Windchill, but again, middecember when youre having windchill maps in the 30s, youre doing all right. So through the day, its actually a pleasant december day with a mix of clouds and sunshine, low 40s this morning. 2 00 p. M. , middle 40s, and barely any wind out there. Thats huge this time of year. 7 00 this evening, going to begin or end your christmas shopping. Looks dry out on those roadways. Temps this evening cooling off, upper 30s. Sarah time now for fast track traffic with Danielle Gersh. Danielle thanks, sarah. Its pleasant on the roads this morning, as well. Zakim bridge and leverett connector looking good. Lets go to the map. A lot of green out there. 93 southbound, youre fine, all the way back up to 495. Route 1 looking good, as well. The pike wide open, all green boston. South of town, route 24, route 3 all looking fine so far this morning. The expressway, the braintree split into boston just nine minutes. Lets take a look at those drive times if youre getting ready to the expressway, the split to the tunnel, just ten minutes. All green, no delays to tell you about. Into town on the pike from 128, 12 minutes. 93 southbound, 128 to the zakim bridge, 11 minutes. So far the t is on time. Back to you. Sarah rights now the case against a convicted killer heading back to court. Attorneys for philip chism morning. There is a hearing on a separate charge less than 24 hours after chism was found guilty of murdering his teacher. Christa the 16 year old is also accused of attacking a department of Youth Services worker, and yesterday just an outpouring of emotion has the verdict was read. Heres 7s victoria warren. Vicki . Victoria after the verdict yesterday, we heard from Colleen Ritzers family for the very first time. Today philip chisms juvenile case is getting calls here in boston. This case has a lot of similarities to the Colleen Ritzer case, yet the jury in the ritzer case never got to hear any of these details. The jury came back with that verdict yesterday after deliberating for about nine hours. The defendant, philip chism, is guilty. Victoria 16yearold philip chism emotionless after the jury says he raped and murdered his math teacher Colleen Ritzer. His mother doubled over while colleens mother sat and cried. This guilty verdict, while the beginning of justice for colleen, is certainly no cause for celebration. Victoria the ritzer family not even getting chance to process the weeks of graphic testimony they just sat through. First thing wednesday, chism is back inside another courtroom, this one in boston where hes facing attempted murder charge, accused of attacking a department of Youth Services worker while he was in custody. We will honor her legacy and be her voice during the continued judicial process. Victoria that process is also likely to see lengthy appeals, and because chism was only 14 years old when he killed his math teacher, the judge has to follow new sentencing guidelines, which means he cant there is a chance he could be parole eligible before hes 40 years old. The ritzers know whats ahead for them, but in this moment they want to focus on their daughter and her Lasting Impact on those who knew her. One of colleens favorite quotes is, there is something good in every day. To celebrate our love for her and in recognition of the many lives colleen touched and continues to influence despite the immense loss were forced to endure, we will carry on and this our best the find the good in every day. Victoria next week there will be hearing where the judge will set a sentencing date, again under the laws for juveniles now convicted of firstdegree murder, they will be parole eligible after 15 to 25 years. As for the hearing thats happening today in boston, its still unclear if philip chism himself will be present. He has elected to waive his appearance at several Court Appearances lately. Live this morning in boston, victoria warren, 7news today in new england. Sarah breaking overnight, serious crash in wakefield on route 128 after a car slammed into a guardrail and burst into flames. Both victims were rushed to the hospital. Police are investigating the cause of the crash. Christa now to the race for the white house. The g. O. P. Candidates taking center stage out in las vegas and the war on terror really taking top billing in this final debate of 2015. Lets get right to the control room and 7s nancy chen for the latest. Nancy . Nancy christa, good morning. National security concerns have been on everyones minds, especially lately. This was the first debate since the terror attacks in San Bernardino and the candidates our nation safe. The topic of last nights debate, foreign policy. Republican frontrunner donald trump on his idea to ban all muslims from coming to the United States. Isolation. Were talking about security. Were not talking about religion. Were talking about security. Nancy governor jeb bush stage in las vegas last night who questioned trumps muslim ban. This is not a serious proposal. Nancy jeb and trump sparked several times during the debate. You said on september 30th that isis am i talking or are you talking . Im talking. You can go back. Nancy on isis, neurosurgeon ben carson believes attacks in the United States could be prevented if people werent so politically correct. People are worried about somebodys going to say that im islam phobic or what have you. This is craziness because we are at war. Thats why i ask congress, go ahead and declare the war. Nancy senators marco rubio and ted cruz disagreed about immigration policies, mainly whether nor senator cruz would rule out allowing those in becoming legal. Do you rule it out . I never supported legalization. I do not intend to support when trump complained he was being attacked too much during the debate, jeb bush pounced. This is a tough business. I know. Youre a tough guy, jeb. Youre never going to be president of the United States by insulting your way. Well, im at 43 and youre at. Doesnt matter. Nancy meanwhile, governor Chris Christie called for a nofly zone over syria, vowing to shoot down russian jets if they violate it. Senator rand paul said that would be inciting world war iii. Nancy chen, 7news today in new england. Sarah today the department of security announcing changes to the nations terror alert system. The system will be modified to better inform the public about terror threats. Plans to change the terror alert system were announced shortly after the mass shooting in San Bernardino. Also today, the Federal Reserve will decide whether to raise Interest Rates for the first time in nine years. The historic announcement is scheduled for this afternoon. Impact on homeowners who may see a sharp rise in mortgage rates. Christa back to school this morning for more than half Million Students in los angeles after a threat based on a popular tv show shut down the entire school district. Officials say this was a bomb threat made from overseas, and it prompted them to keep students at home. The email was also directed at schools in new york. Officials say theyre also investigating it as a hoax that was influenced by recent episodes of the tv show homeland. We can now announce the f. B. I. Has determined this is not a credible threat. It appears to be the same email that a generic email. Christa and here in boston, bpds internet was shut down for about 20 minutes yesterday after a cyber attack. But Officials Say it was not threats. At this time we have no reason to think there are any threats toward boston or our schools or any of our agencies. I want all of our parents, residents to know our city is safe and our schools are safe. Christa mayor marty walsh says the city of boston normally sees a few Cyber Attacks every year. Meantime, Officials Say theyre still investigating who was behind the threats in los angeles and in new york. Sarah new this morning, the New York Daily News blasting tom brady on todays front page, attacking the pats star for his relationship with donald trump. 7s Nicole Oliverio is live at Gillette Stadium with more on this story. Nicole . Nicole well, sarah, the new york paper wasted no time taking bradys words for what he said on a radio interview here in boston and making it seem as questions. Tom brady hoping to avoid getting in the middle of any political talk. Donald j. Trump for president in 2016. I can just stay out of this debate . Nicole but the New York Daily News is putting the blaring front page headline with comments the quarterback made when asked if he supports republican president ial candidate donald trump. Everything they do. I think thats. I think its pretty remarkable what hes achieved in his life. Nicole the new york paper criticized brady for not denouncing trumps plan to ban all muslims. This is really important to you guys, huh . Nicole brady did call trump a friend. It was in december when a trump hat was spotted in bradys locker. Hes always been so supportive from me. Since the last 15 years since i judged a beauty pageant for him. Reporter and trump supported number 12 during deflategate. We love tom brady. As you know, hes very good friend of mine. Reporter in the article, other athletes and owners came the bradys defense, saying its nobodys business who he supports. And when asked, brady says he still does have that hat in his locker. Oliverio, news today in new england. Sarah and theres much more ahead on today in new england. A scare on the sidewalk. A wall collapses in malden nearly hitting a child. Th morning the woman caught story. Christa a strange breakin attempt caught on camera. Police say a man in florida tried to find his way into jail. Sarah and the countdown is on to the star wars debut as knowledge. J. R. Going to tell you something you didnt know. Jeremy and there will be a quiz tomorrow, frenchie, on those little pieces of information. Low 40s as we work into the afternoon, pleasant. Mix of clouds and sunshine, mid40s this afternoon. Danielle good morning. Roads looking good this morning so far. Leverett connector, zakim bridge, no problems to tell you about. On the expressway from the braintree split into boston, just ten minutes. Praised as one of americas best mayors who governed as a pragmatist. Bernie sanders passed more amendments in a Republican Congress than any other member. Cracked the gridlock with john mccain to strengthen veterans healthcare. Bernie sanders. A consistent, principled, and effective leader. Building a future to believe in. Sanders im Bernie Sanders sarah welcome back on this wednesday morning. You did a Little Christmas shopping yesterday . Christa i did. Not completely 100 done, but. Is it monday today or what . You left your keys at home. Sarah i did. I said that. I had to call my husband to bring them to get into my locker. He was not a happy man. I was like, i need my keys. Christa oh, bless his heart. Sarah but thats okay. Its wednesday. Were closer to the weekend now. So we all have those mornings, right . Christa i think so. Jeremy sometimes we have those months, so i hear you. Yesterday. Not as much wind as we saw. Cooler today. But not cold. Temps right now low 40s. Thats where we should be for afternoon highs. More showers on the way for tomorrow afternoon, and more so tomorrow night. 43 in the city this time. The normal high is 41. Bedford at 40. Fitchburg 34. Hyannis at 44. And the amount of wind out there its not overpowering wind, and theres no arctic air, but a cool breeze this morning, bedford feels like 34. Here in boston feels like 39. Provincetown feels like 33. The High Pressure is with us. And when the blue h is so close to you, theres less wind out there, and also providing dry air. So well have a mix of clouds and sunshine for the day, and then just off camera, perhaps just now showing up in illinois, wisconsin, some showers out, there rain showers, thats our next weather system on the way for tomorrow. So today decent, clouds and sun, tomorrow not so much. Cloudy skies with a couple of isolated showers in the afternoon, but i think the bulk of the rain tomorrow will hold off until probably after the commute tomorrow night. It will be a little burst of rain tomorrow night and very early friday morning. That system moves away. Theres another weather system that actually tries to clip new england during the day on friday. So that too will see a lot of clouds and lower chance of some showers on friday. If youre going to have raindrops friday, probably on cape cod versus boston or boston, ill leave it at a 40 chance, but i think tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow night, a higher chance of rain, no shot of rain today, its dry. Cooler, but again, seasonally mild with temperatures between 42 and 46. Afternoon. As we work into the afternoon there. The city around 45. Dartmouth at 46. North of town, merrimack valley, the numbers in the middle and upper 40s out into the worcester hills. Fitchburg 43. Barre at 43. And out on the cape and the islands, chatham 46 and nantucket at 47. So you have some showers today in the upper midwest, the great lakes states, some showers and thunderstorms the gulf coast. Inner mountain region, some snow showers, and a storm approaching the Pacific Northwest with rain hitting seattle tonight and tomorrow, but as of now looks dry in san fran and los angeles. Temps into the 60s. Tonight becoming cloudy in new england from that great lakes weather system, and then we will have a couple showers heading this way tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night. Then again one or two more showers possible on friday. At this time, the weekend dry, saturday and sunday. Christa so if you dont see a plan to see the newest star wars movie right away, you can avoid having social media spoil it for you. This new extension on Google Chrome called force block prevents you from stumbling on the any sites that contain spoilers. Sarah are you doing that, j. R. . Jeremy im going to have to do that. Christa i guess it redirects any star wars key words. I guess thats how it works. Jeremy im supposed to be interactive on twitter for weather, but i love to chat about star wars, too, so im going to be like. Sarah surely nobody will spoil it for you. Christa and i know you can quote all of the movie lines by heart, a lot of fans can, cant they . Sarah so tell us about this story you have coming up today. Jeremy so what this is, were looking back before we bounce ahead. This is some stuff that we went back and wanted to look at the first six movies. Some odds and ends, nuggets new england awakens. Its still unreal to me that were getting new star wars. I never thought in my lifetime i would see episode vii. Jeremy this film critic saw an advance screening of the force awakens. To get you ready, were digging up some new information on the old films. What object obiwan . Sir Alex Guinness didnt think much of the movie, but because he got a cut at the box office, his paycheck was reportedly 95 million. More powerful than you can possibly imagine. Jeremy Luke Skywalker was almost called luke starkiller. Not bad for a little furball. Jeremy up until the last minute, return of the jedi was called. Revenge of the jedi. Jeremy the name was changed before release. The communicator used in the film wasnt technical at all. They took apart. Jeremy if the auditions worked out differently, you might have seen members of the boy band in sync in take of the clones. A little droid. Jeremy to get you in the holiday spirit. The Star Wars Holiday Special. Jeremy in 1978, a Star Wars Holiday Special aired on cbs. One critic called it the worst two hours of television ever. We celebrate a day of peace that would not happen today. You would not get the lord of the rings holiday special. At that time it was rudolph followed by some wookiees. Whatever works. Jeremy right there, thats how you identify fan boy. You ask the fan boy, have they ever seen the Star Wars Holiday Special, and if they say yes. Sarah thats so awesome. I love it. Is that for real or is that an snl skit . At the critics said, it was the worst hour of television in history. Christa you have another special . Jeremy tomorrow were going to introduce you to an exercise workout class thats being offered in boston beginning on friday, but we have an advanced workout. Workout . Jeremy light sabres. Jeremy yes. Christa stay tuned for that tomorrow. But up next, j. R. , were not done with you yet. Morning. Jeremy im taking you into the kitchen. Its the final countdown the final countdown if youre the band europe, you love a final countdown. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. You may not even think about the energy that lights up your world. But we do. Were exxonmobil. And the cleanerburning natural gas we produce generates more of our electricity than ever before. Helping dramatically reduce americas emissions. Because turning on the lights, isnt as simple as just energy lives here. Christa its time for holiday helping. Sarah here at 7news were whipping up our favorite holiday recipes all for a good cause. Christa today j. R. Is making a quickandeasy dessert to sweeten up any holiday meal. Enjoy it, its holiday helping today. Jeremy hello. This is my wife and daughter. The holidays can be a stressful time whether youre hosting a party or fending off a rebelton in a galaxy far, far away. So we have a recipe we think youll enjoy. We love it. Its apple dumplings. You guys ready to make it . Yeah. Yeah. Jeremy okay. First things first. Were going to peel this apple. We live out here in apple country, so we love to find anything that has an apple in the recipe. Yeah. So now were going to chop up the apple. Jeremy you can slice it up into eighths or use this little dice right here. Super slick. Now were going to take the crescent rolls, this is where i need your help, lily, is were going to roll the apple up into the crescent rolls. You can put that apple to bed, tuck it up and put it in the greased pan. Good night, apple. Good night, apple. Jeremy next up we get the sugar and butter to hang out for a bit. Drop that in there. And well let that melt and go ahead and just pour that in. Now, in terms of stirring it in, its just a brief stir, right on the heels of the sugar, you go ahead and add the vanilla extract in there. Now lets go ahead and take it home, right . Uhhuh. Jeremy right on top of the apple dumplings and just spread it on. There we take the lemonlime soda and pour it on the edge. Last but not least, you have to add some cinnamon. Jeremy into the oven at 350 for 30 minutes. Reiner. We serve it a la mode. This is a super simple recipe we love and we hope you enjoy. Have a Great Holiday season and enjoy project read. Sarah oh. Christa shes gotten so big. A little lady. So beautiful. Weve watched her grow up. Its so nice because its like apple pie without all the work. Jeremy it is. The holidays can be a stressful time, so this one. Ive done some recipes that are very for me anyway. I know sometimes macaroni and cheese is not stressful, but for me that stuff is. This one is simple. Sarah looks so good. Christa thats awesome. Sarah if you want any of our holiday helping recipes, log on to whdh. Com, click on the project bread logo. Thats where youll find more information on how to donate to the charity. Christa next up, im headed into the kitchen. Oh, no. Watch out. Me and my kids are making a spanish bar cake. So well keep the dessert theme going here. Check it out. Thats 11 00 tonight. Ill also have the recipe on today in new england tomorrow morning, so you can tune in for that. Sarah love those pigtail braids. All right. Coming up next at 5 30, some holiday grinches now behind bars. Find out where these thieves this is the one place were not afraid to fail. Of these experiments may not work. A few might shape the future. Turning algae into biofuel. Echnology for capturing co2 emissions. And cars twfficient s exxonmobil scientists are working on. No matter how many tries it takes. Sarah a scare on the street in malden. Down trapping people inside. Its all caught on camera. Christa and a head line driver on leave. Sarah plus a package goes arrest. England. Christa good morning, everybody. Were back with you 5 30 on this middleoftheweek wednesday. Im christa delcamp. French. Mourning. We have the star wars story, we have his holiday helping this morning. Christa no complaining about that. Jeremy up next an oil change and all that good stuff. Of course, ill need help on that. Right now boston at 43. Plymouth at 43. Bedford 40 degrees. 30s and 40s. Theres some wind out there. And so its adding a bit of a cooling effect, but its not overwhelming. Its not arctic air or bitter blasts or anything like that, but your windchill, the numbers do feel like the low and middle 30s, which is not too schaapy for this time of year. School bell forecast, cool morning. You dont need the rain gear at any time. Kids will have outdoor recess. Temperatures at lunchtime and when school lets out seasonal. Temps this afternoon mid40s. Christa okay. Lets check fast track traffic with Danielle Gersh. Jeremy good morning. Thank you, christa. We have an accident on the expressway northbound. The accident is a multivehicle crash blocking the right lane. And this is right at the Dorchester Yacht Club. So lets go to the map. You can see traffic backed up on the expressway to about granite avenue. Youre crawling. Thats slowing down your drive from the braintree split into boston on the expressway northbound. North of town, though, 93 looks good all the way back to 495. Route 1 wide open. No delays yet. The pike looking good back out to framingham into boston. No delays to tell you about. Take a look at those drive times. If youre getting ready to head out the door, the expressway, the split to the tunnel, up to 17 minutes because of that accident. Into town on the pike from 128, 12 minutes, 93 southbound, 128 to the zakim bridge, 11 minutes. Back to you. Christa all right. Danielle, thank you. A check of your top stories on this wednesday. Attorneys for philip chism are headed back to court on a separate charge. Yesterday the danvers teen was found guilty of firstdegree murder her killing his High School Math teacher, Colleen Ritzer. He faces life in prison at his sentencing next week. Foreign policy taking center staining at last nights g. O. P. Debate. The Top Republican president ial candidates battling over their approaches to National Security and immigration and the steps needed to fight isis. Governor jeb bush was one of several candidates to question trumps muslim ban while rivalries also heated up between marco rubio and ted cruz who clashed on immigration. Also this morning, more than half Million Students are headed back to school this morning in los angeles after a bomb threat shut down the entire school district. Officials say they believe the email threat was made overseas and was based on the popular tv show homeland. That email was also directed to schools in new york and hoax. Sarah tense moments caught on camera in malden. A temporary wall crashing down on the street. Several people were trapped underneath, including a baby inside a carrier. 7s nick emmons is live in madden. Nick, people were pretty shaken up by that collapse. I can only imagine. Yeah, you could definitely imagine, sarah, what it was like yesterday afternoon when that wall came crashing down. Were here on pleasant street when this all took place. You can see the wall has been cleaned up, but whats left here is at least one of the brackets that was holding that wall up here. A restaurant is undergoing some renovation, so that wall was placed up to protect people as they walked down the sidewalk, but all it took was a swift gust of wind to knock it over on top of five people. Alber tina pierre has a brace around her leg and her arm in the n a sling after this temporary wall fell on her and several others tuesday afternoon her son isaiah rushed to his mothers side. I saw my mom on the floor, and she was not responsive. And like i was trying the talk to her, and she wasnt opening her eyes. I just kept saying her name. Reporter albertina was taken to the hospital. Her shoulder, her right side of her back and her knee. Reporter a twoyearold child in a stroller was also trapped we beneath the collapsed construction barrier. His mother was injured but police say the little boy was fine. We think the carriage actually helped keep the winy out of harms way. The child keeped him safe a little bit. Reporter these security cameras captured the collapse. You can see him run out to help. We heard a loud crash. We looked out the window. We saw that the wood structure had come down. Its been up there for probably nine months and hasnt proved, so something happened to loosen it up. You know, that shouldnt have fallen like that. Reporter as albertina it could have been worse, but it will be a difficult road ahead. Shes got to be off her feet for a couple of days or weeks. Reporter so immediately after this happened, osha was looking into what exactly went wrong here. And weve also learned, weve been told that osha now will not be investigating because no construction workers were injured when that wall came crashing down. Thats the latest live in malden, nick emmons, 7news today in new england. Christa now to the latest on the runaway train last week. The operator of the red line train is now suspended without pay. He could be fired. David vasquez got off the train at braintree station in order to fix a signal problem. Thats when the train left without him. Investigators claim he used a train microphone cord to tie down the throttle and did not set the hand brake. Meantime, his Attorney Says all he wants is fair and thorough investigation into what happened. Sarah to imagine that he would tie a rope around the throttle system or the brake system and the train to toggle a switch just sounds preposterous. Mr. Vasquez did everything he could do to deal with that situation, running to the nearest station. He even injured himself in the process. Christa the train flew through four stops before power was finally cut off from the rail in order to bring it to a halt. The mbtas general manager will decide whether the operator will now keep his job. Sarah new this morning, three suspects are behind bars accused of stealing packages from homes in south boston. Witnesses say they saw three men ripping boxes open and stuffing the items into shopping bags. Police later identified them. Officials say if you expect a package and youre not going to be home, do not let the package sit at your doorstep. A grand jury will hear three cases in connection to the overdose of a teenager in New Hampshire. A judge ruled there is probable cause to charge leslie avenuerly of salisbury with dispensing a controlled drug that resulted in death. The teens mother, jasmine rude, already facing charges. 17 year old eve tarmy died in hampshire, hotel. Prosecutors say that where shes used heroin that her mothers bought. Christa happening today, Endicott College breaking ground on a new building named for pete fraties, the man behind the ice bucket challenge. His family is from beverly and ceremony. Still ahead, its all in the cards. A netflix politician making a surprise appearance during last nights g. O. P. Debate. Christa and water worries in one city in michigan. The shocking test results that have a lot of people turning off their taps today. Sarah and a shocking sight down south after a plane runs off the runway. Jeremy for the day a mix of clouds and sunshine. A bit of a cool breeze this morning. That fades away. Temps this afternoon mid40s. Danielle good morning, everyone. Already a slow drive on the expressway. You can see the brake lights here. What you cant see is the accident. Thats just at the Dorchester Yacht Club in the right lane. So that is blocked. Its a multivehicle accident causing delays on the expressway northbound. Jeremy good morning. Right now boston at 4 3. Beverly 49. Worcester 37. Some wind out there but not overwhelming, not overpowering, not all that cold. It is somewhat cool. And through the day, these wind 30s. The wind fades away with a mix of clouds and sunshine. Temps this afternoon, pleasant for the middle of december. Mid40s 7 00 p. M. A lot of clouds, cool, temps this evening upper 30s. Christa take a look at whats trending out there. It looks like were seeing double with taylor swift. The singer posing with a lookalike on her 1989 tour in australia. She has swifts trademark hairstyle and relipstick. House of cards set to premier in march. Kevin spacey plays frank underwood, the president. Season four will start streaming on march 4th. Christa lots to get to this morn, including know and go. Usually you hear about people breaking out of prison. Well tell you about man caught on camera doing exactly the opposite. Reporter and philip chism, convicted of firstdegree murder, one day later his juvenile case on attempted murder charges has a hearing in boston. Sarah and New Hampshire police on the lookout for this man. What he did that has him on the wanted list this morning. Catch holidaycookie cheer on the tip of your tongue cookieflavored coffees. Enjoy any medium latte or macchiato for 1. 99. Dunkins new sweet black pepper bacon sandwich, with double the slices of caramelized crispy pepper bacon. Youve been waiting for. Bacon up. America runs on dunkin. Christa good morn, everybody. Were starting your day off with a little know and go here. Sarah lets send it over the jeremy rhiner with a check of your forecast. Jeremy good morning, sarah. Good morning, everyone. Its a cooler day today but not cold. Middecember, it wouldnt be that uncommon to have a cold blast of air on the heels of a storm, but not the case. No cold air to be had. In fact, so far this month, about halfway through, only one day featuring colderthannormal temps. The temps are running close to 10 degrees above average. Now, as we work into the weekend, it will turn colder, but thats brief. Thats not the start of a new pattern. December off to a blast of heat with temps about ten degrees above normal, and number one in terms of the warmest december on record. So the jetstream, it actually goes into this configuration this weekend, which will temporarily allow some cold air to come back into the northeast, and cold meaning seasonal for december with afternoon highs only in the low 40s. But there are signs as we work toward christmas week and christmas itself that it will snap right back into a warm pattern. Temperatures for christmas could be approaching 60, perhaps 65 degrees next thursday and friday. Amazing. 43 in the city at this time. Worcester 37. A bit of a breeze right now creating somewhat of a cooling effect to the air, but not overwhelming cold or anything like that. High pressure is with us. So through the day, a mix of clouds and sunshine. And here comes our next weather system. Its in new england tomorrow with a few showers late in the afternoon, more likely tomorrow night, and then a whole new weather system may pester us for a few hours on friday, but at that time i think the highest chance would be southeast of boston. Afternoon, tomorrow night, a few lingering showers possible friday. Theres your weekend forecast. Clouds and sun on saturday. Sunday mostly sunny skies. Looks good for the patriots game. Temperatures at kickoff sunday afternoon, low 40s. Sarah all right. Time now for fast track traffic heres Danielle Gersh. Jeremy you see the brake lights here. The this is the expressway northbound. We have a multivehicle accident at the Dorchester Yacht Club. That has the expressway backed up all the way to the braintree split. This accident is blocking the right lane. South of town, a little backup as you get on to the braintree split. A little slow on route 24 as well. Lets head north of town. Youre slow through methuen and then youre stopandgo into boston on route 93. Route 1 looking good so far this morning. The pike also wide open. All green all the way back out to framingham and 495. Lets take a look at those drive times. The expressway, the slit to the tunnel, 25 minutes. That accident not helping there. And into town on the pike from 128, just 12 minutes. 93 southbound, 128 to the zakim so far the t is on time. Back to you. Christa happening right now, philip chisms defense gearing up for another day in court. Sarah this appearance just a day after the danvers teen was found guilty of killing his High School Math teacher, but be he spend his life in prison . Lets head out the victoria warren with more on the verdict. Vicki . Victoria there are still a lot of questions when it comes to sentencing. Because its a firstdegree murder conviction and philip chism is a juvenile, the jury deliberated for nine hours to come back with that guilty verdict. And now one day later, philip chisms case in boston moves forward. Hes going to have his case called in Boston Juvenile Court today. But its unclear hell actually be here or if he will waive his appearance. This case has a lot of similarities to the murder of math teacher Colleen Ritzer. But the jury never got to hear about it. Yesterday ritzers family spoke out for the very first time after jurors in salem convicted chism of rape and murder in the math teacher. So with a firstdegree murder conviction, but again, because philip chism was a juvenile at the time, the law now says he can not be sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole, meaning that he could be paroled in 15 to 25 years and that means that he could be paroled before he is 40 years old. The salem judge still needs to set sentencing, so well know more when that happens. Live this morning in boston, victoria warren, 7news today in new england. Christa also this morn, police have a suspect in custody after shots were fired near a courthouse in roxbury tuesday morning. Police were on the scene investigating that area trying to figure out exactly what led up to it. Luckily no one was hurt. Sarah police are investigating two robberies in manchester, New Hampshire. Officers are looking for the man in this surveillance picture. They say he attacked a store clerk and threatened him with a knife before getting away with a stack of cash. They say he may be connected to christa a salem, New Hampshire, man accused of breaking into seven cars. Officers arrested 39yearold Henry Schumann early tuesday morning. Now he faces 12 counts of theft. Schumann was released on bail. Hell be in court coming up next month. Sarah checking news cross country, eight people were hurt after a Southwest Airlines plane ran into tarmac trouble in nashville. The plane had just arrived from houston and was taxiing to the gate when it suddenly rolled off the runway and on to the grass. Passengers say it was a frightening experience. All of a sudden there was just a big boom and it sounded like to my that a wheel blew out, and i dont know if a wheel blew out or if it just collapsed or Something Like that. And the next thing i know, we were in the ditch. Sarah the eight passengers that were treated were treated for minor injuries. The f. A. A. Is now investigating. Christa the mayor of flint, michigan, has declared a state of emergency because of toxic levels of lead found in the issue started when the city switched from detroits water system to the flint river last year. That move was supposed to save money. Right now the mayor is worried the lead will cause future health problems, particularly among children. So far what weve had is bandaid fixes. We have the filter programs. We have talked about diets for lead exposure, and dont get me wrong, we want these things to continue, we need all of that. Christa the mayor wants more funding to fix the problem. Sarah theres more news this morning. Jurors in the case of a Police Officer who is connected to the death of freddie gray say they are deadlocked. The judge has ordered him to keep deliberating. Officer William Porter is charged with manslaughter after gray was injured and died while in Police Custody in april. Hes the first of six officers to stand trial. Former subway spokesman jared sentence. Last month fogle was sentenced to 15 years behind bars after pleading guilty to child sex and fogle is also appealing a 175,000 fine. Hes being held in a prison transfer facility in oklahoma. Christa now to a story caught on camera. A florida man who was allegedly on drugs facing some serious charges after ramming his car into a jail. Police believe he was on a synthetic drug known as flakka. Officials say the man was behaving violently and told deputies he wanted to visit his friends inside the jail. Sarah high crimes in oregon as thieves break into a medical marijuana dispensary. The suspect broke through the wall of the building to get inside, but the shelves were empty and they only got away with some overthecounter products. Oregon law requires all the Marijuana Plants and other medicated products must be locked up over night. I think they were assumeing to walk in and see the store fully furnished like it is during the day. It could have ruined our business if we didnt follow protocol. Sarah the thieves took about 2,000 worth of items. Christa jimmy fallon the tonight show. [singing star wars theme music]ism hes amazing. Im telling you what. Christa it kind of reminds me of brady bunch star wars. There was a story. Sarah i love it. Christa so hes thing the star wars theme song with some of the stars of the cast of the film. At one point they dressed up as storm troopers. Harrison ford and Carrie Fisher made cameos at the end. I have to see that full length coming up. Sarah spoiler alert. I didnt stay up to watch it. So spoiler to me, the voice wrapping up season nine. The winner is jordan smith. The kentucky native wins contract. Coming in second, emily ann roberts, but he was incredible. Just incredible. Christa i know youre a huge fan of the voice. Sarah. Sarah i like those singing shows. Christa i get the cliff jeremy it is. Im with you on that one. Sarah briefs me on this stuff. Sarah and you brief me on star wars. Jeremy jason smith. Sarah no, jordan smith. Weve been over this, j. R. Bedford 40. Some wind out there. That fades away during the day. Even though we have a little wind, it does feel a little bit cooler because of that wind. It feels like the low and middle 30s. And a mix of clouds and sunshine. Nice december day. Temps running in the middle 40s at 2 00 p. M. 7 00 p. M. , cloudy skies, upper 30s. Well talk about some rain shower activity on the way for tomorrow night, some very early friday morning. More on that in the next hour. Sarah and theres still another hour of 7news on today in new england. Up next at 6 00, a new york paper coming down hard on tom brady. Why theyre taking aim at his connection to one gop frontrunner. Christa speaking of the g. O. P. , what happened in vegas certainly didnt stay there. The candidates meeting for their final debate of the year. L. A. As thousands of students head back to school after a threat had them staying home on praised as one of americas best mayors who governed as a pragmatist. Bernie sanders passed more amendments in a Republican Congress than any other member. Cracked the gridlock to strengthen veterans healthcare. Bernie sanders. A consistent, principled, and effective leader. Building a future to believe in. Sanders im Bernie Sanders christa the case against philip chism back in court today. Hes facing charges for another crime a day after being convicted of killing his teacher. Sarah breaking overnight, a bad crash ends with a car bursting into flames in wakefield. Christa and the race for this is a tough business. Oh, youre a tough guy, jeb. Christa the g. O. P. Candidates try the take on trump, but did they make an impact . Cover controversy, a new york paper blasting tom brady for his friendship with donald trump. Also fun facts about the force, what to due pack, in sync and kurt russell all have in common with star wars . This is 7news today in new england. Christa all the trivia you need to know on star wars ahead of the big premier. Sarah its like j. R. Morning weve been saying. We have holiday helping, his star wars special. I thought you were going to wear morning. Jeremy i want to, but they said, slow your roller, jedi. Boston at 45. Worcester 43. But that will be on on christmas eve, i guarantee you that much. I tell you what, looking at the long range charts, you will not need the sweaters and heavy coats for christmas. Its warm. Have outdoor recess with a mix of clouds and sunshine. A cool breeze early on at the bus stop. Temps at lunchtime running in the middle 40s, and when school lets out this afternoon, mid40s with partly to mostly sunny skies on the way. Eventually well start to see another band of rain head our way. This morning that rain is way out here in chicago land and it moves into metro boston tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night. More on that in about 15 minutes. Sarah time now for fast track traffic with Danielle Gersh. Danielle good morning, everyone. Lets go outside and take a look at the expressway. Weve been keeping an eye on an accident just beyond where you can see at this picture at the Dorchester Yacht Club. It actually just cleared. Still heavy delays on the expressway back down to the braintree split. This accident was blocking the right lane. South of town, 24, youre slowing down around west Center Street. Route 3, a little bit of backup, as well. Lets head north of town. 93 southbound, starting to she down through lawrence, youre stop and go into boston. Route 1 looking good so far. For example, lets take a look at those drive times if youre getting ready to head out the door. The expressway, the split to the tunnel, thats 25 minutes. Into town on the pike from 128, just 12 minutes, so no delays there. Into boston on 93 southbound, 12 minutes as well, so far the t is on time. Back to you. Christa days top stories. A second criminal case for philip chism in court today. Less than 24 hours after being found guilty of raping and murdering his High School Math teacher, the 16 year old is also charged with trying to kill a Youth Services worker. Sarah the attack happened while the danvers teen was awaiting trial for killing Colleen Ritzer. 7s victoria warren live outside the boston courthouse with more. Victoria it was a very emotional day yesterday. We heard from Colleen Ritzers family for the very first time. Here we are, one day later, and philip chism has another case, this one in Juvenile Court. This has a lot of similarities to the ritzer case, a case the that jury came back yesterday with the conviction of the defendant, philip chism, victoria 16yearold philip chism emotionless after the jury says he raped and murdered his math teacher Colleen Ritzer. Colleens mother sat and cried. This guilty verdict, while the beginning of justice for colleen, is certainly no cause for celebration. Victoria the ritzer family not even getting chance to process the weeks of graphic testimony they just sat through. First thing wednesday, chism is back inside another courtroom, this one in boston where hes facing attempted murder charge, accused of attacking a department of Youth Services worker while he was in custody. We will honor her legacy and be her voice during the continued judicial process. Victoria that process is also likely to see lengthy appeals, and because chism was only 14 years old when he killed his math teacher, the judge has to follow new sentencing guidelines, which means he cant get life without parole, meaning there is a chance he could be years old. The ritzers know whats ahead for them, but in this moment they want to focus on their daughter and her Lasting Impact on those who knew her. One of colleens favorite quotes is, there is something good in every day. To celebrate our love for her and in recognition of the many lives colleen touched and continues to influence despite the immense loss were forced to endure, we will carry on and do our very best to find the good in every day. Victoria the salem judge still has to set a seasoning date. Again, philip chism, after hes been convicted now of firstdegree murder, could be sentenced to life with the chance of parole in 15 to 25 years. As for his case in Juvenile Court today, in boston its unclear if philip chism will actually be present inside of the courtroom or if he will waive that appearance. Live this morning in boston, victoria warren, 7news today in new england. Sarah 6 04 right now. Are hurt after a serious crash in wakefield on route 128 after a cash slammed into a guardrail and burst into flames. Both victims were rushed to the hospital. Police are investigating the cause of the crash. Christa candidates in the race for the white house back on the campaign trail today. The g. O. P. Rival spending last night duking it out in las vegas. And the war on terror was a major focus in the final debate for the republican candidates of the year. Lets get right to 7s nancy chen with highlights. Nancy christa, good morning. National security concerns have been on everyones mind, especially lately. This was first debate since the terrorist attacks in San Bernardino. The candidates had strong opinions on how the keep the nation safe. The topic of last nights debate, foreign policy. The first question went to republican frontrunner donald trump on his idea to ban all muslims from coming to the United States. We are not talking about isolation. Were talking about security. Were not talking about religion. Nancy governor jeb bush, one of several candidates on the stage in las vegas last night who questioned trumps muslim ban. This is not a serious proposal. Nancy jeb and trump sparred several times during the debate 678 you said on september 30th that isis am i talking or are you talking . Im talking. You can go back. Nancy senators carson and clashed on whether immigrants would be legalized. Do you rule it out . I have never supported legalization and i do not intend to support legalization. Nancy when trump complained he was being attacked too much during the debate, jeb bush pounced this is a tough business. I know. Youre a tough guy, jeb. Youre never going to be president of the United States doesnt matter. Nancy and governor Chris Christie, who has been on the rise in New Hampshire, called for a nofly zone over syria, vowing to shoot down russian jets should they violate it. Senator rand paul said that would be inciting world war iii. In the newsroom, nancy chen, 7news today in new england. Sarah its back to school this morning for. Than 500,000 students in los angeles after a threat based on a popular tv show shut down the school. Officials say a bomb threat from overseas kept students home. The email was also directed at officials in new york. Officials are investigating it as a hoax influenced by a recent episode of the tv show homeland. Here in boston, bpds internet was shut down for about 20 minutes yesterday after a cyber attack, but mayor marty walsh said it wasnt connected to those threats. Christa happening today, the department of Homeland Security is set to announce changes to the nations terror alert system. The Department Says the system inform the public about terrorist threats. Plans to change the terror alert system were announced shortly after the mass shooting happened in San Bernardino, california. Ism also today the Federal Reserve will decide whether to raise Interest Rates for the first time in nine years. The historic announcement is scheduled for this afternoon. The decision could have an impact on homeowners who may see an increase in mortgage rates. Christa two more pats players done for the rest of the season. The pats placing running back Legarrette Blount and defensive lineman Dominique Easley on injured reserve. With blount out, Brandon Boldin and james white will likely handle running back duties. And new this morning, the New York Daily News blasting tom brady on todays front page, relationship with donald trump. So lets head out thrive gillette with 7s Nicole Oliverio here to explain what this is all about. Nicole . Brady was asked on the radio yesterday if, in fact, he does support donald trump. The new york post. The New York Daily News got wind of that and then made a very criticizing front page headline. Tom brady hoping to avoid getting in the middle of any political talk. Donald j. Trump for president in 2016 . Can i just stay out of this debate . Nicole but the New York Daily News is putting new englands quarterback on blast for comments brady made during his weekly radio interview with dennis and callahan when asked if he supports republican trump. I support all my friends in everything they do. I think thats. I think its pretty remarkable what hes achieved in his life. Nicole the new york paper criticized brady for not we announcing trumps plan to ban all muslims. Instead brady tried to avoid all questions. This is really important to you guys, huh . It was in september when a trump had was spotted in bradys locker. Hes always within so supportive for me. For the last 15 years since i judged a beauty pageant for him. Nicole and trump supported number 12 during deflategate. We love tom brady. As you know, hes a very good friend of mine. Nicole other athletes and owners came the bradys defense, saying its nobodys business who he supports. And when asked, brady says he still does have that hat in his locker. Live in gillette, Nicole Oliverio, 7news today in new england. Sarah all right. Still ahead, a scare on the sidewalk. A wall comes crashing down in malden. This morning one of the women caught under the rubble is sharing her story. Christa also the inspiration behind the ice bucket challenge set to get a new and perm unanimous honor. Sarah and brush up on your jedi knowledge. J. R. Will tell us some things you didnt know about the series. To quiz you on that tomorrow, sarah. Through the day, a mix of clouds and sunshine. A pleasant december day. Low 40s this morning. Thats your normal high. Temps this afternoon mid40s. Danielle good morning. Our expressway accident has cleared. But as you can see, still a slow drive. 35 minutes from the braintree split into boston on the 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 is responsible for the content the keurig k200 series brewer. One touch, and unlike life, no mess. Your favorites. Your way. Christa good morning. Its time to rise and shine, and this morning were waking up with one of our newest little viewers. This is kate from south boston, and her parents say she never misses a newscast, and shes smiling and is absolutely adorable in that outfit. Im thinking that maybe we need to set up a play date with your little one blair. Slightly older. I was just wondering howl she was. They look about maybe the same size, j. R. Jeremy very cute picture there. Good to see those pictures. Thank you for sharing those with us. Weve got a day that does not have as much wind as yesterday. Its cooler than yesterday, but its not cold. I mean, the normal high is around 41, and well be in the mid40s this afternoon. A few showers returning to new england tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night, but december much like november thus far halfway through the month were averaging the warmest december on record. I dont see any significant, longlasting coal air. Jetstream looks like this right now. I do think as we work into the weekend, it will rearrange itself so it looks like this for saturday and sunday, which again, when we advertise cold, its just really where we should be for this time of year, afternoon highs in the 30s and the 40s for saturday and sunday. And then thats it. I think as we work into next week, christmas week, the pattern will snap right back into a mild pattern. 50s and perhaps 60s for amazing. Right now boston 41. Jaffrey at 31. Theres some wind out there. It actually feels like 35 in boston with a gentle breeze. And those jaffrey windchill, there is no wind out there. Thanks to High Pressure, just about on top of us. Once old blue shows up, that will set us up for a day of a mix of clouds and sunshine. Because the blue h is just about on top of us, not as windy as yesterday. Its just making a cameo, though, as we work into tomorrow. Here comes another weather system. So a lot of clouds tomorrow, and a few isolated showers tomorrow afternoon. And i think a heavier batch of rain on the way for tomorrow evening, tomorrow night. It will be fast moving and brief. So its not long lasting new york flooding or anything like, that and a whole new weather system may pester us as we work toward friday with clouds. I think a slightly lower chance of showers on friday. If anyone stands to get a couple showers on friday, probably cape cod, more likely than city of boston and nashua, but even around the metro, 40 chance of showers friday with a lot of clouds. Today mix of clouds and sunshine. Temperatures middle 40s. Traveling across the nation. Chicago today 592. Dallas 55. Orlando 86. Out on the west coast, big storm approaching the Pacific Northwest. Seattle at 43. Los angeles at 61. 7 on 7 forecast for tomorrow, a lot of clouds. A few showers late in the afternoon, more likely tomorrow night and friday, a few isolated showers lingering, near 50. Theres your Colder Weather for saturday and sunday. But you notice monday and tuesday of next week right back into the 50s. Christa okay. Were right back the traffic with Danielle Gersh this morning. Sarah thank you, christa. Good morning, everyone almost lets go outside to the expressway where we did have a accident thats cleared. Its still a slow drive on the expressway northbound. Lets go to the map, that boulevard. It has cleared. It was blocking the right lane. Still a slow drive from the braintree split over half an hour. Route 24 northbound from west Center Street is slow, as well. Route 3 getting on to 128, a little bit slow, as well. Lets head north of town. 93 southbound slowing down in lawrence. And then youre stopandgo to 128. Is a slow drive. Route 1 looking pretty good, though. Lets go to the pike. Not too many problems. Mostly green on the pike back the framingham. Take a look at those drive times if your getting ready to head out the door. The expressway, the split to the tunnel, right around half hour into town on the pike from 128. Pretty good. Just 12 minutes. 93 southbound. 128 to the zakim bridge, over is on time. Back to you, guys. Christa all right. The countdown is on to the release of star star wars the force awakens. A lot of fans of these films can quote all the movies by heart. We were just doing that here. Sarah i was going to say, you guys know them all. Some of them so obsessled they know more about the galaxy far, far away than george lucas. Sarah that is correct. Jeremy if youre looking forward the friday, take a look back us with for some stuff you may not know about first six star wars movies. Its still unreal to me that were getting new star wars. I never thought in my lifetime i would see episode vii. Saw an advance screening of the force awakens. To get you ready, were digging up some new stuff about the old films. Lets start with obi wan. Sir Alex Guinness didnt think much of the movie, calling it fairy tale rubbish, but because he got a cut at the box office, his paycheck was reportedly 95 million. More powerful than you can possibly imagine. Jeremy Luke Skywalker was almost called luke starkiller. And even eepisode six, return of the jedi was part of the name game. Not bad for a little fur jeremy up until the last called. Revenge of the jedi. Jeremy the name was the communicator used in the film wasnt technical at all. A gillette womens razor that they took apart. Jeremy if the auditions worked out differently, you might have seen members of the boy band in sync in attack of and kurt russell as han solo. And to get you in the holiday spirit. A Star Wars Holiday Special. Jeremy in 1978, a Star Wars Holiday Special aired on cbs. One critic called it the worst two hours of television ever. We celebrate a day of peace that would not happen today. You would not get the lord of the rings holiday special. At that time it was rudolph followed by some wookiees. Whatever works. Jeremy unreal. All right. One more tidbit, every Star Wars Film until this one released the week after george lucas birthday. While the force Awakens Opens this week, the release date for next film is may 2017. Ism get excited. Mark your calendars now. Christa happy birthday to me. Coming up, lebron james surprising a celtics fan at the garden last night. Why the nba star gave him the shoes off his feet. Sarah plus several people hurt when a Southwest Airlines plane has a rocky landing. Christa up next, jeremy is back, not with star wars this time, but with a star wars sweater, and hes cooking in his kitchen in todays holiday helping. Stay with us, everybody. Welcome, to the simply orange tour. These are our workers. And this, is upper management. But what you wont find around here, is any freezing, flavoring, or concentrating. Which brings us to our end product. Simply orange. Honestly simple. Thats just the night watchman. Ism 6 23 this morning. Here at 7news were whipping up our favorite holiday recipes all far good cause. Christa today jeremy is making a quick and easy dessert holiday meal. Doesnt look too hard either. So here it, is j. R. s holiday helping. Jeremy hello. Welcome to my home. This is my wife and daughter. The holidays can be a stressful time whether youre hosting a party or fending off a rebellion in a galaxy far, far away. So we have a recipe we think youll enjoy. We love it. Its apple dumplings. You guys ready to make it . Yeah. Yeah. Jeremy okay. Lets do it. First things first. Were going to peel this apple. We live out here in apple country, so we love to find anything that has an apple in the recipe, dont we . Yeah. So now were going to chop up the apple. Jeremy you can slice it up into eighths or use this little dice right here. Super slick. Now were going to take the crescent rolls, this is where i need your help, lily, is were going to roll the apple up into the crescent rolls. You can put that apple to bed, tuck it up and put it in the greased pan. Good night, apple. Good night, apple. Sugar and butter to hang out for and well let that melt and simmer down. Go ahead and just pour that in. Now, in terms of stirring it in, its just a brief stir, right on the heels of the sugar, you go ahead and add the vanilla extract in there. Now lets go ahead and take it home, right . Uhhuh. Jeremy right on top of the apple dumplings and just spread it on. We take the lemonlime soda and pour it on the edge. Last but not least, you have to add some cinnamon. Jeremy into the oven at 350 for 40 minutes. This is how we serve at team reiner. We serve it a la mode. This is a super simple recipe we love and we hope you enjoy. Have a Great Holiday season and thank you for supporting project bread. Dig in sarah that looks so good, doesnt it . Christa shes so darling. Isnt she cute . Sarah grown up so much since last year. Saying you are going to keep the Sugar Companies in business with the sugar and the sprite. My friends said, if you see an apple like there, youll lose your fingertips. So do as i say, not as i do. Sarah well let you bring it in and well test it out. If you want to make a do nation to project bread, log on to whdh. Com and click on the project bread logo. Christa next up, im headed into the kitchen. Look out, everybody, because my five and seven year olds are helping me with some spanish bar cake. Were on the dessert trajectory here with j. R. And me. You can see that tonight at 11 00 or tomorrow morning. Wed love to have you join us at 6 00 for that. Sarah still ahead, the local singer who took center stage at last nights g. O. P. Debate in las vegas. Reporter plus hear from a woman who was injured when a construction barrier came crashing down in malden. Christa all right, nick. 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Christa and a new singing star gets crowned on the voice. This is 7news today in new england. Sarah good wednesday morning, everybody. Thanks for staying us with. Im sarah french. Christa and im christa delcamp. A lot of us are so busy. Its just over a week until christmas. Sarah have you finished it all . Christa no, no, it usually doesnt get done until the night before. So, j. R. , people are heading out today. What are you thinking weatherwise . Sarah thankfully no weather to get in the way of that list of activities that you have to accomplish. The city at 41 right now. Fitchburg 35. Worcester 35. Some wind out, adding a bit of a chill, but a cooling effect, if you will. Temperatures running in the middle 30s. The normal high is 41. So even right now, the numbers pretty close to our normal high temp. Through the day, that fades away this morning with makes of clouds and sunshine. Its a pleasant december day. Mid40s this afternoon. And by 7 00 p. M. , cool with a lot of clouds, upper 30s. We are talking about some rain showers heading our way for tomorrow evening. We will talk more about that in about 15 minutes. Christa good to know, j. R. Thank you. How about traffic heading out the door. Danielle is with us now. Sarah this is route 1 in saugus, and you can see, its slow. The good news, after you get through saugus, its opening up as you get into boston. 93 southbound is backed up all the way to 495 crawling into boston on 93 southbound. The pike not too bad. Youre slow and go from framingham. No major delays to tell you about on the pike. The expressway, still very slow from the braintree split into boston. Half an hour. We had an earlier accident that did clear on the expressway. Route 24 is slow from west Center Street, a little slow on route 3 as you head toward the braintree split, as well. Lets take a look at those drive times if youre getting ready to head out the door, right around a half an hour, and into town on the pike from 128, thats up to 22 minutes. 93 southbound, 128 to the zakim bridge, over half an hour, as well. So far its on time. Back to you. Christa thanks, danielle, now to the days top stories. Attorneys for chism are heading back to court for hearing on a separate charge. Yesterday the danvers teen was found guilty of firstdegree murder for killing his High School Math teacher Colleen Ritzer. Chism faces life in prison, but he could be up for parole after 15 years because of a state law. Serious crash in wakefield. That happened on route 128 after a car slammed into a guardrail and burst into flames. Both victims were rushed to the hospitals. Police are investigating the cause of the crash. Foreign policy taking center stage at last nights g. O. P. Debate. The Top Republican president ial candidates battled over their opinions on National Security, immigration and the steps needed to fight isis. Christa here at home some tense moments caught on camera in malden. A temporary wall suddenly crashing down on the street. Several people were trapped underneath and that includes a baby inside a carrier. So very scary situation. Heres 7s nick emmons. Hes in malden. I guess people are shaken up by this i would guess. Nick . Yeah, thats right, christa. Seeing this all happen right in front of them, people just couldnt imagine what was going on, but let me show you what the scene looks like this morning. You can see that wall has been removed. Its up in front of this business here. Its actually a restaurant now. That 35foot wall was put up to protect pedestrians as theyre walking along the sidewalk, but all it took was a stiff gust of wind to knock it over. I couldnt see the floor. Albertina pierre has a brace on her arm after this temporary wall fell on her and several others in malden. Her son isaiah rushed to his mothers side. I saw my mom on floor. She was not responsive. And like i was trying to talk to her. And she wasnt opening her eyes. I just kept saying her name. Nick albertina was taken to the hospital. Her shoulder, her right side of her back and her knee. Nick a two year old child in a stroller was also trapped beneath the collapsed construction barrier. His mother was injured, but police say the little boy was fine. We think the carriage actually helped keep the baby out of harms way. Keep it off the ground. Nick these security cameras at paul frasers Jewelry Store captured the collapse. You can see him run out to help. We heard a loud crash. We looked out the window. We saw the wood structure had come down. Its been up there for probably nine months and hasnt moved, so something happened to loosen it up. You know, that shouldnt have fallen like that. Nick as albertina recovers, she and her family say it could have been worse, but it will be a difficult road ahead. Shes the one that provides for us. Shes going to be off her feet for a couple of days or weeks. Nick all right. So from what we understand, osha was on scene here yesterday going over the accident right after it happened, but what weve learned is that apparently osha will not with investigating this incident because no construction workers were injured inside. Thats the latest live in malden, nick emmons, 7news today in new england. The operator of the red line train now suspended without pay and could be fired. At braintree station to fix a signal problem. Thats when the train left without him. Investigators say he used a train microphone cord to tie down the throttle and did not set the hand brake. His Attorney Says his client denies those allegations, though. Imagine that he would tie a rope around the throttle system or the brake system and then get off the train the get under the train toing to alswitch just sounds preposterous. Mr. Vasquez did everything he could do to deal with that situation, running to the nearest station. He even injured himself in the process. Sarah the mbtas general manager will decide whether the operator will keep his job. Christa and police arresting three men for stealing packages off doorsteps in south boston. Residents called police when they say they saw these men ripping boxing open and then stuffing items into shopping bags. Officials say if you expect a package at home and wont be there, try the make some arrangements so its not sitting there at your doorstep. Police in brewster have arrested police say the man pointed a gun at a Convenience Store clerk sunday and then took off with the cash. Hes now facing several charges. Sarah happening today, Endicott College breaking ground on a new building named for the inspiration of the ice bucket challenge. The New Residence hall in beverly will be named after pete frates. The former Boston College baseball player was diagnosed with als at the age of 27, and he has led efforts to raise awareness for the disease. Frates family is from beverly and will be on hand for todays ceremony. Christa still ahead, trouble on the tarmac. Passengers talking about how their plane just ran off the runway. Sarah also lebron james impressing celtics fans after his kind gesture to a Boston High School student at the garden last night. Christa and a big starstudded finale on the voice. Well let you know who replaced the judges with monkeys coming danielle good morning, everyone. Its a slow drive on the expressway northbound. You can see here from the braintree split into boston, that will take you over half hour. Coming into town from the north, 93 southbound is backed up all the way to 495. Sarah 6 40 right now. Spoiler alert. Theres a new winner of the voice. Jordan smith sarah and the winner, as you see, for season nine, jordan smith. The kentucky native wins 100,000 and a recording contract. Coming in second, emily ann roberts. And some big stars performing on the finale, a few monkeys took over the judges chair during cold plays performance. And then took the stage to dance. The band played their hit adventure of a lifetime. Pretty funny, right . Also importanting last night, Justin Bieber and Country Singer sam hunt. Christa very well choreographed there. A star sighting at the g. O. P. Debate. Ayla brown singing the national anthem. By the dawns early light ayla is the daughter of former massachusetts senator scott brown and was a contestant on American Idol back in 2006. Sarah coming up next, the days top stories. New this morning, jeb bush quick the fire back at donald trump at last nights debate. The attack ad released overnight. Christa and a new york paper coming down hard on tom brady. Why theyre taking aim at his connection to the g. O. P. Frontrunner. Reporter the verdict is in. Philip chism guilty of murder. Well tell you why one day later his case is being called in a theres moving. And theres moving with move free ultra. It has tripleaction support for your joints, cartilage and bones. And unlike the big osteobi flex pills, its all in one tiny pill. Move free ultra. Get your move on. Janet . Cough if you can hear me. Dont even think about it. I took mucinex dm for my phlegmy cough. Yeah. But what about mike . It works on his cough too. Cough it works on his cough too. Mucinex dm relieves wet and dry coughs for 12 hours. Its 6 45. Time to know and go. Reporter philip chism convicted and heading back to court. Why a Massachusetts Law means he could get paroled before hes 40 years old. Reporter a sidewalk scare in malden. A temporary wall comes crashing down, trapping people underneath. Reporter jeb bush firing back. His campaign releasing a new ad trump. Reporter and a new york paper roughing the passer. Tom brady facing tough criticism for his relationship with donald trump. Christa good morning, the 16th day of december. Its know and go time with all your days top stories. We have traffic and weather. Lets send it over to jeremy sarah a mix of clouds and sunshine. Cooler than where we have been but not cold. Temps in the middle 40s. Showers on the way for tomorrow anne arundel tomorrow night. 41 in town at this time. Orange 33. Some leftover wind. There is a bit of a cooling effect because of that wind, but not a bitter blast of air. Windchill temps, if you will, running in the low to mid30s. High pressure closer to us today with a mix of clouds and sunshine. And because its closer to us, there wont be as much wind out there through this afternoon. Just passing through, though, not going to spend much time with us unfortunately. Here comes another weather system tomorrow with a lot of clouds. A few isolated showers tomorrow afternoon. A burst of some rain on the way for tomorrow night. Friday another weather system passing southeast of new england. I think a lot of clouds on friday. And there may be a couple rain showers friday afternoon, especially on the cape and the islands, but even metro boston slight chance. Today clouds and sun, temps between 42 and 46. For tonight, cloud skies, and then through the day tomorrow, a lot of clouds. A few showers late in the day tomorrow night, an isolated shower possible on friday a mix of clouds and sunshine, actually kind of chilly on saturday, a chilly wind with temperatures only near 40 for afternoon highs. And again, thats normal for this time of year. It will be brief as we look into next week, monday and tuesday, warming back into the 50s. Have a great day. Sarah . Christa lets get you on the fast track with gersh. Danielle . Not so fast on the expressway. Heading past the gas tank, you can see, the braintree split into boston expressway, over half an hour. South of town, we do have an accident in raynham, this is on route 24 northbound right at route 44. Something to keep in mind. And then north of town, youre slow on 93 southbound beginning in wilmington and then youre crawling all the way into boston. 128 southbound slow from route 1 to 93 as well. Lets take a look at the pike. Youre slow through framingham and then youre picking up some speed slowing down again through waltham. Your drive times, if youre getting ready to head out the door this morning, the expressway, the split to the tunnel, right around half an 128 just over 20 minutes. 93 southbound, 128 to the zakim bridge, 33 minutes. And so far the t is on time. Back to you, guys. Now to the days top stories, a second criminal case for chism in court today. The 16yearold charged with trying to kill a Youth Services worker. Christa this apparently happened while he was in custody. This comes while he was found guilty of killing his High School Math teacher. Lets go to 7s victoria warren live outside the courthouse in boston. Vicki . After weeks of testimony, it took the jury nine hours to come back with that guilty conviction of firstdegree murder. Here we are one day later. Chisms case being called in Juvenile Court here in boston. This is a case of attempted murder. Its unclear if the 16yearold will show up in Juvenile Court or waive his appearance. This case has a lot of similarities to the murder of math teacher Colleen Ritzer. But the jury never got to hear about it. Ritzers family speaking out for the first time after the jurors convicted chism of rape and murder in the death of his danvers high math teacher. Its a firstdegree murder conviction, but there are some questions about what sentence exactly hes going to serve because he was a juvenile when the crime was committed. So the judge has to sentence him to life with the possibility of parole in 15 to 25 years. And that means that chism could be eligible for parole before age 40. The judge in salem still has to set a sentencing date. Live this morning, in boston, victoria warren, 7news today in new england. Christa now to breaking news overnight the work people were hurt after a serious crash in wakefield. This happened on 128 after a car slammed into a guardrail and burst into flames. Both victims were rushed to the hospital and police are now investigating the cause behind it. Sarah new this morning, in the race for the white house, g. O. P. Candidate jeb bush set to release a new ad over night blasting trump and his behavior it mocks trumps facial expression during their exchanges. 7s nancy chen joins us. Focused on National Security concerns. It was once again an intense faceoff between the candidates. That add ad you mentioned was a clip from donald trump and jeb bush getting into a Heated Exchange when bush said trump could never lead this country. Donald, you know, is great at candidate. And hed be a chaos president. This is a tough business. Oh, youre a tough guy, jeb. Reporter bush accused trump of lacking seriousness after his proposal the ban muslims from the United States. And other candidates including governor Chris Christie and senator rand paul butted heads on how to bring down isis. In the newsroom, nancy chen, 7news today in new england. Sarah also a close call for a baby and mere when a temporary wall comes crashing down in malden. Several People Racing to the rescue. More on this story. Nick . Nick definitely a chaotic scene in malden where that construction barrier came crashing down. The wall has been taken away, but yesterday afternoon it was laying out over the sidewalk here as crews were working to clean things up. So apparently what had happened here was a gust of wind blew it over and Surveillance Video captures the moment a woman was trapped underneath that wall. Five people were actually hit by it as it went over, including a its mother. The child was okay. Police say luckily the child made it out okay and part of the reason is because its stroller actually protected it from the wall when it went down. As far as how this happened, it over. Its in front of a restaurant that is being renovated, so they put that barrier up to protect people as theyre walking by, but all it took was a strong osha was on scene investigating, looking into if there needs to be anything looked at further, but weve been told that osha will not be investigating any longer because no construction workers were injured. Thats the latest live in madden, nick emmons, 7news today in new england. Christa back to school for more than half Million Students in los angeles after a threat shut down their entire school district. Officials say a bomb threat came from overseas. And then that prompted them to keep students at home. This email was also directed to schools in new york. Investigating this as a hoax. Sarah happening today, the department of Homeland Security set to announce changes to the nations terror alert system. The Department Says the system will be modified to better inform the public about terror threats. Plans to change the terror alert system were announced shortly after the mass shooting in San Bernardino. Also today the Federal Reserve will decide whether to raise Interest Rates for the first time in nine years. The historic announcement is scheduled for this afternoon, impact on homeowners who may see an increase in mortgage rates. Christa state of emergency out in michigan as the city of flint deals with toxic levels of lead in drinking water. I, mayor karen w. Weaver, declare a state of emergency in the city of flint effective december 14, 2015. Thank you. Christa and Health Officials fear that thousands of Young Children could be poisoning. Residents have blamed bacteria infection, rashes and other Health Issues on the water, as well. The issue began when the city switched water sources last year and now the citys mayor is asking for federal aid to help fix that problem. Eight people were hurt after a Southwest Airlines plane ran into tarmac trouble down in nashville. The plane had just arrived from houston and was taxiing to the gate. Thats when it suddenly rolled off the runway and on to the grass. Passengers say this was a frightening experience for them. All of a sudden there was a me that a wheel blew out, but i dont know if a wheel blew out or fit just collapsed or Something Like that. And then the next thing i know, we were in the ditch. Christa eight passengers were treated for minor injuries and the f. A. A. Was investigating. Two more patriots players are done for the rest of the season. The pats placed running back Legarrette Blount and defensive lineman Dominic Easley on injured reserve on tuesday. Both players were injured in sunday nights win over the texans. With blount out, james white will likely handle running back duties. New this morning, the New York Daily News blasting tom brady on todays front page, attacking the pats star for his relationship with donald trump. 7s Nicole Oliverio live at Gillette Stadium with more on this story. Any nicole . Nicole remember it was revealed back in september when brady had that trump hat in his locker. So there has always been the question, does he, in fact, support trump for president. Well, now as you mentioned, this morning if you check out the daily news, you see they are putting the new england quarterback on blast with this blaring front page headline for comments that brady made during his weekly radio interview with dennis and callahan when asked if he supported republican president ial candidate donald trump. The new york paper criticized brady for not denouncing trumps plans to ban all muslims, but brady during that interview tried avoiding all questions. Brady did call trump a friend, and trump says he supports number 12. I support all my friends in everything they do. I think thats. I think its pretty remarkable what hes achieved in his life. Nicole and when asked, brady was. They asked brady if he still has the hat in his locker, and he said yes. Live at gillette, Nicole Oliverio, 7news today in new england. Christa the celtics just could not beat lebron james and the Cleveland Cavaliers at the garden last night. 24 points. Avery bradley leading the cs with 17. But boston lost. The final score was 8977. Lebron james shared some really special moments with a celtics fan last night. 16 year old aaron miller, a special olympian from newton, was honored as a hero among us. The nba superstar sought out the teen, i think thats what youre seeing here, and congratulated him right there, and then he gave miller the shoes right off his feet. Look at his reaction. Hes just so happy. Miller was apparently wearing shoes designed by lebron for kids who have conditions where they cant tie laces. So lebron said he wanted to give him his own shoes out of respect. A really special moment. Sarah amazing. Lets get a final check of the forecast now with jeremy reiner. Jeremy and for the day, a mix of clouds and sunshine. A mid40s today. A few rain showers tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow night. Christa thats going to do it for us. Have a super day, everybody. Its wednesday, middle of the week. Here we go. Im christa delcamp. 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