>> tonight, a red line worker describes his rescue on the rails and he's telling his story to just one station. lawrence police outraged as a school bus driver forgets about a little boy. i'm tracking the downpours coming while you sleep. what the mailman did to help police catch criminals and how he saved a family's christmas. back where they belong, on top and in the playoffs. will the team be held when the playoffs start? and -- you just saw her here on 7 nbc and now you can see her live in boston. >> when adele is hitting the stage and bringing her world tour to new england. tonight, on just one station

>> man: we knew we had peoples' lives at stake. one of the man on the rescue talks about stopping the run away train. when that red line train took off without a driver last week. >> tonight, one of those workers is talking about the frightening work on the rails. >> reporter: guys, when the nbj operation center was told there was a run away track with no conductor on board, they knew they had to act fast. this is a situation unlike anything they've experienced. luckily for the 50 passengers on board, they were up to the task. stopping a run away train in a matter of minutes meant there was no room for error. >> man: we can't allow failure in this situation because we had lives at stake. >>. >> reporter: he told us how he and a co-worker came up with a plan to stop the train before

>> man: when he showed me what he had, it was a whole other ball game. >> reporter: they couldn't just cut the power because it could hit another train so they moved the trains up and then cut the power. >> man: we couldn't cut them all otherwise this one would be dead in the water. it was tricky. >> reporter: they were honored today by the governor for quick action. the driver is under investigation as he tied a cord to the throttle. there was a displan disciplinary hearing held with him absent because of a medical problem. no one was hurt thanks in big part to mcneil who says in all his time here, he's never been

>> man: i've been here for 33 years, but i haven't seen this before. >> reporter: at this point, no word on what, if anything came out of the hearing held earlier today. he does remain on administrative leave. the night team tracking your forecast and it's beginning to look a lot like spring with warm air and showers moving in overnight. will the showers be around when you leave in the morning? let's check with pete. >> they should be done pretty much by then. maybe a couple of sprinkles but the heavy rain pushing offshore now. we have pockets of it back up to ash burn and then back into heart ford. this rain, the steady and heavy stuff, solid yellow all the way through the capes pushing offshore in the next hour. we're left with one little band of showers at 5:00 to push

sunshine. but the winds start cranking early in the day and they go all day. there's a lot of mild air around and plenty of drizzle and fog and now we're going into rain but a dense fog advisory still up. our temperature going up too. it's been real. we did hit 62 in providence, set a record, yes, at night. the last couple of hours, now down to 59. we expect temperatures to continue to rise into the low 60s and those will be the highs for the day tomorrow morning. we'll talk about that ahead. also from the night team, a five-year-old boy left behind on a bus on the way to school. tonight, we're learning about the serious charges that driver might face. you have the 911 call that were made when the boy was found. >> reporter: that's right.

reckless child endangerment but police say he's also looking at a citation to not getting the bus properly inspected. it all started with a 911 call, repeating what the lawrence chief of police confirms. >> man: observed a five-year-old child, male, left alone on the bus. >> reporter: he says it was early monday morning when the call came in. the child's parents were able to pick him up unarmed after he was left alone for 45 minutes. >> man: it's something you can't characterize as an oversight. >> reporter: it's a bus similar to this one, the woman accused of the bus driver's sister, they run independently of the school and she can't speak for him. the driver is facing a misdemeanor charge of reckless endangerment and a citation for failure to do an inspection. >> man: it's required by law to

>> man: we're going to make sure as these third party vendors are doing business, that our parents are informed. >> reporter: this is not an arrestable offense. so this man will appear in court for the coming weeks. police say they're working to revoke his license. that's the story live from lawrence jury deliberations are underway for the phillip chism trial. they find him guilty but he was insane when he raped and killed his teacher. the experts say there is no evidence that he suffered from psychotic breakdown at the time. >> woman: the evidence is clear that he suffers from a psychotic disorder. >> woman: phillip knew right from wrong and could choose right from wrong. he did it repeatedly over the

>> deliberations will start up again first thing tomorrow morning when the jury reaches a verdict. we'll keep you updated on air and onne. police are making a public plea for help to track down a hit and run driver. 78-year-old acuno died last night after someone hit her with a car on december 3rd. police say that driver stopped briefly after the accident to check his car and then people just saw him leave that area. driver didn't do anything to help the woman. you know? i mean how could he live with himself? >> man: it does make it more tragic and i don't understand why someone would leave a human being laying in the middle of the road. >> police say she did ignore a no walk sign when she was hit. still, any information about the driver who left the scene is asked to call police.

school. 20 children were killed in that day. 6 adult staff members were also murdered. the flags were requested to be half staff. they tried to keep students schedule as normal as possible. now to the latest on the race for the white house. republican candidates are heading to las vegas for their next presidential debate tomorrow night. donald trump will face his competitors, marco rubio and ted cruz. tie. >> man: when you look at the way he's dealt with the senate, where he goes in there like a little bit of a maniac, you're

>> so far, cruz has refused to attack trump and 7 weeks until the iowa caulk united stateses, it's anyone's game. that's more like it. >> man: he comes down with it, touchdown patriots. >> the patriots back in their winning lanes and back in the playoffs after a takedown. >> the patriots looking and feeling like the champs again. getting gronk back certainly helps. seat and hoping the rest of the team will get healthy soon. everything changes when gronk gets back on the field, including tom brady's demeanor. they reclaimed the spot at the top of the standings. >> man: touchdown patriots. >> reporter: gronk is back and

place in the afc. two world guys making an all world play right there. returning after just one game, his knee looked fine, so did the patriot's offense. >> man: he's a huge influence on what we do offensively and he really toughed it out. i'm proud of him. he had a big touchdown catch. he's obviously a big part of what we do and it's just great to have him out there. >> man: it's always great to make a play. >> reporter: it wasn't quite that sweet though, with more injuries. jonathan and dominique also going down. despite those hits, the pats still control their own destiny in pursue of the top seat in the afc with denver and cincinnati losing on sunday. >> man: that was good to see.

that. we're at pretty stiff competition with those guys. these are a huge three weeks for everyone. with all this competition for playoff seatings and so forth, all of these games need something. >> with just three games remaining in the regular season, the patriots do have the upper hand on denver and cincinnati wlo have to play each other in two weeks. up next, all hail the mailman and the mail woman. >> what a local mail carrier did to help save one family's holiday. be on the lookout, the police need help finding their pet cat a big night for star wars fans, the hollywood premiere is tonight. we'll take you out there for the red carpet. december makes an appearance? that's ahead. our own sara french has a new little helper in the kitchen. she's making this catch holiday-cookie cheer

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america runs on dunkin'. a family is calling their mail carrier a holiday hero after he stopped with the thieves. he even helped police track them down after chasing them out of the neighborhood. >> the family has a special message for the family who say he saved christmas. >> reporter: apparently these teens started here in the family's shed where they rummaged through until they found a hatchet. they started hacking away, they trim. then they went for the lock and you see the wood splitting here, that's ul until the mailman came around the corner. >> man: they were trying to here. >> reporter: shredded in some places but it wasn't this bar

breaking in, but one key mailman. >> woman: he thought he would bring the packages out back instead of leaving them out front. when he went around, he saw one of them had the ax in their hand. >> reporter: it was tuesday afternoon. police say a 17-year-old and a 19-year-old tried to ruin christmas. >> man: they went through the shed and ended up getting the hatchet and started smashing away at the door >> reporter: a veteran mailman confronted them and when they ran off, he took off after them. >> man: it was a pretty bold thing to do, to look out for us. >> reporter: neighbors heard commotion and called police and officers working nearby were able to quickly arrest the teams. what would have been a scary holiday for 6-year-old brook, turned into a lesson by the mail an. >> woman: she went from being

the most important thing. >> reporter: we were able to track down this mailman but he says he was not able to make any public statements. when we told him how grateful the family was for his actions, a smile lit up his face. we're following more news tonight. the boston police department is missing their cat. she has become their little mascot but she recently vanished and everyone is wondering where she went. >> man: we haven't seen her. a couple of days turned into a week and now it's week three. >> the cat is called swat cat and has a micro chip so the officers are hoping that someone finds her and brings her home. we're in los angeles where fans are for the hollywood premiere for star wars. it's happening as we speak along

fans lighting up to catch a glimpse of the stars. >> man: it's like a family reunion, you can't miss it. >> man: i can't wait for opening night. it's going to be amazing. >> for the rest of us, it opens friday with late showings thursday night. every morning starting at 5:00, jeremy has behind the scene details and fun facts about star wars. starting at 5:00 a.m. he's the expert. >> he's got his great energy doing it. i loved his first piece. i love that he's doing this and i'm surprised you're not doing a duo on this, pete. >> i know, he's got it all. and he's a star wars battle front already. that guy on the video game. what? rain overnight, and gusty winds tomorrow. plan on it and in some cases, we might have isolated power outages from this wind.

tomorrow but right now it commands the evening and we're setting records. we just set one in providence. we are 61 in new bedford. the visibility is coming up now, the fog is lifting up a little bit. but when you get into the low 50s and mid 50s, it gets a little interesting and then when you cross the threshold into 60 dew points for mid december, i've never done this before for december, but the dew factor is at 60 degrees with a dew point

then on the 22nd, the days start getting longer. easy easy. showers move through, brief downpours, peeks of sun tomorrow. temperatures fall slowly, 56-63. there's your 7 on 7 forecast. the end of the week, another unsettled storm system coming through with some wet weather on thursday. okay. but there's that big drop for the weekend with the chill, struggling to make 40s and some cases with lows in the 20s. have a good night. >> you too, pete. you probably just saw her perform on 7 nbc, soon she'll be taking the stage in new england. >> everybody is lip syncing in here, how could you resist?

garden and the dates are september 14th and 15th and the tickets go on sale this thursday at 10:00 a.m. everyone is going to be standing in line between adele and star wars tickets. all right, tis the season for holiday helping. we're whipping up our favorite holiday recipes. >> for our recipe, new mom, sara french and making breakfast casserole. >> hi, everybody, welcome to our home. our family has grown a little bit since last year. this is baby blair, my husband chris and of course, buddy. behind us is my mom. we're making her sausage and egg casserole. it's our family tradition to have it every family morning. can't wait to show it to you so let's get cooking. what's the first thing we need to do? >> woman: crack the eggs in the bowl.

before we add anything else, we're going to beat the eggs. now we have to add the milk, dry must mustard and salt. calling in chris to take care of the main ingredient. the sausage. >> woman: i used the hot sausage and regular sausage to give it a kick. >> man: takes about 15 minutes. >> the sausage is finished so we can mix it in. >> woman: now you can take the bread pieces and dump it into the mixture. >> mom uses monetary jack. you can use whatever kind you want. >> woman: put it in the casserole dish and put it in the fridge. >> after it's in the fridge overnight, we're going to place it in the oven at 350 for an hour on christmas morning.

we hope you get a chance to try my mother's casserole for this holiday season. hope happy holidays. >> isn't she so adorable? >> the casserole looks good too. if you want to make a donation to project bread, we invite you to log on to whdh.com and click

well you think about two weeks ago, it was a sunday night game in denver, looked like he would be out for the rest of his career. brady takes the snap, left side, he comes down with it, touchdown patriots. >> tom brady and the patriots back in business thanks to the return of gronk. the pats two game losing streak is over. they clenched a spot in the playoffs and a top path to

as brady looks forward, he sees julian coming back as well. >> man: i know he's working hard to get back. i don't know what the timetable is for the team to come back. he's attacked it like he attacks everything else. i'm excited to get him back out there to join the other guys who have done a great job in his absence. the patriots defensive captain left last night's game in the third quarter with a sprained ankle. but according to reports, the injury will not end his season. the brewins took 29 shots tonight. they just couldn't put the puck in the net. down 2-0, late in the second. brewins in the come back. matt cuts down the wing and sneaks the puck short side. it was a 2-1 game.

skating across the blue line, and snaps that nasty wrister tying the game at 2. sends this game to overtime. but just 41 seconds into the extra session, andre follows his own shot here and pots the rebound as tory gets tangled up and the oilers snap the brewins two game winning streak 3-2 in the overtime magic visiting brooklyn. they take it right to the rack and throws down the slam earning our play of the day. and despite a plea for reinstatement, pete rose will baseball.

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