maria: sportscenter 5's bob halloran is at the breaking news desk. bob: not a surprise, but the patriots have made it official after gronk missed his third straight practice today and then was not on the patriots flight out to san francisco this afternoon. gronk was injured sunday night when he took this huge hit from seattle's earl thomas gronk -- earl thomas. gronk missed a few plays, but was ablefi the patriots have simply called it a chest injury. the patriots will also be without wide receiver chris hogan but running back dion lewis will make his season debut -- we'll have more later in sports. ed: also breaking, president-elect donald trump agreeing to a $25 million settlement to resolve three lawsuits over trump university. the suits alleged that trump university failed to deliver the quality real estate investing education it promised. the deal does not require trump to acknowledge wrongdoing. caught on camera, a woman being run down while crossing the street in chelsea. tonight, police hope you can help them track down the minivan that hit he

bob halloran, sportscenter five. >> cy young awards are being handed out. porcello is up for the cy young. the national league cy young, announced a few minutes ago, went to scherzer. >> we march on towards thanksgiving. we want -- i want to know why i should wear your sweatshirt or hoody. quality nominations coming in. the polls are still open. make a decision and i'll be wearing four different sweatshirts come thanksgiving night in our show, which of thanksgiving evening. we'll have our set put together. dorothy and her crew will be going to work with all kinds of artifacts from different high schools all around the region. you can see them every year. it gets bigger and better. we can't wait. there is lots to talk about between now and then. we're waiting to see if rick porcello wins the cy young award. >> you don't belichick those things, do you? >> back. >> there you go. >> i give them back. i don't cut them. >> coming up, new tonight on newscenter 5 at 7:00 -- >> i just knew that it was going to work. no one could tell me anything. it was going to wor

reid: and bob halloran tells us about the wreck catcher coming coming up and sports. >> half hour of news at four clock. j.c. monahan, ed harding, newscenter 5 4:00, part of the the george heath superhero scholarship was a total success. $11,000 was raised through auctions. george heath died in the con rampage. the scholarship will go to students and the high school where he worked. reid: reactions coming in follin nichole: in cuba, there will be nine days of mourning for the man who ruled the country with an iron fist for decades. >> it's like a new beginning. elizabeth: on the ground, cubans in that cell, praying. she came to florida as a child with her family. was it. elizabeth: in cuba, a different mood. l.a. in gonzales, who became a symbol of troubled relations between the countries after he was rescued off the coast of florida, before a legal battle ended with his forced return to his homeland morning could -- mourning fidel castro. >> he was with my father he made it possible i would come back to my father and back to cuba. elizabeth: felix not shared by senator ted cruz, who

bob halloran, newscenter 5. >> if you didn't know this the patriots play seattle this weekend. coverage continues right now on the mobile app. full results plus you can go down by town county by county if you're curious, to see how your community voted. click on politics. >> we're following breaking news out of san diego. two fa-18 fighter jets have collided during a training mission over the pacific ocean. one of the pilots was forced to eject. breaking news out of that pail lot is okay. but the jet did crash into the ocean. the other pilot landed safely. so at this point, no injuries are reported. harvey joining us. rain out there and we see the little rain behind you. >> a little green. there have been a few drops of rain. it's now slid offshore. the other area that i see from southern new hampshire on down to northwest massachusetts but the only place i can even see a few sprinkles that's reaching the ground was up in jafr, new hampshire. even as this moves south and east during the course of the evening there could be a few sprinkles about and moving southward. the skies w

. >> now here is bob halloran with sportscenter 5. bob: lamarr jackson is really good and the boston college eagles found out just how good as jackson and the louise heisman trophy favorite accounted for seven touchdowns at alumni stadium as the cardinals romp didn't stop there way to a 52-7 win. louisville hoping to move up in the rankings and qualify for the college football playoffs. they needed an impressive victory against the eagles. that is jackson, 69 yard touchdown run. his third play of the game. james quick, 30 yard touchdown. jackson through for four scores smith this time, jackson with over 400 yards in the air and on the ground. and he did not play the fourth quarter. here he goes again, 53 yards and his day is done. louisville makes it look easy, the eagles make it look yucky. they lose, 52-7. two weeks is a long time to wait for the next win, and the patriots seahawks next sunday night. the patriots get to the midway point in the season as the fifth highest scoring offense, and that is including one game in which they d

from gillette stadium, bob halloran. emily: the mbta will meet to go over financial issues. the board plan to discuss the operating budget and employee compensation and the board will receive a report on safety after incidents like this one on the orange line last month when cars filled with smoke and passengers busted out windows to escape. right now, a warning for pet owners. the virus popping up by the sued. how one company says the chain is misleading customers. also new this morning -- find out what's really in everything you buy. the app decoding the barcode. erika? t. erika: a huge fire in belmont. this fire coming in from belmont as flames range through an abandoned building at mclean hospital. it's not clear how the fire started. our doug meehan is on the scene. we'll have updates all morning long. cindy: we have another mild day coming up the timeline on that plus the concerns along the coastline of possible flooding. first take a look at these temperatures all over the place this morning. 40's right now in worcester and in boston, but look at that. 27 degrees as y

. >> now here is bob halloran with sportscenter 5, powered by xfinity. bob: without offering too much detail, bill belichick said today that he had to clear up some confusion a few years ago when talking to his team about veterans day. seems some may have thought he was talking about players who had played in the nfl for a certainly the time. belichick also talked about the real veterans with great admiration. into the service and take that oath, you put your life tween the freedom of this country and somebody trying to harm us, then it doesn't get any more -- you can't do much more than that. that is pretty big. bob: the patriots with plenty of time to practice and prepare for sunday night patriot tight end martellus bennett has a brother, michael, who plays for seattle, but who is out for this game with a knee injury. martellus feels badly for his brother but not too badly. >> you always root for him to do well, but not this week. you know? i do what you do go out there are be terrible, but i do what you to go out there and be great either. find some wa

bob halloran in the newsroom. bob: gronkowski went into the game with one injury and came out with another. he was able to start the game in the meadowlands and could not finish it. he messed the game last week with a chest injury. he was able to return to practice this week and he started against the jets. that pass right there is where he may have hurt his back. he stayed in the game. tom brady went to him twice early and deep. on this one, fought off a defender, but could not come up with a catch. he did not play the final three quarters and it is not known if he is ready for the game against the rams. >> everybody's going to try to do different things. i try to show up and do my best. i think greatest time of year. so just do the best you can do. bob: the patriots went on to win the game 22-17. another game-winning drive. more that later and sports. nichole: a short-circuit and a power strip being blamed for this 4-alarm fire in dorchester. five people are homeless after the flames destroyed the home on harlem

. >> now here is bob halloran with sportscenter 5 power by infinity. bob: patriots defensive end jabaal sheard was left behind as the team traveled to san francisco and he will be a healthy scratch tomorrow. for the rest of us a healthy , scratch is usually a good thing, but it would appear sheard is being punished for either poor play or poor performance. sheard who practiced all week didn't seem to sue broken up about the punishment as he instagrammed from last night's celtics game. that was the first indication to us that sheard did not fly out with the team. sheard has no sacks and only two tackles in the last two games but this decision still comes as a surprise. maybe bill belichick is trying to create a new identity for his defense. maybe not. >> the identity i would like to have is a team that wins a lot of games. being known as this kind of timor that kind of team. we are a smart, tough football game that wins teams. that is what we want to be. bob: al horford and jae crowder have both returned to the starting lineup as the celtics play at detr

bob halloran has more from foxborough. no rob gronkowski on the practice field for a second straight day and no immediate accessibility for tom brady. >> the most important thing is the club. turnovers, takeaways, is the most important thing in football. >> the patriots give it and take it away, just not that much of either. patriots 26th in the league in the all-important giveaway takeaway category. >> you have to take pride in just having good ball security. where we meet the girls cross country team which honored their late coats last weekend by running the race of their young lives for someone who enriched their lives as well as those of countless others. for more than 3 decades boys and girls in woburn have been discovering the joy of running at an early age. it carried them into, through and beyond high school. and the man who exposed them all to this wonderful sport was bill o'connor who coached track and cross country at woburn high school for as long as anyone can remember. >> he made us want to work had just for

sportscenter 5's bob halloran joins us live from foxborough tonight. hey, bob. bob: yes, and this is the first gillette says super bowl xlix. now patriots fans can think pete carroll in person for not running the ball to the goal line. seattle was a tough opponent in that game and they are likely to be again tonight. >> i think they all play very aggressively. and, you know, coach says if you love football, sunday night will be a good place for it. physical toughness. great mental toughness. they compete extremely hard. they are one of the best teams, best organizations i have gone up against a my coaching career. >> they've got a lot of great players on defense. they know how to play the game of football super well. bob: it is a great night for football at gillette stadium and we will hear more from the patriots a little later in sports. up on newscenter 5 at 6:00, a warning about an increase in sick animals. the highly contagious disease they are spreading. reid: also coming up, a major earthquake batters in new zealand. mike: we are tracking some needed rain

let's get to sportscenter 5's bob halloran at the breaking news desk. this is after that hit last week. bob: gronk his third straight practice today and was not on the patriots flight out to san francisco this afternoon. he will miss his third game of the season. gronk was ind sunday night when he took this huge hit from seattle's earl thomas. there were reports that gronk may have suffered a collapsed lung but the patriots have simply called it a chest injury. the patriots will also be without wide receiver chris hogan but running back dion lewis will make his season debut . we'll have more coming up at 6:00. donald trump, he has settled a lawsuit over his now-defunct trump university for $$25 -- former trump university $25 million. customers claimed the courses were a scam. trump has strongly denied the claims. under the terms of this settlement, he does not admit wrong-doing. >> also, breaking, an arrest warrant will be issued monday for a woman who suffered an apparent drug overdose in a lawrence dollar store. heartbreaking video showed the woman's y

bob halloran wcvb sportscenter those 2 words together game six conjure up so many memories. there was game six in 1986 which we try to forget and game six in 1975 which extends to infinity and beyond. >> i was watching with my dad in the living room, and when the ball hit the foul pole, i jumped up and went bananas. i remember my dad was like, i didn't know you were a red sox fan. i'm not. i had the square at school. [laughter] anchor: you can win a lot more than that tonight. if the indians when they get the series. new sports team, assemble! anchor: what you going to do tomorrow? this was pretty grand. anchor: welcome back. [laughter] -- we are following breaking news from boston where activists are protesting. reporter: on "chronicle," small businesses still thrive on cambridge. coexistence. i'm maggie hassan, and new hampshire has a very clear choice: do we keep going with a senator who repeatedly votes with the corporate special interests... or a new senator who sides with the people of new hampshire? my focus has always been on creating opportunity for working families

at gillette stadium, bob halloran, sportscenter five s. >> you may have heard the patriots are playing seattle this week that game on sunday, is the first meeting between these two teams since super bowl 49 in arizona. >> i watched it as much as i could over the course of the week to try -- soak play with and, you know, get to know their players and scheme. and sometimes when you play in those super bowls you've got two weeks to prepare and i would say i watched probably more film that week than i've watched in my career. >> two weeks from thursday is thanksgiving. so let me know why i should wear your school sweatshirt on your annual thanksgiving show and contact me, and i doesn't have to be because your team is great volleyball team, soccer team, good teacher, good band, math team. any reason at all, four sweatshirts and i'll be wearing them on thanksgiving night. one of the best nights of the year and we look forward to it every single year. >> for example, my daughter teaches in needham. get you a needham one. >> good enough reason. >> my daughter -- >> nope. >> nope. nope. >> she'

bob halloran, wcvb sportscenter 5. randy: a lawsuit filed against dunkin' donuts. emily: the company says the coffee chain is lying to its customers. also, bruce springsteen getting help on the road. randy: rare sight in the sky this morning. this is live looking at the super moon. looks bigger and brighter than the full moon we usually get to see around here. this is the closest a full moon has been to the earth sin emily: it looks like you need sunglasses, it's so bright. cindy: it's bright now. when it was rising, it was so large. it was distracting. i was looking at it. it's going to be setting this morning at about 6:15. a little more time to enjoy it out there. got a lot of great pictures from viewers as well. i'll share a couple with you. you can see right here we had a bunch, and we are looking at, trying to get to because i can't show it to you until i get to the wall. this is the way the moon looked in natick last night. so big and bright. we have another shot with a gorgeous backdrop. this one from scituate harbor. just fantastic. just love seeing all yo

bob halloran is here. bob: we know tom brady doesn't like to say much about any injuries he may be dealing with but he language today and here it is. a facebook post of a road sign on route 95 in foxboro and brady rights, next stop, new york. his way of telling his fans that he's on his way and ready to play. and if brady gets another win as expected, it will be his tying 200th, him with peyton manning for the most all-time and it's only a matter of time before he holds the record all by himself and it's a record that may never be broken. >> i've been able to count on a lot of people over the years and a lot of guys who battled things, football injuries, and it is a tough sport. i have been around a little bit and have played with a lot of great players. bob: that's tom brady talking about great teams. later, he'll talk about the jets . plus, the boston college eagles look to become bowl eligible. nichole: rescue from the fire. how first responders in florida brought thre the brink. reid: honoring a hero. w

nichole: sportscenter 5's bob halloran is here with a preview seattle seahawks elicits a smile from patriots fans who remember how super bowl xlix ended. the bye week has had giving the patriots plenty of time to prepare for an opponent. the seahawks defense is a tough task as well. >> do it at extremely high levels. this is one of those teams. they led the league in scoring the last four years, doing it with the fewest amount of points. i would not say -- they're going to run every defense in the book. i think they are relatively aggressive. bob: we'll have more from the in paris, music returns to the bataclan. the emotional concert by staying at. reid: wildfires in the south. >> one amber from a fire could cause a lot of damage. reid: the race to put them out and keep people out of harm's way. mike: tracking a rainmaker fios is not cable. we're wired differently. that means incredibly fast 150 meg internet for the holidays. so in the 3.7 seconds it takes gary watson to beat the local sled jump record, fly, gary, fly. ...his friend can download 13 versions of the perfect song... ...his sist

. >> now sportscenter 5 with bob halloran, powered by xfinity. bob twenty games into the nhl : season, the bruins are perfect when jimmy hayes scores a goal a perfect 1-0. going back fifty games, the bruins are a perfect 3-and-0 when jimmy hayes scores a goal -- the point here is jimmy hayes doesn't score a lot of goals. but he got one today at home against the tampa bay lightning , not as the bruins were just getting started. on the power play david krejci , spots torey krug coming down off the blue line. krug snaps one off and david backes gets the tip-in for his best of the year. now, hayes. >> blue line, scores. drought. jimmy hayes with his second goal in 33 games. bob: a drought of biblical proportions. jimmy hayes gets off the proverbial schnide bruins score three times in the second period and that one from david pastrnak in the third bruins up 4-nothing -- 4-1 the final. so, the bruins are now 12-and-10 all 12 wins have come with tuukka rask in goal so, the bruins are 12-and-4 with rask and 0-and-6 without him. rob gronkowski, who missed

announcer: now here's bob halloran with sportscenter 5 bob: some would say the celtics' three-game losing streak was due to the absences of al horford and jae crowder. but isaiah thomas would say, and he did say, it's because the celtics aren't the hardest playing team anymore. but last night, still without horford and crowder, thomas and his tank engine steamrolled over the knicks, 115-87. veterans day yesterday, and members of the military get a standing ovation and some much deserved thank-you's. and after isaiah thomas called his team out for not playing hard enough, he went out and led the way with a 23-point first half and finished the game with 29. second quarter, carmelo anthony the ref has had more than enough. he t's him up. it's a second technical and an automatic ejection. goodbye, melo. a little more from thomas. nice move to the hoop. celtics led by 10 at the break and added to it in the third quarter. and the knicks mailed it in from there. jalen brown with two of his 10, and the celtics go on to win by 28, 115-87. they play at indiana tonight. boston college loses to flori

announcer: now here's bob halloran with sportscenter 5 bob: the celtics were probably closer to getting kevin durant in the off-season than they were to beating him last night. celtics kept it close for a while with the western conference all-stars also known as the golden state warriors. but durant and company just too much firepower. and the celtics were without al horford and jae crowder once again. there's a look at durant doing a little bit of everything. the running, one-handed floater gave the warriors the lead. a couple of nice passes. durant with 23 points, 10 boards, and seven assists. celtic fans getting a good look at what miha and it was a bit excruciating to see just how good durant is. highlight of the night for the celtics here. terry rozier finds avery bradley with the half-court alley-oop. celtics trailed by 7 at the break. still a game, but they got blown out in the third quarter. warriors on an 18-0 run. this is durant with the finish. the warriors outscore the celtics 31-9 in the third. and that's all she wrote. coming up, zaza pachulia hits a "j" and then kind of d

saying that they're standing in solidarity about law enforcement, and they announcer: now here's bob halloran with sportscenter 5 powered by xfinity. bob: the patriots in the meadowlands today taking on the jets. tom brady and rob gronkowski both made the trip. gronk looks like a game-time decision. but brady, who doesn't like to say too much about any of the injuries he may be dealing with, did communicate through a form of sign language yesterday. and here it is. a facebook post of a road sign on route 95 in foxboro. and brady writes, "next stop, new york," his way of telling his fans that he is on his way and read and if brady gets another win, as expected, it will be his 200th in his career, tieing him with peyton manning for the most all time. and it's only a matter of time before he holds the record all by himself, and it's a record that may never be broken. >> i've been able to count on a lot of people over the years, a lot of guys who have battled through a lot of, you know, football things, football injuries, and, um, you know, so it means i've been around for a little bit. you know,

announcer: now here's bob halloran with sportscenter 5 powered by xfinity. bob: it's the tale of two brothers, and the hayes boys are skating in different directions. the bruins' jimmy hayes has gone 26 games without a point and was a healthy scratch last night against the rangers while the rangers' kevin hayes is red hot with eight points in his last both kids are the pride of dorchester, but kev's bringing a little more pride these days. bruins home after four on the road, and it's patrice bergeron with his second of the year. b's up 1-0. the bruins had a three-game winning streak, and tuukka rask with a perfect 6-0. but things went south quickly. first, nick holden ties it up. and then watch this. the bruins on the power play, but the rangers have the breakaway. michael grabner feeds derek stepan, and he beats rask to make it 2-1. a short-handed goal there and one right here. it's kevay pack. he waits and fires, and that's his fifth of the year. the rangers go on to beat the bruins 5-2. b's host buffalo on monday. no patriots today, but the celtics are hom

announcer: now here's bob halloran with sportscenter 5 powered by xfinity. bob: the patriots will square off with the 49'ers in san francisco later this afternoon without rob gronkowski due to injury and without defensive end jabaal sheard due to coach's decision. sheard, a healthy scratch, left behind in new england. he went to the celtics game on friday and could have gone to the bruins-jets game last nightly. not much of a hockey fan, i guess. well, he missed the bruins scoring three unanswered goals in the second period. brad marchand and patrice bergeron breaking out of their mini-slumps. the bruins go on to beat winnipeg 4-1. celtics in detroit. final minute. tobias harris knocks down a three to tie the game at 92. the celtics didn't call timeout. they just head down the floor, and crowder gets a good look. he misses. and horford puts it up and in. celtics take the lead. pistons have one last chance, but here comes horford. he makes the block, preserving the 94-92 win. the celtics play again in minnesota tomorrow. that's sports. have a great day. antoin

. >> now, he was bob halloran with sportscenter 5 powered by xfinity. bob: it is the tale of two brothers skating in different directions. the bruins has gone 26 games without a point in was a healthy scratch last night. while the rangers kevin hayes is pride these days. bruins home after four on the road the second goal of the year. up 1-0. things went south quickly. tying it up right there, then watch this. on the power play the rangers have the breakaway. he beats that to make it 2-1. it is kevin the rangers go on to beat the bruins 5-2 they host a buffalo tomorrow. no patriots today but the celtics are home against the denver nuggets tonight. al horford it's out with a concussion for the second straight game post-up kelly olynyk will make his season debut. doug: thank you. just a senior in high school this week's a plus student has been running a non profit organization for eleven years. childhood friend died of cancer. she wanted her memory to live on. >> put every single smile on every single child's face, for the joy it brings to their lives and t

mike lynch: we will check in with bob halloran live from gillette and see you then. nichole: all right. no doubt you've received one of those calls, a scammer on the other end. reid: we have some advice on how to fight back in ben has your back. plus -- >> i think that is a real thing. nichole: on a mission to help veterans thrive when they return to civilian life. how some local vets are making a difference. reid: a fitchburg girl on a mission. her devotion to helping classmates struggling with food insecurity coming up at 5:30 in >> you are watching newscenter 5 at 5:00. nichole: the feds just indicted more than 50 people in india for running a $300 million phone scam posing as irs officials. reid: but law enforcement says these phone scams are nearly impossible to completely shut down. newscenter 5's ben simmoneau has what should you know in tonight's ben has your back. it was a protocol she never expected. >> they told me not to take the phone from my ear or they'd shoot my daughter. ben: the girl now being held hostage, and they were many thousands in cash. >> t

announcer: n here's bob halloran with sportscent 5 powered by xfinity. bob: just thesayingords how super bowl xlix ended. that was two years ago. and was two weeks ago since the patriots last played. back to work tonight. home agast the seahawks. somile. also running back dion lewisas been activated from the pup list. celtics were in indiana last night, winning for the second night in a row. kelly olynyk with the lay-in off the alley-oop. olynyk with 12 in the first half and 16 for the game. still no al horford orae crowder lastight. but the celtics have more than enough to take care of the pacers. celtics win 105-99. arizona against e coyotes. no score through the first period. but zdeno chara gets his second of the year. 1-0 bruins. and what a year for davi pastrnak already. only 20 years old, but he's fast beming a star. he'll get his 10th goal of t and uinsthe breat arizona 2-1. uins skate at colorado tonight. mike lynch has those highlights and the patriots on sportscenter 5 o.t. that's sports. ? i hope that someone gets my ? ? i hope that someone ge

announcer: now here's bob halloran with sportscenter 5 powered by xfinity. bob: the manager in waiting is tired of waiting. red sox bench coach torey lovullo, basically a human safety net there in case john farrell failed, was hired yesterday as the new manager of the arizona diamondbacks. the diamondbacks, you'll recall, also made former red sox month. and hazen plucked lovullo off the red sox bench, where he sat for the past four years. lovullo was the red sox interim manager for 48 games in 2015 when farrell underwent cancer treatment. lovullo is expected to be introduced at a news conference on monday. chicago, affectionately known as the windy city and that toddlin' town and less affectionately as hog butcher for the world, currently known as world series champions. seems like everyone wearing ei an estimated five million people showed up to celebrate their favorite team, many of them making plans to do it again in 108 years. boston college football is home against louisville today. we'll have highlights later tonight. that's sports. antoinette: ah, grea