A hearing is scheduled for later today. No one covers New Hampshire like we do. Now, wmur news 9 daybreak. Erin good morning, New Hampshire. I m erin fehlau. Sean hello. I m sean mcdonald. We are knocking on the door to february, but it continues to feel like march. Kevin we ve hesitated to call this the january thaw. We have not had a very cold air around a lot of very cold air around. Temperatures are much cooler. We are in the Single Digits up north. We are up to the 30 s to near 40 s today through midafternoon. Clouds start to increase ahead of the next system. Let s take a look at your thursday morning ride. Wzid s deb davidson. Good thursday morning. Deb good thursday morning, kevin. All major roads in the state of New Hampshire are moving well and up to speed. The only thing we do need to be careful of our the on and off ramps through the state due to the melting a lot of it froze during the overnight hours. Be careful and look out for black ice. No problems on 101 heading out t
Plus, running on empty, we meet the man who maxed out his credit cards to run in the most expensive mid term election in history. We begin this news hour with a developing story out of turkey and 24 suspected Illegal Migrants drown after a boat sank off the coast of istanbul and looking at waters north of the straits and thought to be carrying afghan migrants to romania and seven people have been rescued and updates as we get them. To yemen with widespread condemnation of the killing of a politician and he was shot dead in the capitol. He had been helping negotiate a peace deal between the rebels and the government. Family members say he was targeted by a gunman on a motorcycle. And we are live from the yemen capitol. Now, omar, he was a mediator in this Peace Agreement in the capitol. Where does this now leave the dea deal . Well, its anyones guess, but if you gauge the reaction from the different Political Parties as well as the president , you can sense that everybody is really worr
Chief washington correspondent peter cook as president obama sent congress a request for military force against the Islamic State. Peter, good afternoon. Good afternoon, mark. President obama today sending up a formal request for the use of military force. The draft language does not appear to satisfy all republicans, some who think it is too limiting, as well as some you may think it may still be too broad. Thread that needle and win enough of a resolution to actually clear. Now, lets walk you through. It authorizes the use of force for three years, and that means the president ial successor will also be bound by it. It authorizes against the Islamic State but allows the use of special Operations Forces and it ends the 2002 approval for iraq but it does not touch the 2001 approval after 9 11. There are no geographic limits. If the fight moves to lebanon the u. S. Could wage against the Islamic State there. The president rights to congress, i can think of no better way to support our n
Two huge holes in the roof. We have a live look outside now from our sutro camera. Rain not over yet. We did have sunshine today which was nice. Spencer christian with a look at the rain totals and live doppler 7 hd. Youre right, we do have sunny breaks right now. The rain has not completely left the bay area but as you can see on live doppler 7 hd, we only have Little Pockets of scattered showers at the moment. Lets focus on this one area of concentrated rainfall in the south bay, south of san jose, moving towards coyote and over some parts of the higher terrain away from most of the more densely populated areas. We have another little area of rainfall moving onshore down in the Santa Cruz Mountains but this is again, widely scattered, seems to be winding down and the circulation has shifted. Its all moving southeastward so theres not much in the way of rainfall moving directly towards the bay area. We still have a flood advisory in effect for virtually all of the bay area, expiring b
And delaware saturday morning with the wind thats going to make temperatures feel close to 1 degrees in the morning. The question is going to be where the rain snow line sets up. Well talk more about that coming up. He confess tds to using his state office to shake down campaign donors. Nbc 10 has more questions for him. You spoke to mccord again tonight. What did he have to say this time . Reporter he told us that the charges stem from an incident last year. He could not say what he did. He admitted to strong arming donors into giving him money. You say on video you threatened two people. I really want the statement to stand for itself. Just conversations where i made a bad mistake. Reporter it forced h edd him to make a statement his lawyer released earlier today. I stepped over the line by trying o the take advantage of the fact that two potential contributors hope to do business with the commonwealth. I said they should not risk making an enemy of the state treasurer. Clearly that