Patriots season opener. Tonight, Rob Gronkowski admits that hes not completely healthy. Dan . Reporter david, theres good news and bad news recording gronkowski. The big tight end took part in his Third Straight practice tonight in foxboro. The bad news, his hamstring is bothering hill. Hes getting stressed out. He getting stretched out. He originally hurt it last month. This month has his listed as the hammy isnt 100 but hes feeling good and hopes to take the field come sunday night. Yeah, i mean, it comes down to the coachs decision and medical team and myself. Well all get together and collaborate to see where im at. I want to be out there so bad, especially to help out the team, help out the team overall in any position. Reporter you can bet Jimmy Garofalo will feel a lot better about his first regular season if i was a betting man, id say gronk will play. David . I like that. Thank you so much, dan. The patriots opener is sunday at arizona and we kick things off with game day at 1
They seemed like it was on one side. You put them on their feet, and they just fell. Almost like one side was, like, paralyzed. Reporter there was no sign of people feeding birds and no sign of poisoning. So Inspectional Services is checking to see if anyone used a control agent called avatrol. There are three types of birds you can do control measures on. You can use a chemical called avatrol. It has to be mixed in a very safe way, not its made to disperse. It is a shocking agent. Reporter no other species of birds were affected, only the grackles which are only ash here in the summer. So the Animal Rescue league of boston and Inspectional Services are trying to figure it all out. Were not sure whats going on if there is an environmental toxin or some disease thats being spread around the birds. Reporter you heard Inspectional Services mention avatrol. To use it, you have to have a permit. To figure out if anyone in the area has a permit for that. Reporting live from dorchester, im bi