st. lawrence and clean clarkson saturday night. so it's a good test for our team and it's early in the season. jamie: there are several reasons why division one high school football teams should fear the grizzlies this season. two of them are how old town heros. >> you're fortunate when you have your two best players are also your two best citizens, it's a great thing for us in goffstown. report that's justin huff talking about casey and connor. they couldn't be more different in stature. casey is six four, 230 pounds. connor just five five, 160. but they both play like giants, on the field. goffstown improved to 6 had-0 with saturday's win over previously unbeaten bed information. >> it was awesome. we have like 4,000 people at our game. i think we got lucky to be honest, we didn't play to our best potential and we have to work harder. reporter: the two captains touchdown this is season, a season that now has the grizzlies tagged as the top team in the state. >> we just got positive last year, so it's a different feeling, but it's

st. lawrence. it' s a good test for our team. jamie: it is a big friday night tomorrow night. unh plays the monarchs. -- unh plays. the monarchs play the first game of their season. tom: lots going on. thanks. still to come, a special opportunity for a few women who celebrated a rare milestone. shelley: we will introduce you to some of the centenarians who met with the governor today. dunkin' donuts smoked sausage breakfast sandwich. savory...smoky... and unmistakably flavorful. get your day going with one today. america runs on dunkin'. people want change, they want reform, they want to see something done, but just carping about it and doesn't get it done. nobody has shaken up the system more than i have. i've always been unorthodox in this and against the grain. but you know what? i know how to get it done. new day independent media committee, inc. is responsible for the content good morning. what can i get for you? a medium hot coffee, cream and two sugars, please? medium hot coffee, cream, two sugars -- sounds good. at dunkin', we make your coffee just the way you like it.

st. lawrence seaway offered an alternative route. what we have done today is re-create a portion of the canal. to build on the history, use the historic lines of what was here --inie it into the western terms of the way the stone looks. -- itud achievement is our proud achievements of people can have a taste of history and talk about what the canal was all about. history plays a really important part. we are not proud enough of our past. we can remind the next generation of how great buffalo was and how great buffalo can become, we can throw in pieces of history. take place such an important role because it's all part of where we came from. the think about our grandparents. they all came over on boats from other countries. this was a melting pot of different groups and populations. that is how buffalo became such a great neighborhood. did was heavily influenced -- it was heavily influenced. grew out and knows something about what their great-grandfather -- it goes on for generations. say this isn and what the bridge looked like in 18

st. lawrence seaway opened up. prior to that, since the opening of the erie canal, buffalo's strategic advantage was all the goods that came from the midwest had to be unloaded here: you couldn't get any further east on the great lake, because you couldn't get down niagara falls. once the lawrence canal opened, you had no reason to stop in buffalo. within just a few years after the opening of the st. lawrence seaway, there were no more additions to the grain elevators behind me. in fact, they started to close up. in 1962 shipbuilding, which had been one of the largest industries in the first ward, closed up. that had gone back all the way to the 1830s. so almost overnight you had thousands of jobs that dried up. and there was less of a reason to live in this neighborhood. as i mentioned, the opening of the@lawrence seaway -- st. lawrence seaway in 1959 really devastated this neighborhood. at the peak there were about 15,000 people in this neighborhood, now there's just about a tenth of that number. it still has an

st. lawrence, a loss to clarkson on saturday when his team gave up the go-ahead goal in the final minute of regulation. he called his teams play "awful and terrible." unh' road, starting friday night. >> we were not pleased with our performance saturday night. often. we' ve been working on that all week. >> making some improvements scoring first. single game. jamie: high school football, two drive. free admission to the newport game at franklin and the game at mascoma, also a collection site. friday, check out the boston celtics right here in the granite state. an exhibition preseason game against the 76ers. they will play that when at the verizon wireless arena. tom: it will be a goodtom: one. thank you. still to come on news 9, this ring belonging to president john kennedy' s assassin was auctioned off in new hampshire a few years ago. shelley: where it has resurfaced tom: lee harvey oswald' s wedding ring which was auctioned off by a new hampshire company is on display at dealey plaza in dallas, texas. visitors can see the ring themselves. shelley: an anonymous buyer from texas paid $

st. lawrence river and he spoke to the nation of his great pride with the big "national geographic" to be dead but not that long ago when they could first savings from. >> you have mentioned in the beginning that uses scientist in the country and one of these to me that people just don't know about. like american foreign policy that we still have it today it is pretty extraordinary after darpa was assembled is when the others the mayor may not have known charlestown's it is in a very important but. >> it began 1960 as a group that is referred to ruth by the government as a superman of hard finance. there after his businesses and nuclear physicist to tap all the hard problems and immediately went darpa was founded the idea was we need the best with the biggest mind. and for a while alton it -- jasons on the customer was darpa i had the great fortune to interview a man named marvin that was the founder of jason and i write about him in the book but it is interesting to hear his perspective. his long lens of history that there's so misunderstood that people consider them to be up there with

st. lawrence seaway really devastated this neighborhood. the ethnicity is much more mixed. it is a very, very mixed amount of american neighborhoods. one of the longest enduring working-class irish community's knowledge north america. people came here in the 1830s. some of them ever left. multiple generationsmultiple generations the state in this community because it was a tightknit committee, geographically isolated from other parts of the city. >> welcome you to the mark twain room. a little known fact, we like to share with people. overlooked his time buffalo. we feel it is a pivotal time for him. he just completed writing innocents abroad and shortly engaged to olivia langdon he decided upon the engagement that some sort of career that could sustain olivia and eventually family. call interests in buffalo. the young couple and then family. said about gathering the money to pay back jarvis langdon that he had borrowed for the one 3rd interest. by the time their wedding rolled around in february of 1870 well, little did he know that olivia and her parents were conspiring.

st. lawrence river he could see the whole world in these paragraphs and he spoke to the nation about it for a great pride and then they became a national geographic spread but it was a really interesting time and not that long ago in the big picture of things when we could first see things from space. >> you mentioned in the very beginning of the conversation that the -- they used the scientists in the country to round up the top people and this started from the very beginning that but have a very particular name because to me this is something that people just don't know about the amount of influence they had over the american foreign policy still have today over american foreign policy is pretty extraordinary and the first he invented something very important to it but can you talk about what they do and how their job has continued until today? >> it began in 1960 as a group referred to by the government handlers as the superman of hard science. they were astrophysicists, they were nuclear physicists. they hand tackled all the hard problems and immediately when it was founded the idea was

st. lawrence river. he could see the whole world in each photograph and spoke to the nation about it with great pride. they became as national geographic said it was a really interesting time and thought that long ago in the big picture of things when we could first see things from space. >> host: you mentioned in the beginning of your conversation that darpa essential uses art and science, round up the top people and this started in the beginning. one of these assembled scientists had a particular name, jason, because to me this is something people just don't know about. the amount of influence they had over american foreign policy, still have today over american foreign policy is pretty extraordinary. they were assembled after darpa was assembled led by a man you may or may not know who charlestown's is, very important to us, talk a little bit about the jason and what they do. >> guest: jason began in 1960 as a group, they were referred to by their government handlers as the supermen of hard science. t

st. lawrence river they will hold together. they will pass to our north late tonight. we will have a cool shot of air coming into new england. for tomorrow afternoon at this time, a great day. lots of sunshine. and for many cities and towns, this is our first warm afternoon of the month. the first week or so. the numbers have been below normal. not now. not this afternoon. temps this afternoon right around 70 degrees. boston at 71. billerica, 70. framingham, at 72. pollen count, this has been an issue for some of you. into the moderate category. with mold spores running in tonight, mostly clear. chilly. lows in the 40's to around 50 in boston. there is the cool front doing its thing. low 7's today. behind the front tomorrow, lower 60's. still lots of sunshine. here comes another front in new england on friday. again, at noon, this is where i think the front will be. still way off to our north. it is way over here. this will generate a lot of there may be isolated showers midday. a higher chance of a few afternoon, friday evening. even with that said, only a 60% chance.

st. lawrence seminary in wisconsin. >> at a very, very young age, i had absolute faith and belief and love of the roman catholic church, of its rituals, of its traditions, even as a small boy. >> narrator: at the seminary, peter was a victim of repeated sexual abuse by his spiritual director, father leifeld. in 1988, when peter was in his late 20s, he found the courage to confront his abuser and report to the church authorities. he soon discovered that he was not alone. >> there were survivors just independent of each other, just starting to come forward across the united states, now we know across the world, and we all went down the same path, which was we went to the religious officials and authorities first-- the bishops and the provincials-- and reported to them what had happened to us. and now in my case, there were promises made. the provincial told me, "we're gonna keep father leifeld away from children. we've got him in a secure treatment facility. he's never gonna be around children," this kind of thing. it's when i found out that they had lied to me, that he was in fact around ch

st. lawrence, came back from a 2-0 deficit in the third period only in lose to overtime, 3-2. jamie hill and gudrow with the goals for unh. and a player from cannen, new hampshire scored. the american championship series, this is kansas city and the blue jays. game one, should be a great series. bottom four, 3-0 kansas city. perez a solo home run made it 3-zip. 5-0 the final. only three hits for the blue jays in the game. so the royals take a 1-0 series lead. how about college football for you. the local guys, noon, unh, william and mary. that's on the road. dartmouth, and st. anselm at merrimack at 1:00. plymouth the only team at home, play bridgewater state at 1:00. wildcats. >> this is a big time game, the coach is ready to go down and do good innings. we've been working hard on our bye week, it's a good one. >> degot them last year and they're ready to leave off where they started, but i think it's going to be a good one. >> college football here, at noon, you've got iowa at northwestern, oklahoma at kansas that's the 3:30 game and then the nightcap. penn state plays at nu

lawrence and st. paul, minnesota. ted koppel did a special in 2003 where they talked about the global gun business. here's what i took away from it. 80% of the guns traded in this 20% is aboveal, the water, the legal part. we did with alcohol back in the 1920's, we band it and see if that will solve the problem. in fact, he created a criminal underworld and made instant citizens -- innocent citizens criminal. we need to educate children along the lines of gun safety early in their youth, middle school, high school, and quite frankly, we need to have a better moral compass in this country in terms of respecting other individuals. peter, thanks for your time. wayne is in shreveport, louisiana. republican line. caller: i watched obama play politics yesterday on this gun-control stuff. we have enough gun-control bills regulate whocan't has a brain and who ain't. this stuff is going to happen, man. some of the shootings, like that guy that shot his mom and took her guns, gun-control law isn't going to stop it. you can't vi

lawrence. she was thrown out of a sixth-floor window. that child was rushed to st. barnabus hospital. to no avail, she was later pronounced dead. >> i am so devastated. you have no idea how devastated i am. i cannot believe she did that. she was okay. >> reporter: there were other children inside of the apartment when all of this happene we learned they're 4, 8, and 10 years old and now in the custody of child protective services. witnesses say those children tried to stop what happened. we'll hear what witnesses say about that coming up in our next half hour. >> all right, tracie. thank you very much. >>> new this morning, police arrested a man they say threw a fire bomb near two university students in midtown. police say 53-year-old thomas miles hurled a molotov cocktail in front of a store at 37th street and 9th avenue last week. it missed the students. nobody was injured. police say it was not a hate crime and the students were not the intended targets. miles faces several charge, including attempted murder. >>> in new jersey, a suspect in a jersey city double murder is recovering

seven-year-old lawrence levine has a brain diewrnlg and he may not make it until december 25, so his neighbors in the town of st. george put up decorations early and mounted an intire christmas parade to go by his house so evan and his family could celebrate one last time. and we'll be right back. clr >> axelrod: this time next week america's trimmer treaters will be midway through their appointed rounds. as far as the calendar goes, halloween is one of the big days. carter evans introduces us to a man who thinks this big day deserves a big pumpkin. >> reporter: amid these giant vines lies a hidden treasure. >> a lot of my neighbors don't even know i grow. >> reporter: john hawkley doesn't just grow pumpkins. he babies them, covering them in blankets to protect their delicate skins from the sun. oh, my gosh! this is like a freak of nature. this pumpkin freak show, he says, began on a whim. this is your front yard here? >> yeah. >> reporter: was it always a pumpkin patch? >> it was a pitching green when i first started it. it was beautifully manicured. >> reporter: hawkley says he became fascinateed by other far

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lawrence. she was thrown out by faron, according to withins. she was taken to st. barnabus where she was pronounced dead. backt'o you. >> thanks very much. want to turn now to a different subject. the mets big win against the dodgers. katherine creag is at citi field. even though they just barely won against the dodgers, there will be some activity at citi field today. >> reporter: i have to say, it's really what david wright said. he said, michael, that game wasn't the prettiest, the sexiest, but they won. they got it done. we will hear from david wright oulater today at a press conf anerence. also, manager terry collins, matt harvey. there might no be champ mne at the presser, but there was a lot of champagne flowing and being sprayed on the other teammates after they won game five last night at dodgers stadium. as for what's happening today, we know the cubs will be working out. the mets won't be working out today. the mets, a lot of people excited about them. they advance to the nlcs. the first time, darlene and michael n nine years. back to you. >> all right,

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st. lawrence seaway offered an alternative route. that closed the door on the erie canal. after that, we use street paths and used it as streets and highways to get traffic from one side of the city to the other. what we have done today is re-create a portion of the erie canal, go back and build off the history, use the historic lines of what was here on this site and tie it into the western terminus which is done in an is stored fashion, in terms of the way the western terminus exited into the lake. after the recreation of the erie canal, citizens can come down to this site and have a taste of history and get a feel. and the significance of the erie canal. history plays a really important part. one of the things i would say is ians, we areia not proud enough of our past. if we can remind the next generations how great buffalo was, and have a great it can become, we control and more of our history. we think about our grandparents , they allgrandparents came over from different countries. this was a melting pot that came to buffalo. that is how buffalo became such a great n