Meeting with the teen. That led to the linn county attorney filing the new charge against haglin. She was again booked at the Linn County Jail today before posting bail. New charge. She was again booked at the lynn county jail today before posting bail. Long time principal. The School District says they failed to follow mandated protocol while investigating the relationship. Continues coverage, a Benton County murder trial. A weeks worth of testimony in the case wrapped up today. He is accused of stabbing and strangling at their home last year in Benton County. Today the testimony focused on dna evidence. Prosecutors questioned the crime Lab Specialist about the left in the home and on the body. I would state that david some point in time. At some point in time in addition to the [ indiscernible ] there was blood, so he was at some point around that area. If convicted miller faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison. Reporter dora miller is covering this case. Wop for her watch for
Close on monday. What began as an inform tiff Facebook Page is helping to feed thousands impacted by the flood. We see the operation now. Reporter the burtram brown bag economy is a wonderful testament to how beautiful our community is. In less than a week this unplanned operation has fed 14,000 tonight. They have gotten lunches and dinners from volunteers. Take a look at this. So much food here and so many volunteers helping out with these lunches and dinners. All these meals are given to people displaced by the flood. People that live there are going to hotels and whats really impressive is all of this food isnt only donated but not necessarily sought manpower. They have had people come down from minnesota to help and they got an anonymous prime delivery. Just when we need something for some reason it appears. We ran out of bread the other day and within 15 minutes somebody pulled up with a palate. Actually 15 palates of bread. I wanted to show you whats in these meals that theyre ha
There are new details overnight about a car found in Prairie Creek. Creek. We broke they story on the cbs 2 news ten at ten last night. Police tell us no one was inside when they arrived. Arrived. First responders were puzzled they told our crew on scene that they called the owner of the vehicle who apprently didnt know their vehicle had been missing. The owner then reported it stolen. Rescue crews used a raft to pull it out of Prairie Creek near j street and hawkeye in the water. In cedar rapids clean up efforts are well under way while the cedar river starts to slowly recede back to normal levels. Levels. That still could take several days but crews have already removed some hesco barriers near the Linn County Jail and on Second Street downtown. More than 40 thousand feet of those temporary barriers were set up to protect low lying areas along the river. Right now, the biggest question for many impacted by flood 2016 when can people start going back to their homes and businesses . Bu
Increasing the limit to 75 would actually be safer because traffic will be less likely to stack up because cars and semis would spend less time driving sidebyside. Its stacking traffic yp, so it doesnt flow, what happens is you get a couple trucks going side by side for miles andnd traffic backs up. Johnson county sheriff Lonny Pulkrabek says now is not the time to be worried about the increasing the speed limit. He says now is the time to be focusing things like tightening texting and driving laws. In iowa city, mark carlson, lets turn now to meteorologist joe winters. Joe, were seeing a lot of snow disappppring across eastern iowa. As the snow melts away the weather warms. Stronger south southeast winds push drier and warm air in from the south keeping the milder than normal weather with us into the weeke. Highs jump into thth 40s on thursday and the 40s and 50s on friday. It would not be out of the realm of possibilities to see some 60s across outhern iowa. Early next week we do s s
Call people of cedar r rids. Youre waahing kcrgtv9. N nw, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning news. First, meteorologis t kaj omarara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Warmer days are coming, and today is just the start. Plan on hig generally into the 40s areawide with the warmest readings over our Far Southwest counties. Clouds may initially be an issue, but given that these are higher, thinner cirrus clouds, we should be able to warm up regardless. The wind will also be increasing out of the southeast today with gusts up to 30mph. Tomorrow continues to be the warmeme day withthighs well up into the 50s with windy conditions. The sky should generally be clear for both friday and saturday, but saturday does bring much lighter wind. While it does cool down somewhat into next week, highs will generally hover around 40 with lows around 25. There is very little chance of measurable precipitation in eastern iowa for the next week. Today partly cloudy, milder high w