Avoid a deer in his pickup and when the tire blew out the truck rolled into the ditch. , lucas was on his way to this Grocery Store in campbellsport to buy donuts for his grandmother when his life suddenly changed. But because of the experimental stem cell transplant at froedtert hospital, lucas is moving his fingers again. Anything i dreamed of doing before the accident is completely possible now. These are all of those trays of all of those different pieces. Doctor Shekar Kurpad is the neurosurgeon who injected 10 million stem cells into lucas injured spinal cord. Theres a significant consensus, and im part of it, that this is a real change and a real advance. The Clinical Trial is only for spinal cord patients within a month of when they were injured. To know that it did help can hopefully give other people that hope. And theres a chance the experimental treatment could give hope to people with older spinal cord injuries. Theres more work to be done clearly but this is very , exciti
Peter the interviews of various witnesses is ongoing as wll as physical evidence and any forensic evidence, so that is an online process that started early sunday morning. It continues now. An autopsy is being conducted now on mr. Lafont, the man that was killed. Andy Officials Say those autopsy results are expected to be released later today or tomorrow. Reporting live, Andy Hershberger, wmur news 9. Jean tonight, investigators are trying to figure out what morning. Nine people were injured before the suspect was shot and killed by police. And tonight, police say they believe the gunman was preparing to carry out a larger attack. Abcs maggie rulli has those new developments. Jennifer i could just hear the whiz of bullets going past my window. Maggie jennifer molledas quiet monday morning in Houston Texas parking lot near her familys apartment, randomly targeting drivers jennifer hes screaming on the phone, im hit, jenna, im hit. Maggie her husband is one of nine people injured. Three
The driver was killed. State police say it started in salem where the driver was involved in another accident, apparently swiping two other cars. As the trooper chased him, police say he drove erratically until the deadly ending. The troopers took immediate action, in removing the operator from the immediate area. Pulling him up the embankment, and administering first aid. I saw a pickup highway, had his flashers on. Nearly crashed several times. Reporter after the fiery crash, it took firefighters several minutes to put out the flames as they also dealt with angry hornets. It appears that the truck came to a stop near several nests and some of the firefighters were stung. Mike cronin, wmur news 9. Jean thanks, mike. We now know the man who died in during a confrontation with police. That comes from the autopsy results released today on 25yearold cody lafont. Officers responded to congress street sunday morning after receiving a 911 call. Lafont was shot during a confrontation with tho
Live in the drake neighborhood, kim st. Onge, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Steve powdery snow falling across the metro this morning and afternoon. A little under two inches at the Des Moines International airport. We could see some more tonight. Kurtis, it sure got slick out there. Kurtis it really did. No doubt about that, especially on the sidewalks and secondary roadways. Here in the metro, 1. 9 inches. It was a little more in jefferson and polk city. If you are out in it, you noticed how big the flex work. Very fluffy. Air space in between. Right now, the band of snow is very light from southern story county through jasper county. Not expecting any additional accumulations out there. Going to be a cold one tonight. Clouds of slowly decrease at the not a tremendous amount of wind, but enough for the windchill of three below early on. Highs tomorrow 23 degrees. 8 day forecast has two snow chances and a warmup. Details, coming up. Stacey des moines authorities are identifying a man
From the iowa utilities board on the controversial bakken oil pipeline. The board met today to review the pros and cons of the project. The pipeline would cut through 18 iowa counties. The board did move into closed session, but did not announce a decision, before adjourning late this afternoon. Stacey theres a high wind advisory in effect today. Semi trucks traveling on the interstate are at especially high risk of rollover. This semi truck is on its side off i35, near ellsworth. Driver david warren says he dropped a load in des moines and was heading to albert lea, minnesota to reload. His empty trailer didnt have much weight and got caught in the wind. David i come into this clearing, and the gust of wind just picked me up, brought me over, and set me over on my side. And i mean, there was no stopping it, once it started. It just picked me up and threw my right over, like i was a piece of trash on the side of the road. Stacey scary. Warren says he made it out ok, and says hes thankf