officially charged with raping a child. let's get to tim caputo with details for us. >> reporter: the information just coming in to. a main accord firefighters under arrest charged with raping a child. this incident allegedly happening back in 1991. police say 59-year-old james mcgillvray was arrested earlier today. earlier this month on february 5th he was placed on administrative leave with the fire department as the detentives started an investigation to allegations of the sexual assault of a child. he has been a firefighter in the town since 1986. again arrested at his home earlier today for a charge of raping a child with force. a termination hearing for his role with the fire department will be held in early march according to town officials. as for his criminal case, he will be arraigned in middlesex superior court tomorrow morning. the latest live from the breaking news desk, tim caputo, 7 news. >> jadiann: first at 5:30 a legal battle brews foing

she is the connecticut teen taken from her teen after a diagnosis of boston children's hospital. her family is suing the hospital saying it imagine a major medical mistake. >> adam: they claim the family. byron barnett is live with the hospital's response. >> reporter: this is the 35-page complaint that has been filed and in suffolk superior court. justina pelletier and her family are suing boston children's hospital and four doctors here after just tone -- just teena got caught in a tug of war over her medical care. >> they were' really treating me badly. they didn't really care. >> reporter: just teena calling out boston children's hospital. the 17-year-old from connecticut and her family are suing the hospital saying children's violated her civil rights by holding her for nearly a year against the wishes of her parents.

just imagine being in a week ward without needing to be in a psych ward. >> reporter: after another hospital diagnosed justina pelletier with a mitochondrial disorder, a disease that attacks the cells her attorneys say boston children's hospital came up with a different diagnosis, calling it a psychiatric problem instead. justina pelletier's attorneys says the hospital accused her parents of medical child abuse. the state department of children and families got involved and gave children's custody of just ina. >> this is not about revenge, this is about making people account. making the medical community start thinking twice. >> reporter: the hospital

>> i'm very angry and i don't understand how this happened and i just really don't want that to happen ever again to any other family. >> reporter: the family says it's the hospital's fault justina is in a wheel chair. she is in a special needs school and gets therapy which includes horseback riding. she says she has been getting better and she really hopes she can walk again someday. that is the story live in boston, i'm byron barnett, 7 news. >> adam: also here at 5:30 a local man found guilty of a violent murder. he was found guilty in the killing of an ipswich restaurant owner. he and two other men broke into the imaginistic dragon restaurant and murdered 62-year-old tony woo. one of the men involved pleaded guilty to man clot. the other man goes on trial. their son's trial is over. >> jadiann: local mace

connection to a 1989 murder in philadelphia. philadelphia police arrest rifed in lowell yesterday. he is connected to a murder that happened more than 20 years ago and that he has been running from police. >> adam: wareham police making an arrest stemming from an armed robbery that happened in december. police say that he held up the speedway gas station with a crowbar. police searched his home and found clothing matching the defense six. he was arrested without incident yesterday while walking in wareham s. >> jadiann: high-speed chase caught on camera in california. you can see a pickup truck flying down the road. police in hot pursuit. the chase lasted about 20 miles before police made the truck spin out. officers surrounded the truck and they made the arrest. the 23-year-old driver faces two felony charges.

camera happening in texas. the video shows a pickup truck smashed through the front door of a convenience store and three men start dragging the a.t.m. out to their truck. >> suspects ditched truck and took the a.t.m. whether they took it to are a house or put it in the back of another truck or in some vehicle and drove off we don't know yet. >> jadiann: the store is back open while people work to clean up the debris. police are still looking for the thieves. >> adam: drivers in florida confused as they do their best to stay away from a car going the wrong day down the highway. the 21-year-old driver went six miles before getting off on an entrance ramp. he had a blood alcohol level almost four times the legal limit. he is facing several charges including oui. a stranger saves a fedex driver and possible all the

you can see the truck swerving and changing speeds so instead of avoiding him one man started recording then stepped in to help the driver who was not in control. driving down a buzzy road just before noon jonathan noticed something. >> there is cars stopping, cars veering off the road. something is wrong. >> reporter: he took out a cell phone and recorded what happened next. the driver slowed to under 5 miles an hour. >> here you can't see him but his head is down. and he is driving very slow so i'm afraid he is going to veer over and into the westbound lanes. >> reporter: he yelled at the driver to get his >> are you okay. >> reporter: the driver then speeds up and is totally out of control. >> i thought he was going to run head on no a car. >> reporter: somehow the man is able to talk the driver no pulling over. >> come on, pull over the dude, just pullover. >> reporter: once no a parking lot he convinces the driver into giving up his

>> i think i saved lives that day. not only somebody elses life but i think i saved this guy's life. >> reporter: sheriff's deputies arrived but because the driver had taken the keyings out of the ignition, he wasn't charged with driving under the influence. >> we had some good citizens that were in the area and number one, didn't get hurt but number two, were able to take steps to help get this guy stopped before he did hurt somebody. >> adam: fedex says safety is its highest priority and action will be taken once there is a thorough investigation of the incident. >> jadiann: a south dakota high schooler's perfect pick for a dance. warming hearts. his little sister has a rare blood disorder and doctors believe she won't rif long enough to go to high school. so her big doer decided he would make meaningful memories with his little sister. >> what girl doesn't like to get dressed up and beautiful?

valentine's day, rebecca was transformed into a princess. >> it's a lot of fun watching. i mean she is excited. and she is smiling. >> it's like they're living in the princess world. >> reporter: an experience all thanks to her big brother. >> i wanted to ask my sister because she is most likely not going to be able to experience high school. so i just thought why not ask her to formal. >> reporter: the valentine's day formal could have been his first dance with a date. >> i guess. but rebecca trumped them all. >> reporter: he came up with the plan to make sure his sister got to experience the rite of passage. >> thinking about his sister and she is not going to get a, go to the prom or the formal when she is in high school because she is not going to make it and he wanted to give her that memory. >> reporter: he made sure she got the whole formal

dinner with his classmate and the their dates. >> it's fun to watch her live part of life where the disease don't creep in. where she is just excited to be going and doing something that every child or every teenager gets to do. >> reporter: the day may be all about his sister and it's clear. >> rebecca who gets your first dance? >> reporter: a.j. >> reporter: the evening is in the just for rebecca. >> it will be fun to be around her and just make memories because i want to spend as much time with her as possible while she is still doing good. >> there is a lot of time that it's the joy-fled moment but yet there is a little sorrow because you know that this is probably one of the last opportunities she is going

this. >> jadiann: that will bring a tear to your eye. after all the fun rebecca didn't feel up to going to the dance but her brother says she enjoyed her time out with the older kids dressed up like a princess. >> adam: another story that will get you thinking. a family's call for courtesy after a cruel reaction from airplane passengers still ahead what the passengers did when a boy and the his terminally ill father were kicked off a flight. >> jadiann: damage left behind around new england as whips winds sweeping throughout area. we are going to show you some of the hardest hit places. >> adam: phillipe chism

>> jadiann: a rude reaction to a young boy's allergic reaction on board flight from washington to finics. giovanni was with his mom and his dad who has terminal cancer but giovanni started to break out in hives because of dogs on his flight. >> adam: not only was the family kicked off the flight but to make matters worse passengers clapped when it happened.

ferry giovanni and his mom and his dad should have already boarded a flight. >> we're on flight 171. >> adam: the trip from washington state back home was interrupted by gee advancey's allergic reaction. >> he began to get itchy. he was scratching all over and he started to get hives. so we informed the flight attendant who informed us that there is dogs on every flight. and just smirked which minimized his experience for me. >> adam: it delayed takeoff then they were' told they would have to deboard. >> we understood, they helped us off the plane but they clapped. the people to the back of the plane clapped. >> adam: clapping that crushed this little boy. >> people that do not have that they don't understand what it feels like to have sadness. >> adam: they don't understand what giovanni and his family have been through. that bellingham, washington, was on the bucket list. >> that is one check, there is a lot more but we've been

important reason. >> my dad is sick with stage 4 throat cancer and that was already sad. >> adam: sad because he knows his dad's cancer is terminal and with time running out this trip was supposed to be a special one. >> to make memories and i'm sad this has to be a memory with my dad. >> as as as-- as a dad i was out there and i just looked at the people clapping. i was just like, shaking my head. let's get out of here a's they're. >> they're trying to turn something terrible into a teaching moment. >> you don't know how much time people have. >> adam: a call for courtesy. it seems like an apology is all they want. the family don't want

>> jadiann: coming up a happy ending for this unique kitty whose mustache is making a lot of people smile. >> reporter: we do have colder temperatures for tomorrow and the start of the weekend but a warm-up. >> adam: tom brady not brady embraces his inner mufasa and welcoming a new member of the family. the world a president has to

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>> adam: we know grumpy cat but have you haired of mush tash cat? a california kitten with crazy whiskers seems to have a bright future after being found abandoned. sally ann is being treated at a local shelter where she has movie star potential with this look. she will be ready for adoption in the next few days. >> jadiann: so cute. >> adam: not the last

>> -- ann. >> adam: yours is in the as perfect. >> jadiann: they can tell when i don't have a muss mash. change the subject j.r. >> reporter: nothing awkward on the radar. we've scours, but adam, you are correct about that. what happened? so here are some isolated showers on the south shore. and there is another batch back to through the worcester hills then they become snow showers back to new york and pennsylvania. so there is colder air on the maps this evening. i'm not forecasting snow, but the point here is that we're 50 now and we're just clinging to this mild air here in eastern new england. albany at 41. toronto at 2. so the colder air slowly later on tonight and the through the day tomorrow. thanks to a southwest which wind.

boston gusting to 451 miles an hour. that will settle down later on. the wind advisory will expires at 7:00 and at this time we'll see fewer and fewer wind gusts over 30 miles an hour. a few showers out there. mostly cloudy skies. i'm not worried about areas of refreeze or flash freeze or anything like that which here we are in february. you don't have that concern. gives you an idea of how mild it has been. tomorrow it's much colder tomorrow but again seasonal. so tomorrow morning in the lower 30s for the morning commute then as we work through the day there is not much recovery to the 30s in the morning. tomorrow afternoon, 36-42. we'll still have a bit of a breeze, won't be as strong as today but wind chills tomorrow 25-30. boston tomorrow afternoon, around 40. merrimack valley, new hampshire sea coast upper 30s into the worcester hills. jaffrey at 34. worcester 36. on the cape and the islands, mashpee 41 and chatham at 40 degrees. for the start of the

cold saturday morning, teens to start then into the afternoon numbers should reach the upper 30s. high pressure slides south of new england on saturday. here comes another warm front. the front edge of warm air and that surges into new england during sunday. so temperatures on sunday heading once again way move normal. next couple of days a little below but sunday into early next week high temperatures in the mid 50s on sunday afternoon. right now, it's third warmest winter on record here for the city of boston. we still have a couple of warm days in front of us, how warm? show us. get out of the way. there you go. 7 on 7 forecast, 50s sunday and monday then tuesday, mostly sunny skies, mid 50s, our next storm is next week. similar to what we had with this one. again i'm not going to stay another round of severe weather but it's another warm storm with temperatures middle and upper 50s. >> adam: second half of that makes me think of starting the garden.

>> adam: a woman in washington state makes a rare find eating dinner at a local restaurant. >> jadiann: she says she bit in something hard in a clam. something that looked like a pearl. so she took it to a local gemologist who was skeptical at first, but he came to the conclusion it was a rare purple pearl worth about $600. >> he thought i was joking. he thought it looked so round and perfect that someone was playing a joke on me. >> jadiann: they weren't. she plans on keeping the pearl and she may make it in a neck lace. >> adam: from the plate to the neck. works. up next the red carpet is ready but will hollywood be ready for a potentially controversial oscars night? >> >> jadiann: at 6:00 philip chism set to learn his fate in court tomorrow but now his attorneys making some last-minute requests. >> adam: a salem police

the serious charges that could end up costing him his job. >> jadiann: wild weather creating chaos across the bay state. a close call for officers when power lines came crashing down. those stories and much more

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prepare for the star-studded oscars night but the biggest storyline for the biggest night may not be the winners or losers or even the fashion. >> jadiann: it actually may end up being the diversity debate and how host chris rock and other stars are addressing it. as if chris rock needed material for his oscar hosting gig -- >> let's do this. >> reporter: his @the oscars the white bet awards. the. >> the oscars white new i issue seems to have gained so much intensity this year. >> jadiann: fueled by a second straight year without a person of color among oscars 20 acting nominees. >> you. >> a best picture up? for the critically acclaimed straight out of cometon. >> diversity is about the multiplicity of ethnicities and stories from all over the world. >> reporter: the academy

criteria for oscar voters. >> it comes with everyone understanding the situation which is fighting against something that has been going on for a very long time. >> reporter: century, prompting will smith and jada. iette smith to boycott the show. >> but we'll see results and hopefully they're the best results. >> jadiann: to insure future dreams of gold are color blind a's we hope you can keep it right there as we continue another half hour of straight news. >> jadiann: 7 news at 6:00 starts right now. >> reporter: much cooler for tomorrow. >> announcer: plus wild weather doing lots of damage across the state. telephone poles crash down in canton almost hitting the people nearby then philip kimm's defense team making last-minute requests the day

learns his fate and a salem police officer in court in trouble with the law. the serious charges that could land him mind -- behind bars. news at 6:00 starts now. >> adam: first here at 6:00 breaking news. a maynard informers facing alarming allegation thiss this evening charged with raping a child. this systems from an incident that happened 20 years ago. >> jadiann: tim caputo joins us live with more. >> reporter: that is right. this allegedly happened in 1991. police say 59-year-old james mcgillvray was arrested at his home earlier today. earlier this month on february 5, he was placed on administrative leave with the fire department as the detectives started an investigation into the allegations of a sexual assault of a child. he has been a firefighter with the town since 1986. again arrested at his home earlier today. as for his status with the foyer department a termination hearing will be held in early march

tim caputo, news. >> jadiann: turning to the wild weather overnight, strong storms knocking out power to thousands of people in massachusetts. winds sending trees tumbling like these in duxbury. some hitting and damaging peoples' homes and roofs. and it all caused a mess. local crews owl trying to fix the damage. in canton police officers narrowly escaped an electrical pole that fell within a few feet of them. >> adam: crews are still cleaning up that mass, dan hausle live in canton with more on the damage and what those police officers experienced. dan. >> reporter: a barrier continues to block the street as work continues on the storm damage outs here. ers? >> needed to get a little distance themselves after the pole you see this guy is repairing replaces an older one that came crashing down nearly injuring two officers. >> we heard the crack. i looked at the sergeant and we ran. >> reporter: a streetlight