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
Fire at a cedar rapids landmark that every resource the city had. The next step more than two years after the proposal was denied. The first look after one of the most anticipated nood rekov roy project. Welcome this morning. Taking a live look at a still dark i380 and cold stream avenue. You can see on the roadway that not only are the headlights on, thats a good thing, but the road has some water on it, too. Already seeing rain fall. Be sure to be careful. Your morning commute. Welcome this morning. Lets go on over to rebecca with our weather first forecast. We have some heavy rain moving through parts of eastern iowa and most of the area is going to be seeing that threat for heavy rain as the day goes on. This morning, weve had a Flash Flood Warning in effect for Northern Counties, and it is still raining. This includes the city of walk this continues, once again, until 7 15, and there is still rain that is falling and moving in. This is all associated with a very slowmoving cold fr
A fire has shut down a popular cedar rapids restuarant and damaged a local bar thats just next door. Door. Right now fire officials are trying to figure out what caused flames to destroy the roof at rileys caf. Cafe. The Fire Department sent every truck and firefighter they had to battle the fire in 90degree heat. It happened right ater 330 and closed the busy road during the afternoon commute. Rileys was closed a manager at moose mcduffys was there while firefighters were working on the buildings and talked to both owners. Same spot same location meeting spot and have family gatherings here its quite a loss, such an iconic restaurant restaurant. It was scary seeing the firemen with axes and chainsaws and wondering if that was my roof to their roof. Roof. One firefighter had to be sent to the hospital for hes expected to be okay. The Salvation Army was on scene handing out water and gatorade to firefighters. Investigators say the fire started near a ventilation fan. Remember when you s
The sun is coming out and i and very grateful. Rebecca we are handing over to see who tells about the weather today. I even need air conditioning, we might open the doors, it is warm in here, you guys might have to keep your jackets on for a little while. The sun is starting to rise to allow temperatures to increase, they have dropped a bit last hour but a beautiful sunris cedar rapids, temperatures are still in the 50s. 50 degrees in core and we could have spots over highway 20 that are in the 40s, they may not show her. 53 now and cedar rapids and 52 nearby. It will be so on the way to the bus stop temperatures in the lower 50s and you may need a jacket when you step out side, the kids maybe one as well. To the daytoday everyone will areawide here is the fright fest forecast, youre headed out at noon will be 72, 73 basic and temperatures will start to fall down to about 65 degrees by 9 pm. There is a concert going on later tonight, it will be a gorgeous night and it will be cooling d
Plenty of of the lowest clouds, but otherwise, a dry day continues to be on track. Plan on the wind to really enforce the chill during the day and even with highs in the upper 50s to lower 60s, itll likely feel like the 50s the entire day. Tomorrow through sunday, the weather continues to be very consistent with upper 60s to lower 70s likely. Next week, well have a brief warm up well into the 70s by tuesday with a seasonable cold front generating some showers or storms going towards midweek. Today mostly cloudy and cool. A few sprinkles are possible, mainly northeast. Wind nw 1020. High 62 tonight partly cloudy. Wind n 510. Low 48 tomorrow mostly sunny. Not as windy. Wind n 515. High 70 tom. Night partly cloudy. Across cedar rapids, most people are see the crest of 22 feet and think the city will be okay. But the threat of flooding still exists in cedar rapids with many low lying at a ave ne and 5th street this morning. Forrest, when does the city say things can get back to normal . Du