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sustained, the lexus, sustained minor damage and the driver will be cited for failure to yield to oncoming traffic. again eight people injured. minor injuries. the scene here on washington street in the south end has since cleared. live in south end i'm alex dipratto 7 news. >> kim: also we learned that at least one person is dead after a shooting at an oklahoma art it's the will rogers airport in oklahoma city. now closed as police investigate. >> adam: jadiann thompson is here with more on what turned out to be a very frightening situation. >> reporter: absolutely. offices for will rogers world airport say that the airport will be closed while authorities are searching for a shooter. so far, police have confirmed one man was shot near the airport's parking garage and now southwest airlines confirms the man one of their employees has
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were told to seek shelter. all streets to the airport blocked off and officials encouraging everyone to stay away from the area. >> we got reports of shots fired in the parking lot area of will rogers world airport. we do not have any information to put out as far as a suspect vehicle or a suspect itself, but gunshots were heard. >> reporter: police believe the shooting was an isolated ins accident but want to t measures. some 8,000 travelers pass through the area each day. we'll keep you posted as we get new information. jadiann thompson, 7 news. >> kim: a king tide washing up along the coast today causing some minor flooding p. there was the scene this morning at boston's bong wharf. it's excepted to happen again tonight. it's happening because of the incredible supermoon we've been talking about.
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only thing causing flooding concerns for parts of the area. rain is hitting much of new england. it has been that way for a couple of hours. let's get to chief meteorologist jeremy reiner with how long this is going to last. >> reporter: i think another 2-3 hours then it does wind down. we're in a drought but the timingsticks because it's smack-dab in the middle of the evening commute and there are steady pockets of rain out there. here is one lifting out of massachusetts. now into southern new hampshire. as this moves through, quick half inch of rain another narrow ribbon of steady rainfall approaching the metro. that is going to cross the pike and eventually route 2 and work up to southern new hampshire. here is the back end of the weather system showing up through martha's vineyard, buzzard bay, from a storm system about on top of long island. it'll continue to move north up into northern new england later on this evening and overnight tonight. but again beneficial rain. here are the numbers. lunenburg about .8 of appear inch of rain.
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hopkinton. .8. when it ise a all said and done later on most of us finish with about a half to in some locations an insure of rain. the weather system peals out. i'll let you know what the sunshine tomorrow will do to the temperatures. >> adam: 59:30 more on today's king tide and how it's affecting cities along the coastline. stay with 7 news for all of your ns >> kim: also on 7, an and overwoman firsting alarming charges accused of driverring her daughter to school on drugs. officials contacted the police after woman was having difficulty signing in for the day. steve cooper live in andover on what happened and the charges the mother is facing. >> reporter: right, the charge is operating under the influence of drugs.
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yesterday. police telling us that that arrest was made. the woman appearing in court this afternoon over in lawrence. olice say 41-year-old mary ellen shea came here to the school to drop off her daughter yesterday morning and staff members say she came into the office and the was mumbling incoherently. andover police conducted several field sobrietiy tests in the parking lot before placing her under arrest. she was arraigned today on several charges includi influence of drugs. she told police that she had taken a muscle relackers and she was' also taking additional medication for depression. police say they have since notified the department of children and families about this incident. shea again appearing in court this afternoon over in lawrence district court. she was released by the judge on personal recognizance. she is due back in court next month and police say their investigation into all this is ongoing tonight.
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cooper, 7 news. >> adam: also here a milford community is on edge after multiple people find a disturbing discovery. this k.k.k.newspaper was delivered to homes there including the city's police chief and they're trying to figure out why. jonathan hall live in milford with the story. >> reporter: a concern here because as you say, not only were dozens of homes targeted. the newspaper was also sent to the police station people feel frighten and threatened. 12 pages of racist news print causing some pain and tension in milford. they're showing up in driveways before dawn. >> mine was roll up. my name wasn't on it. >> reporter: the police got this literature addressed to him personally right here at the station which sits across the street from the town's memorial to a local civil war hero. >> a number of people are
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go to the school bus stop and in one case the woman said her daughter picked it up so that is of certain. >> reporter: above the headline, rest in peace white christian america. it dubs itself the political voice of white christian america. this activity protected by the first amendment because police say residents were not being targeted based on race, religion or sua orientation. >> the detectives talked to a number of people in the neighborhoods, and what we found was that the individual or individuals left one at every single home. >> reporter: milford's racially diverse. the newspaper showed up in largely white middle class neighborhoods. what would you do if you saw it? >> i would speak to the people distributing it and let them know they're not welcome and not this town and i doubt any place in massachusetts. >> reporter: the papers are being dropped off
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somebody does come into contact with whoever is doing this they not engage him in conversation. he says you are not going to change their mind and you might avoid a violent confrontation. >> kim: the city of newton has its first medical marijuana dispense dispensary. the company's founder says she is a breast cancer survivor and started the business so she could help others treatment. >> i was really haunted by what i went through. no one should have to go through that so i worked to help get medical marijuana on the ballot in massachusetts, helped get it passed an somewhere in the process i realized that as a physician, i'm uniquely qualified to supervise the production and of the medicine. >> kim: the medical marijuana is organically
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fitchburg. >> adam: to president-elect trump's trip to the white house. paul ryan the unanimous choice for ryan to remain speaker. let's get to ryan schulteis with more. >> reporter: while there is unity in the party sources say is there a agreement within the transition team over cabinet positions and more speculation who could joining join his white house. mike pence in new york amid speculation the president elect will name his saint of -- secretary of state ohio will deal with russia, the fight against isis and new trade deals? john bolton is said to be a candidate. >> i think trump will be a far stronger leader. >> reporter: touted by another camp date -- >> john would be a very good chase. >> is there anybody better. >> maybe me, i don't know. >> reporter: the former new york mayor does not want
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in disapply. >> we got our butts kicked. >> reporter: don't blame me said president obama. flightened voters wanted change. >> president obama: president-elect trump tapped into the spectacular strain within the republican party then was able to broaden that enough and get enough votes. >> randall: forerepublicans today -- >> there you go. >> reporter: trump red hats are the fashion. paul ryan who said trump is not conservative vowed quick action on the trump agenda. >> we are on the s virtually every single day. >> reporter: he was' nominated by unanimous -- ryan schulteis, news. >> adam: you can go to our website, whdh.com, or download the 7 news mobile and tablet apps. >> kim: let's talk about
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gronkowski's injuries. still unclear if the star tight end will take the field on sunday against san francisco. joe amorosino is here in the newsroom with the latest. >> reporter: the patriots injury report comes out tomorrow after practice. even then it's you unlikely they'll shed much light on the injury. it's the patriot's way, there always seems to be conflicting reports. the. network dean rapport reporting he has a punctured lung. it's a chest injury and that it's "not overly serious." today the gronk cancelled an appearance because he was as viced against flying. bill bell check knows the story but was not interested. >> i don't have anything to add. the players aren't in today so we'll, put our report out
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and see what happens on wednesday. >> reporter:ments sea hawks safety earl thomas who is hit started it all chimed in saying he has nothing but spent for gronk. given gronk's injury history and the facts that he and his family have a different view point they don't see eye to eye with the patriots when it on injuries. it's hard to predict when he will be back on the feel. joe amorosino, 7 news. >> adam: thanks, players are reacting to gronk's injury and his questionable status object sunday. here is dan hausle with that part of the story. >> reporter: with gronk continuing to play and in fact talk after the game, a lot of the players seem surprised about all this injury talk and in the dark. they're hoping for the best.
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other big tight end bennett talking about his teammate as he reads to kids at boston's tobin school. bennett says he has gotten no reason to think gronk is seriously hurt. >> finished the game. so, i mean, i see him tomorrow. see how he is doing. i think he has a day o. he goat not only a day off but you need a day off from your co-workers so i try not to bother -- >> reporter: you are expecting him to play this sunday? just because you don't know to expect anything else? >> that's what h >> reporter: we caught up with other patriot players building a house in freetown for a severely wounded veteran. the linebacker hand heart -- have you heard about gronk with a puckured lung? >> huh? >> reporter: one report said -- you can't say that. >> reporter: joe card donny guessed what have gronk is dealing with will have a tough time slowing him town.
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see more passes but bennett likes it better when gronk is out there with him. >> it makes it it a lot easier for me and everyone else on the team. >> reporter: the pats will get a better idea how gronk is doing when they see him at practice. we'll get a better idea after the first injury report. dan hausle, 7 news. >> adam: stay with 7 for the latest on gronk's injury and all. >> kim: still t decision getting a lot of attention in a case made popular by a famous netflix documentary and why one of the convicted could be released in just days. >> adam: then at 5:30 a brutal beating in boston. why this victim is blaming the recent election for the violence. >> kim: a cancer survivor in a big spotlight. how did she get a chance to sing on stage with some country rry music legends. >> adam: in one hour, we're getting a first look
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brand andan dasi and he did that back in august. now the same judge has ordered he be leased from prison while prosecutors appeal. >> adam: today his attorneys hope he will be home by thanksgiving if not sooner. nearly a decade after brendan daisy was sentenced to life behind bar he is could be a free man at least for now. his attorneys say this holiday season our food will taste all the sweeter because we know for the first time in 10 years in freedom with his family. >> this almost never happens especially for a case this old. >> reporter: he was a teenager when he confessed to helping his uncle steven avery kill a photographerner 2005. the case was featured in a netflix documentary that raised questions about the convictions especially the taped interrogation by police. >> be honest. you went inside, didn't you? >> yes. >> you went in the trailer?
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murderer" has been such a revelation for brendon's case because for the first time in ten years, he is finally getting his story listened to. >> reporter: his attorney says the confession was coerce and in august a federal judge cited dasi's intellectually deficits ruling detectives repeated false promises and exploited the absence of an adult suggesting they were' looking out for his interests. on monday the same judge ordered the state failed to represent that he represents a present danger to the community. >> usually when an old conviction is overturned it's because the real killer is found or there is new evidence. here everything that we know we knew in the original case. >> reporter: the wisconsin attorney general is appealing filing an emergency motion hoping to keep him in prison. authorities have questioned the documentary saying it doesn't share all of the
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>> reporter: but the film makers stand behind their work and one of their subjects could be walking out of prison any time. if he is released he will be supervised by federal probation officers. >> kim: following breaking news right now we want to share for commuters. there are severe delays on the redline right now. it's a result of some fire department activity at the j.f.k. umass stop but affecting other stops on the red line in a significant way. we don't think there is any threat to riders but heads up. severe delays because of fire department activity. stay with the nation for more. -- news station for more. >> reporter: tracking rain million i'll let you know
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>> reporter: rain and wind, temperature in town 53. northeast wind 22 miles-an-hour. we'll have that nearly wind continuing for the next few hours, then actually it will shift to the southeast later on this evening for a short time, boston. elsewhere, we've got windy conditions. again not the wind that generates wind advisories but wind between 10-20, from this storm system which is producing a narrow stripe of some occasionally heavy rain. there is one up through new hampshire now.
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which also is on the way north new hampshire. now in the city of boston, out to woburn, billerica stowe, hudson, framing hatch moving north then the south coast, the cape still raining but it tapers and it's more showery versus the widespread rain we're seeing boston north from a storm system right about here. just off the south fork of long island. that will continue moving northeast toward boston overnight tonight. thing. itself time something the worst part of the storm but we do need the rain. hopkinton .8 of an inch. dorchester at about .6 of an inch of rain. we'll have the rain continuing this evening. first it's wide spread and steady then there is a step don process where it's wide spread and then showery and then patchy and then just drizzle and mist later on tonight. so out and about this evening you do need the rain gear. will you have wind as well.
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stand up to the brain rain and wind as well. we do have high pressure which will nose from the mid mississippi river value we no cold air it's cool and raw north and west of town but look at new bedford 60. hyannis at 59. touch of humidity down through the south coast and the cape. but you've jaffrey at 44 then back to the area of high pressure, where they've sunshine today, temperatures made it close to 60 degrees. so is that on the move. that will be here tro off. cloudy skies. mild with temperatures holding in the 40s and low to middle 50s, tomorrow morning when you head out the front door there will be a lot of clouds. there may be pockets of drizzle and mist but it won't be cold and raw. temperatures will be near 50 degrees. skies will clear out. sunshine tomorrow afternoon. temperature itself tomorrow middle and upper 50s, close to 60 degrees, boston 59. tomorrow afternoon.
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conditions. tomorrow morning will feature cloudy skies. fitchburg at 59. worcester at 57. and on the cape and the islands clearing throughout the afternoon. chatham 56. we've another king tide to deal with tomorrow. there is one midnight tonight but it's a foot lower than the one we dealt with today. it will be a foot lower compared to tomorrow with the king tide happening tomorrow about noon. plan on similar conditions where shore roads briefly unindated with water. rest of the week features high pressure. lots of sunshine and for the weekend that starts a busy travel week. there will be scattered showers on sunday and that is a cold front. that will turn the pattern up side down so early next week it's chilly in these parts. see you at 5:30. >> kim: also ahead at 5:30 a controversial facebook post lands a politician in
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the north and the south are mine. all seems beautiful to me. >> adam: very happy you are with us on this tuesday, i'm adam williams. >> kim: i'm kim khazei, hope you stay right there for 7 newat >> ryan: coastal concerns, king tide causing flooding. >> jadiann: the search is on for the -- >> ryan: thousands of dead fish surfacing, we'll tell you where and what might be the mysterious cause. >> jadiann: we'll introduce you to the woman who beat the odds as she takes sent are stage. >> announcer: 7 news at 5:30 starts now. >> ryan: king tides causing khowstal flooding.
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today in boston. all of that happening because of the supermoon. >> jadiann: byron barnett is live with more on what happened today. >> reporter: yes, we're at the long wharf park i long boston harb ooh not too much fun out in the rain but i got to tell you that was the place to be earlier today when the high tide came n. you could see the results of the supermoon everyone was talking about. look down here. you can see that if i were standing here this morning, during high tide, would have been standing in a f water. mother nature definitely did not disappoint. the irresistible call of mother nature. strolling bare foot in the tidal waters of mid november glass almost like face but it feels great. >> it's wild. it's unexpected. right. it's fun. >> reporter: at high tide this morning, spectators came out to see the coastal flooding at long wharf park along boston harbor. the flooding waters rising up and over the stone steps
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