Point it turned into a search and rescue. And we were able to find a victim, at this time the vital signs werent viable for life. Reporter the kayaker again is a woman, not sure of an age, but she is believed to be a resident of the lake. Her husband did come out to recover the body. Thats the scene from here, tom right now, route 101a is back open after a gas leak in merrimack around 2 00 today. A Construction Company hit an under ground gas line wild working on a former mcdonalds building. That leak lasted for about an hour, forcing authorities to shut down roads and temporarily have a shelter in place at nextdoor day care. But once the line was shut off todays weather helped the accumulates into buildings and stuff like that, so were worried about explosion hazards. One thing today, it was pretty windy so that helped out a lot actually. Tom no one was hurt and gas readings are back to normal. Jean this tree toppled on manchesters webster street. And ware has also had several trees come down, sparking small fires when the limbs fell o power lines. Were gotting reports of about 1700 Power Outages around the state. Lets check in with mike haddad. Mike still windy out there and those winds will continue through the midnight hour before gradually shutting down during the overnight stretch. Some of the top wind gusts today, Mount Washington as you might expect well up there, well into hurricane force. Manchester close to 50mile per hour winds and gusts during a couple times. Rochester topping off at 44, to 40 Miles Per Hour. In a gust early this afternoon. Still steady winds out of the west northwest, 10 to 25 Miles Per Hour, but the gusts still up between 30 and 40. The top wind atop Mount Washington just coming in now at 98 Miles Per Hour. Those winds also driving in much cooler air already 30s from the lakes region north and west, and only low 40s south. Matter of fact, cold enough for snow showers to be flying through parts of the great north when will they shut down and what follows for your saturday and sunday, well look at that straight ahead. Tom right now a brush fire burning at lynn woods reservation in lynn, massachusetts. Fighters say its too dark and dangerous the to fight the flames, so they are letting it burn right now. Dry and windy conditions are fueling that fire. But the wind didnt stop people from turning out to honor Granite State veterans today. Marched through manchester. In nashua, the muskets shot off and marching bands were joined by cub scouts and girl scouts as they marched from the stadium down main street past city hall. There was also a big turnout for the null service at the Veterans Cemetery in boscawen. Andy hershberger was there. Reporter there was music, prayer, and there was gratitude today at the Veterans Cemetery more than 6,000 servicemen and women have been laid to rest at the site that is dedicated to honoring the sacrifice of veterans and their families. The New HampshireArmy National guard band entertained the large crowd, as well as young men and women from the lakes region christian school. But the focus today was clearly on those who serve. Since 9 11, 3,000 members of the New HampshireNational Guard have served overseas fighting terror. Today officials also recognize the only constant for military families is constant change. They support us and sacrifice so we can protect our state and our country. Reporter governor Maggie Hassan also see today that we can honor our veterans by taking advantage of the freedoms that they fought for. Jean in washington d. C. , president obama honored members of the armed forces at article on the national we have that, and the changes being seen in veterans who are now returning to civilian life. Reporter marking the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month with parades and the president laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns. We owe you our thanks. We owe you our respect. And we owe you our freedom. Reporter honoring the more than 18 million members of the armed forces, like Staff Sergeant joey jones was a bomb tech tasked with disarming explosives. Until the day he stepped on an i. E. D. And lost both legs. Its so loud you dont hear anything, the cloud of dust is so thick you just see the color tan. My Immediate Reaction was to look down and see how much of my legs were left. Reporter jones is part of a new wave of men and women in uniform, about 200,000 vets each year, many who served in afghanistan and iraq returning to civilian life. In texas, one high School Working for months on a thank you celebration. Im a little surprised at how great it was this morning, i didnt really realize it until i got here. Reporter thanking veterans for their service. I feel better and better about it. I cant explain it. Reporter veterans day is often confused with memorial day. That holiday in may is set aside served in the armed forces. Jean wmurs partnering with a nonprofit organization, home base, for a veterans day telethon airing tonight from 7 00 to 9 00. This telethon raises money and awareness for programs that help veterans in our area. Josh mcelveen, a veteran himself, will be part of our effort to tell the stories of those who served tom democrats swept our States Senate and congressional races, members are taking a tough look at the partys future. After losing the president ial election. And as wmurs Siobhan Lopez reports from concord, the Granite State could play a big role in reshaping the Democratic National committee. Reporter ray buckley says hes involved in active conversations with people across the country about a run for a democratic coming spring. Elizabeth warren and Bernie Sanders are urging the party to embrace a more populus economic message. We sat down with buckley this afternoon who says if he decides to run, heel bring his experience working at the local level. Reporter i think that people i think that people unrs one, in the states and the communities, not whats going on in washington d. C. And that for too long weve allowed the washington d. C. Insiders really kind of control the national committee. Reporter buckley would add to a growing list of people who have expressed interest in running, including former vermont governor howard dean, and former president ial candidate martin omalley. Buckley says he could have his donald trump is making a change at the top of his Transition Team. Chris christie had been handing the early on. Reporter Vice President elect mike pence will lead Donald TrumpsTransition Team from now on. Trump says pence will bill on the initial work done by former chair Chris Christie. 10 weeks until i donald trump works on his transition from businessman to commander in chief. Theres no roe map partly because weve her in a candidate like donald trump before with no government experience or no military experience. So we dont know what to expect from him. Reporter the morning the president elect tweeted busy dan planned in new york, will soon be making very important decisions on the people who will be running our government. Trumps camp later announced mike pence will share the Transition Team with Chris Christie serving as vice chair. Also on the list, former new donald has been my friend for 28 years, all my work on behalf of him has been out of great loyalty and friendship to him. Reporter on thursday trump met with president obama, House Speaker ryan and majority leader mcconnell who see hes confident a Trump Administration will get off to a good start. We had a good discussion about things that were going to be pursuing in congress. Reporter our political analyst says how much hell manage or im sure hell be trying to figure out what he can keep his hands on, what he has to delegate. Its a big task for anybody. Reporter in a statement, president elect trump says his team will begin the urgent task of rebuilding the nation, specifically jobs, security and opportunity. In washington, aixa diaz, wmur news 9. Jean one Granite Staters knows a thing or two about transitioning to a new administration. Former governor sununu about getting president george h. W. Bush settled into the white house. Tom seven state races in tuesdays election will be recounted. This coming wednesday had be the recount for the state senate seat in district 7 and state representatives in belknap county, district 4, and merrimack County District 3. The next day teams will recount the state rep races in hillsboro County District 19 and sphrat ford County District 25. Recounts for state reps from district been scheduled. Jean how about this, we made it to friday. Live pictures looking over i93 in windham tonight. Tom peggy james joins us live with a look at the evening commute. Hi, peggy. Hi, tom and jean. Most of the issues weve had on this friday have to do with the wind and limbs falling down and route 77 in ware still closed for that reason. Coming up on 93 busy but moving well through windham. A little slowdown through londonderry. 2939 in manchester its all good top to bottom. Getting by the hooksett tolls youre cruising along just fine. Good looking up to concord as well and points north. 101 west not too bad getting through bed information today and the everett turnpike we did get word of a crash on the southbound side in merrimack by mile marker 15. 8. Dont see a big backup here, its everything is good on 101 from manchester to hamp son, and a pretty easy ride on the spaulding turnpike. From the wzid traffic network, im peggy james. Jean thanks. Coming up, more president ial protests planned, whats expected as we could head into another night of unrest over the results of tuesdays election. Tom a bald eagle recovering tonight after getting stuck in a mike a chilly start tomorrow, with highs only in the 40s in many spots. If we see any warmup by sunday. Jean at 5 30, the changing face of New Hampshires drug crisis, and how long it could take to break free. This is a problem that took a long time to build and is going to take a long time to solve. Tom and at 6 00 behind the scenes of a president ial transition, we talk to the former Granite State governor who onc process. Theres really six positions that theyve got to come to a afoot and lighthearted i take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. The east and the west are mine. The north and the south are mine. Jean we salute our veterans today, on a day that began as armistice day, a tribute to veterans of world war i. Other allied countries still honor veterans on their remembrance day, from ceremonies across europe to the memorial tom a group of students in burlington, vermont are protesting president elect donald trump. A university of vermont student organized the protest after she says her friends expressed concerns about a Trump Presidency on facebook. Students are Holding Signs in the citys park. The protest has been peaceful. They are also planning to hold a vigil tonight at 7 00. In oregon, protests against donald trump turned violent. Protesters spray painted buildings with antitrump messages. One person ran through a car Portland Police say the crowd threw things at officers and smashed windows in businesses. Officers arrested 26 people. Cleanup under way in new orleans after antitrump protesters spray painted a statue of robert e. Lee. About 400 people took to the streets shattering windows and spray patrioting. Today city workers cleaned up the graffiti. Tonight they say they are prepared if there are more problems. Story we brought you last night, the bald eagles stuck together in that storm drain in orlando. Wildlife experts now say these two bald eagles started fighting in the air and locked together as they can do in a fight. They fell to the ground together, becoming stuck in the drain. Official has to reach into the drain to free one of the birds. The other bald eagle flew away. It was exciting because thats an amazing animal, thats our countrys bird. We need to keep it cared for at an audubon center. The supervisor says it will take a few weeks for the eeg tomorrow recover and then it will be released back into the wild. Tom right now a brush fire is burning at lynn woods reservation in lynn, meation. Firefighters say its too dark and dangerous to fight these flames so they are letting it burn. Dry and windy conditions are fueling that fire. Mike those gusty winds out there today, no doubt about take a look at the time lapse photos at newfound lake. You notice that rainbow . There it is right over newfound lake. We did have a couple sprinkles and showers drifting through with the sun poking through in spots. Right now clouds, some breaks, gusty winds still a factor, topping off close to 50 Miles Per Hour earlier this afternoon. Quite busy as we go through the evening. Up until about 10, 11, maybe midnight tonight we could see some gusts very close to the upper 20s and lower to mid 30s out there. Beyond that well start to see the winds shutting down to about 5 ato 15 later on tonight. Thats where we stand early tomorrow morning. As we go through saturday its a little breezy, 10, 15, maybe 0mile per hour gusts, but that should be about it. Department compared to where we were for today and even right now. We started to see temperatures jumping, low to mid 50s, 56 for a high in concord, another day with above normal temperatures, but a lot of cool air is beginning to bill in, so were already down to the mid 30s in the great north woods, above berlin, whitefield to 36, upper 30s in plymouth and laconia, and only 40s elsewhere. Take a look at the wintery temperature of 12 atop mount for snow, and there are some snow showers flying across a good part of the White Mountain and president ial range, you get into the great north woods as well, scattered about Dixville Notch down through berlin, scattered snow showers in and out of that area for the next three, four hours, then theyll diminish overnight tonight. Well see partial clearing north, gradual clearing elsewhere, temperatures bottom out in the 20s to around 30. Very close to the average for this time of year, and at least for the first half of the weekend and even into early on Eastern Canada builds on in in our direction. So temperatures will be running slightly below the average. But very close to the norm as we go into saturday, with fair skies upstream taking over for not only tomorrow but right on into sunday, so heres a look at the map on future cast for your saturday, sunshine statewide. Could be a few patchy clouds in the mountains, then fair skies tomorrow night with a few scattered clouds and back to full sunshine in many spots as we go into the day on sunday. How about the highs, a little lower than we had central. Upper 40s to around 50 south. Beyond that we have more sun and slightly milder on sunday. Even warmer on monday, some parts of southern New Hampshire up to around 60 degrees. Then we get our next wet weather maker potentially moving in as we go through tuesday afternoon and especially into early wednesday, and once that clears it should be mainly dry with a few flakes of snow in the mountains. Now, remember last winter we had influenced our weather patent for the long rain. This time arnell known why is gone, but we have Something Else to talk about and hale lee is here with an outlook on that. Hayley exactly, were talking with about the opposite of el nino, la known yeah. It has officially begun in some parts of the world where it happens typically, right along the equator in the southern part of the Pacific Ocean. Heres the definition of la nina. It is rain along the equator in the eastern Pacific Ocean and its a cooling of the ocean water. In that black box there you see some blue color, thats the sea surface temperatures and thats where were sealing cooling temperatures. Im going to compare that to last year at this time and look at all that red. Thats a very strong el nino. Last year we had a report strong expected to be as strong as its counterpart last year, so likely well have minimal impacts in the northeast from that. But that does not mean we won have a wild winter, that is still a possibility. So what were telling you here is la nina will not have a big impact here, but it latest for other parts of the country. Well have more on the forecast coming up in the next some crowded ski slopes this winter, what tourists officials are predicting for the big season ahead. Jean skiers, listen u mountain will be open one week from today. This will be the resorts 50th season. You can see they have the snow guns going, to make sure everything is powder perfect coming up next weekend. New hampshire is expecting a 6 increase in tourism this winter. Tom thats the word from tourism officials who say the 8. 2 Million People expected to visit our state will spend more than a billion dollars. Travel and tourism is New Hampshires second largest industry. Jean ready for all the winter sisters,