through the state. southern new england from nashua and salem points south and west, central massachusetts down through eastern connecticut and rhode island, heavy downpours and even a possible thunderstorm, all of that has to move through, bringing some beneficial welcome rain to new hampshire, steadiest right now though along the mass-new hampshire border. in northern zones you'll notice once that lifts to the north we get a little lull. what abouthe snow, all of that straight ahead. josh: tonight the dover high school football team is playing would you several members of the coaching staff on the sidelines. jennifer: several volunteer and assistant coaches were dismissed. the superintendent -- wmur's jennifer crompton is live now from the field. reporter: it's senior night, so senior members of the dover football team, cheer squad and marching band will be honored on

the season, and will kick off without several members of of its coaching staff. dover's student athletes are held to high standards. those who teach and coach them even higher. standards tested earlier this week after the superintendent says several volunteer and assistant coaches consumed alcohol after a football game in keene on saturday. >> we received a report of someone who had seen the purchase of the alcohol in keene. reporter: the vehicle from the head coach and students but were still on duty traveling back to dover high. >> we expect for those for whom it is legal to use substances, we expect that they're using it responsibly. school bore policy talks about not using it at school events, whether it's on or off site, talks about not using it when you are on duty. reporter: she says the decision was made to dismiss them after reviewing the policy, and interviewing everyone involved.

agree. >> the coaches bought some beer for themselves what does it have to do with the students. >> as long as they're not being irresponsible about drinking and driving or giving it to minors, it shouldn't be an issue. reporter: but portsmouth's athletic director believes the same action would be taken at the rival school. >> their role models, the coaches, we want them to emulate how the kids should behave and certainly partaking in alcohol at any time is not admissible and reporter: several qualify people including the athletic director will be assisting the staff, including the coach who is still here so that the season will continue on. jennifer crompton, wmur news 9. josh: right now a granite state company is investigating after a series of signary tax paralyzed parts of the east coast. dyn was hit multiple times

systems and customers which include twitter and netflix. kristen carosa has details. reporter: staff here at dyn have been working all day long trying to figure out exactly what happened, important to note diep has not directly spoken to us since these attacks. so here's what we have right now. the cyber attacks against the manchester based internet management companies caused issue as cross the east coast with popular websites twitter and spotify. cyber security expert and snoop wall c.e.o. gary malesky says a ddos attack is a common method used by hackers and it's easy to carry out. this type after tack sends large volumes of traffic to specific servers to shut them down. he says there's no way to prevent a cyber attack like this, and he tells us it will be hard to crack down who is responsible.

control server that's kicking off the bot nets, and in the dark web we found many of these for rent. so it's hard to tell which one is doing it, where you can actually pay $300 for 10 minutes of a ddos attack. reporter: again, dyn has not directly spoken to us since the attacks, however the white house is calling the disruption malicious. kristen carosa, wmur news 9. josh: commitment 2016 cove ration for president zeroed in on the battle ground states just like this one. jennifer: right now governor mike pence is in the granite state about to hold a rally in exeter. cherise leclerc is live now with a preview. reporter: that's right. the event now under way here at exeter town hall. the governor is expected to be here in less than a half-hour from now, but as you can see people have already taken their seats inside. right now former senator robert

trump and his vice-presidential running mate, governor pence. in the last couple of weeks before the election the trump campaign is focusing on key battle ground states. they're not ready to give up the four electoral votes in new hampshire. a little while ago, pence stopped in epping where he met with voters at the popovers restaurant there. and our wmur granite state poll released earlier this week shows trump trailing democrat hillary clinton by 15 points, but governor pence says he's optimistic. >> real connection with his message to get this economy moving again and have america standing tall in the world again, to make appointments to the supreme court that will honor our constitution, i think that's a message that will continue to resonate in the granite state. reporter: not only is former senator smith speaking here tonight, we also saw former new hampshire gore john sununu here, sitting in the front row as

jennifer: thank you. we also have more information now about hillary clinton's trip to new hampshire on monday. she'll be joined by senator elizabeth warren for a rally at st. anselm college. the doors open at 10:30 with that rally kicking off at 12:30. josh: brand new numbers from our latest poll this one looks at the congressional races in new hampshire, 18 days before the election, and it's a tale of two races. n got the fourth round of this ongoing rematch between carol shea porter and incumbent frank guinta. josh: now it is shea-porter leading this race with a 14 point spread over frank guinta, a margin that becomes more understandable when you look at net favorability. the incumbent is -- >> since she's been out of office she's become more popular in the district, out of sight, out of mine.

that went on during the primary has hurt him. josh: but in 2016 the first c.d. may have an x factor. >> sean o'connor is the wild card and is spending a considerable amount of money on this campaign. josh: while he is still trailing, andy smith says o'connor is trending beyond just a protest candidate. reporter: he may have been opportunity to really show people that he's not just a name, as a place holder for registering discontent,ut in his own right. josh: in the second district election night could be an early one for kuster and her challenger lawrence, as she has a 28 point lead over lawrence. >> if lawrence isn't able to get significant support behind him, it will be very difficult for him to push this boulder up a hill. josh: in every race there are a large pool of undecided voters out there, so if you want a

our granite state debate series is coming up in two weeks. all the debates start at 7:00 p.m. and will be live streamed on wmur.com and our app. and our commitment coverage continues next. we'll have highlights from a facebook live conversation with congresswoman kuster, which touched on the drub epidemic and veterans issues. jennifer: make way for pumpkins,

over the weekend. >> in sports we go back 41 years to this famous blast by a new to this famous blast by a new ha when i listen to families across new hampshire, all i hear is that washington is locked into a system where the special interests come before people. the koch brothers and big oil come before clean energy, and powerful corporations beat out entrepreneurs looking to grow their small businesses. i'm maggie hassan. washington won't change overnight. but sending a new senator who puts your priorities ahead of special interests can make a difference.

facebook live with the candidates series. josh: taking your questions this afternoon in our studio, second congressional district candidate, the incumbent, democrat annie kuster. val jumps in with a question about the pocketbook. she wants to know what you're doing to help people learn skills that can help them get jobs here in our state. >> awesome question and thank you, val. so this is where i'm focused. we now have 2.9% unemployment. the envy of the whole country.

people working two and three low income jobs. i want to raise the value of their services and their efforts so that they can work one solid job, take home a strong income, and care for their family. josh: joel wants to know how you'll help people in new hampshire who suffer from mental illness. >> so let's cut to the chase. we need to have treatment for mental healthle bedded in the community, widely available, affordable and all. and part of the work that i'm doing in the o'yacht crisis is -- the opiate crisis is related. josh: how do you feel about the month core system being taught in our schools? >> i think that education should be decided at the local level and that the role of the federal government should be to fund support, innovation, work force development for teachers, but not making the standards that everyone has to live by.

countdown continues to election day, november 8. trying to get those voters to show up. mike: not too many days away. we are tracking rain for the weekend, that's the way it start in some spots. and a little winter before the weekend is done in other spots. i'm colin van ostern, and this is my father-in-law, rich. and this is peter and patrick. i agreed to do a tv ad only if my grandkids were in it, too. i trust colin with their future. my clean energy plan is all about their future. as governor, i'll invest in solar and renewable energy. that'll hold down energy costs, create local jobs, and protect the environment. it's how we keep new hampshire

ng the kids cake and ice cream. you get a lot of energy that way, too. narrator: planned parenthood provides you get a lot of energy many kinds of healthcare. woman: i depend on planned parenthood for birth control. woman: i had my annual physical there. woman: the cancer screenings at planned parenthood are so important. narrator: still, chris sununu cast the deciding vote to eliminate state funding for planned parenthood. chris sununu put partisan politics above women's health care. colin van ostern: i'm colin van ostern. i fought to restore funding for planned because women's health care should always be above politics. uh, first of all, i plan to vote for donald trump. when it served her purpose, ayotte buddied up to trump, even calling him a role model. would you tell a child to aspire to be like donald trump? oh absolutely, i would do that. but she kept playing politics and flip flopping around. ayotte is running away from trump as quickly as she can. and what she values is her seat. and she's trying

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josh: halloween starts a little early in the lakes region as the new hampshire pumpkin festival starts tomorrow. jennifer: on saturday they'll try to break the word record for most lit pumpkins. keene currently holds that record with 30,581. more than 40,000 people are expected to attend. >> pumpkins lining the streets, windows displayed, but tons of other things going on in the area as >> jennifer: there will be a roe race, haunted house, corn mazes and tons of activity for the kids. mike: we start off with doppler radar, fairly quiet around concord south and west. but heavy rain filling in in the last hour around nashua and just about to stretch up into manchester, where it's raining, but not as heavy as what's occurring to our south and

south over eastern connecticut and rhode island, heavy downpours, the possibility of a thunderstorm or two over the next couple hours as some beneficial rain moves on through. we could see significant ponding on the roads due to the fact that we could get a heavy dose of rain over a short period of time. so watch out for that as those bursts of rain build in from the south. heaviest rain is over vermont, but there are some heavier showers around franconia building up colebrook and to the west o continue for the next couple hours. in terms of the heavy rain just off to our south, tile line on that is from now right through midnight, 1:00 a.m. in central and southern new hampshire and then a little later than that farther to the north before we do get a lull in the steady rain during tomorrow morning. but there is more energy back to the west and that meansain and eventually even some snow for parts of new hampshire before the weekend is over. very warm out there, we've got 60's in many spots, and in some

60's, so almost tropically humid, at least by october standards, we're well above the average in terms of humidity out there, that means tonight with a light win out of the southeast turning to the northwest by morning, it will be fairly warm with temperatures only coasting back into the 50's. to start off your saturday. once the heavy downpours lift to the north it starts off mainly dry, anywhere from the lakes region points south, could even be a couple of bright spots during the mid to late mng notice what happens as more energy rotates in from the southwest during the afternoon. it triggers more downpours, maybe even a rumble of thunder, scattered showers to the forth, then cold air builds in on the back side of this storm, later tomorrow evening into the early part of sunday. and oh yeah here goes the green over to white and blue, indicating some snow flying, steadiest in the mountains to the north, right through daybreak on sunday, if not a little bit later than that

tallies could get over an inch to inch and a half in many spots. so this is all beneficial rain, we could actually use several storms like this to get out of the drought, but it will take a lot more than we'll get. after the rain, look at the snow that flies, a coating to an inch or two anywhere from plymouth points north by mid morning on sunday, highest amounts in the higher terrain, mount washington could pick up a half a foot of snow between late saturday evening and early on sunday. fairly warm, but they'll cool down later in the day and speaking of cool, look at the extended outlook as temperatures go lower on sunday. low to mid 40's north, lower to mid 50's south, even colder than that for monday, tuesday and especially wednesday and thursday overnight lows 20's and lower 30's. with snow showers in the mountains right through sunday night, monday and tuesday, highs only in the upper 40's to around 50 degrees. so some bumpy weather this

and winter makes a return before it's done. jennifer: wet on the football field. >> yes, and we're going to get an early sneak peek because one an early sneak peek because one game has already i'm frank guinta and i approve this message. narrator: new hampshire has one of the worst opiate epidemics in the nation. and frank guinta is leading the charge to fight it. erin canterbury: when i met congressman guinta, it was like a breath of fresh air. he said to me "what can i do?" "how can i help?" narrator: frank guinta founded and chairs to combat the heroin epidemic. canterbury: frank guinta understands this is not a democratic issue nor a republican issue. it's a people issue. he's willing to get in there and fight for us...

andrew crossley: new hampshire has a senator who works just as hard as we do. gerardine ferlins: kelly ayotte believes in the potential of new hampshire, and wants to unleash that potential. ron goguen: she's out there fighting for good-paying jobs. andrew crossley: kelly introduced bipartisan training initiatives to make sure we have the skills for the 21st century. sue winter: she's fought against workplace discrimination - claude poisson: she's working for the little guy - i'm the little guy. barb fredette: we need kelly fighting for good new hampshire jobs so our kids can raise their families here. sue martin: kelly is a powerful voice for new hampshire's working families. kelly ayotte: i'm kelly ayotte

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charlestown's carlton fisk with the famous game 6, 12th inning, fair run off the foul pole, sending the reds and red sox to the 1975 world series to a game 7. minutes later the church bell in downtown charlestown rang out in the early morning hours. we have reached week 8 of the friday night football season and with it some tough weather conditions for the 30 teams that will tee it up or have already teed it up. at merrimack valleyhe their game up to 4:45, that means we have early highlights for you. golden eagles a nice play here. for 25 yards, and a few plays later would it be bean right up the middle, that's the one-yard touchdown run and gilford belmont added the two-point converse, they were up 8-0 in the second.

second quarter. join jason king tonight at 11:0y night football. new hampshire college teams in action, all four of them tomorrow, noon st. a's is home, 1:00 the plymouth state panthers are home, dartmouth is in new york against columbia. u.n.h. is home tomorrow afternoon. this is a big game for the wildcats in maryland. >> tows oh on is a very good football t the ball well. they lost a great running back, but day have a great freshman so they've got guys and we'll have to play really well down there. >> ufh needs to win their last four games to make the playoffs. tomorrow on channel 9 you can watch nc state at louisville. and the night game is actually for next week, it's not florida state. we have ohio state in and the fighting mike haddads of penn

off to the start they wanted last weekend, two losses, one in overtime against the thunder in manchester, now they're on the road, tonight in reading, tomorrow at adirondack. >> now you get to know guys on the road, we're all confined in the bus together for seven hours to reading tomorrow, so we get to know each other. >> have a good group of guys, guys coming from different places, but we've seen it gel pretty quickly and we're a tig >> next week the nba starts, we'll have all four major pro sports going on at once. josh: right now on wmur.com, halloween is in 10 days and we have a list of some of the most haunted sites across the country. find out which places in new england made the cup. jennifer: so we'll see you back here again after 20/20.

for months and months of this. i'd like to punch him in the face i'll tell you. there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her, wherever. kelly ayotte stood by him.

absolutely. i would do that. but now, she's running away. trying to save her political career. kelly ayotte's all politics, no principles. priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. when i listen to families across new hampshire, all i hear is that washington is locked into a system where the special interests come before people. where drug company profits come before affordable medicine, the koch brothers and big oil come before clean energy, beat out entrepreneurs looking to grow their small businesses. i'm maggie hassan. washington won't change overnight. but sending a new senator who puts your priorities ahead of special interests can make a difference.

tonight, several breaking stories. the chemical cloud over an american city. you'll see the pictures. the massive spill. families told to shelter in place. more than 50 hospitalized. also breaking, a massive attack on the internet, under way right now. affecting millions of americans coast to coast. everything from netflix to amazon to ebay. the fbi responding right now. and the question, who's behind it? at this hour, the storm system moving through the northeast, from new york to boston. the system already turning deadly. the microburst, winds 95 miles per hour. clinton and trump. the handshake. the stinging jokes. but tonight, what we did not know. what the candidates said to each other when the mike wasn't on.