Fidel castro. Thats the announcement today from the white house. The former dictator of cuba died over the weekend. Today marked the start of a tribute in havana, where tens of thousands of cubans are paying their respects. President elect donald trump tweeted today that he might end the obama administrations normalizing of relations with cuba. He said he wants cuba to make a better deal for the cuban people. In michigan, the board of state canvassers than 10 thousand people cast a ballot for him. Its the states closest race in more than 75 years. The win gives the republican 306 electoral votes to democrat Hillary Clintons 232. Green Party Candidate jill stein is expected to ask for a recount, and has until wednesday to do so. A judge will decide if former cedar rapids substitute teacher mary beth haglin, who is 24, originally denied the allegation to School Administrator s. But in numerous interviews with the media, she admitted that she had a sexual relationship with a 17yearold Was
Lining. The fact that ocean and atlantic county. People that have died from heroin overdoses since the beginning of this year. I met a family, im in the living room right now thats dealing with the heavy loss of brother and son, 29 year old Christopher Cox whose life spiraled later when he died from heroin overdosed. He never said goodbye. They tried everything to save them. I learned how to handle it and i mean i literally tried everything from my own face to other faiths to tough love, to overlove. Begging. Pleading. Christopher and his brother was inseparatable. Joseph decided to get clean, he remainses clean and hardworking till this day. Its a rush and youre chasing that rush and when youve realized that you can get the same rush out of doing something productive. Christopher can never escape life of crime and addiction, talking about struggles and connection and death of beloved brother and leaving brother, sisters and brother i felt a Different Energy than stories before. The fa
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
Sheriffs office says a car crossed the center line on 130th street and crashed with the semi around 8 30 last night. The cars driver died at the scene. Deputies are not releasing that persons name, pending notification of family. As were watching the flooding along the turkey river this hour, a focus is on clermont and elgin in fayette county. After more than a day of rising water, the turkey is cresting kcrgtv9s brea love has been reporting on the flooding all morning and joins us live from fayette county. Brea, what are you seeing out there right now . Chris, im standing at skip a way the resort its an rv camp ground thats been evacuated. Pretty much everything is gone except a couple campers theyre having issues moving. Weve been here since early the water began rising. Now according to Emergency Management the river has crested. Hopefully the water wont get to this area but residents spent a lot of time last night sandbagging just in case. This entire Community Came together to hel
Tonight chance of storms. Heavy rain possible. Wind s 510. Low 66 alo 65 dbq 65 iow 67 as justin mentioned, more flooding is expected in already flooded streets and basements in towns along the cedar river in floyd and butler counties. Kcrgtv9s brea love has been looking into the flooding throughout that area all morning and joins us live from north Butler High School. Brea, what are you seeing out there right now . Morning flooding is impacting flooding at the nashua dam on thursday, september 22nd, 2016. Emergency management officials in Butler County says the town of greene is one of the hardest hit areas. Trees have even fallen on some homes and power lines in that area. Early on thursday morning, ditches along some roads including 110th st. Leading into greene are flooded. A kcrgtv9 crew attempting to get into town had to turn around multiple times after running into flooded roads. Butler county Emergency Management tells tv9 people were out on wednesday night sandbagging in prepa