>> sarah: breaking news from concord. officials confirming th t through early this morning was, in fact, a tornado. the winds as strong as 100 miles per hour. welcome to 7 news at noon, everybody. >> anchor: people are still trying to clean up. many residents there without power. our team 7 coverage begins with dan hausle live in concord. dan? >> reporter: well, the clean-is up going to continue throughout the day. behind me, some of the

as far as tornadoes go, this one was the real deal. a tornado warning went out about 3:00 this morning. within the next 15 minutes, an ef-1 tumped down here in concord. they say it hit the ground near the cambridge turnpike. then stayed on the ground for about a half a mile. cutting a path of destruction. about four football fields wide. they said about 39 houses were damad one of them suffering some serious structural damage. they say it was kind of lucky here. a lot of the trees fell between the houses, rather than on the houses. but a thousand houses out here were left without power when a trigger within the concord power system tripped those houses off. they say many of those houses do have power restored right now. roads remain blocked. lexington road is one of the biggest roads. remains blocked and likely will for most of the day.

the area continue to be blocked by the debris. the warning came on people's cell phones in the affected area. the mass emergency management association, they say that the system worked. this warning went off at 3:00 in the morning. some of the people reported getting in the path of the tornado. they say they woke up to 20 seconds of their cell phones wailing. a warning that they may not even know was on their phones. they got the tornado warning. one of the people talked about feeling the pressure. and getting into his basement. he says that alarm, likely, saved him from further danger. the fire chief, was among those talking just moments ago. let's hear what he has to say about what people ought to know and what people ought to do in the near future. >> we will be broadening our attention as we. can right now, the project

and make the situation safe. we have trees that are broken and dangling. we have to work on that. the message is clearly, if you don't need to go outs to your neighborhood, don't do it. clearly. the electricity has been shut to the affected areas. in the 400, 500 blof and those other two streets. there is not an electricals if hazard out here right now. there is a lot of crews working around. and we will be here for the long haul. >> reporter: the surveying of the damage convinced officials that what we had here was a tornado. 3:00 in the morning, you are not going to see any pictures of what came through. however, the national weather service with help from the fire department, was able to

he said, clearly, the damage was in a certain direction. he saw a lot of damage in the opposite direction. an indication of a tornado. he says, also up in the trees, you could see twisted damage. indications of tornadic activity which showed him this wasn't straight winds. this was an ef-1 tornado with winds of up to 100 miles an hour. dan hausle, 7 news. >> sarah: a look at the damage left behind by the storm. a huge tree torn from the ground. falling on top of some powerli house. crews are working to try to deal with all the damage. our team 7 coverage continues now with jonathan hall. >> reporter: this ef-1 moved right into concord and did a whole bunch of damage in a short amount of time. the path of destruction toppling down trees, ripping up power lines. sky 7 has the scene over concord. you can get a better idea of how severe the damage is in this neighborhood. you can see massive trees ripped from the ground. roots and all. the national weather service

to 100 miles an hour. as dan hausle reported. those winds caused heavy damage and will be up to the insurance adjusters now to add it all up. no doubt, in the millions. several neighborhoods still in the dark at this hour. power crews got right to work this morning, trying to clear the utility lines. firefighters say nobody was injured, but the tornado hit overnight while many people were sound asleep. they didn't know what hit them. those who were awakened described the wild scene. >> i heard, like, lightning and crashing. i ran to the other side of the house. through the back. it had, like, broken down the porch. and all the trees were sort of falling. >> reporter: you heard the fire chief say they are in it for the long haul. crews working in concord say it is going to be a long, long day of clean-up. i'm jonathan hall, 7 news. >> anchor: well, those storms moved in fast overnight. waking many people up in the middle of the night. >> sarah: we will look at how

>> kris: you had winds of 100 miles an hour. ef-1. the path itself, 400 yards wide. at its thickist there. the length, a half mile long. considerable tree damage. a lot of those trees falling on top of the houses. you take a closer view of what went on earlier this morning. you back up the radar here just before 3:00. and this wall of water. we had a huge line of tropical moisture working in with some showers and storms. there was one cell on the back edge of that. that start showing the rotation west of marlborough before 3:00 in the morning. that is the storm that produced the tornado into concord. you can see that cell. this is just before 3:00. 2:52 in the morning. started showing that indication of rotation. where you see this brighter red matching up with the brighter green here. in fact, it was enough of a concern that the national weather service issued a tornado warning right up to 3:00. 3:01 in that neighborhood. that storm started to work off

you see a little hook toward sudbury and up into maynard. that is the portion of the thunderstorm that wound up going over to concord here. as this encountered concord, about 3:17, it began to produce enough rotation to put down a tornado. in fact, the national weather service estimates it was around 3:20 in the morning where this tornado dropped down briefly. it did enough damage out there with those winds estimated up to 100 miles an hour. this is the velocity scan at 3:17. bright reds showing up. right around up with the greens. there was a tightening there that was good enough to give you the rotation that pushed down to the ground as well. the most significant damage right across independence road in that neighborhood. this is lexington road right here. this is cambridge turnpike. you can basically see this is just to the east of the main center of concord here. that is where you had the most significant damage occur from this tornado. in new england, we get tornadoes occasionally. the big one a couple of years

we did have a couple of tornadoes last year as well. june 23, 2015. a brief ef-0 in westminster. a brief ef-0 in wrentham as well. now, when we get these reports of tornadoes, the national weather service does survey the damage. for more on how that works, over to danielle. >> danielle: thanks, kris. talk all morning was, was this a microburst or tornado? when we have mike b same direction. what happens, off very cooled area of air. as it comes crashing down and hits the ground, forecast it kind of fans out. that is why you will notice this is what the damage looks like with the microburst. the damage kind of expanding as it hits the ground. all of the trees falling mainly in the same direction. that is an indication of those straight-line winds. with the tornado, it is a different story. as you were hearing dan hausle, everyone talked about the damage with this tornado, this

that indicates the rotation. that is characteristic of a tornado. we did, indeed, have a tornado this morning. an ef-1. so we have the ef-scale. what is an ef-1 tornado? that is characteristic of having winds 86 up to 110 miles per hour. moderate damage with that. so we had winds up to 100 miles per hour this morning. it was even on the stronger side of an ef-1. now, as you know, we have assessed what this is. now the clean-up continues. for more on that, back to you guys. >> anchor: okay. concord not the only town dealing with the early-morning storms. crews spending much of the morning trying to clean up in marlborough where they also experienced some damage there. kris anderson joins us now with the very latest. busy day out there, i imagine, kris. now, marlborough didn't see the extent of damage that we saw in concord where that tornado has been confirmed now. it did cause some damage. it was that same storm system that went through concord. that came through in marlborough.

the aftermath o'. >> a possible tornado in marlborough. crews cleaning up debris after a round of severe storms ripped across the area early monday morning. >> about 3:00 in the morning. the dog went out of her mind. just heard a noise. a loud bang. like... you know, the house shook. the power blew. >> reporter: that bang was a pine tree that came crashing down, blocking the road for about six hours. >> i didn't know the tree went down. i heard a crash. but i didn't know. >> reporter: that tree could have hit that house. i think wires held it up. i really do. >> experts don't know if it was a tornado that caused the damage. the national weather service is going to look at the affected areas and decide if it was, indeed, a tornado or straight-line winds. >> we have a skylight right

i thought the skylight was going to collapse on me. >> reporter: there were no reported injuries or damage to homes. the falling trees did rip down power lines, leaving thousands of people without electricity. national grid working throughout the morning to repair the downed wires. and had power back on to most residents before 9:00. including neighbors on walker street. who feel lucky that no one was hurt. >> if that is all the damage it did, i guess we were really lucky. >> reporter: they are d again, the national wealth service said it was going to go out and investigate both in concord and here in marlborough to determine if it was, indeed, a tornado that came through. we already know that it was that ef-1 tornado that ripped through concord. it has yet to be determined if that was, indeed, the same problem here in marlborough. we do know it did cause some damage. that is the extent of what we are seeing there in concord.

>> reporter: broobing news out of milton. a man under arrest after state police say he placed a pen camera inside a dcr staff bathroom. police say he is a park ranger. and set up the camera with the intention of videotaping women using the bathroom at the houghton's pond bath house. an emproi ye found the camera and then turned it over to police. >> sarah: more breaking news now at noon. longer pursuing its appeal on the wynn casino. that is because they have resolved many of the community's concerns. this includes the reduced length of the casino's license from 85-50 years. and the use of a ferry which will reduce road traffic. the $2 billion casino is set to open in 2019 and will sit

more breaking news now. the fallout continues today for u.s. swimmer ryan lochte. speedo becoming the first major company to drop its sponsorship of lochte. this, as ryan lochte opens up to matt lauer regarding his rio. the 2-year-old initially said he and his teammates were robbed at gunpoint. but brazilian police say the swimmerers vandalized a gas station bathroom and then their guards confronted them about it moments later. >> that is why i'm taking full responsibility for it. because i overexaggerated that story. and if i never had done that, we wouldn't be in this mess. i'm embarrassed. for myself, my family,

u.s.a. swimming. the whole olympic games. everyone watching. >> sarah: now the ioc and u.s.a. swimming will decide whether the swimmers face fines and/or suspensions. >> anchor: a nun was mugged on sunday afternoon. two women are believed to be involved with a break-in around the same time. >> sarah: we continue to follow breaking news out o a tornado hitting the town overnight. wind speeds reaching up to 100 miles per hour. lots of trees down. power lines down as well. >> kris: quite the wild early morning. we have gone from a tornado to almost complete sunshine and lowering humidity. a taste of fall tonight. we will take a look at the

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>> anchor: a beautiful monday, it turned out to be. a busy morning, though in the weather department, for sure. >> sarah: hard to believe this is the day after the early morning we had, kris, with the tornado warnings. >> kris: it was wild. tropical air mass in place. we had enough of what we call wind shear. basically, to turn these thunderstorms. the few that did form. we had that brief tornado in concord. we also had heavier rain. pounding rain on the roof-top. we had that. rain. worcester, almost an inch of rain. this is up-side of getting the storms this morning. sometimes even picking up over an inch. we had a report out of lunenburg of 1.65. pelham, new hampshire coming in at 1.27. it was beneficial. not going to put a huge dent in the drought. we will take any rain we can get. in the city of boston, that 91 cents, that is enough to give us 3.93 for this summer. if it doesn't rain anymore in the month of august, we will finish off as the dry summer

and it's possible we don't see much rain here, if any, for the rest of the month. in some towns. there will be some isolated storms on friday. few and far between. they are hit or miss. some towns will get away with nothing on. that otherwise, the pattern looks awfully dry. even heading into this weekend. scattered clouds to mix in with the blue sky. otherwise, a very enjoyable air mass in place. there is the front that triggered off all that severe weather and heavy rains we saw overnight. in the wake of the front, still rather mild. we are in the low 80's in new bedford. 79 in plymouth. 77 in boston. 70 in worcester. biggest change we see, the active wind and the lowering of the humidity. right now that wind direction out of the west, northwest sustained 15-20 miles an hour. occasionally gusting higher than. that it is that direction of the west to northwest where the weather is coming from that's really giving us that

winds subsiding tonight and into tomorrow and wednesday. some nice sunny days. very low humidity. although it starts to warm up a bit by wednesday. certainly, we will see some warmer times thursday into friday. this front on my left shoulder here, that will work in on friday at some point. a lot of the moisture dries up. we are limiting what we have to work with. temperatures this afternoon, close to seasonal levels. it is tonight. i think you will notice the biggest difference. you leave the windows open. they... it may feel chilly inside the house in the morning. widespread upper 40's and lower 50's throughout many of is suburbs.

with the northwesterly winds. initially, a little active this evening. then sub cying overnight tonight. there is the 7 on 7 forecast. how to use a lot of sunny icons on this. if you are on vacation and you don't mind it, not going to help us out on the drought situation. i don't see much rain. we continue to follow this tornado that hit concord. hit the town overnight. wind speeds reaching up to 100

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>> sarah: breaking news from concord. officials confirming the severe storm that ripped through early this morning was, in fact, a tornado. the winds as strong as 100 miles per hour. welcome back to 7 news, everybody. i'm sarah french. >> anchor: i'm ryan schulteis.

many residents are without power. dan hausle is live with the very latest from concord. >> reporter: well, just hours after that tornado hit, the clean-is up well under way. take a look behind me. this tree is torn up by its roots. that was the case in a lot of places. the ground was so dry. when the winds came through, it knocked down trees. in many cases, into power lines. surprisingly, in many cases, not into hows or people. but this one was the real deal. according to the weather service. fast tornado warning was issued within the next 20 minutes or so, that tornado was on the ground here in concord. the tornado touched down, we are told, near the cambridge turnpike. an ef-1 tornado. a hundred miles an hour or so. cutting a path of destruction 400 yards wide. that is four football fields wide. it stayed on the ground about half a mile. 39 houses were damaged. one house suffering serious

we are told by those who were in there, the trees fell in many different directions. surprisingly, the important distinction was which direction the trees fell and were twisted. because they say with straight winds, all the damage goes into one direction and while a lot of the damage was northeast, out of the northeast, as well, a lot of the damage was coming the other direction. an indication of circular tornadic activity. also destruction in the trees. there was twitioning in the trees. this convinced them this was a tornado. because of that, the warning went off. the signs of a tornado coming. and people's cell phones in their houses went off at 3:00 in the morning with 20 seconds of a loud noise. one resident describing that woke him up. he heard the winds outside. the pressure outside. he took his family down inside the house. and he was thankful for that warning. within the hour, we heard from

fire chief who talked about what's being done now and what people need to know. >> we will be broadening our attention as we can. but right now, the project before us is to open up roads, get the electricity restored. and make the situation safe. there is a lot of areas where, you know, 20 feet up, we have trees that are broken and dangling. the message is clearly, if you don't need to go out into your neighborhood, don't do it. clearly. the electricity has been shut to the affected areas. the 4u7b block and 500 block of lexington. and those other two streets. there is a lot of crews working around. we will be doing... we will be

the snapped tree limbs and the power lines you see here. also, this road blocked by some emergency crews. a thousand people lost their power at one point when the storm came through. that was because there was a switch inside the system that turned off those homes on the concord light. many of those homes have had power restored. some remain without power at this hour. from an ef-1 tornado coming through here 100-mile-per-hour winds. causing damage to 39 homes. we are live in concord, dan hausle, 7 news. >> sarah: a huge tree torn from the ground, falling on top of some power lines right next to this house. crews working to deal with the damage. our coverage continues now with jonathan hall. >> reporter: sar remarks we have been looking through some aerial footage. it is amazing. this ef-1 moving through the area causing a lot of damage

toppling over trees and ripping down power lines. sky 7 over the scene in concord. you can get a better idea of how severe this damage is. near the old battle trail there in concord. massive trees ripped out of ground. roots and all. and there are workers trying to clean it all up. the national weather service confirms those wind speeds of 70-80, 90, even 100 miles an hour. the winds caused heavy damage. now the insurance adjusters will come out in force to add it all up. several still in the dark. power crews got right to work this morning trying to clear everything up. firefighters say nobody hurt. that is the good news. the tornado hit in the overnight hours. many people sound asleep. awakened by all of this. those who did get a rude awakening described the scene. >> i heard, like, lightning and crashing. and i ran to the other side of the house. and through the back. and it had, like, broken down the porch.

chain saws now echoing through the trees. it will be a long, long day of clean-up. jonathan hall, 7 news. >> anchor: thanks, jonathan. the storms moved in fast overnight. waking many people up in the middle of night. >> sarah: chris lambert has a look at how strong they were. kris... as you guys have heard, 100-mile-per-h at its peak. it's a brief tornado. it doesn't have to be on the ground long to create considerable damage. we saw that with a lot of the trees that have been knocked over or sheared apart up into concord. what we were watching this morning was this little hook you could see back into marlborough. you watch the back edge of that line of storms. especially with this cell here. that is the one that produced

across concord. that was 2:52 in the morning. just started to show indications of the rotation back into the marlborough area. you had a severe thunderstorm there. with some wind damage in that area as well. you start to see some lighter greens matching up with these lighter reds. that is quick winds moving in the opposite direction. the wind is basically picked up by radar. it can tell how fast and what direction it is going in. that storm then moved up into sudbury and maynard here. you can see a little bit of a hook. this is:09 in the morning. you fast forward to:17. when the storm was over concord. you match this thunderstorm up with the velocity scan showing us, again, which direction the wind is going as well as how strong it is. you can see a lot of these light reds matched up with some of the lighter greens.

out at about 3:00, 3:01. so there was a good 16-18, 20 minutes of lead time on. that this is where the significant damage occurred. this is close to independence road. north of lexington road. into the north and east of the concord turnpike. out that way. in concord itself. now, we have had tornadoes in new england. this does occasionally occur. we had two last year dating back to 2015 on june 23. a then you go back to the revere tornado. that was an ef-2 a couple of summers ago. that caused considerable damage and a lot of structural damage to some homes and roofs out there. by county since 1950, this is going back in the last 66 years. worcester county has seen 41 tornadoes. middlesex county, this is now the 18th tornado. since 1950. for more on how the national

and what's a microburst, dan sglel >> danielle: they have been out there determining what was this. was it a microburst? was it a tornado? the microbursts are fueled by severe storms. there are some differences. when we have a microburst, we have cold air that comes crashing down. as that air hits the ground, it kind of expands out. the damage from a microburst looks like. this where the damage kind of fans out. most of the winds and the trees a result of straight-line winds. tornadoes are different. we were talking about it. we have been hearing a lot about this morning. this is indicative of rotation. the storm had rotation. trees falling in different directions. and that swirl is a pretty good indicator of a tornado. after it was determined that this was, indeed, a tornado, what scale tornado was it?

ef-1 tornado. moderate damage came along with this. the winds were 100 miles per hour, as we heard. a pretty strong ef-1 as well. now they have determined what caused this. now the clean-up continues. back to you, guys. >> sarah: crews also spending much of the morning trying to clean up in marlborough. where they also experienced damage there. kris anderson has the very latest. >> kris: the aftermath of a possible tornado in crews cleaning up debris after a round of severe storms ripped across the area early monday morning. >> about 3:00 in the morning. the dog went out of her mind. just heard a noise. a loud bang. like, the house shook. the power blew. >> reporter: that was the sound of a pine tree that came crashing down on walker street. blocking the road for about six hours.

i heard a crash. i didn't know. >> reporter: that tree could have hit the house. i think the wires held it up. i really do. >> reporter: experts don't know if it was the tornado that caused the damage. >> we have a skylight right over our bed. i thought the skylight was going to collapse on me. >> reporter: there were no report injuries or damage to homes. power lines leaving thousands without electricity. national grid working throughout the morning to repair the downed wires and had power back on to most residents before 9:00. including neighbors on walker street. they feel lucky that no one was hurt. >> i guess we were really lucky. >> reporter: they are downing their blessings. again, the national weather service said it was going to go out and investigate both in concord and here in marlborough to determine if it was, indeed, a tornado that came through.

that ef-1 tornado that ripped through concord. it has yet to be determined if that was, indeed, the same problem here in marlborough. we do know it did cause some damage. not at the extent of what we are seeing there in concord. >> back to sunshine. we don't see much rain any

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>> sarah: it is hard to believe we had tornado warnings. now we are learning a tornado touched down. >> christa: >> earlier this morning, that front taking advantage of the tropical moisture in place. and once in a while, an environment where you have high dew point levels, tropical moisture, and the lowest couple thousand feet of the atmosphere, the wind changes direction and increases in speed fairly quickly. you can get these brief spin-ups. we saw that in concord earl this morning. the rain coming down in buckets.

the city of boston, picking up just shy of one inch. city of worcester, just over the one inch mark there. shirley coming in at an inch of rain. pelham, new hampshire, an inch and a quarter. danvers, close to an inch. even get down to taunton, just shy of half an inch of rain. this is the welcome news. you don't want severe weather. we could have used the rainfall. we did get some overnight. and this is it. i don't see a whole lot of rain in the forecast going ahead for day after day after day. just an isolated chance of a on friday. that is all i really see. you can see north and west of us, i mean, we have nothing going on. in terms of any promising wet weather. as we change the air mass up, if you change it up quickly, you usually get a gusty wind. behind that front, we have

look at burlington, vermont, 47. also 47 in buffalo. wouldn't it be surprising wouldened be surprised to see dew points in the 40's this afternoon. the winds will lighten up tonight. temperatures can fade fast. it will be a cool evening. a cool overnight. especially in some of the typical cool spots, the suburbs dropping into the upper 40's and lower 50's. quiet weather wednesday into thursday. this front over my left shoulder. that will approach us by friday. again, a lot of this moisture drying up. i don't expect much rain out of the system working on.

time we get into the end of the week. 76 in the worcester hills this afternoon. low 80's in boston. 84 south of the city. breezy and dry with the lowering humidity. here is the touch of fall overnight tonight. you leave the windows open. may, indeed, feel cool inside the house early tomorrow morning. lows falling back to lower and middle 50's in many towns. even boston, coming in at 58-60. warmest days on thursday and friday. >> anchor: thanks. officials in south korea are already hard at work looking ahead to 2018. we will get an update on their

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>> sarah: miranda lambert says a six-year-old boy named sebastian recently proposed to her. as you can see, he even gave her a ring. lambert said yes. but only on the condition that he wait 25 years. she posted these pictures on instagram sunday. lambert is currently dating singer anderson east. johnston iowa will be looking to get another win tonight in the little league world series as the team honors one of their player's mothers. j.t. garcia's mom jen is battling cancer. the team is dedicating its season to her. she was getting interviewed during friday's game. j.t. hit a home run. it is entire memorable moment, as you can see, was caught on camera. >> anchor: that is amazing. good luck to them. i know. great moment out there. kroip 76-84 as we go through the afternoon.

dry day. and a little bit of a taste of fall overnight tonight as that northwesterly wind will slacken overnight. up 40er's. not a typo. some of the cooler suburbs will be up into the upper 40's. 58-60 in boston. clear skies tonight. there is the forecast. didn't have to use the rain-drop much. could be an isolated shower or thunderstorm on friday. that is it over the next 7 days. >> sarah: that will do it for 7 news at noon. thank you so much for joining us. >> anchor: much more coverage on the tornado that ripped through the town of concord. have a great afternoon, everybody. ? do you love me? ? with hood sour cream, you can love every scoop, every delicious bite, and every way hood has brought everyone to the table

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