High pressure builds in from the northwest. This High Pressure system will control our weather today and much of tomorrow as well. Later on friday night, there is potential for a few showers and thunderstorms, becoming widespread after midnight and into saturday. Hopefully most of this can wait until after football is over. Several lines of storms are possible on saturday, but the overall risk of anything severe is very low at this time. Much of the rain should get out of here by sunday morning leading to a dry second half of the weekend. A tropical system should develop over or near florida next week, which may lead to our weh ttern stalling out r at lst 3 4 days. Stay tun tonight partly cloudy. Patchy g posble. Wind light nw low 56 tomorrow partly sunny and pleasant. An oted shower is poie ine evening high 76 tom. Night scattered understorms developing. Wind e 510. Low 64 anks kaj. Communitsn northeast iowa rain. Anywhere from 4 to more than 8 inches of rain overwhelmed rivers and cr
Meteorologist terry swails starts us off with your a potentially lifesaving injection is grabbing a lot of headlines right now. Now. Epipens are designed to save a person experiencing a liftthreatening allergic react. Reaction. But take a look at the cost in recent years. Nearly four times higher than just four years ago. Cbs 2 news first told you about this problem last month. Month. Now. Cbs 2 news anchor matt hammill joins us with an update, matt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Some parents tell us theyre paying thousands of dollars because they have to carry five or six epi pens for their kids. Tonight senator Charles Grassley is demanding the manufacturer explain why. It is not optional equipmenta the manufacture explain why. It is not optional equipment. A child stung by a bee or epipen but the epinephrine shot that has remained pretty much the same has jumped from about 100 to more than 600 in six years. s. I received senator. Grassley wants answers and he feels for the families.
School is back in session in eastern iowa cbs 2 News Reporter Stephanie Johnson is live right now in iowa city. City. Where students are getting ready to head back to class today. Stephanie good m. Morning. Good morning kelly yeah students in iowa city will need an umbrella or rain coat for their first day of school im right outside of southeast junior high where School Starts just before 9 oc. Different than Elementary Students who start class at 7fifty five. The School District is reminding parents about this swap in start times. They believe these start times better suit the different age groups. The district also made changes to discretionary buses, prioritizing areas where it is needed the most. Stephen murley, superintendent 22 41 48 we only had so much money that we could devote to discretionary busing, so given that, we couldnt bus every child that lives within two mil miles. Theyre planning for more traffic to start off the year. They hope drivers are paying attention so all k
In rural linn county. In them you can see some funnel clouds from that same storm system. So lets bring in meteorologist chris havely with your first alert forecast. , we took a lot of calls about the tornado sirens going off. But it seems like it was a pretty small twister . Any shower or storms in the area will quickly dissipate once the sun sets, and temperatures similar to saturday nights where we will have some people in elkader are exhausted weekend cleaning up flood debris. And the work isnt done yet. The turkey river crested at 22 and a half feet on friday. Thats about five feet lower than the National Weather service predicted. People stacked sandbags along the river to protect the town. Who wouldnt after seeing the river like this. Kcrg friday. Water gushed past businesses that have been closed since thursday. Tv nines jordee kalk shows us the citys progress. 14 03, and it was over the railing here, and you couldnt come down here, the waves were just splashing. This isnt paul
Department says a pan of grease left on the kitchen stove is what started the fire. In the last four days, fire crews have responded to six building fires in cedar rapidsbringing the total to eleven this month. Its the last day of summer for kids in the Iowa City Community school district. District. Cbs 2 News Reporter Mellaney Moore mooreis live with a few last minute reminders. As kids in this district go back to School Parents need to be mindful of how their kids are getting to school and when. When. This North Liberty mom is enjoying the last day of summer with her three kids. Her oldest starts first grade wednesday at garner elementary cheryl wroblewski, North Liberty mother11 47 51 itll be an adjustment for us tomorrow getting ready for school. The family needs to get ready earlier than last year. Elementary students start at 7 55 and get out at 2 55junior and senior high students will be in school from 8 50 to 4 00. 22 40 34 kids in junior high and high school do better if they