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WEBVTT MIKE? MIKE: POLICE SAY THIS MAY HAVE ALL STARTED IN THIS AREA AT A STORM DRAIN NEXT TO THE NASHUA RIVER. AUTHORITIES AND POLICE HAVE BEEN SEARCHING ALL OVER FOR THIS TEENAGER, BUT SO FAR NO SIGN. THIS IS WHO THEY ARE LOOKING FOR, 16-YEAR-OLD JACOB GOULET, 5'8", 200 POUNDS, BLACK HAIR, BLUE EYES, LAST SEEN WEARING A DEN INVEST WITH METAL STUDS, GRAY T-SHIRT, BLACK SHORTS, BLACK SNEAKERS. SATURDAY MORNING, HIS FATHER REPORTED HIM MISSING. HE HAD NOT BEEN SEEN SINCE FRIDAY NIGHT WHEN HE LEFT A FRIEND'S HOUSE TO WALK HOME. FAMILY SAYS IT IS UNUSUAL FOR JACOB TO DISAPPEAR LIKE THIS. JUST BEFORE 10:00 DURING FRIDAY NIGHT'S HEAVY RAIN, POLICE RESPONDED TO THE AREA BEHIND MAIN STREET ON THE NORTH END OF WATER STREET, WHERE AN OPEN STORM DRAIN WAS FOUND AND BELONGINGS BELIEVED TO BE GOULET'S WERE FOUND ON THE GROUND NEARBY. VIDEO SURVEILLANCE ALSO SHOWS HIM IN THE AREA. CITY AGENCIES STARTED A MASSIVE SEARCH LOOKING IN THE NASHUA RIVER, MERRIMACK RIVER, AND UNDERWATER STORM DRAIN SYSTEM. JACOB'S FAMILY IS ALSO FRANTICALLY SEARCHING. HIS UNCLE AND COUSIN HAVE BEEN YELLING FOR HIM INTO STORM DRAINS THROUGHOUT THE CITY. >> I JUST HOPE THAT MAYBE, YOU KNOW, HE MIGHT HAVE FELL IN AND HE'S JUST HANGING ON. MAYBE HE IS TOO COLD TO YELL. MAYBE WE WILL SEE HIM, HEAR HIM. I MEAN, JUST CAN'T STOP TRYING, YOU KNOW? HE JUST TURNED 16. HE'S A GOOD KID. DOESN'T GET IN TROUBLE. >> GOES TO NASHUA HIGH NORTH. >> LIKES VIDEOGAMES. LIKES TO LISTEN TO MUSIC. MIKE: NASHUA POLICE WILL HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE TOMORROW. IN THE MEANTIME, IF ANYONE KNOWS OF JACOB'S WHEREABOUTS, YOU ARE

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An extensive search is on for a missing 16-year-old boy who may have been swept by heavy rains into a storm drain in Nashua, police said. On Friday, officers with the Nashua Police Department responded to a report that a person may have fallen down the drain behind 75 Main St. and the north side of Water Street. A citizen noted the open storm drain and personal items nearby, clues that would later be linked to Jacob Goulet, a student at Nashua North High School. Officers spoke with several people in the area, but they did not witness anyone falling into the storm drain. The generic personal items left behind didn’t contain any identifying information. On Saturday, police were informed that Goulet’s parent had filed a missing-person’s report. Goulet had not been seen or heard from since the previous day. He had left a friend’s house, walking during a heavy rain storm. The parent had searched throughout the night, but was unable to locate the teen, police said. Based on information offered by the parent, police said the items located near the storm drain may have been in Goulet’s possession when he was last seen. In addition, Goulet may have walked along the same route to get home. Video surveillance later confirmed that Goulet did have the personal items found near the drain in his possession. The video also showed that he was on foot in the area of the storm drain during the heavy rainfall on Friday. Armed with the new information from Goulet’s parent, officers started an extensive search based on the possibility that Goulet had been swept into the storm. A command post was also established in the search effort. Officers said the areas to be searched include the Nashua River, the Merrimack River and the entire underwater storm drain system north of Water Street and south to Sawmill Drive. The Nashua Fire Department and its dive team, the city of Nashua Waste Water Department, Division of Public Works and New Hampshire Fish and Game are all assisting with the effort. Goulet’s family is also frantically searching. His uncle and cousin have been yelling for him into storm drains throughout the city. “I just hope that maybe he might have fallen in and he’s just hanging on and maybe he’s too cold to yell. Maybe we’ll see him, we’ll hear him. Just can’t stop trying, you know?” said Goulet’s uncle, Darren Blouin. “He just turned 16. He’s a good kid. He doesn’t get in trouble, likes video games, like listening to music,” said Goulet’s cousin, Sarah Blouin. Goulet is 5-foot-8 and weighs around 200 pounds. He has short black hair on the sides with long hair along the top of his head. He has blue eyes. He was last wearing a denim vest with metal studs on it, a gray T-shirt, black shorts and black Converse All-Star sneakers.