A man convicted on two counts of first degree murder is now dead. Elias back in september of 2015, Jerry Dillinger shot and killed Loretta Dillinger and another man. During his Court Appearance earlier this year, he plead guilty to both charges of first degree murder. After pleading guilty, dillinger declined a trial and asked to be sentenced on the spot. Dillinger was to serve two consecutive life sentences at oakdale prison. And was ordered to pay restitution to both loretta and the robinson families. Today, he was found dead from an apparent suicide at the iowa medical and Classification Center in oakdale. Elias also new this morning a young metro man Brandon Ellingson was taken into custody in 2014 by trooper Anthony Piercy on suspicion of boating while intoxicated. While handcuffed, he fell overboard and drowned. Earlier this month a special prosecutor in the case filed Involuntary Manslaughter charges against piercy, who authorities. This morning, piercey had his first arraignmen
Dropping in, so we will briefly hit a high of 20 but it will be fighting a strong northwest wind all day. Friday night and saturday morning temperatures will drop below zero state wide and in the metro we will likely land somewhere right next to 4 degrees. Saturday night into valentines day sunday we have a better chance for larger accumulating snow that will likely stack up to a few inches. Next week we are definitely going to see warmer weather with highs climbing back into the 40s and possibly a brief 50 elias lets get into the top five this morning. Elias those speed limits on iowas twolane country highways are now under review. State lawmakers have two proposals before them that would move the speed limit from 55 miles an hour up to 60 or 65. A study done by the iowa dot found that the average driver goes 62. Some are in favor of the changes, but arent sure if it would work sabrina in the number two spot this morning. Sabrina the Us Justice Department has filed a lawsuit claiming
Burning. There was a smell of burning. Thats when the emergency was declared. The plane was headed to phoenix and it is diverted. We could make an announcement and it is here at San Jose International airport. Made an announcement there was a problem and had to make an Emergency Landing in san jose. Thats what they did. The plane moved in here to San Jose International airport and landed a short time ago. Passengers were told they had to be removed from the plane and their belongings were being removed as well. All the passengers resist off flight 346, their baggage, etcetera and being shuttled up to San Francisco where the plane was intended to land earlier. I talked to miss martin. She is going to drive. I said what is it like on the plane. She said everyone was calm. Very professional and her thoughts, she was glad her loved ones, kid and husband were not with her. It was scary and everyone has landed. Everybody is safe and they have the plane open. They are airing out the aircraft
Let me bring in my colleague from washington, correspondent mike viqueira. In some ways we knew this was coming. Were still not exactly sure what it means, though. Just yesterday actually two days ago now, im losing my days here. At the unga, Vladimir Putin kind of tipped his hand a little bit that he might escalate in syria, but there has been troop build up there and equipment build up of about 30 days. Off to the sidelines barack obama and Vladimir Putin met, speaking about what should happen about this escalation. Pick it up from there. Youre absolutely right. No one is surprised that russia has engaged in these airstrikes. The question is how theyve been about it, why theyve gone about it, and who these airstrikes are targeting. Russia gave the United States one hour notice saying were going to be starting these airstrikes. The second problem, who are they hitting. The u. S. Coalition has flown hundreds of mission but targeting only isil forces. President putin while in new york i
The weapon and Waterloo Police werent called until what happened next. Police say the alleged fugitive took off running in this area near gable and manson streets. Oh yeah i was nervous, i didnt know what was going on thats mary campbell. Its dark outside now, but just the morning prior she watched the Marshal Service once the driver ditched his car near campbells home and took off running. Campbell says she saw two officers and one man in plain clothes in her yard. They were looking for someone. They were Walking Around out there, around my garage and in my garage too campbell has lived in her home more than 30 years. She says shes never seen anything like this. And she hopes she wont again the us Marshal Service has still not found the fugitive. The us Marshal Service has released the following Statement Service can confirm that the Northern Iowa Fugitive Task force was involved in a line of duty shootingincident december 8, 2015 while attemping to stop a vehicle beleived to be linke