-couple of storms to make -- keep an eye on. tom brady on his injured thumb and the chances he will play on friday. >> from boston's news later, this is wcvb newscenter 5 7:00 p.m. maria: police have announced an arrest in a sexual assault in boston's south end. good evening, i'm maria

ed: i'm ed harding. police say the attacker had recently been released from prison and that helped them make an arrest. newscenter 5's shaun chaiyabhat is live in boston to explain. boston police, closing the door on that violent crime that suspect's prior crime helped police them catch him. >> i want to thank the female in this case, the victim, the poor victim who suffered this, for being so brave and coming forward. due to her bravery in her making a positive identification we were able to lock this individual up. sen. sandersmonday it 1:00 a.m.d the young woman with a knife. he forced her to a playground a half a mile away where he raped her. that young woman gave police a good description of her attacker. but the suspect left a digital clue at the scene. police discovered a gps monitor. in the area during the crime.

who had just left prison after serving nearly 8 years for a similar sex crime. >> he was on a gps bracelet. from all the information we have, he cut that bracelet off. and that's why we weren't able to locate him as quick as we wanted to. shaun: police say they searched 15 homes and worked 16 hours straight looking for this suspect. they arrested him at 3:30 this afternoon. maria also breaking right now an : emergency landing. a pilot brought his plane down on a sandbar in the quabbin reservoir this afternoon. newscenter 5's todd kazakiewich is live in new salem. with how that pilot is doing. todd?

pilot. he says he is doing ok. he is processing everything that happened today, -- aftermath of what you're saying. he is an experienced pilot and has a commercial pilot's license and that he was flying with a thin cup when he started experiencing engine trouble. he was forced to make an emergency landing at 350 on a sandbar in the club in. -- in the quabbin. part, removing the vehicle. ed: right now a man has serious injuries after an accident involving a tree in brookline. police say the man was walking in an alley near commonwealth ave while a tree company was doing work and a large branch fell on him. the victim has been identified as a 29-year-old employee at nearby herb chambers. witnesses say they saw the man lying on the ground bleeding,

he was taken to the hospital. a construction worker is in the hospital with serious injuries after falling three stories off scaffolding at harvard medical school. it happened around 2:00 this afternoon. another worker at the scene on shattuck street tells us the victim is a bricklayer. he estimates the fall was about 50 to 60 feet. the victim landed on a plank below. maria scott brown is denying : accusations of sexual harassment made by a former fox news anchor. brown is named in a lawsuit against roger ailes and other fox news executives. newscenter 5's david bienick spoke with brown today and joins us live rye, new hampshire where he lives. david scott brown says he's : ready to swear under oath that the accusations against him are false. if this case goes to trial, he might get that chance. scott brown and his wife gail stepped outside their home

do you consider this a smear? >> as an attorney and as a public figure, i unfortunately sometimes expect these types of things. david during an appearance last : year on fox newschannel's outnumbered. co-host andrea tantaros claims in her lawsuit that brown told her in a suggestive manner that she'd, quote, be fun to go to a nightclub with. later, she says, brown snuck up behind her while she was purchasing lunch and put his hands on her lower waist. >> app is referring to. i never touched her around her waist area in the lunch line? why would i do that? >i have no knowledge of that. if it were in a lunch line it would be hey, good show. david: tantaros' lawsuit does not name brown as a defendant. instead, she's suing fox newschannel and several of its executives for nearly 50 millions dollars for a creating a, quote, sex-fueled, playboy mansion-like cult. brown's wife says he's never

x it is absurd. the whole thing is absurd and i am sorry, i'm sorry for scott and other people who get dragged through the mud like this for no reason. no reason. david andrea tantaros says she : asked fox news to stop inviting brown on to her show but they continued. in fact, brown was scheduled to make an appearance today. live in rye, new hampshire, david bienick, wcvb newscenter 5. ed a former new hampshire state : police trooper accused of violently beating a suspect after a chase is expected to plead guilty on thursday. andrew monaco is expected to enter guilty pleas to three counts of simpss sky 5 was over the scene back on may 11 when police from both massachusetts and new hampshire moved in and arrested richard simone of worcester after a chase through several towns. a one-time pastor in new hampshire is accused of sexually assaulting a child. steve jesmer turned himself in monday to police in manchester. the 37-year-old is the former pastor at the dialogue church on pine street. according to court documents, he was leading the congregation at

maria: we're hearing from the mom of the woman who fell from a party bus in east boston this weekend. tracy paniagua died in that fall. tonight, her family wants answers about how it all happened. newscenter 5's rhondella richardson spoke with the family and joins us live from dorchester. ro >> the grief is compounded and closure will not come anytime soon but she does have a special photo to hold onto. margarita garcia has had limited contact with the passengers on the party bus where her daughter fell from the window sunday and died. messenger did send mom her daughter photo from on board during the ride. this is tracy paniagua's smiling

with my baby. >> she was just shy of her 27th birthday. she was leaning on the window when it dropped out dropping her to busy route eight. >> in the window like this and the window opened, i do not know. >> the families information contrary to the statement. one of the passengers said she kept trying to open paniagua worked as a security guard and the family said she would know the danger and know better. but she was a pretty trained person. she had training in her security background and everything. >> there is no reason why she would mistakenly london -- unlock a emergency window and

and happiness she had in her life. her best friend was the other surviving victim and still recovering. maria: look at that right there. that is a video of a car crashes right into that work zone sign sending it flying into another lane. the driver is a 60-year-old man from lynn. he had minor injuries. no one working at the work zone was hurt. the driver will be summonsed to face charges. the first time in days. this morning, he offered an explanation for the strange injury that kept him out of last week's preseason game. sportscenter 5's mike lynch is in the newsroom with what brady said. mike tom brady was all smiles : and told all who were listening that he accidently cut his right thumb with a pair of scissors prior to last thursday nights preseason game with the chicago bears. brady said today that he was ready to go, had his uniform on and as he was trying to get

-- when the scissors slipped and accidentally cut his right thumb. >> i wanted to go and coach said that is it. just take it easy. i wish i could have played. i have been missing playing and i want to get out there with my teammates. i feel like that is my job is an responsibility is, to go out and be with my team. it was tough not to be out there. mike: brady called it a silly accident and does not think he will be operating any scissors for a while. maria a warning tonight from : concord's police as tornado cleanup efforts continue tonight. the town's police chief now urging residents to use only state-licensed contractors.

posing as contractors. approaching residents. damage from yesterday's e.f. one tornado stretches a half mile long. and 400 yards wide. coming up on newscenter 5 at 7 mariacoming up on newscenter 5 at 7 the stunt he tried to pull : to impress a date that got him trapped in the first place. harvey: the sky is nice and clear. i am watching the tropics. much more active there. we will let you know about local changes coming later. and: we have an update on a brazen crime a man caught on camera stealing an autographed tr the new conversation the thief had with the restaurant owner after our story aired. capital one believes your bank should work for you, not the other way around.

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>> you are watching wcvb newscenter 5 at seven. maria an attempt to impress a : date went very wrong for a man near pittsburgh. he got trapped between two buildings for more than 4 hours after trying to jump from one roof to the next. clearly, he missed falling three between the buildings. crews had to break through a brick wall of a restaurant to rescue him. amazingly, he wasn't seriously hurt. president obama visiting the areas hardest hit by flooding in louisiana. 60,000 homes are damaged there. ed impacting thousands :today. president obama telling people there he knows how resilient they are. the floods are blamed for 13 deaths.

help rebuild. president obama: you are not alone on this even after the tv cameras leave. the whole country will continue to support you and help you until we get folks back in their homes and lives are rebuilt. ed: the president took some criticism prior to the visit by opting to complete his family vacation on martha's vineyard before visiting. commitment 2016: we're learning tonight that many donors to the clinton foundation met personally with hillary clinton during her time as secretary of state. at least 85 of the 154 people who spoke with clinton donated to the charity or pledged commitment to international programs. combined the donors from private interests contributed as much as $156 million. critics accuse clinton of giving special access to clinton foundation donors.

reporters is now under investigation by the fbi. a u.s. official says the fbi is looking into whether russian intelligence agencies are behind it. cnn first reported the cyberattack. the official says the hack targeted some individual reporters but the newspaper's network was not compromised. the new york times hasn't commented. ed: make our evening, say this will continue for the next three months. harvey: notice how it is a must like exponentially more difficule maria: you are the great harvey leonard. you can make this happen. harvey: if you have days off, if you have been off yesterday and today, after the nasty weather very early yesterday morning it has been a great change in terms of much more comfortable weather. skies are clear for good distance to the west. a couple of storms approaching minneapolis. the next chance of a

it will not be as cool early tomorrow morning but it will be present. a lot of 40's showed up. norwood, and everywhere else was still pretty delightful as well. a pretty good bounceback to anyone in boston. 79 out. a northwesterly wind so it is still comfortable and will stay that way all night long. it's days we go through the next few it becomes a little more humid. tomorrow you warmer. it will become a bit more humid on thursday and friday. we have a chance of a thunderstorm. it will be the mightiest day of the next five or six. we do not think we will quite see the 40's that we saw last night. one or two interior valleys could get into the upper 40's. tomorrow look for the temperatures to be a good five to eight degrees warmer than today. parts of the merrimack valley could be around 90 degrees.

lawrence, lowell, bedford. 88 in boston. mid to upper 80's for worcester county. south and west of boston also, norwood and brockton could be around 90. upper 80's should be the average high. the cape, a few degrees down but still very pleasantly warm with a west to southwest wind at 10 to 20 miles an hour. another great day to hit the beach of you can. the ocean water temperatures in the mid-70's on the south side of the about 82 on the beach for the high tomorrow. southwest wind at five to 15. the uv index will be high with sun and high tide is in the late afternoon. this is the reason for all the clear skies. high-pressure slowly moves array -- away. allowing more humid air to move in. we have a chance for a spot thunderstorm.

what is potentially a somewhat greater interest is this distance. it may develop some as it approaches and moves near close to the bahamas or the southeast coast of the u.s., three to five days from now. guest on becoming a hurricane looks like it will be out of the waters as well a stiff permitted five days from now. tomorrow another glorious day but it will be warmer and then at some unity thursday and you get warmth andum good measure. saturday looks like the humidity decreases which would lead to a pleasantly warm sunday. the next chance of higher community and the storm would be about monday. i will see you later. ed: we have enough data on a brazen crime we told you about last night. maria: foxborough police say this guy came into skipjacks at patriots place during the preseason game against the

apps. then he helped himself to something else, a 2014 superbowl championship helmet signed by the entire team. the thief called the restaurant the next day, confessed up to the crime, and promised to send the helmet back. the problem is, he never did, that was 10 days ago. but after we aired the surveillance video last night, the thief called back again today. >> he said please, i should have told you that take a while for me to send it back. so please, i am sorry. he said maybe all this could stop now, the news. i said i cannot control that. it is beyond me now. read: police are investigating and they say that the district attorney will decide on charges if there is an arrest. you see them before every tv show. ed: do they actually help?

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