Of exhibits on his life and times and we have an exhibit to your left on the liberation of the philippines. I encourage you to explore and take time during the breaks. It will be opened until 5 00 today. This symposium is Great Partnership between the city of norfolk who provides key support to the macarthur memorial and their programs. I know we have several Board Members here and id like to recognize them for their support. I would like to recognize my staff who are here today and, quite frankly, helped make this happen. I may be the guy up here giving the welcoming remarks but without their hard work and dedication, we wouldnt be here today and we wouldnt be having the program were going to have, amanda, robert, please give them a round of applause. [ applause ] at this time, im going to bring jim forward who will emcee us for the rest of the day. Again, welcome and lets have a great day. All right. Welcome, yall. Glad you all could make it. This is our 15th symposium. We started in
We know how much you love to that. Like a good walk maybe with your girls or something around their. We are usually running toward the doughnuts wherever they are. Bear in thehnu newsroom. Ive managed to keep my child sequestered in the weather center. Great news for the weather here for the foxtrot. Re nothing going on on foxtrot doppler radar. Ng we have had quite a few thunderstorms. A neat time lapse coming up for you in just a littlese bit. Dry and humid partly sunny skies with temperatures in the low to mid seventieswith t and as we go the noon hour at a really starts to it really starts to warm up. E the way. T wa we did in 83 high today. That makes 25. Could today be number 26 . Popup thunderstorms possible. They were little more pop than popups yesterday especially on the west side. It really rained on a lot of folks but it will be it was fairly confined. W cedar point looking good there in northeast ohio sun clouds out there but another hot one as we saidthr and temperatures
After flood 2016. 2016. Governor Terry Branstad says its likely the state could qualify for federal funds to help recovery efforts. If damages exceed fourpointthree Million Dollars branstad will be able to request a president ial disaster declaration. President obama recently approved federal aid for eight counties hit with severe storm damage in august. My guess is based on what i have seen and the extensive touring on the areas i believe we will far exceed the threshold to get federal president ial disaster d designation. The Iowa Department of homeland president ial disaster designation. Reporter the Iowa Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management is working closely with communities impacted to get damage estimates. Even though the flood did not do much major rapids, it may be drowning local businesses. Court Connor Morgan joins us live with recovering downtown restaurants. Reporter yes, just because the devastation did not rival 2008, that doesnt mean the businesses a
All five linn county buildings closed by flood 2016 2016are now back open for business this morning. Morning. The Jean Oxley Public Service Center and the linn county courthouse are on the li. List. The 16th avenue bridge between Czech Village and newbo is now back open too. Organizers decided to cancel this years bacon fest at newbo city market this coming saturday. All tickets will be refunded. Organizers tell cbs 2 news the bacon lovers festival will return next year. Ushers ferry historic is cleaning up after the flood waters caused damage last week. Workers say theyre lucky because water only flowed into 4 buildings. Thats a lot less than in 2008 when they had to tear down 16 buildings. To prepare this time around staff and volunteers removed everything from buildings that could be impacted. This time , they say nothing was destroyed and the repairs are relatively minor. These 2 buildings will have to have 2 feet of drywall cut out and then well check out the floor but we think th
Within its banks. The Bank Accounts of some local businesses forced to shut down are a real concern. Fox news spoke with a number of operators trying to get back on their feet after last nights evacuations some are still paying off debt from the last flood in 2008. Still the owners say all though tough not impossible. You put one foot in the other, and go from there there is nothing else we can do. There is too much going on, weve come too far. I cant say that its 100 well be here forever but well make an effort. They plan to reopen by the latter half of this week. It is not just downtown shops trying to make up. Where despite dodging the flood they are still trying to reconnect with customers. It seems hard to talk about Flood Recovery when they didnt those who sand bagged or just offered a prayer are being asked to step up one more time to help small bus. Businesses. Shoooooooooooooooooooo oooooooosh. Ever since the hescos and sandbags came do. Down. Hows it going mayor ron cheerlead