Proclamation for the flash flooding damage in five northeast iowa counties. They are allamakee, clayton, fayette, howard and now use state money to help with Emergency Response and recovery efforts. Lets go over to clermont in fayette county, where were hearing about voluntary evacuations. Kcrgtv nines Samantha Myers joins us live there. Sam, what are you seeing . Have started working to open a shelter in the last hour at the Valley Community school news happening, call newsline nine. The number for that is 3193659999. From base camp to campus. Thousand of veterans whove risked their lives overseas are now back in the us, and going back to school. Hear why one univrs the transition from soldier to student isnt necessarily an easy one. Stay come to an end, bringing much needed dry air to the state. A cold front continues to slide to the east and with it a comfortable end to the work week. Be on the lookout for some patchy fog to start our friday. Saturday, however, best chance will be l
Skies, turning mostly cloudy through Late Afternoon and evening. A few sprinkles are possible. As for temperatures, they will warm near 80 degrees and it will feel sticky outside. Overnight low temperatures will drop into the 60s once again. As for sunday, we have the chance of a few more isolated showers and storms. Skies will be partly sunny and temperatures will be warmer into the low 80s. Today occasional showers and thunderstorm s, especially in the morning. Humid. Wind sw 515. High 77 alo 76 dbq 76 iow 78 74 to 80 tonight a few showers or storms possib iow 65 61 to 67 thanks britley. Now that river levels are going down in northeast iowa, people can start cleaning up and drying out. Some of the hardest hit areas were along the turkey river in winneshiek, fayette and clayton counties. It all started on several people to evacuate their homes on wednesday morning. High water washed out an rv park in clermont in Fayette County the next day. We talked with some people who live at the
For our chances with rain kaj . Plan on another breezy and warm day. Storms will be knocking on the northwest door later today and into the night. Heavy rain is possible out of any storm given the amount of heat present. A few storms northwest of waterloo will carry the risk of a few strong wind gusts as well. Overall, the weather pattern will be very active for the next 36 hours with heavy rain the main risk going into wednesday. Rainfall totals over 2 still appears possible over the northern half of the region. By thursday morning, the rain is gone and off to the east with our next cold front coming in here on friday. This ont ll ve ideal wthernditions saturdaye highest chance is in the northwest. Warm and muggy. Nd sw 1020. High 89 night storms become likely. Heavy rain possible. Wind sw 515. Low 70 tomorwstormskely. Especially late in the afternoon rough eveni. High 84 m. Night y candidates are back out trying to persuade more voters to cast a ballot for them and their cause. For d
About a half hour ago on the preparations and plans underway. They plan to continue sandbagging, protecting homes and businesses, and prepping for whatever comes this way this afternoon. We sp josh. Who wanted to make sure elkader residents knew what to do to stay safe. I would just like everybody to stay away from downtown as much as we can. I know everybody wants to see the water , but if so we can get our jobs done and protect the community. Again the flooding is crested at 22 and a half feet the water is rapidly moving out here ive seen completely submerged. Businesses sandbagged and closed. Remember to try and stay away from downtown if youre in elkader, and stay with tv9 for the latest. Live in elkader. Governor Terry Branstad is touring some of the floodaffected areas across northeast iowa today. He issued disaster proclamations for flooding howard and winneshiek counties. These counties can now use state money to help with flooding response and recovery efforts. The governor is
Morning news. First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on another breezy and warm day. Northwest door later today and into the night. Heavy rain is possible out of any storm given the amount of heat present. A few storms northwest of waterloo will carry the risk of a few strong wind gusts as well. Overall, the weather pattern will be very active for the next 36 hours with heavy rain the main risk going into wednesday. Rainfall totals over 2 still appears possible over the northern half of the coming in here on friday. This front will also bring a rain chance with it. This weekend will be great, and the iowa iowa state game will have ideal weather conditions saturday night with a kickoff temperature in the upper 60s. Today a chance of storms in the afternoon. The highest chance is in the northwest. Warm and muggy. Wind sw 1020. High 89 tonight storms become likely. Heavy rain possible. Wind sw 515. Low 70 tomorrow storms likely. Heavy rain is possible, es