Erin good morning, New Hampshire. Place for joining us. Im erin fehlau. Sean good morning. Im sean mcdonald. It is very cold, and that means parts of the state will see snow. Kevin Northern Areas seeing several inches of accumulation. Central and southern areas, some beneficial rainfall, maybe over an inch. Roadways are quiet if you are headed out. Early sundering way to clouds. Rain developing east. In woman into temperatures that eventually get into the 40s. A lot of that for central and southern areas will be in the form of rain. That goes to snow overnight tonight. Much more in your forecast coming up, but lets look at your thursday morning drive here in the Granite State, were joined live by 95. 7 wzids deb davidson. Good morning, deb. Deb good morning. If you are starting on interstate 89, everything is no problems around the lebanon area. 93 southbound looks good from plymouth down to salem. In massachusetts right now, 93 is solid from methuen to bloomington. You can expect delays from 495 down to treble cove road. From the wv wzid cap eight network, i am deb davidson. Deb davidson. Erin while things are clear on the roads right now, conditions will likely be very different tonight, especially in the northern and western parts of the state, where snow is expected. Sean wmurs ray brewer is live at the department of transportation in concord this morning, where crews say they are ready for whatever weather arrives. Not even halloween yet, ray. Ray you may recall we got some snow for halloween before. We did get some snow over the weekend, but this could be the first Winter Driving conditions for a lot of people here in new allow yourself a little extra time and plenty of space between cars. The dot says they are ready to go. The trucks are all set. They have been stockpiling 172,000 pounds of salt to treat the 4600 miles of roads it is responsible for. They say this is a tricky time of year, as construction and basic road maintenance is still underway. And wintry weather in october creates its own sets of challenges. The big challenge this time drivers are aware of changing conditions. If its cold enough to snow, it is cold enough to for the ground to freeze, and for slippery type conditions. We all know that bridges freeze first, so people need to think that Winter Driving conditions are almost upon us. Ray Officials Say they are working every year to reduce the amount of salt that they use on the roads, while also rolling out new and improved technology to make sure roads are getting treated when conditions warrant. Three years, here in New Hampshire, the dot d. O. T. Says we could have Winter Driving conditions for almost six months of the year. Reporting live in concord, ray brewer, wmur news 9. Sean the weather is also creating new concerns for hikers, with snow and cold in the higher peaks. A hiker had to be rescued yesterday afternoon after running into blowing snow and cold temperatures on Mount Lafayette and losing the trail. Fish and game officers say conditions are already wintry on many trails in the White Mountains, and hiker prepare accordingly. New this morning, the red cross is helping seven people, including four children, after fire heavily damaged a home in epping. When firefighters arrived on blake road around 7 45, they found fire burning stairs and a porch on the outside of the home, with flames spreading into the kitchen and second floor. Officials say there is a lot of damage, but the home can be erin a man accused of shooting another man to death in manchester is due in court this morning to face a charge of Second Degree murder. 32yearold Billy Maldonado was arrested earlier this month in connecticut. He returned to New Hampshire yesterday after waiving extraition. Police say he shot 25yearold Jonathan Vazquez ojeda near the intersection of merrimack and beech streets back in september after the two had an argument. Police say they found a marijuana growing operation in auburn while trying to find a burglary suspect. Investigs to a home on wood hill drive yesterday afternoon after reports that a homeowner fired a gun during a confrontration with an intruder. Police searched the area, but never found the suspect. However, when they searched the home they seized several guns and marijuana that was growing in the basement. Investigators say charges are possible against the People Living in the home. Sean the elections are less than two weeks away, and the outcome of the president ial race could be largely decided by the results in a few key and those results depend on which candidate can get more people to the polls. Abcs Elizabeth Hur takes a closer look at the final push. Elizabeth with momentum on her side, Hillary Clinton is hoping for a strong victory, but despite trailing in most national polls, donald trump is rallying for a rebound and abcs political director says for good reason. Rick the calculation for donald trump is that there is a hidden vote. They dont talk to pollsters or thats the differencemaker. Elizabeth for both clinton and trump, the real test in these final days is getting out the votes in the battleground states. Rick battleground states are simply states that could go either way and there arent that many of them elizabeth like pennsylvania, ohio, north carolina, iowa, nevada, and florida, where abc news met voter after voter, still weighing their options i dont know. Quite it may be trunk. Hillary will win. Rick so even though you see a National Polling lead thats gotten wider for Hillary Clinton, you still have an opportunity because of the way the electoral map is situated. Elizabeth 270 electoral votes are needed to win the presidency. And based on the latest abc news state race ratings, clinton is now well above that mark. But experts say, polls aside, come election day, it all comes down to what happens in those few battleground states. Rick one or two or three points in a number of states, that could be the difference. Elizabeth states to watch are ohio, north carolina, florida, nevada, and pennsylvania. And right now, trump almost certainly needs to win them all. Elizabeth hur, abc news, new york. Sean and remember, our Granite State debates are next week, right here on wmur. They begin on tuesday, with the Gubernatorial Debate followed by the candidates for u. S. Senate and house. If youd like to submit a question that may be asked during our debates, head to the wmur Facebook Page right now, debate post. Erin frightened passengers broke windows to escape an orange line train in boston yesterday after a fire broke out on the rails. The train was getting ready to leave Back Bay Station when a motor overheated and sparked a trash fire, filling the train and platform with smoke. The doors to the train wouldnt open, so passengers took matters into their own hands and broke out. Quickly motor men made a cautious, and in my opinionpr doors. Folks would have jumped onto a live their drill. This happened so quickly and effectively. I am going home. I am safe. Erin a total of five people were treated for injuries but none are considered serious. Now t officials are trying to figure out why the motor overheated. A lot of people just did not know what was going on. Really scary. Sean they wanted to get off the train fast. Still to come on news 9 daybreak could contact lenses be the next big medical breakthrough . How doctors in boston want to use lenses in the future. The record numbers of eagles born in new england this summer. Sean in the next half hour the support now being rallied behind coaches in dover who were recently dismissed from the high kevin outside, temperatures everywhere from the upper 20s to lower 30s. Classic continuing to thicken and rainfall developing and west to east through the afternoon. In some western or Northern Areas, this may start as a little bit of snow. I will have the details and what to expect into the weekend, coming up. Sean treating eye diseases could soon be as easy as putting in a contact lens, thanks to doctors at boston childrens hospital. Medications directly into the eye for at least a month helping treat things like glaucoma possibly even dry eye. Doctors say it is a game changer because patients dont have to remember to take their medications. They have been working on the design for the last several years. And they hope to begin Clinical Trials with actual patients within the next year. Sean it appears this was a success news hunt in New Hampshire this year. Fish and game Officials Say a total of 52 hunters bagged a moose during the nineday the 72 success rate is up from last year. There is great news for the bald Eagle Population in northern new england. According to the New Hampshire audubon society, 51 eaglets were born in the Granite State this year, the highest number ever recorded. Another 34 survived in vermont, also a record. In all more than 300 bald eagles were spotted in New Hampshire this summer. If you have never seen one up close, they are huge. Erin and they are beautiful. Coming up, panic in italy. The damage caused as new aftershocks rattle an area already devastated by an earthquake. Sean plus, arbys is introducing a new menu option that it hopes will do especially well in areas where hunting is popular. When all three of these guys show up, they come up with some crazy ideas. Ocial security. She stood up to both parties to protect our benefits. Annies working to make sure we have a secure retirement. So i can worry about these guys instead. Thanks, annie. Im annie kuster and i approve this message. Robert kearney i fought for my country in kosovo and iraq, and ive been a republican all my life. But im the father of three girls. I cant stand hearing donald trump call women pigs, dogs, and bimbos. And i sure nt my girls to grow up proud and strong, in a nation where theyre valued and respected. Donald trumps america is not the country i fought for. So, im voting for Hillary Clinton. Hillary clinton sean officials in central italy are hoping to get a better sensh aftershocks. At least one town is reporting significant damage, with many in collapsed buildings, and thousands of people have been displaced. In Scientists Say these are actually aftershocks from the powerful quake back in august that killed nearly 300 people, but the good news is that no serious injuries have been reported with the latest shaking. A theme park in australia has now canceled plans to reopen this weekend after four people were killed on a water ride on tuesday, when a raft flipped into dreamland would interfere with their investigation. Dreamland has promised to do whatever it can to support the families of the victims and when the park does reopen, it plans to donate all proceeds from its first day to the red cross. Erin get ready to go offroading in a mercedes. For the first time, Mercedes Benz is showing off design plans for a luxury pickup truck. There are two versions of the xclass one for off road use the other is a high end luxury model. Both feature mof available on other mercedes vehicles. But for now, the trucks will only be available in other parts of the world, not the u. S. Online daily deals giant groupon is buying rival living social. Groupon says the sale price is so low that it is considered not material, both companies started about a decade ago changing the coupon business. The deal is expected to finalize next month. Microsoft is going 3d. The company is adding new tools to windows 10 next year, helping users create and share 3d microsoft is also introducting a new suface studio all in one touchscreen desktop computer hoping to compete with mac. The computer is targeted at creators like architects, artists, and engineers. Apple is expected to announce new editions and features for its mac lineup today. Sean fast food chain arbys claims that it has the meat and now that is going to include venison. The Company Plans to Start Testing a venison sandwich in certain markets by the end of the month, targeting areas where hunting is popular, though none here in new england. The sandwich features premium thick cut venison steak and crispy onions with a berry sauce on a toasted roll. Where it is. If you want some game meat on your sandwich, arbys will have one for you. Erin you have to do a road trip for it. Kevin not available in new england. We have fair skies overhead. Rainfall will be pushing in from the west. As this starts, or for an hour at the beginning, or even as it gets going, we may see a bit of snowflake activity mixed with rainfall. Highs will be up in the 40s. We will be navigating back into the upper 30s by late afternoon. It will be a trend of sunshine to clouds. That means the rainfall develops from west to east heavy rain for most, and that is the headline. We have been talking for six months about needed rainfall. This could be over an inch. A race on before the ground freezes for anyone who has a well to get water in there. We are looking for a mixture of rain and snow, or possibly all snow later tonight, depending on your elevation. A lot would be tonight or tomorrow morning in the North Country. The wind will pick up behind the system. That will be the air mass in place with fair skies into the overcast. Snow back to our west. That is going to bump into temperatures in the 40s this afternoon. That will be mostly rain. But it is cool enough that in elevation, it may start as snow before going over to rain. Temperatures right now in the 20s to lower 30s early this morning. Breeze out of the east and northeast is not going to allow temperatures to jump quickly. We go through the day with temperatures up in the low and mid 40s. 3 00 this afternoon. The cool air will slowly retreat into canada. Slowly somewhat milder temperatures for the weekend. The precipitation moves in west to east, late morning and afternoon. Then, mainly rainfall in the southern half of the state tonight. You notice in the North Country what develops late today could be a mixture with snow. A lot of this is going to be elevationdependent. But that will be confined to 3000 feet and above, or extreme Northern Areas of the state. That will wrap up as we go through the afternoon tomorrow, and set up a breezy afternoon. System moving in from the west, a couple of rain showers sometime later on saturday or saturday evening. Temperatures get into the 40s. We could be talking a light coating to a few inches of accumulation where most of us live, below 3000 feet. Yo could be looking at over six inches of accumulation of this. Wraps up with some wind tomorrow afternoon. Partly sunny skies for the weekend, and halloween looking good. Temperatures top around 50 and fall into the 40s. Not much wind for your trickortreaters. Erin six inches . Kevin we are talking about 4000 feet. Sean lets check our top stories. Speaking of weather heres ray , brewer. Hampshire could get some injury weather. If that happens, New Hampshire d. O. T. Says they are good to go. They have been stockpiling 172,000 pounds of salt to treat the 4600 miles of roads they are responsible for. Officials are working every year to reduce the amount of salt on the road, rolling out new and improved technology to make sure the roads are getting treated when conditions worsen. Sean a man accused of shooting another man to death in manchester last month is due in court this morning 32yearold Billy Maldonado was arrested in connecticut and returned to New Hampshire yesterday after waiving extraition. Police say they found a marijuana growing operation in auburn while trying to find a burglary suspect. Officers say a homeowner fired a gun during a confrontration with an intruder, but say they found drugs when they searched the basement. Erin coming up on daybreak narrator planned parenthood provides many kinds of healthcare. Woman i depend on planned parenthood for birth control. Woman i had my annual physical there. Woman the cancer screenings at planned parenthood are so important. Narrator still, chris sununu cast the deciding vote to eliminate state funding for planned parenthood. Chris sununu put partisan politics above Womens Health care. Colin van ostern im colin van ostern. Be above politics. Imagine if Hillary Clinton wins the white house. Then what . Liberal carol sheaporter . Shell be a rubber stamp for clintons agenda. Progressive Shawn Oconnor . Hell be a rubber stamp, too. And you know their agenda higher taxes. More government spending. And a weaker national defense. Only frank guinta will put New Hampshire first. Thats the key difference in this race. Im Frank Guinta Erin there is exciting news this morning for amputees. They could soon have feeling in their prosthetics. Sean can you believe that . Scientists at Case Western Reserve University say they have successfully used electrodes to help two men feel pressure in their artificial hand. That means they can tell the firm touch. For one man it meant he could hold his baby granddaughter for the first time without taking off his artificial hand. It is amazing what they can do with technology. Erin that is awesome. It really is. Lady gaga just hitched a ride with lat