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WHDH 7News Today In New England November 29, 2016

Freezing spot in southern n 1 2 and North Central massachusetts. Here in boston were fine. Some slippery spots out there way which made for slower commute. Otherwise we change over to the rain here as we head into the rest of your forecast. You can see that pushing in from our west. And that is headed our way. Its going to stay with us throughout the day. Closer look at who is still looking at some of the freezing rain. Winds in milford. Definitely seeing that. Again not everybody that is rain on satellite is actually seeing the slippery conditions on the roadway. Mid 30s throughout much of the massachusetts. Were a little bit warmer in boston. And we are going to warm up to above average temperatures. All right. Time for fast track traffic. Lets get a look at the roadways. Daniel, any issues popping up . Its a busy morning. Lets go to the maps. The lynnway closed for much of the morning. Good news its now open between commercial street and shepherd street. Something to keep in mind this morning. And then in east boston we have a new crash were watching. This is route 15 northbound at bent n beninton street. Northbound on the expressway. 32 minutes this morning. Your typical stop and go traffic. 95 slow and go from 495 all the way up to 128 this morning. Were watching two crashes on the pike. Both eastbound, one at route 30 and one there at route 9. Lets take aoo tout out the door. 22 minutes from 128. 93 southbound 128 to zakim bridge. Half an hour this morning. Both the t and Commuter Rail running on schedule. Back to you guys lets get to several breaking news story this morning. First here at home investigators are on the scene after a Police Involved shooting in lynn. You heard daniel mention the road closure on the lynnway. Were also told that this started as an Armed Robbery. Following the story since early this morning. Whats the latest information you are hearing . I can tell you the suspect is in police custody. But undergoing surgery after getting shot. Take a live look. This is a very active scene. Officers are still on the scene here trying to piece together exactly how this happened. Gunshot in lynn after police come face to face with a suspect after a violent Armed Robbery at a gas station. The pocket. He was allowed to show the hand. He refused to do so. He continued to come at the officers. Eventually the officers fired their weapon. The two lynn officers are okay. Its just before 4 00 in the morning. The clerk inside this gas station on the lynnway called 911 saying there was just an Armed Robbery. An individual went in there attempted to rob the store. Violent struggle ensued with the clerk of the store. He was shaken up. Lynn police shutting the lynn way down. Parking evidence and gathering surveillance video. Lynns chief said the District Attorneys Office is part of investigating exactly what led to this officer opening fire. Its still an open investigation. Very active investigation. Take a live look right now. A little bit of good new for commuter impacted by t they opened up one northbound travel lane. So some traffic will get through this area. The southbound lane opened about 15 minutes ago. This investigation continues. No update on how that suspect is doing last we were told he was undergoing surgery. Those two officers again were not hurt. They did, though go to the hospital to get checked out. Thats just something that is standard in a Police Officer involved shooting. Live in lynn. Victoria warren 7 news today in a Brazilian Soccer Team among the dozens of people onboard. In tennessee look that video here. A resort town ungulfed by flames. Several wildfires raging now and Officials Say more than 100 homes have been damaged or destroyed. As those flames keep on burning. A lot of log cabins in that area. Nicole oliverio joining us now with the latest on both these stories. That video out of tennessee just incredible. National guard troops are sent intoli areas. As you mention flames have been tearing through the tourist town known for skiing all morning long. Its believed 100 homes have caught fire there and a Popular Hotel in church near the Great Mountain National Park were also hit by fire. Now this is video from inside park view inn. The hotel that sits on the edge dolliwood. You can see flames just outside the windows there. And now shortly after this video was taken everyone inside was road leading up to the wooded areas. Making things worse the strong wind gust some of those hitting 80 miles per hour. Thats causing those flames to spread even faster. Nothing that weve experienced in the 24 hours has prepared us for what we experienced here in the last 24 hours. Its been just an unbelievable what weve experienced here. Immediate evacuations were declared overnight in gatlinberg as well as pigeonforge. Right now ,0 el continue to work to contain the flame. Rain just began to fall over the area. Also breaking this morning a plane crashes in columbia with a Brazilian Soccer Team onboard. The plane on its way to International Airport in columbia. It had left bolivia around 6 00. 72 passengers and 9 crewmembers were onboard. Officials just confirmed that five people managed to survive the crash. The other 76 people onboard were killed. Treated at area hospitals. Its not clear yet what caused plane to go down. But Officials Say they are looking at a possible electrical problem but a female Flight Attendant said the plane ran out of fuel. Charter planes carrying member of Brazilian Soccer Team. They released a statement saying it was still evaluate evaluating the extent of the crash. The team was scheduled to play for form for the first leg of the south american cup finals. Well have more on both of these breaking stories throughout the back to you. Another breaking story police investigated a deadly crash that happened on mcclellan highway in east boston. Investigators say a driver was killed when his car rolled over on route 1 late last night. Crew closed off that road for several hours while they worked that scene. And a demonstration in cambridge has ended with 34 people being arrested. The people part of a nationwide fight for 15. And today is being billed as a day of disruption. Many others across the country to demand 15 per hour for minimum wage. Also happening right now. There was a bunch of people with a knife taking down people. We learn more about the suspect responsible for so much chaos and violence on campus at Ohio State University yesterday in a man used his car and a xhief knife to now attack people. Heres john the attack at ohio state started before 10 00 a. M. Monday. Students faculty blocked doorways and hid. We barricaded ourselves like what we taught. Turned off the lights. The suspect 18yearold was somali citizen who lived in the area and illegal Permanent Police in federal agents searching the apart wrment they investigator cant rule out terror at this point. We have to consider that it is. That possibility Law Enforcement Officials Say shortly before the attack this rant was posted to what appears to be his facebook page. Saying that the attackings on muslims around the world quote led to a boiling point. I cant take it anymore. Police say he drove over the curb. Rammed the car into a group of pedestrians he then continued to attack. Suspect came out with the only gunfired by a Police Officer. He shot and killed the suspect. The officer being right place at the right time. He was able to see this whole thing happen and take immediate action. Campus police say they are confidence the suspect carried out the attack by himself. Now they are investigating if anyone else helped him plan it. In the control room john cocoa. 7news today in new england. The latest now in president elect trumps transition today expected to be a benchmark day. Georgia representative tom price has been nominate ford secretary of health and human service. Price is an Orthopedic Surgeon who is known for being a very outspoken critic of obama care. If approved by the senate he is expected to dismantle the Affordable Care act. President elect also meeting with mitt romney again today for the second such meeting. The former Massachusetts Governor is a contender for the secretary of state position this comes as the keep mitt romney out of the cabinet after romney sharp critisism after romney sharp critisism of trump during the campaign. Theres report that Campaign Manager and chief strategy will attend the conference there on the schools campus. And jill stein is asking for recount in another battleground state. The former Green Party Candidate pennsylvania this time. And this comes after wisconsin said it will also begin a recount of its votes later this week. Happening today. Salem State University will hold meeting to talk about controversial art exhibit. They will talk about whether an exhibit about the fears connected to the president ial election should remain closed. It was shutdown last week after people complained about a painting depicting members of the ku klux klan. Cuba preparing for a special tribute toor castro. Tens out of this sanneds expected to attend. Schools and government offices will be closed. Castro ashes will begin a threeday journey across the country. Cuban officials honoring those ashes yesterday they held a moment of silence before leaving white roses in tokes yurn. The ashes will be entered after a public funeral set for sunday. Still ahead on today in new renaissance school. Why they feel they are being left in the dark concerning allegation of sexual abuse onboard a school bus. Stranded in a sinkhole. A man in North Carolina stuck for hours in this scary situation. And we have a parade of wet weather headed our way through the next couple of days. Ill have the details and i want to go really big with my appetizers. R budget. Oh yeah, this is great everything for the holidays. My Cookie Exchange is super competitive. Mine too everything for the holidays. All right its 9 15. And the rain i know has been falling in some parts. I dont think we see it in the city yet. It depends on where you are. Which makes it im sure challenging to forecast here. Its not too bad. We look at widespread showers. Thats pushing in from the west. Right now temperatures are actually warming up nicely. The reason why im show thing right now is because that has been a concern especially to our this point. As we head into the rest of the day you can see we have freezing rain advisory in effect with areas in pink until 10 00 this morning. But, again, temperature already warming up nicely for us. Couple of slippery spot reported this morning. I would watch out for that if you travel to northwest especially Southern New Hampshire seeing that activity right now. You can see on satellite and radar where the pinks are thats where we could have slippery spots. This is already starting to lighten up. In its place we look at rain showers from the west a of moisture headed our way. The areas in pink seeing slippery spot. Lemonster seeing that right now. As we see those showers push in were really looking at some lighter rain this morning. But that is going to pick up the pace as we head into the afternoon. A look ahead at futurecast. You can see by noon i think were going to see more rain that what futurecast is showing. As we h body the afternoon. This is more accurate here. Widespread showers, pocket of yellows showing where we could see more moderate to heavy up with your commute home from work and particularly actually the better chance for heavier rain looks to be south of the mass pike. Pocket of heavy rainfall into the evening hours here. Which will be very beneficial by dinner time or shortly there after a lot look half an intomorrow inch of rainfall. And then this tapers a up into the late overnight hours. We keep the cloud cover and a little bit of fog. So fog is going to be an uch you for us this afternoon. Really through tomorrow. Well have some patchy fog o by tomorrow morning mostly cloudy sky. We get a quick break from the rain. Then we see the chance for showers again. By the late Morning Hours a better chance as we head into tomorrow afternoon. Keeping that chance through the evening hours. Pretty much a mirror image of what we see today. And we have that chance for moisture into thursday morning. The best chance for rain looks to be today. And then wednesday afternoon and evening. We could have a couple of inch on the ground. Locally more like 3 inof of rain for some spot. Afternoon. By the afternoon most of us in up thor 40s. And then as we head into the evening hours we actually warm up a little bit further. We talk temperature mid twists dropping back into the mid to low 40s and i think upper 40ings for us here in boston by tomorrow morning. Your 7 on 7 forecast showing temperature trend above average through thursday. And its going to be breezy but well see sunshine as we head into thursday afternoon. Also on 7 a snow scare for couple in california. They are driving in the and get stuck in this snow. But we are happy to report this story has a happy ending. Very fortunate people there. They spent the night huddled in hair truck freezing cold. Crews eventually found the couple both in their 60s and again they are safe. At about 6 45 on cold november night a searchandrescue vehicle pulled up to the fire station. Out first rory holliter tired he look ford his family members who had been waiting and worrying. His sisterinlaw getting him with a huge hug. Then rory wife reunited with her son anxiously awaiting news from base camp. Im slow glad you are here. You already. Rory and susan holiter ven cheed out saturday into the back wood driving adventure when their wheels got stuck in some deep snow on remote forest road. Rory hiked to where he could get cell service around noon on saturday and send a text message with their problems maybe location. He then stayed with his wife in the truck waiting for help. Dozens of rescuer conducted a thorough search and they found the couple just before the monday sunset. We werent planning on being so yeah, we did fairly well. Tomorrow was going to be burn the tire day. They show up. And we were so glad to be out of there. I just want to shower. Were ecstatic. It couldnt have been a better outcome. And the fact they are doing so wall. Were overjoyed. Im telling them they are not going out fourwheeling again. Thats for sure. Big relief. They both sayhe careful before driving in the snow the next time. And just ahead on news. Another story of survival. Hunter in florida talking about frightening encounter with an alligator. Up next grounded. Well tell you how this passenger rant onboard an airplane got him banned for got any good gift ideas . . Verizon prepaid is gonna be my gift . . No extra charges . . Cash stays in your pocket . . Its got hd streaming others are too stingy. . deep voice with verizon you look awesome. . You wanted more data and look what santa gave ya . . Verizon keeps you going with that alwayson data . . 4g lte thats a lotta speed . deep voice thats the deal of my dreams. With verizon you look awesome. vo give verizon prepaid with alwayson data on the best network thats right. This man knows whats up. This passenger onboard a delta flight. Now banned for life from the airline after launching into a rant about the president elect. The airline took action after the supporter of trump went on tirade. The other people onboard the plane were recording this entire or deal. Nicole oliverio is here now with passenger after the airline faced pretty harsh critisism for allowing him to remain on the flight after the rants over. Donald trump, baby. Thats right this man knows whats up. A passenger recorded a donald trump support spewing profanity and yelling ability the president elect. He gets up in aisle and start clapping his hand. How many people no one going to say [beep] on the you cant hear me. Trump baby. And insulting Hillary Clinton supporter. We got to Hillary Clinton [beep] supporters here. Come on, baby. The man is banned for life from the airline. But some passengers dont think thats enough. He went off the plane for like 15 minutes delaying our flight. Came back on and said this is what you get for being a patriot. And then sat down. I dont know what they can coto make up for. Delta has not reached out to her. Hey, baby. Trump is your president. [beep] every one of you. If you dont like it too bad. Delta said its offering a full refund to all the other passengers who were on the flight. Back to you guys. Coming up in the next half hour of 7news today in new england another incident involving a plane a woman who obviously had plans that couldnt wait. Jumping off the plane before it wassen at the gate. Better. Bri or former pats great troy better. This weeks challenge bri eggers took on former patriotss star troy brown. Bri and troy checked ticket to see if their food matched the border. Troy missed four. Bri missed five. Troy takes home the title. 53 of the vote. Bri finishes with 47 . When you win three s fans remember that. You got it. Next week bri takes on harvard star dominique moore. They will be loading up holiday meal kits at the salvation army. You want to check that out and then you get the chance to decide the winner on that one. Give one to bri. Come on. I vote a die. For what they do for that organization. Both of them are winners. I dont know if we ever had a tie in the history of who did it better. Still ahead in the next half hour of today in new england. Chip. This is a barba qued potato truck. Its on fire after it burst into flames. As we head into the rest of your work week here. We are looking at some wet weather. Will we be looking at white weather. An officer involved shooting in ently. So were offering incredibly fast 150 meg internet, just in time for the holidays. Hurry, freddy, youre gonna miss it coming. I c

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