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Next on the Roundtable edition of New Hampshire Outlook. reporters from around the state discuss the week's top stories. The focus tonight, The Brock Acquittal. |
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Good Evening. I'm Allison McNair. Welcome to tonight's Roundtable Edition of New Hampshire Outlook. We begin tonight with a summary of today's news. |
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Word tonight that one New Hampshire sailor made it safely though yesterday's terrorist attack on the USS Cole in Yemen. Daniel Greeley of Peterborough is a crew member aboard the ship. His Wife Mary Greeley said she jumped at every phone call yesterday, while waiting for word on whether her husband was involved. |
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If you say you're taking a "quick trip" to Portland, Maine or Montreal, you may mean it more literally in the future. There's new information today that New Hampshire may have not just one - but two high speed rail corridors. Trains can travel at 90 miles per hour. A Boston-to-Montreal line - which would run through Manchester and Concord - was announced yesterday. The other line would run from Boston, through Portsmouth and on to Portland and Auburn, Maine. Legislation pending in Congress would help Amtrak raise money to make improvements over ten years. |
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Three New Hampshire communities are getting some financial support for their flood prevention programs. A total of more than 80-thousand dollars in federal funds will be divided among Landcaster, Francestown and Columbia. The Federal Emergency Management Agency says Lancaster has had 26 recorded floods from the Israel River since the 1870s. The worst was in 1996, causing more than one--million dollars in damages. |
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If you're thinking about a trip to sunny Florida - getting there will be easier. Southwest Airlines is expanding its flights from Manchester Airport to Florida hot spots. Starting March eleventh, the airline will offer nonstop service from Manchester to Tampa, Florida. Currenlty there's a stop along the way and a connecting flight. Tampa is the fifth most popular destination for Manchester passengers. Orlando, Florida, ranks third. |
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A new study suggests what many mothers have known for centuries. babies who cry aren't necessarily in pain. A University of New Hampshire professor says for the first few months of childhood, a baby who cries may just be trying to communicate a need to a caregiver. Barbara Prudhomme White suggests parents can help these babies cry less by carrying them more, feeding them more frequently and sleeping close to them. |
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That's a summary of today's state news. Stay tuned for our weekly Roundtable discussion coming up after a look at the weekend weather forecast. |
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The verdict is in from the Senate, but the public and analysts are still weighing on the Impeachment trial of State Supreme Court Chief Justice David Brock. That's the subject of tonight's roundtable discussion. Tonight's host is Barbara MacLeod from Concord. |
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In Business news today. We have late word this evening that the nation's largest manufacturer of tortilla products is recalling all of its tortillas, taco shells and snack chips. Mission Foods says it's also switching from yellow to white corn because the flour may contain an unapproved biotech variety of grain. The decision follows a recall early this week by the Safeway store chain of Mission products and a separate recall of Kraft products last month. After yesterday's dismal day on wall street, the market rebounded with gusto. Today was one of the best days ever for the tech heavy Nasdaq. It rose eight percent. The dow rose 157 points. Oil Prices fell by a dollar. After more than a hundred years in business, a Jaffrey company is closing its doors. D-D Bean and Sons Company manufacturers rivets and fasteners, screws for toys and brass pins for batteries. It's also one of the world's biggest book match makers. It held a job fair today for workers who'll lose their jobs six weeks before Christmas. |
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Monday on New Hampshire Outlook, Saving the farm. New Hampshire's legacy of agribusiness is growing and changing. See how businesses are diversifying to compete in today's modern world. Plus our one on one interview with Congressional Candidate Martha Fuller Clark. |
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That's all for this edition of Outlook tonight. Thanks for joining us. For all of us here at New Hampshire Public Television, I'm Allison McNair. Thanks for joining us. Stay tuned for the McLaughlin Group. We'll be back Monday at 7:30. |
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Thanks to our founding sponsors who have provided major funding for the production of New Hampshire Outlook: New Hampshire Charitable Foundadtion Public Service of New Hampshire Alice J. Reen Charitable Trust Putnam Foundation Stratford Foundation |
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P-NH--Factory Closes hrwavbkee Job fair has angry side -- D-D Bean and Sons Company, which is closing its Jaffrey factory six weeks before Christmas, had few fans at its job fair. The company was compared to Scrooge. The November 13th closing of the plant will end a manufacturing history that dates to 1897. Workers make rivets and fasteners for the likes of Wrangler, Levi Strauss and Gitano blue jeans, silver screws for Fisher Price toys and brass pins for Eveready batteries. Bean is one of the world's biggest book match makers. Ten companies Wednesday took job applications from workers. Staffers say sponsoring the job fair is all the company has done for the 77 workers about to lose their jobs. Workers say the pay some of the companies offered at the job fair was half as much as they are making now. |
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Rountable Producer Carole Paling |
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P-NH--Gun Lock Snafu hrwman Distribution of gun locks delayed over malfunction -- Don't pick up your gun locks in Hudson just yet. Firefighters had planned to hand out 500 free gun locks, but has put the program on hold after a Tennessee police officer found the devices can spring open. A national trade group of gun manufacturers has already distributed 400-thousand of the locks to law enforcement agencies across the country. The group is testing locks to find out if the malfunction was an isolated incident. It has not asked that the locks already handed out be returned. Instead of handing out its locks, Hudson firefighters for now will display several different types of locks and hand out gun safety literature. |