Like we do. Shelley republican president ial candidate donald trump picked up an endorsement in portsmouth tonight. The vote of support came just from the police union just days after he made controversial comments about barring muslims from entering the country. Good evening, i m shelley walcott. The room was packed to see trump and protestors waited outside. Wmur s stephanie woods was there and joins us live from portsmouth. Stephanie here at the sheraton portsmouth, executives of a new England Police union voted to support donald trump for president in 2016. He says he always has and always will support Police Officers and says he will sentence every cop killer to death. I m going to go crazy, right . Stephanie the new England Police Benevolent Association endorsed donald trump for president at a private rally thursday night. Endorsement a great honor. Trump says too many officers are killed in the line of duty. And if he becomes president he will sign an executive order. Anybody ki
Are saying it is not suspicious. Wmur s Kristen Carosa joins us now with reaction from neighboring businesses. Kristin many people walking by are stopping to take a look at the loss here on market street. As you can see the building which has been roped off with caution tape. Many are in disbelief that this has happened and the neighboring businesses say they are now concerned for the restaurants employees. Clean up inside the gas light has begun. A devastating fire tore through the well known restaurant in dowtown portsmouth wednesday. It sits on market street. Our first reaction was to make sure that everyone in here and over there was safe and unfortunately it does sound like there was a lot of damage so we help out, fed them while they were waiting to get their stuff kate boyle works at the portsmouth brewery, she calls the employees at the gas light family and feels for their loss. Thankfully everybody in here was was just fine and we weren t the fire began early this morning, jus
Turned over cash. Wmur s mike cronin has the story from franklin. Mike it s back to business as usual at the shop express, but the store clerk describes a scary situation last night when he says that a man pulled a knife on him. Muddasar bajwa was all smiles tuesday. He had no hesitation getting back behind the counter that he was robbed at on monday. Video surveillance captured a man taking out a knife. Seconds later he jumps over the counter opens the cash draw and knocks over items as he takes off with the money. He was asking me, can i have the money . So i said, what you mean, paper money . What are you looking for . I thought he was looking for some kind of paper. He said no, i want your money. So he said i m going to stab you if you don t give me the money. Then i run away from cash register. It happened around 6 00 monday night at the shop express in franklin. About 600 and ran away towards prospect street. Bajwa s cousin who owns the store says it was unusual. That does not us
I never watched it when it was actually on. Dvr. Right. Dvr. Yes, we still have time to catch up, and you know now that were getting back into our routine we have to get back into whatever we were watching, before the the summer started. So anyway, welcome back to reality, and boy is it muggy out there. 74 degrees. We have a little breeze with 8. 79 percent relative humidity. Sunrise doesnt happen new until 6 35 in the morning. Weve got in rain, on ultimate Doppler Radar and next cold front we will get is kind of stalled in the midwest, this off shore system doesnt look like anything we need to worry about. Let talk about visibility, yesterday, if you were with us this early, thanks, it was a holiday and we appreciate that. We did have some fog forming a couple hours in the the show maybe about 6 00 oclock, keep an eye on situation visability are fine, temperatures are 74 as we showed you in the city. Upper 60s in mount pocono and allentown. Mid 60s in lancaster. Seventyone Atlantic Ci
The fbi wont say what theyre looking for, but said this search could last for a few days. A u. S. Jury has found a former Oklahoma City officer guilty of rape. Prosecutors said Daniel Holtzclaw preyed on and assaulted 13 women while on the job. The 29yearold faces up to 200 years in prison when he is sentenced next month. The u. S. Army sergeant held captive by the taliban for five years says he saw himself as the fictional movie assassin jason bourne. Bowe bergdahl claims thats why he left his post back in 2009. The u. S. Traded taliban prisoners for bergdahls freedom, which outraged Many Americans at the time. Here is more now from cnns jake tapper. Reporter shortly after Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl left his post in afghanistan in 2009, he says the gravity of what he had done shocked him. 20 minutes out im going good grief, im in over my head. Suddenly this really starts to sink in that yeah, i really did something bad. Well, not bad. But i really did something serious. Reporter for