Phone pings and witness descriptions of squares vehicle, they believe the manchester couple was there at the time the 911 call came in. They were initially lying to the police and then theres going to be upgrading of charges to access after the fact, we may not be stopping there, but thats where were at right now. Reporter at 6 00, more on what led police to the squares. For now live in the studio, jennifer crompton, wmur news 9. Josh two women were trapped in their vehicles today after they hit head on, this shut down manners byron bridge, often referred to as the kelly street bridge. According to fire officials it left one woman with critical injuries. Wmurs Heather Hamel is live with details. Reporter the accident happened shortly before 11 00 right here on this bridge on kelly street. Even though emergency Officials Say initially nobody came forward to report they had had had seen how this happened, one aftermath was scary. She was just get me out of here, get me out of the here, my leg my leg my leg. Reporter shes talking about the woman in this car, now crushed on both ends. Mcguinness tried to comfort her after she and a woman driving a white van hit head on. I was just trying to keep her calm and not to move. Reporter but the woman couldnt get out, nor could the woman in the van. Rescue crews used the jaws of life on both victims. The victim of the white van was unconscious at the time and during the process she became conscious. Reporter both were taken to local hospitals, but police say the driver of the blue car had to be med flighted to boston. She suffered serious injuries to her lower body. The Accident Reconstruction Team spent hours on scene, and determined that the van crossed the center line, causing the crash. Mcguinness says all she saw was the van spinning and coming to a stop, but she wasnt sure who hit who, all she could do was call 911 and try to be a comfort. I was just saying hold on, theyre coming, do you here the sirens, and theyre coming, and she just said i cant move my leg. I want to get out. Reporter no names have been released and police are still investigating this accident. As for the bridge it reopened about an hour and a half ago. Live in manchester, Heather Hamel, wmur news 9. Josh Road Conditions obviously are on a lot of peoples minds tonight as they get ready to head out of the town for the thanksgiving holiday. Flurries are falling on some parts of the North Country right now, but mike haddad says were not expecting any weather that will slow down those travels. Mike the forecast continues to be consistent and thats a good thing of course with dry weather for the most part, lingering not only through aa good part of the night but into the travel day tomorrow. Here are the flakes up north, great north woods through portions of the mound washington valley. Everything south of that not reaching the ground. Temperatures remain on the cold side. Upper 20s and lower to mid 30s and this quiet pattern does linger which again continues to be great news for those hitting the roads tonight, right through tomorrow and even into thanksgiving. Notice dry skies all the way back through the midwest, down into the ohio valley. Well have Crystal Clear skies tomorrow. And as we look ahead over the next few days, basically this is what to expect. Tomorrow sunny, mid 40s south. Thanksgiving day, a few extra clouds. Low 50s. And on black friday, look for highs in tupper 50s with cloud cover in northern parts of New Hampshire. All in all couldnt ask for much better than whats heading in days. Well take a look at weather beyond that for the weekend into early next week, coming up. Josh thanks. In the New HampshireBallot Law Commission heard challenges several candidates running in the president ial primary. Wmurs Andy Hershberger was there as the commission took up these issues and hes live now with their decision. Reporter there were several challenges to candidates who primary, the biggest coming against senator bernie sanders. Andy martin spoke before the Ballot Law Commission by phone from san francisco. Martin who has also filed for the primary as a republican said that sanders claims to be a democrat but is actually an independent and should not be allowed to run as a democrat. But the deputy secretary of state said awful sanders paperwork was in order when he filed and those representing sanders said the Democratic Party has embraced him as a candidate. The commission rejected martins petition and upheld sanders candidacy. I believe that the secretary of states decision to accept senator sanders file as a democratic candidate for president was right, and the fact that the platt Law Commission in a unanimous vote voted to uphold that as correct as well. Reporter challenges to the candidacies of senators marco rubio and ted cruz were also rejected. The challenge to the candidacy of Republican Donald Trump was with the Commission Chair saying there was no substance, it was simply an editorial statement. Josh today wmur and abc news are announcing when the two hampshire will take place. The democratic debate will be held on december 19, and the Republican Debate will be on february 6. Both start at 8 00. Ill be joining abcs david muir and Martha Raddatz as moderators. If youd like to submit a question for either debate, you can do so by going to wmur. Com. Jean president obama and the president of france sat down at the white house today to discuss the fight against isis. Wmurs salary kidd is live in our Washington Bureau with a look at their discussion. Sally . Reporter jean, president obama says the u. S. And france are stepping up coordination and intelligence sharing and call on standing side by side, president obama and french president Francois Hollande said they are committed to destroying isis. President obama in the wake of paris and with the threats in belgium theres also a growing recognition among european nations that they need to ramp up additional efforts to prevent the flow of foreign terrorist fighters. It is about taking out their financing, hunting down their leaders, dismantling their network. Reporter the two leaders are also urging russia and turkey to avoid escalation. After a turkish f16 shot down a russian war plane along the syrian border. We stand in solidarity with integrity. Reporter nato which held an emergency meeting in brussels says the russian jet entered turkish air space despite multiple warnings. Moscow claims the plane was over syria, not turkey, a claim disputed by the pentagon. This is nato air space, itself. That of course made the turks concerned. Reporter russian president putin called turkeys action a stab in the back and warned of significant consequences. President hollandes trip is part of a larger diplomatic push to get more countries involved in an intensified fight against isis. Jean . Jean we know that president hollande will travel to russia this week to meet with president putin. Was there any agreement today on building a new coalition with russia to combat the threat . Reporter no, jean, and that was supposed to be near the top of the agenda during todays meeting at the white house, but it got pushed to the side, given this is dent between turkey and russia. That incident is raising more questions about whether the u. S. Should coordinate with russia to avoid conflicts in syrian air space. Jean thanks, sally kidd, live in washington tonight. How to handle the refugee crisis stemming from ton rest in syria. A lawsuit has been filed against one glove who says his state wont take my more refugees from that region. The aclu filed the suit against indiana governor mike pence. It says the governors dont have the authority to refuse federal refugee plans. Similar lawsuits are expected in other state where governors have said they will block refugees over concerns about security and screening procedures. Jean a man who admitted to causing the car crash that killed his pregnant girlfriend has changed his story. Robert pitts now says a defect in the car was responsible for the crash. Wmurs ray brewer was in court as pitts lawyer described the government recall behind these new developments. Reporter wearing his prison green, robert pitts went back before the judge who sentenced him asking to withdraw his guilty plea. Pitts pled guilty to several charges including negligent homicide for the 2012 crash that took the life of his girlfriend. Arguing before the judge who sentenced pitts the defense claims they have new information that a mechanical defect was responsible. If its not the driver and its the defect in the motor vehicle, you cant hold the driver responsible. Reporter the family says thats why theyre pursuing the case. Trying to get rid of the mom side, because g. M. Was more than 50 involved i would say. Reporter after pitts entered the guilty plea, a recall was issued for the impal la he was driving, a problem with the ignition switch could cause the engine to shut off while the car was going. An expert testified about the problems it would cause. You would lose your power steering. If you pump the brakes more than a few times you lose your vacuum boos e and you wouldnt have the ability to, well, you would, but would it be much more difficult to apply your brakes. Reporter and he added that the airbag would fail to deploy. Under crossexamination though he admitted the failure of the airbag to deploy didnt cause the car to go off the road and into the trees. The airbag deployment or nondeployment was not the approximate cause of this crash. Thats correct. Reporting. Prosecutors did point out that the crash still would not have happened if pitts had pulled police. The judge has taken his request under advisement. Lets turn to the traffic watch, see how things are moving out there tonight, we do have a Traffic Alert in manchester right now. Emergency crews are on the scene of a crash on canal street near granite street, in manchester. Josh peggy james is tracking this situation. What can you tell us . Some serious trouble at canal and granite street area, were told there are five vehicles involved in this accident, so do expect some major backups there scene trying to get that cleared away for you. Coming up from the massachusetts border hasnt been too bad of a ride, theres been a lot of issues in massachusetts today, but from salem up to manchester still looking pretty good, until you get to 293, and then around the mill yard you can probably start to see some backups on 293 as youre trying to get to the exits at exit 5. Hooksett no problems as youre going through the tolls right now. Concord youre busy through some of the exits in concord. 101 west youre busy through the bedford stretch and ear just getting word of a crash on the everett turnpike northbound, this is at exit 6, with the right lane closed on the everett northbound, that will be causing major backups in the coming moments. So do avoid that area if you k. From the wzid traffic network, im peggy james. Jean coming up, we go behind the scenes of one place developing the technology to groups. Josh a darth vader costume didnt do much for this wouldbe robber, wait until you hear what the clerk used to fight him off. Mike temperatures heading higher as the week goes on. Jean at 5 30 a judge has sided with this cancer patient, pushing to expeed yacht her medical marijuana papers. Josh and new developments in the case of owen labrie, the prep School Graduate convicted of sexually assaulting on under josh a state of emergency has been declared in tunisia after an explosion targeted a bus carrying members of that countrys president ial guard. At least a dozen people were killed in what officials are calling a terrorist attack. Tunisia is a former french territory whose political uprising in 2011 launched what became known as the arab spring. And this months terror attacks have left a lot of the word on edge wondering when and where the next round may come. Jean investigators are increasingly turning to technology to stop incidents before they happen. Reporter Mike Springer from our sister station koat got a look at one new tool. Reporter what youre looking at is Airline Traffic over chicago during the course of a typical day. Christina and her fellow researchers at the National Labs developed this program that uses math to find patterns that the naked eye may miss, but it also finds things that dont fit any patterns. Were using math mattics and Computer Science to say take a whole ton of data, millions of data points, and turn them into hundreds of data points. And that allows analysts to look at them much faster. Reporter once they key in on someting, it could help them predict whats coming next, possibly even pep prevent Something Like a terrorist attack, but it doesnt stop there. The program has almost endless applications, kit be used by the airlines, shipping industries and police. Panther is still in its early stages, but she says it has unlimited potential. Would it be nice to have one place to do all your analysis, so this is one way potentially that could help. Reporter and shes confident that one way or another, panther your word sometime soon. Mike scattered flurries up north. Outside of that dry skies. Take a look at the time lapse in the lakes region, Crystal Clear skies a good part of the morning, then some clouds did bubble up and build in from the west during the afternoon. Those clouds have produced a few snow showers in the North Country. Speaking of snow, there it is on doppler radar, with the clouds overlaid we do have quite a few building in from the west. But theyll tend to dry up over the next several hours and look for a clearing trend to develop later tonight. As for temperatures, mighty chilly as the winter feel continues out there, upper 20s in the great north woods, only topped off in the low 30s today. Upper 30s in toucher valley right around freezing in the lakes region and just a little above that, concord points south and southeast. Overnight tonight another cold one as you might expect starting 20 in many spots, anywhere from the monadnock region through manchester and points east just a little above that and mildary long the lake shores. Speaking of milder, take a look at this warmth building not too far away, portions of the ohio valley into the central and southern plains, and points south, temperatures are at or above the average. In some of this springlike warmth is going to be moving in here beginning later thanksgiving day. And especially into friday. In terms of storms again, not much to speak of, you can tell the air direction moving from west northwest to east southeast. Its a dry air direction. Suppresses any storm track tuolumne our south. And theres no storm to the south any way to worry about. Here we go on future cast, mainly clear skies tonight, lots of sunshine statewide tomorrow and for that matter up and down the eastern seaboard into the midwest. So in terms of traveling by air well be in fine shape weather wise. Thanksgiving itself, winds develop out of the south that could throw a few clouds in our direction, but it should stay dry, it will be a different story with the approaching front back in the midwest. Tomorrow upper 30s and low to mid 40s lakes region points south and a little milder for your thanksgiving holiday, upper 40s north, 50 to 53 south on average. Thats about five, six, seven degrees above average for this time of year. Clear or at least becoming clear tonight, and quite chilly, 10 far north, upper teens to mid 20s elsewhere. Heres a look at the next seven days ahead. Notice how pleasant the weather continues to be right through friday, could be a few showers up north towards evening, but high as purchasing 60s south, near 50 far north, and it does cool down for the weekend but remains stormfree into early next week. Josh thank you, mike. Jean we have some breaking news on the crash north of canal street at granite street in manchester. Reporter yes, the call came in just before 5 00 this afternoon, that there was a fivecar accident in the southbound lanes of canal street just before granite street. But it turns out that only three cars were impacted on this one. We do have reports that three people were transported to local hospitals, but none of the injuries appear to be life threatening. Traffic is being diverted at this point from canal street down onto central, so you can get around the accident and looks like things are clearing up here shortly and were expecting the tow trucks to take the cars away. Live in manchester, suzanne roantree, wmur news 9. Jean thanks, suzanne. Josh up next, a common crib feature to be the reason behind infant deaths. Jean and a new england state has had its first deadly case of jean if youre a new parent or doing shopping for a newborn, youll want to hear this. Josh new Research Says that using crib bumpers could be dangerous for little ones. Dr. Timothy johnson explains why. Reporter soft blankets, colorful sheets, and crib butchers, nesting new parents sets. The rails of a crib seems like youre protecting your baby from bumps, it actually poses a dangerous potentially fatal suffocation risk. Pediatricians have long been warning about them, but new research out today shows that infant deaths due to these crib bumpers may be on the rise. Researchers writing in the journal of pediatric looked at all bumper related injuries and deaths in babies over a 28year period and found that these deaths and injuries have taken a big jump in recent years. Most of the deaths were in babies between 4 and 5 months old, an age when theyre just learning to roll over. Many more nonfate injuries were reported in older infants. The findings are likely to renew calls for a ban on these products, which pediatricians have been discouraging for nearly a decade. So if youre a new parent, even if you got an adorable crib set at your baby shower, take the with this medical minute, im dr. Timothy johnson. Junior one robbery suspect in florida was pretty easy to spot. He was dressed as darth vader. Jean officers say he waved a gun while demanding money from the clerk, but the clerk refused and instead hit the suspect with