Lots of sunshine and highs rebounding back to around 70 degrees. The wind wont be quite as strong as the past few days, but still notable out of the north. Overall, the weather pattern remains dry, but more clouds are expected for tomorrow and saturday. Due to the clouds, these days will be held down into the 60s for highs. Next week, a warming trend continues to be on track into the 70s. As of now, rain chances continue to be focused on wednesday, though the development of an thursday depending on what it does off the se coast. Have a great day today sunny and mild. Wind n 1020. High 70 tonight partly cloudy. Wind n 510. Low 51 tomorrow increasing clouds. Wind ne 1015. High 69 tom. Night mostly cloudy. Wind ne 510. Low 54 though the cedar river in cedar rapids is receding, the city is still in a major flood stage. Kcrgtv9s meterologist justin geherts is at ellis and edgewood road this morning. Justin, how are things looking there . Some evacuees can return to their homes today. The ci
Coverage along the river for you. Lets go to kevin. Reporter we are just north of the district on the nature trail. You can see it goes underneath this rail bridge around 9th avenue. It goes down about 34 feet. It is all solid water. You can get a good look at how nasty the water is. This is why you should not go in floodwaters. Look at all of these branches and twigs that were brought from upstream. The water is low right now compared to what it is supposed to get to. Right now it is 14 feet. This is the first while that will stop first wall that will stop the water. As you can imagine, at about 45 feet clear this wall. We will almost certainly see water coming up over this embankment in the next few hours and then it will start heading towards newbo. We will take one last look at this. This is the first piece of real flooding we have seen on the bike trail. It gives you an idea of how high this is just a few feet below where the railway is. This could potentially be very dangerous in
67 degrees for the high today. Were dry. A lot of sunshine and a few passing clouds and keep the clear skies around for the overnight allowing to us drop down into the 50 and others to the upper 40s. Lets go over to ky to talk about the river levels. Thank you very much. Were getting more and more updates along the cedar river basin. Out of vinton, were situated at the cre around 21. 7 feet. However, it keeps going up. So thats the one thing we have to watch for here on all of this. Were at 21. 7 right now. It is at its crest point. Not expecting to exceed this by much but what that does is increase confidence in what will eventually occur at cedar rapids. We jumped 18 feet at the river. The crest is about a fivefoot rise to 23 feet by about this time tomorrow morning and notice the side of the screen. You get into the lower 20s on the cedar river stage, it reaches the bottom of the bridge decks in the area. The recent impacts that we have seen in the next four go like this. Right at 1
Important river lels. Joe. That the waterline where its you can see the darker color. That means in independence we have crested and the wapsipinicon has begun to fall. Right now the latest we 19. Twofoot level. 19. 4 was the crest earlier this afternoon. Along the wapsi right at 17. 1. So its coming up quite fast. By tuesday were expecting a 24. Fivefoot crest. Now lets travel down the cedar. The charles city youre falling faster. You will fall within your banks in waterloo the current level sits at 22. 22. 9 was the crest yesterday. Early thursday is when the cedar and waterloo will be back in its banks. Eventual ton awaiting that crest. 21. Five the expected crest monday morning. Still has about another half a foot to go before the crest tomorrow. In cedar rapids the latest forecast 23 feet currently. That will happen on Tuesday Morning. The latest we have is at 13. 1 feet in cedar rapids. The flooding will come to an end with its river in its banks on saturday morning. The next fou
Latmine road. It is already flooded. There were houses down the street and it is closed. But the officials tell me that it does close at about 14 to 14. 5 feet every time it floods, and this is what brenda leonard, the jones county Emergency Management coordinator, told me about the people that live on that street. Residents down there have it down to a pat. They are used to it boats to get in and out. Just kind of a way of life for them. Reporter there is really nothing to worry about at this time. They said that they have sandbags in stone city for some houses there. They said that they have evacuated a couple of houses in oland and oxford junction. To not use the roads at night and heed the road closure signs. There is a reason they are there. They have patrols to make sure everything is safe. Again, the city of anamosa says they are fine and no one needs to worry about the cresting at this point. Live in anamosa, jenee ryan, cbs 2 news. Coming up, water rescue. A woman caught by fl