short time ago. you can see here, the car completely enveloped by the flames. look at that there, wow, exploded on the side of the road, it happened on the northbound side of the road. nobody hurt there. traffic still backed up. that, exploration right there, causing delays. that car catches fire and explodes along 93 in canton. nobody hurt. you can see -- show you the video, the explosion cause of that fire, once again, 93 in cannot ton, no one was hurt. we'll keep you of updated. >> a boston woman charged with murder facing a judge today. boyfriend. >> neighbors say it was a gruesome scene. kelly is live at the dorchester kelly. >> reporter: despite the charges, the 25-year-old told police she was acting in self-defense and she claims her boyfriend attacked her. police weren't buying her story

with murder. it was late last night when police got the call. a dorchester woman calling 911 for help, claiming that she was attacked inside her home. knife. >> stomping on the ground, lots of ground noise, i don't know how to describe it. >> was it screaming or yelling? >> no, i didn't hear anything. >> no screaming, no yelling, but a 28-year-old man did end up dead. stabbed to death by his girlfriend, valerie cirillo perez. a young woman now charged with killing her boyfriend. >> your honor, we're on record as the matter, valerie cirillo perez in court charged with a murder, a plea of not guilty entered. >> neighbors telling us, they never heard in i trouble in the couple's apartment. last night no different. >> she was pretty nice. >> reporter: and the sight of seeing this woman being brought away in handcuffs was surprising to them. >> i was surprised when i saw her in the police car. i said, oh, my god, something

it was strange to me. >> reporter: the district attorney put out a press release, saying the reason they charged this woman with murder is because of some of the statements she made to the police and also no sort of defensive wounds on her. she's being charged and being held without bail and due in court next month. >> the state fire marshal's office, is investigating what caused a barn to go up in flames in sturbridge. more than a dozen community battled that fire on river road. they brought in tankers because there are no hydrants in that area. the building which houses construction equipment was a total loss. fire officials say their main concern was keeping the fire contained. >> based on the amount of fire involved, our primary focus was on the two approximate exposed to the left and right. the building on fire was a total loss. >> a bad santa in manchester new hampshire is on the naughty list

police arrested 50-year-old alan pruafter they say he stole a baby stroller at the race christmas parade on saturday. he was dressed in a red coat and a santa hat. >> if a kids sees a santa try to steal a baby carriage, they're going to think, oh, my god, santa is bad. >> police say pru is even more trouble because of his criminal history. >> following more news today, hundreds taking to chicago to the streets last night demanding justice for a man shot and killed pia police last year. yesterday the cook's county district attorney say charges will not be filed goodens the officer who shot ronald johnson. now people in that community are joining his family calling for some officials to step down. >> reporter: marching near the sight where chicago police fatally shot ronald johnson in october of 2014. protesters called for the cook

>> hey hey. >> hoe hoe! >> alvarez sparking outrage after announcement on monday. >> i'm not covering anything up. >> that they will not be charging the officer in that shooting. >> the crime cannot be proven without a reasonable doubt. >> reporter: resisted arrest and took off running. dash cam video shows johnson running from police before being shot we officer george hernandez twice in the back. >> i'm very upset that she didn't convict this officer murdering my son and i'm not going to stop until i get what i want for him and that's justice. >> the night of the shooting, dispatch began receiving calls from multiple residents about guns. >> how many shots you hear. >> nine to ten of them. they're shooting around here going crazy. >> there's a lot of up, suspicious charactering running in my with hoodies on. >> shows johnson holding a gun.

questioned the officer's claims demanding the case be reopen. >> there is no gun visible in ronald johnson's hand because there was none, he it was unwere and. >> reporter: the city mayor trying to stay ahead of the controversy, as the justice department plans to launch a full investigation into the department's use of force. >> we welcome it. >> reporter: just last week, they asked for the resignation other cases. >> this just in out of washington, the house of representatives has approved legislation tightening controls on travel to the u.s. it's a bill that would require visas for anyone who has been in iraq or syria in the previous five years. it was approved by an overwhelming majority. and it takes aim at what's called the visa waiver program. it allows citizens of 38 countries to travel to the united states without getting a visa first.

and it has to go to the senate next. kim casey 7 news. >> air france flight from san francisco to paris forced to make an emergency landing. in a statement, it diverted to montreal as a precautionary measure. it landed just before midnight. all passengers got off safely. south african olympian oscar piss torous granted bail. he will being under house arrest. an appeals court overturned his manslaughter conviction last week finding him guilty of murdering his girlfriend in 2014. his lawyers are now appealing. >> police in california arrest suspects for pointing a laser at a helicopter. the helicopter using infrared suspects. they can disorient pilots and cause them to lose night vision for several minutes. >> rescue a sailor stuck at sea. it was caught in rough waters off the coast of oregon. it shows a helicopter crew coming in to help that sailor. >> police in georgia looking

they say a woman posted an ad asking for a baby. and what makes this case even stranger is investigate are tos say the baby wasn't for her, but for her teenage daughter. >> in my view, it's extremely unly usual, i've never heard of anything, combatly like this. >> the ad itself was up for 12 days placed in the baby and kids stuff section on craigslist. they started looking into it, when they got a tip from someone in the community who saw the ad, after tracing the phone number listed the it led them to 47-year-old elaine williams, officers learned she was llegedly soliciting babies because her 14-year-old daughter said she wanted one. >> and it's gotten sad, actually, through the investigation to find that a 14-year-old baby that wants a baby and a mother, rather than guiding and helping raise her 14-year-old daughter, decide to help her find a baby. >> reporter: the ad is simply titled, home for your newborn baby. the ad reads, it asks for birth

but then warns, in all caps, a disabled child may not be placed in box. instead offering to guide those parents to other locations. >> they were prepared for a baby. the 14-year-old had a crib, formula, baby formula, diapers, baby gifts, they were ready for a baby. >> that woman is in jail, charged with illegal advertising. her daughter is facing the same charge but was not taken into custody. >> caught on camera, a simple attempt ends with the car crashing right through the front window of a florida restaurant and into a dining room filled with people. one person was seriously hurt after being pinned earned the car. four others including the driver had minor injuries. the restaurant owner hopes to reopen as soon as possible. >> a florida driver trapped on the tracks, forced to abandon his car as a freight train comes barrelling into it. people tried to save the car but it was too late. the train didn't have time to stop and crashed through that car. neighbors say this is a

make wrong turn and end up stuck on those tracks. >> ahead on 7, a wild story in florida where police say a burglar was on the run, killed by a gator while trying to make that get away. >> antiinflammatory head on news, boston college students sick with the nor row virus after meet eating a chipotle in cleveland circle and investigators say they found health violations in that restaurant. >> tonight. >> it's not a bar that everyone knows your name, but it is is a bar that everybody knows. we're on the set of chicago

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>> a robber on the run has a deadly encounter with an al gator. police in florida say the man was hanging out in a pond after burglar rising a home. >> that's when they say an alligator attacked and killed him. >> i would say it's poet tick justice. you want to steel from people. >> on november 9th on november 13th, that man, 23-year-old

>> neighbors reported seeing -- >> respond we have two tales blocked them as best we can. >> that began a search of the area, with more and more deputies, k 9s. >> rig begins calls his girlfriend, saying they're being chased and they're laying low. >> do you still hear them hollering or did they hunker down. >> it was that yelling that would be telling. deputies called off the search but his family reported him missing later in the day. >> he probably went into the lake to hide from the officers and the dog at some point came across that gator. >> that's right. an 11 foot alligator. it all had the makings of a gator attack. >> he hid in the wrong place. >> the dive team encountered the same gator themselves during the recovery and the animal had to be euthanized. inside, the medical examiner

was gill can ied. to hide somewhere, and to meet up with an animal like that. you don't do that and then walking away unscathed. >> authorities say they have do have a second suspect. that person has not yet been charged. >> the clouds are with us today. they'll be with us again tomorrow. a were with a up, though, long term. it won't be denied. that's ahead. >> then at 6, two massachusetts women coming together to send a

>> now, 7 weather with chief meteorologist pete. >> boston at 41 degrees right now. our dew point reading right near 32. so the air isn't all that dry. the clouds have the upper hand here. not only tomorrow, but in the extended forecast as well. we have good confidence that we

however, the details, the finer points, have to be worked out, like which day hits 60. i don't think it will be denied. mostly dry forecast. a couple of sprinkles around on thursday morning perhaps. warmer late week too. we just talked about that. temps in the 30s. settling back to worcester and bedford and nashua as well. 40 or so. and better than that, 45 in hyannis, 47 in nantucket, where we did get a good shrug of rain through there and also through the cape and cape cod. where is that arctic air, when you talk about it, you have to show me the money. right now, 7 degrees is still above normal for that location. these locations, from win any peg to moose sent knee, not getting to near arctic. headed for able island, this little dot right here.

so we remain in the clouds, might be some partial clearing tonight. if you see the stars you're lucky. elsewhere and otherwise, it will be a most cloudy sky. then that carries into tomorrow. again, no real exchange in wind direction, other than coming out of the southeast, which is a moist direction for us and maybe feeding more clouds. and the fact of if matter an aversion, an area of warm air, above the cloud level, that will keep us clouded in. can't bust through that this time of year, not with any sunshine, not at all. we go into thursday with a few clouds as well. seasonal in the 40s. might be a sprinkle on thursday. but this is a different day because the winds will shift to the south he's with and stir in milder air. other than those sprinkles we stay most cloudy and then the next system wait for us. 44 -- turns into 54 or 55 on thursday. stay in the 50s through the weekend.

it depends on the location of a front on friday and saturday. mainly cloudy tomorrow, seasonably cool, where we should be no complaints, 42 to 46. brightest days if i had to pick them. yes, on thursday and on saturday. not saying much. i think saturday will be the brighter of the next four. and then sunday back into the clouds. if we get the front through here, we'll stay in the 50s. and then push 60 on of monday and then tuesday maybe cooling off by then. closer to normal. see you at 6. >> farmers in acushnet asking for a helping hand after their miniature horse was shot, shattering its leg. >> they say it's going to take unusual steps to save their horse. >> 2-year-old max is limping along on painkillers after its owners says he was shot last night. >> shattered the bone, torn the tendon. >> says sometime around dusk on tuesday, he was shot while tied to this tree. hunting does not go on near her

yards back. she reported to the police, and the horse surviveded but the vet, says he will not sir heal. >> we don't want to do, because he's only two, he has so much left to give. >> the other option to save mack's life, is a prosthetic leg, not common for a mini horse but possible according to their vet at tufts medical center. we can do it. >> on the first day of this go-fund me page, donations close to 1,000 dollars. despite the trauma, max is still enjoying life. >> and police say they are investigating how max got shot. >>(pause.) next in the buzz, we're taking you to chicago for a sneak peak mind the scene of nbc's new show chicago med. >> breaking news coming up at 6,

students ill after eating a local chipotle. the health violations found inside the restaurant. >> and also, a pregnant woman tied up inside a home invasion in quincy. we have the latest. >> mail messages to overseas, how many cards they hope to send. >> at gillette where kids get a chance to wrap a pet. those straight ahead at 6. >> the 7 news app, it's free,

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>> all right. tonight in the buzz, we're taking you behind the scenes of nbc's hottest new show chicago med. >> some of the scenes can be graphic at times but he shows us when he got to hang out with the stars of that show, it's all hollywood magic. >> we are in a restricted area on one of the actual sets of 7 nbc's new show, chicago med. we're revealing all of these restrictions to take you behind the scenes for an inside look. >> still no pulse, he's in fib. >> reporter: they are the new kids on the block in nbc's chicago trilogy. making its debut this season with familiar stars and new faces proving they can talk the talk.

60s, she gets. >> reporter: easy for him to say. i had a chance to spend some time with the cast on the set in chicago. >> you know real doctors are going to be watching, you know they're going to be analyzing what you're doing, how important is it to be as accurate as possible? >> incredibly we have amazing medical advisors working with us. >> reporter: and we got to see them in action. taking us behind the scenes onto one of their elaborate sets. for a hands on demonstration with the show's key medical advisor, andrew dennis, a real life trauma surgeon. >> when you look at a trauma patient, when you come in, it looks like a scripted event, where everyone kind of looks for work and they know what to do. apple that's what we have to train everybody here to do. >> the actors went through a medical bootcamp to learn procedures like stitching and cpr and spent time in real operating rooms to see what surgeons actually go through. >> we take care of little toys

built so we can come in and be able to look like we know what we're doing. >> reporter: the patients seem pretty real too. >> you can actually reach in and pull these things out. >>. >> reporter: now what is this? >> a liver. >> that's a lung. >> reporter: what this looks like, is very real to scale to what we've seen in an operating room. >> reporter: especially the blood. and there's lots of blood. but remember, it's all fake. >> blood is corn syrup, so it gets -- >> sticky. >> yeah, it does. try to -- >> when we do that, we end up using a lot of lubrication. >> one of the many tricks to help bring the show to life. on the set of chicago med. >> this is a messy job but someone has got did to do it. >> kris anderson 7 news. >> i think chris should stay with his day job. do you want him to operate on you any time soon? >> at 8 p.m., watch the thoughs,

chicago med. and then chicago fire. and then 7 news at 11. and we're taking you into the fire, kris anderson gives us behind the scenes look at chicago fire, gives you an exclusive look at the sets that's tonight at 11: very cool. >> looking forward to it. there's another 30 minutes. >> breaking news at 6. a rising number of boston college students get sick after eating in a local restaurant. side. we're live with the latest. also breaking. at pregnant woman tied up in a frightening home invasion. custody. in the race for the white house. republican presidential candidate donald trump. standing about i his call to block muslims from coming to the u.s. hampshire. >> you got to find the proper balance. >> we're live with more reaction to the controversial comments.

at this storm. now things start to clear up gradually and we're warming too. >> and two massachusetts women coming together to mail a holiday message to troops overseas. >> the two of us live so close to each other, that we figure, why not join forces. >> how many cards they hope to send. >> 7 news at 6. starts now. >> breaking news here at 6, a pregnant woman tied up in home invasion in quincy. investigators say she was tied up to a chase chair. one person in custody another on the run. >> the woman's daughter found her and called 911. let's get out to susan tran she's in quincy at the home. >> we just spoke the husband at the home in quincy and describes a frantic scene. he says his wife was taped to a chair, the men pointed a gun to her head and asked her where is the money. he says it all started because these men kicked in their back door, went into the home. they had a teenage daughter,

she actually locked herself in a