at 5:30, armed carjackingn brockton leads to a chase and a serious crash in stoughton. right now police say a suspect is in custody. >> officers say that suspect was targeting not only a mother but also her baby. police say a taughten man stole a mother's car in the parking lot of the westgate mall in brockton today. they say she was putting a baby into that car seat when the suspect point aid gun at her and demanded he guff her the keys. he left with the vehicle, baby as not in it. that's good news. police were able to track him down seconds later. officers found this gun thrown into the snow close by that vehicle. the suspect is now facing multiple charges and is in custody in brockton. and more breaking news, a delta flight from manchester, new hampshire to new york is diverted to boston because of rough weather. there was strong winds and low visibility because the flight was turned around. this is the same flight that had to land in

the weather. heavy rainstorming in. the bay state set for a super soaker. taking a live look outside right now in saugus. sheets of blinding rain really coming down on route 1 and it's not just the rain. powerful winds are moving this system through fast. a soggy saugus and lots of other towns. ryan schulteis standing by with -- meteorologist jeremy reiner standing by. >> that heavy plume of rain working up the north shore out on to cape ann as well as the new hampshire sea coast. you see this right here, and red. within there noticing some very heavy rain, ponding of the water on the roadways likely happening at this time. allow extra time on that evening commute. and this will quickly move through here over minutes. as we notice back england already beginning to dry out. this is a squall line that may be capable of

over 50 miles per hour. that is the other thing about this storm system. there's a lot of wind energy for this storm. so the latest wind gust near 40 miles per hour gusting close to 40 miles per hour. metro boston, south shore, even down through buzzards bay and out on the cape. that will be a concern for the next couple of hours and portions of western new england. still some left over wind energy out there. we have the high wind work there. sea coast as well as south shore, south coast and the capes where winds will continue to gust between 40 to 50 miles per hour. could lead to power disruption. but it is a warm evening. temps right now in the 50s. last night at this time teens and 20s. boston 52 right now. worcester at 52. it is a powerful system. it is moving very fast. so this rain doesn't begin to move out of here after 7:00 p.m. and events will settle down and tomorrow. tomorrow' forecast in a few minutes. and that wild

florida and creating a path of disruption. ferocious winds ripping apart palm trees and really hitting hard. this is all part of that same system that jeremy was just talking about. this evening there are people cleaning up from that storm. vanessa medina has more on the aftermath. who turned out the lights? >>reporter: this dash cam video shows the ef-1 tornado forming. you can see it growing in size. anthony then drives real close to it. you can see people breaking, then the debris begins flying, hitting his car. his thought drive away and fast. >> you start to see the funnel start circleing. >> there's a lot of wind, a lot of blue flashes of light and trees started coming down everywhere.

the trees in front of their home fall crashing to the ground and >> first i heard the alert go off on the iphone thing and then i was like is that a tornado warning and i looked outside and i saw let's get inside our closet. >> it was a tornado. >> the national weather service canvassing this parking lot just off of kopans. this warehouse district just off of dixie highway at 25th place shows huge pieces of the roof missing. tiles scattered throughout the parking lot, major damage. this is next door to corolla santana's busy. >> my roof, everything down. >>reporter: she was inside her car when the tornado moved through. >> you see the metal. you think you're going to die.

up, people recovering from this tornado. reporting in pompano beach, florida, vanessa mediumenna, 7 news. a revere melting, rising water is creating even bigger problems. nicole oliverio has a closer look. >>reporter: a revere neighborhood thawing out after record cold temps damaged homes with ice and flooding. >> mechanical issues like this happen, you can't prepare for this. >>reporter: sunday's freezing temps caused a flood gate to remain stuck open. when high tide hit, it pushed sea water in the streets. the water flooded and quickly froze over leaving some homes filled with several inch es inches of ice and frozen pipes. >> i run my kitchen sink, it comes up

>> my cow's -- car's literally frozen in the ice. i didn't even open up the shed there because i have a harley-davidson in there. i'm hoping that's not frozen. >>reporter: right now it appears without any issue. the city met with engineers yesterday to assess what more can be done. >> the only relief they are going to get right now basically is to keep that tide gate closed to prevent more water from coming in here. >>reporter: people who live nearby wonder if that will just cause more problems. >> with the oncoming rain, i'm afraid this is going to come up and still flood the area if they are not allowing >>reporter: the city says it's going to prepare its recommendation to see give it to basically they want to make sure that there is a backup plan because the gates are automatic to make sure there's a way to manually close them in case this ever happens again. in revere, nicole oliverio, 7 news. a shrewsbury fighter feeling the heat in

his 15-year-old baby-sitter. prosecutors say he made inappropriate comments girl. john cuoco joins us in worcester with more. >>reporter: we learned as of this afternoon that firefighter has been placed on paid administrative leave pending an point. report. >>reporter: that rusebury firefighter -- shrewsbury fighter and his attorney seen leaving court. court documents say the baby-sitter watch bohdiewicz's two young children for months at his home in auburn. police say she reported a pattern of sexual behavior that was unwelcomed and wet too far. >> did touch and grab and/or slap her butt. >>reporter: of bohdiewicz and his wife arrived home, he got

allegedly had to shove him away. his attorney said in an e-mail to 7 news that bohdiewicz was blind-sided by the allegations. he's worked for shrewsbury fire since 2008 but as of tuesday afternoon he's on paid administrative leave. >> town manager says he's never had to discipline this firefighter before. live in worcester, john cuoco, 7 news. 46 senior citizens forced out of their home by a fire. crews working at the fire at the senior living home in dorchester last night. fire officials say an electrical short was to blame for that fire. a man appearing in court today accused of threatening to blow up a brockton hospital. police say he went to the hospital saturday night to be treated for a face injury. but while he was there, he allegedly told

back with a bomb strapped to himself. he's accused of assaulting two hospital workers before police arrive. a suspect has been arrested for a moose poaching incident. state environmental police took several items from the home including this rifle which they believe was moose. the incident happened last month in vermont. the largest medical massachusetts is open for business. patriot care in lowell celebrating their grand opening with a ribbon cutting today. the facility will service patients in lowell and middlesex county. patients will be able to look at different products before any sale is made. the ceo described how an appointment would look. >> when a patient comes in, you'll have a one on one interaction with your sales associate depending on the symptoms you're trying to treat as a patient. we will help you find

meet your needs. >> a group of protestors stood outside during today's ceremony holding signs encouraging people to boycott that business. there's much more to come here on 7 news coming up at 5:30. a high-end heist. we have never had a theft this big. >> they are doing it two feet away from you. >> tag team shoplifters caught on camera to thieves loading up with some pricey merchandise. new at 6:00 on the hunt, police trying to track down suspects tied to a gun store robbery. the alarming details ahead. and we're staying on top of breaking news out of malden. police are investigating after a woman was found dead at an apartment complex there. the breaking details coming up in a live report.

crime caught on camera, a boutique with thieves. and now police are on the hunt for the burglars and the clothing. >>reporter: they look like typical shoppers at a luxury women's boutique. >> it's totally normal for our customer to have a really nice coat on and nice bag. >> but the sales clerk noticed something was off. >> they kept looping, back in the front room and back in here. >>reporter: what they didn't notice was what the security camera would show them after they left. >> you see the man grab a $2000 dress from the rack, fold it over, then stuff it into a back pack on to a coat, hanger and all. >> the woman would hold the item up so we could not see what the gentleman was taking.

back to the camera lifts a leather coat. >> in the history of being in business in 30 years, we have never had a left this big. >>reporter: the man swipes a $3,000 designer bag like this one. you see him opening the sliding glass door. >> we work in a place that we love, it's like horrible. it's rough. >>reporter: the daring duo taking off with items from some of the largest items you'll find on fashion runways. >> to have when we come back in and invade a place you love is just an uneasy feeling. >> he says around $20,000 worth of goods were stole glen coming up ben and jerry's serving up a new sweet treat. how the ice cream icons are changing the game. sounds kind of good right now. >> iscream, you scream,

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ben and jerry's is ditching the cream in its newest dessert line. the company is creating a line of vegan ice cream. it's made out of almond milk and coconut oil instead of the traditional milk and cream. the company said it wanted to create an ice cream that lactose intolerant and vegan customers could also enjoy. the store should have the ice cream in the next two to four weeks. you know that coconut oil is in a lot of thing now. i jumped on the band wagon. >> i did too. >> i put it on hot oatmeal. the more you know, viewers.

last thing you probably wanted was ice cream but today warmed it up a little bit. >> i had iced coffee over the weekend. i did 24/7/365, even with record cold. an ice cream, absolutely. we had warm air and humidity as well. i tell you what, a warm, humid day like today will really chew up that snow. you left this morning, thought i'll shovel that when i get home from work. it's gone, sweet. mother nature helped you out. plume of heavy rain now east of the city in boston. still some steady rain to contend with for the next 45 minutes to an hour. it does break up a little bit there and that's the leading edge of the dry air. that eventually does work into the city about 7:00. this is a squall line and this is capable of generating winds gusting over 50 miles per hour. also some very heavy rainfall. it's the storm system really that's trying to behave more like a spring storm than a winter storm.

here. we're on the cold side of that storm last night with the cold, the sleet and freezing rain. and then for several hours today, really much ado about nothing. kind of a whiplash here with the heavy rain and wind. back towards western new england it does quickly dry out with skies beginning to clear back toward new york as well as new jersey, metro new york city. that works up into new england later on tonight. right now the wind is also the concern again with the winds gusting between 40 and 45 miles per hour. we do have a high wind warning in effect. until 10:00. i would imagine the weather system peals away at the backside of this as that heavier temps at this time in the 50s unreal. we were down to 10 to 15 below on sunday morning. through portions of new

not going to be a flash freeze set uplike you can sometimes find in february winter storms. lows between 32 and 37. so untreated surfaces might be a little slick for some of you. i think metro boston the number's in the middle 30s tomorrow morning. even with that said still some leftover cold surfaces for a short time tomorrow morning and more melting tomorrow. not quite as warm as today. temps tomorrow 42 to 47. thursday more sunshine, a little cooler on thursdays. a little cold front comes through tomorrow night. it's not an arctic front so no bitterly cold blast of air or anything lying that. as we work into friday, here comes another warm front. and so that will feature clouds friday afternoon. might be a couple of snow flurries on friday evening. nothing more than that it. temps on friday close to normal and for the weekend above normal. upper 40s saturday and sunday. see you in a few minutes. >> thanks, jr. a blind teen

how he's helping wounded warriors get teamed up with service dogs. a very good evening to you. i'm adam williams. we're following some breaking news. a suspected carjacker is in custody after crashing a car he allegation low stole from a mother. how state police finally got him into custody. also breaking a suspicious death in malden. tonight police are searching for a suspect in a homicide case there. and a teen targeted on the streets of lowell. right now police say they've tracked down their suspect. we'll give you an update there. those stories and a lot more coming your way on

a long island teen going above and beyond to help veterans injured in combat. despite his own disability, he's partially blind, the 13-year-old is determined to give back. >> he's making a difference and raises thousands to provide veterans with guide dogs. >>reporter: 13-year-old matt knows what it's like to navigate around life's obstacles. >> my brother's blind, i'm blind in my right eye. >>reporter: the result of an inherited condition. >> when i had brandon 24 years ago, they said it was a million to one chance it would ever happen again, so when i had matthew and it happened again, it was a complete shock. >> it makes a lot of thing a lot harder but really you have to work through it and do the best you can with what you got. >>reporter: what he also got was

the seventh grader is on a mission. everyone has their own form of a struggle and any way you can make that better, you want to help. >>reporter: he started selling bracelets and baked goods at schools for nickels and dimes and now thousands have donated dollars. he raised money for service dogs to help veterans with post combat disabilities. >> a way to get a lot of the stress and hardships away from them. >>reporter: guide dogs are free for recipients but it costs $50,000 to raise, train and place these pups. >> this is phenomenal. they get no regular government funding. >>reporter: big brother brandon, an independent college student, hopes to have his own guide dog one day. >> a cane is a piece of met m with a tip on the end. it doesn't tell you much. a guide dogs does ten times that. it would open up the world to me, you have no idea.

fund-raising will transform lives one service dog at a time. 's raised almost double his original goal. >> he's really great. i said during the story anytime i have a bad day or complain now, i'll think about that boy. there's another 30 minutes of 7 news straight ahead. 7 news at 6:00 starts right now. a messy night in massachusetts, rain rolling through the state right now and when we'll see it return to winter. breaking news a woman's mysterious death in alert. a suspect under arrest after a teenager is targeted and run down in lowell. plus an emotional thank you after a dramatic save at sea. >> a fellow captain comes to the rescue after a nearby boat starts sinking. and the perfect proposal. a local man enlists the

pop the question. 7 news at 6:00 starts now. first at 6:00 boston a little under the weather this week. we're up against heavy rain and wind right now. tonight's round of wet weather just adds to an already messy situation. >> and that's because we're also dealing with a meltdown of all of that snow and ice we had up until last night. temperatures topping out to well above 50 degrees. how much longer will this rain stick around. jeremy reiner with a check on your forecast. i say another one to two hours. here's the back edge. we have seen the heaviest rain move through. still some steady rain for the next 45 minutes and the heaviest rain just now leaving cape ann. chatham as well as well fleet and truro and province town. you see this red line right here. we haven't noticed any lightning but with that

heavy rain and winds could be gusting close to 50 miles per hour as that squall line rips across the cape. as you step on the other side of that still some locally steady rain happening right now, cape ann, north shore, city of boston. but then in the metrowest that's when it does begin to taper off to just some patches of drizzle and clouds. fast-moving weather system meaning there's a lot of wind energy out there as well. winds are an issue gusting between 40 and 45 miles per hour. whether that squall line came through falmouth we did have a gust of 50. we do have the high wind warning in effect for another couple of hours and it is warm. temps right now in the 50s. the city at 54. norwood at 56. thankfully the arctic air does not race into new england tonight. we'll talk more about that coming up. we're following some breaking news right now. an armed carjacking ends after a dramatic crash started at the westgate mall in brockton.