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identified as 25-year-old jonathan vasquez ojeda of he died last night at the hospital. neighbor residents are on edge. there have been several reports of shots fired in the area in reason days. as far as the homicide goes an autopsy was conducted today. >> the cause of mr. vasquez ojeda's death was a gunshot wound to the chest and he certified the manner of homicide. >> it terrifies me, especially for people with children and street, you've got kids riding their scooters. it's absolutely horrible. reporter: again, the investigation is ongoing, anyone with more information is being asked to call manchester police. for now, live in manchester, naoko fun ayama. >> extreme drought conditions have expanded, they include more of hill where county and par of
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and officials say the winter months could spell trouble for summer 2017. andy hershberger is live in manchester along the merrimack river. reporter: local officials say they expect to lose about tree feet of wer from the reservoir during a normal summer. but the director of manchester's water works says in three decades he's never seen anything like this. this pipe that spans the merrimack river i normally submerged. and the water level of massabesic, the primary water supply for manchester and parts of surrounding towns, is normally a foot higher. still officials in the area say there is plenty of water. and are at this point only asking for some voluntary conservation measures. >> there's no restriction for consumers, but again we ask all of our rate payers to conserve water. it's a valued resource, you should nev waste water any way. reporter: normally the water
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grass line. but that's where it is today. low water levels have prompted officials to close two boat launches on massabesic, as drought conditions continue to expand west across the state. >> boats have been grounding out trying to get in and out of the water the water level is so low, rocks are exposed out on the lake, and we've had issues where people have been stranded in the grasses because the reporter: they've started to release a billion gallon water reserve, that is enough to raise the lake level about a foot. state officials say many communities are getting pinched by the drought in year, but their biggest concern is what happens in the next several months. >> certainly we do depend on snow in the winter time, and we depend on the snow melt, if we
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reporter: james gallagher says the short-term forecast isn't good either, and these dry conditions are expected to be around. live in manchester, andy hershberger. jamie: after republicans held their unity breakfast the morning after election night, today democrats gathered to kick off the general election. candidates and party faithful gathered at the puritan bright and early to congratulate the winners. governor maggie hassan looking to move up tohe jabbed kelly ayotte as beholden to corporate interests, and carol shea porter says she's ready for her fourth straight matchup with frank guinta. >> what a ticket we have, look at this ticket, we are making history. jamie: also on the ballot, executive councilor colin van ostern is looking to become the youngest governor in 60 years. the importance of new hampshire in the presidential race is evident tonight.
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while vice-presidential nominee tim kaine is making his fourth visit. our live team coverage begins now, where kaine was earliereter today. reporter: senator kaine made two stops, here at the tow hall as well as in portsmouth, calling this race a dead heat. telling voters that with just 54 days to go, no one can take this election for granted. >> new hampshire is really important, granite state, you guysre this battle ground state, senator kim cane rallied supporters in -- holding up clinton's stronger together against trump's vision. >> this is a view that is a view out of the penthouse of the tall tower, right, looking down and looking at a nation and seeing a crippled america. i do not recognize this picture of our country. i don't.
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reporter: kaine says stronger together is also the theme when it comes to policy. >> if you're going to build an economy it's got to work for everybody, not just a few. if we're going to be strong in the world, part of that strength is alliances rather than just trying to bill walls and tear up alliances. reporter: in portsmouth he discussed issues important to millennials and the effort to keep them in the state. and the differences clinton's campaign has with trump's on issues like making college affordable, climate change, and family lif he explained clinton's 12-week paid family leave act. >> so you could take care of a sick relative or you could stay home after the birth of a child for either a mom or a dad. reporter: versus a trump plan that tim kaine says is only for women. >> it's six weeks of maternity leave and it's not paid by the company, it's paid through the state unemployment insurance program. reporter: senator kaine
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health and his tax returns, urging voters to, quote, not let him get away with it. live in exeter, jennifer crompton, wmur news 9. jennifer: the stage is being set for donald trump to hold an evening rally in laconia. the line is a long one for trump's only scheduled stop. jean mackin has a preview of his visit. reporter: those supporters started lining up hours ago. noon so he could get a spot right up there close to the stag where donald trump will be speaking tonight inside the gym here in laconia middle school. this is trump's fourth visit to the state since winning the new hampshire primary. his first major victory in the presidential campaign. he was here just 20ays ago holding a rally in manchester, a clear sign his campaign i taking new hampshire's swin state status very seriously. now this morning he was in new york delivering his economic
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vowing job growth. we'll wait to hear what he'll address tonight, if he'll address that plan, possibly touch on the candidate's medical records, the hot topic dominating the campaign trail recently, donald trump's ralily is scheduled for 7:30 tonight. jean mackin, wmur news 9. jamie: for the first time in more than 100 years the state's largest newspaper is not endorsing a republican for president. instead, the new hampshire union leader says it libertarian gary johnson, the paper says it refuses to choose between clinton or trump and says there is a reasonable alternative in johnson. >> frankly if the two major political party had offered a fit candidate for office we probably wouldn't have looked at a third party, and libertarians don't have a chance unless americans know there's a life line they can grab. >> he says if johnson and weld
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clinton, the libertarian ticket could win. straight ahead, this laconia man is behind bars accused of threatening to blow up the city's police departmen the serious charges he now faces. shuts down for the day to give back to the communities they live in and work in. where we caught up with a group of them making a difference. hayley: there's some rain on the radar, it's just a few thousand miles away from us, when we could get much needed rainfall, coming up. >> we heard from dartmouth at
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and then votes to put their agenda before eryday families. higher drug prices and cutbacks to our medicare. so, think about it: new hampshire can choose the special interests' senator with kelly ayotte... or a people's senator, for a change. i'm maie hassan and i approve this message. i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. i'm maie hassan donald trump says he alone can fix the problems we face. well i don't believe that's how you get things done in our country. it takes democrats and republicans that's how we got health care for 8 million kids. rebuilt new york city after 9/11. and got the treaty cutting russia's nuclear arms. we've got to bring people together. that's how you solve problems and that's what i'll do as president. >> breaking news from new york city, a shooting in mid town manhattan rig by busy penn
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hour. police say two officers were injured when a man with a meat cleaver attacked them andhey opened fire. jennifer: the two officers were taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. the suspect shot multiple times, he is in critical condition right now. tonight a laconia man is charged after police say he threatened to blow up the city's police station. jamie: early this morning laconia police were called to main street after a 45-year-old war en bears allegedly armed with a machete was making threats to blow up the police department using a propa examine the devices as a precaution, he is charged with criminal threatening with a deadly weapon and use of a molotov cocktail. >> obviously very concerning to us that somebodies with making threats to blow up the police department and then to find out th he had taken a substantial step towards doing the that was very concerning, so we're just happy he was taken off the street without incident and that nobody was harmed. jamie: the man said he was mad at police becau they had had
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narcotics charge. he waived his arraignment today. jennifer: haley is in with a sweatshirt kind of day. hayley: i know, it was kind of cool. jamie: i love the light jacket weather, that's the best. hayley: you want to keep it handy for tomorrow morning, it latest be one of the coldest mornings we've seen so far this fall season. jennifer: if you missed it last night, this o was a beauty,
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>> welcome back the bear hunting season in new hampshire is off to an average start. jennifer: fish and game officials say 300 have been killed so far and despite the lack of food this summer, conditions are improving. numbers tend to be high in poorer food years. hunters are being asked to avoid the 10 bears wearing radio collars because pish and game are using them to gather important information. the state has an estimated 6100 bears. jamie: a day of service for timber land employees. jennifer: the company shut down for the 19th annual serve-apalooza.
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a new pantry space and installed and filledded the shelves. >> it's one of our two pinnacle events where our entire company shuts down for the day to allow the employees to serve at various sites through this community, and the various communities in which we live and work. >> it would save us thousands of dollars. so not only do they come and do the work, but they've also purchased things along the way for us, so that's been really helpful. we have a not necessarily a lot. volunteers who can lift and move and build, so this has been amazing for us. jennifer: the other locations include cross roads house, and seabrook elementary and middle schools. hayley: i'm sure they loved the weather today, doing that hard work, it wasn't too hot or humid. take a look in conway, totally beautiful skies there, just a few of those fair weather clouds
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and look at the shot in warner, you can see some of the fall color beginning there. win out of the northwest at 10 miles per hour. so obviously we really need some rain. i know it's been so nice recently, perfect for outdoor activities, but not so great for the growing drought. each day that goes by it gets worse and worse. here's some of the latest numbers. this is for the city of manchester, and probably for most of the extreme area. whole year we usually up near 30.92 inches of rainfall. about 14.5 inches. that means we're down 16.45 inches for the entire year. that is absolutely significant. and that's not something that just one day will fix. yesterday's rain, of course any little built of rain helps. cold front just passing through like that aren't going to do it.
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orwe need a low pressure system to be parked on top of us for days on en. so that means we need a change in the weather pattern. and as you see here, that is not coming. in fact, you have to go a thousand or 1500 miles away to get any rainfall that's got its eye on us, eventually we will get some of tt rain ove the weekend. temperatures now, it's definitely cool up north, this is sweater weather up there. whitefield about 62 degrees. 67 in the lakes region, 71 comfortable i manchester a little cool in portsmouth at 62. so overnight tonight with the clear skies, the light winds, that's the perfect recipe for what we call radiational cooling or when the cold air really settles in and makes it a chilly night. this will likely be the coldest night we've had so far this season, we'll have moonlit skies, the full mooneyes tomorrow night actually. but look at the low temperatures, 30's up north, theres theres the threat for some frost up north.
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the low to mid 30's. so cover up your plants if you have any sensitive ones still outside in coos county. if you're wondering when the first date of frost is on average, we're right about there, in coos county, septembes region, and then you have until october for manchester and points to the south and east. here's how things go, tomorrow we're waking up to bright sunshine and temperatures that will be on the cool sigh tomorrow morning, but with all the quickly, we'll get into the 70's tomorrow afternoon, with bright sunshine. saturday is similar, maybe a few degrees warmer, bright and sunny in the afternoon, some clouds will start to increase, and then on day that's when things will change, we'll have scattered showers moving through, it's not a washout of a day, just be aware there could be on and off showers. tomorrow 70's with bright sun, light winds out of the south, a big event going on this weekend, the reach for the beach, and it
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perfect weather although a little warm ding the days, but it could be a lot worse. a few showers on sunday into monday, that's where our beneficial rain will come in and then next week more september beauty is coming our way tuesday, wednesday and thursday. >> don't forget the vests and -- jennifer: any news and sports rlds are colliding right now. jamie: red
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>> 17 games to go for the red sox and every single one of them is against a division opponent. sox open a series with the yankees tonight at fenway park. new york fighting for a playoff spot, two games out of the wild card and just four games behind the sox in the division. eduardo rodriguez will pitch for lead over baltimore for first place. it was a great win over t weekend for the u.n.h. football team, coming from behind to defeat holy cross. and their home and stadium opener, but it's quickly onto the next opponent for the wildcats. they head up interstate 89 to take on dartmouth the big green will be playing their season opener. the big green are much improved, finishing last season, ranked in
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>> gotta work on some things after last year's film with dartmouth, not share exactly good football players.hey're >> they're similar to holy cross, just make our eyes are on the right place, we're doing our job and we'll be fine. >> the windham high school football team is hoping to get backo the division two title game this fall, and if they do this week's how many town hero will have a lot victor pana, the fullback ran for almost 800 yards with 13 touchdowns for a junior. he already has four who are score this is year. defensively the middle linebacker has racked up over 200 tackles in his career but says he doesn't need the stats, he just wants to win. >> i've said this so many times, it doesn't matter if i'm scoring the tld or blocking for parker or jakey or who ever and they're getting a touchdown.
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game. >> jaguars have done a lot winning, with two strght state championship games, winning it all two years ago. >> we want to prove oursees again and definitely take the chance and take the win again. reporter: off the field victor is a self made student ambassador for the school, he belongs to the j.c.a. club, working with speci needs students. >> i had a lot of fun with it. we get to interact with with the kids and they really like to play with us and just us at certain things, it's a really good time. >> he's a leader off the field, he's the one that in school will go sit with somebody that's alone in the lunch room or greet the new student to the school, and he's really that type of person. reporter: victor didn't have any sold i college plans yet but says he's like to study environmental science and hops to continue his football career.
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barbara moussette: kelly came through for me and my husband, and i am just forer grateful... with my husband in cancer treatment, we fell behind on our bills, and we needeour tax refund to catch up... ...but hackers had stolen i we were the victims of identity theft. we reached out to kelly ayotte. she didn't know us at all, but she went to the irs and she fought for us. thanks to kelly, we got our refund and we kept our home. kelly ayotte: i'm kelly ayotte
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when i first found out that carl had been using heroin on and off for a year. i immediately thought not my son. i found him in his bathroom with a syringe still in his hand and that was the worst day of my life. this opioid epidemic. she's trying to do everything she can to get laws changed. so this doesn't happen again. she's definitely a leader. i just love annie. i'm annie kuster and i approved this message. narrator: fewer new hampshire students are graduating debt free, while wall street and oil companies get billions in tax breaks. and whose side is kelly ayotte on? she voted to cut funding for pell grants and
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tonight, breaking news. the scare here in new york city a short time ago involving police officers. the suspect with a meat cleaver. police rush to the scene. officers injured. gunshots fired. and we are on the scene. also breaking, the massive recall just tonight. the smartphones now officially recalled because of fires. and the concern ove hillary clinton, back on the trail, and what she says tonight about her absence. and taking aim at donald trump, after that moment at a flint church, when the pastor stops meanwhile, trump tonight, and the full interview with dr. oz. what trump now reveals. police investigating a possible serial kill, and tonight here the 911 call. the woman inside the home.
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