there, we do have a hurricane watch for the east coast of florida and a tropical storm watch rounding from miami south out to the keys because we do anticipate that matthew will continue moving north-northwest through the bahamas over the next 2-3 days. this is the brand new forecast track from the hurricane center. moving through the bahamas as a category 4 storm with wind up around 130 miles an hour. then this has been shifted a little closer now to the florida coastline. friday at 2:00 pm w 115, a major hurricane, category 3 hurricane down from the 4 but considered major hurricane. then it does begin to move northeast just south of wilmington, north carolina, sometime saturday afternoon. this is from the hurricane center again they still do believe perhaps we're talking about a category one hurricane south of nantucket. sunday afternoon at 2:00 pm with winds at 80 miles an hour, you notice the gray shading here including the city of boston, that is the cone of uncertainty meaning that five days away it's

so it may end up in albany new york, and it may end up farther south away from new england. both positions would be considered an accurate forecast. we have a cool front raising across the northern tier of the united states and behind that a large area of high pressure. some of the models are advertising be a eastward shift and even a southward shift. this is the american model, the yellow line indicating well out to that would be about it. then the european model which is a vastly superior model especially when handling tropical systems that loops back south to florida. so from north carolina north all weekend up into new england it's nothing but sunshine. very difficult probably. won't have a bert handle on in until thursday. we'll talk more about that potential and the rest of the forecast in a few minutes. >> kim: look forward to that. we can tell i that the storm

across the caribbean rising waters turning roads to river. haiti is trying to recover from the earthquake that hit six years ago. a storm of this magnitude could have a lasting impact. john cuoco continuing the coverage from our control room. john. >> reporter: this is the strongest hurricane to hit haiti since 1964 battering the beaches with downpours, flooding and high winds. hurricane matthew made land fall tuesday morning as a category 4 storm. winds miles an hour. strongestland atlantic hurricane in nearly a decade. now up to 40 inches of rain could fall and could trigger deadly muddslides. the government has been warning people especially in mountain areas to head to emergency shelters but many have not done so. other nations are preparing for the worst. at signs of matthew crash ashore. >> we got water.

that is all fueled up and the vehicle is fueled up and leave the rest to the good man. >> people getting their gas and getting their fuel -- grocery shopping to get the food. >> reporter: it's forecasted path is headed for the u.s. >> hurricane matthew is a category 4 storm. it's deadly. we cannot take the storm liedly. >> reporter: in florida the governor is urging people along the i-9 5 car dorr from the keys -- jacksonville to prepare now. >> if you think you are going to need to evacuate, do it today. >> reporter: president obama cancelled events there and fema is prepositioning resources there now readingy for the storm. >> we're preparing for worst hoping for the best and we're not going to take any chances. >> ryan: coming up at 6:00 we'll speak with people here in the boston area. worried about friends and loved ones in haiti. john cuoco 7 news.

j.r.continues to track hurricane mathsu. s also on the website get the latest. we're following breaking news right now from lawrence. lawrence police are investigating a murder this evening. it happened around 3:00 on boxford street. a man suffered a single gunshot wound. he was rushed to the hospital. he died. police haven't made arrests but we're covering the story and will bring you more this evening on 7:00. >> reporter: search crews wellesley. steve cooper has more. >> reporter: the body was just pulled from morse's pond. you look behind us and you can see wesley firefighters are still on the scene. they're pulling some of the boats out of the water even as we speak. investigators are telling us the man was a landscaper and apparently he decided earlier this afternoon to take a canoe ride when something wept wrong here.

>> it's scary. >> reporter: a short time ago divers recovered the body of a man hours after his canoe overturned. >> landscaper working here on college road, took a canoe out on to the water. and around 1:00 pm. >> reporter: police say the man in his late 20's early 30s was alone and wasn't wearing a life jacket. other members of the crew realized he was in trouble and called 911. >> one of our plains clothes officers along with another officer an attempt to begin a search until fire department personnel were able to respond. >> reporter: with the help of the state police air wing unit several teams scoured the pond trying to locate the victim. >> it's murky and there is lots of weeds. the weeds grow maybe 4 or 5 feet thick. so that is a big problem if you sink down into this. >> reporter: investigators intervied other members of

out why the landscaper took the canoe out in the first place. >> very tragic situation. very sad. you hate to see this thing happen. >> reporter: divers coming out of the water right now after the recovery was made. a short time ago police are not releasing the victim's name. they won't release it until his relatives have been notified. there is no foul play suspected here but we're told the investigation is g.o.p. ongoing. steve cooper, the white house donald trump meeting with energy executives in denver. trump says his energy plan promises u.s. independent from foreign oil by drilling more and regulating less. hillary clinton is in pennsylvania for a town hall in the philadelphia area. family focused event included an appearance from daughter chelsea along with elizabeth banks. >> ryan: tonight a showdown. this will be the first and

pence will share the debate stage together. a live look inside longwood university where the two candidates will face off tonight. both are seasoned lawmakers but their role tonight is to promote their running mates. >> kim: the v.p.contend remembers tied in the polls when it comes to favorability. jonathan hall is live in farmville, virginia. where the debate will take place. jon? in. >> reporter: kim, it sure is. one recent poll showed that a good chunk of america doesn't knowno these two guys to form an opinion about them. the 90 hint debate tonight should help that. from longwood university here they come. the vice presidential debate four hours away. >> the chairman of clinton campaign came to give us his spin on the debate. democrat timm kaine was asked how he is feeling. >> it's good. you know, i'm calm. i calm. >> reporter: but there

kaine and mike pence have never taken a debate stage with the whole worlds watching. >> i'm look forward to the debate. >> reporter: a virginia man spend $8,000 of his own cash wrapping up his bus -- >> the key to trump is he will surround himself with the best poem and pence was a terrific choice. >> reporter: scott brown is here as a commentator for fox. he expects the indiana governor to do just fine tonight will. there be fireworks? >> i t but i don't think they can pull it o. they're not the fireworks people. they're more of the establishment. >> reporter: clinton team is also confident saying senator kaine is a policy wonk who knows his sufficient and is fast object his feet. >> we certainly respect governor pence will come will some atexas and senator kaine is ready for that. >> reporter: if you are looking for somebody with boston ties in the debate that would be senator kaine. he went to harvard law

there. reporting live in farmville, virginia, i'm jonathan hall, back to you in the studio. >> kim: we know about 84 million people watched clinton and trump in their first debate last week. it won't be as big but there is so much interest in this election, how many people expected to watch tonight? >> well, neilson will be counting. we can be sure it's not going to be 84 million. it may not even be the record for a v remember sarah palin and joe biden, they pulled in 70 million viewers. people watching that debate so probably it will be less than that. back to you. >> kim: thank you. look forward to seeing you later tonight. at 6:00 as well our political editor andy hiller joining us with the does and don'ts for the candidates as they head into tonight's debasement watch the detate tonight right here on 7 news. it starts at 9:00. it's right after a brand new

night team. we'll have reaction and analysis as well as all the day's top stories. >> ryan: after a major scandal in the braintree evidence room a new person is taking over. he formally served as the police chief in stouton. the city hired daniel lynnski to create new evidence room policies. russel jenkins admits that scandal and all of the braintree evie revealed gun, drugsed and hundreds of dollars missing. >> kim: talk about the red sox. gearing up for a play-off push. boston headed into the post-season for the first time in two years. a goal up against cleveland. the indians led by terry francona. alex cordri is live at fenway park. alex. >> reporter: they are. just about 30 minutes ago the red sox were here at fenway park in preparation

in the post-season after back-to-back last plate finishes. >> there is a beauty in this, in any post-season that you take that's there, is no tomorrow. >> reporter: thursday night the red sox begin their post-season run against terry francona and the indians. >> i life tighto i would play for him for seven years. so i'm close and there is guys over there that you are tight with starts, you got to go out there and compete. >> reporter: rick porcello will start game one and he emerged as the ace of the staff. he went 8-1 over his final 11 starts giving up 3 or fewer earned runs in each of the outings. >> he is very prepared. he knows what he wants to do to attack the opposing line-up and he tries to go execute the best he can. he has done that. we know the game plan and we know he is trying to follow

make heads behind him. >> he is in the zone with everything. i'm sure it's going to continue. we have to continue to play defense and score a couple of runs. >> reporter: you would think the sox have the highest scoring phobes in the majors, during the regular season series against the indians, the red sox scored or averaged 5.2 runs per game. live at fenway park, alex corddry, 7 news. >> ryan: tom brady takin best of luck. pats q.b.posting this picture with the message that read in part: it's not too late to change your mind. tom brady may be rooting for the red sox he is focused on getting back in the game. joe amorosino has more on what he is saying about his return. >> reporter: his four-game suspension is in the books but for tom braid they is no time to celebrate. he needs to get up to speed for sunday's game in

have to play catchup. brady confirmed last night on his weekly appearance on west wood 1 radio he was at gillette stadium yesterday making up for lost time. even though offensive coordinator josh mcdone yells proclaimed him "ready to go in a conference call this morning," brady still doublings down on his prep work. >> i haven't played in four weeks. my team mates have been working their butts off. that's what we expect so i'll take the days as they come. i'll need the practices to try to get on the page with all the guys so i'm being looking forward to it. we have a great team and i've great team mates before i love the guys that i play w. they supported me for so long and i support everything they're trying to accomplish. it's what we're trying to accomplish as a team. i love playing in new england. i want to go out there this week and make them all proud. >> reporter: brady was asked if his suspension

returns to the team. his answer i was mote rated 17 years ago and the i'm motivated today. joe amorosino, 7 news. >> ryan: still to corporation explosive scene, gas being blamed for a big blast in new jersey that destroyed two homes. >> kim: at 5:30 a man convicted of murder in salem trying to make his case for parole for a third time. >> ryan: smart phone competition sheeting up. as we compare the bills >> kim: deadly hit-and-run in wareham. police are searching for the driver who lest. >> reporter: iconic diner hit by armed robbers. >> kim: we're staying on top of breaking news out of lawrence. police investigating a murder on boxford street. a man was shot, rushed to the hospital where he died. no arrests made. we're working to get more information and we'll bring it to you as soon as we get it.

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>> reporter: right now a mix of cloud and sunshine. in all honesty a nice stretch of weather the next self days which is good because we can focus on matthew. and you can enjoy the nice stretch perhaps matthew bothers up middle of the weekend. right now it does not look like it's going to be directly affecting our weather. we'll get into that in a second. unfortunately it is affecting them. this is a serious issue here. category 4 storm winds of 140 moving north at 9 miles an hour. so this is the 5:00 pm update from the hurricane center. this is their forecast track. the rid line indicating the certainty of the storm but

a line. it's a bowling ball. so on either side of the line you have the effects. moving through the bahamas as a category 4 storm, 130 miles an hour then east of daytona beach it makes land fall in florida but close to florida that we're talking a lot of rain and wind from. there it does curb north to south carolina and 2:00 pm with 100 miles an hour winds. at this point in the becomes challenging. i know i've said this before this summer with hermine. it's a similar setup. blocking high pressure looks like it's going to come out of the great lake states and move into new england. it may not allow matthew or its remnants to move up. the latest thinking has the redline away from north carolina but south of new england. the challenge is how strong that blocking area of high pressure is as well as a cool front.

yellow line indicating that it's offshore too far away to bother us with significant rain or wind. maybe some beneficial rain that comes along a cool front sunday morning. but even this yellow line shift aid way from north carolina since earlier in the day. the nuttest development is the europeon model which is a phenomenal model handling the tropics as it did with hurricane whack ween so it's hinting at a loop completely blocked of moving north because of this area of high pressure. it's within the reelum of possibility that new england walks out of this with nothing more than a gorgeous holiday weekend. right now, it's not too shabby. temperatures upper 50s, the city at 58. norwood at 59. tomorrow we start with a few clouds developing sunshine, cool morning but tomorrow afternoon and thursday and

rain sunday morning but i think we can clear it out sunday afternoon. columbus looks great. see you at 5:30. >> ryan: following breaking news. roslindale, we understand that there have been shots fired here and this is happening on newburg avenue. also in an area in roslindale. live picture of what was going on as they were' beginning to conduct. we understand this happened during a state police operation. one person is in for another suspects at this moment. when we get more information we'll let you know. back to you guys. also ahead we'll head out to the bahamas where they're preparing for a possible hit from hurricane matthew. >> kim: 6:00 tonight a power struggle, cheryl fiandaca taking a closer look at a pole problem across the state and why

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one other person. you can see officers onscene there again shots fired in the area. roslindale. sky 7 h.d.over the scene for you and if you live or know anyone in the area be adviced of the activity going on there and we'll bring you updates as soon as we get them. >> ryan: we continue tracking hurricane matthew. right now at least 9 people have been killed in the storm as it barrels through the caribbean. flooding and landslides also a major concern. >> jadiann: the sto east coast so send it over to jeremy reiner for the latest on the storm's path. >> reporter: okay. yeah, here is matthew right here. a powerful storm moving north of haiti. the center still the bottom side affecting haiti expecting to cross the eastern tip of cuba within the next couple of hour, winds 140 miles an hour, category 4 storm. devastating storm as it moves through the bahamas because it's not anticipated