Good afternoon. Im sonya heitshusen. And im dan winters. Thanks for joining us. Thursday will be the warmest day of the week with highs near 60. It will be windy with a west wind up to 30 to 40 mph. More clouds return friday and temperatures will drop back to the 50s. Clouds will continue to increase into saturday, with a few stray showers possible. On sunday, a strong storm system will pass through the midwest, bringing a good chance for rain into central and eastern iowa. A quarter to a half of an inch of rain is possible, especially in eastern iowa where the highest totals will be possible. Temperatures will remain in the 40s to start next week, but will dip back into the 30s by this time next week. Last month pete polson was found counts of assault and six other charges after going on a shooting rampage last novebmer. Today. He learned how many years he will serve in prison. Channel 13s Jodi Whitworth was at the sentencing today and joins us with more polson was sentenced to 55 yea
Morning. Four metro Fire Departments are considering a merger plan. Elias lam looking at the map, you can see the boundaries shared by waukee, clive, urbandale, and west des moines. And now the departments are looking at ways to step up response times. Its an idea thats been floated around for a couple of years now, but has gained traction after this summer when all four started using westcom dispatch. Any department can go to a working fire, but Department Leaders are looking to make that possible for any fire. The plan could be a shortterm fix, because more stations are also part of the equation. Clives facing the same issue in the same area. And at the end of the day, it just doesnt make sense for clive to build a fire station and urbandale to build one two miles apart. Elias theres currently no time line for when the changes would be implemented. West des moines currently has the largest staff, while waukee is the smallest of the four looking at the proposal. Elias new this morning
He is an incredibly strong man. Fords publicist says that the 72yearold stars injuries are not life threatening, and we have the latest on the condition for you. And disaster diverted by inches. Look at how close this delta flight came to the fringes around laguardia and the passengers tell us the story to night. And also, the Boston Marathon bomber on trial, and more on the chaotic moments after the bomb exploded in the crowd. And beginning with the story we led with about Harrison Ford. Kyung lah is with us to night. All of this happened near the airport where Harrison Ford took off, and what is the latest . So far the ntsb says it is engine trouble and he was trying to turn around to get back to the airport, and then this, the extraordinary landing. This is what is so extraordinary, because we can see the tree that this tree hit. Some of the branchs are broken. And the small swath of green that you are looking at this is a golf course and the nose you can see it right there, and it
Emergency landing while flying this helicopter with a flight instructor. Down the runway like federal investigators will be back on scene this morning. But one thing they wont be able to investigate is this vintage plane it does not have a black box, chris. Thats for sure. At least it has somebody who can tell the story of what happened. Thank you for the reporting. Back in new york a much bigger situation. The ntsb investigating a near disaster at new Yorks Laguardia airport. Delta flight 127 passengers aboard. Skidded off a snowy runway nearly went into the waters of flushing bay. We have cnns Miguel Marquez, live at laguardia with more. Miguel . Chris, amazing that so few injuries happened in this situation. Right now that fuselage that plane is being taken off the runway here at laguardia so things can get back to normal. There are a few cancellations here a few delays but for the most part, this airport is struggling back into action. This morning, the priority to lift the battere
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. They were entrusted with the this is our western edition. They were entrusted with the most powerful, most lethal arsenal in the world. But tonight the trust placed in them has been called into question. National security correspondent david martin tells us that 34 air force Nuclear Missile officers have been stripped of their certification. Reporter they are the men and women who would fire the nations arsenal of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles and now they are implicated in what air force chief of staff mark welch say may be the biggest cheating scandal ever to hit the armed forces. We dont know an incident of this scale involving cheating. Reporter four months ago a launch officer at mall strom air force base allegedly texted the answers to a monthly proficiency test to other officers at the base. Launch officers have to pass other monthly tests as well, including a simulated launch, so the cheating probably sa