erin: now at noon, threats of violence at nashua schools. the latest on the investigation that' s now making national headlines. three suspects in a violent home invasion face a judge. the terrifying crime they' re accused of. kevin: starting the week with two systems approaching, and the possibility of record warmth. erin: and the field of republican candidates is smaller today. lindsey graham' s announcement to end his bid for the white house. >> no one covers new hampshire like we do. now, wmur news 9 at noon . [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy.

erin: happening now and you, the continuing investigations into a threat that is close all schools in one of the states largest cities. good afternoon. i am erin fehlau. nashua officials announced that every school in the district would be closed today. want to get the latest from heather hamel. she is in a nashua. heather: moments ago, captain from the nashua police department did come out and say that they are still investigating this threat. they will not say whether or not they are determine who is responsible. they will -- they said there will be a joint is conference that will include the fbi at 4:00 and that is when we will be getting an update. the threat came in the form of an e-mail, the superintendent getting it on sunday morning. police are not saying specifics about what it said but superintendent said it was very detailed and high schools appeared to be the target. officials on mr. getting and

threat, or who may be responsible. in light of recent events that have gone on because a country and with violence as a possibility, the superintendent didn' t want to take any chances. rather than just closing down the two high schools in a nashua, he determined it was safest for all students to stay home and 2 private schools were also closed. >> we made the decision last night to err on the side of caution based on the fact that it was a specific threat to both our high schools. and today is the specific date that the action would occur, along with the means for how students would be harmed. heather: now, also, staff over at hudson high school, right next door. nashua, they have also asked other staff to look at their e-mails to see if there are any threats there. the superintendent says no threats were found but he, too, has asked for an increased

as for nashua, it will be an update at 4:00 this afternoon by nashua police as well as the fbi and the superintendent be here as well. heather hamel, wmur news 9. erin: thank you so much. breaking commitment 2016 news right now. the field of republican presidential hopefuls has just become a little smaller. south carolina senator lindsey graham announced this morning he is ending his 2016 bid for the white house. in a video, graham says while he' s suspending his campaign, he' s not suspending his desire to help the country. senator graham: the one thing i few really good about is i did talked about things that are better fix one day. erin: graham says he will eckley go back to iraq and afghanistan for updates on the situation overseas. today some republican candidates are speaking out about saturday' s abc news democratic

donald trump he wants an apology from hillary clinton for statement she made during the debate more she claimed that trump is becoming isis' best recruiter. >> he is being used in social media. erin: the new hampshire primary is only 50 days away. happening right now, several candidates are campaigning in the granite state. marco rubio spoke at a packed town hall event in rochester. he will end his day in conway at another town hall this evening at 6:00. martin o' malley has stops scheduled in concord, manchester, and windham. jeb bush will hold a town hall in alton. chris christie is scheduled to make appearances in hollis, pelham, and new london. ben carson will be in manchester and john kasich has stops planned in portsmouth, trail. a multi-state police pursuit has ended with one person dead. it happened just after 7:00 last

state police were notified of a massachusetts police pursuit on i-95 that was headed into new hampshire. troopers deployed spike strips to stop the 1999 ford explorer, but it continued for another three quarters of a mile before hitting the center median and a guardrail. 35-year-old jeffrey hiltz of danvers, massachusetts, was pronounced dead at the scene. it' s unclear why he was fleeing from police. right now the assessment and cleanup is underway after a water main rate in and chester created a huge sinkhole at a shopping plaza on south willow street. wmur' s amy coveno is live outside the starbucks that is closed today along with 9 other businesses. when is the water going to get turned back on, amy? situation at the south willow plaza. on by the end of the day today year will be open until noon

the drive-through window. they started pumping out the water from this massive sinkhole. it is probably a six-foot pole here. as you said, nine businesses are without water. the sinkhole is noticed 5:00 this morning by the crew in starbucks. a police cruiser actually fell into the sinkhole in the drive-through lane. the city waterworks department telling news 9 they were notified and came and shut the water supply off between 7:00 and 8:00 this morning but since the issues on private property, the city does not get involved with the repair. of state and was given a list of contractors he could call to get the problem fixed. the water system and the pipe going into this leg of the linking for months before it eroded the dirt and the sand in the gravel around the pipe. that could take days before you

amy: we are told they plan to do the repair today and repair the asphalt tomorrow. there are nine businesses in this plaza, including a nail salon. we did speak to the owner their company says they are still open and can do manicures, but no pedicures until they have water. amy coveno, wmur news 9. erin: we do have some new details about a deadly car crash in las vegas, where police say a driver intentionally targeted pedestrians. at least one person died and dozens more were injured after a car plowed into people on the las vegas strip. abc' s brandi hitt with what we' re learning about the driver. brandi: a terrifying hit and run on the busy las vegas strip. >> some lady jumped the curb in her car and went right through the people. brandi: police say this woman driving and those mobile jump to the sidewalk up to three times sunday night, accelerating into the crowd just outside the paris

>> 20 or 40 rushing through the sidewalk, crushing people. brandi: people bouncing off the front of the car. one person is dead and more than 30 people were sent to the hospital, all while a three-year-old child set inside the carpet when this is tried running alongside the vehicle to stop the driver. >> it looks like she was not even try to stop the car. she had both hands on the wheel and was looking straight forward. brandi: police caught up moments later. >> we have determined this is an intentional act. brandi: the toddler inside the vehicle was unharmed but several people remained hospitalized. >> what it is at -- why did this happen? brandi: investigators are footage along can las vegas understanding of what happened. terrorism. brandi hitt, abc news, las vegas. erin: coming up, suspect in a violent home invasion face a judge.

what host steve harvey says about announcing the wrong winner. kevin: 2 systems tracking behind us and coming behind it initially will be the warmest area that for christmas eve. details and the rest of your holiday forecast coming up. erin: and a special treat in "cook' s corner. amy coveno whips up a family favorite that' s sure to please holiday guests. sanders: over 2 million contributions have been made

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people who police say were involved in a home invasion in franklin just faced a judge. courthouse. person was involved as well, right? reporter: -- ray: that' may have been involved in driving the stolen pickup truck at the time of the invasion. they don' t have a name or identity, all they can say is the man is believed to be in his 40' s. three people were arraigned at circuit court in franklin. two are each charged with five felonies including receiving stolen property and armed robbery, while a 19-year-old is charged with receiving stolen property and conspiracy to

according to court paperwork and what was set in our, the three allegedly conspired to rob a victim who was staying overnight at an apartment there in claims court here in franklin. one of them allegedly pretended to be interested in the victim. she went into the apartment and may have let the other two in. when they person with shotguns, the victim fled, fearing for his safety. >> entered at this residence, allegedly did so armed with shotguns. the victim in this matter allegedly jumped off the deck of the second-story residence to flee these individuals, and in so doing, sustained a pretty serious injury. ray: the victim was located at a nearby street, and the homework with their actually called police reporting a suspicious

that is when police found the victim and the victim was taken to dartmouth-hitchcock medical center for his injuries. at this point there is no update on his condition. police say they do anticipate more charges. the three in court today were eventually located in andover, stopped by police. police say when they searched the vehicle, they found shotguns and also some drug paraphernalia. they anticipate more charges will be filed. ray brewer, wmur news 9. miss universe pageant in las vegas last night is making headlines today. host steve harvey accidentally announced the wrong winner. steve harvey: miss universe 2015 is colombia.

the first runner-up is colombia. miss universe 2015 is philippines. erin: oh, dear. miss columbia had already been crowned when the mistake was announced. harvey says he takes full responsibility for not reading the card correctly. he went on twitter apologizing. he apologized they are, but that made for a very awkward moment for those two ladies. kevin: that is like worst-case scenario, isn' t it? erin: oh, i feel for him. kevin: and i feel for the runner-up taking she one. erin: and the woman who won didn' t have her moment, either. anyway. kevin: we' re going to talk about your forecast, coming up. erin: if you need a simple appetizer to impress your guests

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skarupa with your storm watch nine forecast. 50' s a possibility in southern areas.

the next couple days, which is a good 15 degrees above normal this time of year. bear in mind, these averages assume in most years that we have at least a little bit of snow on the ground to keep things a bit cooler. when you don' t have that snow on the ground, it makes it very easy for temperatures to continue to jump above the average, and that includes the overnight lows, which this morning were also a solid 15 degrees above norms this time of year. couple of showers a possibility for the north country, maybe a few flurries were a light rain shower here or there are the remainder of the afternoon. dose of clouds with one or two breaks like we have been seeing play out last few hours. eventually this angles and later be around tomorrow afternoon through tomorrow evening before pulling away on wednesday. a little bit of a break ahead of the second system, right on its heels. s up north after dropping into the teens overnight. mid to upper 40'

in manchester, heading into the 50' s, thanks to a southwesterly breeze out there this afternoon. not terribly strong but enough to push in the milder air. over the weekend we were looking at that went out of the west and northwest ushering in the cooler air and canada. temperatures a solid five or 10 degrees above where we were at this time yesterday to upper 30' s lower 40' s in the central valleys that just hang onto the cooler air even with the best of wins. there is even milder air to our south and west heading in our direction. many fair skies with the shower up north to the evening and any breaks early tomorrow giving way to rein in the afternoon. that will be around for the evening commute with downpours before pulling away. but if a break early on with the and then we get later into the afternoon with the dose of violence and another batch of showers which will likely wrap up early on thursday morning. went out of the west and southwest like the first temperatures above record highs s on christmas day before

toward the weekend itself. not that is chilly out there. -- not quite as chilly out there. there is a look at the extended forecast. we are likely in the 60' s in areas and still in the 50' s for your christmas day before cooling off over the weekend. let' s head to "cook' s corner." amy: hey, everybody. happy holidays, merry christmas. we' re talking about quick and easy appetizers. our producer angela asked us to offer our favorite recipes. today we will be recipe that ve been making in my family joyful kielbasa. one of those recipes we only i love my crockpot. s blessing, every mom' s blessing, really morning and they are delicious by evening. t spill all over the car if you are traveling to

treatable and expandable and it throws together in less than five minutes. the recipe calls for six pounds of to boston. i cut it in half typically. i love this dish because it is warm and ask like a main course but it is easy to gravity with a toothpick so act like an appetizer, too. i sliced up three pounds of victims the. here goes the third count. you are adding to this recipe, 2 tablespoons of brown sugar. you' re doing six pounds of thomas a -- kielbasa. i don' another thing to clean up, right? and then it is a can of ocean spray or whatever, cranberry sauce, not with the berries in it. that a lot of people eat at

throw that in, stir it up. kielbasa is precooked so you are just getting it heated through. i do it first thing in the morning and then we bring it to our party in the evening and it is marvelous and there is never any left. of course you will break up cranberry sauce. these three items blended together and make the most beautiful sauce on the to boston . it is quick and easy to fix and in the crockpot with the lid of snaps on you are good to go for your holiday party could i wish

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erin: dozens of runners donned their ugliest attire for some holiday-themed exercise over the weekend. the ugly sweater run was held in atlanta saturday. from tutus to onsies, folks proudly displayed their christmas worst. baltimore, denver, philadelphia, and tempe, arizona also held ugly sweater runs. kevin: running in a sweater? erin: well, in the wintertime.

wilder air around here. nothing like december, what it should be this time of year come all the way into next weekend. erin: i cannot believe this weather. does not feel like the holidays. starting tonight at 5:00 a , former lottery official already accused of scamming one state is now under investigation by several more states. a press conference also on the school threat in nashua has been scheduled for 4:00 this afternoon. you can watch that right here on the air or streaming on our mobile app and wmur.com for new -- as well. that is it for us.