narrative we have received today. in particular there's one incifsz or concern that we had that came up during a few times during this meeting to which attorney sullivan's remarks are relevant when he talked about their concern about rahim being the subject of an illegal attempted arrest and that is that we were told a few times both the officers wanted merely to question rahim and yet they also wanted to -- or under orders to prevent him those two statements are not entirely consistent in our view or at least el raise questions. if rahim were to answer questions after being approached for questioning, what then would follow in terms of the officer's intent to prevent him from getting on the bus. is that not the attempt to restrain his liberty which is the definition of an arrest. we would really encourage folks particularly in a situation where there are terrorism-related allegations

our constitutional protections and due process requirements for all people and interactions with law enforcement. thank you. >> we will answer just a few questions. the rahim family members here today are not going to make a comment. we're going to go back and look at the 700 plus page report. on behalf of the family, i'll answer a few questions if there are any. >> i heard you talking about deescalation. would you like to respond to the d.a.'s contention that the investigators did in fact try to de-escalate by backing away? we think in a situation where there are five around trained law enforcement officers and one individual allegedly holding a knife, that they are trained in the manner that that situation

so we are indeed, if that's what happened, we are happy that they tried to de-escalate the situation. our contention is that the situation could have been de-escalated even further. >> we are going to read the report first and i don't have any additional comments on that at this point. >> the family is heartened by the fact that d.a. has spoken with them throughout this process and has explained himself fully. the disappointment comes in the fact that the investigation was limited only to an alleged criminal -- to alleged criminal conduct by the officers, there

here. if it's outside the statutory scope of the district attorney, then we will move to some other even toilet get a more folsom investigation. what's important to remember here is that what we've characterized as an illegal arrest was the very first thing that led to a series of events that ended up with ooh salma being shot >> the situation may have ended differently. that's what our constitution is here for to make sure that all actors behave in certain sorts of ways. the constitution constrains the actions of police it makes police responsible to the citizens. to we, the people.

investigation of the potential constitutional violations here. we take the district attorney at his word that that was the limit of his authority to exercise sowell find another entity. >> to clarify, and sorry, what was illegal about the arrest? can you break down that first initial escalating point? an arrest occurs when a citizen reasonably believes that she or he feels not free to leave. >> so a police officer can come to me right now and say sullivan, i'd like to talk to you. i can say thank you i'm busy right now, i'll talk to you next week and walk away. if someone feels that their freedom of movement is restrained, that they cannot

with police, they are under arrest. from looking at video, listening to the descriptions of the officers from the reports and particularly listening to the comments of commissioner evans and congressman lynch afterwards it is crystal clear to us that usama felt that he was not free to leave. there were five law enforcement agents who spread out in a military like formation surrounding him. and i would suggest he was not free to leave. that's the definition of an arrest. if they had enough information to justify an arrest, they could have gotten a warrant and affected an arrest the proper way. >> all right, you've been listening to the rahim family attorney there discuss their reaction to the news that the police officer will not be

usama rahim. they believe it was an illegal stop where rahim felt like he could not leave and the fact that it happened and the fact that they opened fire with him, they don't agree with that situation at this point. >> that's right. we have more news we want to get to today. we'll go back into that press conference and when we get more information, we're going to brookline where crews were on the scene after a man was hit by a massive tree >> and now more questions as the man who was hit in the hospital. >> this incident has left the brookline man in really tough shape with a serious head injury and the occupational safety and health administration confirms today it is investigating. >> police say a 29-year-old herb chambers employee remains in

israel deacon medical center after a falling tree limb struck him yesterday. the victim had visited this convenience store as he did often. >> i feel really sad. it's like someone who you see every day and thing happened like, that it's really sad. >> reporter: police say a landscaping crew was trimming trees on on com ave which is undergoing renovations. a tree brookline resident in the head. the auto dealer who is nearby said...

wasn't expecting that nobody was gonna walk by the truck. >> it must show thaer violations, no investigations in the state or by the federal government over the past 10 years. we're live in brookline, jonathan hall, 7news. two people are rushed to the hospital after a driver goes on a crash in wilmington. police say an suv slammed into a utility pole late last night on lake street. the front of the pole is messed up. martha's vineyard drug task force, investigators say they

distribution around the oak bluff area for several months. they were arrested with cocaine and he was charged with intent to distribute and being held on $5,000 cash bail. a deadly road rage is caught on camera in florida. an suv is getting closer and closer to a call at this intersection and now things turn violent. a family mourns the young man who died. >> you always say you love he's a good guy. >> reporter: brae chambers says he knew 26-year-old sal khan for about a year before he was killed monday morning possibly in the case of road ridge. orlando police say they're trying to track down this car. the suv gets right up on the bumper of a white car. that car was his. right before the light turns green, you can see the suv moves closer and rides khan's bumper through the intersection. orlando police say khan pulled to the side of the road where

ran him over when they got out to talk to him. just one day before he died, for him and buried him,uneral customary of their muslim faith. and then a group of khan's friends gathered at this pub to remember him. chambers says he and his friends hope police make an arrest quickly. >> if the driver of that truck is watching this, do you have a message for him? >> sal had a lot of friends and was a good guy and like i people. you might want to turn yourself in to police. >> police are asking the driver f the suv to come forward and talk with them. >> still ahead here on 7news, it's a homework policy that's now going viral. you may have seen this on your facebook feed. what one textbook teacher is now proposing. dozens on board a bus when a crash is amended. what police say is behind this wild wreck. >> a plane still stuck on a sand bar.

how crews are trying to get this out. and boston police officer and an fbi agent who shot and killed the boston man in roslindale last year will not face any charges. the district attorney's investigation calling the shooting justified, clearing officers of any wrong-doing. investigators say rahim had ties to eyes expis they say they shot him after a knife attack and

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a class rule students are cheering about. the toke teacher from texas issued a no homework policy but there's a catch. >> patients must work on an activity like reading together or playing outside. this creative ideas is now really going viral. 7's sarah french has the story. godly elementary school second grade teacher brandy young is

learning which is why this year she is trying something new. >> get it girl... >> reporter: she won't be assigning homework to any of her students, in a letter sent home and now going viral on social media, she explained her decision to parents. >> research has been unable to prove that homework improves student performance. rather i ask that you spend your evenings doing things that are correlated with student success. >> reporter: instead of homework, mrs. young is encouraging families to eat, together. >> we're trying to be innovators here and develop the whole child and not so much focused on them pushing paper after they leave this room. as you'd imagine, this is one idea her second glade remembers loving. >> i like it because we get to play outside and then we read books and go outside and learn about new things. >> 7-year-old brook sheldon's mother made the original post to facebook which has now been seen

>> she's a pioneer. >> mrs. young has had some critics but overall says her no homework plan has received overwhelming support. >> i know that i'm thrilled that this is a conversation we're having. >> this new approach seems to be catching on. also this week a fifth grade teacher in alaska announced she too will no longer be assigning homework. in the newsroom, i'm sarah french, 7news. >> any kids all they heard was no homework. >> yeah, just listening for all of them cheering across the country.

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four hundred million dollars. that's how much charter schools will drain from massachusetts public schools this year. four hundred million siphoned from local districts that desperately need it. four hundred million that won't fund more science and technology, arts or preschool, counseling, or smaller class sizes. four hundred million unavailable to the ninety-six percent let's improve public schools for all students, not just a select few. vote no on question 2. summer at its best. another one of those days, warm, that's comfortable because the humidity stayed low. 80 degrees right now in boston. 88 bedford, down to norwood, 81 in worcester.

are. 60 degrees is a good threshold for anything above that mark to be fairly muggy. anything below it to be fairly comfortable. here we are on the borderline and will see that human get a boost as we move in through the next couple of days. the next weather-maker doesn't arrive for us until overnight thursday into friday, as well. could pop a few isolated storms and this is a very active of indiana right now where they have active tornado warnings with that weather-maker moving through there. we'll talk more about that at 5:00. for us, closer to home, we just worry about it getting fairly muggy tomorrow and oppressive humidity for a time moving through midday friday. th also a hot day in store for us as we make it into friday. we need this front to come in and cool us down. the timing of it is really not supporting any strong or severe storms for us. we could get an isolated shower

more likely to see the isolated showers or storms as we move through midday early afternoon on friday and behind that front it bumps down warmth a touch and takes down the humidity significantly. as we get into the weekend, it really is spectacular summertime weather in store for us once again. temperatures staying above normal for this time of year. tomorrow, sunny to partly cloudy for the tonight. warm and breezy out of of the southwest, 84 to 89. and you always want to take a peek a saturday, increasing clouds for sunday. now, tropics really heating up for us. this is the peak of hurricane season moving into it tropical storm gaston is expected to become a category i hurricane but not until we hit saturday afternoon. nevertheless, even though it doesn't pose any threat to land, it's something we continue to watch. this is the other area of concern. wayward islands, this is more of

storm hermine. a whole bunch of forecast model inside one. for now here's a look at your 7 on 7 forecast with those temperatures staying in the 80s for us. cooler along the coastline as we head into our dry weekend. >> let's get a check of the ride home. here's george brown with update. >> this is the masspike eastbound a mile after the weston tolls, we have a crash in the breakdown lane. you see state police there, as well. an earlier crash just before this and had the two left lanes taken for that. the back-up here goes all the way back to the weston tolls. westbound of course a lot of cure ross ilt heading into the weston tolls and on the backside, as well. let's take a look at the

it stays heavy all the way out to the state police barracks. let's take a look at what's happening on 128 right now. heavy and slow throughout the afternoon. 95 southbound, route 2 to route 9 about a half-hour ride there. look at northbound, almost an hour ride from route 9 all the way up to 93 and andover. also we're seeing a lot of heavy traffic heading out of the

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only fios can. >> an amazing surgery and changing the young boy's life in the process. this 9-month-old was begin two hand transplants and making history a year ago. >> now he's talking about how his life has changed. sarah french has >> a story about medicine a story about hope, a story about belief, and a story about courage. >> reporter: over the past year, 9-year-old zion harvey has undergone vigorous rehab in baltimore to learn how to use his new hands. >> nothing really changed because everybody i know is still the same. all i can do now is grip a

>> just a year after surgery he can do things like write in his journal, make lunch and eat cookies. >> he says don't ask me, they're my surgeon's hands. later you heard him snatching a cookie and he walked by one day and took a cookie and then he said i snatched a cookie with my hands and it was my hands. >> reporter: a developed a infection and his hands had to be amputated. he also needed a kidney. in 2012 they went to philadelphia to talk about prosthetics hands but the doctor had a different idea, a hand transplant. it happened 10 and a half hours with a team of 40. >> it was easy, hard, and fun at the same time. >> even one year later the

>> he's already here. look where he is now, a year out, imagine five years from now, i can see anything for this kid. >> zion says he's going to try to talk his mom into letting him play football. i'm sarah french, 7news. >> he is such a cool kid, isn't he? i know. i love it. >> we very much more to come here on this do you feel afternoon. 7news at 5:00 starts right >> a shooghtsd justified, officials releasing details of the case against a roslindale man with ties to terrorism. >> a deadly earthquake rocks central italy. residents there waiting for aftershocks as people are still being pulled from the rubble. plus an alarming attack on the campus of an american university in kabul. police on scene as students and staff are ordered to take cover. and a dangerous drive in men

opened the door and the first thing i thought was i hope that they're alive. >> reporter: a car collides with a school bus full of church. and he's back. rob gronkowski back on the field after giving patriots nation quite the scart. we're live over the qawbt inreservoir right now where you can see a chop here been brought in to remove the airplane that had to make an energy landing on a sand bar yesterday outside of belcher town, the 30 place for the pilot to land after reported engine failure. and now some pretty impressive images of how they were able to hoist this up by helicopter and it looks like they've got something in the back to sorted of stabilize it as they move it over the force there and eventually back on dry land. i think we were all guessing that removing this plane would require something over the water but instead it's over the trees, and what an impressive sight it

the pilot who was forced to make that emergency landing, is okay. >> a little shaken up of course but when state police started to talk to us by this story yesterday when it happened, they were very clear to say that this was not a crash, but that he had engine trouble and put the plane down in an area that he didn't plan to make that landing. thinking through how are they going to get this out of thereof and at some point there was speculation, taken apart, piece by piece. something like that. >> yeah, some heavy duty ropes and if i had to guess, i would say that the white -- let's just speak in lehman's terms, it's a thingy right behind the airplane, almost like what you see when aircraft land at high