god works in misser toious ways. >> reporter: a maintenance worker heard crying and it led to the church's nativity scene and right there in baby jesus' spot in the manger was a newborn. at best a few hours old. >> the bishop couldn't believe his eyes. >> the umbilical cord was still damaging from the baby. >> reporter: paramedics checked

i have no comment. if that's the court order, that's what i'm gonna abide by. >> were you surprised? >> not really. you know, i could have gone with either one. whatever the court orders, >> greathouse is one of two officers accused of shooting a 6-year-old boy and injuring his father at end of a police chase. he is on house arrest until his court date. >> and an nfl player in stable condition after getting shot in miami tuesday night. now, according to reports, salem's rams wide receiver steadman bailey was shot twice in the head. the 25-year-old had surgery this morning.

car with his two children and cousin at the time of the shooting. he is currently serving a four-game suspension for violating the nfl's substance abuse policy. an alarming case out of maryland after a severe slip-up by a school employee. some student athletes say the man cleaned their uniforms using the wrong solution and now the players are feeling the pain. a warning now some may find these images disturbing. >> i cry sometimes thinking about it. >> reporter: jordan gillespie. >> it felt like they were 100,000 hot needles in my skin. >> reporter: and matthew robinson bear permanent scars. their chests and backs burned last year at springville high school at silver spring. >> it was about 2:00 in the morning and my pain woke me up out of my sleep. i had to pace around crying because it hurt that bad. >> reporter: the school discovered a custodian sprayed a cleaning solution on the varsity football team's gear. according to amazon.com,

virex-256 is strong enough to prevent the spread of mrsa and hiv and not suited for human skin or football pads. >> this seems like a case of colossal stupidity. >> reporter: bruce plaqueston represents the athletes and strongly disagrees with the assessment of pain and suffering. >> i think it was matthew who said it's disrespectful to expect all of us to split $100,000 for what we went through. >> a lot of times i just looked in the mirror and cried because i didn't like what i saw. >> reporter: robinson, a high school senior, says impact sports cause his scars to bleed. >> reporter: and gillespie claims his burns likely cost him a college scholarship. >> i worked really hard trying to be the best and to come out with nothing it's a very big disappointment. >> the custodian sprayed the team's gear with a cleaning solution because coaches thought one of the players had contracted a staph infection. it turns out that didn't happen. traffic stop trouble caught

on camera in neb member. bullets smash -- in nebraska. bullets smash through a trooper's car spraying shards of glass into teachers. [ sirens ] >> he is hit? i don't know. >> this all happening during what was supposed to be a routine traffic stop but took a terrifying home when the man in troopers. after an hour-long manhunt police were able to arrest both people inside the car. there are the mug shots. as for the stroppers, they are doing just fine. a postal worker face criminal charges after allegedly spitting on and yelling racial slurs at a muslim woman. witnesses say he spit on the woman who was with her children at the time because she bumped into him on the sidewalk and he followed her into the store and continued to call her offensive names. >> she heard muslim and other derogatory words, and then the guy said i'm going to burn down your temple or something to that effect. and then the person proceeded to spit in her face. >> the worker now faces multiple

harassment. the nypd hate crimes task force is investigating the incident. he's usually a guy who makes people laugh but this time it was no funny business for do-do, the clown. o two women found themselves in serious trouble but that's when do-do put all tricks to the side and raced to the rescue. >> reporter: for over 30 years he's been been known as a clown and now some are calling him a hero. >> i'm used to getting 5, 10 emails a day. 12,000 -- 12,000 emails. >> reporter: 'do-do, the clown, whose real name is shane was driving downtown sunday afternoon answer even when he noticed a man acting strangely. >> the guy is running around pushing people. i call 911. >> reporter: with his cousin and two other clowns in the car, one pregnant, they followed the man. his dash-cam records as the man approaches two women on the street and turns around and runs to attack them. while you can't see the action, screaming. >> reporter: the woman managed to get into the clown car before the man started attacking her.

>> he came at car like this, bang, bang, like four times. >> reporter: the man ripped the side-view mirror off but the woman and the clowns were safe as police arrived and arrested him. for a clown used to making a spectacle, this was like nothing he'd ever seen before. >> you're right. i loom for attention. i'm a children's entertainer. and this is not the kind of attention i was looking for. >> reporter: it's an incident that has left this usually upbeat entertainer shaken. >> when i got home, first thing when i got home -- and i don't want to get emotional, especially -- first thing my daughter, 12 years old, came up and said dad, you're my hero. see, i get emotional. >> reporter: but the sad clown if he didn't step in. the attackers is facing three charges and police believe it was a drug-related o o reaction. as for do-do, he's got a story now that matches his catch >> unbelievable. >> do-do was later honored for

his bravery at the toronto city hall. frank gifford's brain will be donated for research after a career filled with head traumas and brain injuries, cathy gifford says she hopes her husband's brain can contribute research. he died back in august at 84 and diagnosed with a degenerative brain disease before his passing. an alarming outbreak 19 people in seven states affected with e. coli linked to chicken salad from costco. five people have been hospitalized, including two who have developed kidney failure. federal health officials are still trying to figure out which ingredient in that chicken salad was contaminated. the product has been pulled from store shelves. still ahead here on 7news at 5:30, a dangerous demolition. a construction worker narrowly escapes when a smokestack comes crashing down. then ahead at 6:00, president obama making a security naiment statement as isis threatens against the u.s. and those statements resurface. and a dangerous drive in worcester. a police officer rushed to the

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tense moments during a dangerous disaster in alabama as a smokestack demolition takes an unexpected turn. crews say the plan was to bring it down with one explosive effort. >> but instead, the operation almost cost one guy his life. [ horns? [. >> reporter: the plane -- >> horns ] >> reporter: the plan, was to blow it up but the historic smokestack wouldn't fall so on to plan b, bringing in a backhoe to break the 100-year-old tower down. busting at the base it drops and tilts and what happens next. unbelievable. is. >> reporter: from every angle, it topples and crumbles. the backhoe driver tries to swing away but thick smoke making hard to see. scary moments felt like minutes and then...

>> it just got dark real quick. >> reporter: covered in soothe and surrounded by help, tim pheiffer walks away. so farred in soot. >> i've had stuff going on but not like this. >> stay in the hoe. the cab is made for a thing to turn over on top of that. >> reporter: a miracle even his daughter alley couldn't believe. >> i might have just watched my dad die but luckily i didn't. >> this gonna have to come down one way or the other. >> reporter: a demolition that could have turned deadly. >> crews are now clearing the smokestack debris and will use that site eventually for a city park. coming up, how a fan of an abc tv show helped the host figure out he was battling cancer. and our forecast is turning a little bit milder for a couple of days. then we turn colder again. that's ahead. and then at 6:00, an amendola sighting at the patriots' practice. more on whether we'll see the wide receiver on the field

back on this wednesday, a lot of you prepare for a nice long holiday weekend. you look live outside and it's dark but clear for the most part today. is it. >> the moon is up, the full beaver moon. our temperatures today in the middle 40, upper 40s. we pushed it a little bit in norwood and new bedford and got

to the big 5-0 and nantucket with a beautiful sunset there. check my twitter feed. so tomorrow, the clouds all over the place, unfortunately, with the wind out of the southeast, it doesn't look like the brightest of forecasts, a stream of clouds is gonna be difficult to pin down but where it's thickest, it seems like we may blot out the sun entirely. the best chances seem to be in western massachusetts and back into connecticut. so yeah, i'm going for a couple sphwhrashes of sun but it's not -- splashes of sun but it's not a problem at all. temperatures in the mid-50s. we start off around 40 degrees. our temperatures slide tonight and level off toward morning. so a little bit of a jump start as opposed to today and yesterday where we had to crawl out of the teens and 20s in some of the suburbs and around 30 downtown to get up to our highs in the 40s. it's so that much better off in the morning tomorrow. 55 in lawrence... friday a big spike in the temperatures, thanks a warm

showers and then saturday we resume the cool pattern. normal high temperature about 48 degrees. we'll be close to that on saturday and below that on sunday with both chilly mornings. the cool interruption has been enough to bring us back in terms of warmer than normal november . >> the snow helped out, but we really haven't caught up since the winter. anyway, it's a clear start. the clouds arrive late, 27 to 38. and tomorrow, milder, mainly cloudy skies. 52 to 58 degrees a south-southeast breeze. 7 on 7 forecast, maybe a shower

up until about noontime on saturday and abruptly colder late day. cold air comes rushing back in. sunday is chilly but dry, same with exphobd we warm it up just in time to bring in our next weather system which is of course rain. see you at 6:00. >> and an eagle eye viewer makes a startling discovery that potentially saved a tv personality's life. a viewer, who's also a nurse, sent an email giving the host of the hgtv show flip or flop a real cause for concern. >> he learned he not only had thyroid cancer but also that it had spread. >> reporter: the popular hgtv show flip or flop is watched by 4 million people but one sharp-eyed viewer. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: who may have saved his life. a registered nurse in texas and watching the marathon when she saw the lump on his neck. >> i actually paused it, retwownld and watched it again to see if i are was seeing weigh thought i was seeing.

email to show producers telling el mussa to have his thyroid checked saying she could see a noddual at the base of his neck. >> it's not something might be wrong but something is wrong. if someone from texas reached out to us, it has to be important. >> reporter: he was diagnosed with stage 2 thyroid cancer. after surgery and radiation in 2013 he's now in remission. >> the interesting thing about that cancer is it most often shows up as just a lump in the neck, oftentimes blood tests will be normal, the patient will feel fine. >> reporter: on an episode of the doctors. >> have you not met nurse ryan yet have you? >> have not. >> do you want to meet her? absolutely. [ applause ] >> reporter: a happy ending made for tv. >> now, since this surgery, the mussas have expanded, adding a second baby to their family. all right, coming up next on 7news at 6:00, armed state police officers patrolling logan airport during the holiday travel rush. we're live with how things are going for passengers amid the

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topping the buzz... the leader of the hunger games saying goodbye to the series. >> she wrote a letter thanking the movie cast, posted that letter to scholastic's blog. suzanne collins thanks jennifer lawrence for making katniss actually as she pictured. friday. and the trailer for the highly anticipated marvel film captain america civil war is out. captain america played by sudbury native chris evans and iron man square off against one another in the film. hours after it was released, the trailer was trending number one worldwide on twitter and that will hit theaters in may. >> i guess i'll have to watch. >> hope you can watch. another 30 minutes of 7news is straight ahead. i'm adam williams. >> i'm elizabeth more nor rake came. 7news at 6:00 starts right now.

>> reporter: state police patrolling logan airport with submachine guns during the holiday travel rush. >> we're live with how things are going for passengers amid and president obama saying there's no reason to worry about your safety this thanksgiving. >> we are taking every possible step to keep our homeland safe. >> the commander in chief confident there are no credible threats to the u.s. right now. >> bright day, but now the clouds move in for thanksgiving, but the temperatures on the way up. >> reporter: and... the patriots getting ready to take on the broncos on sunday. we're live in foxboro as the team prepares for a game. you can watch right here on 7 nbc. we start with a live look at logan airport where people are going through security boarding thanksgiving. this is the jetblue terminal, and it looks pretty darned good right now.

issued a worldwide travel alert, though. and we wanted to show you a live look at the traffic. this is 93 braintree split. looks like both directions are scooting right along. th been nine years since this many people have traveled for the thanksgiving holiday, and a very good evening to you, everybody. i'm adam wants. >> and i'm elizabeth nor rake came in for kim casey. roads are busy tonight as people try to make it to their destinations by tomorrow and of course we're wishing you safe travels. nick emmons is out at the airport how's it going, nick? yeah, it's not quite as busy as you might expect. the lines are not as long as you would think, at least here in the jetblue terminal. sounds like things haven't been busy that much all day, as well. so that's the good news. but obviously a lot of concerns right now with all that's been going on around the world. so the president on down to

local leaders are trying to reassu the public that they