joe, no disrespect to garoppolo or brissett, but seeing brady back on the field feels pretty good. >> joe: doesn't it? tom brady couldn't have looked more at home. back on the football field for the first time this season, and with a ton of patriots' fans cheering him on out in cleveland, brady carved up the now 0-5 browns no problem at all. any questions about brady being are rusty were answered on the first patriots' drive. brady's first pass a ten-yard connection with julian edelman, who his quarterback is "out of jail," as he referred to it. that opening drive topped off by a legarrette blount touchdown. the next drive, more of the same. 13-7 patriots. brady off and running, 271 yards and two t.d.s in that first half. second half, brady to bennett for a third time 37 yards for the touchdown. brady tosses for 406 yards and three touchdowns as the patriots roll 33-13. 7's trey daerr reporting live in returned in a big way. trey? >> trey: yeah, joe, what a difference a week makes. the patriots really didn't look right in any way one week ago against the bills. this week the face of the nfl is back, and tom brady showed his doubters that not a four-game suspension nor his age has any shot at slowing him down here in 2016. brady leading the team out of the tunnel here in cleveland. and the patriots putting the throttle down right from the start. brady opened the game, hitting on 14 o yards on his way to a 400-yard day in the air with three touchdowns. all of them going to tight end martellus bennett. believe it or not, brady thinks he's just getting warmed up. >> this isn't the time for me to reflect. like i said, i'm happy we won today, and i think... i'm happy we win every time we play. i have a job to do, and there's no point in looking back at anything. >> i was just trying to focus on what my job is and what i have to do. week for me once i got into it. so it was fun to come out and play and fun to win. that's the most important thing. we have a listening road ahead, so we'll try to keep building. >> just a totally different offense that we saw here today under tom brady than we saw with jacoby brissett. julian edelman, chris hogan, rob gronkowski, those are the guys that made a big impact today. we'll hear from them coming up later in sports. reporting live in cleveland, trey d >> joe: thanks, trey. if you think that cheering for brady was loud in cleveland, wait until he takes the field at gillette stadium next sunday. one quick note, sox and indians game three rained out today. they'll play tomorrow night at 6:08. live in the newsroom, joe amorosino, 7news. >> anchor: well, the rest of the team just as pumped to have t.b. 12 back on the field, and fans agree it's good to see brady. john cuoco continues our team coverage live in cleveland. a lot more pats' fans than browns' fans. >> john: that's right, nicole. when tom brady was standing in the tunnel before the game, all you could hear were the fans in the stands chanting his name. martellus bennett says it felt like a home game. then brady took the field and it's like he never lost a step. brady's bunch back in the win come wum a beat down of the browns in cleveland. >> it's super great. he's our leader. he's our guy. he came out here, and we did what we offense as a whole. >> brady, brady! >> john: if there was any are u.s. on t.b. 12's game after four weeks away from the team, it certainly didn't show. >> [inaudible] >> did you? >> no. >> me neither. >> got the wd-40 out for him, you know what i'm saying? get that arm ready. he did well today. >> john: his teammates happy to have him back on the field, >> he drew a friendship and you get excited for that. so you definitely try that. >> new england fans showed up in droves and players took notice. >> in the game, hearing them chanting "brady" and all the support that came out for this game, it's pretty awesome. he looked in the crowd. there was a lot of blue and red out there, so it was really something to see. >> john: a sign right here, the fans welcome back the goat. that's the greatest of all time. big win for the patriots and a great return for tom brady. leave in cleveland, john cuoco, 7news. >> nicole: and tom brady just crushing it in cleveland. we'll have more highlights and coverage live from cleveland later in the newscast. and turning now to the election, the countdown is on. we're just 30 days away. donald trump back in the public eye and still dealing with that videotape -- vulgar videotape. the stage is set. you're taking a live look at washington university in st. louis as trump gets ready to go head to head for hillary clinton for an unpredictable matchup. dan hausle is live in st. louis with a preview of the second presidential debate. and, dan, do we believe that the focus is going to be on those comments made in that video? >>. >> dan: it certainly is in the beginning. they're not going to keep you waiting. we understand the first question is going to b videotape leaked with donald trump with some pretty crass comments. the question is how is trump going to handle it? our indications are he's going to apologize but pretty quickly go on the attack. donald trump emerges from trul tower sunday, wife melania by his side. the first time we've seen them together since the world heard trump's crass comments to access hollywood's billy bush ten years ago caught on an open mic. >> when you're a star, they let you do it. [bleeped]. >> dan: in a statement, trump's wife says he was disgusted by the comments but they don't reflect the man she knows now. rudy giuliani commenting. >> he feels terrible about it. he feels terrible for his family and how embarrassing it is for them. >> dan: but trump is also saying he's not getting out of the race, like some in his own party are suggesting. a defiant trump tweeting this hypocrites. watch their poll numbers and election go down." some republicans say trump needs to strike a different tone. >> he needs to throw himself on mercy of the american people. >> dan: hillary clinton has been largely silent about the trump tape. her campaign saying she'll do her talking at the debate. but clinton will also have to answer questions about new leaked e-mails that show hillary talking about taking different positions in private than she does in public. saying whether the e-mails are real. >> i don't think we can dignify documents dumped by wikileaks in just assume that they're all accurate and true. >> dan: trump has been tweeting and retweeting attacks on bill clinton. it seems to signal after the apology, he's going to go on attack, not only on hillary, but on bill, as well. dan hausle, 7news. >> you can watch the debate live on cw56. dan as you saw there live in st. louis for full debate coverage. it all starts immediately afterward. we're continuing to attack matthew, no longer a hurricane but still packing a punch. the storm churning up the coast, ripping through the carolinas and bringing a wave of massive damage, at least eight people were killed in north carolina, bringing the death toll across four states up to 17. emergency officials say that number may continue to rise with north carolina taking a hard hit this morning with record-breaking flooding. even virginia is feeling the impact of the storm. the south shore breathing a sigh of relief as matthew starts heading east and out to sea. here at home, we're dealing with a lot of wet weather. bri, you warned us that today would be a sunday soaker, but a lot of that rain was needed. >> bri: right, nicole. this turned into a best-case scenario. we don't want the destruction of a tomorrow or hurricane here in new england, but we do need the tral exactly what played out today. you can see where extra tropical cyclone matthew is at this point, about 200 miles to the southeast of the outer banks of north carolina. but we're still tapping into that sunday soaker, the back line starting to push in from the west and move east. it will take a while the move the wet weather out of here. 4-hour rain totals really impressive. almost at an inch and a half from boston, norwood, as well, close to it for beverly and closing in on two inches for nantucket. now, there's that back edge. surely sliding off to the east, but there's still some pockets of more moderate, even heavy rain, essentially focused down in southeastern massachusetts. we still have some rain to go before we're done with this. sunshine returns tomorrow. we'll run through the time line hour by hour to come in a bit. >> nicole: thanks, bri. still ahead on 7news at 6:00, a child is rushed to the hospital after she was shot on the playground. tonight the latest on the search for suspects. ? at blue cross blue shield of massachusetts, we offer a variety of medicare plans to fit your budget and your lifestyle. with plans starting as low as $0, you'll have zero things stopping you from really doing what you love. so call now to learn more about our plans that offer everything from annual wellness visits to routine hearing and vision exams, and prescription drugs. dical deductible and no referrals. plus, all our plans come with the peace of mind that you get when you have a health plan with over 50 years of medicare experience. the next chapter of your life should be all about you. that's why we're here. to learn more, contact us for our free medicare guide with no obligations. you can call us at 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area where the kids can play and run. >> amaka: the child was rushed to a local hospital for surgery now since apartments surround the parking lot where this happened, officers are hoping eyewitnesses will come forward with what they saw. >> they don't have no respect for little children. they are innocent. they are innocent, and these people shouldn't be shooting. it's so sad. >> amaka: we do know that mayor walsh did go to the hospital to meet with this girl's family. again, at this point, no arrests have been made. if you have any informationn police a call. for now we're live in roxbury, amaka ubaka, 7news. where>> bri: coming up, today ws about the rain. tomorrow is about the wind. in new hampshire, maggie hassan cut taxes for small businesses, protected education... created jobs. in washington, what's kelly ayotte done? voted to cut college grants, cut medicare. but kelly ayotte voted to protect tax breaks for millionaires and big oil. that's what the koch brothers and big 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october 19th. >> now 7weather with meteorologist bri eggers. were watching hurricane matthew and thinking maybe the track would bring that storm in our direction. as i mentioned before, it turned out best-case scenario. at this point, a tropical cyclone, more like a nor'easter, it's lost its tropical characteristics, but we're tapping into that much-needed rainfall. it's been going around through the day today. we're bummed out, but we do need all we can pick up, andal and a half in the city of boston. more to come as we head through the evening hours. you see that back edge slowly creeping in from the west to the east. and it will be out of here i think for metro boston by midnight tonight and then linger for cape cod and the islands through the week hours of tomorrow morning. and we've still got some good rain falling in these areas of yellow here, you see up through the merrimack valley just south of the city, stretching down through stoughton into norwood, taunton at this point, across the south shore, duxbury, we'll continue to see embedded downpours as we head into the dark hours of this night. there's our back edge. midnight tonight for the city. slowly it creeps on through as we head into the overnight hours. clouds lingering for cape cod and the islands as we get into early tomorrow morning right around sunrise. the sunshine is back in full force for us tomorrow. but you'll notice that the breeze has picked up to e we've got a pretty good breeze at this point out of the north-northeast, anywhere from 10 to 15 to even 20mph sustained winds, and then you get down to the cape and the islands, and those winds are really kicking. we're looking at 30 to even 45-mile-per-hour gusts on nantucket. that registered in the last hour. so a wind advisory is in effect from 8:00 p.m. tonight through 12:30 tomorrow, and this is for cape cod and both of the islands for gusts up to 50mph possible. branches and some small leaves and things of that nature, just because our trees are so stressed at this point. so here's your planner for columbus day tomorrow. clouds early on. then the sunshine is here. it's breezy and it's cool for us tomorrow. game was postponed today, but now we get a shot at another exciting day tomorrow at fenway. meantime, we've been talking about matthew for a while, but we also need the talk about tropical storm nicole, and the track of nicole, it does pose a concern for bermuda a into late this week, so we'll have to keep an eye on that forecast track from nhc right now does have that storm as a category one as it approaches bermuda later this week. tonight rain moves east. skies clear out, but it does get quite cool. here's a look at your very fall-like forecast. we'll pick up all the rain we an today because it doesn't look like there's much of a chance as we head through the rest of this week. >> and new time for 7sports with this past week keeping the focus on his team, not on tom brady's return. brady quietly went about his business, and you can't argue with the result. a 33-13 blowout win over the 0-5 browns. no nonsense, no hype, just another win. the patriots now 4-1. at 9:45 a.m., the moment all of new england had been waiting for, tom brady rolling into firstenergy stadium in cleveland, and at 1:06 p.m., brady's first pass of the season, a ten-yard completion the julian edelman. pats off and runng later in the drive, brady to rob gronkowski. this is gronk right here. that happen string looking just fine. he makes the defenders look silly. gronk is back. two plays later, blowtd blount caps it off with a one-yard touchdown. 7-0 pass. brady 4-5, 65 yards on that first drive of the season. brady's second drive, more of the same, 4 of 5 and this martellus bennett. 14-7 pats. the patriots defense making their presence felt. later in the first, dont'a hightower unloading on cody kessler. the backward pass into the end zone results in a safety, and hightower's hit results in chest and rib injuries for kessler. his day was done. ensuing drive. second quarter, brady continues to let it slide. look at, this he has all the time in the world before finding chris hogan before he makes a hogan, three catch, 144 yards. three plays later, third and goal from the five, brady fires into the tight window. bennett hangs on for that touchdown. 23-7 pats. and in the second half, brady has his pick of a wide-open gronk and a wide-open bennett. he goes with bennett who leaps into the end zone for his third touchdown of the game. that's career high for the nine-year vet, 30-7 patriots, and later in the third, at 39, brady proving he can still bring it. wheel. dives into it on third and five. watch him on the sideline after he signals that first down with a smile. patriots roll 33-13 as brady tosses 406 yards, three touchdowns, and 7's trey daerr is live in cleveland with more on brady's return. trey? >> trey: joe, tom brady back on the field, and as expected, he did not skip a beat. shredding the browns' defense for 406 yards a touchdowns. you would think that after missing four games he did not skip a beat. that appeared to be the case even though he himself admitted there was a little bit of are u.s. out there. >> i think there was plenty of rust out there. so i can do better in a lot of areas. you know, i think it was a good win today. it was one game. and 4-1 is a good place to be for us. >> it's tom brady. so you don't expect anything it doesn't matter. coaches do such a great job of preparing us, you know, for whoever we're playing that week. and, you know, this week was no different. >> trey: today the first time we got to see rob gronkowski and martellus bennett back on the field together. if this is a sign for things to come, the patriots could be in for a very prolific offense for the final three-quarters of the season. treyrr jeh jeh thanks, trey. red sox and indians rained out at fenway today. they play game three of the alds tomorrow at 6:08 tomorrow. red sox manager john farrell will keep clay buchholz as his starter for that game but plans to skip over eduardo rodriguez in a potential game four and go straight to rick porcello. >> my mentality is all hands on deck. we know the situation. we're embracing that. we look to go to rick porcello in game four, so this rain out most successful pitcher all season long pitching at home in game four. >> we'll have our come met weekly sitdown interview with john farrell tonight on sports extra plus michael silverman and rob bradford on what's missing from this red sox team this postseason. and we're in cleveland with the patriots' trey daerr with reaction from tom brady's debut analysis from ron borges. that's sports. we'll have sports extra tonight after the giants and packers on sunday night football. 7news will be righ at's for dinner tonight? wegmans ez meals. dinner's not just delicious, it's done. 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"outright lies," reports the lowell sun. charter schools "don't siphon off state dollars" from traditional schools, says the boston globe. in fact, public schools get more money. the truth is question 2 will give parents more choices and result in more funding for public education. please vote yes on question 2. >> nicole: that will do it for us for 7news at 6:00. is that ice-t? nope, it's lemonade. is that ice-t? lemonade. ice-t? what's with these people, man? lemonade, read the sign. lemonade. read it. ok. delicious. ice-t at a lemonade stand? surprising. what's not surprising? how much money marin saved by switching to geico. yo, ice-t! there's a reason cnbc named new hampshire the most business friendly state in the nation: maggie hassan's approach to innovation and business development. controlling spending. smart investments in education. and hassan's balanced budget was a bi-partisan "compromise" the telegraph said "worked." cutting taxes for small businesses. targeting millions to fight the opioid crisis. all with no income or sales tax. working across party lines is how maggie hassan makes new hampshire work for us. n . on this sunday night, tim kaine in crisis as donald trump heading in tonight's crucial debate. he's looking for remorse about his demeaning comment about women. hillary clinton campaign say tonight. gunned down after two beloved police officers are shot and killed. the suspects are finally surrendering after an all night standoff. flooding rain leaving thousands trapped in carolina. a traumatic rescue. the art of living. their memori memory may be