Against students at a number of the district s schools. It reportedly mentioned something about backpacks and packages. The superintendent says its common for schools get threats. But he called this one rare saying schools in the nation s secondlargest district will remain closed until the threat is cleared. We are taking this action out of an abundance of caution to make sure that every child in l. A. Unified School District and every employee is absolutely safe. Erika new york city Officials Say they were sent the same threat but concluded that it was a hoax. We will bring you any developments as we get them. New this noon, sources tell newscenter 5 the driver of the runaway mbta train that traveled through several stops unmanned has arrived for a disciplinary hearing. Newscenter 5 s Juli Macdonald is live at the mbta command center in boston where she also spoke to one of the dispatchers who helped stop that packed train, juli . Every day is different here at the mbta s operation control center. A day. In fact, the orange line is referred to as the two second line because that is how often the phone rings. For a split second or so, i said to myself, did he really just say what i thought he said mbta for 15 years. S no operator on board. They start to kick windows out. Now you have people trying to jump on or off. S a dangerous situation. Supervisor mcneil decided to of it. Once they passed jfk, it was hands in the air. It stopped. His message to commuters is that 24 hours a day, seven days a week, there are eyes on the screen trying to resolve the issues. Things happen all the time, things the public doesn t know about. We are always behind the scenes working to resolve the problem. Even when the train did finally stopped, the dispatchers job did not. The train could roll backward, so they had a very small window to get passengers safely off. Mcdonald, wbc be Wcvb Newscenter 5. Erika new this noon, sources tell newscenter 5 the driver of the runaway mbta train that another nightmare on the tracks. A Commuter Rail train breaks down overnight, stranding passengers. The kingstonbound train left south station. It broke down between braintree and south weymouth. It took two hours for it to finally arrive at its destination after another train essentially pushed it there. Passengers then reboarded another train. The Commuter Rail is blaming a mechanical failure. Right now, jury deliberations back underway in the case of this danvers teenager charged with murdering his teacher. Newscenter 5 s sera congi is live in salem with the tough questions those jurors must consider, sera . They want to see some of the Video Surveillance shown during the trial. Right now, there is a technical issue, so there is no verdict yet. This is what they have to work with. It on each page, a charge. First degree murder. Two counts of aggravated rape , and then armed robbery. No questions from the jury so far with the exception of the question about the video equipment. They deliberated three hours yesterday and are going another three hours today, so about six in total. Again, this is the trial of a danvers teenager who has been charged in the stabbing death of a teacher. The first charge has a life sentence. Because philip chism is 16 years old, he will have the possibility of parole in 15 years. Be other charges the other charges have the possibility of a life sentence and the judge will determine if he serves the sentences concurrently or consecutively. Jury is now taking up the case of a New Hampshire mother and two others, charged in connection with her daughter s overdose death. Evangelique tarmey died in a Rochester Motel in october from acute fentanyl intoxication. Police say eve, her mother, mother s boyfriend and a woman from massachusetts were shooting heroin. The cases against all 3 are now heading to court where a grand jury will decide whether to indict them. Also new, a burglary ring suspect arrested in boston is heading back behind bars. Today, kevin paul went before a New Hampshire parole board. They revoked his parole, sending him back to prison for two years. Police say paul took two stolen handguns during a burglary in New Hampshire in october just months after he had been granted parole for being the getaway driver for a man who shot at a Police Officer in 1997. To the weather now. Live pictures of a sunny boston, drying out after some overnight rain. You can see the camera is shaking. Danielle, now it s strong wind that danielle gusts up to 38 Miles Per Hour in boston. We do have an advisory in place until 6 00 p. M. The west at about 4050 Miles Per Hour. Here is what happens as we go forward in time. Notice that the winds will be sustained at about 2530 Miles Per Hour through the afternoon. Then they start to back off as we head toward this evening. We also keep the clouds with us it s all associated with this area of low pressure and the cold front that brought us the rain earlier. Now the winds are really ramping up and bringing down more cloud. Even a couple of isolated showers out in western mass as we go through the afternoon today. Right now, it is all about warm temperatures. 58 degrees in boston. 60 along the south shore, the as we go through the next 12 hours, we are going to see temperatures drop back into the 40 s, but big changes are coming area and we will talk about the major cooldown ahead. Erika commitment 2016. All eyes on las vegas. Republicans for president getting ready to square off again. Donald trump enters this latest round with his biggest lead yet. Karla barguiarena with the new top competitor he s expected to go after tonight. Donald trump they are all coming after me. So far, everyone who has attacked me has gone right down the tubes. Reporter donald trump telling supporters he is ready. He will be center stage again in las vegas, this time standing next to a new rival, who is cutting his lead short. Trump donald trump, 41 . New polls in iowa show that ted cruz is in a virtual tie with donald trump. But he is refusing to retaliate against trumps insults. I don t think the American People are interested in a bunch of candidates bickering like schoolchildren. Reporter there will be seven candidates on the stage, including ben carson, a one time front runner whose numbers have plummeted in the polls. Last sunday, the president spoke to the nation in an effort to calm us and make us feel more comfortable. I wish he hadn t spoken at all. Reporter trump feels he will be a punching bag during the debate and claims he s ready. This is the last debate of the year for republicans. The democrats are set to debate a third time this saturday on abc. Erika tom brady was asked this morning about his support for his friend donald trump and here what the patriots star said on his weekly paid appearance on weei. Tom brady i stay out of this debate. Donald is a good friend of mine. I have known him for a long time. I support all of my friends. That is what i have to say. He is a good friend and he has always been so supportive of me. It s so remarkable what he has achieved in his life, being an incredible businessman, a tv politics. Erika brady got to know the s miss usa beauty pageant right after winning the super bowl in 2002. On the democratic side, bernie he ll be in rochester tonight at 5 30 following by a town hall meeting at Winnacunnet High School school in hampton at 7. The most recent New Hampshire ten points ahead of hillary clinton. Also in New Hampshire today, former congresswoman gabby gun violence. Giffords was shot in the head in 2011, during an event in arizona. She will be joined by her husband, mark kelly, and Granite State leaders, to announce a new bipartisan state coalition, to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people. Right now, three people are being questioned in connection to terror attacks in paris 10 months apart. Two are being held in the investigation into this deadly siege of a Kosher Grocery store in january. Four people were killed. A third suspect is being questioned in connection to last month s attacks which left 130 it s still not clear if those attacks are linked. A car flies off the parking garage landing on the roof stories below. What the driver says happened whole story. Also, a controversial study about pregnancy, antidepressants and autism. Why experts say expectant moms shouldn t panic. Warm right now, but temps will for rain is on the way. The timeline ahead. And the force is here. Star wars fever spreading nationwide as the film makes its best mayors who governed as a pragmatist. Bernie sanders passed more amendments in a Republican Congress than any other member. Cracked the gridlock with john mccain to strengthen veterans healthcare. Bernie sanders. A consistent, principled, and effective leader. Building a future to believe in. Sanders im Bernie Sanders you are watching news center [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] erika horrific freefall in california. A car plummets 40 feet off a parking garage injuring the two women inside. The driver says she was backing out of a parking spot when she hit the gas instead of the break through a barrier and onto the pavement below. But witnesses say the pair was distracted possibly on their a maryland man is under arrest this noon, accused of trying to help isis. Mohamed elshinawee lives outside baltimore, but was born in egypt. Contact with the terror group 9,000 from them. He claims he was just trying to scam the terror group out of t believe him. They think he was in the early stages of planning a domestic attack. Despite pleading guilty, former subway spokesman jared fogle is appealing his conviction. To 15 years in prison for child pornography and sex crimes to having an extensive history of hiring underage prostitutes. As part of his plea deal prosecutors agreed not to seek more than 12 and a half years in prison. But the judge gave fogle more than 15 years, giving him grounds to appeal because it exceeded the maximum term prosecutors agreed to pursue. Controversy surrounding a new autism. Canadian researchers found women who took antidepressants in the last six months of pregnancy were 87 more likely to have a child later diagnosed with autism. The overall risk is low with less than 1 of the nearly 150,000 babies studied being diagnosed by the age of 7. Experts say pregnant women currently taking medication shouldn t panic. You don t want to start it if you don t need it, but for women who need it, it should not increase their level of guilt wrong because they are balancing the risk of untreated depression and the risks of the medication. Erika Health Experts point out there are flaws in the study and say it doesn t give a definitive link between antidepressants and autism. Street. The debris fell onto the sidewalk there. There is scaffolding up. One person was injured. Over the scene. There are firefighters on the scene and someone being taken away on a stretcher. We do know one person was hurt when some kind of debris fell. You can see that there is wooden debris on the sidewalk and a stretcher is being brought by rescue workers over to await the on the scene. We will bring you more information as soon as we get it. We turn on mount hud. A family, including two jose correa, his fiancee and two Little Brothers drove up to the mountain to sled. S tires buried in 4feet of snow. And it gets worse, they had no phone service and no way to communicate. They would have panicked as well. I was calm. I was telling them everything was going to be ok. Erika the group hunkered down in the truck for the night, leaving it running. Fortunately, jose s mother posted the group s last known location on facebook. The next morning a group of snowmobilers found them and pulled them to safety. Parts of the midwest and west coast seeing their first winter storm of the year. Snow blanketing the roads in utah overnight, triggering hundreds of accidents. Several inches also falling in california and arizona. Many of arizona s desert areas, like phoenix, are also experiencing rare freezing temps with warnings posted. It s so dramatically different we are expecting to see snow and cold temperatures, and in the degrees. Of some burrito and overnight. Temperatures right a few rumbles of thunder a few rumbles of thunder overnight. Temperatures right now are very nice. Where ham picking up over an inch of rain. Yorba seeing an inch of rain. Natick picking up about 6 10 of an inch of rain. From this cold front that came on through, and now behind it, we are starting to see wind really pick up from the west. There could be a brief shower or two, especially out in the berkshires. Other than that, just expecting you can see the camera shaking out there. A wind advisory is in effect until 6 00 p. M. We are going to turn much cooler as we head toward tomorrow and doorstep or thursday. Of 4050 miles an hour at times. Right now, up to 38 miles an an hour in worcester. Take a look. 58 in boston. 60 on the cape. 60 in nantucket. It is warm, but starting to cool off. Western mass has 50 degrees, but that s still well above where we should be at this time of year. In fact, we were near records today. We had highs early today that were close to the record, but we didn t break any records. Most of december has been very warm. We are continuing that today. Temperatures will go back down as we had through the work week. As we go to towards tonight, five 00, falling back into the 40 s in western mass, 50 in worcester. Then later tonight, everyone dropping back into the 40 s. About 40 degrees in boston and about 40 degrees on the cape. A chillier night. Tomorrow, these are your high s. We will see a mix of sun and clouds. Tomorrow, you can see this building toward the north. Cold. Storm system out toward the west is going to approach our area and bring us the next chance of rain beginning thursday and winding down on friday. We still need the rain. Out dry in the morning. Through. Behind that, colder area works its way in for the weekend. Look at the temperatures dropping off on saturday to 40 s. It will be blustery, breezy, and called through the weekend, but sunshine. Lot more like the holiday. Erika thank you so much. Nationwide today. Last night, the force made its anticipated sequels ever. Is calling to you. The early reviews call it phenomenal. Incredible. So great. Amazing. Wonderful. Everybody is going to love it. These megafans were out in full force for the premier. The stars were also therefore what could be the biggest movie opening of all time. Star wars is back. I am a han solo guy. That was a dream for me to be on the set working with harrison ford. It is just a dream come true. For the rest of us, the force of awakens will be available in a record 4100 theaters starting thursday night. Official film reviews are bunkered on till midnight thursday. The stars on the red carpet are also tightlipped. I really enjoy the secrecy. It s fun. It s a power trip. To watch it and not know, amazing. If you happen to be a fan of nose boilers, there is an app for that, no spoilers, there erica still warm and till this weekend. Than a gets cooler. Erika that s newscenter 5 at puffs knows winter. Is hard on your nose theres the endless runny noses. 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