man on the streets of on. a passenger attacked a scared driverment top, that driver tells the story of his frighten frightening confrontation . >> anchor: then a beautiful, mild start to your weekend. but i'm tracking showers for you to return to work next week . >> anchor: also an explosive discovery brought to a new hampshire store. tonight, the scare that scrambled the squad . >> anchor: and patriots get a sight for sore eyes. julian eman joining gronk on the practice fee. the night team tracking the progress of tom brady's targets ahead of his show down in texas . >> anchor: tonight on 7, did a red line driver break the rules? nothing like this has ever happened on the rapid transit system . >> anchor: the crucial mistake that left a driver tied up outside of run away train. >> anchor: investigators focus focusing on the red line driver. >> anchor: you'res tell 7 news he tied a chord while he stepped outside that train but that cord

take off without him. tim caputo live in southie with what investigators have learned about their run away train. tim? >> anchor: guys, there are a specific set of rules that every train operate has to follow both before they get on the train and while they are on the train. the governor said yesterday morning that operator broke the rules. >> anchor: irresponsible actions of one operate are weighs being ballet for thus's run away red line train. a source familiar with the investigation tells 7 news the operator had a chord tied around the throttle, then he stepped off the train to override a without him. >> anchor: i said at the time that the investigation was ongoing but that i had been led to believe that the throttle had been tampered with that's still my understanding, but again, the investigation has to be >> anchor: the red line train wouldn't starred up in braintree so the lone operator s supposed to lock both blacks, step off the train and flip a switch. the transportation department is . >> anchor: we are no longer

procedure unless a second senior mbta official is physically present . >> anchor: this is an inside look at the operator's cab much like the one in the run away train. the throttle is just a lever that rotates, but it only works if you push it down first. once you release it, the train would automatically stop. that is, unless you have had cord to keep it down . any action by an operate that restricted the movement of the siniston'sality to get into its brake position would be a prohibited act that would subject them to termination . >> reporter: t officials say the operator david vasquez broke protocol by not engaging the hand brake when he got oust cab . we are confident this was an isolated incident where a single individual appears to have made multiple errors . >> anchor: the run away train let the braintree station around 6:00 thursday morning with 50 passengers on board. vasquez did one thing right. he called for help once the train left the station. the train blew through four stops before t workers cut the power to the third rail.

believe vasquez's behavior is widespread among operators. friends of his, a 28 year veteran of the t, believed he is being thrown under the bus . i can't picture this guy doing something wrong. i mean, the equipment is old, they always try to blame the operate for everything. >> anchor: as recently as four years ago they used to have two operators per red line train. now it's only one. the governor said earlier today they plan or rather they don't been ongoing become to two any time soon. live in south boston, tim caputo 7 news night team . >> anchor: new at 11:00 . are you going to make me pop you in the face? >> anchor: an uber mad passenger caught on camera attacking an uber driver in boston and he didn't stop once he finally got oust car. the night team's jadiann thompson spoke to the driver. she is live in with what he is saying about that attack . adam, i can tell think driver said the one thing that helped save him here was likely

passengers and that car who helped pull this attacker away. you can see and hear this attack attack. the uber driver able to catch this aggressive passenger on cell phone video. that driver says he was picking up six people at the w hotel in boston around 2:00 a.m. friday. he says the one man he named as andrew was yelling pro fanities so he politely told them he couldn't do the ride . he is being very aggressive aggressive. >> anchor: that's when the man punched him. what was going through your mind then? i was very scared of him . >> anchor: he said the passenger knocked his cell phone to the floor, luckily the other riders pulled the man away and then you can see as he kicks the outside of car too. he says he was afraid but he had to keep driving because he has a family at home . i have two kids. i have to survive, you know? i have to pay bills . >> anchor: now he says he just hopes the man is brought to

people can learn from me not to be, you know, very aggressive with the driver. >> anchor: now police tell us that no charges have been filed at this time. we also reached out to uber who says that passenger has been pulled from the uber platform. reporting live in boston, . >> anchor: police make an worcester. they say a 33-year-old man is now in custody charged with murder in connection to an attack that happened earlier this month. this surveillance video shows the victim and two other people just before the stabbing. 31-year-old cher ease hill was rushed to the hospital where she later died. witnesses say they heard fighting before the attack. police are still investigating. >> anchor: also from the neither team, the man accused in a double-murder in revere captured and cuffed. police tracking him down less than 24 hours after that deadly shooting. the night team's susan tran now live in revere with what we've learned about the man and how police caught up with him. susan? elizabeth, police have been investigating for hours and

neighbors and witnesses who live at the apartment complex say they have seen the man that police arrested here before. kristi johnson was a mother of three, friends say while she was trying to get her life back on track she was always ready to help her friend and old neighbor peter pitari who lived here in a first floor revere apartment . she cooks for him and takes care of him because all he was getting was meals on wheel before when kristi wasn't coming around. but thursday night shots rang out . all of a sudden i heard about five loud pops . >> anchor: killing kristi, 66 66-year-old peter who friends called pops and leaving billy quill, crist ooh's former boyfriend fighting for his life . it's a mess. just terrible. it's violent . >> reporter: police spent hours investigating the scene in revere then arrested a 36 36-year-old lynn man friday afternoon, charging him with the two murders. i'm terrible. i haven't slept because i know these people. it's very hard . >> reporter: friends say kristi was a great mom and

kind father of five who loved a cab. they are devastated and scared . you think you are okay in your own home and some crazy lunatic shoots people in the face. >> reporter: revere police have custody of that suspect until he appears in court in chelsea on monday. live in revere tonight, susan . >> anchor: night team where a a car clear this evening. investigating. authorities say the victim was . >> anchor: police are investigating a deadly crash in north reading. a car drove into a home on route 6 2 early this morning. police say the impact threw the driver into the passenger seat. the 39-year-old woman did not survive. three people inside the home at the time were not hurt. investigators are still, ing to filling out what caused this crash. >> anchor: the night team now turning to an explosive discovery in pelham, new hampshire. that is a rocket.

surprisingly it was pretty scary for people. the bomb squad was called in to make sure that this thing wasn't going to just go off. kimberly becomeman live in pelham to tell us more about kimberly? adam. police say the in a an who dropped it off didn't give his name or say where he was from. he just left a rocket and then took off. this is the rocket that launched a major police response. it all began after a contractor found what looked like a small missile lodged between two basement walls in a home he was renovating. then decided to drop it off at this pelham, new hampshire gun store . they called us and said someone dropped off an i extent that they would like our officers to look at. the officers did not know what they were going down to look at . when police arrived to hammer firearms and saw the four foot long, four inches wide object, they snapped some pictures and sent them to the nashua bomb squad. at first they thought it

and then we sent them some more pictures up close and they said no, don't touch it. we'll be down . it was this wic that made authorities wonder if the device was live. the bomb squad suited up and in the back room at this local store x-rayed the gadget. it wasn't active, but it was a real robert. they were able to trace become and we believe it was u.s. military from years ago from a war . >> reporter: safe in the hands of law enforcement now police warn anyone else who comes across such an unusual find not to touch it or drop it off, just call authorities . they are take the chance of even moving that and having something weather it explodes or takes off, whatever it happens to be. that's not worth it . >> reporter: now police say it's not unusual for people doing home reason operation visions to come across strange finds but they say a is a first for them. reporting live, kimberly bookman 7 news night team.

back to with my teammates just trying improve each day . will they be ready for a sunday night show down? >> anchor: just seeing edelman and gronkowski on the field is a huge relief for pats players and fans but still unclear if they will both make it on the field in texas. trey daerr joins us with an update on the patriots key injuries. >> reporter: liz, fates have looked desperate at times without rob gronkowski and julian edelman on the field. today a bit of optimism in foxboro. gronk back at practice limited for a second straight day joined by julian eelman for thers time since breaking his foot one . it's always good to be out . >> reporter: edelman showing the universal sign of happiness, gronk. tom brady's favorite targets are starting to get healthy. eedelman a surprise appearance surgery. he isn't returning his return . i like to be become as soon

then smart and just trying improve each day . >> reporter: grokowski on the field for a second straight day testing his right knee. he is list as questionable and offered a quick statement on his status . it feels good to be back with my teammates. just mentally, feels good to be back with them. out on the practice field and any other questions have you it talk to coach belichick . >> reporter: as for high fiv fiving skills. edelman admits he is better than his own quarterback . me and gronk got a high fiv fiving thing brady could never get that one time. >> anchor: eeman is officially ruled out for sunday while gronk remains questionable so the patriots will likely be without both this while texan star jjwat jjwatt may be limited abreaking his hand in practice. trey daerr, 7 news . >> anchor: don't forget you can catch the sunday night show down right here on 7 nbc. we'll kick it off at 6:30 with our 7 on the sidelines pregame show. then football fight in america followed by kickoff at 8:30 and 7 news with live reports from

>> anchor: we are following more news tonight. fan dull and draft kings still in service in new york despite a ruling earlier today ordering them to stop. the fantasy sports sites quickly appealed that decision and won. new york's attorney general has been trying to shut them down saying they are a form of illegal gambling. the sites will now be able to do business in new york through early january. that's when appeals court decision is expected. >> anchor: rough one on wall street. the market's ending the day with a drastic drop. oil hit almost 7 year lows and that dragged the dow don't more than 300 points. the nasdaq had his worst week in a month dropping more than 100 points today . >> anchor: coming up next, a wild one tonight at the garden. celtic make a run at the un undefeated golden state warriors jetstream highlights from the double over time heart stopper . mile one out there this afternoon. ifive tease to near 60 degrees. we'll do it again to start the weekend but then we pull down the second half of weekend . >> anchor: also ahead she had to top playing the violin but

. >> anchor: and a leak threat threatened to put a damper on the holiday spirit a hoeless scheller. we'll it will you think they got a little holiday help next on 7 news at 11:00. >> reporter: monday the force is with . 7, are you ready for the forts awakens? i am. i will share "star wars" facts george lucas may not know. >> reporter: starting monday

>> anchor: a cancer survivor hitting the right note exactly one year after her battle started. she loss to play the violin, but had to stop last year when . >> anchor: one year later she is playing again joined by her

show at boston children's hospital. it's been pretty tough. >> anchor: a remarkable performance for sophie. her connection with music will always be special. the a holiday concert last year, she had to abruptly stop playing because of a headache. the next day she was diagnosed with a brain tumor. she didn't mow if he would ever play again . i love playing violin. >> anchor: the day before her surgery, december 11, 2014, her fellow violinists, all of them from vermont, joined together and finished their concert at boston children's hospital. exact loo one year later, they came back and a brain surgeon even accompanied them on the piano. this time, sophie was playing as

you feel great. i don't feel sick at all. >> anchor: sophie's tumor is been and was not malignantment her parent say she is 90% back to normal as she continues recovery. >> anchor: we're following more news tonight. a local homeless shelter getting some much needed holiday help after a major wrapping paper problem. saint francis house bought hundreds of rolls of wrapping paper for the more than 500 gifts men for homeless but a leaky pipe left all but water logged and ruined. so volunteers turned to social responded. amazing. we have had thousands of people retweet and we had people walk walking in the building all day today dropping off rolls of wrapping paper. paper. you know, what i really think happened today was, the good will of people was unwrapped. and thanks to the community

than enough wrapping paper. >> anchor: a couple of weeks away from christmas and new years does not feel like it. we've had a month full of warm days so far averaging about 7 degrees above the average. the month of december, the after high is 43 degrees in the city of boston. staying mild as you go through the next seven days. at least above the averages over overall here. 5 was the high in town earlier this afternoon. 60 plymouth. we had 61 taunton, 54 in worcester. so well above the average high. in fact we're still above the average high in boston at 50 degrees right now. 44 in norwood. 35 nashua, new hampshire. 35 in fitchburg of we've seen some of these temperatures slide back into the 30's in very light winds. we've also seen some fog form. visibility reduced at times a mile or two up there in northern worcester currently and southern new hampshire and the rev of us seeing patchy fog developing overnight tonight. otherwise not much going on. we'll have batches of clouds to mix in with that sunshine

and could have a little while to take to burn off the fog first thing in the morning. but we'll do so in the temperatures once again jumping 55 to 60 degrees. so it's another mild day out there although on sunday we start to change up the pattern a bit here as winds turn back out of the east northeast. so there is a going to be a back through. you know the wind off the water means it's not going to be as warm. north of that front 40's to near 50 degrees. we'll be north of that front coming in here on sunday. so sunday afternoon i don't think it gets out of the upper 40's in the city of boston. mid to upper 40's southern and a half. some lower 50's south and effort west of the city but overall a cooler day i'm cloudier day an even a couple sprinkles or patch of drizzle not out of the question. the best chance to see some steadier rain and some gustier showers. that will arrive monday late in the day and then to monday night as this area low pressure will continue to work toward the great lakes and there is going to be a line of some gusty showers that will have to swing on through here late monday and into monday night.

couple of days and the next chance of rain after that is thursday afternoon, thursday night into friday and red sox like we're on the milder side of the storm once again so that would be wet weather. however, this go around behind it does look like a cool shot of weekend. it will be dry, but temperatures on saturday afternoon pay struggle to climb out of the upper 30's to near 40 degrees. so that would be a change of pace. 7 on 7 forecast, that 58 degrees on monday, you are going to take all day to get there. in fact i think we hit the high temperatures late into the evening. much of the day in the 40's to near 50 degrees. drying out tuesday and wednesday before we get that next storm in here . >> anchor: hover boards banned on board planes. one of the year's hottest gifts grounded. several airlines in this country officially putting a ban on the new garage. >> anchor: the big concern of potential fire danger from the batteries. those popular hover boards now a top safety concern. the hover board, it exed under my feet . >> anchor: at least ten fires

ion batteries inside. some fires actually burned dunn entire homes. now just as passengers start carrying holiday gifts on board airlines are banning the boards in checked luggage and carry ons. we're seeing reevents worldwide where lithium batteries are overheating cause on board fires and that causes me concern . >> anchor: lithium batteries are in almost every cell phone, laptop and tablet. airlines limit them as cargo after tests show then self-ignit self-igniting posing a lethal threat to a plane. in this faa test, an airline cargo container packed with 5 5,000 batteries suddenly catches fire then a thunderous explosion explosion. just such a fire was blamed for the 2010 crash of a ups cargo plane carrying 80,000 batteries, two pilots were killed. in 2006 another ups cargo plane barely made it to philadelphia after a fire on board. both pilots did manage to escape escape. now ups, fed ex and jet blue are adding oxygen systems to their

the smoke in a fast moving fire . there are billions of these lithium ion batteries being carried and they all have the potential to catch fire. >> anchor: and now the pressure is growing on the faa to come down harder on what many believe is a growing threat to aviation. >> anchor: all right. we are talking about a big show down come this sunday. so tre, are we ready? ready for football on sunday night. patriots, texans, new england getting big names back on the field and speaking out about back. plus, the celtics trying to end history tonight at the garden. the game of the year thus far in the nba going down tonight. highlights are next. anncr: when the attacks come here... ...the person will have to protect your family. will he be impulsive and reckless, like donald trump? will he have voted to dramatically weaken counter-terrorism surveillance, like ted cruz? will he have skipped crucial

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sprained ankle but it's the celtics putting on a show. isaiah thomas knocking down the three, celtics up five, but curry just too good to contain. triple. golden state taking a 103-101 lead but back comes thomas. getting to the rack and we're tied at 103. this game heading to over time in the extra frame kelly olenic a huge night off the bench hitting the layup or on at 110. this one actually heading to a second ot after the celtics couldn't close in the time possession in double over time. jay crowder the steal up ahead to evan turner getti the bucket, celts within one, next trip down the floor, however, green just too easy to get to the rim putting the ari don't remember up three. magic running out from there. celtics giving the worse i don't remember everything they can handle but they win again

a lot of good performances but there really isn't, it doesn't ease the pain of a loss no matter what night it is. >> anchor: for the first time in almost a month the patriots getting julian edelman and rob grokowski together on the practice field new england start starting to inch closer to a healthy roster as we get closer to kickoff on sunday night. another day, another high five, this time between gronk and ed e eman. julian back a month after break breaking a bone in his foot listed aslied friday. edelman officially ruled out for week 14. gronk also limited in his one of 8 patriots listed as question questionable for houston. both players speaking to the media today. it's always good to be out there with your teammates. the staff out there and put the cletes on and run around . you have a time line on when you would like to be back? i like to be back as soon as i can but doing it safely and then smart and just trying to improve each day, you know? it feels good to be back

just mentally feels good to be back with them. out on the practice field and any other questions you have to talk to coach belichick. >> anchor: patriots and texas kick it off sunday night here on 7 nbc and we get you ready for the game with our 7 on the sidelines pregame show coming to you at 6:30. >> anchor: pistons taking on the sixers reggie jackson the myths but drum and there for the follow. that jam earning our play of the day. and bu grad brett brown getting a contract extension from the sixers. this despite a 38 and 149 career record and the worst start in the nba.

>> anchor: and that is our time on this friday night of we hope that you have a wonderful and safe weekend. jimmy fallon comes up net. i am adam william . i'm liz belle noreika in for kim khazei. 7 news continues at 6:00 a.m. with today in new england.

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