49 years later he was one of the longest ruling heads of government. Raul saying it was with deep sadness that he announced his brother, fidel, had died before 10 30 last night. Greeted by celebrations in miami. This is a live look at Little Havana. Earlier that street was packed. Many rebellers could b carrying cuban flags and banging on pots and pans. Thousands flocked to florida during castros 49year reign. Fidel castro came to power in cuba in 1959 following a widely popular revolution that overthrew the dictator. The rebels left this ideology and put them on a collision course with the United States, and it wasnt long before the small caribbean island found union at the height of the cold war. The alliance brought the world to the brink of the cuban war. Directed the armed forces to prepare washington retaliated by imposing a political embargo against cuba, providing education and healthcare for all. What fidel achieved in the social order of this country has not been achieved by any poor nation and be my rich but not free. The dreams of freedom theyd given to the cuban people return to today. As Prime Minister and later president , castro was never able to achieve economic prosperity. Castro always blamed the United States embargo. Communist party. Thousands of opponents dismissed as traders at the service of u. S. Imperialism were imprisoned or sent to exile. Castro not only survived scores of reported assassination attempts by the cia and ten u. S. Administrations, all bent on ousting him from power in. 2008 it was illnesses not washington that forced him to step back and seek power to his brother, r he was heard mostly through papers and taped appearances on tv. In 2011 he appeared frail as he was assisted to the stage at the party congress. The appearance marking the official end as castros role. And cuba will be in mourning holding several memorials in the next few days. His ashes will travel the reverse route in 1959, and his 7news now turning to a scary accident here at home. A driver talking about a sudden smash on a busy street. Witnesses say a woman was thrown 15 feet into the air when he hit her with his car. Thankfully the woman is expected to be okay, and a driver is talking about this frightening crash. Alex has a preview youll see only on one station. Reporter behind car, charles joyce. He says he didnt carrying bags from the nearby walgreens. All of a sudden i had somebody on my front of my car, right on the front of it, and that was the first i knew of the accident. The woman who was not in a crosswalk was thrown about 15 feet. Joyce stopped and feared the worst. Well, i just stopped and police and everybody came, so just hung around. I was quite relieved when i saw he was moving because i thought killed her. Reporter the woman was rushed to umass with serious injuries. Those who work in the area say its the second crash this year near the intersection of prospect street. I dont know what makes this anymore dangerous than the rest. Reporter the woman in this latest crash is expected to survive. Joyce is thankful it wasnt worse. Theres no way to see her. No, just happened. Just all of a sudden. She was on my car. Reporter and a wild wreck leaving behind damage. Police are investigating after a teen driver lost control, slamming into a power pole and smashing into several cars there. 7s brandon has details. Reporter a teenage driver went on a crash course into a neighborhood, slamming into cars and knocking down a utility pole. She came down and hit a car there. Conserved or turned this way. Curb. Hit my car on the inside, spun it around. It landed in the driveway over here. Reporter it happened just after 2 30 on friday on edgehill road in norwood. You can see where the second car was hit. The young driver was startled. She was shooken up. Really shaken up when she got out of the car, so i think she just maybe panicked or something. Reporter police are still investigating what caused the teen driver to lose c the whole neighborhood lost power. Some homes were in the dark for four to five hours. When the transformer came down, so they had to replace the transformer. Disconnect all the wires. This whole street was out. Reporter brandon, nh1 news in new england. Anthony asking for your help identifying this man here. They say he broke in and stole from the shrine yesterday, but security cameras got a pretty good look at him. If you recognize him youre asked to call police. President elect donald trump mr. Trump picking two key members of his White House Team on friday also working to solidify one of his Campaign Promises. Heres 7s kim khazei. Reporter Donald Trumps administration coming into focus, naming two staff picks. Kathleen mcfarland as Deputy National security advisor, and don mcgan as council. Mcfarland is trumps third female opponent. In 2006 she unsuccessfully ran for senate, trying to unseat new yorks then senator hillary clinton. Now shes a fox news analyst. Mcfarland is known for her hardlined views views and critm of obama. As for mcimrks mcgan. President elect untangle his vast business entanglements today. Intrigue swirled around the position to be field, secretary of state. Whats unusual here is that its been such a public fight, a public split. It wouldnt surprise me if a third name emerges. Reporter president elect trump is trying to keep good on a Campaign Promise to keep workingclass jobs in the u. S. Vice president elect mike pence serving as his chief negotiator in his home state of indiana, aiming to prevent carrier airconditioning to move a major plant to mexico. Aids say president elect trump is scheduled to resume interviews on monday. Im kim khazei, 7news today in new england. And the state of wisconsin ready to recount. Jill stein raised the 1. 1 million needed for the recount of the president ial the elections. What we are saying is that theres enough peripheral evidence to warrant that our system should be investigated. We are not doing this to the benefit of one candidate over the other. Were doing this for the benefit of the American Public so that we can trust that our votes are counted. The party plans to do the same thing in pennsylvania and michigan. And a s patriots practice. Fans breathing a sigh of relief after tom brady had missed two straight practices, but there are still questions about whether or not hell be healthy enough to play against the jets tomorrow. Chelsey mcdonald has more. Reporter tom brady back on the practice field today after missing the last two workouts. Hes officially listed as knee injury a mystery. I dont want to get into it much. Its just bumps and bruises like everybody else. Its tough time of year. A lot of guys going for a long time. Everybodys dealing with something. Dangerous play. We have seen a lot of quarterbacks hurt in that exact same situation. Reporter many think it was this hit from cam chancellor that has brady on the injured report for the first time this season, but he looked just fine last wee and should be ready to go for the jets even with only one walk through under his belt. I feel like i have a lot of football stored up. I always prefer practicing. If you cant practice you cant practice. Reporter Rob Gronkowski at practice, hes listed as questionable for this week. Battling shoulder and ankle injuries. Im here, im alive. Im happy. Reporter reporting at gillette stadium, chelsey mcdonald, 7 sports. Coming up next, a New Hampshire mother facing charges after her kid were found living in filthy conditions. Who she says is to blame. Got a few opportunities for rain in the extended forecast. Well time those out for you after the break. And well have much more on the breaking news out of cuba. Fell fell dead at the age of 90. Welcome back. 8 14 on this saturday, and, boy, it is a foggy, gloomy start to the day. That right there supposedly our skyline shot of the city of boston, but you can barely make it out with all those dense clouds around. Dreary pretty much sums up the day. Fortunately we are going to in fact tomorrow will probably be the brightest of the entire fourday thanksgiving, and looks more and more likely were going to get a good soaker into tuesday, wednesday and thursday. In the meantime fog, visibility down a third of a mile. As you can tell from that picture theres spots where you may have ended up breaking out some of the blocks. May see a little bit of improvement in the next hour now that the sun is expect, but dont expect it to be all nice patches of fog. 38 currently in boston. 42 in plymouth. Everybody at or above the freezing mark. For the most part were just talking clouds and rain and not the white stuff, but there is are a few exceptions here. On the radar just a little bit of light rain around nantucket. Theres a branch of it glancing the u. S. East coast. This will move through the south islands. The other batch of rain is coming in from new york, and this could move into parts of western connecticut, western massachusetts, southern vermont, and in the Higher Elevations it will be cold enough that a little bit of this might fall as snow, but that would be the only area to worry about. In between just kind of cloudy. Youve got rain on both sides of us. Most of us will see a gray, dreary cloudy day. A little bit different for the cape and islands. Of the day, but rest of us, just gray skies. And then finally tomorrow a nice, bright day. First one weve had in a while. It will be a little bit on the breezy side, and it will make it feel a touch cooler. Temperature wise it will be a touch to cooler. Dry on monday, but then a really good chance well see rain tuesday night into wednesday, and in between these two fronts theres a pocket of some warm air, and we might briefly get into that warm air on to at least the 50s on wednesday, and then another shot of rain wednesday night into thursday. So when you see the 7day forecast its not going to rain for three days straight, but periods of rain, and again wednesday night into thursday morning, and when you add it all up could be a significant amount of rain. Good, soaking rain in store for us, middle part of the week. Clearing out by friday. Rob, thank you. And covering more news discovered on the cape. A local woman found it and took it upon herself to track down the soldiers family thousands of miles away. Tim caputo has the details. Reporter they call it the honor room, a place in the familys portland, oregon home filled with momentos. That was a gift to us from an artist in philadelphia. Reporter his 22yearold son, john, died while serving in afghanistan in 2014. We refer t that keeps giving. Reporter nearly three years later one of johns friends reached out to them. People all over the world, hey, i knew your son. Reporter last week it was different. A stranger called. A woman named liz spot add bracelet along the shore. I picked it up and look add it and it has a name engraved and i wiped off some of the sand and all of a sudden i notice a kia on the corner of it and i got a tear to my eye. Members of the Fallen Soldiers baa battalion. This is like the closest to a message in the bottle. I think it was a john sending a message, hey, come find me. Reporter finding them on the opposite side of the country. When liz called and started explaining what had happened, it didnt surprise me at her reaction because i feel that often that and affectionally look up and go, now youre just showing off. Reporter theyre grateful for another story about their late and on another momento to add to their honor room. They believe only 30 of those bracelets were made. They still dont know who it belonged to and how it ended up on the came. Tim caputo, nh1 news in new england. Feeling the blues on black friday. A major retailer dealing with technical issues. Woman once afraid to ask for help now opening up about her story youll see on just one station. A local woman making a plea for help to get lifesaving surgery. Shes in desperate need of a liver transplant. I feel like im being kept alive by something. Reporter life is difficult right now for 26yearold dania. She has dialysis three times a daily. Diagnosed with lupus at age 11, the autoimmune disease attacked her kidneys, and she desperately needs a transplant. If people didnt know that part about me they wouldnt think twice. Hey, this is a girl that needs a kidney. And once you put them back that piece of information that shes muslim, i dont know how each persons going to react. The University Made an appeal. Given the Political Climate, were fear broader outreach could harm her. Ive heard numerous reports of muslims being subjected to ethnic slur, being told to get out of the country, and the last thing any of us want to do is make dania a potential target. Reporter but with do i believe sis appliance dialysis appliances piled up in our apartment. Hate. Theres people out there that might say, hey, shes muslim, and i dont want to get tested for her because she is muslim, but at the same time i have faith there are good people out there that wouldnt think like that. Reporter her life depends on it. I just got married a few years ago, and i feel like im just starting my life. Coming up on 7news, protests for the dakota pipeline project hitting close to home. Why these boston protesters were outside a local bank. The celtics getting off to a good start against the spurs. Would they hold ton to that lead . The highlights in sports. A man in poland collected teddy bears when he was a child. All right. A rather unusual story to tell iowa about here. Deck aids after getting his first teddy bear as a child. A man in poland is now the proud collector of more than 700 teddy bears. Hes even built a house just to store the bears in. They come from all over the world as gifts or purchases. Some costing more than 100. Each bear has its own passport which shows its name, date of ive been can doing a little bif research on this story, rob. Its better to collect teddy bears than lovers. And happy wife happy life. If youre looking for more sunshine we have some in the forecast for parts of the weekend. Ill tell you when coming up. Up in the next half hour a california woman found safe after missing for three weeks. Relieved to have her back home. Breaking news out of cuba. Fidel castro has died. Well look back at his 8 30. Breaking news on this saturday. The fiery former leader of cuba, fidel castro, has died. Well have more on his 49year reign over that nation. And were learning more about the bus driver charged after a deadly crash in tennessee. Why some students were voicing concerns weeks prior. This is nh1 news today in new england. Thank you for staying with us on this saturday morning. Im nancy chen. We have a lot of news get to in this next hour. Lets turn things over to rob eicher. I do terms of the fog in the next half hour or hour, but it may be closer to noon before the fog completely disappears. That will be a little better shortly, but still some patches here and there, all the way until noon. Not a whole lot on the radar. Thats going to be the case for most of the day. The exception will be nantucket where we got a little bit of light rain, and if i zoom out theres more to come in the atlantic, and the showers are moving off to the northeast. Kind of glancing the cape and rain. On the other side of us weve got some rain and even some snow moving in. So in between a gray, cloudy day, but weve got precipitation on both sides of boston. With the cloud cover its not going to warm up much from there. Mid40s is probably the best well do. Well clear out a little bit tonight, and finally the sunshine returns for tomorrow. Well have the rest of the 7day forecast coming up in a few president of that country has died. The leader of the 1950s cuban revolution was 90 years old. The news greeted by celebrations in miami. This was video from Little Havana. People gathering throughout the night. Earlier that street was packed. They were seen carrying cubans, banging on pots and pans all in celebration. His brother, raul, succeeded him in 2008, and it was his brother television. A look back at his life. Reporter for more than four decades fidel castro was being a thorn in the side of u. S. President s. Fidel castros revolution was born in the remote mountains of cuba. A in in, in 1959. Havana and her people they surrounded him, clutch and applaud him. They roared, fidel. Reporter soon proclaiming his marxis beliefs and creating an alliance with the soviet union. An invasion at the bay of pigs. Castro personally led the resistance and the American Invasion failed miserably. Less than a year later castro and the soviets other straited the greatest Nuclear Crisis the world has known. After a tense standoff the soviets relented, pulling their missiles from cuba. Castro used his Financial Support from the through Central America and africa, but as conditions worsened at home, thousands began to fly the island, risking their lives to the 90mile boat trip to the United States. As the soviet union collapsed so did cubas economy. Castro was forced to court the hated capitalist, asking businesses to invest their currency in cuba. Castro began to show the effects 2004 and two years later he underwent intestinal surgery as his health declined he turned over his power to raul. Now cuba faces an uncertain future. Bruce hall, nbc news. And cuba will now be in mourning holding several different memorials in the following days. His ashes will travel the reverse route across the island after seizing power now, also this morning a New Hampshire mother fating charges after Police Find Children living in squaller. Samantha was arrested and charged with child endangerment. She argues shes doing her best, ask that her husband was to blame for the mess. Her husband was arrested after police were called to their home and found the children covered the father is expected to appear in court again in late december. Local pipeline protesters blocking the entrance to the bank in Downtown Crossing in boston on friday. They demanded the bank, which is the primary lender for the Dakota Access pipeline stop funding the effort. One protester used bieng locks to chain herself by the neck. Police took her into custody. Officials say they have spoiled plans for a largescale terrorist attack just as the Holiday Season gets started. Reporter the base of the a