5:30. >> the director of the curley community center has been placed on leave polling the death of kyzr willis. the mayor meeting with the boy's family today. the child was found in the water after taking part in a city program. >> sky 5 live over break news in mashpee. police surrounding a strip mall on route 28. few details have been released but first responders including some in tactical gear have closed off a section of the road. mashpee is asking people to av line. >> republican donald trump making headlines. the democrats rally. he's calling on russia to help find hillary clinton's missing emails. on another front massachusetts senator elizabeth warren is calling him a racist for calling her pocahontas. >> 90 degrees right now in needham. another hot day. >> i think we should make this count for the heat wave. >> boston, sea breeze, just shy? harv: it's shy.

shy. but you guys should start a petition and maybe this will all change. logan airport hit 87. the sea breeze took over and right now it's 81 in beverly. 82 in boston. it's 93 right now in norwood. 93 in fitchburg. 91 in manchester. the sea breeze will give way to a southwest wind. our temperature won't drop lower than about the low 70s and because we'll have a southwest wind tomorrow, right bac heat and slightly higher humidity as well. but, got my eye on a cold front. that will bring an end to the hot weather for a while. also, my eyes on some significant moisture and seeing if that's going to get far enough north to affect us on friday. so changes are definitely in the works. and significant ones as that we'll talk more about it in a few minutes. >> 5:30. major developments in the freddie gray case. the baltimore state attorney has dropped charges against the

we're hearing reaction from all sides. >> the gag order lifted, baltimore state attorney marilyn moseley is sharing her thoughts. >> we stand by the medical examiner's determination that freddie gray's death was a homicide. >> her officer dropping the charges against the three remaining baltimore poli end to one of the most closely watched police prosecutions in america. >> we could try this case hahn times and we would still end up with the same result. >> charged six officers last year after 25-year-old gray suffered a fatal spinal injury while being transported in the back of a police transport. >> we stand behind marilyn and

ecuting team. >> we're pleased that the criminal charges against officer miller, porter, and sergeant white have been dismissed. >> today the fraternal order of police with all six officers and their owners standing behind responded. >> the baltimore city state's attorney's office had an opportunity to do an in depth investigation and they did nothing. >> an independent administrative investigation will now be conducted by two law enforcement violated policy. >> 70 demonstrators have been arrested as police cleared the area. demonstrators have been camping outside since a black man was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop. his girlfriend live streamed the aftermath of the shooting. the naacp accused police of a she of military force against

for more details on the state's crackdown on copycat assault weapons. he sent a directive telling gun stores to stop selling those weapons leading to long lines and high demand. the ban is unclear and could prohibit the sale of many more guns that are legal by massachusetts law. a spokesperson says she was surprised by the governor's action given previous discussions about the issue. >> police say two officers did i regulations by taking a gun turned into the department during a buyback program. they have been on paid leave dur the internal investigation. the police chief won't say how they were disciplined. the officers said they took the gun to test fire it. no chalcharges, though, were filed. >> the man who tried to assassinate president ronald reagan is going to be released. >> still to come, we go live to our nation's capitol. why a judge says john hinckley is ready to go home. >> pope francis joins the celebration of world youth day

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>> after spending more than three decades in a mental hospital the man who tried to assassinate president ronald reagan will be released, judge ruling john hinckley is ready to be a member of the community. >> he'll be living in williamsburgva,va, about three hours from where he's staying now a judge says he can leave his psychiatric facility next

happened. hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity in that shooting of president reagan back in 1981. the 25-year-old shot the president to impress actress jodie foster and since then he's been in a mental hospital but now a judge says hinckley shows no signs of psychotic symptoms, delusional thinking or violent tendenci tendencies. the wunderliwi -- with his mother and can only drive certain distances. today, family members of ronald regular say they oppose this and believe he's still a threat oh society. >> pope francis arrived in poland for the catholic church's world youth day. the six day festival is expected to draw hundreds of thus of catholic youth from around the

pope john paul ii is not an annual event. the last one was in bra agree in 2013. during his time in poland the pontiff is also expected to visit former nazi concentration camp at auschwitz. >> our coverage of the democratic national convention continues. after the break we'll head back live to philadelphia, ed harding with a look at what we can expect to hear from president obama. >> bringing comfort. the dalai lama difference in lives. >> heat and rain. big weather stories.

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>> the democrats are calling out some very heavy hitters. >> this is night three of the dnc and the number one and number two elected firms in the country will make their case for hillary clinton. live from preview. >> can't get much higher than that. the president and vice president, hello and welcome to philadelphia the convention itself has been gavelled into order and we've begun day three which is into turning night three. number one, the last person that you will hear from tonight is president obama. he'll be in the hall in the primetime hour. it was eight years ago that he went through a hard fought

re-election. he and she staged a magnificent battle eight years ago, he finally won that one. now he's going to be speaking tonight. championing her cause and why she should be the next president of the united states. >> the next piece of tape. there is a question about to whether tim kaine, he was placed into nomination at the beginning, he was gavelled in and agreed unanimously so he's the vice presidential nominee, there is a bit of a q we're trying to ferret out the information but should he stand up and speak tonight what is he thinking? >> take a look. >> how many times have women stood to support male candidates and male presidents. i think greats for men to be able to stand and support strong women leaders all across this nation. >> welcome back live to

have been talking all day long. if you were with the convention coverage last night, you saw one piece of tape that people are talking about. the shattering glass and before we say goodbye from philadelphia we would like to play it again because it seemed to have hit a proper tone in the presentation of the convention, at least for the convention goers here. it was at the end of a list of all of the presidents of the united states in history and hillary shattering the glass and appeared. when she looked into the camera and president or perhaps the next first female president, the next president, i might be, but she looked into the camera and said, but you could be the next one after that that was pretty good. >> that's the story here from philadelphia. back to you. >> another big night in philly. thank you very much. >> we turn now to harvey leonard. >> i have to say, it's been a nice stretch of weather. rain-free if you've been down at the beach. we need the rain. >> we do need the rain and some

cool off. 87 was the official high but many spots topped off at 90 or higher. the sea breeze, you can see the wind direction east-southeast. southerly on the copy. southerly along the main and new hampshire coast. at the beach, that's why you go to the beach in the summer when it's hot, because very often it's a little bit cooler there but over, land, westerly breeze has been pretty hot. 91 in orange. 90 many springfield. 94 in hartford, ec wednesday night at 7:00 p.m. through august 31, and 84 degrees, great summer evening. about 79. it all begins around 7:00. check this out. about 70 degrees will be the overnight low tonight. maybe even slightly higher in boston. there will be some 60s in the suburbs but tomorrow it looks like just about all of us get back into the 90 plus heat except down around the cape with a southwest wind, off the water.

tomorrow. want to keep an yea to the sky, very late in the afternoon and early in the evening, particularly north and west, the front will be getting a little bit closer that might touch off a thunderstorm. that's the front i'm talking about. that's the first chance of getting some rain but that's just a chance of a scattered thunderstorm later tomorrow or tomorrow evening that front will kind of come just about to us on friday. and then we'll be watching moisture from the south start to expand northward. how far north will the significant rain get? it looks like this could become a big rain producer, so it's all going to be how far north the track of that heaviest rain will be. it is how far north will the significant likely to include at a part of our area. sometimes you go like feast to famine. we could go from can't get rain, can't buy it to suddenly getting some localized flooding. that's possible on friday. tomorrow, you have sunshine until late day and evening, where developing clouds could lead to a spot sure or thunderstorm. but then that heavier rain

time are in our favor, that we could get an appreciable amount of rain. some of the models are showing torrential rain that would cause some localized flooding that would exit friday night and set us up for a pretty nice day it appears on saturday. that's how the timing looks. here's another computer model showing you that swath of very heavy rain that moved across a good chunk of southern new england so this could be very, very beneficial but actual cry cause some problems us may rain so hard. this is one of our computer models showing one to three inches of rain across the region friday. and here's another one showing that the heaviest is to the south with some prolific rainfall around the south coast or cape. we'll be fine-tuning this as we get closer. check it out, your next seven days, you have another hot one. friday, all of are below 90 with a significant rain threat. saturday looks okay. by later sunday into early

and then it looks like seasonable weather as we get toward monday night, tuesday, and wednesday of next week, which could be 75 to 80 and in the 80s inland. once we break that heat wave, it's staying away 90 plus for at left a number of days to follow. >> dramatic rescue off the coast of alaska. the coast guard and four commercial ships combined to save nearly four dozen people aboard a fishing boat that began the crew abandoned shipped and scrambled on three life rafts. once the coast guard broadcast an emergency signal, all 46 fishermen were safely rescued from the rafts and returned to land. >> a llama with a prosthetic leg bringing comfort. bella the llama broke her leg in a gopher hole four years ago. the owners decided to look for help. soon they found someone to make her a prosthetic leg.

fellow amputees. >> we've had kids who are afraid of prosthetics. they think, wow, they are cool and they are no longer afraid when they see dads or uncles or anybody with prosthetic legs especially the military. >> that's great. >> pella says her owners are well known and now handlers from all over the world have asked how they can get prosthetic limbs for their pets. >> that's great. unusual. >> great. >> the is the heat wave getting dow? f to help. >> we go in search of swimming holes. a guy who has taken a deep dive into the topic. >> there are not a lot of public pools. >> people don't have pillows on their own property. they have pools. they are right out here. >> when dave, an administrator at yale new haven hospital in connecticut, stumbled on an out of print book about vermont's swimming holes it was like

it's kind of like finding something that you didn't know that you were looking for, for your whole life. >> >> his baptism into the world of swimming holes really does have for true swimming. jacuzzi baths. large waterfalls. the water was so inviting, and once i went in i knew that >> so, on weekends -- he turns in his ph.d. for his new passion. exploring the swimming hole underground. the result? takes the plunge. explores guides to swimming holes. >> i was on the swim team in high school, but this was something different. this was special. >> there is a sense of freedom, right? unsupervised, and it's kind of a

been swimming here for probably hundreds of years. this is where they game. >> also tonight, we meet the wild and craze have i and gals devoted to cliff life. meet a quarry owner who is getting tired of subsidizing swimmers and find out how you can get a pond of your own. >> that lacks amazing. >> another chance tonight for you to become a millionaire. buy your own swimming hole. the estimated powerball jackpot has soared. no one has won the the jackpot winner could opt for a $422 million annuity paid out over 29 years or what everyone is takes as a lump sum of $29 is million. the chance of winning 292 -- .2 million to one. >> still, you promised you're going to get us a group. >> am i going? >> we're depending on you. >> we'll get one ticket. >> new tonight, a little boy

>> the special way he helps shriner's hospital every year. >> taking action after a child grounds at the beach while attending a city run program. >> caught on camera, a police officer in action. his dramatic takedown of a man suspected in an armed robbery. the new treatment that saves this dog and your daughter wants to stay organic. yo from artificial ingredients.

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few words. but does he have a big heart. donating his birthday money to shriner's hospital in boston every year for the past five birthdays. >> husband probably four or five the first time we came down and he said he wanted to bring toys down to make the kids feel better. >> he says especially kids who burn their hands, kids like himself, when he was 10 months old he suffered second and third-degree burns. >> h the steam radiator. >> he was about shriner's for about five days while being treated. despite the burns he was all smiles a testament to the medical staff. >> everything shriner's does is thanks to generous donations but you don't have to donate hundreds of thousands to be a philanthropist. >> i view his generosity than s

it's truly from the heart. >> revisiting the old stomping grounds with his brothers, sisters, cousins and a few big kids. during this trip to shriner's, it's a trip the family will be making for the foreseeable future. >> are you going to do this again next year? >> yes. >> how long do you plan on doing it for? >> i don't know. >> few years? >> in boston, wcvb, newscenter 5. >> gets it. gets how important it is to give back. good for him at nine. >> way to go. >> we have news on the heavy police presence. >> news at 6:00 starts right now. >> breaking news, in the drowning of a young boy at a south boston beach. >> the new action just taken by mayor walsh. armed robbery, rough takedown. the struggle inside the store

much-needed rain. >> new controversy of donald trump. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. >> the national security concerns that those remarks are causing here at the dnc. >> from boston's news leader. this is wcvb newscenter 5. >> break news now, director of the curley community center placed on leave following a little boy's drowning death in south boston. the 7-year-old was attending a dapr at carson beach. evening, everybody. >> david isly at city hall. they are trying to piece together exactly what happened. >> david? >> exactly what happened and who might be responsible, speaking a short time ago her at boston city hall, mayor marty walsh stopped short of blaming anyone specifically for the young boy's death. he did for the thus of other kids in similar programs across boston promise to get to the

search crews pulled from the waters off carson beach the body of 7-year-old kyzr willis, the mayor announced he's taking action. >> to make sure nothing like this happens again. >> mayor walsh said the city is placing him on paid administrative leave the director of the community center, where kyzr was one of 56 kids taking part yesterday in a drop-in daycare program. watching to him were 28 counselors plus supervisors and lifeguards. >> we don't have all the particulars. there are a lot of unanswered questions. >> the city will be launching a protocol review of all 36 community centers. he said because these are drop-in programs, attendance on any given day can fluctuate. >> we try not to turn anyone away because the kids that come to us, their families have no other options. >> exactly how little kyzr slipped away is a mystery. there are no surveillance

2:15 and 30 minutes later police were notified he was missing. >> we had kids telling us different things so it was hard to sort out what happened but i know we tried our hardest. >> earlier today the mayor and the police commissioner went to the willis family home in dorchester to heat with relatives. they are devastating, and the city is offering counselors to help them cope. >> live in boston city hall, wcvb, newscenter 5. >> russia, if find the 30,000 emails that are missing. >> it's day three of the dnc but donald trump is stealing the spotlight. tonight the dnc will try to take back the spotlight. >> team coverage life from philadelphia. ed? >> j.c., president of the united states will be inside this building here tonight.