At the pumpkin festival. No one covers New Hampshire like we do. Now, wmur news 9 this morning. Amy good morning, New Hampshire, 6 00 on saturday, october 24th, im amy coveno. Well get to our top stories in a minutes. Chris, Chris Jarzynka is here with a look at the forecast. How is the forecast. Chris hi, amy, how are you . Great. Chris at least im not talking about the warmest day, its not balmy weather, its october, we expect weather like this. We have an area of High Pressure moving in and my knee jerk reaction would be to say its going to be bright and dry. Chilly in the 20s and low 30s. We have some clouds coming in right off the coast and these clouds are going to make things rather cloudy for southeastern areas of New Hampshire today. At the same time we have a batch of clouds moving in from the west. Theyre high and thin and thicken up, so its a squeeze play. Nice and dry, highs in the 40s and 50s and we have what patricia has in store for New Hampshire in minutes. Amy speaking of Hurricane Patricia. She continues to slam parts of mexico. The storm, which is one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded made landfall yesterday evening as a category 5 miles per hour. The hurricane is now weakened to a category 1. There are reports of mud and landslides, but no fatalities. Mexico transportation secretaries say theyre not letting their guard down yet. Patricia is moving over a mountainous region thats in danger of landslides, as well as flash flooding. A father in franklin is accused of holding his onemonthold baby hostage. Thinks were called to the home of carroll for domestic violence. They found carroll in the door holding his door and threatening to Stab Police Officers if they stepped on his property. They got him after a brief struggle. The department f of tobacco and fierm firearms, theyre tasked with heroin as well as misuse of alcohol. The state is expect today match or exceed the number this year. We have a profound problem with addiction in the state and it happens that a substantial of alcohol is still killing more people overall than heroin and other drugs. Amy the commission did decide to continue funding the states drug czar position. Right now, a grant is paying for that position. That runs out at the end of the year. Its not clear yet if current czar jack wozmack will keep the position. And Police Arrested 41yearold john murray thursday night on an outstanding warrant. When they took him in custody they say they found 8700 worth of suspected bath salts in his possession possession. Suspended Canterbury Police chief is acued of assaulting a 15yearold girl years ago. Hes now charged with seven felonies included six counts of aggravated felonious sex assaults between january of 1999 was 16 to 17 years old. Laroche was a bosscowan Police Officer at the time. In Canterbury Laroche is on paid administrative leave. We have to wait for the outcome of the process and this indictment is the next step in the progress. An indict is not a conviction. Well advise our citizenry. Amy laroche asked everyone not to make any judgments until the evidence is presented. The pumpkin festival gets underway in laconia this morning, the first time its held in laconia after riots broke out in the event in keene last year. Organizers say they are ready to move on. Stephanie woods has the story. Stephanie the pumpkin was lit up the first time in laconia. They want to wipe out what happened last year and carve out a new history. I want to talk about pumpkins, bring your pumpkins. Stephanie this is the first year the pumpkin festival will in the city and the chamber of commerce is pumped about the boon to business. Were so excited to have this event and everyone has really come together so im waiting for tomorrow to come. Organizer, is trying to break the 2013 record of 30,581 lit jack o lanterns. Lets get all of new england and show what its like when you put all of those pumpkins together Stephanie Keene city refused a permit after teens rioted on the festival campus leading to more than 120 arrests. Dont ever let the bad guys win, ever. Let it shine. Stephanie Laconia Police say theyre stationing 30 officers. Security. Weve always had a really good handle on that let it shine and the pumpkin festival management security. Stephanie she says the scarily thing will be the mill. Theyre giving the profits for the that organization. You can go pumpkin express, costume parade. It ends at 8 30 tonight. In laconia, stephanie woods, amy coming up on news 9 this morning, the victim of a frightening incident at Harvard University is speaking out. If youre afraid. If the situation tells you to run away from it, you need to. Amy how following her instincts two men took it too far in one welcome back. It is 6 10. You are looking at live video from colebrook where its a looking nice and quiet and it should be a pretty nice and quiet weather weekend. More on what patricia may have in store for New Hampshire this week in a few minutes. Amy right now, debris from the cargo ship that disappeared during Hurricane Joaquin is washing up in the bahamas. The search is on for el faros data recording. The recovery teams for the black box have only one week before it stops sending signals. 33 people, including americans were on the ship when it vanished. A campus alert on harvard involving a student. She says she was chased to her dorm and was able to lock the suspect out just in time. It happened at a harvard affiliated complex called holding green. The victim says she was taking her puppy out for a bathroom break. She saw a minivan pull up. And she did not want to be identified. I started to have a sick feeling and trusted my gut and walked back to my apartment. When i got to the building, i turned around and there was a man running full force at me. She says the man hit the door with his first and then drove off in the minivan. Theyre advised to walk in pairs. Some people take the golden state name literally. Two men came to the city of auburn and tried to go unnoticed, but a man heard them tapping the storm drain. And i thought who on earth would crawl into a storm drain looking for gold. Ive known about it for years, and ive even been down there. Have you ever found anything . Yeah, but i aint saying what. Amy the city manager says besides dangerous, this sort of digging is trespassing. The city hopes that the prospect of being arrested keeps future gold hunters above ground. Chris he found something, but hes not saying what. I guess we will leave is to our imagination. And the forecast looks pretty good. Amy really . Because my car said 20. Chris patience. Amy 6 13, chris will be back to and one company is keeping now, your storm watch 9 forecast. Chris im in for josh judge. So far this season, run, hide. The good news. The weather looks quiet. Showers, a cool day today, warmer one tomorrow. We have an area of High Pressure thats moving in overhead. Normally that means nice, clear skies and for the most part thats the case over the next hours and allowed temperatures to drop, 32 out at the coast, but we do have an airflow situation which ill talk about in a minute here. I dont know if you can see this very thin, but theres a line of low clouds hovering along the coastline and along the High Pressure, this is going to start to move the cloud bank in on cloudy. And at the same time, we have a bah much we have a batch off to the west. Theyll thicken ahead of an area of showers, mainly after midnight and after those showers moved through by 9 00 or 10 00 tomorrow morning, we have a warmer sunday afternoon in store and then our attention turns to the south from the remnants what was once is Hurricane Patricia. It will be coming later on wednesday to early on thursday. Today, crisp and dry. More clouds along the coastline in southeast New Hampshire. Highs in the 40s and 50s. Temperaturewise because the clouds will keep the temps cooler at the shore and most of the sun will be up north and that will get your temps into the 40s and upper 50s. Its around 50 and its pretty dry today, not terribly bright. Overnight tonight, its cloudy, not terribly cool though because the showers roll in from west to east. The clouds act like a thermal blanket keeping the temperatures from free falling like they did last night. There are showers off to the west and lows dropping to the upper 30s and mainly lower to mid 40s. Thats warmer than we were all day last sunday. Just to remind you and frame this thing. And then for tomorrow, not bad, i mean, not super bright, especially in the morning, showers kicking out of here by 10 00 in the morning. We get sun coming in from southwest to northeast, could be a few leftover showers up north in the 50s, but the rest of us in the upper 50s, lower 60s, thats not too bad. The morning showers give way to afternoon sun. Theres a cold front tomorrow evening and we get back to the 50s. Its late october after all, morning and there it is late on wednesday and into thursday, the remnants of patricia along with a regular old storm system are going to bring rain through here, after that rain pushes out we could easily get back into the mid and upper 60s before then cooling back off into the 50s for the tail end of the week. If youre trickortreating on the day, which would be next saturday. It doesnt look too bad. Its pretty average temperaturewise and milder than thats encouraging. Yeah. Thanks, chris. You may have seen our Granite State made series spotlighting local creations. This morning were looking at a small maine company, recycling boat sails into fashionable bags. Sea bags are putting 50 people to work and right now going pink with a special design. Maine to amsterdam to saudi arabia. Its something over the years, we love to write that check. Amy the cure bags sell through december in an effort to find a cure for breast cancer. They teamed up with the society and donated from every pink lobster bag they sell. Looking for something to do with the autumn apples . It today as Cooks Corners well show you a way to whip up a batch of delicious apple pancakes. A terrifying situation for a hes recov what better way to warm up on a chilly weekend than apple pancakes. To make some that are here. Thank you for having me. Take us through the recipe. I thought i saw one on cooks corner and savory. And this is apple season, if you have squishy ones, its a great time to use them up. I like to use the fuji and galas. You want them chopped up as finally as light shredded cheese, not talking big chunks. Took it in the microwave as you can see. Here i have got this in fact is king arthurs glutenfree, but ive made it with trader joes blend and including the original recipes for wheat flour. Basically any flour you like. This would be half a cup of any flour. Its got a bit of baking powder to give it a bit of a puff and i use trader joes cinnamon spice. And trader joes is so much cheaper than everywhere else. And i like to use this substitute. Pancakes . Plus, youre not getting the cholesterol and fat and works well. I wouldnt use it if it didnt taste good. And theres no milk in it. If you thought i forgot the milk. Its half a cup of egg, and half a cup of flour, easy to remember. This is Olive Oil Just in there. And these are the sweet ones, a little bit of sugar and obviously adjust the sugar depending on the family, but i also do with it fresh sage. Option, too hot now. Fresh sage and cooked onions so its great for breakfast tore dinner with meats and makes about ten in total. And this is just a heaped tablespoon scoop. And very, very quick because the apples are already cooked. With the small shavings. And theyre what are called silver dollar, theyre not like american pancakes, but theyre real good. Real good is glutenfree when you know what youre doing and thats what it comes down to. And some people with glutenfree, or not necessarily glutenfree, its taste. What is the having me show you how to do it. Ive written a column for National Celiac so thats an awful lot of recipes. But a vegetarian dish, next month its the pumpkin cheesecake i did on here a few weeks ago and left over ham rolls with vegetables and everything. I try from kid friendly to adult, and tiramisu. And i know what it should taste like. I do oneonone cooking classes with people and do a cooking class party and i dont want these to burn underneath. Looking good. They smell wonderful and ill be in north dakota speaking on glutenfree. And in boston talking gluten thank you very much for your. Jamie no one covers New Hampshire like we do. Now, wmur news 9 this morning. Amy good morning, im amy coveno. Were looking at portsmouth waiting on sunrise. 32 degrees in portsmouth right now. Here is a look at top stories on the half hour. Hurricane patricia continues to move across parts of mexico. The storm made landfall last night as a category 5. Its now downgraded for a category 1. And a shirtless robber held up mcdonalds at gun point. And it will not be cutting power to residential customers who paid their bill, but the moratorium will not hold for customers. First, lets check in with Chris Jarzynka in the Weather Center. You were talking earlier about how, im not advertising the coldest weather of the had temperatures in the 20s last week, but its not exactly warm out this morning, either. 21 right now in berlin from the Valley Hospital camera. Lets take a look at what its doing temperaturewise. We have some clouds trying to sneak in from the coast and the west and clear overnight and dip. We have the clouds working from the south and east, very, very difficult to see, but we have a line of clouds right along the coast line, and these will slowly start to sneak in thanks to a southeast wind today. At the same time we have some clouds coming in from the west, so its a squeeze play today and that means not super bright weather. Well call it partly sunny to be optimist optimistic, more clouds along the coastline and highs in the 40s and 50s. Milder weather as the clouds and associated showers work their way tomorrow and what Hurricane Patricia or the remnants thereof have in store for New Hampshire in a few minutes. One of the strongest earthquake hads ever recorded continues to bear down on mexico. Hurricane patricia made landfall yesterday evening as a category 5 hurricane, backing wind speeds, and no word of any fatalities, but authorities are warning that the storm still could cause deadly floods and mudslides as it continues to dump rain. And patricia is threatening texas. A flash flood water will be through parts of the lonestar state through tomorrow morning. Concord police are on the lookout for a shirtless robber who held up mcdonalds at gun point. Surveillance shows the pan on fisherville road wearing only an mask and what looks like water shoes. He there end to kill the cashier if she didnt hand over the cash drawer. Obviously, the weapon was seen and you can see that in several of the stills and some recognize that, its unusual that we would have a robbery involving a large weapon, you know, a rifle or a shotgun, its not typical and hoping it stands out in someones mind. Investigators say when the money. He grabbed the entire drawer and ran. The robber may have fled in a dark colored car. Anyone with information is asked to call the concord crime line. A man from hollis has been indicted on child pornography. David pelusi is accused, with parttime psychology professor azotea is charged. According to Court Documents, amy ventureini was collecting this year when she was actually employed as a real estate agency. And collected more than 120,000 of food stamps and medical berths she was not entitled to. A man is recovering of a terrifying fall at td garden in boston. George rose says he was the a the bruins versus flyers games and tshirts were tossed into the crowd between second and third period and he fell seven rows down. I reached out to my hand to catch the shirt and i dont know what happened at that time, whether i was pushed, tripped, shoved, or stumbled. Right wrist was caught between the two chairs, severely hurt the left shoulder, hit my mouth. Amy rose believes the rush for tshirts created a dangerous situation and he thinks they should no longer be thrown into the sands and says hes disappointed that no one from td garden called to check on him. He does, however, remain a loyal bruins fan. Eversource energy says through the winter it will not shut off electricity to residential customers who have not paid their bills, but that does not affect commercial customers who pay late. As wmurs kristin carosa shows, many are thrilling to cut off power if theyre not paid. The deposit request follows guidelines, but a Business Owners says he doesnt agree with the way the policy is being carried out. Alan has owned als auto service in laconia for more than two decades. For 21 years ive been here, never ever had the power shut buildings. He admits he paid his bill to eversource late at town, but eventually made his account currently, but hes been ordered to pay a 260 Security Deposit and if i dont pay it by the 29th or the 30th, from what i had theyre going to come out and shut my power off. He gave them permission to discuss the account with us. Hes received three disconnect notices in the past 12 months. For us its a minimum two disconnect notices before we would request a deposit from the customer. And a disconnect would be when they pay it more than 60 days past when it was issued. And theyre sent off four disconnect notices. Eversource says the deposits are eventually given back with interest after one to two years of ontime payments. He thinks the Security Deposit is unnecessary, especially for someone with a currently uptodate account, like his. You know, i might have been late a couple of times, whatever, but bottom line is, my bill is still paid. Ev