found at the college where he opened fire yesterday along with body armor and ammunition. investigators seized 7 more weapons when they searched through his apartment. according to authorities, all the weapons had been legally purchased either by the shooter himself or family members. officials are still not providing a motive for the shooting like were you saying. nine people we know were killed attack. mercer was killed after a shoot shootout with police although it's unclear whether he was own life. it was only the fourth day of class at the small community college that's located about three hours sought of portland. students say they heard gun shots and they knew that they needed to get out fast. i heard one gunshot then i looked over outside and people were running a way from the building so i knew exactly what had just happened. i said to the teacher we very to get out of here, we need to go. the second and third gun shots happened. honestly, i just sat under the desk and prayed.

do. >> reporter: one person is still in critical condition at this hour. we'll told two others have been upgraded to stable. one may be released from hospital today. at the news desk, brandon gunnoe 7 news . >> anchor: new at 4:30 at thing trouble at lowell high school. this teen threatened by his classmates after he was elected class president. six students have been suspended after a racially charged text conversation was made public. >> anchor: now students say it was all just a joke. dan hausle live in lowell now with more on what happened. dan? >> reporter: school officials say they are surprised by this because lowell high has actually elected minute either owy african-american school presidents before but something happened this time with a small group of students that has this school and students doing a lot of soul searching. i am disappointed like i . >> reporter: he admits he was scared when his election at school president at lowell high brought racists tests from classmates in an on-line call to

one text said rule out blass and # make hls great again. he said he confronted one classmate that wrote about living him. i was like did you really say that you are going to lynch me? he was like yeah, i was just playing around. i'm like that's not even a joking word. lynching is not a word you use every day. >> reporter: vet or say the racist tweets statisticked in a small closed group of students but soon became known to the whole school. i am very surprised because lowell high we're always told we're a very accepting community and it's like shocking that this would happen. it's ignorance at best. most of the people here are not like that. it was just six kids . >> reporter: six students are suspended, and the city manager is condemning the comments . vial, despicable comments that have come to light during this investigation will not be tolerated now or in the future. >> reporter: the student says he is ready to forgive and find his first duty as school

yes, we might have failed right now but we're going to get through this and once this is over, we're going to be remember remembered as one of the best classes that ever graduated lowell high. >> reporter: police say they are investigating but don't think right now this rises to the level of needing any criminal charges meanwhile, the school is trying to merge a meeting between the boys and people who said those things about him as well as all parents parents. he said he would be up for that. live in lowell, dan hausle, 7 news. also here today the u.s. attorney speaking to massachusetts health professionals and law enforcement today about the battle against opioid addiction. attorney general loretta lynch said the department of justice is using every tool to dismantle the distribution of opioids and taking down so-called pill mills mills. she praised the bay state for its work against abuse of prescription drugs and having emergency responders trained to use narcan. massachusetts has been a ground breaking leader and i went to thank you for that.

thank you for being an example and i want to recognize all of >> reporter: the attorney general emphasized the department of just us is working hard with state governments on education and outreach efforts to stop the epidemic. following more news today action a data break exposed personal data. tmobil uses a credit reporting agency to conduct credit checks and the finance devices. experiencian said tmobil customers between september 1 of 2013 and this year may have had information stolen that. includes social security numbers home addresses, birth dates and more personal information. a texas plant exblowed this morning injuring four people. one of the four injured was airlifted to a local hospital and is in stable condition. the fire was quickly brought under control and police say there is no threat to the community from chemicals releas releasing into the air. a georgia day care causinger

from problems after one parent watched an assistant teacher spray her 17-month-old son and another child in the face with an air freshener. monica kendrick said she saw this video live through the day care's p of its classroom. she said she contacted state agencies asking for an investigation into the incidents incidents. the same teacher was just reprimanded for using her foot to wake a child . >> anchor: a story that will make you go wow. a high school in texas is getting a lot of attention thanks to one student. he did something that most students only dream of. getting a perfect score, not one but two times on college entrance exams. an knee young may look like your average high school student but managed to answer every single question correctly on both the s sat and act. not everybody can do this . >> anchor: she said he didn't didn'tful a special formula for success . i did look over some notes in the time coming up to the

i had some vocabulary that i skim over . >> anchor: he had a good role model in his older brother. he too scored perfectly on the sat four years ago . you could say that this runs in the family in a way since my brother also got a perfect score. but i guess with only two data points you can't correlation doesn't always imply causation . >> anchor: spoken like a true cellar student. his teachers were not shocked to hear he scored perfectly . anthony is more really thoughtful. a little quiet but he works well in the groups, there is no doubt doubt. >> anchor: he credits peers for pushing him to get better and of course his brother . in the back of my head i always have the thought i have to at least tie my brother if not beat him . >> anchor: how do you beat a perfect score? do it twice . harvard, m.i.t. probably calling right now but still no word on where he plans ongoing to college. >> anchor: what a smart cookie, huh? >> anchor: i was putting the story to the. i took the act three times and

still got the most average score you could to be possibly get . >> anchor: what would that be? >> anchor: 28 minus a few. >> anchor: ahead on 7 news, gearing up for a fight with some kids in rockland are doing to help a mother whose battling cancer . >> anchor: at 5:00 two airmen with ties to massachusetts dead after a u.s. military plane . >> anchor: a community in mourn mourning. the campus of a community college in oregon comes together mass shooting. i will be right back. >> anchor: fall is here, can be a great opportunity for awesome . >> anchor: the if first thing to think about is money.

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brothers paul and singer donnie were there . it's amazing. this is such an iconic area . >> anchor: mark also dished on details of his meeting with pope francis . it was very, very special. he is an amazing man. he is doing a lot of great things . >> anchor: the wall talked about the importance of church growing up . she just wanted us out of the house. there were nine kids in the house you send them out wherever you can. go to church! we liked to ditch church every now and again. but hopefully mark repented for all of us with the pope. >> anchor: wahlberg now wears this rose are we around his neck that the pope blessed and said that moment at the end will be one he cherishes . oddly enough he asked me to pray for him.

but he is a man with a lot of responsibility so he is always in my thoughts and my prayers. >> anchor: that was nicole oliverio reporting for us . >> anchor: i like that the family was honest and said sometimes they do ditch church. maybe sleeping in a little bit and hopefully mark, you know, made peace with the pope. >> anchor: that's probably what she was thinking. stop talking . >> anchor: so, chris, we are talking more rain through the rest of the day and what about the weekend? >> reporter: you can't use weather as an excuse to ditch church on sunday. it does look like it's the dryer of the two weekend days. we'll talk more on that and the latest track from joaquin coming up . >> anchor: now that school is back in session, we're also bringing back our 7 news class act. do you know a student between 6 and 12th grades doing something outstanding in school? sports or the community?

that sound. like nails on a chalkboard. but listen to this: (family talking) that's a different kind of sound. the sound of the weekend. unleash the power of dough. give it a pop. this moment is perfect in every way just like my kid gooey...flaky...happy. toaster strudel. now with more icing. >> anchor: welcome become to 7 news.

look at natick today and it's a bitter cold day out there today. definitely not used to what we're saying. there is naic there, you can see rain soaked streets, cars moving pretty slowly of not only friday but i'm sure slippery roads people slowing down a little bit to avoid any fender benders out there . >> anchor: chris was talking about a pressure system that's out there. chris, that's kind of making the weather we have but you are also looking at hurricane joaquin obviously . >> reporter: it's amaying to see the difference between high pressure and low pressure that drives a wind. we have a 100 millibar difference interest this hurricane down across the bahamas to big old high area of pressure across quebec right now now. here is hurricane joaquin right now in the stall bahamas moving very close to san salvador island then going to the north and then to the northeast and that is key to the track and keeping it away from the united states. still a category four, winds sustained at 130 miles per hour, pressure has come up a little bit so we do expect this to weaken a little bit as we go through the next couple of days but look at how far east of the

carolina coastline. this is by monday morning, this is the track from national hurricane center. this trend we saw all today yesterday shifted farther and farther off tough east and here it is now. think it's established. i don't think there will be much wiggle room in this track now which is good news because we have higher confidence this will stay hundred miles away from the united states, however, there are still problems across the east bound, especially down through the carolinas as we go through the next few days. we have our own issues to deal with here in terms of the cold rain over spreading the area. we've now managed to watch you get close to the mass new hampshire border. it was mainly dry for a while north of the mass pike and then the rain over took that area. basically over the last few hours and plenty of moisture still streaming back through the mid la plantic getting pumped over a stationery front to the south of us. that front dividing line from that warm, humid air we had a few days ago in the much cooler air that we have right now. 50. that's it in the city of boston. 45 degrees in worcester and then you add in the wind, wind has been very active along the

coastline. gusting over 30 miles per hour out of the north to northeast. 36 mile-per-hour gusts last hour and hyannis, 33 in plymouth. winds will be strongest far southeastern mass overnight tonight and too tomorrow morning where we have a wind advisory in place gusts 30 to 45 miles per hour and of course the last couple days with strong onshore winds and left over astronomical high tides we have had pockets of minor coastal flooding a long the coastline, places like scituate, looks like tomorrow once again during the afternoon we may deal with some pockets of minor coastal flooding thanks to the strong onshore winds. so here is the setup as adam was mentions another area of high pressure to the north of us, that's causing concern. usually high pressure brings us nice weather and it does when you are right underneath it. however, it's the pressure difference that really drives the wind and because we have not only a hurricane down across the bahamas but another area of low pressure across the southeast. there is a tremendous pressure difference so a tremendous at of wind that's getting funneled down the east coast. this area of low pressure will

create flooding rains down through north carolina, south carolina over the next count every days and there is a little bit of tropical moisture that's getting pulled into this from joaquin but no direct impact from joaquin coming in here over the next couple of days. that is somewhat of good news but still you are going to hear a lot about this rain situation down through the carolinas over the weekend. for us, still an active on shore wind gusts 35 to 45 miles per hour along the coastline, we'll deal with that an moore o coastal flooding. i want to show you rain totals. a good six to 12 inches of rain. wouldn't be surprised to see a few towns down in south carolina closer to 15 inches of rain after this is all said and done. for our weather, rain on and off through the overnight hours tonight of the still some showers around tomorrow. thinking tomorrow morning most of the showers will have that. then it tapers off to periodic drizzle for the afternoon and overall. there is still maybe a patch or two of drizzle but i think we afternoon. especially as you we go through sunday afternoon into sunday evening with drying out.

46 to 52 overnight tonight. cool and raw out there, only 47 in the worcester hills tomorrow. 52 in boston, 54 south of the city. again, most of the rain tomorrow will be in the morning hours. how about making strides in the city of boston. if you join us, go with mainly dry weather. there may be a patch of drizzle but not a bad morning walk weather wise in terms of temperatures. it's cool, you have to dress in a few layers out there in the early morning the next couple of morning but we should avoid much rain there on sunday going from a dry day. 7 on 7 forecast, nicer weather as we get into next week. 60's return so does the sunshine sunshine. >> anchor: close to the 5:00 hour, it's friday so we can expect pace on the roads. here is joe staple ton. what do we have here? high there, right around route 1 northbound here on the saugus area patience at ther if you will, tough going getting by a right travel lane crash by the lynn fellows parkway rolling right back into revere. heading for downtown boston, we

moving as well. getting to the spot the mass pike eastbound coming up to route 93 it looks like close to a half hour ride here from before the allston tolls right up toward those ramps we were talking about. over toward the river on the right that is soldier's field road eastbound dealing with delays as well down past bu. heading over to the expressway southbound about a 40 minute ride down into braintree and northbound getting by morrissey boulevard in savin hill a very slow ride here it continues heavy right up toward the downtown area. i'm joe staple ton, 7 news. leading today's health comfort a new survey finds using your cell phone could be putting a damper on your love life. >> anchor: researchers surveyed nearly 500 adults with the study 46% of the participants said

their cell phones excessively and 23% said it created conflict in their relationships . >> anchor: some researchers may have figured out a way to get kids to eat veggies. experts looked the foods thrown away by hows of elementary school students. they noticed kids ate fewer vegetables when they were combined with entrees like chicken nuggets or burgers but when paired with less desirable entrees they were hungry. their vegetable consumption . >> anchor: give them less desirable food is the plan. a new study suggests the bacteria in a baby's gut may help prevent asthma later in life. revvers found babies with low level of four types of gut bacteria were more likely to develop the condition. most get the back tieria from the an environment but antibiotics can kill them off and some babies are never expos exposed to them. >> anchor: new data shows smok smokers are low like eto quit when they switch to lower nicotine cigarettes. they were asked to smoke their usual brand are cigarettes with various doses ofic teen.

less nicotine cut their smoking by one-third and were twice as likely to quit as smokers of traditional cigarettes. >> anchor: ahead here on 7 news a big premiere on nbc as miley cyrus takes to the stage on one of the most popular late night

>> anchor: topping the buzz this friday, saturday night live kicks off a new season this weekend. >> anchor: you can believe the show is beginning its fifth decade. i remember waving it in high school and whatever else while the season opener has miley cyrus back as the host and the pop star is also the musical guest. also look out for one of snl stars to be taking on the role of donald trump during the new season of course. we saw that coming. catch season premiere at 11:30 tomorrow night right after 7 news night team at 11:00. the at 8:00 you can catch that season premiere. >> anchor: sounds good. well-known pod cast serial is set to become a tv series. the show wouldn't be an investigative piece like the pod cast was. instead, it will take a behind the scenes approach detailing how the pod cast became one of the biggest phenomenons. no word on when exactly the show . >> anchor: two cast members of fuller house taking a selfie onset.

the actress who played dj and steve reuniting for the netflix revival of the original show full house. the actor who plays steve posted this photo on his instagram saying sorry internet, with the # i love you dj. fuller house's 13 series will premiere next year . >> anchor: you may have the chance to live like harry potter or at least like daniel radcliffe. radcliffe has put his new york apartment up for rent but before you get too excited, the so who apartment is going for $19,000 a month. radcliffe pout it 8 years ago and only lived there for a shored time. must be nice. >> anchor: i don't think i can afford that. john ins key is starring in the new play dry powder. he will play a finance executive dealing with co-worker problems. the director of the show will thomas kale who directed the broadway top seller hamilton. it will begin previews march 1.

boxing legend is now the center of another legacy. sports illustrated has dedicated its legacy of life award to ali and renamed it in his name. at ward honors former athletes and sports figures who embody the ideals of sportmanship, . >> anchor: much more to come in the next 90 minutes. . >> anchor: i am adam william. 7 news at 5:00 starts right now . >> reporter: a cold rain and in. how long that lasts and of course the latest track from hurricane joaquin ahead . >> anchor: while we may dodge a hurricane hit trouble is a shore thing along the coast . >> anchor: also tonight a community reeling from a campus massacre. nine people are dead, others left with emotional and if i wounds. tonight, we're learning more about the gunman who he was targeting and the heros who stepped in to the line of fire to stop him . >> anchor: heavy hearts at hanscom air force base after a flight tragedy overseas claim the lives of two massachusetts airmen . >> anchor: setting the record

saying about the pope's private meetings while he was here in the u.s. >> anchor: hurricane joaquin taking a turn. the littlest track showing the category four storm will not impact the eastern seaboard. it's good news for all those who were bracing for a possible hit . >> anchor: definitely but the storm is having an impact. joaquin battering the bahamas. it's been sitting over those islands for the last 24 hours so rain continues to drench the region. flooding is widespread, local leaders there saying many devastation. while we may not be feeling the effects of a hurricane, high tides and northeasterly winds are proving to be a coastal threat for us. we're seeing violent surf from the carolinas to new england so let's go to chris lambert who is tracking it all. >> reporter: we'll continue to afternoon during high tide. same spots as earlier this afternoon and yesterday as well. right along the coastline east to northeast facing beaches.