Born in mississippi, and most recently moved to sioux city for work. Thats according to an area pilot and a coworker of the man. He was flying the cessna 172 when it crashed sunday evening. Birk is employed by performance contractors, which is the company doing construction on the Cf Industries expansion. One of birks family will hold home this week. Jessica rae stopped in columbia, missouri he ran into the bad weather. The last communication chris had with air Traffic Control before his plala crashed nearpender. Pilot sioux city approach this is cessna n5104 delta; you read me . Jenna chris birk was nearly at sioux Gateway Airport when he was denied permission to nd because of low visibility. Jenna he was redirected to the airport in wayne, nebraska. Controller cessna 04 delta yeah, keep me advised on how the weather is on your way over there. Were showing vfr skies over wayne, but we are over that way. Keep us advised and well get you down safe. Jenna conditions worsened, appearantly
Know what started the fire yet. Sneakys owner says theyll keep their fans updated on the restaurants status on social media on when they plan to reopen. 3 3 investigators in omaha are still trying to figure out the cause of a devastating fire saturday. 3 that fire destroyed a Historic Building in omahas old market area. Housing a restaurant and several apartments. The last fire crews finally left the site this morning. The investigation is focusing on whether a contractor working on a fiber optic cable project hit a gas line. Causing a leak that led to the explosion. The buildings owner says hes waiting on inspectors before deciding what to do with the buildings 3 3 travel on i29 through downtown sioux city is going to be even trickier tonight. The iowa d o t plans to close that road in both directions tonight at the floyd boulevard interchange at exit 147 a. Thats so construction crews can do be done in 20 minute intervals. Between 10 oclock and midnight. The d o t says drivers should
3 3 3 president obama goes to omaha and Baton Rouge Louisiana today. After talking about his president ial achievements and being optimitistic for the future in his state of the Union Address last night. While a lot of democrats said the speech was inspirational. As c b s news correspondent we juh weijia jang jiang shows us. Some republicans criticized the speech didnt really mention the issues. 3 chyrons washington, dcgov. Nikki haley R South Carolina weijia jiang cbs news, washingtonsen. Ted cruz republican president ial candidate pkg nat soti stand here as confident as i have ever been that the state of our union is strong. In his seventh and final state of the Union Address, president obama aimed to set his legacy and focus on the future obama sot the future we want opportunity and security for our families. but it will only happen if we Work Together. it will only the president spoke less about policy and more on changing washingtonadmitting he failed to bring the parties together
Dr. Paul gausman, superintendent of Sioux City Community Schools School officia notified parents of the incident. Through an automated phone call. Around 6 pm monday evening. Some parents were upset they werent made aware of the situation earlier. However, we spoke with one parent who said she agreed with the schools decision to continue the school day. People do things anywhere you go, malls, theaters, people can do things so its no different than at a school, said allision sexton. I think the staff acted as quickly and safely as they could to prevent something from happening because things are going to happen in society today. The student t o brought the unloaded weapon to school is now suspended. Until the School District completes an investigation on the issue. Which could last up to 45 days. According to the districts policy, the student could face explusion from the school for one year. Dr. Gauzman says, its not clear why the student brought the gun to school. Dr. Gausman on the
Lets toss it over to chief meteorologist ron demers to see what we can expect this weekend. The majority of communities in siouxland did end up seeing the 24 inches of snow that was expected and here in sioux city our official total is 3. 6 inches. The light snow will move off to the east tonight and colder air is already filtering in behind this system. Expect temps to hover only around 10 degrees on saturda and with a strong northwest wind as the snow starts to slow down, the streets need to be cleaned up. The snow may have moved out of siouxland, but clean up efforts continue tonight. The problem is the side streets and neighborhood roads remain snow packed. But snow plows are working all day to get that heavy snow off the roads. The temperatures will be dropping so be sure to allow yourself extra time if youre going to be driving tonight. Things werent much different in south dakota where roads were slick for drivers as about three inches of snow fell. With the temperatures droppin