In for any more today. Meteorologist Justin Thompson gee has your . First . Look at the forecast. 3 . . . Quick 30 second wx tease 5 5 . . . today a few lingering showers in the morning. Sunshine returns by the afternoon. Falling temps in the 60s during the morning and upper 50s mostly at night. Wind nw 1015 mph. Tonight mostly clear and very chilly. Upper 30s inland and lower 40s lakeside. A little patchy frost possible in northwest areas. Wind nw 515 mph. Weekend more sun than clouds both saturday and sunday. Temperatures struggling to h upper 50s saturday and lower 60s sunday. Back into the upper 60s for columbus day as clouds return by evening. We begin with . Breaking news . This morning. Hurricane matthew. Is slamming . Florida . Right now. This is a live look at orlando. The hurricane was downgraded to a cateogory 3 overnight but it still has a . Strong . Impact. Its bringing 120 mile per hour winds. And . Torrential rain. . Officials expect it. To leave behind a . Lot of damage
Or where you came from, everybody working shoulder to shoulder and side by side until they were falling over practically. Everybodys them industry very sharp for what happened in 2008. Everybody dug in and fought this thing hard core. Something you wouldnt wish on your worst enemy. And in your forecast, there is no rainfall . There in the past week, someone was dealing with 2 to 5 inches of rain. Things went crazy. That one rain there northwest of waterloo and south of charles city, that was right on the cedar river walter shed. All of that water had to go somewhere real quick. Flooding. I think thins will improve substandialy. And its supposed to hit. Is it tomorrow morning . Yeah, about 7 a. M. It continues to steadily rise up. It will stay there for 6 or 7 hours. Excuse my ignorance, you said the water is moving about 3 miles an hour when it begins to recede, will it speed up, will it slow down . How does that work . Theres a big wall of water. Its a crest, like a wave thats coming
Know what you can expect for the rest of the week. Cedar rapids is now moving on to the next step in flood 2016. We are not out of the woods yet. As you can see the high water in these videos from our drone but the waters are going back into the cedar river basin and that is major. The major threat starting to fade. Right now it will be several days before the real cleanup takes place. As cbs two News Reporter joe huisinga tells us we could be going down stream. Joke . Reporter as you said, were still it major flood stage now the conversation is starting to turn to sandbag disposal and flood systems. Right now the city is working on a plan to remove sandbags from Residential Properties to free of charge but they want people to be patient and have suggestions on how people can use them at their homes. It can be used for things like cleaning up oil spills and traction this winter. Next week Garbage Service will be accepting two extra 35 gallon bags to help remove garbage that was not pic