It happened at a sears a u toe center at the rockingham mall. Jim smith is live in salem with the top story tonight. Reporter well, this is certainly a very strange and sad story. Police here in salem, New Hampshire do tell us that this appears to be an accident, but tle also certainly investigate exactly how this happened. The tire exploded off the machine. Reporter early saturday morning, a customer was getting a large truck tire fixed, at the sears auto center, at Rockingham Park mall, suddenly the tire exploded. Killing the tire worker, and badly injuring the customer. 911 callers were frantic. This two, this two, this two. Two is unconscious. Yeah. How about the second patient . Were in route by the way. Yeah, i did see him move a little bit. Okay. A tire. What exploded . A tire, they was filling up a reporter the tire worker killed is 22yearold justin almon. The customer adam sprole of booth bay, maine, air lifted to the boston medical center. Its an industrial tire changer with the tire is mounted on the rim and it seals it into place. And then it inflates at the same time. So the whole tire and the rim came up. And the victim was leaning over, we think, and thats when it hit him in the head. Reporter the shop closed for the rest of the day. Federal investigators are also looking into the accident, which leaves workers and police badly shaken. Especially this time of the year, people have families that they want to go home to and its traumatic for us, to see Something Like that for such a young kid. Reporter and in a statement tonight, sears says it sends its thought ks and prayers to both victims, and their family, sears also said sit cooperating with the authorities while they investigate. Live at salem, New Hampshire wbz news, jim, back to you. Jim, thank you. We have developing news in New Hampshire as well tonight, firefighters there are going door to door, to warn customers about elevated Carbon Monoxide levels and unusual odors caused by an improper mix from the liberty gas plant there. The problem has been corrected but theyre telling the customers they may need to open the windows for up to an hour. A lot of people talking about this Big Questions tonight before tomorrows game between the patriots and the titans. As questionable, because of an illness. Shall we be . Hell be fine. Despite the fact that it seems like every member of the patriots is on the injury list, to beat the 310 titans tomorrow at gillette stadium. Despite the injury, they have one guy, tom brady. And even he [ inaudible ] for illness that caused him to miss practice today. Its more than just that. When we talk about it, i cant overlook that the human element, i know, ive talked about that a lot over the year, you know, often times, we lose sight of that, but look, man, were humans and we feel for guys when they get hurt and things like that. Its been tough. Its definitely been tough. But you know, we just try to keep rolling with it, and rolling with the punches, and you know, do the best we can. Reporter and well kick things off tomorrow morning, patriots game at 11 30. The 5th quarter post game show on my tv 38 as soob as the game soon as the game ends. Rob gronknowski played. He misseded yesterdays practice due to the death of a close family friend. She is expected to play tomorrow. Thanks so much, roche. Stadium ahead of tomorrows big game. Finally wintertime temperatures for fans, if you like that type of thing. It looks like another warmup next week. David is here with the forecast. Thats right, we are going to have a warmup for next week, and well start with tomorrow in the evening, it lookss clear. That will be the case for tomorrow. Currently right now, a couple of snow showers, if you lick winter, rumbling through connecticut. There is basically flakes, no snow in the forecast. Hourbyhour this evening, if you are going out, doing shopping or headed to dinner or a party, temperatures around the freezing mark. Winds will continue to be brisk, youll need the jacket. Well have the details on the warmup and what the temperatures will be for kick sxauf the the fourth quarter. Three people are in the crash. Two cars collide head on at the intersection of hamilton and seville streets. Two passengers in the other car. The 19yearold driver of the second car ran away. Hell be charged with reckless driving and leaving the scene. The campaign 2016 now, the democrats facing off tonight, up in New Hampshire, the contest between hillary clinton, and bernie sanders, became controversial when clinton accused him of stealing voter data. But as she explained, the deal was cleared to clean up the mess ahead of tonights debate. Reporter democrats lined the streets in manchester, New Hampshire, showing support for president ial candidates ahead of the third and final debate of the year. The critical primary state are eager to hear plans for National Security, income equality and ways to combat drug abuse. With the increase in National Security issues, theyre starting to pay more attention to the commander in chief question. Reporter but the issues could be clouded by controversy, here at the media center, journalists democratic party. On friday, the Democratic National committee discovered four Bernie Sanderss staffers improperly took information compiled by Hillary Clintons campaign. And blocked the sanders camp from seeing any voter data from its shared database. Early saturday modern, it regained agreement with the dnc. This is, you know, sort of a side show issue, that i dont think will and shouldnt be the focus of the debate tonight. Reporter but the data breach is expected to come up during tonights debate. For bernie sanders, it puts him on the defenseive, going into a debate, in which he really needs to be on the offensive against hillary clinton. Reporter both sanders and former Maryland GovernorMartin Omalley are scrambling to catch hillary clinton. The front runner. Manchester, New Hampshire. A boston boy facing a long Police Officers were called to a school on hancock street after the students told the staff that they saw the weapon in the boys bathroom and the weapon was hidden in a toilet tank, it was a paint ball gun, but it didnt have the proper markings on it indicating that it wasnt actually a firearm. Police say the boy confessed to everything and was later arrested. Now, to a wbz exclusive, many of the men and women serving our country are often unable to come home for the holidays. But as wbzs paul burton shows us, one marine was able to surprise his family thanks to a widow. Reporter 21yearold lance corporate lance bauman is on cloud nine, to surprise his family, home for christmas. [ applause ]. Reporter his mother and father had no idea. We have not hugged him for two years. Since he got home from afghanistan. Reporter this is christmas, i missed my family so much, its amazing to be home. Reporter with this emotional homecoming didnt almost happen. Thanks to a generous gift from erin, who runs a nonprofit named after her late husband. He was killed in afghanistan in 2013. This week, marks their 6year wedding anniversary. When i saw there was a marine who wanted to come home, but couldnt afford it, i know that was the point of our federation, we want to help military families be with their families. Reporter runs heroes helpers of america. Lauren helped set up the commercial and private flight. A big surprise. Im so excited. Come here. Its whats christmas is about for me, the day my brother joined the military for me was the day that my life changed. Theres still good people in the world that actually care about veterans. Son is, he didnt come empty handed. He came bearing gifts. The soon to be baby boy. The fact that he is able to be home, for just a little, its what more can you ask for . Wbz news. Im paul burton. Love the story. The story that keeps coming. Exactly. Still to come, a texas man arrested in what police are crawling a massive case of insurance fraud. Coming up, how this video of a luxury car crash led to his arrest. A hollywood actor taken into custody by police, what he did to get himself arrested. And we know the new star wars movie is big, but exactly how big . Wait until you hear the Box Office Numbers so far. And jim, temperatures across the area, mostly in the 30s right now, but its mild tore the west, and that is air is headed our direction, ill tell catch holidaycookie cheer on the tip of your tongue with Dunkin Donuts holiday cookieflavored coffees. After 12 00 p. M. , enjoy any medium latte or macchiato for 1. 99. Anncr when the attacks come here. The person behind this desk will have to protect your family. Will he be impulsive and reckless, like donald trump . Will he have voted to dramatically weaken counterterrorism surveillance, like ted cruz . Will he have skipped crucial National Security hearings and votes just to campaign, like marco rubio . 27 generals and admirals support jeb bush. Because jeb has the experience and knowledge to protect your family. Right to rise usa for the content a man in texas will spend more than a year in prison for destroying a Million Dollar car, and it was this video on youtube that may have been his undoing. According to the houston chronicle, the driver bought this 2006 for a Million Dollars. And then drove it into a lagoon about a month later. The car was insured, for more than 2 Million Dollars. A stranger who just happened to be admiring the car, shot this video, when the car went off the road. Actor james com well is among half a dozen people plant. He power plant. He blocked the entrance. Protesters say toxins from the plant will cause health problemss in that area. He of course is known for his work in the movie babe, American Horror story and the green mile. His wife met with survivors and family members of those killed in san bernardino, california. Hours before the first family arrived in hawaii for their twoweek christmas vacation. His weekly radio address, he took a page from David Letterman and read the first top ten reasons he is optimistic for 2016. The number one reason, its you. The american people. All of this progress is because of you. Because of workers rolling up their sleeves and it ging the job done getting the job done, because of teachers and Health Workers and parents, all of us taking care of each other. Also on the president s list, the Supreme Court upholding samesex marriage and a develop in the unemployment rates. The new star wars movie already Smashing Box Office records, the force awakens earned 57 Million Dollars. Thursday night alone ft it is expected to rake in more than 250 Million Dollars in its that would also be a new record. We can report tonight, wbzs katie brace, not going to be among the people watching it this weekend, somehow. You failed to say the reason why . Yes. Youre too cheap, youre going to wait. She wants to see it, but for 10. Its great if you can get tickets and then stay out of the cold. I already have my tickets, excited. So, good weather, it was dry, still good weather, a lot of folks still shopping and doing all of those thing, no problems at all with the weather. And thats my first headline, dry and chilly, brifshg out there, folks. D brisk out there, folks. Youll need a jacket if youre going to be walking around, but if youre parking and kind of just going into someones house or a restaurant, leave nit the car. That way leave it in the car. That way you dont forget it. It will turn milder for monday. And it may be record territory for new years or christmas eve, new years eve, a little temperatures in the 30s at the present time. 37 in province town. Go up the elbow of the cape and up to boston, to 36. They have been the chilly spot all day long in wor chester. 36 degrees, in boston, the winds are brisk at 17. It k noes the wind chill down to knocks the wind chill down. They are having light flurs across parts of connecticut, this is lake effect snow and some of it is held together, a few flurries today. I do not see anything this month in terms of snowfall. Youre going to have to wait until january. So we had a storm system go by with rain yesterday and now the brisk winds, you can see the white representing the lake effect snow. This will shut down here for tomorrow afternoon. And especially during monday. So tomorrow, its still chilly, temperature this is the upper 0s. Westerly winds 58 miles per hour, a lot better. For kickoff, 40, 41, it will cool off to the 30s throughout the game, but nice weather and dry. As well. So hourbyhour tomorrow morning, that storm system i showed you is gone. The lake effect starts to shut down, we go through the day and well start to have clouds increasing on monday and thats the milder air coming at us. By tuesday, the flow is out of mild air. And as i walk over to the this 7day forecast. And you can see, yeah, tomorrow is in the upper 30s, about typical for this time of the year. But then we are atypical the rest of the time, getting into the 50s. I think thursday, we will break the record, well be in the lower 60s. And then friday, christmas, looks dry, and mild. But still, no real cold, prolonged cold and no snow in the forecast. Back to you guys. Okay. Im going to say, yea for the cold not lasting too long, but boo for no snow. My kids have ski lessons after the first of the year. Quarterback tom brady not the only player, questionable for tomorrow. More on the mass unit, otherwise its not like the patriots didnt have enough trouble. Did we got worried . Whats in story. The titans secondary has given up touchdowns in the air. It sounds pretty good. The patriots will be okay. All right. But dont hold me to that. With three teams remaining on the schedule, win out, the top seed in the playoffs, the math may be simple, but the execution could prove difficult. The injuries keep mounting for the pats week after week. Meanwhile, today, the banged up pats added joey to the 53 man roster from the practice squad while releasing linebacker rick martin. Due to an illness but started to start and play. He is listed as questionable surprised if we saw him on the field tomorrow. All of this means that the pats are always looking for new player, but dont ask Bill Belichick until theyre a part of the team. Im not going to talk about the players that are not on our team. Just 1,000 players that arent on this team. Just a lot of guys in there working hard, getting ready for this team and those are the guys im focused on. Im not going to talk about the guys that are not on our team. So. Well kick things off sunday morning, patriots game at 11 30. Pats and titans at 1 30. The red hot bruins are off until tomorrow afternoon, when they host the new Jersey Devils at the garden. Over the last 14 games. Including a 62 win last night 3 and 1 the other way. Right side. Rebound. Scores. And it went off of a hat trick. Franks first trick in the nhl can and the bruins have put up a half dozen. Pretty good stuff. All right. College hoops, top ranked, big night for him and the big night for the bruins. Now, go to college hoops. Top ranked Michigan State spartans. The huskies stayed close early. 21 points per game, an early lead. They extend that lead here to 1510 on t. J. Williams strong trooif to the basket. But Michigan State, proving why theyre number one, takes control from there. On the run, a strong finish. Spartans had an 18point lead. Improve to 120 on the season. Still a big day for northeastern hoops to get a home game against the squad. Rafters and see reggie lewis, and the bruins and the spartans, i enjoyed that. It will be a big fan of northeasterns, i like the treatment i got out here, but most importantly, you know, this is a good team were playing. For our guys, were excited before the game. I thought we fought the effort was certainly there. Execution was lacking at times. But thats why theyre the Number One Team in the country. Good stuff. By the way, northeastern and Michigan State meet on the ice over at Matthews Arena in a few minute, it seats 5280 and jammed. It will be packed. A fun atmosphere be over there today. A lot of fun. Thank you very much. Appreciate it, dan. A battle of good and evil, so did the force help these jedis in training beat a catch holidaycookie cheer on the tip of your tongue with Dunkin Donuts holiday cookieflavored coffees. After 12 00 p. M. , enjoy any medium latte or macchiato for 1. 99. The force was with thousands of los angeles fans last night. To break the world record for the largest lightsaber battle in a 24 hour period. Participants are still waiting to find out if they were successful if that every dever, however, the official numbers come in on monday. How many look, how many things are there potentially is there an opportunity break it in 48 hours . Can you do it in 12 hours. Will have to work on. Thanks so much for watching, well see you back here for wbz