If you like the two before this, third time is the charm. 89 for the high this afternoon. Into the weekend things change up a bit. Tomorrow we got to be weather aware with scattered showers and storms expected. Low humidity and comfortable warmth again as we move into sunday. More details of timeline of those storms to come in just a few minutes. Time for fast track traffi traffic. Here is danielle. Danielle good morning, bridge. Looking at an accident southbound on the Eleven Eleven at storrow drive. You cant eit here. It has cleared 37 go to the maps. Lowering things going into town. Braintree to boston. Northbound on the expressway only 14 minutes. The roads are looking pretty good. Watching an accident northbound on route 24 at 128 there. A little bit of slow and go heading into town on the pike. Route 2 and 3 looking real goo good. Check those drive times if you are getting ready to head out braintree to boston. 14 minutes in the pike from 128. 93 southbound 28 to the zakim bridge only 13 minutes here. Drive times not too bad. The t and Commuter Rail both running on schedule. Back to you guys. Happening now a worker on the road to recovery after he ran into danger on the job. His foot got stuck in a cement mixer and was twisted around by part of that machine. So crews had to step in and help free this mavr before he was hurt even further. Head out live to newton where a victoria warren. Vicki, it took a long time and this guy was in a lot of pain, you said . Reporter he was. He was in a lot of pain and conscious during the entire or deal. This was a very tricky rescue that took hours to free his ankle from the cement mixer. [sirens] reporter a construction worker rushed to the hospital after an awful accident. Fire fighters say the 22yearold worker slipped and caught his foot in a working afternoon. He was caught deep into the mixer on the auger. Reporter we are told a coworker heard him screaming, ran over, unplug the machine and then called for help. A difficult situation. The man was in pain and there was no easy way to free him. Just a harden steel auger and we couldnt use the torch because the ankle was wrapped around the auger and the heat from the torch would burn the victim. We had to basically disassemble the whole unit to get the foot out. Reporter that took hours of careful w and cut away the body of it, and cut the auger off. He obviously wanted to get out of there as quick as he could. Now investigators have to figure out how this happened saying the man may have slippe slipped. They had a bags of cement that were like four feet high. I dont know how his leg got in there, but that is still under investigation. Reporter they didnt the hospital we are told at the hospital he was stabilized. So that is good news. The investigation into how this accident happened continues. Live this morning in newton, victoria warren, 7news, today in new england. Breaking news from overnight. Police are investigating a tractortrailer crash in everett. Officers say the rig went up on the curb and the trailer ripped open like you see there. Happened at the intersection of broadway and b crews are investigating a fire in braintree after flames broke out on a garage on washington street. Fire fighters were able to contain the flames before they spread to the home. Right now a Police Officer is recovering after hes hurt in a crash in jamaica plain. Investigators say his cruiser and another car slammed into each other at an intersection late last night. The officer is expected to be okay. The other driver was not seriously hurt. Police unions here in boston the wake of violence against officers nationwide. One their requests, new equipment in order to keep them safe. Head out live to boston with more on what they are asking for. Here is 7s nicole oliverio. Reporter krista, this letter was written in response to the attacks on Police Officers happening across the country, and while the commissioner says safety is the top priority, he thinks this letter was perhaps written a little bit harsh. Boston Police Unions are taking aim at the citys in a scathing letter, the union demanded more needs to be done to protect officers out in the treats. It read in part, we have asked long guns for our patrol officers. We now demand it. The need is necessary and the need is now. Sometimes it can get to you and it is what it is. Reporter the letter comes after officers were ambushed and murdered in dallas and more officers and equipment like ballistic helmets. This as the Boston Patrolman Association tweet out a picture of officer and kids. Who needs police gear, we need hoodsys. The 80,000 Ice Cream Truck meant to foster good will and community engagement. Commissioner bill evans says safety is a top priority but believes that the unions letter is a bit much. The words he didnt use. They are a little offensive, but i think it is a hard time to be a Police Officer now, so i know where he is coming from. Reporter so the commissioner says the department is reviewing all of his policies to eif there are any changes that can be made. The latest in boston, nicole oliverio, 7news, today in new england. People in boston are expressing concerns of the Police Departments body camera program. Police commissioner William Evans and city councillors at a public hearing last night. Many are upset officers have not been wearing body cameras. Even though Police Officials say the program would start last month. Commissioner evans says so far no volunteers have come forward to wear the cameras and that he will likely have to assign officers to be a part of the program. Happening today, Governor Charlie Baker will be signing new regulation legislation to regulate Services Like uber and lyft. Backgroundck from logan and the Convention Center but will not require fingerprinting. John hinckley was declared legally insane after he shot president reagan back in 1981. And last week, a federal judge ruled the 61yearold is no longer a danger to himself or others. Once released, hinckley will be required to live with his mother in virginia. New this morning an airplane the cargo plane overshot the runway and slid through the airport fences. Part of the plane blocking traffic. We are headed into the olympic zone, and things are about to get wild in rio. The Opening Ceremony officially kicking off the games tonight. Gi Gisele Bunchen will take part. Here she is at thursday at one of the ceremonys dress rehearsals. Oh, yeah, she is exci soccer legend pele. Speculation he may light the called reason do; however, Health Concerns may prevent him from doing so. We will ewhat happens. Tourists seeing the sites in rio are being greeted by heavily armed soldiers from christ the redeemer to the sands of the copacabana beach, police are looking for any signs of threat. They are looking for high alert when the opening ceremonies our first look at team usa. Christa including folks from here in new england who are ready to compete and bring home the gold. Nancy chen is rio with a look at the athletes you want to watch. Reporter dozens of local athletes coming down to rio. We came to south america, i had a chance to talk to them about their journeys. Reporter six olympic medals and one super bowl ring. Needham returning for her second Olympic Games as the captain of the gymnastic. She and the fierce five were to be reckoned with. And now she is ready to do it again. Nothing like competing the olympics and have everybody come and watch. Reporter made history when she became the First American to win gold in judo. She is ready to defend her title, but during her conversation, he admitted she when you care this much, you are going to be nervous about what the result is going to be and i know ultimately i am prepared and i have done everything in my power to be ready. Reporter native elizabeth byzel is looking to make a plash. The third olympic appearance for the captain of the u. S. Swim team and excited to make the most of it. I am excited of swimming first day and seven days of watching the olympics. Watching the best sporting ev it will be really exciting. I am so excited. The to he limb pick games is the first for new england patriot safety nate edner. He said he would take a leave of absence to try out for the u. S. Rugby olympic team and paid off. Part of one of the biggest sports competition in the world and how do you not want to be a part of that. Really those thoughts are what flooded my mind along with what reporter they will be going up against the best in the world, but hoping to bring hardware back to new england. In rio, nancy chen, today in new england. A preview teen she has with her cocaptain alison smith that involves rhiannas song called cheers. We do it at every meet and we did it at trials and will do it tradition that we do and we statistically swim faster before our races. Something we want to do. And just something that really helps us enjoy it and keeps it light. It can get serious at olympics. Christa your home for the summer games. So much to tell you about that we are adding an extra half from 4 30 until 7 00. Parts of the uniforms team usa will be wearing right here in new england. Trouble for donald trump. Another gop lawmakers saying he refuses to back the nominee. Warm and dry for us again today, but tomorrow is a different story. Expect scatter showers and storms. More ahead in the forecast. A home leveled in connecticut while people are inside. Inside. What we know about that blast. Pat randazzo when i see those false ads attacking kelly on medicare, i wonder. Do they think that were stupid . We know kelly. Walter kolodziej kelly has always done the right thing for seniors here in New Hampshire she has an impeccable record. And protecting medicare. Pat randazzo kelly knows that we need to Work Together to really preserve and strengthen medicare. Mary griffin New Hampshire seniors trust kelly ayotte because she has never let us down. So, you know, it is Something Like saturday is not going to be the best day weatherwise. So i am feeling like we can just replace today. Right, make this our saturday. And we just have to get out of this work thing. Sarah yeah, thats right, bri, see you later. Bri the responsibility . Gif of ferris bueller. Play hooky go to the beach. Temperatures are 70s across the board which is impressive because we started in the 50s in many spots heading to upper 80s. Even 90 not out of the question. Highs tomorrow will be similar to what you saw here and it will be muggier. You will notice a difference and will feel warmer tomorrow even though numbers are similar. Foodie forecast. Food tastes better when you eat it outside in the 80s. Music at fenway if you are planning on jamming out also hear they are performing on sunday at fenway, looks great as well. I mention the humidity stays in check for us today. I said it several times before, 60 degrees is a good threshold, a good marker. Anything above that is humid. Anything below that is manageable. Today humidity remains manageable and creeps up tomorrow. The warmth, the humidity, the lift provided by a front moving on through and you get scattered hours and storms. Humidity back in check. You get the sunshine back, and we also get the warmth around, comfortable warmth with the humidity levels lowering. High pressure still in control and take a look what is happening out to the west. We are already seeing showers and storms working through the midwest ahead of this cold front swaeping through for tomorrow. So timeline on this. Pretty Broad Strokes here and chooser on wind and what they bring. We are watching out for the potential of strong to severe storms not out of the question with some of these storms they get out of control here. I think midday into the afternoon, that threat for storms subsides as we head into the evening hours. Main concern or main threat will be for strong straigh straightline damaging wind gusts and also for localized heavy rainfall. We need the rain and more on that daniel gersch. You may not want the rain for tomorrow but any rain we can squeeze out we really do need. This is the Drought Monitor and this orange is severe drought. Stretches from manchester to New Hampshire as well. Lawrence and reading really interesting to point out from june 1 to august 2, this has been their driest period on record for those two cities. They have seen 20 to 30 . Just 20 to 30 of the rainfall they usually see in those two areas. Since june 1st, our rain deficit around 5 inches in boston and worcester and we really do need the rain and is interesting. Since january 1 the definite between 7 and 8 inches. In boston we picked up 17 inches of rain and sounds like a lot but far below where we should be. Heading to the lake, as bri was mentioning chance of storms on saturday. Look good. Cooler along the cape and pleasant with temperatures in the low 80s and the three for those showers in the evening on saturday. Bri, back to you. Bri thanks, danielle. We can buy some of those raindrops but wont be a drought buster. Partly cloudy, 63 to 69. Not as cool as it has been. Tomorrow mostly cloudy with the afternoon thunderstorms. We will just have to keep an eye to the sky. The sevenseven forecast in the 80s and into the beginning of next week with things heating up by midweek, an extra round of showers and storms for wednesday christa bri, thank you. The Harvard University club taking a stand. The harvard nominee they will not be endorsing. A smokey situation. A car burst into flames right two years ago, silvertech had 40 to 50 employees. Now we have 60 to 70. We took a big hit in the recession, but were back, strong. We had about 70 employees a few years ago, we have over a hundred today. Chynoweth businesses like mine see how Maggie Hassan keeps this economy moving. Mary collins shes controlled spending and shes balanced the budget. Narrator and cnbc named New Hampshire the most businessfriendly state in the country. Im Maggie Hassan, and i approve this message d to show washington how we get things done in New Hampshire. 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And thats a different story. Oh, you stole her from her boyfriend . And since then im suffering. They lived happily ever after for how many years . Ntenders. We are back at 8 21 with the latest for the race for the white house. From the harvard republican club. Club will not be endorsing the gop nominee for president. By the way the first time in 128 years that the organization has not backed the republican nominee. In a statement the club says that trump lacks the temperament and character necessary to be president. More bad news for republican nominee. New polls showing Hillary Clinton continuing to grow her lead against donald trump, this as more politicians back down from endorsing their partys stands for you are fired or stands for you are hired. Reporter as Hillary Clinton hammers away as how donald trump does business. He has cheated contractors. I take that personally. Reporter several new polls put her in the lead. Clinton is up 9 points in the latest nbc wall street Journal Journal poll. 15 according to Mcclatchy Maris and significant leads in michigan and florida. Trump is down in double digits in New Hampshire and pennsylvania and wisconsin does no the look good either. Wisconsin. I dont think he helped him self in his own party where his support is soft with picking a fight with the most popular republican politician. Right now a lack of enthusiasm for him. Reporter trump is not backing House Speaker paul ryan, but his running mate is. I. I said mike, you like him, he said yes, go ahead and do i it. Go ahead. Reporter says he wont vote losing a very winnable electio election. Reporter he is back where it all started in iowa. President obama said trumps claim that the election process is rigged is ridiculous. Also this morning, there are questions swirling around trumps wifes immigration status and how she became a u. S. Citizen. 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