Around 70 degrees that is look like a sure bet and into monday but out side of tonight a small chance of an isolated shower. Thank yew the sun is coming up you and the sun is coming up. You can see recognize beside those barriers the sun. We will keep you uptodate and still on the air with the press conference at 10 00 a. M. This morning on fox 28. We are back after this whatcha doin . Just checking my free credit score at credit karma. What the . . . Youre welcome. I just helped you dodge a bullet. But i was just checking my. Shhh. Dont you know that checking your credit score credit karma doesnt affect it at all. Are you sure . Positive. So i guess i can just check my credit score then . Oooh check out credit karma today. Credit karma. Give yourself some credit. We will keep checking back with Brandon Marshall as we are keeping you updated on the latest with the the floods on 2016. There is a lot of stuff happening with traffic this morning and we want to go to our the different road closures. And we cant stress enough. If you head out and about. 380 the inside lane closest median on each side. Is reserved for Emergency Vehicles only. So please stay on the outer two lanes of that roadway that is left for police cars and ambulances. They will be pulling people and giving tickets so, again spread the word if you know someone will be driving. Let them know, hey, stay out of the that left lane. We have got our reporters out downtown cedar rapids and they are keeping up updated all morning. And mitch and we will head out to them during our show today. And first up kevin berry is area you told us morn morning what are you seeing . Reporter so far it looks good. But now we are behind the African American museum and a lot whole lot of water and we are talk before about standing water, this is water with a current. This is the river over flowing its banks and becoming much larger than it normally is. Is a bike trail and a green space, but as we big flood barrier you a good idea for how much protection the African American museum has. They have sand bab bag bags and all of this bags and all of this clay it is hard and more that just sand. Is hard to break apart. This is almost impossible to get through and it is incredibly study and they take that plas talk we are talking about and plastic and we are talking about and eve wn the water coming even with the water it is not on reached this berm yet. It has all of this to come over too and it this is dangerously close and it goes through a memorial. Too close for comfort. The good thing is they have a whole lot of protection standing in front here and and the amount it is expected to go up over the next few days, it doesnt seem like they will get any water breaching this. In their base. Know about that intill they get until they get inside and that water will not breach through that sand bagged door ways. It is 7 07 and we will gow out to stephanie go out to stephanie and mitch. And you can see the traffic is slowing down a little bit there. 0. Good morning. It is 7 09 and the sun is up and a better view of what is going on down there. And that is the river and as you see it, it has not gone over. The third avenue, Second Avenue bridge and that is a huge change from 2008 and that other thing is, the river, is slowly still will give the latest information but so far this morning. And mayor as well. The walls are doing their job for the most part. Most of the water is being held back. So we will continue to monitor that and one of the guys monitoring the river level hard at work and Brandon Marshal is joining us. What is happening on the river . We have. The current leval is 21. 8 feet. It has a 23foot crest and you see the purple that is major flooding and we are not going to get out of that until sometime late friday and into the weekend. So major flooding around the cedar rapids area frau fr. The next for days. Winds are west, look at that dew point. 42 it is dry and comfortable and it will continue to be that way. Winds are column. And not much calm and not much to so. We will keep the sun shine in the forecast and a week system will move through and generate some ice lated showers in our isolated showers but they will night and Early Morning hours. And we will keep the aclouds around for your wednesday. Today mostly sunny and pleasant. It will be blusery and temperatures in the middle to upper scakets and another chance 60s for arct isolated shower. Anuther ilateed shower and will check the river in just a few minutes. We have had our reporters spread out over downtown all morning to bring thus latest on the river us the latest on the river and we will check win mitch. Reporter we ron the other side and and we are on the and i have got good news. It is an eerie sight. This homes and the river is flowing but it is not near these houses. Some of these sheds and gurajs, but the, but they are well clear. Is crossed. It looks like these homes are fine and what a relief that is if these owners who stayed here and came back after the floods, and we talk to a home owner and said he didnt bother sand bagging his house and a lot of these are not, or very minimally, because they know what 31 feet did and 23 is a walk in the park in the grand other side of the side of the wall. These homes that went through so much, very clear of that. And that is the dp news here on ellis that is good news on ellis boulevard we are happy to trord is clear of where it was. Happy to report it is clear of where it was. And we will check in. There is a live look it is reedy to takeoff. It is just off of first and i cant confirm that but there is the bridge to quaker oats and there it goes. False start. Now there it goes. And it will spin around. Dont look directly at it. Let come off that. My goodness. We are excited to use this drone will give us a look at places we dont want to send people and that we shouldnt be going and a good look now with the sun up, are they steady out there . Okay . Not yet. Lets head out to stephanie. She is on ground and lets check in with her. Here the state troopers and the national grard guarding some residential streets they want to make sure people who dont live down here dont drive down here and this is the reason why, there is piles of dirt hereen southwest here southwest and trooper told me if you are a resident here and live down here and need to fetch something from your house you is have to show idea and a bill or a registration that is proof you actually live down here and even those the piles of dirt on top of the storm drain. Water is through but the Start Holding it ufdirt is dirt is holding it off. We look at our drone now. It is not as shaky, take a live look. Flying over the river. A little tour as we watch it fly across. Are there people in cuintos . But we are threeing long. They look like rescue boats and there is the reserve as we float along river and as we float around here. We are seeing this as you are for the first time you can see roadways there; those are pumps. Water pumps and the bariers. And they are pumping from the road side through the wall into the river side and this is the story that creep up. Right now we are Holding Steady at 23 feet and we will get braden with another update. Our drone will be out all morning long and all day today. So you can keep up with the shots. For the latest drone footage. It is 7 20 and look ath current conditions. The river is just under 20 feet. And it will crest at 24 feet and morning and looking that tomorrow morning and 21. 7 feet and it supposed to cres in 23 feet and major flooding over the next several days. And the current level is 21. 87 feet and when are that the purple that is major flooding. And the river will recede tonight and tomorrow we are not expected to get below major flooding until the weekend and flood stage is 12 meet and it will not drop before feet and it will not drop until monday. The impacts will brie greatest right now we have the number two spot with the level of 21. 77 feet and you can see here. Some of thohigher river levels. Current conditions right now 46 in cedar rapids and the winds west. A dew point of 42 degrees and 43 inole wn will pick up. And gusts will pick up again. We are clear for right now and across the state of iowa that is good news. We will see sunshine in the forecast today. Sunny and breezy for this afternoon and an isolated possible tonight and seasonal temperatures for the rest of the week and here is our temperature trend for the next 12 hours. Get to the early afternoon and high temperatures of 28 around clew oclock too. A33 oclock to the and the clouds will stick round so the temperatures will be cooler than what we seeing today. Mostly sunny and pleasant. It will be blustery and temperatures in the lower 60 has 70 and then for tonight. Mostly cloudy and isolated shower but a 30 chance temperatures in the upper 40s and 49 in iowa city and 49 in washington and 47 in cedar rapids. We are heading balk downtown and back downtown and kevin watt snr. We are along 18thive new and the city bar cade meets the businesses, they barricades and meets the businesses and you see two feet of water. We were here abut 10 30 and lave oclock and it was bone dry there was this sand left over on the ground from filling the bariers and some of it spilled over western frontier seen. But there is at least two feet of water that goes down and you see some of the owners and the bar manager of torpedoes grub and pub. They had their own protection they built for themselves. And why the city chose to put the barricade and left some of the businesses out and some of the people disagree, some of they would like for their property to be protected but they understood why they did what they did. And some say they should have included their buildings. We know where the water came from. We can see the bridge is still dry it came from the south and bay the plant and it is a lot lower level there. So the water city workers we spoke to said we came up this way and meets the wall from behind this. It is taking on water but the owners just opened up the garage doors and the front and the back and got everything out of the building. So when you due that you have the cinder block and the floors. And the folks stayed in the building, they will ride it out and try to fight it and pumps in side and flood Protection System and they are out side and taking some pictures of the water around them but they are strappeded on an island right now and so stranded and on an island but but are not going anywhere in the future. For seal seeable future seeable future. And we will taking a look at our drone and you can check out more of the video on the fuse back 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 welcome back its now were taking a look at your . . . . . . . Your . . . . . . . 0. It is just ou this a saw beautiful shot you see the dog playing in the grass and the sun is rising. This is where mitch is along that ellis boulevard area and aback in that time check we lost so many homes and we lost the aw and so many things there and they are let it win again and here is is the jux posed beauty and the sunrise and we will keep you uptodate on that and live pictures. And back to the drone unjust a bit. We wan to tell you you can go to our website for the latest in the road closures there classes will not resume until at least thursday. Should that change, leaders tell us they will begin notifying parents no later than wednesday afterno. Afternoon. As for all the other closings out there right now, we have a complete list on our website, cbs2iowa dot com. During the citys News Conference on monday, city leaders were asked about mail contacted the Postal Service which says they are . Still . Delivering to all areas they can reach, including in the evacuation zone. If you dont get your mail, you can pick it up at the west Side Post Office on wiley boulevard southwest. And if you evacuated and want to stop delivery until you return, you can request that at the same location. While mail delivery continues, trash pickup will not. So city leaders are asking everyone in the evacuation zone to leav their bins secured and not left on the curb. Trash service will continue as normal outside of the flood affected areas. And the city says they will be flexible with extra bags and trash during pickup this week. And wed like to remind you that we will broadcast this mornings meeting with city leaders live right here on both cbs 2 and fox 28. Well have a reporter that will be heading there well talk to them a little later in this special flood 2016 coverage. If you have any questions you want us to ask city leaders you can reach to us on Governor Terry branstad says its likely hell request new federal assistance to help Recovery Efforts in areas damaged by flooding. Flooding. State officials will continue touring the state this week to assess damage in the seventeen counties now deemed as disaster areas. The Iowa Department of Homeland Security says if the total amount of damage is more than 4point3 Million Dollars governor branstad can request a formal president ial declaration. That would provide additional fema money w efforts. Weve been pretty successful in getting those disaster requests approved so were going to go about that in a very same cautious careful diligent way but from what weve seen its very likely. Likely. It would open up money for public infrastructure, wed also make a request for federal individual assistance depend upon the amount of homeowner personal homeowner damage is high enough to warrant a federal individual assistance declarati declaration. Branstad has also extended the property tax deadline for all of linn county. That means property taxes due at the end of the month will now be due at the end of october for . All . Linn county residents. We want to remind everyone that there are two shelters open right now in cedar rapids. This is for any resident who cedar rapids and this is for anyone who need as place to stay. They can go to the Methodist Church on third avenue south east more than 120 people stayed in the shelters last night. Baptist kumpe will close as well church will close as well. We are watching this closely and it is ramping up, give us an update and talk about how long we will be in the flood water. The latest was 21 point saithe 7 feet and that 87 feet and here is the data that was these are the hours an above flood stage. It is 12 feet we will spend 154 hours above flood stage and when we get to 14 that is moderate and we will be round 122 and down to 20 meet about 60 house feet and about 60 hours we will be at 20 feet and it gives you a bigger scope of the and some historical picture we have got in from past floods. This is River Side Park in 19 hundred. And the History Center. I want to jump in really quick. This is from the National Weather service. Down in the quadcity we will get an update the official crest as been lowered to 22 feet and should happen before noon today. Lets high 5. This is good. We are going to get this put out and the news room has us on. But again, from the National Service and inu. S. Geological survey the crest will be 22 foot crest. So just about where we are right now and that will be some time around noon or before that. Sigh seaing data over night the seeing the data over night the river was leveling off and it was still continuing to hold on to the 23 foot forecast. You can here that sigh of all throughout cedar rapids and those areas. Doesnt mean we are out of the woods but we are pretty much where we will end up. Major flooding still going on and above that threshold for several days. I we have to show these they are too interesting. River side park this is in 19 hundred. And the History Center youcon see and as we move on this is 12th avenue and third street in 1929 from the History Center you can see the flooding right there deep but we move on to this one. Highway 218 it crested at 19 and a half feet this is from the Cedar Rapids Historical Society and the here is pour of the water just power of the water just ripping about that road. And when we are looking that drone footage and these tower lets check in with kevin you have some amazing pictures for us. Fill us in where you are at. Reporter we are actually on top of the sand barier right now on top of 8 feet worth of barriers and this is the barrier along 16th avenue southeast and we are up here because all of this watt thereto has come in from the water that has come to the south and the doors of south of the grub and pub is down there and they are putting it together. Kick stand is all of the way down there and they did minimal sand bogging but accepted the dagging and accepted the water opening up the doors. The city decideitude put this barier right here along decided to put this bri area. They this was roadway and look at and now is roughly 2 feet worth of water. And the controversy is the owner of tornadoes said he wanted it to come in and include him. They predate the 2008 flood and they should have in included. Director said, this was the best strategic spot to put this because it is the last spot that has hard concrete and flat service so it can be the most affective and they said it is the most eeven ground and the high even ground and the highest point it is not only topography. They will will have been putting it 4 foot holes and that is much less affective. So lets talk about the effectiveness. You see the waurlt. It is 23 water is about 23 feet tall and there is a bought layer and that is off the ground and look on the other side. Through and water coming through but you can see it is the grass and the side walk there and things like that. The image how much worse it would be if it was hit by this water on uneven territory it could would get through much easier. They are able to hold off 3 feet of water and that makes their case and the owner says that he still now battling off and left to his own devices to battle off those water bumping against his building and home made flood protection he was here with kbrends one happened to have friends and happened to have a front end loader but he made them himself and a mesfrj the city too. One more update too. Message for the city to. You see heavy machinery and earlier on in the night one of the employees was seeing a lot of sand bags coming down here it seems they had a break in the wall down there and that city worker was telling us he was part of the crew that was fixing it and they were going to throes, break and they were able to plug the hole and stop it. And that effort down there and the heavy machinery and for the most part. Ye can see alit ilbit, it is a little bit for the most part it is dry and that area is much more wet but for the most part that one emergency break they have taken care of, lets take one more look, this is an unreal site. This the kick stand site. It is very tall that is substantially under water and around the quarter it is under water and the door ways as well. Where the water comes up to the sand bag bags and if you look down his way and down toward you can not tell where the road ends. It is 23 feet of water. If you need a good reason to not look with the flood water it is disgusting it is stagnant with the twigs and sticks and leaves. And so that is a good reason to water. You dont know what is going on. So we will try to gather more information out here. It is 7 43 and we are looking at traffic for you as you are headed out. We are looking at i380 let chug in and see the traffic. There is check in and see the traffic. It is going a little bit slower than normal. That left lane inside ne 0 welcome back, fox 28 morning live and continuous coverage this is a live look at the traffic cam and you see in the foreground all of the rain that is rushing up, i shouldnt say rushing up there and our bridges are still closed this morning. And we have a traffic back ups on 380 and it is moving. But it is moving slowly. So bear that in mind and the inside lane, if you know someone who is traveling just pass on the word. We know there is lot of folks traveling through cedar rapids and iowa city dont know what is closed down to emergency traffic only. They will be fining people andticting people in and ticketing people and we have the updates and closures we are heading down to mitch and what she is seeing. Reporter we are on the houses are safe. They lot. Of this wattwer and a lot of this waller is not going to get to the water is not going to get to the homes but of course if we have learned there is water going into that and again, for the most part. Ellis boulevard is doing what it does, as far as what we have heard, and it is sealed up and a lot of flooding toward where there is nota ton of homes the ball park getting under water and for the most part that is the team of the day home are safe and people and their property are being protected and whether they are sand bags so lot oft positive news and we are not out of the water just yet but for the most part it continues to be that it looks like we made. We made it through but still a ways to go and we can keep that little more than half full. We will the latest numbers and we will send in a reporter to answer if of you questions. So if you have any go to our Facebook Page and we will tray to get your answers. And if you are just joining us. The National Weather service did just update the foe cast for river it is forecast tr fr. The river. It height for the river and it might rise a little but 22 feet is the crest. And we might have an inch or two but that is 22 feet that is opposed to hapben twain now and supposed to happen now were taking a live 0. It is 7 52 and we thank queue for screening us. Thank will check back with our reporters. And we are here with justin this is another look this is the energy tower camera. Our good friend setting that up for us. We meet you and greet you if there is a bit of lightness in our voices if you are just lowered just a bit and we have this to tell. The National Weather service did drop the crest a whole foot. It went from twee22 feet. Two and we are not going to get that until som so the impact will still on on but they did drop and it is now 22 feet so the river will maybe slightly rise and gradually start to level off and recede probably as we get into tomorrow. So good news there. And temperatures right now cross the area it is still chilly and the temperatures with across the at dubuque 41 degrees. So chilly for you. And winds out the west north west. And not much to show on the satellite and and we will see plenty of sunshine in the forecast and our predictter model shows a week system that could generate isolated showers late tonight and mainly north and east and we will see the clouds in and today mostly sunny and pleasant and blustery and temperatures in the 60s to a round 70 and iowa city and washington and we will be back to check the river levels in a minute. And let you go what to expect in just a few minutes. Thank queue for that. 7 54 the river crested at 18. 0 feet and it is close to homes and roads. Know the waters for the most part has been shut off because of a water main break and you are not going be able use any water yet. Here is a view high above the skies and a mandatory evaculation first street and have food and water available to also flooding after intesive rainfall intensive rainfall and they are bracing for flooding. They are prepare with pump systems they have not used sand bags but if it is necessary they will use them. Families who live there are preparing one familys grand sun built them a barier for grand this reason. I entrusting the wall but you have to be prepared and we are still going to pack some more stuff and have it ready to go. The river is expected to crest wednesday, and there is several roads closed throughout jones county and to stay only where you know is safe. And the traffic this is a live look from the 3rd exit and you can you see traffic is moving throwly and the inside lane slowly and ininside lanes. Those are reserved for emergency travel only to make sure Emergency Vehicle cans get from one side of the river and it started monday and is in affect enforce that and ticketing drives who dont adhere to that. And you see abunch here here northbound is delayed this morning and slowly, stay out tf for emergency crews. Over that area as the rescue took place around one30 in the afternoon. A search team located the woman in a above the flood waters south of edgewood road bridge. Authorities tell us that because of a medical condition, the woman did not 1 30 in the afternoon. Because of a medical condition the woman didnt want to come down and about two hours later they managed to pull her to safety and took her to a hospital for evaluation. The National Guard is in place to make sure everyone stays away from the dangerous fast moving water. Helping law enforce. The iowa state patrol was called in to asis and just like eight yeas ago there a lot of concern that looters can takeed a vajtage of the home. Advantage of the homes and a curfew is in affect it will continue until the flood threat is over sartian taking scammers are take advantage of the flood victims. They are telling them to leave their homes unlocked and that is not true and residents should lock their doors and winnows. They will not force entry into any home in the evaculation zone and they are offering free it hotel rooms. If you get one of these phone calls do not give out any information and call police immediately and also flood victims be aware of any wan asking for money to re anyone asking for many to reconnect gas service. We are heading back to downtown to get a epiupdate. Where update and how the is looking . Reporter we are right there at the apparel shop at the end of the district and this is the wall that along the 18th avenue and the one we are just on top of and we were asked to step down but on the oat side of this wall. Other side of this is 34 feet of water. It is a trickle barely coming this from a handful of city workers. And they say that early this morning. This was a fairly cat strafic break. And it had to do with the man hole covers they were telling thrus is 8 covers in this area us there is 8 covers in this area you can see how much john dear piece of machinery goes through what is muck and mud now. So they are taking clay from eastern iowa and plugging up that plan hole cover and multiple covers and all of this machinery and the pressure built up and they are bring up water and these plugs and pipes that on more to weigh them down and make sure they dont burst again. If we are going to 32s this was going to be where it this is going to be where it happens. This is affair amount of water a fair amount of water. This just an open grassy and we saw a city manager and police chief driveing around and look at the damage. They didnt have any updates i went to talk to them and they heard this was an active area and some flooding on the other side and they say they are in information themselves but they are pleased that the bariers protected the Downtown District and coferbtsy of this; controversy of this. Everyone meters but you have to protect the most amount hof people and the sit made the decision that city made decision that the folks had to build their own protection and we were able to shout a few questions and they say with the water round them, 22 and a half feet they have minimal water inside but if they didnt stick it out and use their pumps to get it out, their entire base. Ed with be full. So basement will be full and that is good, so this is an are sure to stay out the way of the machinery. But it seems like a big break vary early this morning. So the wall built and the sand and clay; seems to have held so far this morning. And the only peak point is the water and weak point and this water and action. Back toou thank grew that. We are watching thank you for that. We will get you an update. But back to kevin with those barriers. Were were able to talk to the may urabout this and allow him may urabout this and allow him to ex mayor and allow him to explain that. Disaster to as close to 2008 and a the Largest National disaster. Thissed with be the second this would be the second and if we are able to avert that that shows the value of why we keep pursuing long term and permanent flood solution. Why wee will we will be at the press canference and if you have questions you would like to hav them on our Facebook Page. That is easeiast way to get to easiest way to get to us. Lets talk a look this morn skiing lot of traffic going morning and let there is a lot of traffic. If you have to drive through take extra time and do not stop hopefully you know where you glasses are, i it is shilly and temperatures are in the 40s and chilly and temperatures in the 40s. And we will have sun shine and breezy with wind gusts we will good morning. We will take a look at conditions first along the wapsi river at anamosa. It is 22. 11 feet and rising expected to crest overnight into tomorrow with a forecast to crest of 24 feet. Major flooding along the wapsi river and anamosa. Cedar rapids at 21. 89 feet. National Weather Service did lower the forecast to two, 22. 1 feet. That is expected to crest this afternoon. They looked at the payload gauge and sore that gauges crested and started to fall. That gave them the confidence to lower the crest down to 22 22. 1 feet. You can see from the hydrograph the crest ads 22. 1 feet morning, early afternoon. Major flooding is still going on. Where you see the purple, we are not expected to get below the 16 feet threshold until late friday into the weekend. Its now on this morning. Morning. And if youre in its degrees. Degrees. Taking a live look welcome back its now were taking a look at your . . . . . . . Your . . . . . . . Welcome back. Picture from the linn county sheriff. It says only minor water seepage in the basement. You can see staff is tackling the problem working together as a team. That was one of the big concerns. They took on so much water. City hall took on so much water. We are hearing these areas that were hit so hard having just minimal damage. One of those areas was the check village in the new bow kevin barry. Where are you wet now this morning . Reporter minimal damage but were behind the building because it gives us the best Vantage Point of a very active scene right behind us. This is from city workers talking to us. The wall of haskell barriers held just fine. Eight Manhole Covers in this area. It is an area with a roadway that used to have a lot more population. It is empty lots and there are Manhole Covers not being used. A few of them gave way. Were looking at all the clay they used to pack down those Manhole Covers. They are using incredibly heavy machinery to move that clay and covers. You can see water from when it was built before. Right now it is standing water. Those mounds of clay packed on top of what used to be the Manhole Covers is where they had problems. It was essentially an emergency situation. One of the workers said, if we were to lose this if it were this location. That is why they responded in an emergency like fashion. They are bringing in this clay and massive trucks to keep packing this in so that it holds until the water goes down. Lets take a look at what hangs in the balance as we start walking closer to the city market. Remember, this was a fluid situation before. That water comes almost to the street and doorstep. They have a substantial amount of sandbags. Imagine if that was hit with gushing water. Going back to the Manhole Covers where they are dumping more clay next to those big that truck is pulling up as close says he can. He is at least a foot into the water trying to get that clay close to where they need it. Definitely a very active situation. For the most part, just a little bit of seepage and a few inches. We were on top of that flood barricade where you could see 3 feet of water on one side trickle on the other. It seems like the haskell barriers hesco barriers are holding. They are getting plenty of new clay and put down by that front end loader. Machinery but find him has a stamper. The machine clamps it together and accident packs this water apparently will plateau today and start to go down. We will be breaking from our Flood Coverage for a few moments. We have breaking news from greg bulow the Public Safety communications coordinator. There is a report of a female victim shot in the head of the eight time to hundred block of fifteenth street southeast. This call was received about 7 52 eight 7 52 8 am. Officers had three individuals chasing them on foot. It is early in the investigation. Officers are working on the situation. We dont know the situation and condition of the victim. We will keep you updated as we continue our coverage this morning. You can always find the latest on cbs2iowa. Com. This is a live look at downtown cedar rapids as we good morning. We are here at Broadcast Park running through the current conditions. 21. 89 feet. The forecast of 23 feet has been lowered to 22 feet expected to crest about 1 pm we will not get below that 16 foot threshold until sometime around this weekend. Current conditions across the area. Cedar rapids, 47 and cool. 50 in iowa city. 49 in waterloo. 46 in decor decorah. Dew points are much like yesterday in the upper 30s to low 40s. Satellite radar showing not much cloud cover. That will change into the evening hours. We will see a week disturbance weak disturbance. We will keep the clouds in the forecast for tomorrow afternoon. Today mostly sunny and pleasant with blustery winds 1530 miles per hour. Temperatures will be in the tonight mostly cloudy with an isolated shower and temperatures on the cool side. Kelly and justin . We are taking a look at live footage of our cbs2 and fox28 drone of the cedar river. You can see trees submerged in the water. You can see how steady it was shot. Some of the views are fr above. That is why we have been able to deploy our fox28 drone. We brought you pictures yesterday of that rescue. Were flying i believe where the river takes the bend and goes past the check village area. You can see how high that water has gotten. The river went over edgewood road at ellis. That is why the edgewood road bridges closed and will stay close for a while. One of the neat things we found about you are able to zoom in. It gives us a good look. We have been sending this drone up into the air all during this flooding season. You can find that at cbs2iowa. Com and error facebook and twitter pages. Justin, where is this . Cedar lake area. There has been a big push to redevelop cedar lake. Taking you from one side of railcars to quaker oats. We will fly down the south side. On the right, coopers mill area , best western hotel. You can see how high this river is. There is the neighborhood hit hard in 2008 you can watch this life on facebook. Over 200 people are watching this on facebook. As you head out today, we will continue with this live drone coverage through facebook live. If you look just past 380, there is the linn county sheriff where there was minimal sheriff Brian Gardner letting us know that. There is right under the word, drone where you see the best western. Still moving traffic on i 380. It doesnt look very bad. We have been keeping an eye on 380. It has gotten slower but hasnt been a standstill. Things are moving efficiently. Check. That used to be a vibrant community. The West Side Neighborhood started a big push to commemorate the neighborhoods and homes lost. They are calling it westside rising. They employed in area architect to capture that spirit used to signify when people were home from work and the clock so wellknown for the time check neighborhood. We certainly hope al pearson, councilwoman taking the charge headon. There is i believe o avenue. Those are the hesco barriers. Wellestablished community and nothing but green space right now. You are seeing it live on a drone this morning. We were talking about the traffic on 380. Wilson avenue is a little backed up. Is headed toward wilson avenue i 380, that is moving slower. Allow for more time. Before you head out check it out. You can find the best route on our website. We will stay with this as we show you how well those walls are. Look at all the right side water. It is almost right dry on the left side. The city has almost 8. 9 miles of hesco barriers and sandbags. The area of waterloo sent sandbags down yesterday. I have been chatting with the mayor in marion. They have helped with sandbags. Evidence dale evandsale also bringing sandbags. There is an old saying, the go. Luckily we have technology. I think we can take this time to tell people even though we talked about why cedar rapids has not built a floodwall. Someone this morning asked on our Facebook Page why this hasnt happened. If you want to know what happened to the cedar rapids flood protection, we have a answer that for you. We spoke with the mayor and you can find those answers on our website cbs2iowa. Com. Are we going to break here . Lets take a break. You can watch this live drone footage on our Facebook Page on both cbs2 and fox28. We will come back and give you an update from kevin barry and more live drone video and a this is something we will check all morning long, traffic along interstate 380 is expected again to see more traffic. This is the most have found this morning. Is headed to wilson avenue southwest, they are at a standstill. Justin, you have been stressing something about the left lane. Cedar rapids has gotten a lot of unmarked vehicle. More people are not heeding the warning. Keep that inside left lane on each way open for emergency travel only. The blairs ferry road bridge is open to east and west to pay low palo. Were letting you know were still praying for you there. If you do need food and water that is available at the city hall. 13 and 30 has said some delays but you can get north and south on 13 e. And west on highway 30. Best practice is to leave plenty of extra time. We will show you diaconal drive diaconal drive. This had congestion and we will keep you up to date on that. It is still moving but moving normal. They have the traffic cones up and barriers. It is blocking traffic on the northbound lane i80, diagonal left. I would love to see the state patrolman pull those cars over. Do you see them in the left lane . If you can, really, an option. Leave the left lane open. Mike goldberg, Mount Vernon Road at indian creek is also open. We have been watching blairs ferry road, Mount Vernon Road at indian creek is open. 13 and 30 at this point are open. We will head out to kevin barry. To make sure everybody was protected. Reporter we have seen senators going to bat for cedar rapids seeing the amount of time it has taken to get this flood protection through and install it has been silly. What is it like to seem Like Fighting for you in washington dc after it has taken long to make a lot of progress. The corps of engineers has authorized the project. Senate authorized it. Until the office of budget and management and top brass put it in their budget, we will not get any money. I love all of the support. Until we see the dollars, we the east side. Reporter do think senator urged and senator grassley can make those things up here . They get it and understand it. They want to protect the rapids. At this point, they have not appropriated the money. Maybe this event will get us over the hump with getting dollars from washington dc. Reporter what kind of affect to think this event will have . Everybody knows 2008 was catastrophic. Happen in their lifetime. Do you think the opinion will be different because they have seen this happen twice. Certainly they know flooding can happen. They know what happens when there is no protection. Now they see what is happening with protection. That is a big difference. That map with bluewater all over both sides of the river will, we will have averted disaster. Reporter thank you so much. Back to you in the studio. Some of the questions we have been getting on our Facebook Page have been covered right there. We will get more coming up. The big story is, we are about to crest. Thank the good lord for that. Also, just because we are cresting, does it mean battle is over. We will still be in a major flood stage for a while. You just heard the mayor say it seems to be doing the job we expected. Those hesco barriers seem to be doing its job. We have to get folks to add act and get more. We need congress to do more. Information on that story, we have that on our website cbs2iowa. Com. It is called, what happened to flood protection. It is 8 41 right now. Here is i 380 at wilson avenue southwest. We found this area as well as diaconal drive at Veridian Credit Union thats why were offering auto loans you get a low rate, plus up to 200 cash back, but this offer ends soon, were taking a break from our coverage of the flood for breaking news. There has been a shooting in the 800 block of fifteenth street southeast. Stephanie johnson is on the scene telling us what she knows so far. Reporter right now what we do know is that a female was shot in take a look behind me and you will see police vehicles. It is about seven police vehicles. Since we drove up, more have come up here. They have put police tape blocking the road for eighth avenue and blocking traffic. Police are still investigating. Neighbors are observing what is going on. What we do know is that three as soon as we learn more, we will give you that information. Thank you, stephanie. We appreciate that update. We dont know the condition of the victim. We will let you know as soon as possible. You can keep connected with the latest news on cbs2iowa. Com and also our Facebook Page and twitter. We will be back in just a few moments as we take a look at crews working to plug a few good morning. It is 8 45 here at Broadcast Park. Were checking the wapsi river at anamosa. The latest prediction has it at 22. 11 feet. It is expected to crest around 1 am. The forecast to crest is that 24 feet. Cedar river at cedar rapids 21. 89 feet. The current forecast crest has been 23 fee. The Weather Service has dropped it to, 22 feet. Expected to crest late this morning. Here is the hydrograph from the National Weather service. 21. 89 feet. Expected to hold steady. It may rise a little bit but the forecast to crest of 22 they looked at the pay low gauge and it has been steady and starting to fall. The Weather Service did have the confidence to drop the crest to 22 feet. We will be in major flooding up until saturday morning. The whole reason for the flooding is with the rainfall over the next s all of this heavy rain and chickasaw, bremmer, foard county. That led to this swollen river and flooding. Current temperature in cedar rapids of 47. Winds eight w. W. 50 into monticello. Winds 913 miles per hour. Keep that in mind as you head into the afternoon hours. Not much to show on satellite radar. Plenty of sunshine around the state of iowa. As far as their planner goes, sunshine and breezy today. Isolated shower possible. We will be weekend with temperatures in the upper 60s, 70. 68 today in cedar rapids. A little bit cooler up toward decorah. Predictor model shows that week system weak system coming in down to highway 30. They will be isolated at best. We will keep the clouds around for wednesday tomorrow with today mostly sunny and pleasant. Temperatures in the low 60s north. Mid to upper 60s south near iowa city and washington. Tonight mostly cloudy with an isolated shower. Temperatures on the cool side with upper 40s. Here is short extended day forecast. 64 tomorrow and mostly cloudy. 69 thursday. As we get into the weekend, more seasonal temperatures around 70 as we get into sunday. Plenty of sunshine. We just have to get through the overnight period with isolated showers but nothing heavy anticipated. I know we have been excited to hear the crest has been lowered. What does that mean . They look at the gauge earlier and soared the river it was steady and reseeding. That gave the Weather Service confidence to drop the crest level ii 22 feet. We could get a bit of a rise but not anticipating any big jumps over the next several hours. We will keep it steady then slowly start to fall. We will be in major flooding stage at least through the weekend. We want to update you on traffic. I 380 at wilson avenue southwest. North end southbound lanes looking pretty congested. Another spot weve noticed is diagonal drive. We can check in with you on that in a few minutes. Welcome back. It is a 52. We are updating you on traffic this is i 380 at diagonal drive southwest. You can see things backed up in the northbound lane. What justin has been stressing, you better say a. I dont have a nice way of saying it. The far left lane is reserved for Emergency Vehicles only. We are helping to spread that message. They do have digital signs up. Moment ago it looked like it had exploded. This is looking better. You can see the north end southbound lanes congested. Especially northbound. Getting from the south to the north is tricky. We will keep an eye on traffic. We have been keeping an eye on kevin barry. Lets check in with kevin. Doing a fantastic job on little to no sleep. Kevin . Reporter we are just south of the new bohemia district behind the national and spot where bohemia is. We are taking a look at where that water is coming up through the storm drains. We are taking a look at the new mount mound being built. There is a drain on top. Where there was a break this morning. This is where the water was rushing up. The mayor just told us about one of the citys three weaknesses is the fact that water comes up through the ground. Even if the water doesnt come over the top or breakthrough, that line on 16th avenue. It can come up through the water underneath the barriers. The city workers said it was a full on emergency. The mayor says that was because if you dont get to it fast enough and there is too much water, you cant get the people into fix it and it runs crazy. They were able to tamp it down fast enough and keep it from spreading. The only thing flooded is this a little bit up 16th avenue. For the most part, this grassy area. Nothing more than that. It didnt hit the building which was recently built up on a hill. They have extra protection. It barely got to the front door or the new National Building which is being renovated. Good news for the district. That water coming through the storm sewers was stopped. Now the trick is to packet down and keep an eye on it. Until the water goes down to a point where it could burst through making sure that doesnt happen. They are working to secure that. We will check to see the spots that seemed to be working fine are still okay. One of the things we have been seeing is good news all around. We havent had anything where we head to break it to you gently. I feel pretty positive. We were certainly give an update. We will be down at the we hope to get back to some semblance. We will pause. The big story of the day is traffic. A lot of traffic and a lot of folks moving slowly. Coming up in the next hour. We will check back in with the ice arena and in studio talking now were taking a live look right now at . . . . In cedar rapids welcome back. Its just about 9 00. There is my email so you can take a look. This is what i think they wanted me to have up here. The reason why we had the e mail up is i have some information to tell you. We wanted to let you know at wilson southwest is congested along with diagonal drive. There we go. Live tv. You can see the north bound lane has a lot of traffic in it. As you see, there is no one in the far left lane. At least going north bound. We cant tell you enough, youve got to get out of the inside lane. Brandon marshal took the ditch all the way here. I sure did. Level. We are at 21. 89 feet. The current crested forecast is 22 feet. It was 23 for the last couple hours. The Weather Service has dropped it a foot, expected to crest around 22 feet. We are not expecting significant rises in the cedar river this afternoon. Keep in mind, major flooding is occurring and we will not get below the 16 threshold of major flooding until some point this weekend. Current conditions in cedar rapids, 54 wi northwest at 13, dew point of 33. Current temperatures are in the low 50s. 56 is the current temperature in iowa city and 54 in monticello. Mostly sunny and pleasant. It will be blustery with mid to upper 60s. Well check the latest river levels and give you your seven day forecast in a few minutes. Thank you. One of the things we wanted