years ago for the hajj, a trip that would not have raised suspicion. but they are looking at his communication with extremists. >> you look at the armaments, the weapons, the ammunition -- there was obviously a mission here. john: inside the couple' s home, police found pipe bombs and more than 23,000 bullets. they also left a pipe bomb inside the conference room, but for some reason they never exploded. key now for the fbi, figuring out who the couple was communicating with and where they may have traveled. >> no one gets upset at a party, goes home and puts to get a that kind of elaborate scheme. there was planning that went into this. john: they may have had multiple motives. the weapons were purchased legally. heather? heather: a woman with ties to

survivors of the san bernardino massacre. she once worked for the shush her medical center in keene. she was shot three times in the leg. she is recovering. she is an employee of the san bernardino county health department. phil: we are also learning more about the pipe bomb left in the regional center targeted by the california shooters. the controller to set off that pipe bomb was similar to the one used in the boston marathon attacks. the explosive was never detonated and it was eventually removed by a police robot. the metal pipe bombs were also similar to the tech used by the t sarnaev brothers. heather: -- he says that boston

lessons learned by the marathon attacks. >> there is a lot of information shared. there is constant, real-time monitoring. we' re always monitoring. heather: extra security will be christmas tree. out. something. phil: experts are telling us you yourself in the event of workplace violence or soft targets where people are gathering. reid lamberty joins us. reid: whether workplace violence or terror attack, the plan is the same. know where you are and where you need to go. a security expert saying keeping yourself safe is your responsibility. routine often commands are habits. in the same way that we run

others to make sure we are safe. >> we need to look out for yourself. reid: it is a world where personal responsibility trumps trusting others. >> you can' t stop this kind of thing from happening because you do not know where it is going to come. what you can do is know how you are going to react, know what you are going to do. reid: yesterdays coordinated assault on an office holiday party shows how difficult it is to prevent attacks on so-called soft targets. avery says take the time to familiarize yourself with your office building and nowhere to go if the worst case plays out. >> you need to know where the exits are. you need to know where you' re going to go if there is an emergency. reid: recent attacks, whether workplace or terror related, are also forcing companies to

they have changed the playbook for a brink' s company. >> the training on what to do when you know that there is an incident is becoming more and more commonplace. reid: he mentioned nowhere the exits are in your building. it' s more than just that, he says. he said, make sure those exits lead to safer locations. if you go out, know if you need to make a left or right or up or down. live in boston, i' m reid lamberty, wcvb newscenter 5. phil: and our coverage continues on world news tonight. david muir anchors a special broadcast live from the scene in san bernardino. heather: a dorchester man being held on high bail for gun related charges connected with a shooting outside a fenway bar on thanksgiving day. he stayed out of public view during his arraignment. prosecutors say that he and another man got into a fight and started firing weapons on each other and into the crowd.

29-year-old from hyde park was struck and killed. no else has been charged with murder yet. >> the exact sequence is under investigation. particularly who shot who and when. heather: his family attended the arraignment but had no comment. phil: this arlington woman is accused of facing a brain tumor to scam an 84-year-old widower s jack harper spoke with the victim about how he met the suspect and when things took a costly turn. jack: he is 84, she is 24. they met here at the classic anymore. you think she was ripping you off? >> yeah. >> yeah, quite a bit. jack:

citizen of albania. she had worked here for a couple years with a couple jobs. including as a housekeeper. she bilked him out of $30,000, prosecutors say. you had no idea what was going on? >> no, i believed that she was having an operation. jack: her attorney says you gave her gifts and she never asked for anything. >> she did to me with her stories and that' s why i gave her money. so, she was a fraud. jack: her father and fiance were in court, but would not talk about the case. >> she said she needed $30,000 to cover soldier -- surgery. >> i found her she was never a patient. jack: prosecutors say that she flew to florida with her fiance.

not his sense of humor. >> i' m not hurting for money. jack: do you want to give me some? [laughter] >> i' m easy. jack: she could use that money because she is being held on $100,000 bail tonight. jack harper, wcvb newscenter 5. phil: the former executive director of the stoughton housing authority has admitted to stealing prescription pain medicine from a resident. gregory bartlett was sentenced to two years of probation after he pleaded guilty to larceny and breaking and entering. bartlett had access to the 90-year-old woman' s apartment and a list of medications. surveillance video caught him stealing more than a dozen vicodin pills in january. heather: one of this year' s most -- heather: caught on crime of opportunity. a thief stealing packages right off the stoop. this is becoming to comment.

you can take to protect yourself from the so-called porch pirates. pam: this is a time of year when you see a lot of this -- blame it on cyber monday or our online ordering appetite. surveillance camera catches the thief in the act, casually helping himself to two boxes on the porch. someone swiped a delivery of a condo complex. sometimes when the delivery service tries to the package, it does not always help. in the u.s., 200 million destination. experts say pick up the package from the delivery service or like your workplace. >> if you cannot have a package

neighbor or friend keeping an eye out. the last thing you want is that . thief. pam: psalm -- some delivery services have extra locations. >> it is easy to come in here, time. pam : there are ways to ensure you get your holiday planning. -- your holiday package. they may take a little more more planning. i' m pam cross. heather: one of the most popular gifts under fire. our hoverboards say for your children create -- your children? phil: new revelations about matthew dion' s time on the run.

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>> you are watching wcvb newscenter 5 at 6:00. phil: prosecutors say they received a letter from matthew dion during his year on the run, confessing to killing his parents, threatening suicide. he was sentenced to life in prison for strangling his parents in march of 2014, then setting their house on fire before taking off to florida. his former fiancee and mother of his child says that she is disgusted by his actions. >> when someone you love unconditionally can commit such a crime, you have to quickly learned to hate that person.

dion had been stealing stems from his father and selling them in boston. heather: police say a 23-year-old admitted to do facing a black lives matter banner, adding the word "all" instead of "black." he will be ordered to make restitution to the church. and he will have community service. phil: wins out there. heather: they were pretty ferocious. and it is becoming the hottest toy, and if you're doing everything right but find it harder and harder to get by, you're not alone. while our people work longer hours for lower wages, almost all new income goes to the top 1%. my plan -- make wall street banks and the ultrarich pay their fair share of taxes, provide living wages for working people,

i'm bernie sanders. i approve this message because together, we can make a political revolution and create an economy and democracy that works for all and not just the powerful few. heather: an unexpected danger linked to one of the most wanted

phil: we have more on how you can picture family. reporter: the hover board is the hottest toy of the holiday season. >> it' s on fire! reporter: in some cases, they are going up in flames. check out this video from alabama. >> it exploded, boom! reporter: in louisiana, a fire consumed a house. >> before i could yell the house is on fire, the middle part of the board, just poof into flames. reporter: a viewer in somerville' s sent wcvb pictures of her son' s hoverboards charred after erecting in flames. have you had any issues? >> we have had no issues.

her boards are expensive, but she says you are paying for design that includes a rubber covering over the lithium-ion battery and bigger, sturdier wheels. >> it' s a quality design and because of that they' re not going to catch on fire. reporter: still the consumer product safety commission has received eight reports over three months of hoverboards-related injuries that sent users to a knee are. the truth is, these are fun. i will admit it. the key is to make sure you have the proper safety equipment. kelley tuthill, wcvb newscenter 5. heather: she had the moves down. phil: i can hear my kids now. she was on one. heather: too many injuries at my house. not getting one, kids. sorry. mike: it has been really dry in the snow category.

by this time. nothing so far. at when you look at it compared to normal, it' s going to be a very warm day. it has brought to zero back on this day in 1890. today was not cold. it was windy. 25, 30 miles per hour. earlier today, a lot of wind gusts that were over 40 miles per hour. blue hill, wind gusts of 40 miles per hour. a breezy day out there. here is what is meant to happen tonight. they stay basically strong. 10:00 tonight, midnight, they drop off a little bit. tomorrow morning, if you are an early riser, maybe a little breezy. then we have a gorgeous day coming our way, although on the cool side. a west went at 18 miles per hour. it is an index of 43 degrees. that index will drop to 23 degrees.

speaking of chilly conditions, you see the chilly air already. temperatures in the south in the mid 40' s. overall it will be a cold nights. but it' s not snowing. the snow was to the north. that' s what is left over from our rainmaker. we are just dealing with the partly cloudy skies. look at it, just swirling away up there. the snow was not far away, but not in our forecast at all. in the berkshires, you might see a little flurry activity. , wind chill affects around 20 degrees. but then 40 degrees. it will be a fairly decent day. will look like this. everyone in the same ballpark. lots of sunshine. by the way, this is our cool day

if that storm system departs, high pressure builds in and that means a lot of sunshine for the next seven days. let me break it down for you. first off, let' s start with tomorrow. it will be on the cool. as we go through the day, the wind will be diminishing through the afternoon. sunset at 4:12 in the afternoon. we are changing the weather pattern around. cool pattern, it switches around, mild weather pattern. then we will be through the first part of next week with temperatures in the mid-50' s. the pats play on sunday. look at that. wednesday, with that a chance, a chance of rain. right now the computer models are kind of diverging. we could frankly use the rain, but it is so warm. we are not talking about a snow

before we even get to the chance of rain, we have 1, 2, 3, 4 days of sunshine. i think you will enjoy the weather through the weekend. heather: hey, we invite you to join us for newscenter 5 tonight. you can watch boston' s of official christmas tree lighting up on the commons with help from a mystery new england patriot. it happens live right here on wcvb. the big show starts at 7:00. >> now sportscenter 5 with mike lynch. lynchie: you picked my curiosity. i wonder who it is? could it have been dont' a hightower -- dont' a hightower -- he was back on the practice field again today. hightower was taken out of last sunday' s came in denver. denver was able to run the football in hightower'

he was on the practice field in a limited role. so, rob gronkowski probably will not play against the philadelphia eagles, which gives more play time for a guy as large as gronk. scott chandler against the team on sunday night. >> it' s hard to see your friend down there. you just want to get out there and, you know, make some plays. whether you do it for him. you want those guys to be lifted up. lynchie: all right, the patriots no longer undefeated, but if you listen to old belichick rave, you might think the philadelphia eagles are. tonight, bob halloran goes point -counterpoint with the patriots head coach. >> special teams is part of the toughest unit we faced all year.

three-game losing streak into foxboro. >> offensively, they are as skilled players as i have seen. bob: the eagles have given up 90 points and 10 touchdown passes the last deed of games. >> they take the ball away and cause a lot of negative play. >> touchdown. bob: no team has been intercepted more than the eagles. only two teams have committed more turnovers. final point here -- they are the eagles. >> passing is a problem. bob: it does not seem like bill belichick is seeing what i am seeing. and you know what? neither are his players. question -- >>, we go, bill, bill -- >> they make mistakes.

designed to make the players believe the eagles are better than they are. bill belichick it also show is seen the nfc east standings. they are still in a fight for their division title. >> having a shot at the division, we really expect them to come here hungry and ready to go. bob: the philadelphia eagles, the best team in the whole wide world, bob halloran, wcvb sportscenter 5. lynchie: and every philadelphia eagle them tonight agrees with bob halloran. heather: that was a great way to do it. phil: don' t second check bill belichick. heather: you know what? it is a certain wit -- it is a smart way to do it. watching too much tv can train your brain. new reporting on how much is too much. that' s tonight at 11:00. we want you to watch.

s. david: we are on the scene of breaking news and california. what we have learned about that couple.

mystery of pages player is? lynchie: i don' t know. maybe gronk -- heather: maybe gronk will come out? that' s a good guess. phil: he can walk. heather: on crutches. mike: the wind will help anybody, push them right down the street. heather: but they will all be

rleah: i just was thinking any minute could be the minute. and the minutes kept passing. r we both kind of relaxed and thought, "she'll come when she's ready." [ grunting ] woman: it's a girl! leah: and she did. woman: a big girl! [ olivia crying ]