their work here. sweet tomatoes was initially hoping to re-open the restaurant by the summer this year as they were in part waiting until the barriers were put up, until they can re-open. as for the suspect in this case, the d.a.'s office says he will be arraigned in court at a later date. that's the latest live from newton, tim caputo, 7news. also breaking this evening, fire breaks out inside a hingham home with moving crews inside. fire chief tells us the movers noticed the odor of smoke and then saw thick black smoke in the living roo the home. emts did check two people after the fire including one firefighter who was sent to the hospital with an ankle injury. there is breaking news from berlin. officers say they've caught a bank robber who they were searching for this past weekend. these are surveillance pictures we first showed you on sunday when officers asked families to stay inside their homes. now, police say matthew alden robbed a bank and stole a motorcycle and then robbed a home full of weapons. officers shut down part of berlin on sunday during the search for him.

boston university students barely back a week and one of them is hit and killed by a commuter rail train. it happened under the masspike in brighton overnight. >> the student was from china. steve cooper is live in boston where he spoke to students. >> this has really been a difficult day for the students and for the faculty here at bu trying to come to terms of exactly what happened. tonight police are still trying to figure out why this college freshman ended up wandering on to those train >> just a few days ago he got here, and he's already dead. it's very sad. >> reporter: a horrifying scene overnight over a 17-year-old boston university freshman who police say was from china is struck and killed after coming in contact with an mbta commuter train just before midnight. >> preliminary investigation suggests that this is just a tragic horrendous accident. >> reporter: a tragic horrendous accident that happened under the masspike between the bu dorms on buick street and storrow drive.

>> i remember being a freshman and everything is new and meeting everybody and then you hear that and it's like, gosh, no one has a chance. >> reporter: investigators say the teen was hit by one train but the conductor of a second train that noticed the body. that train with 300 passengers on board was kept on the scene by detectives more than three hours in the middle of the night before the train was finally allowed to continue on. >> we are going to conduct a review and determine delay for the passengers was as extensive as it was. >> reporter: and as investigator continue to look for answers, so too do heart broken kids on campus. >> we just felt really bad for his family and for him, that -- i mean, classes started yesterday. >> and so police are still trying to reach out to the victim's family in china. his name isn't being released right now. bu says they're make grief counselors available to students around here and transit police

live in boston, steve cooper, 7news. and rooftop robber in boston's north end facing a judge today. police and witnesses say damon tahotta tried to break into four homes early sunday morning. one person says she heard a screwdriver trying to get into their partial. they called police but before officers arrived witnesses say tahotta tried to break into two more apartments. police say he jumped into the roof of another apartment building and ran into his home. arficers were then able to running away from a fight when he ended up on the north end. the 24-year-old man from new york is being held on bail. we're just days away from the patriots' seasoning opener and the focus on that guy, jimmy garoppolo as he fills in for tom brady. garropolo, the back-up quarterback, says he's up for the challenge. 7's dan hausle live at foxboro where garoppolo spoke to reporters today?

the starting quarterback. he had all the catch phrases, it is what it is and straight on to arizona, certainly sounding like a bill belichick quarterback. >> reporter: jimmy garoppolo practicing as the patriots unquestion qb-1 taking the reins of this team to the next four games while tom brady serves his deflate-gate suspension. garoppolo says brady had no big words of wisdom as he headed out the door. >> it was nothing crazy. scrusesoo really. wished me luck for the first four and i think he wished it for the whole team. he's very supportive of us, and we appreciate that. >> reporter: garoppolo says with just two quarterbacks at practice, things are busy but smooth. >> it's just me and jacolby. all the reps are just between the two of you was now and we kind of know where we sit on that. so it's -- i mean, it's different without tom, no question about it, but it is what it is at this point. >> reporter: and possibly overlooked by some with the patriots passing and handing a

jacolby bursett is the clear back-up, one step away from leading a team with super bowl aspirations. >> every week we prepare as we're the starter, you know. i mean, like, we just go out there and learn from everything that we do and try to get better. >> reporter: however it happened and however long it last, garoppolo says he's ready to enjoy the opportunity to be a starting quarterback in the nfl. >> it is a phenomenal opportunities. this is why you play the game. you play to be in the game and play, you know. you don't want to be the back-up. coted opportunity it. >> you certainly don't want to see anybody hurt but after jimmy, it's jacolby, and after jacolby, who would it be. there's no more emergency quarterback designation, so the guessing here would be another j name, possibly julian. he's been a quarterback in college, and he's the only other guy who's thrown and completed a quarterback on a current patriot team. live in foxboro, dan hausle, 7nes. patriots and cardinals kick

on 7 nbc, we'll get you ready with our 7 on the sidelines pregame show at 6:30 and kick-off is at 8:30. we are following more news today. investigators say they have received more than 1,000 tips as they continue to search for suspects in the murder of a jogner princeton. the worcester county district attorney says detectives are following up on all the tips to find out who killed vanessa marcotte last month. the 27-year-old's body was found in the woods near her mother's home hours after she went for a jog. police say they're still looking for any information on her >> natick police looking for the man caught on surveillance camera stealing a car. police tell us this happened around 3:00 in the morning last friday. this is vne motors near route 135. if anyone has information, you're asked to call natick police. turning now to the race for the white house, the presidential candidates talking war tonight. they are participating in an nbc news forum to answer questions about how they would lead u.s. armed forces as the commander in chief. jadiann thompson shows united

>> well, ryan, both candidates are expecting tough questions on their qualifications to be commander in chief. on the campaign trail they have been outlining their future plans. trump doctor saying he'd boost military spending by tense of billions of dollars and give his military generals 30 days to come up with a plan to destroy isis. hillary clinton, who got the endorsement of 95 retireed admirals and generals, slammed trump's approach. >> we're gonna work with our allies, not insult them. we're gonna stand up to our them. >> unlike my opponent, my foreign policy will emphasize home from means, not destruction. >> both candidates are headed to the intrepid aircraft carrier in new york tonight, the site of tonight's forum. in the newsroom, jadiann thompson, 7news. and you can watch that right here on 7 nbc, it starts at 8:00 p.m. still ahead on 7news at 6:00, they won't have to say their dog ate it. a local school vowing not to assign homework for the entire

saying about the plan. >> plus, the perfect pitch, clay buchholz putting on a show for red sox fans. highlights ahead in 7 sports. and we're staying on top of breaking news. the driver in this deadly sweet tomatoes restaurant crash now indicted. two people die, seven others injured when an suv plowed into the restaurant back in march. we'll have the story coming up on 7. it's narrator: "by almost every measure, public charter schools have been a success."

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a new assignment for students at a school in holyoke and this one is making national headlines. instead of going home after school and doing homework, teachers are encouraging kids to spend time with their families. >> so administrators are hoping their no change how students actually learn. nicole oliverio has all the reaction. >> a new assignment for students at the kelly school in holyoke, and that's no assignment. the school has implemented a homework-free policy. >> if you look at research, there's no direct correlation. that homework improves student performance. >> reporter: part of the turnaround plan was to extend the school day by nearly two

the classroom and high quality instruction. so administrators wanted to try a year without work after school. >> we want them to go home tired. we want them to have expandedded all the brain power that they needed during the school day. >> reporter: the kelly school has more than 500 students in grades k through 8 and parents seem to support this no homework policy. >> they are doing a lot more work in school. >> i think it's cool because now they're able to go to the ymca and have >> we have a lot of things we have to do after school like sports and things like that, and laundry and stuff like that. so it kind of makes time more time for us to be together. >> administrators say this plan has got, their small school national attention and knows it may raise a few eyebrows but hopes students will see the benning. >> the teacher and instruction has the biggest impact on student learning, so if i can give students more time with their teacher on direct instruction, it is our hope that

student performance. >> students have only been in class about a week, so it's too early to tell if this new policy is working. but it is something they'll continue to check throughout the school year and again this summer to see if it's working and if it will be a permanent change. in holyoke, nicole oliverio, 7news. >> all right, so we wanted to ask you, do you think it's a good idea? 72% of you say yes and 28% say no, homework is a good idea. to weigh in and vote head to our twitter page and seah head over to our web site whdh.com. i know some kids are screaming, no homework. this is great. >> a lot of parents feel like they have too much homework, too. i actually put that on my twitter page. i want to hear what people think about that. jr, you're a dad. >> and the way i find the martha they're teaching now. >> you can't help. >> yeah, i'm like, you know what, ask your mother. forecast coming up next. and coming up next in 7sports, we'll see if it all adds up with jimmy garoppolo.

we'll have a report from gillette on how he's doing right

boston city hall plaza transforming into a winter wonderland. mayor marty walsh announcing toda plans to turn the area into a holiday themed marketplace, complete with an outdoor skating rink, markets and tree shopping, too. it's set to open after

>> good news of the empty space out there. and they've done all that great work with the t stop, putting the trees up, looks wonderful. >> yeah, they'll have concerts and a great gathering spot. but talking about ice skating, are we ready? >> maybe not yet. and this won't help, either. temps are headed for the low 90s on friday. i know a lot of you are saying i don't know if i'm ready for snow or winter but i am done with summertime heat and humidity. mother nature says, well, i'm not done yet, so hang in the. the city at 71, bedford 75. nashua 75. this isn't too bad, i mean, that's about where we should be for this time of year, in the 70s, but these numbers here, the dewpoint temperatures, this is what you're feeling. it is muggy out there, and it's gonna stay muggy for a few days. the reason we have the humidity, the remnants of hermine south of new england this evening. it's been kind of sitting and spinning there. and pinwheeling moisture up into southern new england and in the

shower, as well as the higher dewpoints, the humidity. so even though what's left of the storm fades away and the threat of the showers fade away, we'll hold on to the humidity. unusual that you see a band of showers and downpours moving west into connecticut. not coming out connecticut, but again, when you've got a tropical system that kind of parks out in new england, then goofy things will happen. >> and this will fade away. this is our next weather system right here. it's drawn as anytime soon. for tonight, a lot of clouds, patchy fog. muggy, temps 64 to 69. through the day tomorrow, similar to today where we start with clouds, and then we'll see developing sunshine. there may be a spot shower, very early tomorrow morning. more likely it would take on the form of patchy drizzle. then anything else and even that, again, patchy. and then warm and humid. temps between 78 and 84. boston tomorrow afternoon, 78. attleboro, norwood, lower 80s.

70s. worcester hills, morning clouds, partly sunny in the afternoon. fitchburg 84. jaffery at 83. those temps are about 10 degrees above normal. and mashpee at 79, chatham at 78. you move out of new england and it's even hotter temp this is afternoon reached into the upper 80s and low 90s, and that heat is heading into new england on friday. so friday we start with clouds, and then developing sunshine. friday's a hot day. it is a breezy day, which will help to kind of flush out some of that humidity friday morning. but again, it's j-- with the heated, and there you go, on friday afternoon, boston at 91. worcester 89. jaffery at 90. weekend forecast, we're talking clouds on saturday and an isolated shower in the morning, sunday much the same. sunday afternoon looks nice with lowering humidity, partly sunny skies. temps sunday afternoon low 80s. see you at 7:00. mentally i'm straight arizona, but, you know, it is a

you play to be in the game and play. you don't want to be the back-up. so the opportunity is here. just gotta go take advantage of it. >> jimmy garoppolo has had this sunday circled on his calendar dating back to july 15th when tom brady dropped his appeal of his four-game deflate-gate suspension. but as trey daerr reports, garoppolo's inexperience isn't the only thing the patriots should be concerned about on sunday night. >> well, i this i that's something that arizona does a good job of, of puttg skilled players out there and putting this he in situations to make plays, and they obviously have a lot of them. >> reporter: the patriots' defense is versatile enough to be one of the best units in the belichick era, and we'll get an indication of gist how good it is against one of the premier offenses in the nfl. >> a ton of weapons and bruce aarons, i think, does a great job of calling the plays. watching defenses, knowing what he wants to do and knowing how to get guys involved. >> reporter: the cardinals' biggest playmaker quarterback

fitzgerald who is only getting better with age. >> he's consistently came out for the last, what, 13 years and just made tough catches. he knows exactly what they want to do offensively. he's been there for a couple of years now. so delivering the ball, really deep or short, you know, he has a strong arm to get the ball down the field, with a lot of speed to get it to. >> reporter: and for the first time in the last eight years, the patriots defense is set to face a decisive edge over the viewing of jimmy garoppolo. >> this is week 1 and everything for the rookies but obviously these are the games that count thousand. the intensity picks up. throughout the whole building you can just feel it, and i wouldn't have it any other way. >> arizona cardinals head coach with some pretty high praise for jimmy garoppolo comparing him to tony romo. reporting inside gillette

sunday night marks the first time chandler jones will suit up for a team other than the patriots as the defensive end makes his cardinals debut against his former team. nate soldier expected to get a healthy dose of jones as he left the patriots and says the entire offensive line is in for a challenging night. >> chandler is a talented player. he's tough to stop. but he's one of, you of the guys that we don't have to worry about and multiple guys that will be behind them and the schemes that they do are challenging and they know what they're doing. so he's one of many of things that we have to worry about. >> patriots and cardinals kick it off on sunday night right here on 7 nbc. we'll get you ready with our 7 on the sidelines pregame show beginning at 6:30. back on july 2nd, clay buchholz was banished to the bullpen for a second time this season after losing three

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