. >> and pete brady's family struggling with high collect bills and now a local company is coming to the rescue. >> live from the channel 4 studios in boston, wbz news at 6 starts right now. stories on the patriots rob gronkowski treated at the hospital. >> i feel i need to apologize to everyone. >> chandler jones saying sorry for what happened outside the foxboro police department over the weekend. the question is how will either incident affect this week answered play-off game against the chiefs. >> we have team coverage of both breaking stories for you but let's start with sports director steve burton live at the. >> two big stories involving two key players and let's start with grofng because he missed practice. adam schefter reports he had to be taken to the hospital to get the knee checked on and including an injection. this was gronk at yesterday's practice. having his arm wrapped. he also missed all of tuesday's practice but the team is optimistic he will play on saturday. but will he be near 100%? time will tell.

for pete brady inspiration behind the ice bucket challenge and his fallly are getting free solar panels. it's a lot of complications. >> and the family discovered one is sky-high electric bills. it was another thing to struggle with youw but a local solar company offered to help. caring for pete and his family's beverly home is a 24 hour a day challenge. pete has als lou gehrig's disease and needs not only around the clock nursing but also a huge amount of technology all drawing enormous aelectricity. >> we are running a icu unit. the electric bill went from 100dollars a month to a thousand. >> we are looking at the meter and they said they he never seen a household with a meter runing that quick. >> reporter: with the baby daughter lucy and wife jewely there for i -- julie there for him he is fighting but need help. >> he no longer has the ability to control and regulate the body temperature so we have to keep it at a certain temperature and humidity and doing so we have to run a lot of equipment. >> reporter: that's where boston solar comes in. donating a 60,000 dollar state of the ar

brady is superior. reporter: sports radio talk show host pete shepherd is predicting a double digit patriots win on sunday. the numbers would tend to bear that out. brady is 11-5 against manning, after winning their games this weekend, both men tried to play down the personal rivalry. >> i'll be talking about them all wednesday. other for a long time, and being in the same profession for all these years and being at different events, we have a good friendship. reporter: the matchup numbers favor brady. there is some bad news, while brady has won about 10% of his games outside of denver, he's 2-6 at mile high stadium. >> great matchup, giving the extra edge to brady as usual being a new england fan. but i hope it's a great game and looking forward to going to the super bowl. >> it's great, it's been a rivalry for a long time and they're both playing strong at the end of the season, i don't think anybody could have predicted that. >> they will always be linked together, they're both hall of fame quarterbacks, it's been one and one for the last 10 years, just brady is better, it's that simple. >> while brady

brady 17. there is an article predicting and advance to super bowl 50. >>> pete rose who had a 44-game hitting street snapped in 1978 immediately after appearing on the cover of sports illustrated learned today he will be inducted into the hall of fame. the cincinnati reds hall of fame, later this summer. hard to believe he is not already in there. >>> all right, i was-- i was looking at how good the bobble was. >> the table i have them on >>> it was not a calm day on wall street. dow up 183 points early but settled 28 points higher on the day. s&p mostly change. >>> we have the conversation every year. >> new oscar anger. should chris rock drop out of hosting after pink et smith called for a boycott? >> the academy is taking dramatic steps after no actors of color were nominated. hope"? >> chris rock is under pressure

pete grady hall on campus. we told but that hall back in december. brady's daughter lucy has been gifted a full ride to that. new at 11:00, the wreck happened around 10:00 this morning on charles street. no one was hurt and the crash caused major damage to the car. police in plainville are warning people about a phone scam, today someone called claiming they were from publishing clearinghouse and told the for a gold seal claiming the money and had to get the first information. publisher's clearinghouse says they never ask anyone to pay for a prize story a feline crimefighter will soon be back on the streets. boston police tweeting out this photo of s.w.a.t. cat with veterinarian castillo in franklin. it will turned to police after returning for weeks but they noticed she wasn't herself. the doctor treated the cat for dehydration and expect her to return to duty in just a few days. >>> i realize i'm getting ahead of myself and haven't told you much about the cold weather out there tonight. let's talk about how chilly it is. how about 16 out in worcester. 17 in bedford and 20 in boston. no question cold air is

brady a crybaby. that is like poking the bear. you don't want to make him mad. peterose will be inducted into the hall of fame. not that hall of fame -- the cincinnati reds hall of fame. they will also retire his number 14. leon: now he will get all the free chili he wants. coming up, a bold new menu item from mcdonald's. leon: mcdonald's is making a unique move in the desert realm, their fries covered in chocolate, only in japan. they will be covered in white chocolate sauce. they say that the mixture of sweet and salty makes for a harmonious taste. i both said wed would like it. sounds good to us. leon: you let me know. alison: maybe they will del alison: the last word? steve: all the models came in this evening and not a good change. and we are hoping they will change a little more, but right now it appears midday friday, some parts of the viewing area, from the south and west, charlottesville towards the district, bwi, that is how it is moving, the heaviest know friday night into the day friday. a prolonged event. eileen whelan will be in bright and early. leon:

pete rose. of course the still nonmajor league baseball hall of famer. trying to make a little bit of a point. >> yeah. >> . brady is a cry baby. with 40 megs of internet speed from centurylink, a family of four can all be online at the same time, streaming, gaming, or downloading movies. yeah, the internet's great, but i think hair and makeup went a little too far. that's not working. horn-rimmed glasses, just-slept-in-his-car kinda thing. yeah, i miss the rumpled crazy uncle look. be "paul giamatti." that's the essence of this role. feel like a hollywood insider with high-speed internet there it is. the snow that came blowing in this morning. from north to south. left a trace maybe half inch in most locations. and quickly as it moved out, the sun popped out. it melted away. but right on its heels here comes the next storm. out of the pacific. already at salt lake city. into the mountains tonight. and on its way to us. late tomorrow and tomorrow night. winter weather advisory out for the north central mountains. where they could do well. high temperatures today warmer he's. with upper 40s and low 50s to the sout

from the brady campaign to republicans on the campaign trail who have very harsh words for the president. this is eslengsly setting up another congressional fight. congress has not and so pete is this sim or is there some new aspect to this the president is proposing? >> what the administration says is all this does is summarize existing the law says you have to have one if you're engaged in the business. how do you tell if you're engaged in the business? do you buy guns intending to sell them? do you sell them with the intent to make a profit? you have a store site, or on a card table and a gun show or online all the straeg says they're doing is merely saying what is already in the federal law, that it's not a chang but they hope that by making it clear and with the hadn't of additional enforcement that they'll get more people who sell guns to become licensed deals are, which will result. >> i want to bring in boston mayor marty walsh. he's a proponent of gun control and will be joining the president in the east room for the announcement. >> thanks for having me today. >> are you satisfied this is the president can do in dealing with gun control? >> it's another step forwa