stand commied. i felt that was appropriate and that there is a component of rehabilitation and supervision. >> reporter: the defense is appealing the convictions for misdemeanor statutory rape and felony enticing a minor with a computer so labrie is going home to vermont with his mother tonight. >> i don't characterize the sentence imposed by the judge as being harsh. i would have considered that if he had been sentenced to the, if my client had been sentenced to the state prison. >> reporter: labrie was a senior at st. pauls when he was charged with raping a freshman in may of 2014. a jury deliberate delivered a separate verdict. labrie's victim spoke in court delivering an impact statement via video. >> i lived some of the scariest hardest days of my life almost living in constant fear of everything

and everyone. >> reporter: under new hampshire state law labrie appeal. prosecutors say they've big concerns about that for one thing, he will be living in vermont with his mom and he won't have the gps device as curfew. jonathan hall, 7 news. >> kim: also breaking at 6:00 searching for answers in lowell after dozens of students get sick and the illness came on fast. forced evacuations and officials are saying they virus. >> ryan: 60 kids came down with something and were able to get out of the building quickly. dan hausle is live with what we now right know. >> reporter: school officials are burning the midnight oil trying to figure out what caused the kids to get sick in the building you see back. there they thought it was carbon monoxide but it turned out it's something else. more than 600 students at the sullivan middle school rushed out into the fresh

them started getting stick. >> people were pucking. stomach, dizziness. just started getting hot in the room and then everyone was, like, started to go to the nurse and getting dismissed and stuff. feeling sick. >> i'm worried. >> reporter: parents were call and came worried. >> when i got the call i got nervous, thank god she is fine. >> reporter: investigators suspected carbon monoxide. but that was quickly ruled out. >> we checked the school out with carbon monoxide meters and found no readings, we turned on the air-conditioning and heating systems found no readings but we ended one multiple students, approximately 60 that had symptoms,. >> reporter: so many a doctor came to them. investigators think a fast-moving virus is to blame. >> when you have symptoms that could be related to something serious you need to act quickly and act decisively and i think that is the fire department and

school department did that effectively today. >> reporter: investigators plan to test the ventilation system and give the school a thorough cleaning. then they'll decide whether the school will reopen tomorrow. >> i think that will be determined after all of the cleaning is done and all of the assessment of the buildings work. >> reporter: we haven't seen any of the cleaning crews yet. and they're going to clean the neighboring elementary school as well as the middle scho because many of the kids were evacuated to the elementary school and if this is a virus, they want to make sure they didn't bring it to that school as well. live in lowell, dan hausle, 7 news. >> ryan: we're bringing you both of the breaking stories on-line at mobil app. >> kim: a big night for short turn around but the team is looking to keep its division domination with the dolphins coming to foxboro. if the pats win, new england

>> ryan: kickoff is at 8:25. joe amorosino joins us live from gillette stadium. >> reporter: the patriots trying to stretch their record to 7-0 for the first time since 2007. their undefeated regular season. patriots have all kinds of momentsum of their own. they're playing at home and playing their best football right now but they're going up against the dolphins team coming in here looking to make it three straight. a team that can absolutely score points and the the patriots defense is taking notice. >> a lot of -- they look like a different team. they're out there playing they're having more fun. >> reporter: the miami dolphins have rebounded to win their last two games under interim head coach dan campbell. doing it in convincing fashion. >> announcer: throws over the middle. he is into the end zone for a second touchdown! >> i think they had to hit the reset button and they've been playing good football the last two weeks, so they

have a lot of talented athletes on their team. so it's going to be a tough challenge for us. >> reporter: it's the dollkins' offense that benefited most from the coaching change exploding for 82 points. a fact not lost on tom brady. >> they are' an explosive offense. they have a lot of guy that is can make plays so we have to counter that. we have to play well early. we have to play well and be >> reporter: with only three days between games both teams will be at a slight disadvantage tonight but as belichick likes to say it is what it is. >> it's a short week. you have three days. 3, 4 days to mend your body from a game before, but we didn't make the schedule so we have to play it. >> reporter: it is of course a short turn around for both teams. and all his experience in the situation. if there is a team that wants to disrupt a perfect record for the patriots it's the dolphins.

that went on and ran it away to win the super bowl 17-0. any time the patriots are on a run it's the dolphins to want to break it up. reporting live at gillette stadium, joe amorosino, 7 news. >> kim: know to a developing story, trouble on the tarmac at an airport in florida. look at the scene. a plane with more than 100 people were on board when the plane caught fire. several people hurt. brandon buyer reports from the airport in fort lauderdale. >> reporter: it appears to have been taxiing when it had an engine fire. >> reporter: it burns off the runway at fort lauderdale hollywood international airport. 101 passengers and crew on board. everyone would make off. those on board spoke of the frightening moments when they realized their plane was on fire. >> i heard a loud bang. turned around. saw the lights. saw flames. ran to the front of the aircraft.

there was already people starting to get up. >> i was completely asleep and when i woke up, i was hitting, hearing screams and know how to react. >> reporter: the plane was bound for venezuela, but when the pilot was alerted to a possible fuel leak, the plane neff made it to the runway. >> dynamic out of the left epping inlooks like it's leaking a lot of fuel or fluid. engine is on fire. engine is on fire. >> reporter: in this cell phone video you can see people jumping from the plane on to the inflatable slide. >> passengers were taken to a triage area in one of the terminals. the injured then loaded into bluenesses bound for broward health. other passengers took to social media wishing they could do more than just watch.

>> it's a helpless feeling sitting there not being able to do anything or help anybody. >> reporter: that was brandon buyer reporting. by many accounts it was a rough night for one republican running for president. jeb bush was campaigning in the granite state. >> kim: a judge in concord, new hampshire, sentencing student owen labrie to a year in jail and probation for sexually assaulting a younger school. he will have to register as a sex offender as well. this. >> announcer: tomorrow a fun night out can turn into a miserable mourning, headache, nausea, yeah, you have a hangover but don't the wild night ruin your whole day.

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it's also about the going home. all along the way. whether you're working or recharging, do business travel on your terms. acela. take off. >> in the race for the white house jeb bush working on bouncing back from what some performance. he was back on itself campaign trail in new hampshire today. >> andy hiller talked with bush about his performance and it's tonight's hiller instinct. >> reporter: governor, do you really want to be president? absolutely. >> reporter: how do you think you did last night? >> i did great.

job bush -- jeb bush was digging hick self out. >> there are the talkers and there are the doers. i wish i could talk as well of the people on the stage. the big permission on the stage but i'm a doer. what is it like a french work week. you get three days before you have to show up. you can campaign. or just resign and let someone else take the job. >> the only reason why you are doing it now is because we're running for the same position and someone convinced you attacking me going to help you. my campaign -- >> after today's event at a crowded news conference he did answer my questions is it possible that you don't project enough strength to be elected president? >> we're going to find that out. >> reporter: are we starting to see some of it? >> i'm campaigning harder than anybody else, i've a proven record. there is no one that has the proven record in business and in government that i have. i'm going to share that with people.

>> reporter: why aren't voters buying it? >> a lot more people are going to buy it as we campaign harder. >> reporter: he cited his record as florida governor to indicate that he was a doer. >> i fixed it and i did it with strength. that is my point. >> reporter: your is of confidence has not taken a hit? >> no, not at all. >> reporter: asked about debating hillary clinton, bush had plenty of ammo loaded and ready to go about her record in the senate but the odds are against him after last night getting to use it. i'm andy hiller and that is my instinct. sunny. we're quieting things down

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>> strong winds and heavy rain causing quite a americas many trees came down including this big one that crashed a car in milton. another look at the scene from sky 7 h.d. crews have cleaned up the area and removed most of the debris. no one was hurt. crazy weather overnight but nice improvements today. >> kim: when a difference because, yes, it was awful this morning and look how great foxboro looks. i don't think they're going to be any sprinkles, isn't that a great shot. who is on the field?

>> let's see. >> kim: zoom in. i can see him on another monitor. he is on a different camera. we can't see him but he is right there by the field on the ground. there he is going to check in with us during sports but that field looks great. pats fans are psyched. >> i feel like i'm there. awesome. to see that, speaking of the winds and the tree, blue hills gusting to 60 miles an hour, early today, most of these gusts were pre-dawn with the line of intense rain and all that wind, our rain totals is 1-2 inches, we got a good slug, a little bit of a dent in the drought. we're between 6-8 inches below normal across southern new england. manchester, wow, a good 14 inches below normal since the beginning of the year. this is a brought that has been going on for a long time. quick showers sunday morning, we go back to the quiet pattern.

mid 70s, where were you? maybe you were indoors. i'm not saying this is the end of the 70s. we're in a mild pattern and record high temperatures for the entire month almost of november are 70 or better of the we can still do it this time of year and i still see a mild pattern overall. in the upper 06's and -- 60s and 70's elsewhere generally around 20s. 8:00 pm about 57 degrees, we've some falling to do between now and 8:00. then by 11:00, 52. we're pushing in cooler air. what we call in the weather world investigating it and bringing down with the wind. that wind is turning westerly. the poll of cool air we're tapping into is not all that impressive. it's dropping our temperatures for tomorrow out of the 70s a and back to the 50s closer to normal, but it is not really really that cold.

our forecast for saturday, coolest of the next seven and in the lower 50s. as we go into evening on halloween night we'll fall back to 40s there will be cloud around. but next week, pattern is mild across the eastern 2/3 of the united states. dip in the jet stream over the west seeing snow and cold. also the possibility of some wet weather. we'll cross our fingers for them. cooling off 41-46 tonight and tomorrow, 56-61. a cooler day all around but sun deep blue sky with a northwest wind at 12-20 miles an hour. your seven-day forecast, there it is. early morning showers on sunday. that is the only time that i see it getting wet around here. the next seven days, we'll bottom out on saturday then a slow trial into early next week. peaking in the mid 60s and perhaps upper 60s on thursday before we have a backdoor front move in and cool us down.

cool. >> before tonight's big game we asked you for your fan photos. contest. we have a winner and this is for the facebook banner picture. it's from devon. -- the little guy in the middle. >> oh, pats, dog is there, too. i love it. thank you to everybody who apparently i haven't seen them but i'm inspired to look. a lot of good ones. tough for the crew to pick the number one response but thank you again and go, pats >> reporter: we're coming to you lye from gillette stadium for the second time this season. the patriots are playing on thursday night and typically nfl players don't enjoy playing on thursday night with the short turn around. they're programmed to go on sunday but tom brady doesn't seem to have a problem with it.

an 8th career starts on thursday night. he is a perfect 8-0. brady does already for every night and everyday. here tonight louis is expected to be back into the patriots line-up tonight. the running become after sitting out last week due to an injury. this according to nfl network dan rappaport that he will play tonight. without louis the patriots managed to put up 30 or more point and will need to be at their best against a surging dolt finns team -- dolphins team. >> they have a lot of great players and every time we played these guys they've been a challenge. >> reporter: tom brady and his team mates not taking the dolphins lightly. miami riding a two-game winning stream under dan

on offense. and on defense -- >> announcer: touchdown! >> last two games watching them play, they play hard. they tackle hard and playing wel as a defense. >> they have a lot of explosive players so we have to do a good job. i actually staying on them, covering them then once they catch the ball tackling. >> reporter: the preparation for tonight's divisional showdown all the more challenging for boat teams thanks to the short week. but brady doesn't seem to mind the quick turn around. >> mentally you have to work as hard as you can physically. you have to be tough enough just to push through it so -- it's a fun week. >> reporter: hoping it gets a lot more fun tonight. joining us ask alex with a look behind enemy lines. >> reporter: thank you so much. big game tonight. no question about that. the dolphins coming in here as one of the league's hottest teams. they're coming off

back-to-back blow out wins but ryan will tell you how big of a test this is for just three days to perhaps and go on the road to take on their division rivals. >> they're a good team. they execute. they play well, you have to be on top of your game for the entire game. if you play three good quarters and have one bad quarter, then 9 times out of 10 they're going to beat you so we have to play a full game and execute the entire game. >> reporter: under the head coach campbell the dolphins have done just that. in their last two games they scored 82 points, 17 more points than their first four games combined. joe, they haven't won in foxboro since 2008. >> reporter: i don't think it's going to happen. two wins have been over two of the worst teams in football. they're in for a real game tonight. >> reporter: no question.

>> ahead on nbc nightly news, latest pictures and witness accounts from the fiery plane incident in florida today that forced morse than 100 passengers to scramble for the exit. we're covering the republican debate aftermath including the precarious state of the jeb bush campaign. how deep was the damage?

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