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Texas this morning. No one covers New Hampshire like we do. Now, wmur news 9 this morning. Amy good morning, New Hampshire. 6 00 on sunday, october 25th, im amy coveno. Well get to the top stories, we talked Chris Jarzynka into coming back. Chris hi, amy, 44 degrees. Hey, there was a car it was pretty quiet yesterday this time of the morning. Temperatures in the 40s and already 50s in portsmouth. Needless to say its going to be warmer almost by default. We have some rain moving on through and some of that is steadiest and heaviest in places like keene through the lower and upper connecticut valley. We had a batch of heavier precip, down through epsom in route 4 and moving through the lincoln plymouth area at the moment and off to the north, heavier rain through the connecticut lakes. Thats moving out this morning, temperatures. How long they last on your storm minutes. The strongest hurricane ever recorded in the western hemisphere hemisphere, thousands of tourists had to seek shelter, are breathing a sigh of relief. And overnight strong winds and rain took a heavy toll on buildings there, tearing down fences and tearing up roofs and showering the streets with debris. It started to shake and all you saw was a whirl wind of trash the. And texas official were anticipating a foot of rainfall and yesterdays records were broken in dallas and san antonio. A Freight Train derailed, a crew members to safety. We do have a quick traffic note if youre headed out on the highway, youre at the scene of a crash in windham. The left lane of the northbound side of the highway is closed there south of exit 3. Right now, not clear how serious the injuries may be, but emergency crews have been on scene for more than an hour and a half now. An annual halloween tradition lighting up in laconia for the first time. Last year the riots broke out at the keene pumpkin festival and organizers are ready to carve out another history. It didnt break the world record, but doesnt take away how great it was. The first ever laconia pumpkin festival took over saturday and thousands came out to be a part of it armed with their own carved pumpkins. Its cool seeing the different designs on the pumpkin. Its an event to bring people about halloweenments. I like going around in my costume and scaring the socks off of people. The event was organized we started a pumpkin festival to bring the Community Celebration throughout the year. Keene decided not to have the pumpkin festival this year because of riots that took place near the festival in a neighborhood near keene state college. Its nice that laconia grabbed it from keene and ties laconia. The event had food, rides, entertainment and this, a massive tower in the middle of Veterans Square which shined bright once the sun went down. Seeing the pumpkins and how amazing. Event aimed to beat the world record for carved and lit pumpkins that didnt happen, but people together. Its the first time the to do something this big and to have it be the first time we did job. And organizers say theres a bright side to know the beating the world record. Theres a great thing about 10,000 pumpkins, you cant believe how easier thats to clean up than 30,000 pumpkins, so theres a silver lining. Now that its over, organizers are looking ahead to next year. Its a joyful, wonderful thing thats going to carry on. Organizers say they feel fortunate the event was able to be carried on here in laconia and hoping to have it near once again next year. Reporting in laconia, kristen carosa. Amy congratulations to the organizers and attempted to break the world record set in keene in 2013 and over 30,000 jackolaterns, this year 9,567. Looked great. Eight people are waking up without a home after a multifamily fire in portsmouth. This happened on cutts street. Firefighters battled heavy flames on the third floor of the building. Officials say the fire extended to the attic. One person was taken to the hospital and officials are trying to determine what started it. A Fire Investigation also underway in nashua after a plays began Early Saturday Morning in the garage of a home and lawndale avenue. A second unit was brought in and heavily damaged the garage area were damaged as well. Thankfully, no injuries were reported. A massachusetts shooting now a Murder Investigation. Right now, the victims niece a former Boston Police Department Employee is facing a homicide charge. Police say 36yearold yvonne she used to work for the police department, but however was not an officer. More than 60 people walked to end the heroin epidemic this weekend in nashua. Neighbors and city leaders walked from greeley park and back. And organized by a woman who was part of a similar event in manchester. She says that people needs to face the heroin addiction crisis head on. And i hope by this Time Next Year we wont need to do this, thats why im here standing for community. Organizers held a donation bake sale to help people fighting who need treatment. Wmur broadcast a special town hall focusing on the epidemic on thursday, sharing ways to battle opioid use. And we heard about the Treatment Program considered so successful. Fewer than 20 of inmates who take part return. And federal agents are trying to stop it and stereo types. Theres no face of addiction. Awning what addiction is and how people are pulled into addiction. Amy licensing restrictions are eased in order to open up more Treatment Facilities around the state as well as offering Tuition Assistance to people profession. A candlelight vigil is at the commons to remember spaulding. She was staying at rivera hotel and organizers are focusing not on what killed tarmey, but multiple people are dead in oklahoma. The queen of tec if you think storm damage is the only cost of climate change, think again. From the rising price of food to higher insurance rates for homes and businesses, the economic damage but with americanmade we can save money and spur innovation to create it all starts welcome back, folks. 6 11. Youre looking live at route 3 and 25 in a rather wet meredith. How much sun we get later today with your extended forecast in just a few minutes. You just dont expect this on a happy day on a parade. Amy the death toll in the Oklahoma State homecoming parade at 4. A twoyearold boy was the fourth person to die in the hospital there. At least 44 other people were injured, the driver you saw her there. 25yearold adaisha chambers in custody on a dui charge. Investigator are awaiting blood tests to determine if she was impaired by drugs or alcohol. The man who carried out the colorado theater shootings was attacked in prison. A man lunged at him and a Security Officer was hit and the other inmate will be disciplined. Holmes is allowed to spend four hours a day in a day hall. No others are in his cell block. Hes serving a life sentence without parole the maureen ohara, miracle of 34th street age 95. She appreciated people from all walks of life and especially children and when they recognized her from miracle on she was known as the queen of tech color because her bright red hair and bright green eyes popped on screen. Find out what made this history. Brace are self because the budget. Live look at know you, your storm watch 9 forecast. Chris good morning, folks, in for josh once again this morning for one last weekend with you all and well, its kind of cloudy all right now, but its not terribly cool. Thanks for the clouds acting like a thermal blanket. We have some rain under the clouds, too. Look at the temps. 40s to near 50s. Its going to be a milder day today because of the milder start. We technically have a cold front moving through, but with that residual warm air, it will feel pretty mild during the day today. Here are the showers rolling through the state. Theyre zipping through here and the back edge of the clouds are starting to move through central and western new york state and should be moving through here by the afternoon. The showers are out of here by mid morning. Afternoon clearing and there will be a a few residual showers in the mountains. Tomorrow and tuesday will be cool and then our attention focuses to the south because we have the remains of what was once Hurricane Patricia. These remains come through New Hampshire Late Wednesday afternoon and wednesday night and early on thursday, could be quite a bit of rain and wind though not Hurricane Force wind. The showers give way to sunshine. Breezy, up to 62 degrees, a fair degree warmer than yesterday. Manchester close to that at the coast. Rochester coolest weather, not shockingly so, in and around the white mountains, clouds and rain day. Youll see some sun, too. Overnight tonight, cooling off again, clearing north. And lows dropping into the 20s and 30s. It is late october, after all. Its not the coldest weve seen, but cooler than tonight was, temperatures in the 30s south. And for the day on monday to start off the work week for many of us, it will be noticeably cooler. Mid to upper 40s from north to central. Lower 50s in central New Hampshire. Horizon to horizon sunshine with the daylight showers getting shorter, thats not too shabby. Your next five days, featuring that milder day today. It does cool off tonight. Tomorrow is cooler, but its nice and bright. In fact, plenty of sunshine. A chilly start on Tuesday Morning as well. And another bright and cool day on tuesday, some high clouds filtering that sunshine late in the day and then thats when we turn our attention to the remains of patricia along with a storm digging from the south. Its initially going to our west, thats the initial focus. Mid to late morning sunshine and then the clouds pile in with mid to Late Afternoon rain coming in from south to north. It rains like anything with a lot of wind here and could be an inch or two of rain, not the five to ten inches, with enough tropical air, mid to upper 70s, making a run on thursday. And then reality as we round off the month with a cooler friday and saturday although dry for trickortreating if you do that on the actual day on saturday. Amy were talking, we fall back next weekend. Chris we fall back and then it gets really dark really early. Amy if youve ever dreamed of owning a mansion steeped in history, this could be your big chance. Market. The price tag staggeringly low. Whoever buys it may need more than a moving van. Wmurs adam sexton has that part of the story. A piece of New Hampshire history is now on the open market. The former George B Chandler home in manchester, an ornate queen victorian features nearly 10,000 square feet of living surface, unheard of in modern construction. The original owner and builder a ran the mill in the 1800s and the property was later donated to the dioces of manchester and for a good part of the 20th century, theres a chapel in one of the front rooms. When the bishop moved out, then a convent moved in. Its more than 600,000, for the list price the owner was willing to go lower, its shocking 29, 900. Greg says theres one catch, once you buy this home, you cant keep it here. The entire structure must be moved to a new location to make way for a parking lot which will give the aging parish next door easier access to worship. Its a difficult situation, but the church is attempting to be sensitive to the historical home. Moving could be, 200,000. Once the listing went up around the country and if the price is right one of the most architecturely significant pieces of equipment could be moved. Amy to make way for a parking lot. Coming up next on news 9 this morning, theres a new character on her way to sesame street. What makes her different than the rest of the muppet gang . In our next half hour, tragedy at a College Homecoming parade but investigators nee a little boy reunited with his beloved teddy bear, thanks to a special search and rescue mission. Matthew white received an unusual call. The mother after fiveyearold boy from in minnesota lost his teddy bear somewhere along a highway in indiana. The bear belonged to the mother. When he went to the area, they found it. A lot of the falls we get, we never know what to expect. This one you have a chance to make a Huge Positive impact on someone, the kid will probably never forget the story. Amy the bear is making the 500 mile journey back to his rightful owner. Elmo is getting a new friend, julia, the first muppet with autism. Creators say they hope julia will understand among parents and children. John donovan has more. The street, yes, this street, is getting this new face, julia, with hair of orange, eyes of green, and what you cannot see right off, with autism. She has some behavior, not looking at you directly in the eye. Shes a little more sensitive to noises and light, but when she comes together with happy and elmo, she shares not only these challenges, but what she shares in common. Introducing julia, a girl with autism, who can speak, and not all can, into digital programming and into the story book, were amazing 1, 2, 3 is well in keeping with the tv shows mission. New on the street, but a lot of kids have always loved to watch. The sesame Street Campaign is helping them see that theyre not alone and for kids that dont have autism and their family, they are learning about what autism is and how kids with autism are not that dissimilar to themselves. Which is important because sad to say, bullying is so common. Kids on the autism spectrum get bullied five times more often. So its really important that we have characters like julia so children can learn to be accepting and understanding of one another. Sesame street picked girls, since theyre outnumbered by boys and often get less attention. This muppet may help change that, if she does, a few years from now, well think of julia, the girl with autism, as just plain julia. Part of the gang. Abc news, washington. Amy the most recent report by the c. D. C. Says one in 68 children has an autism spectrum disorder. Sesame street is using see amazing, to keep the conversation about autism going. Here is a look whats coming up in our next half hour of news 9 this morning. A car crashes into a crowd at a homecoming parade, killing four, including a toddler. The investigation into a driver this morning. Guess whos coming to the Granite State this week . Colebrook. No one covers New Hampshire like we do. Now, wmur news 9 this morning. Amy good morning, its 6 30, im amy coveno. We begin with a live look along the seacoast. Portsmouth 50 degrees at this hour, a good bit warmer than yesterday at this time. Here is look at top stories on the half hour. The death toll in the Oklahoma State homecoming parade has risen to four. 44 people were injured, four people killed. Adacia chambers is in charged. This is the first time the pumpkin festival was held in laconia. They tried to break a world record for the most jack o lan chlt lan lan terns lit, they were not success. The man who robbed mcdonalds, if you have any information, contact police. The scene in stillwater, Oklahoma Oklahoma oklahoma turned somber. A disaster separation. The oklahoma annual parade turned as a car plowed into the crowd. We need extra help. Settlewater firefighters and e. M. S. Who came to celebrate immediately immediately immediately went into action. At least ten on red. Taking the critically wounded at the hospital. Three people never made it off the scene, killed in the impact. The driver of the car was arrested at this point for driving under the influence. Her name is adacia avery chambers, currently in jail here at the police department. Police say the 25yearold woman behind the wheel was driving this hyundai allantra, the hood crumpled. She first hit an unmanned motorcycle and then careened into the spectators. Tragedy and our hearts and prayers are with the families. As Police Investigate they decided that the Football Game should go on. The cowboy family pulls together and unfortunately, weve had to do it before and well do it again. Devin dwyer, washington. Amy hurricane pressure sha has fallen apart. Explained. If this was the strongest storm on record, why didnt it cause widespread wind damage and so em a im rolling back the clock and you can see where the eye of the storm is as it kind of rolled on shore and thats where it made landfall, not only why it weakened so quickly, but the bigger question, why it didnt do much damage. It moved into an area that wasnt populated and just like a skater, you know, a figure skater pulls her or his arms in to spin around quicker, the actual scope of the hurricane winds were small, indicated by that very small area there. As a result, once the storm moved over land, it lost all of its energy and kind of spun out spinning down. So, even though the wind now and the rain covers a much larger area into texas, that windfield is significantly weakened. By the way, that wind and rain field comes here for later on in the week. So much now for the storm forecast in a few minutes. Concord police are looking for the shirtless robber. Surveillance shows the man walking into the restaurant on fisherville road shortly before 1 being on friday morning, wearing only a mask, shorts, what appear to be water shoes. Cashier. If you have any information, police. And worcester airport is under investigation. A 66yearold connecticut man died when his small plane crashed just after 8 00 saturday morning. Right after it crashed into wooded area. Board. Commitment 2016, the Iowa Caucuses are less than a hundred days away. The three remaining candidates were there to mark the occasion and rally voter support. Former president bill clinton introduced pop singer katy perry, who treated supporters to a concert. And meanwhile, Bernie Sanders went on a bridge over the river. You need to roar for what you need to fight for candidates attended the democratic partys annual Jefferson Jackson dinner where all three contenders spoke to a crowd of more than 6,000. On monday, donald trump returns to the Granite State. He will host a town hall at atkinson at 7 a. M. You can follow all of the president ial candidates on our click on the candidate tracker. The laconia pumpkin festival continues today. Here is a picture from news 9 of don nelson dressed up for the festive occasion. There were a number much jack jackolaterns there, were there enough to break the record . Well find out. And how far can you launch a pumpkin. In the sky for a pumpkin chucking contest, teams continue from 9 00 until 4 00. The walking dead took over the queen city, it kicked off at the Brady Sullivan plaza. Hundreds lurched and limped downtown. Good costume there. People nationwide are coming together to raise money for pancreatic research. Its the fourth year for the purple light event. Its not too late to register. Well have a chance to call off the names of survivors for a rare, but deadly form of cancer. We hope you stay with us. Coming up next, the longest active wind streak in local High School Football is no longer with windham. See how it happened. Well, after a rather drap drab saturday. Well see more in your forecast. There are two reports out on New Hampshire economy saying job and the country and also a b welcome to New Hampshires business. Im fred kocher. One of the pillars of the economy are jobs. Hampshire is lagging in the growth of jobs. Were going to talk about that with my two guests who wrote the reports. Dennis, welcome from the center for Public Policy in New Hampshire. He is the senior economist there. Nice to have you. Good morning. And charlie arling house, good to have you. Great to be here. You two guys agree there is a lag . I think we do, yeah. Even though your reports phrase it a little differently. Charlie, you say were lagging behind massachusetts and thats different than in the past when New Hampshire really has led the region of new england in economic recovery from a recession. So, just whats your report really say . Our thought has always been that New Hampshire is an economic engine and boston is sort of this difficult backwater and thats reversed itself. When we found out we were one of the ten worst states in the country in job growth postrecession we decided to compare ourselves to massachusetts and massachusetts is growing a lot faster than we are, post recession. If we had matched their growth which is almost the rate of ours wed have 27,000 more jobs than we do. We use it as a jumping off point, is New Hampshire as competitive as it used to be and i think the answer is no. Dennis, your report came out and you and the new england economic partnership, which our viewers, it tracks all of the economies in the six states, you were slightly bullish. Youre saying that, yes, theres a lag and 2016 is going to be a good year. First of all, i dont agree with a lot of the things that charlie said we have lagged behind massachusetts. I think a lot of the reasons for that are the mix of jobs and industries that we have here in New Hampshire relative to massachusetts. A lot of the recovery came in in health care. And massachusetts is a higher percentage of jobs in those sectors than New Hampshire does. I think Going Forward though, year. 2016. I think that New Hampshire is going to do very well in 2016. I think its going to do massachusetts. The massachusetts model manager has a slightly lower growth rate than i do for New Hampshire. And next year. And i think that theres a couple of reasons for that that i think are important. One is this reduction in Energy Prices that weve seen over the last couple of years has been a big boon, especially for New Hampshire. And when gasoline prices dropped by a dollar a gallon. That puts 700 million into the back pockets of businesses and New Hampshire and thats a big boost. And a lot of the recovery came from the Financial Services industry and we know what happened to the Financial Services industry this year, especially in august. So the outlook for massachusetts, i dont think, in the next year or so, was not quite as positive as it is New Hampshire. You may catch up . In your report, i think you said, youre losing our competitive advantage. Dos that have something to do with it . We used to be seen as strongly competitive in a lot of different areas. I think there are a lot of areas where were not. One is taxes which gets a lot of attention, one that gets lots of attention, the highest in the country massachusetts are, too, but competing with tennessee and north carolina. We pay 50 above the National Average for our energy costs. And thats businesses and individuals of 500 Million Dollars a year every year. We have thousands of people day. Yeah, we have about 90,000 people in New Hampshire, residents, that are paying a yeah. So that means theyre paying income on jobs they have in massachusetts, its about one force. And the massachusetts minimum january. Ours is 7. 25, thats going to stay that way. How does that factor into this . I think there are fewer of the compute commuters are minimum wage jobs. The real commute and then the 16, 17 of the work force who leaves the state mostly to massachusetts is from other reasons. We did a calculation a few days ago, looking at the Educational Attainment of people, of the adults in New Hampshire and 47 of the adults in New Hampshire have an Associates Degree or better. If you look at the jobs in New Hampshire that require that kind of education, its only about 27 , so, that to me could mean that you have highly educated advantage of our quality of massachusetts. In ten seconds, how do we get job growth back to a normal level . Cut energy costs, cut taxes and more aggressively recruit companies. Not so easy. No. Charlie arlinghouse, and policy. Information. If you want to listen to that again or missed part of it go to wmur. Com, click on news and then click on project economy. Forecast. Morning than it was at this time yesterday and a lot warmer than it will be at this time tomorrow. Thats because of cloud cover and an approaching cold front. Ahead of it, milder air. Temperatures on the 40s to near 50 at the moment. Lets look at whats rolling through, thats rain and rain showers and thats not going to last that long. The solid back edge is starting to work through the Connecticut River valley and will be out of eastern areas by 9 00. The back edge of the clouds, pretty soon thereafter, too, were not going to have a bright and sunny day, we should have a drab day. Theres that afternoon cheering, followed by cooler weather, and you noticed it tomorrow and tuesday, nice and bright, but it will be cooler. Not terribly below normal, but not as mild as today. Then we turn our attention to the south and thats where we have the remnants of what was once Hurricane Patricia, five to ten inches more of rain and lets track that on futurecast as we work sunday into monday and works from texas into dixie and then eventually from dixie into the ohio river valley or right on its doorstep as we move into tuesday. And it really starts to rain anywhere from saturday through West Virginia and Western Areas hampshire. Wednesday, through wednesday night and early on thursday. Thats not to say that we may not have some rain showers ahead of it, but the main event of the storm system with that heavy rain and wind will be here mainly wednesday night. So, for the day today, showers in the morning, some afternoon sun, it will be a breezy and milder day, mainly thanks for the start weve had in the 40s to near 50. It will he be end up 50 near 60. Overnight tonight. Its going to cool out again. Its october, clearing up north, 20s. And most of us in the 30s and mid 30s, manchester and the coast and to start off the work week for many of us for many of us on monday, it will be noticeably cooler. Youre looking far and wide, its going to be nice and sunny and cooler. Temperatures in the mid 40s up north to the highs. Mid to upper 40s, through the lower 50s. Manchester, nashua, out to the seacoast. Here is your next five day forecast, featuring the milder day today, with the afternoon sunshine, at least a little bit. Clouds and sprinkles and showers will hang tough in the white country and lows drop back to the 20s and 30s tonight. Tomorrow is cooler, 52 degrees, but i mean bright, very, very bright. And almost equally as bright, lows in the 20s and highs in the low to mid 50s. High clouds built late in the day and now theres actually a warm front that comes in before the remnants of patricia, that comes in wednesday morning, some clouds and fog and maybe a few showers. Then between that and the main event which comes in mid to Late Afternoon and evening in New Hampshire. Breaks of sun, a milder day, too, on wednesday, and then a lot of rain, and a lot of wind, we could be talking one, two, possibly three inches of rain overnight into thursday, not as bad as texas is seeing as because the storm is going to yank in so much tropical air with it, with any sunny breaks at all on thursday afternoon, albeit windy, mid to upper 60s, it does cool off for the end of the week and halloween proper on saturday. Jim foley now with sports. Now, news 9 sports. Windham football has the states longest winning streak 17 straight. At least they had the longest winning streak. Take care of that. Emerick takes the handoff 15 yards to the end zone getting the jags the lead, not for long. And a 10yard touchdown pass to palladino. Spartans lead 2721. Second half, milford pulls away in large part thanks to the junior running back. 171 yards rushing and touchdowns on the day. Milford wins, 4121. Division three, battle of the unbeaten teams. First quarter, bears come out firing and zorano leaves it downhill, 56 yard touchdown. 60, and shortly the pair hook up for 130 lead. And then a punch in and makes it 137. Too much for sorano. Here the q. B. Keeps it and weaves through for a 30yard touchdown. Bears knock down the falcons, 3321 taking the top seed in the south. Unh football, again, cats lose another conference matchup. This time to delaware. The fighting blue enhads outscore the cats. Unh falls, 13 in conference. St. Anselm hosting southern connecticut state. And Second Quarter owls, Robert Thomas from the one yard line scores for southern connecticut, makes it 70. Later in the quarter. Eric fair weather takes the snap and rolls right. Hit bar tech for the 19yard touchdown. Tied at 7. But the owls respond in a big way. Check out this pass and catch. Robert natolo, to devontae jenkins and diving touchdown grab. St. Anselm loses. There was an injury in this one. Im jim foley and thats a look at sports. Amy thank you, jim foley. Ahead here on news 9 this morning, its an adorable tribute to celebrate a special get the tt2watv 1t bt qu . 8 tt2watv 1t a qe3\ tt2watv 1t bm qn8p tt4watv 1t dztq 6] tt4watv 1t gzt 0 tt4watv 1t hnt op\ tt4watv 1t iztq 9 tt4watv 1t jntq 7id tt4watv 1t lzt 8 ask its a story thats tugging at hearts nationwide. An 80yearold couple marking a special day in a special way. To celebrate their 60th anniversary, these grandparents reenacted the opening sequence of disneys pixars up, including carls tennis ball cane and the squirrel reaction from the family dog. Their grandson, a pianist wrote and wears a uniform like russell from the movie. Thats something. Amy really well done. Love it. The top stories next. The latest on a fatal crash at an oklahoma parade. Eight people out of their home due to a fire. The Investigation Underway this morning to do you think when you are president youll be paid as much as if you were a manmale. This is one of the jobs where they have to pay you the same. But there are so many examples where that doesnt happen. Im going to do everything i can to make sure every woman in every job gets paid the same. As the men who are doing that job. R im Hillary Clinton now on news 9, a horrific scene at a homecoming celebration. A car plows into the crowd at an oklahoma parade, killing four. The driver facing charges this morning. I like halloween and i like going around in my costume and scaring the socks off of people. Amy pumpkin festival lighting up for the first time in laconia. The world record they attempted to break. Chris that kid is cute. Some sun in the offing. And milder temps, too. When patricias rain reaches New Hampshire in your extended forecast. Amy Hurricane Patricia weakening to a tropical storm, but causing major problems in texas this morning. No one covers New Hampshire like we do. Now, wmur news 9 this morning. Amy good morning, New Hampshire. 7 00 on sunday, october 25th. Im amy coveno, well get to the top stories in a minute. First, Chris Jarzynka looks the a the weather center, a difference between the temps yesterday and tomorrow at this hour. Just a little bit. About 20 degrees worth. As we take a live look at what a film noir version of concord there, and i expect to see Mickey Spillane narrating this. 40s and 51 in portsmouth. That may be milder than it got all day yesterday. We have a line of rain and rain showers working through, starting to get out of the lower river valley and monadnock region. And around route 4 and route 28, through wolf boro. A few spots of rain and we have clearing skies coming from the west. How much sun we see and what patricias remains have in store for New Hampshire in just a few minutes minutes. Amy the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the western hemisphere has been downgraded to a tropical storm. Tourists were forced to seek shelter, are breathing a sigh of relief. Overnight strong winds and rain tearing down fences and tearing up roofs and showering the streets with debris. Like the whole house just started to shake and i looked out the window and there you saw a whirlwind of trash. Texas officials up to a foot of rainfall and yesterdays rain broke records in dallas and san antonio. A Freight Train derailed when flood waters washed away the tracks, a rescue team did manage to pull two crew members to safety. And here in New Hampshire, a quick traffic note if youre headed out on the highway. Crash in i93 in windham. The left lane of the northbound side closed to just south of exit 3 now. Right now, its not clear how serious the injuries may be, but the crews have been on the scene for close to three hours at this point. And an annual halloween tradition in the Granite State lighting up in laconia for the first time. Now organizers say theyre ready to move out and carve out a new history. People waited fortunately for the announcement. The event did not break the world record, but it doesnt take away how great this event was. The first ever laconia pumpkin pennsylvania and thousands came out armed with their own carved pumpkins. Isnt it cool seeing the different designs on the pumpkin. Its an event to bring people together and to be excited about halloween. I like going around in my shine. They put on the keene festival for two decades. We started running the pumpkin pennsylvania as a way to bring them together throughout the year. They decided not to have the pumpkin festival because the riots that took place near the festival and a neighborhood near keene state college. Its nice that laconia ties the fall in over here in laconia. They had food, ride, entertainments and this, a massive tower in the middle of the square, which shined bright once the sun went down. Seeing the pumpkins and how creative some people can get. The event aimed to beat the current world record for the pumpkins. That didnt happen and people are proud of the way that some people came together. Its the first time that the community was brought together to do something this big and to have it be the very first time organizers say it was a bright side to not beating the world record. Theres a great thing about 10,000 pumpkins, much easier to clone up than 30,000 pumpkins. Now that the laconia event is over, organizers are looking ahead to next year. Its a joyful, wonderful thing thats going to carry on. Organizers say they feel fortunate that theyre able to have it here once again next year. Reporting in laconia, kristen carosa. News 9. Amy they attempted to break the record set in keene in 2013, over 30,000. The total number of jack o jackolaterns this year, 9, 567. A fire broke out at a multifamily home in portsmouth, it happened yesterday on cutts street. Firefighters battled flames on the third floor of the building and extended into the attic. Officials are trying to determine how it started. And in nashua, on longview avenue, Officials Say the fire heavily damaged the garage and areas inside the home as well. And thankfully, no injuries were reported. A massachusetts shooting is now a Murder Investigation. Right now, the victims niece, a former boston Department Employee, is facing a homicide charge. Police say 36yearold yvonne lewis shot her uncle in the head saturday morning. She was taken into custody overnight and she used to work for the Boston Police department. She was not, though, had an officer. More than 60 people walked to end the heroin epidemic. Park to main street walking for wellness nashua organized by a manchester. She says people need to face the heroin crisis headon. I hope by this Time Next Year, we wont have to do this. Thats why im standing for health, for life, for community. Amy organizers held a donation bake sale to help people fighting addiction treatment. Focusing on on the heroin epidemic, fighting opioid abuse. It was considered so successful. Fewer than 20 of inmates who took part returned. Police described how theyre teaming up with federal agents to cut the supply into new england and medical experts say dropping stereotypes is important. Theres no one face of addiction. Really, getting more people involved, the more the better, really, opening our eyes and getting a better understanding of what addiction is and how people are pulled into addiction. Amy the state drug czar says that licensing restrictions are being eased in order to open up more Treatment Facilities statewide, as well as offering Tuition Assistance to people entering the counseling profession. A candlelight vigil is scheduled today at the Rochester Commons to remember 17yearold eve tarmey. Last saturday, the Spaulding High School senior was found dead at the riviera hotel. She was staying there with her mother and mothers boyfriend. Police are looking at whether its an over dose. Theyre focusing not on what killed tarmey, but her life. Multiple people dead in oklahoma. The queen of people want change, they want reform, they want to see something done, but just carping about it and whining about it and making speeches about it doesnt get it done. Nobody has shaken up the system more than i have. Ive always been unorthodox in this and against the grain. But you know what . I know how to get it done. New day for america is responsible for the content of welcome back, folks. Just turned 7 11, and its a live shot at meredith where its wet. Its 45 degrees. How much sun comes from our sunday and tracking the remains of patricia and forecast in just a few minutes. You just dont expect this on a happy day at a parade. Amy the death toll in the Oklahoma State homecoming parade crash now at four. A twoyearold boy was the fourth person to die at a local hospital. At least 44 other people were injured when a car plowed into the car. The driver, adacia chambers is on a dui charge. To determine if she was impaired by drugs or alcohol. The man 0 who opened fire in a colorado theater was attacked. And an official was hit. The other inmates will be disciplined. Holmes is permitted to spend four hours a day at a day hall. No other inmates are in his cell block. Hes serving prison without parole. Maureen ohara appeared in miracle on 34th street and the quiet man died at age 95. Her family says she loved interactions with people, especially children. When they often asked are you the lady who knows santa claus . She always answered, yes, i am. What would you like me to tell him . Technicolor because of her red hair and green eyes popped on screen. And the generous gift automotives automotives a live look at the now, your storm watch 9 forecast. The showers are getting ready to get out of here. Lets, without further ado, talk about what is going on. Temperatures that are starting off the morning, well, on the cooler side. Theres no doubt about that. We have current temperatures that are in the 30s and 40s at least they were yesterday at this time. Now are in the 40s to 50. We still have showers rolling through the state. So, lets talk about that right now. Thats the graphic that we were on before. There we go. You can see the back edge of the showers already starting to move through the western part of the state. Theyre in no hurry no mood to stay here, in a hurry to get out. You try to get clever sometimes and just doesnt work. Were doing afternoon clearing work and after the dank day that we had yesterday, its going to be pretty nice. It does cool off tonight and through the day tomorrow so you will definitely notice it, but its going to be nice, bright and sunny. So after a couple of cloudy skies, it would be nice to get back to sunshine and cooler weather. We get into more rain and this rain is going to find us by late on wednesday, wednesday night and early on thursday. The remnants of what was once Hurricane Patricia and an oldfashioned regular storm system combined to bring us quite a drink of water by that time. For the day today, showers in the morning, some afternoon sun, breezy, milder, highs 52 to 60 degrees. 60 manchester and nashua out to the coast and after that cool, kind of raw, dank day yesterday, it will be nice. If youre in and north of the white mountains, youre going to be dealing with more home grown clouds and lingering sprinkles and showers during the afternoon. Just prepare for that. Overnight tonight, its going to clear out as the wind dies down. Mostly cloudy elsewhere, it will cool off again. You, its late october, this is not all that unusual now. 27 to 36 degrees. And for monday, all right. So, its not going to be in the 50s to near 60, but it will the mid 40s north. Mid to upper 40s in through central and western New Hampshire and lower 50s south and east, but it will be nice and sunny. And i mean sunny from sunrise to sunset. So, here is your next five days featuring the milder, albeit somewhat cloudier day today at liao he is in the morning, a little bit of sunshine. And Tuesday Morning, we warm up a little bit. Lower to mid 50s on tuesday and plenty of sunshine. Wednesday, could have some morning fog with maybe a scattered sprinkle or a shower and then mid to Late Afternoon in southern New Hampshire. Late afternoon, early evening in northern New Hampshire with that leading edge of the remnants of patricia move in, rain heavy at times wednesday night and thursday with another tropical air left over though that any sun in the afternoon, mid to upper 60s here 70, thats delightful, it does cool down for the end of the week, halloween looks dry, cool and dry. Amy i hear trickortreaters throughout the state. Two officers decided to give a gift instead of a ticket. A father pulled over for a light. And i noticed three in the back seat with no car seats. Hed heard the man was struggling financially. Giving three tickets was not going to do any good. The children would have been seats. Amy officers put together their seats for the father. He didnt want to talk on camera, but said he was very well be right back. A little boy reunited with his teddy bear. The mother of the fiveyearold from minnesota said her son lost his teddy bear somewhere along the highway in indiana. The bear belonged to mom when she was a child. The deputy believed that finding when he went to check the area, he found it. A lot of the calls we get to, sometimes you get a chance to make a Huge Positive impact on somebody. This kid will probably never forget this story. The bear is making the 500 mile journey back to its owner. Elmo is getting a new friend. Sesame street is introducing julia, the first with autism. They hope to promote understanding between children and parents. The street, yes, this street, is getting this new face. Julia, with hair of orange. Eyes of green. And what you cannot see right off, autism. And she has some behaviors not looking at you directly in the eye and a little more sensitive to noises, but when and elmo, she shares not only these challenges, but what she shares in common. Introducing julia, a girl with autism who can speak and not all can, into sesame streets digital programming and into this story book called were amazing, 1, 2, 3, is well in keeping with the tv shows mission. And a lot of kids with autism always loved to watch. The sesame Street Campaign is really helping them see it that theyre not alon and for kids that dont have awe tim and their family, theyre learning what autism is and how kids with autism are not that dissimilar to themselves. Which is important because sad so say, bullying is so common. Kids on the autism spectrum get bullied five times more often. Its important that we have characters like julia so children can learn to be accepted and understanding of one another. Streak picked a girl for this, girls with autism are outnumbered than boys and this muppet may help change that and if she does, a few years from now, well think of julia the girl with autism as just plain julia. The most recent report by the c. D. C. Says one in 68 children has an autism spectrum disorder. Sesame street is using see amazing to encourage people to keep the conversation about autism going. Students at a Connecticut School are enjoying a brand new playground made from recycleable dental products. The Elementary School won in a contest sponsored by shop right and colgate. They raked in thousands of online votes daily and beat out toothbrushes and boxes of floss. It has a slide that has cool monkey bars and the cool ladder that is a square ladder. Its different than the old one because we had that one for a long time. Is this one better . Yes. Students say they cant tell the difference between the recycled material and a regular old playground. Here is whats coming up at news 9 this morning. A crowd crashes into the crowd of an Oklahoma State homecoming parade, killing four people, including a toddler. And guess who is coming to we have look no one covers New Hampshire like we do. Now, wmur news 9 this morning. Amy good morning, everybody. 7 30, im amy coveno. We begin with a live look at berlin. 45 balmy degrees up there. Thats quite a difference compared to yesterday. Here is a look at top stories on the half hour. The oklahoma death toll has risen to four. 44 people were injured when a car plowed into the crowd. The driver, adacia chambers, is in Police Custody. And in leanco, this is the first time the pumpkin fest has been held in laconia. They tried for the most pumpkins lit, but were not successful. Surveillance video shows a man walking into a restaurant shortly before 1 00 on friday morning. Youre asking to contact Concord Police if you have any information. Hurricane patricia has fallen apart. Concerns still loom this Chris Jarzynka explains. Chris it weakens, when it hits land and mountains it weakens. Why didnt the storm, highest recorded, cause more damage . Because the eye moved into not such a populated area and the Hurricane Force winds and storm were closely, right around that center, even though the storm itself was large with a lot of wind and a lot of rain, the 75 mile an hour plus winds were only 30 miles wide and the really strong 200 mile per hour wind were it almost at the center. A broadcast colleague of main said much like a tornado touches one area and now the rest of the storm is in southern texas and comes our way for later this weekend and well let you know what that means in your extended forecast in minutes. Flash flood warnings are up for many parts of texas as remnants of patricia hits the area. As Elizabeth Hur reports from houston, this is an area thats already saturated. Overnight, more rain soaking parts of texas, drenched with shattering rainfall. From san antonio to dallas, stolen cars leading to drama rescue after rescue. I was hoping not to drown or fall. Because the current was going pretty hard. We have our Hazardous Materials experts monitoring the scene. Cruise are using berms to control diesel spilling from this derailed train south of dallas. Extreme damage to the roadways throughout our county. After the heavy rains took out roadways, officials are relying on textdot trucks and civilians to navigate flooded streetsment streetsment streets. Strong winds are blamed for wearing down fences and littering the streets with debris. The whole house started to shake. I looked out the window and all you saw was a whirlwind of trash. This is whats left of patricia moving across texas and when threatened to get a foot or more rain, howevers mayor is prepared for the worst. All of the First Responders are on notice that they have to deploy. And what you are looking at right now, thats a field with a underwater. And with the rain still falling, this is one reason why First Responders remain on alert. Police are looking are looking for the shirtless robber who was in mcdonalds friday morning, wearing only a mask, shortsdz and what appeared to be water shoes. Police say he pointed a gun at the cashier and threatened to kill her if she didnt hand over the cash drawer. If you have any information, youre asked to call Concord Police. A massachusetts shooting is now a murder case and right now the victims niece, a former boston Department Employees is charged with killing her uncle. Police say she shot her uncle in the head. Lewis used to work for the Boston Police department, she was not, however, an officer. Commitment 2016, the iowa caucus is less than a hundred days away. They were there to mark the occasion and rally support. Former president bill clinton introduced katy perry to treated throngs of hillary supporters to and Bernie Sanders led them across the bridge. You have to roar about what you need to fight for. Amy candidates attended the democratic partys annual Jefferson Jackson dinner where all three contenders spoke to a crowd of more than 6,000. On monday, donald trump returns to the Granite State and hell host a town hall at atkinson hall. You can follow all of the president ial candidates on our website, head over to wmur. Com and click on the candidate tracker. In laconia, here is a picture of don nelson from laconia dressed up for the festive occasion, hard to see him. Good costume. You can see him sitting in front jackolaterns. Were there enough to break a record . Well tell you in the next half hour. Or a car . Look at that massive one at the motor speedway for the pumpkin chucking contest. Teams continue to compete today from 9 00 until 4 00. The walking dead took over the queen city yesterday. In town manchesters zombie walk, lurched creeped and dragged through downtown stopping to trickortreat at elm street. A woman in scotland said she could smell her husbands parkinsons disease. Researchers recruited six people with parkinsons disease and six without. Researchers say the woman only misdiagnosed one person, but get this, eight months later that error was overturned, the 12th person was diagnosed with parkinsons as well. The molecule responsible for the odor that could help develop a simple test could detect the disease sooner. Multiple walks to raise awareness and some serious cash in the fight against Breast Cancer. Nearly 300 communities nationwide are participating in the annual making strides walk of the the idea started 30 years ago in massachusetts and is now one of the largest Breast Cancer awareness events in the nation. The four New Hampshire walks are in manchester, dover, laconia and peterboro. The first walk continues at 10 00 in laconia. Tonight, people nationwide are coming together to raise money and awareness for pancreatic awareness research. This is the fourth year for the purple light event. Its not too late to register. Everyone gets a purple light and call off the names of survivor. Purple light. The yoyo, for some people its serious business. 40 people competed in the yoyo contest. People of all ages participated in four divisions. The winners received, well, yoyos and cash. A lot of these people have been practicing a long time and doing their best tricks. Its a community aspect. Even though its a competition, well. People came from all over the east coast for this competition. We hope you stay with us. Coming up next. Direction. Showers slip away to the east this morning. Some sun will follow along with a milder day. How long that mild air lasts and what the remnants of hurricane its 7 38. Well, certainly, its a question many parents struggle with. Some worry about being overprotective that it will make their child nervous or insecure. Theyve adopted a style of child rearing called free range parenting, an approach that forced a mother into the National Spotlight earning her the nickname, americas worst mom. Shelley walcott has more. Three, two, one. The main goal of most parents is to watch their children soar, theres a growing debate how much supervision do our children really need . I definitely hover. I do, i hover now and its hard for me to let go. Jennifer admits to whats being referred to often as a helicopter parent. Keeping track of every move throughout the day. You just dont know whats out there. Youre afraid or im afraid, i dont know who is interacting with my child or who might approach my child or how hes going to react so i dont know whats going to happen. I dont know if hes safe. Some parents are more hands off, a style often referred to as free range parenting, a phrase coined by a writer. She wrote a newspaper column about allowing her nineyearold son to ride the new york city subway alone. The Story Went National and within two days, she became known as americas worst mom. Well, after being sort of raked over the coals on all of these talk shows, i wanted to start a blog that weekend that explained that i love safety. Im not an evel knievel type. Im a nervous parent and so, i came up with the name free range kids and trademarked it and thats where it began. She says that free range parents believe their child is not in danger every second theyre unsupervised. However, in you live in a dangerous neighborhood where theres drug deals at the local parks and dryby shootings, you cant send your kids walking to school look you can in the suburbs. And its skepticism about the idea that everything is going to hurt our kids. Still, some parents arent down with the free range Movement Even though many remember their unencumbered childhood. When i was a kid, parents said, basically if you want to go play and i remember riding my bike, two, three towns down. Now days, again, my kids, i would never let them do the same thing that i did. Why do so many parents feel this way . I think the fact that we have access to so much more information, you know, the fact that you can go online and just open your phone and go on the news site and see something that happened. University of New Hampshire sociologist says that theres no one size fits all method to raising kids. The conversation about free range kids and helicopter parents is happening in conversation between upper middle class parents who in my view have a selective memory about their own childhood. The doctor says the most common fear among parents is that their child will be abducted. He says statistics show that probably wont happen and he points out many parents are more free range than they realize since many kids are now just a cell phone call away. I actually think the evidence suggests that because kids have cell phones that can tie them to parents, that parents actually give kids today some more leash than they did before because they know that they can always be in touch with them. Its a combination of techniques two says is her approach. I think it depends on the child. There are some children that need more support and some that take the independence at an earlier age. Doctor agrees with. I dont think that there are rules that one should have for children in general. Its really about the dance between the childrens needs and the situation that theyre in. Now, your storm watch 9 forecast. Chris hey, folks, Chris Jarzynka in for josh judge for one last morning. Josh is back to talk about the halloween pumpkins and such. Im going to talk about milder air and we have clouds and southerly breeze, that trapped in what meeting we got yesterday. Look at this, 51 in portsmouth and 40s through the north tunt country. We have a few residual showers and will north of the white mountains, you can see the back edge of the clouds, too, theyre starting to push through Central New York state and theyll be here this afternoon. Well get partial sunshine, we are going to cool off behind this batch of clouds, its going to take until after the afternoon clearing and into tonight and tomorrow before you notice the cooler weather. Its late october, after all. There is cooler weather and its along with very, very bright skies for monday and tuesday, and then we turn our attention to the south. This is remains of what was once Hurricane Patricia, a ton of rain and literally, a foot of rain in parts of eastern texas, louisiana, arkansas as well. Lets look at where this goes over the next two days, its still pretty much off to our south for monday and tuesday, so, here its going to be fine, although if youre travelling off to the south on monday into tuesday, its going to be raining heavily from cincinnati through the ohio river valley, West Virginia and virginia proper. By late on tuesday, its late on wednesday, that the leading edge of that rain comes here to New Hampshire although some rain showers could come before that time. So lets talk about it and break it down for you today. Afternoon sun, breezy, milder. For overnight. Its late october and the cold air will win, clearing up again up north. Mostly clear south. 20s north and mid 30s, places like manchester out to the coast. Now, for tomorrow, plenty of sunshine, after, what has been a couple of cloudy days, its going to be very, very nice. Only mid 40s for highs up north. And monadnock, manchester, and out to the coast. The next five days features that continued cool weather with another cool start. Seasonably so for Tuesday Morning, getting in the low to mid 50s. Clouds come in late in the day on tuesday. We start out the morning with fog and showers as a warm front tries to move through. Mid to late morning sun. Maybe some early afternoon sun as well and then the leading edge of the remains of patricia come through. Late afternoon north and one to possibly three inches of rain wednesday night into thursday with enough tropical air left over after that storm pulls away thursday morning. And the sun into the mid to upper 60s and we drop back to the 50s for halloween on saturday. Now, news 9 sports. Now, news 9 sports. Unh football at delaware, trying to bounce back and a tough loss to william and mary. This time, 3114. The fighting blue hens outscored 25zip. 13 in conference. St. Ens and from the one hard line makes Eric Fairweather rolls for the hawks and hits for a 19 yard touchdown. Tied at 7. But the owls respond in a big way. Check out this pass and catch. Robert natolo to davontae jenkins, a grabbing touchdown. And carted off in the Second Quarter with an injury. Windham football had the states longest 17 straight game winning streak, but milford took care of that. The Second Quarter, wind ham down by 6. Taking it to the end zone and giving the jags a lead and milford answers. A 10yard touchdown pass to palladine o palladino. Spartans lead. Milford pulls away thanks to the junior running back. Touchdowns. Milford wins 4121. Division three battle of the unbeaten teams in the south conference. Bo and First Quarter bears come out firing. Sorano heaves it down, a touchdown. Shortly after the pair hook up for a 130 lead and then punching it in making it 137. But too much from sorano. Here the q. B. Keeps it and weaves through for a 30yard t. D. Bears knocked down the falcons, taking the top seed in the south. Campbell visiting bishop brady. First quarter, giants ball, takes the snap from the one and dives right in for the touchdown. 70, bishop brady. He canned is Second Quarter, he enters the red sea of defenders and comes out the other side. 14zip. Later in the quarter, giants at to it. Rolls left and hits sullivan for the score. Bishop brady goes on to win 2713. Division one, Manchester Central and nashua south. Second quarter, south punting down 14zip. Punt. And the cocaptain tightropes it 85 yards to the end zone. Makes it 210 central. Third quarter, central quarterback demorrow with a quick snap and throw for jason lamb. Eight yard pass, 28zip. South tries to roar back. More than a hundred total points, central wins 6349. And the patriots activated brandon la fell. The wide receiver comes off physically unable to perform list, eligible to play in the big game, pats and jets and a quick look at hockey manchester monarchs lost to the adirondack third. Scored for manchester, today the same two teams match up Verizon Wireless arena, 3 p. M. Start. Im jim foley, thats a look at sports. Amy two sports collided on the same court. During a girls volleyball game, it went over the net and through the hoop. Spectators cheered, it didnt count, however. An adorable tribute to a special day. The octogenarians tribute. And you can submit your pictures and videos. Members its a story thats tugging at hearts nationwide. An 80yearold couple making a special day in quite a special way. To celebrate their 60th anniversary, the grandparents recreated from disneys up, the tennis ball cane, the the grandson, a pianist, wore an explorer uniform like russell did from the movie. And a pretty mild day this morning. While we get to the afternoon, highs another 60s. Back to 50s, monday and tuesday, and rain from the hurricane or remnants thereof wednesday night. Amy thanks, chris. Chris sure. Amy coming up on news 9, the latest on a fatal crash at an eight people now on news 9. A horrific scene at a homecoming celebration. A car plows into a parade. The driver facing charges this morning. I like halloween and i like going around in my costume and scaring the socks off of people. Pumpkin festival lighting up for the first time in laconia. The world record theyre striving to break. Some sun in the offing for sunday. Milder temps, too, when patricias rain and wind reaches New Hampshire and your storm watch 9 extended forecast. Hurricane patricia weakening to a tropical storm, but causing Major Concerns in texas this morning morning. No one covers New Hampshire like we do. Now, wmur news 9 this morning. Amy good morning, New Hampshire, 8 00 on sunday, october 25th, im amy coveno. Well get to the top stories in just a minute. First, Chris Jarzynka came back. Nice to see you again, chris. Chris nice to be here. One more day for you, josh is back next weekend. Plymouth. 41 degrees and theres splashes of color there on the campus of psu. Lets look at whats its doing. The temperatures are in the 40s and 50s it keene and portsmouth. Its a mild start to the day and thanks to clouds and rain showers that are rolling across the area. The rain showers have pretty much vacated areas of the monadnock region and a few remain. The heavier rain and rain showers, south and east of manchester and east and north of rochester and north of the lakes region right now. They will continue to move away. Some sunshine will work in, its going to be a mild day today. How long that milder weather and remnants of patricia and its plans for New Hampshire are coming up this week. Amy the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the western hemisphere has been downgraded to a tropical storm. Thousands of tourists were forced to seek shelter are now breathing a sigh of relief. Although Hurricane Patricia weakened flooding concerns remain, particularly in texas. Overnight strong winds and rain took a heavy toll on buildings there, tearing down fences and tearing up roofs and showering the streets with debris. Like the whole house started to shake and i look out the window and all you saw was a whirlwind of trash. Amy texas officials are anticipating up to a foot of rainfall. Yesterday, rainfall records were broken in dallas and san antonio. A Freight Train derailed when flood waters washed away the tracks. A rescue team did manage to pull crew members to safety. Here in New Hampshire, a quick traffic note if youre headed out on the highway. A crash on i93 in windham that left the left lane of the northbound closed south of exit 3. Did you follow that . Thats on the map. Thats all due to a single vehicle crash. Its not clear how serious the injuries are at this time. An annual halloween tradition lighting up in laconia for the first time. Last year, riots broke out near the keene pumpkin festival and organizers say theyre ready to move on and carve out a new history. People waited patiently all day to hear this announcement. Unfortunately, the event did not break the world record, but it doesnt take away from how great this event was. The first ever laconia pumpkin festival took over downtown saturday and thousands came out to be a part of it armed with their own carved pumpkins. Its school seeing the different designs on the pumpkin. Its an event to bring people together and get excited about halloween. I like going around in my costume and scaring the socks off of people. The event was organized by let it shine, the same group who put on the keene pumpkin festival for two decades. 25 years ago we started running the pumpkin festival as a way to bring the Community Together in celebration throughout the year. Keene decided not to have the pumpkin festival this year because of riots that took place near the festival in a neighborhood near keene state college. Its nice that laconia grabbed it from keene and ties in at laconia. The event had food, rides, entertainment and this, a massive tower in the middle of the square, which shined bright once the sun went down. Seeing how creative some people get, its amazing. To beat the world record for carved and lit pumpkins, that didnt happen, but people were still proud of the way the event came together. This is the first time the community has been brought together to do something this big and it would have it be the very first time that we did it, i think we did a fantastic job. Organizers say theres a bright side to not beating the world record. Theres one really great thing about less than 10,000 pumpkins. You wouldnt believe how much easier that is to clean up than 30,000 pumpkins, so there is a silver lining. Now that the first event in laconia is over, organizers are looking ahead to next year. Its a joyful, wonderful thing thats going to carry on. Organizers say they feel fortunate it was able to be held here in laconia and hope to have it here next year. Kristen carosa, wmur news 9. Amy you heard kristen said they were trying to break the record over 30,000 jackolaterns, the total carved this year, 9, 567. A fire broke out in portsmouth yesterday evening on cutts street. Firefighters battled heavy flames on the third floor of the building. Officials say it extended into the attic as well. One person was taken to the hospital. Fire officials are trying to determine how a fire started. And a Fire Investigation in nashua after a fire began in a garage on longdale avenue. The fire heavily damaged the garage and areas inside the home were damaged as well. No reports of injury. A massachusetts shooting is now a Murder Investigation and right now the victims niece, a former Boston Police Department Employee is facing a homicide charge. Police say yvonne lewis shot her uncle in the head. She used to work for Boston Police, but she was not an officer. More than 60 people walked to end heroin this weekend in nashua. Neighbors and city leaders walked from greely park to main street and back. Walking for wellness, walk nashua was organized by a people need to face the heroin addiction crisis head on. And i hope that by this Time Next Year, we wont need to do this. Thats why im here and and for the community. Shes passionate. Organizers held a donation bake a sale to help people fighting addiction who need treatment. Broadcast a special town hall focusing on the heroin epidemic last thursday. Experts shared new and effective ways to avoid opioid abuse. In the jail there, it was considered so successful. Fewer than 20 of inmates who take part come back. Police described how theyre teaming up with federal agents to cut the supply and medical experts say that dropping stereotypes is crucial. Theres no one face of addiction and getting more people involved, the more the better, opening their eyes and getting a better understanding of what addiction is and how people are pulled into addiction. The state drug czar says licensing restrictions are eased in order to open up more Treatment Facilities around the state as well. Offering Tuition Assistance to people entering the accounting profession. Remembering 17yearold eve tarmey. Last saturday, the Spaulding High School center was found dead at the riviera hotel. She was staying there with her mother and her mothers boyfriend. Its being investigated. Theyre looking at the loss of someone so young. It begins at 6 30. Coming up on news 9. Tragedy at a homecoming parade in oklahoma. Multiple people dead. Charges this morning. The queen of. Welcome back, youre looking at manchester, temperatures in the upper 40s near 50. Well be near 60 today. The remnants of patricia head our way for this upcoming week. And much more on your storm watch forecast in just a few minutes. You just dont expect this on a happy day at a parade. The death toll in the oek state homecoming parade now stands at four, a twoyearold boy was the fourth person to die at a local hospital. At least 44 other people were injured when a car plowed into the crowd. The driver, 25yearold adacia chambers is in Police Custody on a dui charge. Investigators are awaiting results of a blood test to determine if she was impaired by drugs or alcohol. The gunman who opened fire in a colorado Movie Theater was attacked in prison. James holmes is incarcerated at the Colorado State penitentiary. Officials say an inmate lunged at him taking swings. A nearby Security Officer was hit and another inmate will be disciplined. Hours in a day hall. No other inmates are in his cell block. Hes sending life in prison without parole. Maureen ohara, miracle star of miracle on 34th street and the quiet man, passed away at 95. She appreciated interactions with people from all walks of life and particularly children. When they recognized her from miracle on 34th street and often asked, are you the lady who knows santa claus . She often answers, yes, i am, what would you like me to tell him . And she was nicknamed the queen of technicolor because her hair and eyes popped on screen. House hunting, an offer you dont want to miss, a piece of history and brace yourself because the asking price might be in your budget. It is 8 12 on a sunday morning, looks cloudy at the moment. Do you think when you are president youll be paid as much as if you were a manmale. This is one of the jobs where they have to pay you the same. But there are so many examples where that doesnt happen. Im going to do everything i can to make sure every woman in every job gets paid the same. As the men who are doing that job. R im Hillary Clinton p now, your storm watch 9 forecast. Chris good morning, folks, chris in for josh, josh coming back next weekend. And hes not going to be coming back to temperatures like this, i do not believe. In fact, this time of year and this time of day is not usually in the mid 40s north and its not usually in the lower 50s south. Thanks to some cloud cover that moved in overnight and a southerly breeze. Cloud cover along with showers, rapidly moving off to the east and in fact, the steady rain for all intents and purposes for south New Hampshire. You can see the back edge of the clouds showing up in northern and central areas of new york state. That moves through here later on this afternoon. And get back to sun with afternoon clearing. Now, there is cooler weather here, but it waits until tonight to filter in. Youll definitely notice it by tomorrow morning by this time and really all day tomorrow, and tuesday, it will be cool and bright, too. And focus our attention off to the south, we have the remains of Hurricane Patricia, i mean, parts of eastern texas, the same story could be seen in louisiana and arkansas, as it moves into dixie and the ohio river valley the next 24 hours, that comes here, Late Wednesday, wednesday night and on thursday in a much weakened form. And certainly not the flooding, you know, feet of rain theyre seeing off to the south. Showers this morning, some afternoon sun, breezy, milder. 40s and 50s, not going to take us a lot for clouds and left over sprinkles. Mid to upper 60s in New Hampshire with at least partly sunny skies, for overnight tonight, you know, it couldnt last, its late october. Clearing north, mostly clear lows in the 20s and thursday, its late october. Its time to realize this is the norm. Elsewhere in the low to possibly mid 30s, now for the day tomorrow. Ok, its going to be cooler, it will be in the mid 40s in places like the North Country, upper 40s, monadnock region and lower 50s elsewhere, but its brighter than its been for the past few days, plenty of sunshine, in fact, hard to find a cloud in the sky tomorrow. Not much more, and high clouds come late in the day after a chilly start and temperatures in the low 50s, there could be fog and morning rain. Thats not the remnant of patricia, thats a warm front working in advance of it. So i call for Late Afternoon rain because the rain of note really comes in mid to Late Afternoon, afternoon evening, up in the North Country. Thats when it could pour in here with enough tropical air left over, mid to upper 60s and 70s, before cooling back off to norm or slightly below, friday 50s. That. And no help from mother nature. If you ever dreamed of owning a mansion steeped in history. This is a manchester beauty its on the market. Chris 20 bedrooms. Whoever buys it needs more than belongings. Adam sexton has the story. A piece of New Hampshire history is now on the open market. An ornate victorian. 20,000 square feet of living space and level of craftsmanship never heard of in modern buildings. And for a good part of the century, it was the home to the bishop and then a convent moved in. Assessed value of the property is more than 600,000. For the list price, the owner is willing to go lower than that. Its shocking, but its 29,900. Greg barrett says that there is just one catch. Once you buy this home, you cant keep it here. It must be moved to a new location, that will give the parish easier access to worship. Its a difficult situation, but the church is attempting to be very sympathetic to the historical significance of this home. Barrett estimates that moving the home locally could cost 2 to 300,000, but says since the listing went up sunday night, calls from come in around the country, meaning if the price is right, one of the most significant Architectural Properties in the queen city could be on the move. Amy weve gotten emails about it this morning. Theres a new character on her way to sesame street. What makes her different than the rest of the muppet gang. Tragedy at a College Homecoming parade in oklahoma. A little boy reunited with his teddy bear after the officer got an unusual call. The mother said he lost the teddy bear along an indiana highway and belonged to mom when she was a child. The deputy believed finding the bear was a long shot. But when he checked the area, he actually found it. A lot of calls we get, we dont know what to expect and this one, when you get a chance to make a Huge Positive impact on somebody, that kid will probably never forget this story. Amy the bear is now making the 500 mile journey back to its rightful owner. Elmo was getting a new friend. Julia, the first muppet with autism. They hope that julia will create understanding between parents and children. Sunny days keeping the clouds away the street, yes, this street, is getting this new face, julia with hair and orange and eyes of green and what you cannot see right away, autism. She has behaviors not looking you directly in the eye and sensitive to noises and when she comes together with abby and elmo she shares not only these challenges, but also what she shares in common. Introduce ing julia, a girl with autism, who can speak and not all can, its in the story, were amazing 1, 2, 3, is in keeping with the mission. Different, but the same old news on sesame street, it shows as it happens, a lot of kids with autism always loves to watch. The sesame Street Campaign is helping them see that theyre not alone and for kids that dont have the autism and their family, they are learning what autism is and how kids with autism are know the that dissimilar to themselves. Which is important, sad to say, bullying. Kids with autism get bullied five times more often. Its important to have characters like julia with autism so kids with be understanding. Its something to note that sesame street picked a girl for the character, the girls are outnumbered by boys with autism and soon well think of julia as just plain julia. The most important report by c. D. C. , sesame street is using seeamazing to encourage people to share their stories and pictures on social media to keep the conversation going. Here is a look whats coming up. News 9 this morning. A car crashes into a crowd at the Oklahoma State homecoming parade, killing four, including a toddler. The investigation into the driver this morning. Commitment 2016 heating up. Guess who is coming to the Granite State this week. We head into break with a live look at meredith cloaked in jeb bush was a probably the strongest governor in the history of the state of florida. He was a young guy and i think there were some folks in the legislature that thought they might be able to run over him. That didnt happen. One tax cut wasnt enough he had to do more. It wasnt enough to have 15,000 kids with School Choice in florida, he wanted to have 100,000 kids. If he didnt like a project, it was going to be vetoed. It didnt matter if you were a republican. It didnt matter if you were his best friend. He said this is where were going, this is how were going to reform state government. every politician comes in not much change. But governor bush made a lot of changes. He got the nickname veto corleone. If he saw something in the budget that he thought violated his conservative principles, you could guarantee it was gonna get whacked. He vetoed a bunch of my stuff and i was the senate president. The message to washington, d. C. , is get ready. because there will be change. Nright to rise usa is responsible no one covers New Hampshire like we do. Now, wmur news 9 this morning. Amy good morning, its 8 30. Im amy coveno. We begin with a live look at the campus of plymouth state university. Often pretty and theyre holding onto their color. 42 degrees, top stories on the half hour. The death toll in the oklahoma parade crash is now four. 44 people were injured when a car plowed into the crowd and the driver, adacia chambers. Organizers tried to break a world record for the most pumpkins lit, they were not successful. Police are looking for a shirtless robber on fisherville friday morning. If you have any information, youre asked to call Concord Police. The scene along main street in millwater oklahoma, many osu faithful become witness to a tragedy. Denver dwyer has more. It was a horrific scene at a homecoming celebration. The Oklahoma State cowboys annual parade turned into chaos. Of people in the crowd here, extra help. Stillwater firefighters and e. M. S. Who came to celebrate with the community immediately rushed into action. At least ten patients, some red, go ahead and set the helicopters up. And medivac choppers handing one after another, eight in total, taking the most critically wounded to nearby hospitals. Three people never made it off the scene, killed in the impact. The driver of the car was arrested at this point for driving under the influence. Her name is adacia avery chambers and she is currently in department. Police say the 25yearold woman behind the wheel was driving this 2014 hyundai allantra, the metal crumpled, windshield shattered. She hit an unmanned motorcycle and careened into the spectators, were heart broken into this tragedy and our as the Community Reels and Police Investigate, osu decided the Football Game against kansas should go on. The family pulls together and unfortunately we had to do it before and well do it again. Amy weve learned that children and infants made up almost a quarter of those injured that that crash. Hurricane patricia has fallen apart, but concerns do still loom this morning. Meteorologist Chris Jarzynka explained how the storm quickly weakened. Hurricanes need 82 degree ocean water to maintain their strength if anything less, weaken. If they move over land or mountains like in mexico, they weaken. It went from category 5 when it made landfall almost nothing in terms of circulation, if this was the most powerful storm for more damage along the coast . Because it was a narrow band of strong Hurricane Force winds, only stretched out 30 miles from the center, the hurricane equivalent of a tornado hitting one house and leaving the next house across the street fine. By good fortune, that is med most Populated Areas and the storm has since spun itself out and is now delivering heavy rain in the order of a foot or more in parts of texas and louisiana. That storm has New Hampshire in its cross hairs, more on that march 9th extended forecast in just a few minutes. Concord police are looking for the shirtless robber who held up an mcdonalds at gun point. Surveillance video shows the man walking in on fisherville road shortly before 1 00 on friday morning, wearing only a mask and shorts and watershoes. He threatened to kill her if she didnt hand over the cash drawer. To massachusetts now, where a deadly plane crash at worcester airport is under investigation. A 66yearold connecticut man died when his small plane crashed after 8 00 saturday morning. The single engine plane veered to the right and crashed into a wooded area. The pile was the only person on board. Commitment 2016, Iowa Caucuses, they were there to mark the occasion and rally voter support. Former president bill clinton introduced pop singer katy perry who treated supporters to a concert. And Bernie Sanders led people across the bridge spanning the river. You need to roar about what you want to fight for. Candidates attended the Jefferson Jackson dinner and the three contenders spoke to a crowd of 6,000 people. To the Granite State. Hes hosting a town hall at atkinson. You can follow the candidates on our website, wmur. Com click on the candidate tracker. The laconia pumpkin festival continues today. Here is a picture sent in to news 9 of don nelson dressed up for the if he is festive occasion. You can see an impressive display of jackolaterns, were there enough to break the record . No, 9,567. The world record set in keene in 2013 crested 30,000 pumpkins. How far can you chuck a pumpkin or a car . Competitors launched pumpkins Hampshire Motor Speedway yesterday for the pumpkin chucking contest. An air cannon sent pumpkins a mile through the air. Teams will continue competing today from 9 00 until 4 00 and the walking dead took over the in town, manchesters Fourth Annual zombie walk kicked off the Brady Sullivan. Hundreds lurched and creaked downtown and businesses onem street. It started as a crazy theory, but now has scientists mesmerized. A woman in scotland says she could smell her husbands parkinsons disease. There could be some truth to the claim. And they put the woman to the test, six people with parkinsons and six without. And the woman misdiagnosed one. But that was later overturned when that turn was diagnosed as well. And they think that a molecule could create a sim tell test to detect the tease disease sooner. Raising awareness and serious cash in the fight against Breast Cancer. Nearly 300 communities nationwide are participating in the annual making strides walk. The idea started 30 years ago in massachusetts and is now one of the largest Breast Cancer awareness events in the nation. The four New Hampshire walks today are in manchester, dover, laconia and peterboro. The first walk begins at 10 00 in laconia. Tonight, people nationwide are coming together to raise money and awareness for pancreatic research. Its not too late to register. Everyone gets a purple light and calls off the name of a survivor or those who lost their life to the rare, but deadly form of cancer. Come out to Veterans Park and fill the sky with purple light. We hope to stay with you. Streak in local high school windham. Well show you what happened. After our drab saturday, lets see if we can start a small sunny streak of our own. How far is stretches in your storm watch 9 extended forecast. Coming up in New Hampshires business, there are two reports out this month on New Hampshire economy saying job growth is lagging massachusetts and the country. 2016. Welcome to New Hampshires business, im fred kocher. One of the pillars of any Strong Economy are jobs. There are two reports out saying that New Hampshire is lagging in the growth of jobs. And were going to talk about that with my two guests who wrote those reports. Dennis, welcome, from the center for Public Policy in New Hampshire. He is the senior economist there, nice to have you. Good morning. And charlie, from the Josiah Center for Public Policy. Good to have you. You agree theres a lag, right . I think we do, yeah. Even though your reports phrase it a little differently. Charlie, you say were lagging behind massachusetts and thats different than in the past when New Hampshire really has led the region of new england in economic recovery from a recession. So, just whats your report really saying . Our thought has always been, New Hampshire is an economic engine and boston is sort of this difficult backwater and thats reversed itself. When we found out that we were one of the ten worst states in the country in job growth postrecession we needed to compare ourselves to massachusetts and massachusetts is growing a lot faster than we are post recession. If we had matched their growth, which is almost double the rate of ours, we would have 27,000 more jobs than we do and we use it as a jumping off point to say is New Hampshire as competitive as it used to be . And i say no. And charlie has that the same, and that report came out and you and the new england economic partnership, as our viewers, it tracks the economies in each of the six states. You were slightly bullish, youre saying yes, theres a lag, but 2016 is going to be a good year. First of all, i dont disagree with a lot of things that charlie said that we have lagged behind massachusetts. I think a lot of the reasons for that are the mix of jobs and industries that we have here in New Hampshire, relative to massachusetts. A lot of the recovery came in the hightech sector and the Financial Services sector, and in health care. And massachusetts is a higher percentage of jobs in those sector than New Hampshire does. I think Going Forward though, 2016 is going to be a very good year. Youve been bullish on 2016. I think that New Hampshire is going to do well in 2016, massachusetts. The massachusetts model manager has a slightly lower growth rate than i do for New Hampshire and next year, and i think that theres a couple of reasons for that that i think are important. One is this reduction in Energy Prices that weve seen over the last couple of years has been a big boon, especially for New Hampshire. And when gasoline prices dropped by a dollar a gallon, that puts about 700 million into the back pockets of businesses and households in New Hampshire and thats a big boost, and also, sass as i said, a lot of the recovery come from the Financial Services industry and we know what happened to the Financial Services industry this year, especially this august. So, the outlook for massachusetts, i dont think, in the next year or so was not quite as positive as it is for New Hampshire. So we may catch up . Charlie, in your report, i think you said were losing our competitive advantage, does that have something do with this . I think it does. We used to be seen as strongly competitive. A lot of areas, one of which is taxes which gets a lot of attention. One which gets less attention energy costs are highest in the country. Were competing with places like tennessee and north carolina. We pay 50 above the National Average for our energy cost, thats a penalty to New Hampshire consumers and businesses and individuals, of 500 million a year every year. We have thousands of people commuting to massachusetts every day . Yeah, we have about 90,000 people in New Hampshire, residents, that are paying a massachusetts income tax. Yeah. So that means theyre paying its about one out of seven people in the labor force. And the massachusetts minimum wage is at 9 00, going to 10 in january and ours is going to stay that way. I think that fewer of the commuters are minimum wage job except maybe right at the border, salem to methuen or Something Like that. 16, 17 of the work force who leaves the state mostly from massachusetts is for other reasons. We did a calculation looking at Educational Attainment of people, the adults in New Hampshire. About 47 of the adults in New Hampshire have an Associates Degree or better, but if you look at the jobs in New Hampshire that require that kind of education, its only about 27 . Yeah. So, that to me could mean that you have highly educated people that are residents of New Hampshire and want to take advantage of our quality of life, but working in massachusetts. In ten seconds, how do we get level . Cut energy costs, cut taxes companies. No. Charlie from Bartlett Center of Public Policy. Dennis, New Hampshire center for licy. Thank you. If you want to listen to that again, go to wmur. Com and click economy. Forecast. Chris hey, folks, chris with you this morning in for josh for one last morning. Josh back next weekend, he misses you all and i bet he misses temperatures in the 40s, actually considering where he is, he probably doesnt. But temperatures this time of the year shouldnt be this warm at this time of day, but they are, and thats what we have and lets enjoy it while its here. In n inline line of clouds and shower. And were starting to see the back edge of the clouds poke into the North Country although more clouds and showers pop up there during the afternoon. Meanwhile, some clearing for the afternoon. Call it partly sunny, it might be mostly sunny in spots at times. Cooler air and it doesnt get established until tonight and tomorrow. So, it certainly will be cool for the next couple of days after today. Its pretty bright. What we lose in temperatures, we gain in sunshine. Completely sunny on monday and darn close to it on tuesday, too. Hey, here we have the remnants of what was once Hurricane Patricia. Its a huge wind and rain storm and this thing continues to pull off the north on monday. New hampshire, nice and clear and this storm is miles and miles away. As we head through late monday and early on tuesday, the storm is getting closer to the Tennessee River valley and eventually late on tuesday, its in the ohio river valley from cincinnati to West Virginia and virginia. Side if you have a big wide screen tv is clear. Its on wednesday, we see increase of clouds and rain shield from that storm alives rate in the day. Showers this morning, pretty much done. The showers linger up north. Breezy, milder, highs up to 62 degrees, thats a nice improvement. Cooling off again tonight. You know, i have a little secret for you, guys, its late october. This is pretty much how its supposed to be now. 27 to 36, i know and for those that like it, hey, youre in your glory. For the day tomorrow, had a little cooler than average, i must say, but temperatures in the 40s, lower 50s in the sun though, it will be milder and we will have plenty of sun from sunup to sundown, and its going to be nice and clear. Not terribly windy tomorrow, either. Here is your next five days. Featuring bright and cool weather for tomorrow, after the mild one today. Bright and cool weather for tuesday. Wednesday morning, we have a few showers in the morning, some fog, thats not the leftovers of patricia, thats a warm front that works in before and then we get a mid day sun. Mid to Late Afternoon into the evening when that rain shield moves in, it could pour here. Were talking not feet of rain like in texas, but maybe one to two inches of rain, then it clears, or at least it looks to clear late on thursday, and morning into the afternoon, and that gets us into the 60s before cooling back off for the end of the week and upcoming weekend. Jim foley now with news 9 sports. Now, news 9 sports. Windham football has the states longest active winning streak at 17 straight. At least they had the states longest winning streak. Milford taking care of that. Second quarter, windham ball down by six and emerick takes the hand off, getting the jags the lead. Not for long, milford answers. Senior captain, 10yard touchdown pass to palladino. Spartans lead 2721. Second half, milford pulls away in large part thanks to junior running back, vitali. Four do you understand on the day, fill ford wins, 4121. Division three battle of the unbeaten teams, in the south conference, First Quarter, bears come out firing, and christian sorano for tim harmon. Quick six. They pair up for a 130 lead. And here, punches it in, and makes it 137. But too much from sorano. Here the q. B. Keeps it and weaves through for a 30yard touchdown. Bears knock down the falcons, 3321. Taking the top seed in the south. Unh football, again, cats lose another conference matchup. This time to delaware. 3114. The fighting blue hens outscored the cats in the second halfment unh falls 13 in conference. St. Anselm which conquered smith. Scoring for southern connecticut, makes it 70. Later in the quarter, eric fair right. And hit bar tech for the 19yard touchdown. Tied at 7. But the owls respond in a big way. Check out this pass and catch. Robert natolo to jenkins, diving touchdown grab. St. Anselm loses 2814. And one was carted off with an injury in this one. Im jim foley, a look at sports. Amy thank you, jim foley. Two collided, check it out. Its a volleyball game, it flies through over the net and through the net. Spectators cheered for the trick shot and it did not count. Of course not. An adorable tribute to celebrate a special day. Get your tissues ready, these octogenarians may tug on your heart strings recreating a scene from a disney movie. And this looks like a painting. Thank you for sending this in. You can submit your pictures and well, its a story thats tugging hearts nationwide, a special way. Chris to celebrate their 60th anniversary they decided to recrete up, elements from the movie including carls tennis ball cane, and the squirrel reaction from the dog. Their grandson, a pianist, wore movie. Amy so well done. Chris impressive. Weather today, milder, not terribly bright. What we lose for temperatures we gain in sunshine. Then leftovers of patricia here, a mild one on thursday before cooling off for the end of the week and month. Halloween on saturday. Amy fall back next weekend, right . Next weekend, yes. Amy thank you for joining us, my pleasure. Amy tune in at 10 00 for closeup. Good morning america is next. Chris and i will be hanging around with more local news and weather. We wish you a great sunday. Im todd from aarp riding through the mill yards to make some noise for all the real possibilities were providing right here in our community because if you dont think real possibilities in Greater Manchester when you think aarp then you dont know aarp maybe youve caught our movies for grownups series or heard about how our Fraud Watch Network protects families from being the victims of scams were also helping people achieve their goals with life reimagined are president as if you were a manmale. 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