millions are in her path, reports are that hotels are evacuating right now. let's get right to bri eggers tracking patricia. adam and elizabeth it's been mesmerizing can't take our eyes off of this. watching the eye of the storm this is just textbook perfect imagery that we're seeing here with this massive and very power powerful storm. you watch the eye though it seems to at least disappear a touch and i think those wind speeds are going down at current wind speeds right now 190 miles per hour so it's not far off from 200 but it looks like the storm is starting to weaken. it will do so much more intense intensely as we head through the overnight hours but still it has made one for the record books. strongest on record for the wherein hemisphere so we can technically call to the strong strongest hurricane. minimum pressure earlier today, 879 millibars not far off from the worldwide record holder for a tropical cyclone typhoon tip

category five hurricane to make landfall as we head through the next three, maybe four hours on that southwestern coast of mexico and as we head through the overnight hours, i mentioned this storm dies down about as quickly as it intensified last night. tropical cyclone as we get into the next, tropical storm, excuse me action we get into the next 24 hours it's already a remnant low by tomorrow evening. nevertheless though, packing a punch with the storm surge, with the wind speeds and with the flooding rains that we're expect expecting here. as we head through the time line you can see even more moisture that's getting pulled into texas from the gulf of mexico joins up with that so we will be waving for the flooding threat on that southeastern side of texas and in the deep south all weekend long. now we'll also get a look at how this moisture could impact our forecast getting into this week. that's coming up about ten minutes from now . >> anchor: a state of emergency in effect and people are trying desperately to get out ahead of the storm. tim caputo continues our coverage of record breaking

storm . >> anchor: near the eye of that storm winds are comparable to an ef 4 and ef five tornado as high as that scale goes. this massive powerful hurricane has potential to cause catastrophic destruction along the coast of mexico. a view from the international space station and you can understand why patricia is now the largest and strongest hurricane ever recorded. the monster category five storm is expected to make landfall near the resort city of puertova puertovallarta in several hours. it hassustained winds of 200 miles per hour. mexican authorities issued a state of emergency and advise people to move as far inland as possible. this hurricane will effect effectively be the most intense hurricane that has existed in this part of the pacific in our country since records began in 1949. >> anchor: more than 7 million people will be directly affected when the some makes landfall later tonight including tens of

thousands of american tourists. hotels are setting up shipment shipmenters for guests who haven't been able to evaluable situate . i'm just worried because i mean if we don't get out of here and we drove into town to get out, which is not the direction we wanted to go, so if we don't make the flight then we're are riding it out here. the airport is closed until further notice. meteorologists predict patricia could dump as much as 20 inches of rain in some parts of mexico causing flooding and triggering mud slides. once it makes landfall there will be substantial surge in flooding at the coast. >> anchor: the worst of the storm will hit mexico later ton and a little bit tomorrow morning. pats of texas will also feel the after effects as well. cities like houston and san antonio could see significant flooding through monday. live in the newsroom, till caputo, 7 news . president obama is watching the some. he tweeted today that our thoughts are with the mexican people as they brace for hurricane patricia. u.s.a. disaster experts are on the ground and ready to help. and we'll continue tracking the

storm all night. stay with 7 news on-line and on air for the very latest track. >> anchor: we we're following breaking news now from harvard where university police have issued a warning to students. they say early this morning, a woman was walking her dog at the holden greenhousing complex when she was chased to her door. the woman ran inside and locked the door. she says the man then ran back to a van, police say the suspicious man is in his early dark colored van. we're staying on top of the . >> anchor: the suspect in a deadly stabbing at a jamaica plain t store is tracked down thanks to surveillance video. the 16-year-old now facing murder charges. john coco in court today and we're learning what led to the stabbing. >> anchor: he held that knife . >> reporter: friends and family of mason raymond in tears listening as a prosecutor described how the 17-year-old was stabbed in the chest in jamaica plain outside the jack jackson square t station.

penetrated his heart and unfortunately mr. raymond expired at about 4:30 early this morning. we're told this all started as a fight between raymond and another teen and was kept hidden behind a door in court . initially just fists with appear to be punching . according to prosecutors the 16-year-old suspect upped the ante . it was a fist only no weapons fight before he introduced the knife. ed entire fit was caught on video. that video was used to track the suspect to his home in dorchester where he was arrested early friday morning. while with police, the prosecution says he confessed to everything. he admitted bing in there. he admitted to having the knife on him. he admitted to having a problem with the victim. the suspect's attorney says his client is a student at brighton high and is pat of a program to help at risk youth get jobs. he was also scheduled to start work today at or rather on

monday at stop & shop? south bay. >> anchor: right now the teen is being hell without bail and we are told that he does have a previous juvenile violent offense. in roxbury, john cuoco, 7 news . >> anchor: caught on calm ray shirtless man rocking a mcdonald's in concore, and a half. police responded after three employees said the man threat threatened them with a large gun gun. he took off with aster >> anchor: a tragic crash over overseas. at least 43 people killed when a france. it is the deadliest highway accident in france in 30 years. it happened on a remote road in french wine country. the bus was full of retirees going on a day trip. crews rush to the scene, several people were flown to the hospital. officials say four of the injured are in serious condition condition. two with head injuries and two with burns. french investigators say it's just too early to know what caused that crash. >> anchor: the american commando killed during a rescue mission in iraq has been identified. 39-year-old master sergeant

joshua wheeler is the first american to be killed in iraq in four years. he was from oklahoma. the master sergeant was shot by isis mill early yesterday morning. american and allied kurdish force were raiding an isis prison in northern iraq at the time. the mission saved about 70 hostages who u.s. officials say were about to be executed. turning to the race for the white house now. could trump get bumped? hillary clinton and donald trump have really dominate the headlines but another candidate is gaining in popularity. leader in two iowa polls just the latest out today. ben carson is on a roll. the retired neurosurgeon in kansas today surged to a big lead with iowa republicans in today's bloomberg politics des moines register iowa poll. 28%, up ten since august, donald trump at 19 down four . every place we go, we see large, enthusiastic groups of people who are anxious to have a

government that is honest. and that is decent . decency, carson speaks the language evangelicals that back him by almost two to one. . trump said things like he doesn't have to ask god for forgiveness. way traditionally backs e eadvantagical candidates and i think ben carson fits more of . did you know washington is built on a swamp? carson is airing his first campaign ads. he raised more cash than any other candidate. jeb bush polling fifth in iowa today announced drastic staff cuts. by contrast, this was democrat hillary clinton today in alexandria, virginia. clinton dominated her debate. joe biden did not run and she did not stumble in the benghazi hearings . a lot of things have been said about me but quiter is not one of them in democrats race seems more stable but republicans is anything but. p stay tuned.

place next week. >> anchor: excitement building down in fox a fight for first on the line. patriots and jets with a lot riding on sunday's rye valued matchup. the patriots hoping to keep their winning streak alive. but the jets could tie up to the top position in the afc east. alex corddry down in foxboro with more on all of the hype. alex? hey, elizabeth. well, after practicing with the team for the last three days, brandon lafelle hopes to play this weekend but there is still no guarantee just yet that he is even going to see the field for this sunday's afc east show down down. now name' back on the field are youing around, cutting, open opening up, getting ready to run . brandon is ready to play after starting the season on the purpose list with a food injury. it's bill belichick's decision if he is ready for this sunday's game against the jets ander did el revis . that guy is unbelievable. he is one of the best in the game. i practice against this guy a lot last year even when i was

revis not the only jet patriots have been raving about this week. the five and 0 pats believe if they can stop chris ivory, they stop the 4 and 1 jets . they are the number one rushing team in the league right now. obviously they put a lot of stock in him frances rivera requiry leads the league with an average of 115 rushing yards per game. the pats know the jets will try to win riding ivory's legs . i am excited about this game, especially me because i'm a run stop type of guy. with him, everybody has to be technically sound as well as doing their job and i mean, that's the first job of stopping him and the next obvious one is a tackle him and get him on the ground. that's not easy job either. so we'll see what happens on sunday. . >> reporter: belichick said today last year the jets ran for 200 yards against the patriots. they are a tough team to beat when they are running the ball well. it's no kings coincidence the only game the jets lost was against the eagles when ivory was out with a leg injury.

news. >> anchor: still to come a consumer's head left spinning by a christmas gift that never came until they called solve it 7 . at 5:30 outrage with an airline. after a disabled passenger is forced to crawl off a plane. tonight is talking about the ordeal . >> anchor: also ahead, more on the search for a shooter in brighton. one person is dead, the gunman still out there . >> anchor: then in just one hour a story you will see on one station i'm field trip turns into a might may for a group of local students when they say their bus driver fell asleep behind the wheel. what happened when chaperones confronted him . >> anchor: plus an airport employee caught trying to wing it. the selfies that landed him in first-class trouble. those stories and more coming up

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at 5:00 . >> anchor: a couple from boxborough dealing with a dryer dilemma when they went to pick up their appliance, they say they felt like they were put through the wringer. it was supposed to be a christmas gift . >> anchor: but they were left to find a present without a refund. they called solve it 7. here is kris anderson. >> reporter: the holiday shopping season. millions of people across the country battling through stores and jumps on-line in search of deals. black friday good deals.

was really easy to buy on-line . it was what justin and his wife were looking for. a new dryer for his mother right there on k-mart's web site . she kept complaining about going to the laundromat and we thought it would be a ties spice spice. she was talking about it on thanks giving, we were like oh great we can get her that for christmas . they bought the $300 dryer and a few days later drove to the k-mart in fitchburg to pick it up. within we got there they said we they didn't have the dryer and we already picked it up. >> reporter: they were shocked shocked. they didn't pick up the dryer but the cuter system showed they had. unable to iron out the problem, the albano it's left the story handed . they said i think somebody might have pressed a wrong button so you can just call us back tomorrow? justin called the next day, still no answers. in fact, he continued calling for months trying to get his money back. i am getting multiple stories. i am getting it has been cancel,

at one point, they even filed a dispute with their credit card company. credit card company was telling me that they needed me to prove that i don't have a dryer from k-mart. which is very strange thing to request. >> reporter: another dead end. no dryer, no refund and after nine months justin felt left out to dry . i was like i don't even care anymore. i am just done . but amanda wasn't done. we decided to give it a spin. hi, this is kris anderson. we reached out to k-mart's parent company, sears holdings and explained the situation. the person we spoke with said she would look into the problem and a couple of days later justin received a phone call. the manager from k-mart was like, all right, come down. we'll give you your money. i was like you can put it back on my credit card. there it was . the following monday the

a k-mart representative sent us this response. as soon as the concern was brought to our attention, the customer service teamworked quickly to resolve the situation and insure the customer was taken care of. k-mart even gave the family a gift card for their inconvenience. we didn't get anywhere in nine months. you guys did it in three days and you got the money back, answers, cleared everything up and i don't know. you guys are good. we're glad we were able to sort that one out. so do you have a problem that you would like to permanently press out of your life? give us a call at 617-367-7777 solveit7@whdh.com. in the newsroom, kris anderson, 7 news. coming up on 7, make a comeback, adele releasing her first song in three years. we'll let you hear it when we . record breaking storm hurricane patricia expected to make landfall within the next

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>> anchor: welcome back, adele. the somethinger releasing her first new song in three years. it's called hello. the song is the first single for her upcoming album "2" i will be released net mon. it will be first album adele released in nearly five years. a lot of fans have been anticipating that moment waiting for it, excited about it today. we say hello to fall. we've been in fall but it's really going to feel like it after kind a roller coaster weekend. look at that, see what i mean? the golden leaves out there. that beautiful traffic just stopped on this friday when everybody wants to get home. but . with the sunshine in their eyes. so we're talking 50's, the wind is going to calm down but we're also talking about this category storm, the historical storm here. absolutely. into the record books for sure. i think we've reached peak intensity with this storm and

the good news is already seeing it deintensify as we head through the last few hours. the most recent update has those wind speeds down from 200 to 190 mile-per-hour sustained winds still moving north-northeast at about 14 miles per hour and the pressure in the eye has risen just a touch. so again, weakening. this is good news and once it does make landfall, that doesn't happen until the eye actually makes landfall within the next couple of three hours i think. it will happen between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. tonight of we'll see that storm just weaken very quickly, about as fast as it blew up last night and by the time we hit 24 hours from now those wind speeds are down to 25 miles per hour but still part a punch with a whole lot of rain expected all through the weekend and you can see that moisture that's also being pulled in from the gulf of mexico, coupling with the moisture from patricia and her recommend low that will form for the weekend that is

southeastern coast of texas that already prompted some flash-flood warnings and also some flash-flood watches basically from houston to dahls and baton rouge, louisiana to corpus kristi. all eyes in that area as we head through the weekend believe it or not some of that tropical moisture could even head in our direction bringing a good chance at a soaking rain as we get into the end of next week. now current temperatures 50 degrees or so, it is a touch below average but you noticed quit a change because it's 20 to 25 degrees cooler than where we were at 24 hours ago. we've had that breeze coming out of the northwest and northesty much throughout the entire day today. so you notice that as well. bundling up with those layers. overnight tonight 30 to 40 degrees close are you get to the city of boston and tomorrow partly cloudy to mostly cloudy. we will have less wind and those temperatures get a touch of a boost. still below normal but not a bad

as we put on the layers and bundle up. here is the next system we look for though and this doesn't hit us head on but it does drag through a cool front and that could mean showers as we get into sunday morning. so heading through the time line here, you can see those ocean effect clouds, possible low a brief sprinkle that could show up into tomorrow. i only give that about a 10% chance of seeing any drops tomorrow. then as we get into sunday, there is that wave of those showers early in the morning on sunday, clearing out by the time we make it to the pats game. you may not need rain gear unless you are playing an early tailgate. 7 on 7 temperature staying fairly consistent and there is that soaking rain. i was talking about. wednesday into thursday. we'll see you in a bit. >> anchor: he can be silly sometimes making a big-time qb sneak . >> anchor: not on the fool field. instead at a local grocery store store. qb 12 has been working with a

makes candy with natural ingredients as part of a recent advertisement brady went into a whole foods wearing a skull and, wait? there we go. placing candy on the shelves and according to commercial there will be something special in 50 bins of the candy. this is like charlie and the chocolate fact story. 50 bins at whole foods all across new england. nobody knew it was him . now we do. still ahead, you don't have to travel for a really far to get a taste of italy. you will head out to a local spot for a cuss tuscan bowl nation . >> anchor: a five-year-old battling cancer getting his dream home. we'll talk to toes who stepped

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. >> anchor: another hour of 7 news come up. april adam william. 7 news at 5:30 starts right now. >> anchor: a jury dilemma in the aaron hernandez murder trial trial. why one woman is questioning the integrity of a juror. >> anchor: gunfire rings out in brighton claying the life of one person. now police working to track down a suspect. >> anchor: the klu klux klan parking outrage as fliers emerge at a new jersey neighborhood. their hateful message targeted at a 2016 presidential candidate. >> anchor: a chilly rescue in colorado when a woman gets trapped in a submerged car. two police officers jumping into . >> anchor: a woman called to question after questioning the integrity of a juror in the aaron hernandez murder tile. a woman claims a juror knew affected her decision

>> anchor: today that woman