. >>> and new at 6:00, police investigating a crash involving a school bus that's in menden. the children on board all making it out okay. >> and the small plane that made the emergency landing at the the sand bar by helicopter. quite a sight and all coming up since 1961, pearle vision has been providing expert eye care. today, we make caring for your eyes even easier. right now, buy one pair of glasses, and get another pair free. this is genuine eye care in your neighborhood. >>> taking you back out t breaking news that we're following where we are being told by state police that an aircraft is down in the ashland reservoir in this area. just getting from state police that the pilot of the aircraft believed at this time to be a helicopter is safe on shore, but that the aircraft is in the water, that just coming from a tweet that mass state police put out a few moments ago. so sort of looking around here to see where exactly it is, the water is dark, so it's hard to see all the way to the bottom there. i know for that, and we have a crew on the way. so of course we're going t

. >>> frightens moments for young campers in menden. fortunately, none of the elementary school age kids were hurt but the driver of the car had to be taken to the hospital. ken macleod has the story. >> reporter: this is route 140 here in minden. street you have to poke your nose out to clearly see traffic coming from both ways. a man and a woman were badly hurt this morning and a bus load of youngsters got an awful scare. >> some of the kids in back landed on top of each other. >> reporter: for kids on the way to camp, the bus ride ended in a screeching stop. >> reporter: the bus the semi-blind intersection. >> the vehicle according to the bus driver pulled out in front. >> i hope nobody died. >> reporter: the man driving the car had to be pulled from the mangled wreckage. the young campers huddled in a nearby yard where neighbors them use the bathroom. >> they were shaken but sweet and were calm and waiting for the parents to get there. >> reporter: no tears? >> there were definitely some tears. >> reporter: at least a dozen youngste

this came infully mike kelly from menden. and this is likely a wall cloud. you have the downpour up in here. and the little bit that sticks down is what is rotating. and that's what we watch for a potential tornado to form. we talked about the storm that milford. but an ominous looking picture. and a sign of the type of atmosphere we're dealing with. and a lot of instability to work with. we have a new severe thunderstorm watch that's been issued that includes new york state and areas to pennsylvania and new jersey. there's another batch off to the west that we'll talk about this evening, a couple of storms to watch. look at the lightning an unusual setup. we have the downpours, very tropical, and they are still spinning, and that's why we have the concern that the biggest issue could be a brief spinup tornado. the severe thunderstorm warning goes until 6:00 for storm moving out of boylston to clinton as well as bolton and stow and into the concord area by 6:34. rotating broadly, the main impact will be heavy rainfall and gusty winds. there's another just of

live in menden, steve cooper, 7news. >>> and the patriots with a familiar face on thefield field, rob gronkowski back in action. an unknown injury has kept him on the sidelines. patriots nation can now breathe a sigh of relief. alex scourge reap in the newsroom with more on how gronk looked. practiced and the all world tight end was able to walk off on his own power and it's reported his injury was minor last night. gronkowski returning to the practice field despite that injury taking apart the team's final workout before leaving tomorrow for friday night's preseason game against the panthers. gronkowski did not play in the first two preseason games and hasn't suited up for an exhibition game since 2012, so a attend that will likely continue in carolina. gronkowski returns to action on the same day the patriots office loses one of their key members. reporting live in the newsroom, alex corddry, 7news. >> alex, thanks. >>> to still come this evening, a shoot-out at a gas station. surveillance video capturing the moment two men opened fire. >>> and a landscape company now under investig

obviously you can see the accident reconstruction is ongoing so this road 140 in menden is going to be shut down for a while. ken macleod, wbz now is. >> thanks. >>> more breaking news this noon. this time in italy war powerful earthquake rocked the central part of the country. nearly wiping out a entire heavy equipment and dogs are trying to fiend anyone who may be trapped under the rubble. nicole jacobs is live with the latest. >> reporter: as the death toll continues to rise rescuers have made contact with many people who were trapped and frightened. 24's no -- there's no word if any of the victims are americans. an early morning earthquake in italy rocks the central region tumbling buildings and leveling homes. rescue crews rushed rubble at daybreak searching for survivors. a man with a bloody apron freed and the young girl carried away to safety evening a -- even a dog pulled from small space of the it was after 3:30 in italy when the 6.2 magnitude quake hit about 100 miles northeast of rome. rescuers using buckets bulldozers and their hands to reach for any signs of life. and mak

the republican stand in granite standing as we report trump's camp hopes endorsements will help mendenning rift within his party. >> in our shared mission, to make america great again, i support and endorse our speaker of the house, paul ryan. . >> it is better late than never. republican presidential nominee donald trump now sporting h reelection. endorsement came during campaign event friday night green bay wisconsin. >> work hand is hand, we will grow our majority, in the house and in the senate. we need that we got to get things done. >> earlier this week trump sparked intra party rift when he said he was not ready to back ryan. decision he is and running mate make pence were split on. >> mike, you like him? yes go ahead and do it 100 percent and he endorsed him. >> house speaker was not only republican law maker trump was relunctant to endorse. but efforts from his campaign to unify the party, real statement mogul also threw his support behind new hampshire senator kelly, and i also fully support and endorse the new hampshire. arizona senator john mccain. who trump says he holds in th

i'll tell you right now, we're in the next down over from menden. we were here in the last hour, the rain let up though, at about last 30 minutes. about an hour ago, it was pelting, take a look at the shot about an hour ago. it shows the intersection back by route 16 and 109, it was just pouring down out of the sky, for a good 15, 20 minutes. now, the rain delayed traffic at an already busy intersection at the height of rush hour and the storm moved through the the cloudsoverhead were dark and ominous. they sat around for the last half-hour. they started to clear up. as we come back live, the clouds are starting to break. the storms have moved off toward the north and north worcester county. we're more in northern worcester county, but this town got a good soaking and a lot of people in this area thankful for that, because we haven't had a lot of rain. we'll follow this around as the night goes on. live in milford this afternoon, john monahan, fox 25 news. >> mark: keep our free fox 25 weather app handy all night. keep an eye on the radar, get any a