Downtown cedar rapids from the tnn tower cam. The river is going up swiftly it is expected to crest in about 24 hours at 23 feet. Now from your 24hour news source, this is the kcrgtv9 morning news. Chris thank you for joining us now at 6 01 as so much, of course, of the focus is on the cedar, wapsi and its independence and toward anamosa. Lets start out with kyle. The good part with all this, it wont be terribly active for the next few days. No, it should be very quiet here for the rest of this work week. The only hazard we will have to contend with weatherwise is that we have gusty wind and i will show you that coming up. We have our air temperatures that are pretty decent. If this flood wasnt happening right now, we would be able to enjoy this weather quite ar bit and at least were done with the 50s is where we sit. The high that were going for is around 67 and that occurs around 3 00. And a lot of sunshine here from start to finish. We want to get you the latest numbers at cedar rap
Crest. The crest expected early in the morning at 21. 5. And that would be right along the latest forecast. In cedar rapids we just heard from the National Weather service they are not going to change the crest forecast. It remains at 23 feet. The latest stage. 15. 3. The 23 foot crest will stand as the forecast as we head through lowest sections of the old river road about 15. 5. It affect the lowest sections of palo, and edwards road majorly affected as we head toward 18 feet. The wapsi is down to 19 feet. Well take a look at the lels. And give you a look at the latest levels a little bit later. Just a cedar river in vinton is very close to cresting. Thats going to be a big relief for people who have been watching the river rise all day. Nicole griffin is live to give us the latest. This area of town near the Benton County sheriffs department. This road is closed tonight. Water completely covering the street. I spoke with a woman named becky sloan. She lives right next to the hinkle
Tom. Night partly cloudy. Wind w 1015 low 48 alo 47 dbq 46 iow 48 45 to 51 tuesday partly cloudy. High 68 low 48 wednesday partly cloudy. High 70 low 49 thursday partly cloudy. High 73 low 50 friday partly cloudy. High 73 low 52 saturday partly cloudy. High 74 low 52 sunday chance of showers. High 76 low 54 monday chance of storms. High 77 low 58 the Flood Warning continues for the cedar river at vinton. Until thursday. At 8 15 pm saturday the stage was 16. 2 feet. And rising. Flood stage is 15 feet. Minor flooding is occurring and major flooding is forecast. Uncertainty remains on fo routes through the river system. Forecasts may change. Forecast. Rise to 21. 5 feet monday morning. Fall below flood stage thursday. Impact. At 19. 5 feet. Water is at the bottom of the iowa highway 150 bridge. The Flood Warning continues for the cedar river at cedar rapids. Until saturday morning. At 9 00 pm saturday the stage was 9. 9 feet. And rising. Flood stage is 12 feet. No flooding is occurring an
River. You can see how high the liver levels have gotten. You will remember this bridge back in 2008 collapsed. It was rebuilt after the floods, and there it stapds now. It serves kind of as a Reference Point as to how quickly the cedar river is rising. We will check in with Connor Morgan, Stephanie Johnson, ke vun barry. We will be setting up our cbs 2 fox 28 drone within the hour, as well, to bring you live aerial shots awe cross eastern iowa. With that, good morni. Tracking the raising waters minute by minute. Minute. Im Kelly Dambrosio. The cedar river has been on the rise all weekend long and today into tomorrow is when flodo waters will really start cbs 2 an been monitoring the river and thats where he is now live in cedar rapids kevin what do you see right now. Its coming up next well check 711 7 11 on this monday morning. This is definitely a clearer shot than when we checked in a moment ago. A beautiful sunrise there. You can see the waters moving quickly under the bridge. Cbs
Try to save those. And they were not alone. There was a massive effort to save the areas. Here is a look at the flood defenses constructed over the weekend and how they are holding up so far. We have been showing you the air view all day long. Well show you some of the incredible images captured by the fox 28 drone from high communities, including palo, imosa. First, well get the latest on where the flood river stands right now. Lets turn to chief meteorologist terry swails. Lets get to some numbers here and show you where we are. And the cedar river at vin ton that means that crest has passed there. It is between cedar rapids and vinton and so that is probably close to palo. We are looking at seens like this. We did have residential areas flooded by the water. This home pretty much an island. Its definitely a problem in parts of palo as the river continues to rise there, but it should be very close to cresting in that, it moves down stream towards cedar rapids. We still think that cre