Tom first tonight video of a , rescue you ll only see on news 9 capturing the moment First Responders plucked a woman from the frigid waters of the Merrimack River in manchester. Tonight she s recovering at a hospital. Good evening, i m tom griffith. Rescuers say she could not have survived much longer in the water. Our jean mackin witnessed the rescue and joins us live from the scene. Jean . Jean it happened right in the river by arms park. 911 received a call that a woman jumped in the river. First responders say they haven t confirmed yet if she jumped or fell. When we arrived they had just spotted her head bobbing in the water. It was a desperate race against time to reach a woman washing down the Merrimack River. Anyone see her . . Jean the first challenge, spot water. You can hear rescuers urge her to grab hold of a rope. Firefighters lowered ropes and a ladder for her to hold onto , buying an extra minute for the rescue boat to arrive. She was dressed in some dark clothes, and t
The river, flooding some homes. One house did have to be evacuated after four feet of water surrounded it. Authority tell us that another family did have to leave their home last night after water flooded almost to the second floor. We have a crew arriving on the scene and well be bringing you updates as soon as we get them. Franconia Emergency Services also will be giving us an update and well bring that to you as soon as we get it. Our up and down temperatures also creating some problems for ski areas. One had to be shut down because of the conditions out there. Wmurs Heather Hamel is live in lincoln tonight with more on that. Hi, heather. Reporter yes, one did need to be shut down, but up until the rain set in for the other ski resorts it really was a wonderful day to go skiing, maybe even a little too warm. We met up with a guy here at Loon Mountain who was wearing a vest, bare arms and all. Come without some challenges, here at loon they had to shut down two trails and the gondola
No one covers New Hampshire like we do. Now wmur news 9 daybreak. Erin good friday morning. Thank for starting your day with us. Im erin fehlau. Sean good morning. You made it through to friday. Unseasonal warmth. It is almost like april. This morning is back to normal. Kevin we are back to normal. We start another warming trend that gets us into the first half of next week. We start off with clearing skies after snow showers overnight. In the North Country, the snow showers will continue to hang on through late morning and early afternoon. Everyone is in on the brisk, westerly wind. They are going to make it feel ten degrees colder. It still hovering around. Well remain in the low and mid 30s in southern New Hampshire. Lets look at your morning ride here. In granite state. Were joined live by deb davidson. Good friday morning, deb. Route nine does remain closed in stoddard at this time. It is closed between wendy road and juniper hill road. Earlier they did take down a utility poll. C
Kawanza beaty s family waited 7 months to hear. 26;51 black lives don t matter 28;13 its still not justified to shoot him in the back of the head newport news commonwealth s attorney howard gwynn says the narcotics detective who shot beaty identified as detective gibson was justified in using deadly force. 12;37;39 the facts that we put out in this report aren t contradictory gwynn s Office Released the findings of their own independent investigation today. For the first time the report talks about a confidential witness who was in touch with detective gibson about a man armed with a sawed off shotgun in the Stuart Gardens area. According to the report when detective gibson went to the area he found the man who matched that description kawanza beaty. The report says beaty was also with another man emmanual dargan. The report says detective gibson along with the two officers he called for backup Master Police officer keller and Sergeant Sinclair all saw beaty walking with a stiff arm an
Week. Rubios stop tonight is just two days away from super tuesday and days after a rowdy cnn republican debate. Veering off the track of his Campaign Style thus far rubio was relentless in going after frontrunner donald trump. Including insulting his tweets. 07;08 i thought it was great i to do that according to a recent cnu poll rubio has the highest Approval Rating among all virginia voters at fortyfour percent. Hes the only candidate whos favorable rating among all voters is higher than his unfavorable rating. Still Donald Trump Holds a solid lead in the republican primary with rubio polling in second. 01;45 i can t really trust any of the other candidates at this point it s been a strange election 58;01 i really hope that rubio can win some States Ben Carson is scheduled to appear at Regent University on monday. And after winning the South Carolina democratic primary by a Wide Campaign office says she will be visiting Hampton Roads the same day. In Virginia Beach, kelly rule, news