But where we will keep the ice and keep it good and frozen will be at gillette. Tomorrow looking good for the winter classic. 39 degrees. In for some colder temperatures to kick off 2016. Just how cold . Topping out in the 20s for a couple days next week. The extended forecast to come in a bit. Sarah time now for fast track traffic with danielle gersh. Danielle thanks, sarah. Good morning, everyone. Lets look outside at the roads. This is the expressway. Traffic is flowing nicely. Lets go to the maps. From the braintree split into boston on the expressway northbound, just niens minutes so far this morning. South of town, no issues to tell you about. All green. The pike out to framingham, wide open. Your ride into town on the pike has no delays right now. North of town, route 39 from lawrence into boston, looking good so far this morning, so is route 1. Take a look at those drive times if youre getting ready to head out the door. The expressway, the braintree split into boston, ten minutes. Into town on the pike from 128, 12 minutes. 39 southbound, 128 to the zakim bridge, 11 minutes. So far this morning the t is sarah getting ready to ring in the new year, boston making its final preps before the big night. Police promising added security all across the city. Nancy they say there is no reason to be on edge, but they are making sure the new year starts off as safely as possible. 7s Kris Anderson joining lives in boston with more on this years first night preparations. Kris . Kris sarah, nancy, preparations are well under way here in Copley Square. Take a look behind me. You see the crews are up early with us. Theyre getting these elaborate Ice Sculptures ready and in place, set to go for tonights big festivities. City officials understand there is obviously safety concern, but they do stress there is a security plan in place. As boston gets ready to ring in the new year, police are stepping up security to make sure the first night celebration in Copley Square is safe. We have a good plan in place. Were going to have plenty of Police Visibility out there. Just want to really make it out there. Kris Police CommissionerWilliam Evans says officers will be out in full force to make sure everyone has a great night. Well have plenty of officers out there. Well have bomb dogs. Well have Everything Possible we can. But im always a little wary of having an overpresence that we intimidate people. Kris in new york city, preparations are under way for the famous ball drop. 6,000 n. Y. P. D. Officers will be on patrol. People entering times square will be screened twice and more than 1,000 security cameras will be rolling all night. Police are not aware of any threats but recent terrorist attacks around the world have them on alert. Were aware the threat picture has changed because of isis. Its changed significantly from what it was a year ago were to years ago. Kris overseas brussels canceled fireworks and other festivities as a precaution after Police Arrested two suspected terrorists in turkey who they say planned to attack the event. Meantime, back here in the hub, the mayor says the night should we want to end the year on a great note here, and after the first night celebrations. And we want to make sure that we make lots of good, positive memories here. Kris well, tonights big theme for the first night is free. There are none of those buttons you will need because all of the events involving first night are absolutely free. Thats great. Speaking of free, the t will be free tonight after 8 00 and it will run until 2 00 a. M. Some if you want to cut down on the hassle of driving to downtown, finding a parking space and battling the crowds when it comes to your car, you can just take the t. Again, free tonight after 8 00 until 2 00 a. M. And these crews are going to be working hard all through the morning to get everything ready to go, those Ice Sculptures and all of the elaborate carvings. Thats the story live in Copley Square at first night festivities. Kris anderson, 7news today in new england. Nancy kris, thanks. Belgian police have arrested a tenth person in connection with last months terrorist attacks the 22yearold is charged with participation in a terrorist organization. Police also found several cell phones with the suspect. They are now examining them. 130 people were killed in the november 13th attacks. Sarah breaking overnight, the mother of the texas affluenza teen, ethan couch, back in the United States after being extradited from mexico. Tonya couch was escorted by u. S. Marshals in handcuffs after arriving in los angeles. The 18 year old remains in mexico. Family attorneys were able to deportation. A judge will now decide when he has to go back. Couch is accused of violating the probation he received after killing four people in a drunk driving crash. He avoided prison time because lawyers argued his wealthy parents never set limits for him. News today. He was once the figure of family values and now bill cosby under fire and facing a Sexual Assault charge. The comedian out on bail this morning after appearing in court wednesday. Vowing to fight the allegations, but his alleged victims say theyre relieved hes finally been charged. He was americas most beloved tv father. Now hes officially charged with Sexual Assault. Bill cosby arrived at a small courthouse in pennsylvania walking slowly with the help of his lawyers and said nothing. Sir . Sarah the incident dating back to 2004. Investigators say former Temple University employee Andrea Constand went to cosbys house to talk about her career. Mr. Cosby urged her to take pills that he provided to her and to drink wine. The effect of which rendered her unable to move or respond to his advances, and he committed her. Sarah constand filed a criminal complaint, but the d. A. At the time said there wasnt a year later she filed a civil complaint including 13 other women. I cried when i found out there were 13 women. I didnt think there were two. I thought there was one. Me. The civil suit settled out of court, but that didnt stop the allegations from pouring in. Now more than 50 women say they were sexually assaulted by bill cosby, many with a similar story. Cosby denies the allegations. In a statement his lawyer said, make no mistake, we intend to mount a vigorous defense against this unjustified charge, and we expect mr. Cosby will be exonerated by a court of law. Gloria allred represents 29 other alleged victims whose cases are past the statute of limitations. Seeing him criminally charged and having to face a trial is the best Christmas Present that they have ever received. Sarah cosby has posted a 1 million bond. He will be back in court in a few weeks. If convicted he could spend up to ten years in prison. Has indicted Enrique Marquez. He bought two of the guns the shoot centers San Bernardino used. They planned two other terrorist attacks in 2011 and 2012 but never carried them out. Tashfeen malik and syed farook opened fire at a holiday party. The two were killed in a Police Shootout hours after the massacre. Wednesday. Nancy also on 7, we now know the man killed in a crash involving secret service in wakefield, new hampshire, shouldnt have been behind the wheel. Investigators say Bruce Danforth did not have a drivers license. They say he swerved on to the wrong side of the road, crashing headon into the car carrying four agents wednesday night. Officials say the agents had just come from surveying a Campaign Site in berlin. They were working as part of the team already without david krejci, now losing their leading goal scorer. Meanwhile, the buzz around the big game is growing in foxborough. Players and coaches getting a chance to test the ice with their families yesterday. With even more events on the ice scheduled for today, 7s Nicole Oliverio outside at Gillette Stadium. She joins us with more on the winter classic. Hi. Nicole well, good morning. There is a lot going on at gillette. The game may be tomorrow, but today as you mentioned, both teams will take the ice for practice. Theres a womens game along with an alumni game. As you mentioned, the bs now learning they have to play tomorrow without marchand. Like hockey at Gillette Stadium. Its amazing. Definitely there for it. Nicole but for Brad Marchand, todays family skate is as close as hell get to the winter classic. Marchand tangled up. Nicole the bs winger earned a threegame suspension for clipping an ottawa player, meaning hell miss the nhls key event. Hes a big part of our offense. Nicole dorchesters jimmy hayes is dealing with ticket related headaches. 22, 25 seats. You bought them all . I had to buy them all. A lot of christmas gifts. Nicole max talbot getting ready for his winter classic. I appreciate it more. I feel these family skates are so fun. My sob is two years old. This was his first time on skates. I had the go pro going. These are memories youll and it will be more memorable if you can come out on top. Its a regularseason game, but at the same time, its a special moment for everyone, and you want the play your best. Nicole and the weather is definitely perfect for an outdoor game. We have a little bit of snow still here in the background, and the cold temps. So again, the bs will be practicing on the isolater today. That womens game starting at 2 00. The alumni gay follows right after. Were live at gillette. Nicole oliverio, 7news today in new england. Sarah and keep it here on 7 nbc on new years day to catch the bruins take on the canadiens. Coverage starts at 1 00 p. M. And join us for complete postgame coverage, as well. Nancy looking forward to that. Wild death continuing to pummel parts of the country. The south now on the verge of historic flooding. Forced to make an Emergency Landing, a plane on its way to maine lands in rhode island after passengers report an unusual smell on board. And drier air working in for milder temperature and melling today. That forecast coming up next. Danielle a quiet morning on the roads so far. This is the expressway from the braintree split into boston. Just ten minutes. No other major delays to tell you about. So far the t is on time. Well be right back. Not getting your best sleep . Could be youve got the wrong bed. Enter sleep number. She likes the bed soft. Hes more hardcore. You can both adjust the bed for the best sleep of your life. Find the lowest prices of the season, going on now. Save 600 on the 1 rated i8 bed. On average, it takes three hundred americans working for a solid year, to make as much money as one top ceo. Its called the wage gap. And the republicans will make it worse by lowering taxes for those at the top and letting corporations write their own rules. Hillary clinton will work to close the wage gap. Equal pay for women to raise incomes for families, a higher minimum wage, lower taxes for the middle class. She gets the job done for us. Im Hillary Clinton and i nancy 5 15. Welcome back on this thursday morning. Can you believe were already at the very end of 2015 . Sarah no. Its really hard to believe, bri. Bri thats the truth. We have temperatures above the freezing mark. That happened overnight. We did get some wet weather and some slick weather as we headed through the night last night. Onethird of an inch on cape cod. Hyannis coming in at. 33. Boston and worcester just under onetenth of an inch of rain. Right now were left with spotty drizzle as you can see around the city and inside of 128 and also on cape cod. These are light showers. You notice here that all of those temperatures are either at the freezing mark, as you see in bedford, or above the freezing mark. I do still want to point out, though, that while this is very marginal, you could still have some places, especially on the back roads, you get outside of the city, then you can actually see some slick spots on the roads. So please take it easy again today. If not for the slick spots, then also for the patchy fog that youre still seeing. We still have very moist air in place for us. But that wont last into the afternoon. We get some drier air that works in from the west. It kicks out those showers and it kicks out the cloud cover. So moving through the time line here, were done with the showers within next hour or two. Then we start to see those clouds pulling apart, breaking apart, light wind out of the westnorthwest, will actually dry up our air mass and give us some sunshine. We havent seen that in a couple days. We havent had the melting really that we needed yesterday. We get that today with those to mid40s, and still cool, but fairly mild for the 7 00 p. M. Hour. As those revelers head out the celebrate new years eve tonight, things are looking above average this time of year. So were wrapping up december as weve spent this time of month, fairly mild for winter. Highs today in the mid to upper 40s as we see in worcester. 39 degrees, maybe 40, but still some melting in store for that dry tonight. Clouds pulling off by the wee hours of this morning, dropping to freezing by the time we hit 3 00 a. M. Winter classic forecast looking good for tomorrow, as well. A touch of a breeze at times that. Will take the windchill readings down into the mid20s. Thats what it will feel like unless you bundle up. So pack on those layers for the game tomorrow. December temperatures, what a mild month, and i think yesterday was about half a degree below average. So im rounding here. Well call it an average day, but were still running 10. 5 degrees above average. This will wrap up as the warmest for a flipflop of our temperatures as we head into january. Heres some good news, though, if youre not fan of the cold. How about fan of the sunshine. Within the next month, we gain about 50 minutes of daylight. So some good news there if youre a sun worshiper like myself. Heres a look at that on 7 forecast. Yes, starting out next week on a chilly note and possibly some flurries or light snow showers on monday, as well. Nancy bri, thank you. Meantime, wild weather continues to slam missouri. Raging floodwaters swept a home away and carried it down a river where it slammed enter a bridge. The Mississippi River is expected to reach record levels in parts of that state today. Bridges and highways are already underwater in some areas. And the death toll rose to 14 on wednesday. Floodwaters sweeping 12 of those killed away while they were in their cars. The governor of missouri says the recovery effort will be a long one. This is going to be a while. You dont have this much water businesses and a lot of public asset, and the water goes down. Its not over. Nancy the governor also called in several hundred Missouri National guard members to help with rescue, recovery and security. Sarah three Webster Police officers are being honored for their bravery after risking their lives to rescue a woman trapped inside a burning building. Officer Robert Larochelle was first to run into the home on granite street monday once he learned someone was still inside. Officers james young, sr. , and Spencer Donovan then joined him to make sure she made it out okay. We had to take turns in going in, swapping out, getting air. We were able to finally free her leg from behind the door and dragged her out. At that point youre not thinking. Youre just acting and just going. Sarah the officers say they dont consider themselves heroes since anyone at their department would have done the same thing. Nancy up next on 7news, more t trouble. A new federal review finding sarah plus were ready for bruins at Gillette Stadium. One player giving his Hometown Team a little love, though, for is the economy rigged . Well, the 15 richest americans acquired more wealth in two years than the bottom 100 Million People combined. Im bernie sanders, and i approve this message. My plan make wall street banks and the ultrarich pay their fair share of taxes, provide living wages for working people, ensure equal pay for women. The middle class will continue to disappear unless we level the playing field. With your help, as president , bri good morning, everybody. Some wet and even some frozen weather last night, but right now leftover patches of drizzle and very light showers working through inside of 128 near taunton, as well, and across the cape. But now well kick that out and warm things up. Right now sitting at freezing in bedford, but everywhere else, were just a touch above that. Still watch out for some slick spots this morning because there could be some of those back roads in areas that do see the temperature below freezing this morning. But again, warming up into the mid to upper 40s. Visibility is reduced in some areas due to some patchy, dense fog. Well get to the extended forecast coming up in a few minutes. And now time for 7sports with trey daerr. On family skate day at Gillette Stadium for the bruins, hopefully Brad Marchand got his fill of the winter classic, because when the puck drops tomorrow, hell be enjoying the game from the box. He was handed down a threegame ban for his hit on mark borowiecki. Now the bs will carry on without their leading goal scorer. Lakers and celtics. Kobe bryant paying his final visit to the garden, and the black mamba sinking the green team with a deep three late in the fourth. Kobe had 15 points in a 112104 laker win, leaving the garden a winner for one last time. Its just a surreal feeling honestly. I wish i could do more to show my gratitude to him. I just try to say thank you as much as i possibly could. Its a weird feeling walking across center court and looking down at that logo. You know what i mean . I just try to cherish it as much nancy and ped allegations aside, Peyton Manning set to do something sun