Sean good afternoon, everybody. I m sean mcdonald. We begin with that major water main break on brown avenue that shutdowns avril street in the queen city shut down several streets in the queen city. Wmur s Andy Hershberger is live. Andy this water main break is causing a variety of problems. First is the traffic castle. This is the intersection of town avenue and south beech street. You can see there is a big hole that have developed. They are trying to excavate it now. Traffic has been stopped coming southbound, going northbound, eastbound on south beech. This area is virtually shut down. Also on exit 293, exit 2 coming northbound side of 293. That rim has been closed so they can clean up some of the debris that washed down that direction. s second issue is that 700 several hundred people in this area are without water. A main burst this morning, and tens of thousands of gallons of water wash suede is intersection. The pavement buckled, the road was shut down, and crews began to try
Need, that means they need constant supervision. Reporter under this bill the state would prove half the funding for drug courts with the counties kicking in an equal match. Each court must show a working partnership with a Rehabilitation Center willing to help those in the system. Lawmakers who support this program say between the states general fund and the existing budget the money is there to fund the courts. The superior court in manchester would get a drug court under this plan, a city where Officials Say there were 101 overdoses last month, with 10 of them fatal. Even if it helps one person, but again its shrinking that pool of those who are suffering of addiction. So this is a right step in the right direction. Reporter supporters of this bill say that if it is fast tracked it could be on the governors desk by february with the first new courts opening sometime around april. Andy hershberger, wmur news 9. Election in derry, in fact it was so busy at the polls today theyve run o
Videos and then got a search warrant for szettellas house. Almost all of the evidence that they needed as far as clothing that he wore when he made the bipartisan threat to include even his shoes, his helmet was recovered. We recovered a black beebee gun that if you look at it, it almost looks like its a real pistol. Reporter additional charges are expected from salem including that robbery when the suspect wore a barack obama mask. Right now szettella is being held on 250,000 cash only bail. Heather hamel, wmur news 9. Josh a woman from windham is accused of driving the wrong way on the everett turnpike. Police say Chelsea Cormier was intoxicated when she drove north for nearly 16 miles in the southbound lane. Wmurs Kristen Carosa live from the bedford tolls, one of the locations that the woman alley reporter Authorities Say these types of driving offenses are extremely dangerous, especially someone driving under the influence. It happened around 1 00 a. M. This morning, the 24yearold
Cleared the coast in the last couple hours, still lingering light rain in the north country. In terms of flood watches, all of those have been dropped. We do have a Flood Warning for the Pemigewasset River. What about rain chances for the weekend, well take a look at this in a bit. Jennifer thank you. The heaviest rain arrived just as the morning commute got under way, causing several accidents, and at least one person died in a crash near exit 2 on interstate 89. There were several accidents in that area backing up traffic for quite a distance, and roads along the seacoast were also tricky today, especially when high tide arrived. Wmurs Jennifer Crompton is live tonight from hampton with more on that. Reporter we are here at Hampton Beach where things are quiet now, but that wasnt the case a few hours ago where from concern was between 1 00 and 3 00 when the astronomical high tide hit. The combination of that and the strong winds created lots of splashover along the coastline, especia
On the website the restaurant says it has stood the test of time including the great fires of portsmouth in the early 1800s. Sadly, today that narrative changed forever. Fire crews training on the river spotted smoke this morning, the exact same time the 911 call came in. Smoke was coming from the roof, the building has five stories and Officials Say the blaze that appears to have started on the first floor quickly traveled up the chimney and spread. Within an hour the fire went to four alarms, bringing crews from surrounding towns and maine. The mixed use building has apartments on the upper floor that were heavily damaged. Thankfully, no one was hurt. The guys were here quick, nay just come back from doing some training. We had two separate Water Supplies established quickly, we had access to the roof quickly, attack lines underneath the fire. And it was a remarkable job. Reporter investigators have determined the cause of this fire, they are not ready to release it just yet. When we