Airlines plane onboard a Spirit Airlines p pne continues to escalade after seven passengers were kicked off the plane over a disagreement about seat assignments. Or was it racial discrimination. Heres abcs Pierre Thomas you are watching a confrontation which ends with a group papaengersall black being removed from this commercial jet. Some those kicked off are crying racism. Wright sot im really humiliated, just for the simple fact that, you know, you hear about this stuff happening in america, you know discriminationissues. But was it really happened is in dispute. Police say they were called after an argument broke out over a double booked seat. Nats an African American male passenger apparently was frustrated. And some witnesses say a white Flight Attendant considered at lelet one in the group a threat. Willie french, passenger the stewardess got a little nervous and they wanted him to leave the plane. But while harsh words clearly were exchanged, other passengers were confused ggesting matters never truly got out of hand. David morales, passenger there was no loud noise or language or no yelling or anything like that. And that is why alexandra wright, one of those removed, is so angry. Wright sot why is that six black people get kicked off the plane . Jessica rae the mystery is growing over what brought down a russian passenger plane over egypt this past weekend. In cairo, investigators arar examining the black boxes from the jetliner that disintegrated in midair on saturday killing 224 people on board. Theyre also looking into the aircrafts repair history years ago, the rear of the plane was fixed after hitting the runway during a landing, making structural failure is a concern. Steve ganyard if there was a bomb that went off that bomb will be very clear, clearly heard. If the airplane came apart, even the whooshing sound will be apparent on the voice recorder so the investigators will get something out that have cockpit voice recorder that will tell us s at happened in those lala seconds. Both russian and egyptian officials insist it was not terrorism, although the us hasnt ruled it out. Jessica rae heres a follow up to the story we brought you earlier. A student was assaulted by his school bus driver. Now that student, is speaking out. I was mad, angry, scared for the first time. 9th grader Christian Suarez shares his perspective of last thursdays bus ride home. When his bus driver was caught on v veo shoving him to the floor. When he was walking back to me, i was scared he was going to hurt me so i threw the book at him it began when christian wouldnt sit in his seat. This viral video, recorded by a student, shows the driver grabbing christian by the ear after he throws a book and makes an offensive comment. He just lost his temper for some ason, then he threw me. Thats when other students start yelling at the driver to stop. Happy that my friends were sticking up for me, but it also made me feel sad when he told the kid to shut up. The video is difficult to watch for christians family who take special care of hihi he suffers froro brain seizures triggered by severe anxiety and stress. The 15yearold functions at a third grade level because of them. My heart sank. Just seeing someone else put his hands on him did take a toll on me. Some person comes and touched your own family. It breaks your heart. Christian says hee never gotten in trouble on the bus. But if anything ever happened again, he would handle things differently. I would try not to tell the bus driver anything mean. Jessssa rae some stunning images of the northern ligigs. Find out whehe these beauties came from after the break scott well have. Dear future, please help. The present is kind of a scary place. I haveo money, no job, nonolothes. I feel ccmpletely helpless. But i hear good things about you, future. Like ill have hair, and friends, and books and music. South wind in place today. The humidity is going to keep a cap on our high temperatures though as we reach into the lower 70s for highs. Tonight, well watch as an area of low pressure passes through and this will spread some showers across the map. Well carry a 30 chance of rain for our thursday. Friday, well have some leftover clouds and itll be cooler with highs in the 50s. Today, expect a high of 72 with patchy y g and a mix of sun and clouds. Tonight, itll be very warm with showers entering after midnight. Tomorrow, well have a high in the middle 60s which will be set around noon, then well have temperatures slip downward with a breezy northwestwind and scattered showers too. Heres your 7 day forecas where following tomorrows cold front, well have highs in the 50s and 60s as we go through thth weekend and inin next week. Scott and check this out this is some gorgeous video from leigh nebraska the skys dancing with color early this morning as the Aurora Borealis lit up the night Jessica Rae Scott adlib jessica rae commission would like a zoning change, and an after School Program celebrates 5 years running. Heres Susan Risinger with the details. The Norfolk Planning Commission has recommended a zoning change that will allow our Savior Lutheran Church to purchase and remodel the former Eagle Distributing building for a new church home. The change is opposed by five industries in the area, and must still be approved by the norfolk city council. Residents along 61st street west of norfolk do not want a major truck route constructed along their property. That was the message presented to the Madison County board when they met on tuesday. The proposed truck route would connect highways 275 and 81. And the zone afterSchool Program will celebrate its fifth year of operation with a friends and family breakfast on november 18th. Featured speaker will be bill michener, executive director of the lighthouse in lincoln. These and more stories can be heard on newstalk wjag, literock 97. 5 and 106kix. Coming up. Jon stewart is out of retirement. What is he doing now . Well weigh in on the latest contract signed by stewart. Jessica rae and. The cmas will be here before you know it well have a preview of countrys biggest jessica raretirement, baby number 3 for a hollywood couple, and a former baseball star is now engaged mary moloney has it all in todays hollywood minute. It didnt take long for jon stewart to figure out whats next. The former host of the daily show inked a 4year production deal with hbo. According to the network, stewart will be begin producing short form Digital Content which will showcase on several of hbos streaming platforms. Groovy, baby comedian mike myers and his wife Kelly Tisdale welcomed their third child, a baby girl named paulina kathleen. The couple are also proud parents to a 4yearold son and an 18month daughter. And baseball star, derek jeter put a ring on it jeter confirmed his engagement to his girlfriend of three years, hannah davis, in a blog post on his website. But its not the type of gushy post youd expect, jeter penned a love letter, not to his girlfriend, but to his dog, an italian mastiff he got as a present from his longtime love, who he refers to as his fiance. For hollywood minute, im mary moloney. Jessica rae away from Country Musics biggest night. You can watch the cma awards right here on abc9. Tonight starting at 7. We are joined now by tish clark who is bringing us exclusive live coverage from the red carpet leading up to the show. Good morning tish. Hows it going in tish a ghost town the morning crews are busy working on last minute details and preps. Getting carpet ready. In the meantime. There are several on. In and around. Bridgest abcs Good Morning America recently announced that will be performing an hour long live concert right here at Bridgestone Arena this morning from 7 to 8. And Country Singer newcomer. Chris stapleton will be a guest as well. Thats happening just a couple of hours from now. Its always fun to predict the winners. Once the nominees are announced for each category. Guessing has been a little tough this year though. There are so many talented, popular artists up for an award in each category. Like. Tish this may be the Country Music awards. But the show caters to all music lovers through different collaborations. Pairing different artists has become extremely popupur over the past few years. And most of the collaborations are a huge hit with fans. Well talk about whos teaming up this year at the cma awards. A little later in the show. Live in nashville, im tish clark. Jessica rae fall is such a beautiful time of year, why not take some family photos out doors . S . Thats exactly what one family decided to do. And check out this curious deer who decided to photobomb their newborns photo shoot. Photographer megan rion set the fall scene with baby conner. When she says the deer walked out from the trees and surprised them. Rion says this is not the first time the deer has made an appearance rion has even named it. She says maggie has been sneaking into her photos since the beginning of the summer. Jessica rae scott scott good morning siouxland. We have temperatures propped up in the 50s some patchy fog which has developed, so give yourself some extra me to reach your morning destinations. Fortunately the wind is Strong Enough that its stirring up the air and preventing any very thick fog. We have some clouds travelling through the satellite and radar imagery. Heres the dayplanner where well reach a high of 72. Scott heres a quick check outside on here at. Many folks stillwaking up and starting their workday. Please drive safely everyone. Jessica rae thanks scott. Twitter users may have noticed a change to their feeds. Abcs s ena ninan and Kendis Gibson explain. Hey there, in todays techbytes twitterrading in its stars for hearts. You may h he noticed the ange, the heart is more universal. Googlgle wants to help inbox users quickly respond to emails. The intuitive smart reply tool provide a smart response. It rolls out later this weeeek for both ios and android devices. And check out whats some are calling the best headphones ever made, the new system consists of 6,000 iividual components encased in white zblashl its expected to go on sale next year with a price tag around 50,000. Aybe its cheaper if you preorder. Those are your techbytes. Have a great day, everyone. You forgot the milk thats lactaid. Right. 100 real milk, just without the lactotose. So, no discomfort . Exactly. Try some. Mmm, it is real milk. Lactctd. 100 real milk. I was out for a bike ride. Didnt think id have a heart attack. But i did. Im mike, and im very much alive. Now my doctor recommends a bayer aspiriregimen to help prevent another heart attack. Be sure to talk to your doctor up a secret recipe from his grandmothers cookbook. And its as sweet as she was. Check it out. Id like you to take a second and think if theres a recipe that you grew up with that your mom, grandmother or maybe an aunt made that you wish you had today . Well if there are, make it your mission to get those recipes. Maybe its as simple as asking them to write them down, but if thats not possible, see if you can find their old recipe box or that over stuffed folder thats brimming with all those treasures. Maybe make one or two a month, and rewrite them so you can still read them before they fade away. Today i want to share the recipe for my grandmothers honey cakekewhich was passed down to my cousin from my aunt. All she did was mix together some eggs, oil, vanilla and sugar. Once it was mixed, she added some brewed coffee, a bit of red wine and some flour along with a bunch of spices. Then after mixing honey with baking powder, she slowly added it to the batter. She spooned this into a couple of loaf pans and into the oven it went for about an hour. Let me tell you it was the longest hour in history. But when they came out of the oven, i can still remember the whole house smelling amazing. If youd like the recipe for, my grandmothers honey cake, its online now waiting for you. Its one of those recipes that ive never forgotten. Im howard with kelly in the mr. Food test kitchen, where today we found a mememable way for you to say. Ooh its so good jessica rae if you would like a copy of that recipe you can send us a self addressed stamped envelope here to abc 9 news. Our address is 625 douglas street. The zip. 51101. Be sure to writete my grandmothers honey cake on your request. Or you can visit our website. Siouxlan d matters dot com. And click on the mr. Food logo. Jessica rae there was limited elbow space at the State Capitol yesterday people were ning up to share concerns over governor branstads plan to tranfer the states Medicaid Program to managed care organizations. A committee of lawmakers have been arranged to oversee the privatization of medicaid. Concerned citizens voiced their opinions yesterday. There are 560 thousand iowans on medicaid and the roll out date for the new privatized plan, is january first. Kelsey 1 04 33 we get a little nervous that when too much is transitioned too quickly, mistakes get made, errors get made, details get overlooked. Enrollment packets for r medicaid recipients have begun to be mailed out. But so far Provider Networks arent yet in place. There are only 39 Business Days between now and the start of the new year. Jessica rae although immigration is not something that comes up in local politics very often. An expert on the subject is making it his mission to inform people across the country on both sides of the topic. Heres abc9 News Reporter lukas voss with the full story nats students clapping vo briar cliff students were in for a treat tuesday night attending two screenings with film making roy germano who really didnt know what to make of his work in the beginning. Sot when i made this film, i had no idea if anybody would ever see it. Vo turns out quite a film. Germano holds phd in government and an m. A. In international relations. He has traveled extensively throughout latin american and worked as a journalist for vice news, fox news and msnbc. He hopes that his screenings and works can make a difference. Sot those are small films and i hope in their little way they are playing a part in openinpeoples minds. I have people come to my screenings and said i used to think these people were just here to steal jobs from us and now i see them as basically the same as us with fafalies wanting ththsame things that i i nt. Nats people laughing vo germano screened two of his films tonight. One with a special connection to briar cliff. Students there can take part in a mission trip to the troubled country and help. Germanos film murder and migration in honduras certainly had an impact on stududts and professoso. Sot its great to know that somebody else whohoctually has been there lived ththsame experience who sees the same views is here to share. Sot its incredibly important it gives our students our faculty and the greater Siouxland Community really the opportunity to see this issue right on the front lines. Jessica rae action on the Volleyball Court looking for trips tournament. Regional finals up ahead. Scott good m mning siouxland. Lets get a check outdoors on the Port Neal Welding Company skycam hd in sioux city and the kings pointe skycam hd in storm lake, iowa. We have temperatures propped up in the 50s throughout much of the region. Theres s some patchy fog g which has developed, so give yourself some extra time to reach your morning destinations. Fortunately the wind is Strong Enough that its stirring up the air and preventing any very thick fog. We have some clouds travelling through on the satellite and radar imagery. Heres the dayplanner where well reach a high of 72. Heres the stormcast hd now where weve got a breezy south wind in place today. The humidity is going tokeep a cap on our high temperatures though awe reach into the lower 70s for highs. Tonht, well watcas an area of low pressure passes through and this will spread some showers across the map. Well carry a 30 chance of rain for our thursday. Friday, well have some leftover clouds and itll be cooler with highs in the 50s. Today, expect a high of 72 with patchy fog and a mix of sun and clouds. Tonight, itll be very warm with showers entering after midnight. Tomorrow, well have a high in the middle 60s which will be set around noon, then well have temperatures slip downwardrdith a breezy northwest wind and scattered showers too. Heres your 7 day forecast where following tomorrows cold front, well have highs in the 50s and 60s as we go through the weekend and into next week. Jessica rae Scott Jessica rae four siouxla volleyball teams had a chance to punch their tickets to the volleyball teams had a chance to punch their tickets to the state tournament last night. Heres chris with the action from regional finals. Chris palmquistgood morning everybody. In class 3a regional volleyball, a long siouxland drought was going to come to an end. Sergeant bluff luton, the mrac champs, hasnt been to state since 1985. Spirit lake, ranked tenth in the state, hasnt made the trip since 1983. So whos heading to state for the First Time Since take on me and total eclipse of the heart were atop the charts . . Sbl took the first, we p pk it up in the second. Lauren wickman. Slams it home. Indians get within three at 2118. Then after the warriors get it to set point. Kailee jenness with the heads up play going over on two. Spirit lake stays alive. But the next point belongs to brittni olson. She tips it over. And sbl gets within a set of a trip to state. Midway in the third. Merrin van velzen. Serves up the ace. Warriors go up 1511. Then this shows it was sbls night. Olson, gets itto ride down the net d fall for a point. That keeps the lead at 4. Spirit lake would make a run. Macy smith finds the seam and the floor to stay alive. But on match point. Sydney scholz says sprinkles are for winners. The warriors adva