Its thursday, august 25th. Heres what you need to know today. A live look at an evacuated rv park in clermont. The turkey river is expected to crest there in just a few hours. You live close to a river and thats the worst flooding theyve seen in years as they start to clean up today. Rescue crews in italy are digging through rubble hoping to find more survivors. At least 247 people have died from a 6point2 earthquake. Eight years after flooding. And planning, the Northwest Recreation Center in cedar rapids is opening. This is the last project to use fema money from the 2008 flood. Students in waterloo have their first day of after voters rejected a multiMillion Dollar bond vote. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning news. Has your first alert forecast, kaj. Overall, we have a pretty quiet day in front of us as High Pressure builds in from the northwest. This High Pressure system will control our weather today and much of tomorrow as we
Theres flooding. We strongly recommend if theres flooding to contact the local Sheriffs Office let them know where the flooding has occurred and ask our Sheriffs Office to see if there is a safe way to get to the destination. The heavy rains forced people in freeport in Winneshiek County to evacuate this morning. But tonight, authorities are lettg roads covered in water. Kcrgtv9s Samantha Myers talked with homeowners about whats next. in some areas like right here where im standing the water is still up to my knees. Several people here in this freeport neighborhood were out here just a few hours ago going into their houses trying to recover what belongings they could, and trying to clean up. Nats darcie hurst spent much of her evening shoveling water and dirt. Out several houses in the neighborhoods basements caved in. We didnt get much sleep last night checking to make sure our basement didnt cave in firefighters evacuated the neighborhood early wednesday morning and allowed people to
Authorities in Chickasaw County were not able to save a driver pleading for help as he was being swept away by floodin. Flooding. It all happened just after 4 30 wednesday morning. Authorities say a driver called 911 near protivin saying floodwaters pushed his car off the road. Later, rescuers found the mans car near lawler. But no sign of the victim. After floodwaters was found. Authorities have not released his identity. Flooding in Winneshiek County from wednesday is still affecting parts of eastern iowa. School officials in decorah and riceville have cancelled classes again today. Decorah schools were forced to close on their first day back yesterday. Flood waters damaged several homes and businesses. Some were forced out of their homes before it was too late. We can hear water right away when when we got to our bedroom door we ran through the kitchen and opened the tidal wave of water the basement was filling up and the walls had collapsed in the basement and he said we need to ge
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Rapids. Once you get into the blue shaded areas thats what a 24foot crest would overspread. A lot of the area downtown and some residential areas hit back in twaightd will once again go under water if we get the crest of 24. 1 feet here in cedar rapids. Thats the latest reading that were anticipating. Now as we take a look at the river levels upstream. The cedar river and cedar falls. That expected to come in the Morning Hours on sunday. The cedar river in waterloo anticipating a major crest at 24. 8 feet. From there the river goes on down toward vin ton. 22. 1 feet and finally sometime monday night the river should crest here in cedar rapids at 24. 1 feet. And flood stages 12 feet. The interest thing about this it was expected to crest at 15 feet but because of that tremendous rain to the north the crest is now up about 9 feet in just 24 hours time. Still have a Flash Flood Watch in effect for much of area. This is extended now. A look at the latest radar. Showers and thunderstorms ar