>> now at 7 breaking news police issue an arrest warrant for this man. they say he killed a mother in methuen with her little boy right there. >> anchor: fire fighters swarm a roof deck in the south end. >> reporter: warm and more humid tomorrow with risk of afternoon thunderstorms. >> anchor: it's a story you saw first on 7 a n threatening children and parents outside an east boston school. >> anchor: and a special solute on martha vineyard as a local veteran celebrates his 95th birthday. >> 7 news at 7:00 starts now. >> anchor: starting here with breaking news. police issue an arrest warrant for a suspect in a methuen's

>> anchor: the search for this man is on tonight. live in methuen with details you'll see on just one station. >> reporter: according to this arrest warrant the mother's 4-year-old son heard her father -- his father rather kill his mother right in front of him. a neighbor heard the boy scream no dad. no dad. the noises stopped so she didn't call police. as we know the mother di wanted for murder of his exgirlfriend rosa. according to the arrest warrant we obtained the 29-year-old mother was clinging to life when police found her in the second floor bedroom in a methuen house. she was rushed to the hospital. died a short time later. we're hearing what the 4-year-old's mother's son told police.

hands while he was in bed with her. dela rosa said it was over 3 times before he left his son with relatives and took off. show an abusive relationship that include dela rosa sentenced to prison on attempted murder and kidnapping charges in 2013. rosa wrote he grabbed me by the hair and pulled out a gun told me he was contemplating this for a while. he's wanted for killing his >> anchor: tonight, police are looking for dela rosa to arrest him for murder. if anybody is hiding him you will be charged. live until methuen brandon gunnoe 7 news. >> anchor: also on 7 dozens of fire fighters battle this roof top fire in boston's south end. the flames spread quickly. damaging at least 3 homes. go out to 7's john cocoa live there with the latest.

quieted down now. earlier fire fighters were dealing with flames on the roof of one of these brown stones. trying to figure out if propane tanks had anything to do with this. boston fire fighters arrived at 3:30. >> upon arrival they called a fire showing and smoke showing on arrival. >> reporter: once the flames were knocked department reported extensive fire damage to the building. 2 others had smoke and water damage. fire fighters found propane tanks on the roof. one tank had a valve broken off. >> there were a couple of propane tanks on top of the building. there was an earlier report that there may have been a slight explosion. right now that will be part of the investigation. >> reporter: multiple families are forced from their homes tonight because of the damage.

challenging because of the fact that what you see isn't necessarily what you get. what you see on the outside -- we have to make sure with cameras that it hasn't migrated to the interior. it will catch the framing below. it's all connected. >> reporter: and fire fighters say hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage have been done to all 3 of these buildings. live in the south end john cocoa 7 news. >> anchor: sky 7 today as a fire tears through a home there. the fire started this afternoon. the flames quickly spreading through the house on rust way. it suffered serious fire, smoke and water damage. the home's location made it hard to put out the flames. >> it's far enough from the fire station and the fire had a big head start on us. >> anchor: no one was inside at the time of the fire. but the family pet dog is missing.

your weather. another beautiful day out there. feeling like fall. if you're chilly higher temperatures and humidity headed our way. >> reporter: this morning we started down into the low 40s. downtown boston a low of 60. jaffrey 46 earlier today. orange at 44. we made it to the upper 70s and low 80s. right now boston 74. that's the normal high for the day. bedford 74. nashua low. not as low as the last couple of days. it won't be as chilly overnight tonight. and eventually the dew points continue to climb. you'll feel the humidity in new england tomorrow. mostly clear lows 57 to 63. and for the morning commute clear skies at 6 a.m. low 60s. 9:00 more humid than where we had been. late last week the excessive

couple of days. and we also have on the maps this evening a cool front. this will charge into new england tomorrow afternoon popping showers and storms. >> anchor: and there's more news today a crash investigation is under way in danvers. after a 70-year-old woman is hit and killed by a car. that's when the woman's friend said she was coming to meet her for their morning walk. the driver to didn't even see her in the road because of sun glare. >> i think he was very distraught. he was sitting on the grass. and just waiting to see what his next move was with the police. >> he said i didn't see her cause the sun. the sun is bad here in the morning. >> anchor: police have not identified the woman killed and they say the driver is cooperating with the investigation. >> anchor: we have breaking

in a possible abduction attempt. police say 3 young teenage boys reported an older man jumped out from a rock formation and tried to grab them. the man has a long gray beard. he ran off into the woods. police searched but have not found anything right now. >> anchor: city of newton officials and workers grieving after the sudeb death of a public works employee on the robert gab rel suffered a medical emergency driving tora job site causing him to crash into the tree. police are still trying to figure out what exactly happened. >> what we know before 10:30 this morning there was a single vehicle crash in our city on wood ward street. 2 people in the vehicle transferred to a local hospital. >> anchor: another person in the

threatening injuries. >> anchor: a man hit and killed on a street in springfield. the driver in this case facing serious charges. hit and killed another man while he was crossing the street. right after police say the driver left and went to taco bell. charged with motor vehicle homicide and driving under the influence. >> anchor: an east boston man accused of threatening parents and children on their way to school. they say he police say he was drunk when they arrested him. >> reporter: a little boy threatened with this kitchen knife outside his brother's elementary are school according to police. >> these kids are our future. >> reporter: boston police credit their officers who subdued the 36-year-old suspect while making sure the kids did not get too scared. >> that's amazing. there's a bunch of crazy stuff

time. it's not the best area. >> reporter: police say not only was this guy armed he was very drunk and threatening parents and young kids arriving for the first day of school. >> this man allegedly waived the knife at a 4-year-old boy as his parents watched. then approached the adults. the witnesses claim the guy yelled i remember you i'm going to get you. >> this is a bad area of ea boston. >> reporter: some parents told us they were never informed of this incident by the school. >> are you going to take these kids out of school? >> no, no. i talked to the secretary. she eased my mind. the police did a very good job. >> reporter: released this statement, quote, we are grateful and relieved this incident was handled in a quick manner by the boston police department. and nothing more serious

system on why parents were not informed. 4 counts of assault and battery with a deadly weapon. in east boston jonathan hall 7 news. ; families and patients feeling new hope after governor charlie baker announces major changes to the prison system. his plan would separate patients at east bridge water hospital from inmates who are there. the inmates mental illness will be transferred to the facility. >> department of correction officers are not properly trained. um, there's -- there's too much violence at bridge water state hospital. it's not a hospital. it's a prison. >> anchor: the governor also calls for enhanced medical services for patients at bridge water state hospital and hopes

march. >> anchor: chipotle released a settlement months after people got sick from their food. among them 13 of the people plus people who got norovirus in boston's cleveland circle last december. >> chipotle was extremely respectful and reasonable about the process. they did not um, challenge, um, people's a federal criminal probe into food safety measures. coming up next here on 7 news at 7 a touching tribute for one veteran as he celebrates his 95th birthday. >> reporter: and back to summer tomorrow. forecasts up next. >> anchor: marathoners with sights set on boston derailed.

>> anchor: what archaeologists found at the old north church. >> tonight guess who hank found money for this time. hundreds of thousands of unclaimed cash just sitting there until hank stepped in.

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birthday a special present. department decided to pull out all the stops for this world war ii vet. >> anchor: he decided to personally thank each and every one of them. when the edgar town fire department found out ted morgan was celebrating his 95th birthday on monday they wanted to do something special. >> we were finishing up our practice. we heard he was downtown. >> anchor: kate foster and 25 other fire fighters changed into full gear and pulled out all the trucks lights flashing. >> mr. morgan is known in our town because he is a living legend. >> thank you, sir. >> anchor: however it was morgan who ended up surprising them. >> they pulled over right out front. he got out of the car and started shaking everybody's

wishes. and thank you for your work in the community and all you do. >> anchor: foster posted the heart warming moment on the fireman's association facebook page last night. something that took the entire fire department by surprise. >> we couldn't believe it. we're thankful that everyone gets to recognize mr. morgan in this community. >> anchor: not only is mr. morgan an honorary memb association he is grand marshal of the parade every year. again we'd like to join everyone in wishing ted morgan a happy 95th birthday. >> anchor: i love they were spontaneous and went out and made his day. >> anchor: his effort to make she sure he appreciated every one of them always impressive. >> anchor: let's talk about this weather.

that right? >> reporter: that is correct. it's warm tomorrow. more humid. just a one day thing though. there will be afternoon thunderstorms tomorrow. they are tied to a cold front. that will usher the cool comfortable air for thursday and friday. moderate category tomorrow and thursday. so this map right here showing the current temps. ths be for high temps midafternoon. the city at 74. fitchburg at 76. the dew point temperatures have jumped since yesterday. they are into the 50s. norwood dew point of 58. we talked about how the dew points can reveal where the overnight temperatures are going to head. it won't be as cool tonight. it's a comfortable night for sleep nothing the house or apartment. you move out of new england the

sudbury canada dew point temperature at 63. that's the muggy humid air that will come into new england during the day tomorrow. here is that cold front that is the leading edge of cooler air. as the front is plowing into the humidity in southeastern canada and western new york state and eventually pennsylvania that will spark showers and storms. mostly clear: tomorrow warm humid. temperatures tomorrow above normal. and then off to the races 83 to 88. city tomorrow afternoon 87. time line for thunderstorms noon tomorrow nothing happening. lunch hour break is fine as well. midafternoon the cold front is racing out of northern new england and eastern new york state sparking scattered showers and storms along the front. some of the storms may have

miles per hour. normally i would not be concerned with that kind of wind. because of the drought and what we saw on sunday the trees no moisture in the ground holding the trees in place. little bit of minor tree damage possible with the storms tomorrow afternoon. won't be widespread. everything begins to move out of here by midevening tomorrow. the spring stein concert a risk of an isolated storm around into early fall weather. cool crisp morningings and delightful afternoons. >> anchor: the man behind the infamous ice bucket challenge gets a permanent tribute from a massachusetts school. >> wednesday it's a new high tech way to fix trouble on the tracks. how these could help train drivers make repairs without

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>> anchor: runners hoping to qualify for the 2017 boston marathon hitting a road block. a train forced runners to stop during a marathon yesterday. more than 100 runners were held up 10 minutes as the train crossed the tracks.

a man with his own legacy which you know of honored in a permanent way. >> anchor: by endicott college who is dedicating a residence hall to pete freightis. and since his diagnosis he has been a tireless advocate for the search for the cure. he is the one who inspired the famous als ice bucket challenge. >> and i can't imagine going to a college campus and feeling more welcome than we do here. now it's a place our family is going to be a part of forever. >> anchor: and here they go. this is during the dedication. endicott students tried to break the record for the als ice bucket challenge. >> anchor: speaking of records. this is record keeping. an ancient excavation scoring

the boston archaeology program dug up the area surrounding the church. they filled 3 tables worth of artifacts. the bags are filled up that could date back to the 1800s. they discovered things a pair of dice made from bone. tobacco pipes. some barbie dolls. not that far all the others. >> anchor: we get to learn how the 1800s. right now a quick break.

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>> anchor: all right that will do it for us tonight on 7 news at 7:00. as always we thank you for spending your valuable time with us. >> anchor: and i'm kim khazei.

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