>> now at 7 o'clock a woman facing charges after a house party takes a deadly turn in lowell. >> anchor: a tragic death under investigation at a popular ski resort. >> thankful that i'm home in boston. >> anchor: he was serving time for corruption. sal demassy is heading home for the holidays. >> reporter: d for new england. flurries thursday morning. >> anchor: holiday travelers on the move. we have the commute covered. >> anchor: and grabbing a slice with the stars. an evening with brady and the boys. >> anchor: hear from the lucky fan who cashed in on this contest. >> 7 news at 7:00 starts now. now on 7 thanksgiving travelers hitting the road. >> we want everybody to get

>> it's the holiday rush. >> anchor: take a look outside. not too bad. we've been watching this for a few hours. holiday travelers are out in full force. bridge seems to be moving. this one of the busiest travel times of the year. >> anchor: millions of people heading out for the thanksgiving holiday. take a closer look at the forecast as the cold sets in and looks like it's staying here. >> reporter: we're going to have dr 36. bedford at 34. another cold day as well. high pressure does begin to nudge this area of low pressure away from us tomorrow. more sunshine tomorrow. not quite as windy. most importantly dry roads. 40s in southern new england. out of new england it will be cool down the 95 corridor, dc, baltimore, new york city pittsburgh.

airports in the eastern seaboard. metro new york, dc, atlanta a okay. there will be showers detroit and chicago tomorrow. that system moves into new england thursday thanksgiving. and perhaps a few snow flurries on thursday morning. talk about that in a few minutes. ; we have seen plenty of backups on the highways through the afternoon and into the evening. >> anchor: many people tried to beat leaving early with thanksgiving. caught up with other people trying to get the same idea. brandon gunnoe live along a busy stretch for us. where are you, brandon? how does it look. >> reporter: we're in southie looking at the entrances to the airports. everybody keeps leaving earlier and earlier. today has become the new busiest holiday travel day of the year. if you want to get to grandma's

know. what should be the busiest travel day of the year as millions hit the roadways early this thanksgiving holiday. >> safety is key. you do not want to start this holiday with a crash. >> reporter: this is mass dot's highway operation center with live cameras across the state showing real time info on this week's holiday traffic. >> one of the good news for thanksgiving holiday travelers there are more ways before to find out real time information about where the traffic congestion is. >> reporter: go to mass 511.com. call 511. use waze. expect waits and delays to be longer than years passed. airport leaders say arrive 2 hours early for your flight. most are expected to drive.

>> buzzed driving is drunk driving. please plan on having a designated sober driver. >> reporter: okay so experts say either leave really early in the morning or much later in the afternoon. the big rush tomorrow and on thanksgiving as well is between 1 and 6. live in south boston brandon gunnoe 7 news. >> anchor: also on 7 former massachusetts house speaker sal demassy out of prison and landing home. landing at logan airport earlier this evening. serving a prison sentence for corruption. is suffering from cancer and granted a compassionate release. kimberly bookman live at logan airport with more. >> reporter: kim, it was a long day for sal demassy. released from a federal prison in north carolina at 10 in the morning. he stopped briefly to talk to

home to melrose. pushed out in a wheelchair former massachusetts speaker of the house sal demassy greets children with smiles and hugs at boston logan airport. >> i want to say how happy i am. grateful and thankful that i'm home in boston. >> reporter: this is a different man from the one bay stators battling throat and prostate cancer doing time on corruption charges. >> while i was away encouraged me to go and fight these terrible cancers that i had. i'm a fighter. i had to fight this all the way. >> reporter: last week the judge gave the 71-year-old compassionate release from prison citing health and age.

sentence. >> it's been a trying and difficult experience for me. i'm looking forward to being reunited with my family, my community, my friends. >> reporter: demassy on home confinement for 6 months yet will be able to visit doctors and get much needed health care. next up is thanksgiving a holiday most grateful for. >> special thanksgiving for me at home with my family. i hope you all have a happy thanksgiving. >> reporter: demassy is currently in he does plan to meet with doctors in the near future. kimberly bookman 7 news. >> anchor: more news tonight a brutal beating at a house party lands a woman in court. that victim later died. steve cooper has the emotional day in court. >> [beep]. >> reporter: unimaginable anguish spilling out on the sidewalk outside of lowell district court today.

surrounding the murder of glora bell aringo. >> no (bell) my best friend. >> charging her with assault and battery. >> reporter: emily perez of worcester pleads not guilty in connection with the death of the 44-year-old victim. who prosecutors say was not only beaten to death saturday night she was run over by a car that took off from the scene. her 28-year-old down who had down syndrome was with her at the time. >> the individuals that vehicle had fled reaching speeds of 130 miles per hour. >> reporter: prosecutors say that car which was reported stolen crashed into this house in northborough after a chase with police. everyone in the car took off. perez was arrested yesterday at her mother's home in lowell. her lawyer says it was the

here. >> we have no autopsy reports yet not unsurprisingly to indicate the reason why this person died. >> reporter: family just wants justice for this mother of 4 and grandmother to 3. >> i want the boys the girls all of them arrested everybody. >> reporter: bail for perez was set at $30,000. police say they are searching for several other suspects connected to this murder. >> anchor: a boston police transit officer hit by a car while on his motorcycle. the crash happened just after 5:00 tonight in the intersection of warren and towns end streets. the officer is expected to be okay. the cause of the crash is under investigation. maintenance work at a local ski resort takes a tragic turn. a man was killed after he was run over by a piece of snow

he was an employee from towns end. he was found dead 9:30 this morning. detectives do not believe his death is suspicious. so far few details and the ski resort has not comment. >> reporter: parents are demanding answers from the renaissance charter school in hyde park. the school held a meeting with students parents addressing the matter. the mother of a 7-year-old student said another student touched her son threatened him with violence. parents are calling for more oversight. >> we need monitors on the boston public school buses. the only way we could do that is us as parents need to advocate for it to boston city hall. >> anchor: not part of the boston public school system. bps provides transportation for the school.

elect's donald trump transition to oval officer. officered ben carson to head the department of how'sing and urban housing development. holding a meeting with the new york times after a rough relationship leading up to the election. 2 sides clearing the air. mr. trump is changing his attitude about the newspaper. ryan schulteis in our newsroom with details. >> reporter: the times said it began with a familiar complaint. the president not being treated fairly. whether he was there to throw down an olive branch or gauntlet. visited arch enemies the new york times. the paper was his favorite criticism during the campaign. >> it's losing a fortune. >> reporter: staffers who tweeted the hour long sit down. he respects the paper and wants to make peace.

email investigation. he said that won't disappoint the supporters who delighted in the battle cry locker up. >> there's a tradition in american politics that after you win an election you put things behind you. >> reporter: the president elect distanced himself from extremists on the altright but dismissed criticism about steve banon. he acknowledged his dc hotel is worth more. and acknow is hotter. said the law is on his side. mr. trump telling the new york times he's leading toward general james madis as secretary. the ap is now reporting that he has offered him that job and ben carceon will respond after the thanksgiving holiday. ryan schulteis 7 news stay with 7 news for continuing coverage of president elect trump

whdh.com or follow along on social media. >> anchor: not your average pizza night. meet the fans who shared a slice with brady and his bodies. >> reporter: looking forward to that story. tomorrow features sunshine. >> anchor: mayor marty walsh kicking off a special event for the holidays. >> tonight they're mean and intimidating even threaten you with jail. >> i was scared to death. >> but those phone calls are irs. you're not the irs.

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>> anchor: so it's a star studded pizza party. lucky fans grabbing a bite with tom brady, ben a fleck, and matt damon. the result of a special contest. >> anchor: and the winners got a real slice of fun.al room to tell us more. >> reporter: the brothers and sister were flown to boston. the contest for this charity was won on o maze.com. it's a dinner they'll never forget. this brother and sister from missouri sat down with tom brady mat damon and ben a fleck at oak craft pizza. >> had a paper on the windows

we'd been there for a half an hour and tom brady showed up. he showed up before the other 2. just came in -- >> i think my brother was in the bathroom. >> i was talking to the owner of the pizza place. i turned around there he was. super friendly the nicest guy ever. >> reporter: lives in a missouri but is a patriots fan. entered the contest for a dinner da video. they talked to brady, damon and a fleck about costa rica sports and the movies. >> we were with them for a couple of hours. it was originally slated for 25 minutes or so. they were so genuine and we had a great time. >> reporter: excited about meeting brady too. granburg is convinced brady

think he liked me better than both. >> yeah. >> it was a contest. i think it's hands down i was a winner. >> reporter: granburg says they all had a lot of people. damon and a fleck had beer. brady didn't drink. >> anchor: i don't think brady and gisele really drink that much at all. i don't think it has to do with his diet. just an aside. i've heard from friends friends. ; anchor: they're so healthy. don't need anything that makes inflammation. >> anchor: they ate pizza. best food in the world. cures everything, jr. >> reporter: he will be playing football when he's 50 because of that diet. bedford 34. plymouth at 34. it's windy. it's cold. worcester feels like 19. the city feels like 27. tonight in the midwest with rain

minneapolis. this eventually works into new england but weakens on thanksgiving. for tonight mostly clear still windy cold. 23 to 32. ternal big travel day looks good. lots of sunshine cold but not as windy. upper 30s and lower 40s. the city tomorrow afternoon 43. lakeville 44. north of town temps in the low 40s. fitchburg 41. worcester 36. and then tomorrow afternoon the wind will begin to fade. if you've got left over yard work to do or the last few days of wind more work to do. dry roads all over the place. 30s in northern new england. out of new england holding on to the dry but chilly conditions down toward dc and baltimore the numbers below normal for this time of year.

that midwest weather system moves into new england while weakening. this is not a major event. not going to slow you down. maybe grandma's coming to your house. let her relax this year. you do the cooking. patchy snow and flurries in new england for thursday morning. the high school football games. you notice by noon that narrow band of snow flurry activity kind of a chilly raw day no wind. we don't have to worry about wintry precipitation. we will see pockets of drizzle form thursday night. thursday morning snow yeah, it will be patchy. not to say that everyone here shaded in the white and the blue is going to see snow. where you have the pockets of snow occurring a coating in the

county upwards of an inch possible. the rest of the day we hold on to the clouds. thursday afternoon mid 30s. flying out of new england no issues. showers chicago and detroit. thursday afternoon here comes that weather system weakening and slowing down. that means we're going to hold on to the clouds on friday and saturday. little bit of rain saturday morning. anotbi looks okay mid 40s. ; did you hear about the sign switch. it has drivers on the cape doing a double take. it says cod cape instead of cape cod. mass dot says the sign was installed on november 15th. spokesperson releasing a statement that reads the massachusetts department of transportation apologizes to motorists visitors and residents

erroneous information. all signage to ensure it's accurate and that this does not happen again. could have been worse. >> anchor: people still took it the right way. >> anchor: yep. the gift of giving. an annual toy drive brightening

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>> anchor: they collect toy donations for children in need so every family hopefully has a merry christmas. and mayor walsh spoke about the impact on families across the country. >> over a 63 year period collected over 500 million toys for people in our city and country. >> anchor: if you're interested in taking part find your local toys for >> anchor: think about all the

>> anchor: coming up tonight on 7 news at 11:00 irs imposters. hank investigates the people on the other end of the line bilking unsuspected families of thousands of dollars. >> anchor: plus chief meteorologist jeremy reiner has his scarf on right now. >> anchor: as he should.

about kanye's nervous breakdown. >> we're with the family as kim races home to kanye's side. what really triggered his psychiatric emergency? ?"extra" "extra" ? ?"extra" "extra" ? kanye's mental meltdown. >> psychiatric emergency. >> he's exhausted. he's just really tired. >> kris jenner breaking new details to extra as kim hoops jet home. reports kanye assaulted someone at his personal trainer's before being handcuffed and hospitalized. >> harm to himself. >> plus --