Now wmur news 9 at six. , it is the perfect fall day. Leaves are turning and many of you are out in joining fall foliage. I am stephanie woods. Haley woods is here. Hayley lapoint is here. Hayley take a look at the latest report. The peak is spreading over northern portions of this state as well as washington valley. High color for everyone except for the seacoast. Splashes of color across the state. It was a comfortable day after starting out so cool. Clear skies tonight. Many of us get to enjoy it in 70 degree weather. I will talk about just how hot it will get coming up. Stephanie hundreds of thousands of people are flocking to the Granite State. Kristen carosa tells us how the leaves are bringing business to the north country. Kristen the foliage is absolutely beautiful. More than 6000 people are expected to come to the state this Holiday Weekend to check out this view. The fall colors we are waiting for are in full bloom. It is absolutely gorgeous. It is phenomenal. This couple ma
the washington post posted it online ahead of today s printed edition. we did not talk about it last night on this program because we had questions about how valid it is to bring up something someone did nearly 50 years ago when they were in high school. those questions, though have not gone away. so we ll let you decide for yourself tonight whether this story itself is relevant to a presidential campaign or not. what we want to focus on is romney s response to the story. we heard what he said in north carolina today, apologizing, quote, if anyone feels they were offended, but on fox news yesterday, romney said more, including response to accusations the incident amounted to gay bullying since the victim was thought to be gay. take a look. i had no idea what that individual s sexual orientation might be. going back to the 1960s, that wasn t something that we all discussed or considered. so that s simply just not accurate. i don t recall the incident myself, but i ve seen
we heard what he said in north carolina today, aapologizing, quote, if anyone feels they were offended, but on fox news yesterday, romney said more, including response to accusations the incident amounted to gay bullying since the victim was thought to be gay. take a look. i had no idea what that individual s sexual orientation might be. going back to the 1960s, that wasn t something that we all discussed or considered. so that s simply just not accurate. i don t recall the incident myself, but i ve seen the reports and not going to argue with that. there is no question but that i did some stupid things when i was in high school. and obviously if i hurt anyone by virtue of that, i would be very sorry for it and apologize for it. so romney says he doesn t remember the incident, five of romney s classmates remembered it well enough to go into great detail to the washington post in separate accounts, all these years later. we can t ask john lauber to corroborate the details.
night on this program because we had questions about how valid it is to bring up something someone did nearly 50 years ago when they were in high school. those questions, though have not gone away. so we ll let you decide for yourself tonight whether this story itself is relevant to a presidential campaign or not. what we want to focus on is romney s response to the story. we heard what he said in north carolina today, apologizing, quote, if anyone feels they were offended, but on fox news yesterday, romney said more, including response to accusations the incident amounted to gay bullying since the victim was thought to be gay. take a look. i had no idea what that individual s sexual orientation might be. going back to the 1960s, that wasn t something that we all discussed or considered. so that s simply just not accurate. i don t recall the incident myself, but i ve seen the reports and not going to argue with that. there is no question but that i did some stupid things wh
was reportedly relentlessly teased for his presumed homosexuality and for having long bleach blond hair. five of romney s classmates told the washington post what they remembered about a day in 1965, a day that, quote, they came upon lauber tackled him and pinned him to the ground. lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help and romney clipped his hair with a pair of scissors. the story broke yesterday when the washington post posted it online ahead of today s printed edition. we did not talk about it last night on this program because we had questions about how valid it is to bring up something someone did nearly 50 years ago when they were in high school. those questions, though have not gone away. so we ll let you decide for yourself tonight whether this story itself is relevant to a presidential campaign or not. what we want to focus on is romney s response to the story. we heard what he said in north carolina today, apologizing, quote, if anyone feels they