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the vincity after warm front. so you have the green colors here. there is boylston. there is 110. lear is 62. that snakes through berle lynn as well as hudson. warm colors. there the green colors, great coloring up against the warm rote royt acing part. sometimes the severe thunderstorms go on to produce a tornado so. this is something we are monitoring for you. we don't have reports of a tornado. we don't even have a tornado warning but a severe thunderstorm warning for as well as west central middlesex. other showers, downpours and thunderstorms tied to the warm front. here is another storm up here in leominster that is trying to show a bit of a hook or a bend. there is no warning for that at this time but we'll watch this four and another area of shower and downpower activity moving in on metro boston. things will wind down late tomorrow and we'll talk more about this in a few. >> jadiann: prisoner of
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ronald sparks fought in the korean war and 65 years after his death he is back hope. >> ryan: thanks to his nephew, john cuoco is live in cambridge with more on this heart-felt ceremony to honor the veteran. >> reporter: this is a day the sparks family never thought they would see. a day where they can say our hero is back. >> it's really moving and it's what america is about. >> reporter: it has been 65 years. >> this story of heroism are. >> reporter: a soldier is reunited with his family. >> today he is home, back here in cambridge. >> reporter: corporal ronald sparks went missing in action in february 1951 nighing in the korean war. a returning prisoner report that had he died being held captive in a prisoner of war there. >> it's a forgotten war. >> reporter: it became his
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happened. >> 11 years after my dad asking me to find him we found him. >> his boyd was interred in hawaii for quite a while until they determined through dna testing and they positively identified him. >> reporter: his remains were brought back to massachusetts on tuesday. landing at logan airport. escorted true his home town of came came where he grew up on river street. >> it's 100% match. arlington. in front of a crowd grateful for his sacrifice. his casket lifted in a funeral home once again with his family. >> respect for the soldier and his family, his service to america and the world. >> reporter: corporal sparks is a bronze star and purple heart resippen. there will be a wake for him on thursday in arlington. live in cambridge, john cuoco 7 news. >> jadiann: a teen shot three times in south boston
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police say the 15-year-old was sitting in a car on gavin way last night when someone opened fire. the driver of the car immediately took him to the hospital. detentives are looking for the shooter and asking anyone with information to please contact them. a swimmer's body is pulled from the water in os ver til. officials say two young children told someone a joshua pond their father had went in the water and didn't come back. a dive team found the man de later. no life guard on duty when the man went swimming. >> ryan: donald trump campaigning in milwaukee where vase a hot button issue. meanwhile hillary clinton continues to fight for the key battle ground state of pennsylvania. kim khazei here with a close look. >> reporter: ryan, clinton's i. mail scandal is getting new attention as republicans gain access to documents they've been waiting years to see and clinton didn't testify to congress what she told the
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ground on trump in key demographics. hillary clinton going to philadelphia to whip up turnout. >> we're going after of the corporations. we're going after wall street so they pay their fair share. [applause] >> reporter: clinton's support is question, african americans, latino, women, city and suburban people rejecting the republican nominee. >> donald trump is doing well in rural america but hillary clinton is cleaning his clock in u suburban america. >> reporter: but her e-mail controversy is revived. the f.b.i. agreeing to turn over documents to house republicans who claim clinton lied to congress. only 19% of republicans say trump is honest and trust both. 12% of democrats say clinton is. on temperament clinton gets 39%, trump 19% from republicans including many of the educated women he
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supporting hillary clinton now. not donald trump. is that a group that he ought to have that mitt romney did well with and that donald trump is not doing well with. >> reporter: trump heading to mach toe support police just days after violence followed a black officer killing a reportedly armed black suspects. turn on fox today. >> law and order. we have to obey the laws. >> reporter: if trump only reaches out to the white working class voters it's a formula dot doesn't appear to be concerned about the poll numbers saying the large number of people at his reals show he is doing well and being heard. kim khazei, 7 news. >> ryan: russia say it is launched air strikes on syria from iran. this marks a sign of military cooperation. russia says the targets were isis training caverns. russia's defense minimums city says a significant
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presumed death. a knife attack on a train in austria leaves a couple of people hurt. police have the attackner custody and say he is mentally confused. >> jadiann: the son of el chapo may have been one of the men abducted in mexico. offices say six or seven men all believed to be affiliated with the drug cartel run by el chapo were grabbed as they ate at ts guzman el chapo's son was among the men although it has yet tock officially confirmed. el chapo is still awaiting extradition to the u.s. pending an appeal. he has been in prison in mexico city since his most recent capture last january. >> ryan: wild weather record setting rain causing widespread flooding in parts of northern indiana. one of the hardest hit areas
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>> this is not a normal weather event. and we can expect more rain today, even when it's not raining we're going to see some areas with further flooding as certain bodies of water, tributaries and creeks overflow. >> ryan: it appears the water is receding but officials are urging people to asniffed void nonessential travel. >> jadiann: a california man is acc raged wild fire that destroyed more than 170 buildings in the northern part of the state. conditions in the area are still very tough. thousands are evacuating as the dom know effect of the fire continues to ravage homes. so the man damon pashel was arrest and charged with 17 counts of arson. the 40-year-old was connected to other fires over the past year. as for the current wildfire tearing throughout areas it has spread more than 4,000
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contained as of lat night. >> ryan: a scary scene after an underground transformer catches fire. the flames were dangerously close to several businesses in the area. the fire left about 10 people without power. no one was injure and the cause of the blaze is under investigation. take a look as the last tower of the iconic rivera hotel comes tumbling the down. it was imploded early this morning. today's demolition makes way of 2015 after 60 years hosting liberace to dean markedin. it was also a backdrop to several movies. >> jadiann: also here horror at a florida home. a couple killed in a vicious attack. a neighbor tries to jump in and help but things took a terrifying turn. byron barnett has more. >> reporter: in this case we can't establish a motive. it's just -- i don't know. >> reporter: martin county
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obvious explanation why 19-year-old florida state student austin harb use -- harrouff they been bite one of the victim's faces. >> it was obvious there was an enormous amount of violence inside that garage and both victims sustained massive trauma on multiple portions of their body. >> reporter: the sheriff says halfor had dinner with his family at this sports bar and left upset. he then went tohe michele and john stevens and attacked them in their garage. a neighbor who tried to stop the attack was also injured. >> he was trying to break the fight up and the guy turned on him and thank god jeff had enough sense to get back in the house. >> reporter: when they arrived harrouff was on top of john stevens biting parts of his face off. it took multiple people to pull him off. stevens died on the driveway.
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selected the stevens' home randomly. three years ago a similar attack occurred in mime i when police say rudy eugene started biting ron papo's face before being shot and killed by police. poppa badly injured but survived. >> he ripped me to ribbons. he chewed at my face. he plopped out my eyes. >> reporter: month attack left two people attend the suspect in custody. early drug they will do more testing on the suspect's blood work to see if he was indeed under the influence. reporting from tequesta, florida, 7 news. >> ryan: the case involves a man from texas. he travelled to south florida. for local mosquitoes have infected about 30 people. a blood test confirmed he had been infected with the zika. the man is no longer
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including this, racing in rio, how one dad is inspiring his son to bring home the gold. >> ryan: final farewell, hundreds say good-bye to a jogger murdererred in princeton. >> a salem woman outraged. why she is demanding more be done about a dog left inside after hot car. after hot car. all com after hot car. all com ? ? ? award winning interface. award winning design. award winning engine. the volvo xc90. the most awarded suv of the century. shaws and star market have everything you need, every day! the freshest food and low shaws and star market prices. and now save even more during our
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>> ryan: in the olympic zoning a runner following in his father's footsteps. he shares his passion for running with his dad. he is taking his talent another step. >> he has his eye on the finish line. nancy chen has more object how he is going forked gold. >> reporter: you can s the family motto is like father like son but he has the ink to prove it. >> for the 4th time matt has run the 5,000 meters -- >> breaks the american record. >> reporter. >> i used to look through his running logs. enjoyed riding some of his training and one thing i look back at at my father was this is toughness. >> listen to the crowd.
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t.l.c. i wasn't getting it from him. >> i think it has been a while since i ran on this track. >> still don't pump the arms. >> well, form isn't everything. >> when he started running his father applied the same tough standards that had worked for him. when he laid out a game plan for his run to run a 4:10 mile. >> i call him up and i remember, i yelled at so much in my life. he was tough about that and the next might we had a plan of running 4:0 so so i got to say it was the right kick in the ass i needed. >> 47, 47, 45, 414, 1. >> you will be fine. great look. >> when he gets offtrack i'm going to let him know he is offtrack. that is not being hard on him. >> there you go. come on, son. come on, don't ease up. there you go.
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his mark in more ways than one. >> i felt i took a wrung turn as parent where a hallmark card would have been parent. >> he had to get a tattoo to express our relationship. >> love you. every time i see him lift your shirt up. he goes your son love you like that. >> matthew tried to get his dad to make a feel if he wins in rio his dad would get a tattoo that says like in rio nancy chen 7 news. >> nancy is following all the action. specific suiting up to try out fencing. that is coming up at 6:00. >> jadiann: i love those outfits. just tin timberlake, wedding crasher. >> reporter: showers and thunderstorms, that severe thunderstorm warning in worcester county as well as middlesex county. we will track it next. >> ryan: more water
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just tested positive for lead. >> jadiann: alarming assault. a sharon woman attacks a train conductor, all that
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>> jadiann: justin timberlake crashing a wedding in new hampshire. he took sometime to congratulate the bride and groom then take this picture with them over the weekend. the bride j.t.strolling through the resort then asked if he would pose for a photograph. so timberlake didn't stay long because he had another wedding to get to. this was one he was invited -- >> ryan: i'm sure the groom had a list of songs, as long as you are here, he is off. >> jadiann: i got the picture, so we've weather we need to being look at right now. >> ryan: been track the storm. what is the latest right
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warning still in effect. a little corner of the polygan here. that would be bolton, portions of stowe, primary north of 117 in stowe clipping maynard al you get out to maynard and east of there it's technically not in the warned at or about. the weather cervi may or may not extend this. greatest concern with the showers and storms moving through. some brief heavy rain. the possibili lightning so there you go. that is stowe and maynard. there is acton and south of littleton, north of harvard moving northeast at about 25-30 miles an hour. farther northwest out to shirley as well as leominster, this is a portion of the storm that is not technically severe. it's not in the polygan but that is displaying severe characteristics, don't let your guard down.
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miles an hour. the concern with the storms this afternoon is that some of them have been showing weak rotation. it's not significant rotation because if it were we would be talking about a tornado but just a severe thunderstorm warning but notice the green coloring tucked up against the red coloring so that's a sign the storm might be trying to discipline weak rotation there are some afternoons where you will have a severe thunderstorm warning get upgraded to a tornado warning not to say that is
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activity might fade away. there is another wave of storminess up through albany and north of there. that will move north of us and then finally i think tonight and early tomorrow morning. the greatest concern again the brief heavy rain winds may gust over 40 marriages we've seen some rotation some of the storms. so we have to at least consider it a low risk of an isolated tornado somewhere in southern new england. the storm system peals out of here tomorrow. we'll start with humidity tomorrow morning. but that nice breeze from the nest will force out the mugginess. a great day wince you get hid of the humidity. thursday, friday, into the
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see you at 6:00. >> ryan: a high tech fashion idea could smart tattoos be hitting store shelves. >> adam: very good evening, i'm adal williams. >> kim: i'm kim khazei. a real life salem witch under arrest. why she says she confronted police. >> adam: a community saying its final good good-bye went for a jog. >> kim: a police officer be a arrested for assault on his wife. we'll have those stories and
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west. there is the caboose of the system back to shirley as well as harvard and ayer. there was a concern about an hour and a half ago of a storm coming out of connecticut well these storms showing some signs of rotation we do have a warm front draped across southern new england and when think interact with the thunderstorms sometimes you can get them rotating and you talk about a rotating thunders t minutes. >> adam: on to other breaking, a police officer arrested accuse of attacking his pregnant wife. investigators say this happened sunday night. >> kim: the officer is

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