Good morning on this incredibly busy tuesday. Im reena ninan. Im kendis gibson. It is busy for so many different reasons. We have politics, we have weather that were covering and, of course, covering spectre, as well which is opening up. One of my favorite stories. Lets begin with that political takedown, donald trump, ben carson making big strides ahead of the third gop debate. The third poll in a row is showing trump losing to carson in iowa now by 14 points. But trump isnt buying it. Its your voice, your vote. Tom llamas is following the republicans. Reporter donald trump telling supporters dont believe the hype or the polls. Im number two in iowa. I said, i dont believe it. Ones bloomberg, they hate me, the other one is a super liberal newspaper, the des moines register, which is third rate, totally third rate, not respected in iowa. Its a third rate crummy newspaper. So, ive got these two polls. Bloomberg hates me dont forget, michael did want to run for president. Reporter trump
While police have yet to make an arrest, they did confiscate a shotgun and several bags of ammunition. Adam sexton is live in laconia tonight with our top story. Adam tom and shelley that gun is what had police so concerned earlier this afternoon. Acting on information that not only did the suspect have it, he was allegedly threatening to use it. Investigators left 20 jewett street in laconia with a doublebarrel shotgun and bags full of ammo tuesday evening. The items were taken into evidence following a tense afternoon which saw Police Surround the home following the report of a threat. Attempted to make contact with an individual; we were informed that one of the rifle or a shotgun, we knew it was a long rifle gun. After detaining and removing a a young woman from the scene the group set about trying to determine if the suspect was still inside the home. After initial tactics produced the home and determined the suspect was gone, most likely making his escape in the time before they
Our matt gutman right there. Those winds so powerful, they pulverized concrete power lines like this. Ripped off rooftops like this one here. Brick walls came tumbling down. Anything that wasnt nailed down, sent flying. Even boats like that. But the reason so few people were hurt . Look around you. For dozens of miles around, forest. Reporter the country getting lucky. The compact, fastmoving storm passing over a sparsely populated area. And whats left of patricia coupled with this gulf storm is heading northeast. The next couple days very wet in spots from the Mississippi River all the way 0 maine. Rob marciano, abc news, atlanta, georgia. Turning now to politics and donald trump losing more ground in iowa ahead of tomorrows gop debate. Trump blasted pollsters who reported him trailing carson by double digits telling supporters hes still in first place. After refusing to apologize to carson for remarks about his faith, trump is raising eyebrows with his latest comments on religion thi
No one covers New Hampshire like we do. Now, wmur news 9 at 5 00. Adam tonight, we are learning more about a deadly rollover crash on route 101 in exeter. Police say 33yearold Eric Williams of hampton was pronounced dead at the scene saturday afternoon. Good evening, i m adam sexton. Stephanie and i m stephanie woods. Police say williams was speeding away from police right before he crashed. Wmur s Kristen Carosa spoke to state police today and joins us now with the details. Kristen Eric Williams was driving a 2007 ford crown victoria, a car he made several driving violations in. But when police attempted to pull him over, he only drove faster. The pursuit started saturday afternoon on the eastbound side of route 101 in exeter. Williams didn t stop and hit speeds over 100 Miles Per Hour. He lost control and rolled his car over several times. Guardrails were smashed on the eastbound and westbound sides of the highway. Williams did not have his seatbelt on and was thrown from the car. He
Essentially what this is is an automatic override that will enable the train to stop if necessary. Amtrak officials calling it an added layer of safety along the northeast corridor. Over the weekend, the railroad activated its positive train control system on its route between new york city and philadelphia. The system is an automatic speed control system that will automatically apply brakes when a train goes over the speed limit. Last may eight people were killed and 200 injured when an amtrak train bound for penn station derailed in philadelphia traveling 106 Miles Per Hour, more than double the speed limit. After the derailment Congress Mandated that all have the system in place by the end of this year. Congress ended up extending the commuter railroads complained that logistical challenges would make it difficult to implement the technology quickly. To know where every single train is on every inch of our network, this is as fast as we can go. Metro north and new Jersey Transit exp