. breaking news right now, a deadly crash on the las vegas strip, police say this was not an accident. a specific threat shuts down 17 schools, what officials want parents and students to know. and new this morning an alarming report on how drones are putting planes in massachusetts at risk. it is my mistake, still a great night. please don't hold it against the ladies. please don't. the mistake at the miss

everybody talking this morning. many of us still talk about that pageant moment there. i'm kathryn hauser. and i'm chris mckinnon. it's monday, december 21. i can't believe it's christmas. >> we have a lot to talk about. everybody wants to know about the weather. we are talk being a big warmup. so we are going to be in the 50s and 60s, record warm by the time we get to christmas eve. now this morning it's 36 degrees at logan airport, the humidity 67%, wind from the south at 10 miles per hour, that wind is a little bit stronger in the cape and islands. temperatures in the 40s, up to provincetown, a wide range depends where you are, 25 in keene, but most communities running in the lower to mid-30s with clouds in place, these

will get filtered sunshine out. temperatures rising through the 30s and 40s, to 50 by lunch time. those clouds will increase and thicken today, gusts to 459 miles per hour possible in the cape and islands, temperatures still in the up before 40s for the ride home. now. >> danielle thank you so much. breaking news, one person is dead, 230 why are -- 30 injured. police now say this was an intentional act. they say a woman in her 20s with a three-year-old in the car drove on to the sidewalk two or three times, that woman is in custody, she is being questioned and tested for drugs or alcohol. a threat closing all of the nash i can't, new hampshire today. >> the e-mail threat target etiing the local high school, school officials want to make sure all students are safe.

>> these two moms headed to the police station when they received an alert from the nashua school system. a threat called for all schools to be closed monday. >> specific directions for two nashua high schools. >> officers will not elaborate on the threat only saying it was directed at nashua high school south and north. >> we are going to do everything we need to to be able to reassure our staff, our students and our parents that it's safe to be in our schools. >> police with dogs swept through nashua late tonight, local and federal agencies are determining the credibility of the threat. he made the call no class at any of nashua's 17 schools from elementary to high school. >> for every parent who might say why did you close, there are other parents that would

to a threat. >> it's an easier call to make than others. >> sending him to school and not having him back it's scary. >> officers say right now they don't have any information indicating that it was a student who made the threat. they also don't know if it's a person or are a group of people. the superintendent expects schools to be back open on tuesday and that the the more 11,000 students will be back in class class. it is 43:94, today a third person will be in federal court facing charges in connection to those high powered weapons that were stolen from a worcester armory, tyrone gaines is already in custody, he is accused of trying to broker the sale of the stolen weapons. james is charged with lying to investigators. federal investigators say

a tragedy days before christmas, a four-year-old boy killed. firemen found him curled up underneath his bed on mount pleasant street. his mother and sister barely escaped the fire, a neighbor tried to save him. >> christmas is this week. and he was looking forward to seeing santa. >> just tell your children every minute that you have [ inaudible ] >> the house was the site of another deadly fire back in 152, nine people all from one fire. meanwhile, firefighters in back ton also investigating a deadly fire, a man in his 60s was killed in an apartment building on vfw parkway, the fire was con taped to the man's bedroom where they found him. no word yet on a cause. osha will be on the scene

sears a worker was filling up a tire when it exploded. justin almond was killed. customer was injured and is it at boston medical center. new details in a massive carbon monoxide incident in keene, new hampshire, firefighters responded to more are than 110 carbon monoxide calls on saturday, keene firefighters called for mutual aide including from massachusetts and vermont, four people got sick when the liberty and properties utilities mixed natural gas. new hampshire maggie hassan asking for a full investigation and is reminding residents that carbon monoxide detectors are. 26 near crashes in

period this year, 17 of those reports were in boston, flying drones is legal but not flying more than 400 feet up or airports. there is a deadline today in the 'deflategate' appeal, the u.s. court of appeals says the nfl has until today to file its response to tom brady's brief which was filed earlier this month. the nfl is appealing to throw out brady's four game suspension. the new england patriots clinched a first round wane over the tennessee titans and they may need that week off as injuries continue mounting. patriots scored on their first drive of the game. five yard td pass, it was an emotional day for the tight end, a close family passed away last week.

ball here from titans quarterback marcus mariota. hicks falls on it for a touchdown. receiver danny amadola. winds not style points matter. >> glad we won, it's always tough to win, just keep trying to find ways to get the ball in the end zone. it wasn't as pretty as we like, it's december football, just glad to get the win. the patriots 12-2. next sunday they are in new york taking on the jets, we'll kick things off with patriots game day, game is on wbz at 1:00 followed by the fifth quarter after the game. this was the patriots last regular season game, crews began working untrueness forming gillette into a hockey rink, gill etistadium will most year's day. they didn't waste any time. >> no, look at the goalpost

there were still fans in the stand. coming up, mcdonald's may be changing the happy meal. >> the news your kids will like. get ready for some heavy lifting when those christmas packages should arrive. and you definitely wouldn't call it his crowning achievement, steve harvey big

a hello kitty clinic. plus new side dish at testing out. another busy day, what you can expected to, heather danielles with today's money monday. kathryn. today is the busiest delivery day. more than 30 million packages are expected to be delivered today. nearly 600 million packages expected to be delivered between thanksgiving and christmas. if you want a package delivered by christmas, deadline for priority mail express is wednesday. if there is a dean on your christmas wish list, faa drone registration website submitting

mail address to a data business, if you already own a drone you have until february 19th to register, if you are getting a drone you have to register before its first flight. asia's first hello kitty health clinic opened in hong kong, captain in the waiting room, top to bottom, the center is decked out with images of the famous kitten. it's scary for a lot of children, workers hope kids will leave with a smile. there is a new mac at mcdonald's, mcdonald's is testing mac and cheese, it's a limited test in cleveland, it would replace fries but also be available to grownups for $1.795. chris and kathryn. >> cool, changing things up. >> mac and cheese. >> they do.

it and deep fry it. >> now we're talking. >> i like where you are going with that. >> we need to get a check of the forecast, it felt like winter this weekend, i'm wondering it is going to change, right, danielle? we are going to warm up as early as today. 50s this week, by the way, look at the shot of the aurora that was grabbed in maine, beautiful shot of this, the northern lights from york beach, maine, captured by rob wright, yes, rob wright images, the groans, the purples for five minutes. still op the bucket list, beautiful shot from yesterday. in the meantime temperatures are in the 50s and 60s, yes it's all about the warm this week. by the way winter begins today. officially at is 11:48 p.m. tonight with the to tis with a first full day of winter is tomorrow, no winter cold, most of us above 50 all this week and record breaking warm is on

temperatures that are going to be running well into the 60s. we are still going to be warm on christmas itself as well. 36 in boston right now, 10 degrees cooler, 26 in nashua. but we are running in the 40s. 27 in tauton much so a lot of that has to do with lower clouds on the cape. gist a bit of a breeze adding a chill to the air, real feel temperatures in the 20s. 39 to chattam. clouds in place right now are thin enough we are going to get sunshine this morning much clouds will continue to increase through the day today. but today is going to be dry. we are waiting on showers though that are back through the midwest right now. these are going to spread east and bring us a threat for showers by the time we get to tomorrow. so today is just fine, there may be an isolated shower in the berkshires, after the evening drive. overnight tonight the clouds thicken up. tomorrow morning a band of

umbrella with you tomorrow. but scattered showers come through from time to time as a cold front comes in but not much cold air behind it. wednesday we start with a little bit of sunshine and low clouds and fog fill in with another round of rain developing but not until wednesday late afternoon and evening. so the morning will be dry on wednesday. and then during the afternoon and evening the steady rain fills in as a wave of low pressure goes by, by thursday on christmas eve it looks like we start to dry out l is one more band of showers scattered that is going to come through on christmas eve and we will be drive on christmas day. all about the warm this week. look at the highs today. in the lower to middle 50s. we should be in the upper 30s now at this time of year. extremely warm, in fact look at the overnight lows, we are dropping back into the 40s for most of us, even around 50 along the south coast tomorrow we may come up into the upper 50s, mid-50 50s in the city of boston again, areas of rain

on wednesday, patchy fog to 60s. christmas eve. christmas day. cooling off into the 40s with a couple showers this weekend. don't forget by the way to submit your prediction for our snow falcon test. how much snow will we see at logan airport this winter, the closest guess could win you season passes. you have until new year's eve at cbsboston.com. guys, over to you. >> chris, this is his jam apparently. just broke out into dance. >> melissa will be mad -- >> moving along. >> moving along. bringing christmas to those who need it the most, thousands of local homeless kids and families got a holiday to remember. >> all volunteer organization making sure these families aren't forgotten during this season.

this is christmas in the city where under privileged kids get a chance at a christmas complete with a turkey dinner and gifts right off the christmas list. >> it's good to see people get back, families enjoying themselves and have resources like this. > >> i want to make sure that she gets to see santa clause and enjoy the day. i didn't have none of this when i was growing up, i want to make sure she has everything growing up. >> many of the 4500 kids here live in homeless shelters and families are struggling, here they have a chance to celebrate the season like everybody else. >> today is not even think about hard times, it's about feeling the love and celebrating christmas with beautiful people from all over the city that really have an opportunity to be surrounded by love. >> with a winner wonder land music and lots of games the kids get to feel more than the holidays.

>> i never went to a christmas party this big. >> and for their parents, it is a gift they will never forget. >> i feel loved. we feel loved. me and my family, we're thankful. >> this is 27th year for the event run entirely by volunteers, but it's not over yet. they will provide toys to more than 4000 other families leading up to christmas eve. go to cbsboston.com for more information. i'm kate merrill wbz news. 4:49, a major mix up at the ms. universe pageant in las vegas. >> host steve harvey named the wrong winner. and then had to take her crown away. take a look. >> i will take responsibility for this. it was my mistake. >> this got awkward quick. harvey declared miss columbia the new miss universe, he realized his mistake, harvey

and honest human mistake. there were some spelling errors, too, with miss philippines, there was slack on that, spelling errors, a lot going on. what do you think? weigh in on our daily talker, write in on our website, twitter, # wbz talker. >> he said the card was wrong. read the wrong card. >> i feel bad for both of them, miss philippines and columbia. >> a lot of people talk being that. hoping for a christmas miracle. a new step in the decade long battle over a church. we are continuing to follow breaking news, police say a woman intentionally plowed into pedestrians on a las vegas

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officers say she had a three year old son in the car with her. a threat forces all nashua public schools to close, the superintendent made that decision, he says the all 17 public schools will be closed today, they are expected to reopen tomorrow. in other news, police say a hoax bomb was planted on an air france plane forcing that flight to be diverted to kenya, the plane was heading from the island nation to paris when a suspicious device was found in the plane's bathrooms. it all unfolded calmly during the flight. >> the plane just went down, slowly, slowly, we realized probably something was wrong, we said we had to land base we had a technical problem. >> four passengers are being questioned, police say the fake

sheets of paper and a household timer. there were 473 people on board that boeing 777 that landed safely. this is the fourth hoax against air france in recent weeks. worshippers at st. francis cabrini will be in court, asking the judge to stay the latest ruling against them, they want to take their battle to the supreme court, the archdiocese shut down the church. now to campaign 2016, one day a calling donald trump a jerk, jeb bush appeared on cbs face the nation to talk about his lack of support in the polls. >> i have higher expectations on me than i have of me, it doesn't bother me that expectations are high, i want to win which means that you garner momentum when it

where we are right now. >> the latest republican poll published by fox news shows bush at 3%, trump is at 39%. trump is blasting hillary clinton who claimed during saturday night's debate that isis is using videos of trump as a recruiting tool. clinton claims that trump's proposed been on muslims entering the u.s. is becoming the terror group's best recruiter, trump calls clinton weak and a liar. john kasich is finishing up his second day of campaign iing in new hampshire, stops in portsmouth, any hampshire and concord. it is 4:56 on monday morning, the sky is the limit. >> the force taking over the box office, how the latest "star wars" movie is breaking

the force was definitely with the new "star wars" movie this weekend. >> "the force awakens" had the largest american debut bringing in $238 million just over the weekend, the 7th film earned a whopping $517 million, more than half a billion, its second only to jurassic world which brought in 525 million. the design owe sawyers had the