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Federal Aviation officials announced on Tuesday that flight attendants will soon get more mandated rest time between flights. 

For years, frustrated flight attendants have been pushing for change. This started in the late 80s as flight attendants were identifying the problems with fatigue, flight attendants, flying fatigued, sometimes on back to back flights, all while being on the front lines in the skies. Sometimes the flight attendants are the first person that a passenger sees when something goes wrong. We are the first person, you know, after they pass through security, after they check their bags, we have to deal with the brunt of the frustration in airline travel Right now, compensate us give us the rest that we need Now. The FAA has announced a new rule that extends the minimum mandated rest period for flight attendants from 9 to 10 consecutive hours between shifts when scheduled for a duty period of 14 hours or less. Flight attendants had even fewer rest hours than pilots. I worked alongside them, travel with them. And I can tell you firsthand that well rested crew members are important to safety. Despite the big win, airline activists say their fight is far from over. We continue to make this one standard of safety and continue to press forward to ensure that this minimum rest is also applied for cargo pilots.

Will new rules for flight attendants make flying safer?

21-year-old Blane Lane and three other deputies were serving a felony warrant when a woman in the home pointed a firearm at the deputies. Two deputies fired back, fatally shooting their colleague.

outside the polk county Sheriff's office. Deputy Blaine lanes patrol car now sits parked next to a wreath of flowers and his picture. He's the epitome of what american law enforcement is about. It's young men and young women that stand in the gap that put their life on the line every day. Lane was one of the department's youngest deputies, 21 years old. Sheriff Grady Judd just swarm in as a deputy. 8.5 months ago. This young man was game on every minute of every day. It was his dream. He was living his dream and certainly he was immensely talented. Deputy Lane played football at mulberry high School. He is married with a three year old daughter. His family's pastor says Blaine had big plans in law enforcement. His goal was to be the the next sheriff of Polk County. He was one of the most enthusiastic young men that I've ever met. He had a, just a lively spirit about him. Um he was, he was made for this job. His friends loved him and admired him. We all did. Sheriff Judge said funeral arrangements for Deputy Lane are still being worked out, but it will be held sometime next week in winter Haven eric Waxler abc action news

21-year-old Fla. deputy killed in 'friendly fire'

In Illinois, a "Stranger Things" themed Halloween display in front of a plainfield home is now closed after a neighbor voiced concerns about it.

things just got Stranger for the suburban Plainfield Halloween display of the same name. After complaints from a lone neighbor forced the creators of the house haunt to close it for now, everyone seemed okay with it until they weren't paying homage to the popular netflix series, dreamed up the spooky seasonal setup displayed in their front yard. It replicates a scene from the show and features a lifelike mannequin dressed as the character max Mayfield appearing to hover in mid air. It was just really cool. We saw on Tiktok, we just thought it was so cool that you couldn't see any wires or anything. The family says the video of the display they posted on Tiktok not only got more than 14 million views with everyone wondering what's keeping max afloat, but also some unwanted attention from one neighbor who at first they said was okay with their display when they asked for permission to put it up. It's upsetting to be told we support you, we're behind you. We understand why you're doing this and to have that blow up in your faces, possibly angered by the crowds and the popularity of the display. The family says that one neighbor has accused him of bringing negative attention to the neighborhood, endangering the community's Children and making the neighborhood a target of possible home invasions because of all the Spectators, other people who live here. Don't agree. It's just all families coming out to see such an amazing setup. The Stranger Things Halloween display remained shuttered for Now

Controversial 'Stranger Things' décor removed 

A Texas woman was found guilty of capital murder for killing a pregnant woman and taking the unborn baby out of her womb.

Taylor Parker entered today's courtroom accused of the death of Reagan Hancock and removing Hancock's unborn child brax, Lynn but Parker left the courtroom as a convicted killer with Reagan's family members sitting on the front row of a full courtroom. The jury spent less than an hour before convicting Taylor Parker of capital murder and kidnapping. We all hoped it was coming to that we weren't for sure but we hoped it was coming to that Jamie Mason is Reagan's on and was in the courtroom when the verdict was read speaking for the family. Jamie praised the job attorneys did in prosecuting this three week case. Sentencing doesn't start till October 12 but just pray for the family because it's still a hard time until we know for sure. You know what she's gonna get During the October 12 sentencing trial. The jury will have two options, life in prison without parole or the death sentence for capital murder. In my opinion, in my opinion, she deserves death the same thing that she did to my niece and and the baby girl. So um that's my opinion. You know people may look at it bad but you know life for life to me on october 9th 2020 taylor Parker came to Hancock's new boston texas home killed Reagan and then cut out the unborn child while holding the child in her lap Parker was stopped by the police and said the baby was hers. Police later arrested Parker at McKernan County hospital charging her with the crimes throughout the trial, prosecutor said Parker had lied for 10 months saying she was pregnant all in an effort to keep her boyfriend. In closing arguments, prosecutors described taylor Parker as a liar manipulator and actress. During her months of claiming to be pregnant. The state is seeking the death sentence.

Woman found guilty of killing pregnant woman

A couple in Fort Myers, Florida, put their baby and cat in plastic bins when they had to escape flooding in their home.

Callie Brown shooting this video last Wednesday. She and her partner chad duck wall live in Fort Myers. They have a three month old son charlie. When Hurricane Ian hit the family retreated to the attic, water kept coming. Cali dumped the christmas decorations and packed her son and one of those plastic totes chad, put the cat in another plastic storage bin and they float away hoping to reach to the neighbor's house, which was at higher ground terrifying. The most terrifying thing I've ever gone through in my entire life. I didn't know if we're going to make it to be totally honest. I remember looking at chad and just saying, I don't want to die. I don't want to die swim through the water 10 ft deep was harrowing to say the least instincts kicked in. You know, people ask, how did you think of his tupperware storage container And I don't know. I just looked around what was in my attic and I was like plastic will float. These will float mom instincts or something kicked in and I just knew that that was what I needed to grab to put him in for safety because he obviously can't swim. He's three months old and I just knew I had to protect him and they all made it and went back to see what was left of their house the next day. This is what they saw a total loss. Our Couch was on our kitchen counter. That's just where it had floated. Our dining room table was in our living room. They could spend the next month at a family member's condo in the next town over while they rebuild. They lived through Hurricane Irma in 2017 and said they evacuated then for no reason. This time, they ignored the mandatory evacuation order. Do you wish now that you had left? Yes, I will never stay again. I will absolutely evacuate. I don't care if it's a category one. I'm not staying ever again for hurricane I never want to experience that again.

Mom tucks baby in plastic bin during Hurricane Ian flooding

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Ian feels like the storm that just won't go away and it's technically gone. But the remnants of the low that was once in, still hanging out off the coast of Virginia dc, the Delmarva and continuing to bring a lot of rain to folks there. Finally some upper level winds come along to push that thing out and away. We didn't see a whole lot of remnant activity yesterday. However, our northeastern counties were still a little cloudy and a little bit breezy and that should ease up today. Matter of fact, you can see it will start off with the future cast and you can see some cloud cover up northeastern counties from Rocky Mount up to South Hill through Roanoke rapids and from time to time there may be some cloud cover that spins around that low low pressure systems spin counterclockwise to kind of see, we're still in that northerly wind today that keeps our temperatures on the mild side, mainly in the mid seventies. As the low finally moves out, our winds will begin to shift to southwesterly. That's going to warm things up into the eighties for thursday and friday. We see the low finally pushing away from us and dissipating in the next 24 hours High pressure builds in southwest winds pick up and we're nice and warm for thursday and friday and then here comes our front. That front will move through friday evening. It'll be warm ahead of the front and chilly behind and dry to the brown color code color contours. There are some really dry air that works its way in for the weekend. That means some chilly mornings are normal. Low is 56 we normally see that coldest temperature of the day at around seven a.m. This time of year. So looking closer to normal, say today for tomorrow and friday morning and then we start to drop things back again ma monday morning in the low to mid forties. And some of our northern counties could end up with some of those temperatures dropping into the upper thirties. Maybe mid thirties could be a little bit of patchy frost. I feel like right now we're probably going to be just a touch too warm for it. But we're starting to get into that window where we typically see our first frost of the season in parts of the viewing area. So we'll have our eye on that and in the tropics everything's pretty quiet. We have tropical Depression 12 formed yesterday, but it looks like it will dissipate before becoming Julia.

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