meet kacie, the country music singer this high school volleyball player gets to open for tomorrow. night three of our granite state debates, and the candidates for the first congressional district. good evening. i'm tom griffith. it was a feisty night for all 3 on stage. incumbent congressman, republican frank guinta, democrat carol shea-porter and independent shawn o'connor. o'connor: i've voted as recently as 2014 for members of both parties. >> which republican did you vote for? >> you are a republican. i'm going to back o'connor: i mean you see this is great. i am a true moderate. because they're both trying to put me into a slot. >> no, no, no. tom: wmur political director josh mcelveen moderated tonight's debate and joins us live from the institute of politics at saint anselm college. reporter: over the course of the last elections, carol shea-porter has developed a debate stage and while they were certainly not shy about going after each other with criticisms they also managed to find some common ground in this one at least when it came to the independent candidate in this w

kacie: if i do meet him, i'll probably be like, "oh hey, it's kacie grenon, you're scotty mccreery, that's really cool," and stuff. erin: is she going to be starstruck, i guess? tickets are still available for tonight's show. you can get them by heading to casinoballroom.com. right? sean: you never know. she could be the next big thing. i love that the ukulele is mixed in. erin: attention, teachers and students. you are getting a chance to win a share of $2 million in samsung technology for your school. sean: it's all part of the samsung "solve for tomorrow" contest. the goal is to develop a project to help improve your community through science, technology, engineering, and math. stem project ideas must be submitted by november 15. last year, winnisquam high school in tilton was named the state winner. it rei technology. so a lot on the line here. erin: wonderful. still ahead on "daybreak," a frightening attack in florida. >> the squirrel has been tossed outside, but we need help for the people. erin: at least three people are recovering after being attacked by a squirrel at a senior livi

i went ahead now to my colleague kacie hunt who is monitoring this on capitol hill.acie, what are your takeaways? you heard a robust statement. >> that's right, kristen. and just the tableau of him appearing with bernie sanders behind him as well as joe manchin of west virginia. i think this is very much a recognition of what the democratic party has gone through the last months or really the last weeks since the election really shook the party to its core. and this is a demonstration that democrats want to try to publicly bring into the fold all of those progressives who supported bernie sanders over hillary clinton. the energy that was behind bernie sanders clearly did not carry through to the general election. he of course came close to beating her in the primary. in the end, the votes kind of across the south and the support from african-american voters really prevented sanders from being able to beat hillary clinton. but i think what you heard schumer talk about, and schumer's a really smart politician, right. this is him making sure that these people that might

we have kaci hunt with us today. i have a feeling cher will be out there tomorrow.m dating myself. >> reporter: she is hitting all age groups with the star power, steph. she is starting in miami today after she got her late last night. that concert in cleveland drew over 10,000 people. it featured jay-z and a special guest. >> look how far we've come from having no voice to being on the brink of making history. >> having a glass ceiling to crash once and for all. >> reporter: beyonce, of course, jay-z and chance the rapper all aimed at trying to win over minority voters and millennials. she is pitching the same voters in the final weekend campaign sprint. she heads from here in miami to philadelphia tonight where she has a concert with katy perry. then on to new hampshire on sunday. then back to cleveland with lebron james. of course, cleveland's star, especially among the african-american community there. she is trying to recreate the kind of excitement that president obama had in 2012 in the final weeks of the campaign when tens of thousands of people were showing

our political correspondent kacie hunt in the bowels of the capitol for us there. what's the word?any word on whether she's going to do it? >> hey, craig, we are actually in the bowels, hallways, of the long worth house office building, just across the street from the capitol building. these closed doors where these folks are walking into is where this leadership election is taking place. we just heard some cheers for congressman crowley of new york who moved up in leadership and was unanimously elected as the caucus chair. he was discussed privately as somebody who, if he decided to take on pelosi in the election might have actually been able to win and unseat her. there was no shortage of people encouraging him to try to throw his hat in the ring. but in the end, he didn't do it. so we're talking instead about tim ryan, the congressman from ohio, from the mahoney valley area of ohio, one of those places we spent so much time focused on during the presidential election about how it used to be. it was a place that voted for president obama twice. it is a place where unions have pla

meet kacie, the country music singer this high school volleyball player gets to open we begin tonight with commitment 2016. night three of our granite state debates, and the candidates for the first congressional district. good evening. i'm tom griffith. it was a feisty night for all 3 on stage. incumbent congressman, republican frank guinta,

we have kaci hunt with us today. out there tomorrow. i am dating myself. >> reporter: she is hitting all age groups with the star power, steph. she is starting in miami today after she got her late last night. that concert in cleveland drew over 10,000 people. it featured jay-z and a special guest. >> look how far we've come from having no voice to brink of making history. >> having a glass ceiling to crash once and for all. >> reporter: beyonce, of course, jay-z and chance the rapper all aimed at trying to win over minority voters and millennials. she is pitching the same voters in the final weekend campaign sprint. she heads from here in miami to philadelphia tonight where she has a concert with katy perry. sunday. then back to cleveland with lebron james. of course, cleveland's star, especially among the african-american community there. she is trying to recreate the kind of excitement that president obama had in 2012 in the final weeks of the campaign when tens of thousands of people were showing up to his rallies. her events have b

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dressed up as last night, she sent that picture in as her shadow also of course who could forget little kacie ed connor's dog very unhappy unfortunately in his halloween costume but looks adorable. out to the observations, chilly start to the day herement cull elf 20 agree readings out there. john jenkins at 27, nice clear sky virtually no wind however. so actually feels like 27. cold granted but you don't have windchill. twenty-five is what eileen is reporting coldest thus far, certainly feeling like november morning. she calls it perfect one. lets guess to one more. we're at 30 currently. or within the last half hour, i should say, from allen out in delran with nice clear sky as well. and his comment: beautiful fall day. we can expect peak foliage certainly. absolutely correct there. much of the region at this point seeing the most vibrant colors on the foliage that we're going to seement meanwhile very quickly on storm scan, it is quiet. i jump you to the seven day real quickly, scoot ahead here, seven day forecast warms up nicely 70s the next few days, then drop out again on friday and sa

erin: tonight, a rochester spotlight in a big way. 14-year-old kacie grenon will open for country singer scotty mccreery at the hampton beach casino ballroom. we caught up with the st. thomas aquinas high school freshman at her volleyball game last night. she says she's been singing and playing her guitar and ukelele all her life, including at town events and farmer's markets. this time she'll have 30 minutes to showcase her talent and meet the american idol winner. >> if i do meet him i'll probably just be like, hey, it's stuff. erin: tickets are still available for tonight's show. you can get them by heading to casinoballroom.com. sean: maybe the next big star. erin: attention, teachers and students. you are getting a chance to win a share of $2 million in samsung technology for your school. sean: it's all part of the samsung solve for tomorrow contest. through science, technology, engineering and math. project ideas must be submitted by november 15. last year, winnisquam high school in tilton was named the state winner. it received $20,000 in technology. erin: that is amazing. coming

rochester team will get her big break in front of thousands of people. 14-year-old kacie grenon will open for country singer scotty mccreery at the hampton beach casino ballroom. the st. thomas aquinas high school freshman has been singing and playing guitar and ukelele all her life. tickets are still available for tonight's show. tom: we told you just before halloween that stephen king's it is new hampshire's favorite scary movie. jennifer: that may inspire some granite staters to join the newest campaign, vote pennywise. he's the evil clown from it. the signs have started showing up around king's hometown of bangor, maine the author tweeted it's not clear which office pennywise is running for. thanks for joining us for thanks for joining us for newsnine at 5:00. i'm maggie hassan, and new hampshire has a very clear choice: do we keep going with a senator who repeatedly votes with the corporate special interests... or a new senator who sides with the people of new hampshire? my focus has always been on creating opportunity for working families: making college and job training more a

kacie hunt where the democrats are holding a news conference of their. they will begin the process of selecting their new leadership team. moderating a conference call between hillary clinton and house democrats happening right now as well. katy has the latest on the transition. a 5:00 call at the rnc as they look to replace the chairman just named donald trump's chief of staff. that's where we begin this afternoon. first president obama holding that news conference since the election and nearly every question was about, you guessed it, donald trump, the most notable parts of this news conference were all the times the president refused to criticize president-elect trump. there is a ground swell of attacks and the leaders attacking appointment of steve bannon. he not only refused to engage, but he seemed to take a shot at those within his own party who are criticizing trump's decision. >> look, the people have spoken. donald trump will be the 45th president of the united states. and it will be up to him to set up a team that he thinks will reflect his po

let's play a little bit of that and then we'll talk about it with kaci on the other side. >> that's the way politics works sometimes. we try really hard to persuade people that we're right. and then people vote. and then if we lose, we learn from our mistakes, we do some reflection, we lick our wounds, we brush ourselves off. we get back in the arena. we go at it. >> so i open the floor to andrea, chris, is somebody going to get -- on the democratic side, i imagine there were probably recriminations at this point, are there? is somebody going to get thrown under the bus? >> there are already the blame game last night they're pointing fingers. >> wlo are they pointing at? >> they're talking about why was our polling wrong. i can't imagine that. the loyalty, the dedication, i saw people, senior staff, they were cheering when jake sullivan and, you know, robbie mook and john podesta walked in, but the personal staff, the close staff we've been flying for all of these months with hillary clinton, their eyes were rimmed red. the secret service detail had red eyes. i don't know if it's that t

tonight, a rochester teenager will step into the spotlight in a big way. 14-year-old kacie grenon will open for country singer scotty mccreery at the hampton beach casino ballroom. we caught up with the st. thomas aquinas high school freshman at her volleyball game last night. she says she's been singing and playing her guitar and ukelele all her life. and meet the "american idol" winner. tickets are still available for tonight's show. just 14 years old. outside we go. we are seeing nicer skies today than yesterday. kevin: skies continuing to break up south of the white mountains early this morning. partial sunshine into the afternoon with a pretty good breeze out of the northwest. that continues to feed in the colder air out of canada, and the air mass we will have in place for the weekend. next are clouds up maps canting this will fade away as the day moves along. that remains to be seen with the northwest wind, which has a tendency to keep the clouds locked in. low and mid 50's today, with wind out of the northwest. a weak disturbance lighting and after midnight tonight with an incr