although we've seen snow flakes pile up in the highest of elevations over 1500 feet, rain will attack the snow later on this evening. boston 46. even in the worcester hill, worcester itself at 37. fitchburg 41. there is no flash freeze. there could be a couple of sleet pellets in the worcester hills for the next few hours, quite a bit of rain with many of us picking up an inch of rain by early tomorrow morning, we'll talk abou a few minutes. >> jadiann: when you are not, when we're not on the air, get those updates on-line and on our 7 news mobil and tablet apps. >> ryan: we are learning more about the deadly stabbing spree in taunton. the sheriff's deputy who ended the rampage is speaking out. >> jadiann: nick nicole oliverio has more. >> reporter: it has been more than five months since james cede fired his first

job. today creed spoke out about could be fronting author derossa inside a restaurant as derosa was attacking stabbing other customers. >> once i saw there was a weapon involved i took my badge out of my left pocket, put it around my neck and i started giving commands from, for him to get on the ground, drop the knife. >> reporter: steve stopping deooh came after him. >> he was probably 6, 7 feets. a little too close trainingwise but in all honestly trying to give him every chance to compliance get on the ground before i had to do anything. the last thing i wanted to do. >> reporter: creed shot and killed derossa. d.a.'s office says the shooting was justified. in the moments before the deadly confrontation da reeks stabbed and killed george heath. heat tried to stop da rosa from attacking a waitress. heath's wife rushed to her husband's side.

dead. i immediately just went to the floor. jim was not there i would have been next. he was so close to me. i know it. i know it. >> reporter: creed had been at the restaurant with his wife who was a nurse. she also rushed to help the victims. >> something happens, you know, he helped and i run. but i wasn't leaving anywhere without him. >> reporter: creed says th look and as he was charging toward him said both you and me are going to die. in plymouth, nicole oliverio, 7 news. >> jadiann: crews on the scene of a house fire in lunenburg. the flames broke out just after 8:00 am. officials say the fire started on the porch and spread to the rest of the home. no one in the home, the one person in the home made it out safely. the fire is under

home on green street around 6:00. you can see heavy smoke. fire officials say no one was in, was living in the house. and there were no injuries here. good news. investigators are working to determine of course a cous -- cause of the fire. >> reporter: a woman attacked by three clowns. three men dressed as clowns attacked her tuesday night inside her home. police say the woman was able to fend off the intruders and had injuries. >> jadiann: police in indiana releasing the picture of a woman overdosing in her car with her baby in the backseat. this is so hard to look a. you can see the woman passed out with her car door open in a parking lot while her 10-month-old child cried in the car back seat. police released the photo to raise awareness about this ongoing heroin epidemic. >> i think it's time for

it's a sad reality she parks in a public parking lot with her child in the backseat and shoots up. why? >> jadiann: the woman has been charged now with child neglect and drug possession. >> ryan: dozens of people arrested in a wall center scheme based out of india. workers stole millions of dollars there mostly from immigrants and elderly people living in the united states. they demand money to avoid arrest, deportation or unpaid income tax. >> the sad thing about the scams is often once the money is paid it's gone. we'll do our best to try to get as much but that is a very difficult thing because of the way the scams work. >> ryan: officials say the government will not call them with any. if you receive a call, contact law enforcement before you make a payment. >> jadiann: more news today, investigators say alcohol played a role in the

fernandez. according to investigators their bodies had a strong odor of alcohol when they were recovered by drivers. there were also drink receipts from a bar they went to before the crash. investigators say speed was also a factor. the orlando magic honored victims and survivors of the poms nightclub shooting before their opening game. more than 100 survivors and family members who lost loved ones were at the ceremony. the tribute included banner raised. first responders from the night of the attacks were also honored. >> ryan: a tow truck driver takes a man's car on a joy ride while he was supposed to take it to get fixed. when the man got back to the car he watched the video and now he is hoping the man will face charges. [bleep] >> oh, my god, dude.

, emotional things that of helplessness again. >> reporter: a motorcycle accident left ryan in a wheel care but his nissan is his baby. he had it towed to a dealership. >> this is somebody getting paid to to a job. and they didn't do their job. >> reporter: ryan checked his darb cam tuesday after he noticed a few things missing. >> he unloaded the his hours his residence, took it around the block, spinning tires, called his buds up. you have to see this. come drive it -- [bleep] >> reporter: he called police then posted the video on-line. >> the tow truck company called me today apologizing. they wanted me to take the videos down. the wanted me to drop charges. >> reporter: a worker from the company says it was a

their spot. when asked whose responsibility it was, he refused to answer. >> it's like ferris bueller's day off to him. whether the guys go on a joy ride in a fer are a. >> reporter: police are trying to identify who the driver was. >> jadiann: police chase caught on camera in arizona. a man went through a in and out burger drive threw while officers were following the pickup as it travelled on city streets. the man was arrested after he jumped from the truck. in florida, a car on the crash course barreling right through the front door of a beauty supply store. people inside jolted quickly running out of the way and this is not the first time a car ended up inside the star. sarah french has more. >> reporter: frightening moments wednesday afternoon when a car comes crashing

barely getting out of harm's way. nasir just two feet away. >> i saw that explosion, sounded like boom. big explosion. >> reporter: cameras catch the car in the parking lot and then as it comes smashing through the front. it looks like the driver never even hit the brakes. >> i said how did you do this? she said i was trying to reverse the car back there. but unfortunately it came forward. >> reporter: employees rushing to check on her. >> she was' just crying and she was overwhelmed. i was like it's okay. after they got out of the car, just trying to calm her down. >> reporter: the owner says this is not the first time this happened. his store was hit by a car three years ago. he is just glad everyone including the driver is okay. sarah french, 7 news.

dashing off before ordering food. a deer ran through a diner and almost ran into a woman before smashing through another window on the way out of the diner. crews say the. you was trapped in a well. rescue crews were able to pull the dog out without a scratch. kim khazei has much more. >> reporter: a 6-year-old golden doodle named poofa may be proof of the notion that even dogs lives. >> he is good. no scratches. >> reporter: his odyssey began when his owner took him for a familiar walk outside this ice rink while his son was playing hockey. poofa is a fan of the snow. suddenly he yanked his leach away to chase a rabbit and disappeared. barks and yelps emanating from her, a dry well covered with overgreen weeds. poofa survived the fall but was stock at the but the tom. >> i wanted to -- but the

the dog out after 2 foot wide shaft was impossible. that's when police and emergency officers stepped? >> first we monitored air quality before we sent anyone down. we put them on ropes. >> footing was not very sound. >> reporter: rigging a mechanical pully system, three officers were able to lower themselves down the narrow shaft and harness poofa to a sled but they had to coax him into a vertical position. >> the dog was doing great. very very helpful in allowing us to put a muzzle on him. >> reporter: the patient appeared with wags and kisses for his new best friend. now there are thanks for police officers who saved him and treats for poofa. >> very brief people. they are very -- brave people and very concerned an smart people. >> reporter: i'm kim khazei, 7 news. >> ryan: pricy heist. >> jadiann: thieves make off with thousands of dollars worth of produce in a pumpkin patch. >> ryan: 7 news at 5:00, a

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>> jadiann: caught on camera, close to 200 pumpkins plucked from a farm in new jersey, four suspect grabbing the gourds at night. it was a pricy heist. $2,000 worth of pumpkins. >> ryan: police are hoping the footage leads to their arrest. sarah french has the story. >> reporter: even at night it's clear as day, caught on camera, four people stealing dozens of pumpkins from a new jersey farm. >> i pulled in and half of my display was gone. >> reporter: about 20 pumpkins worth more than $2,000 taken early tuesday morning. the thieves who appear to be four young men came three different times to grab

it's not a prank, prank is when you do something everybdy laughs about it. i'm not laughing. >> reporter: he owned and operated the farm and market for over 120 years. >> i work really hard. it's about the principle. >> reporter: the farm security system including a license plate detection program. they are heaping it'll help them catch the pumpkin thieves. >> i'm really hoping they get caught. i'm really hoping they get prosecuted. and they get enlightenment in life not do this. >> reporter: the family is offering a $1,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest. i'm sarah french, 7 news. >> jadiann: swimmer michael phelp, the secret he kept through the olympics. >> reporter: rain overnight. stormy night. forecast up next. >> ryan: ahead at 5:00 the countdown to the election is on as donald trump and hillary clinton spread out on the campaign trail. >> jadiann: brady is back

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>> announcer: now 7 weather with chief meteorologist jeremy reiner. >> reporter: rain in boston, temperature at 46 degrees, dew point at 40. here you go. if you love snow in the city of boston, if you are a snow lover it ain't happening. southeast wind around 11 miles an hour coming off an are in the upper 50s, there is no shot even where we have the snow western new england, the southeast wind chews away at the chilly air mass. worcester 37. springfield, been accumulating snow there. also the connecticut river valley but you notice as we put this radar loop into motion, rain snow line is down through connecticut. it's moving north. there is stubon cold air, but even this knows

you tonight. we've rain for the evening commute. that will be with us overnight. in fact i think there is going to be a burst of steady rainfall later on this evening, probably near 9:00, 10:00 up until 4:00 in the morning as a storm system which is now back through new york state moves right i cross southern new england and intensifies. here is the timeline again. green and yellow blobs are the batches of rain. some downpours. down along the cape there could thunderstorms, that is how wound up and vigorous this weather system is. you notice here at 4:00 tomorrow morning still locally heavy rain. boston north and south shore. the sea coast but by 7:00 we wind things down. still raining across southern new hampshire. rain, not snow or ice there, is no going backward. that will be just rain from the get g for just about all of us. this evening and overnight tonight. then by 9:00 tomorrow

there, which will move right across the northeast then up into the gulf of maine. how much rain is on the way. i think wide spread inch of rain likely and the purple shadings where you see those on the map. that is where we have the possibility of some downpours, perhaps thunderstorms. but down along the south coast and the purple blobs indicate perhaps a little bit more than an inch of rain which is good. we're still in the drought. the concern would be if you are out and about on the roadways later tonig of the roads where they have the drains clogged with leaves there could be localized street flooding. i don't anticipate a repeat of what we saw last friday night in worcester but if you are out and about, be mindful of that. worcester almost 9 inches of rain that is a surplus, boston still a bit of a deficit since the first of september although a lot of this has fallen in october. so boston for october rainfall, finishing above

above normal rain in the city of boston since february. 7 on 7 forecast. tomorrow very early morning hours otherwise a lot of clouds. wind i, temperatures spend the entire day in the low 50s,. >> jadiann: time for traffic, roads are a little wet out there. so let's get a check with matt. >> it's a tough commute out. there we'll fly above this two-car crash on the mass pike west. you will be back on the pike west before the allston pol toll most of the way out through natick. you will be jammed shortly after the tobin bridge up to lynnfield. southbound side is moving well although after the tobin bridge you will be jammed on the ramp to 93. not moving at all on the expressway in either direction, on the expressway south you will be heavy out of the o'neill tunnel. northbound side you are heavy into the tunnel. further back you will be jammed from the split up to neponset circle.

past the split to route 24, 16 minutes. >> jadiann: the grandson of samsung's founder is stepping up after the failure of the most recent phone. samsung reported a sharp fall after the unprecedented recall and discontinuation of the fire prone galaxy >> ryan: a family in tennessee is suing amazon for $30 million after a hover board explode and destroyed their home. amazon failed to warn customers. two children were trapped inside the home during the fire. they had to jump into their father's arms from the second floor. >> he literally dove out of the window as soon as there was a hole he could get through. grabbed me in a bare hug. i grabbed him and we went

the second floor. >> ryan: the family is suing amazon and not the manufacturer because they say after several attempts amazon failed to provide the correct information on where the board came from. >> jadiann: holding out hope the oldest living cleveland indians fan sending a message to the sending a message to the team. uh, first of all, i plan to vote for donald trump. when it served her purpose, ayotte buddied up to trump, would you tell a child to aspire to be like donald trump? oh absolutely, i would do that. but she kept playing politics and flip flopping around. ayotte is running away from trump as quickly as she can. and what she values is her seat. and she's trying - to keep something she values. - i know. kelly ayotte. the politician. looking out for herself. seiu cope is responsible

>> jadiann: michael phelps is as smooth in the pool as he is out of it. the swimmer toldpeople that he set a wedding date but he had already been married for months. phelps married nicole johnson in june. in arizona. one cleveland indians fan has waited more than 60 years to see her team win another world series. >> ryan: emily indians win the world series in 1948 and has waited nearly seven decades to see it again. she got to throw out the first pitch on her 10th birthday. she wants one more thing from the team. >> i just thought this is the year. this is the year. but it's never came. just one before i die. that's what i want. i told them.

what? she believes she is the oldest living indians fan. >> jadiann: a lot of patience, too. one hospital in cleveland is getting into the world series spirit by bundling newborns in cleveland indians onceys. the hospital shared its first batch of images of the world series babies. their news release read the smallest and cutest cleveland fans have been warming up in the bullpen for nine months and their call has finally so -- >> ryan: probably now borns in chicago wearing chicago cubs gear. >> jadiann: going to see a lot of cute story from this. much more to come. on this pretty rainy day, thank you for joining us, i'm jadiann thompson. >> ryan: i'm ryan schulteis. 7 news at 5:00 starts now. >> reporter: our first bout of wintry weather in southern new england. >> as soon as the car hit the ground it just burst into flames. >> adam: a driver killed when a car flips and becomes

after commuter chaos on the orange line, city offices demanding better service. what they say the mbta needs to do. in the race for the white house the issues doing damage to both campaigns. plus a welcome sight in foxboro, a key member of the patriots offense back on the field but will you see him out there sunday? apple doing something they haven't done in four years. just ahead of the holiday shopping season. >> announcer: 7 news at 5:00 starts >> kim: first sign switz getting closer -- winter is getting closer. flakes flying across parts of our own state. yes, right there. right here -- the snow will not make it to the boston area. >> adam: a lot of activity on the radar so let's get over to our chief meteorologist jeremy reiner. it's lit up. >> reporter: we've snow.

there have been reports of a little about the of snow, worcester itself. most of accumulating snow western new england, inch or two of know especially at the highest elevations in the berkshires but even down through portions of the connecticut river valley, reports of accumulating snow on grassy surfaces. here is the storm system and this wobbles across new england and overnight with a chunk of significant rain. now in terms of the snow, just about done with accumulating snow in western new england because this way. boston right now 45. worcester 36. fitchburg 41. here is the storm system. as it gets closer to the coastline it'll scoop up moisture and pull that into southern new england. i do think there will be a couple of pockets of steadier rainfall after about 9:00 or 10:00 tonight. through very early tomorrow morning, there could even be a couple of thunderstorms along the south coast. for the rest of us it's just showers and downpours with most of us picking up an