right. still no arrest in the case. policesay that the man was stabbed on the sidewalk behind me and hope tips from the public will lead to arrests. >> i just walking down the street and i find out. >> reporter: not a typical morning for the neighbors where a know ma was stabbed outside of 217. >> stab wounds to the torso to the best of my knowledge, yes. >> reporter: only identified had his early 20s, he was rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead. neighborssay he confronted the suspect and it led to the stabbing. >> i spoke with the sergeant on scene, and there were multiple calls for various issues and drug activity, and we've looked at this on many occasions as to what we can do to stop this. but this is an active address.

>> anyone who saw anything, please, please, give us a call and help us out on this particular instance. >> reporter: witnesses say they saw a man riding in a red vehicle as it sped off. if you have any information, you asked to call police. shan at -- chantee lans, wbz news. >> chantee, thank you. jim couple who had a tree fall on their home. jim? >> reporter: lisa, this was a shock for the people who live in the house. let me get out of the way and show you the activity, a lot of activity with tree crews arriving even as we speak trying to get a huge section of the oak tree off the house. the homeowners, as you might expect, have a story to tell. >> it was just a crash.

gigantic oak tree fell into her home here in reading. it sliced a hole in a spare bedroom but nobody was home. joan came back from a bike ride and was in the garage. >> if i had been coming down the hill 10 seconds later, i would have gotten hit. that didn't happen. >> reporter: possibly lucky and still have your house damaged at the same time? >> i guess so. 's >> reporter: joap's husband is dpw director in a nearby town and said that trees everywhere are under stress. >> it was exal the same kind of tree that fell up the street two weeks ago. i think it was an old tree that was starting to lean too far. >> reporter: it cut power to the neighborhood.

but that's something they could live with. >> someone could would be have been in the house, hurt. the pets are fine. it's all just the building. the building can be repaired. >> reporter: that is for sure. the building can be repaired. the woke crews, they're in fora i busy night. jim smith, wbz news. back to you lisa and david. >> thank you, and they will be hearing the chainsaws for eric fisher has a look at the forecast. eric some. we had a strong cold front with the tropical air and then the drier air, still gusting to 20 miles per hour and then turned into a nice, comfortable, refreshing bruise with dew points all day. it's not exactly bone-dry air but better than the stuff around here last night. so a more comfortable evening taking shape, mainly clear

70s. 77 in fitchburg and new bedford, a warm spot at 86. it will be a nice evening with the wind continuing to subside as the sun goes down. much temps in the low 60s. headlines to watch as we move forward, another warm and cry -- dry stretch. the humidity is develope for the next several days. d rainfall in the forecast. we'll take a look at that coming up. >> eric, thank you. a 61-year-old carlyle man is in the hospital after a pickup hit his bicycle. he was on trapelo road when he was hit. he has serious head and leg injuries. the biker had the right of way and officers may file charges

woman who nearly hit this home was drunk. officers rushed to the scene about 8:00 last night. passengers in the car and another person got into a fight as news spread about the crash. no 1 was hurt. officers say yesterday afternoon, a man was threatening people at a supermarket in gardner and took off when they got there. his lawyer said that has been battling a drug problem. boston school officials want to reassure parents that the water will be safe when school starts. testing will continue until the lead levels return to normal. they believe the lead levels are high because water has been sitting stagnant all summer in old pipes and there is a plan

add filters. >> the district is prepared to have bottled water on hand for the kids if the levels don't return to normal. campaign 2016, donald trump is overhauling the campaign as he goes behind the doors to get his intelligence briefing, and hillary clinton is in ohio and is mocking her competitor. craig boswell has the latest. >> reporter: donald trump talked about plans terrorists in trump towerror wednesday afternoon. the meeting came ahead of the first classified intelligence briefing but trump is shaking up his campaign staff. steven bamnon joins as ceo and kellie ann crn way joins as the new campaign manager. paul manafort will have a

person and push them aside like they did to paul manafort. >> reporter: clint mocked clinton saying that trump will be trump. >> he is still the same man who insults gold star families, demeans women, mocks people with disabilities and thinks he knows more about isis that happen our generals. there is no new donald trump. this is it. >> reporter: clinton did not and republicans are dissecting notes to see if she perjured herself when she testified on benghazi. clinton maintains she told the truth to congress and the f.b.i. craig boswell, the white house. and a new poll shows that clinton has large leads in battle ground states of colorado and virginia.

in iowa. lisa? the virginia man who climbed trump tower with suction cups planned the stunt and waited until his parents were out of town driving to new york city. he used the suction cups, a harness, and ropes, and police ultimately stopped him. he said he had a marriage for trump who was in the building his attorney calls the student profoundly stupid. patriots' fans are getting psyched up for tomorrow night's game. >> no one knows if tom brady will show up but we saw him at practice with one of his sons today. steve burton is live with more. steve? >> reporter: lisa and david, thank you very much. today was the last day of joint practice and no one was kicked out of practice for fighting.

but that isn't come as a big surprise. they have three quarterbacks, and even though number 12 is suspended for the first four games of the regular season, bill belichick has not brought in another quarterback. that's showing a lot confidence. >> he made the call. and you know, you just go out and do your job and whatever happens, happens. we all got each other's back. we want the best for the whole team. >> reporter: today was the last day fans could watch them practice. they are getting ready for the regular season routine. today is the last day to watch and a lot of fans doing just that. that's the story in foxborough.

garoppolo and/or brissett, what would be the benefit in having brady play? >> reporter: here's the thing. brady does not want to go in totally rusty. he always wants to play and never wants to come out of any game, regular season or pre- season but the problem is they want to get garoppolo and br iissett as much as they can. guys? >> rock, never know. wbz is your station for the patriot. >> little known fact. if you do scissors you always win. >> else unless you -- unless you go with rock. >> well, let's not. how to control a rain willing wildfire getting larger

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southern california forcing thousands of people to evacuate. the flames in the los angeles suburb are pushing firefighters to the limit. at the present time to show you time lapse video of the bluecut fire in san bernardino county. this thing exploded in size just overnight. as chris martinez shows us, entire communities have been wiped out. >> reporter: the massive bluecut wildfire has to 30,000 acres. it raced up and down ridges overnight burning entire neighborhoods to the ground. >> just devastating and it looks like it's all the way around us. i live that way, and they won't let me go home. >> reporter: strong winds and dry brush shot smoke and flames 80 feet into the air. >> more than a thousand fire crews are on the ground while helicopters and planes attack

burning so aggressively that we're struggling to keep up with it. >> reporter: evaluation orders have been issued but some residents are refusing to leave wrightwood. >> wrightwood is right in the middle of the smoke. >> we want hate for you to be stuck inside without a way out. >> reporter: the governor has declared a state of emergency chris martinez, cbs news, phelan, californ. hundreds of people on a ferry near puerto rico, the caribbean fantasy. the fire spread to other parts of the ship and more than 500 people had to be evacuated. the coast guard brought in a reask you craft to get the passengers to safety.

groceries when a jolt of lightning knocked down jim powell. his wife dragged him inside to call 911. >> seeing on the video how close and how much worse it could have been, you know, just a few seconds, if the lightning would have hit, a few seconds later, it would have got my youngest son. >> you can see the little right there. amazingly, everyone is okay. doctors tell the family they rarely see patients recover so quickly from a lightning strike. they mention that something changes in their body for the rest of their life. 1 guy struck never got warm -- no. never got cold again. >> a lot of electricity in our

it takes. sometimes t crosses your heart and sometimes, it doesn't, and that determines the tragedy. >> he was so completely incapacitated and then to make a recovery. >> very, very lucky, probably because he was touching the car. it went from the tires to the frame to him. >> let's talk about our weather. i am sure this comes as no surprise, a warm summer. these red scares are above average temperatures and we are well above pace for the warmest august on pace in boston, and then we go to the rain side. all the showers and downpours yesterday at 3.02" for the whole summer, june, july and august, and we are still on pace for the top spot for the driest summer in the city of boston. a couple of weeks to go, and a couple of chances for rainfall

dry and warm stretch. midjuly we talk about the warm temperatures. you probably don't remember it. the last six weeks on fire and today, another warm day and the humidity has been dropping out with showers to the south and west and stop me if this is familiar. a lot of them will dry up. the current temperatures, 70sto low 80s. a beautiful summer evening and the dew points dropping and will allow for a comfortable night. lows in the low 60s for most part and boston, 68 but compared to the last couple nights where it was just mug expepped tropical and not comfortable, this is a nice change of pace. if you watch some of the showers trying to approach us, tomorrow, we get areas of clouds mixing in with sunshine. i am not expecting rain. a shower might brush the islands tomorrow morning and a chance for a pop-up shower in the afternoon, mainly across western massachusetts and

looking at a dry day. just not a lot of support for significant rain. high temperatures tomorrow, 70s and 80s, and 83 in hyannis and 82 in provence town. so a good beach at a to head to the shoreline and a west wind, 5 to 15 and gustier across cape cod tomorrow. the water temperatures up in the 70s. looking towards tomorrow night, maybe stadium, our cruel be down there, 82 and a great night for football. the cape and islands, 83 for a high and 82 on friday and great day. saturday, 81, a southeasterly breeze and it will kick in but rain, not that much. an isolated shower for tomorrow. otherwise, we're waiting all the way to monday, next week. focus on the weekend, friday,

but i think western new england is where they will reside. so connecticut and vermont, and the same idea for sunday, and the rain waits for monday. the accu-weather 7 day, 80s through and we bring in a chance for rain and more humidity on monday, and then next tuesday and wednesday, gems, 70s to 80s. really dry air. david and lisa? >> outstanding. thank you. get together with and wine and tap into your inner van gogh. that could be the recipe for paint night that comes in on a list of the nation's fastest- growing companies. an example, participate night's profits up 36% from last year. was ryan lochte really robbed? >> officials are questioning his story.

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ryan lochte and fellow athletes robbed at gunpoint. liam martin has more. >> reporter: a judge has ordered a search and seizure warrant after questions about the story. you might remember that lochte earned a gold medal during the relays in the game. and today, they went to seize the swimmer's passports but the athlete had already returned to the u.s. the swimmers reported on early su taxi robbed at gunpoint by people posing as police officers. brazilian authorities say there is inconsistency in the accounts and showing the swimmers on surveillance that they were joking around. lochte said he stands by his story. just last week, a bus carrying members of the flees rio were

bullets. lisa? >> thank you for the update. the ultimate good sport, abbey d'agostino, won't compete tomorrow night in the 5000- meter final. she tore her acl in the semifinal race yesterday. she and the new zealand athletes made headline when is at a tripped, helped each other up, and provided mutual encouragement to get over the finish line. and aly ruling out sticking with her sport to compete in tokyo four years from now. the needham native's parents say it has been a labor of love especially after she took time off from the london games. >> i don't think anyone knows how many hours go into the

i just know that it was a lot harder. >> aly and the other women members of the team will be in boston bringing the champion's tour to the td garden. if she wants to go back four years from now, she will probably win again. >> i don't know if her parents can take it or not but she is amazing. ahead, a massive clean up after the flood. >> a closer look at the devastating water left. >> and a local couple attacked in their home and police say that was a random crime. we'll hear the mine 11 calls for help. >> i know you're wondering. what is the shake group donald trump's campaign staff mean? it may be a risky return to his

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tonight in their own house. a seekonk couple found an armed man inside. >> he attacked the husband and threatened the wife with a knife. investigators think this was a random attack. >> reporter: the voice of a terrified seekonk homeowner whose 65-year-old husband was