Might have come in contact with illegal drugs, including fentanyl. Good afternoon. Im adam sexton. The boys stepfather was arraigned this morning on multiple charges, including endangering the welfare of a child, drug possession, and falsifying evidence. Wmurs Jennifer Crompton with what we are learning about this tragic case. Jennifer it happened last wednesday morning in a Hampton Motel room. A 30yearold man finds his 19month old stepson unresponsive, takes him across the et police have charged leo witham with 2 felonies and a misdemeanor. They say they found an open package of fentanyl in the motel room, as well as a bottle of prescription lorazapam that they also charge witham with intentionally hiding under a childs blanket on the bed. Police are waiting for toxicology results to see how the child died, and more charges could be filed. The investigation is ongoing usually when these cases have been and there is an unintended death, we try to go back 24 hours in the persons history to find out who they had been in contact with and what could across the situation to occur. Jennifer a funeral was held for the 19month old on sunday. Family members were in court but declined comment. Reporting in hampton, Jennifer Crompton, wmur newsnine. Adam right now, a deadly crash on 93 south just before the 293 split is under investigation. Investigators say it appears a ford f350 was driving south slow moving traffic. Investigators say the 50yearold driver hit several vehicles. One of them rolled, killing 62yearold Cynthia Perkins of derry. No one else was seriously injured. At this time, no charges have been filed. In court today, two men who Merrimack Police arrested for their alleged involvement in an elaborate mail scheme. 19yearold steven ferreras melo and 21yearold Christopher Sanchez sanchez from rhode fraud. Police say a package with 3 apple iphone sevens was delivered to a home, but that the resident did not order them. Both men say that they were paid to go to the home and get the package with the phones inside. Turning to weather, this morning you probably saw some frost on your car if youre parked outside, but it is warming up. Heres a live look at hampton beach. Temperatures in the mid50s now. Meteorologist Kevin Skarupa is here with how long we can expect those temperatures. Kevin five, six, seven degrees per hour after bottoming out in the 20s in the North Country and a few spots out west. Take this location in warner. Temperatures did to around 35 this morning, now back into the lower half of the 60s. A good deal of sunshine. Just a few high clouds across their area. We continue to see that next system approach to that purchase and brings changes for the end of the week. The warming trend continues. I have all of the details in just a few minutes. Adam thank you. The man accused of robbing the t. D. Bank on south main street in manchester just appeared in court. Police say 35yearold Brian Christoffels handed a note to a teller and then took off. Wmurs ray brewer is live outside Manchester Circuit Court with the very latest. Ray during the arraignment, we learned during the robbery, but the prosecution says that the teller did feel threatened. This is a picture of who police say is brian christofells as he robbed the t. D. Bank on south main street in manchester monday afternoon. Tuesday morning, christofells was arraigned on a single count of robbery. He was arrested after a photo was circulated, and police learned that the suspect might have fled in a car. Police set up a roadblock at exit 4 off of 93 in londonderry, and when police approached, give up. In court, the prosecution talked about what happened during the robbery. Officer carrissa pelletier he passed a note to the teller at td bank and made off with about 600 in cash. Ray the prosecution said that christofells has only a limited criminal history, and that his last conviction was back in 2002. Still noting the seriousness of the charge, they asked for 15,000 cash or surety bail, which the judge granted. Christofells is due back in court on october 24. Ray brewer, wmur news 9. Adam thank you. Coming in 2016 now. Both Hillary Clinton and donald trump are campaigning in florida today. And trump is threatening to step up personal attacks if more negative tapes of him emerge. As abcs Kenneth Moton reports, new National Poll numbers show clinton now has a doubledigit lead. Kenneth that long simmering gop kenneth and a divided republican party. Last night, trump was in pennsylvania, holding mini trump. Donald trump do you want to stay with them or do you want to stay with donald trump . Trump. Kenneth but this morning, he was on a twitter attack against House Speaker paul ryan, who said he would ditch campaigning for trump in the wake of the nominees crude 2005 comments about women. Our very weak and ineffective leader, paul ryan, had a bad Conference Call where his members went wild at his disloyalty, trump said in a tweet. Second debate in a landslide, every poll, it is hard to do well when paul ryan and others give zero support. Trump citing unscientific polls, while the scientific ones are not in his favor. Hillary clinton is leading trump by 11 points in a recent poll, among women 21 points. Trump in a brutal fight to the finish with clinton. Donald trump if they want to release more tapes saying inappropriate things, well continue to talk about bill and Hillary Clinton doing inappropriate things. The last 30 years, bring it on. Kenneth clinton in front of her largest crowd yet in ohio, where polls also have her riding high against trump. Hillary clinton he is an equal opportunity insulter, if there ever was one. Kenneth this afternoon clinton , will get more help from president obama, who will hit the campaign trail in North Carolina. Later today, clinton and trump will hold rallies in battleground florida. Kenneth moton, abc news, wain more day to register in florida because of Hurricane Matthew. A federal judge ruled monday that the deadline will be extended through 5 00 wednesday night. And then, they will hear arguments on a longer extension. Florida democrats asked the court to extend the deadline, because so many people were told to back your their homes. And coming up in less than an hour from now, join us on the wmur Facebook Page for a Facebook Live session with democratic candidate for u. S. Senate governor Maggie Hassan. Bid for the senate. Thats on the wmur Facebook Page today at 1 00. Off the shelves permanently. Coming up, samsung says it will no longer be making its galaxy note 7 smarthphones. We will to you why this became such a burning issue for the korean tech giant. Plus, rescue efforts now underway in North Carolina and haiti following Hurricane Matthew. Why frustration is growing. Kevin after a cold start to the day, we start a warming trend, day, we start a warming trend, which lasts through much of the weekend, the. Adam plus, in todays grow it green, despite the drought, many local farms have plenty of its a great view from the top. Just ask chris sununu. Chris inherited a famous name and was given the top job at his familys resort, where, over the years, chris cut jobs and cut employees hours to avoid giving them health insurance. So its no surprise chris opposes the minimum wage because he never had to work for anything. Chris sununu has no business being governor. I spent many years as a Nuclear Missile launch officer. If the president gave the order we had to launch the missiles, that would be it. I prayed that call would never come. [ radio chatter ] self control may be all that keeps these missiles from firing. [ sirens blearing ] i would bomb the [ beep] out of them. I want to be unpredictable. I love war. The thought of donald trump with Nuclear Weapons scares me to death. It should scare everyone. Adam today, the Supreme Court is hearing arguments from both samsung and apple over a longrunning patent dispute. Apple claims that all samsung phones sold within the past 10 years infringe the designs of apples iphone. This comes as samsung is warning customers to turn off their galaxy note 7 smartphones. Abcs Elizabeth Hur has more on the companys decision. Elizabeth if you own a samsung power down and stop using your phone immediately, even if you have the new replacement phone. I saw smoke and threw it on the floor. It started to smoke, sizzle, and burn. Elizabeth samsung making the decision after reports of at least five fires involving the replacement device. Look over, and my phones on fire. It popped, it sizzled, you could say even. I was scared. Elizabeth sam i is to stop sales and exchanges while the company investigates. But even before that call, all 4 major cellphone carriers announced they are suspending sales and exchanges of the new phone that was designed to be safer after the original note 7 was recalled last month following nearly 100 reported fires. This is a black eye for the recall system, and samsung needs to step up now and fix it. Elizabeth the tech giant says it is working with relevant regulatory bodies to investigate fully understand what is causing these problems. So if you have one of these phones, whether it is the original or the replacement, this is what you need to know when flying, the faa will allow you to carry it on, but you must keep it turned off. But right now, samsung is recommending you just take it back to your carrier and exchange it for a different device. Elizabeth hur, abc news, new york. Adam today, rescue efforts continue across eastern North Carolina as floodwaters brought on by Hurricane Matthew roll downstream. At least three rivers are forecast to reach record levels. Yesterday, teams rescued some 1500 residents who were trapped by flood waters. A Flash Flood Warning has now been issued for the area. North carolina suffered the most deaths in the u. S. From Hurricane Matthew. 11 people have died. In haiti, frustration is growing as some villages hit by Hurricane Matthew last week are still waiting for food, one and a half Million People in haiti need assistance, and the humanitarian agency has made an emergency appeal for 120 million. Doctors in brazil say new Health Problems are developing for many of the children with small heads from mothers infected with zika. Researchers are calling it congenital zika syndrome, with symptoms including swallowing problems, epileptic seizures, and vision and hearing trouble. Officials say they are also seeing many babies whose heads are normal at birth but stop growing months later. Kevin skarupa joining us now. We know fall is officially here, because the red sox are done playing. Kevin and my Texas Rangers were. , so guess we have that in common. I will table a warrant, coming up. Adam next on grow it green, well show you some of the varieties of apples, squash, and now to our ulocal hot shot. Heres a shot of todays beautiful sunrise over pearly pond in rindge. You can submit your pictures and video and join the thousands of ulocal members by logging onto ulocal. Wmur. Com. . . In medicare and Social Security. Here are the votes. She voted against protecting Social Security from the threat of privatization. And said shes open to raising the retirement age for Social Security. Look it up yourself. The fact is Kelly Ayottes supporting big, corporate special interests. Shes not working for us. Dscc is responsible for the content im frank guinta and i approve this message. Narrator New Hampshire has one of the worst opiate epidemics in the nation. K guinta is leading the charge to fight it. Erin canterbury when i met congressman guinta, it was like a breath of fresh air. He said to me what can i do . How can i help . Narrator frank guinta founded and chairs the Bipartisan Task force to combat the heroin epidemic. Canterbury frank guinta understands this is not a democratic issue nor a republican issue. Its a people issue. Hes willing to get in there and fight for us. Announcer now, meteorologist Kevin Skarupa with your storm watch nine forecast. Kevin it certainly was the coldest start of the season so far for many spots. The seacoast was just above the 30s. Temperatures dropping 36. Effectively, the growing season patchy frost with temperatures in the low to mid 30s. Beautiful call colors, with peak continuing in the northern and central areas of the state. A lot of sunshine out there across the bay area. We continue to see just a few high clouds between tomorrow today and tomorrow afternoon. We are still talking chilly conditions, but not quite to the we have been jumping live, x, 70 grays we have been jumping five to seven degrees every hour. A pretty impressive temperature climb. With that, temperatures warmer than yesterday. Near 25 degrees warmer than where we were at this time in that washington. Usually we warm up in the midlevels first, and then that eventually transfers to the rest of that is what we are seeing now. Mount washington was the warmest spot at 6 00 a. M. To our west, an abrupt change towards the midwest has an address in. Not so much as far showers, but there is a drastic temperature drop. Sunshine out there this afternoon. Bear skies into the evening. Just a couple of high clouds is all it takes to keep sunshine and fair skies, another beauty of a day with temperatures in the 60s statewide. Notice the onshore flow work its way through thursday and friday. A little drizzle possible, especially south of the white mountains. A break between that chance of drizzles and the shower activity later in the day. That is the difference between 60s this afternoon into thursday and temperatures dropping into the 50seh be in place towards the weekend, with highs in the 50s. Its like a temperatures we had out there this morning will likely play out again later friday night into early saturday. That means 20s to the low half of the 30s. I chance for frost also at the coast. There was a breeze friday to usher in the cooler air with highs in the 50s. We will be in the 50s with the cooler and brighter of the weekend days saturday. Green. We are at lowell farm in hollis. I am joined by Jeremy Delisle from the unh cooperative extension. No question it has been a rough year for farmers with the drought. Yet, i see some beautiful apples in front of me. So there are crops out there, right . Jeremy absolutely. The drought has been the challenge, but they have done a great job of bringing out an amazing crop. Still some really good fruit out there in amazing variety, especially at farms like here today in lowell. You can go through all of their different varieties. Ray so different apples for different purposes, obviously. Why do we not start over here . Jeremy sure. This is called the blue pearman tart flavor. This is a favor for cider makers. Ray next to it . Jeremy stayman winesap, considered an antique variety from the 1800s. It is considered a cooking apple. Has a firm flesh. This would be great in pies. Ray finally over here . Jeremy this is called esopus variety from 1800s. This was Thomas Jeffersons favorite apple. Ray so some history here. A crop that would take in a lot of water would be squashes. Smaller crop this year . Jeremy a smaller crop, but we do have some variety. From butternut acorn to things purposes. Some will do better for keeping than others. Ray and the acorn squash is great baked with the maple syrup. And if you would like to pick your own, we have a list here. Jeremy the takehome message is now is the time to it out there and help producers finish their season on a high note. Ray for todays grow it green. And that is it . Vo Small Businesses line main streets all over New Hampshire providing the products, services and jobs families depend on. Thats why, as governor, Maggie Hassan cut taxes for Small Businesses, to help our local economy grow. But kelly ayotte helps big corporations. She voted with outofstate corporates interests corporations get tax breaks and she takes the campaign cash. Kelly ayotte taking care of billionaires, hurting New Hampshire families. Senate majority pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. Narrator planned parenthood provides many kinds of healthcare. Woman i depend on planned parenthood for birth control. Woman i had my annual physical there. Woman the cancer screenings at planned parenthood are so important. Narrator still, chris sununu cast the deciding vote to eliminate state funding for planned parenthood. Chris sununu put partisan politics above Colin Van Ostern im Colin Van Ostern. I fought to restore funding for planned parenthood and got it done, because Womens Health care should always adam some massive pumpkins are tipping the scales in Northern California right now. A third grade teacher from Washington State is the big winner there with a gourd that , weighed in at 1,910 pounds. Though i do not think have won at deerfield fair this year. She won 6 a pound in prize money. So to call him a pretty big hatred. But there is a lot of buzz coming from belgium, where there is word of a pumpkin weighing 2,624 pounds, which would break the world record by about 400 pounds. I would like to grow one of those, but what would you do with it when you are done . Kevin pumpkin can sit very snugly in the back of a pickup truck . Least. Not quite as chilly tonight. There is one chance of showers early thursday, but cooler air with the weekend looking great. Adam falllike. Starting tonight at 5 00, one mother says clowns are not welcome at her house this halloween. Neighbors say her plan goes too far. And for all the teasing that pokemon go may have prompted, it may be good for you, after all. That does it for us. Have a great afternoon. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] im Maggie Hassan, and i approve this message. Nothing matters more than our security. Thats why i hired more state troopers. And strengthened plans for school safety. Support aggressive action to destroy isis. And put our security before my party opposing president obamas plan to close guantanamo. Narrator all while kelly ayotte supports reckless and dangerous donald trump. And ayotte skipped nearly half her Homeland SecurityCommittee Hearings on Border Security and drug trafficking. Old, i was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer on my spinal chord. But i spent my whole life fighting back. So you can imagine what i thought when i saw donald trump say. I dont know what i said, ah, i dont remember that reporter he is talking about suffers from a chronic condition that impairs movement of his arms. I dont want a president who makes fun of me. I want a president who inspires me, and thats not donald trump. During vietnam i served on an Aircraft Carrier in the gulf of tonkin. After i lost my job, i slept out here with other vets. You never think youll end up here, until you do. Annie kuster is working hard to get veterans off the streets with affordable housing. And shes helped connect vets with jobs so they can get back on track. That means a lot to me. And i want to say, thank you, annie. Now on celebrity page tv try keeping up with these stars. People under 13, really, come on, dont go to this movie. But over 13, go. Were taking you to the starstudded premiere of keeping up with the joneses. Jennifer lopez and marc anthony both working on a new album. It just happens to be the same one. The latest details on the exes heading into the studio together. Plus, some of your favorite star r irrational fears. I have a weird thing with teeth falling out. Well, not everyone thinks their worries are so farfetched. Your fears are very rational. Big stars, big hollywood, celebrity page tv starts right now. Welcome to celebrity page. Im Sonia Isabelle from the studio with all your entertainment news. Coming up, were sitting down with the stars two of new fall tv shows, Lethal Weapon and falling water