Onto hooksett, we joined cruz aboard his bus for a one on one interview. Where is the media getting you wrong . Well, listen, the media has their favorites. Reporter according to cruz that includes donald trump, who oh spent much of the day on twitter accusing the texan of stealing the caucuses in iowa alleging that his campaign fueled a rumor that ben carson was dropping out of the race and as a result picked up his votes. Its yet another trumper tantrum. Listen, donald is so erratic, you wonder do you really want his finger on the button . Hes meeting down. I dont think the American People are interested in a circus or side show. You need a commander in chief who doesnt break into tears at the latest opinion polls. Is donald likely to wake up one morning and nuke denmark . Josh ted cruz says he will spend the bulk of his time in and tuesday. Kind of a low blow when senator sanders said, in response to a question, well, you know, maybe shes a progressive on some days. Weve been fighting the progressive fight and getting results for people for years. Some days she says shes a progressive, on that particular day she says shes a moderate. You can be a moderate, thats fine, but you cant be a mod expert a progressive. Tom a war of words in the democratic race as well hours before they share the stage for a town hall. Jer our Team Coverage begins right now with wmurs amy coveno who is here with us in the studio. Reporter the gloves are off and in a few hours clinton and sanders will share a stage in derry for a live televised town hall where the sparring over who is better prepared to lead the nation will likely get more heated. A full house at the boys and girls club in derry where lead Bernie Sanders has in New Hampshire, chalking it up to a neighborly advantage. But going on the offense about her record as a progressive, reminding the pro hillary crowd about health care and other big issues. I think it was a good day for progressives when i helped to get 8 million Kids Health Care under the Childrens Health insurance program. [applause] and i think it was a good day for progressives when i joined with colleagues in the senate to stop george w. Bush from privatizing Social Security. Reporter clinton will be at the Mclaughlin Middle School in an hour, then she heads back to derry for that town hall with Bernie Sanders where the progressive issue will likely come up early. Tom Bernie Sanders just wrapped up a News Conference in concord talking about the transpacific partship, a trade agreement he topic he says highlights the differences between his approach and his rivals. Wmurs adam sexton live in concord tonight, covering the sanders campaign. Adam . Reporter tom, were live on airport road in front of the ibew hall where senator sanders just spoke, and this was about the transpacific partnership. Obviously senator sanders very opposed to that. He was backed by a number of Union Members who were applauding his stance on that issue. Hes definitely trying to draw contrasts with secretary clinton as we head toward the final few days of campaigning here. Certainly the contrast was there on the t. P. P. , but the reporters were also asking him about when he thinks about her record in terms of what shes been saying on the campaign trail in terms of trying to downplay expectations and saying that hes got a Home Field Advantage here being from vermont, senator had, he started to complain about what he sees as the Clinton Campaign ability to spin things in their direction. They are fantastic spinners. They can spin anything. And somebody from the Clinton Campaign was going Bernie Sanders has run the most negative campaign in the history of the democratic primary process. Total absurdity. Reporter senator sanders stance on the t. P. P. All the puts him in opposition to president obama, as far as he would go on that was saying that he disagrees with the president on this issue. This is a stance on write the president is a moderate and Bernie Sanders is a progressive, but thats about all he had to say on that. The candidates meeting up tonight in derry for that town hall, well be there to cover it live. Adam sexton, wmur news 9. Jennifer senator marco rubio made three stops so far today, suit that you see there that yet toed him, he called it good for the heat building in this campaign. He didnt mention republican rivals by name, but he struck familiar themes in a town hall in laconia. Rebuilding the military, reducing the debt and securing the american dream. When asked if he thinks of himself as an antiestablishment candidate, he says that he shuns labels, but claims the establishment didnt want him to run. Ive had close to 4 million of attack ads run against me. That money didnt come in 50 increments, those were multimillion dollars checks from people who have been involved in politics for a long time. So weve always taken on the establishment. Jennifer he told the crowd he wanted to keep his introductory speech short to spend more time taking their questions. Tom and three other president ial hopefuls were in the state today, jeb bush was at Colby Sawyer College in new london this morning, where he reset this race, and prove all the pundits wrong. In bow, Chris Christie talked about his track record of leadership and experience and said donald trump and senators ruby and cruz lack those skills. And john kasich was in durham where he talked about familiar themes of fiscal responsibility and energy policy. Jennifer the republican race lost two candidates today, both rand paul and Rick Santorum are dropping out of the race. Paul exited the race this morning saying hes proud of giving a voice to the liberty movement. Former pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum is expected to drop out this evening and then endorse another candidate. Tom remaining candidates in the republican race will gather for a final time on one stage before the primary, thats this saturday night, wmur and abc news are sponsoring saturday nights big debate at st. Anselm college, it all begins at 8 00 here on wmur. And of course we will have a special edition of news 9 at 5 00. And coming up next at 6 00 tonight you go around Lake Winnipesaukee theres nobody out there, its dangerous. Tom these guys found out firsthand just how dangerous conditions are. They were forced to try to drug their bob house out of alton bay. Mike 30s, 40s, even warming into the 50s in spots at this hour. How much longer does that continue until it cools back down. Jennifer plus in court today a man convicted of sexually assaulting a young girl asks for a sentence reduction. The unusual support he got in that bid. Mike due to the president ial been postponed, heres the truth some have proposed and disabled vets. I disagree. In fact, not only should we not cut benefits we should expand them. My plan for Social Security increases benefits and cost of living adjustments and raises minimum payments for lowincome seniors. It will ensure that all seniors can retire with dignity and respect. Im Bernie Sanders, and i approve this message. Car repairs, home improvements, a family trip. Its not easy to afford them. What did marco rubio do . He put 22,000 in personal expenses on a Republican Party credit card. Rubios bad judgment caused a scandal and for five years rubio refused to release the credit card records. Marco rubio skipping major votes. All over the place on immigration. Bad judgment. R hes just not ready to be president. Tom a man convicted of sexually abusing a child more than two decades ago asking a judge to be released early. Josh Lawrence Cook says while he takes full responsibility for his crime, he believes hes changed after 16 years behind bars. Cook is serving at least 22 and a half years for assaulting a girl beginning when she was 4. The county Attorney Says reducing that would send wrong messages. But cooks supporters including his former commander in the national guard, says he can make a difference in the community. His ability to testify to the community about the seriousness of his crime and help others is reason for him to not be spending the next six years in state prison but in our Community Helping others. From the bottom of my heart i am truly sorry. I pray to god that they can find the strength and the comfort knowing that i would never hurt anyone again. Decision by next week. Tom a winchester man behind bars facing felony drug charges, james foster arrested after a search of his home turned up 600 bags of suspected heroin with a street value of more than 6,000. And some marijuana as well. He is charged with sale and possession with the intent the distribute a controlled drug. Wow. What a wet day today. Jennifer yes. Is it letting up any tile soon . Nieks spots it has already, in other spots it will as we go through the evening. Plenty more changes for tom the mild winter is taking its toll on ice conditions and many events that would normally be happening this month. Jennifer fish and game officials have issued a statewide warning for residents to use caution when out on the ice, especially on large bodies of water. Kristen carosa has more from the lakes region. Reporter weak ice on alton bay caused this bob house to fall into the lake tuesday night. Its been bad all year. Its been really spotty. The warm weather last week killed it. Reporter fish and game officials are urging people to use caution and check the thickness before heading out. Should be at least 6 inches. If you go around Lake Winnipesaukee, theres nobody out there, it dangerous. Reporter its having an effect on many winter staples in New Hampshire like the ice fishing derby. Thats been postponed. And the sled dog derby canceled. Theres no ice on the lakes, so weve definitely had had to make a decision to cancel the event. Reporter jims grandfather started the derby in the 1930s. This is one of the mildest winters theyve seen. They havent even opened the snowmobile trails, so we havent been our trail once this year. Also called off. But there is some good news. The hockey classic in meredith is still a go, but had to be moved from Lake Winnipesaukee to lake walkewon. The event draws in nearly 2,000 people and right now organizers are doing all they can to deal we drilled a few test holes. Hopefully it freezes. Mike looks like temperatures actually climb through the course of the night. Take a look at time lapse out at the coast today, the dreary weather locked in early and hasnt given up just yet, as we still have some showers moving through parts of southern New Hampshire. Looking ahead, shower threat for the most part tonight will be in extreme southern New Hampshire as temperatures head higher statewide. Right through the course of the night. Into early tomorrow morning. Speaking of early tomorrow, could be a couple of showers mainly along the coastline, outside of that it dries out and stays warm before it begins to cool back closer to normal by friday and over the weekend into a good part of next week as well. Notice steady rain shifting to the east right now, a couple of lingering sprinkles across the mountains and great north woods. Farther south steadier light rain manchester and points south. A lot of that will move off to the east in the next couple hours and that means mainly dry weather in terms of steady rain. Having said that not a big wind field developing to dry us out, solo level cloudiness, fog, sprinkles here or there overnight. The wind flow out of the southeast, so thats beginning to drive temperatures up in many spots, where its been cool all day long. Take a look at manchester, about 10 minutes ago checking in at 43 degrees. Now up near 50. Speaking of the 50 club, youre in it, all through the monadnock region, from 52 to 56 at this hour. Even through the great north woods in the upper 40s and 32 over 6,000 feet up is very warm for the summit of Mount Washington this time of year. Where do we go tonight . Temperatures hold steady or even rise in some cases, its 40s and lower 50s through the course of the evening and those temperatures could fall a little the most part stay well into the 40s to near 50. Theres much cooler air upstreaming back through the great lakes, plains states, rockies, and thats marching in our direction, about tomorrow might into friday and a good part of the weekend were going to share the this cooler air. The big question when we cool down, do we see any snow chances. Initially the first wave that will move along this same front that scoots just to our east late tonight into tomorrow, that should primarily miss New Hampshire early friday morning. Having said that, there is a chance in southeastern areas of a few flurries early friday morning. Steadier snow southeastern parts of massachusetts, cape cod and the islands. Tonight, clouds, fog, a few sprinkles. Tomorrow quick drying during the my morning, into the afternoon. Temperatures staying warm before we begin to cool back down with developing sun on friday. Speaking of friday, cant rule out a few flurries. South and east of concord early morning, before it dries out statewide. Season my chilly. Then monday mainly dry, a few flurries possible late. Two storms that were tracking, right now looks like the first one stays far enough out to sea that could zap energy from the second one, so that even though im predicting snow on tuesday, at this point any way, six days out, looks to be on the light side. So coating, couple of inches, that sort of idea. But if it becomes stronger, were doing more of this. Tom here in New Hampshire well get to the polls no matter what. Jamie signing day, what does the American People cant afford to wait for ideas that sound good on paper. But will never make it in the real world. The grandmother who has to choose between paying for medicine and paying rent. Cant wait. The single mom who desperately needs a raise. Cant wait. The student with a mountain of debt cant wait. We can make real progress, right now for people and families who need it. P im Hillary Clinton and i jamie the first wednesday of february, a big deal always for Young Athletes in college programs. Its National Signing day. For u. N. H. Football it an important and much needed class coming to durham including quarterback Christian Napoli from connecticut. Weve got a kids that i think will help the program. We had to fill some positions that were very important to us, the secondary position, weve got four kids coming in. Every position had to be filled, both the offensive and defensive line, we brought in five kids there. We brought in a New Hampshire kid at wide receiver, nick lorton. He had a hell of a summer before when we saw him in preseason then he had a great season at Bishop Guertin this year, hes a big target, hes six three, 205pound. Hes a high jumper, can go up and get the football. Nick lorton is on the right in this photo. Chase hughes in the center will play football at wyoming. Congratulations to all three. As part of National Signing day bedford held a signing for seven student athletes including soccer players josh baker going to u. N. H. And a couple of Service Academy students. Krowgz to all the bulldogs. Celtics picked up a nice win last night. 9789 at the knicks. Six wins in their last seven games. Cs back in action tonight when they host the detroit pistons. Runners call it a casualty of nation primary. The fat tuesday 5k which was scheduled for tuesday night has been postponed to saturday the 13th at 1 00. The race will still begin on elm street. Expecting over 1,000 runners. High school hockey, concord against londonderry, the coach of londonderry coaching his 5 hundredth game. 10. Then Bradley Murphy fines finds alex for the easy goal here. It a close game, concord beat londonderry by 32. Jennifer right now on wmur. Com, from classic books to new stories you may never have her of yet, weve put together a list of 20 great books to read tom tune in for New Hampshire chronicle that follows world news. Well see you back here tonight right after american crime. Today in america, the top 1 10 of 1 owns almost as much wealth this great country and our government belong to all of us. Wall street, corporate america, wealthy Campaign Donors have so much influence that the only way they are defeated is when millions of people begin to stand up and say loudly and clearly, enough is enough. Im Bernie Sanders,