Marinette wisonconsin. Each component of steel safely stored at this marinette shipyard. It oxidized what they call mill scale, and so what happens from this point itll go through the next stage which will blast and prime this. Jetske wauran reporting uss sioux city will go through months of testing and traveling. Before its operations of mine warfare and Surface Warfare across the globe. Kevin ralston most of my crew members have experience in other platforms. And right now were preparing to come to this platform w wch is definitely new for ususa lot of new systems that were learning and training to be ableleo operate. Jetske wauran reporting soon to aboard the ship. Lcs crew 108. Theyre us navys highly trained team led by commander kevin raton. Several crew members tell me the lcs11will be their home, away from home. Theyve done an incredible job. Ive worked in a shipyard before and i would say these guys really have it together here. Theyre safe. They do really awesome work. Us navy
Want the fire to spread anywhere else and we want to o ke sure that everybodys safe up there and nobody falls and nobody gets hurt. Its a big drop. Fire crews say the two nearest bins to the fire were checked out. One was empty and one was mostly empty. But neither had caught fire. Larry the ununed states navy is anticipating the completion of uss sioux city lcs11. Our Jetske Wauran traveled to marinette, wisconsin and joins us now with special report. Jetske. Thats right guys. After 10 hours of driving to wisconsin, i finally got to see the uss sioux city, which has been under construction sinin june of 2013. Its the eleventh ship. Of a new generation of hightech fighting machines. And its nearing its launch. Matthew leles combat system, u. S. Navy accomplish a really big goal and getting a ship and bringing it to life. Jetskeauran reporting uss sioux city lcs11 currently under construction. Seeing this ship being built its like watching something grow and you get to develop it. Jetst
Bottom out near 30 degrees. This afternoon, the main conceen will be the wind and dry air which will create high outdoor fire danger for a chunk of the viewing area as gusts could top 30 miles per hour. Temperatures, meanwhile will be in the middle to upper 60s this afternoon with sunshine before only reaching the 50s at their highest on friday see graphics. Wx timer 40 meth is a huge problem in the state of iowa, but now a highly concentrated form of the drug is on the se in the state. Iowa senator Chuck Grassley says he wants to change that. Lauren moss reports on how he plans to do that. Police departments tricounty Drug Enforcement team says a pure form of meth is coming from over the border. And ending up here in iowa. The yield of ice meth our lab results indicate around 9798 percent pure meth compared to the home based meth labs are anywhere from 4560 percent. So the yield is much higher. And theyve been working hard to get it off iowas streets. In the last probably 4 years sinc
Breen on the uss sioux city later in ththshow. First, president ial l litics heating up in siouxland. Republican president ial candidate rand paul visited Morningside College today. This week alone, the u. S. Senator from kentucky is visiting 11 colleges in iowa. Its all part of his iowa 10,000 college tour rand wants at least that many students to caucus for him on february firststsaying his candidacy appeals to millenials. I think they dont want the government collecting all their phone records, they do believe in the right to privacy. They dont want the government putting them or their friends in jail for minor marijuana abuse and they dont want the government sending them off to a new war in the middle east. Im the one candidate who represents all three of those issues, said president ial candidate rand paul. After finishing in sio city, rand paul went on to speak at buena vista in storm lake. The latest fox news poll shows paul in 8th place with 3 percent support. Tomomoow morning
Its a suspicioioshared by britain. Philip hammond British Foreign secretary we formed a judgment that there is a significant possibility that the russian aircraft was brought down by an explosive device on board. Britain, one of 3 countries stopping all flights to the airport where the plane took off. American aircraft have long been warned away from this area. Josh earnest White House Press secretary we obviously have a strong desire to get to the bottom of what exactly happened there. Noone is ruling out a technical fault as the cause the black box recorders are still being worked on. Bill neely nbc news cairo, egypt well the egyptians are really kicking back now. The government minister saying he simply doesnt accept the us theory as fact. But egypt has now fired the head of the airport from where the plane took off and investigators have found really lax security there. The russisis too dont accept the us theory. 23 russian tourist planes are flying into that airport today, but the