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team. rob gronkowski will be back. let's get to our sports director, joe amorosino. >> patriots bringing a big sigh of relief and the diagnose is bone go. the tight end arrived at nrg stadium a short time ago and he will play tonight against the texans. no doubt music to tom brady's ears going up against the third-ranked defense in football. the patriots quarterback is still banking on his other pass catchers in hopes of snatching the two game losing streak. >> i know we're all capable of doing it. i know i'm confident with the guys i'm out there playing with.

the balls i'm throwing the ball to or else i wouldn't throw to them. >> tonight brady will have to do is against a handful of guys who have working knowledge of how business is done in foxboro, reporting live in houston and bring the patriot way to the lone star state, trey. >> yeah, joe, on the field here in houston. we're still a couple hours away from kick off. a lot of subplots to follow. bill: -- belicheck. >> there's always someone on our team an old coach or something.

will be a full on reunion from the top to the bottom. >> i think at the end of the day it was a great opportunity. >> houston head coach, bill team. >> bill and i spent a lot of time together. it was good. bill has great leadership skills. i think he does a great job. >> i appreciate that. i think he's being real nice. >> joineded by romeo cornell and on the other side of the ball. >> first and 10 for hoyer. >> tom brady's old back up, brian hoyer running the defense. >> it ended up being the most valuable years of my nfl career because i learned how to do it

>> the biggest man in the houston a defense, set to face his teammates. >> those are my friends. guys i have been in battle with for a long time. >> was with him for a long time. he was a great teammate. it's a different year and he's on a different team. i will say hello after. >> and one of those former connections mentioned there, mike vrable on the field. the patriots making their entrance into the stadium. tom brady the last one to walk on to the field. one that is a whole lot more interesting than it was three weeks ago. reporting live on the field here in houston, trey. >> thanks, trey. for years you could make the case that the most underrated

reporting live in the news room, joe amorosino. >> join us here on the 7 sideline special and then at 7 o'clock, it's football night in america and catch all the news of the day. we will have a late edition of news 7 right here after the game. >> all right. 7 news turning to the weather. another mild day flirting with the 50s in the city. is it here to stay? bri eggers here with us. not scientist >> noticeably, jadiann. we made it to the 50s sitting at 47 in boston and worcester. 50 for fitchford. let's talk about what happens tomorrow. still sitting on the mild side of things. we can expect this to bring us rain as we get into tomorrow and also boost those attaches up.

drizzle. 38, upper 30s for the colder spots to the mid 40s for the city of boston and tomorrow sort of a damp, cool day with the temperatures climbing as we move into the evening hours, late showers expected and i will run through the time line of the wet weather coming up. >> we're learning more news about this fire crew battling a raging inferno as fierce flames tear through an apartment complex as several families are without a home. 7's john with us with what we're learning. >> this building is heavily damaged. you can see how the windows and doors are boarded up and how the fire moved up. luckily nobody was injured. >> the rose mead apartment complex.

companies got here, they had fire outside and inside in the first floor >> taking neighbors in the area by surprise. >> pretty leisurely morning. i saw the building on fire. >> one person inside was injured along with one firefighter. both taken to the hospital and a cat killed. this man also noticed the fire. >> i went upstairs and banged on all the doors that i could and yelling fire. just to make sure and when i came to this end of building, i opened up that door and it was all smoke. i said that's about as far as i could go. >> this building is no stranger to damage like this. in 2011, it was hit by a tornado. >> this building was also part of the damaged area when the tornado came through town. so this building was brought up to new code enforcement just within the last five years.

figure out what caused this fire, that could be difficult with how damaged this building is. we're live, john cocoa. >> a garage in lawrence goes up in flames on brown field. no word on if anyone was inside the garage at the time or anyone was injured. the exact cause of the fire is under investigation. >> a car goes off the road and crashes into the house. there's the scene that happened at 1 o'clock. the building inspector on the scene to look at the damage. the vehicle plowed through a bridge-lined flower bed. >> the search continues for a missing northeastern student, dennis dennis noroge. anyone with information is asked to call campus police.

caught to camera. witnesses watch while rescuers try to save a raccoon on a telephone pole for a week. >> monday the force is on with 7. are you ready for the force awakens? i will share facts george lucas may not know and the local

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>> a story you will see on just one station. a raccoon a rescue in berlin when the creature is stuck on top of a power line pole for almost a week. the story has gone viral on social media. witnesses were worried about the little animal. >> today, rescuers worked to full the animal to safety and had to turn off the power. let's get to nick emmons. >> this was a team effort and one with scares along the way.

to help a critter in a tight spot. >> obviously it's a dangerous situation so it needs to be done right. >> karen blakeny first noticed the raccoon on this pole. >> people having calling. national grid and it's going crazy on facebook. >> this is causing high anxiety. they are worried the raccoon could fall. national workers turned offer the power, finally a sigh of relief. once on the ground, one last slip. a hundred feet away and he's safely scooped up and off to be checked out. >> the rescue you know, went about as smooth as we could hope

>> it was scary when he almost fell. my heart stopped. haven't slept for a few nights so i will sleep great night. >> the animal rescue league says the raccoon did appear injured and is probably dehydrated. live in the news room, i'm nick emmons. >> we're watching for rain tomorrow and we also flirt with 60 degrees again. the forecast coming up next. >> monday. >> isaiah thomas and i are dreaming up something big.

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>> pats fans ready for a sunday night showdown even the four pawed fans ready to go. this pooch in the holiday spirit. nice santa hat with patriots logo on it rocking it in front of the tree. >> and you're never too young to get handed a football. this one ready to take the football in his brady uniform. >> and this man is ready for the tailgating food. that mouth says feed me, feed me. complete with a patriots bib because nothing gets in the way of game. >> i don't know what it's like in houston. >> usually not that bad this time of year. >> bri, i don't know if you're looking at that. >> dry in houston and snow in northern texas. that's the storm system we expect to bring us the rain. it was cooler today as you

we're about 10 degrees above normal. so far we're running eight degrees above average. because it was so mild, we bumped it up another degree. average high 42. we were about 10 degrees above that today. current temperatures in the mid to upper 40s. 50 in fitchburg. these temperatures will keep from free falling. i mentioned with the cloud cover over us keeping the mild after near the surface so the over night. we're still on the mild side of things. us. in fact we're getting a warm front pushing through with the system and that's why it's snow. is. the twin cities at 39. just to the southeast, chicago nearing 60 degrees right now. watch what happens as we move

warm front working its way in and our temperatures will flirt with 60. as we make it to tomorrow evening. this does push through rain as hours. i don't expect it to be all-out rain until 8:00 p.m. tomorrow with the time line here. maybe patchy drizzle and nothing more than that until we get that widespread rain working in the evening hours. maybe it's more of a hat day instead of an umbrella day. generally speaking a half an inch to three quarters of an inch. temperatures, this is what is really interesting. we start off the morning close to the low 40s for most and as we work into the afternoon, into the low 50s. watch what happens in the late evening hours into tuesday flirting with 60 degrees once again. mostly cloudy. patchy fog and drizzle. tomorrow 48 to 55 until those temperatures climb to near 60.

watch what happens as we get into next weekend. colder air finally dipping in for us. this will be closer to the december standards. our lows closer to 30 degrees. still no snow but the cold air, it will be here next weekend. >> and now time for 7 sports with joe amorosino. >> the patriots game so intriguing, the network flexed it to prime time. the patriots are trying to snap a two-game losing streak. the biggest news rob gronkowski is expected to play after suffering a bone bruise. it's a good day to get man back after the patriots will need all the help they can with the texans, just giving up 218 yards

they rush well. they don't blitz a lot but enough. they have a good mixture of three or four coverages and one player that's really hard to block. that's a big mismatch wherever they put him and they usually put him in a mismatch position where they think they can get pressure. >> belichick of course, talking about j.j. watt who he compared to hall of famer. reporting live in houston with that side of the story is trey. >> joe, the patriots defense a lot better than a lot of people thought it would be this time of year. the play of malcolm butler.

challenge trying to sort out deandre hopkins. >> that's when you see the top 10, one-handed catches. we just have to go out there and compete. >> he's always open because he's got the ability to catch the ball wherever the ball is flown. he's good enough to come down with a lot of tough catches. >> and as great as deandre hopkins is, you have to know going to fall on the brady understudy to beat the pat's defense. trey, 7 sports. >> thanks. patriots and texans kick it off at 7:00 p.m. we will have our pre-game show starting at 6:30 and sports

by ron borgoius. the patriots find themselves fighting for a playoff spot. a messy game in the end helps the patriots for a first round by. andy dalton breaks his right thumb trying to make a tackle. he would show up on the sideline in a cast, a.j. mccarron gets the call. he will be picked off by william gay, who takes it back 23 yards for a touchdown. steelers hand the bengals their loss, 33-23. the bruins can sit down and watch the pats after a saturday matinee loss. and the edmonton oilers and the

tuka rask. he's looking as good as ever. allowing only two goals including a much-needed victory in montreal. he has a 9.48 save percentage during the stretch. >> we're playing better so that helps a lot obviously. look at these last two games. gave up a good amount of shots. we had really good scoring chances. >> play of the day brought to you by capital one. >> flash back to last back. florida state, the glove could not jump like this. the big slam off the slash to the rack earning our play of the day. that's sports. we will have our 7 on the sidelines.

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