in acton beth germano wbz news. >>> now a dangerous ride on new year's eve that ended badly. four people including two young an atv collision. story. >> reporter: well this has to be an incredibly tough new year's day for at least one family. the incident happened just up the road from me here and we know at least two of the victims are a father and son. one neighbor said it sounded like a gunshot when the two atvs crashed and now just yellow markings and debris. >> someone told me is your house burning and i said no. >> reporter: just after 9 p.m. on new year's eve emergency crews rushed this area a 500 ashburnham hill road and found the atvs toppled over a helmet abandoned in the snow and a gory scene. >> obviously it would be a severe medical issue you know multiple traumas. >> reporter: police say somehow the atvs crashed on the paved road seriously injuring all four passengers. a 32-year-old man was airlifted to the hospital his left leg amputated. transported with a head injury and then heart breakingly the two children a 6-year-old boy was airlifted because he stopped

in lowell beth germano wbz news. >> i decided i do think it's time we get a storm. we need some snow. >> coming around. >> however a storm this big a storm that can do this much damage we don't need this one. >> right. the one we got the other day with the lovely fluffy snow and tn sunny day -- sunny day and it was a holiday if they could all be like that. this one is too big. >> i think we went through enough pain last year so someone else can deal with it. this is the timeline first mainly across southern massachusetts and peak snow and saturday night. focus there towards the cape and islands and south shore and south coast and moves up quickly on sunday morning so saturday night. 20s in the 30s and every day has been similar. wind have been dying down a little each day and tonight another cold one clear skies and 10 to 15 for the suburbs about 18 in downtown boston. we will remain to be a breeze out of the northwest and tomorrow you know just like it's been we will have high temps upper 20s around 30 and bright skies and little less winds but all tolled it's janu

beth germano. >> i love them. >> couldn't be happier for them and i love how she was holding on to the ticket to make sure it didn't blow away. >> i thought about that. trying to get it to lottery headquarters. >> terrified you would be. >> yeah. >>> scarry moments for new bed forepilot. yesterday area my -- jeremiah coholan was flying his plane when the engine started to ice up and he made a emergency landing in backyard field. neither he nor his passenger was hurt. the faa is now inspecting the plane tonight. >>> a rivalry for the ages is about to take center stage in the afc championship. brady versus manning and the vickor goes to the -- victor goes to the super bowl. brady wins 11 out 616-- out of 16 but patriots lost the november game in den vane know sunday will be tough. let's go back to dan roche in colorado but we like to think they stack up differently now. >> reporter: they do. old who relies onrunning game and defense and brady 38 is going strong. there's been a lot of talk surrounding the afc championship game and everyone can't wait for sunday. it's been trash talk and f

beth germano is live in bright op and the families of the victims have been wait for the trials for a long time. >> reporter: the young driver here was expected to plead there was change of -- but there was a change of plea and new evidence. the court was packed with the families with the testimony of screeching of tires and a car that went flying. it was a horrific crash that changed the lives forever. 20-year-old nicholas charged with neglect driving when his car clipped the median on the the ashorway and slammed into a pickup truck driven by 34-year- old kevin salucci still in rehabilitation with a traumatic brain injury. >> this individual chose to drive as high speeds. you are going to learn the speed limit was 30 miles per hour. >> reporter: prosecutors say papadapolis was 20 miles over the speed limit and lost control the passenger and coworker of salucci remembers the impact. >> i can understand that kevin. [audio not understandable] and at that on the i looked >> reporter: pictures of the roadway as three school friends who are passengers of papadolopis was injured one paraly

beth germano is live tonight at the statehouse. >> reporter: well police are making split second decisions in determining whether a gun is real or safe. a bill now being considered by lawmakers would mandate new >> i would like to hold up for pistol. >> reporter: a pistol that looks very much like the real thing. these are fake guns that police are faced with each day posing a very real danger. >> if you look at the guns and feel them and pick them up you can't distinguish the difference. >> reporter: and the consequences can be deadly. it's what confronted police in cleveland where is itior old -- 12-year-old tamir rice was shot and killed by a officer as he waived a -- waved a toy gun. >> we don't want what happened boston. >> reporter: federal law requires toy guns be plugged but legislation on beacon hill includes bb guns pellet guns are labeled with nonremovallable orange strips on all sides to difference eight them from the real thing. boston police commissioner bill evans sees the danger daily. >> we had someone paul gun and someone -- pull a gun and someone shoot the person because

in walpole beth germano. >>> police are on alert for a suspicious driver who approached a child approaching a elementary schoolboy as he was getting off the school bus and asked if he needed a ride home or needed help carrying his stuff. the boy said no and the driver took off. there was a similar incident on the same day. police say the driver never touched the children. >>> worcester police confiscate two dozen packets of synthetic marijuana they saw what hall and arrested two men and seized the k-2 and 3700 dollars in cash of the both men are facing charges tonight. >>> and smoky commuter room inside sandwich high school forced everyone to be evacuated there. paramedics took one school employee to the hospital for possible smoke inhalation and firefighters discovered one of the h vac units and they shut it down and the smoke went away. >>> tonight we have a follow- up. three employees at a grafton company could face wiretapping charges for setting up the hidden camera at work. sleeping on the job. the problem is that the camera also recorded audio and that could be against the law. the i

she never made it to space her enthusiasm for learning lives beth germano takes a closer look. >> today is the 30th anniversary of the explosion. >> reporter: 5th grade teacher kristin jakes can give this history lesson from personal experience. as her student study a biography of the christa mcauliffe. >> christa herself just as a person left a mark on people. >> reporter: and on her. christa mcauliffe the first teacher in space was her social studies teacher at concord new hampshire high school and she remembers the excitement watching the challenger lawnch with fellow students. the confusion and then tragedy. >> that time we were not watching launches and we didn't know what to expect. and then there was hope they were parachuteers coming out. the idea was to get the program reeper jized. >> reporter: -- reenergizeed. >> reporter: mcauliffe shared her training and the experience least mark now kristin has followed in her footsteps. and she brought the best out of everyone. >> reporter: when mcauliffe was finalist for the program, she told me in an interview about the inthews a for te

tonight at 6 beth germano looks at her interview with mcauliffe when she was collected as one of the 10 finalist to take the historic trip. >>> a lot of people on social media report feeling a shaking in new jersey and new york and connecticut. certainly felt like an earthquake. we want to go over to eric and we have learned it was something else. >> twa. yeah people were feeling the the usgs in the central part of new jers crane they said it was a son-- new jersey and they said it was a sonic boom what jet is breaking the sound barrier and creates a pressure wave to shake the ground. you can feel it down at surface. it's interesting because norad said we don't have any jets over that airspace. so this one may not be completely over yet. sel we will watch and maybe new -- something we will watch and maybe new information will come back. a earthquake has not been ruled out. we are watching two systems one across florida and another moving from the west as it will bring us snowflakes by tomorrow. the short-term tonight increasing clouds and tomorrow morning and temperatures in the uppe

beth germano wbz news. >> quite the sorry. >>> 40 degrees in january. in. >> we are not. we are not going to be able to get used to it. cold air making a comeback as we look at the gorgeous picture of the sunset over boston a. eric getting a lot colder. >> check out visibility on a chilly night developing over the city of boston a little bit of sunshine on horizon sunset is getting close to 5. so we 45 minutes of daylight since the solstice and temperatures easy to take. 42 in the city right now. and 35 in worcester and 39 in fitchburg and we will see the temperatures drop back tonight and even a couple upper teens out there by tomorrow morning. most towns about 20 to 26 so everything that was melting today in the nice sunshine will be freezing up. use caution heading out and about. cold is not terribly long lived. it's not warm outside for the next few days but it's not tough for late january. look at sunday, upper 40s by monday and we will weigh into the 50s to kick off the month of february. and the pattern to start february brings warmth along the east coast and the b

beth germano wbz news. >> david. >> thank you. >> that shooting was on mount bowdoin von by geneva avenue and bowdoin street. the officer himself speaking with the dispatcher. >> shots fired and bowdoin >> mount bowdoen terrace 223 is on scan now. >> and officer shot at mount bowdoin terrace. [audio not understandable] >> what's the cross street. >> i am at 33 mount bowdoin terrace shot. >> okay sir help is on the way. >> amaying to hear police officer -- amaying to hear the police -- amazing to hear the police officer speaking so calmly christina hager is live at the scene. >> reporter: it's been a harrowing day in this neighborhood first neighbors heard shots and then a chase through backyards and a suspect tackled and now the streets here still closed off while police process the scene. it was a sound eric gilbert didn't think about until he later realized it was gunfire. >> i thought it was firecrackers because sometimes i hear that a lot around here so i didn't pay it no mind. >> reporter: it was not fireworks but it did set off sparks i've cenlin as officers chased the suspect throu

reporting live, beth germano wbz news lisa. >> thank you. be the biggest blow for fantasy sports websites draftkings and fandueelch company that handle the payment processing is done working with the sites. they say they have major concerns about the low galt of the companies. fan -- lee gallonity of the companies -- legality of the companies. >>> lawyers for boston marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev have officially appealed his conviction and sentence with the u.s. court of appeals for the first circuit. his lawyers are appealing the recent ruling that he pay 101 million dollars in restitution to the the victims. earlier this month a judge denied his bid for a new trial. >>> also tonight, lynn policesay they were forced to fire when man pointed a gun at an officer. tonight, that man is dead and investigation. bill shields has the details live tonight from lynn. >> reporter: and this came to an end on the corner in back of me. the suspect according to police and pointed it at police and they shot him to death. but this started moments before about 2 box this way when -- blocks this way whe

reporting live from outside federal courthouse beth germano wbz news lisa. >> thanks. >>> breaking news tonight the company that handles the payments for draftkings and fandueel is getting out of the business. "new york times" reports the payment processor says they are worried about the legality of daily sports. if another processor doesn't pick up the business or banks take their side it could be a >>> now at 6. >> shots fired. >> gunfire in the street. officers kill man trying to carjack a woman. bill shields is live with thestory in lynn. >> reporter: this started with an arrest want two blocks that way -- warrant two blocks that way but ended when the suspected pulled a gun on police. >> he put his gun at them and we have witnesses to that effect and officers shot at him. >> shots fired. shots fired. shots fired. i got the gun i got the gun. >> reporter: 33-year-old randolph mccain died here. it started moments before at this home where his girlfriend lives. police went looking for him after he threatened her and her family. >> as the officers were checking the second floor they ca

reporting live from foxborough beth germano. >>> three firefighters trapped in the fire are alive thanks to the heroics of their brothers. family in the home had escaped. out the second floor when they became trapped. chantee lanes is live with the -- lans is live with the incredible story. >> reporter: the firefighters were trapped on the first floor on essex street. tonight they have those -- their own colleagues to thank forsake their lives. a routine house fire on essex street nearly turns tragic for three saugus firefighters. they got an 84-year-old her daughter and granddaughter out safely and then they became trapped. >> i was lucky to be at that window at that time. >> reporter: 15 year malden fire fight vet spotted one of them from outside. >> i reached in and said brother give me your hand brother. >> reporter: this is the living room window where the firefighter pulled his colleague out. he says he landed in the bushes. >> within moments we turned around and that room was fully involved and you know, kind of he said you saved my life and i said kind of embraced him and what we

we will begin with beth germano where commissioner william evans is about to speak at some pointbeth. >> reporter: he is inside the hospital with the the officer who is being cared for here. boston mayor walsh arrived a short time ago we expect them to give us a update on what happens here. we know the officer was shot in the leg and undercover officer who was chasing a suspect. we don't know more details than that which we are hoping to hear from the commissioner he. but they are personal difficult press conferences for the commissioner when any of his officers are shot in the line of duty. the commissioner ironically was just in washington, d.c. invited by the president to take part in a round table on the issue of guns and proposals. he was before a committee on beacon hill talking about violence on the streets yesterday. and the issues around safe guns so he is angry about this getting guns off the streets and violence on the streets and the danger that his officers face. so what we need are details. we are told the officer is going to be okay. these are noncritical injuries but s

beth germano. >> thank you. the attack on boston police officers clearly was brazen and violent. >> all of this happening in broad daylight. hager live on the scene right now with a closer look at how this all unfolded. >> reporter: well david, this isunnerving to say the least for neighbors some coming home right now to find the streets are blocked off in the area around mount bowdoin where this happened even though it's been hours since the shots were fired. the sound of gunshots is not something you shake easily it rattled elaine. >> at first i thought it was firecrackers and i heard two more shots and got up and looked out and seen police going back and forth. >> reporter: those shots followed by a foot chase through the neighborhood behind gary bell's home. >> i heard the police creaming police and telling him to stop but kept on running. >> reporter: in a section of geneva corners residents say has been safe in recent years, except for some problems on mount bowdoin terrace where the >> we have-- fired. >>

beth germano is live with more. >> reporter: this is where some of the gang members were arraigned this afternoon charged with the most brutal crimes. officials say they have 37 of the 56 in custody and making a the influence. morning. machetes and guns. officials say the weapons of choice for members of ms-13 to carry out the most brutal crimes largely fueled by drug >> in order to be a full member

. >> we begin with beth germano live at boston medical center. >> reporter: police say the highly decorated officer was shot by a exconvict out on parole who is now recovering from a serious leg injury not critical. a relief to family and to the force that his injuries were not more serious and i-- he took steps that may have been life saving. >> in our minds he's hero because he is out there doing work god's work. police officer trying to nap a

beth germano is live with more. >> reporter: this is where some of the gang members were arraigned this afternoon charged with the most brutal crimes. officials say they have 37 of

beth germano has the story. >> reporter: the majority of gun licenses issued in lowell are restrict meaning they can or hunting. >> we wanted to make sure we allowed people to exer sighs their constitutional right to carry firearm but in a balanced reasonable approach. >> reporter: to obtain an unrestricted gun license, eessay to police superintendent taylor. obtain recommendations and take an additional safety course.