Breezy dayr ahead of us but were calm weatherwise. No rain in place now that the cold front pushed through. Cedar rapids and 50 in dubuque and 51 in waterloo and iowa city and well top out at 67 degrees but at least again were dry. Temperatures going to cool down again through the evening because of the clear skies so we got a decent dry stretch ahead of us here. Well switch it over to ky to talk more about the riv absolutely. Thanks a lot. Were still watching the cedar basin carefully as well as the wapsi and mississippi. The iowa river basin has been Holding Steady and will likely stay that way for the next week or so. Heres what we have in vinton. Its in progress. The crest is in progress right now. The official gauge height is 21. 74 feet. Thats a lot of stream flow there in vinton and it just appears to be cresting now its at. What thatto does is it raises confidence for what happens downstream. Thee cedar river at cedar rapids which is around 18 feet cresting five feet higher at 23 feet Tuesday Morning. Here are the next four impacts and what weu can expect and this will be true over the next two to three hoursco and once it surpasses 20, wee will keep updating you with this. You will see it affect the lower section especially right now. Affected and 23 feet it reaches the 3rd avenue bridge in downtown. Were watching the wapsi inen a most sa and the Mississippi River at dubuque in progress, slow progress. It crests at the very end of this work week. You may have just heard a ding on your phone or maybe a vibration on your mobile device. We just pushed an alert to you. With all of these river stages that we just pushed to air we can keep you updated during this flood event and you can bet it will go to your mobile device. Chris, back over to you. Thank you. While it was not a mandatory evacuation, plenty of people in cedar rapids are out of their homes for six days. It affected homes and businesses and several neighborhoods along the cedar riverr thes city is seght up dozens of check. Arnsd the evacuation zone. Police told tv 9 they had larger presence around the evacuated areas and theres a curfew in place for the evacuation zone from 8 00 p. M. Until 7 00 a. M. Throughout the week. Kcrgtv9 is on the west side ander foaser sounders and what are you seeing at this hour of . Well, let me show it to you here, chris. There isnt much going on. You look at the road closed sign and this is a common thing that youll see when zone. Po these road closed signs are all the way up and down 19th avenue which is where were standing right now. Southeast of the Czech Village by a little bit, and the evacuation zone right now doesnt actually have any of those checkpoints. Those will be set up later today after talking with authorities. Theyre waiting for the National Guard to be on hand, about 400 National Guardsmen are headed to this area. Theyre going to help local authorities set up checkpoints in the checkpoints across the evacuation zone. Were hearing that additional officers are on hand right now to be inside of the evacuation zone. Theyre there to protect property, homes, businesses from any kind of looting or any kind of criminal activity. Good news. We talked with authorities earlier today. They told us they havent seen any signs of any of that and those extra officers are on hand, again to prevent it. On how theyre going to work from authorities and we might hear more of that at a 10 00 a. M. Press conference which the city set up and were waiting here more chris, back to you. Chris thank you for the live update. Taking a live look at downtown from up top. Cedar river is going up. As ky mentioned, its at 18 feet. It is expected to go up five more feet before it is expected to crest on Tuesday Morning. Heres what the expected cresto will look level of 23 feet. You can see for downtown water is expected to cover several city blocks and it shows them close to the Railroad Tracks between 3rd and 5th streets. We have been updated all morning. Brea joins us live. Shes on the east side of the river. Ed tell us what it looks like right now. Reporter chris, were outside of the motte building and you can look at at. The cedar river is rising fast. 4 30rbgs i put a blue marker and im sure you cant see it because its pretty dark out there. The river has moved about four inches in 30 minutes and i talked to a Police Officer who was down here and he told me he was driving on this area. This is a street down here. He was driving at 2 00 this morning. That was two hours ago. That kind of explains how fast this water is moving now. Werer outside of the motte building and theres a lot of sandballings and we have them all over town. Weve been talking Massive Community effort to get everythingr prepared. Soy hopefully all of those will hold up through our next 24 hours were expecting that crest tomorrow morning. Sometime around this time tomorrow. Make sure you stay safe. There is a curfew. Youre not allowed in this area. We had a Police Escort down here. Youre not allowed to be down here. Stay out of here. Theres a lot of roads closed signs and police are at checkpoints. They wont let you through. Stay safe. Stay out of the water and stay here with tv 9 for the rapids, kcrgtv9. Thank you. The inaudible neighborhood is a lowlying area close to the cedar river. Its on the Southeast Side of the city. It lies south of otis road and blakely boulevard. Neighbors and some volunteersc from a Cedar Rapids Church spent hours on sunday to tryva to help others to evacuate the roompot area. Theresl some concern roompot is one the first parts of the city that flooded back in 2008. I had the chance to meet margiel simms who was not here eight years ago and you she heard about the threat ofb flooding this neighborhood, all these people who lived down here a long time. Im kind of a newbie, its really, really nice. Everybody is taking care of everybody. Simms says she did not think she would be able to save as much as she did from further upstream are not following the orders to evacuate. They will not be forced out but if they evacuate, they may not get backa in until the danger has passed. Many of the 80 people told to evacuate in southeast palo did live but others chose to stay so they could take care of leaks behind sandbags. They remember exactly how high it got eight years ago and b deducting six or seven feet on the cedar, they could get by without major damage this time. Thatse why im staying. The damage or the water level is notot going to be as high and i dont think the damage will be as bad. We have a better chance this time to save stuff. Another reason that some chose ton stay inside of the evacuation zone as Alliance Energy planned to cut the power in those areas and they will need to keep generators running to pump out any water. Crest point in vinton at this hour. Heres an uptop view of vinton yesterday and the cedar river. This is approaching the Vinton County courthouse. You can see that on the top. We turn east on 3rd street, the Vinton CountySheriffs Office is there on the right and before this drone turns right on highway 150 and starts heading north, youll get another look at this as kcrgtv9 Nicole Griffin reports on the situation in vinton. Reporter w the Vinton County emergency manager they have been overnight as this town continues to prepare for the worst. Becky sloan has lived in this town for 25 years. Her house is right next to hinkle creek which runs into thes cedar river. The water flooded to the siderd of her yard but since her family took precautions after the flood in 2008 like adding a retaining wall, so far, her house has not flooded. After the water recedes, shes looking to haveu been a lot worse but i think the cleanup will not be the best part of this. I think its going to be a lot of trash left over and a lot of wood and debris. Reporter look at this drone video of the town of vinton. It shows you what theyre dealing with, flooded streets, yards and parks causing roads to be shut down in this area. Im standing here on eastburg and first avenue where you can see the impact of these floodwaters. Reporting in vinton, nicole after a building from a flood of 2008, one neighborhood is in danger of flooding once again. Well show you some of the ways that businesses throughout new bell are taking it upon themselves to keep the water out. It is a cool morning, no doubt about that definitely feeling more like fall actually with upper 40s to the mid50s laid out across eastern iowa. Today should be a decent day weatherwise. Windy, and well have we are still monitoring the cedar river basin very carefully here today. In f cresting right now. In fact, around 21. 7 feet. Its actually just a hair higher than that currently. Were hoping we can kind of stop right there its officially 21. 74. Regardless, its a solid second place finish in terms of the crest height. The crest will be right about now and the flooding will come to an end and it will be a slow fall. By about thursday,ee you will see the waters go below vinton, that extrapolates to almost 23 feet for Tuesday Morning. Confidence is high on 23foot forecast crest at cedar rapids. Right now, its at 18. Flooding would come to an end at the end of this week. Youll notice the impabs there on the righthand side of your screen those are primarily the impacts around the crest height but really the next four impacts as the river does continue to rise. At 18 feet, its the lowest section of edgewood road northwest right now. Expect commute tieups right th it affects the lowest residences in palo and the cedar at palo is higher than cedar rapids and it will reach the bridge deck and it reaches the bottom of the third avenue bridge and we anticipate that to happen given the iffoot crest forecast. The wapsi crested at major flood category. Its in progress right now another foot and a half rise in dubuque but it will take all week for that to happen. Expect the mississippi to be elevated actually much of october. It will be questionable when it gets back to below flood stage. Again, takes a long time for thattive arer. As anybody knows along the mississippi, a long time to rise and fall as well. Want you to keep updated with us as this entire flood event continues to occur from the crest upstream that have occurred to the stay connected with us. First alert weather anne app and we have push notifications to send to you every time we get new information and push it to your device and get you connected until the next newscast. Weather is quiet. We are in this blocking pattern finally now that we have dry time to get things done. Your first alert, everything is green. Not a worry in the world quiet outside. Youre looking downtown at the river there rising very quickly. Temperatures are cool this morning. Now that we have the clear skies and the cold front pushing through. Cedar rapids at 50 degrees. Dubuque iso 50. 51 in iowa city and waterloo at 51 degrees. Live first alert pinpoint Doppler Radar. Youre seeing a lot of green and this is ground clutter we are dry in the tv 9 viewing area. Pinpoint i will run through without powerpoints because theres not a lot to show you. All the clouds pushed off to the east along the cold front. We might see a stray passing cloud and thats about it as we go through the day and into the evening and the overnight hours and we start off tomorrow dry as well with a little bit of sunshine. What we do need to talk about are the winds we very breezy conditions behind this cold front. We start off this morning pretty calm. Winds ow out of the west at 5 to 10 Miles Per Hour up. Continue out in the west and pick up to 15 to 25 Miles Per Hour. Starter winds will stay to the north. Into the evening, those winds will die back down to 5 to 15. Heres your first alert forecast for today. Cold conditions with the westerly wind at 15 to 5. Temperatures will top out at 67 and cedar rapids 68 and 66 in waterloo. Mostly sunny and again, very breezy. Around it as well as the west wind at 5 to 15. Down into the 40s, 44 in cedar rapids and 46 and 43 in waterloo. 45 in dubuque. We stay clear for your day tomorrow. Just a few passing clouds topping out at 66 degrees. Wednesday, a few more clouds and were still very cool. Definitely starting to feel like fall and continues for the rest of your week. Also conins is the fact that we are staying dry. We mention that blocking pattern and it stays in tuesday for our next best chance for rain. Make sure to keep it here on tv 9. It is 5 18 and eat vac situation zone is in place for those in the red area with a predicted crest of 23 voluntary evacuation is asking people in the 28foot flood evacuation zone to get out. So this includes nubeau, and much of downtown for when you are looking east and further south closer to the nubeau. They will assist in helping to patrol flood zones. Forest sounders is live in cedar rapids. Hes been in the Czech Village. Forest at this hour, are you its early in the day and were fresh to this. Chris, we have seen officers out patrolling the area. We saw a squad car drive by not too long ago but it is quiet out here and so quiet, you can hear the crickets and you can see behind me there isnt much going on inside the evacuation zone we have road closed signs on all of these different roads that intersect with 19th avenue or a little southeast told that 400 National Guardsmen are on their way to help patrol as well as setting up 75 checkpoints and we want to calls that people concerned about looting inside the evacuation zone. Authorities tell us there are no confirmed reports of that. That isnt happening. Right now, theyre hearing a lot of great things. People are complying with the evacuation and there hasnt been any crime hand, however to patrol this area until those National Guardsmen arrive and again, thats going to happen sometime later today. Were expected to see those checkpoints start up and we will, of course, tell you more about that when it starts to happen. For now, chris, ill send it back to you. Chris thank you for then update. Business owners are upset the city did not put the temporary flood walls in and the barriers by them. And pub chose to build his own wall of sand to protect his restaurant in high water. Also a a fairly windy day and we expect the wind speeds generally going to be into 25 mile an hour range and it is dry. Kyle thankfully our work weekt will be mild. We are dry and quiet here for the morning and again, anticipating this to stay dry and quiet today, too. For the most part, again, we do anticipate things to be very quiet morning forward. Areawide, we have the actual air temperatures that are primarily here on the order of upper 40s to lower 50s. Thats actually a very comfortable stuff here for this time ofe year and the feels like the season. This is what we anticipate in terms of wind speeds. Here is pinpoint futurecast, 5 toul 15 this morning and then they turn more toward the west as they are now, anywhere from 15 to 25. Youll definitely feel it today. It will be a cooler and breezy day and some of those gusts will be as high as 30 Miles Per Hour. Theyll settle back down once we lose the sunlight later today in the first alert forecast, temperatures normal highs around 70. We are mostly sunny and windy for today. For tonight, getting back down there well down to the 40s and clear and cool, again, the wind will shut off nicely once we get past midnight. Nineday forecast. 66 and 54 on wednesday. There will be midweek cloud cover. I dont want to throw the word chilly out there, but compared to where we have been, 64, wind, thats sweatshirt weather. A few hours ago, it was jarring as get from the car to the front door. 40 was cool. Relative stuff this time of year and some sunshine for the end of week. Highs around 70. Hopefully it will stay dry. Dry throughout the next week well take the chill. Business owners near the newbo area say theyre upset because the city did not put up barriers. 16th avenue, the city said, would not be effective because its not a flat serious. Hesco are large bins filled sand on both sides of the river. They act as portable floodwalls. The city used 40 feet. If they hold, they should keep out, because of design, up to 26 feet of water. Some of those restaurants and shops on the other side of thehe wall decided to put up their own protection. They built a fivefoot wall over the past few days. The Business Owner has sandbags in front of the building as well as behind the wall and the owner tells us he plans on running a generator outside. His restaurant took on so muchlo damage during the flood of 2008 and he plans to stay here to stop the floodwaters from ruining his restaurant. Its disappointing because i put a lot of time and money and effort into this building and trying to this neighborhood can grow and to be left out, it feels like it wasnt for any good. This is the best placement for it. You have a long stretch of concrete and in order to really form that waterproof barrier, i cant put it on you cant put it on soil. The owner argues the land behind thehe business is flat and am barrier would have been effective there. We want to offer phone numbers to call if you live zone and needun help. These are numbers for the united way of east central iowa. From a landline, dial 211. From a cell phone, 3197394211. If you need a place to stay during this evag situation, there are two emergency shelters set up in cedar rapids. One is st. Paul United Methodist church on the Southeast Side, and the second one is at the cedar northwest near cherry hill pool. In that cedar hill shelter, some have notten been able to check in but organizers say theyre prepared to serve hundreds of people. Stay with the news source, kcrgtv9. G of course, we are watching the rising rivers all throughout the morning. Heres a live look at the cedar river in downtown moving up quickly. About eight feet over the past 24 hours. Soso you can see as were getting ready for some of our live shots to be coming in and well take a look here on this monday morning from the cedar rapids city were expecting that crest at 23 feet, about 24 hours from now. First, well check in with brittly ritz with a first alert forecast. We have a dry day which we need andm Clear Conditions outside and live first alert. Point Doppler Radar dry. We wont see any rain. Late yesterday, we have a little bit of shower activity. Today, we aree dry and clear skies outside which actually allowed for our temperatures to drop down into the 40s for some of us now that the cold front movedd through and 50s for others and its 49 degrees right now 50 in cedar rapids. 50 in man chester and dubuque. 51 in waterloo and iowa city. Definitely a cool start to the morning. Leave the jacket if you are going out and about and it will be cool through the afternoon, too we are in fall and i guess this is typical. 67 degrees for a high. We do have that sunshine today, just a few passing clouds. Well keep it clear through the evening once again and our temperatures will drop down into the 5 0 s and at least we are dry today. Were in a blocking pattern. Tomorrow and the majority of your work week. Well talk more about the extended forecast coming up and right now, i want to send it over to ky to talk more about the river levels. Absolutely. Thanks very much. Were focused in right now in the cedar river. No doubt about that its cresting currently at vinton. Generally of 21. 7. Now its 21. 74 and that was the last readout and it says the river gauge there. The hope is thats where its going to crest and stop there. Either way, that rea the crest will be at cedar rapidsda which continues to look around Tuesday Morning, early Tuesday Morning around 23 feet. Its in progress right now. The new update over the past hour was 18. 3 feet. So its rising about a third of a foot per hour at this rate and that would get it up there toward 23 feet early on Tuesday Morning. Here are the next four impacts that we see. In fact, were already affecting the lowest section of edgewood road. Take extra time during the morning commute and anticipate much more traffic even with schools shut down in cedar rapids and anticipate a lot more traffic than you would in that part of town. It will affect the lowest residences in palo and the stream flow is much higher than what we are experiencing in cedar rapids. 19. 5 feet is when it reaches the ferry road bridge deck and of course, those bridges are already shut down this morning. The want is a well into flood category toward independence. It will do the same toward anamosa, 21. 4 feet and the Mississippi River at dubuque. Its slow process by the end of this work week, well be up around 18. 3 feet toward dubuque. Thats the lowest river levels, back to you. Chris as ky mentioned, the cedar river is going up and going up swiftly. Lets look downtown where so much is shut downj for several blocks heres a look particular the dark so you may not have a sense of how quickly it is going up but it is going up quickly. Again, the cedar river hit major flood stage. Therg crest is expected to tomorrow morning. Kcrgtv9 brea love joins us downtown and shes close to the river. How does it look right now . Reporter chris, as you mentioned, its really dark. You cant really see anything. This river is rising quickly. Im standing outside of the motte building and i will im seeing. This is the cinder park area. Theres a bench over there where people can sit and watch and it is completely underwater at this point. I placed a blue marker. You cant see it now but hopefully we will show you that when its light out. Its moved about ten inches since iv placed it out there at 4 30. In an hour, we moved ten inches toward wherev we are. Definitely moving quickly. Rising quickly in a massive effort to sandbag and build the hesco barriers and which was out in benetton watching their flooding are those have withstand. Hopefully it will do the same here as we mentioned, cedar river here is supposed to cresth tomorrow morning and there is a curfew in place right now. 8 00 p. M. To 7 00 a. M make sure you stay out of this area. Wes had a Police Escort down here. So were going to move out ofee here after the morning show. Its a dangerous area. Its said. T so just make sure you are staying safe and stage here with tv 9 for the latest updates. Live in downtown cedar rapids kcrgtv9. Reporter thank you. We talk about brea being at the not building. Thats on the west side of downtown right next to the Police Station so when you see that view, youre looking toward newbo across the river. I380 bridge will be the only bridge still open in the entire city. Give yourself extra time this morning if you must 30b bridge and that is out of the way with in the city. Also, quite ao few other streets are closed or will be closing near the cedar river so make sure to be patient and also be aware of that. The 380 ramps in downtown cedar rapids are also closed. The closest that a driver can access the river to enter or exit i380 will be the 7th street ramps on theo north and east side or wilson avenue ramps on the south and west side and consider that 33rd avenue i380 bridge, though, will stay open. Many people who live along the cedar river will be out of their homes for most of this week. The city asked everyone within the red area to be out of their properties by 8 00 p. M. Last night. Police and the National Guard are setting up dozens of checkpoints around the zone this morning. Forest sounders is tracking the checkpoints too see if they are going up. Forest, what do you see . A Law Enforcementt presence . Are they going throughout quiet at this hour. Reporter certainly is quiet. Like we said just a little bit ago, it is quiet enough out here you cani still hear the crickets chirping. Yes there are Law Enforcement officers out and about. We have seen patrol cars going up and down in the evacuation area tryingck to make sure and its safe back there behinda us but no actual checkpointsts are in place. Just a lot of road closed signs and were waiting for the National Guard to get out here, the National Guard are on their way to cedar rapids to build. We hear 75 checkpoints around the evacuation zone. They will be unarmed to assist police and patrolling and protecting this area during those curfew hours and outside of those curfew hours and curfew running until the flood event is over from 8 00 p. M. Until 7 00 a. M. There have been no reports of looting. Thats something we want to calling us, asking us, concerned that their property might get broken into. We checked with authorities this morning. They told us that, no, there have been no rt roes of looting inside of the evacuation zone, which is very good to hear until the National Guard gets here, we have extra officers on hand. They are patrolling that region and you are asked to stay out of it and when those checkpoints go up, well have a better idea of how theyre going to work. At this point, well probably find out more information in the citys p today at 10 00 a. M. Chris . Chris thank you for the update. Two shelters are set up in cedar rapids foru anyone who had to evacuate by yesterday. One is at st. Pauls United Methodistwe church on the Southeast Side of the city and the other is on the Northwest Side at Cedar Hills Community Church on e avenueue northwest. Kcrgtv9 Lauren Winfrey reports on people who had to get out are now dealing with. Reporter residents in started to evacuate their homes ahead of flooding. Shelters like this one here at the Cedar Hills Community Church, the red cross stepped in to help those displaced families and theyre offering food and shelter and other various services to all those who might need them. Organizers from the red cross say although theyre prepared here at cedar hills to shelter and serve hundreds, right now, the number of residents who ebbing ched int remains relatively low but that all could change throughout the morning and later into the day. I spoke with a woman who says she and her children had to shelter downtown because the water was shut off and although shes concerned about her well being, right now, shes really happy to see the Community Come together in thishe time of need. Its just seeing everybody out there just comingi together to volunteer their time to help the community is always that always puts a smile on my face to see how everybody can come together. Reporter crystal says she was around in 2008 for that recordbreaking flooding and she describes and says it may be heartbreaking to see the city prepare for the worst again, at the very least, the Community Support has been tremendous. All shelters in the area are open 24 hours. If you havent left your home now but you do decide to do so later in the day or throughout the week, organizers here at the shelter say theywa will welcome you with open arms. Reporting in cedar rapids, Lauren Winfrey, kcrgtv9. Announcer youree watching 24hour news source, kcrgtv9, nicole agee and chris earl in progress at 18. 3 feet and crests early tomorrow morning and you will notice the impact on the righthand side. Immediate impacts are like this here. Starting to see this impact, lowest section of edgewood road at northwest at 18 feet of the take that into account for your morning commute. It is closed. It affects the lowest residents at palo and the way the flood event has been rolling down the basin, its higher in palo than it is farther down the stream. It will reach the bottom of the bridge deck at 1 of the at over 20 feet. The want is a at anamosa, that was a big story at independence with the flooding around that area with highway 150 that was closed at the time. Its in progress right now at 1. 5 feet. Cresting around 24 on wednesday morning. Youll see the impacts associated with that on the righthand side of your screen and the Mississippi River at dubuque. This has been a very slow rise and it continues to be a slow rise moving forward here toward the end of this work week. Becomes less of a story this week, the mississippi will be a much larger story toward the end of this week as we see an 18foot crest projected for dubuque and it does impact the lowest areas there. First alert weather app, i want you to get this downloaded if you dont have this yet, today. Because we are able to keep you updated easily with this particular flood event. We can get those notifications pushed to your device and we can get them to you in between our forecast and the forecast because were very quiet, your first alert, everything is green. E were notl worried about anything other than a little bit of wind today. Youre looking at our cannon skycam here in downtown cedar rapids at the the cedar river. That river water rising quickly and its definite cool start to your morning. Were sitting into the 50s for the ma rt joe of us. Some of us into the upper 40s. U cedar rapids isl 50 degrees and dubuque, youre at 50 dealing withof rain. Pinpoint Doppler Radar showing the dry conditions and well keep it that way into the afternoon and into tomorrow. Youll see the cloud cover associated with that cold front off to the east and back behind it, the clearing and we wont stick powerpoints in here that will run through the time to show you exactly what im talking about. Cloud cover and a few showers running into wisconsin and michigan. Back home, not a lot going on here through tomorrow. Heres what were dealing with today other than the winds will be a bit breezy. Start off the morning with winds at the west at 5 to 10 Miles Per Hour. They pick up into the afternoon at 15 to 25 continuing out of the west. The stronger winds will stay to our north and east and again, most of us 125 to 25 gusting to 30 at times and into the evening those winds will die back down out of the west at 5 to 15 Miles Per Hour. Hisser your first alert forecast. The cold front moves through. 57 degrees and 68 in iowa city and 66 in waterloo and 65 in dubuque with mostly sunny skies. As we go into tonight, we keep it cool at 5 to 15 and moving through with the clear skies, woo everybody got temperatures dropping into the 40s. 44 for a low tonight in cedar rapids. 43 in waterloo and 45 in dubuque. Check out your extended forecast. We stay dry. The only form of moisture is going to be in the way of cloud cover. We brg 66 degrees and check out your lows, into 40s. Falllike feel as we go into wednesday, 64 degrees. Mostly cloudy skies and we bring back a little bit of sunshine, thursday all the way through monday and a nice blocking pattern keeping us dry. Temperatures will warm into the low 70s for the weekend and slowly working our way back up into the mid to upper 70s monday and tuesday with our next best chance for rain not arriving until next tuesday. Chris it is 5 47, were keeping track of the rivero levels throughout the morning, all throughout cedar rapids especially in downtown. We are expecting the cedar to spread across several blocks of the city. It has been going up swiftly in the past few hours. Kcrgtv9s brea love joins going up. Whats do it look like right now . Reporter well,t chris, it is definitely still building. Im right outside of the motte building here in downtown cedar rapids. Look how fast this river is moving. Its pretty dark. We cant see it all yet. There is a red bench out here. This is the center park area. That bench is underwater and we have a blue marker. Were measuring throughout the morning how fast the water is moving. Were ten inches from when i set it out at 4 30 and its an quickly. There areis sandbags up through downtown, hesco barriers that should keep this the whatter out. Everybody has done a Massive Community effort to get all of that done. Again, this water is moving really fast and we talked with Police Officers that said at 2 00 this morning, he was driving all down there. That was not covered in water. That is just another way to show you that it is moving quickly. Theres a curfew in place right now we had a Police Escort to get down to this area. P. M. To 7 00 a. M no one should be down here at all and a lot of closed roads, police at every checkpoint. You wont make the in take of coming down here. You know its definitely not a safe area. Stay safe. Stay out of the water ands stay here on tv 9 for the latest updates. Live in downtown cedar rapids, kcrgtv9. It is 5 49, heres a live look from the sky cam. Were about an hour away from the sun coming up you cant tell how quickly the river is many coming up. We got a quiet start to your day. It will keep it that way for thewn rest of the afternoon and for the rest of your week for that matter and well get here in a minute. Youre looking at downtown cedar rapids and it is a cool start to your morning. Those temperatures are in some of us still into the upper 40s and most into the 5 0 s. Cedar rapids, you are 50 degrees. Dubuque, 51 in iowa city and waterloo, mount pleasant, youre at 54 degrees. We are dry today were not seeing any rain. Yesterday, we did see a little bit of mist and sprinkles in part of the tv 9 viewing area we are dry and the only thing we are dealing with today other than the flooding is some wind so we have that as we go into the afternoon. Im going to time out when that wind will start to pick calm out of the west at 5 to 10 Miles Per Hour but look as we go into the afternoon those winds pick up at 15 to 25 Miles Per Hour gusting up to 30 at times. Back into the evening hours, those winds will start to die down. Still out of the west at 5 to 15. Heres a look at todays forecast. Your first alert forecast will be cool because of that westerly wind and clear skies through the overnight hours and wont warm up too much. Only warming up to cedar rapids and 68 in iowa city. 66 in waterloo and 65 in dubuque. We got mostly sunny skies with breezy conditions and your extended nineday. Tuesday, a little more cloud cover but were still cool. 66 degrees and look at your low. In the 40s so its definitely feeling more like fall. Youre waking up wednesday with a low of 45 and only warming up to 64 degrees. With a little more moisture in the air and theyre only going to see it in the way of a few more clouds. Next monday. Our next best chance of rain isnt going to be until tuesday and our temperatures warm back up to the middle and upper 70s by the beginning of next week. Well pass it over to ky to talk about the river levels. Absolutely. Were still watching the cedar river basin and watching the vinton gauge over the past several hours and we he crested out around 21. 7 feet. Thats happening now. That lends a lot of confidence as to whats coming downstream toward cedar rapids. Early tomorrow morning. There are the impacts accordingly, the next four impacts that we got as the river continues to come up. It affects the lowest section of edgewood road until now, affects palo at 18. 5 and it will reach the bottom of the bridge deck at 3rd avenue at 20 feet. Heres the want is a aten a most sa. The flood stage was major toward the independence area. That was a top 5 crest at independence. That happened yesterday. Basin to about 24. 1 foot crest early wednesday morning. At dubuque, we got the Mississippi River thats generally going to be up around 18 by the time we get to the end of this work week and the flooding going to come to an end toward the dubuque area, mississippi is going to stay high here for quite some time. Heres the first alert weather app. We want to make sure you have this in the palm of your hand for this entire duration. We can push the critical updates to your phone in between our newscasts and keep it here on kcrgtv9. Thats the latest in terms back to you. Thank you for the update. Alliance energy says it does not anticipate widespread power out adges but it will shut off power in any areas that do flood. Alliance has shut off gas service to 35 customers in vinton and another 135 in paylow and 50 other customers have asked alliance to shut off their electricity. If you are in a situation where you want alliance to shut off your power, heres word emergency and that will connect you quickly with the right person. Mid American Energy has cut off natural gas to 1,100 customers in the cedar rapids evacuation zone. The Company Expects that number to be higher tomorrow. The city will not pick up garbage, recycling or yardees and they will be on normal collection scheduling for the er of the city. It could be i380 bring bridge is the only one still open for the entire city along with the u. S. 30 bridgece which is out of the way for many people. The i380 ramps are closed and the closest you can get to the river are the 7th street ramp and wilson avenue south and west of the river and very important to give yourself plenty of time so we will bring in Andy Peterson who has been keeping eyes and ears on traffic. Good morning. Thank you for joining us. What are you hearing in the traffic . In decent shape, chris, and were up here around 380 at the interchange. Watching traffic flow and theres some on 380, northbound and southbound, but itom seems to be orderly at this point no major delays to report which is good news. F chris that is Andy Peterson with that update. We appreciate it and hope to hear from you throughout the morning. Andy peterson from radio, am, 600. Well be right back with a final look at the city cam. Much more throughout the morning as wee are following flood 2016s coverage. Cedar river1 coming up quickly in downtown cedar welcome into monday morning for coverage of flood 2016. Heres a live look at the scurve with that traffic. Its moving through. More people expected on 380 as all the other bridges in cedar rapids near the downtown r core are closed