Refund if they decided not to wait for this replacement aircraft to finish the trip. Passengers say there were a few empty seats on the trip back but not many. The trip from orlando ended just after two oclock. About six hours behind schedule. For one 13yearold flier, it was a memorable first airplane trip. Is this the kind of thing to put you off flying for awhile . Nah. If my parents said pack up were going somewhere i would, i like to go of course, a trip without an interruption and excitement is probably preferable. An Allegiant Air spokesperson said the problem involved the right engine on the cedar rapidsbound aircraft. The aircraft was taken out of service for inspection to determine the cause of the problem. Live in cedar rapids, Dave Franzman kcrg tv9 news. Thanks, dave. This isnt the first time allegiant has encountered related issues. The faa is investigating an incident from august when a mechanical failure caused an allegiant planes nose wheel before takeoff. The pilot aborted the takeoff. The faa hasnt commented on the investigation. A Johnson County man is safe tonight thanks to first responders. A nd wet suits. The Johnson CountySheriffs Office says 25yearold Jared Bushell of hills was hunting by himself in the hawkeye wildlife area and fell through the ice. It happened just after 10 30 this morning near swan lake road and greencastle avenue nw. Rescuers in cold water rescue suits pulled him from the water about an hour later. They say he was cold and wet, but okay. Deputies say bushell was able to walk out of the area under his own power. A crash with a pickup hitting a garbage truck in Fayette County sent 4 people to the hospital. The Sheriffs Office says it happened around 645 this morning on highway 18 about 2 miles west of west union. Deputies say a garbage truck was backing into a farm driveway when the pickup crashed into it. The pickup driver, phillip white, his passenger. Melinda scribner, both of nashua, suffered life threatening injuries. The garbage truck hit was collecting trash. He also suffered life threatening injuries. The garbage truck driver, dustin bunn of fairbank, suffered nonlife threatening injuries. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts joins us now with our first alert forecast. Seasonably chilly weather is here to begin 2016. Temperatures will be in the teens at midnight with wind chills in the single digits. Well start new years day with lows around 10, then climb to the lower 20s under a mostly sunny sky. The weekend is looking just fine with a partly to mostly sunny sky and highs in the upper 20s. Uneventful weather rolls on until the second half of next week when a slight chance of a wintry mix returns to the area. Until then, enjoy a quiet start to the new year. Tonight partly cloudy low 713 winds w 515 alo 8 dbq 9 iow 12 back to you. Sometimes, in life, you just matter how much the plans change. One eastern iowa family will never forget the journey to get to pasadena. Kcrgtv9 Dubuque Bureau chief Katie Wiedemann joins us live. Katie, the family is certainly persistent. Right Jennifer Webber told me today shes a life long, diehard hawkeye fan. Thats why when her familys flight to pasadena got cancelled, they decided to pack up the car and drive 27 hours to get there. On wednesday, the webber family was suppose to fly from dubuque to chicago to la. But the airline cancelled their flight from chicago to la. So they packed up the car and hit the road. They took the southern route, got caught in an ice storm, witnessed a semi explode along the highway. And now they plan to arrive late this evening. Were there. Theyve got a great team right now and we want to be a part of this. Its been the perfect season. When we last checked in with the webbers, they were in new mexico and were expecting to get to pasadena at 1007 tonight. They say they missed yesterdays hawkeye huddle and todays rally at the uss iowa. But theyll be ready to tailgate tomorrow afternoon. Chris. Thanks, katie. People spending new years eve in downtown dubuque have a new option for getting home this year. For the first time, the jules Nightrider Service will run on new years eve. City transit manager Candace Eudaley says the service will run as a result of requests from riders. Nightrider service typically only runs on friday and saturday nights. A major shake up in republican president ial candidate ben carsons campaign today. Communications director doug watts have left the campaign. Bennett says he left because carson was listening more to his longtime Business Manager than to his paid campaign staff. And he says it raises questions in his mind about the kind of president carson would be if elected. Carson has struggled in the polls since october. Hes been a distant 4th in iowa polling for weeks. The week between christmas and new years is a time for time off for many. And extra trash from just about everyone. But landfill operators hope the word gets out about what can and can not be recycled. The cedar rapids and Linn County Solid Waste Agency saw a major increase in recycling drop offs this week as people clear out the holiday debris. People who got new tvs last week can recycle their old one for a 5 fee. But one concern is wrapping paper. Its not the same as other paper that can be recycled. Thats one of the biggest questions this time of year. What do i do with wrapping paper what do i do with styrofoam. We just tell everyone throw it away. Those materials can recycling Center Workers try to intercept any of the wrong materials before they go into the piles of material headed for recycling sorting. Broken Christmas Lights can be recycled for free as electronic waste. Were less than 24 hours away from the rose bowl game in pasadena. And while one player wont be suiting up because of a torn acl. The influence of drew ott will resonate through the team. Stay with tv9. Hi, im captain ford from still a presence. Drew otts season ended weeks ago. Amid iowas historic run to a 120 start and a big ten west title. Defensive lineman drew ott was lost for the season in october with a torn acl. Yet leadership doesnt always require a uniform. Tv9s Scott Saville explains. We are on the uss iowa. Tonight. And their are tons of hawkwye fans here. And speaking of fans drew ott was a real fan favorite and even though he has missed most of season he is still a big leader on this team drew ott was destroying quarterbacks at the beginning if the season and was on his way to becoming one of the top defensive ends in the country when he blew out special teams against. It was a pretty tough couple of weeks there, but you get over it, move on and start rehabbing. Kind of heart wrenching whats happened to him quite frankly. To go through a couple of significant injuries like that. We all saw him having a great year. Everybody in the program, every player, every coach had a total belief that he was going to have a successful year and really come out and do it this year. For it to end the way it did, that was really heartbreaking for everybody. Ott has rehabbed hard in hopes of being granted a medical hardship. I think it would just get me more experience. I think it would help me out in the long run. Itd just be nice to get a senior year here. Whatever rehab schedule the doctors give him, hes going to beat that by days or weeks. Thats just how hes wired, hes extremely mentally tough. We just hope he has that opportunity. It goes beyond just looking at numbers, you really need to find out exactly about the person, the injury, how his career path went exactly. Drew might no be able to help the team out on the field but he remains one the captains and is a real leader off the field coaching from the sidelines. I just try to give them my advice and what helped me when i was playing. And try to convey that message to them. How about his eyes on the sidelines, he can see things help you when you get back . Oh yea, especially when youre out on the field and then you come off the field, hes always the first person to Say Something to me. Its been very helpful. He cant play right now, unfortunately. But he has amped up the leadership role. Hes totally invested. And most specifically, hes really helping the younger defensive linemen. Coming up later in sports Scott Westerberg will feature drew otts replacement parker hesse back to you in cedar rapids. The hawkeyes in the rose bowl is certainly a big focus in eastern iowa sports. But the cedar rapids rampage played a game today a rare weekday afternoon showdown in town. Weather is here to begin 2016. Temperatures will be in the teens at midnight with wind chills in the single digits. Well start new years day with lows around 10, then climb to the lower 20s under a mostly sunny sky. The weekend is looking just fine with a partly to mostly sunny sky and highs in the upper 20s. Uneventful weather rolls on second half of next week when a slight chance of a wintry mix returns to the area. Until then, enjoy a quiet start to the new year. Tonight partly cloudy low 713 winds w 515 alo 8 dbq 9 iow 12 tomorrow mostly sunny high 2026 winds w 1020 alo 22 dbq 22 iow 25 tomorrow night mostly saturday mostly sunny high 29 low 10 sunday partly sunny high 28 low 14 monday partly cloudy high 26 low 13 tuesday partly cloudy high 32 low 18 wednesday slight chance of rain snow high 33 low 24 thursday slight chance of rain snow high 34 low 24. Coming up in sports, Scott Westerberg features one of the surprises on iowas defensive line, waukon native parker hesse. And the rampage looked to end 2015 with a win at home. Stay with tv9. Waukon native parker hesse defensive lineman on the field, but hes filled in admirably since replacing drew ott. Scott westerberg has more from california. As Scott Saville mentioned show, when drew ott went down parker hesse had to step into a more prominent role, and while many didnt expect hesse to have a big year, the people in his hometown of waukon arent surprised at his success. Parker hesse may not have been a child protege, but the signs were there that Something Special was on the horizon. Just ask his family and even his kindergarten teacher, patrice schulte. They would recap the monday night football every tuesday morning. They would sit at their tables and chat about who did what and they were always interested in sports and thats what they did at recess and thats what they talked about, so im not surprised that hes a hawkeye. I still remember like it was yesterday. He scored five different ways. He ran for a touchdown. He threw one. He caught one. He returned a returned an interception for a touchdown, and it was halftime. I remember kind of scratching my head going, i thought hed be good, but this might be Something Special. the flag football star then grew into a high school allstater at waukon, sometimes making it look pretty easy. If you look at his stats from his senior year and his High School Career its like video game numbers. Its pretty neat. Parker then caught the eye of the iowa hawkeyes and now hes probably the most famous person in town. We made a gingerbread and one of them turned into number forty for the hawkeyes. Its really cute. You look around school and there are hawkeye shirts with 40 and hesse on the back, and thats kind of neat to see. Theres a lot of pride up here in seeing him do what hes doing. But to those who know him best, hes just parker. There are people who are like, i wish i could get parkers autograph and its like, ok. His brothers always say, we have to go watch parker walk . We can watch him walk at home. hes certainly got a lot of fame around here. Its weird to think of him that way, the same person that comes home on holidays and on weekends. They always ask me if its cool to have a brother thats a hawkeye, but i never really thought of him as that. Hes just my older brother. The hesse family rented an rv, so theyll be here to cheer on the westerberg kcrgtv9 sports. Well have more on parker hesse in our 1hour rose bowl special tomorrow. Thats starts at 9 am, right here on kcrgtv9. The iowa Womens Basketball team won its big ten Season Opener over nebraska, 7468. Its the hawkeyes 4th consecutive win over the huskers. Iowa city west grad ally disterhoft led all scorers once again with 17 points. Indoor soccer action. Rampage hosting the missouri comets. The rampage draw first blood. Patrick kelly lets one rip to make it 10 cedar rapids. The comets came back and led 21 after the first quarter. The rampage get the equalizer in the 2nd. Chile farias to cedar rapids washington grad Jacob Johnson who heads it in. Nice play. Its 22. But it was all comets after that. John sosa with a nice fake, botts it in with the left foot. Rampage fall 114 now heres a look at todays top web stories on kcrg dot com. Stay with your 24hour was in 1993. Thats why some Iowa National guard soldiers are headed there to help. And, hawkeye player Riley Mccarron from dubuque talks about his excitement for tomorrows big game. Thats tonight at ten. Team meteorologis t Justin Gehrts for your final forecast. Seasonably chilly weather is here to begin 2016. Temperatures will be in the teens at midnight with wind chills in the single digits. Well start new years day with lows around 10, then climb to the lower 20s under a mostly sunny sky. The weekend is looking just fine with a partly to mostly sunny sky and highs in the upper 20s. Uneventful weather rolls on until the second half of next week when a slight chance of a wintry mix returns to the area. Until then, enjoy a quiet start to the new year. Tonight partly cloudy low 713 winds w 515 alo 8 dbq 9 iow 12 thanks justin. Thanks for joining us for kcrgtv9 news at 6. We hope youll be with us again tonight at ten. Have a ice dragon