 Police have said that Smith reached into his pocket for a gun in the two-exchange gunfire. Sergeant Whelan has been on the Manchester force since 2010. The June unemployment rate in the Granite State is at 2.5 percent. That's unchanged from May. Based on wastewater data, the level of COVID in New Hampshire is considered high. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wastewater surveillance is used as an early warning system because an increase in COVID levels usually comes before an uptick in confirmed cases.