>> anchor: first here at 4:30 we're follow breaking news out of gloucester. major has fired the city's police chief following an te administrative leave back in september. mate i don't remember says he erased information on a cell phone during that investigation and intentionally misled investigators. now the attorney for chief campanello released a statement that says in part this investigation has been a witch-hunt from the beginning and the reasons given by the city for terminating the contract had nothing to do with the original inquiry. they were condug there. the chief intends to hold the city of gloucester to its contractual obligations despite the fact throughout this process

care about his contractual rights. >> anchor: also today a man called to court. police say he hit a state trooper with his motorcycle outsight of gillette stadium and they say it all happened after yesterday's patriots game. >> anchor: the trooper was rushed to the hospital with some serious injuries. tim caputo live in the newsroom with more on what happened in court today. the prosecutors say this us p was driving dangerously on the very busy route 1 stretch of road long before that state trooper was even hit. that state police with serious head injuries. 25-year-old jose perez rodriguez was arrested after that incident. he is charged with reckless operation of a motor vehicle. prosecutors and witnesses say he was racing at high speeds with another man on a motorcycle weaving in and out of traffic on route 1. an mbta police officer noticed those bikes racing and reported it to other police officers who eventually so you that suspect revving his engines. officers approached them, pulled him over and that is when they

and into oncoming traffic. the trooper then approach the motorcycles. while they were approaching them they comments on whether mo orists stopped in traffic thanking troopers for approaching the motorcycles in reference to the continual revving. when they were approving the motorcycles and motioned for them to pull out of the left-hand lane into break down lane so they could speak with them the mail administrator began to pull his motorcycle into the break as this motorcycle pulled off to the sides, the trooper observed the defendant making the turn and quickly accelerate. after acracing the mo or cycle began thatting southbound and northbound travel lanes. >> anchor: we're told the trooper is is a captain with state police and while they did stay at the hospital overnight because of head injuries he is expected to be okay. live in the newsroom, tim caputo 7 news. >> anchor: a serious car crash in rhode island under investigation. police found that car you can see is just wrapped around a

behind the wheel a pregnant woman thanks to some kind of miracle she manages to walk away without any serious injuries. nicole oliverio reports. a wild ride ends with the mangled crashed car wrapped around a tree. it looked like somebody planted the tree in the car. >> reporter: rhode island fire fighters fearing the worst when they arrived on scene. the passenger side of that car was just literally folded right around the tree. you couldn't see the trunk of the tree at all. >> reporter: despite the damage, the broken nose and fire fighters say she wasn't exact lealone in the car. she was also 15 weeks pregnant and everything was fine. it was amazing. >> reporter: rescuers say the expectant mother hydroplaned, smashed into a jersey barrier then spun out taking out a steel utility pole, sliding down an embankment then slammed into this tree. fortunately she was wearing her

pulling up on scene and seeing what i saw then the outcome, it was, i was very relieved. >> reporter: nicole oliverio, 7 news. >> anchor: rhode island hoping to be the replacement state for the march madness n.c.a.a. game. they were pulled from north carolina. the n.c.a.a. said they work to promote an inclusive atmosphere for all college athletes. >> ancho jury selection is under way as the murder trial begins for georgia toddler left in a hot car. the father's name justin ross harris, there he. is heclaim the death of his 22-month-old son was a tragic accident but the prosecution believes harris was unhappy in his marriage and purposely left the child in the back of an suv for hours in june of 2014. this trial is expected to last several weeks. >> anchor: a betting caught on

kicking and hitting a california highway patrol car in fresno. now police have made several arrests since then and now they say they are going to crack down on the dangerous sideshows that started it all. dash cam individual shows the scene unfold as a highway patrol officer drives up on a crowd of about 80 people who police say were catching sideshows. the officer wants up doing do nuts and tries to get the driver to turn off the car. but the driver takes off. the officer gets black moo his car and that's when it turns violent. >> reporter: the officers struggles to get away as his doors are kicked and car windows

this was absolute anarchy on the part of those individuals that were vandal iding the vehicle with him inside and i have no doubt and the officer gotten out of that vehicle they would have attacked him. >> anchor: police have arrested they men so far including the driver of that tahoe, officials have also identified another suspect seen in the dash cam video kicking the suv but he is still wanted. i think they can do things and get away with it when there arular numbers of people around. dash cams and our officers wearing body worn camera video, they are not going to get away with it. >> anchor: we're learned that officer was not hurt in the attack. >> anchor: caught on camera in texas, a driver narrowly missing crowd of people. the driver was leaving a coffee and cars show in houston when he hit the gas, spun out of control driving up on to the curb. no one was hurt but witnesses say if that curb hadn't been there momentum and this whole

camera, scary sight in new mexico, one hot air balloons come crashing down right on top of some to power lines. the scene playing out as someone recorded the entire thing and crash not only put people in the balloon at risk but knocked out power to the entire area. sara french has much more. this cell phone video shows the moment this balloon hit power lines in new mexico sunday morning. you can see crews on the e the balloon was draped over the power lines, two people were hurt. i saw the balloon hang off the wire. that man saw another balloon land on power lines on the highway not long after the first incident. fire officials say a woman was injured in that crash but it's unclear how serious her injuries are. we had a reported injury that somebody got bushed maybe by the tank itself. >> anchor: you can see the outside of the basket. crews arrived and say they had

electrical lines to restore power to the surrounding area. the faa is leading the investigation. and new mexico state police also helping. there is no wore yet on how serious the injuries are. for the victims of the first balloon crash. in the newsroom, i'm sara french 7 news. >> anchor: also on 7, a tree yearly boy in wise ton sin found safe and sound. he was lost in a corn field for nearly 24 hours. more than 400 volunteers helping to search for this saturday afternoon.. hundreds of volunteers, hours of searching, acres upon acres of corn fields. it was like finding a needle in a haystack. and almost a full day after the boy went missing the search was over. he is drinking water, he is eating, she doing okay.. it took two and a half, three hours looking in the field and we stumbled upon him. >> reporter: the plan who found him said after spending

acres of corn everything starts to look the same and he just couldn't about every his eyes when he found the boy. even register really that how amazing it was just glad that he was sitting up and he looked safe and he looked fine of he was just scared. very scared. >> reporter: when he pick him up his legs were cold, he didn't speak and he was scared. i kept real quiet because i figured he was still shaking from being alone all night. >> anchor: it wasn't just the effort of on more than 450 people registered to help search the turning area. this community is like family. everybody knows everybody and we look out for everybody else. i asked my wife if she thought i should come if they need any help. she said well if it were your kids how many people would you want to come? i came right away. >> reporter: the community turning a terrifying moment for one small boy in a celebration. a group effort. everybody pitched in and

disappeared after wandering away from his brother and by the way specially trained dogs and a helicopter were also used in that search. >> anchor: ahead on 7 news under arrest. it was a wish come true as a woman gets to sit in the back after you list car for the first time as she checks that experience off her bucket list. >> anchor: and ahead on 7 news at 5:00, talking about hurricane matthew causing major trouble in the caribbean. residents there bringing for more strong winds and heavy rai. >> anchor: we are following breaking news. the mayor of gloucester firing the city's police chief today information off the cell phone during the city investigation. the chief says there is no justification for the city to fire him. much more as the story develops. >> anchor: tonight thousands of utility poles across massachusetts leaning and life-threatening. i thought that my daughter was going to die. >> reporter: so why aren't they being fixed? sheryl fiandacca exposes these

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she is not who you would expect to see under arrest, placed in the back of a police patrol car but that feisty 10 yearly woman actually volunteered to be arrested this weekend. >> anchor: she says that ride made her able to check one off the bucket list. jonathan hall with her story. >> anchor: as the cruiser pulled up to the five star senior center in south st. louis it was not public enemy number one inside but 102. did you handcuffs and all. >> anchor: we're more than happy to participate in these types of thing. we love it. we get more out of it than seniors do. >> anchor: that's right. the little old liddy from st. louis fulfilled a back seat bucket list wish in her 102 years on this earth she had never set foot in the back of a police car until now. keep going. don't ever stop. whatever it is you are doing and

service. because sometimes the people that you reach out and touch is the only person that they will talk to in a day. >> anchor: last year she sewed and stitched about 400 handmade items for the folks of this center. i made my first dress that was wearable, not saying it was good but i wore it to school when i was about ten years old. here we have a seni just think that's the neatest thing. >> anchor: and she celebrated a birthday but has no plans of slowing down. 25 of september. you can tell what my folks were doing on christmas before. they were making babies. by midday, it was back to bingo where everyone got a handmade item to take home courtesy of 102-year-old edie sim ms and some free advice. it's a great world if you

it. >> anchor: i'm jonathan hall, 7 news. >> anchor: coming up a saturday night success. the new season of snl premiering it a major audience. >> anchor: ahead on 7 news at 5:00, bri's forecast. we have to get to the forecast of course all eyes on hurricane matthew and what it could mean for us. we'll have those details next. >> anchor: plus, also at 5:00, a scary situation for a reality tv star. so what happened to kim kardashian while she was staying the a hotel we'll be right back. special interests that oppose question 2 claim district schools lose money to charter schools. that's "absurd," says the boston herald. "outright lies," reports the lowell sun. charter schools "don't siphon off state dollars" from traditional schools, says the boston globe. in fact, public schools get more money. the truth is question 2

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weekend but we need every drop we can get and this gets us off to a very good start for the month of october so far. it's been a long time since we've been above average. i get it. it's just a couple of days until object. we still have a long way to go. we are still in the extreme drought conditions. you can see that in the red area here stretching back through worcester county and including all of inside of 495. but there are some showers that are working through parts of the commonwealth at this time. broke out the sunshine for a time, inside of and islands even got the sunshine today but some of these cells are proving to be a little stronger. we even had some lightning reported with this one. i want to take a closer look at. just to the south of weare and running a long the mass pike this does have heavy rainfall associated with it, couple of reports of lightning and there is a possibility for some small hail within these cells that is so cold upstairs that it is a possibility to see some of those small hail pebbles or even

of these cells are moving sort of north to south, very slowly and then they will become a non-issue as we head past sunset tonight and into the overnight hours. we keep the clouds around through the overnight hours and into tomorrow morning. a little gloomy, a little drizzly. we're used to that, right? we get sunshine back heading into late tuesday and keeping around for really the rest of the workweek so for tomorrow cloudy to partly sunny, early fog, drizzle, 59 to 64. touch cooler than our temperatures today. perhaps topsfield fair looking fantastic really all throughout this week until friday. still some big question marks for the weekend of course because of hurricane matthew. still a category four hurricane, 140 mile-per-hour winds and moving very slowly to the north at about five, six miles per hour. expecting to make a big impact on haiti and cuba as we get through the day tomorrow. still as category four hurricane and category three tracking through the bahamas. now this is the latest track

it is taking that track closer to the coast of the carolinas but you have to remember the cope of uncertainty gets larger as we get four, five days out and the larger the cone of uncertainty, the more uncertainty there is. so we're keeping an eye on all of the latest runs of the forecast models, some of them bringing up the coast and bringing into southern new england and others take it safety owl to sea. both of those things still on table for us that's why i say big question marks on the fo like timing saturday, sunday and into columbus day which is this coming monday. >> anchor: all right, thank you bri, here is matt fitzgerald. good afternoon, really tough on 128 south just south of the mass pike. that's where we are right now. we had an earlier crash that just cleared a few moles ago but now you can see we're dealing with some residual delays. you will be jammed back about four miles the northbound side of 128 is moving well. the leverett connector is heavy

slow on the northbound side. it will be heavy right out of the o'neill tunnel through medford southbound side of the zakim is moving well into the tunnel. tough going on the expressway south over on the right hand side of your screen trying to leave the city this afternoon. you will be jammed from the o'neill tunnel down past south bay then down to the braintree split over on the northbound side you will be really heavy as you approach the tunnel. we'll check the drive time on the expressway from the o'neill tunnel to the braintree split. a 28 minute drive. i'm malt mat fitzgerald, 7 news> rating success. my microphone is broken. she broke it with obama. she and oh bam grey stole my microphone to kenya and they broke it and now it's broken. >> anchor: it earned the show's best rating in years. season 42 began with this skit poking fun at last week's presidential debate. >> anchor: still on 7 this evening, get ready to travel back in time.

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you are telling me this guy went back if time for real to the harry sinden berg? >> reporter: up a wind chill smart historian, scientist and soldier to catch that guy before he unravels the past in the new drama timeless. they are just mere mortals thrown into this especially you can adventure to save the world. like who ever gets asked to do that? the trio's forced to use a second hand time machine for the chase. you might because the bad guy hijacks the newest one and while tracking him down they have to be careful not to change history. how much does any little thing we do affect the future? and sometimes it affects it greatly and sometimes it affects it, you know, in most minimalist way possible. for the timeless premiere producers recreated the 1937 crash the hundred den berg. they said you will never be

say it's happening. >> reporter: future adsent thursday include a visit to ford theater. it's bayed in time travel but at the core it's about characters in human interaction and emotion. >> reporter: cast and crew are hoping adventures in the past. my favorite would be a moon landing. will give timeless a bright future. sara french, 7 news. >> anchor: you can catch that premiere tonight here on 7 nbc. the night starts with an all new episode of the voice at 8:00 catch up on all of the day's headlines here on 7 news at 11:00. >> anchor: much more news in the next hour and a half. 7 news at 5:00 starts right now. >> anchor: breaking news. the gloucester police chief fired. what prompted the city to take action. >> anchor: also a show of deadly force in lynn. why officers opened fire killing a man. >> anchor: then hurricane matthew approaches haiti, several island nations in the path of this dangerous storm. we'll check in on the latest

matthew as it moves to the north. will it impact our area. >> anchor: plus argue long awaited return. tom brady back and putting his four game suspension behind him. >> anchor: a scare for a reality shore star. kim -- nan west held at gun point. in you details emerging about the robbery in paris. we do begin with breaking news first at 5:00. the gloucester police chief fired after an initial investigation found he may have destroyed evidence on cell phone. so the chief was on administrative leave back in september but no one ever said why. >> anchor: today an attorney for the chief spoke about these allegations of kelly o'hara live in gloucester with the latest on this breaking story. kelly? the chief's attorney said this is nothing more then a modern day witch-hunt. he found out first thing the chief is now off the job. during the labor day weekend my office received communication from a woman who made disturbingal gays regarding chief campanello's behavior

safety. on september 9 another woman contacted this office and statted she had concerns about an alleged relationship between the chief and a third woman. >> reporter: two women making complaints against gloucester's police chief leonard campanello. both makingal cases of inappropriate behavior. those complaints launching an internal affairs investigation by the city and into the police department and the chief. but during that investigation the mayor alleges the chief destroyed cell phone evidence and lied to investigatan him. integrity is the number one requirement of our police officers and especially of the chief of police. i have lost confidence in the chief. >> reporter: campanello reaching national acclaim and honored by the white house after developing the angel program which puts heroin addicts into treatment instead of behind bars. through his attorney the chief says earlier he will fight his termination. the chief is adissa pointed by this decision and strongly believes it is without justification. this investigation has been a