in the newsroom kris anderson 7 news. ; what you think is art may be something else. >> anchor: talked over i guess her prince will come and take >> reporter: exactly. maybe the statue too right. >> anchor: how's the weekend looking. >> reporter: not too bad. sunday features clouds and scattered showers. tomorrow is the day for the lakes and beaches. sunday if you're thinking about doing outdoor activities you might be okay. talking scattered showers. in the drought you don't want scattering of showers. it was close. we thought this was going to come across southern new england. hand turn. in locations like nantucket and new bedford it wasn't like we picked up 1 or 2 inches of rain in those upon locations. metro boston couple of sprinkles and light rain. then the sun came out. and that cooked the atmosphere. that popped a round of showers and downpours. these are left of the sh another batch crossing route 2. this drifting south. that's good for the lawns and the gardens. other that they fade away. temps at this time 70s to around 80. the city at 74. bedford 80 degrees. no 90 degree he

i'm kris anderson. sarah is off for the day. >> christa: i'm christa delcamp. see the radar behind us. >> kris: i do. looks pretty green. >> christa: it's rainy, but it's not chilly. it's still got that tropical feel to the air. >> kris: air you can wear, that stickiness. >> christa: i like that. >> chris: sticky air mass in place. talk about this humidity. all that moisture in place. to run into a few downpours. there is a flash flood watch in place from southeastern mass. if you're going to see locally heavy rain down that wait, late morning to around noontime, especially close to buzzards bay and the cape and the islands. right now it's just a steady light rain, from boston out through worcester. so many of us have drop, but this isn't talking about all of us getting a lot of rain to really put a dent in the drought. there have been sporadic downpours. we've seen a few parts of georgetown back into andover, but again, the downpours and far between. while some towns pick up a quick half an inch or an inch of rain, a lot of us get less than a this you're not go

i'm kris anderson in for sarah french. >> christa: and as far as the heat wave, looks like we didn't make it. >> kris: last night was nice. chris. >> chris: humidity in check. we fell short in the city of boston, but just west of the city, plenty of towns hitting 90 degrees. and you folks, the heat wave will continue for day number eight. i think we'll hit 90 again today in boston. quiet today. tomorrow a big change in the pattern. it will be cooler, but we increase the chance of rain. we'll watch for these heavier batches of rain set up because localized downpours certainly a possibility as we get into friday. so we'll look for that. heaviest of the rain. i think it could be more focused down near the south coast of new england. but we're looking at a cooler day for all of us. temperatures into the 70s. not today. we still have the heat. low to mid-90s this afternoon. more on the weekend forecast ahead. >> kris: 5:01. time now for fast track traffic with danielle gersh. it's early, danielle. any problems out there yet? >> danielle: no. you're looking good if you're getting ready to h

in the newsroom, kris anderson, 7 news. >>> muggy with a mix of clouds and sunshine this evening. weekend forecast not too bad. details are up next. >>> up next in 7 sports, the free fall continues for the red sox. they lost a fourth straight game on thursday night. it's day two of problems -- we're going >>> the woeekend is about here. sunday more clouds and a few showers and not an all-day rain. it's nice to get an all day rain because of the drought. today we had a few showers around this morning, most towns, though, not much rain. that's about 2 1/2 inches of rain below normal. this weather system was supposed to deliver the goods but took a right-hand turn at the last minute and grazed southern new england with steady rainfall. nantucket just under an inch of rain. there's a batch here that flared up in the afternoon heating across new hampshire and vermont. that drops south. that downpour is crossing the corridor, and that will move through worcester quarter and fizzle out find 90s on the map. that's good news. 70s and 80s but on this map 60s to around 70s. that's heavy, thi

i'm kris anderson. >> christa: you found me out. >> kris: we're all smiling. >> christa: you know what, we also have some much-needed rain. we've been waiting for that, as well, kind of a pain for the morning commute, chris, but we are in a drought after all. >> chris: it will slow you down on the roadway, but you need to get some water out there. it doesn't mean that it's pouring rain for all of us right now. it's light rain for a lot of towns. once in a while you see these flashes of yellow and orange. we have had some embedded downpours across the area, but

kris anderson explains. >> we're very surprised and never do we think that this would take place. >> reporter: kim is talking about a special moment she witnessed with her son blake who announced he would be won for his how long at auction. another group raised a donation and blake had raised more than $15,000 from 30 different donors. >> then we also got checks in the mail after that. and people called asking where to donate. >> reporter: at the children's hospital of wisconsin, blake wrote out the biggest check of his life. $20,000. in total. >> it was just so heart age thought so generously and came up with this idea on his own. >> reporter: that is one of blake's doctors who is known blake since birth. >> it's something i'm proud of because i feel like i know blake so well. >> i have doctors that worked with me for a long time. >> reporter: that is why blake choose to divide the $20,000 between two different departments. a gift to kids who are less fortunate than himself. >> his gift will make other children happier when they're here. it'll support research that we can do to make

i'm kris anderson in for sarah french. >> christa: and as far as the heat wave, looks like we didn't make it. >> kris: last night was nice. chris. >> chris: humidity in check. we fell short in the city of boston, but just west of the city, plenty of towns hitting 90 degrees. and you folks, the heat wave will continue for day number eight. i think we'll hit 90 again today in boston. quiet today. tomorrow a big change in the pattern. it will be cooler, but we increase the chance of rain. we'll watch for these heavier batches of rain set up because localized downpours certainly a possibility as we get into friday. so we'll look for that.

i'm kris anderson. i'm christa delcamp. chris lambert has been busy keeping an eye on the radar lots of green which we haven't seen in quite sometime. >> we had to dust off the radar and figure out o morning. much-needed rain not going to put a dent into the drought. we will get water on the lawns outside. boston out through worcester some steady rain the heaviest between the westin tolls back toward hopkinton. framingham and natick emto dover as well. worcester seeing steady rain to the west it's tapering off even sunshine breaking out across western mass. some of this will work in close to cape and island. you may have localized downpours that way. and there's a flash flood watch in place until 5:00 p.m. although i think between 11:00 and 2:00 would be your opportunity to pick up on a few downpours down that way. rain tapering off this afternoon. a police officer in san diego, california has now died after getting shot early this morning. another officers also shot. he's expected to surgical taken into custody but authori