Ground landing on a busy road hitting a truck. How the quickthinking pilot saved lives. Good morning, america. A lot to get to this morning. Got that big new poll out this morning, senator marco rubio rising in the race for president. There he is right there. Walking over from starbucks. A little different from yesterday in the stretch limo and donald trump and hes here live in the studio. Well get to him. We will. First we begin with the breaking news overnight. An American Airlines flight forced to make an Emergency Landing. A passenger making threats on board that flight. Abcs Pierre Thomas has the latest and is here in the studio with us. Reporter good morning, robin. The American Airline flight left phoenix late tuesday afternoon with the expectation it would arrive at new yorks jfk about 4 1 2 hours later but that dramatically changed when chaos erupted midflight. Listen tower, could use a scare in the air for 121 passengers on flight 622. About ready to clear to land 19 right am
Bruce, according to Library Officials this means cuts in a lot of different places. Including fewer outreach programs and staff members. Both the ladd library and this Downtown Location will also be forced to close one day a week. While workers say theyre not sure of specifics, they have studied what hours and days are less busy over the past several months. That data will help officials begin to make decisions. Dozens of volunteers spent hours Gathering Signatures to get this levy on the ballot. Those people say theyre disappointed with tonights results. 20 29 46 this is not a win for the people who have to use the library as a lifeline. Its a loss for them, im sad for them. Im also sad for the people of cedar rapids, because this is a quiet economic engine that makes this city stronger. Right now, the library has the largest circulation of any library in the state. But this vote means the library will not have the Officials Say thatll mean fewer books, magazines and times to check ou
Project decisions, including a possible third fire station, road work, and a potential library project. 10 45 31 we just have to make common sense decisions, be fiscally responsible but do what we need to, to work with the growth and to allow our community to grow in a positive way and continue to provide a great quality of life for our citizens. The marion mayor serves a fouryear term. Abouassaly says his council seat will be vacated, and the city will need to decide if it will appoint someone or hold an fill it. Hiawatha picked newcomer bill bennett, junior over twoterm mayor tom theis. The vote. He owns several businesses, including a motorcycle dealership, in hiawatha. Voters in two Black Hawk County cities will have to decide again who they want as mayors. In cedar falls, three people ran for the mayors office. Jim brown got the most votes, with 45 percent. Longtime mayor jon crews got 35 percent. But, a candidate needs 50 percent of the vote to win. A Runoff Election will be next
Hitting a truck with a woman and two Young Children inside. All occupants are out of the plane. Theyre all ambulatory. Reporter piloting the plane, former walmart executive, 56yearold bill simon, who used to run all of the retailers u. S. Operations. It was just after takeoff that problem. They suffered a very severe loss of oil pressure. They were losing engine and altitude, so they popped the emergency chute on the plane. Reporter its the type of plane, a cirrus, that has a builtin parachute. It saved lives in arkansas. There were only two minor injuries. The faa is investigating. Airport. Federal air safety investigators have figured out why an not ginengine on an airliner burst into flames last week just after takeoff. The main fuel supply line to the airplane was disconnected. Maintenance records indicate no action on the fuel coupling some passengers suffered minor emergency chutes. Week were reporting on new emissions scandal. The company says an internal review found problems w
University of iowa shows how improperly fitted hearing aids can affect Language Development in hard of hearing kids. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning news. First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on some fog to start off your wednesday. While this fog may be locally dense, it doesnt appear itll last very long and should be out of the area by 9 or 10 am. Temperatures will take off once the fog burns away, leading to another day with highs around 70. This should be the end of the road for any 70s for a while as november reality moves in later this week in the form of a cold front. This front should generate some rain for us late thursday into thursday night. While a shower may linger through sunrise in our eastern counties on friday, this system will largely be gone and off to the east. Itll be much cooler too, with highs of only 5055. Enjoy your 3 newcomers and 1 incumbent are banding together after