Question: Two Air France flights diverted after security scares

Two Air France planes diverted over reported bomb threats. (Supplied)

Two Air France planes have been forced to divert in the US due to a “security incident”, according to US aviation officials.

Air France Flight 65, headed from Los Angeles to Paris, was forced to land at Salt Lake City because a threat was called in from the ground, a US Federal Aviation Administration spokesman told CNN.

“It was diverted to Salt Lake City because of a security incident,” FAA spokesman Allen Kenitzer said in a statement.

There are unconfirmed reports on social media the plane was met by emergency services, including police, who then searched the aircraft.

Over 400 passengers were evacuated from the plane and transported to customs.

Picture taken from onboard the plane at Salt Lake City. (Twitter, Supplied)

Another Air France flight, headed from Washington DC to Paris has been diverted to Halifax, Nova Scotia.

A spokesperson for Halifax Stanfield International Airport said the plane landed safely and passengers exited the plane.

Reports suggest there were 298 passengers and crew on board.

There are unconfirmed reports on social media that the FBI are interrogating passengers on both flights.

summary: An Air France flight heading from Los Angeles to Paris has been diverted due to a &ldquo;security incident&rdquo;, according to US aviation officials.

Shooting Victim Adam Ward's Fiancé Struggling to Cope Says Station GM : People.com

Melissa Ott and Adam Ward

08/27/2015 AT 04:10 PM EDT

WDBJ station general manager Jeffrey Marks said at a Thursday press conference that now is "a really, really difficult time" for Melissa Ott, the fiancée of Adam Ward, the 27-year-old cameraman who was one of two victims of Wednesday morning's shooting in Virginia by former station employee Vester Flanagan.

Ott is a producer at WDBJ, and was in the station's control room

when her husband-to-be, who had recently proposed to her, was shot dead.

"It's bad enough to learn your fiancé has died. It's worse to be the producer of the show where that happens live," Marks said.

"She has family around her and she's doing the best she can to cope," Marks said.

"This will be a long recovery for her," he said. "We will wrap our arms around her and hold her like we are doing with everyone else."

Ward's camera was on when was shot and killed along with reporter Alison Parker, 24. As he lay dying, Ward managed to capture the image of the man who had killed him, which helped authorities quickly identify Flanagan. Several hours later, as cops closed in on his rental car on a Fauquier County interstate, Flanagan turned the gun on himself.

Nick Beaty, a friend of Ward's who trained him for his job at the station,

that Ott and Ward had very different temperaments but were deeply in love.

"She is from up north, in New Jersey, kind of a gung ho, say what's on your mind type of person, and he's like a Southern gentleman, and you would never think in a million years they would be a couple," he says.

"But when they were together they were finishing each other's sentences, they were the cutest things."

summary: Melissa Ott, engaged to Adam Ward, was in the station control room and saw shooting unfold

Poll: Romney widens lead over Gingrich in Florida

Mitt Romney has staked himself to a 14-point lead over Newt Gingrich in a new Florida poll and appears headed toward an easy victory in tomorrow's primary.

Romney has support from 43% of likely GOP voters in the final Florida poll from Quinnipiac University, compared with 29% for Gingrich. Support for the former Massachusetts governor has grown by 5 percentage points since Quinnipiac's previous poll was released Friday.

Ron Paul and Rick Santorum are tied with 11% support each, according to the Quinnipiac survey.

Florida is the biggest prize yet in the GOP race, with 50 delegates being awarded to tomorrow's primary. If Romney wins, he will have bounced back from a resounding 12-point loss to Gingrich in the Jan. 21 South Carolina primary.

Romney "is headed towards a double-digit victory that touches all the GOP bases," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "Romney carries every part of the GOP coalition, including the parts central to Gingrich -- self- described conservatives, white evangelical Christians and Tea Party supporters."

Romney said in an interview this morning that he decided to respond "clearly" after "being whaled" by Gingrich in South Carolina.

"We made it clear if people want change in Washington you have to bring in someone from outside Washington," Romney said on NBC's Today program.

"He's a nice fellow," Romney said about Gingrich, "but his leadership capability has been called into question by virtue of people who worked with him."

Gingrich, meanwhile, kept up his attacks on Romney during an interview on ABC's Good Morning America. The former House speaker said there's little difference between Romney and President Obama, noting their "parallels" including similar health care proposals they each signed into law.

"In the long run the Republican Party is not going to nominate the founder of Romneycare, a liberal Republican who is pro-abortion, pro-gun control and pro-tax increases," Gingrich said on ABC. "Ain't gonna happen."

summary: Mitt Romney has staked himself to a 14-point lead over Newt Gingrich in a new Florida poll and appears headed toward an easy victory in the primary.

Snowy New Hampshire highway sees dozens of cars in pileups

A New Hampshire state police spokesman said on Friday 35 vehicles were involved in two separate pileups on Interstate 93, after some fast-moving snow squalls.

Lieutenant Jerry Maslan said there were some injuries, but they were not considered to be life-threatening. Calls about the accidents started coming in at about 9.45am on Friday.

Maslan said one of the crashes involved a truck trailer that caught fire after a vehicle went underneath it. It wasn’t known what the trailer was carrying, but aerial footage of the crashes show boxes strewn about and crumpled cars.

The accidents happened in the northbound lanes in and near Ashland. The lanes were closed to traffic.

Snow has been falling on and off in the state and parts of the highway are snow-covered.

summary:
Answer: Truck catches fire on Interstate 93 after vehicle moves underneath it; several reported injured amid winder weather