offer a clue about wt happened to jones before he showed up at the police department. >> i got his keys off the kitchen table. able to lock the front door, if you want to just pass along the fire was -- definitely involved in class d delta before this happened, just so you though. >> reporter: class d refers to a category of drug that includes marijuana and other controlled substances. some of which can be frib prescribed. >> the patriots released a statement saying chandler jones was admitted to the hospital sunday and released that day. he reported to work on time monday morning and as participated in all meetings and practices since then. teammates say they're counting on jones showing for work on game day saturday. >> chandler's got a lot of great support in this locker room and a great football player and i'm excited to see what he does this week. >> and just to be clear, police have said nothing but chandler jones being involved or not involved with drugs, legal or illegal.

trying to figure out what information he can release as a public police matter and what information he still has to hold as a private medical matter. we're live in foxboro, dan hausle, 7news. the mets are trying to keep controversy off the field right now, gearing up for a saturday showdown this weekend. right now their sights are set on kansas city as they make their play-off push against the chiefs at gillette. our sports director joe amorosino here to break it all down for us. if there is one team, not just in the nfl, but all of sports that's equipped to ignore the noise, it is the new england patriots. despite being subjected to controversy throughout his tenure, it seems like, here in new england, bill belichick has been largely successful at keeping his team's focus squarely on the field. that focus has been evident this week at gillette stadium where the patriots have won nearly 84% of their home games since the stadium opened up in 2002, including a 7 and 1 mark in the divisional round. 7's alex corddry reporting live

patriots' mindset entering their play-off opener. alex. >> hey, joe. well, chandler jones may not have been in the locker room to talk about his sunday morning hospital visit, but his teammates were asked about the situation and if it was going to a distraction heading into saturday's play-off game. it. >> reporter: ignore the noise. the patriots consistently handle professionals. this organization is the best in the business when it comes to not allowing anything or anyone take the focus away from the task at hand. >> i think we'll just try to go about our jobs and routines as best we can and put the focus on football. >> i think coach belichick just does a great job at really like brainwashing you, to let you know that certain things we need to care about and 17 things we need to just let be, and he does a great job, and right now all we can do is gist focus on kansas city.

outside focus may not be on how chandler jones is going to get after alex smith, it's evident this strange lint have zero effect inside the locker room. >> we just worry about what we can control and, you know, it's showing up every day working hard, preparg the best we can. >> because what they can do might be this team's greatest strength when it comes to preparing for saturday. you really gotta put your head down and focus on your goal. like i said earlier, we've been fighting all year to get to this point and i've been here since week 3 and felt the grind and the culture with this team and know that this is what you fight for. >> it seemed like we were asking the patriots players everything but about saturday's game, a huge hot topic was also on rob gronkowski and why he missed tuesday's practice. we'll hear more about the all pro tight end coming up in 7sports, live in foxboro, alex corddry, 7news. also coming up in 7sports, we'll take a look at the quarterback match-up for

get chiefs quarterback smith on the hall of fame counterpart. joe amorosino, 7news. we're fog breaking news right now. a woman has been arrested after a deadly hit and run on washington street to dorchester here and tonight she's facing several charges. steve cooper is live in door chest we are what we're learning about the investigation. steve. >> adam, so this stretch of washington street was shut down for several hours today, and then a short time ago, boston police announced that that driver that took off from the scene was behind bars. >> i'm just nervous. i'm scared. >> reporter: shock for people who live and work here on washington street in door it chester following a deadly hit-and-run crash around 8:00 this morning where the driver kept going. then word a short time ago from boston police, a 34-year-old female driver from door chester was in custody and facing several charges if. [ sirens ] >> i saw a lot of police cars and a lot of people watching. but i didn't exactly what

but there was a tip on my door and a police officer said somebody was killed. >> reporter: boston police say the victim was a man. investigators were reviewing the surveillance video from a nearby business of a minivan leaving the area. a short time later, police located a vhs transportation van four miles away on morton street in matapan. the front windshield shattered along with heavy front end damage. the owner of the transportation company told us by phone the woman driving the van wasn't working at the time and he feels terrible about what happened. >> awful, awful, awful. terrible fours, and of course it's terrible for the persons he hit. >> reporter: detectives scoured the crime scene for hours, even as concerned neighbors explain the hit and run comes as no surprise to them. >> very common the way these people drive. they don't care about pedestrians or children around here sometimes. >> boston police haven't released the woman's name but told us that she will be in dorchester district court first

motor vehicle homicide charges and investigators also haven't released the victim's name either. live in dorchester tonight, steve cooper, 7news. and there's more breaking news tonight. one of the best known companies in the country is coming to boston. general electric making the big announcement today. 7's byron barnett live in boston to bring us the details on this big move. >> both the governor and the mayor says this is a big win for the state and the city. massachusetts beat out several states, including new york in the fierce competition for the new world headquarters of g.e. >> reporter: general electric announced its moving its headquarters to the seaport district in boston, bringing 800 jobs and an economic boost from global giant. >> we're honored to have him here and we believe they are going to be a tremendous part of the growing innovation economy that we have here in massachusetts and we're really

them. >> reporter: g.e. announced in june its intent to move its headquarters from fairfield connecticut citing a corporate tax increase in that state. >> clearly, i looked at the message that they sent in their announcement, and they want to be in boston, near 55 universities and concerned about the infrastructure and the like. >> reporter: g.e. says it chose boston because of gets business ecosystem and quality of life. in return, the state offered g.e. a $120 million tax incentives package and the city offered $25 million in property tax relief. governor baker says the deal is definitely worth it. >> the eighth largest corporation in the united states and a real leader in what i would describe as sort of the internet of things and the movement toward creating smart machines, this is a huge win for the city of boston, a huge win for massachusetts. >> reporter: boston mayor marty walsh said general electric's

result of the city's willingness and excitement to work creatively to bring positive activity to our local economy and continue to grow our industries. >> now, g.e. says it will start moving into a temporary headquarters here in boston this summer, and be fully moved in by 2018. that's the story live in boston, i'm byron barnett, 7 7news. and we're following more news today. powerball players saying show me the money trying to cash in on this huge prize. a record billion and a half dollars now up for grabs. and so many people are trying to get a piece of the pot. 7's kelli o'hara live in derry with more on tonight's powerball mania. >> good evening. locals say this is going to be the lucky store that's because thousands of tickets have been sold here, mostly by one woman. so tonight they say this is the store that's gonna win, so we got in on the fun.

>> reporter: if you want to win and win big, one derry new hampshire woman says you should have probably come to her town, because she's the one who has been buying all the tickets. >> a week ago sunday i heard that the powerball pool was up to $400 million. so i just kind of as a joke put it on my facebook group saying, hey, does anyone want to enter into a pool with me, thinking that maybe 40 or 50 of my friends or something from derry would want to do it. >> reporter: more than 2000 tickets in the facebook powerball pool that keeps on growing day after day. >> i'm exhausted by now. i'm excited because it's really brought the town together. >> reporter: is derry new hampshire gonna win tonight? i certainly hope so. >> reporter: although the new hampshire woman is hopeful they'll win big tonight, she doesn't think she'll ever volunteer to organize a pool again. >> i told my family that i'm done. i spent the last nine days fully consumed in this project. >> no more powerball. >> no more powerball. i'm tired. >> this store alone has sold

everyone trying to get a piece of the american dream. and in the drawing tonight, again, it's 10:59, so you still have time to buy those tickets, kelly o'hare , a 7news. coming up next, a canton teen gets the opportunity of a lifetime, lacing up his skates and then some.

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a teenager living with special needs from canton scoring big time. taking the ice for his high school hockey team. he started as a waterboy and then back the team's ceo. but ail really wouldn'ted to do was to get out there and play. >> yesterday he finally reached his goal. 7's brandon gunnoe was there when the teenager's dream became reality. [ cheering ] >> that's matty being loppered by his teammates after scoring a hockey team. this home. >> tonight is what high school sports is about, which is making somebody's dream come true. >> reporter: three years ago mathy was diagnosed with a 1 in a million rare genetic disorder. he's been helping out for four years, from waterboy to the team's ceo. >> he goes to all the practices and just kind of sits on the

be able to go out for that one shift, just to skate with everybody is pretty awesome. >> tonight coach gave him the moment of a lifetime, putting him on the ice to play a shift where he scored a goal for the team. >> felt good. it means a lot to me. i like playing with them and working with them. i like scoring a lot of the goals out there, yeah. it was a lot of fun. >> i'm really choked up. absolutely. i think the kids are choke under on the bench too, and we can't wait. it really is something that all of our guys are so excited about because matte means so much to us. he's an inspiration without knowing it. >> reporter: for matt this hockey team is family and he does just as much for his teammates as they do for him. >> that's the coolest part about matt. he's so humble and inspirational and so kind and makes other people around him better. >> reporter: brandon gunnoe, 7news. >> so the word is don't mess with the bulldogs, and certainly don't mess with matte. >> no. he's a great skater.

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the officer scared the animal into getting up and in no time she was up and running like normal. >> not an easy thing. they are top heavy. right now clear sky in the city. 25, windchill 14. west wind at 12 miles per hour. the wind was the real issue out there through the day and we've noticed over the last couple of hours the wind speeds beginning to subside a little bit but still some wind out there this evening. big storm up in the maritime, slowly pulling away, generating that wind. windchills down into the teens. hyannis looks like 14... a mix of clouds and sunshine tomorrow, not as windy but the

clouds move in friday afternoon. milder with temperatures on friday near 40 degrees. just like we've seen with all the older storms, we get the cold air in here for a couple of days and then it departs out ahead of the next storm system. that does not set us up for anything other than just rain i think as we work into the weekend. saturday what i thinking is we have morning rain. might be in the middle of for wet snow across southern new hampshire. but for central boston the rain winds down early on saturday afternoon. this is not an all day thing and the most importantly for gillette, patriots and achieves, i think it's -- chiefs, i think it's drizzle for the first part of the game but a chilly breeze with numbers starting near 40 saturday morning and heading afternoon. sunday, a lot of clouds, a few snow flurries possible. arctic front. that's going to generate flurries and some snowshowers.

holiday weekend, looking good skiers will be good. blustery and cold, mostly sunny skies tuesday and wednesday. we'll have an update tonight at 11:00. fortunately for bill belichick dealing with off field distraction has been the norm rather than the exception this past year in foxboro after enduring an entire off-season filled with questions about deflate gate, the patriots are now facing controversy once again just days ahead of their play-off opener against the chiefs. despite the ongoing uncertainty surrounding chandler jones' visit to the foxboro police station on sunday morning he was present for practice again today, a limited participate for a third straight day. joining jones on the feed was rob gronkowski, the all pro tightened, returning to practice after missing yesterday's session due to a knee injury or cited as a knee on the report.

foxboro on a team that remain focused on the task at hand. >> reporter: after missing at least the beginning of tuesday's practice, rob gronkowski was back on the practice field wednesday. the patriots should have gronkowski julian edelman and damon mendola on the field on saturday for the first time since week 10 but it's not likely to be a smooth game for tom brady and the offense. >> they're a great football team. they've been playing well. >> you don't win 11 games in a row by accident. >> reporter: defensively kansas city enters foxboro with one of the best yiewps in football.

other' all good and been there at furth and sax this year. >> reporter: sebastian bomber will be back protecting brady's blind side which will hopefully help this talented pass rush. you want to work on your craft and timing -- every time you're out there is probably a good thing. with that said, none of the 11 quarterbacks are 12 tom brady. in foxboro, alex corddry, 7sports. >> you really don't have until next week to get it right. we worked pretty hard to get to this point and have to have our best week. it's a great team we're playing. >> tom brady preaching a sense of urgency heading into saturday's divisional showdown. a win for the patriots would send them on to the afc championship game for a fifth straight season while a loss ends their request for ary pete after just one game.

start while his chief's counterpart alex smith will be making just his fifth play-off start in 11 years. smith has thrown for over 300 yards once this season and has one or zero touchdown passes in 11 of 17 games. the chiefs' signal caller knows he'll have to be his best come opposing sideline. >> i think he leads every quarterback category there is in the postseason, including, you know, touchdowns and wins and things like that, and so, yeah, i mean, everybody's chasing him. and to be doing it as long as he has is, you know, it's remarkable. i mean, it's tough to put into words. >> and the bruins trying to snap their two-game losing streak tonight, taking on the thriers in philadelphia while the celtics are looking to end their four-game slide hosting the pacers at the garden. that's sports. >> all right. hopefully we'll have some good highlights later. >> 7news at 6:00 will be right

>> that's all for the news at 6:00 on a wednesday. thanks so much for watching. i'm adam williams. >> and i'm kim khazei.

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