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home there on babson street. this is byattapan square. you can see that dark smoke still billowing out of the but butting there. fire crews arrived at 4:00 this afternoon. this is a two and a half story at. there adental office inside as well as that apartment. now two people were inside when the flames broke out according to boston fire. they were treated by boston ems on the scene. you can see all that smoke still coming out of there. fire fighters have been or insisted out battling this from outside boston fire tweeting the fire contained to one apartment at this time. crews have surrounding fire stations have also been called in to battle those flames but it is looking a little bit better as it was from about an hour ago so we're going to continue to follow this and we'll keep you update as more information becomes veil. in the newsroom, jadiann thompson, 7 news. >> anchor: also breaking right now, two suspect insisted drug dealers busted in tewksbury. police say they seized about $3 million worth of drugs.
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>> anchor: as you can imagine this couple is now facing serious charges. 7's steve cooper live in lowell where they appeared in court. steve? >> anchor: the district attorney telling us a little while ago as far as she is concerned this is a major break in the opioid crisis. it's been a huge problem in the area here that it's included a lot of overdoses and a lot of deaths over the past couple of years and this was the break they were looking for and tonight two drug suspects are being held on high bail. it is it's a very, very large and significant seizure . >> anchor: marianne ryan giving us a look at the more than 100 packages of drugs referred to as bricks which amount to 30 kilos that drug agents have identified as phentynal and heroin with a street value in excess of $3 million. we believe this to be pat of a very large scale conspiracy conspiracy. >> anchor: in court lewis perez and his 42-year-old girlfriend
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guilty to multiple drug charges. police raiding their tewksbury apartment overnight where the da says they found drugs in secret compartments including in the furniture . hey small amount of this packages indicated a larger amount that was concealed within furniture in the bedroom of that apartment. anybody want to say anything? about the charges? outside court house family and friends of the suspects declined comments on the charges and the attorney had no comment on high his client was being held on $7. $7.5 million surity. perez's bell was set at $10 million or a million doors in cash . any comment on high bail for your client? no. no comment on that. we'll dress . >> reporter: was it excessive? i think so. we'll address bail later . >> reporter: the police report is more than six pages long. it involves investigators from state, local and federal bust. aren't including more
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say there may be more arrests ongoing and as for the two suspects who were here in the courthouse today, they are being held on high bail and they return to court next month. live in lowell tonight, steve cooper, 7 news. >> anchor: we have breaking news this evening from the new england patriots. doing everything i can to get myself ready for the next state . >> anchor: jewel edelman talk talking about his return to the playing field just in time for the playoffs. so the patriots will play the kansas city chiefs this weekend. this is a team that has won their last 11 games so it's up to the patriots to stop that withining streak. trey daerr joins us live at gillette tonight with more. >> anchor: kim, of course the patriots started the year with a great win streak. and 0 to start the year, a aabsolutely dominant then the injury bug caught up to them a bit. at one time five different players protect insisted tom brady's blind side. they also played parts of the year without three pro bowl caliber players on defense but
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impactful than the loss of julian elman set to run for the playoffs of i can't part put a percent aage on it so i'm yesterday. . >> anchor: with all of the patriots injury issues in 2015, none seem to effect new england more than julian el elman . i put my heart and soul into everything i do to get ready for the season and to not be able to go out there and feet with the guys that you work hard with every day in the spring, the summer. it sucks . >> anchor: edelman is set to rejoin the patriots . i want to go full throttle regardless. if it goes it, goes . >> anchor: he spent the last two months rehabing his broken foot. now his focus shifts to getting back in tune with tom brady . i know him and he knows me but we still got to work very hard this week to make up on the ground lost that we didn't have so that's what we're going to do. >> anchor: with all of the talk on his foot, he is not losing site of the task at hand .
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we've played this year. they won 11 straight. this team is a hot team so it shouldn't be about my foot or this or that. it should be about the kansas city chiefs . >> anchor: as he elude insisted the chiefs, the hottest team in football, 11 straight wins and not an easy opponent for him to prepare for. one of the best second areas in the league led by rookie connor back marcus peters with a league best 8 intersessions. reporting live in foxboro, trey daerr, 7 news . >> anchor: all right, thanks, we're turning to the forecast. big dip today, temperatures drop dropping it felt like it was in the teens out there when you included the wind chill, especially and now we are tracking some rain and snow heading our way. let's get to jeremy reiner . >> reporter: right now 31 in the city. bed for at 28. that wind was working against you throughout the day. winds gusting 20, 25 miles per hour, driving the wind chills
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like 19 in boston, worcester feels like 12. yesterday at this time the numbers were in the upper 50's so a drastic turn around. now behind the weather system again the air is essentially dry dry. partly cloudy skies. we'll have that overnight tonight and tomorrow morning's commute is dry and i think most of the tomorrow evening's commute as well. the wrinkle they though is this weather system here in the great lake states this evening. it will pass to our north tomorrow and when it moves into new england late tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening there will be a couple of rain showers in the city of boston awrying around 6:00 p.m. that will end as some snow but i'm only thinking of a coating to an inform of some lobes the around the metro back into worcester hills have you snow showers arriving at 5:00 or 6:00 tomorrow night. not tomorrow morning. one to two inches of snow out there possible tomorrow evening. >> anchor: all right. right now a man charged with shooting a boston police officer is something held behind bars and his bail is set at more than $1 million. 7's dan hausle was there as this man faced a judge today.
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certainly heard him. >> reporter: this guy has been trouble all along the which according to court papers he shot at police, ran from police, was giving them trouble even as he was arrest and gave everybody trouble again in court today. a gps and curfew of six to six . >> reporter: the suspect in the shooting of a boston police officer heard but not soon. dozens of uniformed and plainclothes officers packing the courtroom in support of the injured officer as 27-year-old grant hedley is arraigned on a long list of charges . armed assault with intent to murder . >> reporter: he listened from the hallway as the prosecutor describe insisted how police were trying to arrest the excon exconfriday for a drug sale earlier in the week when he got out of his car and immediately started firing. one of those rounds fired by the defendant struck the officer in the left leg. the officer return insisted fire and the defendant fled into a vacant lot . >> anchor: the officer was rush insisted to the hospital with a bullet wound to the leg.
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eventually tackled him. he was on probation and a local minister who came to the arraignment complained about judges who keep putting dangerous criminals back on the street . students in the area when this happened. if one children had been hit it would have been a dangerous and worse situation. his relatives left court without repeating the complaints they made inside that the judge's million dollar bail was too high considering the officer wasn't more seriously wounded. shouted his own complaints as he was led away. the commonwealth is the right to us you be detained without bail for up to 90 days. thank you, all set. we learned in court today that while got off five shots the officer got off four in return. the officer is home now from the hospital recovering. in dorchester, dan hausle, 7 news. >> anchor: the man accused of killing bella bond will remain behind bars.
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guilty to a murder charge in suffolk superior court today. a judge ordered him held without bail. girlfriend's two-year-old daughter. the girl's body was discover on deer island in june. wrapped in a plastic bag it took her. mccarty's lawyer says there is no dna evidence linking his client to the little girl's death. mr. mccarty did not kill bella bond. on the contrary all of the evidence points to miss bond as the perpetrator. the commonwealth's case against mr. mccarty is extraordinarily weak. >> anchor: bella's mother is accused of heading mccarty hide the murder. >> anchor: we have an update on breaking news. the fire in mattapan, elizabeth noreika just getting. there elizabeth, what you can tell us? it doesn't look good . yeah, kim, right now those flames are jut shooting through story structure. when we first came on scene, the flames look like they were
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they have just started shooting through the roof again there is a lot of smoke coming here and there is a lot of fire crews on the scene right now. they just pushed us back from where we were. we were just a couple of feet away from the home. it looked like it was under control but now they are once again attacking flames trying to get the situation under control. we talked to some people who came out here to watch the fire fighters work and they said that a father and his son were home at the time of this fire. the apartment building but it's also a dental office and the father and son were treated on scene. this one woman told me she actually saw them performing cpr on the son. we were told the father and son were taken to the hospital. no word on the extent of this time. crews are hard at work trying to get these flame under control. there is about i would say 20 fire trucks here as they are still battling blames and it looks like they are going down a little bit but it will be a long night here and they keep on push pushing it become. there is obviously they need to
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best of their ability as this time. they will be here for quite some time and of course we'll bring you updates throughout the night night. once again we're in mattapan and crews are battling this fur alarm fire at this two and a half story structure. the dentist office and an apartment building, father and son taken to the hospital. that's the story from mattapan right now. elizabeth noreika, 7 news . >> anchor: turning now to the race for the white house, donald trump in new hampshire today. tougher talk for his opponents. both republican and democrat. 7's byron barnett was there. >> anchor: well, you know, donald trump is still holding a here in new hampshire. today he held a classic trump rally. attacking his opponents anarchy anarchying his base fired up. billionaire businessman donald trump confidently mocking his opponents in the home stretch to the new hampshire primary. i sort of feel guilty. all these guys are spending all of this money and i haven't
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haven't spent anything practically . >> anchor: the leading republican residential candidate took aim at his opponents in both parties hing his chief g.o.p. rifle senator ted cruz on his citizenship . but ted cruz r cruz has a problem. the question is, is he a natural born citizen? >> reporter: takep on democrats hilary clinton and bernie sanders at the same time . please, f.b.i., please go after hillary. i want to run against bernie. oh that's a dream come true. this guy. >> reporter: trump stuck to familiar themes like build a wall on the southern border and would get american hostages freed from iran . they will be out of iran before i take office. and if they are not, if they are not, iran will have hell to pay. i can tell you that. okay? he is my man. i won't vote for any politicians politicians. period. he will definitely make america great again. i believe hill. and i don't think he is arrogant
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although most appeared to be trump fans it wasn't unanimous . he talked about uniting and making america great again but i don't think dividing americans is a way to make america great again. >> reporter: despite what some critics say the trump organization says they are bull bulling a strong organization on the ground here at today's rally campaign staffers are recruiting more volunteers. the new hampshire primary is now just a away. that's the story live in windham new hampshire. i'm byron barnett, 7 news . >> anchor: all right, byron. the gap between the democratic candidates is narrowing in the race for the white house of a new poll shows bernie sanders is nearly caught hillary clinton in iowa's democratic presidential race with clinton leading 48 to 45%. the nbc news wall street journal pole shows sanders is staying ahead of clinton in new hampshire by about the same margin. the iowa caucuses and the new hampshire primary are just weeks away.
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for her mother here in boston. this afternoon she attend insisted a meeting at the boston convention center. tonight, clinton will be at a fund-raiser in the city's south end. >> anchor: fans worldwide mourn mourning the passing of music ridge end david bowie. he was only 9 years old. david bey died after an 18 month battle with cancer. >> anchor: today musicians, poll at thes and millions of fans are paying tribute to the icon. 7's ryan schulteis has more. adam, has death comes two days after his 69th birthday and release of his 25th studio album it's a small part of a lasting legacy the british star loaves behind. the shocking news of his death sunday evening cames a surprise. his facebook page announcing he died surround insisted by his family after a courageous 18
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his son duncan confirming on twitter very sorry and sad to say it's true. his rise to fame began with " "space oddity." starman and ziggy star dust solidified his genius, mixing genres and personas. fans if his hometown are remembering the music icon . he has given me complete confidence. he influenced my life . >> reporter: those across the pond gather at his star on the hollywood walk of fame . it's little like he went to another man planet to find this resource of creativity . >> reporter: hollywood elite remembering bowie after sunday's goal golden globe awards . he was an icon and it was a gift . his influence as an artist has been amazing. what might be most amazing are telling is his final album black star released just last week.
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haunting himage of the biblical figure that rose from the dead like lazarus his music will live on and he will remain a hero to a legion of fans . >> reporter: he leaves behind his wife super model a man and two children. >> anchor: still to come sean penn on the defense. the oscar winning actor said he has nothing to hide about his meeting with the mexican drug lord who escaped from prison. >> anchor: then tragedy in gloucester. a man can't escape his burning hoe. tonight investigators were working to determine the cause of this deadly fire . >> anchor: then in just one hour, two boys find themselves on thin ice in brockton. today we're hearing from the quick thinking children who rush insisted to get them help. >> anchor: picking up the pieces in new hampshire after this suv smashes into a church. the charges the driver is now facing. >> anchor: let's get an update on that breaking news in mattapan. tough fight there for crews with this structure on fire. looks like the flames may be
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his clan des pine interview to interview el chapo guzman says that he has nothing to hide here here. so el chapo was captured last friday, three months after pen's meeting with him in central mexico . >> anchor: mexican authorities want to speak with the oscar winning actor about that seat meeting. tim caputo with more . >> anchor: a violent end to a drug kin pin's life on the lamb. friday mexican authorities captured joaquin el chapo guzman after a bloody gun battle. according to news reports, guzman was open caught because he reached out to celebrities to produce a movie about his life. last october three months after his brazen prison escape, guzman met with oscar winning actor and activist sean penn answering questions for a rolling stone
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his first view in decades. in that article pub will be insisted saturday peth n revealed he interviewed the then village in a mexican jungle and included tell tech eela, tacos and penn being surprise insisted by his chivalry. this replies from follow up questions sent to a guzman representative that asked questions off camera. the meeting penn said was broker insisted by kate delcastillo that her connection to the real kingpin apparently started in 20 2012 when she september out a series of tweets critical of the mex pan government while celebrating the drug trafficker. u.s. law enforcement officials had said tracking cell phones and electronics exchanges of people close to him led to el chapo's recapture. a mexican law enforcement official told cnn they want to question both delcastillo and sean penn specifically about
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live in the control room, tim . >> anchor: windy an cold overnight tonight. rain and snow showers for tomorrow evening. details up next. >> anchor: we also continue to watch breaking news out of mattapan right now. sky 7 hd over the scene of a pretty big fire that's been burning for over an hour. two people take into the hospital to get checked out. some injuries report insisted there. at one point fire fighters ordered everyone to get out. we'll continue to watch this and
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>> anchor: dry overnight tonight and most of tomorrow. next weather system tomorrow evening about this time. i think probably between 6:00 and 7:00 p.m. tomorrow night so most of you get through your commute tomorrow evening with no issues. there will be rain and wet snow for a short time tomorrow evening. a light accumulation around the metro but again the front part of that weather system in the form of raindrops and then cold turning wednesday, thursday and friday. right now windy, cold, the city at 31. worcester good evening 25, winds gusting 20, 25 miles per hour so that is accepting those wind chill down into the teens. it feels like 19 in the city. bedford feels like 17. worcester feels like 12. cape and islands feels like the 20's out there. feels like january. feels like winter for a change here with all of that rain yesterday. warm temperatures, temperatures yesterday record warmth into the
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mainly clear, cold now the wind will fade away overnight tonight so these will be the numbers tomorrow morning for the morning commute. again, cold tomorrow morning. teens and 20's and just like that our next weather system coming at us. here is where it is right now. the great lakes states generating clouds and some snow showers and this red l, the storm will pass something like that right down the saint lawrence river valley and when they do that, they do drag in some mild air out ahead of themselves. that's why i think for metro boston it starts as a few rain showers again very late tomorrow tomorrow. more likely tomorrow evening. after 6:00 p.m. so most of your day is dry. 36 to 4 . school bell forecast for kiddos will have outdoor recess tomorrow. even when you pick them up after school, it's still dry. there may be a couple snow showers showing up in worcester hills around 4:00 or 5:00 but the brunt of the weather event tomorrow evening is 6:00, 7:00, 8:00 tomorrow night with its starting as some rain showers 59 corridor, city of boston north and south shore and then at the very end here we go at 8:00
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you there then the green so taking over from the rain showers. in the say. that would be about it. one two inches of snow possible. worcester hills, southern new hampshire and then sunshine back friday. saturday our next weather system again right now thinking mainly rain including down at gillette. pats and chiefs with that kick kickoff wet with temperatures near 40. see you at 5:30. >> anchor: see you then, jr. one here. crews battling a large fire in mattapan. we have live pictures. sky 7 over the scene. we've seen these flames seem to subside but they are flaring up again. big, heavy fire presence, fire fighters presence, they are control. everybody out of the building but a father and son had to go to the hospital. there is also a dental office in there. we'll find out about these flames, wind isn't go good as we learned in the forecast. we'll keep a watch on it and
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