See how long the second summer is going to last. 73 for a high in boston, about 73 nashua and back into bedford 47. I didnt think it would get this warm today. I thought upper 60s to near 70 but we busted throughout that and the southwest wind is helping us. Also the temperature in plymouth the high today about 68 degrees. Now, settling back to the low 70s and upper 60s. Not a cloud in the sky in fact. Many cases just a couple of filaments of high clouds as crow the coast of maine. Thereto is a front passing through. Its a cool front that will settle back winds and turn them more northerly and more easterly for tomorrow. Temporary. We should shoot back up closer to 70 degrees on thursday and certainly on friday, too. Southwest. Well get into the forecast few. Ryan also on 7 a story owner in lowell facing threats after a report tied them to the k. K. K. The owner says the accusation is not true and it has been bad for business. Dan hausle joins us live. Reporter it started because the Internet Group threatened to be posting closet klans men on line. Now we come to this business in lowell, k. K. Insurance agency. When they got linked to some people who want to jump on the anonymous band wagon they say their live has taken a turn for the worse. Normally phones ringing off the hook at this Insurance Agency would be a good thing but not now. You are calling me about the k. K. Situation. You need to hear my story. Reporter he has been operating k. K. Insurance here in lowell for 25 years. But since someone posted his business phone numberers on an interknelt bill board bragging exposing the k. K. K. , harassing phone calls wont stop. I want to get a quote for my but are you a member of k. K. K. No way. Hang up. I say, no, were not. I dont know what is it. Reporter others named in the online post include sheriffs and senators from across the country. They got on the list. Im calling, im asian. Im not a member then you realize from the accent they real identifies im not the profile of that group. Reporter you thought you were calling the k. K. K. When i tried their numbers back most of the callers hung up or denied making calls. A few defended their actions. You said anonymous put the number out there. Irresponsible. Its irresponsible and its terrible. Terrible thing you shouldnt do that to somebody in a is trying to live the american dream. Reporter the barrage of calls seems to have eased but he worries someone may take things a few further. When i went home last night i worried they might vandalize my place. Reporter when the number of calls decreased the trouble may not be over. They got a call from a group who insisted theyre part of anonymous and that the posting was right. With another barrage of listings expected thursday, these folks here are worried. Dan hausle, 7 news itself. Scare in the sky for a paraglider in new hampshire. Candia. Authority say he had a minor back and neck injury. But it took sometime for crews to get the equipment untackled out of the tree. Ryan the u. S. Government will fine takata 70 million for the air bag recalls that affected more than 30 million vehicles in america. 100 people have been hurt. 8 people have been killed. Today the transportation secretary weighed in on the decision. Dot shouldnt have to of a massive safety recall, reportsetting Civil Penalties are not something to brag about and american drivers should not have to worry that a devise designed to save their life might actually take it. Reporter tack ada admit that had it knew inflators were defective but failed to recall them. The. The investigation temperatures into the mid air mystery of a russian passenger plane that crashed a heat flap was detected at Officials Say it could have been a bomb, a fuel tank exploding or the crane crashing on the ground. Theyre ruling out a theory that the missile brought down the plane. The Company Blind the controversial Keystone Pipeline is asking the government to suspend its application because of a dispute about a route through the state of nebraska. Ryan Bernie Sanders is preparing to visit new hampshire. The senator will file paperwork on thursday for the first in the nation primary ballot. He will hold a rally with supporters. But despite massive crowds at the rallies sanders is falling behind. Hillary clinton has increased the lead in the democratic president ial raise according to a new poll. Clinton has 62 , Bernie Sanders has 31 . On the g. O. P. Side, trump has a new book out. The title crippled america, how to make america grape. He criticized rivals rubio and jeb bush. Trump is still in second place in the latest poll. Ben carson is leading the race with 29 . Trump has 23 , rubio with 11 . Reporter there are a number of elections in massachusetts today including a fierce fight for Boston City Council seat that has been filled more than 30 years. Boston with a look at the matchup. Reporter yes, stakes high in district four. Roxbury, dorchester, mattapan incumbents Charles Yancey is said to be the longest serving elected official in boston in modern history, and now he is facing one of his toughest challenges ever. Andrea joy campbell, a 33yearold Ivy League Lawyer who worked in the Deval Patrick administration trying to upset a long time council. I councilor thank councilor yancey for his years of service. For me its about mobilizing the next generation. Reporter campbell is trying to unseat Charles Yancey who held the district 4 seat for 32 years. Campbell soundry beat yancey in septembers preliminary election. Setting the stage for one of ever. Why after 32 years are you running an uphill battle . Well, i think its because a lot of folks have stepped back and relaxed. They assumed that im always going to be reelected so reporter were you able to relax, too . No, not at all. Reporter while he toss his record taking credit for bringing police stations and community sentes to the district he says its time to turn the page nor a new generation of leadership. Reporter for me its about making sure our supporters came out. Those home who say im going to support you, get out. Reporter why should voters stick with you after 32 years . Two reasons, its very important to vote for someone you know you can trust. Reporter for voters its a clear choice. Charles yancey, yes. Reporter how come . Because he is reliable. He has been in community for a while. I do trust him. I voted for campbell indicate. Reporter why . She has fresh new ideas and yancey has been in for a while. Question of experience and loyalty versus a fresh face and new ideas. In a few hours the voters will have the final say. The story live in dorchester, im byron barnett, 7 news. Todays election also includes races in several communities including worcester, brockton, quincy and weymouth. Follow todays election on whdh. Com or through the mobil and tablet apps. There you can find polling times, locations and what is on the ballot. Ryan much more ahead including a dramatic story of survival when a texas man is swept away by a flood. Elizabeth how much time are kids spending with their electronics . Ryan a child is left alone in the desert by her grandfather with a loaded gun. A teen on the run from police speeding through the streets of florida. We have a live report coming jeb bush was a very strong governor, governor in the history of the state of florida. He was a young guy and i think there were some folks in the legislature that thought they might be able to run over him. That didnt happen. One tax cut wasnt enough he had to do more. It wasnt enough to have 15,000 kids with School Choice in florida, he wanted to have 100,000 kids. If he didnt like a project, it was going to be vetoed. It didnt matter if you were a republican. It didnt matter if you were his best friend. He said this is where were going, this is how were going to reform state government. every politician comes in talking about making change, and generally theres not much change. But governor bush made a lot of changes. He got the nickname veto corleone. If he saw something in the budget that he thought violated his conservative principles, you could guarantee it was gonna get whacked. He vetoed a bunch of my stuff and i was the senate president. The message to washington, d. C. , is get ready. because there will be change. Nright to rise usa is responsible wild weather down south and an incredible story of survival. I guess just realizing that there is not much worse his car was swept away by the flood waters in texas for flooding and tornadoes killed at least six people over the weekend. Ryan the man pulleddous his cell phone and recorded the scary situation while he was waiting for help. So its flooding here. An understatement from a remarkable kerry packer driving over abridge when the waters lifted his car, carried him away and trapped him inside. You can see im floating down some sort of creek. In the middle of this weather. I called 911. Told me to role down my windows. Stay in the car. Reporter he floated for nearly half a mile. Love you guys. Reporter he took this video planning to show his wife later. His car was on the verge of tipping when that happened. My car which is no longer visible under the water was swept into the the creek, and i was very blessed that it didnt flip over because it almost did. And as it was sinking, i grabbed on to this tree and climbed up. Reporter that is right. He grabbed a tree branch. He pulled himself out of the car and climbed up nearly 20 feet. He took this picture of his car almost completely submerged. He was in the tree for almost five hours. He passed the time in the tree by calling his five and says his boy scout training saved his life. Come up how much is too much . Are your teched out teens spending too much time with their Electronic Devices . Is it too much warmth . A little too much warmth though. Ill rearrange that. Our forecast for the next couple of days ahead. Ryan then a neighborhood shaken after a stabbing turns into a standoff in canton. Elizabeth keeping up with the t. Govern baker talks about plans to fix the aging system. Reporter police in granby get a surprise visitor when a goat shows up to say, hello. Elizabeth get caught up wherever you are whenever you want. Use our ipad app to stream our news and the many other live events all throughout who coined the term side bread . Because theres nothing side about this bread. It may look like the moon. But its the star of the show. Unleash the power of dough. Give it a pop. Its always worth remembering. That icing the Cinnamon Rolls is a privilege not a right. Unleash the power of dough. Elizabeth hopefully you got a chance to get outside today. The sun is shining setting a little earlier which is hard to get used to but it was gorgeous out. Starting to feel more like summer than fall. Ryan isnt that something . Temperatures in the 70s, if we can keep this weather to mid december people would love that. Just get right back into spring time in january. Ryan exactly. Work it into the forecast, how can i not do ta . Anyway, temperatures incredible. Low 70s in early november. Just outside right now, that little autumn glow that is going across the city. After a mild day. Were holding in the low 70s tipfully this time of year you reach the High Temperature in the afternoon then it washes away. But weve hold on to the 60s and low 70s for hours. Waltham making it to 72. 69 warren mass. Good stuff out there. More clouds will move in late in the week. That when you shut off the sun this time of year that is a big big player. However, i still think we maybe very mild on friday. Just owing to fact this hat pattern is that warm. Chilly weekend forecast turning it around and actually going below normal. 71 now lawrence and in boston, marshfield 76. 67 worcester. 72 nashua. Portsmouth. 58 chatham. Not in much in the way of chowedness across southern new england. Central new england and northern new england. You can see these coming off of maine, too, they materialize there in the wake of the white mountains. So is that kind of a standing wave cloud that is maine that. Is neat to see, too. It hovers overhead. All right, tomorrow our temperatures get up to the 60s but we back it off a little bit thanks to the sea breeze abeing lo the coastline. Looking for some cool air . Hard to find this time of year. Typically we would see it building across parts of northern canada, but now its not even there and when your temperatures are in the 3030s and 40s, when you surge the cool air masses in new england you cant get much out of it and you wont drop the temperature all that much. So we see a little bit of a dip by the weekends. Okay maybe its considerable from 72 to 58. Normal high of 56 but it brings us back to reality. 6469 then closer to 70. Beat on friday is 73 degrees. Im forecasting 72 so i think its in jeopardy. Its one of the weaker records in early november. The others being in the upper 70s and mid 70s so its ripe for the taking. I think well do that on friday. 3449 with a calm or variable wind tonight. Tomorrow, bit cooler, mostly sunny sky. 5965. Coolest on cape ann and cape cod, too. Sea breeze making the big difference. Warmest on route 2. There is your forecast. Maybe a sprinkle or shower on thursday and friday, too. Friday is a windy day by the way. Too. There it is. 72. Even with the cloud cover. Weekend shows sunshine. No rain drop on saturday by the way. Sunday cool, 52, we come back out of it again early next week. See you at 4 30. Time for traffic. Here is Joe Stapleton with a check of the roads. Getting a look at the southbound side of the expressway. Much better picture at this point. The earlier bus breakdown been removed so were starting to roll again as you can tell. Southbound around morrissey boulevard and near freeport street. Northbound not moving all that badly. Its about a 58minute ride from boston down to the braintree split. Getting a look at a problem, too, checking for a problem spot on route 9 around the area of route 16 in wellesley. Reports of a crash in the spot but its taking a look at the ride here. Not moving all that badly on either one of those roadways so that checked in phone as well. Making your way on is the pike eastbound that is stalled out. Right travel lane breakdown by the pru tunnel pushing traffic back to the allston area. Leaving town, right out to 128 heavy close to a 46minute ride there. Im Joe Stapleton, 7 news. A digital dilemma facing parents. How much time is too much with the electronics . Elizabeth it make them them worry even more with the information. You could call them screen group common sense find the average teen expenses nine hours a day with media and technology not counting school or homework. tweens average 6 hours a day. It shows you kids spend more time with media and technology than they do with their parents, time in school or any other thing. Reporter spend the day with jake gork, you will Learn Technology follows him like a shadow, his cell phone is the alarm clock and the video game player that entertains him. It keeps him in touch at basketball practice. Im normally texting my friends, maybe instagram to on. Reporter the study finds for teens music is the top media choice, for tweens its tv. Boys leaning toward video games, girls are more likely to embrace social media although splicingly only 10 of teens pick social media as their favorite activity. For some its seen as something they have to do these days. You are competing with the most likes and everything is trying to someone up each other. Coolest photo. Reporter 76 of teens listen to music and 50 are on social netsworking sites. 2 3 of teens think they can multitask doing their ome work, theyre wrong. Reporter some families say it helps them keep in touch and stay organized. If you are looking for ways to get your family to put the devises down, experts say try setting up roles like no video games after 8 00 pm and no technology at the dinner table. Ryan ill frat accused of only allowing certain women into their party. A passenger find himself in more hot water after he was caught on camera attacking his driver. A man leaves his 5yearold granddaughter ahead in the dessert. A teen takes a stolen car on a wild ride on the streets of miami. Ryan check out 7 news on facebook, check outakor profiles for check out anchor profiles for interesting facts about all of us, log on and search for 7 news. Announcer this is 7 news at 4 30. Elizabeth a scare in the streets in worcester when a Police Officer says he was hit by a driver. Ryan the officer tried to get the driver to stop but he wouldnt. Kelli ohara has the story from worcester. Reporter wearing a future is here sweater conner davis in front of a judge to answer charges from his recent past. The defendant is charged can assault and battery reporter he in big trouble with the law. He is accused of trying to kill a Police Officer. Prosecutors say davis was at a burger king an got into a fight in the drive threw. Moments later a nearby Police Officer went to intervene and davis allegedly hit him with his car. Then took off. The defendant did reverse, attempt to lit the officer smith on several occasions he actually did strike him in the foot. Reporter the officer is okay and Police Quickly caught up to the teen and put him in handcuffs. In court davis family told 7 news offcamera they dont know what happened and their son has been trying to get his life together working two jobs. Outside of court his mother mum to our cameras. Many now again that officer was taken to the hospital. He is expected to be okay. As for the young man, he is being held on a dangerousness hearing and he has no bail. He will be back in court next month. Live in worcester, kelli ohara, 7 news. Elizabeth a swat standoff shaking up a neighborhood in canton. Armed officers swarm when a man barricades himself in a home. There it stall arted when the suspect stabbed his brother. Nicole oliverio has more on this very scary situation. Reporter an injured suspects taken away after police say he stabbed his brother then barricaded himself in his home steps
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