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here is reporter boyd huppert in river falls. >> reporter: a search for meaning leads one to find it in a long after the others, a maple shining golden on the headstone of three angels. >> i have faith that they are at peace. >> reporter: jessica peterson's search for life started in suffocating darkness. >> we begin with a tragic story out of river falls, wisconsin, where this afternoon police found three children dead inside a home. >> reporter: who among us july day when a vengeful father took from his ex-wife 11-year- old amara, 5-year-old cecilia and 8-year-old sophie. >> trying to imagine living decades without them, it was too much. at first an hour or day, then a week, then a month breaking it down into small pieces that i could get through. >> reporter: getting through. jessica could get here. >> can you say mama? >> i knew i needed to have more children. i needed people to keep mothering so that i could keep that part of me alive. >> reporter: flint was born last year and the year before that trinity hope. >> i was hoping by giving her the name that it would kind of that sh

reporter boyd huppert takes us there. >> rock, paper, sissor scissors who's crossing with the ball. >> reporter: -- scissors, who's crossing with the ball. >> reporter: children are taught to follow is glad the -- least one person knew how to her, don't touch her. she knew she saw somebody in trouble and made that decision to help her. >> reporter: and in doing so broke the rules. >> i don't really remember deciding to do that. ust happen >> reporter: senior leanne blumgremin ?m?s school race was like gracie disquafied. or year in her last rait just means like . >> reporter: angel. >> thank you. >> reporter: -- ?@the forget. 9news.com/votenow. we're taking a poll as we finish no shave november. should i keep this beard? should i keep it or shave it? that's the big question. >>> you may have noticed the major sports stadiums around denver are lit up in blue this week. it's to support men's university of colorado teamed up with sports teams around denver to get guys to see their doctors to know what kinds of symptoms to look out for. around here you z"have suffered through the scraggly

. >> reporter: boyd huppert, kare11 news. >> such a sucker for a dog story. share your inspirational stories like bruno's with us. use the #dcthankful. it can be anything you are thankful for. we have a full list of thankful stories on www.wusa9.com. >>> this is a catch-a-thon to brandon portnoy of bethesda came up with the idea to combine his love of baseball with the love of his grandfather who is fighting ftd which is a little known thorn of dementia. >> it's really hard to talk to him. he can't really talk. he can't move, but i still go up to new york every once in a while and talk to him and see how he's doing and it's really nice. >> brandon's fu $14,000. ftd affects about 50 to 60,000 people in this country. the money will go to the association for the frontotemporo degeneration association. >>> take a look at video from upstate new york earlier today, vermont and pennsylvania also expected to get a fair amount of snow. >> some western massachusetts hammered. >> minnesota got snow earlier this week. we haven't seen those snowflakes here, howard. >> i h

boyd huppert, nbc news, farmington minnesota morning -- a celebration a century in the making. the curse broken -- and fans can barely believe it. "you're watching kwwl, "now your storm track 7 forecast on kwwl." let's go to storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan now for your forecast forecast. from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. see the screen for your complete weather information from the kwwl or less in several areas this morning, with light fog in many others. some of stormtrack7 live weather network cameras catch that. the sun should burn that off this morning and we will keep plenty of clear skies for the next few days along with mild above normal this morning with temps mainly in the 40s... some mid to upper 30s are showing up in the northwest. winds are light and will stay light today. the cold front that brought us rain yesterday is tracking away allowing high pressure to track in. another front to the north will be pretty dry... and should stay f win for the next few days. highs will stay on the mild side... 50s to the 70s today with mainly area will have hi