Ground landing on a busy road hitting a truck. How the quickthinking pilot saved lives. Good morning, america. A lot to get to this morning. Got that big new poll out this morning, senator marco rubio rising in the race for president. There he is right there. Walking over from starbucks. A little different from yesterday in the stretch limo and donald trump and hes here live in the studio. Well get to him. We will. First we begin with the breaking news overnight. An American Airlines flight forced to make an Emergency Landing. A passenger making threats on board that flight. Abcs Pierre Thomas has the latest and is here in the studio with us. Reporter good morning, robin. The American Airline flight left phoenix late tuesday afternoon with the expectation it would arrive at new yorks jfk about 4 1 2 hours later but that dramatically changed when chaos erupted midflight. Listen tower, could use a scare in the air for 121 passengers on flight 622. About ready to clear to land 19 right am
University of iowa shows how improperly fitted hearing aids can affect Language Development in hard of hearing kids. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning news. First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on some fog to start off your wednesday. While this fog may be locally dense, it doesnt appear itll last very long and should be out of the area by 9 or 10 am. Temperatures will take off once the fog burns away, leading to another day with highs around 70. This should be the end of the road for any 70s for a while as november reality moves in later this week in the form of a cold front. This front should generate some rain for us late thursday into thursday night. While a shower may linger through sunrise in our eastern counties on friday, this system will largely be gone and off to the east. Itll be much cooler too, with highs of only 5055. Enjoy your 3 newcomers and 1 incumbent are banding together after
Or 10 am. Temperatures will take off once the fog burns away, leading to another day with highs around 70. This should be the end of the road for any 70s for a while as november reality moves in later this week in the form of a cold front. This front should generate some rain for us late thursday into thursday night. While a shower may linger through sunrise in our eastern counties on friday, thissystem will largely be gone and off to the east. ll be much cooler too, with highs of only 5055. Enjoy your ythanks kaj. 3 newcomers and 1 incumbent are banding together after their wins for the Iowa City Council seats. They are calling themselves the core 4. For the city council at large seats, Jim Throgmorton and rockne cole pulled in the most votes. Throgmorton had the most at 33 percent and cole at 27. They beat out tim conroy and incumbent michelle payne. And in district a, Pauline Taylor sealed her spot with 55 percent of the votes. While in district C John Thomas narrowly beat Scott Mcd
Plan on a windy wededsday across thee region if its trash day in your area, watch for bins blown over as gusts may hit 4ph at times. While a aprinkle or two may occur with this passing warm front, we wont really see much out of this from a rain standpoint. Well see a gradual downturn i temperature, and we should be down around 35 by 6pm. Plan on dry conditions s rough sunday, bubu our temperatures will be undergoing a rollercoaster ride. Our coolest day will be friday with upper 20s common, with highs bouncing right back into the upper 40s by sunday. Today windy, falling temps high 4248 winds sw 2030 g 40 alo 40 dbq 45 iow 45tonight mostly cloudy low 2430 mostly cloudy high 3137 winds alo 32 dbq 34 iow 34 iowawa have one more day t t sign up for r new medicaid plan before private Companies Take over the system. Governor branstand announced yesterday that all four of iowas Major Hospital systems are now a part of the states medicaid modernization plan. They include mercy health network.
Out executive actions he hopes will curb gun violence. In a white house address, president obama says he will tighten existing laws without infringing on the rights of lawabiding citizens. At one point, he was brought to tears as he spoke of the 20 first graders gunned down in their classrooms in newtown, connecticut. And from every family who never imagined that their loved one would be taken from our lives by a bullet from a gun, wipes tearpauses every time i think about those kids it gets me mad. In his plan, the president hopes to expand background checks by having federal agencies treat all gun sales equally. That means weapons sold at gun shows and online, would be subject to the same background checks as all other gun sales. Percent of sales have no checks at all. All. The president also wants to increase funding for Mental Health care and to hire more atf agents, something that would require approval from congress. The National Rifle association has successfully lobbied congres