And waterloo. Kaine addressed the shooting but also pushed early voting. And bill clinton made one last appeal to voters in waterloo. They did talk about the killings in des moines along with republican congressman rod blum who was also in the waterloo area. Wedont know everything well know overt eh next few days. It may speak to Mental Health it may speack to the over proliferation of guns. Every tragedy has to be every family has to be supporte supported. It isvery very tragic and hard to believe in america Something Like that could happen. There is never a justification forkilling someone who spends his or her life trying to protect you and we pray for their families. The biggest . National news of last week just lingered over this week. Fbi director friday that the fbi was looking at more Hillary Clinton emails. That got him a lot of criticism especially after it came out that when he released that information no one in the fbi had even reviewed any of the emails. Even iowas republ
High pressure builds in from the northwest. This High Pressure system will control our weather today and much of tomorrow as well. Later on friday night, there is potential for a few showers and thunderstorms, becoming widespread after midnight and into saturday. Hopefully most of this can wait until after football is over. Several lines of storms are possible on saturday, but the overall risk of anything severe is very low at this time. Much of the rain should get out of here by sunday morning leading to a dry second half of the weekend. A tropical system should develop over or near florida next week, which may lead to our weh ttern stalling out r at lst 3 4 days. Stay tun tonight partly cloudy. Patchy g posble. Wind light nw low 56 tomorrow partly sunny and pleasant. An oted shower is poie ine evening high 76 tom. Night scattered understorms developing. Wind e 510. Low 64 anks kaj. Communitsn northeast iowa rain. Anywhere from 4 to more than 8 inches of rain overwhelmed rivers and cr
Right now, lowpaid workers in linn county are one significant step closer to a ra. Raise. On a four to one vote closer to a raise. On a 41 vote linn county supervisors passed the first wading are reading a minimum wage increasing if passed it would increase 7. 25 rate to 10in to 25 an hour by 2019. Fox 28 News Reporter joe huis favor of the raise. Reporter they want to raise it to give workers a liveable pay. We are in the position because state has to the done anything in almost 10 years. Reporter the supervisors generally agree on the 3 dollar increase over 3 years but today they removed an automatic raise based on the Consumer Price index every year after 2019. I just dont believe in tying the hands of future policy makers to a formula. That are at that particular minimum wagewhile the county is sold on a wage increase some members of the public are not. Richard bice is a retired Business Owner who continues richard bice is a retired business own here mentors young companies. The on
First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on more clouds to roll in from the north today. In many areas, temperatures will struggle with readings only in the 45 49 range for highs. Factor in the wind, and youve got a pretty chilly day in some of the thickest clouds, areas of drizzle will be possible. Plan on a quiet friday, though clouds may still linger over portions of the area. Another system is set to arrive on saturday with clearing sky on sunday. At this time, it appears the bulk of the rain will be out by trick or treat time on saturday evening. Well see some warmer weather going into next week with highs well into the 60s for monday and tuesday. Have a great day today cloudy, patchy drizzle high 4450 winds nw 1525 alo 46 dbq 46 iow 48tonight mostly cloudy low 3036 winds nw 510 alo 35 dbq 36 iow 35tomorrow iow54tomorrow night rnrrives late low 4winds s 515 alo 45 dbq 43w 45 anks kaj. Workers in tiffin will get a raise next week, as the City Council
Numbers this fall is faster growth than expected. College community projected an extra 90 students this fall. They enrolled 146 so the question is whether thats a one year blip or if they have to plan for even faster growth. Growth is not new at this suburban cedar rapids district with College Community numbers increasing from about 35hundred students in 2002 to 56hundred todayy the district has typically built either a new school or a major expansion every five or six years. But the biggerthan expected growth has some here wondering if theyll nefd to speed up expansion to meet the needs in a nottoo distant future. I dont think you can say one year is a trend. But well look very closely at next year and the following if you get two or three years of above expected growth then id say its a real trend the district opened a New Elementary School last year so theres not as much space pressure in the lower grades. But the high school was designed for aboutta thousand studentt. Theres 11hund