allegedly ran into was still in this family's driveway. as for mccoy, she says she will be okay. her mother has to undergo surgery for stab wounds to her arm, the suspects will be in court on monday. in worcester, nicole oliverio, 7 news. >> anchor: breaking news right now happening in lynn. we have a brush fire going on right now. you can see the massive flames here over taking this area in lynn. this is we're told near ridge street you can see on sky 7 pulls out that it's a good sized area that is burning right homes nearby, no word if they are threatened by this but you can see here as sky 7 zooms out it's a large area where the brush fire continues to burn at this hour. we do have crews on the way as we zoom around here we'll be be able to show you flames burning here and of the smoke that's overtaking the area from. these pictures we don't see any homes but we are told there are some nearby and look at these flames rage through this brush fire here over taking the area as we know a very windy day out there and so this is the concern that when the winds pug up like

>> anchor: there is a lot of smoke you see the smoke billowing out from those trees again. we know this is near some homes and at this point it's not clear if those homes have been evacuated but as you mention we do i have crew on the way to get the latest information. >> anchor: you can tell also on 7 here a lowell home goes new flames on cross street. that fire broke out late this morning. sky 7 over the fire earlier today. you can see crews spraying down the charred flames. the frame there. investigators have not said what caused that the cambridge couple who filed a wrongful death lawsuit over the death of their one-year-old baby is being awarded $4 million. they say their irish nanny is responsible for the child's death back in 2013. a murder charge was dropped against answer rebrady mccarty a year later after a medical examiner later ruled the baby's death is undetermined. the couple's lawyer says the nanny doesn't have that kind of money but they don't want her to profit from a book or movie deal. >> anchor: an mbta bus driver is now under investigation.

parked car and then kept going. 7's victoria warren has a closer look. passengers on this bus calling 911 after police say the driver crashed in a parked car and just kept going that crash happened in melrose in this surveillance video you can see when police caught up to the bus in stoneham. police now investigating to see if the driver was under the influence of prescription drugs. sky 7 over the scene, the 12 people on the bus none of them were hurt. they got on another waiting bus while transit police continued investigating. the mbta says delivers worked for them for 12 years. he is as accused of leaving the scene of the accident. the edge to the parked car describe as minor. the mbta says while this investigation is going on, this man will not be driving a bus. he will be summoned to court. in melrose, victoria warren, 7 news. >> anchor: a former police station in south boston now home

six of which had been set aside for homeless veterans. the apartments are not only handicapped accessible but also affordable. boston mayor marty walsh spoke today about the importance of boston leading the way when it comes to taking care of our anything's armed forces. i don't think there is a better way of celebrating veteran's day by opening this new home here for veterans and their family. in south boston is one of those communities that has never forgotten their veterans. >> anchor: south boston has one of the highest po >> anchor: vice president elect mike pence also honoring our vets. he attended a memorial service in indiana today. his home state where he currently serves as governor. pence spoke at the ceremonying thating the country's menage women in the armed forces for their courageous and selfless service. >> reporter: the ceo of a food delivery service grub hub facing backlash after sending a politically charged e-mail to his employee.

sitting employee who agreed with what he called trump's nationalist anti-immigrant and hateful rhetoric should quit. he later released a statement that he didn't ask anyone who vote ford truffle to quit but says the company won't tolerate hateful commentary in the workplace. facebook ceo mark zucker berg facing commit sieve. some people believe fake news stories that went viral on the social media site influenced election. he said that's crazy idea to think the stories affected the outcome but the site didn't do inaccelerate content. election officials are still counting billion odds but early tallies show voter turn out dipped to nearly the lowest point in two decades. officials say 55% of voting age citizens cast billion odds this year, the lowest in a presidential election since 199. >> anchor: the university in california is promising a full investigation into an attack on a muslim woman on campus. sophomore ezra altun who is muslim believed she was singled out by her attacker because of her head scarf.

somehow related to the election. there are no surveillance cameras in the garage. it's a weird coincidence that if it wasn't a hate crime it's a weird coincidence that it happened right after trump became president-elect. >> anchor: police are investigating but president mary papazon says so far there is no evidence the attack is a hate crime. >> anchor: a five-year-old girl makes it out alive after being shot in charlotte, north carolina. play say the girl was hit ride nag car with four other people last night. another vehicle pulled up beside them, opened fire shooting the little girl of she was taken to the hospital where she had surgery. she is in stable condition. it's a child. didn't ask to be here or bless the lord gave her breath in her body to be here, come on. just five years old to go through the pain of doing shot. that will traumatize her the rest of her life. >> anchor: police say it appears the shooter knew someone

girl. >> anchor: caught on calm remarks a car goes on a crash course, slamming into a dental office in florida. a man cleaning the room loafs just seconds before the car comes plowing through. this all happened during normal business hours. >> anchor: employees say it's a miracle no one was in the chair when it all happened. take a look at this dental exam chair of a car comes barreling right into the exam room just seconds after a member of the cleaning crew leaves the room. that man narrowly avoiding serious the final patients of the day just left the naples, florida dental office. we could have had somebody in the room, somebody we care about. it could have been a much worse situation. >> anchor: this is what the exam room looks like following the crash. the owner of the dental office absolutely relieved. shi-shi has to deal with is all of the damage, but lives they can't, we are grad nobody had can see the huge hole in the side of the building. police i a driver suddenly veered off the road and slammed

suffering only minor injuries despite how hard his car hit the building and crashed right through. the owner of the office says the crash caused between $40 and 80,000 in damage. >> anchor: cameras capture a deer making a smashing exit from a store in oklahoma. you can see it right there. a passerby recorded this video. you can see the deer running through the racks of an american eagle clothing store on thursday. the animal then jumped straight through the glass. is it took off running, it's not known how injured or how it got inside the store in the first place. >> anchor: as crews battle raging flames in north carolina, investigators say they found evidence suggesting arson. now some 30 wildfires are currently urn burning in the western part of the stay. investigators say they found material at the scene that could suggest some of the fires were intentionally set. and in northern georgia there, this is no northern georgia. the rough ride, sorry, this is the rough ridge wildfire spread to more than 10,000 acres nearly 300 fights are working to put it

contained. smoke from the massive phi fire can be seen as far south as -- len order cohen has died. the musician's career five deck aids. he was best known for his song "hallelujah" covered hundreds of times. he was inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame in 2008. he was 82 years old. people gathered outside coen's home to mourn his passing. they laid flower tributes at the steps of his hope. the vigil statistic started with a small group of people and grew as the my went on. he released his final album you want it darker just a few weeks ago. >> anchor: a glitch in the commuter booking system used by major u.s. airlines causing delays at airports across the country today. the system went down around noon and recovered about an hour later. the system is used by airlines, hotels and travel agents to coordinate the sale of tickets and hotel rooms.

bitten by a rattlesnake while hiking with his family, the quick thinking that saved the man before it was too late. >> anchor: then ahead at 5:00 protestors continue to flood streets throughout the u.s. after trump's big vector sorry. what the president-elect tweeted out in response to that. >> anchor: president obama for the final time as er in chief pays respect to the unknown at arlington national cement in honor of veteran's day. >> anchor: i want to bring you back to breaking news we're following out of lynn i'm huge brush fire going through the ridge street area. you can see flames just through the trees and the total landscape in this area right now. this is on ridge street and we're told by meteorologist bri eggers is winds are anywhere between 20 and 25 miles per hour and gusting town 35 miles per hour. you know it's wind iout there. we had very dry conditions. much more on when we come back on 7 news. >> reporter: monday, he is fast on the field at gillette but can james white keep one me in a cranberry bog? you are slowing down. i think i see a snake. >> reporter: would you see

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>> anchor: a snake scare leaves a fire fighter unconscious in the woods. he was bitten by a rattlesnake seconds after decapitating it. the man was hiking with his family when this all happened. >> anchor: and their quick thinking likely saved his life. it was a juvenile timber rattler so i decided to cut the head off paddle. >> reporter: the make was only a few feet long and kyle wanted to show his children the head of the snake of his wife took some cell phone pictures. unable to pick the snake's head up with the paddle, he used his hand instead. what happened next could only be described as terrifying. the head turned and struck me on the springer here. it latched on and i shrunk it off. >> anchor: the snake packed a

burning sensation to shoot through my arm and within 60 seconds i was unconscious and fell there on the trail and hit the back of my head on a rock. >> reporter: kyle was in trouble for a null of reasons. i was unconscious in a remote area bleeding from the head and had been bit by a snak. >> reporter: the wildlife area his family was in is miles from help but thanks to a quick response by fire and ems, kyle was flown to a hospital where he could begi >> anchor: toxicologists say it's lucky he got to a hospital because the only treatment that can save someone bitten by a poisonous snake is anti-venom serum. >> anchor: coming up on 7 news, rhode island rolling out the red carpet for a big movie premiere. we'll take you to the very inspiring event. >> anchor: stays windy through this evening into the overnight hours and ushering in some cooler air to kick off the weekend. the forecast is coming up next. >> anchor: then ahead at 5:00, the pats are preparing to take

sunday who are hungry for revenge. what we can expect before the big game. >> anchor: the mannequin challenge hits the white house. how the cleveland caviliers and first lady pulled it off. this is a good one.

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>> anchor: anyone tend oh as nes classic is already in short supply. the throw back gaming system yesterday for $60 and it's already sold out on amazon. other stores like best buy, target and game stop are only selling nes classic in stores and now sellers on e-bay are reselling the system for $1,000. >> anchor: but i'm telling you, to be able to go back to 1967 or 1987 when i got my first nes it's worth $1,000 i think. >> anchor: you would play

>> anchor: the best, absolutely. nes was the best. i do have it on wii. if you want to come over, don't worry. we have it taken care of. wind or owe still in effect through 1:00 a.m. windy making quite gusty even into overnight hours, sustained wind 10 to 25 miles per hour but gusting between 25 and 35 miles per hour. now that is below advisory criteria. however, the potential still there for those winds to strengthen into date night tonight and even as tonight. so we have seen gusts anywhere between 45 and close to 50 miles per hour already today. we could still get some very strong potentially damaging gusts like this heading into this evening. highs today quite mild for us. maybe that was something you noticed. 60 degrees for boston, 59 bedford. ing there at new bedford, 65 degrees for a high earlier today but because of the chilly wind blasting out of the northwest this is an arctic front that is

temperatures down quite significantly already. 48 in boston, 49 in norwood and we will continue to fall back with the temperatures even into the overnight hours. a few clouds that have managed to sneak on through but look at what's just to the north and west of us. yes, a whole lot of white showing up on this map indicating snowfall. we are not going to see any of that but that just gives you an idea of how much colder this air is that's moving in for us to set up this start of the weekend. so we'll run through the time line here upper 30's as you get into the interior and then by the time we hit 7:00 p.m. mid 30's. watch how quickly these temperatures drop. 11:00 p.m. you are wrapping update night. we're already near the freezing mark in worcester, possibly bedford as well and if you are an early riser for saturday morning, you can expect some mid to upper 20's in some of those coldest spots norwood, bedford, taunton, even worcester could get down to about 29 degrees as we get into tomorrow.

despite the sunshine but at least it's there for us for some moral support. it's clear and cold overnight tonight. still windy so bat on down the hatches if you haven't already. i can even hear windows rolling around a little bit in our apartments so that is something that will continue as you are trying to sleep tonight. tomorrow, mostly sunny, it's chilly for us and there will be a bit of a breeze making those mid to upper 40's feel even cooler. we're backing on the layers tomorrow. even despite that bright sunshine, staying chilly at least we get to keep the bright skies around and things warm up for us on sunday even another 60 degree day could be on tap for us as we get into monday keeping things dry through that time frame as well. next chance of rain doesn't arrive until tuesday and this still right now a bit if he for us. ' going with it in my extended forecast, but this is the euro model bringing in that coastal storm as we get into late tuesday and the rain sticking around with us even into early wednesday.

models aren't in agreement but for now it is on my 7 on 7 forecast. here is a look at that, the numbers up and dunn as we get through this entire next week and back into the low 50's by the end of next week. see you at 5:00. >> anchor: time now for 7 fast track traffic. here is matt fitzgerald with an update. any holiday traffic out there? just a few. not that bad. we'll begin the leverett connector tied new both directions. you are moving well on both sides. the northbound side wide open right out of the tunnel all the way the southbound side is clear from assembly square into the southbound tunnel. the expressway surprisingly moving well in both directions on the southbound side a little slow from mass avenue up to the south bay shopping center then you break free until you reach squantum street. on the northbound side you will be delyaed from the split up past neponset circle then okay further north. the pike west is looking good, leaving the city however further up all break lights from newton corner out toward route 30 then again out toward route 9.

boston. we'll take a look at the drive times on the pike from downtown boston to route 128 in weston. a 28 minute drive and from 128 to 495 only 26 minutes. i'm matt fitzgerald, 7 news. >> anchor: turning now to"healthcast." women are concerned about what the reason densely of donald trump will mean for their access to birth control. >> anchor: now they have taken to social media to discuss their options. president-elect trump promised to repeal the affordable care act throughout his campaign without mandates women may have to pay t birth control. in september trump said he is not in favor of requiring a prescription to purchase birth control. >> anchor: new research suggests awareness of food allergies may decrease as soon as students reach college. most universities don't have systems in place to protect students with food allergies in dorms and at social events at school there. teachers and young adults are often at risk to severe allergic reaction because they are less likely to carry epipens with them at all times. >> anchor: children without

asthma. researchers analyzed the medical records of about 2000 children, kids who loved more than half a mile from a grocery store were 53% more likely to have asthma than those who lived close to a store. studies have shown eating a healthy diet can lower the risk of asthma. >> anchor: ahead on 7 news, people in rhode island are seeing stars. a leg at at le's story headed to the big screen. a preview coming up in just a

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>> anchor: the ocean state is seeing stars as it rolls out the red carpet for an inspiring premiere. "bleed for this" is about a boxer in providence. >> anchor: it's a story about a man who lose it is all only to fight his way back to the top. >> reporter: "bleed for this" hitting the big screen in one week is the true story of world champion boxer vinny the boxer known as vinny paz was told he would never walk again. however, he return to the ring one year later and once again bill a champion. thursday night paz walked the red carpet in providence. my girlfriend you will see here tonight was wiping tears out of my eyes and ben younger on my right hand side, he thinks he talks like me. i tell him stop, he is not funn. >> reporter: miles teller plays paz in the movie. vinny meant so much to the state of rhode island and these

moment while he is still kind of got it together, you know, it's great. very few people ever get a movie made about their life. >> reporter: aaron eckert plays his trainer. vinny had a dream of doing world champion, had screws in his skull against the advice of his doctors, his family, his trainer and yet he did it. and he is an inspiration to us all. >> reporter: paz says the film tells it like it is. greatest thing about it is the movie is really good. that's the greatest thing about it. >> reporter: "bleed for this country next friday. nancy chen, 7 news. >> anchor: i am excited to see that. >> anchor: very inspirational story. some oscar buzz around it too. much more to come in the next 90 minutes. i'm amaka ubaka in for jadiann thompson. >> anchor: i'm ryan schulteis, 7 news at 5:00 starts now. >> anchor: breaking news, more protest breaking out in boston. a large crowd gathering on the common. this as sparks fly in oregon, demonstrators clashing with police.

>> anchor: as many protest the election of donald trump. >> anchor: sayinging things up. who will now take over as head of trump's transition team as he make the change from wall street to the white house? >> anchor: plus, honoring our nation's veterans. solemn ceremonies here in boston paying tribute. >> anchor: the gusty winds of today bringing in some much cooler temperatures for the weekend. >> anchor: and get ready for a fight in foxboro. we're ready for round two as sea hawks take on the patriots in super bowl rematch. >> anchor: and breaking news at 5:00. this huge brush fire burning in lynn right now. look at that smoke and flames. we have sky 7 live over the scene right now. this is happening in the lynn woods so the closest neighborhood is ridge street. fire fighters aren't evacuating anyone right now, but there is some pretty stiff wind out there. we'll keep a watch on it. you can see from live video from sky 7 it's quite large. we'll keep going to sky 7 over this for a while to make sure the situation doesn't get any

with the news station for more on this breaking story. >> anchor: we are also following breaking news out of boston where a large group of protestors have gathered on boston common to protest the results of the presidential election. it has been peaceful in sharp contrast is passionate protest in portland, oregon. the demonstration turning violent. many upset after donald trump was elected. complete at first calling out demonstrators saying they were being unfair but changed his tune calling them passionate. >> anchor: let's go live where the e on the common behind him right now. kim, the night may have fallen here but the protest is only growing here on boston common. it started at about 2:00 now at the 5:00 hour. plenty of people are still here. you can see that they are protesting, they are shouting anti-trump messages and they are not only concerned about the election, but they are also