Developing this morning in Iowa City Police are looking for more information after a man approached a young girl walking home from school and offered to give her a ride home. Home. The 9yearold was walking home from Lemme Elementary School along washingtion street around 4 thirty tuesday. The girl told police she was on the phone with her mother at the time and ran to a nearby church. Church. Officers were not able to find the suspect. Anyone with information is asked to call iowa city number on this screen. Its also posted online at cbs 2 iowa dot com. A 7yearold waterloo boy is in the hospital this morning after being hit by a pick up truck last night. Night. It happened on westeleventh street. Waterloo police say the boy was unconscious when they arrived. The boy was first taken to Covenant Medical Center and then flown to iowa City Hospitals with life threatening injuries. No names were given out as to those involved. Right now police the number of homes burglarized in cedar rapids
We see crashes with passing, so lighting and marking will help drivers better visualize and assess the speed of farm equipment. Here in iowa researchers say increasing visibility would decrease crashes from 164 to 65 annually. Weve put a link to the study on our website, information. In iowa city, mark carlson, kcrg tv nine news. Nearly 500 jobs are going away in iowa city as a company reduces its work force. International Automotive Components has 600 hourly employees right now, but will reduce that to 160. Theyll also cut nearly 40 salaried positions, leaving them at 39. Iac says theyre forced to make the cuts because of the downturn in the dodge dart, but with that vehicle phased out. Lets check in now with meteorologist justin gehrts. Justin, itll be a little chillier overnight . A light wind and clear sky will lead to a cool night in the 30s with patches of frost. Tomorrow will be another seasonably cool and sunshiney day with highs returning to the middle to upper 50s. The weeken
Across eastern iowa due to the clear skies overnight and the cool temperatures. As the sun comes up that frost will disappear as temperatures warm into the middle to upper 50s once again. A few clouds will be with us throughout the day, but it wont be too terribly bad. Well call it party sunny. Winds will continue out of the north throughout the day, but begin to shift as the evening progresses. Winds will soon push out of the south allowing for our temperatures to warm into the 60s for saturday and especially for sunday. Today mostly sunny. Wind nw 510. 52 to 58 tonight partly cloudy. Wind s 510. Low 39 alo 38 dbq 39 iow 39 36 to 42 thanks britley. Hillary clinton and donald trump met last night at a catholic fundraiser in new york city where candidates usually trade lighthearted jabs. As andy rose reports, this year, the jabs had an edge. The annual al Smith Memorial the president ial candidates to show their fun side in the campaigns home stretch. But once again little is typical ab
Again, 2016 hasnt been a Political Year that is traditional. Because this is a friendly dinner for such a great cause, donald, if at any time you dont like what im saying feel free to stand up and shout wrong at me while im talking. Ive known hillary a long time. This is the First Time Ever ever that hillary is sitting down and speaking to Major Corporate leaders and not getting paid for it. The al smith also raises money for catholic charities. The archbishop of new york hosts the annual event. Suicide bombers this morning are trying to stop the Iraqi Military from getting to mosul. Isis took control of that countrys 2nd largest city more than 2 years ago. Abcs Angelica Spanos reports. Nat blast a series of explosions shakes the city of kirkuk as we see some of the nat many people trapped and caught between the crossfire of isis fighters and the Iraqi Kurdish coalition. Sot escapee, translated we managed to escaped to the kurdish controlled area we were brought to f here i was extreme
Housing environment isnt always as easy to obtain as we first might imagine. The issue of Affordable Housing in cedar rapids is a perennial one, but this summer it came to a head with a controversy surrounding the Crestwood Ridge mixed Income Development proposed for some land along edgewood road. Here with me this morning to untangle some member of our city council. Thank you for joining us, scott. Scott my pleasure. Heather phoebe trepp who is the executive director of willis dady shelter. Phoebe thanks for having me. Heather welcome phoebe. And lynda waddington, a columnist for the gazette. Lynda good morning. Heather good morning, lynda. Thank you all so much for joining us. I thought we would begin very quickly with a little bit of an overview of how has shifted over the years. Many years ago when i was in school in chicago, i used to do a lot of volunteer work with what was at the time called the projects, cabrinigreen. That kind of concentrated, lowincome housing is a model that