ride turns dangerous when it hits a live wire. >> anchor: we continue to follow breaking news first at 5:30 of the gloucester police chief has been fired following an internal investigation. he was placed on administrative leave back in september. >> anchor: today gloucester's mayor anowing he is no longer with the city. leonard campanello is off the job this evening accused of destroying evidence contained on a cell phone and lying to investigators. and internal investigation into the chief and depa launched in september after two women made allegations about inappropriate behavior during the investigation the mayor of gloucester said the chief devoid evidence and misled investigators but campanello's attorney says this is a witch-hunt. i have lost confidence in the chief a result of his actions and destroying evidence contained on the cell phone, especially in deceiving this city by sitting that other employees of the gloucester police department had broken into his office and had mailed a

when in fact he had done so himself. >> anchor: the chief is disappointed by this decision and strongly believes it is without justification. this investigation has been a witch-hunt from the beginning and the reasons given by the city for term naturing the contract had nothing to do with the original inquiry they were conducting. >> anchor: the mayor says there is another ongoing investigation into another officer in the department that involved complaints from a woman and by the way campanello's attorney is saying that the violates the chief's contract rights. we'll have much more coming up at 6:00. >> anchor: also on 7, the wilmington school committee will meet tonight to discuss alarming allegations against the school superintendent. police say superintendent mary dely was arrested in late ought for an oui in salem. you can see her in this video from i aschool committee meeting last year just a couple of weeks before her arrest. a wilmington high school physical education teacher was arrested for domestic assault. that teacher return to work after a few days of paid

decision that had many parents upset. the wilmington school committee released a statement saying that we just became aware of the situation. we'll issue an official statement after our meeting monday night. >> anchor: a driver charged with hitting a massachusetts state trooper following the patriots game makes a court appearance today. jose perez rodriguez accused of hitting the trooper while riding his motorcycle the wrong way on route 1 near gillette stadium. the 25-year-old everett resident appearing in wr perez rodriguez was released from beth israel deaconess medical center last night and take mean custody accused of reckless operation. he was held on more than $5,000 bail. this crash happened in foxboro after the game last night. police tried to stop their suspect for driving his motorcycle for driving erratically and police say that's when he sped off going the wrong way on route 1. the injured looper tried to stop perez rodriguez at a parking lot near the stadium when he was hit

motorcycles while they were approaching them they were commenting on whether motorists thanked troopers for approving the motorcycles in reference to the continual revving. when they approach the motorcycles set in notion for them to pull out of the left-hand lane so they could speak with them the male operator subsequently identified as the defendant began to pull his motor cycle into the break down lane. as this motorcycle pulled off to the side, the the defendant making the turn and quickly accelerating. after accelerating the motorcycle began traveling southbound in the northbound travel lanes. >> anchor: that trooper by the way is a captain in the department. he is recovering and is expected to be okay. state police investigating after a deadly car wreck in wrenn dove. this crash happened just before mid night last night on a ramp from route 93 south. investigators say the car flipped over that guardrail. you can plainly see it.

>> anchor: the data recorder recovered from a commuter train crashed last week in new jersey will not help in the investigation. the event recorder was retrieved from the wrecked train in who broke own friday. now the nntsb is saying device didn't work. they are try retrieve a second black box. a train rapid threw a passenger concourse killing one woman and leaving more than 100 others hurt. >> anchor: the family of a six-year-old boy who died is prepared to say good-bye to their super kid as they like to call him i'm super hero funeral is in the works for jacob paul with the service plan for wednesday morning. the family says paul bearers will dress as super heros and are encouraging everyone who attends to dress up as a superhero too. jake obalso dressed as his favorite batman. jacob was one of two students shot outside the townville ethe reschool last wednesday. a teacher watts also shot in the

charged with also killing his father before going on that shooting spree. >> anchor: jury selection is under way in the murder trial of a man accused of leaving his toddler in a holt car. j us tin ross harris said the death of his 22-month-old son was a traffic accident. the prosecution believes he purposely left the child in that hot suv in georgia back in june of 2014. officials say harris strapped his son, cooper a rear facing car seat and left hip inside of hoursharris's attorney said he didn't notice his son until it was too late. this trial is expected to last for several weeks. a man shot and kill after a police chase in los angeles over the weekend. protestors immediately began to gather at the scene and police guarded that area. police say the shooting happened after officers attempted to pull over a car they believe may have been stolen. 18-year-old man was pronounced dead 2 scene. the shoot is under investigation spot state of ohio said it plans to implement new death penalty

the new execution policies will be announced they say at the end of the week and they would involve the use of new combination of drugs for lethal injection. and there are at least three scheduled executions in ohio that will be affected. tomorrow representing death row inmates a say they will foil a new challenge to this almost feed immediately. >> anchor: a driver narrowly missing a people. the driver was leaving a coffee and car show when they hit the gas and spun out of control no. one was hurt. witnesses say if it wasn't for the curb stopping the cars momentum the incident could have been even worse. >> anchor: out of control driver goes off the road and right if a retirement home. this car crashed into the wall of the home in florida sunday morning, made it 3/4 of the way into that building. no one in the home was hurt. the driver did have to go to the hospital. some texas residents woke up frustrated over the weekend to find a home blocking their street. the house was set to be moved on

and power lines and the moving company just left it there all weekend. residents say they aren't sure why anyone would move the house in the first place. well, leave it where it is and fix it up and make it nice rather than taking it outside of the city. >> anchor: the house became a huge inconvenience for the neighborhood obviously causing detours and frustration. authorities have yet to say if the company responsible for the move will face any penalty or citation. >> anchor: hundreds of people had to evacuate from the western pa erupts. this is obviously video from actually out in new mexico that was video interest that. we're talking about a volcano of that video later on tonight. that wasvideo from that scary scene in that balloon fest when it hit pot remember lines there. they did have some incidents there ahead on 7 news at 5:00 we'll have much more about this international balloon festival in the trouble on the wires there.

deadly police involved shooting in lynn. why officers say they were forced to fire. >> anchor: plus, tom brady is back. patriots nation ready to see their favorite qb on the field. we'll have much more all coming up right here on 7 news. capital one believes your bank should work for you, not the other way around. so capital one reimagined banking... ? with a place that feels nothing like a bank.

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i just want what's best for my kids. when i hear arguments that massachusetts needs more charter schools, i think: what about the students in all of our schools? every new charter takes away more money from the existing public schools. that's 400 million dollars, just last year. we can't afford to drain even more money from our kids' schools because they're already losing so much. i'm not just standing up for my own kids; i'm fighting for yours, too. please join me in voting no on question 2. >> anchor: two people hurt

telephone wires or power lines is a hot air balloon. >> anchor: it happened in new mexico where the albuquerque international balloon fiesta is happening. sara french has more. >> anchor: this cell phone video shows the moment this balloon hit power lines in new mexico sunday morning. you can see crews on the scene working to clear it out. the balloon was draped over the power lines. i saw the balloon hang off the wires. >> anchor: 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 and that crash but it's an clear how serious her injuries are. we had reported an injury that somebody got burned maybe by the tank itself. >> anchor: you can see the outside of the basket. crews arrived and say they had to replace about four feet of electrical lines to restore

investigation. and new mexico state police also helping. there is no word yet on how serious the injuries are for victim of the first balloon crash. in the newsroom, ara french, 7 news. >> anchor: coming up on 7 news at 5:30 surf is up. k-9's going crazy out on waves. >> anchor: nice to see the sunshine for us once again so will it be sticking around for the rest of the week? plus we'll talk about the latest on hurricane matthew coming up next. >> anchor: yes, speaking of matthew at 6:00 we do have the and its potential threat to our east coast. >> anchor: we continue to follow breaking news here at home. gloucester's police chief fired. we'll hear from the mayor and chief's attorney when we come back. >> anchor: 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 sheryl fiandacca exposes these problem poles tonight at 11:00.

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>> anchor: the surfers are hanging 16. yes, that's because unlike people most dogs have 16 toes, 80 dogs competed in a surfing contest in california yesterday. the 11th annual surf dogthon there took place at the dog beach in delmar. the contestants doggie paddled, wiped out and with the help of their two legged friends surfed the waves. you see a lot of love out. there you see people that made these dogs not only pets but true family members and they do see. >> anchor: a local animal tschetter runs that annual event. that is great video there seeing them on the surfboard. >> anchor: it's really only hang 8 because it would only be the front paws. i didn't though hang ten is because you curl your toes over the front of the board. good i'm glad i wasn't the only one. are you a surfer bri? say got a bad grade in college and i had a surfing class it college. not sure about hang ten of i have to look into that. where did you go? >> reporter: exactly, right?

how about the return of the sunshine for us today? nights to break out of that gloom we had hanging around with us and i think for the rest of the week we get more sunshine to enjoy for us. watching matthew of course but if we get any impact or we feel any of matthew's effects it won't be until next weekend. we'll cover that in more detail. how about current temperatures still holding on to 70. fitchburg, nashua, 62 in boston, 65 norwood right now. warmed up today about the warmest temperatures that we've seen in almost a week so it nice to break out of it all. now we do have some showers that are moving through but they are mainly this central and western mass and we want to take a close are look at some of the cells and vet them. not any lightning showing up with this at this point in the outer route 2 corridor but these cells are popping up and they can drop a lot of rain. i saw a report of one and 3/4 of an inch that fell in warren with just one of those cells that passed through the area. i think if you are inside of 495

this activity through the overnight hours. that line kind of sliding to the west of us and then into tomorrow we do have to deal with the on shore flow bringing in the clouds, bringing in the mist and drizzle. could be a light shower from time to time. now don't let that get you down because as we get into tuesday afternoon we get the sunshine back with us and as i mention before we keep it around for the better part of the work week. mostly cloudy overnight tonight, patchy fog, 50 to 54 so temperatures not all that cold and then into tomorrow it's a little cooler than it w afternoon to get the sunshine back in here after some early morning fog and drizzle. highs tomorrow as i mentioned just a touch cooler than where we were today in the upper 50's worcester and then into the lower 60's with that on shore wind keeping things cool. it's not a wind, more of a breeze. northeasterly breeze ten to 5 miles per hour at times especially along the coastline. headed to the fair all this week into the weekend looking really good especially as we get into the middle of the week,

sunshine, warming temperatures, even into the mid 70's and as i mentioned before, if we feel any effects from hurricane matthew it won't be until next weekend. here is where the storm is right now. not moving very quickly, tracking north at about 7 miles per hour. winds 140 miles per hour. it is still a category four storm and if you remember last friday it was a category five hurricane at a point. the strongest we had in the atlantic basin since 2070. that was hurricane felix. now pass cuba as we get into tuesday, then into the bahamas by wednesday, thursday even this is a slow moving storm as i mentioned and then it starts to gape momentum. as it travels north it will encounter cooler ocean water and also more sheer but not a whole lot of land to tear it aare the part so unfortunately there is not a lot that's acting against this storm to get it to weaken. so we're still the a category three which is a major hurricane by the time we make it into the earned of the week at least

hurricane center and it is looking more likely at least with this more recent update to impact the coastline of the southeastern united states. so we're going to have to tick a very close eye to this storm throughout the next few days, past four or five days out though things become very unclear and you can see how all of these different forecast models we call it a spaghetti getty plot just die like noodles and a lot of them are taking it it out to sea and a some of them are bringing rr timing on that won't be until next weekend. it's a couple hands in a whole deck of cards but it will clear itself up i guess as woe get into later this week. see you in a bit. >> anchor: the boss helps a little boy out of trouble that boy skipped school to see a bruce springsteen concert. >> anchor: the singer went the extra mile trying to make sure he didn't get sent to the principal's office. the boy shared his story with reporter sara small. still alive, okay.

day at the person stein household playing a little ball, talking sports. phillies are my first and national in second. >> reporter: but now the has kind of shifted. ben said daddy that's bruce springsteen. what was it like to meet him? i gave hmm a hug, said hy birthday, boss. he said let's take a picture. ben's dad, luke, is a springstein super fan. i have seen him in concert 27 times. >> reporter: so when they have the chance to meet him last wee. tell me how fun it was. soun >> reporter: it's something you just don't pass up. but what about picture day at school? i thought maybe if we can get him to sign the note it would be really cool and something that we can have. he said i don't have a pen. daddy gave him a pen and he signed it and he said anything for you, ben. >> reporter: while describing the experience of meeting the boss ben is a boy of few words. giving him a hug. why was that your favorite part?

>> reporter: just because it was cool. yeah. >> reporter: pretty cool. but his dad knows this is a day off well spent. to be so kind to our son i would just like to say thank you it was wonderful. thank you boss! >> anchor: they are so little. we haven't heard anything out of the school so we're thinking meeting bruce springsteen got them an excuse from school. >> anchor: the season premiere of snl turned out continue a rating success. my microphone is broken. she brokit with obama, she and obama stole my microphone. this etook it to kenya. they took my microphone to kenya they broke it and now it's broken. >> anchor: it earned the show's best premiere rating in 8 years. season 42 began with this skit poking fun at last week's debat. >> anchor: mark wahlberg didn't take the top spot at the box office it. came in second behind the home for peculiar children which brought in $28.5 million.

"magnificent 7" dropped to third with more than 150 million. >> anchor: next on 7 news at 5:30 what would you do if could you go back in time? where would you go? we have a preview of the new nbc show called timeless. premiering tonight. >> anchor: at 6:00 breaking news. theser it police chief is off the job fired after an internal investigation. >> anchor: preparing for anything. hurricane matthew barreling toward land. could it make it up the east coast? >> anchor: and the wait it over. tom brady back in serving his deflategate suspension. look at this steak, just sitting there, taunting you. what's worse? it's not alone.

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>> anchor: nbc rolling you a brand new show that will take you back in time. >> anchor: it's called timeless and makes its history with adventure. you are telling me this guy actually went back in time? for real, to the harry sinden berg? >> anchor: it's up to a whip smart historian, scientist and he unravels the past in the new drama "timeless" they are just mere mortals thrown into this epic adventure to save the world. like whoever gets asked to do this? >> reporter: the trio is forced to use a second hand time machine for the chase. you might want to hold on. because bad guy hijacks the newest one and while tracking him down they have to be careful not to change history.

and sometimes it affects it greatly and sometimes it affects it, you know, in most minimalist way possible. >> anchor: for the timeless premiere producers recreated the 1937 crash the hundred den berg. eric rick and john said you will never be bored if you do this and it is, yes, it's happening. >> reporter: future adventures include a visit to ford's theater the night president lincoln was shot. it's a genre show based in time travel but really at the core human interaction and emotion. 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 on 7 nbc. the night starts with an all new episode of the voice at 8:00 then timeless premiers at 10:00 and catch up on all of the day's had lines with the night team on 7 news at 11:00. >> anchor: stay right there for

>> anchor: a police chief off the job, fired and accused of destroying evidence but his fight isn't over yet. the latest update on hurricane matthew as the storm continues to move to the north. >> reporter: brady's suspension is over and the pats qb is back in action. taxes taking their toll on trump. sparks fly ahead of tomorrow's vice presidential debate and hold your nose the air flower in bloom that's causing a stink. >> anchor: we are following breaking news. the gloucester police chief fired. the mayor making the announcement this afternoon after an internal investigation. so we knew the chief was on administrative leave last month. >> anchor: the mayor said the chief destroyed evidence and lied. kelly o'hara live in gloucester with the breaking details. the mayor says the chief

lied to investigators. but the chief's attorney said tonight this is nothing more then a modern stay witch-hunt. the chief's actions are entirely unethical and unacceptable. does father's police chief off the job tonight fired after an internal investigation. the city's mayor says this all began last month when two women made allegations against leonard campanello. during the labor day weekend my office received communications from a woman who made disturbing allegations regarding chief campanello's behavior during relationship. she expressed concerns for her safety. on september 9, another woman contacted this office and state that she had concerns about an alleged relationship between the chief and a third woman. >> anchor: but the mayor said it wasn't the complaints of those women that led to campanello's termination. she said during the investigation the chief allegedly destroyed cell phone evidence and lied to investigators about someone stealing his cell phone. integrity is a number one requirement of our police officers and especially of the

chief. >> reporter: campanello reaching national acclaim and honored by the white house after developing the angel program which puts heroin addicts in treatment instead of behind bars. to date, the chief says he has put more than 500 addicts this treatment through his attorney the chief said he will fight for his job. the chief is disappointed by this decision and strongly believes it is without justification. this investigation has been a witch-hunt from the beginning and the reasons given by the city for terminating the the original inquiry they were conducting. >> anchor: now there is another investigation tonight to another police officer also for allegations of inappropriate behavior. the mayor said she will not comment at all on that. as for the chief he has 30 days to appeal his firing. all his attorney would say though is that they held his contract was in violation several times. in gloucester tonight, kelly o'hara, 7 news.