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
Administration, the democrats were going to make sure he did not appoint anybody to the suprcourt. Cynthia today grassley said , after giving it more thought, he implied he wouldnt rule out Holding Hearings on an obama nominee, but would only say senator grassley i will take it a step at a time. He hasnt nominated anyone yet. Cynthia the constitution states the president can nominate with the advice and consent of the senate. Matt sinovac, who questioned grassley about the process, was not pleased with his answers. The kept repeating that we will take it one step at a time, but he tried to be very vague and continued to play political games with this nomination process. Cynthia president obama today challenged republicans to offer any plausible rationale for refusing to consider a Supreme Court candidate, and he vowed to nominate an outstanding legal mind. Stacey the man looking to unseat senator grassley comes to the Selection Process for the next Supreme Court justice. State senator
Officer early saturday morning. Responding to a drug tip. Police were called to an urbandale hotel around oclock in the morning. Upon arrival. Three suspects began fighting with them. During the scuffle. A man shot at the officers and an officer returned fire. Killing that man. The investigation includes multiple agencies. Including dci and polk county. Authorities say video will be important to the case sgsg gary lang, Urbandale Police Department Video evidence is a a y to any crimimand investigatatn and r officers have been wearing body cameras for quite some time. The name of the officer and the suspects are not being released at this time. Two female suspects fled from the scene the fight and were arrested about half a mile from the hotel. Lukas things were rockin at the hard rock last night. Music playing the e cond annual pete godod memorial alss benefit concert drew a packed house last night with four bands help raise money and awareness for als. One number 7 band was help. Were
Pushing guys get it going. Get it going. Kolton kersten is a first year assistant wrestling coach at northwestern college. Nat hit a piece of advice here. Nat. Tips on techinique there. Nat. Thats koltons life now. But what about his life. Then . Kolton kersten was an all american for iowa central back in 2012. He then transfered to Midland University in nebraska. Rankin g as high as secondnduring the 2012123 season. I felt like i was going to be e unstoppable really, and i was training that way too. And there was nothing that was going to stop me from being the National Champ that year. And then things just came to a halt. On june 6th, 2013. Kolton developed a deadly infection. Once bacterial meningitis gets in your system it kills you within 24 hours. And just like that, he was off to the hospital. Fighting for his life. Everybody was freaking out, they brought the priest in, and they gave me my last rites. They said there is nothing we can do for him anymore. I was in so much pain.
Barney fraaken on two counts of 1stdegree murder yesterday. Police e y fraaken shot his wife amy and daughter amber in november last year. Fraaken also shot himself that day. Police arrested him shortly after he was released from the hospital. Last year, fraakens stepson told kccitv he believes the shooting came from marital problems. Places all along the east coast are cleaning up after some dangerous storms rolled through. A tornado damaged prwperty outside of Richmond Virginia overnight. The storm overturned trucks and toppled trees throughout essex county. One man who witnessed it l says the storm was devastating to his entire neighborhood. We was sitting in the middle of the house when it came through and it just demolished everything through this, couple houses that are gone completely, the church is gone, and a lot of people hurting now, there are like 3 or 4 people harvey says his neighbors quickly came together to clear debris from the road so emergency crews could get through