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>> chaos at the orange line. this is the afternoon commute and that is when a fire broke out. we had video again from the 7news viewer. you will be able to see people kicking outdoors and windows trying to get out. the boston fire department tells 7news that there was either an overheated motor or trash on the fire -- trash on the line simultaneously that smoke and these people to panic and try to get out of this orange line train that was heading inbound into boston. the fire department tells us that you have been -- there have been about five injuries. several of them passengers treated on the scene for smoke inhalation including one t police officer. all are expected to be okay. all treated here on the scene. at this hour, the orange line in this area is not running but

running. the commuter line runs through the back bay and say that continues to run at this hour. a fire from an overheated motor or there was trash on the line that erupted in flames caused this smoke and for these people obviously in a confined space, to panic to try to get out of this area. again, five people injured, slightly, with smoke inhalation including a t police officer. all are expected to be and the orange line, they're working to get it up and running at this hour. live in boston, i'm alex depratto 7news. an suv slams into a building on grope street. the driver and female passenger rushed to the hospital but witnesses say it may appear to be okay. a tow truck is on the scene to remove that from the wallet. more breaks news, this out

crashes into a home on lorraina drive. sky 7 hd over the scene. you can see the damage done to what appears to be the garage of the house. the company that owns that truck says no one was hurt. police say he was arrested earlier this year. the suspect >> now he's in trouble with the law and on a hunger strike.

collapses in the federal courtroom at the conclusion of his initial experience. >> it looked to me like he sort of tripped up on his leg. or ankle, ankle cuffs, whatever you call them, and then he just couldn't hold himself up and collapsed to the floor. >> reporter: the 32-year-old allegedly hacked the web sites of children's hospital and residential treatment center for teens in framingham in 2014 costing those facilities more $300,000. his indictment says godsfeld targeted the industry. online he says he hacked children to defend justina pelt tear, the connecticut teen who's claiming she was kept there without her family's permission at the time the state of massachusetts had custody of her. >> imagine being in a psych ward without needing to be in a psych ward. >> reporter: he's been on a hunger strike for more than three weeks and came into court and told his 25 and a half pounds, i love you, baby. >> he really cares about protecting kids.

die for it? he's not gonna stop striking until he gets somewhere. and he's killing to give his life for this cause. >> reporter: this past february martin godsfeld and his wife dana took off for cuba in a motor boat which lost power. they were rescued by a disney cruise ship. >> it was really scary. >> you're thankful to see the cruise ship. >> yeah, i think i've sworn off boats for now. >> godsfeld says he was on the floor for for about 45 minutes getting medical treatment from the nurse. it's not known whether he requires hospitalization. 7news. fire tearing through the night sky, one everett home burning and quickly spread to a

>> reporter: tears of relief. she and her autistic son were both sleeping when her neighbors came banging on the back door. >> i don't know where i'd be right now without my neighbors. >> reporter: everett firefighters say when they showed up the porches were on fire and there were explosions. at one point part of the burning building came down towards >> a piece of sighting came off. >> no one was hurt and for that everyone is thankful. >> could be worse circumstance with nobody quite capable. just grateful for everybody right now. >> reporter: the damage to both buildings extensive. that has diagnosis placed several families. as for the cause of this fire, that is something that is still under investigation. in everett, victoria warren, 7news. >> after a desperate search an

was found in the woods behind homes on pleasant street around noon. she disappeared sunday afternoon and exposed to the elements for days. the 75-year-old was taken to the hospital. at harvard university they voted to pay its full-time dining workers at least $35,000 a year under a new contract. comes after weeks of protests and strikes that closed several dining halls all across campus. members will vote to approve the contract and dining service employees could be coming bk morning. we're following more news today. a massive manhunt intensifying in oklahoma for an alleged killer. michael dell vance has been tawbilityding police with online posts. police say he killed two people and injured four others including two police officers. police say vance began his crime spree sunday night in a town east of oklahoma city and that's when he allegedly opened fire on two officers, shooting them before taking off in a patrol car. now, this is the scene from a mobile home.

getting away from a stolen car. police believe he's carrying a semiautomatic or automatic weapon. >> this is more intense than what i thought it was gonna be to say the least. this is real, see. >> this ain't a prank. >> ploition believe vance may have a medical condition that can be transmitted through blood and that he might try to spread the disease. watch as the burglar pushes his way inside the home through the front door and creeps around in the darkness looking for what to steal. just feet away al's two sleeping

old. >> my gun, my gps, i keep my credit cards and my wallet, my driver's license s >> al says when he was looking through the video he noticed they came in multiple times and saw more guys in his driveway going through his car. >> the guy is in the car wash and he's inside the house ransacking the house still?

friday, al has installed new locks around the house and says he'll be adding more lights outside. >> they better stay away from here. i will be alerted if someone's prowling out here. >> the holidays are one of the biggest times of the year for home break-ins. in the newsroom, i'm sarah french, 7news. a famous face in troubled pakistan, an afghan girl was immortalized in this national geographic magazine cover in 1984. the photo was taken while she pakistan during the soviet occupation of afghanistan. now she could face up to 14 years in jail for having a fake id. pakistan has been cracking down with take ids box office an influx of a began refugees. and ahead here on 7news at 5:30, zombie houses, a scary situation for homeowners. hank investigates just who's to blame. >> new at 6:00, the final report released documented the days leading up to the taunton stabbing spree.

windows trying to get through the doors as they escape smoke at the back bay station. officials expect service to be restored shortly, hopefully within the next 15 minutes. we'll keep a close eye the outside corporate interests bankrolling question two are trying to deceive you. here's the truth: every time a new charter school opens, it drains money from the existing public schools. that's 400 million just last year - according to the state's own data. which means real cuts to our kids - in arts, technology, ap classes, pre-school, bus service and more. that's why question two's opposed by the massachusetts pta and school committees all across the state.

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emptied worcester stash of needles and junk, and empty liquor bottles and beer cans stacked to the ceiling. experts call them zombie homes. >> it's a huge problem that sometimes doesn't get the attention it really deserves. >> reporter: why isn't anyone cleaning up these once attractive houses. officials tell us after the owners vanished, banks and lenders ignored the homes. >> why did the lenders just leave the houses like that? >> i don't know. we can't get an answer.

>> what do you think about that? th terrible. >> we found communities across massachusetts struggling to fight zombies, and we found there are hundreds of them statewide which are often falling apart and dangerous. sometimes squatters sneak inside and often no one is paying property taxes. >> the rest of the community is left to pay the price of this neglect. >> reporter: and the zombie plague is spreading. in massachusetts this year, the number has already gone >> reporter: in framingham town initials are tracking down zombies. they showed us the zombies there are so pervasive, the towns turn to the attorney general's office for help tracking down an owner, a bank, someone to take

if you suspect a house that's gone zombie, call your local police department. i'm hank phillippi ryan. trying to escape the smoke at back bay station. the t says an overheated motor caused the smoke and they expect service to be restored in the next 15 minutes. we have crews on the scene massachusetts has many great public schools, and we took it for granted that our kids would go to great public schools. but some kids aren't so lucky. where they live, they don't go to a great school, and they have no choice. imagine if your kids were trapped in a failing school. public charter schools give parents a choice and are a pathway to success for these kids. if you like your school, question 2 won't affect you. but question 2 will change the future for thousands of kids who need your help.

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i know. as a mom, there's no way. but that's moms. ?>> tom has scrallabled for a few first downs this year so far surely making his mother very proud. >> right now temps in the 40s. the city at 46, worcester 40 degrees. new bedford at -- cold again, wind wil clear. temps between 31 and 36. high pressure will drift across new england tonight and be with us earlier in the day tomorrow. otherwise, plan on it being cloudy tomorrow. it there could be a little bit of a sprinkle right at the coastline tomorrow morning. the main event from low pressure now in the great lakes states and making a beeline into new england. tomorrow afternoon cloudy,

from overnight tonight that i think will start as snow. even though temps are in the 40s, you're saying snowflakes at 40s, well, up in the clouds, the temps will be in the 20s tomorrow afternoon. as that precipitation is arriving into western new england, it does start as the -- in the form of snow, the besh shires, as well as the hills of connecticut. there may be a coating to an inch of the highest elevations out in western new england. i don't think we'll have any accumulating snow in the worcester pellet or two is likely. and for everyone it switches over to rain tomorrow afternoon. the time something between 1:00 and 3:00 p.m. for the wind potential. more likely tomorrow night. the brunt of the rain with the storm system for the 495 corridor to the coastline including boston will be after

morning. briefly heavy rain. we won't have a repeat of last friday. friday windy conditions, temps in the low 50s. >> it's a story straight out of back to the future. in his 1993 yearbook that the cubs will win the world series in 2016. >> and now his prediction might actually come true. sarah french has the full story. >> reporter: in life as time passes we all age. some things change, but for this die hard cubs fan, his love for his team has never faded. there's the cover to our year expwook this was our yearbook from mission viejo high

prediction was made. >> reporter: a classmate recently sent this video to mike lee, who was born in illinois but moved to california when he was 12 years old. as a senior in high school lee had to write a caption below his name in the yearbook. >> there is mike lee who currently lives in chicago and his brother david lee does, too. chicago cubs, 2016, world series, you heard it here first. >> it came to me like oh, i know, i'm going to put this. >> i had a dream about it. >> reporter: the image of the year 2016 etched in his memory. >> it was on that red scoreboard that they have with harry carrie blasting away, cubs win the world series! it was pretty vivid, that's why i remember it all the way through high school and getting reminded again.

>> gives you goosebumps, doesn't it. >> you can't help it because you've been a fan your whole life and it is a dream come true. so it's a great opportunity. >> reporter: for mike lee, cubby blue runs deep in his family. >> i'm excited. i'm excited for chicago, i'm excited for cubs fans, my dad and my brothers, they love the cubs. even after we moved to california they'd come here on have a case just to see cubs games all week long. >> way to call it here, mike. mike lee called i >> we'll find out soon enough if that prediction comes true. in the newsroom, i'm sarah french, 7news. busy wednesday. good evening, everybody. i'm kim khazei. coming up at 6:00, several breaking stories that we're following. first this video 16 credible showing panicked passengers on the orange line crawling through windows as smoke fills the train and the tracks. then an suv smashes into a beacon hill building. two people had to go to the hospital.

winchester home taking out a huge chunk of the garage. we'll have those stories, much more and check in with jeremy for th interviewer: what would stop you from voting this november? woman 1: working late. man 1: lines -- i hate long lines. woman 2: no babysitter. william f. galvin: for the first time ever we have early voting. if you're registered, you can vote any day between october 24th and november 4th. avoid election day lines -- vote on your schedule. man 1: wow, that helps! william f galvin: early voting is easy voting.

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>> a damaging drive on beacon hill. a car smashes into a building, breaking through a brick wall, ambushed on a morning walk. marblehead police search for a man who exposed himself and tried to grab a woman. >> more rain heading for new england. i'll let you know when it arrives. we are following a number of breaking stories at 6:00. let's get started. a back bay s passengers forced to kick out orange line windows when smoke starts to pour into a train. tonight we're told that investigators believed there was a problem with the motor. >> let's get right to 7's alex deprado who's live at the back bay station with more. alex. >> chaos here at the black bay station when fire broke out on an orange line during the afternoon rush. i want to take you right back to that video and you will be able

kicking out these windows on the orange line. it was inbound. the fire department tells us that this fire broke out either from an overheated motor or a h trash on the third line. that created this fire that created panic down there because the smoke and the enclosed space really jolted these people here. >> i attached it to my elbow like so, and it's the window.

i didn't want to break my knife. and that is that pastry chef describing to 7news how she broke the window to let some of these trapped people out after a fire broke out on this orange line this afternoon. there were five people injured, including that chef. she was treated for smoke inhalation as well as a t police officer. three were treated here on the scene. two others taken to the hospital. the orange line here at back bay is still shut down at this hour. we're live in boston, i'm at lex debado, 7 news. breaking news on beacon hill. an suv slamming into this building. kimberly bookman live on beacon hill, have they been able to remove that vehicle yet? yeah, ryan. at this hour that vehicle was towed away. you can take a look over my shoulder and see what is left