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The city reopened the third, eighth and 16th avenue bridges this evening. But its warning people to be cautious of any remaining debris that could be on the road. And the city hopes to have all of the bridges and all of the on and off ramps to interstate 380 reopened by tomorrow morning. Tomorrow is a big day for Flood Recovery in cedar rapids. People who live and work in the evacuation zone removed sandbags and barriers today in hopes of making things run smoothly when the general public is cedar rapids will also be back to normal tomorrow morning. City buses havent taken passengers for a week. Also, by seven tomorrow morning, two sandbagging sites will be open. One is at ellis park by the Tennis Courts and the other is in the noelridge pool parking lot. Thousands of people in the flood evacuation zones of cedar rapids finally headed home for good today. The citys evacuation area declared before the flood last weekend expired at noon today. The zone could return home. The vast majority found no water damage at all inside. One of the few exceptions were homes on the wet side of the protection barriers along ellis boulevard northwest. And even there, most of the basement damage came from sewer backups and not water from the river. Well, ive got to get sandbags out of here and im supposed to have some help tomorrow morning at the final city flood many homes and businesses in the evacuation areas near the river. Inspectors have found only a small number with actual flood damage inside. Those with damage might hire a contractor to make repairs. But the attorney general is warning people to check out the contractor, before paying in full or letting them start work. The Attorney Generals Office will be at the Downtown Cedar Rapids Library monday. Representatives will be answering questions and contractor, avoiding fraud, and pricegouging. Thats from 10 to three on monday. The city has also set up a phone line for people to verify contractors are licensed here in iowa. That number is 3192865929. Businesses are getting back to work in downtown. At reds public house, employees and volunteers brought back alcohol, tables and chairs. Some businesses say theyll need while others are already open. One employee at reds says they got a lot of help along the way. Everyone pulled together, did our sandbags, got all of our food and every thing and well be pen back up by monday. Restaurant employees say they hope people will rally and spend a lot of time and money in downtown to help make up for lost business. One cedar Rapids Organization has seen this flood event inspire a lot of positive act started moving things from the first floor to the second floor last thursday. The nonprofit supports more than 800people with intellectual disabilities. Today, they were ready to move things back to the first floor. The executive director says people and companies from around cedar rapids came to their location willing and ready to help move things. Its just been overwhelming to see the outpouring of response. You know we had last friday, we had people showing up with trucks and help you . In some cases, we put them to work and other cases, we said go to the y. The arc of east central iowa plans to have most of their programs back running on monday. Cedar Rapids Police have yet to make an arrest in the stabbing death of a teen early this morning. Police say someone stabbed 18 year old around two this morning at 6725 College Park Court southwest. An ambulance took the teen to a cer hour later. Police say they have brought several people in for questioning, but dont have a suspect. Des moines Law Enforcement are trying to figure how a woman died and why her body was left in a minivan in a hospital parking lot for days. Police identified the woman as angela eubanks. Shes 49 and lived in waukee. Someone saw the body about eight yesterday morning in the vehicle parked at broadlawns hospital in circumstances suspicious. A hospital Spokesman Says hes never seen anything like this before. The unusual thing about this was that the body wasnt visible from the outside. That was a real striking feature that made us all scratch our heads. The hospital spokesperson says police ran the plates to see if the van belonged to an employee. It didnt. Police say an autopsy found no evidence of traumatic injury. The state lab is running toxicology tests. Iowa citys city manager named a new interim Police Campbell will step into the role tomorrow. Hes been with the Iowa City Police department for 26 years. The state only allows an interim chief to serve for 90 days. So, captain campbell is taking over for captain troy kelsay who will return to regular duties tomorrow. Iowas police chief Sam Hargadine retired june 30th of this year. He had been chief since august of 2005. Senator Chuck Grassley has backed out of the debate was supposed to be on october 20th and would have been the only televised debate between grassley and judge. Grassley has agreed to a who radio debate with his challenger. But judge is still considering participation. Former democratic president ial candidate Bernie Sanders will be back in iowa on monday. Sanders will be campaigning for Hillary Clinton and tim kaine. Hell make stops in davenport at 12 45, iowa city at 3 15 and des moines at 6 30. This visit comes about a week after clinton to candidate donald trump in their first debate. Cnns Jonathan Mann has a closer look on the aftermath of this weeks debate. Oc . Thats good. It was a controversial decision board of adjustment. Two lisbon girls got quite the surprise during the schools homecoming. East. It is close enough to keep more clouds in the forecast through saturday. As a result highs remain in the 60s. A warmup starts sunday, bringing 70s back into the forecast next week. Wednesday finds our next chance for measurable rainfall. Have a great night and a safe weekend tonight cloudy. Wind ne 510. Low 57 tomorrow mostly cloudy. A few sprinkles are possible, mainly east. Wind n 515. High 66 tom. Night partly cloudy. Wind n 510. Low 53 sunday partly cloudy. High 72 low 53 monday partly partly cloudy. High 78 low 55 wednesday chance of showers storms. High 74 low 56 thursday turning partly cloudy. High 71 low 50 friday mostly sunny. High 69 low 46 saturday mostly sunny. High 69 low 51 thanks joe. Noise, partying and house a house that would look like kinnick stadium. But tonight, the board of adjustment voted to let a couple build that home in iowa city. Heres a look at todays most viewed web stories on kcrg dot com. Stay with your 24hour news source, kcrg tv nine. A home that resembles kinnick thats what the iowa city board of adjustment decided tonight. The vote was tied two to two, meaning the board has no power to override iowa citys decision to issue a Building Permit for the home. The home is set to go up in a neighborhood near kinnick stadium. A group called the neighbors of manville Heights Association didnt like that idea. So they appealed the citys decision, citing the homes size and potential for big parties. Kcrg tv nines Samantha Myers joins us in the studio this evening. Samantha, a lot of people are pretty upset by this decision. Yes, the neighbors of the manville Heights Association, the group trying to put a stop to the house were not happy. In an effort to avoid the homecoming parade in town, tonights meeting was in a different spot across town at a recycling center. And this unlike the other two meetings that lasted close to five hours each. The Manville Heights Neighborhood Association argued the city wrongly classified the house as a singlefamily residence. The city of iowa city could not find enough evidence as to why the house could not be classified as a singlefamily residence. But opponents argued the home would be mixeduse, or used for things other than just living situations. Tonight each board member took turns explaining their reasoning behind favor say the home does not fit into that singleuse home description, rather was part of an entirely new category that the city needs to create rules for in the future. There are usually five board of adjustment members, but only four could rule over the kinnickstyle case because one had expressed an opinion. After the decision i spoke with a member of the manville Heights Association who says the outcome would have been different if the fifth 09 27 09;14 i felt it was a pyrrhic victory for the city and the reason it was a pyrrhic victory is because they know that if the full five Board Members were there, they would have lost. He says the city needs to revise its zoning ordinances to prevent similar situations from happening again. Frederic reed carlson the landowner who wants to build the home was at the meeting tonight but would not comment on the boards decision. The only thing the neighboro court system. Beth . Thanks, samantha. Its homecoming weekend for the university of iowa hawkeyes. They will take on northwestern tomorrow morning. Kickoff for that game is at 11. If you cant make it to the game, you can catch it on e spnu. Five schools in iowa are achievements. The ones in eastern iowa are hansen elementary in cedar falls, indian creek elementary in the linnmar district, and west Union Elementary in the North Fayette district. Theyre are on the department of educations list of blue ribbon schools this year. Altogether, there are 329 National Blue ribbon schools across the country. The Us Department of education plans to honor all of them next month in washington, dc. It was a night one Lisbon High School cheerleader will not soon forget. Played by staff sgt. Joe jeffrey and the 212 infantry regiment out of colorado this is the first time candace and Elise Jeffrey have seen their father since christmas. Hes station overseas in afghanistan. And tonight during halftime of lisbons game against wapsie, their father hid inside the schools mascot costume and there when i came home, so i set it up with melissa to surprise them during their homecoming for my homecoming. Jeffrey says the hardest part was having to wait until half time to be able to talk to his girls. Well get a last check of your weekend forecast next. First, scott is putting the final touches on friday night lights. An area of low pressure, cutoff from the jet stream, meanders its way to our east. It is close enough to keep more clouds in the forecast through saturday. As a result bringing 70s back into the forecast through the middle of next week. Wednesday finds our next chance for measurable rainfall. Have a great night and a safe weekend tonight cloudy. Wind ne 510. Low 57 tomorrow mostly cloudy. A few sprinkles are possible, mainly east. Wind n 515. High 66 thanks joe. That does it for us tonight, but dont go away. The tv nine sports team is next with friday night lights. Have a good night. I got the football tie on, that must mean its time for friday night lights end zone. Its week 6. After starting the year 02, mount opponents 18845. The mustangs hosted anamosa tonight on kcrg 9. 2, morgan hawk had the call. Thank you, morgan. Joel covering cedar falls and cedar rapids washington. Wash off to a 50 start, cedar falls is struggling a kunde lofts a pass over the middle and in to the waiting arms of gabriel penrith. Penrith puts together a good return to get the tigers deep in warrior territory. A couple plays later the tigers capitalize. Sam cirksena finds luke loecher wide cedar falls takes the early 70 lead. 2nd quarter. Afte r a tiger field goal. Drew dostal returning the kick. Take a look at end of the play. Bryce pilcher just rips the ball away from dostal and starts heading the other way with it. What a heads up play by pilcher. Tigers turn that in to six again. Hayden clausen takes the sweep to the outside and finds his way past the goal line to put cedar falls up 177. Time winding down in the 1st half. The warriors finally dostal open deep down the middle. 67 yards for the touchdown and wash pulls to within 3. But the tigers werent done for the half either. Claus en. Finds a hole in that vaunted warrior d and hes gone. 64 yards to the house to put cedar falls up 10 at the half. The warriors would get one more late score in the fourth, but it wasnt enough. Cedar falls upsets third ranked cedar rapids washington 2721. It was h hosted western dubuque. Sam stonskas drops back to pass and finds Nathan Wilkerson for the nice gain. Then stonskas fakes the handoff and keeps it himself straight up the gut for the score. Back came the bobcats. Kame ron kramer with the strong run up the middle. Breaking tackles for a big gain

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