Now, wmur news 9 tonight. Shelley heroin is now the most important problem facing New Hampshire, according to a new it s the first time in eight haven good evening, i m shelley walcott. Close to half of New Hampshire residents say they personally know someone who has abused heroin in the last 5 years, that number jumping to 60 for residents 18 to 35yearsold. Some of those people came out tonight to a forum in derry. Wmur s Jennifer Crompton was there. Jennifer about 150 parents and educators showed up at the derry boys and girls club for an informative and very direct forum, called our children and the opiate crisis. i have to start by saying, before i came here, i stopped at the cemetery. Jennifer Straight Talk, about an issue now hitting at the heart of every community. I lost my oldest son peter ten months ago last weekend, to an overdose. Jennifer experts talked about gateway drugs and warning signs, but the emphasis was on awareness and education about an Opioid Crisis hitting all
No one covers New Hampshire like we do. Now, wmur news 9 this morning. Hampshire. 6 00 on sunday, october 11th. Im amy coveno, well get to the top stories, but first, josh judge is in the Weather Center with a look at the forecast. You came back. Josh you cant keep me away at least this weekend. Lets look at whats going on right now. Its calm, cloudy skies, 40s for most areas, 30s in areas farther north. Temperatures. Middle 30s, the clouds came in and stopped the temperature freefall. Its cold out there, but would have been colder if the clouds had not come in and thats where we stand right now, but we will see those temperatures rebound nicely once the clouds move on. There is is a look at the clouds, part of a weak disturbance, nice timing, moves through in the overnight hours and revealing plenty more sunshine to go. As we go through the second half of the weekend and the bonus time for columbus day, too, north to south, a pretty nice one out there. Breezy and sunshine today and ge
As i mentioned, we have a 180 site network in the commonwealth of virginia and with technology it doesnt have to be a traditional referra referral arh is than the western half of the commonwealth of virginia. Ibos who with her preponderance of sites in Far Southwest virginia primarily because thats, lisa we start that was a rural area and a lot of the Grant Funding and our legislative partners were in southwest virginia. We have sites in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay and on easteron theeastern shore of vis well. So technology while this is not about technology it is really important to choose technologies that are interoperable. That has been our Guiding Force is to choose things that work with one another. Plugandplay. There is a team of health alliance, equipment manufacturers that have pledged to great interoperable devices. We have desktop videoconferencing, mobile videoconferencing carts, fixed via conferencing and even ipad and other tablet devices. Weve use Robotic Technologi
And excitements we have to capture channel the future of our communities. To get people in school. Teach young people how to read. If we get people at grade level reading we will be strong. First learn to read and then lead to report read to learn. The person that reaches out learn so much more about the preconceived notions and how long they work. That makes us all better to be the mayor they say that poverty is an education. The strategy for violence is education. And i think intolerance you could say the same thing. Its education. I have to bring this to a close. Please join me in a flanking the panelist and i will turn it back over. Thank you for your kind introduction and for your wonderful leadership with sacramento and as Vice President the wonderful leadership in the United States conference of mayors. I wore a bulletproof vest on the walk to columbia which made it a little more difficult for. And when of the proudest moments in my life. Reverend price, my fellow mayors , citiz