Jessica rae coming up this morning on abc9 news. Deadly storm systems continue to drift across the us leaving millions dealing with historic floods. The latest on the Severe Weather is up ahead. Jessica rae fire crews spent tuesday fighting more than just the flames. But also the elements more on a sloan Apartment Building. Jessica rae and. Can coffee actually help improve your endurance during exercise . A new study yields surprising results. These stories and more. On abc9 news this morning. Jessica rae good morning and thank you for joining us. Im jessica rae. We begin this morning with the texas teenager famous for the affluenza defense. Ethan couch and his mother have been detained in puerto vallarta. They changed their hairstyles during nearly three weeks on the run, tourist area. Authorities in texas said theyre in the process of transfering couchs case from juvenile to adult court. To be honest with you, were going to breathe a lot easier when theyre back in this country and we
Joining us tonight im Jenna Rehnstrom tim has the night off. Marco rubio is stepping up his presence in iowa. With more than twodozeevents in the state over the pass couple months. Today. He launched a two da six stop bus tour. But still. Hes polling 3rd in iowa, ahead of the caucuses. Lukas voss tells us if his stop in sioux city tonight convinced any voters. Thank you jenna. It was a packed house for the g op candidate with more than 200 people in attendance at t e holiday inn. And in a town hall style session. Rubio took time to address some of the issues most pressing to voters wh a new supporter right by his side. Nats growly speaking. Conservative support from a prominent face in washington. Trey gowdy, republican from South Carolina and the chair of the investigation into the benghazi attacks marco rubio in his bid for the presidency. He has been campaigning with rubio throughout wa and was with him in sioux city tonight. Sot i have done my vetting i have reached my conclusion.
After Sioux Falls Police investigators answered an online ad and met the two women at a hotel. Lee is believed to have driven the women to sioux falls from sioux city. The arrests are part of the Sioux Falls Police departments campaign against human trafficking. And officers often use online ads for prostitution as a way to try and find women being trafficked for sex. 3 burned breakfast is to blamam for some terryfing moments in sloan this morning. As two people had to jump from their apartment complex window to escape a fire. Our Jetske Wauran reports on whats being done to help those affected by this mornings fire. 3 15 people are without a home after that fire broke out at the prairie apaptments right behindndand the sloan fire chief tells, the cause of the fire unattended cooking materials. richard moore, pastor at evangelical Covenant Church we saw flames coming out of the second story apartments. Firefighters battled the blaze that broke out at this apartment tuesday, in the 300t
3 once the snow stops this morning, look for overcast skies and highs that will only reach the lower 20s. Skies will slowly clear and that means tonight will get quite cold with temperatures falling into the single digits. Look for a very cold day on thursday with partly cloudy skies and a high in the teens. We will see some sunshine but it will stay cold. The rest of the week into the weekend will see sunny skies, but temperatures will remain mostly in the 20s for highs with single digit lows. 3 3 3 millions of people in thiriren states along the Rising Mississippi River are getting ready for historic and dangerous floods. After days of downpours. The unusual weather pattern hit missouri hard. C b s news correspondent don champion shows us how much of the state is under water. 3 sot gov. Jay Nixon D Missouri missouri is in the dangerous flooding event. Missouri governor jay nixon called in the National Guard as the state grapples with deadly flooding. Volunteers throughout saint louis
Other forces in the syrian stronghold of f raqqa this week have killededore than two dozen isis militants. Jonathan vigliotti cbs 3 news paris. 3 france has stepped up its airstrikes against isis in syria since those terror attacks last wewe. Yesterday the ench Aircraft Carrier Charles De Gaulle left to help French Military operations in syria. 3 and right now. A man from iowa is walking from normandy to paris. He started his journey for climate awareness. Because of the u n Climate Summit thatll be held in france at the end of the month. Ed fallon started walkininnovember 11th. He was in the town of bin oo vill benouville. France. When paris was attacked. But his walking partners wife and child got into paris and were staying in a hotel not far from where the attacks happened. Luckily. They were luckily safe and able to join the walking journey y o days later. Thats when ed said they stumbled onto a vigil with two thousand people. 3 the thing i got was, you know, we arent going to qui