>> anchor: now at 4:30, a 39 yearly woman killed when her car crashes in a house in north reading. the deadly accident happening . >> anchor: the people inside that home getting quite the shock. 7's jennifer egan spoke with them. >> reporter: heavy fog hung over route 6 2 in north reading, the scene of a deadly accident

we heard a loud bang i knew somebody hit the house because of the sound and feeling, you . tracy was home when the driver, a 39-year-old woman from . when she hit the wall, the wall fell in so the wall was on the living room furniture . >> anchor: >> reporter: she rushed we came out and saw the vehicle and the engine was still revving. so i just called 911 . >> reporter: police say the impact of the crash threw the driver into the passenger seat. she did not survive . we're not ruling anything out. you know, certainly weather is always a factor but we're we haven't determined the exact cause of the accident . >> reporter: tracy's mother and brother were inside at the tile of the crash. this eweren't hurt. there is significant damage to their historic home, which dates back to the 1640's. an uneasy feeling knowing what happened here . it's upsetting to have, to know somebody passed away and know her circumstances so it's,

>> reporter: an inspector took a look at the home. they told a family that lives here they have to stay out of the on the left side of the house. in north reading, jennifer egan, 7 news . >> anchor: new hampshire police serving for a man who robbed a 7 7-11 in man cheffer. police are asking for anyone with any information about this to call the manchester crime line. >> anchor: more news today, the former oklahoma city police officer convicted of rape has been found guilty on 18 of 36 charges. the oklahoma county district attorney says they are taking a stand for the members of the american community. we're going to ask the judge to make sure that this defendant never sees the light of day and we're going to ask him to run executive every count. >> anchor: daniel sobbed emotionally in court as the judge read the jury's verdict. he shook his head toward his family mouthing "i didn't do it it." a close call in the czech republic today when a passenger train crashes into a tractor trailer truck.

crossing's flash red lights driving over the tracks just as that train came through. the trailer didn't hit the cab. the truck driver suffered minor injuries. everyone on the train is okay. and a close call caught on camera. look at this. part of a roof collapsed on to a busy sidewalk in london. people below were showered with debris but thankfully no one was seriously hurt. building inspectors blame high winds for that collapse. a commercial building in california goes up in flames. nearly 120 fire fighters battled this massive fire that swept through the this abandoned build building in south los angeles. it took fire fighters about an hour to stop the fire from spreading to neighboring build buildings. there was no report of any injuries there and investigators are looking into what started the whole thing. >> anchor: a strange sight at an apartment in baltimore. more than 60 makes staken into custody by animal control officers after a tip about a bad smell. they were overwhelmed by what they found and one city agency is asking for the public's help. many people are terrified of

control says 66 snakes were the onen danger before he were rescued . most of the cages were un unsanitary and as a result of that we removed them for their safety . the snakes are sick, mote of them in such bad shape we can't show them to you . they had mites and thing like that, some of them had decaying rodents inside . animal control took them to the baltimore animal rescue and care shelter . we don't turn you away. if there are animals in need we'll take them in and we'll do everything we can to save their life. and that does depend a lot on resources . he does not look happy . he is fine . >> reporter: that shelter cared for snakes before but never this many. they are able to treat the sick ones and keep the healthier ones in a warm, safe environment . we have them all sizes. the one i was just hole something small, then there is this guy, then we have one that is about ten feet . >> reporter: to own type of snake in the city you need a pelt and the make has to be under five feet long of the

home for the snakes but first they have to get them healthy. that shelter has enough staff members to care for the snakes, but say they are have never taken on this many before . >> anchor: a texas mother is charged with pretending her daughter has cancer in order to make money. investigators believe juanita what has been telling her 7 7-year-old daughter she has terminal cancer since june, even going as far as cutting off all of her little girl's hair. she solicited money from friends and neighbors. we don't want to discourage people to participate in those fund-raisers but we do want them to be cautious and we want them to vet and confirm the . >> anchor: officials say the child has been removed from the home and they are getting her any care she might need. her mother remains behind bars. >> anchor: also on 7, a winning lottery ticket bought in oregon lands a man in a huge jackpot here. the web site buys lottery tickets to people who don't live where the tickets are sold. a man in iraq used the site to play the oregon lottery and won the $6.4 million jackpot.

millions of dollars to iraq raises questions. we just took a good deal of time consulting with u.s. attorney general, the oregon attorney general and trying to make sure that everything was in indeed legal. this is absolutely unprecedented for the oregon lottery. >> anchor: so that iraqi winner decided to stretch winnings over the course of 20 years. last week he received the first payment of $256,000. >> anchor: as it goats closer to christmas and more and more packages are shipped police in california are taking action to prevent theft. it's called a bait box and it's a new tool that is helping catch crooks in the act. paying for an easy holiday steal are finding an unwelcome surprise inside these boxes. we're taking items, we're putting them in our packages and then we're also putting tracking . dressed in was watt street clothes matthew doe shows us how . we're trying to make it look as real as possible . >> reporter: he leaves a box next to a front door .

look as much as we can like it's any other package that got delivered there . >> reporter: inside, gps tracking and fake electronics . it looks real though. if you feel it, it's heavy. we want to put as much in there as they can so at the look and say there is a bunch of good stuff in here, i will go ahead and take it. >>it's a problem natalie knows all too well . i got an e-mail saying usps delivered my package at 5: 23. well, it was about 6:00 when i got home and there was no package. it's got mirrors around it . she ordered an antique wine stopper for her dad as a christmas gift. it was stolen in sacramento and . i felt violated. i felt really scared actually because that means somebody took something. if they are willing to do that, what else are they willing to do >> reporter: the police hope the program will not only catch thieves but deter them too. unable to tell which packages . the more that people know

likely they are to do it . >> reporter: helping to make sure the gets are there too. sacramento police have not yet released the number of arrests they have made since using those decoy packages . >> anchor: so many the next two weeks. in my lobby packages everywhere. so they are bait for people who want to steal them for sure . >> anchor: makes you unicy, doesn't it? a selfless act. a police department in colorado praise a young boy after what he did when he found something valuable. >> anchor: and he is a veteran performer. the dog who is in aing his mark in the theater. >> anchor: ahead on 7 news, careful what you wish for. ales calling for a no-fly zone for one of this year's hottest christmas gifts . >> anchor: we'll have the latest on the investigation into that line train that took off without a conductor. what that driver did now being

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young boy. police say he turned in cash after he found it in a store parking lot. he is not even taking a finder's fee . >> anchor: this selfless at is getting a lot of attention and the boy hopes it gets returned to his rightful owner so. far no, one has come forward to claim it. whenever you are out and about you have to remember to keep a look out . it's because you never know when you are going to find something on the ground . >> anchor: that's -year-old bridger's motto. he finds money from time to time. i found many quarters, nickles, times, stuff like that . >> anchor: high never thought he would ever find as much money as he did on monday . no. not in 100 years. >> reporter: police i wouldn't say how much just yet . it was a lot . >> anchor: but enough to make this cub scout think . i did not do anything for it, i just fond it on the ground ground. we went to customer service they said someone had been in before us looking for it. but they didn't leave any contact information.

i could not spend it. i would feel so guilty if i spent it . >> anchor: so he asked him mom to take him to the police station where they promised to help find the rightful owner . they could be using it for house repair, something like that, bills. >> anchor: he wants to remind anyone who find money on the ground . it could be asking for the baby or food . >> anchor: it could be for someone who really needed it . unless it's really small. if it's over $10, yes. turn it in. >> anchor: what i acute kid and good message. his good deed may pay off. police say he will get the cash if it's not claimed after about 40 days. >> anchor: good for hill. coming up on 7 spook their language. santa getting a whole lot of attention as he connects with a group of very special children. >> reporter: santa would have needed rudolph and his red nose with the dense fog. we'll see fog prevent overnight tonight. mild weather starts the weekend. what about the finish? the forecast is ahead

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>> anchor: man's best friend has been helping "the nutcracker" performance for more than 126 years . >> anchor: archie the yorkshire terrier has within a part of each production since 1999. at first directors would get the puppy to run across the stage using doggie treats. now after many years of rehearsal, he does it on his own own. it's routine for him.

even as he ages. he is getting up there and lost a bit of his hearing. he seems to be doing pretty well well. he has been a part of the community for a long time. i am sure he knows he can feel the music and feel the rhythm of the cans dancers on the stage even if he can't hear it . >> anchor: dancers also say having a puppy around helps calm the nerves of many children who are forring in the nutcracker for the first time. maybe a little petting of that . . . >> anchor: sure it's a big draw for people to go see him on the stage . >> anchor: i'm share it is. yeah . >> anchor: chris, we're looking at phenomenal temperatures today . >> reporter: i will start running out of orange paint. it seems like every day i'm saying above average temperature-wise on the calendar below seasonal levels. that was the first day of december. otherwise, we've been running a warm month here. a good six to 7 degrees above the average so far this month.

this date is 43. the afternoon low is 30. weave we're nowhere close to that over the last couple of weeks. taunton 61 degrees this afternoon. plymouth coming in at 60. boston and beverly at 58. orange at 52. so a good jump up in temperatures once we did shake off that fog this morning. temperatures right now still mild. 55 in boston, 57 plymouth. 53 in worcester. the breeze is out of the south, 6 to 12 miles per hour, so a little bit of a breeze plus the sun getting higher in the sky in terms of its angle throughout the day was just enough to peel away that fog right around 10:00 or 11:00 this morning. look at the dew point levels in the upper 40's to near 50. that is high this time of year. the reason why i point this out is because when the temperature drops to the dew point level, relative humidity close to 100%, then it's easy for fog to form once again. so i do expect us to see some patchy fog redevelop at least if not a little more widespread as we go through the course of the evening hours into tonight. so keep that in mind. could be some localized dense fog out there. temperatures remaining mild

temperatures mid to up e40's tonight so we're not getting much a drop off here and we're not getting muff of a cool down tomorrow. in fact we'll bounce back the other way once we shake off any low clouds and fog in the morning. temperatures mid 50's to near 60 degrees. weather coming in from the west and southwest tomorrow and then a change-up in the forecast. we have weather coming in from the northeast. once you have this area of high pressure nose through back door cool front in here and you can get a northeasterly wind back into the forecast, if not a due east wind, we will be cooler on sunday. not colder than average. still above the averages but much cooler than we've been the last couple of days thinking 40's to near 50 widespread here. boston upper 40's sunday afternoon, same case up through the north shore close to 50 down through the south shore. lower to middle 50's out through southern worcester county, blackstone hal valley as well. 60 plus western connecticut down into new york city but the bankruptcy of the warmth getting shoved back off to the west of us. moving into the part saic northwest, more energy and another storm. some that energy traversing the

the weekend. severe weather expected down through positions of texas and lose anna over the weekend then this is the storm that will bring us rain on monday especially late day monday and monday night. the best chance of some widespread rain across the area. then we have another chance of rain coming up late in the week. thursday afternoon, thursday night and into friday after that some colder weather finally back into the forecast. we may have a day next weekend like saturday that high temperatures don't get out of the 30's but until then, lots of 40's and 50's across the board. that monday temperature, that 58 won't arrive until the evening. much of the day in the 40's to near 50. guys? >> anchor: a friday drive home. . >> anchor: the ride is booking down. southbound these are the headlights getting down toward the braintree split about a 56 minute ride right now down to the spot and it stays pretty those brake lights and taillights are making their way northbound. that's been a tough go as well out by neponset circle then

o'neill tunnel. delays on the mass pike westbound. those brake lights are heading out toward exit 17. the newton watertown off ramp about a 48 minute ride from boston out toward the natick area. delays here too a lot of red on the map unfortunately. 93 northbound and center of the screen coming up into the stoneham area and southbound you see that back up on the expressway as well. but downtown not much of a backup here thankfully. 93 northbound and southbound still moving well in the right hand side of the screen. left hand side they are clearing a break down in the storrow drive up ramp. joe staple ton, 7 news . >> anchor: for those of us in the hearing world the holiday season is fill with music and special thing. kids that can't hear often miss out on some of that magic . >> anchor: that's unless they get to sit on the lap of a santa that communicates in their language. messages signed directly to santa in a florida mall.

it's a sewing kit and i want, let's see, hmm, i want some games. >> anchor: so these deaf and hearing-impaired children know firsthand that saint nick got their toy and is already check checking it twice . we have the hearing world and the deaf world. they are not the same. many people, the deaf will miss a lot of what guess on in the hearing world. a lot of songs and things like that. >> anchor: in addition to listening to the little ones christmas wants and dreams via sign language santa already had . home. . any chance santa claus and especially to have a signing santa for children that can't do you know kate orally is very, very special. >> anchor: the hearing-impaired children snapped fun photos with make snow angels . last year i volunteered to do this and i was able to come and be with the kids and the

experience for them . >> anchor: so santa finally signed good-bye but only until christmas eve when he delivers their toys and joys directly to them. bye boy santa! >> anchor: 130 children were able to visit the signing santa during the event . >> anchor: ahead on 7 news, a big debut, the daughter of the fresh prince getting her groove on. we'll explain coming up in the buzz. . >> reporter: isaiah thomas and i are drawing up something big . i'm going from celtic green to blue man blue. >> reporter: see who did it better monday morning at 6:00

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>> anchor: we've already seen her famously whip her hair back and forth but now five years later willow smith has officially dropped her debut album . >> anchor: the 15-year-old quietly released her album last night. willow independently wrote and produced most of the tracks on that album. it features older brother tre smith as well. the am bum is currently available on i tunes as well as spot my . >> anchor: most economic book characters have overlapping story lines and it looks like dc comics is ready for a massive universe fiving the suicide squad. will smith's character is a possible addition. >> anchor: a long lost disney film rediscovered in the uk.

titled slay bells stars oswald the ran its and was last seen almost 90 years ago. disney researcher found the film while searching through an on-line database that belonged to the british film institute. a restored version will be screened for the first time this saturday in london. what are you? four brothers who hate bull bullies and love this city. >> anchor: the first trailer for teen-age mutant ninja turtles out of the shadows is out of megan fox, will annest and laura linney are set to star in the film. . good movie. i like it. much more to come in the next 90 minutes. >> anchor: 7 news at 5:00 starts right now. >> anchor: we are following two big breaking stories. new information on the run away red line train and what the operator may have done wrong.

arrest after a double-murder in revere. police still accepting for a possible motive . >> anchor: plus, a big surprise at gillette stadium. julian edelman back on the practice feel as the team gears up for a sunday show down in houston . >> anchor: after a foggy start, beautiful, mild afternoon with temperatures near 60. how long will this weather last? ahead . >> anchor: trouble on the tracks, a bicyclist rides right into the path of a speeding train. how he managed tow scrape serious injury . >> anchor: and a hidden message in a company christmas card. a pats fan getting creative to send a message in denver. >> anchor: first at 5:00, break breaking news. the run away red line train being blamed on operator error. a source telling 7 news the train's driver did not follow protocol that. source says the operator tied a chord around the throttle of the train. it didn't secure the brake before climbing out of the cab . >> anchor: governor baker said the state is not taking this situation lightly. we have big story coverage of

7's byron barnett.