Emergency crews are trying to free 17 miners trapped in an elevator that stopped working at a cargill salt mine. Officials say the miners are not injured and emergency crews have made contact with them via radio. With just a wave of a hand, Brain Surgeons can get some help in the operating room. Thats all thanks a pair of university of iowa undergraduate students. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders is live in the newsroom this morning. Forrest, what did these students do to help surgeons . Coded and assembled the thing for a senior project. Take a look. Currently, doctors often use microscopes to do brain surgery. They have to spend up to ten hours looking into the device, often hunched over. The robot replaces all that. It uses cameras to lock on to an area of the brain, like a tumor. Video is sent back to a headset, which the surgeon can wear. The doctor can even use a special hands free controller to move the camera. Though the robot is a prototype, creators have high hopes for the future. W
With just a wave of a hand, Brain Surgeons can get some help in the opeting room. Thats all thanks a pair of university of iowa undergraduate students. Live in the newsroom this morning. Forrest, what did these students do to help surgeons . They built a robot. Three ui students coded and assembled the thing for a senior project. Take a look. Currently, doctors often use microscopes to do brain surgery. They have to spend up to ten hours looking into the device, often hunched over. The robot replaces all that. It uses cameras to lock on to an area of the brain, like a tumor. Video is sent back to a headset, which the surgeon can wear. The doctor can even use a special hands free controller to move the camera. Though the robot is a prototype, creators have high hopes for the future. Were happy with our result. T, i think that in the future, new technology is coming out all the time, i think theyll be able to modify or change Little Things about this and make it even students s t the ide
To upper 30s with a gentle southeast and east wind. Tonight well see continued light scattered rain showers with lows staying above freezing the whole time. Friday is going to be wet again with morning showers turning into a scattered mix of rain and snow by the afternoon when our winds switch out of the north. Friday night well probably see our wintry mix turning into snow showers as temperatures begin a very harsh slide into deep cold lasting all day saturday into sunday. Sunday is the coldest day of the forecast with a low near 4 and a high barely around 10 degrees. Next week well stay cold in the beginning with warmer air returning by next thursday. Elias lets get into the top five this morning. Elias the collapse of a 12 foot deep trench in altoona leads to a mans death wednesday. When police and rescue units arrived, they said Justin Jorgensen had already passed away from his injuries. The Recovery Efforts took six hours because conditions and continuing collapses in the trench.
Right through marshalltown. Then north of highway 30, this is where we could have a changeover. There may be freezing or frozen precipitation near boones and ames. Currently in des moines we have drizzle coming down. 34 degrees, our temperature is just above freezing but across Northern Iowa, some locations are borderline. We will have more fog and a cold rain moving in and we could end up with a quarter of an inch of rain fall from this afternoon. More rain for friday will switch over to snow by mid afternoon tomorrow. Even lasting into saturday followed by arctic air for the end of the weekend and the start of next week. Shaina taking a look at the Road Conditions, things are mostly clear especially in our area. Green means good, meaning roads are clear and blue means partially covered and pink means completely covered. Dealing with trouble spots but you want to give yourself extra time because this freezing rain is making roads pretty slippery. As the weather system continues, count
This morning only on gma. And good morning, america. Boy, a lot of breaking news overnight including thahat shutout. Were all here. No winner for the powerball. You would know. Altered my plans. Big story breaking out of paris. An attempted terrorist attack on a Police Station. It appears that has been thwarted. A lot more details coming up. Well begin with that other breaking news, those 17 miners apped overnit in an elevator nearly a thousand feet underground. Emergency crews are desperately trying to rescue them right now and abcs ryan smith is here with the latest. Good morning, ryan. Reporter good morning, robin. Last night 17 miners went down a salt mine as part of their shift and didnt come back. Now a major rescue operation is under way. Emergency rescuers are on the scene trying to do all they can to get those miners out safely. This morning, emergency crews racing toree 17 miners trapped below ground in upstate new york. Cage is stuck 850 feet down with people on it. Reporter