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also breaking right now, fire investigators say that this blaze that destroyed a new hampshire mansion start ned the attic. the three people in the bedford home at the time got out safely. investigators are telling our staff that they do not think it was started by an arson. chism's grand father took the stand today and told the jury about a history of mental illness. now at 5:30rbgs a cab driver killed on the job and tonight, two teenagers are facing charges in connection with his murder. this evening, we are learning new information about the crime. >> investigators say the 18 and 16-year-olds attacked a man saturday night and then shot him. bill shields is life in new bedford with the story. bill? >> reporter: and this is just so hard to understand. according to police, the 18- year-old and the 167-year-old

they want the cab driver's wallet so they shoot him twice in the head. here's the deal, they took the cab after they dumped the body and in that cab was a video camera rolling. 18 years old and police say alex mills brutally killed a cab driver. >> a very disturbing case, a pointless loss of life. very disturbing. >> reporter: this is the 66- year-old, a vietnam vet. a guy well known for his community service. he drove a cab part-time and he picked up the 18-year-old and the 16-year-old and drove them to the park. after shooting the driver twice in the head and dumping his body, mills allegedly stole the rolling.

seen on video operating the video, your honor. >> reporter: in court, a psychiatrist said he was confident, but he had issues. >> he said he was hearing voices and the voices tell him himself. >> reporter: and mills' attorney, he, too has doubts. >> i don't want to address the charges until he has a full make up through a competent evaluation. >> reporter: but the family and friends are saying the 18-year- old is nothing but a cold- blooded murder. >> he was one terrific individual. how people can take a life like this is beyond my imagination. i heard something about ptsd

>> reporter: mills does have a history of hospitallation. the family agreed to talk, but after they heard the details in court, they left the court without speaking they were so upset. reporting live, i'm bill shields. david? >> thank you so much, bill. well, the weather is causing issues across the northern plains. it started on the first day of december. inminnesota there were nearly 400 accidents. someone took this video in white out conditions showing a landing in omaha. here, we are seeing the rain. we don't see snow for a while, right, erik? no snow until at least the middle of december if not later on. a quiet start for the season. we have been through this before.

toward iowa. we are on the bert side of this, but there have been some freezing pockets out there. for most of us, it's a good old fashioned rainfall. the heavier stuff is moving across the cape and the islands. if there is any spotty drizzle, it will be across sorn new hampshire, but the freezing line is moving further north as the evening progresses. it's a yuck kind of evening out there and tomorrow morning, still some light showers and mist out the door. we will look at the forecast and the winds that follow the rain coming up. >> thank you. republican presidential candidate donald trump knows he has been a rating's draw and

leverage for cnn. >> i won't do the debate unless they pay me $5 million all of it going to the wounded warrior's fund. >> ted cruz says he won't attack trump mostly because he feels like he doesn't have to. tonight we see a program violence. we are hearing it starts with boston medical center with people who want to turn their lives around. >> reporter: thomas and kendall have known a loll of pain over the yearsened that's why they have been friends. the apyring rappers shared their lives. >> we were in a parking lot and the shooter was right there. if he wanted to kill him, he

>> reporter: but instead, it changed them. someone sprayed bullets into the crowd hitting them and landing them into a medical center. >> that's a great time to stop a cycle. >> reporter: it was at that time that advocates from the center showed up to help them, offering to stay by their bedside. >> i'm a sister, an aunt, a best friend. >> reporter: each victim turned survivor gets a mentor, someone who has survived the streets and made a better way. >> how much is that going to be out of your paycheck? >> basically, god gave us a blessing. >> reporter: for these two men, the constant encouragement helps. >> that could be my fault footsteps. that's not the footsteps i want him to foul low i wanted him to

>> reporter: the program talks about stopping the cycle, that's what they are trying to encourage. they are hoping the city looks at their program for a key to the solution. well, tonight it looks like volkswagon's cheating issues are impacting the auto maker. they are saying they are not worried, that the u.s. is only a small market for the company. and tonight, concerns about a data breech from vtech. the breech affects learning lodge's app store and may have exposed photos of parents and kids and other information.

in alabama took a stand refusing to give up her seat on the bus. tonight, we remember rosa parks. on this date, december 1st 1965, the police arrested rosa park because she would not give up her seat. president obama released this statement. well, big changes could be coming to the next iphone. >> coming up, apple's big move could frustrate some users. plus, a parking garage for your dog. a solution if your pet is not allowed inside a store. [ music ]

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it's r we are seeing a -- dog owners in brooklyn have a new option, you know, when you go to a business and they don't let the pet in, what do you do? well, instead of tieing the pet to a rack, you buy a specific device that can open and close the gate on the street. the dog owners say they love it. >> i think it would be great big. they must have different sizes. >> i think you're right. >> that looked pretty small. well, hanukkah starts sunday night at sun down and there's a new song out to help

>> new hampshire native adam sandler just released a new edition of his classic. [ music ] and the duoguys who founded google. adam levine wears a jewish star. goldburg has a gold yamika to match the belt he won. . >> sandler wrote the first hanukkah song in 1994 to fill the gap of jewish songs. 1994-? >> that just blew my mind. well, one star wars fan had too much time on his hands. >> he put the items on his tree. someone animated the photos

rolling it out, filling the tree. a pet get ins on the action. even darth vadar gets in on the action. this helps to count down until the movie appears in theaters. the photos have been seen more than 100,000 times. still ahead, a red hot toy that might actually be too hot. it gets the blame now for burning down a house. and coming up tonight at 10:00, cameras that can learn to think like humans. they will enable them to recognize items and remember

it was record breaking cyber monday becoming the largest online sales day in u.s. history as the sales grew from last year. shoppers spending $3 billion online. also this year, more people made futures from their smart phones than ever before: one louisiana woman says her son's hoverboard was so hot her home. work. before i could yell the house is on fire, the middle part of the board that goes in the middle part of your feet was in flames. >> the consumer product safety commission says it's received complaints about hoverboards.

well, there's some good news and bad news about apple phone lovers. the word on the street is that the new iphone will be skinnier than the 6s. why? they are reportedly removing the headphone jack. instead, you may have a new jack and that could mean you need new head phones. >> that's not shocking. >> i have a million of the wide plugs and that's the one you need when you need the skinny plug. let's talk about this cool picture you have. >> all right, this one has been make ting rounds and sometimes weather can do some odd things. this is out of oklahoma. remember the ice storm started on thanksgiving and went

tons of freezing rain. the speed limit sign got warter and this is like -- warmer and this is like a mold. pretty bizarre. we thought we would share it with you. there's some rain out there. look how huge this is from the moisture in the midwest all the way down to texas and into the pacific which is kind of a set up you would expect in an el nino year. the storminess working its way up into new england. the pink shading on the radar tonight, that's freezing rain. there have been some spots of it mainly in northern concord. if you are seeing any in new hampshire, send in a report. we haven't had any today which is good news. we want to keep an eye on it as we head through the evening. heavier rainfall around new bedford heading toward the

along route 6 and it looks like the sandwich area heading eastbound. you are looking at heavier rainfall on 28. some of the drearly nights outside: it's wet, cold, temperature ins the 40s. northwest of boston, this is a classic map. all of a sudden you are in the 30s, just a couple of degrees above freezing and the overnight temperatures are about what we are seeing right now. we may see a drop of a degree or so, be careful, there could be a few pockets of freezing drizzle and the advisories have been extended. let's look at the time line. the rain is moving through. a little bit of a low tomorrow tornado warning with mist. it doesn't look like steady rain out the door. it's a day we are socked into a clouds.

moving in. the strong divide is south and east of boston, you are in the 50s. north and west chilly. in terms of your commute, it's wet out there this evening. morning. then the storm system moves up the gulf of maine and from thursday. snowfall. as the snow starts to increase in intense si, the winds will be increasing here and into thursday and all day long on thursday, we should be gusting out of the west, northwest over 30 miles per hour. as the drier air comes in, pretty uncomfortable day and we could see the winds as high as 40 miles per hour. the high pressure builds in and is firmly in control friday, saturday and sunday. the temperatures will start to

40s for friday and saturday. sunday, we should be into the 50s. nice, mild weather and still into the 50s on monday before our next chance of rain arrives late monday night. absent. >> they will come eventually. sounds good. well, tonight, it's some of the cutest video we have seen in quite a while. a baby elephant stuck in a water hole in south africa. the herd had been drinking. it left, but the cal f was too small to get out on its one. the mom couldn't help, but who did? an elderly elephant did. she difficulted him up. -- lifted him up. coming up, all new tonight at 6:00, an iteam investigation bringing action.

change after we exposed well off families living in public housing. >> and the stock raising the price. how much one team is shelling

well, those new charlie brown christmas stamps may be the perfect thing to mail your holiday cards with this year.

with the boston children's museum to show the stamps. at today's celebration, kids had the chance to design their own giant stamp and even take a photo at lucy's iconic booth. just don't ever let her hold the football. 6:00. it starts rights now. and now at 6:00, we want to get right no the breaking news on the red sox. >> there are reports tonight the sox have signed pitcher david price to the biggest contract ever for a pitcher. hertz get right no our dan roche who is live at the scene. dan, we are talking $217 million. >> reporter: yeah, paula, multiple reports saying that indeed, the red sox have come to an agreement with price on a

that's an average annual rate of $31 million per season. it would be the highest salary for a pitcher. david price certainly has a history. red sox fans know him well as he has pitched in the american effectively. 104-59. now, the one question is the 2- 0 record. randy johnson went 5-1 in helping to win a world series. last year, 18-5 with a 2.45 era, a five time all star, won the sigh young in -- cy young in 2012 as well. they wanted to get an ace and