Still have hurricane conditions on the coast,storm surge heavy rainfall you dont have to be near the center of the storm to be at the center of action in land areas. Fema warning residents in the affected areas to leave before its too late. Angelica spanos on cam tag florida, gov. Rick scott says thousands of National Guardsman are standing by to help as they confront what could be the largest Hurricane Evacuation in the states history. Were bringing in meteorologist joe winters. Joe, how strong is matthew right now . Were just a little more than next both Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump have campaigned in person or with surrogates over the last few months. Today, clintons daughter, chelsea, stopped in dubuque, drawing a crowd at the university of dubuque. Kcrgtv nines Katie Wiedemann joins us live. Katie, you spoke with Chelsea Clinton one onone. Yes and we got a chance to talk about what her mom is like as a person and as a strenghts shed have as president. Chels
Yeah, even that little bit like i said will help us out. Sot nat bunting was too busy to attend this ceremonial groundbreaking. But others made the Late Afternoon trip to see a significant first step. Temporary sand barriers will still be needed if the river gets close to the level of two weeks ago. But not as many and none that will divide newbo and leave some businesses exposed. This will protect all the investments in newbo and we wont have businesses on wet de side this is a big day for cedar rapids, a very big day for cedar rapids to get us going in the right direction so we dont have to live through what we lived through two weeks ago. Moving the dirt and building one pumping station here is a 14Million Dollar project. Another pumping station near 8th avenue southeast will bring this first step investment to about 20 Million Dollars. A good portion of that come from the sales tax money the state is allowing the city to use for flood protection. City leaders say those pumping stat
Clouds have taken over and will be with us over the next few days. Even without the sunshine, our afternoon highs will make it into the 70s this weekend thanks to a southerly wind. Lows will be held up in the 50s, so we wont be dealing with frost again for a while. Showers and storms are possible late saturday into saturday night. Mondays looking warm with highs edging close to 80. Well fall back down from there, wind s 1020. Low 57 alo 56 dbq 55 iow 57 tomorrow mostly cloudy and windy. A few showers and storms are possible late. Wind s 1525. High 73 alo 73 dbq 72 iow 74 beth . An iowa city woman faces up a government building. Sarrina bancroft is accused of threatening to blow up the department of Human Services building in iowa city. Shes 21. Bancroft is also accused of threatening to hunt down and kill anyone involved in a court case to remove her son from her custody. Police arrested her last night. An offduty black hawk someone while intoxicated. Court records show Waterloo Police
When rescue crews finally found her, they placed her on a back board. Fire fighters above ground used a tripod to pull her out through a nearby man hole. A rescue effort some city leaders say could have been avoided. Other people had to put themselves in harms way in order to be able to rescue someone from that space. City leaders from several departments will meet later this week to ways to keep people from trying to explore the mine shafts. In dubuque Katie Wiedemann kcrg tv9 news. That dangerous old mine shaft in dubuque is not alone. The Us Department of agriculture says iowa has about 27 hundred of these mine shafts across the state. About six months ago, some des moines homeowners discovered one under their house when a sinkhole opened in front of their home. Historians say it dates moines coal company. The usda said an air shaft in the old coal mine probably eroded over time and caused the collapse. Meteorologist joe winters joins us now with our first alert forecast. Joe, a lit
Any pictures you may have taken. The united way says so many people came out to help, that they couldnt keep track of everybody at the beginning, it was all hands on deck, everyone was just out because of the urgency of sandbagging, so everyone put their efforts forward Michael Goldberg from linn county Emergency Management says you have to make sure you register your hours with the city you worked them in. He says they would go granted. For example, cedar rapids would get money to help pay for protecting the city from flood. Hesco barriers, the cost of the contractors, labor cost from employees can be used. The equipment that was used. All of that can be calculated as emergency protective to be better prepared to log peoples hours in future disasters. I asked them if they feel people will be honest on their applications. Ill have their answer at six. Live in cedar rapids phil reed, kcrg tv9 news governor branstad also announced today the creation of a Flood Recovery task force. Compri