>> now at 7:00 snow changes to rain in western new england. we track rain and wind overnight. >> anchor: a driver killed when a car goes off the road and ignites. >> it's another representation of the fact that we have a long way to. >> anchor: the final sprint 12 days until election day. >> anchor: and snapping selfies while casting your ballot. tonight pictures at the polls. >> anchor: if you do it are you breaking the law? >> 7 news at 7:00 starts now. >> anchor: first at 7 signs of snow in new england. flakes falling to our west. leaves me speechless. getting a look at the situation now. this is holland road.

road. state troopers urging drivers to take it easy. slow down. it's coal. it's soggy out there. >> anchor: we have rain moving through our area tonight. get over to chief meteorologist jeremy reiner for our forecast. that looks like a lot of snow. >> reporter: you've got more snow to the berkshires. highest elevations in the stir bridge elevation 6 hundred feet. worster though at the airport colder pockets of air stuck in southern new england. stir bridge for example you'll hold on to the wet snow for a few hours. warm air is going to win. now this warm coloring right here the yellows and the oranges that's the radar detecting snow flakes mixing in with the rain. it essentially is a rain storm.

intensifying. where you have the light snow now it's going to flip over to rain by 10 or 11:00 tonight. on the grassy surfaces and the back roads the untreated roads an inch to perhaps 2. it flips over to rain. most of us picking up an inch to an inch and a half of rain late tonight and early tomorrow morning. >> anchor: all right. jr, thank you. you can track we with our interactive radar. download our 7 news mobile app for that. >> anchor: following breaking news at 7 police in londonary new hampshire on the hunt for a possible abduction. >> adam police are saying this possible abduction in london dairy happened this afternoon. police say the victim is a woman

not approach him if you see him. they are asking if you call police. you're looking at a 1996 red honda civic and it is a hatch back. this possible abduction happened off of harvey road in londonary. if you see him or that vehicle do not approach. do please call officials. that's the latest from control room jadiann thompson 7 news. >> anchor: a boston police officer working a detail stops an attempted bank robbery and ends up chasing down the suspect too. live in west roxbury with more on what we know. john. >> reporter: we're learning quite a bit more. this guy may not have been the brightest bulb in the criminals world. police say he put on a mask and went in that bank and confronted

got on her police radio and said i don't think he expected to see me. a boston police officer stands guard at the city of boston credit union. site of a brazen attempted bank robbery this afternoon just before 4:00. it was foiled by another boston police officer who had been on a routine detail inside the bank. >> i did see her when i walked past. it didn't seem like anything was wrong when i walk that's when i saw the police. >> that was right when it happened. >> it had to have been. >> probably right when you walked by. >> that's so scary. to have him have a gun or whatever. that's nerve racking. >> reporter: that female officer saw the masked man come in and surprised to hear the man demand she surrender her weapon. employees had no comment as they left the building.

>> reporter: police say the suspect took off in a small red car. a police captain in the area helped identify that suspect. an arrest was made outside an italian restaurant called tony's place. >> i seen the cop take a gun out and pull the guy out of the car. maybe the wrong guy or something like that. >> reporter: police say they found a bag dropped apparently by that attempted bank robber union. no money inside. one police source tells me the detail officer laughed when she was asked to hand over her weapon. jonathan hall 7 news. >> now on 7 a crash ignites a deadly inferno. >> i heard a big loud bang. it burst into flames. >> investigators left with burning questions. ; trying to figure out how this happened. that car flipped over.

dan hausle now with the latest. >> oh, my god. somebody's in there. >> reporter: a helpless feeling workers at a nearby car dealership who came running at the sound of this fiery crash. >> all of a sudden i heard a loud bang. i looked over my left shoulder and i saw the tires up in the air. as soon as the car hit the ground it burst into flames. >> reporter: one of his coworkers grabbed a fire extinguisher and tried to help. >> tried to extinguish the flames. the exam tinguisher ran out. so we thought that we should probably try to smash out a window. so jerry took the extinguisher smashed into the back window. >> reporter: it was before noon when they heard about a car driving fast and erratically about a block away. hit a fire hydrant and a curb

>> we believe we know who is in the car. there's a question of whether this could have been a medical emergency. we'll have to determine that as the investigation proceeds. >> reporter: the flames forced the car dealership employees back. satisfied they tried. >> there was somebody in there. somebody's father or son or somebody's family member was in that truck. >> reporter: this is a busy road with traffic going fast both mill ford dan hausle 7 news. >> anchor: a man hit and killed by a truck on the mass pike in warren. the 38-year-old from aga wam stopped in the break down lane walked out in the travel lane. no charges have been filed. >> anchor: there is fall out following yesterday's chaotic commute on the orange line. hundreds of passengers forced to evacuate a train. the mayor of boston and the

it. >> reporter: it's a black eye for the mbta. >> reporter: the images on cell phone cameras have gone viral now. panicked passengers. scrambling to safety at the height of last night's commute. unsettling images even for the mayor to see. mayor, your reaction to images of people smashing windows? >> i'd be scared. my mother who is an older person. my mother isn't going to be able to climb through a window. >> reporter: the t says the smoke was a result of a motor that over heated. touched off a trash fire on the tracks. >> unfortunately this has been another in the string of disappointments with the service the t provided. >> reporter: the back bay station is part of her daily commute and right now she's not a happy camper. >> we are past the point where this is necessary.

in improvements which includes replacing the aging fleet on the orange and red lines. the governor told us today that's going to take some time. >> if i could waive a magic wand so folks in springfield could build those cars and get this ohm online i would. >> reporter: so it's all systems go right now for the t. they tell us that they are working on the capital include more than 150 new orange line trains. steve cooper 7 news. >> anchor: also on 7 new developments in a bad crash involving an uber driver on beacon hill. his driving record not great but meets company standards. >> reporter: the uber driver that slammed into this beacon hill home with a passenger in the back seat has a history of speeding failure to stop and accidents.

bad he's shocked both people walked away with minor injuries. >> i thought they was dead. i'm surprised they got out of the car. >> reporter: this is a copy of genical on thes driving record. his recent incident was a year ago until this ride wednesday to the top of beacon hill. >> you have to be the gas to that car going that fast and the impact. and no skid marks. it didn't look like there was an attempt to even slow down. >> reporter: boston police say the toyota rav 4 came into contact with a car at the bottom of the street. they do not plan to charge kyleot. keep the brick barrier in tact. the homeowner and neighbors

came barreling through and that's what they're grateful for today. >> grateful that no one was home at the time. scary situation. someone could have been tragically hurt. >> reporter: uber tells us they follow massachusetts state law when hiring their drivers. they did vet this driver. they followed all the criteria that's why they hired him. >> anchor: fire fighters baltsing flames in clinton. crews rushing to a home street this morning. heavy smoke pouring out there. nobody lived in that home. obviously a lot of damage. the good news nobody was hurt. >> anchor: moving to election count down. 12 days until you cast your vote. the candidates getting battle tested. a big day for donald trump and hillary clinton. >> anchor: their mission of course is to win over as many last minute voters as possible.

polls and talking about the negativity in the presidential race. turn out will win or lose this election. day one met lines in early voting in maryland. >> we are all working together to bring in the first woman president. >> reporter: more democrats are early voting republican majority in just 3. donald trump needs clinton supporters to stay home. black and white in the rolls are offensive things clinton has done through the ads. >> so he's not trying to bring them over to his side. trying to give them a reason to not vote at all. >> reporter: bill clinton incorporated how he got rich by interconnecting his for profit. >> just imagine what they'll do given the chance to once again control the oval office.

i think we've had enough of the clintons in all fairness. >> she is absolutely ready to be commander in chief on day 1. and yes she happens to be a woman. [cheering]. >> i believe everything we care about is at stake in this election. so you've got to vote. >> reporter: and a good sign for hillary clinton is that more democrats are turning out early in north carolina. nationally the c nbc poll shows clinton with a 9 point lead over trump. >> anchor: 7 news is your political headquarters in the race for the white house. go to whdh.com to stay connected to the campaign trail. >> anchor: speaking of voting and such. it's justin timberlake's picture at the polls. selfies like this one could get you in trouble depending on where you live.

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so he snapped that picture while casting his ballot and he almost got arrested. >> anchor: depending on which state you're voting in polling place selfies may be against the law. >> early voting is over here. >> the line wasn't as bad as i thought it was going to be. >> early voting. >> a lot of people doing early voting. >> it was kind of crowded in there. >> early >> take any photos. >> no. >> no i didn't take a picture. >> no selfies. >> not even 1. i heard about what happened to justin timberlake. >> reporter: the law there bars voters from taking pictures inside polling location. >> don't take a picture of yourself in there. >> reporter: here in massachusetts taking photos at a polling place is also banned. at boston city hall voters have the message.

>> reporter: you know it is? >> i did not take a photo with who. >> reporter: did you think of taking a photo with a ballot. >> i know what i wanted. >> i didn't want to. if i knew i wouldn't have done it of course. >> reporter: a photo ban suspect unconsitutional. >> no i think that's very personal. >> reporter: not for you to do? >> no. >> reporter: you're staying out of trouble? >> >> reporter: in boston alex deprado 7 news. >> anchor: as alex was out on city hall plaza a stones throw from where we are. >> anchor: no snow. >> anchor: a lot of rain. >> anchor: and gosh i can't believe we got snow anywhere in the state. >> reporter: i know it's that time of year coming at us everybody. say this. looking at the long range charts this winter comes on faster than

going until the end of january. i think we're going to see more cold and snow november december than what we have seen the previous 2 winters. with that said we move on. rain and wind tonight. pockets of cold air in worcester county. where we have the snow flakes flying. milder by the weekend. temperatures back in the 50s for afternoon highs. radar showing precipitation and as ak doppler radar does a great job of showing where the rain is. does a pretty good job of showing where the rain and snow is. there are stubborn pockets of cold air. leicester air as well as stir bridge. we have snow happening at this time. at the higher elevations. as you head east. it is rain. this warm coloring right here that's not tropical downpours

flakes with the rain drops. the technical term is bright banding. up in the clouds it's cold right now. this is where we have snow this afternoon. heath 3.5 inches of snow. windsor an inch. springfield don't have to be in the berkshires. the earliest inch of snow for the city of boston october 29th 2005. too rm even in the worcester hills chilly pockets of air. a southeast wind will work on the chilly air mass and dislodge it. you don't hear this term often. it's not a nor'easter. it's a sou easter. your storm time line rain, downpours, perhaps even thunderstorms along the south

we can shut this down around 6, 7 o'clock tomorrow morning. the heaviest of the rain is going. there may be left over large puddles. the storm drain some of them may not be able to handle this water. the other concern is the wind. out of the southeast gusting between 30 and 35 miles an hour at the coastline tonight and across all of southern new england tomorrow. there's your weekend forecast. 50s on saturday. mid and upper 50s on halloween still looking a okay. see you at 11:00. >> anchor: that works, jeremy thank you. >> anchor: how southie is offering dogs dear fellow citizen,

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