underground construction, but atlantic drain has been cited for issues relating to Safety Training and education. Keep it here throughout the night as the situation develops. Well update you on the air on we learn more and right now on fox25boston. Com, you can find the latest on the investigation, hear witness accounts of what happened, and read about the companys past osha violations. The story is on the home page. Vanessa the other big story tonight we are under a weather alert and this here is why. Fox 25 Storm Tracker radar lit up as you can see the heavy rain continuing to move into our area. Some places could see more than an inch of rain before this is all said and done. Mark lets get right over meteorologist Kevin Lemanowicz who is tracking it all. Kevin the rain is. Coming down so hard, it will cause localized flooding. Futurecast, all rain coming through easternmost massachusetts, but look too far east to me and we talk about how worcester could be in the heavy rain as well and that is case. Thats where the flood advisory is in place this evening. Go down close and show you that flood advise rip. All the air advisory. All areas shaded in light green is where there is a possibility of localized flooding. Its the possibility thats shrewsbury, southbridge, all in it. Waltham, got a report, Sarah Wroblewski told me it is pouring. Looks like that on doppler radar, thats for sure. Dudley and webster, some of the red area showing up on live fox 25 Storm Tracker radar where the heaviest rain is. Coming in. Well slide over to lincoln, waltham and webster, heaviest rain is up there around lincoln. The little batches red as we really have to look for some of that heaviest rain activity, its right near 128 an and along spring street right now is where youre seeing some of the heaviest in hinge loonenburg. Wollaston beach in quincy, heavier batch of rain coming on by. Ill keep tracking every bit of it this evening. We need to talk about cold air on the way this weekend. Mark man accused of a terrifying at a tack on a 13yearold girl is locked up. Police say this 21yearold kidnapped and raped a 13yearold girl on the way to school and in court today, we learned that man is charged with another alarming attack. Live and People Living in that lawrence neighborhood are on edge tonight. The reporter yeah, mark, they certainly are. They tell me theyre rattled after one their neighbors is accused of a heinous crime in their backyard. Police are increasing patrols in this lawrence neighborhood after they say 21yearold angel mateo kidnapped and raped a 13yearold girl on the way to school yesterday. They say he grabbed and dragged her off the streit, then raped her inside a second floor apartment on the reporter mateo appeared in Lawrence District Court today. He never looked up once during his arraignment. Hours after his arrest, a neighbor came forward, claiming, he attacked her in may, outside of her house in middle of the night. She told police, after striking the male with the shoe, he punched her. It took five months for an arrest. Neighbors say police took too long to crack the case. I think they dont know what the Reporter Police say, they did investigate the case in may. But the woman only recognized her alleged attacker only after she saw mateos picture on social media yesterday. Cant speak to that. Some new information has come forward on that case. The reporter but some neighbors arent buying it. They say police could have done more. I dont think they even care about that. You know. Like they have put their troubles all into drugs an forget about keeping the streets safe the reporter now, angel mateo is being ordered without bail. His next Court Appearance is scheduled for november 8th. Were live tonight in lawrence, chris flanagan, fox 25 news. Vanessa the suspect in shooting of a 13yearold chelsea sunday receive boy will remain behind bars. Christian garcia of everett hid behind a courtroom door during his arraignment this morning. 13yearold juan Lopez Delgado was shot in the shoulder by a stray bullet wednesday night. I was lying in his bed in the third floor of an apartment when he was hit. A bicyclist was killed if a collision in worcester overnight. Police say the victim was riding his bike on southbridge street, when he collided with the back of a parked tow truck. He was rushed to the hospital, but did not survive. Investigators are hoping to look at area surveillance cameras to see if they can find out why this crash happened. Mark new at 6 00 p. M. , miss in arlington are searching for a man 0 robbed a bank, causing several area schools to shelter in place at the leader bank on mass avenue around 1 3 officers say the men you see here told tellers he had a firearm, took the cash and then ran off. Transit police are searching for a man accused of an indecent act on a bus. Police just released this picture of the suspect. Hes wanted for questioning for something that happened on saturday, october 8. Police say there was an indecent assault and battery on board a bus going between wonderland station and lynn. Vanessa a new phase of a hack attack hit internet servers along the east coast late this afternoon. Confirmed a third denial of Service Attack is underway right now. The companys server optimize internet traffic for many big companies. The problem disrupted major sites including twitter, netflix, spotify and visa. Its not clear who is behind the attack. Mark 17 days until the president ial election and both campaigns are setting their sights on the battleground states. Republican vicepresident ial candidate mike pence was in New Hampshire, his wife karen joined him at nashua christian academy. Pencis exeter starting in less than an hour. Donald trump was in North Carolina today, once again making strong accusations against hillary clinton. The president ial nominee believes clinton was given debate questions ahead of time. But the Democratic National committee chair. Hillary clinton will be campaigning in New Hampshire on monday. Senator Elizabeth Warren will join her at a rally in manchester. This will be clintons third stop in the state since the president ial primary in february. Campaigning on behalf of his wife in florida. He spoke in orlando and jacksonville, urging people to vote early if they are able. Clinton is making stops in panama city and pensacola this weekend. The New Hampshire senate race is no longer neck and neck. According to a new wmurgranite state poll, democratic governor Maggie Hassan has taken an 8 point lead over republican incumbent, senator colin mutry. Mutry ayotte. Kevin a flood advisory out there in Worcester County, Middlesex County and the western portion of norfolk county. This strip of heavy rain through western Worcester County is the most concerning. Well be diving deep down into this to find out where the heaviest rain is falling. Vanessa minorities are locked up at a higher rate than white people. In next half how many, what the judge hour, what the top judge in state is doing to make sure the Justice System is it plus she made this turn and i guess i fell under the seat and then she accelerated going down the street. The reporter only on fox 25, the reporter only on fox 25, you will hear from middle school uh, first of all, i plan to vote for donald trump. When it served her purpose, ayotte buddied up to trump, even calling him a role model. Would you tell a child to aspire to be like donald trump . Oh absolutely, i would do that. But she kept playing politics and flip flopping around. Ayotte is running away from trump as quickly as she can. To keep something she values. I know. Kelly ayotte. The politician. Looking out for herself. Independence usa pac is responsible kevin watching live fox 25 Storm Tracker radar and the strip of brightly colored radar echoes i am most concerned about. This is a flood advisory, where the deep red, orange and yellow lempster, shrewsburyry and southridge. About the biggest flooding is for this evenings commute, back in a few minutes. Vanessa we continue to follow breaking news. Two construct workers were killed when a water main broke and trapped them in a trench in bostons south end. Crews are still working to recover their bodies. Osha is investigating. The south end neighborhood mostly shut down tonight, dartmouth street from warren to tremont is closed until further notice. Water in this area we are gathering new information at the scene right now. We will have a live report ahead at 6 30 p. M. Mark we are hearing from the wakefield middle schooler who took a frightening fall out of the back door of a school bus as it was traveling down the street. And i fell out, and shes still driving and the bus driver saying, i mean, the bus monitor saying, stop the bus, stop the bus, stop bus. Mark that boys family is buses safer. She spoke with fox 25s malbalances. Malini . Malini basu. The reporter thats right, we did, mark, were here in dorchester, this is where we spoke to the 12yearold boy and his mother. His mother as you mentioned is calling for change. She wants all students to wear seat belts on buses, because she doesnt want to see Something Like that happen again. That 12yearold boy is having a hard time walking and he told fox 25, he has no idea how all of this happened. I was justifies using my phone, playing o time, we are hearing from the 12yearold Galvin Middle School student, who fell off the back of the school bus. Andrews is still very sore and has a hard time walking. He sat down exclusively with fox 25. I think he took a sharp turn im not sure and i just fell out of my southeast and he accelerated and i went through the door, because i fell on the floor because i went to grab, so i wouldnt fall, but i have the reporter luck live the woman driving behind the school bus stopped, she got out of the car and checked on the boy. I was laying down in the middle of the road and i just i still had my headphones on. The reporter it happened in front of the School Parking lot in wakefield wednesday afternoon. Andrews was rushed to the hospital. Moments after the accident, his mom government the call. Got the call. The vision of not being able to save your child is like, the biggest fear, i feel like any mother has. School officials to make it mandatory that hall students need to wear seat belts on the bus. Their attorney is trying to piece this together. The bus itself that was involved in this incident hasnt been made available to us, but generally, you have latches that would mask sure the doors are closed, you would also have its no different than our own cars. And i thank god every day, that my baby is still here. Have been checking on her son every single day and they want to make it clear that her son want to go back to school, he cant waiting to back so he can do his homework. As for School Officials in the meantime, they are still investigating this. For now live in dorchester, malini basu, fox 25 news. Mark plans to turn a parking lot into a large vanessa take a look at the Development Planned across from the forest hills orange foundation. The city which is next step toward 1ing approval. It will include 250 rental units and a courtyard. Mark the state is warning about more traffic troubles to come on the mass pike. As long as the tolling system goes live a week from tomorrow, construction crews will begin working around the clock to tear down the toll booth plazas. Some lanes will be closed, also causing delays. A good chunk of the work is expected to be done before thanksgiving. Worcester county. This is where the flood advisory is. When i put the radar down on this, youll see why, especially in western Worcester County. Lunenburg, heavy rain streaming your way. Lempster, shrewsburyry, southbridge, all the towns around you, thats where the critical area is for flooding right now. This is just west of downtown worcester, but holden, parks ton and leister in the paxton and area for flooding during the evening commute and i dont understand. This is all tropical air stream interesting the south, so youre getting tropical rainfall, downpours that can come on through here. We had it a few weeks ago, and the remnants of mat thank you for came on by and clipped us and now were seeing some of this. Bedford to lincoln to sudbury, also getting heavy rain. Youre not in a flood advisory here, but i will tell you actually, you are getting into a flood advisory. This stretches into your area. You can see the light green bedford and Sudbury River su. This is not for rivers to come out of their banks, this is for streets to get flooded out in some aerials. You dont want to drive your car through any of that water. North shore, youre getting in to it now too. Gloucester, rockport, heavy rain happening up here. Manchester by the sea with the spot of heavy rain. Beverly, salem, swampscott, revere beach getting some of that as well, so the heavy rain is the highest risk thing theres also the potential for flooding, we talked about that, a higher risk in Worcester County, but generally across the area, a moderate risk. Same thing for visibility, because its only low if you have the heavy rain coming through your area, but its becoming more prevalent as the evening wears on. All evening long, futurecast data has been pinpointing easternmost massachusetts, but weve also been talking about how it looks to me, this has to be farther to the west and that certainly is the way its showing up in Worcester County so that for the morning, youll be out of t. It will just becloudy out there. Most of us will be dry until the afternoon. Another batch wheels on in through here saturday afternoon. The lead edge of the colder air pushing in from the west, changing rain to snow, well revisit that in just a moment and its for tomorrow night, but as far as our day tomorrow, your high temperatures, well check back here into Worcester County, its about the same everywhere, upper 50

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