So you can see its a mess. Its hard for people to even board the trains or get off the train because so many people are here waiting to board their train. Going on. Hour. Its a mess and also amtrak just told Mass Department of transportation that the problem with the switches is not going to be fixed for this evenings commute and may not even be fixed for tomorrows commute. So you need to check mbtas website as well as their twitter. Check our website at whdh. Com to see the latest because again, i mean this is an absolute mess. Live in signed Back Bay Station, Brandon Gunnoe, 7 news. Jadiann it is a packed house in there right now. Track trouble proving to be a challenge for engineers to fix. Adam doing it by hand. They have a been out there since this morning so lets get to dan hausle continuing our coverage. He is live at bostons south station. Dan . Commuters heir but some of the commuters are facing the same problems. Only stoughton and providence line that is leaving here. Look at this. You can see some of the passengers who have run up to the cars. The cars are so full youve got passengers, no room for some of the people who want to get on the train. Show you the problem. Show you some of the workers working out on the switching system out there. Apparently something crashed in what is called tower one. A low slung building that handles the switching system here. That caused a short for the switching system which handles not only amtrak but also the Commuter Rail. Now you have workers doing two things. One, trying to fix that system having no success so far into this evening then you have another group of workers who are manually switching the trains. But they can only handle a fraction of what they usually handle electronically when theyre doing it manually so you have those guys on the train watching some of the trains go by them switching some of the tracks to allow the trains to leave. Just a few trains like this one going out and these trains being packed with anxious customers who have heard about you will a the Commuter Rail problems and are anxious to get their ride home. Dan hausle, 7 news. Jadiann a long night for a lot of people. More on whdh. Com including the schedule changes for that commute. If you need that or your friends need that pass it along. We have video from sky 7 of the repair work that is underway and reaction from commuters as they struggle through to get home. All of it on whdh. Com. Adam also on 7 a former football coach facing troubles charges. This winchendon man accused of having child pornography. The graphic images were found on his computer. Authorities say the man had been a coach for a youth football league. Jadiann Jonathan Hall has more details for us. Reporter the former pop warner football coach faces one count tonight of pornography. Prison time but he has no criminal record and enjoyed a good reputation in town but not anymore. In winchendon a pop warner coach in trouble. People who know him stunned. 100 , everybody i talked, to my dad, nobody would have guessed it. Reporter 52yearold cash bail. A judge ordering him to stay away from kids under 16. The windows at his house covered to keep the world away. Burak was home with his wife and grown daughter when local, state and federal police raided it armed with a search warrant. The document shows police found pictures of little boys and little girls on his laptop and smart phone containing numerous digital image and video files depicting very young, prepublices scent children and toddlers either being sexually abused or posed nude in a lascivious manner. They shouldnt be around children. Investigation began last fall when a Homeland Security agent allegedly discovered burak used a kick messager app to post nude pictures of infants. His girl sat in the back seat as he thought about all the cheer leaders away from the field. Parents give them a lot of trust with their kids. They are over the houses watching game, they get a little older doing stuff like that. Just neff know when Something Like that is going to happen. Reporter tonight there is no indication from police that burak has assaulted anybody but the investigation is continuing and the judge has told him while he is out, pending trial he must stay off the internet. Live in winchendon, Jonathan Hall, 7 news. Adam 7 news following the investigation into a deadly fire at a home in plymouth last night. A 64yearold man died when 3story home. Firefighters aive rooked knowing someone may have been inside, but any chance at a rescue came too late. The house was engulfed in flames when crews got there. Were unsure for a long time who was in it and if somebody was in it and then when we fund out that there was somebody in it it was very upsetting and very, you know we feel very bad for the family. Reporter according to the state Fire Marshals Office this is the states 8th death in a fire in less than a month. Jadiann water worries in haverhill. A bad break causing water to rush no a School Library damaging books and computers. Its because of the a burst pipe. Workers are using the february break to get things cleaned up for students before they return. Susan tran has more on the work left to complete. Reporter it sounded lick a shower that someone turned on in the middle of a haverhill School Library. Books, computers, everything got covered with the materials from the ceiling and the water. This is the office area. Superintendent scully took us on a tour of the extensive damage at the cons deepo school. Go. There is materials, fire proofing materials on the beams between the floors. Some of that material has asbestos in it. Reporter an asbestos remove team called in. As swells as well as as well as the high school but damage. The water rained down into the line rae, the hallways and the offices. If you had a bad behavior record you are probably absolved of your crimes. If the record has been so reporter hundreds of books, dozens of commuters gone. Good news school was out for winter break but the race to start monday. An awful lot of damage very hard to get it solved. Reporter susan tran, 7 news. Adam lawyers for a marathon bomber tarn selfasking to step down. That is where he is being held at the Supermax Prison its not uncommon for this to happen and one lawyer will stay on to help aide the transition. Jadiann a connecticut man called to court in charge to missing remains. Felix delgado is accused of digging the bones up sometimes in the fall. Police found remains at his connecticut home during a drug investigation earlier this month. Investigators discovered remains were taken to the hope system tea in worcester. Another hope cemetery. A woman in, is arrested in New Hampshire accused of shop lifting from a store prosecutors say 49yearold carole colder stole more than 20,000 worth of items from the Sports Authority in nashua and sold them on line for profit. She is charged with a felony and could face up to 15 years in prison. Adam two people under arrest after a dangerous drive in webster. An officer says he saw 23yearold Natalie Sullivan get in a car accident. That is when she got into the passenger seats and 21yearold Jared Brinkley drove off. Apparently after the had he not he started driving away. The face face several charges including dui. A house in brookline goes up in flames. The fire started on the second floor of this home on orchard road. Jadiann following more news. A waffle house waitress facing charges accused of poisoning her coworker. Prosecutors say the woman spiked her coworkers drink with a deathly dose of metamphetamine. It happened in december but not cooperating so it took authorities six weeks to get the evidence they needed to file charges. The poisoned worker is still fighting for his life. At one point he was critical. At one point he was on the life support system basically. He was being fed through a feeding tube and was in a comatose state so he was clinging to life. Jadiann evans is facing felony aggravated battery and drug charges. Pope francis home from his historic trip to mexico. The pope commenting on trumps promise to build a wall along the u. S. mexican boarder and speaking out about considering contraception when it comes to the zika virus. Kim khazei has more on why the pope is considering that. Reporter the pope spoke to reporters on his night pack to italy commenting on the use of contraception for women in zika infested lastin america. Pope suggesting women who are threatened with the virus might use contraception to avoid pregnancy. Abortion laws to be loosened because of the crisis. The pope say there is is a clear moral difference between preventing pregnancy and abortion hep it comes to the zika virus. The pope says avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil. I would ask doctors to doth utmost to find vaccines. W. H. O. Has declared zika a Global Health emergency urging women in latten america to avoid getting pregnant to avoid the risk of birth defects. Critics of the popes remarks say that while pushing for women to use contraception is a good start, doesnt help women who are already pregnant. In the newsroom im kim khazei, 7 news. Jadiann coming up on 7 news, expectant parent shocked by devastating news. One of their twins wasnt going to make it. The Family Holding object to a heart breaking sonogram. Problems persisting this evening. Signal issues with amtrak. Causing thousands of travelers to face delays and cancellations and find all alternate routes home today. Jadiann a Police Officer is in the hospital after losing control of his cruiser. Well be back. The world a president has to grapple with. Sometimes you cant even imagine. Thats the job. And shes the one whos proven she can get it done. In nuclear weapons. Standing up against the abuse of women. Protecting social security. Expanding benefits for the national guard. And Winning Health care for 8 million children. The presidency is the toughest job in the world and shes the one wholl make a real difference for you. Jadiann heart breaking news for an expectant mother in kansas but a sonogram of the twins holding hands. Win of the twins is not expected to survive. Adam the touching moment you are addressing shows twins bonding before birth. Its something parents say is no coincidence. Ian and britney didnt plan on having any kids much less twins. We went in for the sonogram and they said there is one heart beast and here is another. Reporter from shock to excitement to hearing news no parent expects. With the hole in his heart and an abnormal brain one baby wasnt growing like he should. His sister is over two pounds. His only chance of survival would be heart surgery. Brain. Reporter ed a each appoint it has been more bad news until tuesday when the doctors captured this. We didnt see much. He said there is his hand and there is her hand. It looks hike theyre holding hand. Reporter baby mason has his hand wrapped around the growing sister twin. Most twins when she is trying to take pictures, she said, with our twins it just seemed like she was very protective of her. Reporter because mason any never get to know his twin the special moment is something these parents say is no coincidence. We know it has a piece of them together that will last forever and its special to have. I know im holding him and carrying him but i just want to be there for him. You know not knowing and she is the only one that can be there and holding on to him. Through it and so, its alone. Adam something neither baby has ever been from the second their hearts began beating. We pray for them. We love on them. Every moment that we have them. Adam beautiful family. Parents are praying both babies can survive but if it doesnt happen at least they know they have a special angel watching over them. Reporter the forecasts next. A few flakes but jadiann a tumble weed takeover in rural australia. The tumble weed is covering the area. Of course frustrating people who have to clean it all up. Locals say its been around for a couple of years but you can see from the video there. Just how high it has gotten. I was reading that its called harry panic. That is what i read online. Adam sound like something that people in colorado might enjoy. What . Jadiann i should double check that. Adam i believe you. It looked soft and the feathery not like the stuff you see in the southwest that will prick you and stab you. Reporter you see it coming and you have to take cover. Shovel. Quiet for the next few days. Another cool day in store for us tomorrow. I put that in quotations because seasonal for this time of year but a mild week temperatures. Certainly warmer than what were deal with last weekend. Current temperatures at the freezing mark. Beverly. 28 worcester but weve had a bit of a breeze with us, and still seeing that breeze out of the northnorthwest. Anywhere between 1015 miles an hour sustained winds but that is making it feel like its in the teens for worcester, fitchburg, 23 is what it feels hike in boston. Now the wind can make it feel a little chillier but something that is adding a little bit of warm at least how it feels outside is the sunlight. Were gaining day light. We gain about an hour and 13 minute through february, better with the peek next month pu the sun angel is getting higher so its easier to make it feel 510 degrees warmer when you step out in the direct sunlight. We had a lot of that today. Clear skies for us overnight. You can see the clouds that are micking it on making it on to the south shore and cape cod. There could be a few oceaneffect snow showers in the areas overnight tonight. You can see the band depending on which way the wind sets up. That will tell us where the bands set up. I dont expect any accumulation out of this but flakes could be flying as you get on to the cape. The teens and possibly even Single Digits overnight tonight. That is what the clear skies do for us. But then tomorrow, we do see the temperatures rebound close to normal for this time of year. Clouds increase. Tomorrow afternoon, then into the overnight hours friday no saturday, a few flakes for us as well. In response to a warm front. Were in for the milder temperatures as we kick off the weekend. Near 50 degrees on saturday. We keep clouds arounds. Watching a potential messy mix for monday morning. But next significant system looks like we have to wait until the middle of next week for this and here are the details that we know. Not much. Wednesday, thursday, snow mix to rain. Where, how much, what . All of those things still to be determined. So well keep you posted on that as we keep an eye on it but timeline for that, middle of next week. Kim hope you are having a good evening. Im kim khazei with a look at what were working on for not a good night for a lot of people. The breaking news having to do with the commute. A track switcher issue led to huge delays. Lock at all of the people. Thousands forced to take the long way home. Hoping for a ride. Well show you their chaotic commute and update that situation plus live to fort myers as red sox pitchers and catchers report for spring training. 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Is different than shakespeare but that doesnt mean its up worthy of the attention. It makes sense to think about how he is changing the game. Reporter he is teaching an entire course this semester on the hip hop moguls early music and image. Challenging his students to think about the deeper meaning behind his art and how it relates to other great writers throughout how do we collect information pertaining to his lyrics . What metaphors does he use. More interesting topics. Reporter Ashley Foster is an architecture student. I didnt think they would have a j. Z. Plas. Reporter that is part of one part of college that doesnt feel like the hard knock life. The doctor has been pleased with the reaction. Its cool to think about how his words stood the test of time. Reporter he is looking forward to making this class the encore he keeps get to perform. Wow, cool story. Adam whatever works to get the minds cranking there. Another 30 minutes of 7 news is straight ahead. Im adam williams. Jadiann im jadiann thompson. 7 news starts now. Announcer breaking news, trains off track. Thousands forced to take the long way home. What is causing trouble for commuters in boston . He said, help me, help me. Reporter people rush in to safe an officer. After a wild chase lands him in the hospital and a local mom wanted to give her daughter a new phone but when the phone didnt work the company put her on hold. Until she asked us to solve it 7. 7 news at 6 00 starts now. Kim first at 6 00 we begin with breaking news, that signal problem with amtrak trains causing massive delays on the rails as thousands try to get home tonight. You see it right there. T. Stations are just mob scenes right now as people trying to pack into trains and Officials Say the problem will not be fixed tonight. Weve coverage of this commute out there. Lets begin with Brandon Gunnoe at bostons Back Bay Station with a closer look at conditions there. Reporter congestion been incredible. In the last few minutes it has improved a little bit because of some people line, that is one of t busiest lines. But you can see more than 100 people are here at the Back Bay Station waiting but Transit Police are telling me once you have the next rush of people coming after 6 00, its going to be just as bad as it was earlier. If we can role video. It was probably shot 20 minutes ago. You could see there were several hundred people packed in like sardines here waiting to get on a train because of the this morning there was a problem with the electronic switches at south station. So that caused a problem for trains coming in and out of south station. The only lines going in and out of south station are going to providence and stouton so back bay and some other stations are taking some of the other trains. That is why so many people have must been packed in. Transis police have been keeping people away from the arrive. But again its just been an absolute mess as you can see. People