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Construction will soon begin on permanent flood protection in cedar rapids. Rapids. Cbs 2 News Reporter Stephanie Johnson johnsonis live in cedar rapids this morning to explain where the city plans to start the project. Good morning . The city will soon build a levee that will start here at the African Museum and stretch all the way to tenth avenue where the alliant sub station is located. The city broke ground on the 14million dollar project on tuesday. The levee will be thirteen to seventeen feet high. The city wants to build it high enough to protect from flood levels seen in 2008. The project will also include a fouracre catch basin and new pumping stationsos dollars. For now, mayor ron corbett says the sinclair levee will cover just the east side of the river, near newbo. Were starting in the lowest lying area first so this is the lowest area, its the first place to get flooded so the work that is done today will actually have impact tomorrow and then well go to the next lowest ar
Temperatures areawide upper 40s from charles city down to waterloo, iowa city the warm spot at 61, there are wind speeds gusting from 6 to 16 Miles Per Hour out of the north northwest. Mostly cloudy skies, scattered showers moving in this afternoon, we have showers getting in around 9 00 in the morning they will be with us until the early afternoon and then by 4 00 they will exit the area. Cloudy and breezy today scattered showers temperatures in the low to mid 50s, freeze warnings and frost advisories tonight into tomorrow morning, i will let you know how low the temperatures go coming up. Construction will soon begin on permanent flood protection in cedar rapids. Stephanie johnson is live in cedar rapids explaining where the city is going to start. Reporter good morning, the that will start at the African American museum stretching 2 10th avenue. Where the substation is located, yesterday the city broke ground on the 14 million project, the city wants to build it high enough to prote
Closed. Johns ton counties are closed and more schools are on a two hour delay. Wilson county schools also with an optional teacher work day. You can find a complete list of closings at wral. Com. Boy, those streets look rough in some areas of the state. Elizabeth, those flood waters are going to be there for a while. They are. Were going to be taking at the different river basins. Cape fear starting to see things improving a little bit there. Well talk about some of the rivers and when theyre going to crest. Downtown rale, you can see sunshine and low cloud cover. Patchy fog in spots. 49 in durham and wake forest. Goldsboro. Pretty big spread in our temperatures this morning. 72 at lunchtime and a high of 78. Pretty and dry through the weekend. Temperatures drop through tomorrow. Right now, send it back to you. Matthew left a lot of damage behind. More in fact than anyone knows right now. Theres some spots they havent been able to get to. The crews arent expecting weak spots as we bry
Rnet and unlimited calling. Say yes to more. Call now. Eyewitness news. Flood water finally going down across the state. The next steps to restore what was lost. What you can do to help flood survivors. Plus. The governor. Touring the gop facility. firebombed over the weekend. What weve learned about the investigation. And. What former carolina student Chandler Kania said in court before he was hauled off to prison for causing a deadly wrongway crash on i85. Eyewitness news starts right n it now comes down to the three rs. receding water. recovery. And rebuilding after matthew. Good evening, everyone. Im steve daniels. And im tisha powell. The governor tonight. Says water levels statewide should return to normal. By the end of the week. And the drive through North Carolina has gotten much easier. Interstate 95. Is now open. Without any detours from governor mccrory also focusing on rebuilding. He plans to appoint a a Hurricane Recovery Task force. Focused on helping people. And putting