insane en he murdered his math teacher. do you have an opinion as to age of onset of this illness in phillip chisolm . yes, do i . what is that? about the age of ten . >> reporter: a psychiatrist testified phillip chisolm was mentally ill when he murdered his math teacher at danvers high back in october of 2013 . it's my opinion that he suffers from what in dsm 41 call a psychotic disorder and dsm five called unspecified schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorder . >> reporter: he sat staring down at the defense even as the defense questioned the expert witness being paid $300 an hour . you believe he was mumbling and hearing voices in danvers high school . i believe that he was psychotic . >> reporter: a prosecutor

evaluation came two years after the gruesome crime . by the time were you looking at phillip chisolm he was under indictment for rape and murder correct . that's correct . >> reporter: dr. dudley during a blistering cross-examination was grilled about chisolm's mental state when prosecutors said he came to school armed with a box culter, gloves and a ski mask. when he brought not just the red sweatshirt he was wearing but a sweatshirt with a hood to cover his head he was experiencing psychoses . that's correct . >> reporter: was he experienc experiencing it when he did well on a test . yes. >> reporter: dudley back on the stand first thing monday morning as testimony resumes. we're told jurors could begin their deliberations by the middle of next week here in this murder trial. live in salem, steve cooper, 7 news. >> anchor: new at 4:30 a lowell man is behind bars after police make a big drug bust. police search the man's home on branch street in lowell last night and they found 86 gram of

and cash. the 26-year-old is now facing drug trafficking charges. in peabody a brooklyn man under arrest after police say he was using fraudulent credit cards. this is all happening today after police say the pan was planning on using at least 200 counterfeit cards. you see them all laid out there. the 57-year-old man was arrest and now facing a whole bunch of s . bill cosby's wife will answer questions under oath in massachusetts next month. it it will be her first deposition since dozens of women have come forward as you cooing her husband of sexual abuse. a lawyer for 7 women suing the comedian for defamation said that mrs. cosby will be questioned on january 6 in springfield. bill cosby's deposition is set for february. charlie sheen's former fiance say filed a lawsuit accusing im imhim of assault and battery, false imprisonment and not disclosing to her he is hiv positive. she is seeking $1 million in earnings from his canceled tv show which was part of an alleged agreement between that

we are learning new details by dead bee bus crash in washington state. one of the victims filing a lawsuit against the bus company. an international student suffered a broken leg after two buses collided back in september september. she is now suing the bus company to pay for her medical bills. one person was killed in a that crash. when i first opened my eyes laying down on the isle of the bus i don't know what happened. i thought it was just a dream or i was playing video games. >> anchor: her lawyers say her medical bills right now are in the tens of thousands of dollars. >> anchor: we're following new details on a bomb threat the a new jersey school. police say five elementary school students were detained and released to their parents after a bomb plot wednesday. new jersey police found the device involved and say it contains no explosives. still though some paints are upset but how and when they were notified. it was just a rumor on the school and then we found that it was real. clifton high school students and staff, the intended victims of a

i think they were just joking around but the school . they most certainly are. four boys and one girl made a bomb of cinnamon and vinegar and planted detonated during a wednesday field trip to the high school. the plan fell apart when police say school administrators came across some of the details that had been written down on paper. kids. you know? not even 17, 18, 19-year-old kids. . you have to take care of your kids and be prepared but i don't think something like that will happen. this is an important message for all parents and staff from the clifton superintendent. >> reporter: a robocall went out to parents thursday afternoon as well as this text message saying police questioned students involved determined no danger. first of all, i think they should contacted them yesterday when they found out. . we support the principal

>> reporter: police say is no way the device would have ever exploded but paints are fright frightened for their kids safety. that's our chin. our children. school. are you for real? and it's no big deal? it is a big deal. especially with what's going on in the world today. how can it not be a big deal? the students who made the bomb have been suspended. no charges have been filed against them. >> anchor: a police car going on a crash course with a deer in kentucky. you can see the car hit that air. the deer then gets back up and runs off. the video has gone viral. you remember we showed think video earlier in the week has facebook. you think get some attention around northern kentucky. i never expected it to get over 2 million likes and all of the news networks, you know, around . >> anchor: that officer says . >> anchor: a car crashes into a

police say the car was being towed away when the tow truck driver lost control and slammed the car into the front of the store. you can see a lot of damage there and right now police are searching for that tow truck driver. and an air heads factory, we're talking about the candy in kentucky goes up in flames. you can see the flames just shooting out of the roof there. all of the factory workers thank thankfully made it out okay. right now investigators are trying to determine what started that fire. >> anchor: we're following more news here today. a tennessee community is reeling over this photo taken inside a local school. it shows a man pointing a gun at the camera while hoeding a wad of cash of the a lot of followed follow up from this photo as stunts and parents express their concern. these two people showing off a gun and a wad of cash certainly didn't hide the weapon and did little to hide where the picture was taken. you can see school lockerbie hind them . they need to find out how he got in sandra morgan, a mother of the teens that go to this high school said in her

when i see security guards and the teachers that be out watching everybody and making sure everything is all right . >> reporter: county officials say this is certainly a very disturbing picture and this type of behave i don't remember will not be tolerated in our schools . if you don't have on school close you can't get in. i'm just wondering how he got in. this is a second day in a row a trespassor brought a weapon. candace lee brought a knife to another high school. police arrested her on wednesday. i am concerned because i thought since doors was locked couldn't no one get in . >> reporter: the school was locked down for an hour as police investigated. three students in addition to the woman who was not a student were arrested wednesday morning . the identities of the suspects has not been released. an investigation is now under way. >> anchor: authorities in new mexico are looking for a suspect in a million dollar jewelry heist. police say the suspect this guy right here walked into a santa fe jewelry store and walked out

they say he stole jewelry during the annual christmas tree light lighting on the plaza. there is now an active warrant out for his arrest. distracted with all of the customers that they had and other people outside and it just completely went unnoticed by them. >> anchor: police say two other people you see right here, a man and woman, were caught on camera during that jewelry heist and police are still trying to figure out their involvement . >> anchor: there is now a whole new world open to people looking princess. mouse mingle.com is an on-line dating site for disney fans look factually filled relationship. the web site has been having registrations. do you remember the sign up users are asked questions in order to gauge how big a fan they actually are. a lot of people would like that. ahead a marriage proposal getting a whole lot of attention attention. a pan turning the tails on his girlfriend all in the name of love . >> anchor: we're following the latest on investigation into the

the media is allowed inside the . breaking news. a bomb squad in boston blowing up a suspicious suitcase earlier today. custody in connection with the case. we'll have the very latest on 5:00. we'll be right back. jeb bush: here's the truth you will not hear from our president: we are at war with radical islamic terrorism. it is the struggle that will determine the fate of the free world. the united states should not delay in leading a global coalition to take out isis with overwhelming force. their aim is our total destruction. we can't withdraw from this

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>> anchor: an iowa man getting a little help from a police officer to help start the rest of his life on the right foot. the police department helping to . >> anchor: super cute proposal here and whole thing was caught on camera. you know that uneasy feeling in the pit of your stomach of the one you get when you see flashing lights in your mirror? this is it . >> anchor: that's how jeb and his girlfriend were feeling this past thanksgiving.

i said jeff we have to sell this car. >> anchor: jeff a bit of a led foot ticketed for speeding on the way to meet her parent the first time . >> anchor: the whole family is sitting right inside. i thought, well, he will hear about this for the red of his life. this time was different. is there a reason why you would have a rest? >> reporter: jeff was asked to get out of car. the officer asked jenna to identify some merchandise the officer believed was possibly stolen . i thought he is going to jail. this is a mistake. this can't be right. >> reporter: the only thing that could wipe that frantic look off her face was realization . will you marry me? >> reporter: the only thing jeff had stolen was her heart. oh my god! are you kidding me? oh my god!

frame when i had to pass matt where he was going to be at . i love you. i said i'm not going to get tazered. wrong what all this stuff is. fun to watch that . i'm happy i was involved with it and it's mice to be involved with something that they will remember for the rest of their lives. >> anchor: how much fun, right the newlyweds have already set a date for next july. >> anchor: risky though for sure although i did see that ring. beautiful. we have to talk built forecast coming up. looks like a warming trend for the weekend. so we're not talking any snow. details are next. then at 5:00 shall finding a creative way to spread christmas cheer. what santa is doing to find a way to connect to a boy with autism . >> anchor: we are staying on top of breaking knew. asuspect in custody after a

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>> anchor: this is mount aetna. would you wow, impressive, right right? it's europe's tallest volcano showing off what it can do spewing hot lava into the sky vice will for miles. clouds of ashes blanketing the surrounding towns and even caused a nearby airport to close down early this morning. mount aetna is considered the world's most active volcano . >> anchor: amazing pictures to look at. it's so deadly and dangerous but can't not look at that. look at the amazing color of those. . >> anchor: that's why those lava lamps were so popular, right? >> anchor: you look at that and people talk about if you look close you get in the habit of going through procedures in case you do have to leave. looking at that pretty amazing pictures . >> anchor: ashes come down and get all over the cars and just a mess. but deficit revery impressive. scary, all those kinds of things. >> anchor: let's change the gear talking about weather. bree, we'll get some pretty good improvement here over the weekend . >> anchor: improvement i know it depends on who you ask though because if i had a nickel for

when is it going to school? i would be able to go christmas shopping again. actually outside cues i guess you could say, scenic cues that were just around the connor from christmas and we have to keep on point with the calendar here. 17 days until winter solstice. it's meteorological winter so we already kicked that off just 20 days until christmas. so we have no snow to speak of just yet and i put this together last night to show some recent years where we've seen not much snow within the month of december and then how that season turned out because we all remember last year don't we? hard to forget. i know that's kind of an anomaly so the moral of this story is that is not likely to happen again because that is so out of the ordinary. you can see that the rest of the years we have listed here below normal seasons with 44 inches of snow being an average season for boston. this is kind of 359 earn we have set up for us right now. at least it has been for the

we've got the cold, arctic airlocked up north and storm track to the south and the temperatures are getting milder as we head through this weekend and throughout the next 7 days that i have in the forecast. we are either at average or well above it. current temperatures 47 for boston, down through norwood, 42 for worcester. a touch of a breeze with us today but nothing compared to the winds of yesterday. however, it does add a wind chill so real feel of these temperatures into the 30's for worcester, 42 boston, feel like 39 in bedford so keep that in mind if you still have to take the dogs for a walk this evening evening. clouds moving in for us. they have been through the last few hours. but that really will benefit our temperatures tonight keeping them from free falling. you can see some colors popping up here light snow flurries in western new england and northern new england, even some showers because the temperatures are not cold enough but none of that makes it into our neighborhood tonight. we get this high pressure moving in for us that is sinking

everything out and it keeps clouds from forming which means we insure plenty of sunshine through the weekend. partly cloudy to mostly clear. we'll see clouds move out 30 to 36 a touch above average then tomorrow even milder than today. today was nice. right? you want to it again and we'll boost those temperature up by a couple of degrees and then we do that yet again as we get into sunday. now i am a little uncertain about that on sunday. 60 degrees it, could happen, but it really depends on how much mixing we get. it is very warm upstairs, plus we have bright sunshine to enjoy so it could happen. we could see some low 60's in the forecast as we get into sunday. we just need to get warmer air from up top down closer to the surface. headed to the game? we will see the temperatures very nice for tailgating and then cooling as we head through the night. so sun goes down so make sure you still bring those layers with you. 7 on 7 forecast again showing either average temperatures you see on tuesday or well above it

storm tuesday, wednesday but it looks like we're going to miss the bulk of that. we'll see new few minutes. it's friday. we made it, folks. let's get a check of the ride home . >> anchor: the friday afternoon rush certainly on. 128 northbound right by 225 dealing with a three car crash over in the break down lane. that's why we're rolling all the way back through waltham a very slow ride there for the 128 northbound commute coming up on the pike westbound another tough spot out by exit 17. we had that crash last night around just before the tolls at route 128. should be off the roadway in a moment or two but looking at a 15 minute ride now westbound on the mass pike heading out toward route 128. delays remain too on that southbound ride of the expressway. that's where all red lines are down in the braintree area making your way out through milton a tight ride there. 128 back in newton not moving all that badly. then downtown 93 not moving too badly here. northbound or southbound getting by the zakim bridge. joe staple ton, 7 news.

a new study in its early stages is signing magnetic stimulation could help people addicted to do . >> anchor: the treatment focuses on stimulating the patient's brain of a group of patients received 8 sessions of 29 days. revvers say cravings of the patient's decreased and reported much lower relapse rate after . >> anchor: revvers now suggest women taking antibiotics late in pregnancy increases the risk of wheeze after studying more than 3,000 pregnant women italian rev revvers say there is no direct connection to exposure and wheeze during the first trimester. they say the third shows the highest risk. >> anchor: mood matters when it comes to medical procedures. researchers documented the emotions of more than 200 patients before undergoing a radiology procedure. patients who appeared to be more ear itable orrer in us had twice the risk of complication. that included blood pressure issues, post op bleeding or abnormal heart rate.

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bowl today. jeb bush: here's the truth you will not hear from our president: we are at war it is the struggle that will determine the fate of the united states should not delay in leading a global coalition to take out isis with overwhelming force. their aim is our total destruction. we can't withdraw from this threat or negotiate with it. we have but one choice: to defeat it. vo: right to rise usa is responsible for the content of this message. >> anchor: stopping the buzz tonight, a for "baywatch" star showing off some skin yet again . >> anchor: pamela anderson will be on the cover of prey

will feature some of the most iconic bunnies. it announced it was doing away of full nudity. no word yet on which other famous bunnies will be in the final issue. >> anchor: burlington native my poehler receiving a special hollywood accolade. the actress and comedian was honored with a star on the hollywood walk of fame. she is best known for her role on parks and recreation and saturday night live. that's not even chew backa . it's not him, no, it's not. it's not him. jj really watched all of these creatures . >> anchor: they made a parody for the upcoming "star wars" film in their new movie sisters hits theaters the same day with the force awakens expected to shatter box office records. they are encouraging offices to see both films . >> anchor: two for one. >> anchor: the whiz quickly became a worldwide trending

the live television event receiving many positive reviews from viewers. show featured an all-star cast coming to the for a revile of the film and broadway hit. if you missed the show, you can catch it a replay on nbc.com. >> anchor: much more to come in the next 90 minutes. >> anchor: 7 news at 5:00 starts right now. >> anchor: breaking news, the california shootings declared an act of terror. one of the suspects allege le levowing allegiance to isis on facebook as a bomb making lab is found inside the suspect's home. >> anchor: also breaking, an arrest after an explosive scare in boston's financial distribute i'm suspicious suitcase left behind. the bomb squad was sent scrambling . >> anchor: on just one station. aaron hernandez facing some new trouble behind bars after make a dangerous discovery inside his cell. plenty of sunshine for the weekend.

chance to see a drop of rain? >> reporter: 7 news at 5:00 starts now . >> anchor: we are following two big breaking stories here at 5:00. a suspect in custody in connection with a scare in boston's financial distribute this afternoon. a suspicious suitcase causing the bomb squad to move in. tonight that suspect is charged with planning a hoax device near a homeland security vehicle. we'll have complete coverage of this arrest in just a moment . >> anchor: but first we do have breaking news out of california. the f.b.i. announcing that the mass shooting in san bernadino was an act of terror. that is after have thors the social media site says tashfeen malik posted her praise of isis as attacks began . >> anchor: the couple destroyed cell phones recovered in a trash can near the home and those are providing critical clues to

>> anchor: we've learned that