said the nature and extent of student and staff experiences attitudes and perceptions are comparable to be what we've seen in many racially diverse schools across the country. the school district says it's following up well discipline in some cases. mandatory training in others and a district-like plan for discussions of race in the classrooms. boston mayor walsh reacted saying any incident of racial bias in our schools is unacceptable and that's why we've system that will ensure every student's voice is heard. i am confident that the new leadership at boston latin will ensure all students are in an environment where they feel safe to learn. >> the report also said that the schools need do a better job communicating with the parents. the school district says it's already working on that problem. we're live in boston, dan hausle, 7news.

>> a man has been killed killed who was on a motorcycle, crashing into a police vehicle. kelli o'hara joins us live out here. >> loved ones out here all day trying to figure out what happened exactly, laying down flowers and trying to pick up the pieces of this accident. >> it's a freak accident. doesn't make sense. >> reporter: friends and family angry and emotional. hours after losing their friend and brother, rafael >> 19 years old. birthday next month. it's sad. >> what did he want to do? he just loved to ride. >> reporter: cordero died wednesday morning when his dirt bike collided with a police car. the district attorney's office says the officers didn't see cordero because the young man didn't have his lights on. friends and family disagree. >> i don't believe that's true at all. i don't. >> if he would have seen him, we would have avoided them if he could. >> i seen it three days ago,

everything was fine. >> you filed it hard to believe? >> i do. >> reporter: the d.a.'s office says several police cruisers were responding to a 911 call when cordero and another biker came through. investigators say the police car slowed down but it was too late. >> beyond sad. that's for sure. too young. had his whole life ahead of him. >> the two officers were taken to the hospital with minor injuries. as for the district attorney's office, they say t friends and family say their loved one was wearing a helmet. in fall river tonight, kelli o'hara, 7news. >> a pole goes through the windshield of an suv. it was just inches from the driver's face and investigators say the driver hit two pashed cars argue light post and a chain-link fence. the pole from that fence is what crashed through the windshield there. the driver was taken to the hospital and is expected to be okay. friends and family are saying goodbye to an 7-year-old

in boston. a milwaukee for kysr willis was held today in matapan. last night they left candles and left toys at community center where he died last week. willis went into the water unnoticed. on carson beach his body was found hours later. the director is on paid leave while the investigation continues. we are tracking earl in the tropics today. now a named hurricane. jeremy reiner here to show us more. jeremy. >> yes, here he is righter why he has further strengthened, now up to a hurricane. winds at 75 miles per hour category i hurricane moving west at 14 miles per hour. this is mexico, belize, honduras right will. and the westerly track likely takes it into belize just after midnight tonight and then it marches across the yukatan peninsula late tonight there tomorrow morning, weakening, moving over land and may grab a little bit of water here in the bay of campeche. it might flare into a minimal tropical storm before making a

saturday afternoon with minimal impact in terms of the wind. gonna be a major rainmaker through bell lazy as well as mexico over the next two or three days. too far south to bother us with any rain but we do have rain back in the forecast. i'll let you know when in a few minutes. >> a group of priests help mark a first for the city of boston. a new medical marijuana dispensary is now open for business. it's one of seven facilities across the state that's now byron barnett is live for us in boston with reaction on the story today. >> yeah, boston's first medical marijuana accidentsary heed its dares this afternoon. located right here near downtown crossing. sort of a non-descript building over there. close to the t stop and so forth. patients we talk to say they're happy it's here and medical marijuana has given them their lives back. >> a group of priests say a

the opening of the patriot care medical marijuana dispensary, the first dispensary in boston and the seventh in the state patients lined up and ready to go in when the dares opened. minutes later out they came with medical marijuana. >> what have you there? i have some sour cush. you don't have to worry about the stigma of it being illegal. you're using condition that you have. >> most adult was use it for pain. it's associated with cancer or cancer therapy or other types of pain. >> reporter: patients who have a state medical marijuana card can purchase various symptoms of medical marijuana here. >> we have eight different strains of flower, which is smokeable product or you can vaporize that, as well. >> we have cookies and brownies and chocolates.

>> i find it helps treat the anxiety a lot more acutely without sometimes the nasty side effects of pharmaceutical drugs. >> reporter: and richard who suffers from chronic pain doesn't care what the skeptics say. >> they're living in the old days, i'm 58 years old, my daughter's a grown-up. i don't really care what other people think. what matters to me is how i feel and my life and not being on the pills and doing it this way is much better for me. >> right now the patients are paying for this out-of-pocket however officials say they hope that will change in the future. that's the story live from downtown boston, i'm byron barnett, 7news. wake feestled police are looking for the man seen in these surveillance photos. the victim says the guy held the door for him as they left the store but bumped into him and he said when he got into the car he

mailbox but it was missing $400. a rollover crash slows traffic on 290. this is in northborough. state police say one person was trapped inside in this afternoon crash. it took about an hour for crews to clear the scene. let's head into the olympic zone as we continue on 7. swimmer michael phelps has been named the team usa's flag bearer . phelps is an 18-time gold medalist that's considered a real honor for an olympic athlete to be selected as the flag bearer, something that phelps isn't taking lightly. >> to even be nominated to carry the flag is an honor to me and have my teammates select me to carry the flag into opening ceremonies, it's just an absolute tremendous honor for knowing what the flag stands for

our country. it's a dream come true. while there are famous faces going for gold, there are also some new olympians who are hoping to shine. >> michael phelps is but 553 other athletes make up team usa. >> i think they're satisfied when they come across the line to make the olympic team. >> reporter: sprinter gatlin is an olympic veteran but two-thirds of the team are first timers including gymnast madison. >> i think the team is so strong right now it's incredible to be a part the team. >> kerri walsh jennings is in pursuit of her fourth beach

party and i can't wait to go there and put on a show. >> she's part of the biggest female concontingent ever at the games. the 292 women make up more than half of team usa. cindy mclaughlin is one of four 16-year-olds on the squad. while 52-year-old dudden is a six-time olympian, so is kim roady, literally gunning for his 6th medal. but for the olympic rookies, it's their first shot. >> you don't even bel tail. >> one they hope has the happiest of endings. >> 46 states including massachusetts have ties to olympians. >> nancy chen, 7news. >> 7news is your home for summer games. nancy is in rio for all of the excitement and will have all of the updates live from rio. and that's gonna be really fun to see as everything starts

>> coming up at 6:00, buckets of baked beans dumped on a man's head and how it's helping for

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at baby party at boston's thattial hall. buckets dmped on a man from pennsylvania. he's really used to getting different things dumped >> beans? it's been happening to him all across the country. -ice bucket challenge.n the als >> reporter: the ice bucket challenge with a massachusetts twist. substituting cold water and ice for boston's baked albanians. larry kaplan decided to spice

state here in the u.s. >> i'll be going to all 48 states and flying to alaska and hawaii. >> reporter: 50 states in 30 days. boston was his fifth stop at durgan park in thanniel hall, finding foods that are special to each state. in new jersey he dumped blueberries. in delaware, it was watermelon. rhode island, coffee milk. and in connecticut nutmeg. >> i'm here in boston massachusetts and did b beans. i'll be in new hampshire later today and will do new england clam chowder. we have everything from maple syrup to salmon with salmon roe to chili in texas, orange juice in florida. it is going to be an interesting month, to say the least. >> reporter: interesting but worthwhile. the challenge is designed to raise awareness and fund research for als. >> i took off one month from my business and one month from my wife and children to do this. and i'm gonna inconvenience myself for a month and then i get to go back to my normal

day and you don't get to go bark to your normal life. that change is permanent. it's not really about me, but about the patients and their families and the awareness for als. >> it's unclear if in any of those stops he'll be pouring any water or ice over his head but says he's about 500 miles into a 13,000 mile trek and hoping to raise $100,000. in the newsroom, nicole oliverio, 7news. great story there. of course, we root him on. we are talking about sunshine

>> fantastic right now. more sunshine tomorrow. a bit of a warming trend the next couple of days. mid-80s tomorrow. a few thunderstorms may move through new england midday saturday and saturday afternoon >> that area of high pressure up above us forces the air to sink. 40s and 50s with the dewpoint temperatures but the air temperature saturdays and 70s. dewpoint temps in the 50s. very comfortable air mass out there. and that'll be the case out at

sunshine with clear skies. there is that blue h up in the gulf of maine. it'll drift to the south of new england, that sets up a southwesterly breeze. and when that happens, we start to add a little more warmth and a little more humidity, but again, not excessiv heat oro press assist humidity. comfortable tonight. 50s and 60s. through the day tomorrow, lots of sunshine. a little warmer. low humidity once again. temps tomorrow 80 to 86. the city at 81 tomor seacoast, cape ann in the 70s to middle 80s. worcester hills, fitchburg around 84. worcester itself 82. and out on the cape and islands, great beach weather to be had. chatham at 77. water temperatures 70 to 75. the fun part of the summer, not the first part when the water temp is cold. low tide at 6:50 tomorrow morning. high tide in the afternoon. more sunshine on friday. a little more humidity. high temperatures on friday into the mid-80s. and back to the cape and the

few isolated showers and storms saturday. i think a higher chance of some showers and storms saturday afternoon off cape, so if you're doing the mass challenge this weekend, it's not a washout on saturday, not widespread but there is going to be the risk of a few scattered showers and storms for panamas and any other outdoor activities for that matter. saturday low to mid-80s. sunday, mostly sunny skies. humidity is out of here once again on sunday. lower to mid-80s. see you at 7:00. >> it's hard to believe a little more than a week from now we'll see them in their first preseason game. bill belichick getting a big body back on the defensive lane. alan branch coming off the non-football injury list and almost time for joint practices with the saints ahead of next thursday's exhibition game.

>> it's exciting. it always brings another level of competitiveness and you get to see a different look for the different defense and guys get tired going after the same guys day after day. it's a little bit of a change -up and nice during training camp. >> not rookies carrying pads or tracking positional battles but we're talking about tom brady's birthday, happy birthday tb12. the future hall-of-famer, 39 snars young today, though he candle inside foxboro first of all, i don't think we want to miss chris parker's birthday eitherle as long as we're celebrating. >> did you hear anybody wish you a happy birthday? >> tom did. so that's all i needed right there. >> walking out on the field or -- in the locker room right before we came out, and i said happy birthday back. >> i try make a wish for him. we celebrate his birthday with

for it. >> are you going to do anything for your birthdays. >> practice. >> when you play with fire, eventually you're gonna get burned. the red sox pulling off late inning wins on sunday and monday but last night the tables were turned on the sox. the mariners storming back from four runs down to stun the sox in the eighth inning. david price had given up just three hits through seven shut-out frames but after allowing 3 and 8 he gave way fernando abaud. the newly acquired reliever couldn't put away robinson who blasted a three run home run. just the third long ball. the lefty's allowed all season long. sox got a man on in the ninth and in andrew's major league debut he couldn't catch up to a 99 miles per hour edwin hitter and sox lose a heart breaker 5-4. hanley ramirez jammed his wrist when he tripped heading down the

the sox first baseman needed x-rays. he's out of the line-up tonight while the team waits for the results. some good news, mukie betts adding to his trophy case today, taking home american of the leaking honor for the month he's just the second red sox player to win player of the month award in june. august. canada and finland in the world junior summer showcase. check out ely take the stride and rip it home. he'll be bringing the skill to the heights in just a few years but for now he'll have to settle for our play of the day and red sox sending porcello to the hill looking to reach a milestone tonight, one win away from contrary win number 100.

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