Lambert St News Today

Zoraida sambolin. thanks for joining us this morning. we begin with a brutal beginning to the work week, because the very severe weather. people in six states waking up to a big cleanup from missouri to pennsylvania. millions of people battling rain, snow, and potentially dangerous wind this morning. all that slush making roads disastrous, and treacherous. perfect conditions for fender benders. look at the scene in kansas city, missouri. it is causing significant disruptions at lambert st. louis...

Look at the scene in kansas city, missouri. causing significant disruptions at lambert st. louis international airport. and the storm is not done yet. parts of eastern indiana and western ohio under a winter storm warning through early this afternoon. the system continues to track eastward right toward us. we got it covered for you though. shannon traffic sis in maryland weather season. what you are season? >> reporter: hard to believe this is the first week of spring, right? were here in potoma...

Assessing the plane now, and well get the passengers off the air field and work to get equipment to tow the plane off the active runway. until then, that runway is closed and were just moving traffic on other runways right now. >> okay. hopefully those on board on this private jet are okay here on this monday afternoon. jeff leigh, thank you so much, spokesman, lambert st. louis airport for me. and now some of the hottest stories in a flash, rapid fire. roll it. those harmless streaks you see ...

Indication, whether it is something else. obviously the pilot is going to spend a good amount of time trying to do that. it sounds like they made a decision to land at lambert st. louis, has a longer runway than the st. louis downtown airport that they were looking at. i guess they made their decision that theyre going to land at lambert, which makes sense. if you have a landing gear issue or expecting to have an issue on touchdown, it makes sense to use the longest available runway in the area....

Documents from the u.s. military prison at guantanamo bay published by the website wikileaks sheds new light on where al qaedas top leaders were during the 9/11 attacks. according to cbs news, the documents reveal that osama bin laden watched the attacks on television in kandahar, afghanistan. khalid shaikh mohammed, the plot mastermind, watched the attacks unfold from karachi, pakistan. the information is from prisoner interrogations. in southeastern missouri the national guard has joined the...

Four feet above flood stage, and in poplar bluff hundreds of residents have begun evacuating. officials there say a week of rain has weakened the citys levee. missouri has also been hit by tornadoes. take a look at this amazing video, a tornado ripping through the lambert-st. louis international airport on friday. just look at that. the storm shattered windows and ripped off part of a roof. mississippi governor haley barbour said he will not run for the republican presidential nomination in ...

9/11. earlier on "american morning" we asked national security analyst peter bergen for his take on this document dump. >> they dont change our basic knowledge of the events that happened after 9/11. they do fill in details. at one point osama bin laden was so strapped for cash after the 9/ 9/11 attacks he borrowed $7,000 which adds to our general understanding that osama bin laden didnt have a great deal of money at the time of the 9/11 attacks. >> i continue to find that fact fascinating. >> r...

They shed more light on how al qaeda prepared for the 9/11 attacks and osama bin ladens movements afterwards. the white house condems this leak. the damage from a tornado that tore through the st. louis area may cost millions of dollars, a surveillance camera at lambert-st. louis international captured this scene as this twister slammed right into the main terminal with winds up to 200 miles an hour. you can see the debris swirling around here. powerful winds blew out the windows, ripped a hol...

Tripoli. lambert-st. louis international airport operating at about 70% of capacity now after getting walloped by tornado with winds up to 200 miles per hour. damage to the airports main terminal was captured by surveillance cameras. pretty incredible pictures. gas prices up for the 34th straight day, but the rate at which theyre increasing appears to be slowing. today, up less than a penny to $3.86 a gallon. a chef surprise at the annual white house easter egg roll later this morning. the...

Spots, the lower mississippi valley and ohio river valley. a threat for really large, long-lasting tornadoes. so much rain, some areas have seen about 15 inches of rain and probably getting another eight to ten inches as we move forward the next couple of days. the ohio river and the lower mississippi valley are probably going to see record flooding. and a town ever 16,000 people in poplar bluff and thousands of homes being evacuated there. dangerous weather across the plains. jon: there used to...