Out. Today showers likely high 5157 winds s 1020 alo 54 dbq 53 iow 54 about 40 cedar rapids men and women are in texas this morning for their final training before they are sent to afghanistan. The Army National guard unit shipped out of cedar rapids yesterday orning. Memmrs of the 649th Regional Support group said goodbye to their friends and families. About 40 troops deployed from the Armed Forces Reserve center n cedar rapids, near the eastern iowa airport. Theyll provide base Operations Support and security in afghanistan. Sot 16 31 41 weve been for it for quite some time now. Its kind of like gettingngup in the morning. Just get your clothes on, and lets do this. The group will serve a 9month tour overseas. Frances Prime Minister says overnight, police carried out about 150 raids throughout the country. And the hunt is on for a man suspected in the french terror attacks that killed 129 people and wounded hundreds more. Belgium anddfrench investigators want to find Salah Abdeslam.
Our team tracking this story all over the world. David muir in paris. We begin with the siege in belgium. Police surrounded an Apartment Building where the fugitive terrorist is b lieved to be. Terry moran is on the scene in brussels. Reporter good morning, george. A tense situation. Heres whats happening. A couple of blocks down the street is where the siege is going down. Police have cordoned off a wide area. Theyre yelling at residents, stay indoors. Theyre telling the press not to broadcast live pictures. What youre seeing is taped. For safety reasons. Were hearing that barricaded inside there, theyre negotiating with him or persons inside by bullhorn. Inside is that most wanted man in the world right now, Salah Abdeslam. Suspected of being the eighth friday night. Officials say the 26yearold Salah Abdeslam, is one of three brothers involved. One brother died in the massacre. The other detained in belgium the day after the attacks. But abdeslam is believed to have escaped to this a
Waterloo police have a person in custody this morning after a standoff that lasted several hours. It happenenear ridgeway avenue and sheridan road around 6 oclock last night. Thats a residential area just south of byrnes park. The person inside was threatening to hurt himself. Shortly after midnight, the lice departments swat team went in and arrested him. Officials took him to the hospital. No officers were hurt during the standoff. Fire investigators believe a fire that destroyed a home in rural dubuqucounty was acacdental. The Sheriffs Office and several area Fire Departments responded to 18505 south mound road around 3 15 saturday afternoon thats between rickardsville and ddrango. No one was hurt. But the home is a total loss. A global manhunt is underway for a man connected to the paris attacks. 129 people died hundreds more are huhut. French officials believe he is one of three brothers accused of carrying out this is the man Authorities Say helped in the attacks outside a stadiu
Stabbed with a standard kitchen knife. A Court Document says auorities found both the knife and blood from the victims clothing when they arrested him in his motel room. Sheriff Brian Gardner says lehman suffered slight wounds so he was taken to the hospital and then transported to jail. The sheriff wasnt sure if the wounds happened during some sort of fight or if lehman tried to harm himself later. Live in the newsroom, Dave Franzman kcrg tv9 news. Also, nnw this morning. Firefighters are investigating the cause of a massive house fire in dubuque. That houseses located at 922 center place. We heard about the fire this morning around 830. Tv9 viewers called into our newsroom and sent us pictures. Jesse gavin sent us these photos of crews fightinn the flames. There you can see smoke rising out of the roof of the building. And these are pictures sent to wiedemann. Several fire trucks from the Dubuque Fire Department lined the streets. The Fire Department tells us everyone got out of that
Construction workers was near that area at the time. The Cedar Rapids School district responded to the findings by saying the district is not aware of anyone who has tested positive for asbestos as a result of their presence on the job site. Today, we reached out to abatement specialties, the company the investigation named, and we tried to contact others who had been workingt the site. They failed to return our call declined to comment. Kcrg tv nines Jill Kasparie joins us with more of the story tonight. Jill, you talked with another Asbestos Removal company thals unreled to this investigation. Whatatid they sayaybout the process . We spoke to a Company Based in waterloo. Advanced Environmental Testing and Abatement Incorporated mostly does asbestos rereval. They say taking the proper precautions when removing asbestos is vital. Michael poe says his company gets calls just about every day to do Asbestos Removal. W have been going since 1989 and we are busy every day its a big job that