Much. A dangerous pipeline explosion in the kansas city area. The long awaited return of tiger woods. Early today starts right now. Its good to be with you. Im frances abama. Nbcs bill cairns i this severe outbreak. Talk about the threat. Is it still over . No, its not over yet. We are dealing with a tornado watch in areas of southern tennessee. The worst of it overnight had been earlier in areas of mississippi. Then it shifted into alabama overnight. As far as the reports go, as of now, we have about 85 reports of either wind damage or tornado. So far were at 27 reports of tornadoes and it looks like the in jackson county, located radio it here the extreme northern corner of alabama. Also reports of many destroyed buildings there, including a 24 hourhour Day Care Center they said were destroyed. These numbers of injuries an deaths will fluctuate. These are overnight tornadoes, very little warning in the way of these. Most people are asleep. When daybreak comes, whole see a lot more destruction. So alarming, so jolding. We will continue to watch it. Also overnight, firefighters are battling wildfires that forced the evacuation of 14,000 people in gatlinburg and pigeon storm, tennessee. Residence and vacationers thought they were safe until they looked out their windows. Panic. Thats all we had was panic. We could zee feel the right, it was nothing but red. This whole someplace on fire. How would you describe this . . Thats scary to see. This is a resort town about an hour from foxville. The flames threatened several popular Tourist Destination the most visited National Park in the country. Also an aquarium with 10,000 animals, dollywood was spared, parton who just released a psa about wildfires says she is heart broken and paying for all the families. Three people have died so far in the wildfires. Some the biggest the state has ever the last 100 years in the state of tennessee. Tonight, authorities are beginning to assess the damage. Entire neighborhoods destroyed. Officials are investigating the cause of the fire and have not ruled out arson. This morning, we are learning more about that plane crash in colombia that killed 71 people. Investigators retrieved two black boxes from the acre. On the flight were a brazilian playoff in medellin. The plane crashed a mile before the airport a. Flight attendant who survived said the plane ran out of fume t. Death toll from monday nights crash was lowered from 75 on tuesday after it was learned four people didnt board the flight. Only six people swieshed members. Last night they packed the soccer stadium to remember the players. Brazils president declared three days of national mourning. This morning, we are one step closener finding out who will be the countrys top diplomat. President elect donald trump had a second meeting with mitt romney and inhouse chief of staff reince priebus. There are reports a third meeting could take place later here is trump shortly after that dinner with trump and priebus. I had a wonderful evening with president elect trump. We had another discussion about affairs throughout the world and he continues with a message in bringing people together. All of those things combine candidate give me increasing hope that president elect trump is the very man that can lead us to that better future. Remember during the campaign, there was this message from romney that was very different. Fraud. The bullying, the greed, the showing off, the mysogeney t. Absurd 3rd grade theatrics. And we are also getting word that former Goldman Sachs executive and hollywood producer Stephen Menuchin will be tapped for secretary. Is. Wilbur ross and tom byrum price join. Simply so much for draining the swamp. This morning, there is one promise trump made will come to fruition. Carrier says it will now keep 1,000 jobs in the hoosier state. Initially it made the decision to relocate to mexico, something trump had been strongly against. On thursday, to indiana to celebrate the decision. He is expected to visit ohio with mike pence kicking off their thank you tour. Overnight, several activists took to trumps Newest Hotels to burn twofoot long trumps that flag burners should be jailed and their citizenship revoked for thing a. In 19 i dont know, they ruled a pipeline to burst into flames. Crews were called to the scene tuesday evening after this fire broke out near kansas city airport t. Pipeline was carrying ethane and pro pane. The flames which could be seen from miles away didnt affect any flights to and from the international airport. No one was hurt in the incident. Police in manchester, england, have released new video of a terrifying road rage incident, in the hop lead them to this man here. Police say the truck driver turned violent when he was asked to share his Insurance Information a. Fit broke out. It didnt end with that, the man repeatedly slammed his truck into the vehicle the victims vehicle, he took a shovel, smashed apart their windshield the two victims were not hurt, after this you can imagine very shaken up. There is a whole lot to celebrity for 20 coworkers from the group claimed a 420 Million Dollar prize, the cash value is 230 million. They will get about 12 million before taxes. Just ahead the return of tiger woods, first meteorologist bill cancer joins us on a busy weather day and a whole lot to watch within it comes to Severe Weather, bill interest i think when we wake up, we will fought like what we see. Down to areas of tennessee. The tornado threat will be ending through the rest of the morning. We do have a slight risk of Severe Weather in pensacola, new orleans, wind damage will be the biggest threat throughout the day today. It shouldnt look anything like what we saw in the deep south. Watch out in the northeast a. Lot of heavy rain for you. 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This is one of the coldest and difficult races in the world, the arctic race marathon. 50 people were running in the frozen tundra. The winner in the Mens Division finished under four hours t. Womens in just over six hours. She didnt know she won when she bought the to the finish line. If you were a runner would you do it . Not bad. Puffs have pillowy softness for dakotas tender nose. With lotion to comfort and soothe when she blows. Dont get burned by ordinary tissues. A nose in need deserves puffs, indeed. This is 7news now. Nicole good morning, 7news today in new england starts in just a few minutes. Sarah here are some stories were working on for you. Medford police voicing their frustration. They protested outside city hall to complain about the poor conditions inside their Police Arrest man in connection with an assault on the t. A suspect hit an elderly man in the face when he complained about him smoking on the platform. Sarah then a christmas problem in exeter. City Officials Say there wont be as many lights in the downtown area this year because of issues with the electric company. Nicole and Country Music fans can now see more of kenny chesney. The country star has added a im a Country Music fan. Nicole people flock to that show. Sarah its always crazy out there, wren. Wren im surprised hes coming all this way the play. Were dealing with another round of rain today. Fog is definitely going to be a concern for your morning commute, and into tonight, were still dealing with rain and fog. Most of this rain will pull through into the afternoon. Youll see rain already by the mid to late morning hours, especially west into worcester county. Well dry out as we head into so far this morning is this fog. We have reduced visibility and a dense fog advisory in Southern New Hampshire, southern vermont, as well as west of worcester county. That doesnt mean were not seeing that fog here, as well, in boston. Were looking at reduced visible. The bedford also down to under two miles of visibility. Beverly getting close to seeing some pretty dense fog, as well. It will take a while for this to work out. Count on reduced visibility through your morning commute and into the morning hours. Temperaturewise, pretty mild. 45 in bedford, 42 in boston. Much warmer across the cape and the islands, mid50s there. We grabbed half inch of rain in boston yesterday. We have more rain head our way. You can see were dry right now. Even some breaks in cloud cover. I think well see a couple peeks of sunshine today, but well see that cloud cover thicken up again as we head into the afternoon. Heres our Second System headed our way that. Will bring us moisture into the afternoon in particular. It will make for a more difficult commute, home from work again today. Were also dealing overnight hours. Temperaturewise, right around the low 40s into the low 50s. Sarah breaking news, a deadly tornado tears through the south. A day care and church among the dozens of buildings detroit. Nicole a local fire chief under fire. The clothing controversy that could cost him his job. Sarah the search for the two people injured, including a firefighter. Nicole learning more about the man shot and killed by lynn police, his long criminal past including this viral video. Sarah and meeting again. What president elect donald trump and former governor mitt romney discussed over dinner. This is 7news today in new england. Sarah good wednesday morning, everybody. Thanks for waking up with us. Im sarah french. Nicole and im Nicole Oliverio in for christa. Dare i say it was warm when i walked out of the it wasnt as cold as usual, even though it was so rainy and gross. Nicole are we going to see more of, that wren . Wren our highs were late last night. We reached 58 degrees, but that was closer to around 8 00, 9 00 last night. Since then temperatures have fallen for us. We wont be that warm today, but we are looking at seasonable temperatures back into the upper 40s. Our main concern is visibility. We have a dense fog advisory to our north, Southern New Hampshire and vermont as well as to our west, west of worcester