Erin good morning to you on this last morning of 2015. We are seeing some pretty driving out in some spots. Now. Out there. Will be ok. The secondary roads, untreated be trouble. Bear that in mind. A little bit of drizzle in some spots, some shower activity. A lot of lingering clouds. We should get back into the mid30 s to lower 40 s this afternoon with clearing skies for the new year tonight. We want to take a look at your morning ride. We are joined live by 95. 7 wzid s deb davidson. Good morning. All the major roadways in New Hampshire are wet. There are portions of black ice throughout the state, especially north of merrimack. We are seeing some slowmoving traffic in the concord area on 393 in both directions. 101 west is slow as you approach 293 in manchester. We are seeing pockets of slow volume on 93 south from tilton to the state line. This report is being brought to you by peters honda, nissan, and kia of nashua. From the wzid traffic network, i m deb davidson for 95. 7 wzid. Erin thank you so much. State police want to hear from a driver who may have witnessed a deadly crash in wakefield that sent four secret Service Agents to the hospital. Kristen three of the four agents hurt in the crash were treated and released. A fourth remains in a boston hospital with serious, but nonlifethreatening injuries. Bruce danforth was driving the other car involved. He was killed, leaving behind five children and seven grandchildren. He was driving a suspended license. Police believe you may have been trying to pass another car when he crashed into the agents vehicle. Investigators would like to hear from the driver of that third vehicle. The agents were working a detail for Hillary Clinton s campaign. Clinton released a statement. Passengers in danforth s car. Erin thank you. State police say speed and use of a cell phone may have played the role a role in a deadly crash in exeter. 26yearold janelle jordan of newmarket was headed east yesterday afternoon when she hit a guardrail, went airborne, and hit another guardrail before coming to rest on the median. She died at the scene. Firefighters rescued an unconscious person from a house levels of Carbon Monoxide were found in the building. The building. The state fire marshal is trying to determine what caused the Carbon Monoxide levels to spike. There are several celebrations planned in New Hampshire. Holding first night festivities. Clermont includes music, laser tag, marshmallow roasting. Portsmouth will have a Street Dance Party and ice sculptures. Wolfeboro is no longer Holding First night, but they will have fireworks. Boston is also gearing up for the 40th anniversary of its first night event. Security will be tight with police and dogs and hidden assets. For the first time, this is not being run by the city. It will be produced by an outside company and it will be scaled back and focused on copley square. Security is a big concern for new year s celebrations around the world. Megan hughes takes a look at some of the plans now in place. Megan good morning. The fbi and other officials have leading up to today. They have expressed particular concern about the safety of americans overseas. The fireworks display in paris have been called off has been called off. Brussels authorities arrested two men this week in connection with a suspected holiday plot. We are not aware of any threat that we deem credible. Megan one million revelers are expected to pack into 20 blocks around times square. The nypd is deploying 6000 officers there. Pasadena is prepping for the rose parade. It is a toptier security event. More than two dozen federal agencies are joining forces with local police to protect the 700,000 people expected to attend. Touting another secret weapon a new Task Force Working on counterterrorism fulltime. Erin the plaistow man convicted s threeyearold son wants his sentence reduced. Roland dow was convicted on 11 counts and is serving 25. 567 years in prison. His Attorney Says there is no injuries. Prosecutors say testimony provides proves that dow inflicted relentless cruelty on the little boy. Disturbing. This was a threeyearold little boy who could not defend himself. A child. Old enough to understand what was happening, but not old enough to defend himself. I would never harm a child, i did not assault james. Accordingly. Erin the prosecutor asked for his minimum sentence to be increased. We are now less than six weeks from the New Hampshire primary. The Balsams Resort has close to the ballot room. Voting at the middle of the night will take place at three other locations. But rescue crews brought him last night, a local man got to say thank you. Filmmaker ken burns has won many awards, but he says nothing earn tomorrow. Hampshire. President ial hopeful doubling announcer 3 republican governors. But which governor won national praise for tough leadership handling nine hurricanes . Which governor made his state number one in job creation . Which governor led the fight to stop obamacare expansion in his state . And which governor laid out a tough plan to destroy isis months before the paris attacks . Jeb bush. Right to rise usa is responsible kevin thursday morning, december 31. 32 degrees in concord. That is the theme statewide. Temperatures within a few degrees of the freezing mark. A couple of lingering lighter showers early. Take your time this morning. We will have more details coming up. Erin First Responders in manchester welcome special visitors last night. Kevin phelan and his family stopped by the fire station to thank the firefighters and paramedics who saved his life a week before christmas. The 49yearold dialed 911 when he did not feel well. His heart stopped in the ambulance, but paramedics medical response paramedics and firefighters with save pins. They ve they brought me back to life. He died on the way to the hospital, but we shocked him back. Erin only 8 of people survive the type of heart attack that kevin had. His family said it was their best christmas ever. The 127th tournament of roses parade is tomorrow in pasadena, california. This year s theme is find your adventure. Filmmaker into New Hampshire resident ken burns will serve as the grand marshall. He can t wait to ride with his family. I m so excited. It s such an unbelievable honor. They said, you are the grand marshal. I said, im . Ve had Oscar Nominations and emmy nominations and wins and lots of other things, but i don t think anything has compared to this. Erin he said he is honored to follow in the tradition of other grand marshals. You can watch the rose parade starting tomorrow at 11 00 a. M. Coming up, do you ever wonder what your baby wants . Researchers say they can help on average, it takes three hundred americans working for a solid year, to make as much money as one top ceo. Its called the wage gap. And the republicans will make it worse by lowering taxes for those at the top and letting corporations write their own rules. Hillary clinton will work to close the wage gap. Equal pay for women to raise incomes for families, a higher minimum wage, lower taxes for the middle class. She gets the job done for us. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Erin drunk driving charges have been dropped against a woman in western new york whose bloodalcohol was four times the legal limit. Her attorney said she was naturally drunk. She discovered she has a very rare syndrome called auto brew recent drum. Her digestive system converts her lawyer said she consistently blue blew a 0. 20 bloodalcohol level for two weeks after her arrest. A new york company will offer kosher medical marijuana. The kosher pot program will start next month in new york state. The world s largest mcdonald s is closed, but not for long. The restaurant in orlando opened in 1976. The building was designed to look like a giant box of french fries and offered things like bowling, slides, and video games. Now, an even bigger mcdonald s is being built right nextdoor and is set to open in february. The Burlington Energy department in vermont is collecting Christmas Trees, so they can burn them in their wood fired last year, they burned 1800 Christmas Trees and are hoping to double the number this year. Nearly every parent knows the frustration of trying to figure out what your crying baby needs. Researchers in taiwan say they can help. They have devised an app called the infant cries translator. They say it is 92 accurate for infants under two weeks old, but it is all but useless after six weeks. You are on your own by then. It includes four results. Hungry, sleepy, in pain, or wet diaper. Kevin wow. That does take some of the guesswork out. Erin it only works until they are sixmonth sold six weeks old. Then you are out of luck. Kevin that s true. Some snow shower activity is possible. If you are headed out early this morning, you are going to want to factory next her time and a little bit of patchy fog fact or in some extra time and a little bit of patchy fog will be around. Temperatures will be around 2535 admit night tonight. At midnight tonight. Still plenty of clouds out there, still a couple of mixed showers. Drizzle hanging on in a couple of places. The clouds early this morning should give way to a westerly breeze, which should attempt to in the North Country, there will be snow showers hanging on through this evening. You can see a lot of areas hovering around the 32degree mark. We have patchy fog that adds to the moisture in the air. Here is the trend going all the way back out to the west. It is nothing but colder air. Over the next seven days, we will gradually step backward. Today should be fairly mild. We are a solid three degrees above the warmest december we have ever had in concord. This is impressive stuff. High temperatures today anywhere from the mid30 s to the lower range of the 40 s. We ring in the new year tonight. It is later saturday evening that we will start to watch that cold front approach. With that, areas of light snow continuing to go up through the White Mountains. That will be the leading edge of the colder air that eventually arrives. High temperatures today up just above 40 degrees for southern areas. We go through this evening with temperatures easing back into the 20 s and 30 s across the region. The extended forecast continues to step back temperature wise through monday night. High temperatures on monday in the teens to lower 20 s. We are talking Single Digits for overnight lows. Erin wow. And we are right near the freezing mark. Could be tricky in spots. Thank you so much. Kristen Police Continue to investigate a deadly crash in wakefield. The headon accident happened on tuesday night on route 16 and involved four members of the secret service. A man from New Hampshire was killed. Investigators want to speak with the driver who may have seen what happened. Erin the plaistow man convicted of abusing his girlfriend s threeyearold son wants his sentence drastically reduced. Prosecutors want his minimum sentence increased. New hampshire is getting ready to welcome the new year. Portsmouth and claremont have first night activities. Wolfeboro and hampton have fireworks. In boston, be prepared for added security. Coming up, making dreams come true. A teenager from vermont has his erin a teenager from vermont thanks to make a wish. It feels really good. It has been a longtime wish of yours . I think it is like a year or something. Maybe longer. It is awesome to have it finally finished and have an actual copy. Erin 14 numeral eli got to visit Marvel Comics and they used his or s to create characters to create teen super corps. Kevin where d do you go from there . A woman in new york city is searching for the owner of a wedding ring. Jean remini ordered a pair of jeans online, but when she put her hand in the pocket, she found an engraved wedding band. Kevin they were shipped from a Neiman Marcus store in virginia and she says she knows how important this is because she lost her own Engagement Ring once, as well. Erin interesting. Kevin good, oldfashioned mystery. Erin the federal government is preparing relief efforts after st. Louis faces some of its worst flooding ever. A college rivalry. No one covers New Hampshire like we do. Now, wmur news 9 daybreak. Erin good morning to you. It is thursday, december 31, the last day of 2015. We are going to take a look at first night festivities in just a bit. We begin with state Police Looking for a driver who may have witnessed a crash on route 16 in wakefield that claimed the life of a New Hampshire man and left six others injured, including four secret Service Agents. An investigation is underway into a deadly crash on 93 in investigators are trying to figure out what caused a fire in goffstown that displaced a family. We are seeing temperatures around the freezing mark. Kevin Third Straight morning with slick conditions early on. Temperatures are still hovering right around 32. Some patchy fog to go around with that this morning. In a lot of locations, we will rebound above freezing. A lot of locations will be above 40 degrees to round out 2015. Erin be careful out on the roads. We want to take a look at how things are moving on 93. Kevin for a look at the morning drive, we are joined live by 95. 7 wzid s deb davidson. Good morning. Deb good morning. There is the possibility of areas of black ice. There. Give yourself extra time, roads. We are seeing delays on 93 south from manchester down into dairy derry. We are seeing delays in massachusetts on 93 south south of the border in andover. This report is being brought to you by peters honda, nissan, and kia of nashua. From the wzid traffic network, i m deb davidson for 95. 7 wzid. Erin thank you so much. Police continue to investigate a involving four members of the secret service. All of the agents survived the accident, but a New Hampshire man was killed. Authorities want to speak with another driver who may have witnessed the crash. S live with the latest. Kristen state police say bruce route 16 when he drove into the path of another car. Troopers believe he may have been trying to pass another vehicle. At some point, he crossed over the double yellow line and entered into the southbound lane, colliding with the ford taurus. Kristen a heavily damaged Mercury Sable is evidence. 45yearold bruce danforth, a father of five and grandfather of seven, died on the scene. His passengers, his 35yearold girlfriend and a 21yearold friend, were both injured in the crash. Four secret Service Agents were riding in the ford taurus and were also injured. The damage was so bad that all the victims had to be cut out of their vehicles. Three of the agents have been released from the hospital, but there is no word on the conditions of the passengers in s car. Police say danforth was driving on a suspended license. The agents had been working a detail for the Hillary Clinton campaign. Clinton gave her condolences to the victims. State police say danforth may car. They are asking for that driver additional information. Erin thank you. A deadly crash in sugar hill is also under investigation. The accident happened at 1 30 yesterday afternoon. A car was heading south when it lost control, crossed the center median, and went into the northbound side, hitting a jeep. The driver of the car was killed. The name of the driver was not fire officials are trying to figure out what sparked a fire that badly damaged a home in goffstown. The flames broke out yesterday afternoon. The fire started in an attached garage and quickly spread to the rest of the house. Officials say no one was home when the fire started, but the red cross is helping two adults and three children who were displaced. Jeb bush is doubling his New Hampshire campaign staff. The Campaign Spokesperson says that they are focusing on the Granite State before primary night on february 9. Jeb bush headquarters in manchester will add 20 new staffers. Half the primary vote is going to decide this race in the last seven days. To be in a position to win, you have to talk to them constantly, in their doorstop, their town a good ground game builds those relationships and does the followup necessary to help these people. Erin the Bush Campaign s investment in New Hampshire is not coming out of nowhere. The campaign is scaling back advertising in iowa and south carolina. A superior court judge has ruled that a convicted sex offender must remain on the state s registry. The man known as john doe was fighting to get his name removed from the registry. The request came after a state Supreme Court ruling said that New Hampshire s law requiring certain criminal offenders convicted before 1994 to register is unconstitutional. The new ruling says john doe needs to prove that he is not a danger to society before his name is removed. One of the four men convicted in conviction reduced. Abraham depaula is serving 20 years behind bars. His Attorney Says his client was in the getaway car, not inside the house, and asked that his sentence be reduced. Prosecutors say his sentence would be increased if they had their way. Two men are facing charges following a pot bust in portsmouth. Demand for massachusetts and a man from maine were arrested. Coming up, a father takes action after running into a problem at a macy s store. You ve got to change the diaper before you get started. Erin what he did to get a diaper changing station added to the men s restro