>> jadiann: we begin at noon with breaking news. a disciplinary hearing under way in boston for the driver of a run-away red line train. david vasquez is a 28-year veteran of the m.b.t.a. his train was carrying about 50 passengers when it took off from braintree last week without him. nicole oliverio is live from dorchester with the very latest this morning. nicole?

confirm that disciplinary hearing is under way. now, there was a fact-finding hearing yesterday. but vasquez didn't attend. according to his lawyer, vasquez has a note from his doctor saying this whole situation has caused too much stress for him. the union which represents m.b.t.a. workers holds its regularly scheduled meetings. union reps, though, wouldn't comment on the investigation against member david vasquez who was supposed to be behind the controls of last week's run-away red line train. but vasquez' lawyer told the "boston herald" that vasquez denies wrapping a cord around the throttle, causing the train to take off. "he ran as fast as he could to the braintree station to say "i have a run-away train. get that thing." he didn't even realize his leg was bleeding. train. no one else was hurt. thanks in big part to the "t" soup visor who told just one station how he and another worker came up with the plan to stop the red line train

>> we couldn't allow a failure in this situation. we knew we had people's lives at stake. >> reporter: they started cutting power to sections of the third rail. >> as we were killing sections underneath the train behind, the momentum kept carrying it. this was what i was afraid of initially. the momentum of that train. >> reporter: a "t" worker watched the powerless, north quincy station. >> we asked them. is that train still moving? we thought we might have been able to stop it. he said it is still moving. >> reporter: in his 33 years at the "t," he has never faced a situation like this. disciplinary hearing is under way is how long it will take for transportation officials to decide if, in fact, there should be any displain and what that should be. we are live from dorchester, nicole oliverio, 7 news. >> sarah: all schools in the city of los angeles shut douj today after a threatening

the second largest school district in the nation. we have the very latest on this breaking news story. reporth more than 1,100 schools are closed in and around los angeles. that affects over 640,000 students. school officials say they received an e-mailed threat. the specific are still unclear. investigators describe it as an electronic message received around 7:00 this morning. the district superintendent says it was a bomb threat. he says the schools commonly get threats but called this one rare. officials say schools will remain closed until the threat is completely cleared. >> in an abundance of caution, the superintendent has indicated we have chosen to close our schools today until we can be absolutely sure that our campuses are safe. and until it is deemed safe by law enforcement and concurred with our district officials which we believe will be able

day, we will keep those schools closed. >> reporter: school officials say they expect the threat to be cleared by the end of the day today. the school superintendent says the december 2 attack in nearby san bernardino that left 14 people dead influenced the decision to close the schools today. meantime, officials in new york city say they received the same threat as schools in l.a. new york officials determined it was a hoax. >> sarah: the first full day of deliberations coming up in the philip chism murder trial. the jury must decide if the teenager was insane when they allegedly murdered his math teacher. victoria warren live outside superior court with the latest. >> reporter: yeah. the jury has been deliberating for a little more than six hours. we just heard from them for very first time since deliberations started. they had a question. they are apparently having technical difficulties viewing some of the surveillance vild owe. the judge proposing that they train one juror on how to use the computer. then they can move forward from that. the jury has a lot of information that they are

they are deciding if 16-year-old philip chism is guilty, not guilty, or not guilty by lack of criminal responsibility in the death of his danvers high school math teacher. when chism was 14 years old. the lack of criminal responsibility will be based on the defense's insanity claims that chism is schizophrenic and was hearing voices. the jury also has to decide on rape charges. the jury has 140 pieces of evidence, including this surveillance video to go through. since opening statements on november 16, they have heard from 53 witnesses, including psychiatric experts, from both the state and defense. colleen ritzer's family has been in the court every day. they have sat through all the testimony, including some very graphic details of how colleen died. the jury is made up of eight men and four women. the plan is for them to deliberate each day until 4:00 in the afternoonnal verdict is reached. and again, we have heard from

they are having some technical difficulties viewing that surveillance video. the judge is trying to work all of those details out right now. live in salem, victoria warren, 7 news. >> sarah: when the jury reaches a verdict, we will keep you updated on air and on-line. look for breaking news alerts from whdh.com. and the 7 news mobile and tablet app. 7 news now turning to your forecast. the sun is out. the rain has cleared. those temperatures are climbing. certainly, doesn't feel like december out there. as we saw in the live shot, a >> jeremy: there is. through the afternoon. that is the enemy this nothing else. no cold air. here is the storm system. brought some rain to the region early this morning. that is long gone. the rain is. the storm up in the gulf of maine, bay of fundy really intensifying. and when these storms get going, they can crank up the wind. that is what we have happening right now. these are sustained wind speeds between 20-30 miles per hour. they are gusting close to 40 miles per hour. in fact, gnash qa with a gusting over 40 miles per hour.

worcester and norwood, gusting to 37 miles per hour. a windy afternoon. winds gusting to 40 to occasionally 50 miles per hour. no arctic air with this wind. temps right now, upper 50's. it does turn cooler tomorrow. we will talk more about that coming up. >> sarah: people taking the kingston-ploucht commuter rail had to sit through more than two hours of delays. m.b.t.a. blames a mechanical problem on one of the trains. they sent another train to the area. it didn't get there until almost 1:00 this morning. one rider who was on the disabled train tweeted out this photo. take a look. you can see all the lights are off and the car is stopped. many commuters are frustrated with the m.b.t.a.'s continuing problems. >> ridiculous. like winter all over again. >> sarah: the "t" tweeted out a warning of the delay. it lasted about 80 minutes

the stage is set for the final republican presidential debate of the year. it happens in las vegas tonight. it comes in the middle of a shift in the polls. along the vegas strip, high stakes ahead of the last republican debate of the year. >> the other candidates should be thankful! because i'm giving them a chance to make total fools of themselves in front of millions of people. >> reporter: donald trump surging into first place... cruz surged into first first place in iowa. >> we are going to win iowa. we are going to win new hampshire big. >> reporter: trump repeatedly interrupted by protesters who were escorted out by security. trump supporters lashing out at the hecklers. one man yelling a nazi salute. a new battle over who will trump. a feud simmering between senators cruz and marco rubio.

social conservatives and tea party loyalists, he is trying to cast rubio as too moderate. rubio is gaining traction as the establishment pick is dismissing cruz as weak on national security. now in the wake of paris and san bernardino, americans' top concern. monday night, he leveled his sharpest attacks at president obama. >> the american people increasingly have zero confidence that this administration has any idea how to keep our country safe. >> reporter: rubio may have tonight's home field advantage. he spent part of his childhood here. for jeb bush, once the establishment favorite, is vegas his last stand? despite his campaign and super pac spending, more than $35 million in tv ads, the first three battlegrounds, bush is posting only single-digit support across the board. he is still exasperated by trump. >> he can't be commander in chief. he doesn't have plans. this is all dog-whistle talk. this is to provoke anger. >> reporter: back on tonight's

second look, chris christie. especially in new hampshire where he is staining his claim with more than 50 visits since june. you can watch the debate tonight on cnn. the patriots have once again, clinched the afc east. new england won the division after the dolphins lost last night to the giants. the pats pro shop quick to let fans know the afc east championship gear is now officially available. hats and shirts feature the message that east is on lock. the pats have won the afc east 13 times in the last 15 seasons. coming up on 7 news at noon, a truck driver lets his temper get the best of him. see why he plows into this hotel lobby. the force awake finance hollywood for a huge movie premiere. the star wars reviews are. boston art studio that is playing a big role with the hit franchise. >> jeremy: it is a wicked cool story. you want to see. that hey, the forecast features a windy afternoon. but a warm afternoon.

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why let someone else have all the fun? that's no fun. unleash the power of dough. give it a pop. >> jeremy: good afternoon. i'm jeremy reiner. a windy afternoon. effect. winds gusting occasionally 40-50 miles per hour. here we are in the month of december. you can find windy days. usually, on the back side of a nor'easter or blizzard. no, not today. we are talking temps in the upper 50's. i thought, you know what? i know we had some clunkers back in june. sure enough, june 1 of this year, 49 with rain. unreal. cooler tomorrow. so we had a storm system move up through southern new england this morning. heading down east maine right now. it is really intensifying.

remember last year, when we were in the middle of the snow blitz, you know, the term bombo-genesis, not quite like. that i can't find any cold air. watertown, 44: burlington, 51. again, it is mild. numbers at this time, upper 50's. the city at 58. norwood at 59. and so for the afternoon, windy. with temperatures between 5-58. west winds gusting 15-30 miles per hour. here we are right now. and again, we will hold steady for the next few hours. then once we head to midafternoon, late afternoon, more likely this evening, the here you go. the normal high is at 41. even by 8:00 tonight, still with temperatures into the evening. and then as we work toward tomorrow, it does cool off. this afternoon, it is about that wind. and for more on that, here is danielle. >> reporter: thanks, j.r.. the winds are out of the west. a mild wind. the air is quite mild.

you can see in worcester, those sustained winds up to 25 the same in norwood and boston. they are breezing over 20 miles per hour as well. your gusts, though, are already close to 40 miles per hour. over 40 for some of you. that wind advisory is staying evening. we could even see gusts hour. for your commute home, around 5:30 this afternoon, those gusts still around 30 miles per hour. as you head into the overnight hours, the winds turn more northerly. but it's still breezy through the overnight hours. winds not calming down until you head into tomorrow morning. when we have a north wind and a nice calm wind. keep in mind, the wind advisory through tonight, it could impact your commute home. gusty winds. then we are dying down by tomorrow morning. j.r., back to you. jere day, danielle. it does become a northerly wind as we work toward... it will be cooler tomorrow. you know, we are in such a warm pattern. you know, using the word

time of year. tomorrow afternoon, temperatures are in the middle 40's. the forecast, another weather system on thursday. but again no, arctic air. it is rain-drops. not snowflakes. as we work into the weekend, saturday and sunday. mostly sunny skies. temperatures for the patriots game, their last home game, regular season, that is, in the lower 40's at kickoff sunday afternoon. >> sarah: a texas man rams his pick-up truck through the lobby of an oklahoma hotel. two workers jumpld out of the way in the knick of time. over a bill. but the clerk never expected this. shocking new video released monday shows the heart-stopping moments for two employees at an oklahoma hotel after a disgruntled guest crashed his truck into the front desk. it is driver identified by police as john ed war parsley. he is first seen talking with the police officer last thursday outside a comfort inn

about 110 miles northwest of oklahoma city. surveillance video then shows parsley crashing his sierra gmc through the hotel entrance and into the front desk. as two women frantically dive for safety. parsley backs up the truck, stops and then pulls back into the lobby. he says something to the women. gets out of the truck and calmly walks back to the entrance with his hands raised. the 62-year-old man was reportedly upset that his credit card had been declined twice. according to a local newspaper. he told police he grieve is the hotel because hotel staff thought he was bluffing and he proved he wasn't. no one was injured. but the lobby of the comfort inn and suites was severely damaged. parsley who is from gonzalez, texas was held on a $1 million bond monday night. on two felony charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. and one count of malicious

investigators say parsley has had his run-ins with the same owner in the past. and a galaxy far, far away. actually closer than you might think. this morning, we learn about a local company hitting it big thanks to the new star wars movies. then we are heading into the kitchen for my holiday helping. i'm sharing my mother's recipe for a breakfast casserole that will have everybody coming back for seconds. winter is hard on your nose. from first sniffles to endless runny noses. puffs plus lotion is soft. they help soothe irritation by locking in moisture better so you can face winter happily. a nose in need deserves puffs indeed.

>> sarah: celebrities hiing the red carpet last night for the world prelmer of the star wars movie. the original star wars characters were there. you are probably thinking it takes a lot of hollywood magic to create the star wars universe. the movie was filmed elsewhere. a small but mighty design is made right here in boston. >> jeremy: that is correct. it has to do with all that star wars merchandise you have take a look as new england awakens. in boston. not a lot of people know we are here in boston. >> we don't see it as star wars until, you know, that first trailer came out. i was like, wow. this movie was never supposed to get made. it is happening. you have been working on it for a year now.

studio was chosen by lucas look. all of the artwork being awakens. >> there is over 500 licensees that want to make products with star wars imagery on them. the t-shirts and back-packs and bicycles. skateboards. you name it. you know, a lot of our artwork will end up on it. >> that means visualizing characters and scenes the rest of the planet hasn't even seen yet. >> we create hundreds of these pieces of art, each and every one of them is a little high ro come of the bigger story. >> the co-founders worked on star wars prequel toys for hasbro before pilot. after attack of the clones, they went solo. >> we jumped ship. went out on our own. took a big risk. >> they quickly secured some big firms. ditz knee and pixar, cranking out quality work. now they are ready to reveal jedi secrets. today they have 20 employees. >> we knew the odds were against us. we had a lot to prove. we had to work very hard.

like we have today. >> we did. we had fun chatting with those guys. they want to make sure that folks know that they had a great relationship with hasbro, the toy maker near new england. and they wouldn't be where they are today without that great relationship with hasbro. >> sarah: i love it. you have another story tomorrow. right? >> we do. dorms fans are obsessed with every film detail of the franchise. including yours truly. we call that a fan boy. there are some things i didn't even know. you will find this interesting. i know you are not a fan girl. >> sarah: i'm still into it. i always did the "luke, i'm your father" in front of the fans. didn't everybody do that? coming up next after the break introduce you to my family. learn how to make one of my mom's favorite recipes. in our holiday helping. also, rob gronkowski putting a christmas spin on his signature spike. do you have one of these?

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>> sarah: breaking news in malden. there is a collapse on pleasant street. fast temporary wooden wall set all few feet in front of the building there. see that? it looks like it is part of the sidewalk. it is not. it was set propped up like that other wooden wall there. it collapsed flat on the sidewalk there. we know two people have been taken away on stretchers. of course, we will continue to follow this breaking news story. switching gears now. the holiday season in full swing. and of course, it is time for holiday helping. here at 7 news, we are whipping up our favorite holiday recipes. all for a good cause. to kick things off, i'm heading into the kippen to make a breakfast casserole. a family favorite. i hope you enjoy my holiday helping. hi, everybody. welcome to our home. our family has grown a little bit since last year. this is baby blare. sleeping right now. my husband chris. and of course, buddy. and behind us is my mom.

egg casserole. it is a family tradition. morning. we can't wait to show it to you. what is the first thing we need to do? >> we are going to crack the eggs in the bowl. >> sarah: just hold the baby. >> i know. best. >> sarah: before we add eggs. how is that? are you looking? are you going to be a cook? >> we have to add the milk. dry mustard and salt. we are calling in the chefs of the household. my husband chris to take care of the sausage. the main ingredient. >> yes. i use regular and hot sauce auj to give it a kick. >> sarah: this takes you 15 minutes? >> about 15 minutes. >> sarah: pour the sausage into the egg mixture. stir that in. now tear the bread pieces. dump it into the mixture. the last ingredient, the cheese. you can use different kinds if

stir that up for us. >> pour it into the dish. refrigerator overnight. we will place it in the oven at 350 for an hour. on christmas morning. then you will have your breakfast casserole. from arkansas to massachusetts, we hope you get a chance to try my mom's breakfast casserole this holiday season. thank you so much for supporting project bread. happy holidays. to make a donation, log on to our web site, whdh.com. click on the project bread logo. we'll be right back after this

>> sarah: a disciplinary vasquez, a 28-year veteran of the m.b.t.a. his train was car rig 50 station in braintree last week. nicole oliverio has the latest now from dorchester. >> reporter: the union which represents m.b.t.a. workers holds its regularly scheduled meeting. union reps, though, wouldn't comment on the investigation against member david vasquez who was supposed to be behind the controls of last week's run-away red line train. the "boston herald" that vasquez denies wrapping a cord around the throttle, causing the train to take off. "he ran as fast as he could to the braintree station to say i get that thing. he didn't realize his leg was bleeding." vasquez was clipped by the train. no one else was hurt, thanks in big part to the "t" supervisor who told just one station how he and another worker came up with the plan

with 50 passengers onboard. >> we couldn't allow a failure in this situation. we knew we had people's lives at stake. >> sarah:. >> we were killing sections. the momentum kept carrying it. this is what i was afraid of initially. the momentum of the train. we asked them. is that train still moving. we have thought we might have been able to stop it before north quincy. he said it was still moving. >> reporter: sources confirm to 7 news that right now vasquez is at a disciplinary hearing. it is unclear how long it will take to make a decision, if, in fact, there will be any sort of discipline and what that would be. in dorchester, 7 news. the second largest school district in the nation shut down due to a threat. officials in los angeles say

that prompted them to take the rare and unprecedented action, the closure affecting 640,000 students. we have more now on this breaking story. >> reporter: buses are not moving this morning in the los angeles school district. more than 640,000 students from kindergarten through high school were told to stay home. this, after at least one school board member received an electronic bomb threat. >> i think it is important that i take the precaution based on what has happened recently and what has happened in the past. >> we have chosen to close our schools today until we can be absolutely sure that our campuses are safe. >> reporter: a cafeteria

extremely unsettling. >> i'm so scared. i'm scared. i feel really angry. because they are trying to scare us. they are doing it. >> reporter: officials have asked businesses in the area to be flexible with their employees today who may need to stay home to take care of their children. >> sarah: right now jury morning in the philip chism murder trial. jurors spent about three hours behind closed doors on monday arguments. chism's lawyers admit he is guilty, but they say the teenager was not sane when he killed his math teacher school. however, prosecutors say there is no evidence to prove that. >> the evidence is clear that philip chism has suffered from a psychotic disorder. most likely early-on set schizophrenia. from wrong. wrong.

course of the afternoon. >> the defense is charged by deliberate premeditation only. >> sarah: the jury has a lot to go through. including the testimony from 5 evidence. when the jury reaches a verdict, we will keep you updated on air and on-line. turning now to your forecast: the rain has cleared. it seems the sun is out. but j.r., looks windy in some of the live shots out there. >> yes. we are noticing winds gusting over 25. occasionally, over 35 miles per hour. beautiful vistas here. this is the twitter handle right there. up on mt. hood. looking toward revere. we have some sunshine. battling it out with the no more rain out of the clouds. we have some rain very early this morning. we are cranking the wind speeds between 20-30 miles per

we have a wind add advisory in effect for the afternoon. here is where we have the wind advisory in effect. power disruption. i don't want to oversell that. not a cold wind. look at the numbers. uper 50's at this time. >> sarah: a five-year-old boy left on a bus on the way to school. we are learning about criminal charges the driver may face. victoria warren has details in the 911 calls made when that boy was found. >> reporter: 911 call to prospect street in lawrence. >> observed a five-year-old child male, left alone on the bus. >> reporter: the young child was sound asleep. no adult or bus driver was around. fast neighbor is the person who tipped off police. the bus company is called nunez transportation. a bus similar to this one. it is company is run independently from the school district, but the mayor says that doesn't make them any less responsible for the children. .

that as these third-party vendors are doing business with our school system, that the parents are informed. and they put pressure on them to provide the quality service. >> reporter: the boy was alone for 45 minutes. he was okay. his parents came to pick him up. the driver is facing a reckless endangerment charge. he is accused of not doing the required bus inspection before locking the bus up and he could also lose his job. >> we could suspend his license, imminent threat. because he didn't follow through what he needed to do. report t police chief says they have contacted the registry to take the steps to make that happen. the school bus driver will be summoned to court to face charges. in lawrence, victoria warren, 7 news. >> sarah: two people rushed to the hospital after an armed

police say they are searching for at least two suspects who were wearing masks at the time. it is still not clear if they stole anything from the home. but the victims say they had guns. a local mailman helps police catch two men trying to break into a house. this was in methuen. as susan train shows us, the family has a special message for their holiday hero who went above and beyond the call of duty. >> they were trying to break in with the hatchet over here. >> reporter: the frame of the sliding glass door sledded in some places. >> he thought he would bring the packages out back and hand them to us, instead of leaving them out front. by the time he went around there, he saw, like, one of them that had the ax in his hand. >> reporter: it was tuesday around noon. >> i started off going through my shed.

getting the hatchet. they started smashing away at the door. >> reporter: a veteran mail carrier confronted the teens. he took off after them. >> that was a pretty bold thing to do. to look out for us. >> reporter: neighbors heard the commotion and called police. officers working a detail nearby were quickly able to arrest the teens. and what could have been a very scary holiday for six-year-old brooke turned into a lesson about the mailman who saved christmas. >> it went from she could have been scared and like, not felt secure to being, like, oh, that's so cool and she felt safe. which is important. the most important thing. >> reporter: susan tran, 7 news. >> sarah: a girl who has been through quite a lot. a surprise trip to disney. you may remember safire, badly burned in a house fire that killed her father, sister and two brothers. all she asked for on her christmas list was for people to send her christmas cards. well, her request went viral.

200,000 cards from all around the world. but one foundation is sending her and her aunt to disney. >> disney world and universal and lego land? >> finally. just to have fun. just have fun. oh, my god. for a whole week. i can relax. >> reporter: the foundation is called baking memories for kids. safire says she cannot wait to see cinderella. all right. we are staying on top of breaking news out of malden. a collapse on pleasant street. it appears to be a temporary wooden wall. set up a few feet in front of the bidding. it was propped up like that other wooden wall there. now it fell over, flying flat on the sidewalk there. two people have been taken away in stretchers. we will continue to follow this breaking news for you throughout the afternoon. still ahead on 7 news, rob gronkowski puts a christmas spin on his signature spike. >> jeremy: boom.

afternoon. forecast up next. why let someone else have all the fun? the sometimes haphazard, never boring fun. the why can't it smell like this all the time fun. the learning the virtue of sharing fun. why let someone else have all the fun? that's no fun.

>> sarah: tom brady posted this picture of his wife gisele bundchen topping their christmas tree with a star. he said "i guess the mission wasn't fully accomplished. now we are ready for christmas thanks to the love of my life."

meantime, rob gronkowski wants fans to have a holly jolly gronk-mas. to celebrate, the tight end debuted this new ugly swelter that features him spining a you can buy it on-line for $50. hopefully, it goes to charity or something. i cannot wait for you guys to see j.r.'s sweater. and his holiday helping. that airs tonight and tomorrow morning. >> jeremy: what do you think yeah. exactly. star wars. shocker, j.r. through the day, a windy afternoon. wind advisory in effect. it is a mild day, though. temperatures this afternoon, upper 50's to around 60 degrees. still no signs of this pattern changing. even though you can find yourself, you know, in a warm pattern. once in a while, you might run into a cool or chilly day. overall, look down the road, i don't see a significant change to our pattern. i don't have snow in the forecast. unfortunately, snow-lovers. day. a storm system moving up through the gulf of maine. now heading up into the bay of fundy. we have a mix of clouds and sunshine. to start the afternoon.

clouds will take over. we will have wind as well. this storm is rapidly intensifying. when that happens, you get the wind. here in the month of december, you might find where you have that storm system. pulling in some arctic air. you look off to our northwest. even these locations, watertown and burlington, the numbers are above normal. we are not advertising cold air this afternoon. windy and mild with partly sunny skies. as we work through the afternoon, we start to lose some ground. because we are losing daylight. and of course, the westerly wind doing its thing. scraping in cool air. even through the evening commute and if you have plans after work this evening, holiday shopping or holiday party, no arctic air. temps will begin to cool off. upper 40's. even at that time, 8:00, 49, the normal high at 41.

danielle. >> reporter: thanks. the wind is quite breezy out there. these are sustained winds. you can see they are up to 25 miles per hour in worcester, norwood. even in boston, those winds are blowing over 20 miles per hour. the gusts are even stronger out there. up to 40 miles per hour. very gusty out there. these are westerly winds. they are staying with us as we head into the evening. our wind advisory is in effect. that will stay with us for all of the area until 6:00 p.m. tonight. as you head home from work tonight, you will notice the wind on your commute. most likely. 5 50k this evening, you could see those winds out of the west. really strong. we could have limited visibility. could impact your drive home. as you head into the overnight hours, winds dying down a bit. the winds not calming down too much. until tomorrow. for tonight, temperatures in the upper 30's.

the wind calms down tomorrow. there is your sunday kick. 1:00 at gillette. in the low 40's. >> sarah: it is that time of week where we reveal the winner of who did it better segment. jadiann and sigh say yeah thomas met up with the blue pretty cool. right? they performed the cast. jadiann and isaiah each had to paint their own canvases by banging on those drums. here are the results. jadiann! there it is. wins by a land-slide. 85% of the vote. jadiann now has five wins and

coming up, a fierce feline is missing. the swat team asking for your help finding the cat that

a furry friend disappears. officials are looking for your help finding the stray they nicknamed swat cat. the cat joined the force two years ago. kimberly bookman has the story. >> reporter: there is an apb out in boston right now. and it's for a cat. an unusual move for a police department, but then again, this is no ordinary kitten. >> about two years ago, people from the area started feeding the cat.

liked this calico kitty. they named her swat-cat. bought her a kennel with a as part of the unit. a mascot of sorts. but then out of nowhere, the kitten that curled up on their motorcycle seats waited for them on top of their armored trucks or hid underneath their lot. vanished. >> nobody has seen her for a while. a couple of days turned to a week, two weeks. now on week three. we miss the cat. >> reporter: now they are them. they want to know what happened to the stray kitten turned precious pet. >>. >> that is the kindness. you know, let's hope they find the swat-cat. >> reporter: kimberly bookman, 7 news. >> sarah: up next, the final four have taken the stage for their last performances. decide. oh, i can't wait.

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another christmas classic. so while the music video may lack some action, hey, it is like the you'll log. yule log. everybody loves that. wonderful christmastime has taken over as number one. paul mccartney wrote the original song. the season finale of the voice is tonight. it is up to america to decide who will be crowned the season nine champion. we have this preview of tonight's showdown. fellow voice finalist, it was one last night to win over america. >> that was so fun. so good to perform. i felt so good about the performances. >> reporter: the final four each took the stage for three songs.

>> that song means so much to me. it came to my heart. >> reporter: there were favorites, like the glen campbell classic. >> i was really proud of my fellow contestants and their performances. stoked about mine, too. >> reporter: the most important moment was the final solo for each singer. emily ann roberts closed the night with "burning house." >> i felt like my heart was completely in that song. and i felt like i gave it my all. i had fun. >> reporter: now america has the fun. >> i thought it was a really strong show. >> reporter: of choosing a winner. >> this journey has been so incredible. i wouldn't trade it for

>> reporter: whatever happens, i know i'm walking away a winner. >> so exciting. catch the season finale tonight of the voice. at a special time. the two-hour live broadcast starts at 9:00 p.m. right here on nbc. then get caught up on all the day's top stories with the night team for 7 news at 11:00. you know i love those singing shows. as much as you do star wars, j.r. >> jeremy: right, yeah. i try sing. then i'm reminded that i'm awful and just stick to star wars. stick to what you know. even if you are not good at it. winds gusting 30-35 miles per hour. wind advisory through the afternoon. mix of clouds and sunshine. >> sarah: all right. that will do it for 7 news at noon. 7 news continues first at 4:00. have is a great afternoon.