>> and police saving a driver trapped inside his burning car. >> and a little boy in pennsylvania sharing his story of sufficients, a year after a double hand transplant. >> first here at 5:30, we are following breaking news, a small plane involved in an emergency landing removed in the quabbin reservoir by a helicopter. this is a very delicate operation. it landed on the sand bar yesterday. the >> and it's so interesting to see how they're doing that. >> not every day you see a helicopter flying a plane somewhere. that helicopter had to secure the single engine plane using real large tethers to carry it off of that sand bar which was right in the middle of the reservoir we're told it is one of few in the area that could handle the job. this is the plane yesterday as

how to get the plane off of the ground and how did it land in the first place. the pilot was okay, but obviously a tricky operation to fly an airplane somewhere else. so that plane, the 42-year-old pilot was heading from newport rhode island to vermont yesterday. he reported engine problems and had to land right there on that small patch of land. it is in the middle of square miles of water. yesterday we determined that because of the rain that we haven't seen this year, the water is down making that sand bar a possibility. if it had been a typical year, rainier, this might not have happened. this reservoir supplies many parts of eastern massachusetts and planes are not allowed to fly near it let alone park in it like this one. state police say there is no environmental threat to that water supply. the pilot's family says they are

that's the latest live in the newsroom, i'm nick emmons, 7news. the d.a. announcing the use of defendly force in the shooting of a terror suspect was justified. the boston police officer and fbi agent shot and killed ussamah rahim last year and investigators say he lunged at them with a knife. >> the cathy's office releasing new details on the investigation. adam williams is here in the newsroom with all of these developments. >> the d.a. says after months of collecting evidence on this case the officers are cleared ony wrong-doing in this case. investigators releasing surveillance video of ussamah rahim entering and leaving the roslindale cvs with a large knife. police say he had ties to isis and had plans to attack police officers in boston. fbi agents say when they approached him in the parking lot, he refused to put down the large knife and lunged at them. >> mr. rahim continued to

by saying i drop yours, and why don't you shoot me. >> two other men have also been arrested in connection with this terror plot. coming up on 7news at 6:00, we'll get reaction from a rahim family spokesman. for now in the newsroom, i'm adam williams, 7news. now at 5:30, questions about work site safety after a massive tree branch comes crashing down right on to a man. officials say the company working on trees in that area did not put up any barricades to warn people to other safety measures are being questioned as the man who was hit is in recovery. jonathan hall is live for us with an update. the chaifn saws were going and the limb came tumbling down on this man's head causing a serious head injury and now a federal investigation by osha, the occupational safety and health administration looking into this landscaping company. ruers a brookline man critically injured by a falling tree limb.

investigating belmont landscape and tree service to see if it violated workplace safety rules. >> one of the guy was telling me that they don't have any like tape around. >> he said they got all the truck around the feints so he wasn't expecting that nobody was going to walk by the truck. >> reporter: after a belmont didn't return call or emails we enter to the needham business for comment, the owner our request for an interview. the injured man is an employee at the herb's dealership nearby and men were cutting trees behind a large apartment complex undergoing renovations. >> this crew was cleaning up a big tree leaning against a broken fence. th got noles it, and there's some phot thought that the man may have been cutting through the fence after grabbing some lunch, that's how he ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time. >> reporter: the injured man

beth israel deacons medical center. there is no criminal probe. police say this was simply an accident. >> i feel really sad, it's like someone who you see every day and thing happen to him like that, it's really sad. >> it looks like belmont tree and landscape has a clean safety record. we did some checking online, on the osha web site. it shows no investigations at anytime in the last 10 years. live in brookline, jonathan hall, 7news >> bishop elects have been names auxiliary bishops of boston. the cardinal oh dayneed the pair and remembered back to his surprise when he was in their shoes. >> the scruffy fryer, 39 years old, roman trained and never celebrated mass and english is being asked to be a bishop. to this day i sometimes wonder

this is for animals and good samaritans who may see an opportunity to do something on behalf of an animal. >> other parts of the bill limit how long owners can chain or leash their dogs, as well. >> two people rushed to the hospital after a driver goes on a crash course in wilmington. an suv slammed into a utility pole late last night.

crash. the martha vineyard's drug task force arrest a man in a cocaine bust. investigators say he's been involved in a cocaine distribution for at least several months. officers searched his car and found 24 bags of behalf they believed to be cocaine. casey was charged with possession of cocaine and intent to distribute and being held on $5,000 cash bail. the clinton campaign firing back against donald trump today defending the clinton foundation's charitabl newspapers are calling for the foundation to close. >> donald trump charged hillary clinton sole access for cash. >> it's impossible to tell where the clinton foundation ends and the state department begins is. she then lied about her cry to congress over and over again.

trump's campaign afarce but trump says she needs to -- >> more than half of the people in the world received aids drugs from the clinton foundation. so the clinton foundation will not be shuttering its work. >> reporter: what about oval office access? if as secretary of state half the private individuals hillary spoke with had contributed to bill's charity as a.p. reports. >> the issue is what kind of access are these 6,000or the foundation going to have if mrs. clinton is president. >> reporter: clinton's campaign says the issue ought to be donald trump owing millions to china, russia and goldman sachs and urged minorities to vote for them. >> to the african-american voter great people, to the hispanic voter, who have been absolutely treated terribly.

election, if the outreach fails. so trump is trailing in big cities in swing states with lots of moifnlt voters but that was polls done before the latest revelations about clinton. a car lost control on the highway, rode up on a guardrail and crashed into a bridge. a trooper and construction worker who were at a nearby road project rushed to help a man get out of him out. luckily he wasn't hurt. >> some people are hanging night california ignores orders to evacuate from the past of fierce flames. many homes have been destroyed by to so-called chimney fire but an exact number has not been determined. that is stopping some families from staying put.

just a part of their life there. they say even with out electricity they will stay in their homes because at the end of the day it's all they have. we are following more news today. police in florida investigate what they believe is a deadly road-rage incident. cameras captured an suv inching closer and closer to a car at an intersection. then things turn violent. police are searching for the driver as a family mourns the young man who passed away. is. >> always si he's a good guy. >> reporter: brae qhaimps said he knew 26-year-old sal khan for about a year before he was killed monday morning possibly in a case of road rage. orlando police say they're trying to track down this car. it's right up on the bumper of the white car. that car khan' friends say was his. right before the light turns green the suv was moving closer and rides khan's bumper through the intersection. orlando police say khan pulled to the side of the road where they believe the other driver

just one day after he died, khan's friends say the family held a funeral for him and buried him customary under their muslim faith and tonight steps away from where he was killed a group of friends gathered at this pub to remember him. chamber says he and his friends hope police make an arrest quickly. >> if the driver of that truck is watching this, do you have a men for him? >> sal has a lot of friends and was a good guy and not all of his friends were good people. you mightan >> and police are calling on the driver of the suv to come in and talk with them. ahead here at 5:30, a little boy sharing his story after a ground-breaking surgery. >> a 9-year-old talking about living with new hands after a double hand transplant. and new at 6:00, police investigating a crash involving a school bus that's in menden. the children on board all making it out okay. >> and the small plane that made the emergency landing at the

the sand bar by helicopter. quite a sight and all coming up

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breaking news that we're following where we are being told by state police that an aircraft is down in the ashland reservoir in this area. just getting from state police that the pilot of the aircraft believed at this time to be a helicopter is safe on shore, but that the aircraft is in the water, that just coming from a tweet that mass state police put out a few moments ago. so sort of looking around here to see where exactly it is, the water is dark, so it's hard to see all the way to the bottom there. i know for that, and we have a crew on the way. so of course we're going to stay on top of this for you and continue to watch this scene right here live from sky 7 hd over the sandy ashland reservoir there. the good news is that the pilot is okay. at this point our best understanding is that he was the only person inside of the aircraft and that he's onshore at this time. moving along, ground-breaking surgery changing the life of a little boy in pennsylvania. doctors worked for hours giving him a dull hand transplant, and

thriving. one year later, the 9-year-old is talking about life with his new hands. >> and his attitude hopefully will inspire you. 7's say a french has the story. >> 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 >> everybody i know is still the same. all i can do now is grab a baseball. i can grip on to a bat better. i can where a baseball glove now. >> reporter: just a year after surgery he could do things like ride in his judicial, make lunch, work a zipper and apparently snatch cookies. >> he said to us, don't ask me, they're my surgeon's hands. and later you heard me refer to

walked by one day and taken a cookie and the comment he said was i snatched the cookie with my hands. and it was my hands. >> reporter: at 2 years old zion developed a life-threatening infection. his hands in the bottom part of his hands had to be amputated and he also needed a new kidney. in 2012, they went to philadelphia to talk about prosthetic hands but the doctors had a different idea. a hand transplant. >> it was easy, hard and fun at the same time. >> reporter: one year later the future for zion looks bright. >> this guy's on it. the sky is the limit. he's already here. look where he is know a year out. imagine five years from now. i can see anything for this kid. he's amazing. >> reporter: zion says he's going to try to talk his mom into letting him play football. in the newsroom, i'm sarah

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i heard it said a lot yesterday, it was starting to feel like fall but summer rolls on with temperatures today topping out in the mid- to upper 80s for many of us, even in the low 80s across cape cod. we kept the humidity low for the better part of the day, starting to creep up a touch in boston. dewpoint 64 degrees right now in metro boston. and the humidity d friday, as well. high pressure that's kept the sunshine around sliding farther to the east. we get this return flow that boost up temperatures as well as humidity and then turn our attention to the next weather-maker. an active volatile situation that's really unfolding throughout indiana and ohio right now. made of the front we're not

chance of showers and thunderstorms into late tomorrow and 30% chance on friday and i'd venture to say we can lower that to 20% chance. it's really not all that likely that most of usle sees this as we get into the next couple of days. we do get the clouds increasing into tomorrow afternoon, sticking around with us through the better part of friday and friday afternoon, here's the 20 to 30% chance of an isolated shower or a storm working into later parts of the day. it will on friday. current temperatures, a nice evening unfolding for us. 78 in boston right now. 80 degrees in worcester, overnight tonight, a little more mild because the dewpoints are starting to creep up. bottoming out in the 60s for most and tomorrow flirting with tbhinlt a southwest breeze that will be cranking through the better part of the day. a look at your 7 on 7 forecast. we keep the temperatures in the 80s all week long with the exception of along the coastline through the weekend. a little cooler saturday and

ed. >> good evening to you. i'm adam williams, here's what we're working on for 7news at 6:00. the district attorney in suffolk county ruling that police acted lawfully when they shot and killed a terror suspect. why the man's family is disputing the claim. a dangerous drive in menden earlier, a school bus packed with students involved in a frightening crash and a sweet surprise for olympians waiting for them at home at looking begun. that and much more and your

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ahe has gone viral. sarah french has the story. >> reporter: godly elementary school second grade teacher brenda young is about hands-on in class learning which is why this year she is trying something new. >> reporter: she when be assigning homework to any of her students. in a letter sent home and now going viral on social media she

>> i ask that you spend your evenings doing things that are correlated with student success. >> instead homework mrs. young is encouraging families to eat, read and spend leisurely time together. >> we're trying to be innovators here and develop the whole child and not so much focused on them pushing paper. >> reporter: as you'd imagine this is one idea her second-graders are loving. >> i like it because books and go outside we learn about new things. >> reporter: 7-year-old brook sheldon's mother made the original post to facebook which has now been seen tens of thousands of times all across the globe. >> she's a pioneer, definitely on to something here for sure. >> reporter: mrs. young has had some critics but overall she says her no homework plan has received overwhelming support. >> i know that i'm thrilled that this is a conversation we're

catching on, also this week, a fifth grade teacher in alaska announced that she too will no longer be assigning homework. in the newsroom, i'm sarah french, 7news. >> there's another 30 minutes of 7news ahead. >> i'm glad you're with us today. 7news at 6:00 starts right now. crews pull off the delicate task of removing a plane from >> the use of deadly force was a lawful exercise of self-defense. >> reporter: police cleared up any wrong-doing in the shooting death of a terror suspect in boston but his family is disputing the claim. and developing now central italy rocked by an earthquake. new details on the death toll, the damage and rescue efforts and a teen get probation in a troubling sexual assault case. now questions about the judge for allowing a light sentence.

crews removing a plane that had to make an emergency landing on a sand bar in the quabbin reservoir. it was a very delicate and well inneared operation. volunteering a helicopter as you saw. >> that's right. the chopper actually lifted the plane and then flew it away. it looked so easy on television, right. you'll see the video here on just one station. 7's ryan schulteis shows us how it all unfolded. >> the helicopter had to secure the single engine plane using huge tethers to carry it reservoir and right up into the air. as you might imagine, it takes a powerful helicopter to pull off something like this. we're told it was one of the few in the area that could handle this kind of job. as for the plane, the 42-year-old pilot was headed for newport, rhode island to vermont yesterday when he says the plane started having mechanical issues. forced to land on that sand bar in the middle of almost 39 square miles of water. the reservoir supplies much water to many parts of eastern massachusetts and planes are not allowed to fly near it let alone

in the newsroom, i'm ryan schulteis, 7news. police and crews on the scene at the ashland reservoir where they say a helicopter has crashed into the water there. police say the pilot is on shore and is okay. but the helicopter is still deep in the water, no word yet on what caused this crash. >> also breaking tonight, no charges in connection to a deadly police shooting of a area. officers shot and killed 26-year-old ussamah rahim last year in roslindale. the d.a. says the officers here had no choice. >> 7's byron barnett begins our breaking team coverage right now of the story. >> surveillance video of ussamah rahim entering a leaving a roslindale cvs store. police say the cord you see dangling from his left side was used to tie a 13 inch military style knife to his leg.