political historian tom wayland is in our studio with perspective on what clinton's speech means for the race in the white house. let's begin first with fox 25 political reporter sharman sacchetti live inside the wells is. >> don't let anyone tell you our country is weak, we're not. don't let anyone tell you we

coakley: wayland. maria: yes. ms. coakley: that was a fabulous speech. unbelievable. fios is not cable. we're wired differently. so we wired the wagner's house with 100 meg internet. which means that in the time it takes mr. wagner to pour a 20 oz. cup of coffee, tommy can download 30 songs, and jan can upload 120 photos. 12 seconds. that's the power of fiber optics. and right now you can get 100 meg internet with equal upload and dowloads speeds, tv and phone for just $69.99 per month online. maria: we are back with martha coakley and the pop quiz. covering up my paper. you don't have your glasses on. ms. coakley: you don't have to worry about me cheating. maria: all right. former president bill clinton started his dnc speech with "in the spring of 1971, i met a girl." so where didil clinton meet? ms. coakley: yale law school. maria: wow, look at that! i don't know what do you know specifically where? ms. coakley: they were in a class together, where did they need? in the library. maria: oh, look at that. what prominent speaker at the dnc chose to do donald trump imi

fitchburg, wayland, .2 inches of rain. not as much as we had hoped. this area of low pressure going a little too far to our south to get in on that heavy rain producing the flash flooding. that being said, the northern edge of that still working through this midday hour across the south coast, the cape, the islands. there are some downpours producing some rain. if you get caught in one of those, that can lead to some areas for the next few hours. you can see how the rain had let up. steadier, light rain in plymouth. where have come out to the cape, that is very are seeing some rainfall. those yellows, rain is coming down at a rate of a quarter age per hour. you get into some of these oranges, and the rain is falling close to two and half an inch in our. some decent rain if we can hang on to it. lightning strikes to our south. there could even be some water spouts with these, but it looks like they will stay south of the islands and continue to move out offshore. over the past six hours, steadier rain moving through. this is the last of it working thro

the amount of rainfall on the the coastline, a 10th of an rainfall amounts would be central wayland. those locations, half an inch to an inch of rain. we will talk re weekend in a few minutes. >> jeremy, thank you? in developing story out of maryland. a /flood devastating the town of ellicott. this is the worst rain they had seen at least 50 years. abc's dan shot a man has the of alcott city quickly turned they inches of rain down of the historic town in just a half hour. russian water destroyed towns, collapsed buildings, and destroyed hillsides. happened. >> man: i just want to hug people and let them know that we will all be with them and help them get back to normal. the hardest hit areas, the town's main street. one county officials said it looks like a disaster movie. >> man: there are a lot of places where the buildings ? the first floor is gone. there are places where there are trees inside of buildings. there is glass broken ou >> denise brown has owned a small is on main street for about one year. >> woman: it is such a devastation for all of the neighbors on main street. e

. >> tom wayland, thank you so much for your expertise. we'll get your take after hillary clinton wraps up her speech later this evening. >> meanwhile donald trump is not taking the night off. he started his day off in davenport, iowa and then headed over to cedar rapids to speak to voters there in the last couple of minutes. >> he spoke kaine. >> then they pick tim kaine from virginia who is really like the old guy, bernie. donald is this, he's that, he's that. >> meanwhile, mike pence spent the day in grand rapids talking to voters, what many are calling a key swing state this year. >>> also tonight is a story you got sprayed by this white substance during a big scare at a local gas station. >> parts of a human body are discovered on national grid property. next at 10:00, how it could help solve a deadly mystery. >> we continue to wait for hillary clinton to take the stage and address the dnc in philadelphia. when that happens, we'll bring guess what i just did? built a sandcastle? ha, no, i switched to geico and got more. more? 24/7 acc