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>> as far as an area of origin, we are looking at the first floor of the residence right now. adam: now at 5:00, authorities investigating a fire at the same home where a toddler sustained fatal injuries last year. what officials know so far about how the flames started. jean: plus, clean-up is underway for the catastrophic flooding in missouri as other places brace for flooding. hayley: chilly temperatures to end the holiday weekend, then a blast of real cold air early how cold it' s going to get. adam: and a world war ii veteran helping new hampshire remember his special forces unit. how the marine corps raiders are being honored at the state
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like we do. now, wmur news 9 at 5:00. adam: breaking news out of danbury tonight. rescue crews are responding to an incident involving a person falling from a chairlift at ragged mountain this afternoon. wmur has a crew on the way to the scene. stick with us and on wmur.com for the latest as it becomes available. the state fire marshal' s office is investigating a fire that broke out at a home on fowler river road in alexandria. this is the same home where a n 11-month-old boy sustained fatal injuries back in november. good evening, i' m adam sexton. jean: and i' m jean mackin. thanks for joining us. the fire chief tells us that no one was home at the time of the fire and it appears no one has been living there for more than a month. wmur' s kristen carosa joins us with the latest details. kristen: investigators spent time at the scene today looking for what caused this fire to start. the fire chief says at this time, he believes it' s suspicious and it warrants an in-depth investigation
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this home. crime tape surrounds this home on fowler river road in alexandria after a fire tore through, damaging the structure beyond repair. >> when we arrived, we had fire out the windows and a pretty well involved structure. kristen: firefighters battled the blaze from the outside. crews were on scene for hours. suspicious. >> we refused to put anybody into the building, so it was an all exterior attack for us. kristen: thankfully, no one was inside at the time. >> as far as i know, the property has been vacant for a month or so. kristen: it' s the same home where 11-month-old shawn sylvester was critically injured in november. he later died from those injuries. his death was ruled a homicide, but no arrests have been made in connection with his death. however, 29-year-old tommy page, a person living in the home at the time of the incident, is in custody for possessing child sexual abuse images.
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called to the same, we will do a thorough investigation regardless of any circumstances that surrounds where we are at or any other incidents. state fire marshal' s office are now sifting through debris, looking for clues. a cause has not been determined, but investigators are focusing on one area. >> as far as an area of origin, we are looking at the first floor of the residence right now. we will have interviews with the reporting party, witnesses, there are a bunch of other stuff that happen outside of the scene investigation that we will be focusing on from here. kristen: as this investigation continues, the state fire marshal' s office is asking anyone who may have seen anything friday night to call their office or the alexandria police department. live in the studio kristen , carosa, wmur news 9. jean: hooksett police are looking for your help identifying two people they say stole a purse with a large amount of money inside. police say these two people stole the purse at the bass pro shops in hooksett on black
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officers say the suspects face felony theft charges. anyone with information is asked to call hooksett police. adam: it was a sunny start to the weekend as temperatures are above average, but colder weather is moving in. here' s a live look in colebrook now. meteorologist hayley lapoint joins to explain what the rest of weekend looks like. hayley: it looks quiet, which is good news. a lot of people traveling after the long holiday break. temperatures will be much colder as we push forward. right now, 34 in concord. 35 in manchester. 35, portsmouth. 35 in berlin. we have had clouds moving in. at times, it was bright and sunny. other times, overcast and gray. a few snow showers have been living through the higher elevations as well. what you see is what you get for
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the sunset happened at 4:22. passing clouds tonight with temperatures falling into the 20' s by 9:00 tonight. tomorrow, the real cold does not hit. s. a few minutes. jason: thanks -- jean: thanks. midwest. those record floods are finally receding in some areas, but just abc' s indra petersons is in missouri with more. moving down river. bob miller: it' s mind boggling. reporter: as historic floods in missouri sweep away homes and businesses, surging. matt kraichely: you never expect to see your house float away. reporter: some parts of the st. of water. but in other areas, the water is receding, giving residents their first look at what' s left
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some luckier than others. >> we have customers come by to offer help too. and that really gives you that hope that there is some real humanity that' s still left out there. reporter: local churches are now serving as relief centers. pastor chris greenhagen: we' ll come out and help with some of the houses and the relief effort as well. reporter: but all that water is now moving south. the illinois governor toured flooded areas, declaring a state of emergency and deploying national guard troops. governor bruce rauner: the levees are mostly holding well. please, if you get a request to evacuate, honor the request and evacuate. hypothermia is a big risk, and you got people standing around in knee deep water around their homes. reporter in cape girardeau, : missouri bridges, roads and homes are already submerged. now, the race is on to save so many others. volunteers filling sandbags, doing whatever they can to help. governor jay nixon touring the area today. governor nixon: houses were smashed into bridges.
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reporter: a critical mission to save homes and lives. indra petersons, abc news, cape girardeau, missouri. adam: blue bell creameries is being investigated for how it handled a listeria contamination that is linked to three deaths. the u.s. department of justice is examining whether company executives committed wrongdoing in their handling of the outbreak. back in april, blue bell recalled all its ice cream, frozen yogurt, sherbet, and other frozen treats. the company found listeria on the lid of a food service cup the month before the recall. jean: to commitment 2016 coverage now. democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders is in massachusetts right now. earlier today, the vermont senator spoke at a rally at u-mass amherst. the rally was so packed that sanders spoke to a crowd outside . right now, he is speaking to supporters in worcester. sanders will be heading to the granite state tomorrow. the vermont senator will be in londonderry, plaistow, and newmarket. fellow democrat former secretary of state hillary clinton will
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tomorrow. she has town halls in derry, concord, and keene. republican presidential candidate new jersey governor chris christie will open his salem office and attend a town hall in merrimack tomorrow. and fellow republican marco rubio will hold events in milford, atkinson, raymond, and hampton. and you can find the latest political news by heading over to the politics page of our website, wmur.com. adam: a new monument just went in at the state veterans cemetery in boscawen honoring america' s first special operations military force. they were called the marine raiders. one of the last surviving raiders lives here in new hampshire and spearheaded the effort to leave behind a lasting tribute. the year 2015 is gone, and with it, the 70th anniversary of the end of world war ii. of the 16 million americans who served, fewer than a million are still living. that' s what makes monuments like this so important. >> there'
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let me put it that way. adam: harold sheffield of bristol is 95. a lifetime ago in the pacific, he was a member of an elite fighting force known as the marine raiders. >> right after pearl harbor, the president and churchill had gotten together and churchill said this country needed something like their commandos. adam: sheffield' s job was to get behind enemy lines. >> well, it was different, yes. it was hairy at times, believe me, and i was a scout and a sniper so i had my share. adam: he wrote a book about his service, but about a year ago he decided to create something a bit more permanent. >> i wanted some honor for the raiders, because we lost a lot of men. adam: fundraising on his own along with donations from family and the marine raider association he commissioned this , monument for the state
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>> it means a lot to me because you' re apt to forget things we all do. the kids in school, you ask them who we were fighting in world war ii, some of them don' t even know who the enemy was. adam but now, should they one : day venture to this hallowed ground they can learn something , about what harold sheffield and the raiders did to save the world from tyranny so many years ago. >> it' s my swan song, that' s the way i look at it. adam: harold is hoping to hold a dedication ceremony for the monument sometime in the spring. jean: we are working on more for news 9 at 5:00. adam: one of the most infamous gaffes in primary history. we will take you inside the pancake flip disaster. hayley: we are wrapping up the holiday break with a chance of snow showers tomorrow and then a bitter cold blast.
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jean: welcome back. the new hampshire primary is famous for comeback kids like bill clinton and john mccain and upset victors like pat buchanan and gary hart. adam: but there are other memorable moments too, ones the candidates involved would rather forget. we sat down with arnie arnesen to take a look back at gary bauer' s epic pancake flip fail in 2000. >> getting close, folks. >> there we go. getting ready. all right. oh, no! candidate missing in action. yes! who said this was not going to be an exciting event?
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>> he just slipped out of view. for his second feat -- all right. [laughter] adam: joining us now is the in see that event, a familiar face in new hampshire politics, arnie arnesen. thanks for being with us. as dramatic as your play-by-play of the moment was, you said before it is possibly the less possible you unintentionally provoke him into trying that epic flip. >> i was a morning drivetime radio talkshow host in nashua, new hampshire. all the republican candidates wanted to be on our show because nashua is such an important place in primaries. gary and arnie would fight. he was a fundamentalist evangelical candidate, worked for ronald reagan for both terms. we had an interesting background
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george bush had also flipped a pancake and had done the most remarkable pancake flipping i have ever seen. he must have practiced for two years. i think gary saw this. for those that don' t know, gary is a small man, about 5' 6". it is pancakes. as he is walking in, i go great, my favorite presidential short stack. it was like, oh, no, what are you saying? i think between the perfect flip of bush and arnie being a little of noxious, he had to show us both off. unfortunately, he flipped off. adam: as you see it go up? >> a friend of mine is at harvard at the kennedy school. they talk about the highlights of the presidential primaries. that was one of the absolute highlights.
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you saw how articulate he is. he is very funny. he is trying to prove himself in a field where he is already disappearing. he thought this was an opportunity to be clever and show how effective he was. i am not sure you can get anything presidential from flipping a pancake, but he wanted to make his mark. and look what happened. but at the same time, look what we are missing people he had fun. we don' t have fun anymore. they did crazy things. but it is ok because you want to get a sense that they are human. what is happening now because of social media and the scripting and money, everyone is getting attention. but not in that fun, emotional way. adam: that was arnie arnesen. this is jeanne shaheen in 1984 celebrating the out of nowhere victory of gary hart. all of this and more you can find in our new hampshire primary fault.
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>> now, meteorologist hayley lapoint and your forecast. hayley: it was nice today. we got some sunshine. still some clouds overhead in dublin. the' s note stick -- the snow sticking around. temperatures hovering around freezing or just above. with the sun, you do get re-melting and re-freezing. the careful if you' re traveling this evening or overnight. here is a live look at portsmouth, the sun going down. a nice sunset. it is a sunset on what was a mild day. temperatures above 32 degrees for january. we are doing pretty good. here is where we are now. 34 in concord. already five in manchester. 35 in nashua as well. in the low to mid 30' s in the monadnocks region. 30 degrees in whitefield and berlin. we have so much colder air on the way. you can see to the west,
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there is colder air to be had. this is going to start to get closer to us over the next couple of days. the average high for this time in january, 32 degrees. tomorrow will be a few degrees above that, similar to today. then the bottom kind of falls out. look at these temperatures. monday' s high, 22. 23 on tuesday. those are the temperatures for concord and points south. those of you who live up north, you will not even crack 20 degrees on monday and tuesday. this will be our first real arctic blast of the season. it looks like temperatures do good thing i guess. the last time we had temperatures in the 20' s was february 24, 312 days ago. it has been a while since it has been this cold. considering how mild december to the system. clouds have been moving in and
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overnight. showers in higher elevations through the day. mountains and you get snow showers that continue on, especially higher. overnight tonight, passing clouds. a couple of higher elevation snow showers continuing. tomorrow looks like a great day, good for travel after the holiday break. we will have some clouds starting to fill in and even scattered snow showers late in the day as this arctic cold front sweeps through and brings in the real cold air on monday. monday will be bright and sunny. it will not be warm at all. cold in the teens and 20' s. overnight tonight, we will fall into the 20' s. light wind out of the southwest at five to 10 miles per hour. today was a great ski day. tomorrow will be another great one. temperatures in the 20' s with
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and beyond with a few snow showers, especially in the northern reaches of the state. there is your sunshine monday, tuesday. all of next week looks bright and sunny. it is going to be so-called. 22 on monday. that temperature does say zero monday night. for concord and north, it could easily be in the double digits below zero. very cold tuesday morning and tuesday night before we warm-up late in the week. are you ready? jean: i don' t know if we are ready. adam: we will have to see who draws the short straw for the 11:00 live shot. hayley: this will be the real deal. jean: it has been a while. adam: the celtics and that' s today? jason: for the record, i am not
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first half, nets up nine. isaiah thomas had another big day. drives for the left-handed finish grade that made it a six-point game. third quarter, jae crowder knocks down a three from the wing to tie it at 58. lopez with another three-point play put them up by 10. celtics rallied in the fourth. right now, they trailed by four with about 40 seconds to go. this was the scene at gillette stadium on friday, when nearly 70,000 fans turned out to watch the bruins play the canadiens in the annual winter classic. unfortunately, the canadiens cruised to a 5-1 win. matt belesky scored a goal for boston in the third period, avoiding the first ever shutout in winter classic history. tuukka rask made 25 saves, but the defense was just not good enough in front of him. >> the first two periods, i have not seen us play so bad in a while.
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>> obviously, made some -- big saves. he was our best player. we did not play the way we should have in front of him. jason the monarchs home with the : greenville swamp rabbits this weekend. a good chance for the visitors. he makes the save for manchester. could not stop this one. good movement. richard gets his fifth goal of the season. 1-0 after one. second period, that makes it 2-0 after two. the monarchs scored two third period goals. we will have highlights at 6:00. jean: thanks, jason. we' re working on more for news 9 at 5:30. adam: reports of a suspicious man at a gillette stadium parking lot leads to the seizure winter classic.
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jean: right now at 5:30, a connecticut man is in jail after massachusetts authorities say he brought these weapons into a gillette stadium parking lot during the winter classic. adam: plus, it' s national blood donor month. how the american red cross is teaming up with dunkin' donuts to help get people to donate. hayley: get ready for a real wintry blast in the coming days. how cold it gets and if theres any snow in the forecast coming up. jean: and the powerball jackpot $334 million. say you should do if you win the big prize. >> no one covers new hampshire like we do. now, wmur news 9 at 5:30. jean: a connecticut man is in jail accused of bringing these weapons near gillette stadium. stun gun. welcome back, i' adam: and i' m adam sexton. police making it clear tonight there was no threat to anyone attending the winter classic.
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station wcvb is in foxborough with more on the arrest. reporter a stun gun, a machete, : a slingshot, this is the stash of weapons allegedly found in matthew bromson' s car. the 48-year-old connecticut man now facing several charges, foxboro police say they were called to an off-site parking lot for gillette stadium employees. security guards reported a man acting suspiciously. police also say bromson was intoxicated, and threatened three witnesses with an object who feared for their safety. the incident happened just a few hours before the opening face off of the winter classic yesterday. but foxboro police say the incident is not connected to gillette, and bromson is not an employee. just two days ago, on new year' s eve police escorted bromson out , of this hotel after management asked him to leave. the property is right across parking lot. bromson is no stranger to law
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connecticut as recently as november. in 2014, he was reportedly involved in a nine-hour standoff with police in connecticut. he' ll be arraignment monday on several charges including three counts of assault with a dangerous weapon. in foxborough, sera congi, wmur news 9. adam: a boy was taken to the hospital after he felt from a chairlift in denver this afternoon. it happened at ragged mountain resort before 4:00. the general manager says the boy was alert and conscious. a helicopter was called to the scene but later canceled. jean: the sun was shining in new hampshire today. here is a live look at portsmouth memorial bridge all lit up. cold air will be moving into the granite state soon. meteorologist hayley lapoint joins us to tell us when. hayley: it looks like we will have snow showers. way down out of canada.
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the mountains, a lot of times we get snow showers. tomorrow, we will have more widespread like snow showers with little to no accumulation lightly. if you have travel plans over the next 24 hours, you should be good to go. clouds have been in and out across the area. that is how it will be overnight. now 34 in concord. 32 in laconia. tomorrow around where we were today with mostly cloudy skies and snow showers. it is monday and tuesday of next week where he will really feel i' s for high temperatures. i will show you the full forecast in a few minutes. adam: thank you. month dunkin donuts is once again teaming up with the american red cross of northern new england. today they held a blood drive at , the presentation of mary academy in hudson, collecting nearly pints of plasma. 150 officials want to raise awareness about the importance
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holidays, because this is the slowest time of year for donations, due to a number of factors. >> the weather. people tend to be sick this time of year, so really getting as many people out as we can, and the dunkin donuts dd donors campaign is a way to get them a little extra push to get them out here. adam: the effort got a big boost today from the young ladies of the pma cheer team. every donated pint of blood can save up to three lives. jean: this new year is beginning with a huge powerball jackpot. the drawing is tonight and the jackpot is at the last time the $334 million. payout was this high was almost three years ago. abc' s sara haines is on the story. reporter: americans are rushing out for a chance to start the new year a multi-multi-multi millionaire in tonight' s powerball. even wannabe winners unlucky enough to live in one of the six states that don' t offer powerball are making the trek
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their lucky numbers. >> through last wednesday, we have sold more than $620 million in powerball tickets, so people are really starting to get jackpot fever. reporter: at just one in 292 million, i' m 20 times more likely to have identical quadruplets than i am to win this jackpot. the odds are super long but could be super worth it. >> look what i found in my pocket. i call them fun coupons. reporter: want a luxury sports car? you could purchase a new one ever month for 242 years. or what about traveling the globe? cruise for life and still have a quarter of a billion dollars left. >> it' s part of the excitement of playing the lottery is just dream what you would do with the money. >> by a new apartment. reporter some players even have : religious system. >> i think i should get one for three. the father, for the son and the
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>> no matter where you live get , a lawyer, get some banking experience behind you and then go have some fun with the jean: $340 million. that was abc' s sara haines reporting. we will have the winning powerball numbers right here on wmur tonight on news 9 at 11. hopefully, it is someone in the granite state. maybe right here. still to come -- adam: one university is using technology to create a virtual reality laboratory. coming up, we take a look inside and find out why researchers say it could be important for hospitals. jean: and a california couple might be throwing different two birthday parties for their newborn twins. how the pair won' t be sharing the same birth dates on their birth certificates. hayley: tracking snow showers over the next few hours.
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jean: changing the way we perceive the route -- the world around us. that is how scientists describe cutting-edge technology being developed just outside of washington, d.c. aixa diaz takes us inside a lab hoping to transform the way we live, learn, and work. reporter at the university of : maryland' s virtual and augmented reality laboratory. >> we are reproducing the environment.
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collaborating with doctors and students to revolutionize the medical field. the lab, called the augmentarium, uses screens, headsets, and cameras to create virtual worlds. trauma surgeon sarah murthi says the new technology could play an important role in hospitals. >> one of the most frustrating things is we are constantly being driven away from the patient and to a computer screen. reporter: with these glasses doctors could look directly at , patients and see pertinent medical information displayed before them. >> things can appear and disappear based on when you need them the most. reporter: the augmentarium is also working on immersive teaching tools for surgical residents, placing them in real-life emergency scenarios. >> we could create these virtual situations where people are training before they' re in real life taking care of patients. reporter: the lab' s director says helping medical professionals is only the tip of the iceberg. he says augmented reality could help with every-day chores, like working on projects around the house. >> you would not have to keep leafing though these big bulky manuals, they could be embedded
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with the world around us, in a way that makes a lot of sense. reporter in college park, : maryland, i' m aixa diaz. jean: the university of maryland hopes to begin rolling out some of this new technology in late coming up on news 9 at 5:30, 2016. it' s a story many people in the small town of stark remember. >> so they asked the war department for some german pows to come to the north country and cut pulp wood. adam: in today' s chronicle we take a look back at the old world war ii prisoner camps and
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>> now, meteorologist hayley lapoint and your forecast. hayley: good evening. we started out with bright sunshine across the state. this is a time-lapse. it looks like winter with the snow on the ground and gloomy skies by the afternoon. some of us did lose the sunshine by the end of the day. the clouds have been in and out across the sky for much of the day. you can make out a little white. you can see the snow showers going, especially on the higher elevations. mount washington certainly getting some light snow. across the rest of the state, it is a quiet evening with passing clouds. that will be the case all night here. tomorrow, we will have an arctic front slide through. that will trigger more snow
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areas of the state. little to no accumulation expected, but you may get stronger snow showers that moved through so be careful of that if your travels take you anywhere across the northeast is this cold front comes down out of quebec tomorrow. it is going to result in colder temperatures. at the moment, we are only in the 30' s. 35 in manchester. we have 30 degrees in berlin. you can make out colder air toward the west. fargo, 29 degrees. minneapolis, 31. this is not even the start of it. we will tap into colder air in couple of days. the jet stream is a river of air high above our heads. it is usually the air between colder and warm air. it is finally going to sink to the south of us. the past couple of weeks, it has been north allowing the warm air
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now finally, it will sink to the south and that will result in a big change in the way it feels the next couple of days. cold air allowed to sink down out of canada. over the next couple of days, much colder air on the way. here how things are going to go. we will have higher elevation snow showers through the evening and anytime overnight. we will have passing clouds through the rest of new hampshire overnight. here is sunday morning at 8:00, heading out to church services or branch. it will be bright and sunny in the northern part of the state with figure cloud cover. that will continue throughout the day. there will be snow showers that get going. this is the cold front sliding through. snow showers late in the afternoon and evening in southern areas. monday, it will be bright and sunny. despite the sunshine, temperatures will struggle as the cold air comes in. most of us in the teens for
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and only close to 20 in central and southern new hampshire. it will be a shock to the system. tonight, passing clouds, chilly. low temperatures in the 20' s. the lows will equal monday and tuesday' s highs. we have one more day of temperatures in the 30' s across the state with partly sunny skies. peterborough, 35. 36 in meredith tomorrow. the northern part of the state in the 30' s with passing snow showers. little to no accumulation likely. there is the cold air, 20' s for highs monday and tuesday. a quiet week. lots of sunshine. it is just not going to feel mild like december was. not like christmas. adam: the real question is will our photographer wear pants? he has been wearing shorts the whole time. jean: thanks.
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ii, prisoner of war camps were set up all over the u.s., including here in new hampshire. adam: hundreds of captured germans were sent to the small town of stark. what you think would be a dark chapter in that town' s history turned out to be something quite different. reporter: startek, new hampshire , is known for its beautiful views but also for this unassuming piece of land off of route 110. reporter: it is remnants of an old prison camp that people around here remember fondly. >> i went up and found a man who worked in the camp. he told me having the german
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thing that happened to us, which i thought was an unusual thing to say about a prison camp. reporter: the professor captured that in a book, a story he says began while world war ii raged overseas. reporter: with many local man in the service, the brown paper laborers. >> they asked the war department for german p.o.w.' s to come to the north country and cut hope would -- pulp wood. reporter: in april of 1944, cap stark opened and the tiny town soon had 200 inmates as neighbors. she was 10 years old at the time. >> i remember going by the
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we would do this because we did not want to see them or them to see us. reporter: he was a 20-year-old soldier when he was sent to new hampshire two guard p.o.w.' s. >> young fellow' s, most of them were young fellows like i was. reporter: the prisoners were mostly german. the p.o.w.' s work and not -- were among a group of anti-nazi soldiers that had been punished in the homeland. each inmate was expected to cut a cord of wood a day. donald' s family used to rent stables for the horses. as a boy, he would go down to watch the inmates. >> there was one prisoner i liked very much. i would go down and talk to him. i only talked english, he only talked german.
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people in stark and the guards became friends with their european inmates. >> it is unusual for people whose nations aren' t more to have their natural animosity replaced by friendship and decency. i think working in the woods together, the long north country winters, did a lot to bring them together. reporter: the guards and p.o.w.' s new a lumber camp was much better than the frontlines. life at camp stark was civilized. the prisoners were paid for their labor and spent it at the camp store. while the prisoners were treated well here, some constantly were thinking of ways to escape. on many occasions, they did. >> they cannot go any place. some were found in a shed sleeping. reporter: one inmate made it to
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the fence. >> one of them got a ride one time from the county sheriff. he thought it was kind of funny. he drove right to the police station and said i think i got a german prisoner from cap start. attempt was an elaborate tunnel. it was discovered before anyone could crawl to freedom. he says even though the guards were heavily armed, he never fired a shot. in the summer of 1946 with the war over, it would close. the prisoners went home. all that is left today is a couple of fireplaces and an overgrown field. but the story does not end there.
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over the years, residents and guards kept in touch with former inmates. he still has the artifact the germans made for him. across the pond, the professor tracked down some of the former inmates who actually miss their time in new hampshire. >> he said my two years of imprisonment in america with the best years of my life. i realized i happened to stumble upon a really important story and i better write it down. reporter: one of the best chapters of that story would have been 40 years after camp stark closed. in 1986, the first german-american friendship day was held in town. former guards met up with five former inmates, now as friends. >> everybody seemed so happy to just see the faces of these people they knew again. reporter: since that day, two more similar meet ups have been held in stark.
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in the shadow of war that became a symbol of peace. >> it was an opportunity for us to open our eyes. if everyone would try to do that, it might be better. adam: coming up next week on "new hampshire chronicle," hand-crafting a piece of history. a look at a new hampshire craftsman and how he is using his hands to keep long rifles alive. twins usually have a lot in common, especially a birthday. jean: coming up, how one pair of fraternal twins in california will celebrate their birthday in different years. adam: plus ahead at 6:00 -- a skiing accident at ragged mountain. one boy taken of a hospital after falling off a chair lift. jean: it looks like the powerball jackpot is going up
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adam: twins share a lot of things. these twins will not be sharing the same birthday. jean: they were born on different days and years. a baby girl was born one minute before midnight on new year' s eve and her 20 brother was born two minutes after midnight on new year' s day. >> we were actually watching the clock, so it means like two birthday parties back to back. jean: both babies are happy and healthy. their parents weren' t expecting
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