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at 4:30 as a new tropical storm forms in the gulf of mexico. that, what you're looking at, is tropical storm hermine. it is taking aim right now at florida. >> the governor there did declare a state of emergency ahead of that storm and in some places they're cutting down trees in preparation for hermine getting ready for the daingts winds and flooding rains. jeremy riner is tracking hermine for us and we're kind of concerned what it could mean for us labor day weekend. >> right, of course.

of this tropical system. this is tropical storm hermine. again, it became a tropical storm earlier this afternoon. winds at 40 miles per hour, drifting north at 2 miles per hour. we have confidence that it will strengthen somewhat into a tropical storm. not a you were has, though, and head for the panhandle of florida sometime tomorrow afternoon -- friday afternoon, friday night, and then merge east of north carolina saturday at 8:00 a.m. as a strong tropicto hour. now, from this point on, the forecast is very challenging. there's going to be high pressure across northern new york and northern new england. we're confident of that. that's one of the pieces on the chess board and the other case is hermine which will try to make it up toward new england but the difficulty with the forecast is the blocking area of high pressure. it's completely possible still that this system never bothers us. in fact, even right now the brunt of the system won't bother

of a couple of showers late sunday night and some rain possible on monday. i do think, though, that we'll have rough surf and rip currents saturday, sunday, and into monday. again, these two to three weekend days may feature completely sunny skies as the storm may get blogged to the south. we'll talk more about hermine and the rest of the forecast in a few minutes. also at 4:30, chained together, these protestors blocking the entrance to cambridge city hall. their mission to draw attention to the lack of offed forrabl >> they started protesting at 5:30 this morning, put blocking around their necks. they were protesting all day long and speaking out about the sky high rents in the city of cambridge. >> reporter: in handcuffs and under arrest, black lives matter protestors still chanting while being loaded into a police van. the four protestors facing

hall for more than eight hours, their protest, affordable housing. >> we're pushing for affordable housing. gentrification is killing cambridge. the people of color who live here are disappearing. >> reporter: they're asking an increase for housing from 11% to 25%, something the mayor says they're working on. >> we're all here for the same reason, which is how to keep cambridge diverse and economically welcomi t i applaud your efforts. >> reporter: city councilman mark mcgovern says things in cambridge are expensive and they're in negotiations for more affordable housing in new developments, meaning discounted rents for middle class workers. mongomery says this fight isn't just limited to black lives matter protestors but to many who work and live here. he says they've been forced to move out, as well. >> teachers, firefighters, police officers, nurses, social workers.

group in our city over the past decade and it's decimated the community. >> where does the prototest go from here? city councilors say they though have some resolution and agreement before the end of the year. keli o'hara , a 7news. rockland police are investigating after a driver flipped his car landing right there on the roof. police say the man was apparently fell asleep behind the wheel and that caused him to lose control and wreck out right in front of a 7-eleven there. no one was seriously hurt. a woman is recovering after crashing her car into an attleboro sandwich shop. police say the driver smashed the front end of her car right through the brick wall early this morning. the cause of the crash is still under investigation. and caught on camera in framingham, a mixed martial arts fighter taking on two officers. the police were trying to arrest them because of domestic

easily. 7's nicole oliverio has more on the tense take-down. >> reporter: two framingham officers pushed across a kitchen by an angry suspect. >> let go of him! >> reporter: the officers tried to restrain 29-year-old marcus bino after responding to a domestic violence call at his girlfriend's apartment. >> no, no, we asked you nicely! put your hands behind your back! you are under arrest! >> reporter: but bino, a trained mixed martial arts fighter refused to be arrested. >> i job. i commend both of them. that situation had the potential to be much worse, and because of that professionalism and training and the way they handled themselves, they were able to affect an arrest and keep citizens safe. >> reporter: bino's girlfriend called 911 early sunday morning claiming he punched her in the face. the fight with police, which lasted 10 minutes, bino mostly hit the male officer. >> let go of him!

also punched the felt officer several times. >> yeah, i think both officers did a great job. i think that they kept the person engaged during a very tough situation, and they prevented it from escalating. >> reporter: when additional officers arrived, they used a stun gun on bino and he was finally handcuffed. police say the suspect laughed at the officers as they were being placed in the ambulance. bino allegedly told investigators he refused to be arrested by officers who were smaller than him. that happens, but we don't lower ourselves. %e're professionals and remain professional no matter what anybody says. >> that suspect appeared in court earlier this week. he's facing a number of charges, but has since been released on bail. as for the two officers, they were treated at the hospital and released. in framingham, nicole oliverio, 7news. and we're following more news here today. slapped in the face, a 5-year-old south carolina girl came home with proof she had been attacked.

school bus and then the whole thing here is caught on camera. >> reporter: when terry peters picked up his little girl jasmine from afterschool care on thursday. >> i'm very upset, i'm mad. >> reporter: he immediately noticed this mark on her face and took this picture. >> people came out and began to state to me she got slapped on the school bus. >> reporter: he says the daycare workers told him 17-year-old tavon walters did it on the bus ride from the school to the afterschool program. >> he reached over theea don't hit her, i'm going to hit her for you. >> reporter: the bus security video shows walters grabbing another student's hand and using it to hit jasmine on the right side of her face. the picture is on the left side which is why school officials and police are unclear if the teen is responsible for the actual mark in this picture. >> the behavior on the bus was not anymore abnormal than on most buss. >> reporter: the superintendent says common for all ages of

peter's attorney wants to know why walters was even allowed to ride the bus. according to police he's on probation and has a history of getting into trouble at school. >> we're talking about a kid that's 17 years old, much larger than this 5-year-old child, history of violence, and he's put on the bus there with her, and in close proximity. >> he had not had any bus incidents for one thing. >> reporter: peter says nobody from the school called him about the alleged assault and the school superinteen that's because the bus driver didn't notice. >> it could happen to anybody's child. had i not seen the slap on her face, i would not have known. >> reporter: her father says she's now scared to ride the bus. >> the 17-year-old is expected to be charged with third-degree assault and the principal is recommending he be expelled. a georgia woman taking a police officer on a wild ride after getting pulled over. >> you had any alcohol to drink today? [ screaming ]

stopped for speeding this weekend, and that's when she questioned the officer's legal authority, gave a fake name and then took off, dragging the officer down the road, as you see. the officer was taken to the hospital. the woman now faces several charges. still ahead here on 7news, too close for comfort. >> a florida woman comes face to face with a bear. but she didn't run away. she picked up a camera. plus, the ultimate food fight, 20,000 people pelting each other with tomatoes. >> why not. >> and ahead at 5:00, a car burst into flames at connecticut gas station and a woman pulls two children to safety. what a clerk did to keep this situation from getting even

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a florida woman looked up and saw a bear looking right into her eyes. >> she called for help.

but it's definitely a moment she'll never forget. >> so close she could feel the bear's breath. >> never that close. never -- no. frightening. >> reporter: tucked out of the rain enjoying social media and some games on her phone, then she looked up. >> could i move it just a little bit. still breathe a little bit. >> she sent a photo to her son with the message "help me." i thought she was messing with >> reporter: then she followed up with don't make a lot of noise. >> i was in shock. couldn't believe it. >> reporter: once her 6'6", 325 pound walked up behind her, the 300 pound bear sauntered away, only then did she move a muscle. >> i felt like if i did some kind of knee jerk that that might scare him and i didn't know what his reaction would be. >> reporter: wildlife control

day. >> and officials fear the bear has been fed in that area so hoping to trap it and move it to a different location. >> coming up here on 7news, 20,000 people living jr's dream. >> and forecast for tomorrow is up next. >> ahead at 5:00, when you look at this you probably see what you think a normal senior picture, right? but it's not. the photographer captures made the picture go viral.

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tomato fight. many threw swimming goggles as they threw around their 160 tons of ripe tomatoes at each other. it was all part of the annual tomatilla street battle inspired by a food fight from more than 160 years ago. i think i'd be too chicken to try it. would you do it? oh, yeah. totally. i love tomatoes and also a great commercial for a tide or all or th yeah. >> shout. shout wipes. >> okay. for tonight clouds, a few showers late tonight, early tomorrow morning. tomorrow is a decent day, again, leftover rainshowers tomorrow morning and clearing skies for the tonight hours. friday, saturday pleasant. and perhaps even sunday and monday, because we are going to watch hermine do just that. we're going to watch this and see what it wants to do. this is a brand-new tropical

afternoon. i tell you what, this thing has been the most hyped-up wave of thunderstorm activity i've ever seen come off of africa. it was first noticed coming off of the african continent two weeks ago tomorrow. first as invest 99l, and then td9 and now finally we can call it a tropical storm. tropical storm hermine. here's the late of the now, 45 miles per hour moving nor northeast at 7 miles per hour. so it's picked up a little bit of intensity from earlier this afternoon. this is the 5 p.m. we're actually seeing this together for the first time. what does it reveal? it reveals a tropical storm moving up through the panhandle of florida late in the day on -- tomorrow and into friday and then moving -- continuing to move to the northeast through north carolina on saturday, 2:00 p.m. winds at 60 miles per hour. at this point here you notice it loses some tropical characteristics. so it's losing that swirly symbol there to this l. so that tells us that the hurricane center thinks it will start to become what we call

starting to just blend into a rainstorm at that point. and then sunday at 2:00 p.m., south of new england, perhaps out of new jersey sunday morning and moving due east from there. we talked about this already extensively. but at this point in the forecast, it's very difficult, so this shading here is the cone of uncertainty, which is just that. we're uncertain exactly where it's going to go, meaning it could end up in albany. it could end up at boston. it could end up in conic farther south, and with this track right here, this still tells me, though, that the brunt of of the effect would be away from southern new england. right now i would at least keep monitoring our weathercast for the next few days because we won't really have a solid concrete idea probably sometime until we get into the weekend and see what high pressure wants to do with hermine. so in the meantime, we talk about a couple of showers tonight and tomorrow morning and partly sunny in the afternoon. friday, saturday gorgeous. sunday right now, again, clouds

a bit breezy. month, if there's gonna be anything from hermine, it will be probably sometime on labor day but that right now is still a big if. see you at 5:00. time now for fast track traffic. let get out to matt fitzgerald. >> good afternoon. we'll begin on the helicopter flying high above a crash on 495 southbound in mansfield. it's off to thebreakdown lane though. traffic is backed up to route 1 and rentham. switching over to the pike the allston tolls out to the natick. the pike east is moving well. going over to the td garden, the connector on the right is very heavy in both directions after you get past the leopard downramp. to the left on the sake um it's moving well headed into the tunnel and northbound on 93 slows down and you'll be in it all the way up to 128 heavy traffic coming out of the tunnel

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hunter the dog ran off while his owner was battling flames. >> and it took the work of the humane society and social media to pull off that sweet reunion. >> hinter. hey, buddy. >> reporter: 19-year-old william jones just adopted his dog. if it seems like they get along, it's because they've done this before. william works as a firefighter, getting called at a moment's notice to fight wildfires for weeks at a time. a month ago he bough new kennel. >> 2:00 in the morning came around and i left for a fire, i didn't have time to put it up. >> reporter: while will ram was away hunter ran off, and the humane society of southwest washington took him in. hunter didn't have a microchip so they didn't know who his owner was and he was adopted by a new family. on facebook, william pleaded for hunter's new legal owners to return him. william was starting to lose hope when he got a call from his girlfriend. >> got a phone call who says my

me that the humane society has hunter back. >> reporter: hunter's new owners decided to return him and they were just are youy nighted. >> this time the humane society made sure hunter was microchipped. >> he's licensed and ready to go. we're just happy that everybody is where they need to be and that we're going to move on. >> the humane society is fundraising a program that will allow stray pet owners to charge. in the newsroom, i'm sarah french, 7news. much more to come here in the next 90 minutes, everyone. thanks for joining us. >> 7news at 5:00 starts right now. speaking south of the border. donald trump faces criticism as he meets with the president of mexico. >> reporter: and police on high alert after a woman is

for a ride. >> reporter: plus, fire officials on the scene of a problem property in allston and owner may be under investigation now. >> reporter: and trouble at the pump. a gas station goes up in flames in connecticut as a woman races to free her children from a burning car. we're tracking trouble in the tropics and tropical storm hermine swirling in the gulf of mexico florida, bracing for impact as that storm heads north. in fact, florida governoric scott has declared a state of emergency. >> they expect to see high winds, drenching rain in the coming days. for the latest on the storm's path, let's head over to our chief meteorologist jeremy reiner. welcome back. >> thank you, adam. this is tropical storm hermine officially upgraded to a tropical storm earlier this afternoon. this is the latest update from the national hurricane center, the 5 p.m. update. winds up to 45 miles per hour. minimal tropical storm moving north-northeast at about 7 miles

expected to continue. >> will become a weakening process. it will be a formidable tropical storm at least for a short time moving up through north carolina. at this point in the forecast, which is late in the weekend, it becomes very difficult because there will be high pressure across northern new england perhaps blocking ever bothering us. now there's the possibility that hermine may actually try to back up into new england. monday afternoon, labor day afternoon, 2:00 p.m., 45 miles per hour and that would not be in the shading right here. that's just saying that the strongest winds would be around the red l there well south of new england. at this point this path right here, perhaps just fringe effects, perhaps just a couple of showers sunday night into monday with a bit of a northeasterly breeze. does not look like a repeat of irene or sandy at this point,