The war changed the economy tremendously from long beach and the rest of the United States. Long beach was experiencing a depression but we were lucky we discovered oil in 1921. The town was booming from the oil industry at that point. What was happening was also we were seeing the development of aviation in long beach. In 1911, cal rogers flew the first flight from new york and stopp stopped in long beach and made history in 1911. When the u. S. Army was looking for a place to build a plant to produce aircraft, which they thought we would need in world war ii, they picked long beach because steps away we have a wonderful airport founded in 1923. It was one of the first airports with a take off and landing in Different Directions which the army loved. When the plant opened in 1941 in october they thought well, we will produce the a26 but on december 8th we had pearl harbor and a couple things happened in long beach. Most of the ships that were destroyed in pearl harbor had been anchore
A manhunt is underway after an Early Morning stabbing. Police say 3 00 this morning a person walking in the area of 4th street south and dolly boulevard found a woman on the ground, stabbed multiple times. Were hearing she was not seriously injured but she says a man came up on her riding a bike and came from behind her and stabbed her. If any information, please call st. Pete police. A tragic scene in lakeland, firefighters found the bodies of two people and dog in a burning mobile home. That fire started after 1 00 this morning. A witness called 911 but by the time firefighters got there it was too late. Abc action News Reporter Lindsay Logue is live on old polk city road. You talked to fire investigators. Started . Reporter the fire investigators at the scene say the fire started at the front end of the home so the end closest to us and the end with the most amount of damage. Its going to be the area as far as exactly what started it, were still waiting on those test results to come
Could they do that . It is just not going to happen. So it was easy for me. So you have this urban legend of accountability that permeates the book. If you walk into the concourse with george h. W. Bush and you look to the left we have the first line of defense. To be in a space and nobody else is allowed to be in. I was doing a briefing downtown and then to talk about global situations. In said on a scale between one and and how would you rate the cia and said keep in mind we dont do 8310 if you were there theyre asking the department of commerce the questions. [laughter] that is what i try. Because what actually happens inside cia or nsa real people extraordinary asked to do extraordinary things. I want to ask somebody who goes the extra mile so Charlie Wilson from the House Appropriations we wouldnt have gotten that without him not breaking any laws for the subcommittee of defense with the directors flexibility together with their real flexibility that made it possible that we sat t
This mobile home. Firefighters and investigators are already here, started this investigation. Again as you said witnesses called 911 but by the time firefighters got here they say fire had already destroyed 3 4 of this home and found bodies of a man and woman inside and one of their dogs died. Another was injured, two dogs are ok. Again still very early on in this investigation. They ever not released the names of the people who died but i can tell you the state fire marshal is already out here. Has already begun this investigation. Of course well know much more in a couple of hours especially once the sun starts to rise, they can get a really good picture of what happened here overnight. Again just a very tragic scene in lakeland. Were going to be live all morning with the breaking details. Im Lindsay Logue live in polk county, abc action news. Good morning, were starting with milder temperatures and more humidity as a cold front begins to move in. Temperatures now, mid60s Court Cour
With blizzard warnings and Winter Weather advisories in our northern counties, including waterloo, waverly, oelwein and decorah. We had a few showers show up on radar earlier and now it looks like we may have some sunshine for a bit before the next round tracks in. The winds will be the problem with this system. We are already at 1015 mph, gusting to 20 in some areas from the west and temperatures have already started to drop this morning. We will have snow showers track bbck in later todd, although i wouldnt be surprised to have a few pop up earlier. Today will be the set up with a few snow showers, especially late. Mainly falling temperaturesesand west winds at 1020 mph gusting higher. We will have blowing, drifting and visibility problems tonight and tomorrow. Ill have more detail on that in a few minutes. Rapids Fire Department is investigating a house fire. It happened last night in the 7 hundred block of 7th street the fire came from a 2nd floor bathroom. 3 adults and 2 children