will continue to disappear unless we level the playing field. with your help, as president, we will. jamie: now at noon, police are on the hunt for more suspects in connection to an attempted robbery stopped by a 65-year-old woman. what police say their role was. plus, a partial school day for some students in manchester the -- in manchester. the reason why they were dismissed. no winners in the powerball ll be collecting this noon. kevin: a lot of sunshine again today as temperatures work their way back above normal. how long it lasts and a look to the weekend ahead. [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. now, wmur news 9 at noon. jamie: off the top this noon, a breaking situation in

m jamie staton. there is an active situation on dave street right off of smith road. it is not clear what brought officers to this location. we will continue to giving updates on this situation as it new developments this noon in an attempted robbery police say was stopped by a 65-year-old woman monday on south porter street. manchester police say warrants have been issued for two women they believe were involved in the incident. right now, police are looking for 21-year-old julie lambert and 26-year-old amanda gurley. they both are wanted for conspiracy to commit robbery. the victim shot 23-year-old michael bontaites in the chest during the incident. police found bontaites when he went to the hospital, and charged him in the crime. a manchester man faces a slew of charges for allegedly assaulting a police officer. manchester police responded to a call of a man waving a knife at people in the area of beech street yesterday. police say when they arrived,

ousman trawalley concealing an x-acto knife in his shirt sleeve. trawalley allegedly became approached. no one was seriously injured, and police were able to get a hold of the knife. a review board has unanimously affirmed the sentenced of a plaistow man convicted of abusing his girlfriend' s three-year-old son. that means roland dow will serve 25.5 to 67 years in prison. prosecutors say dow inflicted physical and emotional abuse on was the son of dow' s live-in girlfriend jessica linscott. dow was found guilty of abusing the youngster so violently that he suffered brain damage and blindness. right now, crews are working to repair a water main break that led to an early dismissal at central high school. the break happened at beech and lowell streets. buses were available for the no word on when the repairs on be finished. been sentenced for beating someone with a baseball bat and

years to 30 years for first degree assault, a consecutive four to 15 for conspiracy to commit first degree assault, and a consecutive 10 to 30 for kidnapping with nine years of the minimum suspended on the kidnapping charge. williams pled guilty in a plea agreement. officials in paris are opening a terrorism investigation after they say a man carrying a butcher' s knife and wearing fake explosives showed up at a police station in northern paris. authorities say the man was shot and killed and was later found with a cell phone and a piece of paper with an islamic state emblem and a claim of responsibility written in arabic. this incident comes exactly one year after the attack on "charlie hebdo" newspaper that killed 12 people. new details about 17 miners who were rescued after being trapped about 900 feet below ground. the miners were descending to the floor of a 2300-foot deep mine when they got stuck.

what was to blame. marci: the sounds of relief after nearly 10 hours of anxiously waiting. 17 miners trapped nearly 900 feet below ground in upstate new york all finally safe on solid ground. that they could. it' s impressive to see how well they manage to the situation, to be honest with you. starting their shift at the deepest salt mine in the country near ithaca when the elevator they were in somehow stopped working. >> cage is stuck 850 feet down with people on it. marci: the miners huddling fire and police rushed in to help. >> man power needed to backfill out in lansing on a rope rescue. marci: using this crane to lower a basket below ground, lifting several workers at a time to the surface. >> we practice mine evacs

year, so that practice is coming into play today. marci: despite being shaken and freezing, the miners waited there at the scene until the last of their coworkers were rescued. m -- i don' t know, i am inspired by them. marci: and we' re told they' re all in good health. investigating. operations are suspended in that part of the salt mine until the cause is determined and the problem is fixed. marci gonzalez, abc news, new york. jamie: beautiful skies this noon throughout the granite state, but it won' t necessarily stay that way in the coming days. let' s go to another one of our non-powerball winners. kevin skarupa, both of us on this winter weather pattern. kristen: after some very -- kevin: after some very cold days, it will be a nice afternoon. you know this time of year it

after a general increase in clouds later tomorrow, we set up a couple of systems over the course of the weekend. right now, falling below 0 overnight, falling into the 20' s and 30' s, a couple southern spots reaching below -- reaching above 40 degrees to we will continue to see the cooler air head back in, and another system we will be watching over the weekend. we will have all of the details with your forecast coming up in a few minutes. jamie: all right, kevin. all eyes are on saturday, wondering exactly how much will be on the line for the powerball winner in last night' s drawing. although, not everyone walked away empty handed. a ticket sold at x-tra mart in milford matched four numbers for $50,000. and in plymouth, massachusetts someone won $1 million. the next drawing is on saturday and officials estimate the jackpot will grow to a staggering $675 million, making it the largest lottery prize in

how about that? the dow dropped nearly 300 points today after the opening this comes as china' continue to plunge, triggering the second automatic halt in trading this week. the dow is logging its worst start to a year since 2008. the price of oil has sunk to its lowest level in 12 years. several cars where damaged last night when a driver crashed her suv into a dealership lot in manchester. the accident happened around 10:30 at second street auto. police say a woman' s suv hit a snow bank before slamming into a domino effect. a total of three suv' s at the dealership were damaged. the 75-year-old driver told officers that the accident happened when she got a cramp in her hand. she was taken to the hospital as a precaution. right now, boston police are investigating vandalism at fenway park. the team says a large number six in honor of johnny pesky was scribbled with black graffiti. officials say the paint was found wednesday, but it' s not clear when the vandalism happened.

association with the team as a player, manager, coach, and broadcaster. coming up, the race for the white house just got a bit bigger. the candidate who is entering the race for the nations top job. and the tension continues between two other presidential candidates this noon. the feud between donald trump and ted cruz. kevin: plus, -- jennifer: plusj --

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knows no boundaries. hillary clinton has what it takes to stand up to the republicans and the gun lobby. we need to close the loopholes and support universal background checks. how many people have to die before we before we come together as a nation? i'm hillary clinton

jamie: another presidential hopeful is throwing his hat into the race for the white house. former new mexico governor gary johnson announced that he is running as a libertarian. he was the party' s nominee in 2012. an email sent to reporters from johnson said, quote, "america needs a president who will push back against the growth of government and mean it." the conversation is ramping-up regarding ted cruz' s u.s. citizenship. donald trump this noon is questioning whether cruz is even eligible to be president because he was born in canada. abc' s kenneth moton has more from washington. kenneth: cruz' s citizenship. today, more questions about ted cruz' s legal right to run for president. the texas senator born in canada to an american mother. sen. cruz: as a legal matter the

settled law that the child of a u.s. citizen born abroad is a natural born citizen. kenneth: the man raising the concerns? his fellow republican donald trump. he told cnn cruz should go to court. mr. trump: ted, he should ask for a declaratory judgment because that would clear it all up. i' m doing this for the good of ted. kenneth: cruz, on the stump in iowa, called it all noise. sen. cruz: my focus is on addressing the real challenges and issues facing the american people. kenneth: cruz has pointed to 2008 presidential contender john mccain who was born in panama. but mccain told the chris merrill show he was delivered on a u.s. base. and as for cruz -- sen. mccain: i think there is a question. i' m not a constitutional scholar on that, but i think it' s worth looking into. kenneth: abc news did ask the constitutional legal scholars, who say it appears cruz is in the clear, but the issue is still unresolved. sec. earnest: it would be quite ironic if after seven or eight years of drama around the president' s birth certificate, if republican primary voters

their nominee. kenneth: cruz renounced his canadian citizenship 18 months ago. this morning, donald trump tweeted that was a wise move by cruz. kenneth moton, abc news washington. jamie: we are 33 days out from the new hampshire primary, and treading heavily on the campaign trail here in the granite state. today, jeb bush held a townhall in londonderry where he discussed foreign policy and gun marco rubio is currently holding townhall at nashua community college. in both governor jim gilmore and carly fiorina are embarking on a visit of tradition and addressing the new hampshire this year marks the 100th anniversary of the new hampshire primary, so on friday, we' taking an in-depth look at the future of the process, as well as a view of the primary' s history and what has made it so special. "first in the nation: 100 years of tradition" airs this friday night at 7:00, right here on wmur news 9.

kevin: yes, and 41 days until pitchers and catchers report. how about that? we are looking at the sunshine for the time being, but a lot of changes for the weekend coming up. jamie: coming up, we' re talking about leadership. it' s a concept key to healthy adolescent development. now to our u-local hot shot. looks like it was snack time for these squirrels. you can submit your pictures and video, and join the thousands of u-local members, by logging onto

>> now, meteorologist kevin forecast. kevin: it certainly was another lot of locations fell down close to where we should be this time of year as opposed to the arctic we have moderated out of that. through the afternoon and the next couple of days, we will see temperatures making their way in the 30' s to near 40 degrees. a light wind to go along with and will be seeing over the next couple of days. the actual temperatures out

with a few high clouds here and there. it is making for a beautiful winter afternoon. quite a few extra clouds back to our west and to our south, but most of that activity staying at pressure staying in control. temperatures again back to fairly similar levels we saw this morning. just falling below 0 in the north country. teens and 20' tonight. we will see a fairly weak system come on shore, and then this line of rain makes its presence known on sunday. until then, temperatures rebound nicely. pushing 40 degrees, 40, 42 and a couple of southeastern areas later on this afternoon. you look at the temperature difference between yesterday and today -- we are looking at a temperature difference of about 2 to 5 degrees. we are on the uptick here.

outdoors, a lot better than earlier this week that is for sure. low and mid 20' spots. make their way on shore. it may be thick enough that we may start to see enough to develop later tomorrow s. on friday evening, we will be looking for temperatures as a fallback to maybe produce a couple of spots. it won' t be terribly organized, but what is out there can cause a few slick spots. there will be a chance of a mixed shower saturday. there will be quite a few clouds as well. there should be a lot of dry hours in between as well. back to our west, if this arrives early saturday morning, there could be a mix initially, but it will fall mainly as that will be heavy at times sunday afternoon and sunday night.

the front as it makes its way through. a lot of sunshine otherwise with a pleasant day, light wind, 34 to 42 from north to south your it a jump into the 40' s on sunday. that is after any chance of an early mix if that precipitation does arrive early enough to it otherwise, we start cooling off monday and fall very close to the averages with partial sunshine tuesday and wednesday, jamie. jamie: kevin, thank you very much. it is time for health headlines where we are going to talk about helping you become leaders. presenting for the first time ever on tv channel 9 from the unh cooperative extension, they merrimack valley office, debbie cheever. are you ready to go? debbie: [laughs] [laughs] kevin: jamie: are we talking about kids in school, youth in their 20' s? debbie: it is sort of a

focused on youth, elementary and high school-aged youth, but the skills we learned that age carryover until into adulthood. probably a lot of the work that i do is working with youth between the ages of 8 and 18. jamie: so largely kids in school. why is it important to develop skills? debbie: it helps them to develop a sense of civic involvement because they are our future leaders, so today' s youth are tomorrow' s leaders come us would want to engage them early to become productive adults. it gives them the opportunity to experience volunteering, and we know a lot of organizations are in need of leaders. these are our future leaders by building the skills.

able to analyze their strengths and weaknesses and be able to goals. a lot of self-esteem, confidence, and the ability to carry out goals happens as a result of learning leadership skills. jamie: it is really about asking t it? because everybody at school, as i remember, wants to fit in. you are asking them to step up and be a little different. debbie: be a little different but also find themselves, find where they can learn to communicate, problem solve, planning skills, decision-making skills, negotiation skills -- there are a wide variety of skills being engaged outside of a school environment but also in a school environment. jamie: do you try to get parents involved as well?

youth-adult partnership model. adults are with you helping to build the skills for our young people. and allow you to be able to experiment and to fail -- and sometimes that happens. that is the best learning experiment -- learning experience that people can have. jamie: debbie, you are a natural. do you want to anchor our 5:00 news?

when senior povertyt republicans and some democratsp came up with a brilliant idea for cutting cost-of-living we said, "it will be over our dead bodies as president, i will do everything i can to extend the solvency of social security and expand benefits for people i'm bernie sanders,

on average, it takes three hundred americans working for a solid year, to make as much money as one top ceo. it's called the wage gap. and the republicans will make it worse by lowering taxes for those at the top and letting

their own rules. hillary clinton will work to close the wage gap. equal pay for women to raise incomes for families, a higher minimum wage, lower taxes for the middle class. she gets the job done for us. i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. jamie: if you' re searching for a new friend for some winter fun, meet this guy, ramsy. he' s a handsome 10-month-old pitbull mix who loves playing fetch. he welcomes lots of belly rubs. who doesn' t? for more information about ramsy and other adoptable pets, visit wmur.com/pets. a picture of an adorable animal is sparking a lot of debate on the internet. kevin skarupa this photo was , posted with a caption that read "somebody brought this bear into doggie day care." the post has been viewed more than a million times with people arguing back and forth over whether this animal is actually a dog or a bear.

kevin: it is a bear? jamie: it is a dog. isn' t that great. kevin: my goodness. we are looking at the beautiful weather out there. it continues partly sunny tomorrow, but the clouds are moving in over the weekend. the better chance of precipitation looks to be sunday as rain. jamie: i like to see the 40' s. keep those coming. starting tonight at 5:00, the federal government has just released new dietary guidelines. what is new this time around? and segways are getting smarter. what you can do with the segway robot rolling around this year' s consumer electronics show.

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