Rio. Losing that match in the round of 32 last wednesday gave him something to think about. Dersh wits is heading home with his head held high. Reporter for many people attending harvard is a dream for 25 year old eli he put that dream on hold in order to pursue the olympic podium. Its been called physical chess. 2 people, 2 swords, one winner. It takes physical and mental dominance in order to win or to be the best or to be a champion. Reporter and eli has worked hard to master boat. Im excited about seeing where my hard work can get me. Reporter the sherborn native as a kid you see people with metal swords in their hands and they dont get in trouble. I didnt see why any kid wouldnt want to do it. Reporter after finishing his freshmen year at Harvard University he made the decision to take a year off to focus on his olympic dream. Its a tough year of training with ups and downs. Reporter as for what s list. The only thing i will not share with everyone is the music before competitions
7news. Were staying on top of breaking news out of harvard. Take a look at this mess, thats debris on the road. This is the ramp off of route 2 westbound, that is exit 38b. As you can imagine, its causing major delays as crews work to clean up the area. They tell us the ramp will likely be closed all evening. Also on 7, tree trouble in reading. Part of an 80foot oak came crashing down on to a exphowses there was a woman inside when down electrical lines leaving people without power. Steve cooper is live in reading and spoke with the homeowner there. Steve. Yeah, this was really one wild scene this afternoon. You look behind us here tonight and the road is till blocked off. You can see neighbors still down there watching all the cleanup thats going on right now, but all this after a homeowner just got back from a bike ride this afternoon when a huge tree came crashing into her house. It was a loud crack. Think. Reporter joan describing the snap, crack and pop as she watched as this mass
Speak with lochte and another swimmer. Ryan schulteis with developing details. Reporter ordered lochte and another swimmer to stay in the country. The judge ordered the swimmers passports seized while authorities investigate they were robbed at gun point. Police say there is little evidence so far to support their claims. Say the swimmers werent available to provide key details out of the car and on to the ground. I refused. I was like we didnt do anything wrong. Im not getting down on the ground. Then the guy pulled out his gun. He caulked it put it on my forehead. I put my hands up whatever. He took our money. He took our wallet. Not make an athletes travel plans public. We will continue to cooperate with brazilian authorities. State department commenting on the court order today. Would you want ryan lochte to go back to rio if youre encouraging him to work with brazilian authorities . Thats all for an american citizen. We would never require an american citizen to comply with those
Couple of sprinkles throughout plymouth to cape and islands calling on down. Not much rain the talk about with this. Boston breaking into sun. Some little instability working from north and west later on today. We cant rule out a spot shower. Much of the time will be dry with mixture of sun and clouds. Temperatures this afternoon running back into the midtoupper 80s. It will be a warm one just like yesterday afternoon the humidity on the tolerable side. Were not dealing with high humidity. We deal with d the weekend. The forecast coming up. The latest on breaking news. Two tractortrailer collided on the mass pike east in auburn earlier this morning. Leaving people at a stand still for hours there in their vehicles. Lets go to Nicole Oliverio shes at the scene with an update. Looks like things are moving once again, nicole . Its no help for this morning hush hour traffic commute into work. If you take a look behind me. You can see this mass pike eastbound in auburn. You can still see wh