police say they're searching for other suspects. steve cooper is live with breaking details. >> reporter: tensions were running high here at local district court late this afternoon when the suspect faced a judge. the victim's family came here to court with unimaginable grief. >> the murder of her mother too much to bear. her family and friends of of the deadly attack blind comprehension. >> no! >> it's hard for me to hear all the stuff that happened to my mother. >> reporter: 23-year-old huerta perez of worcester pleads not guilty in connection with the murder of this 44-year-old mother of four including her 28-year-old son with down syndrome who watched his mother die saturday night after she was asked to leave a party. >> a group of individuals

and kicked the victim, miss orengo. possibly striking her with a bottle as well as possibly striking her with a moving vehicle. >> reporter: the driver of the car that ran over the victim later led police on a high-speed chase that ended with the stolen car crashing into this house in northboro early sunday morning. the occupants of the car took off. perez was later arrested. her attorney says the etched is >> there is absolutely no showing yet that the assault with the bottle caused in any way a fatal injury. >> i want them boy, i want the girls, the reds, i want all of them arrested. >> reporter: perez is being held on $30,000 cash bail. police are looking for several other suspects here. steve cooper, 7 news. >> adam: taking live to logan airport right now. and former speaker of the

dimasi just arrived after serving not his complete term in north carolina federal prison. there he is with the white ball cap hugging relatives or close friends. next to dimasi, just to his right is his wife, debby. but there is the speaker of the house who we haven't seen in sometime. it was 2011 that he was convicted of extortion for taking $65,000 ins bribes and kickbacks from a burlington company. >> kim: he was granted a come passionate release as he battles cancer. he has been in remission serving time for fraud, conspiracy, and extortion as you said. atam, the sentence came in 2011 so we're watching live as sal dimasi lands in boston from a north carolina prison after a judge granted him a compassionate release. he was sentenced to eight years in prison. he served five of those eight years. that process of getting him

a bit. had to go between the defense and the prosecutors and the judge. he is going to speak here. so let's listen in. house speaker sal dimasi free from prison. [inaudible] >> i want to thank everybody for making this possi us. it's a very emotional day for me. it has been a trying and difficult experience for me. and i'm looking forward to just being reunited with my family and my community and my friends. looking forward to regaining my health and being taken care of by my own doctors.

much i love my wife for what she has done for me. she has been terrific. she has been my champion. i'm grateful. my children, have given me so much support and for everyone that has been good to me while i was away, and encouraged me to go and fight this terrible cancer that i had, and the illnesses that i still have. but i'm a fighter. all the way. and just overwhelmed by being able to be home with family. i just love being back in boston. >> what have you missed most? >> thank you very much. >> how are you spending thanksgiving? >> kim: sal dimasi making a few comments talking about had you grateful he is to be with his familiar i will and to be able to see his doctors

his family now wheeling him away to take him home for the holidays. he earned his release from federal prison last week. he will have two years of supervised release spending the first six months in home confinement expect when he goes for medical appointments. we'll have more on 7 news. >> adam: for now, we'll talk about the holiday traffic. and it's something that we'll all be dealing with. this is the expressway. th traffic. typically one of the busiest travel times of the year as people head out for the thanksgiving holiday. i think tomorrow is the day that you are going to have to plan extra early for but you know from coming into work that it is already started early. >> kim: i think everybody thinks they're going to get a jump on it. state offices are urging everyone to be safe out there. live to brandon gunnoe who is at the department of transportation command

us? >> reporter: this is always very cool because this is something that public doesn't get to see. this is the dot highway separations center. these are actually live cameras from highways all over the state. and live footage so it's neat to see. and taking a live look at traffic, here is what state leaders want you to know before you hit the road for thanksgiving. expect longer waits and delays. even more so they say than in years passed. that is, if they're going to train. officials are asking everyone to arrive two hours early for domestic flight, even three hours for international flights. the d.o.t.says this comes down to safety. watch your speeds, watch your speeds and don't drink and drive. >> it's a great holiday. we want everybody to get where they're going and gets home safely. the numbers one thing we want everybody to do is leave themselves enough time

they can take it easy. take it safely. put that cell phone aside. get with your are going safe and let all the other folks on the road get where they're going and to share the holiday with their family safely. >> reporter: you are taking a live look at the highway operations center. you can see all the live traffic cameras they're looking at in real time. and all the time. also this is the first year that we're going to see traffic flowing for thanksgiving travel with no tolls, electronic tolling o things smoother as well. brandon gunnoe, 7 news. >> we can only hope. we'll find out. here is matt fitzgerald with a look. >> reporter: good evening. hardly moving on the pike west. you are jammed from the p tunnel most of the way out to worcester. on the pike westbound from downtown boston to 128 weston that is a 43 minute drive there. 128 to 495 almost an hour and then from 495 to 84 in sturbridge only a 47 minute

go to 128 south. that is jammed from had and 225 most of the way down to 95 in canton looking at a 70 minute drive. 128 north from the mass pike to route 1 that is a 63 minute drive. 93 to 128 looking at a 33 minute drive and the expressway south crawling from the o'neil down to the braintree split. i'm matt fitzgerald, 7 news. >> adam: let's talk about the weather now. and another colday the wind whipping once again. although let's be optimistic and say not as winds i as it was yesterday. at least i didn't think so. >> kim: i agree. everybody wants to know what the holiday is going to look like. we've families travelling. we've football gages here is j.r. >> reporter: it's dry. thankfully, it's cold. it's still windy although as adam alluded to not as windy as yesterday. low pressure up across suthern canada still there and. i wheeling about are the chunks of cold air.

tomorrow. if tomorrow is your travel day it is chilly but roads are dry all over new england. temperatures up in northern new england in the 30s. 40s in southern new england. if you are heading up to ski country got snow over the weekend. the ski areas are ready to open up. the 95 corridor is dry across pennsylvania as well. if you are happening on an airplane, dry across the northeast. all the major hubs here in the northeast down the 95 corridor is dry. dallas will be ok. chicago is an issue. rain showers chicago and detroit as well as the west coast. then that weather system does move into new england on thursday. and that is likely to produce clouds and some snow flurries and pockets of light snow in southern new england and thursday morning. we'll detail that in a few minutes. >> adam: the president-elect meeting with

"new york times" after initially calling off the meeting. we're learning more about what is on the president-elect's agenda, donald trump outlining when his first 100 days will look like. let's get to ryan schulteis with more on what he said and didn't say. >> ryan: it began with a familiar complaint. the president-elect says he is not being treated fairly. whether he was there to throw down an olive branch or gauntlet visited the "new york times." the paper was a favorite target of his criticism. >> i mean the "new york times" which i call the failing "new york times" because it's failing, it's losing a fortune. >> reporter: staffers who live tweeted said it begin with complaints about how he has been treated but suggested he special the paper and wants to make peace. he declared he doesn't favor another e-mail investigation. he says that won't disappoint the supporters who delighted in the battle

>> look, there is a tradition in american politics that after you win an election, you put things blind you. >> reporter: the president-elect distanced himselfs from critics on the ault right. he acknowledged his d.c.hotel is worth more and played down concerns about conflicts of interest and say the law is on his side. mr. trump also telling the times he is leaning secretary. ryan schulteis, 7 news. >> adam: stay with us for more on trump's transition to the white house. head to whdh.com or you can download our mobile and tablet apps. hillary clinton's spotted in rhode island. the former democrat presidential nominee popping into a book store in werterly over the weekend.

>> kim: we're following more news today. a school bus driver under arrest charged in connection with the deadly drive in chattanooga tennessee. at least five children were killed. more than two dozen injured after the school bus he was driving crashed into a tree. tragedy for those people. it's just days before thanksgiving. the 24-year-old driver's actions are under investigation this evening. jadiann thompson is here with the details. >> reporter: kim, this community is heart broken death those five children. people are lining up now to donate blood to help the survivors of the crash. today we're learning 12 students are still in the hospital. six of those are in intensive care. more than 18 hours after this bus crash took the lives of five young children people stopped to watch as the wreck ang was pulled away from the scene. >> of those deaths we've 3 in 49th grade, one was a kindergartener and one was a first grader. >> reporter: the metal is

the community tries to cope. >> thanksgiving is not even at the top of my list. christmas, not. i can't think about anything right now. >> reporter: 35 students were on board monday when the bus flipped on its side hitting a free. the driver was going well over the 30 miles-an-hour speed limit before losing control of the bus. now he is facing five counts of vehicular manslaughter, reckless endangerment and reckless drive going. >> they will always be with us throughout our lives, this is set never forget here as a community. >> reporter: the superintendent kept classes to provide councilors for those who need it most. >> pray for this community. pray for the families that lost their children. >> reporter: while handled the criminal side of the verbs the ntsb will evaluate the safety and how to protect kids moving forward. it's an investigation that could take up to a year. for now the focus is on the children and helping their families and community get through this unimaginable loss. tonight a memorial service will be held at a local

elementary school the children went to. the school district set up a fund to help the families of victims. jadiann thompson, 7 news. >> adam: as we continue here this morning, trouble for canny west. the rapper september to the hospital after a problem on tour. >> kim: parents upset after a mother claims her young son was sexually assaulted on a school bus. the changes they're demanding. >> adam: caught on camera, at a gas nation texas, officers under investigation after a in a wheel chair. >> kim: then in one hour deadly day at a ski resort in west fort. an accident under investigation at nashoba after a man dies on the slopes. >> adam: breaking news we're still following. former house spoker sal dimasi landed in boston greeted by family. he is reloosed early from federal prison after being convicted on federal corruption charges. two years of supervised release.

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>> kim: trouble on tour for kanye west. the rapper cancelling the first of his tour after having to go to a los angeles hospital and doctors say he is searching from severe exhaustion and stress. >> adam: this is on the heels of a bizarre and abrupt sending to a cons early over the weekend. on monday neighbors described seeing an ambulance take kanye west away. paramedics saying they were responding to a call more it. m. z. reporting that his doctor called 911 after west attempted to assault a gym employee. west appeared agitated. pacing back and for the on a stage in front of a crowd in sacramentorand ranting about the music industry. >> i've been sitting here -- even at the risk of my old life. even at the risk of my own success. >> reporter: seeming to take issue with his friends

i heard is a you said that you wouldn't perform unless you wanted -- [inaudible] and. >> reporter: fans were already upset after kanye showed up more than an hour late and began to boo. only performing three songs. kanye dropped his mike and walked offstage. >> get ready to have a field day. get ready because the show is over. >> he air everyone. i wanted to show. i wanted to show. >> reporter: the next day west cancelled the rest of his tour including his stop in boston on december 28th: his wife cancelled her first public appearance since she was' robbed in paris flying back from new york to be at her husband's side. >> reporter: dry roads tomorrow. a little about the of light snow on thursday

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>> announcer: now 7 weather with chief meteorologist jeremy reiner. >> reporter: cold again right now in town, 39. nashua 37. wind out there gusting 20-25 miles an hour. even up near 30 miles an hour. worcester gusts to 28 sending the wind chills down through the 20s. it feels like 20 worcester. feels like 31 here in town and hyannis it feels like 33.

not moved so we're under the influence of that storm. cold air flowing out of canada across new england. that's the case overnight tonight and again tomorrow although as we work into tomorrow, we do start to slowly have that wind spin down. eventually it's going to stop spinning and the storm begins to move away. northwest wind 10-20 and it's tomorrot' the morning and that will settle down throughout the afternoon but tomorrow is a great travel day. lots of sunshine. dry roads. temperatures in the upper 30s to middle 40s southern new england 30s, upper 40s as you head to the berkshires. the white mountains, green mountains then if you head out to pennsylvania, dry roads out there but chilly even down through pennsylvania. you have to head down to d.c.before you find temperatures into the 50s, which even for them is chilly for this time of year. thursday, the big day. a lot of clouds.

dinner table with flurries in southern new england. thursday morning, there will be a little bit of a weather system moving through. it does not look like it's a big deal but it -- this doesn't take much to foul up the roads. i think a coating to in some locations an inch is possible with this little weather system thursday morning. otherwise i think thursday afternoon a lot of clouds. maybe a few pocket of drizzle thursday afternoon and thursday evening. so who is going to see the snow flakes? even in there may be a few flakes that fly but the farther west you travel to 495 corridor, the pike north of town route 2 up to southern new england for most locations it's a coating but some of the higher elevations in the worcester hills as well as the berkshires an inch of snow possible. nothing overwhelming. for the rest of thanksgiving, cloudy skies all afternoon. by noon, and into the afternoon, some pockets of drizzle. and springles with temperatures in the middle and upper 30s.

temperatures on saturday and sunday cool. in the mid 40s see you at 4:30. >> adam: police searching for a suspect in brockton. this after his failed attempt at robbing a convenience store is caught on camera. >> kim: we're following breaking news. we showed you live just moments ago as former house speaker sal dimasi lands in boston after an early release from a north carolina prison. more congress up on the news station.

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allegations. >> jadiann: woman being tazed while she in a wheel chair after an argument escalates with police officers. >> ryan: a dangerous delivery. a man opening his mail hurt in an explosion. >> jadiann: a rescue, how good samaritans saved a truck driver from this accident before it was' too late. >> announcer: 7 news at 5:30 starts now. >> ryan: former massachusetts house speaker sal dimasi is out of prison and back in the state. he was compassionate release. he served five years of his eight-year as soon as. dan hausle has more for us. >> reporter: this was the first time former house speaker sal dimasi has been seen or heard from since he entered federal prison five years ago. it was an emotional scene here at logan airport where dimasi accompanied by his wife was greeted by the children.

the former speaker was released after serving five years for corruption. a judge granted him compassionate release because he is suffering from cancer. dimasi spoke of what the release means to him. >> i just want to say how happy i am and grateful and thankful that i'm home in boston where i love with my family. i want to thank everybody for others who made it possible. it's a very emotional day for me. it has been a trying and difficult experience for me. and i'm looking forward to just being reunited with my family and my community, my friends, looking forward to regaining my health. >> reporter: he answered no questions other than to repeat something he said in the comment there, that he is looking forward to a very