sean: now at noon, a man airlifted after suffering severe burns. what authorities say went wrong. hayley: after a bright start today, clouds are increasing, bringing changes for the weekend. i will show you the full forecast coming up. sean: plus, thousands of mourners will be gathering at the u.s. supreme court today to pay tribute to justice antonin scalia. and it is a most time for nevada and south carolina voters to head to the polls. presidential hopefuls are on the campaign trail, hoping to pick up any last-minute votes. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> no one covers new hampshire

sean: right now, a man is being treated for severe burns after investigators say he caught himself on fire while trying to light a brush pile on fire. good afternoon, everybody. i' m sean mcdonald. the victim was met flooded from the scene at goffstown. good afternoon, ray. ray: we are at the scene where the helicopter landed to take the victim to the hospital. neighbor said they could hear a loud boom and soul smoke rising above the -- saw smoke rising above the tree line. paramedics worked to stabilize a man injured in the explosion. the victim, who has not been identified, was eventually loaded onto a helicopter and medflighted to boston. chief o' brien: he had injuries on his chest, arms, and hands. ray: the calls started coming into the fire department shortly

a coworker called 911, but called 911. investigators were able to brien: apparently, the gentleman was attempting to kindle a fire to burn some wood debris with an excel rent, gasoline -- an accelerant, a gasoline-type material. when he attempted to ignite the ignited. ray: the chief says if you want to start a fire, use paper, never an accelerant. reporting live in goffstown, ray brewer, wmur news 9 at noon news 9. sean: this noon, a fire was started by careless disposal of smoking materials. they were called to carlene drive. this serves as a reminder to use caution and properly dispose of smoking materials.

the sun is out, and much of the state is seeing temperatures in the 30' s or so. here is a live look in portsmouth, just above freezing, 34 degrees. tonight, some snow is expected to move in. meteorologist hayley lapoint is with us. hayley: it is beautiful right now, but the clouds are on their way. you can see them entering lebanon, hannover at the moment, and eventually they will spread across the state. look at the west, rochester, syracuse, new york, a line of snow. it is making a beeline toward us. behind that line, there is more snow and even rain showers that will move through on our saturday. temperatures in the 30' s now concord, manchester, 30 degrees in whitefield. for the rest of the afternoon, we will climb to the mid-and even upper-30' s was eventually the skies becoming mostly cloudy. snow should hold off until after 7:00 tonight even in the western areas of the state feared we will have the snow moving through overnight.

areas, and up in the north, as much as four inches when you get the white mountains. i will show you a full breakdown of the weekend' few minutes. sean: despite the lack of snow this winter, the state wants people to know there are still places to go snowmobiling. riding is available in some locations in pittsburg, and in bear notch in bartlett. riding should still be available for a number of weeks. the state notify snowmobile clubs to modify their trails and only grown when conditions truly warrants it. right now, there are patrols at sanborn regional high school in kingston after a student made a threat at the winter carnival cap rally. as we reported earlier this week, the student is no longer in school but is cooperating with police. the schools as any students who

because of concerns over the threat will be given an excused absence. s deputy is being held on $100,000 bail, accused of sexually assaulting inmates. 37-year-old ernest blanchette has been indicted on nine accounts of aggravated for loneliest sexual assault. inmates while taking them to or from drexel facilities. -- from correctional facilities. today, a man accused of breaking into homes and do ove -- in dover is under arrest. matthew temple broke into homes during the day looking for jewelry. investigators are looking into four other break-ins. at the state house, a hearing is being held on a proposal to penalty. the bill as acts of terrorism and civil rights offenses to the capital murder statute. that means a person convicted of

of mass destruction or by causing the death of a person exercising certain civil acts could face the death penalty if this measure passes. commitment 2016 now -- candidates on both sides of the aisle are out campaigning, hoping to get last minute votes. tomorrow, voters in nevada and south carolina head to the polls. abc' s megan hughes has the latest. megan: donald trump on geoff: "good morning america," sticking to his stance. mr. trump: we have to stop the drugs from pouring in. megan: this after the pope says a person building walls and not bridges is not a christian. mr. trump: he has gotten awfully big wall at the vatican. megan: candidates marco rubio and jeb bush are backing up trump. mr. bush: i thought it was inappropriate for the pope to intervene at the height of a contested primary. megan: rubio campaigning with popular south carolina governor nikki haley.

dynasty" star phil robertson in myrtle beach. sen. cruz: talk about a man who knows how to shoot a duck. megan: a citizen who worries his canadian bristled qualify him -- birth will disqualify him. >> he did not lift his little finger to do anything about it. megan: it looks like a dead heat in this week' s caucuses in nevada. hillary clinton is not going down without a fight. mrs. clinton: i am not just making speeches and promising free this, for that, free everything. megan: here in south carolina, the race is not as close. trump has a double-digit lead with cruz and rubio following. this could be a three-man race. megan hughes, abc news, columbia, south carolina. sean: mourners are flocking to the supreme court to pay tribute to late justice antonin scalia. here is a live look where scalia' s casket is lying in repose in the great hall during a day-long remembrance.

will be on view into 8:00. noon. maggie hassan was attending the national governors association winter meeting. governors across the country of calling on the federal government to take quick action to address this issue. just last month, governor hassan signed to bills in long -- two bills into law to a tackle heroin. one addresses fentanyl, and the other studies the overdose reversal drug narcan. coming up, a helicopter crashes at pearl harbor. what a witness did after the chopper loaded into the water. plus, investigators execute a search warrant in his part of the -- as part of the san bernardino shooting investigation. hayley: snow on the way and a few rain showers as temperatures go up in a big way this weekend. i will have the full forecast ahead. sean: in today' s cook' s corner, we'

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s spokeswoman confirmed the author' today. her first novel, "to kill a mockingbird" was released in classroom. just last year, she released a new book called "go set a watchman." right now, a teenage boy is in critical condition after a , and the whole incident was caught on camera. watch as the chopper hits the upside down. officials say the helicopter was carrying five tourists. several people jumped into the passengers. chris: you know, i used to surf a lot, and it is dive in and help. they said somebody was in the aircraft, so i dove through the pilot' s side, and i saw him, and the seat was twisted. sean: right now, the faa and

galloping this new, more than 40 people are dead after the u.s. launched air strikes against syria. the targets include an islamic state training camp and a senior extremist leader. this comes after president obama directed his national security team to bolster efforts in libya. new sanctions for north korea are now law. president obama has signed off on measures. the sanctions are punishments for kim jong-un' s regime after launching several nuclear and missile tests as well as several cyberattacks. it is for anyone doing business related to north korea' programs. the fbi was seen searching the home of a brother of one of the san bernardino shooters . an fbi spokeswoman since as they issued a warrant as part of the investigation. investigators were seen carting out manila envelopes, a computer object. the sun is shining, but it will

hayley: we will have snow coming in after the evening commute tonight, which is good. it will happen overnight tonight and early tomorrow, but temperatures will warm up in a big way over the weekend. sean: if you like girl scout tagalongs, you will most likely enjoy what we are whipping up and cook' s corner today. coming up, we' re making troubles that have the cookies right in them. now time for our u local hotshot. here is a group of deer feeding in a field in clarksville. this was taken a viewer driving by.

>> now, meteorologist hayley forecast. everyone. it is a beautiful friday afternoon with clear skies at hampton beach. it is certainly a little chilly -- 34 degrees. all across the state, we are enjoying the crystal clear blue skies. we beginning to see the clouds moving in from the west, especially in that lakes region camera. you can start to see those high clouds moving in, but still beautiful in the monadnock region, portsmouth, a great day for ice skating. temperatures are in the 30'

even up north, 30 degrees in whitefield, 32 and plymouth. there is a 28 in lebanon, also laconia. here is the scope -- we will have the sunshine around for another couple of hours. by then, the clouds are going to fill in. high clouds are starting to arrive in the lakes region, and this ashley in the upper valley and -- and especially in the upper valley in northern areas. they start off as the high, thin clouds, but thicker clouds to the west of us as part of a storm system that will bring in some snow showers during the overnight hours tonight. meantime, the snow is working its way along the newark freeway. snap -- overnight, showers have moved through rochester, new york. they are headed to syracuse now. tonight, i expect snow showers to arrive for us after 7:00 tonight in the western areas of the state and after 9:00 for central and southern new hampshire.

re not done once this line of snow showers move through. it is part of the bigger system with the center of the system out by the twin cities. we have the threat of showers tonight. there is the time i have it all -- clouds fill in. this is 5:00 tonight. we are overcast tonight. it will be dry. after the evening commute, snow showers arrive in the upper valley and monadnock region first. by 10:00 in the evening, so if you have plans to eat out or going to see a movie, you might notice when you are heading home a few snow showers starting to move through. notice the snow showers overspread the state and even some changeover to rein in the southeastern part of the state by about 7:00 tomorrow morning. you get a little break in the action midday, but then we will see the return of some showers and we will get this all across the state. it is in the form of rain because temperatures will be warm enough to have that going on. on sunday, we get back to

no showers -- mountain snow showers. sunday looking like the brighter of the weekend. north and west of manchester, a coating to one inch of snow. that goes for overnight tonight and into saturday. today, increasing clouds, chili, snow tonight. if you have plans to do skiing or boarding this weekend, you will be good both days and somewhat mild. temperatures in the 40' s. sunday night, we have a storm system that will move through southern enhancer. maybe a quick coating of snow monday, than watching another storm system midweek next week. unfortunately, for the snow lovers, it does not look like exclusively snow again. hey, sean, keep some samoas for me in there. here is cook' s corner. sean: yeah, we kind of bury the lead us today. we will put go girl scout cookies in the recipes.

and white mountains. what are we going to make today? julia: tagalong truffles. you will start by needing one box of tagalong cookies, 1/4 of cream cheese, 1/4 of peanut butter, and 12 ounces of chocolate-flavored almond bark. we start by crushing up the cookies in a food processor. smash them up in a ziploc bag or something. once you have something that looks somewhat like this, you will mix in your peanut butter and the cream cheese. this part is hard because it gets really sticky. sean: it gets sticky. do you need me to taste test this at all? [laughs] sean: ok, i was just checking. so you get a scoop in there. i will put the gloves on.

julia: try to make them about one inch thin. sean: actually, i think i did a pretty good job. julia: once you have those, you want to refrigerate them for half an hour or put them in the freezer for 15 minutes.i have some better chilled . sean: because you did not trust julia: [laughs] this is why we have the forks. sean: i was wondering. julia: twoo middle prongs. the reason they have to be about one inch is so you can take them -- sean: ok, very carefully. julia: and then you want to cover them in chocolate. sean: because we do not have enough chocolate already. ok. while we are doing this, people are like wow, you can go to girlscoutsgwm.org, and you have got something called the cookie locator. find out where girl scout cookies are near you.

i am so sorry. that was my fault. can we focus on the good one? [laughs] that one is mine, that one is s. julia: i using crushed-up peanuts as a garnish. sean: i will use this. can we show them? mine -- there it is right there. and the money goes to all of the programs that the girls participate in when you purchase the cookies. girlscoutsgwm.org. you put in your zip code in the cookie locator and find out where the girl scout cookies are near you. they' go out and help out a great cause and get some yummy treats.

hayley: all right. we have got some snow on the way overnight tonight. it will come in after the evening commute tonight, so that should be good for you. overnight, we have the snow coming down to read heavier amounts in the white mountains, maybe some of the higher elevations. a good one instant three inches

southern areas just missing out temperatures and a little bit of weekend. sean: and he could get a little slushy. a nice weekend to get outside. starting tonight at 5:00, is accuracy a legal defense? thhe review online. and which state just proved an unprecedented new plan? that does it for us.

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