woman was attacked and robbed in the street . >> anchor: caught on camera. an up close and personal look at rescuers going into the fire. >> anchor: first at 5:30 gloucester's police chief send sending a message after four people in his cities overdosed on heroin. the overdoses all happened within 24 hours . >> anchor: he posted a moving message on facebook directly addressing those suffering from addiction. jennifer egan has the story. >> reporter: four people over overdosed in heroin just over a 24 hours period this past weekend . it appears we're dealing with some heroin that is either strong or laced . >> anchor: all four were brought back with narcan, gloucester's police chief took to facebook with a message for those struggling with addiction. "there is recovery and a new life that can and should be yours. you deserve it. your life is more meaningful than your death. don't be ashamed of your illness illness. we are not ashamed of you.

four in one day definitely instill a sense of urgency about this topic. we simply can't wait any longer. people are dying every day. when this happens, it accent . >> anchor: this isn't the first time chief campanello caught attention through a post on-line last spring he announced this city's angel program on facebook facebook. if you are a person who is suffer is something from ayou we'll facilitate treatment for . the chief said more than 37 375 people have entered to the police department. but there is still much more work to be done. the problem isn't gone. it's still very, very bad. so i think the post was a reits take that, you know, we need to do better to reduce the shame, reduce the significant in a and to get more people to come . >> anchor: there have been re

angel program, one person passed away but some are recovering from their addiction. a sign of hope. there is hope. there is hope that they can re reenter society, reconnect, be productive, lead good lives and that's something that everybody deserves . >> anchor: jennifer egan, 7 news . >> anchor: a family is search searching for answers after an anularing a take on a dog in rut plan. police say two men beat this dog with a stick over the weekend. investigators say the attackers took off in their car when the owners confronted them. the dog had to be rushed to the hospital but it so doing okay right now. his owners disgusted by what happened. i can't even, it makes me sick to my stomach to even think that somebody would do that to my dog. i don't know why or how or like why they would even do something to an animal. >> anchor: right now police do not have any suspects in custody custody. >> anchor: police in chelsea are searching for suspects after a woman says she was attacked on the street over the weekend. kelly o'hara has the story.

night. i think things are getting worse every day. it's like it's crazy. it's like you can't even leave your house after when it starts getting dark out . >> anchor: people in this neighborhood scared for their safety after a violent attack on a young woman walking home. i feel like something like that could happen and i have to be extra careful just because it's happened and i feel bad for the woman too because she must be in a lot of pain and she must be scared to death now . >> anchor: karen's landlady heard the entire thing . you could hear she didn't know what direction it was coming from. it's really scary . >> anchor: chelsea police tell 7 news a woman was walking on the street saturday night when out of nowhere three men jumped her, beat her, kicked her, slash her and then grab her money and took off . i want people here to feel safe . >> anchor: giovanni is a city councilman for the area and is outraged by this attack. he says pat of the problem is a lack of lights and security on the street. and says something needs to change so an attack like this one doesn't happen again. there is only one light.

unacceptable? >> anchor: yeah. we want lights. we want lights. where is the lights? it's very dangerous without lights. we live in the area, we want to see that the people live in a safe place. >> anchor: kelly o'hara, 7 news news. >> anchor: auburn police are looking for people behind a terrifying a take. the suspects shot out windows of more than a dozen cars over the weekend. several people spent their sunday cleaning up after the glass that was vehicles shot out by a bb gun. have the investigators say it happened some tie saturday night along rockland road. neighbors say even though they are frustrated they are grateful no one got hurt. kids are looking to have a good time at somebody el's attention. thanks happen and it could have been worse. police urge anyone with information about the vandalism to call them. >> anchor: following more news today, rescue crews continue serving for survivors after a midair collision between military helicopters in hawaii. the search is expanding off the coast of hawaii after two

other last thursday. the coast guard says it found several life boats in the water over the weekend. the navy is expected to start looking under water. this week the marine families are holding out hope that they will be found. a very caring outgoing person. there is just not enough words i could say. it's hard as it is so big . >> anchor: the cause of that crash remains under investigation. and one of those 12 missing marines is a hingham native christopher was on board one of those helicopters during the crash. he had been station in hawaii for the last year and a half. his mother is retired trooper . >> anchor: a community serving for answers. volunteers and list joining into help find a little boy who disappeared there on thursday. now police say two-year-old foyer chamberlain vanished during a hiking trip with his grandmother and sister. volunteers working through the night that dangerous area look fog for that boy . the terrain is very treacherous. make sure you watch sink holes. they are big. authorities say some footprints have been found but

a community in crisis in civil rights leader jesse jackson is calling for more action in the water emergency going on in flint, michigan. reverend jackson said the city should have police tape around it because it is a crime scene. the drugging water there isn't safe because of all of the high levels of lead there. president obama declared a state of emergency for the city but jackson wants a stronger disaster declaration. now under federal law disaster declarations are only for natural disasters, not manmade ones. problems started in 2014 when the city switched its water supply to try to save money. now high level of lead have been found in children's blood . >> anchor: a police shooting in florida leaves a victim's family asking questions about the dead deadly an counter. 20-year-old henry bennett was shot and killed by police at traffic stop of authorities say he got oust his car after he was asked to pull over and then point to the gun at an officer that officer then shot him.

several times in the back as he was running a way. it just very eyebrow rais raising even if he did have a gun or whatever, obviously he didn't want to hurt the officer. he was running away from him. >> reporter: authorities say he did take off toward an apartment complex. but say they believe the officer only shot when bennett showed his gun. a police officer in ohio was shot and i can in the line of duty. authorities say the officer was shot around midnight on sunday. they say that the suspect left the scene and the officer's vehicle. you can see that suspect driving off as police follow behind two people have been taken into custody and investigators are now working to figure out what led up to the shooting. >> anchor: called on camera helmet cam is putting news the line of fire in california. fire fighters were called to i a aburning building with a mother and her infant trapped inside. an astonishing site. the second floor of an apartment

two apartments damaged by fire, fire fighters are still investigating the cause and no one was hurt. but less than three hours later crews would be at it again. this time, at another apartment complex. a parent their second story of the art complex was charged with smoke. >> anchor: in this helmet cam video the fire fighter quickly puts his ladder up. he yells into a room but no one is inside. the fire fighter brings his ladder to another window. he sees people and he yells for backup. then in a heart stopping moment, the tenant hands the fire fighter her baby through the window. he hand the infant to the fire fighter below. then helps other family members down. ray owns the property. he got the frightening call minutes after the fire started . i want to make sure everything was safe and hope hopefully something will be left when i got here . he believes a transient got in and lit a fire in back stairway. he said while damage looks bad it could have been much worse without this smoke alarm . it helped out and did what

>> anchor: in fat property own owner said he planned to put more smoke alarm in the property of the complex . >> anchor: police giving new de details about the disyou itting discovery new state new york. they say bodies were found near the campus of geneseo state on sunday. one of the men upset stabbed the woman and another man inside an off-campus home. investigators say that the man then called his father before taking his own life. >> anchor: peel are cleaning up today after tornados ripped through parts of western florida florida. two people were killed and four children sent to the hospital after a tornado h a mobile home. another tornado destroying other homes. two people had to be pulled from the rubble. they are expected to be okay . >> anchor: crews rescuing their search reing that is their search for a missing ski instruct in northern california. the cher i's office said they are focusing on an area that was hit by snow slides. that's where they say the 23 23-year-old's phone last pinked. friends reported the instructor

made it home they found his belongings still in his locker at the ski resort. a family desperately searching for missing flight attendant in new york. they say she was last seen leaving la guardia airport. then she vanished without a trace as 7's elizabeth noreika reports family and friends are holding out hope. hoping to bring her home safely. it's just one of those the blind side. you go, what's going on? >> anchor: friends and family just want answers. the 30-year-old delta flight attendant was last seen around airport. her family says she had just finished speaking with her supervisor and left the airport and was scheduled later that day to work but never made the flight and hasn't been seen since. she did go to i believe it's the delta terminal where her supervisor works out of, turn in all her gear a flight attendant and then spoke to the

is everything okay? are you okay because she noticed there was something different about her. her father said she had no enemies, nor did she have a boyfriend. earlier in the week her father says she had spoken on the phone to her older sister that said something seemed off. she took a flight to be with sierra. by the time she got there she was gone . her roommates inned that about her. they noticed that there were some things that had just changed in the last week with her as far as her personality, what was going on with her. >> anchor: friends an family have since set up a face become page and are using the # find sierra shields to see if anyone would come forward with information. one person posted this picture to the page writing still looking for my sweet friend. there are a lot of people who love her and want to experience as they say sweet sierra again . >> anchor: elizabeth noreika, 7 news . >> anchor: singer don mcclean facing alarming allegations in maine.

on a domestic violence charge. mcclean posted $10,000 bill and was released a few hours later. the 307-year-old is known best for his 1971 song american pie. he is married with two children and due in court next month. >> anchor: director spike lee announcing he will not be attend attending this year's oscars because only white actors are nominated. lee wrote a long post on instagram saying he can't support the "lily white oscars." actress jada pinkett smith is also boycotting the event. millions of people have watched a video she posted on facebook calling for change. >> anchor: coming up on 7 news a playoff president. a pats fan has her birthday wish come true . >> anchor: all new at 6:00, ticket trouble in worcester. why some people had a rude awake

>> anchor: it is a patriots fans birthday wish come true. she got to take it yesterday's game right at gillette. jerry shy suffers from a condition that will cause her to eventually lose her eyesight . >> anchor: she says this play playoff birthday present could not have come at a better time. elizabeth noreika has her story . >> anchor: it's game time in

shy is a huge patriots fan. super fan would fit. she said she has been a huge fan since she was 7 years old back weather she had to use rabbit ears to watch a game . just seeing a snowy picture and just holding it to get a boston channel in rhode island, so i have been die hard . >> anchor: she turned 42 today and as a surprise her twin sister saved up and got her tickets in this weekend's layoff game against the chiefs. this is really special. i was glad i could do it for her. >> anchor: you can guess jerry jerry's favorite player, her hat ritual, tapping and rubbing the hat 12 times is an honor of tb 12 . i don't touch the hat of the rest the night . >> anchor: it's been a few years since she has been able to go it a game . . >> anchor: even more amazing forgery that suffers from a condition that will lead to blind necessary . >> reporter: because of my vision impairment it means so much because i don't ever know when the last game that i will be able to see . >> reporter: she is cher iing

pats will go all the way. elizabeth noreika, 7 news. >> anchor: a lot of questions about what's to come this weekend. i can tell you for sure there is a big game this weekend. i will nail down the forecast details as best i can coming up next. >> anchor: a reminder that tomorrow is the mayor's annual state of the city address. mayor walsh will begin his remarks at 7:30 and 7 news has you covered. we'll take his speech live right here on 7 nbc. that all starts at 7:30.

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>> anchor: so did you earn joy the snow last night and into this mock. it's kind of fun, right? >> anchor: it was beautiful. when you live in new england i think that's pat of it. how picturesque this communities are when there is a little dusting all over them . >> anchor: then we get wind and cold today and that's a big change from yesterday. it was beautiful snow, bree, now the wind and cold . >> anchor: yeah, but didn't it add a little bit of beauty because it was blowing that snow

glitter in the sky? glass half full here. snow totals generally speaking were between two, four inches nor a lot of places. a good bull's eye in plymouth county. that's why those bands, heavier bounds were setting up and just weren't going anywhere so i knew about 7:00 last night that these were the spots to watch. almost six inches in middleboro and for well did get a half foot of snow. but it's been a slow start for us. really all across the bay state. we've only had five or excuse me i guess this time last winter we only had seen five and a half inches of snowfall and almost 14 inches of snowfall in worcester. but we're not even there yet this season. i hate to compare last year to this year just because we know what came after that slow start last year but i really just department think that is probable to happen really ever against in our lifetime especially not two years in a row. we do have the logan airport machine that is puffing pretty good to our west and that is pushing in some bands of snow mainly into the berkshires and

in a while you get these little sneaky ones that pop up and then they go away but they can reduce visibilities as we just saw across the mass pike earlier and this could be the case as we head through the evening hours. overnight tonight though we die on out into tomorrow, not looking for any snow, we just look for the cold and the wind. stay with us for the next couple days and our temperatures do not get above freezing throughout pretty much this entire week. normal high for this time of year, 35, so the coldest air of the season that is actually settling in to stay for a bit, but you can throw out these current air temperatures, 18 is what it actually is in worcester 24 in boston, because it feels like zero in worcester and it feels like 11 degrees in boston and really it's just fighting against that wind chill as we head throughout not only tonight into tomorrow but also most of wednesday as well. sustained winds between 20, 25 mile-per-hour and then you get miles per hour and the gusts

win gusts out of the west northwest up to 50 miles per hour tomorrow afternoon. so we're still talking about a lot of that snow staying put not melting but also blowing around in the air a little bit. wind advise orry in effect all day tomorrow for the entire bay state so our temperatures while they will be in the teens tomorrow morning will feel like they are below zero in most if not all locations. now the big question though, everybody wants to know what's happening this weekend. here is what we know so far. there is enough cold air with us at this point that as this system tracks up the coast, then it could be a potential storm system but the track is still to be determined and implications, where does that rain snow line set up, how much snow are we talking, how strong will the winds be, we still have a few days to nail down those details and we'll keep you posted. >> anchor: bree, sound good. coming up next on 7 news at 6:00 it's patriots playoff fever . >> anchor: the road to the super bowl will run through denver, brady and the boys gearing up for a conference

it's a monumental rematch and we have night team coverage and coverage coming up at 6:00 . >> anchor: also a happy homecoming this hang am native back in the bay state after being held captive in iran. >> anchor: neighbors in worcester running into ticket trouble. the city towing their cars. why some say they never even got a warning to move the cars . >> anchor: those stories and much more when we see you on 7 news at 6:00. there are two democratic visions for regulating wall street. one says it's okay to take millions from big banks and then tell them what to do. my plan -- break up the big banks, 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

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>> anchor: we know this football fever can make a fan do some pretty crazy thing, but what about repapering their entire house? that is just what one family did. >> anchor: so they are big broncos fans and painted their house to get free tickets to sunday's playoff game. kris anderson has the full story story. >> reporter: the lucky winners of the broncos paint your house orange contest, in y cobb and nick rio. on orange friday their house is now very orange. it's a nice color. it looks a lot better than i thought it would . >> reporter: broncos partner and real estate app brought in a professional team painters to get the job done . it was shocking at first but now that we had some time with it and the paint is dried it's not so bad. >> reporter: their extreme broncos spirit scored them a pair of tickets to such's play playoffs . first time going to a broncos guam for me . >> reporter: along with a personal visit from billy tomson

and a game day surprise in the frige. a good surprise. i don't think there has ever been that much luckily never been that much beer in our frige. >> reporter: that's quite the paint job, isn't it? they say after the playoffs they might be repainting but they do plan on leaving orange on at least one wall as an accent. in the newsroom, kris anderson, 7 news. >> anchor: wouldn't it have been cheap tore buy the its than to pay for papering this? probably. an ugly orange. you want patriots colors, right? >> anchor: another 30 minutes of 7 news ahead, everyone. i'm jadiann thompson . >> anchor: 7 news at 5:00 or actually 6:00 starts right now. >> reporter: boston getting a dose of winter weather . >> reporter: accumulating snow moving out for now, but the coldest air of the season settling in to stick around. just how long it stays with us and a potential storm for the weekend. >> reporter: pats playoff run rolls on. there is only four teams playing next weekend and we're one of them . >> reporter: new england sizing up a tall task.

broncos? safe and sound, a hingham man reunited with his family after being held captive in iran and parking ban problems in worcester. why drivers say they never got the memo. memo.. >> anchor: winter weather hitting noon of a snow day to cap off the holiday weekend. started coming down last night and did not stop until this morning. in fact when most of us woke up it was time to break out the shovels . >> anchor: some cities and towns saw several inches and tonight get ready for the temperatures to just plunge. meteorologist bri eggers standing by with a look at the forecast now . that's the key adam and kim is that the snow that fell last night not going anywhere unless you mover it yourself because the temperatures stay below freezing throughout the entire week for the most part. you can see the lake effect snow machines still really kicking out there and the winds that we are experiencing here is also helping to bring some that moisture in and every once in a while you get one of these stray