Eligible for parole in his little less 15 years. It s all up to the judge. He will make his decision after the holidays. Ed colleen retzer s family was emotional in court, and the verdict itself was red. They joined the da in a conference moments ago. They were wearing pink, colleen s favorite color. Reid lamberty was there. Reid . Reporter parents, brother, and sister stood stoically in front of the media, profound grief written all over their faces. He said there was no cause for celebration. There can never be true justice. His wife, her mother, saying they will try to find good in every day, just like their loss. We will honor her legacy into be her voice during the continued judicial process. Colleen never gave up and neither will we. We will not allow colleen one of colleen quotes is that there is something good in every day. To celebrate our love for her in the recognition of the many lives she touched and continues to influence despite the immense loss, we will carry on and do our best to find the good in every day. Reporter the District Attorney is adding that we can t bring her back all we can bring some sense of justice. Family was wearing pink today. Throughout this entire process. Pink was her favorite color. Ed quick recap of the charges. Phillip chism of firstdegree murder, the jury deciding that the crime was premeditated and not the result of a mental break. Jc Phillip Chism was found guilty of raping her in the school bathroom. He was found not guilty of aggravated rape in the woods. Armed robbery. The most he can be sentenced to is life with the possibility of parole after 1525 years. Jc for a timeline of the case are free mobile app. Ed more breaking news involving the driver of the runaway train. Could very well be fired. John atwater is live tonight, time ago. Reporter he did not want to talk about the action that was taken against him today. As lawyer says he has now been suspended for 30 days. David basket is came david basket vasquez s lawyer says he has in order to limit stress. That they are investigating his actions after the train he was supposed to be writing took off without him. Tied a cord around the train but his lawyer denies he would ever do that. He is off the job for at least 30 days. Ed of frightening scene on a busy mall sidewalk. Take a look at the top left portion of the screen. A temporary portion will collapses on the pedestrian as they walk by, the mother and baby among those taken to the hospital. The culprit appears to be high wind. Wynonna richardson s live. Reporter the wind is finally calming down, but the buildings inspector and osha couldn t find a reason why it collapsed. The structure just fell. We ran outside and people were underneath. We tried to get it up. Reporter surveillance show seconds after several people walked by the temporary construction wall, crashing to the ground, trapping five people. This construction barrier had reporter more than a dozen Good Samaritans lifted the wall off the victims. The business next door caught it on surveillance as he rescued her mother, her child, and others. Time. Falling apart as we were trying to lift it. The child. The boy, seen and read, is prepared to transport. There was another woman. Reporter wind gusts all afternoon made it necessary to haul away debris, even that last while standing still blowing. It was loud enough. We heard the crash. I was kind of scared that this was happening. Reporter a new restaurant here months. That actual barrier was supposed to protect pedestrians. Treated for shoulder and that pain. Jc it is now believed that the email threat that shut down the nations secondlargest School District today was a hoax. Los angeles officials defended their decision to send 600 thousand students home, to send 640,000 students home. New york city received a similar threat that dismissed it as outlandish. We talked to mayor walsh about how boston s would respond. Reporter the message from city officials today was, look, everything was fine. A minor incident that way briefly on suspicions here. A 20 minute outage shot down internet systems this morning. The outages we experienced today have no specific connections to the threat in los angeles or in new york. We have received no credible threats. Reporter he called a press the computer shutdown came as the result of a massive fusion of information. It s a the sort of thing, a really minor active cyber vandalism you see from time to time. Reporter he says the said he would always put student in citizen safety first. In november, 2014, for schools received threats from overseas that turned out to be a hoax. We always take these sort of threat seriously, but at this time there are no threats. Everyone has to remain calm. What happened in california, what happened in paris, is getting everyone on edge. Reporter parents and l. A. And new york say they try not to were the. I do get scared going to work. I take the bus and stuff like that, so i am concerned when i get to work and drop her off. Reporter boston s Informational Center says that cyberattacks juncker cut do occur couple ed do people were injured after an accident when a pedestrian was seriously injured after being hit by a vehicle in his driveway. Both the pedestrian and driver were taken to the hospital. Watertown dam state police are investigating. Jc a welcome surprise could be thousands of car and homeowners. Scheduled to expire december 31 unless lawmakers intervene. Legislative recess starts for the holidays, but they are hoping to make it through by the year s end. The day is the last day to sign up for Health Insurance on Obamacare Exchanges if you want coverage january 1. This is the third year people will be able to buy federally Subsidized Health care on the sponsored website. There was an extension last year and it reporter breaking silence about a relationship with donald trump. Does he still support the gop frontrunner . Harvey and we are turning colder over the next week four hours. I m also tracking our next jc breaking news tonight. Phillip chism guilty of firstdegree murder. Jurors did not buy his insanity defense in the murder of colleen retzer. The jury decided the crime was premeditated and will not the result of a mental break. Ed a debate held in Las Vegas National polls, but staples is another story. Ted cruz leads in iowa, which holds its caucuses in february, and marco rubio is gaining in new hampshire, another early primary state. Tonight s debate is expected to focus on terrorism. Tom brady asked this morning about his support for his friend donald trump, and whether past comments constituted an endorsement. Here is what he had to say. I just stay out of this debate. Donald is a good friend of mine. I support all my friends, that is what i have to say. He is a good friend of mine and he has always been so supportive of me. It is remarkable what he has achieved, from business, an incredible businessman and tv star, and getting into politics, ed the mogul turned politician had a usa beauty pageant after winning his first super bowl. New tonight at 6 00, the School Principal whose letter to parents is going viral. Ed a letter one local principal sent home is going viral. Jc it was sent on the anniversary of the Newtown School shootings to remind parents to o enjoy their small children. Reporter michael cairo was a firstyear principal when the unthinkable happened in newtown, connecticut. Someone her children, that really hit home. As a parent and educator. Reporter for the third anniversary he sent an email to parents in ashland, a message from his heart. I wish for all of you today to spend a little extra time with your children. They will only be six once stop and. Be a kid with them tonight. Reporter having fun little easier. No homework yesterday. We asked our teachers to give everybody a free pass from hallmark. Reporter parent reaction was overwhelming. It changes the tone of the whole night when you can relax and focus on your kid instead of your to do list. Reporter he received nearly 80 emails back, parents tweeting photos of their fun. Baseball games, breakfast for dinner, then stayed up and watched the grinch. We did books and puzzles and had a wonderful evening. Reporter the principle is also a father, so we asked him what he did. My daughter has gymnastics on mondays. I rushed home but i got to go to her gymnastics practice. We should never forget what happened that day. It s just really important for us to remember how much we love ed amen. I love breakfast for dinner. Boston s commonwealth opened its 50 million expansion today, and we are getting our first look inside. It overlooks fenway park and holds 96 rooms. It features a few of the famed leftfield wall, but you can t see the game. Jc you can hear it. Ed for the turnpike. It is filled with exclusive red sox memorabilia. Jc so cool. They cost 995 to spend the night. Ed whoa. Jc and you can have the finest seat in fenway park. Harvey rainfall. A lot of things to talk about. Rainfall occurred overnight last night. It was appreciable in some areas, picking up over an inch. Have incredible the morning. Providence jones all the way up to 64, breaking a record yesterday. All of that late last night and early this morning. In our local area, not quite a record, but pretty impressive numbers. Then the wind kicked in through the afternoon. Cambridge had a gust to 50, where hammett 42. We did find some scattered local damage that is an example of the wind which is now in the process of slowly evenin easing. Low 50 s here in boston and here are the wind gusts. Worcester airport a thousand feet up and along the coast it is still windy. The overall trend will be to gradually ease. The air from Eastern Canada begins to drain southward. Chillier by far than this past morning but still an aboveaverage morning by middecember standards. Tomorrow afternoon will also be aboveaverage but a good 1015 degrees cooler. The overall picture shows that there is something out west, and if there is any winter it is definitely in the west and not in the east. Snow, but we will be on the mild side, or milder side, when it affects us thursday night. Let s back up a bit and show you clear skies. The wind will shift to the east , scattered ocean clouds coming in around southeastern mass. That will cause low clouds everywhere i thursday and the steadiest and heaviest rain will be at the end of the day. Overnight could have fairly appreciable rain. Christmas eve, it looks like we will be on the warm side may be turning a little bit colder during christmas weekend but it doesn t look like anything crazy. Tomorrow, cooler, less humid. Rain comes in as a storm moves up and over us thursday night. Saturday night to early sunday, it will be somewhat colder, not by sunday afternoon, we should top off in the 40 s and top up to at least 50 s and any cooldown is not extreme and is pretty brief then another warmup follows. Ed the bruins spent their Holiday Season a little brighter. The entire roster visited cakes at kids at six area toys. Jc state troopers have been filling toys and thousands will be handed out to families in bob it was so much fun the last time we were here on friday night when they put on a great show against the golden state warriors. Tonight it is lebron james and the cleveland cavaliers, but we begin with news from the patriots. Another significant loss to their roster, who left sunday s game with the hip injury. The patriots signed a new running back, who ran over 700 yards for the broncos. They also placed the defensive linemen on injured reserve, but still somehow the patriots clinched their seventh Straight Division title last night when the dolphins lost. I didn t know it until this morning when i saw nfl. Com. That s pretty cool. It s a great achievement for our i had no idea. [laughter] bill told you . Exactly. [laughter] bob now the reason we are here is to see the celtic send cats for the First Time Since last year. These two teams may be more evenly matched than they were a year ago. I think anytime you are competitive and winning is important, you will lay it all on the line. That is what we expect our players to do, these guys who won the east end played in the finals have done. Bob the cavaliers f first irst visit shows a model of consistency. Lebron james s numbers are nearly identical to his career averages. They are still without kyrie irving s but they are number one there is no emotion in this going on. It has nothing to do with the players. It s part of that, boston always has that. Bob no love lost between these two teams. Kevin love was lost last year, shoulder separated during a run in. If you are wondering where s the beef, there isn t any anymore. We have put it in the past. Guys here, were just moving on. Knowing kelly, being around kelly every day, knowing that he didn t intend to hurt love, i think both teams take great bob expect another physical game between these two teams and the highlights tonight at 11 00. Jc coming up new tonight, a dangerous drive on the local highway as huge rocks smashed through windshield. The driver talking for the first rparis theres a lot to do on a dairy farm. Nobodys gonna do it for you. Ryou have to get out there and do it yourself. P Bernie Sanders is a wellknown friend of family farms. Bernie cannot be bought out by big money. Bernies opinion cannot be purchased. Pits time for our next president to get in there, r roll up his sleeves, take off the gloves, and take on wall street, take on big business, take on big money, and get the working class back to where they should be. Hes a rock. Sanders im Bernie Sanders ed i haven t bugged you about a White Christmas all year. Harvey how about a green christmas . The ground isn t frozen. Anyway, first things first. Chillier over the next few hours. Rain thursday night in chile on the weekend. Winter is hard on your nose. R from first sniffles to endless runny noses. Puffs plus lotion is soft. They help soothe irritation by locking in moisture better pso you can face winter happily. T a nose in need