Couple of high school students. The swear ward was overheard pi another and that led to chens abrupt dismissal. We want to support him and we want to make sure he knows were here for him. Mr. Chen. Reporter he would emerge from the meeting torchere students and parents. Its tough to miss class bus he is worth it all. Reporter he wasnt able to offer specific boston what happened but he did admit this is one lesson he never expected to be teaching. Are you optimistic you will be back in the classroom . I got to stay on the mittistic. I dont want to give the kids that im not. Hashtag save chen, mr. Chen will be back with our support, he will be back. Reporter all right. It turns out the students arent backing off any time soon. They are telling us they plan to pack the School Committee meeting on thursday night ultimately its the superintendent of schools who will have the no word when he intends to make that final decision. S. Live in brookline, steve cooper, 7 news. The search continues for survivors of a lost cargo ship that sank. The crew has been lost at sea since late last week. The coast guard finding new clues but family and friends continue to hold out hope for a miracle, Kimberly Bookman has more. Reporter the National Transportation safety board is involved with this investigation trying to figure out exactly what happened to the ship. Two men from massachusetts are among the 33 people who were onboard the el pharaoh, Jeffrey Matthias graduated from mass maritime academy. Officials with the ntsb are searching for any clue that could help find answers. We will be looking at the voyage data recorder. That will be of utmost importance to try to find that and well be looking at any activities or any well be interviewing anyone involved with el faro on scene and the spurn to find out capabilitily purpose is to find exactly what happened. Reporter please continue to pray with all of us and all of the members of the el faro and their families. Crews have found the body of one crew member. They havent released an identity. A scare in philadelphia when Police Received report of a man with a gun. Police say they received a 911 call that an armed men threatened another student during an argument. It raised concerns because yesterday there was a nonspecific threat made against colleges that referenced last weeks deadly attack at a Community College in oregon. The campus was put on lockdown as police searched buildings, pun person was arrested. It seems like two individuals that were in some kind of agreement or argument and which is not unusual. Unfortunately for our city, some of these folks have guns. And guns are often used. Its not clear if the suspect is a student at the college. Wild weather in south carolina, finally making its way out but much of the state is still under water after days of record breaking rainfall. Billion mark. Homes are flooded, roads have been washed away and the governor is warning people to stay home. Everyone is waiting for some relief. Jay gray has the latest from south carolina. Reporter finally there is some sunshine in south carolina. Giving many here their first chance to work through the overwhelming devastation flood waters left behind. Pulling away debris, piling up pieces of their homes and lives ravaged by the storm. The tireless effort of so many who have lost so much, a reflection of the strengths and determination in this battered community. Were resilient people. A hopeful people, thank god were caring folks, folks coming together. Reporter evidence of that the sky hawks and highland errs, rival football teams that huddled together today in one of the hardest hit neighborhoods. Just trying to help out the best we can. Communities the National Guard is helping out and as damages. The next 3648 hours is going to be volatile. Reporter straining the infrastructure. Instrumental issue, bridges dams, roads there, is a lot of work that has to be done. Reporter ironically one of the biggest need continues to be water. With the citys water system compromised you need water . Reporter truck loads of bottle water are being moved in. With the hope that all of that unwanted water will start to move out. It could be a week or more before some of the creeks and rivers start to recede. The cleanup and recovery here will take a lot longer. Jay gray, nbc news, columbia, south carolina. Back here in boston, were seeing sunny days, at least for part of the week. Looking at live over the city. A beautiful day. Warming up to the mid 60s just needed a light jacket but pete bouchard, is there a change in the air . Yes, there is. Eventually. Well get into that. I think by the end of the week, on thursday well cool it off but we are in the warming process. Today we made it to 64. Close to 70 elsewhere though. Nashua, fitchburg we made it. There you are, 70, 71 a high. Currently 61 in boston. About 66 worcester. Lovely day. Deep blue sky, we had it. Joaquin far to the east. That wont stop the temperatures from were withing once again and i think tomorrow 70 is within reach even in the city. Well keep the sea breezes out of the picture. Cool it off. Back to the 40s and 50s in the suburbs. A few clouds around tomorrow morning and about 49 degrees. Looking ahead to a cooldown on thursday but i dont have a lot of wet weather in store for any part of new england. Well look at that as well ahead. Were following more news today. The Top Commander of Coalition Forces in afghanistan facing tough question ons capitol hill. The hearing comes after a Deadly Strike on a Doctors Without Borders hearing. The hospital was bit by mistake. On saturday morning, our forces provided Close Air Support to Afghan Forces at their question. The decision to provide aerial fires was a u. S. Dismade within the u. S. Chain of command. A hospital was mistakenly struck. We would never intentionally target a protected medical facility. 22 people including doctors and patients were killed in the bombing. Amtrak Train Service in vermont could resume. Clues are koreaning up the sight where a train hit rocks on the tracks yesterday sending two cars into an embankment forcing seven others off the track. They would be looking at the speed of the train, how quick did they put the brakes on. Theyll look at the track itself. Theyll look at what the extenuating circumstances were, in regard to theyll want to know the condition of the engineer and who else was in the cab. Theyll want to know, theyll want to look at any videos that are available. Since 2006 there have been four accidents involving debris on the tracks in the same area. Massachusetts drivers up for debate at the statehouse. It could mean its hands off when you hit the road. It had little opposition as advocates shared meetingsal stories about lost loved one,. Reporter as we all know texting and driving is illegal here in massachusetts. But you can still hold a phone to your ear. Meaning both hands are not on the wheel. Today, a very sad morning here at the statehouse as lawmakers heard testimony from people who were killed by distracted driving. Look around. You will see far too many drivers doing this. Today state lawmakers heard wrenching testimony why it should be illegal. Ive been waiting for this legislation for a long time. And ive been waiting because my dad was killed by a distracted daughter. Reporter jerrys son was driving in broad day light the day after his senior prom. Were on the phone with him and just talking about nonsense. It appears he dropped his cell phone and unbuckled his cell phone to retrieve it and crashed in a tree. Reporter several proposals are being considered from mandatory handsfree talking to an outright ban on all cell phone use in school zones. Some want no cell phone use in cars. Whether you are texting, looking, waiting, that is something taking part of your mind away from what you should be focusing on. Reporter currently 14 states have handsfree laws including new york, connecticut, New Hampshire and vermont. Another issue to consider, advocate say its nearly impossible to enforce the no texting lustiness people are still allowed to type in a phone number or look down at their phone to answer a call. A handsfree law would make that enforcement easier. Reporting live from the statehouse, janet wu, 7 news. Voice your choice coverage. Marco rubio says stricter gun laws would not have prevented last weeks deadly attack on an oregon college. He says Mental Illness treatment and screening would more appropriately prevent. The man says her son had a Mental Illness. What i know is, this many of the proposals that are out there now on gun control wouldnt have prevent that had attack or some of the others. Unfortunately in cases of Mental Illness or in the cases of someone who wants a gun to carry out a crime theyre not going to follow the law. Comments come after a poll showed rubio tied for third in the republican president ial field. Donald trump has sent a care package to rubio. A 24 bottle case of trump ice Natural Spring water was sent to the train office. He poked fun at rubio saying he sweats a lot and drinks a lot of water. On the today show rubio jokingly said he was grateful for the gift. Somehow, though, im not sure that he was but he is being appropriate. Right. Exactly. Some water. Get a smile. Move on. I wonder if he will drink it . Probably. Maybe. Just ahead here, moose on the loose going head to head, what sparked the battle in one alaska neighborhood. If you are sick of the pumpkin craze one farmers invention might give you some piece of mind. A Breast Feeding mine, looking for a private place to up. A tough loss for the Detroit Lions. 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Front row seat for a friday night fight. They were two bull moose duking it out fighting overly a girl. It was like something right out of alaska hi seen this in the wild. Reporter bill never expected to see the action this close to his South Anchorage home. Us. Reporter it started in a neighbors driveway. We were behind the car. Im filming the video behind the car. Reporter as the brawl spills bill and his son run for safety. I filmed a lot of the individual grow about right here. Reporter 10 feet away from more than 1,000 pounds of alaska moosantlers swinging. Its like hair flying every where and one was carrying the other one all reporter one bull moose final gets the upper hand and its clear the fight is coming to an end. He was ready to flip the over guy over. They separated right here in the street and the one ran down the street. The winner stood here in the street kind of, you know, im the victor. We are the champions. Reporter the moose left their mark. You can see the gouge marks where it happened. Reporter there is a moose hair everyone. That would be great to see another brawl. Reporter dad says its okay. He and john have had enough action to carry them until next mating season. Rarely do the fights spill into residential neighborhoods. Unbelievable video. Moose will be moose. Coming up a Pumpkin Spice plast from one farmer launching the gourds out of his home made canon. Warmer than cooler, not a precip. What a retired officer did to put two suspect behind bars. How a factory work is planning on spending her more than 300 million in power balls. Mcdonald isic maaing menu changes and fans are loving it. The patriots back off their bye week and looking to improve to 40. But there are five undefeated teams in the league. Who should we keep our eye on. Pick your picks with us. Announcer fantasy picture tomorrow at 6 00 am. Im a committed conservative that believes in getting results. We made florida number one in job creation. 4. 4 percent growth, higher family income, eight balanced budgets, and tax cuts eight years in a row that saved our people and businesses 19 billion dollars. And if i am elected president , ill Show Congress how thats done. Right to rise usa so you would think the word pumpkins and cannon belong in the same sentence, make you would but dont tell that to this farmer in washington state. He is shooting gourds almost a mile away. It brings in hundreds if not thousands of eager eyes to his farm every october. I dont buy very much. Most of the stuff comes right off the farm. Its recycled. My pride and joy. There is only one of those in the world. Do. Reporter every year you will find something new on the farm and all the scratch. A lot of recycling going on. Be good for compost when the pumpkins land. Ive heard potato guns. Yeah. But i dont know if ive seen anything like that but i know somebody that has. Somewhere here knows a lot about shooting pumpkins. I conshould for american chunker. The World Champion american chunker that shoots pumpkins for about a mile. Were waiting for somebody to up seat that. But that wont be happening any same soon. 61 degrees. I wont brag but im proud. They should be too. Dew point reading about 47 degrees. Our east wind about 9 miles an hour. That breeze is nice. Its comfortable. How about last night . Still getting sunset pictures. They were beautiful. Theyre still coming in. This is one of the nicer ones, thanks to everybody that sent them. I cant predict as nice of a sunset. We dont have any clouds so it will be beautiful, just because its going down and it melts in the western sky. Warmest day is tomorrow. Just some sprinkles on friday with a passing weather system. A pleasant weekend setting up. Itll cool down. Our temperatures in the upper 60s to near 70. Holding on from nashua to fitchburg. Sea breeze dont take much away from the temperatures, its great stuff. Its a little bit of a cooling feature but its right at the waters edge. These clouds will come in later tonight. Float by with little fanfare other than to cloud up the sky. Then they pass offshore. Behind me you can see joaquin headed over the north atlantic. Now a problem for the shipping lanes. Also there is a front imbedded in here and that cools us off on thursday. Tomorrow, even though it passes, its not enough to cool our temperatures until we get into needfall so the day nightfall so the day is mild. The winds will shift to the westnorthwest so the sea breeze will not be a big deal. That is why im going for about a 70 degree High Temperature in boston. Brockton look at taunton and raynham about 73. 72 fitchburg. 70 framingham to about milbury and down into attleboro and providence 4453. We did have some frost on route 2 last night. And back in the Nashoba Valley so it was cool in cool tonight because the clouds will move in. Tomorrow, a few morning clouds otherwise sunny 67 had ever 6773. Gorgeous stretch of weather. There are a few faint showers on friday mostly in the afternoon. Clears out for the weekend. Looking good. Temperatures dip and recover and next week maybe we revisit the 70s for a couple of days. A couple of days. So no real cold blast in site. No storms either. See you next half hour. Time for traffic. Here is Joe Stapleton with a check of the roads. Thanks very much. A look at the northbound expressway, a little tough to see in the shadows but there is a theecar left lane crash northbound right by the Furnace Brook parkway pushing traffic into braintree and southbound adding to the already slow stuff that weve here. About a 38minute ride from boston to the area. Downtown, 93 northbound leading away from the cameras, sluggish in this spot. It stays heavy up into the medford section. Still tight going on storrow drive, the up and down ramps. Route 1 northbound heading up in the saugus area but not moving all that badly up through lynnfield and our pike westbound ride is starting to doing down by exit 17. Stays heavy right out to 128. Im Joe Stapleton, 7 news. A Breast Feeding mom is outraged when she is taken to an unusual area when she asks for a private place to pump. A vicious bear attack, a man narrowly able to get away. A little girl found dead. New details about the home that may have been overlooked. Why a bad play for the Detroit Lions should have everyone is saying, hey you gotta get fios but why . Well, fios is a 100 percent fiber optic network, so you can get 100 out of all your devices. So whatever speed you need, fios has it with the Fastest Internet and wifi available, from 50 to 500 mbps. But the main reason to get fios . Were rated number 1 in customer satisfaction. Ultimately, thats why. 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