Kevin we are running 510 degrees cooler today. A lot of lingering clouds up north and a couple of snow showers early, but it should be a decent midwinter day out there. We set up a chilly night tonight with more sunshine around tomorrow. We wrap up the work week with fairly quiet commutes. Temperatures in the 20 s up north. A look ahead at your forecast in just a bit. Let s take a look at your thursday morning ride. We re joined live by 95. 7 wzid deb davidson. Good morning. Deb good morning, kevin. The big problem is out in marlborough at 101 at the intersection with water street. A crash involving downed power lines is a pretty serious situation and closing 101 in that is between ling and frost. We are getting word of laying road closures in bow. That is due to a broken poll and that is expected to be in place until mina clock this morning. Also this morning starting at 9 00, the open road tolling lanes will be closed in hooksett until about 3 00 this afternoon. Cones and detours will be in place. From the wzid traffic network, i m deb davidson for 95. 7 wzid. Sean thanks. A manchester teacher is off the job accused of assaulting a student in her middle School Classroom. Erin 52yearold math teacher anita lemay turned herself into police yesterday. Police were called to Southside Middle School on january 29. A parent professional working in the classroom was the first to report what happened. A 14yearold boy allegedly caused a disturbance while eating candy and refused to that is when she knocked the candy out of the boy s hand, leaving a scratch on his wrist. It is a hard situation. You want to protect your kids. At the same time, the teachers are with the kids all day and they have their hands full. When one student might be acting out, you would hope that they would take the high road and go a long a better path than slapping something out of a student s hand. Erin anita lemay is now charged with one count of simple assault. She started working for southside in september of last year. February 1. Sean teachers at one Manchester School are asking for your help after two pipes burst, causing thousands of dollars in damage. Part of the building is now are piled up. Instruments. And you don t think much of it. Adds up. Sean carpeting and sheet rock must also be replaced. On the seats of their through their he ice in pittsburg yesterday. They were riding with an adult on First Connecticut Lake when they broke through one layer of ice and got caught on another layer. Both sleds have been removed and the teens are fine. Sean lawmakers have a busy day. One proposal would make using an Electronic Device like a cell phone while driving a secondary offense. Meaning the police would need another reason to pull you over. Another bill would create a dealers, requiring them to register for four years after their third conviction. Also up for discussion, a proposal requiring the department of state the to create a database safety to create a database to use drones. Erin a derry man is behind bars pending extradition. 31yearold devin mack used a large knife to rob a 74yearold woman in the parking lot of a market basket. When she screamed, he pushed her to the ground, took her wallet, and ran off. A few minutes later, he used her credit card to buy 500 worth of gift cards at a nearby kmart. Sean a woman convicted in a deadly crash in laconia will not be getting out of jail early. Sentence for driving her jeep onto a sidewalk in 2014. 14yearold Lilyanna Johnson died. Another teenager was seriously hurt. Lafond asked to have a year taken off her sentence, but the judge denied that request. Officials in vermont have suspended the license of a daycare while Police Investigate the death of a child. A threeyearold boy drowned in a partially frozen stream behind the day care on friday, but Staff Members did not know he was missing until family members arrived to pick him up. No charges have been filed at this point. Erin the coast guard cutter campbell is back. This crew seized 4800 pounds of cocaine worth 800 million. They also rescued migrants stranded by cuba between cuba sean the race for New Hampshire s first Congressional District is growing with another candidate launching a bid against frank guinta. Ray r. with two days left until the next nominating contest, president ial hope pulls hopefuls participated in townhall forums with voters. I will have the latest from the campaign trail next. Erin this morning, a proposal to allow a bobcat hunt in New Hampshire is headed to lawmakers kevin a beautiful sunrise over the southern half of the state. Today. We will look ahead to the cooler couple of days and the changes for the weekend coming up. Sean a new National Poll shows donald trump and ted cruz and a can now for the republican nomination neck and neck for the republican nomination. Ray r. good morning. A new nbc news wall street journal National Poll has senator ted cruz ahead by one percentage point against donald trump. Republican frontrunner donald trump all alone on msnbc, where he attacked his fellow you are what would you rather have me do . Be nice to everybody . Ray r. on cnn, ted cruz and marco rubio. Ted cruz whipped out the hammer on donald trump. What did you think when you got the letter . I will confess i laughed out loud. And all think anybody is surprise that donald is threatening to sue people. Ray r. rubio was smiling from ear to ear. I got the endorsement of a governor of indian descent who endorsed a president ial candidate of cuban descent and tomorrow will be campaigning alongside an africanamerican republican senator. Ray r. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are battling it out in nevada and head of the state caucuses ahead of the state caucuses this weekend. Erin there is another name in the race to represent New Hampshire in washington this morning. Who has served four terms as a state rep announced that she is the first Congressional District. Night helped her make the decision. I think what we saw in New Hampshire with donald trump being on the top of the ticket is that people are looking for someone outside of washington, someone who is not part of the whole establishment crew. Erin dan innis has said he will challenge frank guinta and the republican primary. Sean coming up, apple is in a bit of a showdown with the fbi because investigators want to create a way to hack iphones, but that could create a lot of problems. Erin the United Nations says hunger problems in south sudan are getting significantly worse. 2. 8 Million People are in urgent need of Food Assistance with 40,000 on the brink of catastrophe. The u. N. Says a quarter of the population is in need. Numbers continue to rise even though the harvest just finished. Sean comcast is apologizing for the second time this week because of Service Outages in new england. They are providing a credit to customers affected by the outage on monday. Things like ondemand video and tv channels were not available for about 90 minutes. Credits will vary for customers, but will average around two dollars. Toyota is recalling 1. 1 million rav4 suv s. Rav4 s from 2006 through 2012 and the electric model 20122014. The seat belts get cut in a severe front end crash. Erin the fbi wants to create a socalled backdoor to hack iphones to gain access to one of the phones owned by one of the shooters in the San Bernardino shooting. Apple says it would have unintended consequences. Cyber Security Experts say hackers would exploit the backdoors immediately, putting all information on your phone at risk. Sadly, there is no way to put a backdoor in that will not be uncovered by a hacker. The minute you put it in for the government, some hacker, some genius, someone sitting in a lab, maybe one of the 6000 members of the north Korean Cyber Army are going to get a erin apple is fighting the court order to create the backdoor. Experts say creating the hack could cause the company a lot of money in lost business. Sean a mail carrier in new jersey had a unique excuse for not completing his rounds. I ve got a carrier being attacked by wild turkeys that won t let him deliver the mail. Sean he was chased by a group of turkeys and had to hide in his truck and call for help. Police were able to finally scare those birds away. A town in australia is overrun with tumbleweeds. Dry conditions have led to a bumper crop. In some places, the weeds were piled as high as the rooftops. Erin i don t think the leaf blower is working as well on the tumbleweed. It does not have a lot of space to blow. Kevin it is just that one time of year, usually. [laughter] can you do your best australian . Kevin i don t have that in my arsenal. [laughter] kevin sorry. Just one of my long list of disappointments. [laughter] kevin we will run about 10 degrees cooler today than we were yesterday. It comes with a similar breeze and a good deal of sunshine. We have some lingering clouds and the couple of snow showers up north. Pretty good midwinter day out there for us with temperatures fairly close to where we are this time of year as far as our averages are concerned. An area of High Pressure will mean a chilly night tonight with some areas below zero and some sunshine to wrap up the work week tomorrow. All is good for the end of the work week. We are looking at the snow showers wrapping up. To go anywhere from the mid and upper 20 s in southern areas and it is going to be a much slower climb. The wind has turned more northwesterly. You will notice that big area of High Pressure settling in. The coldest of the air is continuing to funnel in through the day today. That will mean highs just don t climb as much as what we saw yesterday. Mid20 s to lower half of the 30 s. There will be a breeze that will the size these highs. Temperatures will fall later this evening as the winds lighten up. It will be 15 closer to the coast line. Tomorrow, we should be back into the 30 s with sunshine for a good part of the day. Clouds become more noticeable through the afternoon. There could be a few flurries around late day, but the better early on saturday. We could have a spotty, light coating of snow across southern spots. We should see a few sunny breaks. The winds come out of the south after that. We are in the 40 s just about statewide on sunday. A couple of other systems we will be dodging after that one passes to our south. A much larger system, which could be rain or snow, by the time we get to tuesday night and into wednesday. Tonight, Single Digits above and below zero. Chillier over the next couple of days, but quiet through the commute on friday. Warmer air comes in for the weekend. Then a weak system on monday morning and then the possibility of rain or snow next wednesday. That would be the next possible sean School Vacation time. Kevin all of the schools will be off. Erin we start out with ray brewer, live from the phone in marlborough. Ray route 101 in downtown marlborough remains closed at this hour after a tractortrailer took out a utility pole and ended up crashing in to the poor porch of a house. We did week to the driver, who up taking out that utility pole. He is all right. The tractortrailer truck is a dda truck and was carrying a load of mail bound for the keene post office. Traffic is being diverted around 101 in marlborough through some sidestreets. Traffic heading westbound is being sent down into troy and erin a manchester teacher is off the job accused of assaulting a student in her middle School Classroom and leaving a mark on his wrist. 52yearold anita lemay turned herself into police yesterday. Lawmakers in concord will discuss a proposal to establish a drug dealer registry in New Hampshire similar to the sex offender registry. Habitual offenders would have to register for four years. Sean are you smarter than a sean how many u. S. President s can you name right now . Can probably put you to shame. Millard fillmore erin we all knew that, right . Of course, fillmore. I can tell from the profile. Tommy johnston, four years old, can name every president. He also knows all the u. S. States and their capitals and all of the planet, as well. He says he simply loves to learn. Sean that is a kid. Erin early start. Sean love to have him in the house. Selfie sticks are everywhere, even underwater. Erin the aquarium of the pacific in san diego made based National Selfie stick for one of their sea lions and it was complete with a go pro camera. He provided a sea lion s view of the world. Sean you think getting a smartphone from a child is hard i think he did not want to give it up. It is a sure sign of ring. The red sox are getting to work no one covers New Hampshire like we do. Now, wmur news 9 daybreak. Sean good morning, everybody. It is thursday, february 18. A live look at a beautiful sunrise in meredith. The water is not moving. Erin that scene looks similar to this scene behind us. Sean that looks a little warmer. Erin i know. [laughter] erin we are following breaking news that of marlborough. A section of route 101 is shut down in both directions due to an accident. Wires are in the road and it is expected to be closed for quite sometime. We will have a live report in just a bit. A Manchester Middle School teacher is facing a simple assault charge after police say she knocked some candy out of a student the fish and Game Commission has approved a controversial proposal to launch a bobcat hunting and trapping season in New Hampshire. Sean a famous dr. Has a birthday today. Dr. Dre is 51. Erin really . If you re going to say trapper john, m. D. Sean a spinoff of mash, if folks don t know that. Erin kevin anywho. We go back into the 20 s and lower 30 s late in the day. We are much closer to the averages. Sean i m still thinking of last weekend. Boy, it was cold. We start with a live look at i93 from windham. Kevin for a look at the morning drive, we are joined live i by 95. 7 wzid s deb davidson. Erin we do have several road the first one is in marlborough. That section is closed down between ling and frost. A crash in bow on brown hill road has that road closed between putney and dumbarton. Starting at 9 30, the open road tolling lane and hooksett will be closed until 3 00 this afternoon. From the wzid traffic network, i m deb davidson for 95. 7 wzid. Erin we want to get back to that breaking news we have been following in marlborough. Sean right now, a section of route 101 is shut down in both directions due to a crash. Ray brewer joins us live with what we know. Good morning. Ray good morning. We can tell you that according power in marlborough. You can see the utility pole that was taken down by the truck. One resident described the sound like a loud snowplow being dropped and another described it is able to her. It was about 4 20 this morning. We did speak to the driver, who said he swerved his truck to avoid a dog that was in the middle of the street. He said there was a car parked on the side, so he went over, took out that utility pole, and eventually ended up crashing into the porch of the house in downtown marlborough. Remarkably, nobody was injured. The driver was up and walking around. The tractortrailer was carrying a load of mail heading toward the keen post office. You can see that traffic is being diverted. That is the traffic heading eastbound. That is being diverted up water the westbound traffic is being diverted down to troy road and then over to route 12 and then up to swansea. This section of route 101 is going to remain closed. It is quite a mess. Reporting live, ray brewer, wmur news 9. Sean thanks, ray. A manchester teacher is on leave after being charged with simple assault. Erin Southside Middle School math teacher anita lemay turned herself in yesterday in connection with an alleged incident involving one of for students. She knocked some candy out of a 14yearold student s hand, leaving a mark on his wrist. He allegedly disturbed the class and refused to listen to her. She started working for southside in september of last year and was placed on paid leave starting february 1. Sean an investigation is underway into what sparked a firefighters were called to the scene at 5 ham avenue shortly after 11 30 last night. Crews found a home engulfed in flames and the fire was quickly knocks down. No one was hurt. Erin fish and game has approved a controversial proposal to relaunch a bobcat hunting and trapping season for the first time in 27 years. The hunting season would start in december and the trapping season would get started in january, if the proposal is approved by lawmakers. Five of the nine fish and Game Commissioners decided to move this proposal forward. Fish and game has told us that since 20 2007, they have collected 300 cats, mostly from the highways. I think the outpouring of support for the bobcat against erin the proposal now goes to a legislative committee for into law. Sean Bedford Police around the lookout for a woman suspected of an arrest warrant has been issued for 25yearold Stacey Brasley of manchester. River road, claiming she had a weapon. To call Bedford Police. Erin the trial continues for a convicted burglar suing the Weare Police Department claiming to officers used excessive force. Shane st. Ogne was convicted of breaking into route 77 motors in 2012. He pled guilty and served time. His Attorney Says officers can x ken cox and Kimberly Sweeney were rough with his client. He claims his client was tazed four times despite obeying officer cox allegedly only saw a man crouching behind a car. He deployed his taser twice. Sean Bedford Police believe a stray bullet likely came from a careless hunter or target shooter. Officers went to this station on Technology Drive last month after someone reported getting hit by a bb. He was actually hit by a. 40 caliber bullet. He was not seriously hurt. Erin we are getting a look inside the claremont planned parenthood clinic since the it was badly damaged last october by vandals. Police caught a juvenile using a hatchet to damage equipment and smash water and sewer lines. The vandalism was found a few months after the word murderer was found on the building spraypainted. Planned parenthood is not going to be intimidated. Planned parenthood does not ask when they walk in the door. They serve everyone regardless of ability to pay and regardless of where they are from. Erin the Clermont Office provides a range of Health Care Services including referrals for abortions, but it does not perform the procedure there. Sean marijuana could be the answer in saving an 11yearold s life. He is fighting a deadly form of epilepsy. My husband and i kept looking at each other going, he s 11. Here he is intubated in the icu on a breathing machine and all we can say is he s 11. Sean he just took part in a trial to test whether an extract from the marijuana plant can be cured can help cure the condition. We will explain tonight at 11 00. Situation for some drivers in pennsylvania. They filled up at a gas station only to later learn that it was pumping out watereddown fuel. Sean a warning for those of you who week parmesan cheese. You could be ingesting woodchips without knowing it. Kevin colder air continues to funnel in over the next couple of days with another system on what is going on . Run a slalom course. But up it. Thats terrifying. In one of these. Sweet the Chevy Silverado offers a combination of 4wd and an exclusive autolocking Rear Differential so, if a rear wheel starts to slip, the axle automatically locks to provide better traction. Feels like a beast. Grips great. Dude, that was awesome. Current qualified competitiver lessees can get this silverado all star v8 forr around 269 a month. Silverado, the 1 selling kevin starting off your thursday morning with clear areas. Temperatures have slipped back. We are talking 20 s and 30 s today. A mix of sunshine and clouds with the last of the flakes flying up north early this morning. We will have details for the weekend coming up. Sean it is almost time for the South Carolina showdown. The gop race is heating up ahead of this week s primary. Nikole killion is in washington with a look ahead. Nikole tonight, three of the gop candidates will take part in a town hall after two competing nikole it was a town hall twofer. They argued over the airwaves. I said, please donald, filed this lawsuit. Nikole ted cruz file back after donald trump sentiment letter. This letter pressed the bounds of the most frivolous and ridiculous i have seen. I am prochoice in every respect. We cannot trust donald trump. I don t know we will have a lawsuit, but we certainly want to keep somebody honest. When he makes statements he cannot say that. Nikole the townhall tangle comes as trump has slipped behind ted cruz by two points with marco rubio in third in a new National Poll. Marco rubio is seeking a boost after getting a key endorsement from South Carolina governor nikki haley. I m so honored she chose to she embodies everything that i want the Republican Party and the conservative movement to be about. Nikole the nikki haley endorsement is considered to be a setback particularly for jeb bush. He does have another powerful woman campaigning with him today his mother barbara. Erin the white house could announce that president obama is expected to pay a visit to cuba next month as soon as today. The two countries continue their efforts to normalize relations after a halfcentury of cold war opposition. Obama and cuban president castro announced in late 2014 that they would begin normalizing ties. The two nations restore commercial air traffic for the first time in five decades. A los angeles hospital paid a ransom to hackers who disabled its computer network. The fbi is investigating the attack. Hollywood presbyterian says it bitcoins, worth nearly 17,000, because paying up wasn t in the best interest of the hospital. The hospital did not say whether anyone recommended that it pay off the hackers. Sean a dozen drivers in pennsylvania are irate after learning the gas station they filled up at was selling water down fuel. I got gas, i got on the highway, and it stopped and went off the road. It shut off in the middle of the intersection. I am most got hit by a car coming off from the highway. Sean the gas station manager shut off the pumps after learning that the cars were stalling out. Heavy rain caused water to get into a gas tank, but several violations were also noted. The owner promised to pay for damages if drivers show her their repair paperwork. Erin listen to this. The government says that if you were eating parmesan cheese, you could also be eating wood. Companies that are using cheap fillers like would pulp. According to a new report, some brands contain no parmesan at all. Instead, they are made with cellulose, a common food additive made from wood pulp and an extra brother cheeses. Sean turning to sports, the red sox begin their spring training today. Xander bogaerts is already getting his swings in in fort myers, as her mookie betts and hanley ramirez. Mookie pitchers and catchers are due to report today. Erin let s talk about the Great American race, the daytona 500. Sprint cup racing season takes the flag of this weekend. Joey logano won last year. Plenty of other drivers are hoping for a win. Our car has a lot of speed. You have to have speed to win these races. The backbone of any race team s success is having a fast car. But we learned a lot about the cars especially. They are much different than an indycar. Understanding the car, we don t have a lot of time to practice, so understanding the car helps a crew chief make better changes. Then i can help make the car better faster with new changes. Erin the daytona 500 begins at 1 00 on sunday. Sean faster car in speed . Erin yes. [laughter] sean the person who found a man s wallet in new york sent him back his credit cards and drivers license, but admitted to keeping a few things. The letter reads, i kept the cash because i needed pot, the because it is kind of cool enjoy the rest of your day, tootles anonymous. Being mostly on a mess honest. Erin i love how it is signed toodles. [laughter] erin anonymous. Sean there you go. [laughter] sean sorry. A family in the u. K. Started an unusual business. [laughter] erin they are selling clean air to People Living in polluted countries. The family goes around the countryside scooping up the air and then they put it in a jar. They are selling clean air jars for 115 a piece. I m not kidding you. Kevin what . Erin they are selling it mostly to people in china. It is just raising awareness to clean up the air. That is what it is. Kevin one hundred 15 a pop . Sean have you catch the air erin you are filtering the air. Kevin you are filtering it. I ve officially seen everything. [laughter] kevin we start off with clouds clearing up north after some snow showers and flurries overnight. Otherwise, we have the clear skies and a seasonably chilly start to the day. Temperatures running a solid 510 degrees cooler than yesterday morning at this time. Into the afternoon, we will have the similar breeze noticeable at around 1015 miles per hour. The last of the clouds will continue to clear up north. We should have a pretty nice day today. Tomorrow, we have a good deal of sunshine again. We get through the last four commutes of the work week just fine. Eventually, this front approaches, which could mean a few inches of accumulation. Stubborn to break apart into temperatures starting off in the 20 s in the southern half of the state. Some of the lower valleys have dropped back into the teens. Most areas in the 20 s. The exception of that is the North Country. The North Country will stay likely in the Single Digits below zero this time tomorrow morning. There will be an occasional gust over 25 miles per hour. These temperatures, which we struggle to get to, by around midafternoon are going to feel cooler. From there, later on this evening, temperatures slipped back. There will be a lot of areas in the North Country that drop below zero. Starting the day tomorrow, chilly but with sunshine. Adding clouds later in the afternoon. Low and mid 30 a band of light snow will push through early saturday. That should pull away. Temperatures will get back into the low and mid 40 s on saturday afternoon, which is likely where we will be on hyundai. A weak system will be moving across the country sunday night and early monday and could bring us a couple of light snow showers and then a much larger system will try to come up the east coast by the time we get later into tuesday and wednesday. High temperatures today either side of the freezing mark. The winds start to settle down later this evening. That a less temperatures to settle out down. Single digits in spots overnight tonight. A little bit of light snow around very late friday night, early saturday. Could be a couple of inches of accumulation out of that, especially through the northern half of the state. A fairly mild weekend on the way. Could be a mixture of rain or snow on wednesday. Sean i m going to put my vote in for snow. Kevin i will call the hotline. [laughter] sean 6 51. Still to come, a final check on your top stories, including breaking news in marlborough. Sean we continue to follow breaking news and marlborough, where a section of route 101 is closed due to a crash. Ray we are told that this section of route 101 will remain closed for several hours. It was about 4 20 this morning when the driver of a tractortrailer swerved to avoid a dog and took out several utility poles and ended up crashing into the porch of a house. Remarkably, no one was injured. Traffic is being diverted. Erin a Manchester Middle School teacher is on paid leave after being charged with simple assault. Police say anita lemay knocked some candy out of a 14yearold student sean the trial continues today for a convicted burglar is suing theWeare Police Department. The attorney for shane st. Ogne say his client was tased at least four times despite obeying all of the officers commands. Erin the New Hampshire fish and Game Commission has approved a controversial proposal to launch a bobcat hunting and trapping season. The proposal now goes to a legislative committee for approval before it can be signed into law. Kevin beautiful sunrise for central and southern areas. The last of the clouds up north. The last of the snow showers withering away from overnight. We are about as chilly as we will be over the next several days out there today and certainly this evening, when temperatures drop back to the Single Digits. A warming trend for the weekend. We remain somewhat mild into early next week. Erin possibly some rain next week. Erin coming up next, one lucky viewer at lera spencer come to her house to make over her bedroom in need of serious help. Sean the latest on politics, the primaries are coming up. Footloose turns 32. Erin that teen who pretended to be a doctor will be telling his story. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Good morning, america. Dead heat. A brandnew National Poll shows ted cruz and donald trump tied as trump takes aim at jeb bush. This guy, why doesnt he just give up, go home. Go home. Go home to mom. And Hillary Clinton trying to avoid another upset striking a pose in vogue just two days until the next big showdown. Breaking overnight, president obama will travel to cuba, the first president to visit in more than 80 years and the huge events in the works in havana from Major League Baseball to beyonce. The 18yearold arrested posing as a doctor accused of treating patients now out on bail speaking out to abc news. The question that made him do this. Kanye west caught on a hot