>> anchor: we begin tonight in the olympic zone. the flame in its final hours. the world waiting for tonight's closing ceremonies from rio. >> nick: one of the final medals awarded today was in men's basketball. a dominant win and a golden performance for team u.s.a. american dominance, a main theme of the games. >> anchor: the u.s.a. winning the final medal count by a huge margin. nancy chen takes a look at the highlights from the final day of competition.

end. but it was an exciting final day of competition here in rio with the americans finishing strong. >> the united states has won the gold. >> reporter: team u.s.a. claiming their third straight gold in all the glory. the americans in total control on the court. serbia didn't stand a chance. >> durant with the bucket! >> reporter: kevin durant on fire. putti u emotional win. >> i have seen the worst. i have seen the best. i stuck with it. we stuck with it. i made it today. three gold medals later. >> reporter: call it a comeback. the u.s. men's volleyball team rallying against russia.

fight. >> she is saying bring it on. time champ. can anyone dethrone me? not in these olympic games. >> reporter: shields never let her opponent get ahead on the scoreboard. f once it was over, the defending olympic champion celebrated with a cartwheel. >> i want it to be known that i'm one of the greatest boxers to ever live. oh, my god. >> repor o shields pulled her london medal out of her pocket and hung it around her neck with her new one. kyle schneider took gold in the men' free stile tournament to. become the youngest olympic wrestling champion in u.s. history. kenya and ethiopia going one-two in the marathon sunday morning. this was just the second time he has run the distance.

gilmore the other day. he fights being a golfer and says he is a hockey player. you know, maybe this is my best event. >> reporter: the beloved runner played it off. dropping and giving the crowd a couple of push-ups before crossing in 33rd place. these games will go down as the best ever on foreign soil for team u.s.a. they topped their previous mark of eight years ago. in rio, nancy chen, 7 news. >> nick: all right. a big night on 7-nbc. the wrap from rio begins at 7:00. a one-hour special looking back at the defining moments of the olympic games. coverage starts at 8:00 of the closing ceremonies. at 10:30, catch a special episode of the voice. then join us for olympic highlights and headlines on 7 news at 11:00. >> anchor: a new england

rio and how he is getting back to business with the patriots. of course, we are talking about nate ebner who played on the rugby team. >> nick:ya. the patriots gave him some time off to compete. joe amorosino is in the newsroom now with more on ebner's transition back to football. >> reporter: any special treatment ebner got is over now. the special teams ace back to the business of football and back to practice. just like the rest of his teammates. ebner not sticking around to take part in the closing ceremony in rio. he is returning to work. he returned last week. trying to get back into football. working on his conditioning off to the side while his patriot teammates had three joint prakties with the bears. ebner called the olympics a cool experienced a says he is happy to be back. to his full-time job. >> you know, what was expected. i'm fully committed to the rugby team. once that, you know, job was

what's on my plate is on my plate. i can't really do anything about it. take it one step at a time. one day at a time. and get back on track with things really. >> reporter: reporting live in the newsroom, joe amorosino, 7 news. >> nick: now to the weather. a live look at downtown boston right now. a really nice day out there today. and another dry weekend. the question now is will this trend continue? bri eggers has a check on thefo coming to an end very quickly for us. showers working into western massachusetts. the clouds will continue to thicken in as we head through the evening hours. all of the showers and storms that we are expecting overnight tonight in response to this cold front that pushes through the area. so it looks like we will look at the timeline here. the wet weather and the action. doesn't get going until after midnight for us. there might be some loud boomers in here around 3:00 to 5:00 in the morning. all of this activity clears

we are in for some pleasant weather behind it. we will talk about expected rain totals and the rest of the forecast for this week to come in just a few minutes. >> anchor: thank you. following more news today. tragedy on the streets of east boston. a party bus hits and kills a woman. a second person was also hit and sent to the hospital. kelli o'hara is live to with details on how this all happened. kelli? >> reporter: nicole, and that is the big question. how did this happen? boston police do con overnight here. just before the airport exit. they do tell us that 911 was called around 2:00 a.m. this morning. with someone calling for help, saying two people had been struck in the roadway. now, one person died immediately. the other one rushed to the hospital. no word as to how or why those victims were in the road or hit. details very unclear. we did reach out to the bus company, though. they did release a statement

to the families and the victims. we are cooperating with boston police and providing officials with anything they need to investigate this tragic accident." our driver was questioned by boston police briefly for protocol before he was released and sent home. the company has not had any accidents and a clean driving record in their nearly two decades of running. still, though, many details are unclear. and again, one of those victims killed here. another one rushed to the hospital fighting for their life this evening. in east boston,li 7 news. >> nick: all right. scary night for some parents in lowell. two pre-school-age children pulled from a pool there. investigators say they were guests at a birthday party at this house on frita lane last night. two nurses heard calls for help and ran over. they were able to revive little girl. but the little boy was still unresponsive when medics showed up. both kids were flown to boston hospitals in critical condition.

street. investigators responded to reports of gunfire and found the victims with non-life-threatening injuries. they were taken to a nearby hospital. anyone with information should call police. >> anchor: the coast guard making a rescue off the coast of martha's vineyard this morning. a boat began taking on watt we are six people onboard just before 9:00 this morning. the coast guard jumped into action, sending out a boat and a helicopter to the rescue. they were able to pump the water out of the boat and then tow thatt fortunately, nobody was hurt. authorities say the flooding was caused by a crack in the hull. >> nick: all right. still much more to come on 7 news at 6:00. >> anchor: a new controversy for the clinton campaign. it involves candidates' charity work. details on that, plus a big statement from the republicans today. >> nick: more help for those impacted by the devastating floods in louisiana. details on what is being done

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>> nick: now to the race for the white house. the head of the republican party saying this was donald trump's best week ever. the democrats, as you might imagine, strongly disagree with that. both sides continuing to take jabs forecast at each other. the clinton campaign saying nothing about trump has changed. >> anchor: this, as they fight off another controversy. jennifer johnson has t >> reporter: after a presidential-like visit to flood-ravaged louisiana and expressions of regret for hurtful comments, donald trump's now third campaign manager says this was his best week ever. >> he is out there talking about law enforcement. he is talking about defeating radical islamic terrorism. middle-class tax relief. >> reporter: trump is now reaching out to hispanics. hosting a roundtable with leaders saturday and african-americans. >> 58% of your youth is

what the hell do you have to lose? >> reporter: the republican national committee chair predicts trump and hillary clinton will be even in the polls by labor day. >> if someone who is not politically correct, who at times, has said some harsh things, even he admitted versus someone who lies with incredible skill and grace. >> reporter: polls show clinton still ahead by nine points. her campaign fights off another controversy. now saying if elected, the clinton foundation will stop taking donations from foreign governments as it did while she was secretary of state. >> nobody wants to get ahead of themselves. but we are glad to hear that they have once again, taken an unprecedented step in terms of transparency and rules. >> what i say is what i say. >> reporter: clinton's latest on-line ad scoffs at the notion that trump regrets any of his comments. nbc news, washington. >> nick: president obama now planning a visit to louisiana

tuesday where 13 people have died. and tens of thousands are without homes. today president obama signed a disaster declaration ordering federal aid. so far, more than 16 million have been approved for emergency assistance. >> anchor: and coming up, even dogs need to find a way to beat the heat. we will tell you what this is all about. >> reporter: showers, downpours and even rumbles of

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>> nick: well, the dog days of summer might be over. but these pups are still enjoying some summer fun. the second annual puppy swim was held at the ymca in reading today. dogs and their owners got to enjoy the pool one last time before it closes for the season. and before the show, when i

my dogs love water. i didn't know they did this. >> anchor: see? my dogs don't like water. you have to get frank and beans into this. they could have been chilling on the side of the pool like that one dog hanging out. be friends. >> nick: i think that was indoors, too. a nice day to be outside, bri. a beautiful weekend. >> bri: for sure. more dry weather. we know it's been a fairly dry month in august so far. less than an inch of rainfall for boston. we are well below average. just for the month. but it also could turn out to be the driest summer that we have had. on the history books. extreme drought conditions. i know you are probably tired of seeing this map here. this wraps around the city of boston. up through the merrimack valley. i mentioned sitting at number one, we wrnt wrapped up meteorological summer. we are still from that number two ranking there. however, we have some rain moving in for us. you can see that entering into western massachusetts. it is in response to this cold front here.

lift, even into the overnight hours to. bring us heavy downpours in some areas as well as rumbles of thunder. i have used the analogy before, when off wet sponge, if you can squeeze it, you can squeeze out a lot of water. we have moisture in place right now. and with this extra bit of lift, we could get a good amount of rain. out of some of these storms and downpours that set up. once again, we know very picky and choosy where they do end up dropping a whole bunch of rain and then next-door, you get hardly anything. how much rain is on the way. maybe half an inch widespread. quart of an inch down along the south coast. bum we also have the potential to see more than an inch. up to an inch and a half in some of those areas that capitalize on the bull's eyes. again, it is hard to pinpoint exactly where those end up. we will be watching for it into the overnight hours. current temperatures, very comfortable. even cool. 72 in boston right now. 80, bedford, down to norwood.

slowly creeping up throughout the day. it is humid out there. i mentioned that primed atmosphere with moisture. we can capitalize on that with our front overnight tonight. i love playing this game. behind the front. you can see where the dry air is back behind that front. that is what's going to enter as we move into tomorrow. while we are up here, tomorrow, we are back into the comfortable range and even dry, making it into tuesday. so conditions will improve with the humidity and the temperatures are nice for thene tonight showers and storms might get woken up by a rumble of thunder. a couple of these storms could prove to be strong. into tomorrow, the showers are out of here by 8:00 a.m. taking the cloud cover with it. a bit of a breeze if you are headed to the beach tomorrow. we get the sunshine back. we get to keep it around for the better part of next week. here is a look at my forecast. temperatures staying in the 80's. we get a boost in temperatures.

>> reporter: tom brady enjoying a long weekend. excused from practice today and tomorrow. apparently, not related to his thumb injury which is good news for the patriots. there is also bad news. dion lewis, the electric running back, will have a second surgery on his left knee after tearing his acl back on november 8. he took part in the final spring practice on june 13 without a knee brace. but he has been on the physically unable to perform list to start training camp. tom curran procedure does not involve the acl or other ligaments. the recovery timetable is expected to be eight to ten weeks. which means jimmy garoppolo will be down a weapon to start the season. the news on the offensive line not encouraging either with right tackle volmer likely headed to injured-reserve. he had shoulder surgery during the off-season. multiple reports indicate that it is a hip issue that could lead to him being placed on

missed thursday's sgam out with a broken hand. >> it's yael hard. you know, again, i haven't had to deal with anything like this in a long time. so just trying to work as hard as i can. the only thing i know how to do. try to work hard to get back. >> reporter: nate ebner back from rio. back to reality. the special teams ace joining the patriots on the practice field. as me makes the transition from rugby back to football. trey daerr has more on ebner. >> reporter: the closing ceremony going down on sunday. one guy who will not be there.

faith in nate ebner. of course, he had the support of his team to go out and rugby to play for team u.s.a. it is an experience he says he will never forget. >> just from the amount of support that my teammates showed me. texting me and calling me and seeing how things are going. you know, even the coaches. like i said, i mean, the support they showed me through the whole thing, not just the olympics but all the other tours and asking me how things are going in the olympic camp. i can't say enough about these guys here. it meant the world to me to have that support. being in the olympic village, seeing the athletes. people you have seen, playing the sports to. bring it together like that, it was a cool experience. >> reporter: when roy wednesday not exactly set up for success today. the young lefty called up on

rodriguez decided last night just before 6:00 p.m. that he wasn't ready to test his injured hamstring today o. wednesday who was scratched from his start from the pawsox in scranton, pennsylvania last night, landed in detroit at 9:00 a.m. today. and was on the mound shortly after 1:00 p.m. rodriguez with a front-row seat for what came next. we go to the bottom of the third. the sox intentionally walk miguel cabrera to load the bases for j.d. martinez who happens to be hitting 455 in his last 11 games. martinez makes themay ripping a double down the right field line. two runs score. the tigers had the 2-0 lead. next up, justin upton. he smashes a three-run shot to left. the tigers break this game open. putting up a five spot in the third inning. it gets worse in the fifth inning. upton's next at-bat, another three-rub home run to left. two swings. six r.b.i.'s. an 8-0 detroit lead all charged to owen who lasted

the tigers win it 10-5, anger split in the four-game series. stephen wright will miss a third straight start. unable to come off the dajd list to pitch against the rays on tuesday. clay buchholz will once again start in his place. while pinch-running on august 7 against dodgers. he is battling bursitis in that shoulder. team u.s.a. dominating the world. 121 total medals. china finishes second with 70. great britain third with 67. as you saw, the u.s. men's basketball team wins a third straight gold medal. rolling past serbia. 96-66. they saved their best performance in the olympics for last.

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