And brock staley as they received honors for risking their lives. Today, an investigator with the state Fire Marshals Office checked out the damage at iowa gold distributing. The recycling plant in central city caught fire after multiple explosions yesterday morning. People nearby couldnt leave their homes, or use their furnace for possible contaminates in the air. Central city firefighters went back to the plant that rekindled. The fire chief, james oleary, says its hard to prepare for the dangers explosions and that type of fire can present. A prairieburg firefighter went to the hospital for overexertion while battling the fire. Youre carrying probably an extra 5060 pounds of weight on you. And hes in shape, hes not an older guy at all. Even someone in shape, it wears you out. A good few hours of oleary says the firefighter is back home and recovering. A state fire marshall says they will have to get somebody to move things out of the area before they can determine a cause for the fi
Year, in all four cities. Nothing despite that, tv nines Dave Franzman reports that snow equipment businesses have found a little different way to stay busy. At this theisens store, the snow shovels stood at attention and bags of ice melt were piled high. But in a half hours time, only a couple of people even bothered to look. I think i would wait for the first big snowstorm and then i would buy a snwb sot nat retailers who sell Power Equipment like snowblowers say thats how a lot of people feel about getting ready for winter. Some plan and buy ahead regardless of what the weather is doing. But many wont really start stocking up until they see the flakes fly. Still, its not that business was slow. Until recently it was just sort of out of season. Now because of the warmer weather, the equipment coming in for repairs until about a week ago was mainly lawnmowers and leaf blowers. That sort of thing. Snowblowers just werent happening. Now they are though, and theres a backlog of 200 store
Year, after sears moved out. A gym located inside the mall is a Business Model that mall owners say has been extremely successful, nationwide. Jump park owners say the same is true for their mall locations. Traffic. More people in the area is much better for us. Parents say they love the convenience of being able to drop off the kids while they shop the stores. I still want stores here. It is the mall. But its something to do. While i shop, he could play. A Little Something fr the mall. In dubuque Katie Wiedemann kcrg tv9 news. Owners say parents do not need to accompany their children at the jump park, no matter what the childs age is. They say children are welcome, as long as they follow the rules. The holiday spirit is alive in manchester tonight as the city celebrates its annual window walk and static christmas parade. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts is there live over the next couple days. Skies remain cloudy tonight but the wind will die down as lows drop to near 30. Were back in the
Happening today. For the opening of the mgm National Harbor. We are getting a sneak peek inside the billion dollar Entertainment Complex and later on this moring we will get an exclusive first look inside the National Harbor Traffic Control center. Sam sweeny joins us live. Check out our dot com. And stick with abc7 news all week for reports on what you can expect from security in that area before it all opens thursday night. Happening today. Dc mayor Muriel Bowser is expected to meet with president elect donald trump in new york city. The two have not always seen eye to eye. Suzanne kennedy joins us with the detials on todays meeting. This is a meeting that comes at the request of mayor bowser. The mayor saying she asked for the meeting to discuss how the two could Work Together to continue washington dcs growth. Mayor bowser president elect during the campaign. She, like other deocratic elected officials turned down an invitation to the grand opening of trumps hotel on pennsylvania a
Reporter hey jen. This is heartbreaking news because so many students, thousands of them will have to start over including a disabled veteran we spent time with today. He had tears in his eyes but hope in his heart when he came here to hcc for help. Ronnie wishi is looking for answers but first, he has a few questions for itt tech. How could you . How dare you . Lets make right done wrong. Reporter ronnie was proud to serve his country. Now he is trying to survive his education. Just. Its busted dreams. I left a good job to go back to school to higher myself. It is all about higher education, you know, trying to do better. I teach my kids that. Reporter as a disabled veteran, this tampa bay native and father of seven was crushed to hear most likely his credits transfer, Hillsborough Community college is trying to help students like ronnie come up with options. Even if some of them dont become an hcc student, at least we can provide them options and explain what they may be in for. Repo