Early morning travelers may see authorities at the Eastern Iowa Airport this morning. They were called out there around 7 30 last night for a suspicious substance found in a bag. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders is live at the airport this morning. Forrest, what can you tell us so far . Chris, nicole, its back to business as usual here at the Eastern Iowa Airport. Earlier this morning though, totally different scene. Airport police had closed off this entire area, the bag claim, while hazmat checked out an unknown substance. Heres what authorities are telling us this started just before 7 pm. Airline personnel altered airport Public Safety a suspicious bag had come in on a flight from chicago. The bag area was closed off a little while after. Hazmat was called in to investigate. Hazardous. The bag claimed area reopened around 4 a. M. No one is in custody. No flights were impacted. Nor should they be for the rest of the day the next flight arrives in just a few minutes. Guys . Live at the East
Shes not worried about her low spot in the president iaia polls. Fiorina spoke to a couple of hundred people this morning at the university of iowa athletic club. She said historically if the polls were right at this point in the past, we would have had a president howard dean or ruru giuliani. Fiorina believes she is a leader who can bring change to the nation. Marshalltown schools dismissed early today so ststf members from the hillary clilion and donald trump president ial campaigns could prepare for the candidates appearances tonight. Trump spoke at Marshalltown High School at five pm before heading to iowa city. Clinton will be at miller r ddle school at seven tonight. The School District also students could leave the schools safely, so more people could attend the rallies, and to pride for more parking space. Students across eastern iowa are learning about the political process to elect a president this week. And theyre getting involved in the iowa youth prprsidential straw poll.
I think oftentimes the answer to that depends on whether the candidate thinks that he or she has a chance at winning those states in the general election too, so even once the primary is settled if there are competitive states, swing states left on the primary calendar, thats great reason for them to get additional candidate visits, get additional political attention. On the other hand states that are never going to be in contention, states that are firmly red or firmly blue for the general election, they wont get as much attention. They wont expect as much. A state Like Washington state would not have expected too much in terms of political attention or a hard fought contest on the republican side of the race. John kasich quit the race may 4th. Washington state held its primary 20 days later on may 24th. So trump was essentially standing alone in the washington president ial primary. He obviously won the primary by a mile but that was no surprise because he was the only candidate left
Onethird of all the chromium in the world apparently comes from here, this former soviet facility in western kazakhstan. Mark chamber on Bloomberg News did a report on how toxic and dwyer the conditions are in that facility. He got a simple, sad story of the finances of that place and how it produces a third of the chromium in the world ended connected to the president of the United States. When the soviet union broke up and former states tried to create a new post economic systems for themselves. One of the things that happened like this plant, like this chromium facility like the people that worked there were given shares in the place they worked at. They were going to be employee owners. Mark champion reports on those regular employees working on this toxic conditions to supply the world with chromium, they were forced to give up those shares and sell their shares and sell them for basically nothing. The entity on the other end of that forced transaction, for which they were forced
The purpose of our action tonight is to establish a strong deterrent against the production, spread and use of chemical weapons. Establishing this deterrent is a Vital National security interest of the United States. Combined american, british, and french response to these atrocities will integrate all instruments of our military, economic, and diplomatic, we are prepared to sustain this response until the Syrian Regime stops its use of prohibited chemical agents. Kelly a were carried out by british tomato fighter jets and b1 bombers. Joseph dunford discussed the three targets that were selected. This evening we conducted strikes with two allies on multiple sites that will result in longterm degradation in syrias capability to research, and deploy chemical and biological weapons. This will result in inexcusable inflicted maximum damage without unnecessary risk to innocent civilians. Kelly lets go to Connor Powell who joined us from the jerusalem bureau. Reporter we are getting more inf