that busy highway this time of day. now, the driver not hurt. that's the good news here. >> and as i just mentioned there, the scene causing mild delays. so what is it like right now, here's seven traffic's joe stapleton. >> yeah. right now dealing with the seven and a half mile back-up along route 25 southbound. traffic is very heavily congested from just about exit 20 and route 85 in milford all the way back beyond route 9 and barely moving at that. along route 495 northbound we had some earlier problems there with the smoke blowing across the highway. that has dissipated obviously with the truck fire now being doused out in the ride along route 495, not affected but you see all the headlights and brake route 9. joe stapleton, 7news. and more trouble on the roads this evening. we have sky 7 hd over a rollover

there's the tractor/trailer that unloaded its entire load of plywood. the exit ramp still closed while crews work on cleaning things up. and again, no one hurt. also on 7, a fire fight in saugus when a house goes up in flames. a massive blaze forcing fires to think fast and the family inside the home made it out safely. >> thanks to firefighters, and we have learned that three firefighters are recovering from minor injuries of their own. cause of the fire unknown. and authorities are still there looking for clues. 7's jonathan hall is live in saugus as well, what's the latest? still very busy, it looks like. >> they are. more than 12 hours after the fire we can still smell the smoldering rubble. this thing was quite ablaze this morning. the home packed full of belong kings and it moved quickly, made for a difficult and dangerous rescue for the firemen and paved the way for her oh, i moments. >> reporter: the fire near route 1 in saugus spread quickly.

were on the scene when it got dangerous. >> a saugus inland crew, three men overcome by the heavy black smoke and against heat. the malden firefighter gregory gene heard the pounding and saw the hand. >> i said give me a hand, brother. he grabbed my hand and started pulling them out. >> reporter: safe, the two men hugged. the saugus fireman told gene you saved my life. it was a moment they'll never forget. >> we turned around and said that guy saved my life and pulled me out of the window. >> i don't want to think about what would have happened. >> reporter: and two other guys

trapped inside. >> there quantity anyone else so we were able to get there. >> i would say the firefighters on scene definitely saved the lives of my men. >> this fire on essex street started in the basement and three women made it out on their own after waking to a loud noise after an explosion. one in their 80s. >> safe and warm, in a warm place right now. >> brother, give me your hand. more welcome words have never been spoken, perhaps. the three firefighters suffered just minor injuries. one of them does have burns to his neck and ears. live tonight in saugus, i'm jonathan hall, 7news. we turn now to a developing story overseas. north korea making an alarming announcement claiming it detonated its first hydrogen bomb. officials stay would be a dangerous and disturbing threat to that region if true. >> tim caputo joins us now with

>> well, u.s. fishes are disputing the claim -- officials are disputing the claim that it was a hydrogen bomb. >> reporter: north koreans cheered after the president claimed it set off a hydrogen bomb. the international community is stunned but skeptical. >> looks like they tried to make an advance. they didn't get there but bragging about it as if they did. >> reporter: something big exploded at the north korea test site, a magnitude 5.1 seismic event was detected. the white house believes an h bomb would have had a bigger blast. >> the initial analysis that's been conducted of the events that were reported overnight is not consistent with north korean claims of a successful hydrogen bomb test. >> reporter: no other country is supporting the test or even happened. china is condemning condemning it. experts say by ordering the test, kim jong-un signaled he is developing an h bomb. >> even if this were not a

there intention. >> reporter: immediately it was agreed to toughen sanctions but nothing to keep the nation and dictator from building the word's most powerful weapons. the. >> this seriously underminds international non-party nation. i condemn it unequivocally. >> this was north korea's fourth nuclear test since 2006 and their first alleged h bomb. the last test was back in 2013 and that blast actually had a bigger explosive yield and subsequent earthquake than last night's and that's part of the reason many believe this wasn't an actual hydrogen bomb, tim caputo, 7news. and breaking news from washington d.c. they've been trying to do it for years but congress has finally sent legislation to president obama to repeal parts of the affordable care act, also known as barack obama kare. it sits on his desk but he's expected to veto it. lawmakers say they have fulfilled a promise to the

the white house. and we're following more news today here at home. a mother facing charges after leaving her baby out in the cold in a car in rentham. here's the 911 call from a witness. [ inaudible ] >> police say the mother left the eight month old alone in the car for 10 minutes to go into a store at rentham outlets last night, and they say the temperature inside the car was not even 20 degrees. >> any parent should know not to leave an 8-month-old unattended regardless of what country you're from. so i think it just was a bad judgment. >> the baby is said to be doing okay. the mother is facing child endangerment charges. >> the mother of baby doe is being held on $1 million bail. rachel bond pled not guilty in suffolk superior court today

murder of her 2-year-old daughter bella. she says that her boyfriend killed the little girl and she did not help in any way possible. >> she really loved her daughter and every witness that we have spoken to has said that she was a good mother. so this is extremely difficult for her. >> she also faces a new larceny charge and prosecutors say she accepted state aid. it took months for investigators to figure out who she was. police arrested her mother and her boyfriend, and michael mccarthy. mccarthy will be charged with murder in that case. a judge stepping aside from the death penalty retrial of gary ley sampson. judge mark wolf had overseen the death penalty trial for 15 years but now says because of the significant workload, he's going to step away from the case. sampson was sentenced to death for two carjackings and three

four years ago a federal judge overturned the death sentence after his attorneys argued he did not get an impartial jury. a boston police officer recovering this evening after a driver goes on a crash course right into a cruiser. you can see the damage there. this crash happening last night at the intersection of blue hill and woodrow avenues. boston police say the officer had to be transported to a hospital but had non-life-threatening injuries. >> the patriots in familiar territory as they wait for their next opponent but this time around they're recovering from a number of significant injuries including tom brady's ankle sprain. today he says he's on the mend. alex corddry is live with more on what he had to say. >> he has the most famous ankle in new england right now. tom brady walking around today without a noticeable limp and we saw him jogging out to the practice field. so all things look like they're

for the patriots quarterback. >> tom brady's sprain wasn't serious enough to keep him off the practice field wednesday. >> getting better. that was a couple days ago. >> reporter: brady has 10 days to recover before the divisional round of the afc play-offs. the team will try to improve and rest up. >> i think it's important for everybody this time of year. and our bye week was a long time ago, so this is the first time we have had off in quite a while. >> try to take advantage as best as you can. >> it's back to things i think we missed in the season. so a good chance to go back and look at that. >> for the patriots, this week represents a little more me time in the final six games. there are plenty of improvements to make.

now just focus on yourself and look at things you need to work on as an individual and being a better football player. >> we'd like that change some things in the past but wouldn't we all. we're just focused on what we can do to put us up in the best position of the football game. >> i asked amendola which team he'd like to see come through foxboro in two weeks. he says it really doesn't matter if we can't fix our recent mistakes. live at gillette stadium, alex corddry, 7 nuts. coming up on 7news at 6:00, oh, boy, are we seeing powerball mania. >> yeah, people winding up everywhere before tonight's big drawing. $5 hundred million now at stake and the jackpot could continue to soar. not good on the highways. 495 south in milford, the scene of this tractor fire shut down the lanes but they're open now, but there's still a seven and a half mile back-up on the southbound portion of the highway.

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oh. people across the country are on a mission for millions. everybody hoping to win tonight's powerball drawing. and the estimated jackpot is $500 million. that's half a billion dollars. >> and lottery officials say a surge in ticket sales could continue to boost the jackpot even higher. 7's byron barnett is live in boston where the lions have been busy all day.

have you bought anymore? >> i think i'm going to wait to buy another one. i gotta tell you here at the tdeski's in dorchester here, this -- everyone says that is a lucky store and i gotta tell ya, it's been a mad house here all day long. extra people are here working to come and buy a lottery ticket hoping to walk out with the winning one. >> this is the winning number right here. >> powerball mania sweeping across the nation. >> i'm so excited. >> i hope i get something lucky today. >> powerball here at a detectivey's in dorchester are snatching up their tickets hoping to get tonight's $5 hundred million jackpot. >> what due with all the money if you snop. >> i start my own construction business where i go to work.

>> i'd be so excited. >> give it away. what else. >> i don't need money. i'm already blessed. >> reporter: it'll be the fourth largest powerball jackpot in history. the biggest $590 million no one be 2013. you can play powerball in 44 states, bc, puerto rico and the u.s. virgin island but this tdeski's calls itself the luckiest store in town. they've sold several winning ticket its over the years. myland castro sold the biggest. >> i actually sold the $32 million ticket several years ago. >> $32 million. what was that like? >> it felt good. too bad it be wasn't me that won. >> and it's time for me to buy one more ticket. i will buy it from myland here, the one that sold the $32 million-dollar ticket. thank you very much.

if you don't see me tomorrow, you'll know why. that's the latest live in dorchester, i'm byron barnett, 7news. seriously you wouldn't come to work tomorrow, byron? just one more day. >> all right.

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well, temps will be running seasonal today. that means teens and 20s to start . 30s throughout the afternoon. more sunshine tomorrow but that will be it because we have clouds in here on friday and they hang out with us saturday and sunday. sunday is a wind-swept soaker. 30s right now. the city at 37. norwood at 30 degrees. fitchburg 30. you notice fitchburg your windchill matches the temps out there but boston feels a little chillier than it is. the air is dry. mostly clear skies for tonight. cold but not as cold as we have been. boston about 27. most of the upper teens and low 20s early tomorrow morning. these will be numbers about 7:00 tomorrow morning. through the day tomorrow, more sunshine, bit of a coastal breeze late in the day so metro boston, your number briefly in the 40s but then in the upper

and friday cloudy skies. temperatures only in the mid- to upper 30s and pockets of drizzle through the day on friday and finally we will have to watch because that cold air, that can be kind of stubborn to move out of here, and so there may be a couple of pockets of freezing drizzle on and off through the day on friday as well as saturday night and sunday morning. but for most of us just patchy drizzle. again a weak area of low pressure. looks kind of like a zipper right here. it's a stretched-out area of low pressure but instead of turning a bunch of ls on that, a black dash line. and on sunday here is a red l. that will move west of new england and we're talking raindrops, not snowflakes. on monday, upper 40s but rains all day. -- on sunday, and once again sun back on monday.

we want to play our best football next saturday night. what else is there? >> bill belichick making clear the focus in foxboro is squarely on the patriots' divisional round game, 10 days from today, and not on the team's uncharacteristic 2 and 4 stretch to close out the regular season. much like the regular season, health will be a major concern in the play-offs, topping that list of concern of course is tom brady's sprained ankle. brady is very much on track to start the postseason opener. alex corddry has more from foxboro, an ankle, though, that will be under scrutiny for the next 10 days. >> doing better. better than a couple of days ago. >> reporter: after screen spraining his left ankle, three days later, tom brady still walking a bit gingerly. the bye will come in handy for the patriots' quarterback to

>> mentally i'm ready to go. physically you always want to feel your best, and i think you just gotta work and do the right things to get to that point. so that's where i feel like i'm at. >> reporter: at 38 years old, brady finished the season leading in china passes and third in passing yards but it's been a long 12 months for the qb, the deflategate and loss of key players on offense. through it all he's responded. >> it's been a challenge for a lot of ways and for a lot of people. i think i'm always up for the challenge. >> reporter: he dealt with plenty of challenges last off season and asked he noticed the media action to report hgh shipments sent to peyton manning's house. many reporters leaping to manning's defense in contrast to the deflategate drama. >> i've just tried to, you know, do my best to help our team win. i think that's what my goal is

far to only come this far. so we've still got further to go. >> brady showings once again just how focused he is and amendola saying he's one of the most mentally tough teammates he's ever played with. alex corddry, 7sports. an awesome start to the bruins' new year that they were hoping for but after watching the team get embarrassed in front of a national audience at classic, julian was much more pleased following last night's game despite the nhl he's capitals. charra with be under a minute to go, denying the bruin's captain. hoping to improve in his career against the bruins. dealing with black and goad, yet another blow. for the second year in a row, patrice bergeron will be the bruins' lone representative at

trophy winner leads the bruins with 37 points and ranking second in the league with 539 face-off wins. and a two-game suspension for this hit on adam mcquade last night. mcquade left the game, did not return. appears to have a concussion after this hit. the brewers of course lost the game and that's exactly the kind of hit the nhl is trying to get rid of, running people into the boards headfirst and give him a two-game suspension. ken griffey jr. and mike piazza will headline the baseball hall of fame class for 2013. barry bonds and roger clemson

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