The year. So basically that means were running about 19 below the average for this time of year. In terms of whats happening for the steady rain, thats shifting out. A little drizzle, light showers to north, before we do get the sun back during part of your friday. Do we see any more rain as we go into the weekend with him all of that straight ahead. Tom while todays rain may help to improve Drought Conditions, the state is still asking everyone to keep conserving water as we head into winter time. Why more wells are expected to go dry. Reporter the significant rainfall weve seen over the last few weeks has improved Drought Conditions statewide and now bodies of water like the Merrimack River are finally starting to get back to normal levels after months without any real rain. In the past week alone stratford and merrimack counties are finally out of the extreme drought zone. The seacoast and southern most less than 5 of New Hampshire is now experiencing extreme Drought Conditions. This months rainfall helps, but we would need another 30 days just like it to get out of the a severe drought. We would encourage residents to conserve water. They need to understand that when the ground freezes in the middle of december, whatever they have in their wells is what theyre going to have available throughout the winter. Reporter well Companies Across the state have been fielding calls for months for people with dried up wells or broken pumps. Live in manchester,. Jean an instreak in race for New Hampshires first Congressional District and that Josh Mcelveen will be moderating this matchup of three candidates tonight. Hes joining us live from st. Anselm college. Josh . Josh stop me if youve her this before, jean. Tonight on the stage, frank guinta, and carol sheaporter. This is their fourth matchup. But is there an independent greet this time around, sean oconnor has been making a late independent, in an incampaign as he tries to up end things and change the revolving door weve seen in the first c. D. Tonights debate is very important to all the campaigns, latest poll numbers according to wmur, sheaporter is leading. Oconnor is well behind at 13 . But in an election cycle where the numbers and polls have been happen. Theres a lot of issues that need to be covered tonight, no question about that. And it will also be interesting to see how many people turn out in support of these folks. Well check in with adam sexton outside the institute of politics where they should be setting up. Reporter interesting manifestation of how this race is maying out in the sign game. This time its more subdued and theres a folks are here with their signs and its just about equal between all three groups between guintas people and shea porters people she has a little more. Certainly guinta has had his problems. But again as i was saying, were seeing how this race has had the air sucked out of it by the their primaries and things like that. But theyre getting loud and were likely to see some firefighters out here later. One of the things to keep in mind, no love lost between sheaporter and guinta, thats played itself out here in the past with sharp elbows with the signs, but today so far pretty civilized. Josh lets hope it stays that way. The debate is at 7 00 tonight, carol sheaporter, the guinta and theyll be joined by the incandidate sean oconnor. For now live at st. Anselm college, Josh Mcelveen, back to you. Tom okay. Five days before the election, josh, and the race for the white house remains neck and neck. A new wbur poll shows that donald trump is one point ahead of Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire. And that is a notable change from the last wbur poll three weeks ago, which showed clinton the new poll also gives gary johnson 10 points with the green partys jill stein at three points. Those numbers are well within the margin of error, which is why New Hampshire remains a key stop on the campaign trail. Donald trumps daughter was in the state today, ivanka trump toured the Founders AcademyCharter School in manchester speaking with student theres. She also appear at a town halle vent in hollis and wrap up her visit as a Campaign Office in nashua. Some wellknown clinton in New Hampshire today. Scandal actress, Bellamy Young and al franken, franken says one of the reasons he believes in Hillary Clinton is her life long commitment to helping others. She grew up very religious as a methodist, and i think that she takes that gospel seriously, which is what you do for the least of these you do for me. Tom were going to see a lot of familiar faces including the donald trump will return to New Hampshire tomorrow for an event in atkinson. Chel i clinton will also be here tomorrow to campaign for her mother at Keene State College and dartmouth college. On monday, president obama will be at u. N. H. To campaign for clinton. And then trump will be right on his heels for an election eve rally at southern New Hampshire university aarena. Jean Donald Trumps wife me man yeah made melania made her first speech today. The candidates headed to the same state today. Reporter as election season winds down, the campaigns are gearing up. Lets make sure that we win on tuesday and we prove love trumps hate. With your vote we are just five days away from the change entire life. Reporter and both candidates are leaning heavily on their biggest supporters. Hillary clinton backed by president obama. Make no mistake, florida, all the progress weve made goes out the window if we dont win this election. Reporter and donald trump supported by his wife melania trump. I come here today to talk about my husband donald. Reporter in her long awaited speech, melania addresses the crowd in pennsylvania solo for the first time in the general election campaign. Integrity to washington and respect for america abroad. This is not an ordinary campaign. It is a movement. Reporter both candidates wrap up the day in north carolina. A key swing state in a race thats locked in a tie. The latest abc News Washington post National Tracking poll shows Clinton Holding a twopoint lead with 47 to groups are more separated than ever. 22 points divide men and women, thats more than double the norm. And theres a 65point gap between whites and nonwhites. Jean the town of perfect mack is getting out the word before tuesday about changes to its polling places. The goal is to prevent this, voters stuck in traffic for more than an hour to cast their ballots. Jennifer crompton is live with what reporter merrimack now has three polling places instead of just one. The town moderator says there will still likely be lines but nothing like voters experienced in february. Merrimack officials have a plan to avoid this from happening again. Last february locals hoping to vote in the first in the nation primary were backed up on route 3, some waiting more than an hour to make it to the towns only polling location. All day long. And there was nothing we could do at that point. Reporter things had run well four years earlier when they switched to the high school as the only site. But this time a change to traffic pattern threw things into chaos. We kept to polls open as long as we could so people could get there after 7 00 and we just did the best we could. Reporter now theyve switched back to three locations, the Upper Elementary School that was used for years local church, and now the new middle school. This map has been post all over town. Reporter their concern is that with some street assignment changes, people may show up at the wrong polling place. A dry run went well in september. But with only a tenth of the number of voters expected to turn out tuesday. Do you think people are excited to vote . Im not sure excited is the word i would use. Based on the number of people here. Reporter now the town has sent mailers and posted signs urging people to check which location theyre assigned to, that double checking is something people in every community are urged to do. Live in the studio, jennifer crompton, wmur news 9. Jean thanks. We have much more election coverage ahead, but first a former Granite State fire chief faces a judge as part of an arson and their fans enjoying their first day as World Series Champions in more than 100 years. Imagine if Hillary Clinton wins the white house. Then what . Liberal carol sheaporter . Shell be a rubber stamp for clintons agenda. And you know their agenda higher taxes. More government spending. And a weaker national defense. Only frank guinta will put New Hampshire first. Thats the key difference in this race. Frank guinta. Hes on our side. Im frank guinta and i approved this message. Darien why have the latest smartphone if you cant use it wherever you go . Switch to u. S. Cellular for our best plan yet 7 gigs of data per line for only 49. Or video chat at your secret fishing spot. All for just 49. The best part . We put towers in places the other guys dont. Because u. S. Cellular thinks you deserve a signal that works wherever you are. Switch to u. S. Cellular and get a whopping 7 gigs of data per line for only 49. Jean traffic watch time. Lets see how things are moving out there on this rainy thursday. Well start with live pictures looking other 293 in manchester. A little slow going southbound near exit 5. Tom peggy james joins us live commute. Peggy good evening, tom and jean. One note for you for our friends up in tilton, theres still a partial road closure going on on School Street while they work on restoring a pole thats down. 93 north hasnt been too bad coming up from the state line. No major tieups there. 293 a little slow going through the mill yard by exit 5. Just got word of a crash in bedford, everett turnpike northbound at the 293 southbound underpass, doesnt seem to be holding up traffic, be aware of that if youre going through the area. On the everett turnpike weve got building volume in merrimack between exits 10 and 11. No trouble between manchester and the seacoast. And the spaulding turnpike is heavy between exits 2 and 6 making your way north. From the wzid traffic network, im peggy james. During a raid against the taliban. Investigators are trying to figure out what went wrong in the nato air strikes, which also killed three afghan troops and 26 civilians. Four u. S. Troops were wounded. Afghanistan took overcome bat operations two years ago. Tom penn state will pay a record fine for the way it handled the sandusky abuse case. The former on 45 counts of child abuse. The department of education says the school was required by law to warn students and employees about the charges against sandusky. It has announced a 2. 4 million fine for violating that law. Penn state says its reviewing the report. Jean the former portsmouth fire chief was in court today in maine on a felony arson charge. Rickey plumber was arrested last spring for alley starting a fire in Old Orchard Beach that burned plumbers explanation for the massive fire. Reporter Court Documents say that former chief rickey plumber admitted to setting the wildfire, but he claims it was an accident. In York Superior Court today, plumber pleaded not guilty to felony arson charges. Over 100 firefighters responded to that april fire in Old Orchard Beach. He was chief there at the time. Plumbers vehicle was reportedly seen same area and he told investigators he had tossed a cigarette where the fire started. However, evidence of a cigarette was never found. He was arrested in may and resigned as chief. The 59yearold plumber has spent decades in firefighting and has served as chief in multiple communities including 19 years in portsmouth, New Hampshire. He retired in 2014 as fire chief in Old Orchard Beach. Plumber could face up to 30 mike some more beneficial rain today, a general third, half inch in many spots, which puts a little dent in the drought. Contrary month still leftover drizzle in a few spots with clouds trying to break. But theyll linger. Lingering showers in the great north woods and part of the white mountains. Theres fine mist and drizzle across central and southern parts of the state. So beneficial stuff is moving out, damp and murky for the evening, but then skies will brighten on friday. Temperature wise were back into tupper 40s north, 50 to 55 south. So right at the average for this time of year. Very close to the norm, right through the weekend and into the start of next week before we warm up a little bit as we go into tuesday. Right now upper 30s and lower 40s, thats projected lows up north tonight, so holding above the average. We should drop to around 30 in places like concord and also right up through the lakes region. But tonight about 10 degrees above that. So a relatively mild start to your friday. But the cool air will be billion in from the northwest throughout friday and aoo much cooler up here and that means temperatures will be running right at the average for friday into the weekend days. In terms of sunshine, we do get quite a few clouds early tomorrow morning before it does break out and we get into some sunshine mainly during the afternoon. As for each weekend day, a couple of weak systems will dart true from north to south and that means a spot shower here or there, but a good part of each of the weekend days should be rain, and yes, snowfree. Because any shower that falls in mixed or snow. Tomorrow morning quite a few clouds early. For the morning commute could be a sprinkle of rain south, flurries in the mountains. Then back to full sunshine for the afternoon. And the winds busy out of the northwest as well. Start of the weekend, a weak disturbance builds in from the north and west, times of sun, quite a few clouds, a few snow showers in the mountains. Possibility a mixed or rain shower south, but a good part of your saturday will be dry. Highmo the norm, low to mid 40s north and roar 50s south. It will feel the part of early november. And beyond that it stays quite chilly for the weekend. For both nights, very chilly, were back into the upper 20s to lower to mid 30s by day. Still quite cool on monday, theres your reminder to fall back to standard time, set the clocks back one hour late saturday night, early sunday morning. To are the big voting day on so weather should not get in the way at all. No excuse weather wise not to get out and do your thing. Jean thanks, mike. President obamas pretty prolific on twitter, but what will happen to his social media accounts when the next commander in chief takes office . Tom the white house now has an answer to that question. Some parents are being forced kate my mom and i love shooting hoops. But you know what she could still learn a few things from me just like ive learned a lot from her. She helped dad start his business. And she even fought to put bad guys in jail. Now, mom helps make laws that help people especially when they need it most. Im really proud of her. And shes taught me that with hard work i can do. Anything. Kelly im kelly ayotte, kate and im kate. Kelly kate and we approved tom they are still celebrating in chicago at this hour after the cubs first world series win in more than 100 in a dramatic fashion, an 87 victory in the 10th inning of game 7. Fans even had to deal with a rain delay, but they say that was nothing compared to an entire lifetime of waiting. City leaders are expecting a huge turnout for a championship parade through chicago tomorrow. Jean and life long cubs fans were overcome with emotion last night including actor bill murray there. You can see the famous super fans face when the team clinched the title. Field trying to check out the mvp car, then he joined the celebration in the locker room. no audio jean he then took over the reporters microphone and went onto interview the team. Tom plenty of politicians also stayed up late to watch the the loyal white sox fan tweeted he was happy to see wrigley rocking last night. He went onto say the cubs win was a chance even this south sider can believe in, and he asked if the team wanted to come to the white house before he leaves office. They probably will. And that twitter account will be passed onto the next president of the united states. Jean the white house now says that at potus will become the handle for the next commander in chief. Twitter handles for the first lady and White House Press sent obamas tweets will be moved to a new handle, at potus44. Good thinking. Tom straight ahead, pulling out the fisher cats field, why stadium workers ripped up turf with winter on the way. Jean were still a month away from black friday, but the deals are already arriving. Where youll find the biggest bargains right now. Tom and theres still plenty of foliage out there, look at vo ending funding for planned parenthood. Taking away our right to choose. Restricting our health care choices. This is senator Kelly Ayottes record. 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