Adam sexton joins us now to sort out what the decision could mean for both iowa and New Hampshire. Adam he is rewriting the rules of how to run for president. He is continuing to campaign as only he can. Donald trump is taking his ball and going home. He is pulling out of thursday s Republican Debate on fox news, pointing the finger at fox anchor megyn kelly. He will hold its own separate event to raise money for veterans. Fox is going to make a fortune. I m not a fan of megyn kelly. I think she is a third rate reporter and frankly is not good at what she does. I think they could do better than megyn kelly. Adam former wmur political director scott spradling, veteran of many a primary debate stage, says there s a chance this decision could backfire for trump. This is a very risky maneuver because what could happen is a lot of people tune in on trump there, its other people offering closing arguments, and he could lose ground, especially among those people who decide late. Adam spradling says while trump will likely draw attention with his event, the problem is, he s leaving the main stage wide open for his chief rival in iowa, ted cruz. Cruz is battling neck and neck with trump in iowa right now and it s close enough to be too close to call. A move like this, with cruz having a good night thursday night, he could pick up iowa because of this one maneuver. Adam or he might not. As spradling notes, trump has broken many a political rule in this race and his poll numbers have remained strong. He s decided to go his own way in the past and it s paid off but as he told first in the nation voters in farmington last night now is the time to close the deal. It takes guts to go and run for president. Believe me. Adam after his thursday been New Hampshire. Shelley earlier this evening, for thursday night here like if trump skips the event. Kentucky senator rand paul will return to the main stage, after only being invited to the undercard debate two weeks ago. To qualify for the primetime debate, a candidate had to place in the top six of an average of recent national polls, or the top 5 in an average of recent New Hampshire or iowa polls. The 4 republican president ial candidates qualified for the undercard debate. This is the first debate since august for former Virginia Governor jim gilmore. Tom an abc newswashington post poll released this morning finds a growing number of republicans believe donald trump will win the party s nomination. 64 say they believe trump will points since november. Trump republicans nationwide hasn t changed since last month. To 21 , and marco rubio is the only other candidate with doubledigit support. While nearly all candidates are focused on iowa ahead of next week s caucuses, Ohio Governor john kasich was in New Hampshire today. The boston globe endorsed him for the republican nomination so anyway i president and i can t believe yesterday, last night i found out i got the endorsement of the boston globe. That s like, i am in complete shock over that, yeah. Town halls in new boston, rindge, and amherst. Vote on primary day, wmur. Com can help you out. You can compare where the candidates stand on the issues, hear their answers to a series of questions on major topics, and watch our prior coverage including candidate cafe and Shelley Manchester chief is taking the state s heroin crisis to capitol hill. Members of congress in the morning about what New Hampshire is doing to combat opioid addiction. Tonight he spoke to our jean mackin before he testifies. Jean chief nick willard is scheduled to testify before the a. M. Wednesday. He told us he ll have 5 minutes questions and he plans to use i ve been given the rare opportunity to sit down with senators in the u. S. Government and talk about the issues we face. Jean manchester s police chief has arrived in washington, d. C. , along with the assistant chief carlo capano. Their tour of the senate and Capitol Building shared on twitter by senator kelly ayotte. She invited the chief to share his expertise on combating the Opioid Crisis in New Hampshire. He hopes his talking points can help on a national level. Just how devastating fentanyl is, and i don t think a lot of i also want to talk about the continuum of care that s really going to be at the center of getting us through this crisis. It s not a Law Enforcement issue, it s a community issue. Jean chief willard will encourage legislation and funding for treatment and recovery, not only in New Hampshire, but across the nation. I feel a sense of responsibility. I represent all the chiefs of police in the state of New Hampshire, and New Hampshire citizens. Jean for that reason, chief willard says he will wear his Police Uniform during his testimony. He says it s also a tribute to his officers, the men and women on the front lines of the Opioid Crisis. In manchester, jean mackin, wmur news 9. Shelley wmur will have live coverage tomorrow from washington d. C. As chief willard testifies. You ll hear what he had to say to senators tomorrow on news 9 at 5 00 and 6 00. Tom a crash in manchester this afternoon injured a police officer. A car and suv collided on beech street, taking out a utility pole with live power lines. Life to remove the officer, who suffered a severe leg injury but he is expected to survive. No one else was seriously hurt. Police say a landlord supplied the tip they needed to arrest a man wanted in two robberies. Goffstown police say Christopher Aldrich robbed the Citizens Bank on Church Street yesterday afternoon. Clerk of a Concord Store over the weekend. Police say they received several tips after releasing the surveillance pictures yesterday when we re able to get someone in custody within 12 hours, that s a huge message that it sends out to the rest of the people who think that they can come in and take advantage of our businesses and our residents. Tom right now aldrich is being held by the u. S. Marshals on unrelated charges. Shelley hundreds of documents in the Dzhokhar TsarnaevBoston Marathon bombing case will be released. A federal judge ordered today that the documents be released publicly. Among the documents are search warrants, reports of expert tsarnaev was convicted and sentenced to death last year for the bombing, which killed three people and injured more than 260. For the first time, we re seeing the isis member known as jihadi john without a black mask. Abc news obtained the photos today from a report circulated online by an isisaffiliated media outlet. U. S. Officials say they killed jihadi john with an airstrike in november, and isis confirmed the death last week. Jihadi john was first seen in a video in 2014, showing him apparently killing New Hampshire journalist james foley. Tom Community Members came together for a special tribute to a Fallen Marine tonight in hingham, massachusetts. Hundreds lined the streets, as the family of Corporal Christopher orlando arrived home. Orlando was among 12 marines killed when two helicopters crashed off hawaii two weeks ago. The search for them was called off after five days. Established in the name of a medal of honor recipient from New Hampshire. Staff Sergeant Ryan pitts was awarded the medial of honor for his bravery in fighting off attackers and refusing to leave his men during a deadly battle in afghanistan. The ryan pitts Scholarship Fund will help veterans. Shelley the two men involved in a fiery plane crash this summer in North Hampton are telling their story of survival. They suffered serious injuries when their plane went down right after takeoff. Today they thanked those who helped save their lives. Mike cronin was there. Mike these two men have been flying together for years and they were out for a fun afternoon on a summer day when the unexpected happened. Reunited for the first time with the people who cared for them Ronald Gagnon and roger cross are saying thank you. Your community is very fortunate to have you. Mike in june the two maine men were taking off from hampton began to shake. He says are we going down . And i said yup. Mike they believe a shift in wind caused the problem which usually isn t an issue at high altitudes. At 250 to 300 feet, there s nothing you can do, so the one thing i did learn in Flight Training was if you re in a ditching or crashing situation, try to keep the nose of the plane up. Mike they crashed into the woods about 150 yards from a home. Then the plane caught fire. The only door on our plane was on the right side of the plane. Tried to open the door but it was jammed in the ground, so at that point, the fire started to come in the plane. Caught his arm on fire. His arm was bubbling. Mike cross, a lieutenant in the coast guard, broke through the windshield. I ve always been taught in emergency situations to discard the bad and focus on what is good, which wasn t a whole lot at that point. Mike he got out, but gagnon was stuck in his seat, so cross went back into the burning plane to save his friend. He comes back in, climbs up release my seat belt. That s how he burnt his left hand. Mike more than 10 of cross s upper body was burned. He was airlifted to a boston hospital. Gagnon suffered burns and 18 broken bones. He was treated at portsmouth Regional Hospital s trauma center. I just can t tell you how much of a difference it made. I m very, very proud to have come to portsmouth. Mike the two are grateful for each other in those dramatic moments as well as First Responders and hospital staff. I was very humbled by the support and the treatment that i got. I just can t thank you enough from the bottom of my heart. So thank you very much. They are still healing, but they have their mobility back. They say they will fly again. In portsmouth, mike cronin, wmur news 9. Tom looks like they got great medical care. Coming up, after week of no the 100th anniversary of the New Hampshire primary. Next, a look back at some of the iconic moments that influenced the course of history. Mike where the best guys will Authorities Say shots were fired as their rested people who have been occupying a National Wildlife refuge in oregon. Property as part of a longrunning dispute over public lands in the western u. S. The fbi says occupation leader ammon dundy and four others were arrested during a traffic stop today. The New Hampshire primary has evolved from its early days to become the influential process we now value. Tom and during that time, there have been turning points that changed the course for a campaign, the election, or the entire primary establishment. Here s a look at a few of them. It was never planned to be this way, we got it sort of by default. General eisenhower with New Hampshire as an arena is the candidate in the most hotly contested primary in history. For the first 50 years, the ballot just contained the names of those who wanted to be delegates. And next to the name it would include pledged to our favorable to. And therefore what we start here in New Hampshire today, i believe must succeed next summer and next november. Let the people decide. It was an effort to democratize the effort of selecting a president. We re 1, we re 1, we re 1. I remember when we couldn t find a microphone. By attacking me, by attacking my wife, he has proved himself to be a gutless coward. More people began to learn about the president ial primary. Will the sound man please turn mr. Reagan s microphone off for a minute . Reagan is this on . Mr green, will you turn that microphone off please . Reagan you asked of me, i am paying for this microphone, mr green. New hampshire voters are cantankerous, they re independent, they make up their own minds. And they re also smart. An unstaged question in an unstaged place with a real heartfelt answer. I have so many opportunities for this country, i just don t want to see us fall backwards. New hampshire s role is to provide the broadest possible opportunity to the most candidates to test their message. We re going to reclaim our political system. A new commitment to support environmental restoration. It s the sacred duty of the United States of america to defend freedom. I can t thank you enough. We are on our way because of you. We are different than the other campaigns. I want to be the president that reminds you of the guy that you work with, not the guy that lay you off. In the end, our future is let s take back america. God bless you New Hampshire. Tom i think we should vote for pretty good weather for january. Average. As quiet as it has been but there is still some time left. We still have to get the on the primaries. It can be quite active around that time. We will see what happens. Look at the ice out there on the big lake. A little bit out there today despite the warmup. As we go through the next few days, temperatures will not be ideal for adding much more eyes but we should hold onto a little bit at the big lake. Don t even think of venturing water. Official high. But nowhere close to the record high setback in 1963. And a very cold record low of 29 below setback in the 1870 s. 30 s and 40 s across the board, anywhere from the great North Central and southern parts of the state. Concord at 45 degrees right now, dew point it 32. All those numbers well above the average and look what s coming down the road over the next two days. Despite a cool down, running above the average right through the end of this week. Temperatures begin to coast down a bit but still remain above the norm. Upper 20 s north, 3034 central and southern New Hampshire. Those are right at the overnight a warm start to the day tomorrow. There is slightly colder air building in the great lakes and will drift in the next few days. No 50 degree temperature like we saw in nashua today but low 40 s not out of the question. Scattered snow showers developed during the early part of tomorrow morning and last through tomorrow night. Once again to thursday it is dry statewide, maybe a few more snow showers by friday. Snow showers in the mountains, try again on thursday and another round of snow showers friday. Most of the precipitation is offshore with the developing coastal storm, it will be nowhere close to New Hampshire. Of exchanging the snow showers up north, temperatures we normally have for highs this time of year. End of the week and a scattered snow shower anywhere on friday. A couple more like flurries saturday afternoon as the warm front moves in them sunday through at least tuesday, temperatures remain above average. Assignable cooldown next week and that may be preceded by the next storm for the middle of next week. Tom you forget a rough patch of whether you can always run for dogcatcher. Let s go over to jamie and find out what jamie the Boston Bruins have been busy so far this week. A win last night against the philadelphia flyers, and they hosted the Anaheim Ducks tonight. Break. And that means Bruce Boudreau was back. Manchester monarchs is the coach of the ducks because head coach jerry york was there to drop the puck. He just earned his 1,000th victory. The bruins strike first, just 40 seconds into the game. Zach trotman with his first goal of the season, set up by david krejci and matt beleskey. 10 boston. But the next 2 goals belong to boudreaus bunch, including Shea Theodore on a power play set up by corey perry, who had the other goal. So after one, 21 anaheim. 2 more goals for the ducks in the 2nd period. Way too much time and space for kevin bieksa, who scores on the slapshot. 41 after 2 periods. Ryan spooner sets up zdeno charra for a wrister and his 7th goal of the season, 42. But the ducks win this one 62. Jonas gustafson played the first period in goal for boston, but was ill and was taken to the hospital for observation. The bruins are off for 6 days for the allstar break. Girls high school hockey, lebanon against the combined team from st thomasdover. Here, a quick shot from the point by elle brine, the captain and gracy lindsay was trying to clean up the rebound, but Megan Macbride held the line in goal. First goal of the game, it goes to the home team in white. A shot from the point by maisey kettlewood. 10 st thomasdover. Another chance for lebanon, Lauren Goodell with a shot but macbride makes the save. St thomasdover wins the game 41. Top 10 College Basketball showdown in new england, number 10 providence hosted number 7 xavier. Xavier in blue. They had the friars on the ropes. A 3 here by miles davis. 4028 xavier. Providence trying to come back. Ben bentil with a 3, but only the 2nd made 3 pointer in 20 tries at that point for the friars. A tough shooting night. 3 pointer by jalen linsey. 7568, their first top 10 road win in 20 years. Northeast 10 action, snhu hosted the le moyne dolphins. Early on, Devin Gilligan working down low. Penmen going. Rodney sanders 3 pointer. Ties at 1515. The snhu penmen win 8353. Hi