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Next on New Hampshire Outlook. The face of homessness in the granite state. From outdoor campers to young families on the edge. plus.ice rescues - a chilling reality of winter. We'll introduce you to a Harrisville company that's helping professionals improve lifesaving skills. |
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Welcome to New Hampshire Outlook. I'm Richard Ager sitting in tonight for Allison McNair. |
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Southern New Hampshire is in the midst of a housing crisis. With not enough affordable homes to meet the demand, many people are ending up homeless. As a result, despite years of economic growth in New Hampshire, activitity at emergency shelters has continued to rise. NH Outlook's Allison McNair recently visited Portsmouth - well known as a property-rich city. But as you'll see in her report, like communities throughout the state, Portsmouth is also home to many destititute people. |
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Shots of Ally and Scott walking around tents Narr - They live in some of the most expensive neighborhoods on the seacoast - well hidden from all who pass. Scott 1-1:50 "As you can see there are buildings we can see, but they can't see where we are, so this would be a good spot where they wouldn't be found, kicked off the property, or have the police come in, and actually destroy the camp." Narr - Captain Scott Flanders works at the Salvation Army in Portsmouth. When he's not at the office, he's out here, tending to those who call this home. Scott 1-5:20 " Lets say this man didn't show up at the soup kitchen for a number of days I would just come check on him, to make sure he was all right and well, they don't have medical care. They may be sick or unable to leave, so I come and just make sure, I bring them meal, just to make sure he would be alright. Narr - They are some of the neediest people in the state and they're homeless for a variety of reasons. It could be they've been barred from public housing or it may not be available. Others have chosen not to ask for help. 1-3:30 Ally - "Tell us a little bit about, the guy here. Scott - He is an alcoholic, he is in his late 30, like any one of us, he had a home, a job, a family, but the alcohol got the best of him, for about 7 or 8 years now he has been living outside, still living in Portsmouth. His family is probably no more than a mile from where we are but because of his problem he is forced to live outside, his family will not take him back until he cleans himself up, he has just been struggling to get his act together for a number of years." Narr - According to the Department of Health and Human Services, more than 6,200 people in New Hampshire last year needed emergency shelter services. About half were dealing with substance abuse or mental illness. Shot walking through the woods to Harold's tent. Narr - A few miles from the first tent site we visited, sits a second. Amongst the homeless, Harold is a veteran. He's been living this way for more than twenty years. 2-52:30 - Scott - " What's a typical day consists of for you? Harold - I make the coffee. Scott - make coffee then breakfast, you probably get up 10 or 11 o'clock everyday, or do you get up earlier. Harold - I get up earlier so I can go steal a paper." Narr - Harold lives here with his girlfriend. They survive on what the Salvation Army can provide - food, tents, blankets and clothing. Harold does work - occasionally. 3-17:09 Scott - "Describe a good ticket from labor ready. Harold- a good ticket would be 12$ an hour ticket and a 12 hour shift, that's a good ticket. What would you do with the money? First thing we do is go to the Portsmouth pizza factory or Hong Kong express." Shots of Harold boiling water dissolve to first tent site Narr - Back at the first camp, the occupants have already left for town. Remnants of last nights meal litter the ground. 02:30:04 - Ally - "Are these people comfortable with how they are living? Scott - they may not be comfortable, but that is not the first thing in their mind, when they get up in the morning, they have a mission and their mission is to get this right away, its to get this , and it remains their mission throughout the day. Its not how do I get a job or how do I find a house, or how do I get back on my feet, it's how do I get this and sustain myself throughout the day, b/c most of the people, are reliant on that throughout the day, they need it physically, they have serious problems if they cannot keep drinking throughout the day." Shot of Harold cleaning out tent 3-22:31 - Scott to Harold -"Do you think you are an alcoholic? No way. So if you didn't drink for a year you would have no problems? I don't have a problem with not drinking, I just don't do it, I just drink cause a lot of my friends drink. How often do you drink? Once in a great while. Once every week? Two, three? No, whenever I feel like it." dissolve to Salvation Army exterior then to inside 4- 1:00:42 - Scott -"Are you forbidden to go to public housing? B/c that will help us to determine where you can go next. Gary - No. Scott - You are just barred where you used to reside. Gary - yes." Narr - Gary has recently become homeless. And, he has two young children. 4-1:00ish - Scott - "Why did they tell you and your children to leave, but your wife could stay. Gary- It wasn't them, it was her." 1-10:30 Gary- "We got into an argument or scrap you might call it, and she decided she would rather carry on her marriage with someone else, she just decided she just didn't want me around anymore." Narr - The Department of Health and Human Services estimates that last year, 2,000 children between the ages of 1 to 19 were homeless. That's 35 percent of the total homeless population. Gary and his two children have recently been living in their car. They survive on the 800 dollars a month he receives from the state. Although he can't read or write, he is willing to work - once he finds a home. 1-19:30 Scott - "He has his priorities in the right place, he wants to take care of his kids, he keeps them fed, clean clothes, he just needs to find a place for them to live and stability so a job can come later, there are resources out there that can help him stay on his feet and then look at those kinds of things." 1-2:42 - Scott talks to Gary - "You have exhausted all your options, so what we are going to do is put you in a place temporarily, we don't want you and your kids bouncing around wherever or sleeping in the car, however we have to discuss what we are going to do after that, or in the interim. I don't want you to go to the place and disappear for two week until its up, we've got to talk and see who we can talk to, to see how we can get this taken care of." 1-14:00 Gary - "I'm hoping somebody will call up, Portsmouth housing, so I can get back in, I mean, they told me, I'm on the waiting list, that's ok, but, um I'm being told by everybody that I need somebody, ya know somebody to let them know my situation." 1-17:45 "Sometimes you just wonder, what are the resources available to them, why is a man with two children living in his car, why is there a kind of bickering about who is going to do what for him, and where he legally lives, you know, there is children involved, its not like there is just some guy on the street, he has his kids involved, and dragging them around with him, they need a stable environment." Shots of Harold working at his tent Narr - The tent camps we visited were recently raided by police. They were torn down and the occupants fined. Chances are, they'll move on to another location. 1-8:20 - Ally - "How hard is it to see people fall back into this? Scott - Well its always disheartening, your hope is always up and down, but you never give up hope, fortunately I have seen enough people get out of these situations, that I don't loose hope that one day someone is going to say the right thing something is going to happen whether it be something tragic, they are going to pull out of it. I don't envision them being 60-70 years old still doing this. I hope that one day, in the near future he will be out of this situation." |
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I spoke earlier with Claira Monier of the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority and Eileen Brady of the Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter, who said the subjects of our story were atypical in one important aspect. |
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Some optimistic corporate news and an upbeat economic report gave buyers a reason to rush back into the market, pushing stocks sharply higher by the close. Investors were also encouraged by a positive report on sales of existing homes, which rose sharply last month. |
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The Dow soared 177 points. The Nasdaq rose 45 points. And The S and P 500 advanced 19. Dow Jones\10145.71\+177.56\NYSE\576.36\+8.08\AMEX\862.17\+5.86\Nasdaq\1769.88\+45.34\S&P 500\1109.43\+19.59\Wall Street\ |
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Here's a look at stocks of interest to New Hampshire investors.Tyco International gained two dollars on Monday after the company announced a U.S. District Court dismissed a class action lawsuit brought on by shareholders critcal of the company's accounting practices. The increase brought Tyco shares up to a closing value of twenty-nine fifty per share. Tyco\29.50\+2.00\Autodesk\43.08\+1.79\Chubb\73.60\+1.65\Lockheed Martin\56.50\+2.28\Teradyne\33.44\+2.68\NH Stocks\Source: yahoo.com |
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Tyco International says it has won a battle in U-S District Court in Concord. The company says the court dismissed thirty-eight lawsuits filed by shareholders. The suits accused Tyco of having improper accounting practices. In dismissing the suits, Tyco says the court cited failure on the part of the plaintiffs to make viable claims of securities-fraud. Accounting concerns have caused a fifty percent drop in the value of Tyco stock since December. |
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While parts of the midwest are being threaten by a potential blizzard, temps here in the granite state reached near 60 degrees. We checked in with Steve Bailey at the Mount Washington Observatory to see what we can expect overnight. |
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Mt. Washington Observatory\Monday on the Summit\Overcast with blowing and drifting snow\Visibility: 20 to 80 mile\High: 32\Peak Gust: SW 52 mph Overnight\North\Mostly cloudy\Lows: 25 to 30\Winds: Light, South\ Overnight\Central and South\Mostly cloudy with fog\Lows: 30 to 35\Winds: Light South\ Tuesday\North\Mostly cloudy\Highs: Around 50\Winds: S 5 to 10 mph\ Tuesday\Central and South\Mostly cloudy \some patchy morning fog\Highs: 45 to 55\Winds: S 5 to 10 mph |
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This winter's warm weather has left dangerously thin ice on many lakes and ponds. On Friday a 33-year-old man died after driving an all-terrain vehicle through the ice in Baboosic Lake in Amherst. It's the second ice fatality in New Hampshire this year. Though there have been ice related deaths, several successful ice rescues have occurred. With so many lakes and ponds in the state public safety professionals are often trained in ice rescues. And one granite state company is helping rescuers improve their skills. Outlook correspondent Ben French takes us to Harrisville where a company called 'Lifesaving Resources' teaches a chilling course in ice water rescue. |
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NATS: Somewhere, someone has fallen through the ice. A rescuer comes to his aid. It happens more often than we'd like to think. But ice rescuers are especially trained. they know how to approach a victim on the verge of hypothermia. dissolve to harrisville footage NAT: Gerry instructing on ice NAT: Gerry instructing in class TRACK: Gerry Dworkin is an expert on ice rescues. He's sharing his expertise with dozens of public safety officers from all over the country. Before their hands on experience, the rescuers are given some class room time to go over the critical elements involved in an ice rescue- how to respond to a car under the water or a child who'se fallen through the ice. b-roll this bite T1; 15:05 You know they Say the bigger they are the harder they fall um before you got here we showed a slide presentation an orientation of what their going through. Just to take some of their anxiety off. and you look at their faces and some of them are scared stiff when we talk about what it is we're about to do. And many of them have been firefighters and police officers for many years- they've had suits like this in their departments but many of them or most of them have never had the suit on and never been in cold water with them- or if they've had them on they've been in a swimming pool environment. NATS: on ice TRACK: One of the most important tools a rescuer can have is good communication from shore. T2; 24:22 In a real situation, what would normally happen is somebody would be up on shore yelling at the individual in the water, especially a child to hang on - that help is coming, trying to reassure tem and the rescue personnel that are going out will be trying to do the same thing their going to be communicating with the victim trying to catch their eye trying to get the victim to understand that help is on the way and to hold on for as long as they can until they can get to me. 24:44 OUT TRACK: In many cases the victim can become disabled from the cold in a matter of seconds. T2; 21:32 As soon as the cold water hits their face or hits their chest the tendency is that their muscles are going tighten up and that's to increase the metabolism to fight the cold but they also gasp, and if your face is in the water when you gasp, your gonna inhale cold water and that triggers a whole physiological incident and that shuts down your breathing and your airway and now your in trouble. STANDUP: two parts need to be butted together. T3; 12: 57 In thirty degree water these cold water rescue suits are designed to do three things keep the rescuer warm dry and afloat. BUTT** 15:58 To give you an idea of just how cold this water is, a person without this suit has a maximum 25 minute survival time once they're in the water 16:07 OUT WIDE 14:51 T2; Even wearing these suits you can still experience what's referred to as a 'lurnder' experience and drown so we're training people on how to use this equipment as well as every conceivable piece of equipment so that if they should have to respond to an incident in their communities they know the resource they have the type of equipment they have and they'll be comfortable in its use. 23:33 OUT TRACK: Because some ice rescue equipment can costs upwards of 25,000 dollars-One focus of the course is to give departments with small budgets valuable training using low budget items. 07:05 you can buy all the fancy equipment you want but it's the basic kiss principal, the simplest things work the best, are the easiest to use- the less moving parts to break - the less maintenance it's a nice simply process, your in your out and everyone goes home. 07:20 OUT T2; 32:26: This is very cost effective foe a municipality that doesn't have very much money. For a hundred dollars a man and maybe twenty five hundred dollars for the equipment you can really have a first class ice rescue team- TRACK: Brian Kincaid is a firefighter and a city councilman in Mount Arlington, New Jersey. His department performed five ice rescues last year- all of them successful. T3; we got lucky we were able to get the people out of the water without the training but I think we really put ourselves in danger last year and were gonna learn a lot from this. 01:17 T1; 12:20:10 Most of the rescues are successful. many of these rescues were successful due to no preplanning or effort on the part of the rescue personnel it was shear luck and were trying to prepare the rescue personnel to know the types of equipment and training they need and to provide them with the comfort level to be able to use this equipment in effect to rescue safely. 12:20:34 OUT T3; 01:02 I think we would have had more confidence in what we were doing number one and number two our methods would have been much more effective TRACK: And for most of these departments- in an emergency situation, Confidence is their most valuable asset. T2; 23:36 their gonna walk away at the end of the day feeling pretty good. Many of them have, again, have had these suits but never been in the water with them so we've overcome that apprehension level and now their coming with a complete repertoire of every conceivable rescue skill possible 23:52 OUT T3; 24:14 before I just flatly would not have known what to do except maybe get a rope and try to throw it. Other than that maybe a ladder but I had know idea there was so much you could do. 24:30 OUT T3; 26:45 as a department I didn't know the guys I came up here with as well and we're just growing better as a crew and I'm trusting them more, their trusting me more and the confidence in my self to jump in 32 degree water and trust these suits we're wearing. 26:59OUT T3; 23:33 Its tough for a 54 year old guy. but its great I mean the trainings been great 23:40OUT TAG OUT In Harrisville, I'm BF for NH Outlook. |
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For more information on 'Lifesaving Resources' you can call Gerry Dworkin at 603.827.4139, or you can visit their website at w-w-w- dot- lifesaving dot com. |
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Ice Safety is also an important issue for some other organizations. The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department has teamed up with the Manchester Monarchs to create this Public Service Announcment. It's a reminder to always check the ice for adequate thickness. Their suggestion is "when in doubt, don't go out." |
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On the next New Hampshire Outlook - On the road to better reading. Share the progress of a first grader as he learns to read in a program called Reading Recovery. |
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That's it for this edition of our program. For all of us here at New Hampshire Public Television, I'm Richard Ager. Thanks for joining us. We'll see you next time on New Hampshire Outlook. |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. The face of homessness in the granite state. From outdoor campers to young families on the edge. Tonight at 10 only on NH Outlook. |
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Tonight on NH Outlook.on the road to reading. A first grader's progress with Reading Recovery. Tonight at 10 only on NH Outlook. |
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Tonight on NH Outlook.on the road to reading. A first grader's progress with Reading Recovery. Tonight at 10 only on NH Outlook. |
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Increasing the availability of generic drugs could make health care more affordable. That's the message Governor Jeanne Shaheen is sending to congress. Shaheen spoke about the issue Monday at the National Governors Association meeting in Washington. Declining state revenues and the increasing costs of programs like Medicaid have been a major focus at the meeting. Shaheen says a study of seventeen drugs show that implementing generic drugs in Medicaid programs could save states up to five-hundred-million-dollars a year. But - according to the governor - some pharmaceutical companies are able to extend their brand-name patents through legal loopholes. |
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The New Hampshire prison system is recieving good marks from a national organization. All of the state's adult prison programs have been accredited by the American Correctional Association. It's the result of a three month review of New Hampshire's prisons. The association toured the facilities in addition to interviewing inmates and staff. The hundreds of criteria for accredition include sanitation, prison crowding and education. The only other states to have their prison programs accredited are New York, Ohio, Florida and Louisiana. |
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AP-NH--ATV Fatal Man dies in Amherst lake this brings the total to two ice deaths in NH- both snowmobil related. -- A 33-year-old man has died after driving an all-terrain vehicle through the ice in Baboosic Lake in Amherst early this morning. Fish and Game officials say Michael Fritz of Amherst either drove into an open section of the lake or crashed through thin ice at about one-thirty this morning. A companion, Stephen Pike of Salem, Massachusetts, eventually pulled Fritz out of the water. A man who lives on the lake heard their yelling, paddled a boat about 300 yards out to them and brought them to shore. Fritz was pronounced dead at a hospital. Fish and Game conservation officer Todd Szewczyk says Fritz died of exposure. Szewczyk says the ice was probably very thin because the lake didn't freeze over until recently. AP-N |