the honor of bidding farewell to the 14- hundred pound pumpkin went 2 year old emmett peterson. "big pumpkin" after strategically making sure the minivan was in place for a direct hit - the rise of the 14- huhured pound pumpkin began. "it's kindndf bittersweet t at it's going to be donene." a total of 80 feet into the air. "it's getting higher and higherer with hundreds watching and the cell phones out t the countdown begun.... "we made it so it was goingb to be hard to come dowowso the wind wouldn't release the trigger, but when we were pulling there for a little bit, it was like geez i hope it comes down now" nats 1.... smash "it was a little louder than i thought it would be... 29:12 after the suspensful wait, i didn't think it would smush the van as much as it did 29:40 i didn't think it would be that hard down, it was really loud too... 28:48 it like snapped in half, i saw like dust 28:25 i thought it was wow! 32:42 did you break the car? no pumpkin.... charlie 30:42 all that hard work, but seeing all the people here enjoying it, it's a good ending to the season" with his h

the honor of bidding rewell to the 14- hundred pound pumpkin went 2 year old emmett peterson. "big pumpkin" after strategically making sure the minivan was in place for a direct hit - the rise of the 14- hundred pound pumpkin began. "it's kind of bittersweet that it's going to be done..." a total of 80 feet into the air. "it's getting higher and higher " with hundreds watching and the cell phones out - the countdown begun.... "we made it so it was goingb to be hard to come down so the wind wouldn't release the trigger, but when we were pulling there for a little bit, it was like geez i hope it comes down now" nats 1.... smash "it was a little louder than i thought it would be... 29:12 after the suspensful wait, i didn't think it would smush the van as much as it did 29:40 i didn't think it would be that hard down, it was really loud too... 28:48 it like snapped in half, i saw like dust 28:25 i thought it was wow! 32:42 did you break the car? no pumpkin.... charlie 30:42 all that hard work, but seeing all the people here enjoying it, it's a good ending to the season" with his h

field and raised with a crane up to 80 feet off the ground above an old minivan.two - yeaea- old emmett peterson's dad won a raffle to be the one to pull the cord and let the pumpkin fall. two seconds later... tthe minivan had huge new 3 passenger. 3 3 3 3 3 coming up this morning on siouxland news at sunrise... a former prosecutor in veneneela is talking abououa case against a popular opposition leader. we'll hear what he had to say... 3 3 throughout the day on today, we will see the cloud cover picking up again and by late in the afternoon we could see some showers that will linger into the early morning hours on saturday. highs will top out in the lower to mid 50's. don't worry, rains will move out very early on saturday and conditions should be nearly perfect for trick or treating saturday night.we will see a few days with temperatures in the 70's at the beginning of the week, but mid-week our next system will start making 's way into siouxland dropping temperatures down and 3 3 here's what we're talking about on facebook this morning... halloween's tomorrow. what was your favorite costume? 3