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it's too early to speculate on a motive, but they do know that the couple had stockpiled an extensive arsenal and planned the attack. police say syed farook and tashfeen malik fired up to 75 round during the attack, leaving behind four high capacity assault rifle magazines and a pipe bomb. >> there was three pipe bombs combined into one that had a remote control car type remote control device that appears to have not worked. reporter: the f.b.i. says farook was a u.s. citizen who had traveled internationally before returning to the u.s. last year. his wife was here on a visa with a pakistani passport. >> it is possible that this was terrorist related. but we don't know. it's also possible that this was workplace related. reporter: a search of the couple's rented home turned up 12 pipe bombs and hundreds of bomb making tools. >> there were another 2,000,
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that house, over 2500, 223 rounds. reporter: investigators say they had 1600 rounds of ammo when they died in a gun battle with police. >> if you look at the amount of obvious preplanning that went in, the amount of arm amounts that he had, the weapons and the ammunition, there was obviously a mission here. reporter: what exactly that mission was is still under investigation. police say the guns used in the attack were purchased legally, and the couple, with no known criminal record, are not on their radar. investigators are expecting to learn much more after they complete analysis of the suspect's cell phones, computers and online interactions. sally kidd, wmur news 9. tom: one of the 21 people injured in the shooting was actually from new hampshire, a relative says 32-year-old amanda gaspard was shot in the leg three times. wmur's stephanie woods is live at the cheshire medical center
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reporter: tom, 32-year-old amanda gaspard worked here at cheshire medical center as the emergency preparedness coordinator from 2009 to 2012. now a relative tells us that while she is originally from hinsdale, she now works for the san bernardino county health department, according to her grandmother. a relative says that during the deadly shooting yesterday in san bernardino, gaspard was shot three times in the leg. now her grandmother says that her granddaughter had surgery last night and is expected to recover. today gaspar's mother diane posted this statement on her facebook page. one of her first comments to us was that somehow this situation could be used to witness for the lord, her faith is so strong, she was praying with other victims while she was lying there bleeding. we praise god for sparing her life. now, we spoke with mountain view
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vermont where gaspard's parents are members, they say that the parents flew out this morning to california to be with their daughter. live in keene, stephaie woods, wmur news 9. tom: president obama ordered all flags at half staff to honor the victims of the shootings. flags should be lowered now until monday. president obama called for tougher gun laws this morning and offered thoughts and prayers for the victims. jean: the manchester man who killed his parents and burned down their house will likely die in prison. a judge sentenced matthew dion today to 60 years to life behind bars. kristen carosa is here with more on what turned out to be an emotional morning in court. reporter: in a deal made with prosecutors, dion agreed to plead guilty to second degree murder for the killing of his parents. he admitted to beating and strangling 71-year-old bob and 67-year-old connie dion in march of 2014. several days later he set their manchester house on fire. dion fled to florida, but we
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letter to prosecutors while he was on the run, confessing to the killings and threatening to kill himself. before he was formally sentenced, dion had to listen to his ex-fiancee and mother of their 4-year-old son who said she went from loving him to hating him. >> i cannot imagine how scared, how terrorized, how far pain your parents must have felt, to know that you were going to die by the hands of someone you loved unconditionally. when someone you love and respect unconditionally can do such aer thible and disgusting crime, you have to quickly learn to hate that person. reporter: under the plea deal, the 40-year-old was sentenced to two consecutive sentences of 30 years to life in prison, he also pleaded guilty to arson. kristen carosa, wmur news 9. tom: a new hampshire company pleaded guilty in federal court today in connection to hacking another business. federal officials say that general linen service in
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information from a massachusetts competitor. heather hamel tells us how a five-year long investigation by the f.b.i. ended with a felony level charge. reporter: both companies go by general linen, but there's no affiliation between the two. however they use the same computer software for their records, and according to officials the somersworth company tried to use that to their advantage. 2012, f.b.i. agents raid a somersworth business. computers are seized and forensic tests are done. the assistant u.s. attorney says it was all part of a five-year investigation that proved that employees at general linen service l.l.c. had been hacking into a massachusetts competitor's computer system. thursday that company pleaded guilty to a felony charge in federal court. >> they had downloaded about 1100 invoices which are the big invoices that the victim company had issued online to their own customers. and their competitor, the defendant here, took those
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intention to use those invoices to try to take customers from the victim company. reporter: the judge accepted the plea deal. the attorney representing the victim, also named general linen, says his chiebility is 10 times smaller tonight somersworth business. >> yet they intentionally hacked into my client's website and stole their most valuable as set, their customer information. and nay did that to gain a financial competitive advantage. reporter: he says fortunately they did not get any of the customers' private financial information. the company has voluntarily offered to pay the newburyport company restitution and faces up to five years probation and fine. >> it's a very competitive business, but that's no excuse. and it doesn't make what we did right. so today we took the step of being accountable for this and trying to put this episode behind us so we can move forward and be the successful and responsible company that we have always been.
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they have taken steps to ensure that this can never happen again. and the assistant u.s. attorney says he hopes that this send a message that they don't limit their prosecutions to just fortune 500 companies. heather hamel, wmur news 9. jean: still to come tonight, a new hampshire flight attendant is accused of assaulting a fellow crew member. what authorities say the american airlines workerred to an air marshal on board. tom: hillary clinton is campaigning in the granite state today, calling for change for women in the work force. mike: a bright friday on the way for many as temperatures run close to average to end the week tomorrow. a look at the weekend changes coming up. >> we'll hear from the u.n.h.
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tom: a flight attendant from new hampshire is facing charges for allegedly assaulting a crew member and an air marshal on a flight. joe an snow is accused of slapping a flight attendant and hitting an air marshal during a flight from north carolina to germany. air marshals say snow told them wreck. and that she tried to unlock the plane's door while it was taxiing. a mental competency hearing is scheduled for tomorrow. let's turn now to exitment 2016 and democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton back in new hampshire, making several stops across the state. jean: she just wrapped up a town hall in dover. the former secretary of state made a stop in nashua to tour a small business there. and then she was onto a women's economic opportunity summit in manchester. there she spoke about her fight for affordable child care and equal pay for women. >> it's time to recognize paid
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child care is not a luxury. fair pay and fair scheduling aren't luxuries. they are growth strategies. and necessary to our national competitiveness. jean: secretary clinton also addressed the recent shootings in san bernardino saying that the country needs stricter gun laws. tom: we have word that the weekend looks pretty good. mike: we're just about there and temperatures heading higher, the first weekend in december, will feel more like mid or late october. how mild does it get? tom: and our spirit of giving toy drive kicks off tomorrow, we'll be collecting new unwrapped toys this friday, saturday and sunday at toys r us in manchester, and at the
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join us for real change. jean: jim gilmore sat down with voters in wmur's candidate cafe at the airport diner. he explained some of his talents and hobbies that people might not know about from seeing him on the campaign trail. >> it's me, jim gilmore. josh: short on name i.d., the introduction might have been necessary. but the former virginia governor
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really. you know -- >> just normal people. >> look, what i do is i read all the time. i read constantly. i buy books and i read books. i've got a library at home with over 3,000 books and i've read most of them. josh: his favorite book, moby dick, because he feels it's more about relationships rather than a story about ahab chasing a white whale. >> moby dick is about reading every chapter and trying to figure out what the guy is plot. we watch television, what happened. and he's not doing that, he's talking about much more complex things in moby dick. reporter: before his public life he was in the army, a counterintelligence officer in cold war europe. >> i looked and acted like a guy that was just kind of a college student, i was a young soldier, and most people could figure i was an american.
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what i was. but my job there was to be in support of nato. reporter: he also speaks fluent german, a talent that served him well when he overheard a couple talking. are are they were talking german of course and the girl said don't worry had the revolution comes things will be much better. and i stopped and i said to him in german that's absolute maloney, and i ended updating the girl. reporter: ultimately he married and had two sons. in high school he excelled in music. >> but then i arrive at it a point where i suddenly realized as a senior in high school that as good as i had gotten, i was never going to be a professional musician. so i started looking for something else and i discovered that i could make a difference by en cage gauging in politics. reporter: now the gentleman with the southern drawl is in new hampshire, counting on it in fact to propel him toward his
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josh mcelveen, wmur news 9. mike: wintery in some parts of the state, blustery and chilly statewide today. pictures from new found lake on and off today, notice the clouds and a few mixed in rain showers moving on through. those gusty winds up to about 35 miles per hour at times. now the clouds beginning to break apart. and that means mostly clear sailing as we go through the course of the night. looking ahead, the snow wind down up north after a one to four-inch accumulation today. highest amounts in the higher elevations, twin mountain between three and three and a half. pittsburgh about three as well. and all spots in between, between two and four inches. dry and chilly tonight, and a nice stretch does follow for tomorrow, right op into the weekend. it's going to turn warmer and temperatures will are more like late october as opposed to early december. quiet early next week and the next system that possibly could affect us would roll on in sometime on wednesday.
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hampshire, but several days out and many days to track that one. right now the snow is winding down and moving off to the east. heavy snow in eastern maine. but it's winding down in intensity and coverage across all of northern new hampshire. could be an additional coating in spots and then all these showers of rain and snow will wind down as well. there's one more weak disturbance that may approach tomorrow up north, could trigger an afternoon flurry, but nothing like the steady snow we saw at times for today. right now mid to upper 30's from berlin to whitefield and plymouth. concord at 41 degrees. wind have been very active today, coming in out of the northwest, at up to 30 miles per hour. right now steady at 12. still quite a few clouds. as we advance through the course of the next few days we're going to lose the wind and we're going to see the temperatures climbing. mid 40's on average tomorrow. no chance of precipitation and very little if any on saturday and sunday with plenty of sun, near 50 on saturday and we'll into the low to mid 50's as we go into sunday.
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here for the next few. winds still active statewide, 5 to 15 miles per hour. some gusts higher than that. later on tonight they'll completely shut down in the sheltered valleys, still remain about 5 or 10 miles per hour elsewhere. upper 20's will do it up north and upper 20's and lower 30's elsewhere. take a look at temperatures over the next few days, the cold air that's overhead now retreats to the north. so that by later tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night it's lifting a way allowing a ridge of mild air to blast in for both saturday and on sunday. with temperatures pushing again into the mid 50's by the time the weekend is over. highs tomorrow upper 30's will do it up north, lower 40's in the lakes region back through the upper valley. and some mid 40's from concord points south and southeast, the sky cast showing the clouds beginning to break up as we go through the night. a nice sunrise across the queen city. and temperatures seasonably chilly. but once we get through a seasonably cool friday, with some sunshine south and maybe an afternoon flurry north, take a
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next week looks quiet and cooler, and maybe another system along about wednesday, but when you get the saturday and sunday between now and then, just take and it enjoy it. jean: thanks, mike. >> celtics are in mexico thursday. one of the stars of the u.n.h.
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jamie: this is a new one for the boston celtics, they play the sacramento kings tonight in mexico city. game time 10:00. it's the first time the celtics have played in the mexican capital. boston has won three of their last four games. onto the ice we go for u.n.h. hockey practice, the wildcats have a big weekend ahead. two games against the rival to the north, the black bears. u.n.h. has been struggling a bit, while maine is playing pretty well. they play friday night and saturday. >> we're going to open up, it's always a difficult place to play. it's maine-u.n.h. sox forget about records. >> they've won four in a row, they're going to be really good be better. so definitely -- >> this week's home town hero. >> he was a baseball player at dover high school and didn't take up track and field until
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now a junior at the university of new hampshire, dover's michael shanahan is one of of the top throwers in america east. >> i walked on as a freshman not really into the sport that much and then this program helped me dive right into it really quick. reporter: as a sophomore he won the expect in the hammer throw, qualifying to compete in the championships. >> the hammer and the weight are similar, it's my favorite in that way, indoor i love the weight because i'm a big guy, and out door i love the hammer because i'm a big guy and it's a little thing. reporter: he's in the business school and received academic all american status last spring. >> i live 15 minutes away from here. my parents both went here, my sisters both have been here. so it's in the family at this point. i like the area, didn't want to leave it. reporter: michael says his goal for this season is to make first time all american, which would take a throw of about 71 feet.
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this week's home town hero. >> volleyball tournament, u.n.h. will play at florida in the first round tonight. u.n.h. is the america east champions. division two, franklin pierce took on dowling and they lost in three sets, the end of a great season for them. congratulations to the football player of the year, connor bourque, the little guy, five foot five, he can absolutely fly, 30 touchdowns this year, 211 rushing yard and against exeter in the title game as he led the grez lease to the title. tom: thank you very much. right now on wmur.com, we have a few weeks away from the new hampshire debate between the democratic presidential candidates. take a look at where they stand on major issues with our slide show. jean: and coming up next on world news tonight, david muir is live in san bernardino with late details on the california mass shooting. tom: we'll see you tonight right
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