said it's over three times before he left his son with relatives and took off. court documents reveal an abusive relationship between rosa and her by friend that included him being sentenced to four years in prison in 2012. fearing for her life reeks wrote he grabbed me by the hair. pulled out a gun and told me he was contemplating this for a while. rosa went on to write he was dragging then put me in a head lock trying to knock me my head and suffocating me at the same time. i started to see black. i was being strangled. dela rosa was released from police prison. seven months later the mother of his son is attend he is wanted for herr murder the man he was only considered a person of interest. tonight he is being hunted on a murder charge and investigators are now telling us that if anyone is

live in methuen tonight, steve cooper, 7 news. >> kim: also breaking the boston fire department battling roof top flames in the south end. more than a dozen firefighters working to get things under control there. >> adam: what made things worse, there were propane tanks that started exploding. june cuoco is live with the latest. you look at the roof top. it doesn't look like there were roof stokes this propane tank thing seems a mystery. >> reporter: that's right. that is what firefighters are trying to investigate right now. they told us that multiple buildings here have extensive damage. one where the actual fire was then two others that have smoke and water damage. now if you take a look behind me you can see crews are still onscene but it appears that they're trying to pack up. the boston fire department got her at about 3:30 to 73 rutland street to a

been knocked down. no injuries have been reported. but we're told multiple families on this street will be forced from their homes tonight. as you mentioned the boston fire department found propane tanks on the roof of the building. >> there were a couple of propane tanks on top of the building. there was an early report that there may have been a slight explosion. right now that will be part of the investigation. but there were a couple of propane tanks on the roof the initial roof deck. as i indicated it migrated into the roof framing and the structure. >> reporter: firefightersnoteed one involve had been brownen off and hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage have been done to all three of the building. oncuoco, 7 news. >> kim: developing story in cohasset where a home

the fire shooting outs of the roof. apparently things could have have been worse in the area if it wasn't for an alert neighbor. find out more. kimberly bookman live in cohasset with what someone did to help. >> reporter: kim, that neighbor was just out getting his mail what he saw a huge plume of smoke, a sight he won't soon for get. sky 7 over the fire that consumed this home. the flames were noticed by neighbor was getting his mail around 12:30 this afternoon. >> when i saw the magnitude of the smoke coming out, i called 911 and i said this a big one. >> reporter: after learning no one was home and calling for help he started videotaping the flames with his phone. he says he was concerned because it's so dry and flames were getting out of control. people reported seeing smoke miles away. >> the biggest challenge was just the location. it's far enough away from the fire station and the fire had a big head start on

hill on rust way and the home owner spend his life here and lives here with his own family as well as his mother. they were too upset to talk, their roof collapsed. there is fire, smoke and water damage throughout and their pet dog is missing. >> they're obviously distraught. i've spoken to both the home other than and his mother. obviously they are in a little bit of disbelief. >> reporter: officials believe the flames started in the back of the home. p.j.saw them darting out of fire so big five towns needed to help put it out. >> it's a devastating thing for the family. so, to come home and see this and pretty bad. >> reporter: at this hour the fire is out. the cause is under investigation. reporting live from cohasset, kimberly bookman, 7 news. >> adam: an alarming crime in east boston. a man used this knife to threatien parents and a 4-year-old outside a school.

long. officers were table to find the guy and take him into custody. jonathan hall has more. >> reporter: good evening. certainly a scary incident but luckily nobody was hurt during this altercation. expect for the suspect himself. witnesses say he was bleeding apparently after falling on a broken beer bottle earlier in the day. a little boy threatened with this 9 inch kitchen knife outside his brother's elementary school according to police. future. we shouldn't have to worry about them in school. >> reporter: boston police credit their officers who subdued the 36-year-old suspect while making sure the kids didn't get too scared. >> amazing. good because there is a bunch of crazy stuff that happens around here. it's not the best area so it's good to know that the police got a hold of him. >> reporter: not only was this guy armed he was very drunk and threatening parents and young kids

the man allegedly waved a big knife at a 4-year-old boy as his frightened parents watched then approached the adults. in court documents a police report reveals the witnesses claimed guy yelled "i remember you. i'm going to get you." >> this is a bad area of east boston, this is the worst area. >> reporter: parents told us they were never informed of this incident by the school. others checked ons their kids as word spread. are you going to take the kids out of school? >> no, no, i just talked to the secretary. school and the police did a very good job. >> reporter: the boston public school system released this statement: so why were parents not informed apparently? we tried to get information from the boston school department. but no call back on that. the suspect faces six counts by the way including four of assault and battery with a deadly weapon. he lives ripe the street

>> kim: city workers grieving after the sudden death of a public worker. he crash nod a tree just 54 years old. he work ford the city for 29 years. >> what we know is shortly before 10:30 this morning there was a single vehicle crash in our city on woodward street. two people were transported the cause of the crash is being investigated. >> kim: the second person in the city owned vehicle suffered nonlife threatening injuries. >> adam: an investigation is under way into danvers after a 70-year-old woman is hit and killed by a car. this happened at about 7:00 this morning. the victim's friend said she was' coming to meet her for the morning walk. the driver said he didn't see her in the road because of sun glare. >> think he was distraught. he was sitting on the grass

police. >> i didn't see her because of the sun. the sun is bad here in the morning. >> adam: police have not identified the 70-year-old woman who was hit and killed. the driver is cooperating with their investigation. >> kim: still ahead, a special tribute for a veteran on martha's vineyard. >> adam: but it's what he did in return that touched everyone's heart. >> kim: plus david price on the money. the street is making red sox fans veryxc >> reporter: looks delightful on fenway park. tomorrow warmer, more humid and the risk of afternoon thunderstorms, timeline coming up. >> announcer: tonight, guess who hank found money for this time? hundreds of thousands in unclaimed cash. just sitting there. until hank stepped in. >> if it wasn't four, we won't know the money was there. >> announcer: how the big bucks she uncovered could help your community tonight

>> kim: a special salute on martha's vineyard, firefighters stopped by to pay tribute to the veteran. but they didn't expect what he did in return. >> adam: the special guesture touched the hearts of all of those firefight e when the edgartown fire department found out ted morgan was celebrating his 95th birthday on monday they wanted to do something

our practice. and we heard that he was finishing up his dinner downtown. we thought we'd surprise him and honor him as he drove by. >> reporter: kate foster and 25 other firefighters pulled out the trucks, the salute morgan who is an honorary member of the -- >> he is known in the town because he is a living legend. >> thank you, sir. >> reporter: however it was morgan who surprised them. >> they pulled over the car and started shaking everybody's hands. he was just saying thank you, and thanks for the birthday wishes then thank you for your work in community and for all that you do. >> reporter: foster posted video of the moment on the firemen's association facebook page last night. it has more than 11,000 views, something that took the entire fire department by surprise. >> we couldn't believe it. we're thankful that everyone

>> adam: not only is mr. morgan an honorary member of edgartown ace firemen's association, he is also the grande marshal of the town's fourth of july parade. so we join everyone in wishing ted morgan a very happy 95th birthday. >> kim: happy births-day. thank you for all you do. he looks awesome. 95? >> adam: still rocking it out. >> kim: doesn't look a day over 80. >> i'm still alive at 80679 the risk of thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon. more humid as well. details coming up. >> reporter: next in sports the red sox are rolling right now and they've got reenforcements coming as well. young andrew benintendi is back next in sports. >> announcer: wednesday it's a new high-tech way to

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>> adam: on the autumn check litt as we look live over the big tank there at 93, you can chicken today pu then we talk tomorrow.

we'll see the shot with pretty colors but for now it's going to be, we could talk about the frizz factor. >> reporter: that is coming back as well as the pretty color because we do have the risk of showers and storms because of a cool front which will usher in another bubble of dry resching canadian air. worcester 75679 jaffrey at 78. we started in the 40s this morning. so nice recovery. red sox back at it tonight against the pitch 7:10. milder than last night. temperatures will spend much of the evening at the park in the upper 70's dew point temperatures creeping up a little bit. but still a very comfortable evening. then you move out of new england. and there are higher dew points. there is more humidity. deeper shading of green gives that away and i'm pointing that out because that is what sneaks into new england very late tonight as well as tomorrow. but just a one-day thing because we versus a cool front on the map. the leading edge of more

lakes states then through new england tomorrow afternoon. in doing so, it's going to pop a few showers and thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon. but not tonight. dry, not as cool, comfortable, clear. temperatures between 57-63. tomorrow a mix of clouds and sunshine. warm and humid. i don't think humidity is as bad as last week and over the weekend but certainly more so than what we've dealt w. so you will feel it.a temperatures tomorrow afternoon warm, 83-88. the normal high is 74. noon tomorrow a quiet but here are some showers and storms moving out of vermont and new york state. as we advance the timeline here they come. maybe 1 or 2 stronger thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon that may have winds that try to gust over 40, 45 miles an hour, normally i won't be overconcerned with this wind but with the drought, the tree, root systems are

sunday with tree damage there may be a couple of instance wheres we're talking talking about free damage although i don't any it's as much as what we death penalty with on sunday. the storm threat does fade away as the dryer air comes back into new england. bruce springsteen down at gillette. isolated storm at 7:30 but as you work through the storm threat fades away as does how many tip. temperatures down at gillette near 80. thursday lots of sunshine. lessum near 70. the 7 on 7 forecast, friday lots of sunshine. mid 70's saturday we start with sun, clouds in the afternoon. sunday will feature scattered showers including the patriots dolphins down at gillette. see you at 7:00. >> announcer: time for 7 sports with joe amorosino. >> playing well. for sure, we all have the feeling in the club house, in the club hour, out in the

close-knit group of guys. >> reporter: after two straight last-place finishes the red sox began their climb out of the a.l.east cellar when they listed david price and red sox have 19 games left in the regular season. it took a while for price to get rolling in boston but the 31-year-old lefty is now looking every bit the ace he was brought in to be. price's 7-0 in his last seven starts with a 2 .16 innings. he answers today's action leading the majors in innings pitched and sixth in strikeouts. price did stumble out of the gate. but in 14 starts, since july price has a 2.77 e. r.a.lowing the season to 381. the lowest it has been since april 5. alex corddry has more from fenway park on price and the

>> reporter: good news from fork, manager john farrell says the red sox are activating benintendi and he will be available off the bench tonight. the rookie phenomenon was on an absolute roll through 21 games hitting .324 before injuring his left knee on august 25th in tampa but he avoided structural damage to the knee. he will wear a brace but says it doesn't limit him in any way. benintendi is anxious to get back out there and contbu training has been doing an unbelievable job. it seems like everybody is right there. hopefully we were playing good baseball. our pitch remembers pitching well and we are coming up with hits scoring a lot of fun, hopefully we continue to do that and when i get back in there i'm going to try to contribute in any way i can and help the team win events even with the return of ben tindy chris young won't be conceding any

scored including a home run. at fenway park, alex corddry, 7 sports. >> >> it's no mystery that we have a great coaching staff. they do a good job of preparing guy, you know, that next man up motto has been big around here in my time here and i've seen it time and time again. >> reporter: throughout the patriot dominance the one consonant has the presentation of belichick and with tom brady and the gronk sidelined to open the season arizona has to rank up there as one of the more impressive victories in his hall of fame career. chris hogan made an immediate impact with a touchdown on the opening drive while long chipped in with one of the team's three sacks but has been the case the patriots are far from satisfied and quickly turning the page. >> huge win, every win is a huge win especially the

you want to start the season the right way. we have a lot to work on but getting the w. is the most important part. >> a lot for to us work on. i know we got the end result that we wanted to, but it was far from perfect. so we still have a long way to go. >> reporter: the red sox moncodda has been named baseball america's minor league player of the year. >> kim: thank you. >> adam: news at 6:00 will be right back. barbara moussette: kelly came through for me and my husband, and i am just forever grateful...

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