Anchor police make a big drug bust in pepperell. Investigators say they seized more than 1,700 dollars worth of heroin and more than 1,200 in cash from i machines home. Police say they also found a gun a bullet casings in that home. Tonight a man is in custody and has been charged illegal possession of firearm and drug possession. Anchor a war veteran is fighting for his life right now after he was hit by a car in revere. Police say an elderly woman hit the 90yearold while he was crossing malden street them say he suffered serious possibly lifethreatening injuries. The driver also was taken to the hospital as a precaution. Neighbors of the man are really upset. Its sad, sad, scary, it is a busy street. I feel bad for the women who hit him as well as if its an elderly woman who hit him and an elderly man who got him. Its just not a good situation. Its not. Its not criminal non nonintentional just sad. Rather that was hit served in world war ii and in korea and so far that driver was not facing any charges. Rollover wreck on 93 south in methuen shuts down part of the highway during the morning rush. Methuen police say the driver was hurt but there is no information on exactly what happened here. Anchor new bedfords flags flying at half staff today as the city mourns the loss of its head of police. Chief david died a local hospital last night from respiratory arrest. Mate i dont remember described the death as unexpected and say the city lost an Outstanding Police chief and great man. Anchor a worcester home goes up in flames. Now investigators are trying to figure out what sparked this fire. It killed an elderly brother and his sister. They were both inside. The investigation. Anchor i her the fire trucks coming, i looked up and. Anchor a fire takes the lives of two people at this home. At first i thought maybe it. The Worcester Deputy fire chief said the department was ale to knock the flames down quickly and get the two out of the house but werent able to save them. They removed victims to give them a shot with the mass but unfortunately they succumbed to their injuries. According to deputy chief, this was a two alarm fire but that doesnt mean it wasnt dangerous. Smoke is as fatal as the actual blame itself. You dont need a lot of fire to create a lot of smoke. Anchor in the daylight you can see some of the damage, how the fire burned right through the roof. Authorities say the two victims were found on the first floor of the house near bedrooms. In worcester, byron barnett, 7 news. Anchor and a woman who post posted a picture of a dog with duct tape over its muzzle appear appearing in a north caroline ray courtroom today. Katherine is charged with misdemeanor cruelty to animals of a judge granted her a public that case. This picture the dog went viral and prom proed that police to vet. Do not take the animal saying it wasnt hurt when they investigat investigated and appeared to be wellcared for. She is due in court next month. Anchor we are following more news today. A Chicago Police commander found not guilty of charges that he assaulted a suspect by sticking a gun down the mans throat. A judge acquitted glenn evans on multiple counts. She said the machine who accuse the officer of the misconduct changed his story a number of times since the incident allegedly happened back in 2013. Anchor prosecutors making closing argue in the trial for a man charged in the death of freddy gray. The prosecution said officer William Porter had the chance to save gray and failed to do so. Porter previously testified that he did not know gray was injured until it was too late. Porter is one the six officers charged in connection with gray grays death. The very is expected to come down some time this week. Anchor California Community is outraged after another Police Shooting that they believe cross protests have erupted throughout the state after police gunned down Nicholas Robertson near a local gas station on saturday. Officers fired 33 shots at the man. Police say robertson fired his gun in the air before the shooting and that he refused to put it down. Anchor he is happened long the gun in an odd sort of way and he seems to be agitated. Anchor that shooting does remain under investigation. Anchor the bill cosby controversy will be coming to a massachusetts court. The comedian filed a defamation lawsuit today against 7 massachusetts women who accused him of sexually assaulting them. The suit allege the women made false statements against cosby for financial purposes. This is in response to a separate lawsuit the women filed in federal court. More than 50 women have accused could bee of sexually assaulting they over the past four decades. Does bows attorney released a statement about the lawsuit saying that the defendants multi decade old false unto be rated opportunistic allegation have caused and continue to cause him to suffer substantial injuries and damage his earlier today Boston University revoked the honorary doctor at saying School Officials say does bows testimony about his treatment of women in a sworn deposition is inconsistent with the universitys values. Anchor a dmv tantrum caught on camera. Video shows a Florida State trooper confront the woman who yelling at the dmv employee. She gets strong kicks right there and keeps fighting with the trooper even when he brings her right down to the floor. The woman doing her best to wrestle the officer as he works to restrain her. She is charged with resisting arrest. Anchor heads up, federal officials are now requiring owners. A new law says all drone owners must register that device on an faa web site and must be 13 years old or older. Drone users could face civil and criminal penalties if they dont register and that law is expect week. Anchor one of the hottest difficulties this Holiday Season is too hot to handle. Three major retailers put the bricks on hover boards because of safety concerns recent those boards prompted amazon to pull most of them from its web site. Over stock shelved them all together and as of today target quite why thely pulled away the hover boards from its web sites. Fights are suggesting that consumer check for ul label which shows it means the Safety Standards and investigation into the fires is now under way. And today is the busiest day of the year for all your holiday shipping. Over the course of the Holiday Season 15. 5 billion pieces of mail will be september worldwide by the u. S. Postal service. Postal Officials Say they already have seen an increase in the apt of packages brought to the post office and are youring peep to ship sooner rather than later. Reminder to get it out, right . Anchor also a rehider to be nice to the person who brings you your mail every day. A little something. They work hard right now. Anchor still ahead on 7 knew, clinging to a power pole, waiting for help or something to happen. On just one station a risky raccoon rescue and power crews finally get the little guy back on solid ground. Also on just one station, hear from one of the red line workers credited with stopping a run red 97 set red 97 did you say 97 . Yes. You know, that reminds me of geicos 97 Customer Satisfaction rating. 97 . Helped by geicos fast and friendly claims service. Huh. Oh yeah, baby. Geicos as fast and friendly as it gets. Woo this high wire drama. That raccoon rescued from the top of a power pole in the town of berlin and this was not easy that aon was either not ready or not able to get down on its own. Anchor power crews team you for the save. Adam williams has the story of you will see it on just one station. Anchor a Community Coming together to help a critter in a tight spot. Obviously a dangerous situation so it needs to be done right. Anchor karen blake first spotted the injured raccoon perched on this pleasant street pole in berlin this past thursday morning. Anchor people in town have been calling National Grid, the police, its been going crazy on facebook and twitter i guess. Anchor the high voltage wires causing high anxiety. Neighbors concern the raccoon could fall, scatter hey around the pole to make a softer landing, National Grid workers then shut off the power before carefully coordinating the rescue effort. The scared raccoon nearly fall at one point then finally a sigh once on solid ground, one last scare when he slips out of the net. A few hundred dread feet away he safely is scooped up. And off to be checked out. Reporter the rescue went about as as we could hope for and its a high traffic street. It was scary when he almost fell. My heart stopped then but it seems continue a happy ending. Havent slept for a few nights although i will sleep great tonight. Adam williams, 7 news. Anchor coming up on 7 news, adding a splash of blue to celt celtic green. Jadiann thompson takes on a celt. Reporter great going ement our forecast looks a little bit warm in the beginning but it below long term. Thats ahead. Anchor plus the pats get become on track in texas watery. Anchor keeping lights on to lester. How neighbors stepped in to save hundreds happy. Im cooking up a tasty holiday breakfast, sausage and egg casserole. Anchor get the recipe for this holiday helping tonight at 11 00 and for more dishes go to whdh. Com and click on proj ok, were here. Heres dad. Mom. The twins. Aunt alice. You didnt tell me aunt alice was coming. Of course. Dont forget grandpa. Can the test drive be over now . Maybe just head back to the dealership . Dont you want to meet my family . Yep, totally. Its practically yours, but we still need your signature. The volkswagen sign then drive event. R zero due at signing, p p zero down, zero deposit, r and zero first r r months payment t on a new jetta p anchor a dreary mon, thats for sure. Anchor oh yeah. But its a finance day we almost have it boo line us. Pretty warm out there so you know we could be showing snow instead were trying to see through the fog. Little dangerous for driving. Anchor like to pretend my city was gone, right . Here it is. Its missing. There is to downtown, no train station but its there of its under the fog right now. 48 degrees, our dew point reading about 48. North wind at five just enough to stir the air of people think the wind has to be calm but actually there has to be enough wind to stir the air to make there it is. Humidity 1 un00 . The wind is just enough to stir it. 48 reading in down, 49 beverly. The 50s an far off. Middle 50s and upper 50s down through buzz are the area bay. Just takes a little bit of a breeze, right to bring that up. And the passage of awarm front too. I think were simplifying it too much. There is visibility down in some cases near zero and worcester and boston or rather providence but boston should be almost near zero too. Maybe a half mile, quarter mile. Bedford at 47, 45 fitchburg, there is a pot of cool air and where the cool meets some of that warmth rue on that warm front aboundary is where we get our densest fog right now. Worcester just cant see to the end your arm and this dense fog advisory does go through the evening hours and it should fade as we go through the evening. Fog gets shack end up. Too much wind and also some rain to come in and that stirs things a little morement looks like a good band of it too through central new york. Shortlived, not a very wide band so were not going to stay in this wet weather for very long. It looks like it will shape up to be out of here by morning so the commute does not like like its affected by the rain but by the time it gets to morning, well pick up maybe a quarter inch to a third of an inch of water. All good news. Then tomorrow the winds crank up up. We have some clouds mixing with our sunshine and our temperatures, well, they get up there near 60. No doubt but the warm front pass passing and then this weather system moving through this warmth is headed our way in incredible through watertown and buffalo and you would be surprising if we had not seen this for december but its old hat, isnt it . Like yeah, been there before is these temperatures will fall off through the course of tomorrow afternoon. Not by much. Not a lot of cold air behind this weather system. The spike goes from the 50s to the 60s and then it drifts down slowly but surely through the afternoon hours and we head back down, back down to the upper 50s. The wind will howl tomorrow. Win gusts to 30, 40 Miles Per Hour easy coming in out of the you might be some power outages, some slight power disrussian, not a major event, thats for sure but gusts to 30, 40. Any one spot too. This is not just favoring coastline. This is just about everywhere as low pressure cranks up across parts of maine and parts of Northern New England. Milestone tomorrow and today too sunset at 4 12 the earliest sunset of the year. After that we start gaining time january. We still lose some time at least until the solstice on the sun rise but it all comes out in the wash eventually and we start gaining some serious time late january and of course february too. Showers move in, brief downpours are possible, the fog will lift. Temperatures rising then tomorrow gusty winds, peeks of sun, temperatures fall slowly. There is your 7 on 7 forecast. There you go. The er half of the week the cool down and then a major drop below normal for a change. In every city and town across southern new england and Northern New England too. Some polices in the 30s this weekend but bright. See you at 6 00. Remember the day of the week or month i feel like im losing my mind. Is that its a wild forecast. I do know its monday. We talked about that which means its time for who did it better. Anchor today Jadiann Thompson are seeing if they can feel the beat with the blue man group. Pay attention because you can decide who it better. Anchor green may be his color of choice but this week Isaiah Thomas is feeling a little by blue. The challenge . Perform blue man groups paint drumming act with the cast in boston. There is a lot of ritual to the drumming so you want to have. Anchor before our time in the spotlight, one of the blue men, jason, showed us ropes. Channel our inner kid here. The band will start to accompany you to help out in and that is the time to go bananas. Thats a take mcal term. Anchor how does that compare to suiting up for a game game . Feels good. This is getting intense. Game time. Going down. Reporter i pain a celtic picture it. Didnt come out too well. About the effort. I would ask the blue men how they feel but they are not allowed to talk. So maybe they can express for us how they felt like we did . Oh i think thats a good thing. That looks good. Identity we got good scores. We did our best. Anchor all right. So you decide who did it better by heading to our web site whdh. Com. You can vote there and well have your results tomorrow at 6 00 a. M. Anchor next on 7 news, finale frenzy for the voice. We check in with the four final finalists before they take the. Anchor then at 6 00, its a story you will see on just one station. Bringing that run away red line train it a stop. Tonight you are going it hear. Anchor also a graphic day in court in the Phillip Chism murder trial. The case now in the hands of the jury as they decide the fate of a teen accused of killing his teacher. Anchor a house goes up in flames. Two Fire Fighters rushed to the hospital after getting hurt bat lung the blaze. We have those stories and much time for the buzz and mole of truth on the voice. Four finalists will perform as pat of a two day event. Anchor nbc shelf fee stanton has more on the finale frenzy. Ago with blind audition. When i think about that, it maximum my head explode because its like wow, i just somehow against all odds i am here. Anchor team blake took a de detour from Teaching High School in arkansas fellow team brake finalist is still in high school in continue see. If someone would have toll me a year ago that i would be up on stage without a guitar like Walking Around and dancing around the stage, singing nine to five i would have toll them they were christa delcampy. Anchor team gwen watch even pursuing music prior to the voice. Only pressure we have is to sew best investigate of ourselves for america and make sure that were exhibiting the kind of artist we want to be. Anchor show stopper might be best description for john dan last week somebody to love was his second i tunes number one performance of the season. I have been surrounded by incredible artists and this creative at. Fear really just promotes that kind of success for us and its been really special season. Anchor one that will end with a withiner tuesday night. Nbc news being los angeles. Anchor also a binight for adele fans. You get to watch the special one hour performance from radio cit citic hall. It was record last month when she performed a one time only she also announced dates for a u. S. Tour. She will also say hello to boston next september. Tickets go on sale this thursday thursday. Anchor thats a lot of news because at furs she wasnt possibly going to tour, right . Look at this lineup tonight. Can we just go home now . Watch tv. Anchor jam packed night for you of you dont want it miss this on 7 nbc. It starts at 8 00 with a two part Season Finale of the voice followed by adele live at 10 00 then stay fund for all the top what a night. Anchor an entertaining one. Well be here just to bring you 11 00 so we look forward to that that. Another 30 minutes of 7 news ahead right now. Anchor now at 0 clock starts right now. Anchor a story you will see on just one station. Mbta employees jumping into train. Tonight we hear from one of the employees who saved lives plus, passionate closing arguments in the danvers teacher murder trial trial. This case now in the hands of the jury. Anchor its back to warmer weather once we get rid of the fog and the showers arent far behind. And gronk is back in a big way. The star player helping the pats clinch a playoff spot but more key players battling injury. We begin with an interview you will see on just one station. We cant allow failure in this situation because we knew we had peoples lives at stake. Employee, one of two honored for their rescue on the rails. Of course those are the two workers who help bring that run away red line train packed with passengers to a stop. Anchor today Governor Charlie Baker honored those men for a job welldone. Down hausle is live in south boston with a look at how they did it. Dan . Well, that train came to a rest at this yard in south boston but what happened between braintree and here, well that was quit a tense ten or nine minutes that only two men really knew about. One of those men telling us about that difficult, difficult situation. We didnt allow failure in this situation because we knew we had. Anchor just hours after he and his coworker were honored by the governor, mark mcneil tells just one station how he and dispatcher Lee Sun Anders saved the day when sun anders got that call a train without a driver had taken off from braintree station i was shocked. I couldnt believe that the conditions that were presented to me. I just couldnt believe it mc cut power while telling a train