Transcripts For WHDH 7News First At 4 PM 20160801 : vimarsan

Transcripts For WHDH 7News First At 4 PM 20160801

Well be successful. Anchor the cdc is reing pregnant women who live there should take additional steps to avoid any mosquito bites, whatever they can do to keep themselves from getting attacked by a mosquito. They also say all pregnant women in the u. S. Should talk to their doctors about the sihka virus. For now at the breaking news desk, Adam Williams, 7 news. Anchor more breaking news, sky 7 ss pike where a tractor trailer is stuck in a u turn lane. Thats brighton. Police say only one lane is open while traffic crews work to get the truck off the road there. Also breaking, suspect is in custody after leading police on a high speed chase. The chase started on route 6 today and ended in new bedford. The police cars there blocking the suspect as car on the road. Decemberives have not said why that suspect ran from police. Into a gun fight. The driver throwing it in reverse to try oh get oust danger there. Kelly ohara with more on those scary moments. Kelly . The commissioner says there are too many guns in the streets. A couple of greeted by gun shots as they take a wrong turn down dale seat in rocks bury on saturday. The gps leading them dunn a road where you can clearly see young men running and shooting at each other in the middle of the day. A si as he threw it in reverse. This video upsetting to neighbors. I dont like that. Obviously this particular incident is troubling and hopefully we. Anchor William Evans wants to know who was pulling the trigger. Unfortunately play i dont remember walsh and myself are continually talking about how many guns are on the streets and i think this illustrates it. Were working on the video. We have it out to every officer. Were looking for identities of live around here, this is why e,i close fraid to look out the and lock my door. I hear the sounds but i dont run to windows to see and look. Not at all. If if you recognize the individuals doing the shooting in that video the commissioner wants to you call police and let them know. He actually commended the couple who turned the video in and said if more people did that they wouldnt have as much crime on the streets. In roxbury this afternoon, kelly ohara, 7 news. Anchor 7 news now turning to your forecfo of a dreary day to get started. You are taking a live look in downtown boston. Still nice out there. Still love to look at the city. Jeremy reiner with a look at whats in store for us now of a bunch of clouds for the rest of the afternoon, metro boston although you work your way down to the south coast an out on to the cape and islands you avoid the clouds you have a nice, Sunny Afternoon on the cape as well as nba ticketrd, metro bos bad thing to get some rain out of those clouds. Cross southern new england and this is really a tease if you and we have a weather system that has been generating a scattering of showers across the northeast but they have petered out as they move toward metro boston like we have seen for the last few days. The temperatures right now 60s and 70s, the city at 72 nashua only 68 but with the sunshine Marthas Vineyard and hyannis in the upper seven tease. Here is that weather system across Northern New York and Northern New England generating showers up there and this will drift across our world overnight tonight so weve got one last chance and a few scattered showers but overall dry pattern rolls on. Well talk more about that in a few minutes. Anchor two people are dead and more than 100 others had to be rescued after flash floods hit a small town less than 20 miles outside of baltimore. The water carrying away more than 100 cars. Now residents there are picking up the pieces after the historic flooding really left nothing behind. Chris polomb reports. Anchor it was a day of maryland. Saturday night a months worth of rain turned main street into a raging river which swallowed everything in its path, cars buildings and people. A nearby river rose 13 feet in a matter of minutes, two people died, swept away in the flood. More than 100 were rescued. People watching the horror unfold jumped into action forming human chains to rescue the trout. As straight and federal leaders toured the damage monday one said water wash like in an earthquake. More than 180 cars were damaged. Another said it was like a hollywood disaster movie set. Grieven owns a coffee shop here. It was horrifying. One of my employees is daughter of a good friend of mine and it was scary. Reporter Business Owners wonder not only when they will be able to hope but given the devastation if they will be able there are people that lost everything so were feeling fortunate for ourselves but were just devastated for a lot of people. Anchor the state is seekg federal disaster aid to help rebuild. Were tough here in Howard County and well be be resilient and these individuals will not let this storm defeat them. Anchor a flood for the ages testing the strength and resilience of people in a historic maryland town. Chris palom anchor changes are coming to bostons Summer Camp Program after a 7yearold boy drown on a south boston beach last week the officials hoping to make sure a tragedy like this never happens again. Victoria warren reports. Anchor flowers and teddy bears at the curley community center. The south boston doors open, Summer Program counselors back inside, but instead of meeting with children, they are meeting with officials. When i spoke to the father one thing he did say is if his death it would be good for the city. Anchor sought of that conversation with 7yearold kaiser williss father solid changes at the Summer Program run by bostons center for youth and families. He went missing from the Summer Program last week. His body found in the water hours later the programs commissioner going counselors taking a head count evy , all kids gointo the ocean will wear life preservers. They are increasing staffing levels, the every ten children. And they promise to get 34 surveillance cameras working all to make sure the city never sees another tragedy like this. Anchor we are have to make sure when we get hair kids in our care and custody that they are protected and safe. Reporter when the commissioner of the program showed up at the Curley Center he referred all questions to the mayors office. The plan is to speak with the counselors today and then have the program once again up and south boston, victoria warren, 7 news. Anchor ray man charged with negligent homicide after a deadly crash in New Hampshire. Police say doug mabor was drunk when he crashed his sedan in a utility pole in bedford. Police say he was traveling at a high speed when his car went air born and flipped over. He an two passengers were taken to the hospital. One of them died. A house in somerset up in flames. You can see fire crews battle this untense fire in the Early Morning hours. Fire fighters responded ta may. No reports of any injuries. Anchor and in the race for the white house, yet another controversy for g. O. P. Candidate donald trump. Both republicans and democrats now lashing out against him after he made comments about the parents of a fallen u. S. Muslim soldier. We have more today from reporter scott mcfarley. Reporter donald trump took his campaign to the crucial swing said state of ohio. Were gog to stop come in. Reporter there is growing backlash against his criticisms of parents of a muslim u. S. Army captain killed in action. Khans father blasted trump at last weeks democratic convention. This candidate amazes me. His ignorance, he can get up and maliron the entire nation. Reporter the head of the vfw, things ins largest vetera appeared tuesday today called comments out of boun gold star military families demanded an apology writing this goes beyond politics. It is about a sense of decency. Without mentioning trump by name to the group today in a speech before disabled american veterans. Our gold star families have made a sacrifice that most of us cannot even begin to imagine. They represent the very best of country. Reporter Trump Campaign advisor told us the khans most gold star families when the loss of their son or daughter, brother or sister, husband or we, they are not looking at it from a political perspective. Reporter the controversy opened a new front for Hillary Clinton who in ohio this weekend called trumps comments insulting. In washington, scott mcfarland, nbc news. Anchor new details on a deadly hot air balloon crash in texas. Federal records show the Company Operating that balloon tour involved in saturdays crash did have a previous crash. An a accident report shows one of their balloons crashed people were taken to the hospital. Victims are remembering their loved ones. Weve list a really sweet individual. A lot of people would be affected. He was very wellknown. He was known because he helped people as well if you ever need anything he would give it to you. Anchor investigators believe the balloon hit power lines killing all 16 people on board. Anchor a tweet controversy now for miss teen u. S. A. All criminally hey was crowned tweets from 2013 and 14 resurfaced when she had used the n word. She since apologized and in a statement the Miss Universe pageant said they are standing behind hey and are committed to supporting her continued growth. Anchor massachusetts will be one step closer to closing pay gap between men and women when Governor Charlie Baker signs a new bill into law. Anchor well take a live look at the ceremony. Governor baker and treasurer have already come up to the podium, you see them right there. The goal here is to insure equal pay for comparable work. Thats what all of this is about today it. Includes a provision that lawmakers say is the first of its kind in the nation. Thats what defines capable wor. I am one of the lucky ones but it shouldnt take luck for a working woman in this commonwealth to feel that she has access to a level playing the governor and i and all of us come together to mark this milestone. Supporters of the bill say that on average women get paid about 82 less than their male counterparts for comparable wor. Anchor when we come bag, a wild scene at the Franklin Park zoo. Anchor a gorilla getting territorial. The couple who saw it all go down is talking to just one station. Anchor at 4 30 waiting for april winner. People in one New Hampshire town still trying to figure out who o powerball jon. Anchor and on 7 news at 5 00, a house in swampscott goes new flames. The home own are charged now with setting it on fire. Anchor and we continue to follow breaking news out of miami. A warning from the federal government today. The centers for Disease Control saying pregnant women should not travel to a specific part of that city setting the risk for the sihka virus as more and more people continue to get sick. Much more on that coming up. Are you one of those people were jealous of you. Give yourself a break. There are some things you might be cleaning too much. Anchor details tomorrow morning on 7 news today in new england. We get started at 5 00 a. M. Marco. polo marco. polo marco. polo marco. polo marco. s . . Polo marco. polo scusa . Ma io sono marco polo, ma. Marco. ui. Whats not surprising . Amanda and keith saved by switching to geico. Ahhh. Polo. Marco. polo fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. Anchor a scary scene at Franklin Park zoo when a gorilla mix a sudden lung at visitors there. Zoo fills say the animal took a wild turn trying to mark his they grateful for that glass that protected them. Jennifer egan takes a look at what happened. Reporter an unexpecteden counter captured on camera. This gorilla on all fours slowly looking around before standing up and leaping against the glass. He was fast. It was like lightning. Anchor Mark Mcdonald shot the video while checking out the exhibit at the Franklin Park zoo with his fiance say, michelle. No one was antagonizing hi. Anchor they had been watching back gorilla named okie for to about ten minutes noticing he was communicating with the crow. We saw him actuallym punch a wall. I said jeez i wish i caught that on video. I started filming. Mcdonald said once the gorilla started pounding his chest he knew it wouldnt be long before okie did something memorable. He complety faked us out, looked right when he and came with a huge karate reporter the zoo tells 7 news that his behavior occurs naturally in the wild. It is a way of claiming territorial boundaries. They say the behavior is nothing new hehas learned how to get a response from guests. Despite the extra up close encounter, the count emsaid they were happy to catch the experience on video. Thank god the glass was there. It felt like he was coming through the glass it was so lou. Anchor thinking about dinnertime yet . How ab burger. I dont know where it is. Well figure that out though. You will be amazed how much it weighs. Amazed, jr. Anchor i take your word for it. A looking forward to that story. Always looking forward to dinner. Forecast for the week is coming up next. Anchor coming up on 7 news at give 00 a car rolling over and over again. Look at that. The people who saw it happen stepping in to try to save the driver spot Olympic Games now just days away. What needham native aly raisman again again ag again again . Again again general s al flavors and cols from our cereals. . With simply right checking from santander bank, or payment each month to waive the monthly fee. Anchor a restaurant in man main cooking up a 100 pound burger. The owner said they made the enormousburg tore celebrate their first birthday. The burger was made with 70 pounds of meat. With all of toppings it ighed more than 100 pounds. Get, this the owners say it all started as simply a joke. It all started as a joke. The burgers are really good. You should go bigger. It seemed inappropriate especially pairing with our neighbors from down the street to do something that is excessive as this without some sort of Community Give back. Anchor so customers were able to buy tickets to try and bite of that giant burger and the proceeds went to charity. Remind me of a inny movie the great outdoors. Its so good. Anchor they were, what did you say . Your eyes are bigger than your stomach. Did you all in and you are three bites in. You can do it . Reporter several over fur months but good stuff there the dry pattern rolls on. Weve got clouds but you know what . If you could have all these clouds you could get a big soaker. Just a few isolated showers tonight possible and tomorrow morning otherwise clearing skies. Hi into the upper 80s. Month of july, here we are in august 1. Lets look back real quick. Month of july the 8th driest july on record for the city of boston. Typically we pick up about three and a half inches of rain and if you take it even farther become to june 1, first day of meteorological summer boston, worcester, many cities and towns running cle inch deficit. In fact this is the fourth driest start to summer again june and july for the city of boston. I wish i had better news in term of the drought but i dont of isolated showers possible tomorrow and again i think for most of us were going to be dry all day tomorrow. More tai ly even friday. More humidity and that might trigger an isolated storm. No widespread rain in the forecast. But we do have southern new england and i dont see any reversal of that pattern for the next week to ten days. The dry pattern does roll on. We have clouds but no rain out of those clouds. Temperatures 60s and 70s and whats going on is what we have a wind from ea thats why its still kind of cool with temperatures close to 70 degreet air does in the allow any shower or thunderstorm activity to develop in spite of the fact there is a storm system in northern location there are showers and storms but in our part of the world not the case. There is some humidity though especially along the coastline. The dew point temperatures elevated close to 70 degrees. And actually we also have sunshine down through the south shore. The south coast, cape and islands leaked out a nice day with partly to mostly sunny through the evening hours as this weak little area of low pressure wobbles across southern new england late tonight and tomorrow morning. Then it scoots out to sea and High Pressure takes its place tomorrow afternoon. So tomorrow again we start with clouds but i think well finish the day with a mix of clouds and sunshine. Certainly we have sunshine wednesday and again on thursday and with a blue h finds a home south of new england on thursday that situation right there, that will allow warmer temperatures. So wednesday is looking good of upper 70s to around 80. Even tomorrow afton thursday low to mid 80s. Fried and saturday a bit on the warm side but no 90s on that 7 day forecast. Upper 80s and after tomorrow morning the next chance of an rain will be an isolated storm saturday afternoon, saturday evening. Anchor why dont we get a check of the roads now each have a new voice in for us. How are you doing . Good afternoon. Here is the mass pike exit 20 in brighton, the u turn lane is closed because a tractor trailer had jammed himself into the corner. Now they just moved him out of the way into the break down lane closed. Eirrelevant 20 does remain open. You can get over to cambridge but it does stay heavy on the pike up through the weston tolls so lets take a look at sky 7128 northbound this is just after you can see the emergency vehicles on the scene as well as a flat bed so a little while before they get them up out of that way. 128 is jammed both directions y eeup to 93. Take a look at the zakim bridge now as you make your way into the tunnel. Coming at you into the tunnel. Thats all the way back to the hood plan. Leverett connector rams are busy but moving and as we take a look at the other end of tunnel if you come out of the expressway southbound jammed up all the way down until about south way then it breaks free heading down to the split. Im george brown, 7 news. Anchor next on 7 news, jon. Somebody is nearly a half billion dollars richer after buying the winning Powerball Ticket in New Hampshire. Anchor new at give 00 a man fire. Your daughter wan

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