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look at this. high winds lifted a trailer onto the roof of a hotel. the storm flattened part of the local high school. but tonight, it s the water threatening to do the most dama. i m hearing a helicopter. reporter: one than that will be staying dry, kerry packer. he was finally rescued after five hours. here s a look at the damage to that school. everything is now all the way down here. fortunately, the storm moved through before classes started, or we could be talking very different story. ryan, thanks. let s get right toob marciano, tracking this. tornado and flood watches into the night. yes, both of the items of concern here. flood watchch extending through tomorrow for new orleans, tornado watches through this evening. of dallas, stretching across austin. that s the cold front, but u uil danger. and tomorrow, through louisiana, alexandria, through jackson, mississippi, a a a decent amount of moisture through the halloween weekend. thank you, rob. to ....
lot of things, that something may have gone wrong at altitude, that the pilot got down and something else went wrong or some mistake wasasade and the aiairaft went down. it s really early in this to figure out exactly what happened very good aircraft, paula. you mentioned the altitude. contact. any idea what the wreckage will tell us, david? reporter: absolutely. that tells you that the plane broke up at altitude. if it more compact it means maybe the pilot was trying to land the aircraft and we ve had one report it broke into two pieces. if that s the case it ll tell us quite a bit, and don t forget this is a conflict zone, not quite the same as mh17. we don t believe that the rebels that the egyptians are fighting have the kind of equipment that was usesein ukraine so even though egyptian ofofcials are saying terrorism has been ruled out it may be too early to tell. you don t know if there was a bomb involved or not. there are so many factors still to be figured o ....
but these troops are in for the long haul. the white house says their advisers, not combat troops, but they will be in harm s way. david martin is at the pentagon. reporter: a pentagon official said american special forces will spend up to 60 days at a time in the headquarters of u.s.-backed fighters in syria. they will north, for the foreseeable future, go out on operations against isis. their mission to coordinate a drive by various bands of arab and kurdish fighters on the isis capital of raqqa with the help of american airstrikes. the number of jets flying strikes out of a nearby base in turkey will quadruple from just six to 24. we want to be prosecuting as many isis targets as possible in syria, the pentagon official said. american and allied jets have been bombing raqqa for months. earlier this year, a jordanian pilot had to bail out over raqqa. he was captured by isis and burned alive. we are near iraq every day. reporter: but as lieutenant colonel mike ....
rose: behind me, you can see how the car crashed underneath the back of the school bus. blackford says officials told him he was inches away from death. a car pinned under a school bus with three people trapped inside. colton: the top of the hood of the car was just a sardine can, just peeled back. rose: 19-year-old colton blackford was driving the car tuesday on highway 30, when a bus pulled out in front of him at 580th avenue. colton: i started to slow down, and i realized it wasn t stopping, so i just slammed on my brakes as hard as i could. rose: the last thing he saw sends shivers down his spine. colton: just the bus right in front of me. rose: when he came to, this is the scene he saw crashed glass and the roof caved in. he said he actually had to come out through the windshield, so he could get out of the car and help his friends. colton: the rearview mirror was back there, and i was like, how did that get back there? rose: police told him he was inches away fr ....
the misty air hanging around throughout the morning hours. partly cloudy and 58 by around 4:00. we will start to break up the clouds, and mainly clear skies at 7:00. i think you will really like the temperatures coming up. alyx: breaking news and 8:01, we have learned that a russian passenger airliner crashed early this morning in sinai, egypt. egyptian authorities say the wreckage has been found and they are working to recover bodies. air traffic control says the plane vanished from radars 23 minutes into the flight after the pilot had reported technical difficulties. it was en route from an egyptian resort to st. petersburg, russia. flight 9268, was carrying 224 passengers and crew members. official day of mourning tomorrow. you can count on kcci eight news to bring you the latest. back here at home, story county sheriff s office is investigating a deadly crash near gilbert last night. they say it happened at the intersection of 170th and george washington carver arou ....