Barrier now still trying to hold back the water. Water. Beyond cedar rapids the river crept into parts of palo. Well take you there as the long cleanup process kicks. Off. And an inside look at the protection of an island of just. Justice. We were preparing for the worst case scenario. Scenario. Well take you on a tour of the linn county courthouse in the middle of the cedar river. River. This is fox 28 news at nine. For the most part, it appears cedar rapids has tamed the great flood of 2016. 201 and volunteer effort has, mostly, held the waters back. Back. But, the river level will fall very slowly over the next few days. Right now, a curfew is again in effect for the evacuation zone. Some are wondering why the precaution after the crest . City leader say there is still a risk that the flood protections could fail before the river falls back into its banks. But, they hope to begin cutting back on the evacuation zone over the next few days. Chief meteorologist terry and the rest of the Weatherfirst Team have been tracking this flood threat for a week now. Now. Terry, now that the highest water has past, were getting a better look at how all that water impacted the more on flood 2016 in just a m. Moment. Now we turn to a tragic story developing in cedar rapids, where a 13 year dead. Fox 28 news anchor jenee ryan is looking into this mornings shooting. She joins us live with what neighbors have to say about all this, jenee . Scott of course everyone ive spoken to is absolutely devastated by this tragedy. Right now neighbors and others alike are gathering for a candle lit vigil honoring the 13 Year Old Girl who lost her life to a gun shot wound a quiet morning and a young life cut short with a gunshot. Louise murray lives in the neighborhood and found out about the shooting when she came home from an early doctors appointment. I come back andthe girls are crying and crying and im like whats going on . Grandma our friend got shot got shot where . Got shot on the goodness, right around the corner . Right around the corner, this dont make no sense. The girl suffered a gunshot wound to the head shortly before 8am. And was later pronounced dead at the hospital. Right now police have three suspects in custoday two boys and one man. Man. And i bet you any money that those were some chicago kids that got set up with some cedar rapids boys that wanted were some chicago kids that got set up with cedar rapids boys two girls with him told him his girlfriend they were locked out of his house and cold. He said his girlfriend said they let them sleep in the car here. He then sought the emails out of the car looking scared and called the cops as they ran. With the help of the k9 unit officers caught all three within 10 minutes. It was scary. This woman said she saw the young girl around the neighborhood. Along. We feel trapped now. She says shes lost all sense of safety. Im scared to walk around the corner. Another neighbor said hes not surprised Something Like this happen in the neighborhood. He helps because it was such a young girl that people will start to make a change and it could be the last Fatal Shooting in this neighborhood if that as Police Release more information we will be relink all that to you on social media and of course on cbs2iowa. Com and right here. Covering the corridor live in cedar rapids jenne ryan fox28 news. By all accounts city leaders in city cedar rapids are close to claiming a major victory. Not everyone was as fortunate. The cbs 2 fox28 drone flew over the new bohemia district today as you can see a number of buildings were left to fend for themselves. The city says the bears would not have worked in any other location. Dora miller is life and new bohemia with an unfortunate situation. Reporter it is extremely unfortunate. Im with photojournalist and he can show you there are 3 feet of water down here. Get around you need a kayak were on this site it is. Ground. You can see and walk and run if you wanted to. Over in the farthest area the owner of tornado says hes not moving. He will stay in the area until the water receipts. Why . It sounds i can may be crazy but he says the city left him on this island to fend for himself. The city says these barriers not have been effective in the area around tornadoes. They have taken their safety and property into their own hands by using plywood cost impact and the hope that the water does not destroy their livelihood. We are shocked. We are family and this is where we are here. We all work here. We dont hire out. This is what we do. 16 years we have been doing this. Four tornadoes if they go through this recovery process. There is light at the end of the tunnel. Community members have pulled together and they will be holding a party when everything dries out. That party will be at tornadoes to show their support for the owners and the family that works there. Were now in cedar rapids dora miller fox28 news. Tomorrow governor grinstead will toward the flood damage areas. Right now in palo are beginning to clean up. The southeast evacuated before the waters rise. Several homeowners have reported water in their basements and that nearby cemetery took on water. The cedar river crested in palo over 18 feet early this morning. Its likely blessing on your mind if you are a family impacted by the flood that saving your receipts can help you qualify for assistance. Will work with eligible household to provide vouchers for certain purchases to alleviate some of the need for upfront costs. A maximum of 5000 can be handed out for assistance. To see if you qualify ill 211 2114319739 211431973942 21143197394211. You will be provided with more information about the application process. Its safe to say an island is not a good place to be in the middle of a flood. Connor morgan shows us how they fought back the water the linn county courthouse. The longtime residents of cedar rapids this is a familiar sight. Amazing to the flooding we saw in 2008 these waters are pushing to the downtown threatening any of the areas most historic buildings. As my tells me if you dont like something send it back. Looks like the city is taking her advice. Pumps like the cedar river sending excess water in the basement of access buildings many measures city and county officials put in place to prepare for the potential disaster. We put hesco barriers around this building. We put em around our correctional center, four feet building and correctional center. We have 4000 tons of sand that took to fill the barriers. That equates to 250 truck was. The courthouse was ready for crest of 30 feet. Worstcase scenario. The river crest with lower and thats fine. Where better to be better prepared than underprepared. We have protected the infrastructure for the public. All in all it appears that downtown will get through this major flooding unscathed. Up next for the citys recovery which for most be much easier than eight years ago. Covering the corridor in cedar rapids Connor Morgan fox 28 and evacuations of cedar rapids publicschool will remain closed the rest of the week. District offices will reopen on thursday because the flood Forest School to close they are adding a school day for next week. October 3 will be the first day back in class. In cedar rapids watches the fall of the cedar river i will sit down with city manager like to talk about the here. As we continue to watch the progress of the preceding cedar river this is a live picture from downtown cedar rapids. So what do the trade deals supported by congressman rod blum really mean for iowa . Blums deals are just one of the ways the biggest corporations rig the system to make more money at the expense of iowa jobs. Oh, and dont forget these corporations shipping our jobs overseas . Congressman blum voted to give them tax breaks. These guys hope youre not paying attention. So maybe you should. The deals blum makes in washington are bad for iowa. House majority pac is responsible for the content of this message. Im Chuck Grassley, and i approve this message. In twentythree years, Chuck Grassley hasnt missed a single vote. In just six years, senator patty judge missed a hundred and eightytwo votes. State fair board member judge missed seventysix percent of their meetings. Iowa Economic DevelopmentCommission Member judge, missed sixtynine of seventytwo meetings. The register called patty judge a . Habitual no show. . Grassley works. Take a look at this video take a look at this video from that cbs to news drone high above the cedar river as it crested this morning. By all accounts the effort to keep much of the city drive has so far been a huge success. Joining me now to talk about the citys response is jeff pomeranz. Thank you for coming in. Great for being here. Did i read correctly 5 6 million th to put the protection in place . That correct. Will that money come from . From taxpayers of cedar rapids. I know the governor will be touring this area tomorrow. Its up to him to decide whether or not he will ask for federal disaster decoration. Would that help . If we do get that disaster declaration, that could bring costs. That is correct. I talked with the mayor the other night about federal money coming in. The army corps of engineers does not want to part with that 73 million for cedar rapids for whatever reason. They do not think its a high priority. Us senator joni ernst wrote a letter to the Us Army Corps of engineers. It was stern. Allah read in part what they as you know the economic benefits of Flood Control projects are based on the value of property that is protected. If this is the only metric used the core and administration consider building beaches in front of multimillion oceanfront homes to be a higher priority than protecting the people of cedar rapids, iowa. Do you feel like you are being left hung out to dry eye the feds . The formula has not worked for us. Authorization bill but there are many other projects included. Some which we think will be a higher priority and theres one thing to be in the authorization. We need appropriations. Were rubber meets the road is getting the money and based on the formula thats a challenge. We very much appreciate senator ernst getting tough in that letter and demanding answers and we think thats the kind of attitude that will be necessary in addition to a lot of work over the coming year in order to get our project funded so we never have to go to this again. Youre in charge in organizing 1400 City Employees. Its amazing what they have been able to accomplish in a short period of time. Any challenges obviously it done when needed to get done. Youve done a great job covering the flood and looking at the footage of the temporary structure that was built over a 48 hour. I think is an unbelievable feat. We did not did i. We had a lot of help with privatesector contractors and other individuals that we work with. Our City Employees that the to the occasion. Theres almost 10 miles of these temporary walls that have been built. I think its truly impressive. Its reflective of the care, pride and commitment employees and our contract is for our community. I hear the underground infrastructure is a major concern. We need to keep the sewer lines clear. Is there any thought of asking folks to voluntarily cut back how much theyre putting into the sewer system . We ask for caution. We do not want to place undue about. Where getting a lot of calls about when they can get back into the evacuation so. I know its too early for that. Also the bridges when we open the bridges downtown . We know that the critical concern. Everyone wants to get back but still a dangerous situation. As you said the problem is not what you see above ground but whats underground and the pressure thats building. We think that will subside and as the levels go down which they are slowly the opportunity to get cedar rapids people back into their homes. We were thinknig by the weekend everything should be cleared up and we should be able to allow businesses to come back and take life as usual. That was interesting to hear from jeff pomeranz. No one talk about whether in tonight and it was chilly. Tomorrow will be cooler than it was today. That mean highs will be in the 60s. Will get our good taste of fall like weather in eastern iowa. We will be back to talk about more and give you the latest river information right after this. 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It has gone down that it is taken some time to get there. 11. 74 is the current reading of the cedar river here in cedar rapids. We continue in major flood. Now as we take a look at the hydrograph you can see how the river has shot up the past few days and now we are starting to level off. The river wi to pass. Between now and 2 am wednesday its only going to go down another foot or so and finally by the time we get to friday afternoon at 2 00 we are back down to 16 feet. We start seeing a good drop at the 20 foot level and steadily and slowly and surely it gets to 10 feet by the time the weekend comes to a close. This was a historic crest in cedar rapids. Only one other time have we seen the river higher which was in 2008. We see other crest that were in the top five. This one at 21. 9 is the second we have gone above the 20 foot level in cedar rapids. We have night nice technology. Streetlevel mapping. What you will see on this graph is 16th avenue and this is where we built a levy off to the northeast you have otis road and this would be the cargo plant. Here is where the levy was constructed. New bohemia is in this area and the south of that is where tornadoes and other buildings and businesses down to south. Now you can see how that levy works. The wall that divided flooding from no flooding at all on the other side. That was a significant building structure that improve the flooding situation in new bohemia. Had we not had that there would have been a lot of issues in that part of the city. Is linn drive. You can see the cemetery located here and this is part of the residential of palo. As we put the picture you can see how the river started to come up and indicate the lower areas first. This area more than here. There were a lot of homes impacted in the payload area but nothing like we saw back in 2008. Now you can see ellis harbor and some of the boats that were located along there. This is our streetlevel mapping so this is what it looks like the four the 4. Flood comes in and now will take you to the real pic sure. You can see the boats underwater and heres the harbor drive. Thats also under drive water. Tonight the flooding is starting to update in cedar rapids. The temperatures are also getting colder. That front that came through yesterday is sending a surge of midwest. Around the core the temperature is at 50 degrees. We have showers up that way. Its 54 and charles city and prairie du chien. You can see some energy that spinning southward and kicked up a few light showers or sprinkles of rain and a lot of clouds pushing back to the rest of eastern iowa. As we go to the radar you can see the showers in the northeast. Most of this not too much more than sprinkles. Getting closer in the northeastern corner of the state and not too far away from i dont think anyone will see very much showers. By tomorrow morning they should be out of the area. After that this upper air let will not move very much. It spins over the midwest for several days to come. On the backside we have this northwesterly flow and that will be tapping into cool canadian air. Will be in the low to midshipman 60s around eastern iowa. 5 00 the temperature will be 61 degrees and further to the north in minnesota the highs will not be getting out of the 50s tomorrow afternoon. You throw in a 25 mileperhour wind you have some fall weather. The night skies will be cloudy and again visit chance of brief showers mainly in the northeast. Low temperatures should be in the upper 40s to around 50 degrees. Going into tomorrow, we have clouds for the afternoon. It should be a cold day with temperatures in the low to midshipman 60s all around eastern iowa. After that we take you to the extended outlook. There is nothing to get concerned about. Conditions will be dry to the upcoming weekend and into monday. Next tuesday we may see our first chance of showers and thunderstorms and by then the temperatures will start to warm we have fall like they tomorrow with the temperatures in the 60s. Will feel good in the morning. A jacket may be in order. Next of the fox 28 news at 9 helping the four legged flood victims. We can tell you how you can assist local shelters taking in pets temporarily without a home. We want to take you back life to downtown cedar rapids with a cedar rapids is raging and falling back. 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 wherever you are. Switch to u. S. Cellular and get a whopping 7 gigs of data per line for pet owners, the flood created the added dilemma of figuring out what to do with for pet owners of flood created a dilemma with figuring out what to do with their animal with the Cedar Valley Humane Society as they tried to help as many animals as possible. Reporter Cedar Valley Humane Society says they are at capacity. As you can imagine having that many animals they need a lot of supplies. Staff say they have taken in more than 70 dogs cats caught and reptiles. Half of those are here in the shelter and the other half are in foster homes. You can help intensities pets. The Humane Society needs cleaning supplies. Also money for vaccinations, clean blankets, food conditioning and heating unit. Theyre completely isolated. We dont want to risk them getting sick from the general public and we dont want to risk if one of them has some sort of weird illness getting in the general population of the shelter. There are several ways you can help. You can drop off doantions with cbs 2 or fox 28 at broadcast park, can help. You can drop off donations with us or you can bring them here to the Cedar Valley Humane Society. This is what their site looks them here or go to your computer and make a donation online. Covering the corridor in cedar rapids Mellaney Moore caught fox28 news. We now take you back to the new bohemia district. Those on the website say about the the view from the cbs 2 fox the view from the cbs 2 fox drone tells the tale. Those on the right side of the flood barriers were spared and those others were not so lucky on the left. Theres a lot of water and a lot of anger. Optics of local businesses left on the wrong side of the wall is over hard to overcome. Dora miller is the new bohemia district with the ongoing debate on some very tough decisions. Reporter on this side of the flood protection businesses are doing okay. Little bohemia is okay. Theres a little bit of water on the ground as you can see but on the other side there are 3 feet of water and some seeping through. Tornadoes owner one of the businesses on the side says hes not moving. Hes not moving because he feels the city is leaving him out to dry. These barriers would not have been effective in the area around tornado thats what the city is telling him. He says they are taking their safety into their own hands. He says they are choosing not to leave. He is proving his point that this is a battle proving right versus wrong. This is how the city treats the citizens. Not the businesses over here meaning you have to draw the line somewhere. If there were 50 businesses over here that would be drawing the line somewhere. He drew the line on for buildings. The water starts to recede. There will be a long road to recovery. The community is rallying behind the owner of tornado and his family saying they will have a get together in october to celebrate the fact that they are still there and support them as they start to go on this recovery. Were in cedar rapids. On the other side of the river people in Czech Village are breathing a sigh of relief. The area sustained very little flood damage. They spent days working around the clock to protect the area but evacuate the storefronts along 16th avenue. With limited options for traveling across the river thousands continue to battle heavy traffic on i3 80. This was the view from the fox28 road warrior during the evening commute earlier tonight and as you can see it was touch and go to the downtown district. Motorists need to remember the inside lanes in both directions are offlimits. Those are for emergency bridge, the downtown bridges remain closed. The water never topped them, but did come close to the deck along first, second and third avenues. The bridges will remain closed until the water level drops and the city determines that they are safe for travel. Terry, besides the concerns along the river, today was it is not down a lot but the cedar river is down in cedar rapids. The current level is 21. 74 feet and earlier today at 10 30 in the morning the crest reached at 21 point reached at 21. 97 it has not gone down much. It is going down and thats the most important thing we can tell you in the forecast that the crest has reached and is advancing southeast of the cedar river. On a hydrograph you can see how the river surged in 24 hour time. Today we hit the crest and now it levels off for a little while. It does not go down immediately but by 2 am wednesday morning should be back to a 20 foot level and eventually on friday afternoon we should be back at 16 feet weekend we should be back at 12 feet. Eventually next week we will be down to 10 feet. Then the flood is over and we will not have another one for a long time. Getting to the weather, it is cool around eastern iowa. The cuts will come in handy. Its 50 degrees in decorah. Heres the puke at 56. Rapids. This disturbance that we are talking about bringing the showers is spinning around which is near the great portion of the great lakes. It is cut off from the main flow. It will sit and spin for a few days. Some energy rotating around that is sparking the showers. Nothing heavy in eastern iowa. A lot of this is just sprinkles. You can see this moves quickly showers or sprinkles and these will spin on and be out of the area by tomorrow morning. No one will see more than very little rain. This is extremely light. No thunderstorms and none of that heavy rain at weve seen so much. We talked about the upper air and you can see that along but it will gradually sinks out into the ohio valley. It is projected to work to the west and veer be around the rest of the week. Our air will be coming out of canada and be cool air. It will be also drive. As a result no rain in the forecast all the way through monday of next week. We will also see some folic temperatures. Tomorrow look at these readings. By tom will get to 5 00 in the afternoon, and pictures in cedar rapids to be 61 and upper parts of minnesota and wisconsin some of the highs will stay in the 50s tomorrow afternoon as fall gets a hold on the upper midwest. The mean time the forecast for tonight, schedule b mostly a few brief showers could be a possibility especially in the northeast. You can see the low temperatures will be uniform because of the clouds that are spinning across. Mostly in the range from 47 to 50 degrees. For tomorrow, a few clouds in the morning but they should break up in the afternoon. Just enough sunshine to get the temperatures into the range of 62 in decorah to 63 in waterloo and 65 in iowa city and washington. The winds will be brisk out of the north at 15 to 25 miles an hour adding an extra chill to the air. Things that will improve. Where we are hereby the weekend we will be temperatures in the upper 60s and sunshine. Then a warming trend comes to the midwest by next weekend. By tuesday we could see a shower and temperatures of around 77. The river is slowly going down. As you can see when the crest hits it does not drop off. It takes a little bit of time to go down. Hawkeyes. Welcome back. Coming up in sports the hawks at Veridian Credit Union thats why were offering auto loans as low as 1. 74 apr. You get a low rate, plus up to 200 cash back, but this offer ends soon, woman huh. Congressman blum is a tea party member. Weve shut down the government before. Woman blum voted to cut social security. Weve got to raise the retirement age. Woman blum would raise the retirement age to 70. Then theres monica vernon. A hardworking mom. Started a Small Business while raising three daughters. Shell fight for equal pay for equal work. Vernon im monica vernon, and i approve this message. There and now fox28 sports with zach hanley. There are no guarantees but dependable wide out is out for the forseeable future but as pat moroney found out the hawks arent panicing theyre just sticking to their montra next man in. In. The news of the day for iowa football is bad news numberone receiver Matt Vandeberg suffered a foot injury in practice on monday and he is out indefinitely its a big blow from the hawks but hopefully not one that will derail their season replacing easy not sure that you can replace a guy like that we all need to pick it up and adopt a next man in mentality weve done a good job at adopting a next man in philosophy matt will be missed but its just another opportunity for another person to get in there and show what he can do Going Forward itll be a committee of pass catchers for the Hawkeyes Riley mccarron, Jerminic Smith and jay scheel will all be asked to do more more ive got confidence in have done a great job and young guys that have been coming along and its not . Just . The receivers who have to pick up the slack its gonna fall back on the defense someway somehow throughout the game for us to make a play and get the ball back into our offenses hands and try to create a spark were not gonna be able to be in third and long situations and have the defense pin their ears back and come back for us so were gonna have to an excellent job of staying on schedule and establishing the run northwestern iowa rushed for 294 yards and five touchdowns if they want to make up for the loss of vandeberg this saturday theyll need another big game on the ground in iowa city pat moroney fox 28 sports baylors coming to jack trice stadium this saturday and everybody in the big twelve knows what that means to win youve gotta score points. The cyclones scored plenty of points last week against san jose state and they did it with joel lanning and jacob quarterback and that arrangement will continue at least for another week. Its just kind of how things play out i think last saturday he they had momentum so they kept him in and just kept going and going were getting points put on the board and thats what we want we both want to win at the end of the day both guys have really really done a great job in practice we as of right now four weeks into the season and how they continue to prepare and how they continue to practice have earned the right to play in games how they continue to prepare and practice have earned the right to play in games. High school volleyball. The first site saints with Olivia Richards with perfect placement on the kill. The lions were more back. Carly gets up to get down. Thats the check of sports. Kerry is back to look at your weather after the break. For your weather first forecast on the mighty 1630 kcjj. I mark hyman. I support right to protest the national anthem. Heres whats happening behind the headlines. Im a strongly disagree with message. I believe he is many levels. 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Oh, and dont forget these corporations shipping our jobs overseas . Congressman blum voted to give them tax breaks. These guys hope youre not paying attention. So maybe you should. The deals blum makes in washington are bad for iowa. House majority pac that is a taste of a new song. There was a group that was inspired to record a new contract for the incredible response of the community in the face of another major flood. You can download this track 4startrate. Com. All proceeds from the song will go towards local flood relief and you can hear a Live Performance tomorrow morning on fox28 morning live starting at 7 am. You see kids, parents and anyone volunteering. The sandbags are working. Tune in tomorrow morning to see the band. We have a few showers that are passing to the eastern counties. This is light stuff. Maybe get the pavement wet and then its gone. The clause will be a part of the forecast tomorrow morning. With the brisk northwest wind tomorrow will be a fall like day. 64 is what we are expecting for a high and will start the day at 47. With the winds going out a coat willom i did not bring my jacket with meat. We will find you want. Thank you for joining us for fox28 news at nine. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Id look her right in that fat ugly face of hers. Shes a slob. She ate like a pig. A person whos flat chested is very hard to be a 10. Does she have a good body . No. Does she have a fat [expletive] . Absolutely. So, dear . What . Do you see a you likenything . I dont know. Whats venison . Deer. What . Deer. What . Deer. Deer. What. What. Whats wrong with him . Um, jake, itsits the deer in the forest, like, uh, like bambi. Oh, cool, lets eat bambi coming soon payperview. To mom . Whawhat are you doing . Thinno thats stealing. Hardly. Im paying 12 for a martini. Theyre lucky i dont take a chair. Youre paying . Its a figure of speech, charles