>> and then it's a historic career with the final swim in rio. new england's own jimmy stone achieves her we don't even realize we're moving. >> i sit down with the parents getting details on the chair moves and good luck charms. >> anchor: and there's more news tonight. a crash course on the boston harbor. the problem that caused 3 ships to end up like this. >> anchor: tracking strong and severe storms as we head through the overnight hours. how long do they last and when will the heat and humidity return?

big papi. it left fans in awe. >> michael phelps ending his historic career with the 23rd gold medal. pretty amazing. he was one of several americans collecting gold tonight. >> and on fire and is live in rio. >> an epic close to the incredible swimming career with one last gold for michael phelps. >> one final race. >> one last time! >> reporter: michael phelps wanted to go out on top. his teammates in the 4 by 100 individual medley determined to make it happen. and leading off with the world record in the 100 back stroke

miller. >> and now it's up to michael phelps. >> phelps seizing the lead and driving it home. >> and in the united states and will indeed give michael phelps a gold medal. >> superman is finally hanging up his cape. what a way to head into the sunset. >> it's been an honor to be part of the relays. >> but for the teammates the honor was all their's. >> and it is really a dream come true. nothli >> the final tally for phelps, 23 golds, 28 total. the world's most decorated olympian saying this is it. but he's not sad about leaving it all on the floor. >> and it's the beginning of a new journey. >> and on this last night of swimming going for more medals and coming up big. the sprinter coming just .02 of

50 free and then in the women 400 individual medley and king and kathleen baker, team u.s.a. and taking gold there and adding up with the relate lay and the first to ever get the olympic gold medals and passing the baton if you will to runners with track center stage. the fastest man making the debut and saturday the first man to win 3 consecutive olympic 100 meter gold medals. bolt coasting across the finish line and he'll race again in the semifinals and most likely the finals sunday night. and from the turf to the surf, team u.s.a. adding to the medal

and coming in in the first second and it is the first since 2008 and said training led to her success. >> i think new england loves sports and i think there's something about being in a yankee that you also love. and it seems like everything about rowing why i'm here and i'm happy to bring a medal home to everyone back home. >> she announced it would be plans to graduate in 2012 and in the meantime to another massachusetts athlete taking home some medals. the parents have become almost as famous as she is and i had a chance to sit down with them to

it's their daughter competing in the arena, but rick and lynn are getting their own work outs as well. >> the best reaction in the business. >> the dedicated parents went viral during the 2012 olympics back inspiring memes and video clips all over again. >> it's involuntary at this point. >> we don't even know we're moving. the video that came out we thought we weren't even doing anything! so it's just kind of funny how >> every tense moment the two caught on their roller coaster of emotion. >> and just kind of go like okay. >> we're okay until the next rotation right now. >> they know that for ally each competition is the culmination of sacrifice. >> it's hard to explain what goes into their work and operation and talking 15 years

do your thing. if you don't do it, you're done. >> just as prominent the red polo, the same shirt he wore in london per her request. >> have you washed the red shirt? >> can't wash the luck off. >> can't wash the luck off. >> it's clearly working the magic with not only a team gold but silver in the individual all around. the competition where she finished 4th in london. >> her winning her own >> it's the exclamation point to her career. it's like the only thing that's ever eluded her and it worked perfectly. >> and ally will compete one last time on tuesday. that will be final. and kayleye harrison who trains in wakefield, she may seem fearless, but there is

we'll tell you what coming up. then we have an answer. we now know what caused the water to turn green in the diving wells in synchronized swimming pool. details coming up but for now back to you in boston. >> thanks, nancy. we'll check in with you again in just a bit. >> more news tonight and strong storms rolling through massachusetts and new england. meteorologist bri eggers is here with the latest. >> nick and amaka, it was wild for awhile. we don't have anything that's severe at this some loud boomers moving through some areas also accompanied by gusting winds and heavy rainfall. this is one of the storms with the gusting wind and still the strongest part of the storms we're tracking earlier today stay nothing southeastern

take the better part of two hours going a little quiet and we can use the rain. now we turn our attention to what happens tomorrow. overnight tonight the temperatures get a boost and also feel temperatures between 100 to 105 and hotter than that at times and more on the extended forecast in a few te breaking news out of south boston. a car crashes into a young woman sending her to the hospital with life?threatening injuries. it ended on day boulevard. the woman was crosing the street on the crosswalk when she was hit by a car. investigators took the driver into custody. but have not said if the driver was distracted at the time. state police are still investigating what happened. >> tonight police in princeton are searching for answers after

vanessa was found dead on sunday and thae say she fought for her life and if anyone noticed a car parked they may not have recognized to please come forward. anyone with information can still call the state police tip line. that number is right here your screen. 508?453?7589. again. 508?7389. >> and the two vessels causing a bit of damage. now more on how this happened. >> and i have a bad feeling about this and got to the u.s. constitution and so we got off. >> a great decision by this mother not making that return

from the smell of the fumes and decided to get off the ship. >> that didn't happen and the coast guard says a mechanical failure did. charting regency on the collision course. drifting into two other cruise ships. rookie and aurora, sending smoke billowing into the sky and damaging a smaller boat. the codzilla in the process. >> i'm happy i wasn't there and didn't have to deal with that. >> reporter: did. the coast guard says regency, along with rookie and aurora, all had people on board when the crash happened at around 10:30 side morning. some other damage above the water line. codzilla will need to repair its engine before it's back in service. the news of what happened here had this mother come to one very simple realization. >> i thought i'm going to listen to my son more. >> in all 3 ships will need to

night team. >> we are just getting started on the late edition of 7 news. >> coming up, caught on camera, that's big papi. the photo shopping the group of unsuspecting fans. they talk to us about the wild

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fans strike a pose when all of a sudden the red sox favorite david ortiz photobombs them. >> we turned around and these are no ordinary fans making this simple snapshot. and they're patients of dana farver. they took them to the sox game as part of the weekend on the town and in this moment when big papi walks by, takes off his hat and sneaks into their photo, it made all the the chemo and radiation go away. >> and it is a good thing out of a not so great situation. >> and it puts a smile on your face. >> proving what so many of us have known. that champ is a good sport.

things with people that i love. >> and this is really a highlight for all of them. live from fenway park, kimberly bookman, 7 news night team. >> nothing severe at this point >> nothing severe at this point and how long they'll when people ask me w ll them, "you already know." the medals you've earned are all around you. your bronze. your silver. your gold. and liberty mutual insures them all. liberty mutual is proud to insure every team usa medal won in rio, just like we protect the medals you've earned in life. liberty stands with you.

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>> a wild evening with severe weather ripping through the area. not severe for our area but still some areas heavy rainfall and light, steady rain through the miramac valley and seacoast of new hampshire and the city of boston. one of the storms trying to hold together sprouted here in the greater worcester area and tracking to the northeast and

north shore and still some embedded downpours in southeastern massachusetts and south coast with a lot of lightning. if you wonder when it is going to calm down and become more quiet and sleep tonight, it will be an hour before we slide that loud activity out of here. it's south of gardener through 12:30 a.m. and i know that's only 15 minutes away but there we lost issues and storm reports with flooding tonight and even a foot of water up near the fitch burg area and that can cause problems for tonight and maybe even early tomorrow morning and please pay attention. it's impressive near new hampshire and close to 5 inches in some spots and close to 4 inchs in localized areas here and beneficial area not great with the severe weather. current temperatures 69 for

cool as it gets all night long with 70 to 76 and then it is well into 90s and get the real feel of the simples into the triple digits so that heat advisory there until 7 p.m. and strong and could be severe. so again another weather aware day and another hot one on monday and more seasonal by midweek. >> everyone was worried about the pollution in rio's water ways. >> and no one thought there could be a problem and it would

now an update with what the divers are up against. >> not too many people are happy with having to do this but the explanation of what we have been it seems the water tanks ran out of some of the chemicals necessary for the water treatment process. as a result the ph level was outside the usual range. they say there was no risk to usl to drain one of the affected pools and transfer nearly a million gallons of clear water from a nearby practice pool in time for the start of synchronized swimming. the adjacent smaller pool will continue to be used for the diving competition though does remain murky. from green to gold it's the only color one has seen and the 2?time olympic judo champion. she may be fearless when it comes to competition.

we left for rio she confesed, out of all things, she just hates aliens. something silver medallist travis steemstevens who trains at the same gym takes full advantage of. >> i don't like aliens because i have a fire of the unknown. that's a normal thing for people to fear and he thinks it's funny to send me pictures of aliens at random times of the day and night to wake up to them and it's not nice. it >> and i just love her. she has a great spirit and not planning a trip any time soon. >> aliens? >> that's interesting! >> it's an odd one. nancy, you're doing a great job out there. we're covering a lot of olympics today and trey is coming up next in sports. >> if anything how about you talk about aliens? got to be thinking about michael phelps and what he's

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late innings. boston breathing new life with the playoff hopes after letting a pair of games slip away in the bull pen and that same scenario nearly played out again tonight. and that is collecting july and the player of the month award and lighting the fire and barely gets out of the yard in the right and going in the later inning and still hitting 9th and bags double off wall and brings it in and puts the sox ahead with the rbi single and the rock star with the big fly to right and out over the bull pen and flat out no doubt and it is now 6?3 and matt barnes will walk the backyard and brad with the

sweep tomorrow afternoon. and still in command and china second and there great britain holding down the third spot with 30 total medals and the revolution getting waxed and falling 4 ni [ hip hop beat throughout ] [ fans cheering ] ? olympics 2016, let me get you on my level. ? ? so you never miss a moment, ? ? miss a minute, miss a medal. ? stling. track and field to basketball. ? ? fencing to cycling. diving to balance beam. ? ? all you have to say is, ? ? ?show me,? and boom it's on the screen. ? ? from the bottom of the mat, ? ? to the couch where you at? ? ? "show me the latest medal count?" ? ? dang they even got that! ? welcome to it all.

>> it's been an amazing night of olympics coverage with phelps and bolt! >> team u.s.a. all the way! >> that's 7 news. i'm amaka ubaka. >> i'm nick evans. the ryan seacrest here on copacabana beach. we are live. these are the three things you need to know. rio, day eight. at olympic stadium, the first pr tonight in the highly anticipated women's 100 meter. >> it was no contest. elaine thompson of jamaica put away the fielderly and often. >> in the men's 10,000 meters, mo farah won in dramatic fashion. >> oh, no. it's farah that went down. >> coming back from an early fall to defend his olympic title. >> to the roar of the crowd,