was saying it's not just amazon, but the people want it now. coming up on "early today," hillary clinton becomes the first woman in u.s. history to lead a major party in the race for president. she delivered a message focused on healing the nation. >> don't let anyone tell you that our country is weak. don't let anyone tell you we don't have whatt takes. we do. and most of all, don't believe anyone who says, i alone can fix it. >> but donald trump fired back with a number of mean tweets while defending his sarcastic remarks on russia hacking clinton's e-mails.

the explanation of the mysterious object flying through the western sky. "early today" starts right now. well, good morning to you and happy friday. i'm betty nguyen. thanks for joining us today. history in america. headlines across the country say it all. hillary clinton becomes the first woman to accept the major party's presidential nomination. >> tonight we've reached a milestone in our toward a more perfect union. the first time that a major party has nominated a woman for president. [ applause ] >> standing here as my mother's daughter and my daughter's mother, i'm so happy this day has come. after all, when there are no

>> for more now, we are joined by our political correspondent casey hunt. >> reporter: good morning. hillary clinton last night delivering the political speech of her life as she became the first woman to accept a major party nomination for president. she went aggressively after donald trump on a series of points, but she also acknowledged the historic nature of the occasion. >> standing here as my moth's daughter and my daughter's mother. i'm so happy this day has come. i'm happy for grandmothers and little girls and everyone in between. you really think donald trump has the temperament to be commander in chief? donald trump can't even handle the rough and tumble of a presidential campaign. if you dare imagine, imagine him in the oval office facing a real

is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons. >> reporter: she was introduced by her daughter, chelsea clinton. her husband bill clinton also watching as she gave that speech. now, the campaign continues. she's heading out on a bus tour through pennsylvania and ohio two states where she's potentially in trouble against donald trump who has some appeal with white working pennsylvania hasn't been on the map for democrats in quite sometime. she'll be on the tour with her husband bill clinton and with vice presidential running mate, tim kaine. clinton also made sure to extend a big olive branch to bernie sanders and his most ardent supporters in what analysts say was her most progressive speech yet. >> i want to thank bernie

millions of americans, particularly the young people who threw their hearts and souls into our primary. all of your supporters here and around the country, i want you to know, i've heard you. your cause is our cause. >> but what some political observers are calling one of the most moving and politically poignant moments of the night it came with a fallen muslim american soldier's father and mother rebuked donald trump's muslim ban and devicive rhetoric. >> donald trump, you're asking americans to trust you with their future. let me ask you, have you even read the united states

i will -- i will gladly lend you my copy. have you ever been to arlington cemetery? go look at the graves of brave patriots who died defending united states of america. you will see all faiths, genders, and you have sacrificed nothing. >> and while democrats wrapped up their four-day convention donald trump was holding his own event in iowa, but that didn't stop him from responding to clinton's speech. quote, hullry's refuse tall to mention radical islam is more proof that she is unfit to lead the country. our way of life is under threat by radical islam and hillary

hilla hillary will never reform wall street. hillary's vision is a borderless world where people have no power, no safety. corruption and devastation follows her wherever she goes. but not all republicans echoed his response. conservative commenter said america, we have starkly different choices in front us. this peach was very different from trump. and eric ericson summed up the dnc with this tweet. key takeaway from me about the week, the democrats know how to take on trump better than the gop did. they'll ridicule him and mock him. meanwhile trump spent part of his day defending his previous comments when he called on foreign governments to locate hillary's missing e-mails.

illegally. you look at that and when i'm being sarcastic. >> are you being sarcastic? >> of course, but you have 33,000 e-mails deleted and the real problem is what was said on those e-mails from the democratic national committee. it's disgraceful. >> we have word a news fiber intrusion at the committee is also being the intrusion may have begun as early as june and could be related to that initial dnc hack that democratic officials leads back to russian agents. pope francis is at the concentration camp in poland. he will walk the ground in silence as a movement of respect. both made somber visits to the

murdered 1.1 million people, mooes mostly jews. an estimated 2.5 million are attending. yesterday pope francis celebrated mass at the holiest catholic shrine which includes the 600-year-old icon known as black madonna. florida health officials have raised a new alert over the zika virus. an investigation is underway transmitted zika. it's prompted the fda to shut down two blood distribution centers in miami-dade and broward. they will close until they can implement technologies until they can killant generals in blood. so far it has only spread

sexual transmissions although the fear now is that zika is being spread by local mosquitos. but check out this remarkable video. a lava flow all the way to the pacific ocean off the big island of hawaii. it's all compliments of the volcano there. this is the first time that one of the lava flows has made it to the ocean and it was quite a trek. it started flowing back in late may and has been slowly making the coast. authorities say it possesses no threat but gawkers should keep their distance. let's get a check on the weather. we hope the weekend forecast is not as dramatic as those pictures. >> that's worth the helicopter ride to go see those. >> keep your distance though. >> we still have a flash flood watch up for areas of new jersey, all the way down to delaware, new york city andilily

even been dropped but we'll deal with torrential rains this morning. moderate to heavy rain now approaching washington, d.c. and baltimore. heavier rains in and around new york city this morning and light rain in the areas of new england. a slow morning commute and maybe the airports a little slow many the northeast. today, scattered storms in the southeast. also the ohio valley will have scattered storms. into saturday, there will be some afternoon by the end of the weekend it gets very hot and toasty in the middle of the country. here's a closer look at your day ahead. so for today, the afternoon hours will be much better than this morning in areas from philadelphia through new york city, hartford, providence all the way up into boston and afternoon thunderstorms typical summertime variety in areas of the midwest today. so not too bad of a weekend coming for many people.

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>> this is 7news now. >> kris: good morning. happy friday, everyone. 7news "today in new england" begins in just a few minutes. here's a look at some stories we're working on for you. hillary clinton making history, officially becoming the first female nominee of a major political party. last night she took center stage, opening up about som massachusetts. plus a deadly drive in plainville. a 26-year-old man killed after a serious crash late last night. police say the man was killed when his car collided with a tractor-trailer. then police continue digging for clues after discovering more human remains at a national grid site in everett. authorities say the remains belonged to the same woman. an inmate in new hampshire looking to make a great escape. surveillance video captures a

shackles. how police finally caught up with him. some rain falling early this morning. it looks like it may continue through the day. let's get over to chris lambert with a peek of that forecast. >> chris: especially this morning, kris. we have the chance of localized flooding. the best chance down through the islands if you get any downpours there. otherwise temperatures this morning mid to upper 70s. what a humid air mass in place. dew points in the low to mid-70s. plenty of moisture in the sp door. it's like a steam bath. a couple sprinkles in the city of boston. some light rain stretches back through much of metro west. we've had localized, heavier pockets of rain in worcester county, west of the city of worcester. a few towns have picked up a half an inch to an inch of rain, but that's localized, not area-wide. i expect that to be the case this morning. a few downpours in some towns. other than that just more of a general rain right now. what we're tracking in terms of

through overnight last night and this morning is this ban that you see developing off the mid atlantic coastline. if this were further off to the north, i think we'd have a better chance of getting more rain widespread. the main batch of this rain is mainly south of new england, perhaps skirting along the south coast, especially across the islands. so that's where we'll watch the potential of some flash flooding. for the rest of us. i'm expecting partly sunny skies to break out by this afternoon. shower or thundershower left over this afternoon, but the best chance of widespread showers will be this morning through about lunchtime. breaks in some sun this afternoon. more on that in the weekend forecast as "today in new england" starts right now. >> i accept your nomination for president of the united states. >> christa: hillary in the history books. hillary clinton accepting her party's nomination and putting her focus squarely on donald trump.

>> kris: also a lynn man is set to face a judge after allegedly going on the attack and with his young daughter nearby. >> christa: and calls for change. police in somerville fighting for a black lives matter banner to come down. but the mayor still is not backing down on it. >> this is 7news "today in new england." >> kris: all right. it's 5:00. we finally made it to friday. that's why that smile is so big. thanks for joining us. i'm kris anderson. >> christa: you found me out. >> kris: we're all smiling. >> christa: you know what, we also have some much-needed rain. we've been waiting for that, as well, kind of a pain for the morning commute, chris, but we are in a drought after all. >> chris: it will slow you down on the roadway, but you need to get some water out there. it doesn't mean that it's pouring rain for all of us right now. it's light rain for a lot of towns. once in a while you see these flashes of yellow and orange. we have had some embedded downpours across the area, but