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Good evening. Federal aviation investigators say they've never seen anything like the sight of Payne Stewart's jet crash.
They began sifting through thousands of pieces of rubble this morning. The Learjet fell so far and so fast, many parts are still buried in that South Dakota field.
Today, authorities confirmed the death of a sixth passenger, golf course designer Bruce Borland.
Mark Daly joins us live from near Minah, South Dakota. Mark?
Plane crash investigations always take a long time, but this one is moving extremely slowly.
That's because the plane fell 40,000 feet from the sky and much of the wreckage is still buried deep in the ground.
Soon after the sun came up, investigators were at the crash site looking for clues buried deep in this South Dakota cow pasture.
Even with heavy equipment at their disposal, federal authorities say it will be several days before they're able to find some of the thousands of pieces of plane scattered in the muck.
It's going to take some time to figure out how we pull the wreckage out and we want to make very sure that before we start touching things that we are certain that we're not destroying some evidence.
Among the things they're looking for out there is a cockpit voice recorder, but even if they do find it, it's unlikely the recorder will provide any useful information because it runs on a 30-minute cycle and then records over itself.
At mid-afternoon, investigators were still mapping out a plan how to remove the wreckage from the site here.
Once they figure that out, they'll take thousands of tiny pieces of glass, metal, plastic, and wiring to a nearby hangar where they can examine it more closely.
Charlie, back to you. Did they give you any idea of a timetable of how long it would take them to assemble that big jigsaw puzzle?
They've never had a situation like this before, so they don't know exactly how long it will take, but they say it will be here several days.
Okay, very good. Thanks a lot, Mark. Appreciate it.
The NTSB says video would help a lot in that crash investigation. Amy Palacco joins us live now from the Air National Guard in Fargo. Amy, what can you tell us?
Well, two of these fighter jets flew right alongside the Learjet that crashed yesterday. As you can see here in the cockpit, there's a tiny camera.
It's this little black tube that's facing straight ahead. Basically, all it's recording is whatever's going on in front of the plane.
And the National Guard says it is giving the NTSB its videotape, but it's warning them there's just not much there.
Clouds and sky. That's what the Air National Guard says video from its fighter jets will show, but sound is another story.
There is audio tape on it, and the NTSB is getting that audio tape, the radio communication between our pilots and the FAA and the Western Air Defense Sector controllers.
Anvik says video was not first on pilots' minds because following that runaway Learjet was a task in itself.
Up at that altitude, that airplane was flying high enough and slow enough for us to even stay alongside of it. It was virtually impossible.
Now, the videotape would also record these fighter jets' speed and altitude, which could shed some light on what happened yesterday.
Colonel Anvik says it never reached a point where they were discussing shooting the Learjet down.
He said that would be more problematic because then you'd have a lot of debris over a much wider area.
Amy, is there any chance that there is any other video out there from any other source, video of the Learjet in air?
Well, rather than, Colonel Anvik says that a lot of the other planes that were flying alongside the Learjet had pretty much the same setup with the camera right in the front,
shooting out the front and capturing only that. So it would be the same situation.
But the NTSB's Robert Francis did put out a plea for help today,
asking anyone in the public who was recording the crash with a video camera or something, come forward with that video. It could help the investigation.
Amy, one more quick question for you. I know the pilots of those F-16s are supposed to be debriefed. Do you know if that has occurred yet?
We know that they have talked by phone to the NTSB today and that's all we know right now. They have told them what happened.
There's no plans to go down there and talk to them in South Dakota right now.
Okay. Thank you, Amy.
A National Union representative says Kyle Bell's escape is a case of government privatization gone wrong.
Nancy Van Meter told North Dakota lawmakers the state has to be careful in hiring private firms to take over public jobs.
Meantime, the television program America's Most Wanted is planning to show a reenactment of Bell's escape.
The program profiled Bell after he escaped from a prison transport bus in New Mexico.
Show producers are coming to North Dakota tomorrow to do interviews.
The new segment will air November 13th if Bell isn't caught before then.
Around the region tonight, a Long Prairie, Minnesota woman whose daughters were found floating in a lake has been charged with murder and attempted murder.
Lisa Patchen is accused of deliberately driving her car into a lake and leaving her two daughters to drown.
One died, the other is in critical condition.
A Burnsville, Minnesota doctor has been sentenced to 10 days in jail for assault in a road rage incident.
Dr. Thomas Valente pleaded guilty last month to striking 69-year-old Virginia Hendrickson after she cut him off on a highway ramp in August.
And former SLA fugitive Sarah Jane Olson is looking for financial support.
She goes on trial in Los Angeles in January for allegedly planting pipe bombs under police cars back in 1975.
Olson held a news conference today to ask for help paying her attorney's fees.
Fargo police officers may soon be making their rounds in schools.
The school board is considering a partnership that would put two full-time officers in some junior high and senior high schools.
The proposal would be an extension of the current DARE program.
One officer would spend time at North High, Ben Franklin and Woodrow Wilson.
The other would be assigned to South High and Discovery Junior High.
Their primary focus won't be enforcement, but certainly they are police.
And if the need be there, they would be in an enforcement mode.
If the school board votes to take part in the COPS partnership, the city commissioners have to give their final approval.
If that happens, officers could be in the schools after the first of the year.
Fargo's airport authority is holding off on demolishing the old terminal tower.
Bids came in $13,000 over projections.
Airport director Sean Doberstein expected it would cost $70,000 to take off the top four floors of the terminal.
But busy schedules of local contractors translated into an $83,000 job.
The board will rebid the project in the next construction season.
Well, fishing can be considered an art.
But have you ever thought that some tools anglers use could be considered art as well?
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Fishing decoys started out as a way for anglers to catch more fish.
But somewhere along the line they became collector's items.
On tonight's Stone Report we meet a phrasee Minnesota man whose work is among the most valuable.
Right, Mel? Yeah, John Jensen's work is so popular he'll probably never catch up with his demand.
And his pieces also fetch record high prices.
Okay. Okay.
John's been carving for more than 60 years, but fishing decoys is a relatively new undertaking.
I like fishing. I used to go fishing all the time and also I was starting to collect spurn decoys.
And I decided I'd like a nicer looking one so I just started making them myself.
What's happened since then is almost hard to believe.
When I did this one I charged $500 and then went from $500 to $750, $750 to $1000.
Then I went to $1500 and right now the person who owns this now has been offered $2700 for it.
Some say John Jensen is the most collectible living carver.
The antiquities, you can't figure why. I'm not dead yet, you know.
And at the rate things are going there are going to be a lot of unhappy decoy collectors out there.
I've been a once trout. Now I like to quit doing trout and go on to something else, you know.
Do it? Yeah, but I have it on the back order for 3 or 4 years.
Really? Yeah. So I have to keep on until I get the orders filled.
Are you taking more trout orders? No. Unless it's a friend or something like that. Otherwise, no.
So except for a very special occasion, John supplies his decoys to wholesalers and that's where you have to buy them.
But occasionally you will see one turn up on eBay, for example, on the web page being auctioned off.
To work more hours in the day, although he probably feels he's doing enough.
Well, I didn't include it in the story, but he told me he is sick of carving trout.
So I guess that's out of the question then, right? Working more. Thank you, Mel.
Yeah, we kind of got that drift from him, yeah. To carve something else for a change.
Okay. Nice day. Good looking day.
Yes, the wind wasn't a factor either. And I tell you, if anyone wants to complain about this,
80 years ago today was below zero across the entire northern part of the country.
Wow, I remember that. It can get cold. Oh, you do, huh?
You have to tell us sometime, Charlie. Maybe later on.
But it looks like we're going to have some warm weather for the next couple of days.
We'll tell you more after we take a look at Hellwick, Minnesota's forecast tomorrow about 51 degrees.
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Local storm team weather with KVLY News 11 Chief Meteorologist Tom Schimanski.
Well, looks like we're interviewing for a steady diet of mild temperatures throughout most of the week coming up.
Not much rain until maybe around Friday, but at this point in time the weekend is looking pretty good too, so let's check out your question.
And this is what Charlie wanted to know. On the average the temperature drops below the doughnut. How many times per year here?
The reason I'm saying that is because it's now officially doughnut season as record lows are now below zero. Isn't that exciting?
32, 42, 52 or 62 times. We'll find out soon, but now the current conditions and a little football action and more head right now.
Yes, that's captured by the roving weather cam. 55 degrees to the dew point 26. 32 percent humidity. South winds at nine in the barometer. 29.99 and it is steady.
Grand Forks right now at 53, dew point 26. Winds are south at seven in the barometer 29.97 and it's rising.
Well, how do we do today? 59 to 27, no rainfall of any kind. And in Grand Forks 56, 23 and no precipitation.
Well, tomorrow not much different from today. We're looking close to 57 or so.
Give or take a few degrees with probably a few clouds in the morning and lots of sun, especially during the afternoon hours, but a steady wind as well.
All right, well let's check out the USA satellite radar composite. And just like yesterday, most of the action in the corners.
Southeast, some showers in Florida, some more in the northeast, other activity in the southwestern part of the country and more in the northwest, whereas much of the middle,
we'll say about 75 to 80 percent of the lower 48 not experiencing much also than just a few clouds, as you can see right here, some bright white clouds spinning through Minnesota, North Dakota and also southern Canada.
Let's take a look out into the Pacific and there's a well defined storm system will geographically orient you. There's Alaska, western Canada.
Here's the west coast of the country right here. This is definitely much stronger than the series of storms that has been moving on in.
So as that moves our way by Friday, that could bring a little bit of light rain, maybe mixing with snow Friday night, but nothing heavy.
You can see right here these clouds are moving quickly to the east. So later on tonight, many areas may experience clear to partly cloudy conditions.
There's low pressure located near Regina, Saskatchewan, with a warm front cutting right through the middle of North Dakota, followed by a cold front, not much of a cold front,
because the air behind it is of Pacific origin rather than Arctic origin. So all we're going to get is a wind shift and not much difference in temperature tomorrow.
But the winds will be gusty, especially during the first part of the day. Right now, winds are southeast or south under 13 miles per hour.
The combination of clouds and wind should hold the temperatures up tonight. Speaking of which, how about these temps? You can see back in Montana, temperatures in the 70s, 77 in Rapid City, Salt Lake City at 71.
Little cooler to the east, Marquette, Michigan, 34 and 59 right now in Chicago, St. Louis at 69, Des Moines, Iowa at 68 degrees.
Locally 46 in Bemidji, 40 in International Falls, double 4s in Bdett. Right now in Winnipeg, 48 degrees, double nickels in Devils Lake, 56 in Jamestown, and 57 right now in Aberdeen.
Some sky spies for you in Edgeley. Gene had 61 along with Joe in Pelican Rapids and in Bdett, a little cooler. Harold said it was 45 degrees there and the winds were not much of a problem.
Could be 45 again in Bdett tomorrow with 40s up north, 50s elsewhere, getting close to 60 in the southern areas. And there's that 60 degree line roughly running from Jamestown to this north of Bismarck and westward.
70s in the Banana Belt near Rapid City for highs on Thursday. But tomorrow we're looking at high pressure moving on in.
Now this front here will generate a few clouds in the morning, but no rain. If there's any rain at all, that should occur mainly to the north in Canada.
Now as the high moves overhead tomorrow night, many areas will drop down into the 20s and then on the backside of the high the winds return out of the south.
That should warm us up on Thursday. That could bring a little bit of light rain to the picture on Friday. Right now, Saturday and Sunday are looking like temperatures in the 50s and by Halloween might be near 60 with sunshine.
Here's your forecast for tonight. Variable clouds southeast to south winds at 6 to 23 becoming west northwest at 5 to 16 later on.
And 38 in Fargo, 35 in Grand Forks, 33 in Roosevelt and 36 in Perham.
For tomorrow looks partly to mostly sunny and breezy. West northwest winds at 8 to 27 and about 50 in Cavalier, 60 in White Rock, 56 in Carrington and 58 in Perham.
And moving further ahead, sunny in the morning on Thursday, then partly cloudy and becoming breezy.
Light and variable winds will turn south at 6 to 25, lows from 24 to 33. And Thursday, not much change. 55 in Grand Forks, about 52 in Cavalier and Bejew about 54.
And looks like for Friday, chance for rain showers, 51. And then Saturday, 55 and Sunday, 58, maybe 60 with partly sunny skies, breezy every day.
You can see at the bottom of the graphic, this time of the year we're going to see a steady diet of wind, which is quite typical.
Alright, just what Robin wants to know, how many times choice E could be not enough?
That seems like too many, all of them. I'm going to go with 32.
I'll go with 42.
Well, believe it or not, 52 times a year we do it.
That seems like a lot.
And last year we didn't have that many, not nearly that many. It was a warm year last year.
That's any night it drops below zero.
The center word time should have been days, two days below zero.
Stocks lost more ground today. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped about 48 points to 10,302. NASDAQ was down more than 4 to 2,811.5.
And Standard & Forks 500 Stock Index was off nearly 12, closing just under 1282.
It is playoff night and high school football in Minnesota. Dan is out in Moorhead.
At Nemzig Field.
That's right, Charlie and Robin. This is opening night for prep football playoffs in Minnesota.
Also there are a couple of North Dakota football playoff games.
And here at Moorhead State, Moorhead Eye opens the playoffs.
We'll visit with Spud's head coach, Steve Connelly, and have the rest of the sports for you next.
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The road to the Metro Dome begins tonight for Minnesota prep football teams.
First round playoff games will be held at all five classes tonight.
Here at Nemzick Field, Moorhead High opens the class 5A section 8 playoffs by hosting Bemidji.
Spud's coach, Steve Connelly, is here. Steve, with this playoff format, you not only have to be good, you have to be a little bit lucky too, don't you?
There's no doubt about it. To win six in a row this late in the season, you know, hopefully you're hitting on all cylinders, but the ball's got to bounce your way a few times.
You played Bemidji earlier this year and you ran the ball successfully. Is that the name of the game tonight?
Well, I think so. We've got to establish a line of scrimmage and if we can do that, you know, it's going to benefit us if we can't.
I think at that point in the season we weren't as good a throwing team and at this point we can throw it a little bit better.
This football team really matured through the second half of the season, didn't it?
Yeah, you know, some of the kids stepped it up and I think they felt a little bit more comfortable in their positions and, you know, the success came then.
The offensive line, is that an area tonight where you think you have a big advantage against Bemidji?
Well, you know, defensively they're a pretty good team so I'm hoping we can establish that and be real physical with them and if that comes or is the case, I think we'll be successful.
Okay, Steve, good luck tonight. Thanks a lot, Dan.
That's Steve Connelly, the head coach of the Spuds and we'll have highlights of this game and many others from Minnesota and North Dakota, including Fargo South at the Fargo Dome tonight against Grand Fork Central.
That coming up on a special edition of the highlight zone tonight after the baseball game.
Well, the University of Minnesota is banning its men's basketball team from postseason play for one year. The move comes on the heels of alleged academic misconduct.
Minnesota president Mark Udolph says the ban applies to both the NCAA and the NIT tournaments.
In addition, the school is placing the team on probation for an unspecified time.
Now, Udolph expects the school and the NCAA to impose further sanctions when the final results of an investigation are turned over to the NCAA
and to the current players, Udolph has this program to continue rebuilding and to maintain the integrity of the institution and to move forward in the basketball program and to support Coach Munson.
We must demonstrate good faith and take meaningful action to repair the damage that has been done by others.
Udolph expects the final results of the investigation to be turned over to the NCAA sometime next month. The World Series resumes tonight in New York. The pressure is on the Braves. They need to win. They're down two games to none.
You know, any team that has good pitching like we have, we can always reel off three in a row or so. So we've always been able to do something like that and it's just no different now.
I don't really think we have any emotional or mental advantage over them other than the fact that we've been pitching really well.
The pitching matchup tonight, Tom Glavin will go for the Braves, Andy Pettit for the Yankees. It all begins here at 7 tonight on TV 11.
And the new hockey polls are out nationally. The USA Today American Hockey Poll has North Dakota 5th and the Hockey Online Poll, the Sioux are number three. Boston College and Maine are number one and two in each poll.
And Charlie and Robin, the PGA, is rearranging the playing schedule for its two tournaments this weekend. They will not play on Friday. That is the day that there will be a memorial service for Payne Stewart in Florida.
That's understandable that they would do something like that.
Definitely. In fact, I'm a little bit surprised that they actually have gone through with the PGA Tour Championship this weekend.
They could have postponed or canceled.
I thought maybe that's what they would do, yeah.
Okay, thanks, Dan.
Thank you, Dan. Classes in some West Fargo schools went to the Dogs today. That's up next at 6.
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Darren's in the newsroom to tell us what's coming up after the game.
That's right. After the game tonight, we'll tell you how Clay County and the rest of Minnesota rates when it comes to
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Okay. Thanks, Darren. We'll look forward to that.
Some West Fargo students celebrated Red Ribbon Week with a visit from a four-legged officer.
Fargo police officers brought in one of their drug-sniffing dogs to spread an anti-drug message.
Bono showed off his obedience skills and drug-sniffing abilities.
A canine friend visited four West Fargo schools today. Bono's message is, say no to drugs.
And afterwards Bono barked, I got you, babe.
I'm sorry, but I have flashbacks to the Westminster dog kennel show.
Yeah, well, let's not go back to that one.
You'll be happy to hear that we don't have the video re-queued, Charlie.
Thank you.
Yes, indeed. A big night on high school football class, and we'll have it all in the special edition of the Highlight Zone tonight at 10.
We have enough material for managers' mailbag every day.
Thanks to Jim Gray. I wonder what kind of reception he'll get at Yankee Stadium tonight, by the way.
It'll be interesting.
It'll be interesting to hear what they say, what Bob Costas has to say.
There'll be no rain outside on Yankee Stadium. Looks good for that, and our weather looks good, too.
Nor here.
Thanks for tuning in.
We'll see you tonight after the game. Good night.
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