Now wmur news 9 daybreak. Erin good monday morning to you. Thanks for joining us. Im erin fehlau. Sean good morning. Im sean mcdonald. An unusual but beautiful weekend. Ive got to tell you i started the weekend with a decent amount of snow in my yard. Most of it is gone at this point. Kevin yeah. 50s on saturday. 40s to near 50 degrees yesterday. We start to fall back today. Still close to the averages for this time of year, which means 30s. It is a fairly mild start for this time of year. Partly cloudy skies. Theres still the occasional overcast in parts of the state early this morning. That should wither away to partial sunshine. A lot of other areas, it will be a good deal of sunshine. Highs in the mountains up in to the 30s. Cooler air with the next system. Lets look at your morning ride. Were joined live by deb davidson. Good monday morning, deb good monday morning, kevin. Were starting off with a nice, quiet commute at this time. The skies are bright and the roads are nice and dry. It is making for a very nice commute on 93 southbound from the northern part of the state to the stateline with massachusetts. 293 is up to speed. 101 is trouble free from bedford to the seacoast. On 95 were not seeing any delays through the hampton tolls or through the Construction Zone between exit the two and one. This report is brought to you by Dunkin Donuts. From the traffic network, im deb davidson for 95. 7 wzid. Sean all right. Deb, thanks. Investigators plan to speak with the owner of a large building in goffstown this morning that went up in flames yesterday as they try to pin point an exact cause. Erin intense fire. It sent huge plumes of smoke high in to the air. Ash was spotted miles away. From the scene. The building has been demolished; right . Reporter yes, good morning. Crews used an excavator. We have video of the massive threealarm fire minutes after it broke out around 1 30 yesterday afternoon. Firefighters say there were several explosions inside the building which had been vacant for almost two years. China restaurant next door was evacuated. Theres some damage to that building. The owner says she will likely be closed for a investigators are still trying to fig your out started. Well deem it suspicious until we know otherwise. It was diagnostic the height of the north garden. There was black smoke way higher than that. Sparked several nearby roof fires. They were quickly put they received reports of ash falling at the Verizon Wireless arena, which is more than two miles away. There were no injuries. Erin andy, thank you. Maggie mast hassan is urging to investigation with a gas distribution in keene. A power outage yesterday morning briefly caused a problem with the mix of gas and air flowing to customers. Officials say it was fixed in just seven minutes thanks to new measures. Liberty dealt with a similar problem in december. That issue lasted for more than 17 hours. A report from the puc is due by the end of next month. Sean we expect to learn more details about a robbery in manchester that resulted in fedon karsai, 22, beat the clerk. The clerk was taken to the hospital. The store owner says he will be okay. This is the second time the store has been robbed this month. Two u. N. H. Students charge in connection with a stabbing are due in court today. The victim, who is also a student, was stabbed twice but is stable. 20yearold Matthew Gibbons of salem is charged with firstdegree assault, eric denning is charged with seconddegree assault with criminal liability. Erin donald trump and Hillary Clinton are riding new waves of support after picking up wins. Both face favorable votes over the next couple of weeks. Bernie sanders, marco rubio, ted cruz, they are all scrambling to make up grounds. They are following the campaigns. This week it is the early president ial contest switch. It is the in thes tun in the deep south and the republicans are out west caucuses. Were going to keep winning. Were going to make America Great again. Reporter donald trump is still riding high after his big win. He scored all 50 of the delegates winning all of the evangelical voters. I didnt know we were much. We won by a lot. Out. The two freshman senators left to battle it out to become the trump alternative. Donald trump has demonstrated he has a relatively high support, but hes also got a secret. Reporter Hillary Clinton is focused on super tuesday states, like texas, where she weekend. Us. We never doubted each other. Reporter it is a big rally for Bernie Sanders in south carolina. Sanders is working to court the black vote which lead to an awkward the predominantly africanamerican church. Tomorrow night sanders and clinton will hit the stage for a democratic town hall at the university of south carolina. The republicans are spend today rallying in nevada. The latest poll has trump leading by 26 points. Kenneth moton, abc news, washington. Erin governor hassan is scheduled to meet with president obama in washington, d. C. Today to discuss the drug and Opioid Crisis facing New Hampshire and the country. Today is the final day of the National GovernorsAssociation Winter meeting. Drugs have been a major topic of discussion here. Hassan is vice chair of the Groups Health and Human Services committee highlighting the problem there have been over 41 overdoses in manchester alone. Over the last month with 11 deaths. The Supreme Court will be back in session this morning for the First Time Since the passing scalia. Oral arguments begin at 10 00. Chief justice john mention scalias death from the bench. Sean a man accused of running a meth lab is due in court after he was overcome by the fumes from his own operation. Robert acheson spilled some of the chemicals prompting nearby evacuations. Caseworker who was concerned for his well being. Drugs werent found until the police tried to lock up the house. He tried to jump off of his stretcher and keep officers from going inside. Erin still to come, it may sound leak a nightmare to some people. Officials in massachusetts are considering creating a massive colony of rattle snake on a local io ran. Sean this is the damage caused to the train. Amazingly the driver of the van walked away without a scratch. Erin should prisoners be allowed to vote . From Dunkin Donuts. Let handcrafted layers of espresso, milk, and a caramelflavored swirl uplift your mood. Indulge in a hot or iced macchiato today. America runs on dunkin. What is going on . Today were going to run a slalom course. Not down the mountain, but up it. Thats terrifying. In one of these. Sweet the Chevy Silverado offers a combination of 4wd and an exclusive autolocking Rear Differential lets do this. So, if a rear wheel starts to slip, the axle automatically locks feels like a beast. Grips great. Dude, that was awesome. 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The mbta is still trying to figure out if theres a problem with the sean a new plan to colonized in massachusetts has some people rattled. Pun intended. Thats because it would be venomous timber a rattlesnakes. They want to use the island on mount zion in the quabbin reservoir. Theres a Public Meeting set for tomorrow evening. As you might imagine, a lot of people are talking about it on the facebook page. The reaction is mixed. Tim says he thinks it is a great idea. Timber rattlesnakes need all the help. Dan agrees. Others arent so sold on the idea. Lisa calls it her worst nightmare. Jason says it is the snake version of jurassic park. What could go wrong . Erin it is not the exotic a vacation on. Sean eventually nature will take hold. They will escape at some point. Just like in the movie. Erin snakes on an island. Coming up a pile of rubble is all thats left after a gas explosion. A person who was stepping away managed to escape. Sean a natural gas explosion leveled a home and damaged other homes as well. A person was checking on the Sprinkler System and smelled gas when he opened the garage door. He only took five steps away before the home exploded. Incredibly though no one was hurt despite the massive damage. Isis is claiming responsibility for bombings in syria that killed 130 people and wounded more than is 70. Five bombs went off between damascus and the city of holmes, nailed near schools. The attacks come as secretary of state kerry says theres an agreement for temporary ceasefire. All parties might not comply right away. Erin deadpool continues to rule at the box office. It hauled in 55 million. It is now poised to become one of the most successful rrated movies ever. Kung fu panda came this second place. Were spending less and less money to fill up the cars with gas. The National Average is now 1. 71. Thats 2 less than three years ago. Here in New Hampshire prices have dropped more than 50 cents in the last year. Sean an army dog tag lost in world war ii will finally be returned to the family it belongs to. Private thomas davis was island of saipan. His dog tag was 2014. They just manage to track down davis family. The tag will be returned soon, likely to davis texas. Easter is just over a month away. Hersheys has a new treat. The carrot cake kisses are wrapped in orange foil with green lettering on the paper flag known as a plume. They have a cream cheese filling. In case you are wondering, one serving is nine kisses and about 220 call rays. You are to pay a price. Erin flavor like carrot cake. You are making faces. Kevin we try some Different Things in the chocolate festival. Sean sacrifice your body. Kevin well have to figure out we start off early this morning with fairly quiet conditions. We have clear skies in some spots. Other areas the occasional overcast which should give way to the afternoon. Nice day. Bear in mind it is going to be more of a classic mid winter day than what we had over the course of the weekend. We had patchy clouds up north and a few spots in the southwest. We should be giving way to sunshine in to the afternoon. A weak area of High Pressure. Area of low pressure just starting to get gathered through texas. It will be the next system which starts to roll in here on wednesday. Temperatures in the teens up north. Lower 30s in southern areas. It is the beginnings of the cooler air. There will be a lot of areas that will likely be at or below zero later on tonight. Maybe near ten below zero in parts of the North Country. Southern areas will be in the Single Digits to lower teens thanks to the flow coming directly out of canada. The wind will not be strong. It will continue to put air. Temperatures arent going to move up. Notice the different in air mass this morning from yesterday morning. Were running 1025 degrees cooler than yesterday at this time. We get a glancing blow from the cold air out of canada. The coldest will be tonight. The chilliest of the afternoons will be tomorrow with high in the upper 20s to mid 30s. It comes with a light wind and sunshine for the most part tomorrow. High temperatures today not moving much. Here in the teens up north. Southern areas near the freezing mark get in the upper 30s to near 40 degrees. Not a bad day. There will be a northwest wind which will put a little bit of extra bite in to the air. Clear skies, light winds tonight, tomorrow starting with sunshine and adding clouds through the afternoon. Ahead of the next system it comes at us in two parts. The first part will be a snow or wintry mix moving in during the Daylight Hours on wednesday. Then it warms up enough wednesday night that everything we see from wednesday night through thursday afternoon would as the system makes an inland track and keep us on the warmer side of the system as it continues to make its way northward. We could be looking at over an inch of rainfall out of the system after a small accumulation sometime wednesday for later wednesday night and in to early thursday where the system pulls away thursday afternoon and thursday evening. Quiet for the time being. Temperatures in most locations will be up in to the 30s. A few southern spots could reach 40. Then the bottom really falls out on temperatures. Clear skies and light winds later tonight. Were talking teens in south eastern areas of the state. Single digits above and below zero in most cases otherwise. Sunshine and clouds tomorrow. Light snow or light wintry mix on wednesday. Small accumulation. Thursday looks like rain and wind for the first half of the day. Youll notice the temperatures responding in to the 40s to lower 50s before cooling off again at the end of the week. The roller coaster continues with the one warm day. It figures heavy precipitation. It is in the form of it is tracked to the west. Erin whenever we get the snow, we get the rain. Sean it seems that way. The tracks have been inland more than off shore. Erin thank you. We want to check in on the top stories. Hershberger. Andy investigators on the scene in the massive fire. Im Andy Hershberger with the story coming up. Erin a man is charge with attempted murder and robbery. A canine was able to track down 22yearold robbery. Maggie hassan is urging the state Public Utilities commission to investigation another issue with Liberty Utilities gas distribution in keene. A power outage of the companys propane plant briefly caused a problem with the mix of gas and air flowing to customers. Sean it seems the lure of outer a Record Number of my School Reunions coming fast. Could be bad. Could be a blast. Cant find a single will they be looking at my hair . Wont be the same without you bro. When its go, go to choicehotels. Com. The site with the right room, rewards and savings up to 20 when you book direct. Kevin monday morning, february 22nd. Temperatures in the teen and 20s across the area. It will be a much cooler day than over the weekend. With a good deal of sunshine. All is quiet for the next couple of days ahead of the next system. Well have the details coming up. Erin all right. It is interesting. It seems that john lennons air is worth more than experts thought. Sean a fourinch lock sold this weekend for 35,000 to a british collector. Officials have predicted it would only fetch about 10,000. The hair was cut in 1966 a movie. Expensive locks. Erin collector of hair or beatle memorabilia . Sean i hope beatle memorabilia. Erin all right. It appears more and more people want to go to space. Sean nasa received 35,000 applications, nearly three times the number that applied for the last class. Only between eight and 14 people will be selected. Then they face two years of basic training to learn everything from space walking to russian. You have to learn russian because you are going up with a lot of russian astronauts. Im glad your application is in. Erin i thought i was headed to mars. Sean isnt that part of it . Erin i guess so. One of the most dramatic wins. Were going to show you the photo finish. Sean a woman in iowa is fighting to keep her therapy animals. Were not talking about dogs or horses here. No one covers New Hampshire like we do. Now wmur news 9 daybreak. Erin good morning to you. It is monday, february 22nd. A lot of people are on vacation this week. In meredith were waking up to temperatures in the 20s. It is cooler out there. We have snow and rain. Sean thats right. More standard winter fare. Well talk about that in a moment. First the top stories. Firefighters are trying to determine what sparked a massive fire that destroyed a vacant building on mass road. A somersworth man is set to face a judge after he crashed in to a car while allegedly driving drunk as he tried to escape an officer. Dartmouth college is schools in banning hover boards due to concern they may be a fire hazard. Erin logging on to facebook. There are a lot of people in tropical locations. Kevin ive noticed a lot less traffic. Maybe parents of kids who arent necessarily up at this hour like they normally are on certain mornings. A fairly quiet day. A cooler day than the warmer air we had over the weekend. Starting off in the teens, 20s, and lower 0s. About five to seven degrees warmer than the current levels by later this afternoon. Could push 40. 30s for most with a breeze out of the northwest this afternoon. Erin all right. I know you have some news about snow and rain coming up. Kevin midweek. Erin stay tuned for that. We want to check the roads this morning. Heres a live look on how things are moving out there. This is from the hooksett camera. Kevin were joined live by deb davidson. Good monday morning, deb. Deforming good monday it is a nice, quiet ride. 93 south were seeing some building volume south of the 293 split in manchester. That goes right through to derry. After that it eases out. It is a good ride in to salem. The spaulding turnpike is okay through ports mow. As you make your way up, we see some delays forming on 95 south and getting off of the ramp as well now that the morning commute is starting to pick up. 101 web site is up to speed heading back in to manchester. This report is broug