Now wmur news 9 daybreak. Erin good monday morning to you. Thanks for joining us. Im erin fehlau. Sean good morning. Im sean mcdonald. An unusual but beautiful weekend. Ive got to tell you i started the weekend with a decent amount of snow in my yard. Most of it is gone at this point. Kevin yeah. 50s on saturday. 40s to near 50 degrees yesterday. We start to fall back today. Still close to the averages for this time of year, which means 30s. It is a fairly mild start for this time of year. Partly cloudy skies. Theres still the occasional overcast in parts of the state early this morning. That should wither away to partial sunshine. A lot of other areas, it will be a good deal of sunshine. Highs in the mountains up in to the 30s. Cooler air with the next system. Lets look at your morning ride. Were joined live by deb davidson. Good monday morning, deb good monday morning, kevin. Were starting off with a nice, quiet commute at this time. The skies are bright and the roads are nice and dry. It is making for a very nice commute on 93 southbound from the northern part of the state to the stateline with massachusetts. 293 is up to speed. 101 is trouble free from bedford to the seacoast. On 95 were not seeing any delays through the hampton tolls or through the Construction Zone between exit the two and one. This report is brought to you by Dunkin Donuts. From the traffic network, im deb davidson for 95. 7 wzid. Sean all right. Deb, thanks. Investigators plan to speak with the owner of a large building in goffstown this morning that went up in flames yesterday as they try to pin point an exact cause. Erin intense fire. It sent huge plumes of smoke high in to the air. Ash was spotted miles away. From the scene. The building has been demolished; right . Reporter yes, good morning. Crews used an excavator. We have video of the massive threealarm fire minutes after it broke out around 1 30 yesterday afternoon. Firefighters say there were several explosions inside the building which had been vacant for almost two years. China restaurant next door was evacuated. Theres some damage to that building. The owner says she will likely be closed for a investigators are still trying to fig your out started. Well deem it suspicious until we know otherwise. It was diagnostic the height of the north garden. There was black smoke way higher than that. Sparked several nearby roof fires. They were quickly put they received reports of ash falling at the Verizon Wireless arena, which is more than two miles away. There were no injuries. Erin andy, thank you. Maggie mast hassan is urging to investigation with a gas distribution in keene. A power outage yesterday morning briefly caused a problem with the mix of gas and air flowing to customers. Officials say it was fixed in just seven minutes thanks to new measures. Liberty dealt with a similar problem in december. That issue lasted for more than 17 hours. A report from the puc is due by the end of next month. Sean we expect to learn more details about a robbery in manchester that resulted in fedon karsai, 22, beat the clerk. The clerk was taken to the hospital. The store owner says he will be okay. This is the second time the store has been robbed this month. Two u. N. H. Students charge in connection with a stabbing are due in court today. The victim, who is also a student, was stabbed twice but is stable. 20yearold Matthew Gibbons of salem is charged with firstdegree assault, eric denning is charged with seconddegree assault with criminal liability. Erin donald trump and Hillary Clinton are riding new waves of support after picking up wins. Both face favorable votes over the next couple of weeks. Bernie sanders, marco rubio, ted cruz, they are all scrambling to make up grounds. They are following the campaigns. This week it is the early president ial contest switch. It is the in thes tun in the deep south and the republicans are out west caucuses. Were going to keep winning. Were going to make America Great again. Reporter donald trump is still riding high after his big win. He scored all 50 of the delegates winning all of the evangelical voters. I didnt know we were much. We won by a lot. Out. The two freshman senators left to battle it out to become the trump alternative. Donald trump has demonstrated he has a relatively high support, but hes also got a secret. Reporter Hillary Clinton is focused on super tuesday states, like texas, where she weekend. Us. We never doubted each other. Reporter it is a big rally for Bernie Sanders in south carolina. Sanders is working to court the black vote which lead to an awkward the predominantly africanamerican church. Tomorrow night sanders and clinton will hit the stage for a democratic town hall at the university of south carolina. The republicans are spend today rallying in nevada. The latest poll has trump leading by 26 points. Kenneth moton, abc news, washington. Erin governor hassan is scheduled to meet with president obama in washington, d. C. Today to discuss the drug and Opioid Crisis facing New Hampshire and the country. Today is the final day of the National GovernorsAssociation Winter meeting. Drugs have been a major topic of discussion here. Hassan is vice chair of the Groups Health and Human Services committee highlighting the problem there have been over 41 overdoses in manchester alone. Over the last month with 11 deaths. The Supreme Court will be back in session this morning for the First Time Since the passing scalia. Oral arguments begin at 10 00. Chief justice john mention scalias death from the bench. Sean a man accused of running a meth lab is due in court after he was overcome by the fumes from his own operation. Robert acheson spilled some of the chemicals prompting nearby evacuations. Caseworker who was concerned for his well being. Drugs werent found until the police tried to lock up the house. He tried to jump off of his stretcher and keep officers from going inside. Erin still to come, it may sound leak a nightmare to some people. Officials in massachusetts are considering creating a massive colony of rattle snake on a local io ran. Sean this is the damage caused to the train. Amazingly the driver of the van walked away without a scratch. Erin should prisoners be allowed to vote . From Dunkin Donuts. Let handcrafted layers of espresso, milk, and a caramelflavored swirl uplift your mood. Indulge in a hot or iced macchiato today. America runs on dunkin. What is going on . Today were going to run a slalom course. Not down the mountain, but up it. Thats terrifying. In one of these. Sweet the Chevy Silverado offers a combination of 4wd and an exclusive autolocking Rear Differential lets do this. So, if a rear wheel starts to slip, the axle automatically locks feels like a beast. Grips great. Dude, that was awesome. 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The mbta is still trying to figure out if theres a problem with the sean a new plan to colonized in massachusetts has some people rattled. Pun intended. Thats because it would be venomous timber a rattlesnakes. They want to use the island on mount zion in the quabbin reservoir. Theres a Public Meeting set for tomorrow evening. As you might imagine, a lot of people are talking about it on the facebook page. The reaction is mixed. Tim says he thinks it is a great idea. Timber rattlesnakes need all the help. Dan agrees. Others arent so sold on the idea. Lisa calls it her worst nightmare. Jason says it is the snake version of jurassic park. What could go wrong . Erin it is not the exotic a vacation on. Sean eventually nature will take hold. They will escape at some point. Just like in the movie. Erin snakes on an island. Coming up a pile of rubble is all thats left after a gas explosion. A person who was stepping away managed to escape. Sean a natural gas explosion leveled a home and damaged other homes as well. A person was checking on the Sprinkler System and smelled gas when he opened the garage door. He only took five steps away before the home exploded. Incredibly though no one was hurt despite the massive damage. Isis is claiming responsibility for bombings in syria that killed 130 people and wounded more than is 70. Five bombs went off between damascus and the city of holmes, nailed near schools. The attacks come as secretary of state kerry says theres an agreement for temporary ceasefire. All parties might not comply right away. Erin deadpool continues to rule at the box office. It hauled in 55 million. It is now poised to become one of the most successful rrated movies ever. Kung fu panda came this second place. Were spending less and less money to fill up the cars with gas. The National Average is now 1. 71. Thats 2 less than three years ago. Here in New Hampshire prices have dropped more than 50 cents in the last year. Sean an army dog tag lost in world war ii will finally be returned to the family it belongs to. Private thomas davis was island of saipan. His dog tag was 2014. They just manage to track down davis family. The tag will be returned soon, likely to davis texas. Easter is just over a month away. Hersheys has a new treat. The carrot cake kisses are wrapped in orange foil with green lettering on the paper flag known as a plume. They have a cream cheese filling. In case you are wondering, one serving is nine kisses and about 220 call rays. You are to pay a price. Erin flavor like carrot cake. You are making faces. Kevin we try some Different Things in the chocolate festival. Sean sacrifice your body. Kevin well have to figure out we start off early this morning with fairly quiet conditions. We have clear skies in some spots. Other areas the occasional overcast which should give way to the afternoon. Nice day. Bear in mind it is going to be more of a classic mid winter day than what we had over the course of the weekend. We had patchy clouds up north and a few spots in the southwest. We should be giving way to sunshine in to the afternoon. A weak area of High Pressure. Area of low pressure just starting to get gathered through texas. It will be the next system which starts to roll in here on wednesday. Temperatures in the teens up north. Lower 30s in southern areas. It is the beginnings of the cooler air. There will be a lot of areas that will likely be at or below zero later on tonight. Maybe near ten below zero in parts of the North Country. Southern areas will be in the Single Digits to lower teens thanks to the flow coming directly out of canada. The wind will not be strong. It will continue to put air. Temperatures arent going to move up. Notice the different in air mass this morning from yesterday morning. Were running 1025 degrees cooler than yesterday at this time. We get a glancing blow from the cold air out of canada. The coldest will be tonight. The chilliest of the afternoons will be tomorrow with high in the upper 20s to mid 30s. It comes with a light wind and sunshine for the most part tomorrow. High temperatures today not moving much. Here in the teens up north. Southern areas near the freezing mark get in the upper 30s to near 40 degrees. Not a bad day. There will be a northwest wind which will put a little bit of extra bite in to the air. Clear skies, light winds tonight, tomorrow starting with sunshine and adding clouds through the afternoon. Ahead of the next system it comes at us in two parts. The first part will be a snow or wintry mix moving in during the Daylight Hours on wednesday. Then it warms up enough wednesday night that everything we see from wednesday night through thursday afternoon would as the system makes an inland track and keep us on the warmer side of the system as it continues to make its way northward. We could be looking at over an inch of rainfall out of the system after a small accumulation sometime wednesday for later wednesday night and in to early thursday where the system pulls away thursday afternoon and thursday evening. Quiet for the time being. Temperatures in most locations will be up in to the 30s. A few southern spots could reach 40. Then the bottom really falls out on temperatures. Clear skies and light winds later tonight. Were talking teens in south eastern areas of the state. Single digits above and below zero in most cases otherwise. Sunshine and clouds tomorrow. Light snow or light wintry mix on wednesday. Small accumulation. Thursday looks like rain and wind for the first half of the day. Youll notice the temperatures responding in to the 40s to lower 50s before cooling off again at the end of the week. The roller coaster continues with the one warm day. It figures heavy precipitation. It is in the form of it is tracked to the west. Erin whenever we get the snow, we get the rain. Sean it seems that way. The tracks have been inland more than off shore. Erin thank you. We want to check in on the top stories. Hershberger. Andy investigators on the scene in the massive fire. Im Andy Hershberger with the story coming up. Erin a man is charge with attempted murder and robbery. A canine was able to track down 22yearold robbery. Maggie hassan is urging the state Public Utilities commission to investigation another issue with Liberty Utilities gas distribution in keene. A power outage of the companys propane plant briefly caused a problem with the mix of gas and air flowing to customers. Sean it seems the lure of outer a Record Number of my School Reunions coming fast. Could be bad. Could be a blast. Cant find a single will they be looking at my hair . Wont be the same without you bro. When its go, go to choicehotels. Com. The site with the right room, rewards and savings up to 20 when you book direct. Kevin monday morning, february 22nd. Temperatures in the teen and 20s across the area. It will be a much cooler day than over the weekend. With a good deal of sunshine. All is quiet for the next couple of days ahead of the next system. Well have the details coming up. Erin all right. It is interesting. It seems that john lennons air is worth more than experts thought. Sean a fourinch lock sold this weekend for 35,000 to a british collector. Officials have predicted it would only fetch about 10,000. The hair was cut in 1966 a movie. Expensive locks. Erin collector of hair or beatle memorabilia . Sean i hope beatle memorabilia. Erin all right. It appears more and more people want to go to space. Sean nasa received 35,000 applications, nearly three times the number that applied for the last class. Only between eight and 14 people will be selected. Then they face two years of basic training to learn everything from space walking to russian. You have to learn russian because you are going up with a lot of russian astronauts. Im glad your application is in. Erin i thought i was headed to mars. Sean isnt that part of it . Erin i guess so. One of the most dramatic wins. Were going to show you the photo finish. Sean a woman in iowa is fighting to keep her therapy animals. Were not talking about dogs or horses here. No one covers New Hampshire like we do. Now wmur news 9 daybreak. Erin good morning to you. It is monday, february 22nd. A lot of people are on vacation this week. In meredith were waking up to temperatures in the 20s. It is cooler out there. We have snow and rain. Sean thats right. More standard winter fare. Well talk about that in a moment. First the top stories. Firefighters are trying to determine what sparked a massive fire that destroyed a vacant building on mass road. A somersworth man is set to face a judge after he crashed in to a car while allegedly driving drunk as he tried to escape an officer. Dartmouth college is schools in banning hover boards due to concern they may be a fire hazard. Erin logging on to facebook. There are a lot of people in tropical locations. Kevin ive noticed a lot less traffic. Maybe parents of kids who arent necessarily up at this hour like they normally are on certain mornings. A fairly quiet day. A cooler day than the warmer air we had over the weekend. Starting off in the teens, 20s, and lower 0s. About five to seven degrees warmer than the current levels by later this afternoon. Could push 40. 30s for most with a breeze out of the northwest this afternoon. Erin all right. I know you have some news about snow and rain coming up. Kevin midweek. Erin stay tuned for that. We want to check the roads this morning. Heres a live look on how things are moving out there. This is from the hooksett camera. Kevin were joined live by deb davidson. Good monday morning, deb. Deforming good monday it is a nice, quiet ride. 93 south were seeing some building volume south of the 293 split in manchester. That goes right through to derry. After that it eases out. It is a good ride in to salem. The spaulding turnpike is okay through ports mow. As you make your way up, we see some delays forming on 95 south and getting off of the ramp as well now that the morning commute is starting to pick up. 101 web site is up to speed heading back in to manchester. This report is brought to you by dunkin doe naughts. Im deb davidson for wzid. Sean topping our news an investigation is underway in to what sparked a massive fire. Erin exclusive video shows the fire burning at a vacant building on mass road. The flames broke out yesterday forcing a nearby restaurant to evacuate. Andy hershberger live at scene with the latest information. It took just minutes for flames to engulf this building here on mass road. They say that there were several explosions inside. At this time, officials do not know what set off those blasts. Around 1 30 sunday afternoon flames engulfed the vacant building on mass road in goffstown. Smoke could be seen miles away. It was double the height of the north garden at its highest point. There was black smoke way higher than that. Reporter next door a China Restaurant had to be evacuated. It was not panicking. Nobody thought it was going to be the fire that it was. Reporter the restaurant has smoke damage and the vinyl siding melted. Firefighters from about a dozen towns saved the building. Business owner is grateful for their work and says she will reopen as soon as she can. At least a couple of weeks. At least. Because the power is gone and the gas is off. Reporter sunday night crews took down what was building that burned for hours. They are trying to figure out what sparked the threealarm blaze. The building has been abandoned for almost two years. A vacant building. Nobody was in the building. Well deem it suspicious until we know otherwise. Erin the building was built more than 100 years ago and has seen several businesses come and go. It was a trolley recharging station when they had trolleys. Reporter no one was injured. The state fire marshal is also investigating. Flaming embers started several minor roof fires nearby. They were quickly put out. The chief says that some ash from the fire could be seen at the Verizon Wireless arena which is about two miles away. Live in goffstown, im Andy Hershberger. Sean all right. Andy, thanks. A somersworth man accused of crashing in to a car while trying to escape an officer is due in court today. When a Rochester Police officer tried to pull over a buick. The driver fled and crashed in to a kia. Three people in the kia suffered nonlife threatening injuries. The driver of the buick, 32yearold timothy sprague, was arrested on multiple charges. Erin a candia man is scheduled to face a judge today. 59yearold Stephen Gracyalny is accused of setting fire. Hes being held on 50,000 cash bail pending arraignment. The investigation in to the fire is ongoing. A pittsfield man is accused of fleeing the scene of an accident. He crashed a stolen suv in to a guardrail on friday morning and then left the scene. He was arrested after being spotted hitchhiking in the area. Chambers is set to be arraigned on a variety sean Dartmouth College is the latest school to tell the students to leave the hover boards at home. They sent out an email. Hover boards are a safety concern. They, prohibited on all dartmouth owned properties. The ban is intended to be temporary until safety concerns are addressed. There have been a number of reports across the country of hover boards catching fires. You can see the video here. More than 30 universities, including u. N. H. , have banned hover boards. Erin state lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow prisoners to vote. The proposed measure would let convicted felons vote behind bars. Vermont and maine are the only two states where they never lose their privileges to vote. They can become eligible once they are released. The bill heads to the house for a full vote. Sean maple syrup season is off to an early start. The trees are tapped and ready to go at tamarack he began the seasons on president s day. He says thats when he usually starts to tap his trees. Other sugar shacks started earlier. Some people tapped in really early in january, which is very unusual. Traditionally we dont tap in until february or later february. Some people made a lot of syrup. Were just Getting Started now. Sean at this point hes not sure how the warmer winter will affect the syrup. The trees have been confused. Erin you are not going to be able to have the syrup on the snow. Coming up, good news for people who earn a good living. A new study shows the higher your income the better your chances of living a long life. Sean a woman in iowa is on a mission to have the pets deemed service animals. The pets are snaked, and they are not aloud in her city. Kevin an area is going through texas. Thats the one system week. The new caramel macchiato from Dunkin Donuts. Of espresso, milk, uplift your mood. Indulge in a hot or iced macchiato today. Something delicious is happening at dunkin. Come in today to get any sandwich for 2. 99 after 12 00 p. M. America runs on dunkin. Kevin starting off early this morning with temperatures in the 20s to 30s. We continue to bring in the cooler air. Highs this afternoon up this to the North Country only in the 20s. The rest of us will be up in to the 30s with a breeze. After some early clouds. Well talk about the next system that arrive on wednesday with your forecast coming up. Sean thanks. Were learning more details about the horrific shooting spree over the weekend. Six people were killed and two others wounded. Today the suspected gunman is due in court to face murder charges. Police have not yet commented on a motive. These were very deliberate killings. Reporter prosecutor describing the man in which uber driver carried out a shooting spree. This wasnt hurried in any way, shape, or form. They are on video. Reporter his alleged rampage played out over the court of seven hours starting at an apartment complex late saturday where he gunned down a woman in the parking lot. The victim is hospitalized and her neighbors describe the horrifying attack. He was here to kill. Reporter more than four hours later, another a father and son shot at a car dealership. He killed four and injured another. A passenger who rode with dalton described his troubling behavior. He got a mile from the house. After the telephone he started driving erratically. Once he came to the stop, i jumped out of the car and ran away. Reporter a source of knowledge says he picked up and dropped off passengers between shootings. They think he was looking for more after the final attack. Wmur news 9. Erin the death toll from a vicious cyclone in fiji has climbed to 18. Authorities are still struggling to communicate with some islands that suffered the worst damage. More than 16,000 people are staying in emergency shelters. Winston reached 177 miles per hour, making it the strongest storm on record in the southern hemisphere. Sean frightening moments for some megabus passengers in illinois. They had to evacuate when the bus caught fire. It was traveling on a busy road after the driver pulled over and saw smoke coming from a fire. They got off of the bus and moved about 50 feet back before the bus exploded and burst in to flames. No one was hurt. When i heard the first boom i was in the bathroom. I came out to a lot of smoke. I could hardly get off of the bus. As i got off to catch my breath, i started walking down the highway. The bus blew up again and fire came from everywhere. A bus taking my breathing machine. It is burnt up. My suitcases and everything. We lost everything. Sean no word on what caused the explosion. Megabus issued a is our top priority. They are fully cooperating. Erin bill cosbys wire, camille, is scheduled to give her deposition today. It is expected to go ahead at 9 00 a. M. Eight women have sued him after they publicly accused him of sexually assaulting them. Sean pope francis is speaking out against capital punishment. The pope is proposing that leaders who are catholic suspend executions during the holy year of mercy which runs through november. The pontiff is throwing his support behind a conference set to begin today that he hopes will bring an end to the death penalty. Erin turning now to sports, it was an exciting sunday on the racetrack as nascar drivers hit the gas for the daytona 500. Youngest driver to start from the pole. His number 24 car ran in to trouble. Elliot got lose. He avoices the wall. The grass tore up the front of his car. On the final lap it was quite the finish. Matt kenseth tried to hold off the charging. There was contact but both cars were able to hold on. Martin truex jr. At the fine was bypassed. Denny hamlin gets his first 500 win. I remember cutting low on matt. I was hoping he knew i was there before he closed the door. I hated that he got a bad finish, especially leading the daytona 500 on the last lap. You know, toyota is four of the top five. What an awesome day for toyota. Erin truex jr. Finished the race second followed by kyle sean got to get the sponsor in there; right . Boston took on the nuggets. Boston had lost two of the last three games. Isaiah thomas lead with a doubledouble. Avery helped boston build a lead. The nuggets made a run in the second half. They were able to pull away in the Fourth Quarter winning 121101. Boston plays in minnesota tonight. Erin the amount of money that you make can apparently impact how long you live. Thats according to a new study by the brookings institute. Studies says that men who earn in the bottom 10 of income can expect to die about 12 years earlier than men who earn in the top 10 of income. Researchers say one reason for this is that people are retiring at a much later age. The longer a person works the more money they receive from Social Security which enables them to live a much longer life. Sean a woman in iowa wants her pet snakes to be considered a theres one major issue, the city she lives in bans people from owning snakes. Darla mcguiness says she suffering from anxiety. Medication has never helped. Her only relief has been her pet pythons. They have to stay at a friends house due to the citys ordinance that bans them. If things do not change, she will consider moving so she can be with her pets. It is crazy being able to hold them. It is like seeing your kids again. Sean emotional support animals are not considered service animals. They dont get the same Legal Protections like a guide dog. To each its own. The python give her comfort. Erin i think it would cause anxiety for others. Kevin having a python near me e that would be the only problem . Kevin that would be it. It would all be focused on that. Like when you have the hiccups and someone tries to scare you. It is going to work. Me too. Lets go on record there. Start off temperatures near 30 out in portsmouth early this morning. Beautiful sunrise setting up for us early this morning for most locations. Any clouds early giving way to sunshine and what will be a cooler afternoon than anything we had over the weekend. 50s on saturday. 40s to near 50 degrees yesterday. Today were back in to the 30s to near 40. High clouds will Start Building in tomorrow ahead of the next system. It comes at us in two parts. Light snow or mixed showers on wednesday. Then rain and wind Late Wednesday night and in to thursday with a warmer temperatures coming with that. In the 40s and 50s. Just not a winters type situation for us out there through the cures of the last few months. Youll notice early this morning the last of the clouds for the North Country and quite a few in south eastern areas. Eventually giving way to weak area of High Pressure settling in. Next system going through texas. Temperatures this morning have slipped back. Were running about 15 degrees cooler than yesterday at this time. While temperatures early this morning are within a few degrees of the normal highs, were certainly cooler than we have been the last couple of days. A lot of 20s on the maps early this morning. Teens up north. It will be a lot colder by this time tomorrow morning. These areas that are in the Single Digits above zero like by down near ten below zero by this time tomorrow morning. A lot of Single Digits above and below zero later on tonight after highs today getting back in to the 30s. There will be a bit of a breeze out of the northwest. Exposed areas over 1015 miles an hour. That will put a little bit of an extra bite to the air. Youll notice any clouds early giving way to sunshine before temperatures really start to fall off later on this evening. Clear skies, light winds, allowing temperatures to drop back. This a little bit underplayed for northern areas. It will get down in the Single Digits and down southern areas well get down between 1015. As far as tomorrow is concerned, early sun to afternoon clouds. Really no moisture. Then we get in to early wednesday. Temperatures just cold enough. As the moisture starts to run in, theres the potential of light wintry mix or snow for the first few hours. From there, we should be warm enough mt. Afternoon with highs above the freezing mac. It should be rain showers wednesday afternoon. Then youll notice a push of rainmaking its way toward us which will likely be heavy rain Late Wednesday night and early thursday. That could give us over an inch of rainfall along with some wind gusting over 30 miles an hour as it continues to blow on shore. High temperatures today in most areas up in to the 30s before eventually tonight dropping back in to the Single Digits above and below zero. As cold as ten below in parts of the North Country. Maybe near 15 at the coast. Extended forecast shows temperatures falling back. Chilly day tomorrow. Temperatures in the low to mid 30s. Well see the light mix or light snow on wednesday give way to wednesday night and thursday. Temperatures will jump thursday afternoon only to fall back. Next weekend looking partly sunny. There could be a few snow showers trying to slide in on sunday. Erin seems like the rain follows the snow. Kevin any time theres heavy precipitation it has been mostly in the rain form. Erin nasa is giving you a chance to send your artwork to outer space. Things like drawings, photos, songs, and poems can be submitted to an asteroid on the new spacecraft. The probe will be the first to collect a sample of an asteroid and bring it back to earth in 2023. The artwork must be submitted by march 20th. To learn more head to asteroidmission. Org. If you are interested in sending your artwork out to space, see how people you know, what aliens think about it. Sean i dont know which one to pick. So many good poems. All right. Still to come, a winter tradition meets a spring sport. What people are taking part in snowmobile softball. Thats going to be interesting. Time for our u local hot shots. Apparently the fox is not a big fan of having its picture take opinion it is a solitary fox. Sean a special event in mongolia is celebrating all things camel. The 14th neal annual camel festival is being held in the gobi desert. 300 camels and their owners turned out for the festival. This is where erin, im pretty sure, spent her weekend competing in the events like the 13. 6 mile camel race. Erin they really go fast, dont they . Kevin that hat might be the only thing that would mess up her hair. Sean you are right. Go . Erin i arrived back from mongolia earlier today. An interesting competition that blended a popular spring sport with a winter tradition. Snow and slush were flying in every direction at the snowmobile softball tournament. Kevin they describe the game as slowpitched softball played on a snowmobile. As long as you dont smack your sled up. Some of these have 10,000 sleds. You do that, you are in trouble. No strategy. Same as softball, you run the bases with sleds. It is awesome. Youve got to try it once. Youll get addicted to it. It is just a good time. People get out here, cabin fever, and get out and enjoy winter. Kevin there are fuels. People stay in the fields on the sleds turned off until the ball is hit. You have to wear a coat this is akin to donkey basketball. Erin this is a new way to slide home. Kevin dont be the catcher getting in the way of that. Sean i have many questions about this. Coming up, it is a proposal thats making a lot of peoples skin crawl. Officials in massachusetts want to make an island home to a particular species of rattlesnake. Reporter firefighters expected to be back here later today to try to figure out how that started. Im Andy Hershberger with the story coming up. Sean now on daybreak, investigators say the massive fire is being suspicious right now. A instrument is closed. Erin a robbery turned violent when the suspect started beating the clerk with a baseball bat. Kevin after a mild weekend we start cooling off today. The next system approaches ahead. Sean Liberty Utilities is reacting to another problem with a gas distribution plant in keene. The governor is pointing to an investigation. No one covers new