crews have that fire pretty much der control earlier when we got here. flames were shooting out of the roof and out of the windows of the structure. are under control. fire crews have been able to go inside that building and are looking for any hot spots. they were having some trouble battling that fire earlier because those heavy brush in the back of the home so they are having trouble accessing that house. it's a four-alarm fire. tons of crews came out and he were able to get this fire under control. right now they are still on the scene. also new developments too, one fire fighter we saw was put on a stretcher and taken from the scene. we don't have new word yet on his condition. so far, we can tell you that two were taken to the hospital, a father and a son, that son in serious condition and also a fire fighter was taken to the hospital as well. we're be here all knit and bring you the very latest. in mattapan, elizabeth noreika, 7 news . >> anchor: also breaking julian edelman speaking out for the first time since his regular season injury. the star receiver is cleared to

after playoff game against the kansas city chiefs. eeman said he is focus insisted and ready to help the team any way he can and it's going to be a big and important game. of course the patriots two different teams this year year. 8 and 0 and then the injury bug kind of catching up to them a bit. at one point five different players have protected tom brady brady's blind side. the defense also at one point playing without three pro bowl caliber players but perhaps to injury has been as impactful as the loss of julian ed eman pois poised to return for the play playoffs . you can't put a percentage on it until sunday so i'm feeling a day better than yesterday. it continues to get better . >> anchor: julian ed eman spent the last weeks trying to get bag on the field. now he will get that chance and patriots biggest game of the year . i put my heart and sole into everything i do to get ready for the season and to not be able to go out there and compete with the guys that you

spring, the summer it sucks . >> anchor: next to his health, the most important thing is getting on the same page with tom brady. i know him and he knows me. we still have 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: the web off will aid edelman and others to get to full health and prepare to face the hottest team in the nfl . >> anchor: the top two seeds and get a week to rest up, to work on yourself as a team and, you know, any time you get an extra week, extra couple of days i think is huge . for a team that's playing as well as anybody in the national football league and they pose a lot of different problems in all three phases so we definitely have our work cut out for us. >> anchor: and that defense going to be a major challenge for tom brady and company. top five in both points and in total defense. reporting live outside of gillette stadium.

>> anchor: 7 news now turning to your forecast. pretty cold and definitely winnie to start off our workweek workweek. the sun definitely helped a lot of now we might see rain or snow tomorrow night. meteorologist jeremy reiner has details so what's going to make the difference here? well, will be just where you live really right now boston at 30 degrees. fitchburg 26. authorize wood 29. the wind chill at this time teens, feel like 20 in the city of boston. plymouth it feels like 23. cold wind will fade away this next weather system right now through the great lake states. this will move through the great into northern new england during tomorrow. now most of tomorrow is fine. noon tomorrow the radar quiet. i think we can get through tomorrow evening's commute and still be quiet. and at that time that weather system moving up into northern new england actually will drag some mild air into metro boston. so this weather system starts as rain showers tomorrow evening, see right here 8:00 tomorrow night.

on the backside of the weather system that's where your colder air is and eventually, yes, the rain showers will end as a couple of snow showers in metro boston late tomorrow evening but again the farther west you travel, that's where you have the best chance of any accumulat accumulating snow and even out here not all that much but again it's been a quiet winter thus far. this won't happen until 6:00 p.m p.m. one to two inches of snow. metro boston it's rainy tomorrow evening and then it ends as a coating to perhaps some locations an inch of snow then sunshine cold conditions back on wednesday. we'll talk more about the forecast in a few minutes . >> anchor: all right, now turn turning to a verying story major bust in tewksbury. police confiscating millions of dollars would the of drugs from an apartment. now the couple believed to be living in that apartment is behind bars. 7's steve cooper live outside the lowell district court house with the very latest. steve? >> anchor: adam, from this lengthy police report prosecutors were focusing on a major effort to put a dent in

merrimack silly. >> anchor: it's a very large and significant seizure . >> anchor: the middlesex can't showing off the drugs they seized that included 30 kilos of what investigators believe is phentynal and heroin with a street value in excess of $3 million along with $20,000 in cash. 08 on high bail late it this afternoon after pleading not guilty to multiple drug charges. 45-year-old luis perez also known as augustin rue ease and his girl friend. the two taken into custody overnight after detectives raid insisted that apartment in tewksbury. that's where prosecutors say the drugs were discovered in hidden compartments. >> anchr: some of them were found if the closet of that bedroom. some were found in mechanic mechanicically hidden compartments in the furniture . >> anchor: the da says the phentynal is way more potent than heroin . phentynal although it looks

almost 100 times more potent than heroin . >> anchor: anybody want to say anything? about the charges? >> anchor: outside the courthouse family and friends of the suspects weren't talking but we asked the defendant's attorney about the high bail . >> reporter: any comment on the high bail for your client? no . >> reporter: no comment at all all? was it excessive? i think so. we'll address bail later . >> anchor: bail was set at $7.5 million surity for perez the judge set it at $10 million sur surity. both are due back here in court next month. live in lowell tonight, steve cooper, 7 news. >> anchor: right now two young boys recoring after a freezing fall in brockton. these boys went right through some thin ice. people nearby did their best to try to save these kids. one of the boys doing fine but a condition. jonathan hall live it brook jon? >> anchor: hey, kim, good evening. there is no ice on this little pond adjacent to the by's school

was just enough to cause a problem. this is it such a tough lesson but unfortunately one that has to be learned over and over again in two young boys fall through thin ice in brockton i'm 12-year-old boy fighting for life that boston hospital while his nine-year-old friend suffered only minor injuries. i started running open over . >> anchor: this good samaritan rush insisted over to the ice. he says he was notified by some kids that they needed help. . >> anchor: these three boys were playing football nearby and . they called called us to go play on the ice with them but we . >> reporter: the boys saw tear friends this trouble after break breaking through the ice, they stopped passing cars and knocked on doors. at first two men in their 20's went in the water to help. they hopped over the fence and in the water and started breaking the ice . >> reporter: one of the passersby a 25-year-old got the

and handed him to this neighbor, randy, who had come to help as well . once i carried him out he was kind of blue in the face. a little unresponsive then he kind of came to and was crying saying will he get in trouble . >> reporter: witnesses say the 12-year-old stayed submerged for a good ten minutes until first responders arrived and found him him. some of them went in the water without survival suits. the boys made a dangerous decision and it may have been a dare . what the kids were saying, you know, they were messing around saying who can go where or whatever the case may be and it happened. >> reporter: this critically injured 12-year-old boy is in a medically induced coma tonight according to some of his friends and a cousin i spoke with. the family and friends are hope hopeful that he will make a full recovery. live in brockton, jonathan hall, 7 news. >> anchor: the boston police officer shot in dorchester last week is now back home, resting his injured leg. today the suspect insisted gun

the 27 yearly didn't show his face there. the judge set his bail at more than a million dollars. 7's jadiann thompson joins us with more on the case. >> anchor: prosecutors say the alleged shooter gave officers a lot of trouble even after they caught grant is faying several charges in this case. it includes arm armed is a all with intent to murder. fellow officers in uniform and plainclothes lined the courtroom today as he hid behind a wall right there. prosecutors say officers were trying to arrest him on friday for a drug sale when he jump insisted out of his car and started firing. one of those bullets did hit an officer in the leg. a local minister who came to the arraignment says he crossed a line. it was someone wants to be involved in crime and violence in the community, those are decisions they make but pat of that has to be that police officers are off limits. >> anchor: the officer was rush insisted to the hospital with a

released and is recovering from his injuries back at home. police say he was able to shoot back at the suspects several times before attending to his leg wound there at the scene. live in the newsroom, jadiann thompson, 7 news . >> anchor: and injured secret service member sharing a meaning meaningful moment. gerald fitzgerald got married on saturday from his intensive care unit room at mass general hospital. fitzgerald suffered a serious spine injury in a car accident in december. he was on duty according to a go fund me page made forfeits gerald. small group of the count's testimony leand friends attend insisted the ceremony. the crash happened in new hampshire while fitzgerald was working with hilary clinton's protective detail and here is what was left of the car after a head on crash. the count's wedding was scheduled for march but at the moved up the date before fitzgerald starts rehab. >> anchor: coming up here on 7 news at 6:00 a dangerous drive in new hampshire.

community church so what caused that to happen? >> anchor: and sky 7 hd over a fire in mattapan where two people inside that home had to be rush insisted to the hospital hospital. we've just learn insisted the one fire fighter has also been taken to the hospital with an injury. we're told it's not serious. we do have a reporter on the scene. we'll get you the latest right here on 7. the only way to get better is to challenge yourself, and that's what we're doing at xfinity. we are challenging ourselves to improve every aspect of your experience. and this includes our commitment to being on time. every time. that's why if we're ever late for an appointment, we'll credit your account $20. it's our promise to you. we're doing everything we can to give you the best

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course in hudson, new hampshire when a jeep smashes lieu a church's window. police arresting that driver early this morning . >> anchor: he suspect pest insisted of driving drunk kelly o'hara live h hudson where people have been cheap up all day. how is everything going there. the cleanup is still under way. you can see how intense this accident was. tire tracks right here frozen to the ground. this driver came up on to the lawn, whack insisted into the side of the door right here then drove right on through and they say they will be here all night until this window is sealed up and shut. the wall is gone. it's open and you can't, you know, it's a lot . >> anchor: standing inside pat isn't here for sunday service. the hudson, new hampshire woman is here instead to help clean up the message alleged drunk driver made . i'm blood nobody got hurt. it's an accident. guide wept through the window . >> anchor: the community church business manager says news of the car accident woke him like many of their members out of bed this morning.

an suv right through the front of the 130-year-old church a large window taken out. souza says despite the damage needy today. he says he is just glad the damage was only superficial and that no one was hurt. you are going to get your building smashed of when no one is in it it's i good time. glad to one is hurt. >> anchor: now that driver was charged and released from jail. the church says this can be replaced but lives can't that's is okay tonight. in hudson, new hampshire. kelly o'hara, 7 news . >> anchor: that's what really matters. not the best day to lose half of your building an be outside cleaning up . >> anchor: not at all. no cold out there. we'll talk weather and sports

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>> anchor: cold and dry tonight next weather system about this time tomorrow actually will start as a little bit of light rain then end as light snow. a lit accumulation and then cold dry weather returning for the mid eweek. this is the pattern we have found ourselves in with these cold shots of a. they are len i. they come into . they don't stay around for the next storm system so like yesterday we had all that warmth and rain then behind yesterday's storm it's cold today and then we track another weather system coming at us tomorrow night but it will be more about raindrops than snowflakes for the city of boston. 30 in town right now. plymouth at 28. bedford at 27.

colder feels like ten in worcester. bedford feels like 16 here in the city. feels like 20. mainly clear, cold, the wind will fade away but the numbers tomorrow morning for the morning commute teens to the lower 20's. where is our next weather system system? here it is over here genring clouds and snow showers. but as that weather system moves through new england tomorrow afternoon, it will start to warm things up just enough where we talk about rain versus snow so temperatures tomorrow 36 to 4 426789 cloudy skies and the whole thing doesn't even show up until about 6:00 or 7:00 tomorrow night so certainly the morning commute is fine and for those of you that have an early evening commute i think you are fine as well but 6:00 or 7:00 is when we think there will be rain and snow showers arriving so your storm time line again mid afternoon it's dry, here comes some snow showers into the worcester hills about this time tomorrow evening and then in the city of boston the weather event starts as light rain. and then we'll see that rain end as some snow for a short time then the whole thing is out of here just like that.

so how much snow is on the way. not much. in fact it's going to start as rain in the city as well as the 95 corridor and then there will be a coating to an inch. heads up mid evening tomorrow it won't take much for untreated surfaces to be slick because the cold air is coming back in so just be mindful of that. back into the worcester hills as well as the route 2 corridor of southern new hampshire, one to two inches of snow likely out there with travel conditions fine for the first part of tomorrow and then even tomorrow evening not too bad but just be mindful of that, it will slick at times tomorrow evening. blustery and cosunshine is back much the same on thursday and friday. our next weather system comes at us on saturday but that too looks like more rain than snow including down at gillette. chiefs and pats will kick it off under rain drops, not snowflakes upper 30's, see you tonight at 11:00. >> anchor: he has been cleared for saturday's show down against the chiefs but it's anybody's

will look like in life game action after a two month layoff. as trey daerr reports from foxboro, tom brady's top target just wants to get to game day and figure everything else out at that time . i can't put a percentage on it until sunday so i'm feeling a day better than yesterday and it continues to get better . >> anchor: with all of the patriots injury issues in 2015, none seem to affect new england more than julian edelman . i put my heart and soul into everything i do to get ready for the season and to not be ale to go out there and compete with the guys that you work hard with every day in the spring, the summer, you know, it sucks . >> anchor: now 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 toward getting back in tune with tom brady . i they him and he knows me but we still have to work very

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 sight of the task at hand . it will be the best team we've laid 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: the chiefs not an easy opponent for julian edelman to return against. the secondary one of the best in the nfl led by marcus peters with a league best 8 interceptions. reporting gillette stadium. trey daerr, 7 sports. those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it and while tom brady wishes last year year's embarrassing loss of the chiefs never happened, you can bet the patriots quarterback has revisited that gruesome game tape because he knows kansas city is capable of ending his season. brady hitting rock bottom on that monday night week four last season throwing a pair of pick, losing a fumble and getting

loss and sees the same qualities in the team he will face this saturday as the one that put a hurting on him last year. exactly how they won again, houston is how they beat us. they force us into a lot of bad football. you can't full asleep for one player if it's a turnover and they turn those into points. you get behind and they make it a one dimensional game it snowball. that's the kind of team they are are. they are good. they are one of the final four. they won 11 straight. we have to figure out the real form to beat him . >> anchor: we're in the middle of winter but it's never too early to look ahead to what should be a memorable summer at fenway park. from the new look red sox to david ortiz's retirement tour to wade bogs's jersey retirement and now you can add a star-studded hall of fame class to agenda. tim wakefield, jason varitek, larry lucchino you will asset foren alongside ira flag stead.

time world series champs while lucchino's 14 year run as president-o was the most success successful in team history. the three will be honored in a pregame ceremony on may 20. and the five game road trip rolls on tonight in new york against the rangers. also tonight it's alabama and clemson and college football's national championship game. that's sports, 7 news continues after the break.

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