Pilot whose plane crashed in rural nebraska over the weekend. Tim the louisiana man was suppose to land in sioux city. But was diverted to the wayne airport because of foggy conditions. Tonight. Well hear some of his final words to air Traffic Control. The pilot is belived to be chris birk of louisiana. Thats according to an area pilot and a coworker of the man. He was flying the cessna 172 when it crassunday evening. Birk is employed by performance contractors, which is the company doing construction on the Cf Industries expansion. One of birks coworkers tells abc 9 that chris family will hold his funeral back home this week. Jenna chris had last stopped in columbia, missouri to fuel up, when he ran into the bad weather. Tonight were sharing the last communication chris had with air Traffic Control before his plane crashed near pender. Approach this is you read me . Jenna chris birk was nearly at sioux Gateway Airport when he was denied because of low jenna he was airport in wayne, ne
To the public. Construction is about 99 done and exhibit installation is about 80 done and weve come unbelievably far just this week. A yearly membership costs 85 dollars for a family. Most of the exhibits are targeted to kids between 6 months and 10 years old. But should be fun for teens and adults as well. 3 3 rand paul made a stop in sioux city today. 3 about 50 people gathered at the Wilbur Aalfs Library for the kentucky senators meet and greet. Pauls talk centered on how americas debt is threatening national security. He added he is the least likely candidate to send america to war without a vote from congress. And. Paul believes president obamas most recent executive orders are unconstitutional. 3 so we should do everything we can to stop this. Not only because i think gun control doesnt fix the problem, criminals tend not to pay much attention to gun control, but because it endangers the balance of powers. Today is also the senators birthday. And he plans to make an Important Ca
Sioux city police will have to use new avenues to find addresses for south dakota drivers caught by speed cameras. sheila on wednesday, south dakota governor Dennis Daugaards office sent down a block on their database. Ktivs Michelle Schoening found out what this action means for Sioux City Police. Sioux city officials will no longer get the addresses civil laws in iowa. A 2014 south dakota law bars sharing driver information when collecting a civil fine for redlight and speeding violations caught on camera. But, a policy advisor to Governor Dennis Daugaard says this doesnt absolve south dakotans from paying fines in iowa. This is an attempt from the administration to properly carry out the legistlators intent when they passed this law. If a citizen of south dakota gets one of these tickets, they need to speak with their attorney to determine what their liability is as it relates to that ticket in the processes, said matt konenkamp, policy advisor to s. D. s governor. The move protects
Northern iowa is under a freeze advisory. Saturday will start very cold and chilly, but with some sunshine well warm that air up into the upper 50s, maybe even 60. Sunday is going to be gorgeous with highs climbing back into the upper 60s, and breezy se winds. Next week we have some rain chances early wednesday am and well have our highs go back into the 70s for early in the week. Jack also coming up, candidates are threatening to boycott the next and one they may have running mate. A jury will spend with a major them as a reached today in the Pleasant Hill shooting spree trial. Jack but first, a fire firemans home. And hes just one department, dealing with the same tragedy this year. Local 5 news at 10 in hd starts now. We are iowa jack 1shot firefighters in cant seem to escape fires. Good evening. Im jack miller. Stephanie has the night off. Just two weeks ago. One lehigh fireman lost his house in a blaze. Tonight. The same thing happened to the chief. His home, destroyed in an overn
I cant say its been easy, this has been. Its been a process, its hard to forget claire tvu even polson himself says he doesnt remember anything from this point on from sitting in the cop car. And he took the mitchells houe across no it wasnt me. I dont know. Are you the crime . No im not denying it. I just heard screaming, just wake up from this mr polson nightmare. Mr polson answer my question. I did claire tvu well have more tonight on local 5 news at 6. Live in des moines Claire Powell local 5 news we are iowa. Stephanie ots stephanie ots plenty of in the metro this weekend for the imt des moines marathon. Tenthousand athletes from around the world ran the moines last year. Many of them will be take on the year. Including philip lagat of his title. For the first time the race two days days with the 5k road race and kids run on saturday and the Half Marathon and marathon on sunday. Stephanie despite the record turn out last year, organizers say are actually local 5s jacob peklo expla