erin: now at noon, protests at the state capitol. the message some granite staters have about a proposed pipeline . california shooting. why the focus of the investigation has shifted to a san bernardino lake. what divers are looking for. kevin: after a very foggy start, we will enjoy a little sunshine this afternoon. we will take a look at how long this mild december will last ahead. erin: and spirit of giving. how you can help people in need of a hand this holiday season. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> no one covers new hampshire like we do.

rally in front of the statehouse in opposition to a proposed natural gas pipeline. i' m erin fehlau. the kinder morgan pipeline would hampshire before turning south into dracut, massachusetts. pipeline would bring much-needed energy to new hampshire, opponents doubt that' s case. wmur' s ray brewer is live at the rally for us. ray: opponents to the pipeline were aiming for 10,000 names on their petition. instead, they will have nearly 11,000 names to present to the governor. shortly before 10:30, those opposed to the pipeline began their march to the statehouse, accompanied by chants and the beat of drums. kinder morgan says that the pipeline could mean a 25% to 35% reduction in electric bills. natural gas could be used to generate energy. but those here in front of the statehouse fear that new hampshire ratepayers would have to foot the cost of the

an increase in utility bills. opponents also say that there are other ways to meet the energy needs here in new hampshire, and there are too many unknowns for people to be able to intelligently weigh the risks versus rewards. rep. mcconnell: it is impossible for the towns here to be able to take a look at these things and make an accurate assessment of what the costs and risks are without knowing where this project is going to go. david maloney: things like liquid natural gas, lng, is significantly cheaper and has been servicing new england since the 1970' s just fine. ray: not everyone here was in opposition to the pipeline. there was a truck circling the statehouse, playing christmas carols, and among the messages, "pipelines are lifelines." kinder morgan says the pipeline would "generate nearly $20 million a year in local tax revenues and create more than 1000 local jobs in new hampshire."

erin: all right, ray. thank you. new details this noon about two robberies that happened less than an hour apart in keene. police responded to a robbery at a circle k just before 3:00 this morning. around 3:45, a similar robbery call came in at the winchester street sunoco. keene police stopped a vehicle matching the description a short time later and arrested 27-year-old justin paquette and charged him with two counts of armed robbery. 26-year-old nickolas burt and 22-year-old kia pence were also in the vehicle and were charged with possession of controlled drugs. also new this noon, in salem, police have arrested a massachusetts man for allegedly fleeing from a traffic stop. authorities say they tried to pull over 22-year-old eric cruz for a broken headlight. as the officer approached the car, he sped off. the officer followed cruz and discovered he had crashed into a pole a short distance away. police say that all four people in the car ran from the scene, but a k-9 officer found three of them.

including reckless conduct, resisting arrest, and possession of a controlled drug. the man accused of swinging his 21-month-old daughter over a safety fence above the merrimack river to take a picture faces new charges. robert jordan is now charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child in addition to reckless conduct. jordan denies ever putting his daughter in danger. a driver who crashed into a north reading, massachusetts home has died. it happened early this morning on route 62. police say the driver was declared dead at the scene. it is unclear what caused the crash or if anyone was inside the home at the time. the incident is under investigation. new details in new hampshire' s war on heroin. the state legislature is now expected to start voting on bills aimed at solving the crisis next month. a joint task force recommended expanding drug courts, beefing up law enforcement, mandating participation in a

database, and also tightening prescription rules. the full legislature could start voting on bills by january 21st. today, investigators say they may know where the suspects in the san bernardino terror attack were just before they were killed in a shootout with police. an fbi dive team is searching that area now, hoping to uncover abc' s marci gonzalez has the latest. marci: the fbi searching this lake near the scene of last week' s terror attack in san bernardino, looking for possible evidence the killers may have dumped here just after the massacre. david bowdich: we will leave no stone unturned. marci: this latest effort to uncover more about syed farook and tashfeen malik as the fbi continues questioning enrique marquez. farook' s former neighbor accused of supplying the military-style rifles used in last week' s shooting rampage reportedly told investigators he and farook planned another attack in 2012, then abandoned the plot. sen. risch: there had been some arrests immediately adjacent to

in southern california probably by the counterterrorism people that really caused them to rethink it. marci: following the first of the funerals for the 14 people chuck franklin: it' s just tragic , and it is unspeakable. marci: today, the fbi is still san bernardino attack was directed by isis. now authorities are revealing another concern linked to the terror group, saying isis militants overseas now have at least two government passport printing machines. john cohen: if isis has been able to acquire legitimate passports or machines that create legitimate passports, this would represent a major security risk in the united states. marci: several of the fraudulent passports have already been found in europe, including this bombers who carried out the terror attacks in paris. marci gonzalez, abc news, new york. erin: happening right now, your

season. all weekend, we are collecting food for the new hampshire food bank. our sean mcdonald is live at the walmart in hooksett. sean, there are a lot of people in need this season. sean: there sure are cured thousands and thousands in the granite state. first of all, i want to give a big thank you to everyone who has donated. we have been cranking over the last few hours. people have been coming in with different stories saying why they want to help out. they have been doing it injure oaks. looking for -- it in droves. they have been looking for nonperishable food items, camping a butter, macaroni and cheese, and canned nuts, rice mixes, meal mixes. anyone are store, any hannaford store, -- any walmart store, any hannaford store, or any shaws store.

hampshire food bank. all kinds of stuff you can buy. a $5 bag, a $10 bag. again, a big thank you to everyone who has helped us out so far, and again, keep it coming. erin, back to you. erin: all right, sean, thank you. coming up, another live report for our spirit of giving food drive. this time in nashua, where we find out who your donations will help this year. and commitment 2016, a new poll shows many americans think the next terror attack will happen in the next few months. how that may play into the presidential election. kevin: clouds continuing to gradually lift this afternoon, setting up a nice start to the next system that arise. we will have the details and how ahead. erin: plus in today' s cook' s corner, we' re whipping up a delicious pesto risotto.

erin: commitment 2016 coverage right now, republican presidential candidate governor for a town hall event. he is just one of several presidential candidates who are hitting the campaign trail here carly fiorina, rand paul, lindsey graham, and chris

you can find details on the canada tractor on her website, -- on the candidate tracker of her website, wmur.com. americans think a terrorist attack is very likely to happen in the next few months. frontrunner donald trump has made several controversial statements recently, like a proposal to ban muslims from entering the u.s. shooting in california earlier this month. new polls show the majority of americans oppose trump' s idea, but gop primary voters are split. continuing now with our spirit of giving food drive, we need your help to make it a success, and our jean mackin is live at the hannaford in nashua. jean, what happens after people donate to the food drive? jean: we will tell you, a lot of great things happen because everything saves local in the state, and erin, we have some

we have mel gosselin from the food drive. mel: we just signed up of the donor from last year gave us $100,000 to match last year. they realized that growing need means growing demands, and this is a hopefully a way to leverage gifts, so this is a awesome. josh: ean: agreeing to match if the new hampshire food bank and raise $100,000 for the new hampshire for bank? mel: absolutely, and this is great for this time of year. jean: you can make a cash donation at any hannaford or online -- mel: nhfoodbank.org. jean: we have boxes you can pick up a hannaford to feed a family for the holidays. this is one way to give, and we' re really hoping to meet that $100,000 challenge out there.

jean: we love it. thank you so much to mel and all the fine folks at the new hampshire food bank. jean mackin, wmur k-9. erin: that is good news. kevin: and the weather is shaping up your we will talk about the milder air and how long it is expected to last. erin: we' re making something tt2watv# 1t! bt@q;9< tt2watv# 1t! "a@q+5x tt2watv# 1t! bm@q >t tt4watv# 1t!" dztq l/$ tt4watv# 1t!" entq

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>> now, meteorologist kevin skarupa with your stormwatch 9 forecast. kevin: some pretty thick fog this morning, but there are a few spots where visibility is less than a half mile. hard pressed to see a lot of days like this with light wind not having a chance to burn off. we have been seeing, as you will notice here, some breaks in the overcast. that is all it is going to take this afternoon to list back in the low and mid 50' s. of course you get up in the mid-50' s, in and around the lakes region, low cloud cover hanging around 1000 feet. places like claremont at least have the clouds out there, and the drying trend continues through the afternoon, much like

you could already see the brakes starting to develop in spots. temperatures this afternoon -- a 50' the dryer air. partly cloudy conditions are the trend for tonight. if you are held with that little bit of patchy fog after 3:00 are going to hang onto that this evening as the sun goes down with longer evenings this time that is our weathervane for tomorrow, or shall sunshine across area, and more clouds start filing in out well ahead of the next on system that truly starts arrive on monday. notice the apertures in the lower valleys in berlin, 39, but up in whitefield, you are at 53. that is the way it will go this afternoon, especially of fog continues to lift in areas. still near a half-mile in and greatly the farther west you go. that is the trend as we dry things out.

the next system. start to arrive later on monday afternoon and into monday evening. bring focus be heavy for a time monday night, and it does look like it will come down all in the form of rain. partial sunshine saturday, increasing clouds saturday night , small chance we have a shower around on sunday, the best chances will be on monday. behind that system, the air really is not all that cold. we are talking temperatures as high as the mid to even upper 40' s by the time we get to our tuesday and wednesday of next week. you get beyond the 7-day forecast as we continue to creep within two weeks of christmas, wondering if we will have a white christmas. there will be to other systems we will be tracking between now and the 25th -- one will be very late next week, sometime give or take friday, and the other one give or take on the 23rd. so still some opportunities out there. we will just need a perfect track without a lot of cold air in place your let' s head to cook' s corner.

news 9 kitchen, and i am joined by the chefs from funktion, and you are making this pesto result of -- risotto. it takes a little time. tracey: probably about 25 minutes. erin: what are we adding in here? tracey: we will be adding sun-dried tomatoes, peas, pesto, and some parmesan cheese. erin: tell me more about the restaurant. jay: we are look at on 931 elm street, we do small, charitable plates, american tapas. our goal is to create an environment that is a more social environments of people come in, they share a plate, they share the experience of the current taste of the food. hopefully have more conversation and people do with cell phones nowadays pure we have been getting great reviews.

erin: that is wonderful. this looks wonderful with the bright green. tell us about the other small dishes that you are serving out there. jay: one of our bigger sellers as we have pork with caramelized onions. that is definitely a big seller. we have asian chicken meatballs, which are very good. we just changed our menu a little bit because people were asking for our full entre es, so now. we have buffalo tofu. tracey try to make the menu so that if you go in with a group of people and somebody is a vegetarian or summit he is gluten-free, and some of you likes meat, everybody will be able to order. erin: something for everyone. can you order this risotto as a meal? tracey: you can. erin: what did you use for your pesto? tracey: this is a standard pesto -- basil, garlic, olive oil.

in it, so we can do a nut-free dish. we can also do a vegan without the parmesan cheese. erin: so much you have to take into consideration with so many offer something for everyone. wow. this looks beautiful over here. tracey: thank you. erin: we have parmesan on top p. the holidays? s eve, we are doing three seatings, so specific options for your choices for the dinners just so that we can have set people coming in, so we can let our s eve. unfortunately, we do not have smell-o-division.

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yankee swap and instead brought down $400 worth of groceries and threw it in the bin here. another woman said she grew up with a family who had trouble making ends meet, so she wanted to donate to people in need. you can go to any walmart, we are looking at nonperishable foods, pick up one of these bags, buy that at the register, and dump it over there. the new hampshire food bank serves about 140,000 people, so they need this stuff this time of year, so help out if you can' t do we will be here for a little while longer. help out if you can. erin: thank you so much, sean. we appreciate that. we know donors will be very generous. for the weather? kevin: looking good, partial sunshine tomorrow, clouds sunday, temperatures milder head of the rain monday night and early tuesday. erin: all right, and we do have some breaking news now -- a u.s. army ranger from new hampshire

fire exercise at fort stewart, georgia. 21-year-old corporal andrew aimesbury was seriously wounded died. aimesbury was a native of strafford, new hampshire and graduated from dover senior high school. we will have much more on this tonight starting at 5:00. thanks for joining us, have a

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