Field. Our restaurant and our bar area well have additional offerings we also have some trivia games and contests going in the gate areas just to get the festive atmosphere kicked off. Off. The Eastern Iowa Airport says the last time theyve prepared for this much traffic to come through was in 20022003 when the hawkeyes were headed to the orange bowl. Covering the corridor in cedar rapids, steffi lee, cbs 2 news, live at five. While airports are expecting crowds of their own, its a whole other story on the interstates. Interstates. More are hitting the highways this holiday in the midwest. Triplea expects this to be a record breaking year. More than one hundred million americans will be traveling between wednesday and sunday. One of the big reasons people are choosing to drive are the low gas prices. Prices. Iowas statewide average now sits at a dollar95. Its a dollar eighty and below in some parts of the corridor. Its the first time the National Average is below two dollars new live a
House. Cracks the whole side and it melted. Lynns home was damaged and the building was destroyed it took firefighters nearly two hours to get control of the fire. The apartment was occupied by frank survey, he is a local volunteer firefighter and an aspiring mous aspiri aspiring musician. I lost everything, i am glad nobody else got hurt. The law office was occupied by municipal judge, better known for representing the new jersey resident known for killing a tsa agent in los angeles. Pennsville police chief Allen Cummings says the Silver Lining is that nobody was hurt. Everybody scattered at the time and we are really luck i think, it could have been a lot worse. Reporter heart back out live, we received a statement from south jersey gas saying they have launched an internal investigation and cannot confirm how this happened. Walter perez, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Viewer steven pango from pennsville sent us these pictures from the aftermath of the explosion, remember when new
Right now. Its 40 in pottstown. 31 degrees in the pocono mountains. We have low 40s already down the shore. But take look at the wind chills in the 30s pretty much area wide thats how you should dress if youre stepping outdoors headed to the movies or headed to grab some dinner. Were looking at low temperatures in the suburbs upper 20s. 32 degrees freezing in the city. Coming up well talk about how long this taste of winter will last. But when we could hit 70 degrees in that seven day forecast. Back to you. All right, 70 degrees. You can keep track of the changing temperatures in your neighborhood 24 7 head to our website fox29. Com or download the fox 29 weather app. In the news tonight the verdict is in and its a mixed one for the woman involved in a violent tack on a gay couple. Today a jury acquitted cathedral lynn knot of four counts including aggravated assault on each of the victims but she didnt get off all that easily. Fox 29s brad sattin joins us from the newsroom with latest
As the phoenix va employee i have suffered retalation for speaking and out section four and five outlies the specific things the va uses to realitate against whistle blowing. The va has routinely intimidated any employee that brings forth information that is contrary to what they would like to submit to the public. Ten days after the national va received my report i was placed on administrative leave for a month and investigating for misconduct because i provided limited amounts of patients information in order to support my allegations of the suicide trend and the facilities inappropriate response. I would receive a written counseling stating i have violated a policy but do this day they will not tell me what i violated. This is minor realitation given the last three years. During that time we were understaffed and there wasnt staff to wash beds, answer telephones, deliver patients and transport labs. Doctors and nurses were pulled away from direct patient care to perform these duties
Blowers complaints seriously. Within vha, the problem of intimidation, retaliation may be magnified by what some consider a protective culture of the medical profession. It is often thought to be against the code to point out colleagues mistakes or where a nurse or a tendant is told it is appropriate to question a physician or surgeon. The natural tendency is to close ranks, to not die that problems exist or mirs stestakes were ma. So after we listen to the testimony before us this evening from the whistle blowers, the office of special counsel and the va will anything change after we hear what the whistle blowers have to say and how do we fix this culture and encourage all va employees to step forward to identify problems and work to address the problems. Changing a culture is not easy. It cannot be done legislatively or 33inthrowing additional resos at it. Talk is cheap. Real solutions are hard to find. It is clear to me that the va as it is structured today is fundamentally incapabl