it was stolen sometime over the week. he says the cemetery called him yesterday to break the bad news to him. as you can see this is what was stolen. the sculpture once looked like. you can see a large bronze statue, it's a star of david surrounding a second star of david then two small hands. as for fred manassas who sculpted it he has mixed feelings about what happened. >> first of all i was i was angry. then i had a chance to reflect on it. and i realized that it had more impact by having been stolen in terms of publicity in terms of alerting people to the fact that so many people died without a memorial. >> reporter: anyone who has any information as to who stole this sculpture is

>> jadiann: physical education teacher in wilmington is back on the job after allege lid assaulting a woman and breaking her nose. after initially being put on paid administrative leave he was allowed to return to work. some parents and teachers are concerned saying they wanted to let the legal process play out before he was welcomed back. the superintendent issuing a statement saying itself school district has looked at this issue from multiple perspectives so that statement goes on to say: >> ryan: police in worcester searching for a robber on the run. police say this man wend in a c.v.s.and hand the pharmacist a note demanding oxycodone. >> jadiann: a mother in providence, rhode island, is facing charges after police

out of a window. benita barbour tossed two 2-year-old boys out a first floor window on sunday. the children are in state custody. >> ryan: we're covering more news. a scare in the sky, a saudi arabian flight tripped a hijack warning. this happened as the plan was about to land in the philippines. authorities asked for a verification of the emergency message and said the pilot didn'ted mistake. >> when the aircraft landed, we were again informed by the powers that there was a, new information, development from the pilot that the activation of the distress signal was just an accident. >> ryan: passengers on board were allowed to get off the plane.

faltering after air strikes hit an aid convoy. the incident promising the u.n. to suspend all aid convoys in syria. the strike destroyed 18 aide trucks that could have fed about 78,000 people. >> jadiann: texas funeral home under fire after a tune cal director was caught taking selfies with a casket. kris and irson has more. >> the only -- >> reporter: on saturday rose on the day of mourning she couldn't believe what she saw. she says david jones the funeral director took what appeared to be a selfie with her cousin's casket behind him. she says she found numerous photos of jones with caskets and hearse, she approached jones to ask him about the suspected selfie of her cousin. she said he told her he was just checking his pie. >> very insensitive.

that time. we trust, you know, we trusted him to respect this day in our family's life. >> reporter: the funeral home declined an interview but did say they have apologized to the family. molina plans to file a complaint. the commissioner say it is could be ed unprofessional conduct that carries anything from a warning to a $5,000 fine. in the newsroom kris and irson, 7 taking a man into custody after he showed bizarre behavior at the school there. he showed up at an elementary school. after making threats. the school was evacuated. >> doesn't seem to care that there is trained sunshiners on him. >> reporter: video shows the man walking and paces outside of a school with sunshiner surrounding him. >> i was scared because my -- >> reporter: he drove his car up to the front door, went inside and told school

because he had explosives in his vehicle. >> the custodian locked the school down then the evacuation procedures took place. >> i was scared so i cried and while i was hoping that my mom was okay. >> reporter: children were rushed out of the building and brought by bus to a nearby church where they met with terrified parents. >> what you saw him what went through your mind? >> i was in tears. i was just relieve that had he was safe. >> propped up my bedroom window right there. started recording. >> reporter: while kid able to tape the man wearing what appears to be a green tunic and a mask. >> he was very daring. he didn't care. he would come out. he prayed for a little while out there. >> reporter: he calls himself the radical islamic jihadist mohammad al qadir. he was once a baseball coaching prodigy. but over the years he apparently sank into mental illness. he was arrested in 2013 for

contact licks in colorado. >> there is a history with him. i'm not -- i don't know specifically what those r. i know there is mental health relate identify shoes with him in the past. >> reporter: there were no explosives and no one was hurt. craig is facing several charges and will be in court later this week. >> jadiann: ahead on 7 news a little too close for comfort. a curious bear scaring customers at a hotel in alaska. >> ryan: helping or hurting, why fitness trackers may not be as helpful as you think news at 5:00, donald trump, junior under fire. when he posted on line that has many peoples pretty upset. >> ryan: suspect arrested in a terror investigation charged with attempted

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>> jadiann: a whale rescue in australia. the 39 foot humpback while was struggling after it got stuck in fishing nets. crews are cutting the net. the crew managed to gets him free and the whale was able to swim away. another wild encounter this one an alligator in indianapolis, police responded to a call that the

two feet long. police don't know how it got on to the highway or why it was wanting to cross the road. >> ryan: wiz kid is growing minds. he graduated from high school this year and is taking a full schedule at the local community college. will says he is not intimidated by the older students and according to the administration there he is doing very well. >> he is able to keep up and has had a.'s in the course that is he so he is more than excelling in the classes. >> ryan: so will plans to be an astrophysicist. he has been accepted to a four-year university. >> jadiann: extra special home coming for a texas teen. max akin decided the crown should are should go to someone else, akin says he is the most positive person he knows and was more deserving of the title. the video has gone viral

act of kindness. >> announcer: tonight, a deadly gas forced them to run from their home. >> we could have been killed. >> reporter: it came from someone you would never expect. >> this is dangerous. this could happen in any home. it's a tick time bomb. >> reporter: hank uncovers what is causing this hidden hazard tonight at my prescrkeep going up. it's more expensive every year. it would be a lot cheaper to buy my medication from canada. kelly ayotte voted to block consumers from buying safe medicines from canada. and voted against lower cost generic drugs. kelly ayotte gets all that money from the big drug industry. hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions. when you take all that money it just changes you.

v.o.: kelly ayotte says she's on our side, but on our rights, she's squarely with donald trump. trump: planned parenthood should absolutely be defunded. v.o.: ayotte agrees, voting six times to do just that, defund planned parenthood. and both oppose our right to safe and legal abortion. ayotte: well i certainly think that roe should be overturned... trump: there has to be some form of punishment. matthews: for the woman? trump: yeah, there has to be some form. v.o.: ayotte and trump, wrong for new hampshire women. content of this advertising. >> ryan: wait until you see this. an unexpected visitor leaving workers at a hotel in alaska a little on edge.

close for comfort. he seemed to try to be getting inside. >> jadiann: it spooked the front desk staff. he was trying to book a room. here is sarah french. >> reporter: it's not everyday a hotel gets a guest they can't handle been that you is what happened at this hotel in alaska. that center staff running. >> so i went in the back and told the manager. >> reporter: security cameras captured it all. >> he was looking for a way to get in or see people. >> reporter: he found >> he will go in and say i'll take a peek inside. >> reporter: a black bear, fish and game's estimates weighed over 200 pounds. scared away the hotel's front desk staff. >> i think she is all right. she has, her hair was up then it was down then it's like you are all right? >> this is first time seeing a bear. >> reporter: she is not alone. a new manager from california had arrived a few hours before. >> i don't think i've been

bear out of a lobby. >> you better get inside the building over there. that ask a bear. >> reporter: visitor didn't stick around. a photographer captured his jaunt down the street before ending up at a cemetery four blocks away. >> black bears in hillside but not in a cemetery in downtown anchorage. you don't see that everyday. not at all. >> reporter: sarah french, 7 news. >> reporter: don't poke the bear. tomorr still warm. forecast is up next. >> ryan: laughing at j.r. at 5:00 a cat proving he has nine lives, how he is getting a second chance at live. j.v.a comedienne. >> jadiann: he is even funnier off-air. is he in or is he out? patriots preparing for the next game with or without jimmy g. what bill belichick had to

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ter in a web of opiate and heroin addiction. doug griffin: our insurance company indicated that courtney's problem wasn't a matter of life and death - so she wasn't eligible for treatment. pam griffin: she told me that she didn't want to live like this anymore... she begged... she begged for help, saying mom - please help me. doug griffin: our family's tragedy could happen to any family... pam griffin: we knew we had to save other families from losing their children. kelly reached out to us.

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>> reporter: warm and humid right now. the humidity melts away late tonight early tomorrow but cooler air building in canada. here is a sign of early fall. the jet stream going back and for the. warm tomorrow and thursday. then a cool shot of air into the northeast. just a new england preesure with lows in the 40s, and afternoon highs into the we turn the page for good? probably middle and end of next week we'll slip back over to a warm pattern for a few dayis then be back and forth between warm and cool. 70s and 80's, fitchburg 83. nashua 83. dew point temperatures running in the upper 60s so you feel the humidity. if 9 kids have soccer practice or going for an evening jog, not crisp fall

dryer air does show up late tonight and tomorrow. the temperatures overnight tonight not that cool even though humidity does fade away late tonight. patchy fog, lows between 58-66. still warm, by about 10 degrees warmer than where we should be for this time of year. warmer than normal. boston around 83. scituate 82. norwood 84. manchester 80. merrimack valley in the 80s sunshine with a few clouds around. barrie at 78. on the cape chatham 78 and nantucket at 79. thursday lots of sunshine. it's a warm day but again there is no humidity whatsoever so it's more of a dry heat if you will. temperatures on thursday running in the mid 80's fall, officially arrives at 10:21 thursday morning when the earth, you talk about the tilting andwomanning earth. it will -- wobbling earth.

planet gets 12 hours of day least that's it then we'll tilt away from the sun. as we head to winter and the southern hemisphere will heads towards summer. patriots taking on the texans. kickoff temperatures in the lower 70s around 8:30, when the game wraps up mostly clear sky, 7 on 7 forecast, morning sun, clouds in the afternoon. that is a cold front and that means business. lots of sunshine saturday andda going up to the lakes region. you will see color in the trees. if you are not you will see color in the trees around metro boston with temperatures in the 40s, highs in the 60s see you at 5:00. >> jadiann: time for traffic. here is matt with an update fours. >> reporter: we'll begin on 93 northbound. this is by the misttic avenue on-ramp. dealing with a crash over in the breakdown lane causing a big delay in the area. you can see a tow truck getting a car up on it now that so that will be there

we'll return to 93 in a moment but over to the expressway. southbound is moving slow passing 9 freeport street exit. heavy out of the o'neil tunnel down to the split. on the northbound side you will be crawling from granite avenue up to neponset circle. over to the leverett connector you are jammed in both directions over on the zakim bridge heavy southbound side. heading into the tunnel. those delays begin on the lower deck by the hood plant. northbound side is a tough ride. again dealing with accident by mystic avenue, the ramps to 128 in reading. >> that's going to be around a 39-minute drive this afternoon. 7 news. >> jadiann: lots of people use them, fitness trackers keep track of how many steps you take everyday but it's not a magic wand tor weight loss. >> jadiann: they could be a hinderance rather than a help. erikaes wards has more.

wearing a fitness tracker to tally the number of steps doesn't necessarily mean the numbers on the scale will come down. >> what is a little surprising -- >> reporter: the doctor and his colleagues at the university of pittsburgh recruited more than 400 overweight and obese young adults. they all wept on a low cal ray diet, exercised and had counselling on support. the researchers gave half of them activity monitors. they measured energy the theory was devices would lead to greater weight loss. the strategy didn't work. >> it's possible that people started to rely on the technologies, wearable tech nology a little more than they should have at the expense of paying better attention to their diet. >> reporter: in other words achieving a fitness goal is not an excuse for overindulging at meal time. to be fear both groups lost weight over the two-year study period.

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>> jadiann: tonight the series finally premiers right after the voice on nbc >> happy birthday to you. ? >> jadiann: a shared 36th birthday is the tie that binds the characters in the new drama this is us. >> as time goes on, you start to see what happens. without giving it away it's a lovely reveal that they're connected in beyond their birthday. >> it's really. >> reporter: fresh off his emmy win for the people versus o.j.simpson steal kate brown plays randal. family man who find the father he never knew. >> having lost my father when i was 10 it was a really easy point of connection for me to enter into randial's journey. >> reporter: a different journey a starting for jack and rebecca.

naturally chart the course and trajectory of a marriage. >> reporter: it is a roller coaster for the show's other characters, too. >> you want to be -- >> reporter: one that reveals how they're linked beyond a mere birthday. >> it was a genius way of revealing the stories of all these characters. >> reporter: something the cast hopes becomes appointment television. >> you want to meet your grandchildren? >> the idea people will watch to see what happens to these people in their lives but also be able to talk about the surprise the next day. could turn the summer's hot trailer -- ? >> reporter: into the fall's big hits. all right. this is us premiers tonight at 10:00 pm even following ""the voice". much more to come in the next 90 minutes, i'm jadiann thompson. >> ryan: i'm ryan schulteis. >> adam: breaking news, boston police addressing the controversial actions of an

phone. >> kim: shooting at faxwoods. >> adam: on their radar what policage the f.b.i. may have known about a many booing suspect two years before eight tax that injured two dozen people. a new development after a terror takedown. >> reporter: sunshine for the next couple of days. >> kim: patriots preparing for a kick turn around and the possibility of putting the ball in the hands of another new quarterback. >> adam: breaking up. brad pitt breaking his silence on the split. >> announcer: 7 news at 5:00 starts now. >> kim: we begin with breaking news. an investigation clearing a boston police officer of excessive force. this is video of the incident that happened back in may. today the police commissioner saying it does not tell the whole story. witnesses say the officer didn't slam the air ledged victim to the ground -- the alleged victim to the grounds. >> adam: let's get to tim

headquarters on the phone with more wreak details fours. >> reporter: the press conference wrapped up a while ago, that was an internal investigation that took the better part of the summer to complete due to fact in part that the alleged victim in the case, the pedestrian, who smacked the offduty officer's car with his umbrella took about five weeks to give a statement to police. the commissioner saying late this afternoon their investigation showed that there was absolutely no excessive fd with the offduty officer and the pedestrian who crossed paths at boylston street and arlington street back in may of this year. that offduty officer was making a right turn when the pedestrian was running across and believe he had had the right of way and the officer cut him off so he banged the back window with list umbrella. the commissioner said that the officer thought the window was broken which