>> adam: we hope you can stay right there. there is another hour of 7 news straight ahead. i am aadam williams. >> i'm kim khazei. 7 news at 5:30 starts now. deadly rampage comes to a dramatic end. searching for answers in the california shooting rights. ariled wreck hits close to home for one family. it's caught on camera. >> pete: cooler weather shifts in on the winds and the weekend will see a warm-up. >> kim: we're taking you down the yellow brick road.

>> announcer: 7 news at 5:30 starts now. >> ryan: first here at 5:30 the a.p.reporting the gunman responsible for the shootings used social media to contact extremists. investigators continue searching for answers. they were back at the home of the suspects who were behind a mass shooting that killed 14 people. investigators say 1, a the attacks. >> kim: what fronted this couple to commit such a heinous act? adam williams has more. >> reporter: nbc news is reporting that the two suspects may have been in touch with people overseas, people the u.s. was interested in and in the louisiana a. area with people expressing jihaddist views. the a. p.reports the shooters used social media to contact these extremists. police say farouk opened fire on his co-workers with his wife. the f.b.i. says he went to pakistan and brought back his fiance last july then

here in the united states. officials say yesterday the couple walked into a holiday center in san bernadino, started firing with automatic weapons. they also left behind three remote controlled pipe bombs that never went off. suspects' s.u.v. hours later. the couple died in an intense gun fight that followed them stopping the s.u.v. the shoot-out attack left 14 people dead at the center there and another 21 injured. law enforcement officials plan to release the names those killed as well as photographs today. investigators gather more evidence the f.b.i. says the motive for the massacre still remains unclear. in the newsroom i'm adam williams, 7 news. >> kim: there is plenty of reaction. some in washington have game. finger pointing in washington where flags fly at half-staff but jihad is

the couple in california. >> reporter: it's literally too early to adescribe a motive or describe their connections to other groups. >> reporter: trump said look at the names. >> radical islamic terrorism and i'll tell you what, we have a president that refuses to use the term. >> reporter: president obama focused on gun control. >> make it harder, not impossible but harder for individuals to get access to weapons. >> kim: it's not hard now and so far this year, there have been 355 mass shootings in america. at least four people injured or killed in each one of them. democrats are demanding both to toughen background checks and ban assault rifles. >> the worst thing we can do is do nothing. >> reporter: republicans say slow down. >> the last thing we want to rush to judgment to do something then not solve anything. >> reporter: the white house pointed a finger at the gun lobby.

congress that are terrified of the n.r.a. there are a lot of people that are terrified of a mass shooting. >> kim: they don't know whether that would have prevented the california massacre. stay win news onliar and on-line for updates. if we get new information about the shooters, victims, investigation, anything we'll sent out breaking news alerts on whdh.com and the mobil and tablet apps and we're posting updates on facebook and on twitter. >> ryan: following more news. itself trial of philip chism continued today. he is accused of raping and killing his high school math teacher. >> kim: the jury and defendant were not in the courtroom today. steve cooper was. he explains what did happen during proceedings. >> reporter: so kim, basically what happened here was chism decided he waived his right to be in the courtroom but the jury were told by the judge to stay away today while he tries to determine whether or not expert witnesses on mental

take the stand here. >> i like to only worry about areas where there is disagreement. >> reporter: the judgment presiding over the trial of philip chism holding a hearing where neither the jury nor the defendant was present. at issue whether the defense could present expert witnesses who testified by video hookup. psychiatrists who reviewed m.r.i.'s conducted on chism's brain that experts say indicate signs of schizophrenia. >> we're not asking the court to admit evidence that because mr. championship has these abnormalities of the brain that he has schizophrenia but only that it's consistent. >> reporter: but prosecutors pressing the experts asked if schizophrenia can be diagnosed with an m.r.i. to which the answer is no. >> from is a real risk that either the defense in closing or this jury in

this evidence as a diagnosis of schizophrenia which appears no where else in this case. >> reporter: by late in the day and among the judge's concerns the m.r.i. was done on chism while he was 16, not 14 when he is accused of killing his math teacher inside danvers high. >> the court is going to not allow doctor sattaway to testify in the case. >> reporter: so with that decision by the judge the jury will be back in the courtroom at 9:00 am along with the defendant himself. that the is when the trial. jurors are still expected to get this case to begin their deliberations by late next week according to the judge. live in salem tonight, steve cooper, 7 news. >> kim: cambridge schools on high alert because of an anonymous threats. students and parents greeted by police and bomb sniffing dogs this morning. police say they received an e-mail saying someone was school. it is the second threat they

e-mail after a bomb threat was made on tuesday. the decision was made to keep the school open, however. >> this is the challenge here of how, do you give in and what do you invite by giving in? there certainly is some palpable fear and on the other hand, that is counterbalanced by a palpable sense of relief particularly thanks to the police. >> kim: police do think the two threats are related an may be connected to a separate e-mail threat in november. they're investigating. requirements thousands of dollars worth ofologists. two men stole $3,000 in gift cards and toys from a garage run by operation santa claus. a charity in the granite state. the organization collects donations for children in need during the holiday season. the robbery set the group back but when donors heard about the crime they started giving even more.

program will still receive gift as they would have. the people who did this didn't ruin christmas for i been and they sort of increased the christmas spirit of everybody involved in the program. >> ryan: police expect to make more arrests in connection with the crime. >> kim: a group of 5th graders involved in a potentially explosive situation. they plotted to bomb a high school there. administrators found written plans. they released the students into the custody of the parents and suspended them over. crews in minneapolis, minnesota tearing down an encampment in front of a protestors have been. they gathered following the shooting death of jam are a clark during a confrontation with police. state and federal authorities both investigating the shooting, city leaders say they give protestors present of notice and we've not heard anything about arrests. >> ryan: another security

shining a light on the secret service in crisis. some of the breaches could have put president obama in danger. when a connecticut man vaulted over the fence on thanksgiving day over the fence, it was the latest in a long series of embarrassments for the united states secret service. a new congressional report out take finds the agency needs to be saved from itself. >> secret service is in crisis. the situation is getting works not bet. >> reporter: the bipartisan report reveals previously undisclosed breaches and lapses that could have endangered president obama. >> they had a lot of people with guns near the president that the secret service didn't know had guns, how do that is happen? >> reporter: the report blames devastating budget cuts and calls on the president himself to push for changes. in a statement the secret service said our leadership has long acknowledged in addition to its many successes they face many challenges. today the white house stood behind joe clancy the former agent president obama hired

>> does the president still have faith in direct usual clancy? >> absolutely. >> reporter: the new report finds that the secret service may not be able to a mission where failure could have tragic consequences. the secret service says they'll take sometime to fix. >> kim: frightening moments when a disabled man falls on the transit tracks. there he is on the tracks. would his dog. then you see good samaritans jumping into help. okay. >> ryan: a sperm donor in kansas is fighting a donation battle with him support. the man signed a contract for a same-sex couple and the state is saying that the couple is not theirs because they were' not married. same-sex -- the couple believes the state is under political pressure.

love that a child gets from two parents. has always had it. >> i've never spoken to anybody who is a sperm donor father too. >> reporter: he spent . >> ryan: a judge ordered the donor to take a paternity test. if named the father he will support. ahead here on 7 caught an camera a driver goes out of control and airborne. home. >> kim: new at 6:00 a local woman locked up and accused of taking big advantage of an elderly man she was hired to help. mornings. wonderful, crazy mornings.

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>> ryan: a wild wreck caught on camera. a family in texas had a close call when a driver wept off road. that s.u.v. hit their fence there and went flying through the air coming inches from hitting their home kitchens they say this is far from the first time they've been in the path of danger. home security cameras caught this terrifying moment from monday night. there is no audio but the video shows it all. >> it is truly frightening.

grandchildren to go outside and play in the front yard because of situations like this. they speed during the day time. it's worse at night. >> kim: this time melody robinson and her family were lucky the sufficient stopped just short of their home. drives don't pay attention to the stop sign and keep on driving. >> we had about two vehicles that ran into my living room. the cars came in the house and before that they came close to running into the house or either they have came and hit our vehicles or whatever. >> kim: family spend several thousand installing concrete and wooden pillars to try to protect their home. they want the say to city speed bumps to force people to slow down. >> they can kill one of us if not all of us. >> kim: the family sleeps on edge every night because they just never know when a car is going to crash foo their home. >> ryan: the wiz live

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>> ryan: i'm hearing that the temperatures are going to go up nice consistent i had some people, a friend wouldn't get out of the car saying it's too cold. i said really? she is from new england. go figure. >> pete: i don't understand that one. wait till it gets to mid-january and we have a foot of snow. maybe february or march. 45 in boston, cloudy to mostly cloudy, west-northwest wind at 21 miles an hour, we did make the 50s and you probably missed it, right? what did that happen? early this morning and we

carver to new bedford, middleboro. hind i too. very mild but that is all gone now. front came through and changed it up. now in the 40s every where. low 40s, too, that breeze makes it feel coldser. no precipitation but we do have the clouds around. 32 in boston now. for a wind speed. gust, that surges occasionally. generally the winds are 20-25 miles an hour. worcester at 30 miles an hour wind gusts. so low pressure system is gone. out of the picture, gone. now we watch for cloud to build into tomorrow afternoon but it's not what you think. western new england may be socked in. this is a weak weather system enough to make the clouds grow but by the time the clouds get to us, they break up quite a bit. southern new england has that advantage. called downslope. tomorrow will be a partly cloudy sky in the afternoon after a bright start. seasonal where we should be. in the middle 40 ace, that front does not push through.

good hold in new england. there is no real cold air behind it so this will be the coolest day that we'll see of the next few. 45 framingham. 43 in worcester and 47 in sandwich and duxbury. may see a sea breeze on saturday that would ep coo us from 54 in the city and route 1,route 3 but elsewhere we should make it to almost mid 50s, milder day. wall to wall sunshine, too. then on sunday it's even milder, partly cloudy and about 28-37. not all that chill i with a northwest wind backing off 8-15 miles an hour, more sun tomorrow then a few more clouds afternoon 44-48. northwest wind. i don't think it'll go worse than partly cloudy or partly sunny. however you want to slice it, that is your call. the weekend in view. i don't put the sun like that without a cloud on it unless i'm certain. i'm pretty certain we see

us to the 60s after a mild start on sunday at 37ish. low temperatures and high temperatures are always averages of the suburbs and the city. not one temperature that rules them all. see you next half hour. >> kim: so it has become a bit of a holiday tradition here on nbc and it happens tonight when stars go live rain. it's an all-star cost damage together for "the whiz." nancy chen has a preview. >> reporter: michael jackson and diana ross gave the musical a new audience when the -- from it moved me in such a positive way. it moved so many people in a positive way. >> reporter: giving the wizard of os a twist broadened the appeal of the classic story. >> to see that same story with characters that looked more like me just made it that much more poignant for me. >> reporter: so much so that neyo is taking his spin

wanted in. >> this is the wiz. how could you not want to be a part of it. >> reporter: queen latifah has the title role. >> i'm here, i'm so excited. >> reporter: first broadway show i ever saw and we're blown away. man. >> when i think of home -- >> reporter: but it's an unknown in the role of dorothy, new jersey teen shanice williams. >> the yell ox brick road. whatever people talk about it to me you got to kill it. >> reporter: new englanders will have to keep an eye out for uzo adubeo who plays glenda the good witch. she says she is looking forward to returning to her musical routes. >> it feels like coming home in a way. you know, there is no place like home. i'm so glad that i get to use my instruments. >> reporter: a star-studded group bound for

yellow brick road tonight. in addition to the stars you saw in the story, the cast includes elijah kelly and the woman who played dorothy in the original bloodway break in the 70's stephanie mill, she is playing and youy em this time around. >> the wiz live airs tonight at 8:00. then get caught up on all the day's top stories from the night team on 7 news at 11:00. >> adam: i'm adam williams, in minutes we're following new developments in the deadly shooting in california. pipe bombs and loads of ammunition discovered not only found on the scene but also at the suspect's home. suspect behind bars after a shooting that killed a computer rail conductor on thanksgiving day and a local woman arrested accused of faking a brain tumor to steal tens of thousands of dollars. those stories plus your

>> kim: so glad are with us, there is another 30 minutes of 7 news ahead. >> ryan: i'm ryan schulteis, 7 news at 6:00 starts right now. >> announcer: now at 6:00 alarming details about the alleged suspect behind the california shootings. pipe bombs and loads of ammunition found at the suspects' homes. we're learning more about their plot to kill and explosives located inside the san bernadino facility.

the boston marathon bombings, new at 6:00. a local woman behind bars accused of faking a brain tumor to steal thousands of dollars from an elderly widower. >> pete: a little cooler, too, we'll see temperatures level then rise this weekend. >> announcer: 7 news at 6:00 starts now. >> kim: breaking news at 6:00. u.s. intelligence official says the california shooter contacted extremists under f.b.i. scrutiny. this as investigators try to determine if this was a terrorism what happened yesterday. a work grudge or possibility a combination. >> adam: we know the two shooters had weapons to kill many more people. police say farooq and his wife fired 75 five rounds inside a social services center but brought bombs and many more bullets with them case. more than a dozen pipe bombs were found in the couple's home. the f.b.i. is going room by

we've details about the people killed beginning to emerge including one woman with new england ties who survived the ram page. reporters are workingive angle of the store and gets' get started with dahn dan and the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: while the gunman family didn't see signs of violence we're learning the signs were there and the people he was talking to. some of them he reached out to on the internet. as investigators trace the trail of death left behind by farooq and his pakistani wife, nbc news is reporting that he had been communicationing in los angeles with people expressing jihaddist views and he had been in touch with people overseas the u.s. was interested in. now the a.p.is reporting he reached out to some of the people on social media. still police, the f.b.i. and the president say the motive in the massacre is not clear `yet. >> it is possible that this was terrorist-related, but