blinds for life. >> monitoring the risk of severe weather across southern new england this evening. >> anchor: an everett police officer charged with assault. >> anchor: a store owner loses her cool in salem. the allegations that landed this witch in court. >> anchor: aaron hernandez facing a judg defense team. >> anchor: team usa tallying up the hardware. >> anchor: and get ready to dual. a first hand look at the sport of fencing. >> anchor: it's in the olympic zone. >> anchor: first at 7 wild weather. storms and heavy downpours move through the state. this video out of lemencester a while ago. >> anchor: so what can we expect

jeremy reiner standing by with our forecast. >> reporter: the back edge of that rain moving through lemenster. now on the north shore. we don't have watches or warnings in effect. that's a little ribbon of brief heavy rain fall that will jump off over cape ann over the next 25 minutes. but that has been about i think we're relatively quiet between now and say midnight tonight. perhaps ahead of that. this broken line of thunderstorm activity. this will come through around midnight. some of it may fall apart. one last batch. this is cruising east. this if it holds together would show 2, 3, 4 tomorrow morning in terms of anything significant or severe. overnight is usually not a prime

we will detail that and the rest of the forecast for the week in a few minutes. ; following breaking news at 7 o'clock. an everett police officer accused of attacking his pregnant wife. >> anchor: brandon gunnoe live in everett with details. >> reporter: kim, and adam those court documents show pictures of the officers wife with red hand marks around her wife and all over her arms. she's 7 told police the officer tried to kick her in the stomach. the alleged incident happened sunday night at the couple's home in salsbury. the pictures are grainy from court documents. it shows red marcos her arms and neck where he tried to strangle her. she found out that he had women over at the house while she was away and that upset her.

stomach. and he made threats to get his gun out. the wife had cell phone video of her trying to leave the house in the morning in the car. placed her 6 year old son on the hood of the car so she couldn't leave. saying she didn't want to file a restraining order. just for police to kick him out of the house for the night. that's not how this works went to the home and arrested the everett officer. now here today in newburyport district court. he is held without bail. everett pd hassiet to make a comment. >> now on 7. >> murphy at 21 years old will take the bronze medal. >> team usa wracking up medals in rio. >> that is laurie hernandez wow. >> in a chase for gold.

he will cross the finish line first. >> anchor: looking live at that olympic caldron burning brightly in the brazilian city of rio de janeiro. night 12 of summer games. team usa having a huge day on the track. >> anchor: tonight in prime time raiseman go for gold in gymnastics. here's our sports director joe amorosino in the olympic zone with the night cap. >> reporter: the top 2 spots on the podium. tailor and clay competed in the final. teammates at the university of florida. tailor defended his gold medal from london. and clay who won the bronze in 2012 stepped up and earned silver. that might not have been the best part of clay's day. he ran into the stands with his

proposed to his girlfriend fellow track star queen harrison. she said yes. topsfields abbey was running in the heat for the women's 5,000 meters when nicky ham lin fell. agsteino stopped to make sure she was okay. then when she tried to keep running she came up hobbling. both ended up fighting through pain to finish. don't blink or you'll miss him yucain bolt running his 200 meter heat today. looking left and right as he casually crosses the february line in the end. bolt is looking to become the 50 man to win 3 consecutive golds in the 200. american sprinter justin gat lin also qualified today. the semis

a strong performance in the semifinals. mens 3 meter spring board final. the top 12 divers move on and go for gold. hickson scored silver in the spring board with partner sam doreman. chafee finishing 4th. with teammate laura gullary the result landed them in eighth place over all. the daughter island governor lincoln chafee. 3 american olympic legends getting together for next sports illustrated magazine cover. the headline the greatest. ledecky, phelps and biles have proved dominant in their respective sports. biles looks to add to that title. hit the mat for the gymnastics

on the beach walsh jennings and ross take on brazil. win and they're in the gold medal match. chasing goad in the 110 meter hurdles. a jam packed night of action tonight. joe amorosino 7 news. >> anchor: stay with 7 news after this newscast for our olympic zone special at 7:30. getting you ready for prime time in rio each night of these olympic games. nancch summer games. checking in with nancy tonight on 7 news after the game and throughout the olympics. ; also on 7 a final farewell for a jogger killed in princeton. services for 27 year old vanessa marcotte. 7 steve cooper with the latest. >> it's heart breaking completely heart breaking.

family and friends come together by the hundreds to say goodbye to 27 year old vanessa marcotte. the jogger found murdered last week. >> very sad. anybody that has to go through this. sad. >> reporter: with a heavy police presence the 2011 bu grad who was living new york and working for google was remembered for her beauty her generous spirit and loving heart. >> every day of the week that was the hall mark of her life. >> reporter: among those in attendants a bus load of coworkers from google. the pain is deep. as police scramble to catch the man who murdered her this day was about vanessa and the collective outpouring of support. >> god's with her. and everyone else is with her. >> reporter: steve cooper 7

students get ready to head back to school in a few weeks boston public schools are facing alarming amount of led in their water. water fountains in 6 buildings have led levels above federal limits. now all drinking fountains are deactivated. students will have access to bottled water coolers instead. this from superintendent tommy chang saying health and well being of our students are top priority at boston public schools. we are committed to ensure the best possible water quality for improving standards for students and staff. >> anchor: she says she told police about a dog left in a hot car over the weekend. when the officers let the dog's owner off with just a warning she lost her cool. >> reporter: found the dog in a

10 to 20 minutes. so she called police. around the same time the dog's owner came back to the car. once the officers arrived they determined the dog was not in danger. told officers to call animal control or fire fighters to access that situation. if they wouldn't arrest the owner they should arrest her. so they did. >> i asked them c department. they refused to. i asked for water. i did give the dog i tried to. the dog was so distressed he didn't take the water. it was going on 20 minutes now. >> reporter: she was arraigned in court this morning and then released. in the newsroom ryan schulteis 7 news. >> anchor: following more news today a suspect who led police on a wild chase is now in

gardener. gardener and westminster police following a white car until it crashed off route 2. after the crash police say the suspect ran. investigators though used police dogs and a state police helicopter as you saw. on a search and they did find him took some hours. he is in custody. brian levrenny they identified as th outstanding warrants on top of the charges he faces today. >> anchor: tragedy on the water after a hyannis man drowns after swimming with his children. they said their father went in the water and never came up. divers found the man rushed him to cape cod hospital where he was pronounced dead. >> throughout my career here we

of. it's a family area. people walk dogs and swim. >> anchor: the drowning victim was found in an area of the pond with a large drop. >> anchor: former patriot star aaron hernandez back in court ahead of his upcoming double murder trial. it's slated for february 13th of 2017. prosecution says it has 300 potential witnesses in this case. today hernandez former friend alexander bradley to identify hernandez as the trigger man. bradley says he was in hernandez car when the former pats player shot and killed 2 men. over an incident in which hernandez is accused of shooting bradley in the eye. prosecutors say hernandez killed

the defense says even though the prosecution has hundreds of witnesses some of their witnesses have changed. hernandez is serving a life sentence for murder. >> anchor: korean war vet and cambridge native ronald sparks remains have been brought back to his home town. his nephew spent the last 11 years working to bring his home. spark's remains kept at a military lab until he was identified. >> 11 years after my dad asked me to find him, we found him. >> his body was interred in hawaii for a while. >> anchor: sparks remains landed in boston today. a procession took him through cambridge ending at a funeral home in articlington.

thankfully it ended for the family. >> anchor: back home. >> anchor: coming up next talking more olympics including a sword fight. suiting up and squaring off. not us. nancy chen, she is a sport. she's teaching us the art of fencing. >> reporter: we have isolated showers and downpours in the shores. >> anchor: and spreading smiles captain america kris evans making a special stop in boston. that's

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>> anchor: heading back into the olympic zone. nancy chen is suiting up for an olympic dual. and any of these sports so much hard work goes into an olympic performance. >> anchor: the goal is to hit your opponent as many times as poss. look from rio. >> reporter: with fencing i've loved that you get to play with swords and not get in trouble for it. it's been said the pen is mightier of the sword. the author of that line never stepped foot in here. competing in his first olympics. before he headed to rio the sherborn native showed me how to

>> it takes physical and mental dominance in order to win. >> suit me up. >> reporter: first i've got to look the part. >> jackets masks. >> reporter: and of course can't forget my sword. >> you're ready, right? >> reporter: yes. >> boom. >> reporter: that's not very safe. suiting up is electricitifying. literally. each fencer and his or her sword is attached with electric cords to which keeps tracks of successful hits. >> if you hit me your light will go off over there. >> you start with your front foot on green. >> reporter: okay. >> i start on red. >> reporter: okay. >> not allowed to cross your feet going forward. >> reporter: where am i supposed to hit you on the face. >> you can hit me anywhere. try to hit me. >> reporter: [laughing]. >> there you go.

>> fence. >> reporter: it was a hard fought battle for the ages. valor, focus, quickness, and maybe him letting me win in the end. >> look you hit me. >> reporter: i won. and despite coming at each other with swords. fencing is about sportsmanship no matter how sweaty it gets under those layers. >> thank you. >> reporter: thank you very mu one thing i learn side how hot it gets under that gear. thanks to eli for being a great sport and teacher. >> anchor: there was one piece of video where it looked like 2 professionals. >> anchor: no. >> anchor: did you see the one. >> anchor: made nancy look really good. with the power of editing we could have made her an olympic fencer. >> reporter: she took that up fast.

something. >> anchor: that looked hard. >> reporter: it's 200 degrees inside that costume there. showers and storms winding down jumping off cape ann. this was the same clump of thunderstorm activity in worcester county where it was severe. it became a beneficial rain maker. radar right now is quiet and i think that is the case for the next several hours. 2 more chances for thunderstorms in our part of one here as it continues to advance east into the hudson river valley in new york it's weakening it. robust thunderstorm activity through new york and pennsylvania that is with the cool front. by the time it gets to our part of the world around 2, 3, 4 in the morning usually thunderstorms at that time of day have a hard time sustaining themselves. i'll keep the threat of

also storms happening after midnight tonight you lose that volatility in the atmosphere. the greatest concern will be heavy rain possible. may be some wind with the thunderstorms. because we have seen a couple of the storms rotate there's a minimal risk of a tornado across the southern tear of new york and perhaps western new england. from this weather system right here this will scoot across the u.s. canadian border whip this cool front through new england late tonight and tomorrow morning eventually getting rid of the humidity. muggy evening across southern new england. temps near 80 degrees. overnight tonight an evening storm possible. but not likely. locally strong. temps between 70 and 75. morning clouds, morning humidity. that breeze that you see there that moves the humidity out of

that's a dry heat. temps on thursday and into the weekend middle and upper 80s. enjoy the games tonight. >> anchor: all right. you too. thank you jr. >> anchor: kris evans giving

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