Jacket and a nice cup of hot chocolate and enjoy homecoming game today if you happen to be tailgating it could get a bit chilly for some. Tonight skies will start to clear out some. Well call it partly cloudy and temperatures will drop into the low 50s. Well see a bit more sunshine on sunday and high temperatures are expected to rise into the low 70s. Today mostly cloudy. A few sprinkles are possible. Wind n 515. High 64 alo 64 dbq 63 iow 64 61 to 67 tonight partly cloudy. Wind n 510. Low 52 alo 52 dbq 51 iow 52 49 to 55 thanks britley. This morning cedar rapids takes several big steps after this after evacuating several city blocks along the river, the entire flood zone is back open to the public today. It opened back up yesterday morning for anyone who had to evacuate their home or business. Traffic is also clearing up later this morning. This is a live look of northbound interstate 380 at 1st avenue southwest, near the quaker oats building in cedar rapids. The city reopened traffic on all downtown bridges today. That should ease some of the congestion on the intersta this week. Public transportatio n around cedar rapids also gets back to normal this morning. City buses havent taken passengers for a week. And starting today you can get rid of any sandbags you picked up to protect your property. Two different sandbag drop off locations are open for the public. One is on the citys Northwest Side at ellis park. The dropoff site is located by the tennis courts. And on the northeast side, the city has a dropoff businesses and non profits have four dropoff locations for sandbags. One is on the east side of downtown between the quaker oats and cargill plants. Another is next to the former chrome horse building in newbo. A third is the parking lot behind the shops on 16th avenue southwest in czech village. And finally, there one near Second Avenue and l street southwest in kingston village. Tim fall friday nights in iowa are normally reserved for Something Else that made last night memorable for one cheerleader. Our guest leo the lion has been 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 been stationed overseas in afghanistan. And last night during halftime inside the schools mascot costume and surprised them. Candace really wanted to be 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. Theres a full schedule of College Football across the state today. That includes the hawkeyes homecoming matchup later this morning. 2nd straight win in the big ten season today against northwestern. Kickoff is set for 11 00 this morning at kinnick. You can also find the game on espn u. Its also homecoming for the uni panthers. Theyre taking on Southern Illinois under the dome this afternoon. , kickoff is set for 4 00. You can watch it live on kcrg 9 point 2. And the Iowa State Cyclones are looking for the upset against 13th ranked baylor. Kickoff for this one is fox sports one. Every year, thousands of babies die from sudden infant death syndrome, or sids. Well talk with a nurse from Unitypoint Health about ways to keep your baby safe, coming up in a live interview. Sits to our east and continues to spin, giving us the mostly cloudy skies and annoying sprinkles every so often throughout the morning. Temperatures will be in the into the 60s once again this afternoon. So, grab the jacket and a nice cup of hot chocolate and enjoy homecoming game today if you happen to be tailgating it could get a bit chilly for some. Tonight skies will start to clear out some. Well call it partly cloudy and temperatures will drop into the low 50s. Well see a bit more sunshine on sunday and high temperatures are expected to rise into the low 70s. Today mostly cloudy. A few sprinkles are possible. Wind n 515. High 64 alo 64 dbq cloudy. Wind n 510. Low 52 alo 52 dbq 51 iow 52 49 to 55 tomorrow partly cloudy. Wind n 510 high 71 alo 71 dbq 69 iow 71 68 to 74 tom. Night partly cloudy. Wind se 510 low 51 alo 51 dbq 52 iow 53 48 to 54 monday partly cloudy. High 74 low 51 tuesday partly cloudy. High 78 low 55 wednesday chance of showers storms. High 74 low 56 thursday isolated storms early. High 71 low 50 friday mostly sunny. High 69 low 46 saturday mostly cloudy. High 68 low 50 season, the mount vernon mustangs are catching fire. Well have highlights from their week 6 matchup with anamosa, zone. Its week 6. After starting the year 02, mount vernon has won 3 straight and outscored its opponents 18845. The mustangs hosted anamosa tonight on kcrg 9. 2, morgan hawk had the covering cedar falls and cedar rapids washington. Wash off to a 50 start, cedar falls is struggling a little bit. First quarter. No score. Brian kunde lofts a pass over the middle and in to the waiting arms of gabriel penrith. Penrith puts deep in warrior territory. A couple plays later the tigers capitalize. Sam cirksena finds luke loecher wide open on the little pop pass. 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 and finds his way past the goal line to put cedar falls up 177. Time winding down in the 1st half. The warriors finally make something happen on offense. Kunde finds 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 but it wasnt enough. Cedar falls upsets third ranked cedar rapids washington 2721. Lets go to xavier, the no. Xavier. First offensive drive, Bryce Schulte with a quick swing out to his brother quinn schulte. And quinn gets about 16 yards on that gain. Very next play, its the same duo again. Quinn will score on the 19yard touchdown. Saints up 60 early. Next xavier drive. Its Bryce Schulte sneaking it in from 1yard out. Hard to stop him that close. 140 xavier. Independence had a tough time moving t xavier defense. Jacob hines gets the tackle for a loss. Ensuing offensive drive for the saints. Its Bryce Schulte on the keeper and he runs it in for the 2 yard touchdown. Xavier wins 450. Welcome back to friday night lights end zone. This was the matchup of the night, west delaware at clear creek amana. Both teams came in with 50 records, the winner takes sole possesion of first place in the district. Scott scott, this definitely lived up to the hype. This one looked like a defensive battle on paper with the two teams combining for 5 shutouts on the season. No score late in the opening quarter when iowa state commit john nagel flies in for the sack and forced fumble but the clippers are able to recover. And cca finds some success through the air later in the drive as ashton carpenter hits tate thomsen over the middle. Thomsen breaks a couple tackles before being taken down in hawks territory. An d on the first play of the second quarter, Tyreke Williams blasts a 46 yard field goal to give the clippers a 30 Tanner Wessels looks deep to kabryn cook who makes the catch, breaks free and sprints to the end zone. That 80 yarder gives the hawks a 73 lead. Then special teams take over. Williams with a booming punt. Its muffed and booted around. Clear creekamana recovers in great filed position. From there its Matt Brimeyer on the short touchdown run as the clipper go back in front 107. Less than a minute in the second quarter, west mougin blocks it. Andrew rohret dives on it at the 5. Brimeyer punches it in. 167 cca at the half. Clippers keep up the great defense in the second half as jared eckrich slices through and makes the the tackle for a loss on 4th down. After west delaware gets the ball back, cca answers with another turnover. Tan ner cochran strips it. Drake mougin dives on it. Clipper ball. Cca on the move carpenter fires deep to cory siders. He gets the clippers inside the 5. Cade his touchdown run as clear creekamana beats west delaware 30 14. The clippers are 60 for the first time in school history. Thank you, john. Down iowa 30 records in district play. Not very many teams have been able to stop reginas offense. Up 60. Regina marches downfield again. Isaac vollstedt rumbles 34 yards to wiltons 14yard line. Hes tough to bringdown. Next play, Jacob Phillips up the middle to pay dirt. 130 regals. Reginas quarterback, Michael Conlon fakes the handoff and scrambles for a 9yard touchdown to increase the lead to 200. The regals defense comes up with a turnover on wiltons next series. Beaver quarterback jerome mays has his pass overthrown and trae rogers gets the interception. Regina wastes no time and scores on a 23yard touchdown run by mason. Thank you, charlie. Iowa city west is looking to bounce back after last weeks loss to prairie. Trojans taking on burlington. And iowa city west had a scoring feast. First the Defense Forces a fumble and recovers it. It would lead to this touchdown as Ethan Postler rolls out and hits breyton mcdole for the touchdown. The big man getting it done. The defense also comes up big again. Burlington trying to go deep. But devontae lane hauls in the another touchdown. Postler goes deep for oliver martin. Every team in the country wants him, and for good reason. Another touchdown for west. Martin also got it done on the punt return. Hes looking for blockers on the outside and he gets a touchdown. West cruises to the 597 win darien why have the latest smartphone if you cant use it wherever you go . Switch to u. S. Cellular for our best plan yet 7 gigs of data per line for only 49. To share more photos at your cabin all for just 49. The best part . We put towers in places the other guys dont. Because u. S. Cellular thinks you deserve a signal that works wherever you are. Switch to u. S. Cellular and get a whopping 7 gigs of data per line sits to our east and continues to spin, giving us the mostly cloudy skies and annoying sprinkles every so often throughout the morning. Temperatures will be in the 50s to start, but will only warm into the 60s once again this afternoon. So, grab the jacket and a nice cup of hot chocolate and enjoy homecoming game today if you happen to be tailgating it could get a bit chilly for some. Tonight skies will start to clear out some. Well call it partly cloudy and temperatures will drop into the are expected to rise into the low 70s. Today mostly cloudy. A few sprinkles are possible. Wind n 515. High 64 alo 64 dbq 63 iow 64 61 to 67 tonight partly cloudy. Wind n 510. Low 52 alo 52 dbq 51 iow 52 back to you forrest. According to the cdc about 35 hundred infants die year in the United States from sudden infant death syndrome also known as sids. October is sids awareness month. Denise easely, a nicu now to talk about a program called the natinal safe sleep hospital certification program. Why is infant safe sleep so important . What does infant safe sleep look like . What are some things parents, grandparents, sleeping . Where can people learn more about safe sleep . Straightforw ard a safe crib with a firm, flat, mattress. To decrease the risk of sudden infant death syndrome , your baby should always be placed on his surface should be firm and flat with no bumper pads, blankets, soft objects, loose bedding or stuffed toys. Use a sleep sack for baby instead of blankets. Never place your baby to sleep on an election day is now only a little more than a month away. In the race for one of saturday october 1st. Starting out with a live look at heres what you need to know today. Flood recovery takes a big step forward in cedar rapids today. See customers again after a week off. A staple of downtown cedar rapids is looking for some help to get back up and running before it has to put on its next show. And after a tie vote in iowa city, a controversial construction project can officially start near Kinnick Stadium. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is the kcrgtv9 sunday morning news. Cedar rapids is finally starting to get back to flooding. Meteorologist britley ritz joins us with your first alert forecast. Britley, are we going to see some clear skies to help dry things up . A stubborn low pressure system sits to our east and continues to spin, giving us the mostly cloudy skies and annoying sprinkles every so often throughout the morning. Temperatures will be in the 50s to start, but will only warm into the 60s once again this afternoon. So, grab the jacket and a nice cup of hot chocolate and enjoy homecoming game today if you happen to be tailgating it could get a bit chilly for some. Tonight skies will start to clear out some. Well call it partly low 50s. Well see a bit more sunshine on sunday and high temperatures are expected to rise into the low 70s. Today mostly cloudy. A few sprinkles are possible. Wind n 515. High 64 alo 64 dbq 63 iow 64 61 to 67 tonight partly cloudy. Wind n 510. Low 52 alo 52 dbq 51 iow 52 49 to 55 thanks britley. This morning traffic should flow a lot better through cedar rapids. The city expects to open up all of the downtown bridges later this morning after flooding shut them down all this week. This is a live look of northbound 380 at diagonal drive. Driving through downtown cedar rapids on the s curve this week has been a pain for most commuters this week. This part of 380 had been a parking lot in the morning and afternoon. The city plans on reopening traffic on all downtown bridges lot of businesses that closed down for the week. Yesterday, a lot of owners started setting this back up to welcome customers again. Kcrgtv9s mark carlson reports. Downtown cedar rapids is slowly returning to normal. Businesses up and down both in and outside of the evacuation zone reloaded their stock from beer to food to tables and chairs. This was the scene at reds public house on 2nd st. , where employees hope to have ready to go by the end of the weekend. The general manager here says volunteer help was huge throughout this flood event now she hopes people will find it within themselves to come back downtown in force and really patronize these businesses, which have been closed for a week and missed out on a lot of revenue. At la cantina in downtown they rallied overnight to get back open. We took everything out, gutted the restaurant just to be safe, once we got the ok, we moved everything back in, that took two days, were this morning the Paramount Theatre in downtown cedar rapids is asking for your help. The theatre is asking for help bringing its chairs back down to the main floor. This is video from sunday morning when volunteers took more than 800 chairs to the 2nd floor of the the paramount is asking people to show up around 8 00 this morning if theyd like to help move them back to the main floor. Shows will go on as scheduled starting tomorrow night,. Today the public can start returning any sandbags they picked up to protect their homes. The city has two locations set up to collect them. One is at ellis park at the tennis courts. The other is in the parking lot of the noelridge swimming pool. 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 participating in that debate. 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 3 15 and des moines at 6 30. And just a reminder election day is now only a little more than 5 weeks away. Early voting has already started in iowa for novembers election. One noteworthy voter has already cast her ballot. 103yearold Ruline Steininger cast her ballot on thursday. This is video from when she caucused for Hillary Clinton back in february. This was steiningers 20th time voting in a president ial election. Decorah couple can finally build a kinnick inspired house in iowa city. The city board of adjustment voted 2 to 2 on the construction of the house last night, meaning the house will go up. Board members who voted against it said the home does not fit into that singleuse home description. They said its part of an entirely new category that the city needs to create rules for in the future. One member of the manville heights association, where outcome would have been different if the fifth board member had been able to vote friday night. 09 26 23;20it was not totally unanticipated in the sense that the board of adjustment normally has five members and as we all know they only had four members tonight because the 5th member had expressed an opinion that was in our favor of course the Property Owner who wants to build the home was thing the Neighborhood Association can do now to stop construction, is to try the court system. The actual Kinnick Stadium will be full of black and gold later this morning. The hawks are looking for their 2nd straight win in the big ten season today against northwestern. Kickoff for todays homecoming game is set for 11 00 this morning at kinnick. You can also find the game on espn u. Its also homecoming for the uni panthers. Theyre taking on southern illi afternoon. Kickoff is set for 4 00. You can watch it live on kcrg 9 point 2. And the Iowa State Cyclones are looking for the upset against 13th ranked baylor. Kickoff for this one is scheduled for 11 00 in the morning. You can watch it on fox sports one. Investigators in northern new jersey say theyre getting closer to finding out what caused a deadly train crash. Crews found a device that records all of the data stay with tv9. Its. A stubborn low pressure system mostly cloudy skies and annoying sprinkles every so often throughout the morning. Temperatures will be in the 50s to start, but will only warm into the 60s once again this afternoon. So, grab the jacket and a nice cup of hot chocolate and enjoy homecoming game today if you happen to be tailgating it could get a bit chilly for some. O out some. Well call it partly cloudy and temperatures will drop into the low 50s. Well see a bit more sunshine on sunday and high temperatures are expected to rise into the low 70s. Today mostly cloudy. A few sprinkles are possible. Wind n 515. High 64 alo 64 dbq 63 iow 64 61 to 67 tonight partly cloudy. Wind n 510. Low 52 alo 52 dbq 51 iow 52 wind n 510 high 71 alo 71 dbq 69 iow 71 68 to 74 tom. Night partly cloudy. Wind se 510 low 51 alo 51 dbq 52 iow 53 48 to 54 monday partly cloudy. High 74 low 51 tuesday partly cloudy. High 78 low 55 wednesday chance of showers storms. High 74 low 56 thursday isolated storms early. High 71 low 50 friday mostly high 69 low 46 saturday mostly sunny. High 69 low 47 sunday partly cloudy. High 68 low 50 a stubborn low pressure system sits to our east and continues to spin, giving us the mostly cloudy skies and annoying sprinkles every so often throughout the morning. Temperatures will be in the 50s to start, but will only warm jacket and a nice cup of hot chocolate and enjoy homecoming game today if you happen to be tailgating it could get a bit chilly for some. Tonight skies will start to clear out some. Well call it partly cloudy and temperatures will drop into the low 50s. Well see a bit more sunshine on sunday and high temperatures are expected to rise into the low 70s. Sprinkles are possible. Wind n 515. High 64 alo 64 dbq 63 iow 64 61 to 67 tonight partly cloudy. Wind n 510. Low 52 alo 52 dbq 51 iow 52 49 to 55 tomorrow partly cloudy. Wind n 510 high 71 alo 71 dbq 69 iow 71 68 to 74 tom. Night partly cloudy. Wind se 510 low 51 alo 51 dbq 52 iow 53 firefighters in no california are making progress on wildfire south of san francisco. But strong winds are starting new fires nearby. Stay with your 24 hour news source, kcrgtv9. Its. Federal investigators are switch to centurylink and get up to 40 megs of highspeed internet for just 20 a month. Thats the speed you need to stream. Game. Learn, shop and more with fast inhome wifi. So call 844565link. Get up to 40 megs of highspeed internet for just 20 a month for one year when bundled with a qualifying home phone plan. Speed may not be available in your area. Call today. Deadly train crash in new last night the ntsb announced it recovered the event recorder from the train that crashed in a terminal thursday. That device is similar to the black box found in crashed airplanes. The ntsb says it could take a while before they know for sure what happened. One person died in thursdays crash. More than 100 others were injured. Firefighters are getting a handle on a wildfire burning south of san francisco. The so called loma fire. David louie reports. This is exactly what an increase in wind does. It creates spot fires where embers are carried a distance away. Calfire has been expecting gusts up to 35 miles an hour, which can carry embers a halfmile. However, youre not seeing a massive response to some of these spot fires, such as aerial drops or crews moving in. Thats because calfire crews have already created control lines, or fire breaks, where vegetation has been removed down to the soil. Theres nothing left to burn. A major dozer line has also been cut advancing. It allows us to get in and work on the containment and work on, we call it mop up, between those lines back in so if the winds come up, theres not hot embers or anything to move past those points. Both calfire and inmate crews are working in deep ravines where the steep walls can lead to injuries. Evacuating those needed medical care isnt easy. I would say no less than 10 people to help an injured person up a hillside. Theyre going to have to set up either what we call a stokes basket. Thats where you see that extent, or even just aid somebody in walking up a 100 slope. Just to walk up there alone is extremely difficult. Residents have been showing their appreciation, dropping off food. Cal water employees have donated bottled water. However, calfire says it has plenty on hand. Firefighters saved bill powells house. They know exactly what theyre doing, they know how to do it, they know when to do it. They have the resources, theyve got the people. Best attitude in the world. Theyre doing an incredibly good job. Overnight, cal fire announced it has the fire fire has destroyed 12 homes and 16 other buildings since it started on monday. Investigators believe the owner of an alleged pot farm near this fire could be to blame. A hurricane off the coast of south america could eventually make landfall here in the United States. Hurricane matthew strengthened it sustained winds of 160 miles per hour. This morning, its heading toward jamaica. People there are starting to prepare for the storm. Well take another look at your first alert forecast, next. Stay with tv9. Now, a final look at the sits to our east and continues to spin, giving us the mostly cloudy skies temperatures will be in the 50s to start, but will only warm into the 60s once again this afternoon. So, grab the jacket and a nice cup of hot chocolate and enjoy homecoming game today if you happen to be tailgating it could get a bit chilly for some. Tonight skies will start to clear out some. Well call it partly cloudy and temperatures will drop into the low 50s. Well see a bit more sunshine on sunday and high temperatures are expected to rise into the low 70s. Today mostly cloudy. A few sprinkles are possible. Wind n 515. Darien why have the latest smartphone if you cant use it wherever you go . Switch to u. S. Cellular for our best plan yet 7 gigs of data per line for only 49. To share more photos at your cabin or video chat at your secret fishing spot. All for just 49. The best part . We put towers in places the other guys dont. Because u. S. Cellular thinks you deserve a signal that works wherever you are. Switch to u. S. Cellular and get a whopping 7 gigs of data per line announcer jack hannas wild countdown is sponsored by nationwide. 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