it's tuesday, december 29th and coming up on "early today," breaking news overnight. captured, the affluenza teen and his missing mother in police custody. busted at a mexican resort. extreme weather. more than half the country impacted by severe snow rain and ice. a grand jury votes against indictment in the tumere rice case. a drone flies too close for comfort to president obama's motorcade. donald trump takes direct aid at bill and hillary clinton

"early today" starts right now. and good morning everybody. thanks for being with us. we start with that breaking news. affluenza teen, ethan couch has been taken into custody. his mother was also arrested. and both could not establish legal status for the united states. and he was involved in a drunk driving crash that killed four people and he was 16 that time and had a blood alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit. he was sentenced to probation and missed a check in later this month. they believe he fled after a video surfaced that appears to show couch among the group which may violate his probation, although it's unclear if anyone

extreme weather as winter hits with a vengeance. it's moouving north wreaking havoc across multiple states. it knocked over cars in iowa. in wisconsin, heavy snow and ice caused a gas canopy to cu ollapse on cars and pumps. >> and elsewhere in illinois, a school bus and tractor trailer were swept up in rising flood waters forcing emergency worker to rescue those inside and in missouri at least 10 are dead from continuous flooding. >> reporter: snow, ice and plains and midwest. in iowa, as much as a foot of

in oklahoma thousands were left without power because of the winter storm. one family thankful for a generator p. >> we have the heater and refrigerator. >> reporter: chicago's o'hare airport is one of the trans transportation hubs with strandered travellers. this is part of the same system that dumped up to two feet of snow on new mexico and it's now moving to the northeast. >> snow blouers ready. we're good to go. >> reporter: 12 inches of snow could fall in some parts of new england. >> and meteorologist bonny schneider will join us lately with the latest forecast. prosecutor says it was a quote perfect storm of human error. there will be no indictment for

u tamir rice. edward, could we see the justice department get involved here? >> it could mean the families of the victims are looking to washington to get justice. they want to make sure they do a thorough investigation into whether the officers violated the civil rights of the ones they killed. >> reporter: protests in cleveland and across the united states in response to 93 indictment in officers involved in shooting and killing 12-year-old tamir rice. this protest in new york city. >> i'd like to see a legal system that incarcerates killer cops. >> reporter: in 2014, someone called 911 saying there was a gunman in the park. and the dispatcher never relayed information that it was likely a

>> it was horrible, unfortunate, and regrettable but it was not, by the law that biends us, a crime. >> someone other than the elected county official who works closely with law enforcement officers should have probably made that decision. >> reporter: meanwhile, rahm emmanuel stopped his vacation early. and chicago police say they accidently killed a mother of five in the gun fire. >> the they're already looking into the chicago police department as a whole for their escalation protocols. >> edward, thank you. rock and roll icon has died at the age of 70 after a brief battle with an extremely aggressive cancer.

recognizable started as a roady for jimmy hendrix before forming motor head in 1975. and they revolutioned the music scene by blending heavy metal and pump and influencing acts from foofighters who tweeted. his birthday was christmas eve, dead at the age of 70. we're still in the middle of a presidential primary but the 2016 race is starting to have a general election feel to it. the fight between donald trump and hillary clinton escalating every day. and now he's drawing bill clinton into the pay for. the democratic frontrunner fired back releasing a statement

her husband is getting involved too now scheduled to hold campaign events on february 4th in new hampshire and trump tweeted late last night. and make of this what you will, on the same day bill clinton will hold that campaign event, donald trump will pick up the pace with his campaign. he said around january 24th, the campaign is going to start spending a lot of money. we don't wanted to take too many chances. we're too close. and a lot of publicity is being done for him for free on facebook. and the gop frontrunner generated just over 50 million interactions on facebook. nearly double the combine 29.6 million total of all other

for more on his feud, he'll talk to savannah guthrie this morning on "today." family members of a three-year-old syrian boy sparked an out cry arrived in canada. you may remember these photos of the lifeless body on the beach in september. his father survived. his uncle, aunt and cousins arrives in vancouver as refugees. his father now lives in iraq. according to the international organization, nearly 3700 asylum seekers have died trying to reach europe. and 911 calls reveal a chaotic scene as boy scouts tried to get help for their scout master who was attacked by

well, that plan to lure to the bear away worked. none of the boys were injured and the 50-year-old man escape would nonlife threatening injuries. for more now on that winter storm, here's meteorologist, bonny schneider. now finally east coast getting some too. >> right, it's the first measurable significant snowfall in new england and we're looking at ice accumulating as well. through tuesday, heavy amounts of snow into northern new england. the problem is we're getting a

over to freezing rain at times. there's a concern for power outages and since so many people are traveling, be careful traveling on the roads. and in other areas, you're looking at that wintry mix with rain to the south of it. so, there will be a change over to rain and freezing rain. dangerous travel and low visibility. it's unseasonably mild across the southeast but things will change. watch what happens as we move into 2016. temperatures are dropping, even in new york city. hal has tallahassee down to 60. and overall, we're looking at things getting colder, just like it is off to the west. temperatures in salt lake, only

now a closer look at the day ahead. we can see the mild temperatures across parts of the midsouth into the 50s. nice in florida in the 80s. there's the cold air, 17 in billings. that is brutal. so, the cold air certainly is working its way to the east. we still have a couple days before it completely penetrates the country. thank you. almost 200,000,000 americans personal information is at risk. plus, what would you spend to clone your family pet? how about 100 grand.

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the presidential motorcade was driving through. president obama and the first family are in hawaii for their annual holiday vacation. a security researcher has uncovered a massive base containing 109 hn 191 million registered records going back to 2000. some of the information may have come from nation builder, a campaign software vendor but they say they don't own the mystery data base. when one couple 's beloved boxer dillen died they decided to spend $100,000 to drone him. two adorable twin puppies named chance and shadow were born.

and a rare site in rhode island yesterday, a 50 foot hump back whale was spotted going south to open water. adding legos to your portfolio may be a good idea. since 2012, the popular children's toys have increased in value by 20%. while gold is only 9.8% for investors. the infamous ashley madison hack has not deterred user. and as of yesterday, their numbers increased to 43.3 million. spokes person for the parent company declined to comment. and the popular fitness device was the most downloaded on the apple app store. just ahead, a passing of a basketball legend and with a playoff spot on the line, o.t.

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a.j. connects with a.j. to green for the touchdown. to the third. broncos down brock osweiler connects to sanders to get denver back into the game. fast forward to the fourth. we've got four seconds on the clock and here is the call on espn's spanish station. >> that could have been in any language, frankly. game goes into over time and he hits the game winning 37 yarder. broncos 20, bengals 17. both teams are 11-4 going into the final week. and in san antonio, it was bat versus bat man. a the critter was taken away by animal control as the critters

mascot soaked it in. and the league's second best record as they hold off minnesota 101-95. curry, you hear of him? and 122-103 over the kings. and to baseball where the new york yankees just added one of the best closers to the game. chapman is moving from cincinnati to the yanks for four minor leaguers and in case you missed it, the court jester of basketball has passed away. he wowed fans with amazing trick shots, combined with loads of comedy a big smile and plenty of charisma. meadow lark lemon was 83 yooer ears old and died on sunday. just ahead we have some juicy "game of thrones" news for you. and dwayne the rauk johnson

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and marvel gave us a sneak peek as dr. strange. and justin bieber's record company is in hot waut wr the city of san francisco. they had advertisements spray painted oen sidewalks and they want to know who actually did the graffiti so as to do them justice. no one from universal had comment. "soft kitty warm kitty little ball of fur". >> the family of a late new hampshire poet is suing the people responsibility for the big bang theory saying they used lyrics without buying the copyright copyrights. a cbs spokeswoman declined to comment. i'm shannon mulaire and you're watching "early today."

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>> this is 7news now. >> nancy: good morning to you. news today in new england starts in just a few minutes. >> sarah: we're dealing with our first snow of the season. snow mixing with a little sleet making for slick roads out there. the morning commute expected to be pretty bad. >> nancy: already one accident being blamed on the weather. a tractor-trailer rolling over in sutton. thankfully no injuries reported there. >> sarah: and we'll be watching the mbta closely this morning as they face their first test since last winter's problems. the state has spent months getting equipment upgraded to handle snow and ice. >> nancy: quite the wintry mix out there, and we have team coverage this morning beginning with jeremy reiner watching it all very closely.

we have a winter weather advisory in effect. this purple sheet does include the city of boston for a mixture of snow, sleet, freezing rain this morning becoming rain later on this morning at the coastline. it's a slower process metro west, merrimack valley. it's going to lead the poor travel. so if you are out and about early this morning, allow extra time. it's been a while since we've had weather like this. you have to go back to the end of march before you find measurable snow for metro boston. that's what we have for next few hours changing to a mixture of rain and freezing rain. we'll have that because of this on the doppler radar, blue and purple indicating that we are noticing sleet now starting to overtake many cities and towns. again, i think it's going to be more of a sleet storm than a snowstorm. bri, myself, we'll get into the dynamics -- i can't even talk -- dynamics of this storm over next couple hours. so you still have some deeper shades of blue southern new hampshire, north shore of new hampshire as well as the

ann, merrimack valley, nashoba river valley. as you move further south, here is the rain, but even in the city of boston when i was coming over from the hotel, there was rain and sleet and snow all happening right now. so it breaks down like this again there have been no significant changes to fourth since yesterday. it's briefly snow and sleet in the city, and then it's a cold shore. snow to sleet the rain in this pink shading here. and in the blue shading, it's freezing rain. it's a morning storm because as you notice here, here's the back edge of it. this will start to work into metro boston this afternoon. but until that happen, again, it's a slow go out there. allow extra time on those roadways this morning. 7news "today in new england" begins now. >> sarah: the first flakes have flown and winter is here, packing its first punch of the season as the snow, sleet and rain move in. >> nancy: and we'll have you covered all morning long from the forecast to the roads to the mbta as winter weather arrives.

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