well 79 years ago today the surprise attack that hunged the united states into world war ii, pearl harbor. of course so many heres were lost that way, john russell johnson. >> johnson was a purple heart recipient but that award bass lost for decades, as paul burton shows us. >> it's a legacy 74 years in the making. >> it's still unbelievable i think i'm still in shock. >> and a treasure that even the family was unaware was missing, seaman john russell johnson. >> today we are able to at least give back to the family of seaman johnson, a small tribute. >> johnson died on december 7th, 1911 in the attack on board perp harbor, the brockton was 23 years old. >> hurt the family so much, they didn't want to talk about it, my grandmother, my grand

>> today at the vfw johnson's extended family was given his purple heart first given to his wife he will more in 1946. >> find out years later, a little late, better late than never. >> purple heart has been here at the brockton vfw for the past 60 years, kind of forgotten all until a volunteer stumbled across it. >> we decided that it -- that we should find the family because they deserve to have it. >> so many people don't even know about pearl harbor today. and to have this medal found and returned to the family while some of their closer relatives are still alive, any way, it's tremendous event for us. >> francis johnson says he will keep his uncle's purple heart close to his own heart. >> your uncle would be proud. >> i hope so. >> and now his legacy lives in everyone's heart, in brockton i'm paul burton wbz news. >> a beautiful gesture to make

>> coy see the emotion, a lot of times it's past but apparently it's never too late. well outside today we just had spectacular weather, doesn't feel like we are holidays. >> i will ask barry about this, it's so nice, i remember it being really nice last december what happen. >> we had nothing happening in december, we had. three -- well any way, how about the spectacle in sky, thanks to neil green a picture of the moon and venus, and then actually at midday this was an ocultation here is the moon and venus, venus disappeared behind the moon, the moon covered up venus, that was was thanks to jeff. at three high school the, club 57, technical high school and

school 57, boston almost up to that high of 56, not up to 76, got to 1998. these were the highs all in the 50s, 54-58 except out in western new england where they started out with fog. back in boston now, it's back down to 489, so it's dropped off a bit, light northerly wind, there won be much wind all night long, already down to 32 in orange and 35 in knoll wood, it's some in these spots going to warm up later tonight, boston will go down more and start back up tomorrow. we had 59 yesterday, 56 today. going to be in the lower 40s tomorrow after upper 20s way out here. and then looks like low to mid 40s in the cape. rising a little bit but here it's only 43-94 for highs, all thanks to a lot of cloud cover and a little bit of rain which is basically going out to sea,

showers break out tomorrow morning, not a huge amount of rain but some rain from time to time, bulk of the rain will go out to sea and there won't be too much of wind, brisk breeze on the cape. then we get to witness, varying amounts of clouds on sun dane and wednesday, showing a parade of of storms moving in the pacific coast, well off to the north and west of us, when they do that storms go to the west, so here is myself in day look at the forecast, calling for temperatures going up into the upper 40s on wednesday, both days containing varying amounts of clouds, showers possible thursday and friday. but look how we warm up over the weekend, briefly cooldown sunday, but a week from today paula and dave we could be in the low to middle 60s with gusty winds and some showers, how about that, december. >> here we go again. >> shopping in our shorts.

you so much. so, yeah, big change in feeling last night, a few things to work on for the patriots. >> they were perfect like nine days ago, suddenly, steve, all the way down in the 3 seed. >> they have to get back to being perfect. talking about a patriot act. especially special teams, last week it was denver, yesterday was a disaster against philly, here is how it broke down, there was a bizarre drop kick that didn't work. brian allen tied the game at half time. thennity the third quarter darren sproles for an 83-yard punt return for a score putting eagles up 28-14. drew belichick 'em fa sizes how important special teams are. we saw it last night. you were in that locker room, they have to turn things around. >> over the years we've seen patriots have tough games, this

it's been one of the strings of bill chill bake, so let's hear from the captain, matthew later and get his thoughts on how to fix thing. >> i think we had a chance to go in there with the coaches and see our mistakes. see what we needed to do better and, you know, we have to apply that, emotionally, mentally, you have to be able to press the reset button and move on. >> now they certainly do, steve think about, there has been injuries, et cetera personally offensive side, so new faces there, too, they've got to get on the same page together starting in houston. just a matter of time. >> speaking of houston, yes texans are up next, we'll preview the game day sunday morning. for the fifth quarter post game show. sticking to football, antonio brown gets my

dumbest touchdown celebrations after ramming himself into the goalpost in pittsburgh, it is hysterical, brown was flagged for using the goalpost as a prop, the nfl needs to lighten up, too. it is ridiculous. baseball winter meetings got under way, red sox made a move, carson smith and pitchers alias from the mariners for in exchange of milely and arrow. good numbers coming out of the pen. and 79 i can't experiences, hockey, expect brad to be in the lineup when bruins, marshawn gets speared. late in the saturday night's win in van cough are, $5000, but afterwards said it was the best money he are spent. vehicles. press scott marshawn was faking

>> not too concerned about him, so, you know, he is i can't l lowed to think that way. and say whatever he wants to. i continue my life and my day regardless of how he feels. >> and finally, the celtic the wrap up their five game road trip against pelicans, we want to wish larry bird happy 59th birthday. that is sports for now, guys back to you, man how time flies. >> i bet he can still hit the three, too. >> i bet he can. former patriot tries acting tonight, he plays a role that he knows well, himself. you can watch scorpion on wbz tonight at the 9:00. >> he should nail it. coming up here at 6:30. scott is joining us live with a preview, hi, scott. hi, paula, david, great to be with you, late today donald trump said that all muslims should be befored from entering the united states. all muslims should be barred

states, it has touched off quite a fewerrer with reaction from the white house and trump's fellow republicans, we will have that and the latest on the san bernardino killings coming right unon the cbs greening news in about 10 minutes. coming up next, the cost of paying someone to run a college, the president bringing

well the grand mother who is facing criminal charges for driving for uber wants her day in court. >> stephanie fran has been cited, we have interviewed her before, a city whose regulations ban the ride- sharing service, port smith has offered her a plea deal, thee wants to go to trial, she wants to fight for uber because she believes in the company. do you think they'll pay any of her legal bills. let's hope so.

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ours was doing snow angels in confectioners sugar, aunts all over our counter tops. >> well no snow outside. >> no snow in the forecast for quite awhile. thanks barry, thanks for watching.