padam: salt is also an option. pit' pstate' s supply in the spring pthan it is when demand rises in pthe fall. pbut dot says ' not so fast' . pas winter weather can linger and pwet, icy conditions can require pjust as much road treatment as a pbig snowstorm. p>> today is a good example we ponly had 1-2 inches and yet our ptrucks have been out all day and robably will go until early pevening as the temperatures pstart to drop. padam: drivers like scott pmacdonald are equally wary of pgetting excited about a new pseason too soon. p>> a lot of people say ' oh pwinter' pfebruary. pwe' ve still got some weather pcoming, i' m sure. padam: the dot also pumping the pbrakes tonight saying the only pway we' ll know for sure if they pwill have a surplus is when we pfinally exit the snow plowing pseason which technically goes pinto early may. plive in hooksett, adam sexton, pwmur news 9. pshelley: the meredith rotary ice pfishing derby is a go. pbut after some unseasonably warm pweather, organizers and fish and pgame officials

padam, how did the candidates pthe primary? padam: you know as well as they pdid this is a big night on a big pstage. pmost of them spent the day pgetting ready. pbut two of the top-five prepublicans spent the day going pall out on the campaign trail. phis dad talked about the big mo, pmomentum, and it looks like jeb pbush might be getting some in pthe final days before the new phampshire primary. pthe florida governor drew an poverflow crowd to the mckelvie pschool in bedford. pjeb bush: you' re looking at a pguy -- i don' t give a pyou-know-what about whether i' m opular or not. pthat is fleeting. roblems for people. padam: after yet another question pabout how he' d be different in poffice from the other presidents pin his family, bush said, yet pagain, he' s his own man. pjeb bush: the bush thing? eople are just going to have to pget over it. p[laughter] p[applause] pjeb bush i am who i am, you p: know? padam: a few miles away in pmanchester, john kasich greeted pthe lunch crowd at the puritan pbackroom. phe says he' s read

padam sexton, wmur news 9. ptom: a plan for reauthorizing pmedicaid expansion has passed pits first hurdle in the new phampshire house. ptoday lawmakers approved a roposal that includes work prequirements for recipients and pasks insurance companies and phospitals to help foot the pstate' s share of the program' s pcosts. pthe bill now goes to the house pfinance committee. pback in 2014, lawmakers crafted pa version of medicaid expansion pthat uses federal dollars to put eople on private insurance lans. pstart dropping next year. pshelley: a cruise ship that ran pinto a major winter storm is pback in port. pthe message from the ship' s pcaptain trying to explain how pthey wound up on the dangerous pcourse. ptom: a man from nasa chooses out pof prison 30 years after he was pconvicted of rape, a crime he phas always denied committing. pmike: there are many sides tor basketball star an p fashion icon russell westbrook. and with coverage in the middlepnof anywhere from u.s. cellular, p he can find some new ones. t

padam a day of big rallies capped p: off the vermont senator' s pfirst-in-the-nation run. pken spilman brought his grandson pfor a chance to see bernie pbefore the primary' s all over. p>> obviously after we beat phillary tomorrow he' s going to phave to move on and we won' t get pto see him again. padam in derry the candidate p: didn' t even say i ask for your pvote, and probably didn' t have pmarching behind him. p>> tomorrow new hampshire can phelp lead this country in a very pdifferent direction in the pdirection of a political prevolution. padam: the senator has not been pto if uses are over the top on pthe process here but voters we pspoke with say that is part of pthe allure, he is not into pflattery. plive in manchester, adam sexton, pwmur news 9. ptom: hillary clinton had company pon the campaign trail today her phusband and former president pbill clinton, and her daughter pchelsea. p>> wmur' s amy coveno was at pclinton' s final campaign event ptonight and reports from hudson. pamy: as if on cue after a nearly pnon existant winter a psignificant storm is making p

ptom: wmur political reporter padam sexton is with the sanders pcampaign in concord. padam? padam: what a campaign for bernie psanders, the vermont senator who pstarted out in single-digit in pbecome the david that has slain pthe clinton campaign goliath. psanders cruised to a pdouble-digit victory. pthe vote in claremont, we saw pthe clinton campaign campaigning pso hard in the western port of pthe state, the order of vermont pwhere sanders was expected to do pwell. pone of the biggest wins of that assion on the democratic side pin decades. pit was based on a message that pjust steamrolled the other pcampaign in the process. plisten to what senator sanders phad to say earlier tonight. p>> together we have sent the pmessage that will go from wall pand that is that the government pof our great country belongs to pall of the people and not just a phandful of wealthy campaign pcontributors and their super acks. padam: taking a step back and plooking at the bigger picture, psenator sanders obviously has pbeen independent or many years. phe identifies himself as a pdemocratic soc

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padam? padam: it looks like it' s going pto be a pretty good night for pbernie sanders, just based on pthe early results we have so pfar. reliminarily. pthey still have to do a hand pcount, but bernie won fairly pif that holds up in hopkinton, pthere are a lot of progressive pdemocrats there, but that is pcertainly not a good sign for phillary clinton moving forward. pmany campaign volunteers think pwe might have an early night. pthat could be the case. pit' s not common at all to have plarger margins in the democratic rimary in the first in the pnation, new hampshire. pit' s rare to get into double pdigits, but it' s very possible ptonight that we could see a pdouble-digit victory for verney p-- for bernie sanders. pjennifer: these are very tenuous phours, of course. pif you are in a campaign and pwaiting for the numbers to start pto come in. pyou can bet that hillary clinton pis keeping a close watch on pspecific communities. pwaiting for the tally to come pin. pwe will watch as you do. pj

p[applause] padam: candidates ted cruz, marco prubio, and donald trump keeping pa lower profile today getting pready for the big stage tonight. pjosh and jen, let' s go back to pjennifer: three other republican pcandidates campaigned across the pstate today as well. pgovernor chris christie, dr ben pcarson and carly fiorina are all phoping to garner more support as pthey head into tuesday' s rimary. pwmur' s heather hamel live now pwith more on how they aren' t pdiscouraged by the polls. pheather: from town halls to pthanking volunteers these p, candidates were out there. pthey all tout records that they pbelieve prove they can lead and psay no one should count them pout. pdr. carson: they have written my pobituary every week for the last pyear and half, and then they pturn around and say he is still phere. pi can' t believe he is still phere. pheather despite his low p: standings in the polls, his oor showing in iowa, and rumors pthat he may drop out, dr. ben pcarson told a group of psupporters in manchester today pthat he is not going anywhere. phe will join others on the psix debat

padam putnam, attorney general am bondi. pthere it is! pthere it is! pthe florida state fair 2016 pofficially underway. p>> thanks for being with us. p>>charley: look at that. erfect timing right there for plive television. pwe're not wasting your time. pwe didn't even make you sit pthrough the 10, nine and the peight. pi do believe that agriculture pcommissioner adam putnam is pgoing to make his way right over phere for a live interview here pon "good day." phow are you, my friend? p>> how are you doing, buddy? pnice to see you. pgood to have you here. p>>charley: it's always fun to pthis represents and what this pmeans for agriculture and the pstate of florida. p>> it's what it represents for pthe whole state. pwe're show chasing some of our pbrightest and best young people. p1,500 youth exhibitors will be phere, lots of midway rides, some pheart healthy food and good pfamily fun. p>>charley: give me a state of pagriculture in the state of pflorida. phow are we doing? p>> you know, the short and dirty pis that most of agriculture is pdoing very well.

padam sexton spoke to both today. preporter: greeting a new pgeneration of granite stater' s pon the campaign trail in plondonderry. pthe former first lady stopped by pwith jeb bush, making the rounds pbefore sitting down for lunch. pbecause he is close to perfect, paccording to his mother. pevery new hampshire motherwell punderstand that. p-- mother will understand that. preporter: he met a presidential pcandidate and a former first plady on his first birthday. pher candidate. p>> i' m undecided, but i know pdefinitely republican, but i' m pnot sure. preporter: what do you think of pjeb? p>> i like him. preporter: mrs. bush says she is phampshire. p>> it' s good to see our friends pagain and it' s also fun to be pwith people who have the right pvalues. preporter: we sat down with pgovernor bush for a one-on-one pinterview on the bus. pgovernor bush: she looks pbeautiful, she' s in great shape, eople love her, i love her, so preporter: mrs. bush breaks the psnow and ice on a day that roved to be too much for the prepu

padam lance shot and killed 26 eople. pteachers and parents are suing pthe company that made the rifle. pthe lawsuit is designed when pguns are used in crimes. p>>> apple ceo tim cook sent an pe-mail thanking them for their psupport. phe's referring to the ongoing pfight with the fbi. pthey're hoping that apple breaks pinto the home. pcook says the case is about more pthan just one single phone. p>>> more reports of the zika pvirus this time in panama. pmore than 70 cases have been preported in the south african pcountry. pthe country's minister of health paccompanied crews spraying pweekend. pthe government will spend p$10 million to combat the virus. p>>> and while february is heart phealth awareness month, we turn pthe focus of our go red campaign pto breast cancer survivors this pweek. pnow, there's a very good reason pfor that as health reporter pcatherine bosley explains. pdisease is the number one killer pof women, and we know how hugely pwidespread breast cancer is. pnow a relatively new area of presearch is showi

padam has a look. p p>>reporter: american idol phopefuls who survived the group pround are moving to the next pchallenge, singing solo with the pband. pthis week they'll get no pfeedback from the judges before pfinding out if they're moving on pin the competition. p i've got the eye of the ptigger p>>russell: for harry connick, pjunior and keith urban, finding pfuture hit makers means prefocussing their search. p>> this year we found people not pbut that we thought were ready pbrutal. pnot only the competition itself pbut the fact that it's on ptelevision and you're being pjudged in front of millions of prigorous. pit's all of that. p>> they have this voice that's pjust extraordinary. pthe color, the character, you precognize it immediately. pif that got work ethic, you pcould do things in a studio to pmake a phenomenal record and i'm pnot saying that that makes it pright but it does make it where pyou're taking -- i'm taking some pof that into consideration. p>> there's a million great psingers out th

pmoms across the state are padamant their kids will get precess and today they are taking pfight to tallahassee. pthey will hold a news conference pwith lawmakers ovary says bill a phot topic in state legislature pright now. pbill would guarantee elementary pschool children at least 20 pminutes of uninterrupted free lay. pbill has already passed several pcommittees in house but as we ptold you last week the senate peducation chairman says he does pnot plan on bringing recess bill pup for a vote. p>> also in tallahassee mothers pagainst drunk driving calling on pflorida lawmakers to strengthen pdrunk driving laws. pmad met with senate pappropriations subcommittee urge pthem to pass a law that would pwould have offenders enter into pa twice a day alcohol testing rogram. por that they would have to wear pan ankle bracelet along with use pan ig is in interlock device. p>> 8:34 right now. psinkholes something every phomeowner worries about in pflorida. pem especially concerning if pyou're looking to buy a new phome. puntil just recently there was no pway to track whether there was pany in your neigh

padam housley gives us a preview pof what to expect. p>> reporter: as the academy pawards make their final preps on pthe coveted red carpet and pinside the dolby theater, the poscars are a night to celebrate pthis year's best but also touch pon a hot button issue. p>> this oscar night people premember because of the pdiversity issue, the ptrended since the nominations pcame out. pthat dominated the award season. p>> expect host chris rock to to pdraes it. p>> it's he's going to make phumor out of it. pit will be biting humor. p>> reporter: in the best icture category it's a pthree-film race between pspotlight, the gritty adventure pthe heavy rev nant and "the big pshort." p>> we have to act now. p>> because everything is so psplit out throughout the guild pnominations, nobody really pknows. pthis is really a nail-biter this pyear. p>> in the best acting category pexpect leonardo dicaprio and pbrie larson to take home goal. pin the supporting role psentimental favorite sly pstallone and alicia vieken is pwhat most remember monday pmornin

padam has more from los angeles. p>> it's apple against the pfederal government in a case pthat could have huge legal pimplications. papple c.e.o. tim cook says he'll pfight a court order requiring phis company to help the f.b.i. precover data from an iphone used pby one of the san bernardino pterrorists. pthe ruling requires apple to phelp the f.b.i. disable the psecurity feature which erases pdata from the iphone after too pmany attempts to unlock it. pcook says he's fighting the porder over privacy concerns, parguing it has implications far p>> volunteer, if apple wants to, pyes. phaving the government, having pbig brother tell you, you must phelp us, that's why we have a pconstitution. p>>reporter: cell fon locks have pbecome problematic the last few pyears and officials are hoping pthis ruling will make it easier pfor them to get court orders to phelp bypass the laws. p>> i had investigations that i pcould not get into the physical hone. p>>reporter: it can be a tough psell with some saying no one pshould be abl

pwe have republican strategist padam goodman in house as well pwith very interesting insight on pthe campaigns. pwhat they have to win, how the pdelegate race shapes up and what pwe can expect not just coming pout of tuesday, but on to pmichigan and florida as well. pthat is sunday night at 11:30. plooking forward to it. pthank you, craig. p>> polk county detectives are psearching for a group of pburglars they broke into sprint pstore in davenport on wednesday. pfour burglars ran around looking pfor things to steal everything pwas stored inside a safe they pcouldn't open. pbroke. psheriff's office is always plooking for this man. pthey say he's a person of pinterest in the case. pif you know who he is or panything else about that pburglary, call the polk county psheriff's office. pa multi million dollar mystery pis now been solved. pwhat we know about the local pwoman who just won a very, very pbig lotto jackpot. lus mike's here checking your pforecast. pheylin today, another wall to pwall sunshine day. pbut with cooler and breezy ptemperatures, certainly, feeling plike february. pth

p>>laura: they're mentoring the padam has a preview. p p>>reporter: past winners and pfinalists return to mentor and psing with the top 24 pcontestants. pthe first 12 singers are getting phelp from nick, lauren, pfantasia, caleb, scotty and prubin. p>> to have the opportunity to erform with people who already pwon or placed really high in the pshow, it's amazing. pyou know, like i told the two pgirls i was singing to, have pfun. p>> i can have my opinions that i pthink it's great. pi don't know about that. pbut at the end of the day, it's ptheir show and their performance pso i'm just here to try to help pmake them shine. p>> they're asking questions but pmost of them are really good pquestions and they're working pwith me a lot but on the side, pwe're comfortable. p>>reporter: 24 of them moves in pthe next spots. pryan seacrest is impressed by pthe top 24 picks. ptalent. pit just came down to what they pdecided to do. pthey're all happy. pdid they make the right choice? p>>reporter: the contestants say pthey're learning a lot from the