The driver was killed. State police say it started in salem where the driver was involved in another accident, apparently swiping two other cars. As the trooper chased him, police say he drove erratically until the deadly ending. The troopers took immediate action, in removing the operator from the immediate area. Pulling him up the embankment, and administering first aid. I saw a pickup highway, had his flashers on. Nearly crashed several times. Reporter after the fiery crash, it took firefighters several minutes to put out the flames as they also dealt with angry hornets. It appears that the truck came to a stop near several nests and some of the firefighters were stung. Mike cronin, wmur news 9. Jean thanks, mike. We now know the man who died in during a confrontation with police. That comes from the autopsy results released today on 25yearold cody lafont. Officers responded to congress street sunday morning after receiving a 911 call. Lafont was shot during a confrontation with those officers. The Attorney Generals Office and state police are still investigating the circumstances that led to the confrontation. Josh state Police Investigating a crash in chester that sent four people to the 51yearold woman crossed over the center line and hit a pickup truck head on. She was air lifted to mass. General hospital. The people in the pickup truck were brought to park land medical center. We dont know how serious their injuries are. New developments, police have searched the home of the vermont man rescued after being stranded at sea. Nathan carman is being questioned by the coast guard, his mother presumed dead after their fishing boat sank. So far investigators have removed a modem, a handwritten home. As hiz lur reports, his attorney is requesting to be present at all interviews. Reporter relief and gratitude from family and friends who call this an answer to their prayers. 22yearold Nathan Carman finally back on land after spending a week lost at sea on an inflatable raft. We are ecstatic, were excited. I was thrilled that they found him and i was devastated that the mother and son left for a fishing trip on september 18 and failed to return. The coast guard says rescuers searched for days to no avail. Then this past sunday he was picked up by a chinese freighter off marthas vineyard. The 22yearold told authorities his mother disappeared when their fishing boat sank. When the boat started tanking an water he got his life raft couldnt find her. Reporter despite the search for the mother being suspended, friends are still praying for a miracle. Wcvb is now reporting that nay nan has a form of autism and his attorney has asked coast guard Officials Say their focus now is learning everything they can from nathan to see if any changes in the search and rescue efforts are necessary to make sure this d again. Elizabeth hur, abc news, new york. Jean tonight the city of rochester is launching a new program attacking the drug crisis, with the help of a hospital, police and the community. Wmurs Jennifer Crompton is live from the Seacoast Bureau with why this is hitting at such a crucial time. Reporter the police chief says Overdose Deaths are up 160 from the same time perfect last year, a magnitude of an issue that his working on together, for well over a year. Well, today they announced tomorrowing of the Rochester Community recovery center. Thats part of a comprehensive plan for access to recovery. Starting october 1, residents wanting to get clean can walk into the Police Department or the frisbee hospital emergency room any hour of any of day and get connected with a certified counselor from southeastern New Hampshire services. They can develop a Program Starting with an in or outpatient c longterm plan. We need choice, we need services. So to take it and to build off the an we build in tending indication component, we work with the ymca to teef them healthy living, nutritional counseling. We want this to be all inclusive. Reporter the Police Department is launching a School Education and how all of this is funded. For now live in portsmouth, Jennifer Crompton, wmur news 9. Josh commitment 2016 now, Hillary Clinton and donald trump are back on the campaign trail after a debate that drew more than 81 Million Viewers on television alone. Wmurs aixa diaz live in washington with a look at how the candidates are approaching the next phase of this campaign. Reporter both candidates are back out campaigning today sharing a debate stage for the first time last night. Did anybody see that debate last night . [cheers and applause] one down, two to go. Reporter Hillary Clinton held a rally in North Carolina after facing off with donald trump during their first of three debates. The winner of the debate is who ever surges ahead in the polls the next couple days. Its too early to have an assessment of who won. It was an interesting evening certainly. Reporter trump who took part in the hispanic town hall in miami complained about his microphone, prompting a response from clinton. I dont want to believe in conspiracy theories, but it was much lower than hers. Reporter Fact Checkers say while the candidate statements during the debate were largely accurate, clinton understated her position on trade deals and falsely claimed trump has paid nothing in federal taxes. Trump repeated that he opposed the iraq war and that there are people in the middle who dont like either of them but are trying to justify voting for clinton or trump. Reporter clinton and trump meet again in less than two weeks, this time in st. Louis for their be second debate. Aixa diaz, wmur news 9. Josh the candidates will find out first hand this week what granite staters thought of their debate performances. Hillary clinton will be in durham tomorrow for a rally at u. N. H. Then on thursday, donald trump will be in New Hampshire in jean several more communities are nounsing water restrictions because of New Hampshires drought. Concord and deerfield are asking people to voluntarily cut back on outdoor watering, and the hooksett village Water District has issued a ban on outdoor watering. We did get some rain today before the sun peaked out. Live pictures now looking over goffstown. It reached 72 degrees here. Meteorologist josh judge says there are more showers in the forecast. Josh j. yes, there are, were just hopeful. Today helped a little. We saw a quarter to maybe a third of an inch of rain in a lot of locations overnight and into early this morning. Then things cleared out. Were in the lower 70s in a lot of locations in central and southern New Hampshire, upper 60s if youre not there. You can see how things have cleared out fairly nicely and weve had all had a little sunshine and humidity since we saw the rain roll through. Certainly a good start to our situation. Tonight we are going to see the temperatures not quite as chilly and there is the chance of a sprinkle or shower tonight, and tomorrow. But beyond that as we head into the rest of this week into the upcoming weekend the chances increase. Well talk about that more in your full forecast in a few minutes. Jean thanks, josh. Traffic watch time, lets see how its looking out there, live pictures over 293 in manchester, the view from our elliott at rivers edge always with a live look at the road home. Peggy hi, josh and jean. Were off to a good start for the evening commute, no major issues to tell you about so far. 93 north a got ride coming up over the state line. You hit a little slowdown through londonderry through the Construction Zone there. 293 is moving well both north and southbound around the city, and no problems making your way through the hooksett toll others 101 west starting to get busy at the bedford and 114 intersection. And weve got the usual volume in merrimack on the everett 101 looks good to hampton. A lot of company on the spaulding turnpike through newington. Im peggy james for wzid. Jean coming up on news 9 at 5 00, a verdict in the hayride crash that killed a 17yearold girl and injured more than 20 other josh fire chief killed when a suspected drug lab explodes, but he wasnt even in the building. Jean at 5 30, unsetting advertising around the College Campus trying to woo young dates for older men. Josh another town adds safe stations to its fight against New Hampshires drug crisis, im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. She ate like a pig. A person whos flat chested is very hard to be a 10. Does she have a good body . No. Does she have a fat [expletive] . Absolutely. Do you treat women with respect . Jean tonight the wife of a chechen man shot and killed while being questioned about the Boston Marathon bombing suspects is now charged with lying to the f. B. I. According to the indictment, the wife of todashev told investigators that a person she years before the bombing, but investigators say she actually drove that person herself from new york to atlanta. The day after she was questioned her husband was killed by an f. B. I. Agent in florida. Josh a jury just reachedded a verdict in the case of a driver involved in a deadly hayride crash in maine. Today jurors found 56yearold david brown not guilty of reckless conduct in the october 2014 accident. A 17yearold died in the injured. The victims family see we knew it cot go either way, were disappointed with the outcome, but it has to bearing on the civil case. Tonight a fire chief is dead and 15 other First Responders injured after a new york rowhouse exploded. Firefighter were responding to a reported gas leak at the residence when it blew up the 17yearold veteran or 17year veteran of the fdny was directing operations from the falling debris. Authorities are looking into whether the billion was being used to grow marijuana. Jean right now flood walls are protecting newses of homes and businesses from severe flooding in iowa. The sowed car river crested at 22 feet sending rivers through neighborhoods. Abcs Lauren Lyster has the latest on the historic flooding and a wildfire also burning out west. Reporter choppers dousing smoldering hills with water trees below. This fire breaking out monday in the santa cruz mountains. Hundreds of residents told to leave last night. This is it, mandatory evacuation. Reporter this morning they were packing up their belongings. And watching the billowing smoke. There was a huge Mushroom Cloud which was pretty daunting. Horses are visible pacing back and forth, hundreds of fire personnel working to contain the blaze amid a heat wave across the state. And further east in the middle of the country its water forcing people out of their homes. In iowa the cedar river cresting today at 22 feet. Floodwaters turning neighborhoods into rivers, inundating homes, residents trying to reach them by canoe. This is the second largest and cedar rapids. Reporter officials believe close to 3,000 properties are evacuated and the river expected to be in major flood stage all week. There are flood warnings across the state. Here in california, good news for crews battling wildfires. The heat is easing, cooler temperatures are expected to move in by the middle and end of the week. In los angeles, im lauren josh j. a tuesday that began with some rain, even some downpours and actually turned pretty nice this afternoon in most locations. Lets take a look at where we stand at the moment with those temperatures in the upper 60s. Winds lightly coming in out of the east, keeps us cooler near the coast, but gradually a little warmer farther inland. And take a look at the rain that we saw, not it a ton, but certainry everything is helpful this time of year and this time of drought thats going on. We have a good chance of adding more to these tallies, so hopefully well chip away at this drought over the next week or so. You can see these amounts here a little over a quarter inch in most parts of New Hampshire this morning the clouds have been pulling sunshine in most part of the state, still some clouds hovering around parts of southeastern New Hampshire right now. But even there weve seen some sun. A look at that rain as it pulls on through, quick moving, so we cleared out afterwards quickly with just a few stray sprinkles that kind of stayed behind. But now were seeing clearing skies for the nighttime hours, but the cloud bank up again as we go through the overnight and team. But this but this big upper revel low dropping down out of canada will be in our future. Lets take a look at future cast and show you how it does so, its one of these very low moving upper level spinning areas of low pressure. It just very slowly moves and that could be good news for our drought situation later this week and into the weekend. Because it could sit over us for a little while, delivering oh off and on scattered showers. Lets take a closer look at drizzle or sprinkles tonight and through the day tomorrow as well. In the afternoon there could be breaks of sunshine around, but certainly in the morning dont be surprised if you have drizzle at times. A lot dryer on thursday as we have a break in the action. Only the slightest chance of a spot sprinkle in southern New Hampshire on thursday. Then we get into friday and things start to turn wet again from that low pressure that begins to bring in some rain from down south, during the day on friday and into friday or saturday, this weekend has as well. So the high temperatures today were in the 70s, but for tonight were down into the 50s, some 40s to the north and west and look at the difference for tomorrow, it will be noticeably cooler, thanks to a northeast win coming in off the ocean, either side of 60 degrees. So a much cooler feel tomorrow, damp and a little more dreary as well, with the chance at least of some sprinkles or drizzle at times. Theres your extended forecast and theres a lot of unsettled day, every other day for the most part, at least the chance through about sunday or monday. Some much needed rain showers. Jean thanks, josh. Josh many people are struggling with this election year, but has it actually caused a new psychological condition . Jean, dont answer that. But one doctor says yes. Is congress on a collision course that could lead to a Government Shutdown . Colin van ostern im colin van ostern. You can go online and read our plan to create good jobs and keep young families in New Hampshire. First, we should cut inefficient state spending, just like a business. No sales tax, no income tax. We need to help Small Businesses and startups grow with less red tape. Lower College Costs and cut student debt. And expand clean energy. We are one nation under god. That black and white, we are one nation indivisible. That republican and democrat, we are all americans. Id like to punch him in the face. You know what they used to do to guys like that . Theyd be carried out in a stretcher, folks. Priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. Josh theres a therapist outside of washington d. C. Is that treating patients for what he has dubbed election stress disorder. Apparently hes not loan in noticing peoples stress in year. A survey says that 25 of u. S. More stressed on the job, because of political discussions. At any rate, the therapist who named election industries disorder says it often looks like iri that billity and resentment as people try to cover up anxiety and the feel that they have no control over whats happening. So, could a roller coaster ride be a new, quick and painless stone . Jean researchers tested it after people reported passing kidneys stones after riding big Thunder Mountain at disneyworld so they used artificial kidneys to try it out and researchers found even the biggest stones passed after two or three rides, but they still dont recommend roller coaster therapy as a means of treatment. A new report from the c. D. C. Shows most americans admit to binge drinking, heres dr. Timothy johnson. A beer with the game, a cock tame after work, a glass of wine with friends. An occasional drink or two can be a great way to wind down. But when when one drink becomes four or five, or maybe more, its binge drinking, and that can be a huge problem socially and medically. Now a new report from the c. D. C. Shows the number of American Adults who admit to drinking that heavily is significantly higher than it was data and found that nearly one in three men and nearly one in five women admit to having at least one heavy drinking day within the past year. These findings are important since binge drinking is linked to problems including accidents, injuries, Liver Disease and neurological damage. Whats causing this spike in heavy drinking . Thats unclear. But pointing it out provides an opportunity to remind anyone who likes an occasional drink that moderation is key. Because knowing when to say when is something that we can all raise a glass to. With this medical minute, im dr. Timothy johnson. Josh okay. Fall flavors have hit stores shelves, but one of the most traditional tastes of the season is struggling this year. Jean straight ahead, whats causing new englands cranberry crisis . 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