. >> kim: sky 7 h.d.over topsfield where a truck catches fire under power lines, this is happening on bear hill road and residents >> ryan: turning to thes forecast. we saw showers this morning. rain stopped but clouds remain out there. we're tracking more wet weather later this week. here is chief meteorologist jeremy reiner with an update on that. >> reporter: here is the batch of rain that moved through very early east of nantucket. a fair amount of clouds. thickest of the clouds on the cape and south shore. thin spots in the overcast boston west and decent amount of sunshine back through the worcester hills. rainfall totals, again this is not going to drought but it chews away at it. north weymouth 1/3 of an inch of rain. so it's tied to a cool front that is slowly moving through southern new england. no real cool air just yet but that will change overnight tonight and more so tomorrow. at the same time, we'll have an area of low pressure which will drift and wobble south into could. and -- ohio and kentucky and grab the moisture and pull it back up into southern new cloudy skies

pet better weather as we make it through the topsfield fair event in the next week making strides on sunday another big event hope to see you at the esplanade. i will be there but prepare for dusty umbrella. hurricane matthew just upgraded to a category four. the storm is a best and right now still headed west southwest but it is expected to make a sharp turn to the north and head through jamaica and cuba as we get through the weekend and into the beginning of next week. still a strong storm and when you get these hurricanes that show up in the bahamas you just have to keep an eye on them because they can head up the east coast. not saying that it will, so will our forecast be affected? we have to continue to watch it. in through tomorrow morning rain tapering to afternoon drizzle and still cool for us. here is a look at my 7 on 7 forecast, hopefully getting sunshine back in the picture for us as we hit the middle of next week and then we get clouds by the end of next week. it stays fairly cool. fall it here. 7 news will return right after joe plaia: every three days, someone in new

. >> adam: off the top at 4:30 breaking news, a truck fire in topsfield under power lines. now the topsfield department of public works says that the downed wires and fire are responsible for a town wide power outage. this is happening off bear hill ride. the fire anyway. no word on what started the fire in the first place. >> nancy: wild weather strikes in iowa. people in and around the city of cedar rapids are bracing for what could be one of the worst floods in the city's history. people are doing all they can to prepare. >> adam: but that may not protect them from the rising flood waters. chris pollone has the story. >> reporter: as people up up, people downstream in cedar rapids are casualtily optimistic they're going to be okay. >> it's not time yet to go back to live as usual but we're getting close. >> reporter: heavy rain over the weekend september the cedar river over its bank pressing in yield a rapids tuesday morning at 22 feet. a temporary city of levis appears to be holding protects hopes and businesses of about 5,000 people who were evacuated. leaders hope to

reporting live in from canton kimberly bookman 7 news night team sky 7hd over topsfield truck caught on fire beneath power topsfield department of public works says the power's now been restored from alternate source of they can all tune in to the news tonight. national dprid is repairing those damaged lines. what good sign for patriot still some quarterback questions tonight even with jimmy g and jacoby brissette back on the practice field. so both are on the mend. and it's still not clear if qb, which one will be ready for sunday. here's our sports director joe amorosino. patriots are down to last game from tom brady returns from deflategate suspension. and they are banking on either jimmy garoppolo or jacoby brissette fully believing one of these two will be ready for the jimmy or jacoby, who will start on sunday? >> i don't know. ask coach both quarterback backs on fra field grab without any visible bandaging on sprained right shoulder brissette with right thumb taped up. pats just may have two quarterbacks come sunday. >> espn adam reporting the pats are all but certain to have

. >> ryan: following breaking news, truck fire in topsfield right beneath power lines. the topsfield department of publicworks says the downed wires and fire responsible for a townwide power outage, this is happening on bear hill road. no word on what started the fire. >> nancy: police are investigating a deadly shooting in jamaica plain opinion the shooting happened on center street last night. officers found a man in his early 40s who had been shot. he was rushed to hospital and later died. traffic this south boston. -- rescuers had cuts the driver out of the car. this is the wrong video. they're expected to be off the k. nationalities a slaughterhouse in athol dealing with meat recall. the beef, vole and bisson from there could be consequently tam natured natured with e. coli, adam williams has details. >> we know it's difficult for small businesses to survive. >> reporter: even more so for a slaughterhouse in of products. restale loans and in massachusetts and in eastern new york. >> our biggest concern is to ensure that our farmer customers are taken care of. >> re

ed: power restored right now in topsfield. the entire town lost power after thru the tree truck hit the wires and then the flames sparked. national grid crews worked quickly to get the community back on the grid. heather: new at 5:00, the unh campus putting female students on alert. this after fliers were posted around campus advertising dates with older men for cash. newscenter 5's reid lamberty is live in durham, new hampshire tonight reid? those who may be struggling financially, but many times behind these innocent dinner dates is a sexual expectation. among the jumbled papers pinned to this job board at a unh coffee shop. a job offer some describe simply as creepy. >> it sounds really inappropriate and kind of scary. >> it is a little disturbing. reid: the ad solicits college-aged women, 18-25, to meet sugar daddies, older men who are looking for dinner companions, the flier maintains older men are more respectful sugar daddies can not only mentor you with your career, but take you places around the world. in return for d

. >>> sky 7 hd over topsfield today where a truck caught fire beneath these power the power has now been restored from an alternate source. national grid is on the scene there repairing damaged lines. >> now on 7. >> donald trump the invasion of iraq. >> wrong. >> that is absolutely proved. >> wrong. >> 2 campaigns collide. >> at least i have a plan top fight isis. >> no wonder you've been night in new york on the debate stage. donald trump and hillary clinton clashing for the first time. today the candidates were back at work with momentum. >> reporter: the first debate was the most watched ever. more than 80 million people tuning in setting a record in the 60 year history of televised debates. >> we had a great time last night. >> it was a fascinated period of time. >> repte debate. both candidates claiming victory. >> i'm excited about where we are in this country. he calls us names. he calls us a third world country. >> big moment. very important moment. including jobs including immigration. our military our vets taking care of our vets. >> reporter: during the debate clinton put don

and another day of above-normal temperatures will have low 80s around topsfield and beverly. middle 80s in natick and boxborough today. even around boston some low and middle 80s. and for the cape and islands, 75 to near 80 degrees. a pretty nice beach day out here on the first full day of fall. here is your weekend cooldown. the clouds clear e temperatures only achieve the mid- to upper 60s. on sunday, we will take a few more degrees off of those high temperatures. before we get that far, do want to show you the lows tonight. we will be mostly in the 40s. 50s in boston. cape cod as well. and then it gets colder. sunday morning where we are going to start feeling a lot of 30s out there and i think the coldest morning opt seven-day will be monday morning. light winds, clear skies may have to monitor for any patchy frost and normally colder rain trying to move back in. >>> all right, well people all across new he thinks and in canada have spotted a meteor flying across the sky. dash cam video in that meteor in new hampshire. the fox25 stormtracker weather team and checked and f

go to the north shore because 74 in ipswich and beverly. 75 in topsfield. 77 haverhill over to andover. in worcester today, worcester is a usually a little bit cooler because the higher elevation. 75 in boylston and in douglas and southern new hampshire from the coastline and middle-70s to raymond and salem. sun. tonight it stays nice and clear. we got similar temperature readings. hit rock bottom in the 40s ands again tomorrow morning and at least in the afternoon a little warmer as we get back in the lower 80s. here the futurecast because i mentioned we have high pressure again for tomorrow. it starts to really slip away as we get into wednesday. wednesday we will find increasing clouds. i am expecting this front to come through during the second half of the day you have a dry morning, but during the afternoon and in particular during the evening and overnight, we do have a risk of showers coming through. they look somewhat patchy to me here. i would not count on the solid soaker that we really need to help with the drought conditions. on the flipside, it will be scattered rain here

it's southbound lanes in topsfield at ipswich road. >>> the patriots down another starting qb. >> and the suspicious devices found near a new jersey train station. our top stories begin with that breaking news. >> reporter: nicole jacobs live in the saddle leant sit --saddle lie center following the -- satellite center following the breaking news that led to the suspension of the transit service while than an hour earlier five people were questioned by the fbi when the vehicle was pulled over in brooklyn. this was in connection to the chelsea new york pressure cooker explosion that injured 29 people. four blocks away from that bomb, another one was found before it went off. no arrests have been made. officials have not said if there is a connection coming up at 6, the similarities between those two bombs and one planted new jersey. in the satellite center, nicole jacobs wbz this morning. >>> the u.s. air force is grounding 10 of the f-35 fighter jets one month after they were declared combat ready. official discovered bad installation in the cooling lines of the cooling tanks -- lines

olympian who gained recognition for helping another she was selected to be grand marshal of the topsfield fair's grab parade on sunday. jean: elliot hospital is expecting a huge boost in donations at one of its largest annual fundraisers. josh: the gala is friday at manchester country club and they are expected to auction off a wild array of sports memorabilia including an autographed david ortiz helmet and a tom brady jersey. the money raised will go toward the cancer care and pediatric departments. >> we're also in the planning phase for a possible 42 million-dollar cancer center where we'll put all our services into one location. more on that in the spring hopefully. on the pediatric side we're raiding for a newborn simulator. josh: there will be some period earrings also up for auction. josh j.: how about today. beneficial rain, got a little bit of it, a quarter inch to a little more. then we went over to sunshine and temperatures like this, upper 60's and lower 70's out there right now. so that's pretty warm compared to where we were earlier, and we're about six, seven, it a degrees

topsfield and ipswich in the lower 80s. lower and mid-80s around the greater boston area all the way back to shirley and chelmsford as well. warmth for the first full day of fall and most spots near 80 near barntable this afternoon. waking up tomorrow morning, a north and northwest breeze coming through. we will have clearing skies with a lot of 40s to start the day outside of the city. so it is going be too cool sunny afternoon on saturday. look at these temperatures in the 60s on sunday, even a little bit cooler still. we are going to be bottoming out in the 30s on saturday and sunday night. i think the coolest morning on the seven day will be monday morning. as well light winds and clear skies with high pressure right overhead. sunny skies to start the week. a slight chance of rain could be moving in by the middle of next week. a low that is reerratic stay tuned. we will keep you posted. a big victory for family. what lawmakers are the fiveing to have added in he public bathroom. >>> coming up yes you are seeing double i

another batch in bedford, topsfield, haverhill and derry, new hampshire. 14-year-old freshman shot and killed herself after wounding another female student. this happened at alpine high school in west texas yesterday morning. police say the shooter just moved to the area six months ago and unclear what her motive may have been. two other shooters were originally reported and in the confusion, a u.s. marshal accidentally shot a homeland security agent in the leg. he is expected to be fine and the injured student is expected to be okay as well. the start of football season is being plagued by a star-spangled scandal. all started with 49ers quarterback colin kaepernick who refuses to stand during the national anthem. he says a peaceful protest against racial inequality. now we are hearing an entire team is plan tag protest during their first game on sunday. daniel miller joins us with a look at the growing backlash. >> daniel: this movement only picking up steam as the football season gets under way. before the broncos panthers game behindbacker brandon marshal took a knee. quarterback co

mid-70s in topsfield. cooling down over the cape ann. rockport today high only 69 degrees. worcester, 72. fitchburg up to 77 and douglas, 75 in southern new nashua and milford, new hampshire. overnight we will drop into the 50s and 40s an tomorrow at least the warm-up a little bigger. lower 80s with sun. seven-day forecast with the weekend falls view. a chance of rain coming back late on wednesday. overnight, a little rain up ahead of that. humid. 8 degrees wednesday. thursday clears out at 72. we have sunshine. and high 74 and upper 70s over the weekend with more rain julie grauert is back now with a look at the road conditions. >> julie: things moving along fine south of the city, shiri. no issues on 228 as you head from 228 up to the braintree split. 24, 95 still clear. expressway starting to see those colors change in our drive time. traffic flows from green over to the orange which means we are starting to see a little bit of volume increase, but as you can see in the stark live shot, nothing major. 13 minutes on route 3 from 228 to the split. 13 minutes on 24. 13 minu

northeastern massachusetts from 83 in topsfield to 76 in rockport. a little cooling trend here as we head toward the beaches. we are going to be watching for light sea breeze. worcester and auburn at 79 degrees. 80s in fitchburg and boylston and douglas at 82. aside from the seacoast where we may find a couple of spots dip into the upper 70s. low and mid-80s up into southern new hampshire and so lows tonight will be back into the 50s and 60s. your wake-up temperatures tomorrow, folks. and we get into the low to mid-80s in most spots and the situation where the coastline is just a little bit cooler. futurecast tomorrow will really break down the sunshine and the next weather system that will move in on friday. not first thing in the morning but here for the afternoon as well as the evening. 5 p.m. we are tracking the scattered rain showers. the nice news is, they will be long gone. wake up saturday morning just lingering clouds. high 66 degrees with clearing sunday, 64 looking nice and bright and a bright start with the cooler temperatures here early

cape ann, you can expect mid and upper 70s, glowser, lower 80, ipswich over to topsfield away from the cooling sea breeze, we are going wind flow. not going to be very strong but it will be enough to hold the sea breeze off a little bit longer than what we had today. so i do expect those coastal temperatures on the north and south shore slightly warmer than we were today. and places like chatham up into the low 70s, nantucket asz well tomorrow. let's talk about the humidity, down right now. it is dry and comfy. it's going to stay that way for a better part of tuesday. now, on wednesday, it's going to get a bit sticky around here, at least briefly, because we have back to the dry category. so let's tack about the front, it's looking pretty impressive at 2:00 on wednesday, coming in with some heavier downpours. and in northern new england. however, watch as it goes into the evening here, it is weakening across the southern portions of nifng land and we don't get that much rain out of it. we need the rain, we are dealing with the drought. i will have more on that in the next half hour. bu

. >> sky fox over a truck fire in topsfield late this afternoon. here is the video. this is on bear hill road. the department of public works there telling us, this fire knocked out power to the entire town. no word right now on any possible injuries or how long it might take to get the power restored. a grand jury has now indicted a massachusetts state trooper for aledly beating a car chase suspect in new hampshire. sky fox captured the whole thing on camera when this happened two felony counts of simple assault by an on duty law enforcement officer. he he is cue in court next month. flynn has been on paid leave since the incident. and last month, new hampshire state trooper, andrew monaco pleaded guilty to three counts of simple assault. >> the man charged with shooting a teenager in the cvs is stoughton is behind bars. the judge revoked bail for marcus pee yore lewis because of a prior charge in boston. he is due back in court later this officers arrested him in a dorchester apartment last night. police say he shot an 18 year-old man in the shoulder after an argum

a couple brief downpours have roll on through, including topsfield and back out into southern worcester county. that will be the theme of the day. a couple spotty showers around, mild and muggy with temperatures running into the upper 70s. >> sarah: one person is dead after an apparent incident involving a computer rail train in brighton. happened or if the victim was hit by the train. the man accused of stockpiling weapons and threatening to kill president obama due back in court. police arrested 48-year-old john gargiulo last month on a charge of possessing ammunition. officers searched his home and say they found notes that referenced threats to police new hampshire college students are packing their backpacks and heading back to school. and thanks to kelly ayotte, along with the textbooks and pencils, many students are carrying more student loan debt. and to raise student loan interest rates. because she sides with special interests looking out for their own bottom line, not our kids'. for new hampshire students and families, kelly ayotte is a heavy burden we can't afford. nea advoc

over a car fire that happened in topsfield. a truck went up in flames on monday. investigators say the fire and downed power lines caused a power outage in the town and crews put out the fire. they eventually restored power to the town. >> sarah: a dangerous flight leads the a helicopter crash in andover, new hampshire. investigators say they... the plane crashed into trees taking off over someone's home. still no word yet on the cause of the crash. >> christa: more news for you today, former republican presidential candidate jeb bush is headed to harvard. bush will serve as a visiting fellow at the j.f.k. school of government. according to the "globe," the former florida governor is set to deliver a lecture at the university coming up tomorrow. >> sarah: a dog that was swansea. apollo disappeared from his jacksonville home six weeks ago when he escaped from his enclosure. a month and a half later, he was picked up by the swansea animal shelter. because he was microchipped, they were able to contact his owner. nobody knows how he made the 1,100 mile trip. this mor