Right now at 6, the former off duty bay area pilot accused of trying to cut off the engines of Alaska Airlines jet midflight between Washington State and francisco has pleaded not guilty to 83 counts of seconddegree attempted murder. Good evening, everybody. Im vicki liviakis. Im ken wayne. Were learning more tonight about what went on during those tense minutes sunday aboard that flight. Prosecutors say 44 yearold Alaska Airlines pilot Joseph Emerson was sitting in the jump seat behind the pilot in the cockpit when he began pulling at the handles of the planes, Fire Suppression system, which if he had been successful, would have cut off the fuel to the planes engines. Prosecutors say he has admitted to doing that. Now faces both state and federal charges conference. Dan kerman joins us now live in the newsroom with the details on this. You know, the big question has been, how could someone like this do Something Like this . Court documents tell a story of a depressed man in crisis gri
Endangerment. Anderson was originally facing really right. Represent dangerous charges for is on those can all be considered by the grand jury. If before the grand jury. So those are still something that can be considered. And it was joel jones reporting for us tonight from portland. Another reminder that we have more on this story on our website. Go to kron 4 dot com. You can scan that qr code on the screen take you straight to our coverage. All right. Take a look at this. A car crashed into eatery and its all caught on video according to police. This happened just before 11 oclock this morning at wings sixfive on international and 64th. Officers believe the crash happened following a shootout between 2 cars. One of those ended up inside the restaurant. They were speeding 2 people arrested. 2 guns have been recovered. There are no reports of injuries, though, at this time, man shot several times by Antioch Police earlier this month during a foot chase disputes Police Account city poin
Then i said to myself, oh, i wonder when this will get turn on the heater. Intercom. Yeah, good morning, john. I its like nice and refreshing right now, but i know a few months from now, itll be like, hey, wheres warm temperatures because it is definitely cold out there. Nights are getting longer in a cold front just swinging through last night resulting in what weve got this morning, which is a brisk feeling start your view outside right now from your mount tam cam showing a nice sunrise. Were going to see an increase in cloud cover today. Right now are fairly clear. Look at all that rainfall. Weve got to the north of us. Its going to stay closer to that direction. Not going to be a rainy day for the bay area, but were going to tap into the cloud cover and the cool feel from this cold front pushing past nevado petaluma and santa rosa in the mid to upper 40s right now while oakland and San Francisco are more mild spots each 56 degrees later on today. Daytime highs really only reaching
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Were able to stop him and the San Francisco bound plane diverted to portland and emerson was then taken into custody, according to some new court documents, emerson told the port of Portland Police following his arrest that he had been struggling with depression and then a friend had recently died and he had taken some psychedelic mushrooms about 48 hours before he attempted to cut the engines. He also says he did not sleep in more than 40 hours. Alaska airlines said today that emerson has been relieved of all of his duties and federal prosecutors. Meanwhile, have charged emerson with interfering with a flight crew which can carry up to 20 years in prison. Well get those details now from kron. 4 Charles Clifford. On tuesday, the fbi filed a criminal complaint against robert emerson. In that complaint, they detail the moments before and after he allegedly tried to turn off the engines of the plane in a federal criminal complaint filed against joseph emerson. The fbi says that the pilot