this afternoon. in fact just about a half-hour ago investigators removed a double barreled shotgun from the home, presumably the firearm that had some so worry at the outset. police say it started this afternoon when a call came in that an arm man was making threats against other people in the home. officers rushed to the scene but they believe the suspect, described as a white mail in his 20's, managed to get away before they arrived. but they didn't know that when they first got here and had to take extreme precaution in creating a perimeter, locking down the holy trinity school, detaining some people in handcuffs briefly and asking some neighbors to stay in their homes. >> of course this happened in a very con jested part of town, so we had to keep traffic away while the investigation was ongoing. reporter: this individual should be considered armed and dangerous? >> at this point i would say yes. reporter: again police say that suspect remains at large tonight, they do hope to provide more information regarding his

check in on wmur.com for updates. adam sexton, wmur news 9. tom: right now manchester police are searching for two men they say tried to steal a woman's purse. police believe they have caught the pair. on surveillance, running from the scene, which happened near rite aid on elm street. amy coveno live tonight with how this scary attempted robbery played out. amy? reporter: good evening, tom, wee at the corner of penacook and penn straight. this woman was headed home yesterday evening, and that surveillance, seems to be captured from a camera on the side of the building. we talked to the woman about an hour ago, she seemed upbeat and sprays that she was able at just five feet tall to fend off two men who are over six feet tall and held onto her purse. it happened last night around

she noticed a man approaching her from behind, she tried to cross the street when a second man jumped in front of her. the two tried to grab her purse, it was draped around her neck, but she was knocked to the ground, she kicked and screamed enough to scare the men off. this is the surveillance video we were talking about, the suspects running to a waiting vehicle. investigators say they believe it's a dark colored sedan, possibly a toyota camry. >> they both approached her, grabbed or attempted to grab the purse. she was fortunate enough to use her ability to kick, scream, thwart them off and ultimately they fled on foot without her. reporter: this does appear to be an orchestrated attack, the young woman described both men as african-american, both over 6 feeft tall, one weighing about 250-pound wearing a blue and white hoodie. of course anyone with information about what unfolded here last night is asked to

amy coveno, wmur news 9. tom: a chemical from a former animal burial ground used by dartmouth college medical school has apparently seeped into a private well. jennifer: it's a possible carcinogen, and as heather hamel reports the homeowners were told to immediately stop drinking the water as they try to find a permanent fix. reporter: now chained off, dartmouth college medical school once used this farm to bury tons of rodents and other small lab animals, they were ebbs humidded a few years ago, but chemicals left behind have now shown up in a drinking well. seven pretty wells were tested in september, one was positive for a solvent found in some household products. this is concern that people exposed to this for an extended amount of time are at a higher risk of developing cancer. the state standard is three parts per billion and the test results for this well were double that. >> so you immediately go on bolted water as a short-term solution. and we're still investigating

force that residence will be. reporter: in a statement, the college says they also offer to rewill indicate them, provide access to an occupational health doctor and are working to provide them with an alternate or treated source of water. we stopped by the house, but the homeowner declined to comment. the house is at the bottom of a hill, approximately 500 feet away from that burial site. dartmouth college says they've been regular sampling of the water and prior to excavating the site in 2011 they found in contamination. they did find contamination in april 2012, but data did not indicate that it had moved off the property. the department of environmental services says the college has been pro-active, but it's difficult to say how long the well was contaminated. >> we have water testing for this chemical that go back several years, but the testing a number of years ago were at a higher level, 50 parts per billion, so it was only recently

that we started looking for it at the lower levels. reporter: they will continue to monitor the ground water and test, and for one of the neighbors whose well tested negative for the chemical, that's good enough. >> i'm leaving it to dartmouth and e.p.a. or who ever else is involved in this. reporter: heather hamel, wmur news 9. tom: because of the heroin epidemic in new hampshire, governor hassan is considering emergency rules regarding prescription painkillers. jennifer: many consider the abuse of painkillers a driving force behind the heroin crisis. but not everyone is in favor of her approach. wmur's josh mcelveen is here now with more on this. josh: the governor's office put together a draft document with some rules changes and circulated it throughout the medical community in new hampshire to generate feedback when it comes to prescribing painkillers. ordinarily such changes require public hearings and several procedural steps. but in the middle of this heroin plague, time is not a luxury the governor thinks new hampshire has. >> every day that we don't

we're losing for lives. josh: sighting an urgency that cat go unchecked, she's pushing ideas. >> if we need to do emergency rules, that's one way. but there are multiple ways that we can change these rules as quickly as we can, as a part and a common sense part of addressing this challenge. reporter: the emergency implementation would forego the normal public input and would stand for a period of six month until a more formal adoption process can be completed. but some think the governor is going too far too fast. >> all of this needs to be done with public hearings and to do it appropriately in a process that makes sure that we haven't impacted the ability of doctors to practice medicine. reporter: senator bradley is the original architect of new hampshire's prescription drug monitoring program and says the all-hand approach is working, but he also believes the medical community has to sign off on every step.

>> we need to deal with the problems, but to take away pain medications or make them much harder to prescribe for people that are suffering from some terrible afflictions, would just be a clammity. reporter: but other states are ahead of new hampshire with adopting up to date rules with their respective boards of medicine. and governor hassan fears bureaucratic entanglements could slow progress here. >> i understand that people want input and i understand that change is difficult, but that's not an excuse for inaction. josh: obviously there's no easy fix for this issue, prescribing practices are only part of the equation. ufl politics involved as well. the heroin epidemic and the state's response to it could be a defining issue of governor hassan's time under the golden dome. tom: to commitment 2016 tonight, and former secretary of state madeline albright will be in new hampshire next week, campaigning for hillary clinton. the trip is scheduled for

november 4th. that's also the day the filing period opens for candidates to officially complete their paperwork to be part of the new hampshire presidential primary. coming up next at 6:00, why one of two men charged in a cold case double murder is tonight fighting to get his bail lowered. jennifer: plus, how the community is coming together to help out a local little league program after randalls caused thousands of dollars in damage. mike: another dry and chilly night ahead before the next system approaches tomorrow. >> and we'll profile the rehot

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jennifer: a developing story from winchester that we first told you about at 5:00. it appears the police activity in winchester has now ended. officers had shut down jones road for part of the afternoon. drivers were told to avoid that area. wmur's mike cronin is telling us now that roads in that area are back open now. but at this point police still aren't telling us exactly what led to that activity there this afternoon. tom: the lawyer representing one defendant in a 1988 cold case murder is hoping to get his client's bail lowered. german thoan barnaby was in court today, he and codefendant david kaplan are charged with the murders of two women. barnaby was tried three times. kaplan was charged but his case never went to trial after evidence was thrown out. the case was reopened in 2010. barnaby's lawyer says there's still no physical evidence that ties him to the crime scene. >> no hairs, no blood, no

transfer evidence whatsoever from either of the two victims in this case. >> as of the time that i testified to in a probable cause hearing, that's correct. what transpired since then i don't know. jennifer: the judge will hear testimony from another before next. tom: we're getting the rain, and also we're not getting snow. mike: yes, that would be like four years ago. we are tracking just rain, that's it, just rain, when it arrives and how much we'll see. jennifer: check out these

tom: after thousands of dollars in damage was caused by vandals, a community is coming together to help the vern little league. jennifer: the outpouring of support is coming from all around. shelley walcott live in bedford tonight with this great update. shelley: it really is great, guys. the community has really stepped up to help the bedford little league after that terrible act of vandalism over the weekend. someone broke into the clubhouse

and concession stand out here and inflicted $5,000 worth of damage. this is the same league that had the 11 and 12-year-old championship team that was just one win away from advancing to the little league world series. today primary bank announced it would make a donation to help with repairs and they aren't the only ones. the bedford friends of recreation, the monarchs, fisher cats and elliott health systems are also making donations. retired major league baseball player chris carpenter was also here to lend support. >> it's definitely unfortunate, our community is a small community, it's a safe community. and to hear of something like this, it's unfortunate. it's nice to see all the people that came out here today to support it. shelley: it's not too late to help if you'd like to, the primary bank in wed ford will be accepting donations for the little league team.

is also holding a spaghetti fundraiser for them on monday. shelley walcott, wmur news 9. mike: it started off chilly but started with a fiery sky, courtesy of al in hampton. earlier today, take a look at that sky cover, we had just a few lone clouds out there, all in advance of the next system that's building in from the south and right now carrying with with it a lot of moisture. through the ohio valley, midwest and deep south, all, taking aim on the granite state. so chilly tonight, 20's and low 30's for many, a few mid third at the coast. then the next system moves in here for tomorrow afternoon. heaviest rain will hold off until tomorrow night. downpours, one maybe two, even two and a half inch eggs of rain not out of the question. all of this clearly below flood guidance in terms of any flooding on rivers or streams. so good news there, although there could be some ponding on the road with downpours tomorrow night.

then windy at times for wednesday night, and it warms up big time for one day on thursday before it cools right back to average by friday and the upcoming weekend. right now already dropping temperatures into the mid to upper 30's north, 40's to around 50 central and southern parts of new hampshire. but again tomorrow after a cool day we're going to see the rain followed by a surge in wind out of the south and southeast. that will drive temperatures up tomorrow night when they typically fall. so tomorrow night temperatures actually go up. so by early thursday it's quite mild statewide. tomorrow early morning a little bit of filtered sun, most of it in the north country. thicker clouds approach during arrive during the afternoon side. that will change later tomorrow evening, downpours maybe a thunderstorm with the gusty winds picking up out of the southeast. and some of those downpours could carry with it winds over 40 miles per hour. then by early thursday the rain and that's where temperatures begin to take off well into the

60's, maybe 70's in some areas. this is a look at one computer model, there are several that have a little bit more in the way of rainfall, but a general one to two-inch rainfall in many spots, some areas a little less, and some areas getting a little more. the wind again won't play a factor in the storm as well as it moves in tomorrow night, 15 to 25-mile per hour wind tomorrow afternoon. then notice later tomorrow evening into the early part of thursday morning, especially in southeastern new hampshire and the higher terrain across the north country, some of those winds could exceed 40 miles per hour. so a possibility of a few scattered power outages cannot be ruled out. the wind abate a little by thursday, but by then temperatures jump, how high do they go? 60's and lower 70's, a good bet for thursday. this is not for sunday, that will be for thursday as we jump well above the average by at least 10 to 15 degrees. tonight though it's much cooler, 20 north to around 32 south. mid 30's at the coast. showers develop tomorrow afternoon, rain heavy at times

tomorrow night. winding down by early thursday, notice how warm it gets for thursday before it turns dry and seasonably cool for friday, halloween on saturday. and sunday as well. we fall back to eastern standard time, 4:38 sunset on sunday. but the good news, if there's any good news in all of this, at least the sunrises get a little earlier for a short time. jennifer: i like that part of it. tom: good for kids on the bus and all that stuff. world series tonight. >> yes, we're going to talk about bruins on home ice and final numbers are in for the new

program, we'll tell you how jeb bush was a very strong governor, probably the strongest governor in the history of the state of florida. he was a young guy and i think there were some folks in the legislature that thought they might be able to run over him. that didn't happen. one tax cut wasn't enough- he had to do more. it wasn't enough to have 15,000 kids with school choice in florida, he wanted to have 100,000 kids. if he didn't like a project, it was going to be vetoed. it didn't matter if you were a republican. it didn't matter if you were his best friend. he said: 'this is where we're going, this is how we're going to reform state government...' every politician comes in talking about making change, and generally there's not much change.

but governor bush made he got the nickname if he saw something in the budget that he thought violated his conservative principles, you could guarantee it was gonna get whacked. he vetoed a bunch of my stuff and i was the senate president. the message to washington, d.c., is 'get ready...' because there will be change. nright to rise usa is responsible

jamie: bruins are at home tonight ready to host the coyotes, it's only the 8th game of the season for the b's, one of them was a win by the bruins in arizona. you're looking at one of the most under rated clem football players in america, dartmouth senior quarterback damon williams, from texas, williams having another fantastic season, he's heading goo a huge game friday night at harvards are first place in the ivy league will be on the line. williams has already thrown for 1700 yards and 14 touchdowns, run for 203 yards and four touchdowns, he's come a long way since his freshman season. >> yeah, i feel like i'm definitely improved, just like everybody does in the four-year span.

we changed offense, and we just kept working. i just wanted to get better every day and i've grown leadership wise as far as taking taking -- >> he's a gifted guy, he understands the offense, he's got great vision, very intelligent guy. he's matured in a lot of different ways, always a very smart guy, but sometimes impatient. now he has a patience about him that he'll take what's there, he'll sit in the pocket. >> with 100% of precincts or pantries reporting the final numbers are in for the new hampshire tackles hunger food program. 51 of the 57 high school varsity football programs were college sites this year, final total in at 57,000 pounds of food, all of which stays with the local families ins that communities. this is year three of the

program and the total went up by 17,000 pounds this year. meanwhile, hannaford is giving $500 gift cards to the teams in each division that collected the most food, congratulations to pinkerton, plymouth and fall mountain for winning those gift cards. high school football power poll after week eight. goffstown, bedford, exeter, salem, timberlane,. then: merrimack knocked off exeter last week, they have a huge game against timberlane on friday night. jennifer: thank you, jamie. right now on wmur.com, from wonder woman to ninja turtles, google is analyzing your search toes determine this year's most popular halloween costumes. you can check out our slide show of the top 20 costumes. tom: tune in for "new hampshire chronicle." we'll see you back here tonight right after "wicked city."

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