>> first at noon, it's a count down to kickoff for the new england patriots play off opener. all eyes on a saturday show down with the kansas city chiefs. there are some big questions. rob sonkowksi missing two days problems. that's not all. a little off the field drama for jones and trip to the hospital

team is putting the issues behind them and we are live in gilette with more on the team. big game there tomorrow. >> reporter: absolutely nancy. the patriots' way is to say that they don't let anything off the field distract them and they have their game plan no matter who they are playing. teams are hopeful that all will be on the field tomorrow. the patriots set to take on the hot kansas city chiefs tomorrow with the playoffs but will have to do with without the star tight end. >> woman: whether he is getting practice and resting, ready to go on saturday. >> reporter: for the second time this week, bronk missed practice and was getting an injection for his injured right knee. and chandler jones apologizing for any off field distractions

into the police department monday morning looking for medical attention. jones got down on his knees and stiff as a board but cooperated and was desperately speaking assistance and was not in trouble for any crime. >> do you understand my question? >> i understand but the main focus is honing in on kansas city. >> reporter: they ub currently have an 11 game winning streak. >> everybody on that team is going to give everything they have. >> this is it. we are trying to put everything we got on the table. trying to give it up. >> reporter: chandler has been at all the practices and meetings this year. grunk at yesterday's practice did not participate talking

live nicole oleverio 7 news. >> make sure to check the latest news on whdh.com as well as the 7 news mobile apps. 7 news turning to game day weather. tracking wet weather turning into town just in time for the big games. fans need to cover up with umbrellas. chris? >> you better eat the hot dogs and i expect the bulk of the rain to be in the early afternoon. breezy. plan on them into the middle to upper 30s. we are in the 30s right now. boston 35 degrees and 37 in north and 31 degrees in wooster. even some rays of sun trying to get through with the cloudy sky. here is the storm tracking up the coast line.

could get a patchy freeze or freezing drizzle too. north and west of 495. the cold air is limited however, there will be a brief window mid to late morning that can mix to wet snow with accumulation in the higher terrain. wee will talk more coming up. >> thank you. right now the search for survivors is on after a midair collision in hawaii. military officials say a dozen of marines were on a mission when crashed into each other. coast guard has it on it for hours and spotted debris in the water as an empty life raft. the stocks taking a plunge on wall street. you can see here dropped more than 400 points. 432 points right there. it comes off the price of oil fell to less than $30 a barrel. it's the lowest it has been since 2003.

is down more than 400 points. the nasdaq is down more than 145 points. walmart in the meantime says it's closing more than 250 stores world wide and over 150 in the united states. the chain's ceo was concerned about the increasing competition from online rivals like amazon. 10 thousand workers in the united states will be affected by the closings. also on 7, a close call for a mother and her son after someone fired shots at their car in dor chester. the family was lost when they were looking for a restaurant. jonathan hall has the story. >> she was bringing her boy to kfc and how needs some tlc after a scary night in dorchester. >> the first time i noticed my car was hit was when i opened my

the windshield and i said oh, my gosh, i have to get out of here. >> amber said it happened around 6 p.m. on geneva avenue and one shot hit the suv, one flying in the insulation into the ceiling the car. 6-year-old. >> the officer said if he was 2 inches taller it would have take his head off. >> amber believes the bullet could have hit her that it came so close. >> inches it formed right by my face. when he told me that, sick to my stomach. knees felt like jello. >> jackson knew he was scared and he told his mom one thing. >> thank you god so much that it was not my time to go.

>> new at noon, emergency crews working to put out a fire. it happened this morning on green street. you can see and no word if anyone was injured. police are searching for suspects after a shooting. according to state police it happened early this morning on main street. victim was rushed to a nearby hospital with non-life threatening injuries. no arrests at this time. gop candidates hitting the campaign trail in new hampshire today but last night had a heated debate. >> the first gop debate of 2016 and some of the more heated moments were surprisingly trump free. >> do you remember that everybody? this was a question on entitlements. you blew it. >> new jersey governor christie taking off rubio after rubio went after ted cruz where he

>> i appreciate you jumping your folder. >> the recent poles put cruz in second place and from front runner donald trump. trump causes questions about the citizenship about reliability in the case. >> democrats are going to be bringing a suit. you have a big lawsuit over your head while you are running and if you become the nominee, who the hell knows if you can even serve in office. you should go out and get a decare decare decaretory judgment. >> i'm not going to take legal advice from donald trump. values. >> everyone understands that the values in new york city are socially liberal, proabortion and progay marriage. focus around money and the media. >> trump shot back saying new york valleys are what he see in the days after the september 11th attacks. >> there are two 110-story buildings come crashing down. the people in new york fought

>> there is just two weeks to go until the caucuses in iowa. that means the candidates will be spending a lot of time traveling between iowa and new hampshire. victoria 7 news. >> a parking garage said to get a major upgrade. not everyone is excited. live in boston with the details of the plan. >> reporter: the developer in the boston redevelopment authority says this is a historic opportunity to transform this area by replacing the big huge government center garage here with a massive residential and development. also with the office as well and hundreds of parking spaces would be lost. a soaring 43-story glass tower and a unit high-rise residential building built in downtown

it's the first face of the $1.5 billion development project. eventually, a total of six buildings will complete the project which will include more office, hotel and retail space. >> too much of the old cement here. the glass will be pretty >> fine with me. it will create jobs and create a place for people to live. i don't see anything wrong with it. can always use more park >> the development is being called a historic opportunity to replace much of the parking garage and reconnect some of boston's downtown neighborhood and part of the garage will be demolished and half of the parking spaces will disappear. >> are you series -- serious? oh, my gosh where am i going to park when i come to the courthouse. that's not a good idea.

transportation. >> the construction is scheduleded to begin later this year and the entire project is expected to be completed in 7 to 10 years. that's the story live in boston. >> thank you. coming up on 7 news at noon, one of the power ball winners opening up. plus this young lady right here is a class act. how she is helping to make hospital visits a little easier for young patients. >> temperatures milder compared to the last couple of days and we do track some rain and snow here tomorrow.

>> good friday afternoon everyone. despite the clouds we have, we manage to climb up to 35 degrees in boston and over the last hour more rays of sunshine. south easterly breeze helping out as well. not strong and we have not

6 to 8 miles an hour now and we do have partial sunshine at times filtered out by the clouds that are rolling on through. i call it overall on average a mostly cloudy sky and temperatures this afternoon, mid 30s to near 40 degrees and the best chance of hitting 40 south of the city of boston. here is the storm and plenty of moisture. this is what we are tracking for late overnight tonight and the first half of tomorrow. quick moving storm and pack a punch here if we get into the overnight hours tomorrow. thereafter a little bit of rain breaking out and temperatures will be close to the freezing mark inland. north and west of 495 and may be some patches of freezing rain in wooster county and middle sex and new hampshire. watch the precipitation coming in and starting to taper off early in the afternoon. if we get heavy precipitation mid morning, we are talking

morning and can translate into wet snow. i think the best chance for a coating of wet snow if that happened would be through wooster and perhaps just north and west of 495. several inches of snow once you get your way up to north and west likely. it's a soaking rain. 1 inch of rain likely for many towns and over and done with. kick off temperature of 37 degrees. over to you. >> thanks, keeping an eye on the tropics, alex was the first hur hurricane to form in the atlantic since 1938 and moves north. we will see the cold air. it won't impact us. cold air in the next week, temperatures with mid 20s and snow showers early monday morning and then tuesday low 20s with wind. because of that wind chill factor it will feel even colder out there. average highs for this time of

>> we are going to have below seasonable levels early next week and that includes ski country. this storm mostly snow across the green mountains, white mountains and into main. cold with snow showers up north. danielle was talking about monday and tuesday, the backyard skating rinks, we have waited all december listening to get the cold weather. could get a coating of an inch of two of snow. otherwise it's cold next week. >> thank you. how about this? power players. this tennessee couples says they bought one of the waiting powerball tickets but instead of rushing to the nearest ticket to collect the jumbo jackpot, they decided to do a television interview about the big win. >> actually i'm a little scared. i didn't know exactly what to do. i knew i wanted to get an accountant and lawyer. >> the robinson says they are

of the jackpot. the tennessee jackpot came forward for the very first time on friday morning in the "today show" with the winning ticket in hand. no one except their daughter knew that they became millionaires. not even the lottery officials in tennessee. >> now i'm nervous because everybody knows. >> it was like any other night. john was on his way from work >> she called me and said are you going to be stopping and getting lottery tickets and i said i didn't feel like stopping but i will get. numbers. i said john, john, you got to check the numbers. >> i checked the numbers four times and i said i'll believe it when i see the news in the

>> how did they get on the today show? >> lawyer's advice. >> despite the common advice to possible. >> i think the american public wants to hear from them and let the public know that they are the winners. >> the couple kept everything so quiet that lisa even called her boss to say that she was not going to make it to work friday interview. >> i need to you watch the "today show" and i won't be in today. >> john and lisa said they wanted to make the announcement publicly before they claimed their ticket and lisa says she plans to go to work on monday. ahead, meet a local team whose mission is bringing smiles to the hospital.

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>> dangers drivers in texas caught in the act and now it's going viral thanks to a texas teen who was so fed up with what he saw on the road. adam williams shows us how he captured the driving drama. >> you may be this driver who cut him off in traffic or this one driving the wrong way down a texas street. >> when they see the videos, maybe they will think twice. >> mark has spent the last 10

experiences behind the wheel for a youtube channel he created called "bad drivers of plano texas". >> and i found videos pretty similar to what mine looked like pointing out the stupid stuff that people do and you know, i really liked it. i was like i want to do this. >> people passing them are unaware they can soon be watched around the world but insists he is not trying to shame drivers around him or give him the middle finger and probably don't expect him to post it online. >> i'm not trying to embarrass anyone. >> he is only 19 and proves he is not perfect either and capturing his own car rear ending another driver. >> pretty ironic i admit but it's part of the whole experiencing experience i gained. >> while texas does not have the worst drivers, he has enough to say. >> it's bad, it's not good.

>> next on 7 news at noon, see how this teen is making hospital stays a little brighter for

>> welcome back. today we are excited to introduce you to a senior from med way high school who has went out to make hospital stays for children a little brighter. here we have our "class act". >> how are you doing? we want to award you with our "class act" for this week from the news. [applause] midway high school senior samantha duncan is always thinking of others. she donated funds and raised 87 build abears.

lot of times at children and was diagnosed with a problem. >> just to make a smile and has the other kid has the same feeling i have. >> she is a very giving person. it's not surprising that she wanted to do something but doing fantastic. >> this is the second go around. four years ago when she was in eighth grade she donated over 70 positive. >> i had help from some friends and stuff. >> i have a lot of students that do community service but none that just do it for themselves or everybody else and do it on their own and that is why samantha is a class act.

>> samantha says this year is slightly easier to the bears. dellcamp. if you know someone to nominate in your community, do it online at whdh.com. more news coming up in the next half hour. more news for the patriots. >> questions on the forecast as well. will it be dry? coming up. >> a mother and her 6-year-old son lucky to be alive after someone opened fire on their car in dorchester. there are two democratic visions

millions from big banks and then tell them what to do. my plan -- break up the big banks, close the tax loopholes, and make them pay their fair share. then we can expand health care to all, and provide universal college education. will they like me? no. will they begin to play by the rules if i'm president? i'm bernie sanders

>> now at 12:30 it's a counttown to kickoff at new england patriots. all eyes on a saturday show down. there are some big questions as we gearup for the big game. rob bonkowski missing two days of practice this week. there is off the field drama or chandler jones. his trip to the hospital is causing controversy. the team says they are putting the issues behind them and nicole oliverio has more. >> the patriots set to take on hot kansas city chiefs and they will have to do it would the the high end. >> they are ready to go on saturday.

week, rob bronkowsi was missing from practice and it was believed that he was at a hospital yet for his injured knee that he hurt back in november and chandler jones is apologizing for any off field distractions he caused his team this week looking for medical attention as he walked into the police department. in a new report jones got down on his knees and stiff as a board but cooperative and desperately seeking assistance and not committed any crimes. >> are you in any trouble? i understand your question but right now my focus is trying to hone in on kansas city. >> they currently have an 11 game winning streak and new england has dropped 4 out of the last 6 teams. >> everybody that comes out on this field gives everything they have. >> this is it. we try to put everything we got on the table.

report it says bronk did not participate siting his knee and back. his back being a new issue. >> nicole, thank you. make sure you stay with 7 news on air and online. you can track the latest injury updates on whdh.com as well as 7 news mobile and tablet apps. turning to game day weather, we are tracking wet weather moving into town just in time for the big game. fans, if you are out there, you will need to pack your umbrella along with the hot dog ingredients. >> depends how early you are going to tailgate. if you are there at noontime, you may need to have something to keep them on the dryer side because i expect at that time at noon and 2:00 in the afternoon some drizzle left over. by kickoff and through the end of the game. i think we can kick a lot of the rain out of here. temperatures into the 30s and breeze tomorrow.

and once in a while some sunshine trying to speak through the cloud cover. this is the storm we will track off the coast line that will promise to deliver us some rain and higher elevation snow which is certainly a possibility. upper 30s near 40 degrees this afternoon and overnight tonight the evening is dry and once we get into the late evening hours, midnight and patchy freezing rain is a possibility north and west of 495. that will go over to rain for a little while and then mid morning we are talking about 8:00, 9:00, 10:00 or 11:00, there may be a burst of heavy precipitation that can change the rain over to snow especially across the higher terrain. by 495 maybe a little bit of snow mixed in. high terrain by the hills and northwest new hampshire, we will talk more about the forecast and what to expect over the days ahead. >> we are following three big breaking stories. walmart is closing more than 350 stores world wide and more than

we just learned that the sams river in seekonk is among one of the ones being closed. the store says they are concerned about the increasing like amazon. the stores. stocks taking a big plunge right after the opening bell on wall street. the dow is now down 520 points. today. this comes after the price of oil fell too less than $30 a barel which is the lowest it has been since 2003. the dow is down actually 521 points if you want to update that. nasdaq is down more than 182 points. and we are learning that rough waters are causing problems in the search for the 12 marines that are on two helicopters that collided midair. right now crews are searching about 2 and a half miles off

searchers have spotted a debris field and rescuers say there is no sign of any survivors. a close call for a mother and her son after someone fired shots at their car. the family got lost when they were going to a restaurant when worst. live in dorchester with the story. >> reporter: she was bringing her little boy to kfc and now jackson needs some tlc after a scary run in dorchester. >> the first time i noticed my car was hit when i opened my eyes and seen a bullet hole in the windshield and i just said oh, my gosh i have to get out of here. >> amber kastanata said it happened around tuesday night at 6:00 p.m. on geneva avenue.

window taking out insulation in the ceiling and she was with her boyfriend and 6-year-old. >> is the officer said if he was two inches taller it would have taken his dead off. >> reporter: she believes it could have hit her that it came so encloses close. >> the officer said inches. when he told me that, sick to my stomach and my knees felt like jello. >> jackson just knows he was scared and told his mom one thing. >> thank you god so much that it was not my time to go home. >> jonathan hall 7 news. >> and emergency crews working to put out a fire after it went up in flames. this happened this morning on green street. firefighters hosed it down. no word on if anyone was injured. in the meantime police are searching for suspects. according to state police it happened early this morning on

witness was rushed to a nearby hospital with nonlive threatening injuries. no arrests are been made at this time. the gop candidates hitting off the campaign trail last night. victoria warren has more. >> some of the more heated moments were surprisingly trump free. >> do you remember everybody? this question was on entitlement. >> new jersey governor christie took the jab at marco rubio after cruz was accused of flip flopping. >> recent polls put cruz in second place and from front runner donald trump. trump is calling questions about cruz' citizenship a liability in the raise. >> democrats are going to be

you have a big lawsuit over your head while you are running and if you become the nominee, who the hell knows if you can serve at office. you should go out and get a declaretory judgment. >> i'm not going to be taking legal advice from donald trump. >> also talking about "new york values". >> everybody understands that the value in new york city is socially liberal and proabortion and progay marriage and focuses around the media. >> and trump fires back and he says that new york values are what happened in the days he saw after the 911 attacks. >> there are two 110-story buildings that came crashing down and the people in new york fought and fought and fought. >> the candidates will be spending a lot of time traveling between iowa and new hampshire. victoria warren 7 news.

the governor center parking garage is set to make a major upgrate. not everyone is excited about the construction. >> reporter: a soaring 43 story class office tire and a 43 unit high-rise building built in the garage of downtown boston. it's part of the $1.5 billion development project. eventually a total of six buildings will complete the project which will include office, hotel and retail space. >> too much of that old cement around here. something with class would be really pretty. >> fine with me. it will create jobs and create a place for people to live so i don't see anything wrong with it. >> you can always use more parking though. >> the development is being called a historic opportunity to

garage and reconnect some of boston's downtown neighborhoods and part of the garage will be demolished and half of the parking spaces will disappear. >> that's crazy, are you serious? >> yes. >> where am i going to park when i come to the courthouse? i don't think that is a good idea. >> they are encouraging people to use public transportation. >> construction is scheduleded to begin later this year and the entire project expected to be completed in 7 to 10 years. >> ahead on 7 news at noon, one man is listing the entire country to help them find a particular police officer. what that cop did that change his life. is there anything that kate middleton can't do.

>> take a look at these photoings from pluto that was taken from nasa. if it turns out to be a volcano it will be the largest. i remember when everybody got excited about the horizons.

>> it's remarkable what nasa has been able to do in the years and getting the technology out there and getting it back to us. 35 degrees in boston. 36 in bedford and 37 north. how about the milder air in place. i know it's relative for the time of year. 37 is not a heat wave but any stretch but we will take it. breeze is out of the east and southeast 6 to 8 miles an hour of the has not been strong and won't be strong this afternoon. clouds, we continue to battle that. sunshine has been limited. overall averaging mostly cloudy skies. temperatures mid 30s to 40s. here is the rainstorm marking its way up the coast line. plenty of moisture and it's not lacking moisture. it's lacking cold air here is new england.

be surprised to see patchy freezing rain. mid to late morning how intense the precipitation is. not a lot of cold air but it's marginal and if you can get the heavy bursts of precipitation to get in. you can mix enough cold air to transition from rain to wet snow by hoverton up towards new hampshire, that's the best bet for heavier snowfalling over your area. several inches and could get a coating to a couple of inches close to 495. predominantly this is a rainstorm and over and done with by 2:00 in the afternoon and certainly by 4:30 by kick off, cool and dry. >> alex, the first storm in the atlantic in january since 1938. no longer a hurricane now. it's a tropical storm.

we will see the colder air as we head into next week and will be feeling that too. monday possible snow showers in the day and temperatures in the mid 20s and tuesday we get to deal with the wind too and temperatures in the low 20s. most of january, 10 days, have been above average. average temperature for this time of year right around 35 degrees and we will see week. chris back to you. >> the ski resort is welcoming the snow tomorrow. ski condition wise has been, monday and tuesday, freezing up. going to be rock solid on tuesday. on monday you may have to dust off a little bit of snow. could get a coating to an inch or two artic front. >> coming up on 7 news at noon, the search is on. a man trying to find a police officer who went above and

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>> kate middleton joining the huffining huffinington post and will be raising articles that raise awareness for children. one man says an officer went above the beyond the duty to help him find a job. >> usually it's the officer looking for one but this man is looking for the officer. last month roberts had a job interview and went to the wrong location and once he got off the bus at laguardia airport. >> okay, i got here. i was wrong. >> the actual job was for a rental car's company near the airport and it was at a staffing

>> i want this job. i got to be there at a certain time. >> the police officer saw him and asked what was wrong. when robert asked him for directions the officer let him know how far it was. >> i don't care. i need it job. i got to walk there. he said what time you got to be there. i said 1:00. and he get said in the car and his last words are good luck. and he got the job and he says this job is important for him because he has been struggling to find work but he has a record. >> part of the reason he got that job is just because they were so impressed with seeing a police officer do that for him. >> he is about 6 foot 2. very nice. buffy face and bald headed like me. he is just -- he is about 225. >> he wants others to hear about

officer will let him thank him in person. >> roberts is hopeful he will find the officer. we are following breaking news where police and state troopers are on scene after possible threats of a student. school has a shelter in place and one student has been detained by police. we will continue to follow the story throughout the afternoon. one final check of weather. >> right now it's going to be dry and throughout the rest of the day. tomorrow is heaviest precipitation in the morning and get out to wooster and likely farther north and west, that will be the case through mid morning and then early in the afternoon start to dry on out and that includes out at gilette. tailgating you get there at noon or 11:00 and could be patchy

breezy but dry. 7 on 7 forecast. saturday into sunday we do cool down. next week 15 degrees below average on tuesday. that will be behind an arctic front that will produce show showers monday. >> the below on tuesday is scary. chris, thank you. that will do it for 7 news at noon. i'm nancy chen. have a great weekend. enjoy. have a wonderful afternoon everyone. [mother] yeah but this neighborhood,i feel like it's got a lot of what we were kinda talking about.

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