>> anchor: trouble for the t after this picture surfaces showing a worker laying face down in the mbta's money room and there is cash spread out on a table nearby. >> anchor: now t and the worker was never identified. byron barnett reports. this veilants photo inside the mbta money room shows a t employee sprawled out face down on the floor behind a wall. and you can see cash scattered on a nearby table. the picture was taken into february. it also appears to show another t worker off to the right. the mbta released the photo as it pushes for privatizing its fare collection system.

handled by the boston carmen's union which counts 142 million a year in that money room. the mbta called the photo troubling and released a statement saying there is no logical reason for a transit system to be in the cash handling business. governor baker agrees. the t should focus on doing the things it does well and in situations like the money room where there are other people who are much better at it than the t is, we should talk to them about having them provide us with that service union wouldn't cotton picture because it said that employee laying down is not one of its members. a spokesperson said the union speculates the two individuals in the photo may be t managers or supervisors. the carmen's union is fighting the state's efforts to outsource work to count fares. just yesterday it released a statement saying it's nothing more continue a distraction from the fact that they have failed to make the necessary investments to provide more reliable service to riders and

said it may go to court if the t doesn't come to the negotiating table on this. but the t ask pushing forward saying it expects to have a proposed contract for the cash handling operations next month. in the newsroom, i'm byron barnett, 7 news. >> anchor: also here on 7 police in hanson still searching for two suspects wanted in connection with a robbery. take a look at the picture of one of suspects on the loosement officials say a woman called police hen she noticed four men in her backyard yesterday morning and when police arr sweatshirts ran off. police were able to catch two suspects and they appeared in court today. now prosecutors say one of the suspects was armed with a gun, a crowbar and plastic gloves when he was arrested. inside the home there investigators found a safe full of cash and drugs. the suspect's lawyers say these are just allegations. my client has no criminal record and he never missed a court date so at this time they are just allegations. if he has no criminal record how can he never have

he has never been convicted. he has never been convicted. all cases he had which are very few have been dismissed. he always has appeared to court. >> anchor: both suspects in custody being held without bail until their court hearing that will happen next week. police in braintree searching for suspects after a night at the movies takes a violent turn. they say two men were stabbed in a movie materiality passing lot it. happened after 7:00 in the parking lot of the amc braintree movie theater. the victims both from hingham were taken to the hospital wi >> anchor: boston police are accepting for a sexual assault suspect police say he attacked a woman in gay head and mendon street just before 2:00 thursday morning. detectives say she was walking down the street early thursday morgue when a masked man carrying a gun approached her. the alleged victim told police the suspect took her phone and forced her into a backyard where he sexually assaulted her. the home has been vacant for months now. no one saw the attack. a couple is recovering after they were hit about a tow truck in newton center. it happened on beckoned street

were in the crosswalk when the truck hit them. the driver stayed on the scene, there is no word yet on the conditions of the victims. >> anchor: we are following more news today. former israeli president shimon peres has been laid to rest in jerusalem. dignitaries from around the world including president obama gathered to pay respect to the man who made peace his primary mission. on a hilltop in jerusalem presidents, prime minister and even a prince saying good-bye to shimon peres. his statehi unbreakable bond with the united states of america and so many other countries. >> reporter: 90 des from 70 countries a sign of his impact all across the globe. shimon lived a life of purpose. he soared to incredible heights the former israeli prime minister celebrated a pacemaker. he led to seat talks that led to handshakes between sworn

president bill clinton. he knew exactly what he was doing and being overly optimistic. he knew exactly what he was doing which is dreams. >> reporter: 50,000 israelis filed past his casket thursday. to them he was israel's grandfather. the only arab leader at, a gesture of good will shaking hands with netanyahu. perez was 93 when he died remembered todays afighter, a father and friend. and peres was laid to rest at israel's national cement alongside most of the country's past leaders. >> anchor: wild weather strikes in north carolina. heavy rainfall caused flooding with some places receiving almost 10 inches of rain there were 25 water rescues as you are seeing here. the big concern is for folks living downstream. these are high hazard dams.

adds that additional volume to the one below it to the next one to the next one so you are multiplying the water volume in effect of pressure. >> anchor: so far no injuries have been reported. a violent act caught on surveillance camera in western pennsylvania. police are on the lookout now for a man they say was beating a young child and we want to warn you that some of the video in this story may be disturbing. it's 30 seconds of shocking violence. he would have killed that child right there at that momen. >> reporter: a man beating pennsylvania. at first, the is using his bell. later it appears he is purposing the boy with an upper cut knocking hill to the ground. then getting him up and throwing one more blow before putting him back in the car. this wasn't to correct a child. this was out of just i'm tired of you and i will kill you right here. >> reporter: chad heard the attack outside while he was working at a nearby motorcycle shop. at first, he thought it was just two adults fighting but then he heard the boy screaming.

it and instead saw the boy's face through the back window. the boy's lip was bleeding, his little hand was bloody on the window. the pain and fear, his eyes just were like help me. you know, he just had it all over him. help me. i will do all i can to help that boy. >> reporter: police have been trying to find the boy. they checked with nearby schools to see if any kids have shown up with injuries and followed up on tips but so far nothing has panned out. he believes someone must know what happened and he hopes that person steps forward.>> beat. one of them have to speak up or this child will continue to get beat and that's the sad fact of the matter. >> anchor: police say they believe the boy is between 6 and 9 years old and it's unclear what the relationship is between the man and that boy. >> anchor: two priceless paintings stolen and now found. police in italy say they recovered two van gogh paintings hidden in a farmhouse. they say they were found during a massive investigation into organized crime. art experts determined the

museum via the roof and through the windows and it happened in very, very quickly back then so that's how it happened. 14 years ago. >> anchor: they were among assets worth more in the millions seized from organized crime groups linked to drug trafficking. an nfl player feeling short changed by a local auto shop so when he paid for services he did it if change. it all started when a carolina panthers fullback took his car to the shop to have a new engine instay. well $2,700 but when he went and checked in a few days later the bill had gone up to nearly $4,000. i didn't like the fact they was trying to take advantage of me. he didn't like the fact he said i was penny pitching because i was a millionaire. >> reporter: so the shop's owner said the jump in price was because the machine's friend failed to deliver the car parts in a timely manner. the owner said he would only accept cash or cashier's check when he decided to satisfy the debt in his own way with almost

purpose for a probe launched by the european space agency. scientists spent the or sent the rosetta probe on a collision course with a comet and that's where rosetta will now rest with another probe which landed on the surface in november of 2014. rosetta has been in space for 24 years. >> anchor: dunkin' donuts boat links up its coffee. new england favorite said it would launch making dunkin could nuts ice coffee available nationwide. the new coffee is set to hit stores in 2017. a lot of me happy about that. >> anchor: i still love the experience of going to the coffee shop and getting my coffee. >> anchor: i agree with you. both good. >> anchor: a man trapped and in trouble still ahead how he ended up upside-down in the basement of his own home. >> anchor: backing it up. a heckler at the ryder cup put on the spot. now he showed everyone how it's done.

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say bizarre scene out of michigan of a man caught on trouble dangling up side down in the basement of his home. his head just inches above flood waters. >> anchor: so thankfully his neighbor jumped in before it was too late. christa delcamp has the story. >> reporter being freed from this window by the detroit fire department. police say they thought he was a burglar breaking into this house but it turns out he lives here and lost his keys. so he broke in threw a window wednesday night and tried to climb into the basement, but he got stuck and was hanging upside-down by his ankle. as the rain continued to fall the basement started flooding, inches closing and closer to his head. by lunch time a neighbor started wondering about his whereabouts then went to investigate when he

i guess when he climbed through the window caught his feet and he was upside-down. for a long time. since 1:00 this morning. >> reporter: after being stuck in this peculiar position for 13 hours, the detroit fire department finally rescued him and took him to the hospital. christa delcamp, 7 news. >> anchor: coming up on 7 news heckling his way into the spotlight. how one man left a pro golf just speechless. >> anchor: sports activities happening tonight high school football then sox games through the next few days. it looks like wet weather. we'll get to all of the detail in the next forecast. >> anchor: fire fighters racing to save people stuck on a ride at the big e. we'll show you dramatic video next here at 5:00. >> reporter: healthy habits in the morning can help make you successful through the day. we'll break down some unusual habits that can make you healthier and happier monday morning on today in new england

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>> anchor: pandas are naturally sleepy animals but this one is an exception of the fluffy bear lives at the giant panda research base in china and visitors record the sit ups of the adore will active animal. the panda's work out routine both attracts and amuses crowds who happen to see him trying to get into shape. >> anchor: that's how i look when i'm doing situps. and an adorable group of panda bow at a panda breeding research base in china yesterday ahead of china's national day. oh that's too much cuteness. the research base has almost doubled the number of newborn pandas this year. the international union for conservation of nature recently downgrade the species from endangered to vulnerable on its red list of threatened species so that's some good news and that's just good tv. you can just watch that over and over support wheat just keep showing that video.

>> anchor: just though that all day. >> reporter: i am waiting for someone to make it go viral and chroma key the grown and turn it into pandas flying over your area or something. keep your eye out for it. 59 right now in boston. it will happen this weekend because we are going to spend a lot of time inside and maybe you are getting used to this persistent northeasterly flow for us. wow, those numbers are big. 59 in boston, 57 in bedford. 57 in beverly and we still have that northeasterly breeze. scooping up some ocean moisture and bringing it in for us as some scattered showers. about 15 to 20 mile-per-hour winds. it stays breezy into the overnight as well. and we have the wet weather already working in for us for many of us scattered showers off into worcester county and then you get south of the mass pike and you have some areas seeing some steadier, heavier rainfall. holliston, northbridge as well as franklin and then take it near the south shore and cape cod. plymouth, duxbury getting hit

wellfleet. these spokes of heavier rainfall will continue to kind of rotate through as we head into the overnight hours and through the first part of tomorrow if not through the better part of tomorrow. it does look like the wet weather is going to be hanging around with us saturday even into sunday. i am hoping though that by the time we get into sunday this will break apart to more of a light scattered shower or drizzly feel. heaviest rainfall expected tonight overnight and in through the first part of tomorrow. fenway forecast if you have a through tonight. i would say pack your patience. maybe get a game in but there might be some delays there and so could end up being a very long night. now this is the big every picture showing what's going on of big blue h typically would bring us sunshine that's usually good news for us. unfortunately the flow around the h is bringing in that on mother flow for us and we have this very set up shop here low pressure system near the great lakes, ohio river valley and that's what is going to continue to bring us those spokes of wet

much needed rainfall. we'll take every drop we can get. just a bummer when it happens on a week. game day forecast for the sox as we get into saturday expect those scattered showers, sunday as well, hopefully breaking a part to that patchy drizzle i talked about. patriots forecast as well looking drizzly but we dealt with snow at football games so we can deal with this. we're talking about hurricane matthew. major hurricane, category three storm at this point and it's still intensifying. well, there we go, new as category fur hurricane as it's really chugging here not of columbia. it will make a right hand turn and start to head to the north as we get in through the overnight hours tonight and start to kick off the weekend. what it does after that is still very uncertain and that's why past tuesday and wednesday our forecast is very uncertain. not something i want you to bang on but we will watch it closely. here is a look at your 7 on 7 but sunshine back by the middle

let's get a track of the friday roads. >> reporter: we're busy out there north of town we're flowing over the zakim bridge right now. the southbound side over on your right. you are going to be jammed from the lower deck into the o'neill tunnel. the northbound side moving okay over the bridge, however on the upper deck you will hit the brakes up through medford. now over on route 1 north you are moving slow through saugus. delays begin back by route 16 and go all the way through lynnfield. the southbound side of route 1 moves well all the way into the city. really tough going on the pike west trying to you will be jammed from the allston tolls out to the weston tolls then stop and go from the weston tolls out to 495. the eastbound side of the pike slows down from the weston tolls in toward newton corner. and from downtown boston to the weston tolls going to be a 35 minute drive once you get past that though from the weston tolls to 495 looking at another 36 minutes. a matt fitzgerald. 7 news. >> anchor: serious question. have you ever been like watching a pro athlete on television and thought i could do better than that?

actually back that up except for this guy david johnson. johnson was in the crowd watching the european ryder cup team practice yesterday. rory mcelroy so johnson sort of heckling them. that's when the golfers but $100 on the green and pulled johnson out of the crowd to have him try it and guess what. he nailed it. hole in one. i haven't numbery realized what just happened. overall that was a pretty co puke and hit the putt and it happened to go in. that was cool. >> anchor: the crowd wept nuts. a moment he will never forget. >> anchor: it paid dividends. thank goodness. ahead on 7 news a major milestone one veteran proving

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world war ii veteran with his honor area high school diploma. >> reporter: a sweet surprise for this world war ii veteran who accepted the diploma turned by friends and family. i think it's wonderful. this right here means a whole lot to me. >> reporter: when veteran affairs officer nathan wind bomb learned he didn't get to graduate due to serving in the navy he wanted to help. it's been decades since he something he was pursuing but i wanted to pursue it because he earned it and he served our country. >> reporter: he serve in the u.s. navy from 1943 to '65 during world war ii and reenlisted in 1950 and served during the korean war. after serving admirably he went to work never getting his high school diploma. really impacts their life and that's the reason why i do it. i want to do something nice for

made his day. it made my day. this diploma means everything to me because t the only way i would have gotten it and i appreciate it and everybody that was involved in it. >> anchor: he waited 71 years to get his diploma and said it was definitely worth the wait. in the newsroom, sara french, 7 news. >> anchor: congratulations to him. he deserves that and he has great dance moves. did you see that? >> anchor: he did. good for hi love a good story like that. we have more to come in the next 90 minutes, everyone. i'm jadiann thompson. >> anchor: 7 news at 5:00 starts right now.. the fenway faithful stepping up to the plate to show their pride for papi. the sox slugger playing his last regular season series in boston. 7 news with team coverage of a monster sendoff. >> reporter: cool, damp, breezy and now the rain is moving in. we'll run through the time line. >> anchor: developing tonight. the family of a boy that died at a south boston beach asking for

investigation. what they still don't know. >> anchor: then new questions about the woman at the center of a mystery at sea. her connection to a murder investigation. >> anchor: and piecing together clues from a commuter crash. what could help investigators figure out what went wrong. >> anchor: a monster send off to a sox slugger bigger than bail. this weekend will be the last regular season series for david ortiz at fenway. why the team is prolonging big papi's rematerial because they arhe they are still having quite a bit planned for these last three home games. the 40 yearly has played 20 seasons in the major leagues and the last 14 of those right here in boston. this is a live look right now at fenway where he is said to speak any minute. so we are anxiously awaiting that and when it happens we'll of course bring it right to you. and we will start now with 7's trey daerr who is live at fenway

>> reporter: yeah, guys, just two days after celebrating their first division title in the last three years the red sox are set for a full weekend of celebrations here at fenway in honor of david ortiz as the greatest clutch hitter in franchise history is set to play his final regular season series here in front of a packed house at fenway park. the red sox will honor ortiz in each of the three games this weekend celebrating the countless clutch moments he delivered over the course of his 14 years in a red sox uniform. patch on their jerries and caps in honor of ortiz during all three games, a fitting and proper send off for one of baseball's all-time greats. it will be fun. we're not done yet. i think we have that mind celt but we're going to take the time to honor everything he has done in his career. he deserves it all. it felt like everyone graph stated toward him and whenever i finally got to know him i found out why that is and he is one of