he is on trial accused of raping and killg his teacher . >> anchor: prosecutors say they want their own experts to evaluate him, which could i did that trial. 7's john kuoko live with more on what happened in court today. >> reporter: against the request of his defense a judge has odded that phillip chisolm will face the prosecution's competency expert. friday afternoon fill ilchisolm ilchisolm's defense team want the court to wait on allowing the prosecution to have their own competency expert . . >> reporter: he was not in court friday is accused of rap raping and killing his high school teacher colleen ritter back in 2013. as of thursday the 16-year-old's trial is now on hold while he spends 20 days at a worcester re recovery hospital for observation after a sigh cogs saw him banking his head on the of his cell wednesday. the prosecution wants their own expert to see chisolm because they believe it's a proactive move . it allows for one or more

place any time of the proceeding and in particular talk about having as muchings in as possible. understanding that such things should be given a thorough review . >> anchor: the request left in the hands of judge david lowey who waived fairness of the action . it allowed the commonwealth to have an independent expert. why shouldn't the defendant have an independent expert. if convicted chisolm firsts life in prison. live in salem, john cuoco, 7 news . >> anchor: an mbta station coming under tire this morning. it all happened during rush hour. police say two groups started fighting there when one person pulled out a gun. no within was hurt . t cops started running off the of the station going over there and some other people. they just don't care about other people and about the safety of our patrons and employees and

folks just trying to go to work or school. >> anchor: police did arrest a man and woman an seized one gun. investigators are accepting for other suspects . >> anchor: nevada lawmakers are banning fantasy sports sites fan dual and draft kings unless the sites apply for galloning licenses. trouble started for the company company's last month when a draft kings employee released sensitive player information and then later won $350,000 on fan dual site. massachusetts's attorney general says she will be looking into nevada is a decision. we'll take a look at it. that's a decision by a state gam gaming authority. so we'll as you know we are paying attention to this issue. we've met with the company. i continue to be of the view it's really important that consumer protects be in place and we'll work toward that. the f.b.i. is also investigating this site and several lawmakers are calling for congressional hearings. >> anchor: also on 7, chaos on campus at a rhode island high school the state of the union and list caught in a violent clash. now students were protesting a video that shows an officer

taking a 14-year-old student right down to the ground. an tips moments thursday morning outside of this high school in pawtucket, rhode island. police arrested two adults, 8 teenagers an even more were pepper sprayed in a protest sparked by what happened in this video. the video shows a pawtucket police officer using a take down move. police say these images are from the end of an incident from wednesday where they arrested two teens, brothers, after police say one of their officers was attacked. outside of the school thursday, continuings tightened. more and more student started to show up. you within to protest stay on the sidewalk. are you listening to me? . i'm asking to you put your trust in me. . >> reporter: mayor pleaded to students to go back to class. the crowd continued to grow at

group broke a window. police say officers were threat threatened and spit at. police pepper sprayed back. the crowd eventually broke up. three and a half hours after what started a peaceful protest. mate i don't remember says he did meet with police. they plan to investigate the incident and the video that sparked yesterday's protest. >> anchor: calling for justice, the mother of the late tamir ryce is asking for an independent prosecutor to take over her son's case. she is also asking for the current prosecutor to step down her request comes after a county prosecutor released two reports finding that the officer who shot and killed her 12-year-old son was justified in his actions actions. the rice family says they want what they think is justice. it's a senseless shooting of my son, tamir rice i had many sleepless nights and days, almost a year now, no justice, no peace. police say tamir was waving what turned how continue a bb gun when he was shot and kill

last year. parts of texas go up in flames a acres. families forced to evacuate their homes due to the fire. the area has had low humanity and very little rainfall with no rain in sight. fire crews work through thursday night to control those flames. >> anchor: ebony magazine spark sparking some mixed emotions for a controversial cover. the cover features a fractured image of the cosby show cast. the magazine is focusing on the families in the african-american community in its latest issue. dozens of women came forward acu acuing comedian bill cosby of sexually assaulting them. lawyers for cosby said those encounter were consensual . >> anchor: students manage a lie or death decision all for a home work assignment that some students and paper are calling offensive. the lifeboat test was given to student in a sixth grade history class. the florida middle schoolers had to choose who they would save on a sinking ship. some of the choices included a black man, a white man, a pregnant woman and an hispanic woman. one students in the class described how her classmates rea

reaed when they got this assignment. and i got kind of upset about it and everybody else in the classroom was like, wow, this is race its. this is racist. the school district claims this was supposed to be team building exercise and was not meant to be racist. a school spokesperson said the school is culturally diverse and that the test brought up good debates on how to work to the. >> anchor: u.s. airmen in paris train attack hero spencer stone has been released from the hospital after being stabbed outside a calmical nightclub. stone was all smiles as he left. he was stabbed three times during a fight with two men last week of the list say the incident was not related to what happened in paris. remember stone and two friends helped stop a terrorist attack on a train . >> reporter: be a bobby gift registry gone wrong . my fear was in fact confirmed . >> reporter: it was enough to drive a baby buggy. they said t not their problem . >> reporter: see how we solved this baby gift gab. that's just minutes away on 7 news. a bird ruffling feathers

for some people in brookline. why he is driving home owners wild . also caught on calm remarks a driver takes a dangerous turn right into a worcester liquor store sending customers

>> anchor: a registry return has a authorize wood woman saying "oh baby." the mom to be said she sent back duplicate items she receive during her baby shower . when customers were never given credit she register her complaint with solve it 7. here is kris anderson. >> reporter: megan knew she wanted to be surprised when it came to the gender of her first child. but that made picking out items for the nursery a bit tricky. i was trying to choose the theme for the been e's room. we tried to do gender neutral . megan decided on abc's with dr. seuss and found great prices for the items she wanted on the web site the boys depot.com . abc you have to learn. educational. >> reporter: with her bobby

shower coming up, megan set up an on-line registry on web site so friends an calm family order items she watched. everything seemed to be going smoothly until object of last year. the day of her shower. i got a lot of stuff but cecily from this web site i got duplicate picture frames, peg board, a lamp shade, a fleece blanket. megan said she contacted the boy's depot as the representative told her to return the items to the manufacturer, so she did. she confirmed a few weeks later that the manufacturer received the i temperatures. megan says the manufacturer told her the boys depot has been refunded for the items. but she says her friends who purchased the items still hadn't received their credit . i have been calling, i have been e-mailing. no money back, no e-mail return. no telephone call return. nothing. silence. megan says after six months she still had no response from the boys depot . was there ever a point where you just said i'm not

i was at my wit'sen. didn't know what else to do so i catted solve it 7. >> reporter: we e-mailed the boy's deep o.after an initial response asking us for more details, the communication lines wept silent. we tried to e-mail and call the company several more times but no response. so we suggested that megan fill a complaint with the better business bureau . solve it 7 gave me additional ideas of routes that i hadn't even tried yet . shortly after she file the complaint, megan's two friends who ordered the duplicate items received an e-mail from the boys depot promising them a refund. which they received a few weeks later. the boys depot told us an employee who doesn't work there any more marked the return as completed by mistake after refunding a different customer named megan. so the company thought the problem was resolved. it was a long row. was a long road and i couldn't

now megan can focus on planning her daughters first birthday party . have maybe we can deliver a solution. give a call at 617-367-7777 or send us an e-mail to solveit7@whdh.com. in the newsroom, kris anderson, 7 news. coming up a fall feel, we head to the trail house in boston to make pumpkin race otto otto. that's tonight's what's cooking . it might warm you up from the inside out which will be necessary this weekend. a preview of winter temperatures the forecast is next. >> anchor: we're on to indy. a luck ahead to the patriots sunday night show down with the

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>> anchor: fall in full wing and that means beautiful weather and everything pumpkin .

>> anchor: today we fill your kin crave wag dish from the tap trail house right here in boston boston. bri eggers shows us how to make pumpkin race otto in today's what's cooking. >> reporter: fall is in full effect, cooler temperatures bring to mind dishes that warm you up from the inside out . new england fall flavors really are all about the harvest harvest. it's all about rich, sweet and savory going on at the same time time. get your winter on. today we'll make a roasted pumpkin race otto . >> reporter: be sure to use a sugar pumpkin, one of the smaller, rounder ones. cut it in half, scoop it how, rub olive oil, salt an pepper on minutes. so wool our pimp kin cooks we'll get going on the actual . >> reporter: first step, warm up onion and olive oil then add garlic. stir in your arrobio rice, the . it will release starch and that will give it a thick cream

creaminess that makes it that really stick oh your ribs kind of dish . >> reporter: next add a little salt and white wine, keep stirring . the more action you give it the more starch you willie lease from the rice and the thicker and creamier it will be in the end . time to add stock . would' only going to add it one laid el full at a time. this is a-you have to take your time with, work it little by little. it's definitely worth in the end end. now that our race otto is where we want it to be and it is at the right consistency we just drop our heat way done to low or even off and just make sure we keep it nice and warm. our pumpkins are ready to come out. actually cut these one more time so they kind of have a little bit softer. so new we let them cool to the point where i can handle them. i can pull away the flesh . cut roasted pumpkin into bite size pieces and stir them into the race otto next add bullpen butter and parmesan cheese . >> reporter: then time to serve. i think i will just garnish

there is our roasted putt kin race otto from the tap trail house. was a perfect weekend for something to warm you up. bree, this will be down right chilly . then packing on that winter weight, right? to keep us warm as we get into the winter months. we know they are coming and, yeah, preview of that this weekend. current temperatures right around 60 degrees. very typical for this time of year to be at 60 for our highs. that's the last of it though and as we get into the weekend the cold just gets colder. you can see some spot showers that are off in the western part of the state. we are dry even though we did see some of those thunderstorms that rolled through along the south coast, cape and islands earlier this morning, that was in response to the first cold front now we turn our attention to another cold front just reinforcing that from the north and west and ing up a pretty chilly breeze all weekend long as well. overnight tonight partly cloudy, chilly, again pretty typical for that time of year.

it gets close to freezing in those colder spots like norwood and closer to 50 degrees for the city of boston. partly cloudy skies, winds pulling become a town then tomorrow partly cloudy, breezy and colder. 48 for a high in worcester to mid 50's as you get closer to the city of boston. we have sunshine but also talking about a wind chilled add adding a chill to the air all weekend long. highs tomorrow again as i mention close to those mid 50's, 48 for worcester, 49 for orange then we see all of this cold here in the dark blue around the hudson bay bleeding in as we get through the day tomorrow and also tomorrow night monday morning looks to be the closest throughout the next few days. so a freeze watch in effect as you can see through the areas in purple but this is a widespread freeze that we can expect. maybe away from the immediate coastline for sunday morning but as we get into monday morning i

think that includes everything. pretty typical for suburbs but as you get closer to the city we're early for these very cold temperatures. so within we talk about told a lot of us think about that four letter s word of course snow and there is some that rolls through through. northern new england possibly some snow flurries for the berkshires but we should stay dry with this cold front making its which through. spot showers, 20% chance of that happening about the we are talking a cold rain as tar as snow goes. there is where the snow goes. it's not anywhere near the bay state and we hope to keep it that way at least for the next couple of weeks. we'll get to know upper 40's bundle up for that. the cold blast is not staying. it's just a vacation for it a weekend trip if you will. reportedly it does disappear as we get into next week those terms are back up to closer to

with a rebound 46 on sunday. monday 48, tuesday 60 degrees. so fall is not over yet. it is in full swing head of the charles this weekend. trick or treat just 15 days until halloween and then we fall back with the clocks in 16 days. head of the charles a chilly forecast or brisk one if you will. you can call it what you want but you want to bundle up and peak color being color everywhere around new england of the just fantastic for this weekend you just want to check it out from the car or comfort from your jacket and scarves because very cold and as we get into sunday morning, that is the cold one. luck at those temperatures. 34 for a low and that's your average between the city and the burbs, 30 on monday and again that rebound as we headache it into the middle of next week . >> anchor: the kennedy family hosting the 26th annual human rights golf couragement honoring rob f kennedy. 150 guests attend the event at

celebrities made an appearance. the event empowers activists for many causes work are to justice . >> anchor: all right, we're following several breaking stories for you coming up all new at 0 clock i'm bold bank robbery putting an entire community on alert forces several schools nearby to lock down. the latest on the search for a suspect in arlington. and a watermain break causing big problems in manchester-by-the-sea today when officials say service could be resolved. we'll let you know about that lamar odom on the road to re recovery tonight. we have bragging details as the former nba star wakes up after spending three days in a coma. those stories, your updated forecast and a lot more. we hope you join us here next at

. saturday night live had many cast members over the years . >> anchor: when tracy morgans return for thed is time it will be a special come back. interesty morgan's emotional appearance at last month's emmy awards . i miss you guys so much . >> reporter: was a start. another wave of emotion is likely this weekend . you are back, tracy . yeah i'm back . >> reporter: when morgan comes back to hope of the show that ignited his career . i just say stop by bobby, keep clapping . more been's return come

just 16 months after highway crash left him with a traumatic brain injury . to have him come back and especially after what he has been through, it's like, it's special on so many different levels. >> reporter: current snl cast member grew up watching more been's antics . that bird is a liar. >> reporter: he will see lots of familiar faces still around . so many of the people who work here have worked here for so many years that most people are his old co-woulders so people are really exsooted to have imback. it will be awesome . on monday night morgan tweeted pictures of his first comedy club appearance. weekend update's mikhail shea seeing morgan in a similar haven't uweeks before his accident . y reenacted planet of apes in the back of a comedy club so i can't wait to see him just be funny again. a show with four decades of memorable moments . tracy, this is not the season finale . it will be after i'm done with it . >> reporter: could add a tumor this weekend . it will be a gate sew tomorrow night . certainly is

of 7 news ahead. breaking news, lamar odom awic and alert. the former nba star out of a coma after a drug overdose. also breaking, a local community on high alert after a bank robbery. schools placed on lock down as list searched for a suspect. plus, a watermain break leaving a local town dry. the little every on emergency repair efforts. then a wild ride in worcester. a car comes crashing to the front door of a liquor store. we're feeling the chill and the potential for a freeze this weekend. we'll talk about what areas could see snow . and a cockatu on the loose. home owners in brookline crying fowl and asking for help. >> anchor: first at 6:00 we're coming breaking news. almost arodom is awake and out

the former basketball star take amajor step in his recovery. he was found unresponsive at a nevada brothel on tuesday. friend and family have been pray praying by his bedside. 7's ryan schulteis here now with the bragging details. >> anchor: this is one of the first signs of improvement suns he was rushed to the hospital on tuesday i family representative says odom opened his eyes today an was able to do you know kay. he reporty give a thumb as up to his estranged wife who has been by his side this entire time reports also say odom is now breathing on his own. he checked into a brothel in nevada last saturday. this is surveillance individual oh that shows him arriving on tuesday. he was sound unconscious. once again lamar odom out of a coma and said his first words live in the newsroom, ryan schulteis, 7 news . >> anchor: following breaking news where police are self-for a bank rob are. workers say the man if the surveillance photographs walked into the win tschetter savings bank with a gun and deand inned money this afternoon. schools in the area were told to keep students in place as a me caution. that lock down has been lived now.