>> what charges to the mother now face? >> a crane topples onto a home. >> why moving it now is so tricky. >> get ready for a wet and warm holiday week. when could we see record high temperatures? >> it' s a holiday miracle. >> the families together tonight because of their bravery. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] heather: two children, reunited with her dad tonight after their mother took off with them. tonight she is under arrest. ed: let' s get you right out to the scene. john atwater has the details. john: it was a long 24-hour' s for that father, but those kids

going home and i am too. >> they are headed home with her father, who for about 24 hours did not know when he would see them again. >> my main concern was to grab them and say -- let' s get going. >> the mother is bound for jail, accused of kidnapping them yesterday. there is no indication that stephen or his seven-year-old sister understand that they were at the center of a massive search to find them. initially police have been looking for their mothers are that she had rented this white drive-through of this s. >> i was praying that she would not do anything to harm them. >> the children' sole custody but let his ex-girlfriend taken because

not clear where she might have been headed with the kids, but after getting checked out in an ambulance that relieved father took them back home. will be a great christmas. john: very relieved father. the kids mother is locked up, due in court tomorrow. john atwater. ed: -- heather: coming tonight, a crane that toppled on top of the house. this is unfolding tonight in plymouth and it will be a very long night. removing the crane from the home is proving to be very tricky. mary? mary: if you look behind me, the original crane is on its side, legs up, embedded in a house be on those trees. it'

shellshocked but say tonight. it happened. >> it sound like a normal tree. s sliced through the left side of the house. >> i was like -- think gosh. >> my oldest daughter, rebecca, thing. >> three other cranes were

it will be a decade before this houses is a -- livable again. >> the mrs. is on her way home and she will be saying -- what are these people doing at my house? marry: the fire chief says that the damage is significant but not catastrophic. we are expecting a much larger crane to arrive on the scene. live in plymouth, wcvb newscenter five. a new york city police detective has been identified as one of the six americans killed afghanistan. the attack happened in a village near the largest u.s. military facility in afghanistan. the attacker ran the motorcycle packed with explosives into a patrol unit. heather: we are counting down the final minutes of fault.

upper corner, ticking down to the official start of winter. it doesn' , even though it' away. danielle: not at all, we are in it' s a mild one. look behind me, you can see the showers on our doorstep. we have a lot of weeks on tap with temperatures at a record high this christmas eve. right now, wet, active weather patterns as the rain moves and associated with this cold front here. as we zoom in we will show you what is going on currently. a couple of showers around parts of the area, like worcester county in metrowest. there were some earlier around the cape ann area. temperatures are so mild, low 50' 50' s in s in

that trend is going to continue through the overnight hours. holding steady in the upper 40' s and into the lower 50' s. chances for rain all the way into boston. you will feel the wind out of the southwest at 10 to 15. all of this is headed in our direction. we will talk how warm we get, coming up. ed: schools are getting to reopen in the morning after a threat closed them down in nashua. the threat was directed at the districts to high schools. a daylong search turned up nothing. there have been no arrests, but the investigation does continue tonight. heather: the woman accused of running down dozens of people on the las vegas strip have been living out of her car. police are still trying to figure out why she did it but they have no doubt that this was an intentional attack. >> witnesses describe a

>> some lady jumped the curb in her car and went through the people. >> lakisha holloway veered onto the sidewalk up to three times sunday night, accelerating into the crowd just outside the paris hotel and casino. >> video confirms that we believe it to be intentional. heather: 35 were injured, one was killed. holloway' s three-year-old child sat inside the car. >> it looked like she wasn' t even trying to stop the car. she was looking straightforward. >> police caught up moments later. >> the driver is in custody. >> investigators don' t believe that this was an act of terrorism, but know very little about her background. living in her vehicle for days. >> we believe that she had some

>> the toddler was unharmed and is now in progressive custody. >> what is really happening? tonight. t are looking into whether or not she would have been on drugs. ed: the man who allegedly purchase the rifles used in the remain behind bars for now. prosecutors say that marquez not only bought some of the weapons used in the attack, but that he plotted with the shooter to stage a rush-hour attack on a busy los angeles freeway. marquez could get 35 years in prison if convicted on all charges. heather: the national football league is still trying to get the tom brady deflategate suspension reinstated. they filed a court brief saying that i had every right to suspend him for four games. they say that -- the commission

new at 11:00, parishioners occupying a church for over a decade have been granted time to appeal to the u.s. supreme court. the judge today gave the prisoners at st. francis cabrini s highest court. keep it open since the 2004. ed: if there is any doubt how close we are getting to the new hampshire primary, take a look at this, six candidates all campaigning. all holding events tonight or today in new hampshire. t anymore. dropping out of the race. lindsey graham: i am suspending my campaign for president.

taken this journey with me. you have honored me with your support. ed: he says he is proud of the campaign that he ran and fellow republicans have been quick to react. >> i watched some of the early debates and i thought he was one of the most important voices on any of the stages around rebuilding the military. chris christie: he was a real benefit to have in the race. i' m sorry that he' s dropped out, but that' s a personal decision. ed: his up archer whittles the field down to 13 candidates. heather: 11:00, one-on-one with 2k -- two governors. for the first time, they are criticizing each other over one very big issue. >> governor baker wrapped up your one as deval patrick broke his silence. he said that as patrick walked out the door his administration gave his -- a fair and honest

>> but there were exceptions, notably underestimating the extension of the green line by a billion. >> you have to ask the people in charge that question. >> you were in charge for a very long time in the estimate came from your administration. >> the estimate was sound. >> was he right? >> i do not believe that those estimates were sound and by the way i don' t think anyone working on the current project does either. >> is people work for him as well. >> i don' t know the answer to that, all i can tell you is that there is not a lot of confidence at the leadership level. >> how it gets paid for is the new guys responsibility. >> he says that the problems could not have been expected, but they differ on the department of children and families. >> i thought it had systemic problems. he said that he didn' t.

>> whatever goes on, janet, in state government these days, belong to us. >> he still wavers on the one question that may test his republican soul. >> i don' t believe that the case has been made for fare hikes at all. but i do believe that we should not take any option off the table. >> is it possible that we might see a fare hike in the second year? >> of not going to comment on that, they still have a lot of s not interested in a short list for vice president, as clinton supporters are suggesting. he would not say that he would vote for trump, but he did say that he would not wear the black vest again no matter how bad the winter gets. >> next. heather: fire heroes, infant twins rescued.

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ed: new tonight, at home with the family whose dramatic wet -- two medical rescue you saw first at 5:00 this weekend. heather: tonight we have more with that very grateful family. jorge: an electrical spark may have ignited an oil spill in the basement, which started this very dangerous fire across the street. the family on the second floor tonight, staying with relatives and forever grateful to couple of brave cops.

are holding their twins height -- tightly in their arms, wiping away tears. their brush with tragedy started with a fire in the basement apartment of their medford home. >> the juice smell the smoke? >> choking smoke spreading to their second for unit. >> a gentleman on the stoop yelled that there was a fire upstairs and that there were two infant children upstairs. a female handed me to infants. -- to infants. -- 2 infants. >> officer quinn was right behind him. >> carlos arriving just in time to see his five-month-old twins brought out to safety. the babies ok, his wife as well, all check out my paramedics. in any language, christmas arriving early. >> thank god, it'

>> they speak little english. a few words needed to express their gratitude. >> thank you so much for that. >> by coincidence, tomorrow is her birthday and his brand-new mother says that those police officers have given her the only gift that matters. the chance to see her twins celebrate their first christmas. live in medford. ed: tonight c world in orlando is trying to get to the bottom of a malfunction that left dozens of guests stranded 200 feet above the park. they were on the sky tower ride when it suddenly stopped. the cabin, which slowly climbs up a poll, was stuck for more than two hours. one person suffered a panic attack while crews tried to fix the ride. they eventually got it to come back down. heather: there is a possible !

steve harvey: "miss universe" 2015 is -- columbia. heather: by now you know, though, you probably heard about steve harvey, the host, announcing the wrong contestant as the winner of last night' s miss universe pageant. now "entertainment tonight" is quoting that steve harvey skipped rehearsals for the pageant. he has repeatedly apologize for the error, calling it an honest mistake. ed: do you buy it? heather: if he had seen the car beforehand, it would have been less likely. ed: danielle, do you buy it? danielle: i do think that the card was tricky, but if he had been there to practice? ed: he certainly owned the mistake. danielle: that' s

does it feel like winter? not at all. temperatures in the 50' s across the area. are we going to get a white christmas? obviously with this warmth it doesn' t look likely at all. today we should have 6.3 inches of snow. last year at this time we had 2.9. here' s why, you can see the month of december has been a warm one, running 9.6 degrees above normal. today was no different. 53 degrees in boston. notice that by thursday we are s. s talk about tonight. those wins are still pretty

and as long as they hold up, that should keep the temperatures up overnight. holding steady in the upper 40' s in boston, rain chances entering into the forecast 9:00 to 11:00 tomorrow morning. already seeing a couple of showers on the map tonight. most of them to the south of worcester, very light in nature. we have a couple of more near -- burlington and kate. just light showers, more widespread shower activity and rain heading our way. associated with the cold front right here, this will bring in morning. it really ramps up through the afternoon and into early evening before it winds down. wednesday morning we will be dry , but then wednesday late afternoon and early evening, let' s timeout the showers for

5:00, most of us try. 8:00, yellows on the radar. there could be some heavier downpours. lunchtime, more of them are around boston, providence, and southern new hampshire. this continues to build in through the day. showers, especially heavier downpours, boston points south and east, this will continue for the ride home before we clear out by 8:00 or so. we are not expecting much in terms of rain totals. 110 to one inch, heavier downpours, maybe we could see half an inch in high temperatures tomorrow, warming into the mid-60' s on the map. once we get towards thursday this is what i want to talk about, near record high temperatures on christmas eve, if not above. the record is actually 61 and we are going -- going for 63 in worcester.

records on thursday. a drive christmas day cooling off over the weekend. but still very mild. heather: instead of the fire in the fireplace, you go outside and sit around the fire pit. start a new tradition. ed: one year in new orleans we turned on the air conditioning and then started the fire. weird.

ed: a haitian man heading home from boston just in time for christmas, but friends and family may not recognize him. heather: the team removed and enormous tumor from his face. the hospital brought him to boston and donated the surgery. the results were better than imagined. quest they say that he looks

even his mom believes it when he sends the picture to her. if you can believe that. he looks much, much better. >> they say a smile is worth 1000 words. isn' t that great? you will be home with his family in time for christmas and he will continue follow-up care in boston via teleconferencing. ed: she is right, the transformation is dramatic. just the relief that he must feel. >> beautiful christmas story. i have nothing to match that info -- in sports. what garnett is smiling, e this just in. r the final countdown to christmas is here. wait what? t gary, is this teleprompter right? sweet molasses! ti need to start shopping immediately. save on thousands of last

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>> now, "sportscenter 5." >> if the timberwolves had not been blown away, fans may not have been able to get to say a proper goodbye. the crowd gave him a standing ovation , garnet turning 40 before the season is over. this is likely his last season as a player and he did not play. he watched rj hunter knock it down from half court as the celtics took an eight point lead. kenny lin x lila -- leading the way with 19 points. and that hasn' t happened in 18 years, that it? finally with a minute to go, gmail appears and kg gets a

big surprise, even though the rules of from 113 torrent -- to 99. imagine a very brady christmas. tom and gisele , one where he' s the curious. they watch their children. the kit -- christmas stockings are boots. tom is on the computer adding things to his cart. >> it' s a short week, christmas is on friday. we practice tuesday, wednesday, thursday, off on christmas day. i got a lot of shopping done. s.com picking up some last-minute gift ideas. them. got her. it' s been a great year. hopefully we can she -- we can keep building on what we' ve achieved. it will be tough to get a the

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