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exeter academy. that family filed suit over the way the school responded to their son's sexual relationship with another student. a jury has found in favor of the family, ordering the school to reimburse the cost of a semester's tuition, expenses associated with the trial, and to change the boy's transcript from being on a dean's leave to medical leave. we do have more breaking news at this hour. new york's attorney general has just announced a settlement in tom: jennifer vaughn is the the newsroom now. jennifer: this deal was announced a short time ago. president-elect donald trump agreeing to settle lawsuits related to trump university. claims against trump were brought by the new york attorney general on behalf of over 6,000 victims who had said his real estate courses were fraudulent. under the agreement trump will
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the a.g. releasing a statement saying in part that he is pleased that every victim will receive restitution. and now all of this comes as the president elect appoints new members to his cabinet. and also ahead of a scheduled weekend meeting, with mitt romney. we'll have more on all of that coming up in a few minutes. jean: right now police are investigating a threat that shut down greenfield ent member before that person got to work at the school, but the school did take action. just the case. and rerouted busses. school tonight with the latest for us. reporter: jean, these cones have been outside the school since it was shut down early this morning and now the school is trying to figure out what happened. what would have been a busy friday before thanksgiving break at greenfield elementary school
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honest with what was going on. reporter: the school superintendent says a staff member received a threat before school started. police were notified and then the school took action. >> we decided that it was in the best interest of the building, safety and security of staff and students, that we dismiss students. reporter: the decision was made during the commute to school. busses were sent to oak park. parents were notified through a school messenger alert to go there and pick up roughly 100 kids go to the school. >> they came, picked up their children, they were calm, it was very smooth. >> the school is now working closely with state and local police to investigate. no other details were given about the actual threat. but the school says the students are not at risk. >> if there's every threat, we have to take even slightly serious, then we want to make sure that we do what's in the
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reporter: if parents have questions or concerns, there will be a meeting here held at the elementary school at 6:30 on monday night. kristen carosa, wmur news 9. jean: tonight police are working to trace the hoax calls that prompted evacuations at boston university. investigators say a caller told b.u. police that he was barricaded inside a room at the university library with hostages, guns and explosives. then called bac investigators say police thought they had a real active shooter situation. tom: a student and teacher had had to be taken to the hospital and 30 others treated after a sickening odor spread through west high school today. nearly 1,000 people were evacuated. cherise leclerc has more. reporter: tom, fire officials were able to determine that that odor was coming from a floor
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about 30 people had to be evaluated for health concerns. as you said, about 1,000 people, everyone in that school, had to be vatted from that building here to the football field, which became a massive triage area for fire and a.m.r. personnel to evaluate students suffering from nausea and dizziness. hospitals were put on stand by and warned that they could be receiving an influx of patients, two people a student and staff member were taken to the hospital to be treated. officialre a floor care product was the root of this problem. the fumes had spread to the rest of the school. >> we determined what the product was, and the product was mainly an irritant. we are in touch with the manufacturer of the product and the remedy was to move to fresh air. reporter: they did get plenty of fresh air and they ventilated the school. they were able to let everyone back inside the billion at about
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jean: thanks. right now police in new hampton are searching for a man they say impersonated an officer, pulling over a woman in town. mike cronin is live with a description of the man and details of what happened here. reporter: the suspect told the victims that he pulled them over because he thought they were speeding, and he never identified himself as a police officer. around 8:30 this morning, a woman in over on 132 by a man in a new unmarked silver dodge charger with no front license plate and two blue lights in the grill. the suspect allegedly never asked for the driver's i.d. but did for her daughters because she wasn't wearing a seat belt and he thought she was younger than 18. if faced with a situation like this, police recommend driving to a public lighted place, or call 911. >> no badge, no weapon, no radio, there was nothing about him that showed law enforcement
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lights. after the interaction he got into his car and made a u turn and headed back toward ashland. reporter: the suspect is described as a white man, about of foot 1, average build with dark hair and a man bun. between 25 and 35 years old. police haven't received any reports of this happening anywhere else nearby, but if you have any information on this, you're asked to call new hampton police. mike cronin, wmur news seeing snow for weeks, but the first major storm of the season has moved into tupper midwest. that blizzard is spreading back into the plains states, it's having a ripple effect on travel. you can see delays out of manchester's airport tonight. but marci gonzalez found that some people are welcoming the snow with open arms. reporter: blizzard-like conditions whipping through and blanketing parts of the northern plains. up to a foot of snow falling in
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much of it at rush hour. >> a weird mix of slush and snow. reporter: causing accident after accident. and creating big delays at denver international airport. >> we were delayed until four, and then they canceled it and said we have to wait until morning. reporter: the first major snowfall of the season leaving its mark before moving e reporter: creating what for some is a welcome winter wonder land in fall. >> i love it, man, i love the cold weather. i don't like to be hot. so let it snow, make me a snowman, put it on facebook. i love it. reporter: fun for some, but still a serious concern especially on the roads as the storm is blamed for several deaths in colorado and minnesota. marci gonzalez, abc news, new york.
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beach temperatures climbed above 60 degrees today. hey, it's dark but it's still 55 at hampton beach tonight. mike haddad says snow will fall in parts of new hampshire, parts of new hampshire, before the weekend is over. mike: you can still head to the beach tonight, no problem. what do you need the sun for any way. temperatures well above the average. satellite imagery confirming we have fair skies all over the place right now. look at the temperatures, topping off today the the mid 60 monadnock region, just a little lower in terms of the highs. mid to upper 50's farther to the north. still mild relatively speaking concord points south, back in the 40's in the monadnock region and northern parts of the state. but notice mount washington, still in the mid 40's. very odd that that hang onto that mild weather over 6,000 feet up for several days in november. we've got one more mild day
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we will not get that warm and will probably not be as warm tomorrow as we were today. as temperatures top off in the 50's. but look at all that cold air, yes, marching through the plains in the midwest, when will that arrive and what about that change over from rain to snow in spots on sunday, all of that straight ahead. jean: thanks, mike. let's turn to the traffic watch now, see how things are moving out there. live pictures of i-9 # as people move through hooksett. tom: very exc peggy james joins us live with a look at the evening commute. hi, peggy. >> hi, tom and jean, yes, happy friday, we made it. a lot of people on the roads but things are pretty good. 93 north over the state line things look good, a little slow through wind ham to derry, then another backup in londonderry where we had had an earlier crash, residual delays still hanging on. 293 doing well around manchester.
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later on at the granite street exits. in manchester there us a crash at calef road that has a car into a pole with wires down, so avoid that area. doing good through the hooksett tolls up to concord and points north. the everett turnpike northbound is busy through merrimack and also the approach to 293 in manchester. 101 all clear between manchester and the seacoast. and the spaulding turnpike northbound is stop and go between newington and dover. jean: thanks to you, peggy. balancing the budget, that will be one of the first jobs of new hampshire's new governor. up next thed avision he got today from the outgoing governor. >> president-elect donald trump names three positions in his administration. i'm aixa diaz in washington with a look at those new picks. tom: at 5:30, a popular cider company picking up the pieces from an early morning fire, but
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tom: more than a week after election day, people in north carolina are still waiting to find out who their next governor will be. election officials there say they won't be done with the recount by today's deadline. the latest totals have the democratic challenger a few thousand votes ahead of the republican incumbent. it's one of several races in the state still too close to call. jean: and several recounts for state races in new hhi 14 house seats and one senate seat are still undecided. new hampshire's secretary of state hopes to have those races resolved by tuesday. governor maggie hassan and governor elect chris sununu are urging the heads of state agencies to offer innovative ideas as budget hearings begin. governor hassan said the next two-year state budget should focus on combating the drug crisis, supporting jobs at dcyf
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sununu says while being frugal, officials still need to deliver the best services to granite staters. >> we have the opportunity to do smart things, we always have the opportunity to improve government. and we always have the opportunity to provide better results for new hampshire. and in our state with our balanced budget it really starts here. jean: the budget must be presented in february, just a month before sununu is sworn into office. tom: president-elect donald trump has he prepares for a busy weekend of transition meetings. aixa diaz with a look at some of the latest names. reporter: tom, today the president-elect named three new administration members who are already drawing criticism from the left. senator tom cotton and former governor mike hawk bee, both from arkansas, stopped at trump tower as president-elect donald trump assembles his cabinet.
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qualifications. reporter: he selected alabama senator jeff sessions as attorney general, describing him as a world class legal mind. >> jeff sessions is most identified with a really hawkish view of illegal immigration. reporter: democrats immediately criticized the move. >> this is a man who's -- whose openly racist statements disqualified him to be a federal judge. reer trump has chosen mike pompeo who serves on the house and intelligence committee and was elected during the tea party wave of 2010. retired general michael flynn has been tapped as national security advisor. >> he has proven to have made inflammatory comments and talked about the fact that the fear of muslims is rational in his view. reporter: the three picks are consistent with trump's anti-establishment message. >> they are probably people who
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even under another republican president. but they are probably speaking in line with the positions that donald trump has outlined in his campaign. reporter: both pompeo and sessions require senate confirmation for their positios. the national security advisor does not. tom: guest members of the trump transition team right now are working with federal agencies in washington? reporter: that's right and they arrived today for the nationa security, state department, department of defense and national security agency, they're called landing teams is how the trump team is putting it. many transition teams now working with current administration officials to make the transition smooth. on monday the team from the economic wing of this transition team is heading to d.c. tom: thank you. mike: we start off with some time lambs photos in warner. what a friday we had weather
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ended up well above the average with crystal clear skies a good part of the this friday. the numbness concord, 65. 18 other the average of 47. only six shy of the record, 71, set back the 1953. morning low very close to the average. somewhere between right now as we're starting to cool down after the today, 40's north, on average, 50's from the lakes region, points south and southeast, or at least south of the lakes region. still 50 right now in plymouth. and you notice that ocean temperature at 53, still relatively mild this time of year. you get overnight lows tonight that will bottom out in the 20's and 30's. a few degrees above average for this time of year. speaking of which the above normal temperature pattern locks right in here through tomorrow before the cooler changes come in here on sunday.
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the west finally begins to move in. bringing our temperatures back to average. in between those two air masses, the spring weather to the east, much colder wintery stuff to the west, we have a boundary that will be moving through here during the day on sunday, especially during the morning. but how is it having an impact on travel right now? and what about travel plans for next week? haley is standing by with a look at that. hayley: could it be a lot worse for this time in november. so far so airport delays. the biggest problems are in the upper plains, where those storm systems are moving through. so you can see the yellow plain for minneapolis, indicating that there is some moderate delays there. and in chicago, because of the cold front moving through and thunderstorms, there might have been residual delays there as well. but across the rest of the united states if you're traveling by air over this weekend or specifically tonight, things look pretty good. now, in terms of next week, if
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going to start off with tuesday, that will be a good day, temperatures in the fourth, a mix of sun and clouds, a brisk day. on wednesday the busiest travel day, all across the northeast, looks good. 4 # had 4 degrees, sunny -- 44 degrees, sunny, should be clear. on thanksgiving day itself, i know it looks a little ominous there with the mixed showers, but i don't think this will be anything that will stop you from getting where you need to go, especi on the roads. but be prepared for possibly rain mixing with wet snow flakes. for more on the extended forecast, back to mike. mike: we are tracking that front that changes all of that in the weather pattern starting on sunday. tonight clear skies, lots of sun tomorrow. the tricky part of the forecast comes in later in the day as the ocean clouds may try to back in near the coastline, so be prepared for low clouds at times later in the afternoon. but other than that full
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northeast, including a good part of new hampshire. sunday a couple of light showers early, then steady rain will develop during the early part of the morning, but notice the rain-snow line not too far away. so a likely change over from rain to some wet snow in and around the higher terrain of the monadnock region, lake sunapee zone, heart of the white mountains. then the system pull as way with cold winds building in behind it for sunday night into monday and tuesday. in terms of any saturday night to our west and especially sunday, it's primarily a coating on grassy surfaces, maybe up to an inch in the higher terrain in the northern monadnock region through the lake sunapee zone up to plymouth. this would occur mid to late morning on sunday and early afternoon in northern locales, and even more will fly on and off sunday fight through early tuesday in northern new hampshire. while southern new hampshire should be mainly dry, with just a passing snow shower
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morning flurries in the mountains and developing partial sun, windy and chilly as haley mentioned, a great travel day in new hampshire and all over the northeast, yes, it will be cool, but at least it will be dry. as for the next system for thanksgiving, tough to call the exact timeline and the exact track. some bring it in here as early as thursday morning, while others hold it off until thursday night, friday, and drive it mostly to our south. when you're five or six days out, rain-snow situation and thanksgiving, you just have to be a little patient and give it a little more time. jean: thanks, mike. here's some good news, americans are getting more exercise. tom: that news means we're also getting more injuries, we look at the most common ones when we come back. jean: and fairpoint announces
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tom: michigan may start requiring lead screening for children. that's one of the recommendationings to come out of the water crisis in flint. last year about 38% of michigan toddlers were tested for lead levels, but some say that should be expanded to all young children. flint has been using water from detroit but hopes to switch to a new source next year. tonight a growing number of injuries from sports and
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say that it means more americans are getting up and moving. the c. d. c. says that sports related injuries responsible for 8.6 million annual visits to doctors offices, and hospitals in the u.s. the most common activity was running and weight lifting. hopefully not at the same time. tom: straight ahead tonight, a strike looming at one of america's busiest airports, just as thanksgiving travel get first way. what fliers need to expwreerp a chance encounter has changed the life of this teen, and the police officer who found him walking down a dark road. a story you don't want to miss. tom: two hiking buddies, brady and jake, just taking in the
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a nice start to the weekend follows on saturday. a look at the big pattern change that begins on sunday. jean: and an early holiday gift for families in one county, to make sure they have a happy thanksgiving. >> no one covers new hampshire like we do. now wmur news 9 at 5:30. jean: tonight the owners of a popular north country business are promising to rebuild after fire gutted part of their i'm jean mackin. tom: and i'm tom griffith. officials say the cause of the fire in glen is still under investigation, but the owner tells wmur's andy hershberger that they've pledged to keep going. reporter: this building is considered a total loss, as 50 firefighter were called to the scene around 7:30 this morning. fire officials say when they pulled up, heavy smoke was pouring out of two sides of this building at the white mountain
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flames quickly consumed her business. >> you could see the smoke, far before you could see the building. and the road was blocked so they let me through, it was awful at that point, flames coming out the windows. reporter: firefighters from several towns were called. >> we had a tough time knocking it down because of the construction. the tin roof was a problem. as you >> sad, i mean we put a lot of love in that building and have been making a lot of changes in there this holiday season, it a fun time of year, so to watch that momentum die is, you know, it's sad. reporter: two firefighters suffered minor injuries, the workers who were inside made it out safely. the building is a total loss, but this is only part of the white mountain cider company,
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restaurant building next-door is untouched. the owner says this family operation will move forward. >> just means we're going to be in a rebuilding process. you have to always look at the up side of things. and here's our chance to rebuild. reporter: the restaurant will be closed today but will open again for business as usual tomorrow. in glen, andy hershberger, wmur news 9. jean: tonight manchester police are trying to accused of sell opioids to a person who then died. 30-year-old heather flattery has very distinctive tattoos on her chest, right calf and back. she's five foot five with dark hair and hazel eyes. police say she also goes by the name heather kowak and was last known to be living in manchester. she has already been indicted on a felony charge of selling fentanyl to someone who then died of an overdose.
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>> based on the picture and her identifiable tattoos, if you know her or if you've seen her, not to approach but to notify the manchester police department. jean: you can keep any tips anonymous. police are just hoping to track her down quickly. tom: raymond police need your help to find the people who broke into dozens of campers at pine acres campground. 43 campers were targeted, although it's unclear exactly what was stolen. so far containedded to the one property. >> we are reaching out to other communities to see if they've had similar incidents, and we're checking with people who live in the area to see if they may have seen or heard anything suspicious. tom: police say this is a good reminder that thefts tend to increase during the holidays, so make sure to keep your vehicles and home locked up. jean: hundreds of families in rockingham county received some holiday help today.
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en their whole season. reporter: the turkeys will be handed out next week, but the gift cards handed out on friday can go a long way towards making somebody's thanksgiving complete. >> this is the gift card for thanksgiving, it's a $25 gift card for market basket. reporter: at the rockingham community outreach center in raymond, the holidays are here, about 200 families are getting the cards. among those waiting in line, pamela. >> it means getting the rest of my fixings that i would not have the money just the one gift card, but larg larger families can get two or for. it's it's tough when you're on disability, so these programs are wonderful to help people. i think more people should appreciate what they do. reporter: according to gordon, the need seems to be about the same as last year, but this is always a last minute rush.
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>> i see people coming here with great need, and sometimes they feel they're coming in, but it's kind a dead end and when i'm able to say yes, we can help you, we can give something to you, that makes it worth doing the job every day. reporter: last year thanks to generous do nations they were able to provide for everyone in need. it's something they hope to be able to duplicate this year. ray brewer, wmur news 9. jean: if you want to help the rogh information right on wmur.com. great to see. >> great group. still ahead, google is making an example of new hampshire as it cracks down on unauthorized sales of its new phone. jean: plus a strike is looming at a key airport just before the thanksgiving travel swings into high gear. what this means for people flying to their holiday destinations. tom: if you're more concerned with black friday, we have tips
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industrial average down 35. s&p 500 dropped five and the nasdaq dropped 12. gas prices around the nation and the state, they're both at $2.15. but i am told that new hampshire is actually slightly above the national average for the first time in many, many months. jean: hundreds of workers at chicago's o'hare airport have authorized a strike just days before thanksgiving. tom: the strike will definitely happen, although she didn't give a starting date. the seiu workers who are demanding wages of $15 an hour include baggage hand letters, cabin cleaners and janitors. a walkout might slow things down but won't close the airport during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year. yikes. tonight fairpoint says it will layoff nearly 140 employees, some working in new hampshire. the company says the move is
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@serv. fairpoint says it is restructuring its work force size in order to meet the needs of the business. jean: tonight more than 200 people have reportedly received a digital death sentence from google, because of a granite stater. several people recently bought google's pixel phones from a new hampshire dealer. google says it is a violation of the the company's commercial resale policy and locked them out of g mail and other services. unaware of the policies. tom: this time next week stores will be filled with shoppers embracing black friday sales. but are some of those deals really just duds? becky worley has the answer for us. reporter: black friday, tv ads and deal so it's tout the best prices of the year, but gadget review sight the wire cutter says hold on. deals on quality products aren't
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>> we found somewhere around 1% of the deals were actually worth while. reporter: they say the top rated items aren't as likely to be discounted, they also point to price inflation that can take place around the holidays to make discounts look bigger. take this vook calm, the black friday price is $299. but if you look back, it was being sold for $80 less last august. tv's are a different story. >> in terms of products that give people some of the greatest discounts on black fri someone is always looking out for, it's tv's. you can get good discounts on great tv's and great discounts on good tv's. reporter: also apple products, they rarely go on sale but can be discounted on black friday by 10 to 15%. so how do you weed out the good deals from the bad? first research. read reviews in advance. then use a deal aggregator site like bf ads.net, they let you search by item to find the lowest price.
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camel camel.com, crazy name, but great tool to track price history over time. of when you find a lower price in the past, odds on it will go down sometime after black friday. jean: i can't brief it's almost here. up next an unusual test of one quarterback's defensive skills. what happened when this college star spotted a crime in process. tom: the u.n.h. tournament this weekend. jennifer: coming up, new hampton police are searching for a man who pretended to be one of their own. and dozens of west high school students in manchester in need of medical care, turning this football field into a triage area. we'll tell you what happened inside the school that
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>> over the summer kevin durant chose the golden state warriors other the boston celtics. tonight they meet at the garden. celtics host the warriors at 8:00, boston has won three of its last four games. u.n.h. volleyball team won the regular east season title and is hosting the conference tournament for the fourth consecutive year, they play
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out just gives us the advantage, that home court advantage, so we're looking forward to bringing another championship back here to new hampshire. >> there's no place like home. being able to play at home is really remarkable, it's the experience of a lifetime. we have our crew, our fans, and it puts me in a comfortable environment. >> it's our final edition of friday night football for 2016. one final note, rob gronkowski officially ruled out for sunday's game against the 49ers, he injured his chest last sunday. jean: a quarterback put his tackling skills to the test when he saw a man steal a woman's purse. tom: daniel bronson who plays
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tackled him, holding him with the help of two others until police arrived. a chance encounter on a california freeway has changed the life of a determined young man. jean: reporter dan simon who talked to the officer who went well bond the call of duty. reporter: working the grave yard shift can be lonely for a cop. but on a chilly september night, the police corporal would hav >> he had a hoodie on, dressed all in black. >> i had seen some lights like, flash at my back. reporter: jordan had just finished his own graveyard shift, at a nearby businesses. did you think this person was up to no good? >> since he was so close to the freeway i thought he was broke down. reporter: it was the distance of that walk that left the officer speechless. >> he tells me the exact path he
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literally uphill both ways. so i said if you don't mind, hold on a second, went over to my front seat, asked him if i can give you a ride home, he said you can do that. reporter: so it took you two hours each way to get to work? >> yes. my car had broke down, so i figured i had no other way to work. reporter: he walked seven miles each way, six days a week. >> most people use excuse, but for this kid it wasn't an on stackle. reporter: jordan shared his dream to go to college and to become a police officer. the corporal was so struck by the chance encounter, he knew he had to do something to make jordan's life a little easier. getting the car fixed was going to be too expensive. but he had an idea, if four wheels wasn't an option, how about two. so for $500, the police
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>> he was speechless. he kind of said just, you know, all this for walking, but it's so much more than that. you're getting your job done and that's impressive. >> words couldn't explain how flabbergasted i was. reporter: but that was just the beginning. he and his colleagues have launched a fund to help pay for jordan's college and maybe a new car as do just fine. >> i just treasure the bike. it's never been dirty before. mike: beautiful day of weather on this friday, full sunshine, temperatures not only above the average but only within a few degrees of record highs for this time of year. after one more nice day tomorrow, we've got big changes ready to blast in across the granite state. so a fair cool one tonight. it will be a nice start to the weekend tomorrow.
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sun, temperatures just a couple of notches lower than today. but still well above average a. after bright sunshine for your saturday, here comes the changes on sunday with the next front. rain to start the day, ends as wet snow in western and northern locales. then it's typical november weather coming in here for monday through a good part of next week. that means temperatures much lower, and even a couple of snow chances here or there. mainly in the form of snow showers. right now cooling down from those 60's aew from the perfect mack valley to the coastline. farther west, lower to mid 40's. some of the higher terrain still near 50 in a few spots. cooler to the north right now, between 38 and 44. overnight tonight, look at our future temperatures, not a big crash, still a few notches above
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right around the freezing mark in central and southern new hampshire. so one more very mild day. look at this surge of spring warmth building up in the eastern great lakes and towards new hampshire. 71 in cleveland, does not get that warm tomorrow. then the front separating these two air masses has to move through sunday morning. following that, there is no stopping the colder airs with we go into sunday afternoon and a good part of next week. the terms of separates the two air masses in a big way, and it has to move through during sunday morning. but not out there for tonight or tomorrow. sky cast over the queen city, you'll have fair skies tonight as temperatures coast back into the 30's. nice sunrise in many spots, a few patchy low clouds will try to build in. if you're traveling near the coast a little more in the way of the overcast, but then the clouds thicken up for saturday
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you'll notice how the snow tries to chase it in here, in a good portion of western and northern new hampshire. could see a light accumulation before it shuts down, and then snow showers crank up across the mountains. one or two of those snow showers may scoot down on monday. dry for wednesday. the next system will pass farther to ourth thanksgiving, but doesn't mean we're in the clear just yet. jean: thanks, mike. there's plenty to be excited about for the holidays, but what is your biggest fear? tom: we'll look at the scariest parts of thanksgiving after the break. then at 6:00. >> a veteran and his wife able to stay in their home thanks to
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jean: it's beginning to look a lot like christmas in boston. a 47-foot white spruce tree is now at the boston common. it was gifted to the city by nova scotia. the tradition started more than 40 years ago as a thank you for providing emergency assistance during the halifax explosion. this tree will be lit during the
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was traced back to. mike: the weekend starts off with temperatures well above normal again. a look at the big cooldown to follow and what that means for snow chances for some. tom: plus a closed door meeting in the corner office as the current and next chief executive talked about the upcoming budget battle. >> no one covers new hampshire like we do. now wmur news 9 at 6:00. tom: right now police in new hampton are searching for a man them when he pulled over a woman. good evening, i'm tom griffith. jennifer: i'm jennifer vaughn. the victim told police there were blue lights on the grill and no front plate on this car. mike cronin is live now with the description given to police. reporter: it's a very detailed description of this suspect, the victim said that the impersonator thought that she was speeding. well, she knew something wasn't right. around 8:30 this morning a woman and her daughter were pulled
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new unmarked silver dodge charger with no front license plate and two blue lights in the grille. the suspect allegedly never asked for the driver's i.d. but did ask for her daughter's because she wasn't wearing a seat belt and he thought she was younger than 18. then he let them go, he turned around and drove words ashland. police haven't received reports of this happening anywhere else nearby. >> i don't know what would make somebody within to do that unless tve be a police officer and have been denied in the past and they want to show some sort of power. i don't know whether he targeted her because she was female. reporter: the suspect is described as a white man about six foot one, average build with dark hair pulled back in a man bun. between 25 and 35 years old. if faced with a situation like this, police recommend driving to a public lighted area, or call 911, and anyone with information on this is asked to
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