officers believe was intended to intimidate them. >> reporter: suspects were in possession of a large capacity rifle and a hand gun with one round in the chamber. they had a cell phone with a police scanner app playing a live feet of the salem police radio frequentssy. they believe that application had been open and served no other purpose than to monitor the police on this e police he was discharged from the military and diagnosed with bipolar disorder. authorities say he is on active duty with the army reserves. boat men are being held without bail. i'm byron barnett, 7 news. >> adam: 7 news tracking earl. the tropical storm killed at least six people in the dominican republic and is heading towards honduras and bellize where there are hurricane watches in effect. the storm has wind gusts right now of 45 miles an

meteorologist jr.ier to see what the -- jeremy reiner to see what the storming looks like. >> >> reporter: here is 'em. when the tropical systems pass south of hispaniola it typically takes the eastern seaboard off the playing field but all the the warm colors indicating showers and thunderstorms and they flared up very early this morning. because of that the hurricane center upgraded the deaggression to a tropical storm. tropical storm earl. winds at 50 miles an hour. moving west at miles-an-hour. no significant change to the thought process earlier today with the track of earl. expected to cross the yucatan peninsula sometime late tomorrow night or early thursday morning as a tropical storm likely will weaken as it's crossing land heading into the bay of cam pesch then expected to make a second land fall in mention collate this week as a tropical storm or perhaps a tropical depression w a track like that it does not havefully effect on the eastern seaboard. we had some showers and a

this morning from a nontropical system falling apart. sunshine is here, more about that in a few minutes. >> jadiann: following more news today. a dentist in worcester accused of inappropriately touching a patient during a procedure. the victim told police she got up from the chair and went to the police station to file a report. jonathan hall has more on this alarming assault. >> reporter: prosecutors claim 54-year-old nikhil patel groped a woman as she receiving treatment yesterday. >> we spoke to the victim. she had been a patient of the defendants for quite sometime. that she was' now based on this incident very much in fear of him. >> reporter: police charge patel with indecent assault and battery. after the woman claimed he touched her breast four times during her office visit. no details were released about whether she was' sedated. >> he is going to vigorously defend himself. >> reporter: as patsle and

has information which could help exonerate patel but can't release them due to medical privacy laws. >> i don't know the victim. you know, i can't confirm or deny anything because of the hippa things and i'm not going to speculate. all i can tell you is that my client denies the charges. >> reporter: one of patel's patients showed up at his office with a tooth ache at 1:00 only to find it closed. her appointment cancelled. >> le is a nice person. he is very friendly. if that is, you k you? >> not directly. but he is, he did tell me that i was pretty. >> reporter: pretty so you wonder. >> because i've never heard a doctor call me pret. >> reporter: the judge released patel on $1,000 cash bail and ordered him to stay away from the alleged victim. i'm jonathan hall, 7 news. >> adam: a man walks into a salem police station and makes a shocking admission, police kay he confessed to

on this disturbing story. >> reporter: that man's wife had filed this restraining order back in may saying her husband had tried to kill her before. douglas steves in handcuffs in front of a judge hours after he walked right into the lobby of the salem police station and confessed to strangling his wife. >> the officer asked him if he could help him, mr. steves responded i just killed moo wife. the the fer said you what. mr. steves repeat that had he just killed his wife. >> reporter: carmela saunders lived in fear for her life and in fear of her husband and prosecutors say early this morning, those fears came true. when police discovered her body in home shortly after her husband's confession, they were going through a authorizes and the woman filed a restraining order to keep her husband away. >> i don't care what happened to me but i will get you. >> reporter: family says

scared especially when steves recently posted he was a which had owe,on face book. >> i know he is abusive. he did strangleler a couple of times. >> reporter: steves returned home to his wife and five kids for a family dish. things were going well until an argument broke out and that is when police say the 50-year-old murdered his wife then confessed. family members are heart broken. >> what about the family? it's a domestic situation and it's -- >> my cousin is not here no more. >> reporter: that defense attorney adds that his client guilty but he debates the level of guilt. steves is being held without bail. in salem tonight, kelli o'hara, 7 news. >> jadiann: a boston city summer camp reopening, this is one week after a boy is tragic death. there we're talking about the 7-year-oldize are willis.

including hourly head counts and requiring all children to wear live jackets. crews searched the area for hours before finding his body in the water off of carson beach. there will be a vigil for willis at the community center tonight. >> adam: charges against a lowell man accused of taking a picture up a woman's skirt. todd mitchell works at sooner lube in tewksbury. police say he was under a woman's car appearing to work on the car but when she was' called to see if the work was she noticed mitchell using a cell phone to record up her skirt. >> jadiann: three local men could be facing jail time after investigators say they planned to sell stolen razors on-line. the three men including one former gillette employee have been charged with attempting to sell almost $210,000 worth of gillette razor blades. the u.s. attorney says the blades were stolen from the southbound boston manufacturing facility. >> adam: to a story you will see an just one station.

honored at a event in ipswich. garrett fitzgerald was injured last year. now he is thanking the community for all the support and kris anderson with the story. >> in is absolutely amazing -- or monday night fitzgerald was honored in ipswich receiving the 2016 top cop award. >> it is amazing to say the least. >> reporter: fitzgerald was working security detail for democratic presidential nominee hillary clinton in wakefield, new hampshire, in late december. police say an unlicensed driver was trying to pass another car when he crashed

other driver was killed while fitzgerald suffered serious injuries to his spinal cord. he is crediting his doctor, family and friends with helping him through the tough battle but says it's his law enforcement in a is helping. >> it got me through tough times and made my recovery what it is right now. i still have a long road to go but you know, it is, this community has been absolutely amazing. i couldn't have asked for in addition to receiving that top cop award he was also given a check for $30,000 from the officer harold vitale memorial fund. kris anderson, 7 news. >> jadiann: coming up here on 7 news at 6:00 a south shore favorite unexpectedly shuts down. why the owners say they had to close after 25 years of business. >> adam: you know we're days away from the olympics opening ceremony as the athletes have a little fun in rio before competition

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its doors for good. the charlie horse making the surprise announcement just yesterday on its facebook page. the post said it's because of the circumstances beyond their control. >> adam: so now loyal customers are left wondering why. dan hausle with the report. >> reporter: a glimpse of the good times but unfortunately it's all part of the process of shutting down the charles horse restaurant. >> i was so devastated. we're going to miss it here. it was like a little family. >> reporter: it's a shout shore institution that just offering families food, fun drinks under one roof. >> they've had birthday parties here and a lot of fun times in the arcade. so -- the food was good. too. came as a shock. >> reporter: but it's sprawling size has become a problem. last week the barrette family who runs the charlie horse decided time had passed the place by. >> people going out drinking are looking for a little bit of a trendier place and even

i don't think it fits into the trendy definition. >> reporter: workers are being told they have jobs if they want them at the bearette families other facilities but it won't be the same. >> magical here, everyone felt that way. they're very few people leaving feeling like they didn't lose a part of something more than just a job. >> reporter: now kids who have been saving up the arcade points for a big prize are coming by to cash in their tickets. >> i know i have some memories here and it's really a fun place and it's sad to see it go. >> reporter: the barrettes say the size was the problem if they can find a smaller place in the they're is a chance that the charlie horse or some version of it may rise again. dan hausle, 7 news. >> adam: i see what that is like to have the family dining spots. all the memories there. >> jadiann: generations. >> adam: sounds like here but hopefully they will be

>> would -- we'll keep an eye on that. let's get over to jeremy reiner. he is waiting for us to stop talking. >> reporter: no, not at all. interesting story there. and the weather, it does improve. it's improving as we speak.

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rio and the the white house announcing it will be part of the presidential delegation at the games. >> jadiann: this time it will not include the president or vice president. secretary of state john kerry will lead the u.s. delegation. he will be the heightest ranking official there. also joining kerry is mark spitz. the women of team usa's gymnastics monkeying around a little bit there on the olympic rings this is a picture with her teammates and they're taking in the sights while they're getting ready to compete probably trying to wind down. >> adam: their teammate aly making friend posing for this picture with a guy much taller than she and if you don't recognize him he is volley bawl player david low. lee towers, he is 6' 8". she is only 5' 2".

pain? really then the gam nas tick star tweeted out a challenge: athlete have a tradition there of trading those olympic pins with each other. >> adam: nancy chen also in rios covering the action and all throughout the games. >> announcer: now 7 weather with chief >> reporter: sunshine back in townig for the rest of the week with a warming trend but again it will not be excessive heat or humidity like we have seen the past couple of weeks. we have a tropical storm. tropical storm earl but no threat to the eastern seaboard. here it is right here. a flareup of thunderstorm activity last evening and this morning. continuing to move west at about 15-20 miles an hour. earlier today it was looking healthy but now it's lost

but still a lot of warm colors indicating some powerful thunderstorms with the topical system. there are the latest stats as of 5:00, undate these ever six hours or sooner if they have to. winds moving west at 16 miles-an-hour and the westerly track continues for its life time. you unless it'll cross the yucatan, weaken, the healthcare center doesn't think that it'll ever attain hurricane status but it might become s an hour before crossing the yucatan then weaken moving through itself pay of cam pesch knee mexico. forth east there are other showers and storms not organized in a fashion that we would classify them as a tropical system but it's about to be that time of year. closer to home a little swirl in the clouds. this airplane of low pressure brought beneficial rain to new england more so western new england than eastern new england.

lexington about a .1 of an inch of rain. that is where we've seen most of the rain forth west. then as you work through the berkshires and the hudson river vale of new york between cities between 1-3 inches of beneficial rain. for the drought we're dry. tomorrow and thursday, lots of sunshine. friday and saturday the chance does return but minimal chances of rain because i think they will just be a few isolated showers and the storms. until then, high pressure overnight tonight and for the next few days, tomorrow is an awesome summer day. temperatures tomorrow in the 70s to around 80. little warmer on thursday and again on friday with high pressure nosing south of new england that. will boost temperatures to the middle and upper 80s but no 90s, here comes a cool front that. is where it is on friday. as it does sweep in it'll pop a few isolated showers, maybe a downpour if you are lucky.

threat. see you at 7. >> reporter: if the red sox were going to pry sale away from chicago they knew the price tag would include another player. the 22-year-old outfielder is still on the move heading up to join the red sox out in seattle. sox 2015 first round pick getting the call 14 months after he killed it in the minor this is year. not in the line-up tonight but benny will get his chance soon enough. mookie betts and jackie bradley junior are having elite years sox left fielders have left something to be desired, run production and power numbers. a rare weak spot in what has been baseball's best offense

pedroia bringing the red sox back from the dead drilling a go ahead three-run home run. what did they have in store for an encore? how about more late game planningic against the mariners, bats were sleepless in seattle fouling behind 1-0 in the 7th. hill's first homer in a sox uniform bringing boston level in the 8th. then top of the 9th betts following suit with a solo shot of his own. sox win 2-1 improving to their 7th win in games in which they've trailed in the 7th inning. pats nation going into crisis when gronk was missing from camp. but belichick was playing it safe when he was dealing with a minorrier, when we got more clarity on today. according to espn, pronk was nursing a peck injury during the offseason. one that had him a little

typically dominant performance through the first week of camp. dobson showing flashes of greatness but consistency has never been his calling cord. y might be running out of chances with the pats. in a receiver competition the strongest he is ever seen. belichick is looking for dobson to improve on the field in order to stay on the roster. >> i know he trained hard. looks like he is in good condition. hope friday he will be able to continue to improve. i think that is really key. healthy but being healthy to practice and improve. he worked hard. made big catches hopefully he keeps climbing in that direction. >> it has been like that since i got here so that is the fun part is competing with each other. i think we all have a sense of urgency. everything is trying to make the roster, everybody is competing. >> reporter: that's going

>> adam: sometimes flies that is hour time for 7 news at 6:00 on a tuesday, thank you for watching today. i'm adam williams. >> jadiann: i'm jadiann thompson. we hope you have a great night. if you would like to join us again we'd love to see you for 7 news at 7:00.

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