investigats wano know what made it come crashing down. tracking showers for tomorrow and record warmth for christmas eve. new at 11 her mother and twins trapped inside a burning home tonight meet officers who rusheded in for the save. >> we have a gentleman in the cave with bear. he has been injured scout master pulled into a cave by an angry bear. what his young scouts did to save his life. now from the night team. 7 news at 11 starts now. break news a 11 a happen homecoming for two children reunited with their father tonight. police say their mother never returned these kids a promise after he allowed visit yesterday. she's now in jail charged with kidnapping brandon gunnoe in lakeville with how the children were found. brandon. adam, kim somebody spotted the kids in raynham. you should have seen out excited they were to be back home here safe when they ran to the front door. >> this is at moment so many

twoer hours miss 5 yaerl steven home safe. i'm just glad they are home. home safe, you know, it's, it seemed like it lasted a week long. but if has ab long television hours a mother of child 47-year-old valerie mcgrath. being taken into custody. police say she took the children sunday at one:30 in afternoon. promised to return them to their father at 5, but instead, police say she turned her her cell phone off rented a car in fall river and in radar never game can being. they found them, they are safe. i'm going oh pick them up now. moments after stee carrigan found out his kids were safe and minutes before he was reunited with them in raynham where they were spotted at mcdonald's. >> it they were smiling, you were they were keeping them entertained pretty well. they like i said they seemed like they were just away for day. they are both excited about going home. carrigan got full custody of kids because of problems with their mother. he said he didn't know where she

worried that she might hurt them. that's with only one thing keeping me strong when i was talking to people the news people and stuff thinking that she still loves the kids. >> that mother has been charged with minor kidnapping she's currently being held at the police department. we're live in lakeville, brandon gunnoe, 7 news night team. you saw this first on 7 a crane turns into a home wrecker. making a crashing entrance in plymouth. it just tipped and slammed through roof of that house. tonight investigators are trying to figure out what went wrong and what about this family just before the holiday. nick emmons is in plymouth. so what kind of shape that is house? is crane still there? i see it hinging i knowed you. yeah you can see crane. still there on its side. tipped up resting on top of that home. the family meantime they might have to stay elsewhere leading up to christmas. >> it was like, if you ever hear like tree in forest sounded just like this 17 yaerl rebecca

crane came crashing through her house. he was in my kitchen when this all happened. i like, i saw something fall from ceiling i looked outside my bay window saw trees falling. but this is what she saw. the crane being used by the tree trimming company her family hired had toppled over. we were trying to prevent tree hitting our hitting us from wintertime rebecca's dad andrew just happy his daughter is okay. she reacts well under pressure. i'm so proud of her. and she was great. the christmas lights along lisa avenue overpowered by blue police lights. neighbors wondering how this could happen. came home my neighbor calls me help me outs what's going on down street it lit up like christmas tree down here. we walked down here to see crane up on i its side. slice throughed the roof. it's hard to believe. as it just took a clean slice right through the roof. >> all right back out here live

time. hoe sha has to approve more cranes to come in to get this one out. meantime, the family evening though they i might electric stay somewhere else leading up to christmas they are just happy everyone made it out okay. nick emmons, 7 news night team. weather. tonight may be the official start of winter. but as rain moves in this week, so do warmer temperatures. here's meteorologist jeremy reiner with closer look for us look at these temperatures 11 o'clock a night boston at 52. plymouth at 54. norwood 53. normal high temperature is 39. we won't be close to normal any time soon. lot of clouds out there have been a couple sprinkle earlier this evening across new england. mainly western new england. as we move out of new england. there's another batch of rain we're monitoring. down here through west virginia. kentucky, ohio. i point that out because that is heading our way for tomorrow. tuesday, you'll need rain gear, 7:00 tomorrow morning a lot of clouds a couple scattered

think you can get through morning commute with just few showers we work in afternoon periods of rain look numbers continuing to climb from 40s tomorrow morning mid 50s tomorrow afternoon. 7 o'clock tomorrow evening. we'll feature a lot of clouds scattering of rain showers. we're not done there talking about record warmth likely. christmas even i'm show you those numbers in a few minutes. all right jr thank you. schools in nashua, new hampshire will be back open tomorrow scare today forced administrators to cancel classes they received an es mail threatening high schools in the city. but they shut everything down turns out it was not credible investigators still trying to track down who sent it. >> new at 11 a close call for a mother and her babies. trapped inside their burning home tonight they are saying thank you to the police officers who got them out of their. night team susan tran is live in medford with their story. susan. >> and adam this family is so grateful for these police officers. now when it first arrived on scene here at this home they say there was a neighbor who ran out

stuck in second floor. so those officers without hesitating ran inside this burning building. >> lauren and will you anne cradled in their parents' arms 5-month-old twins had no asked they barely escaped a dangerous fire. i was so scared. so scared. >> thinking about my life. carlos coming home from a work, his wife was home with their babies in second floor apartment when a fire started in the basement. >> the guy that live on first floor was mock knocking on the door neighbor ran out right into officers. he told them there was a mom and babies upstairs. >> holding infants in our arms just hand me the infants. hand me infants the officer grabbed babies while officer quinn babies safe and sound for their first christmas florida parents know it's largely

>> they are heros. heros. they save my ladies. and back here live all the family's possessions still on that second floor include christmas presents and mom's butt day presents. that's because her birthday is tomorrow. the family going to be spending the holidays now with family. we're live in medford tonight susan tran, 7 news night team. also from night team, 6 americans killed in afghanistan suicide bomber drove a motorcycle into group detonated his suicide vest. like you see in this animation. it's deadliest attack on u.s. forces in afghanistan in more than two years. two other americans and an afghan interpreter were injured. >> a mother from oregon is facing murder charges tonight. police say she's one who drove her car into a crowd of people on las vegas strip. and results were deadly. night team's elizabeth noriega in our control room. they are trying if figure out why she does it. she told investigators she

influence of alcohol but she was stressed out. >> she's accused of a repeatedly and deliberately running down dozens of tourists. police say 24-year-old la kesha holloway with her three-year-old daughter in car intentionally drove on to a sidewalk along the las vegas strip injuring more than 30 people and leaving one dead. >> the car hit them and it was like a bowling ball hit pins. peach watched in horror as see swerved oh ton a sidewalk not once but twice. the video obviously shows intention. her exiting roadway on to the sidewalk and then obviously plowing through the pedestrians on the sidewalk. people jumped into action trying to smash out her windows anything to get her to stop we're not police officer chasing car they were just random like dudes. police say after her deadly drive holloway parked her car a nearby casino. left her daughter in the car, and asked a valet to call 911.

and had living out of her car with her little girl for the last week. noriega. seven news night team we will republican candidate donald trump is demanding a apology for comments she made during democratic debate this weekend. clinton said trump is great recruiter for isis and that group is using clips of trump insulting muslims to decree recruit new terrorists. up. person that needs to apologize in this matter is donald trump for hateful rhetoric towards. this allow each to be front and 1234r to act if they are their party's nominees to dominate discussion that's what you want when you're in a presidential race. >> in a statement clinton campaign says she will not apologize south carolina senator lindsey graham announcing he's out of presidential race. groo ham has been polling near zero percent. was none main stage in last republican debate. >> well like a chess game with the nfl now filing it's final

tom brady made that move two weeks ago. the league suspended brady for four games earlier this year accusing qb of deflating football before afc championship game a judge overturned the decision when brady appealed. the nfl is arguing the original pun herbment should stand saying the commissioner was act within his authority when he made the decision. a ruling is not expected until after the super bowl. coming up next from the night team frightening close encounter for boy scout leader in new jersey. a bear attacks him find out some members of his troop helped to save him. then the mistake heard around the universe. a crowning moment that just makes you cringe. also red sox legend gets his number called. details on big honor for wade boggs. dreaming of a white christmas. keep dreaming record warmth for thursday. numbers up next. we're head ryan schulteis's home for christmas classic sharing a holiday cookie recipe that is

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a boy scout leader ends up in hospital after a bear goes on the attack in new jersey. bear might have been on defense. rescuer say animal dragged him into at cave. you can only imagine horror for the cubs and kids with him. cubs also. but, they say that a man survived all thanks to those scouts who witnessed it. >> we have a gentleman in cave with bear he has injured by bear. he's bleeding from his neck, his arms. and his head.

shortly after 12 noon sunday. massive response from police firefighters and wildlife officials in new jersey. a boy scout leader trying to show three scouts a cave was suddenly bitten on leg pulled inside by a black bear. the three scouts with him, age 10 to 12 stayed calm. called 911 and alert search teams. >> they also have started a fire for smoke signal. scouts put food at the mouth of the cave to lure the bear out. but it took an hour and 20 minutes to get to him. >> requesting more manpower as location with victim. up on a rock ledge. they are going to need assistance getting them down 50-year-old victim was finally takening taken out on a stretcher. put into medical helicopter flown to hospitaldown this path where a terrifying incident played out scout master telling he had number cave before and never saw a bear. >> that's scout leader again released from the hospital

was injured high sang psi tee tore tourist when ride malfunction in seaworld in florida. dozens of people were stuck more than 400 feet in air a worker scrambled to fix the problem. it took about an hour and passengers were safely back on the ground. space x sticking landing a cape canaveral tonight. successfully landed back on earth after putting several satellites into orbit. steve harvey apologizing tonight for major mishap during miss universe package educate host accidentally crowned miss columbia last night when real winner was miss philippines. >> this is exactly what's on the car. i will take responsibility for this. it was my mistake. it was on the car. columbia. well, miss columbia had to give up the crown minutes later miss philippines calling is very nontraditional crowning moment. mice universe organization released a statement saying in

telecast means that human error can come into play. >> and now, seven weather with meteorologist jeremy reiner. >> that is a tough one. going to snow. no actually i meant rain. all right, showers on the way tomorrow morning. mid 40s. 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. periods of rain look at these numbers. mid 50s. 7 o'clock tomorrow evening. numbers still climbing upper 50s with scattered showers tomorrow for taco tuesday. so, jet stream it continues to be in this fashion here. it's doing this essentially since halloween. too being abit of a deep over weekend numbers were a little bit chilly. but really not cold, just normal for this time of year. and for the remainder of holiday going to look like this. we're talking about warm temperatures really warm, i think for christmas eve. we're talking about record warmth. this far into the month, it is the warmest december on record. and numbers are about ten degrees above normal. now there are some signs as we roll towards new years, new years weekend that pattern is

get into a more seasonable pattern which would offer some cold, you know you get cold maybe talking snow. nothing definitive at this time. certainly nothing through remainder of this week current temperatures city at 52. unreal. plymouth at 54. worcester at 48. then again normal high is 39. we will above that all day and all night for several days. a lot of clouds right now couple sprinkle nothing significance. mild overnight temperatures in middle and upper 40s. and the winter solstice first night of winter if you will, is 11:48. where from here on out for next few months the most the sun's rays focused on southern hemisphere. we don't need t we ef that jet stream doing our thing. we're talking warm conditions trade off that warm pattern that we have a lot of clouds. not a lot of sunshine next few days. so tomorrow here you go 7 o'clock tomorrow morning just couple isolated showers. but, probably a good idea to have rain gearheading out front door because there will be on and off showers for the furs

then there be a burst of some steady rain tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night. but at no point is the rain overwhelming or leading to any flooding or anything like that. nuisance kind of rain especially in afternoon sxefrng ahours. most towns good a third to a half an inch of rain. then on wednesday a lot of clouds. then there's actually more rain on way wednesday evening. near 50. thursday there you go. upper 60s, close to 70 degrees the record on thursday is 61. i think we're going to get there on thursday afternoon. 68, worcester your record is 57. and you should reach the middle 60s on worcester. with a little humidity as well. holiday travel again next couple of days off from periods of rain. not bad. again certainly no snow or ice. thursday and friday, better travel days. no rain in forecast in either of those days 7 on 7 forecast, leaves santa some cookies and maybe crack window it will be warm temperatures thursday night in 60s christmas day itself near 60s. have a great night. you too, jr incredible.

hour holiday helping go thing home to make our favorite holiday recipes here a 7 news for a good cause. so tonight our friend and co-worker ryan schulteis baking demand. here's highs holiday helping welcome tour home. this is my husband drew. today we will making snicker doodles. right? yeah i'm no cook and i can make them. let's get started. first things first you want to the wet ingredients together. two sticks of butter. make sure butter softened before you start baking. two eggs. last step to add the sugar. ingredients. so that bowl completely want to folks on dry ingredients an include whole bunch of sifted flour. put that right in salt, cream tartar and baking soda.

dry ingredients. so key here is what? >> you want to make sure you're adding dry ingredients little by little. why is that so it mixes even. this recipe is so good for this time of year so many of cookie swaps this easy to bring along and everyone loves snicker doodles. so now all mixed together we will put it on to this cookie sheet with saran wrap there. then cool it in refrigerator for about 15 minutes that makes much easier to work you see how sticky it can to get out fwoul now time to make cookies. what did here combine cinnamon and shoe sugar. this is really best part. this what is makes the cookies. we will take about little chunks of dough off there about one inch like this drop into cinnamon sugar. roll it all around in there. put it right on cookie sheet. first patches ready to go pop it in oven at 350 degrees for about ten minutes. so here they are. they look and smell amazing. we hope you enjoy them thank you

bread and from our home to yours, happen holidays. let's dig in here. i got to say those look better than my snieker doodles nice job gentlemen. if you want to make a donation to project bread learn more about 7 news recipe log on to www.whdh.com. click on project bread logo. tomorrow night is my holiday helping. i'm making heart fisherman's stew i really love this hopefully alike great for big gatherings tomorrow at 11 hopefully that my daughter hayden there for me only one i could recruit.

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>> we went for a lot of reasons. it's not just guys off the street. i think it's guys that are committed to playing patriot football. coach belichick does a great job preparing us every week for tough battle and trying to figure out how we can go out there and each week with different players and still find ways to win games over the course of a long season. when celtics franchise need a spark back in 2007, they turned to kevin garnett current team also needing a mark ride season long three-game losing streak this time against kg and the t wolvesgarnett back in garden did not play. 39-year-old getting some rest. c also shorthanded jared out with back spasms amir johnson battling a foot injury. this game all about the bench. reserve start game 8 for 8 from floor including that rj hunter beating first quarter buzzer with a 40 footer c's go up 36-24.

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