Will allow for our temperatures to climb back into the 70s for some on halloween. Today partly cloudy. Wind n 510 high 58 alo 57 dbq 56 iow 58 55 to 61 tonight partly cloudy. Wind se 515 low 46 alo 44 dbq 44 iow 46 43 to 49 thanks britley. New this morning, a powerful earthquake overnight did a lot of damage in central italy. Hit in the mountains about 2 hours north of rome. Italian Officials Say the earthquake collapsed buildings in several cities. Witnesses say that includes a cathedral dating back to the 14th century. Todays earthquake comes just two months after another killed nearly 300 in the same area. Officials say the earthquake in august may have actually saved lives today. Thats because a lot of people are still evacuated and living in shelters in other parts of the country. Of campaigning before election day. Theres only nine days left before people head to the polls across the country. For Hillary Clinton, the last few days of her president ial campaign will likely focus o
Will allow for our temperatures to climb back into the 70s for some on halloween. Today partly cloudy. Wind n 510 high 58 alo 57 dbq 56 iow 58 55 to 61 tonight partly cloudy. Wind se 515 low 46 alo 44 dbq 44 iow 46 43 to 49 thanks britley. New this morning, a powerful earthquake overnight did a lot of damage in central italy. Hit in the mountains about 2 hours north of rome. Italian Officials Say the earthquake collapsed buildings in several cities. Witnesses say that includes a cathedral dating back to the 14th century. Todays earthquake comes just two months after another killed nearly 300 in the same area. Officials say the earthquake in august may have actually saved lives today. Thats because a lot of people are still evacuated and living in shelters in other parts of the country. Of campaigning before election day. Theres only nine days left before people head to the polls across the country. For Hillary Clinton, the last few days of her president ial campaign will likely focus o
Iowa unveiled new state flood maps today, eight flooding that hit cedar rapids and other parts of eastern iowa in 2008. Those floods devastated areas that people didnt people who experienced flooding then know if theyre still in the path of danger. The sixyear effort to create and update maps. Started in 2010. The Program Costs 15 Million Dollars. And the Us Department of housing and urban development funded most of it. Kcrg tv nines Dave Franzman joins us from along the cedar river in cedar rapids. Dave, just how extensive is the flood mapping that is finally wrapped up . Beth, the mapping doesnt just cover major the Iowa Flood Center studied every single stream that drains more than one square mile of territory and mapped out the flooding potential. The Iowa Flood Center may consider the mapping officially complete now. But the city of cedar rapids used the data this fall to fight off the second highest crest ever on the cedar rapids. The information compiled by the flood center pred
Here in parkersburg. They say this afternoons storms brought back flashbacks of the historic 2008 tornado that killed seven people and injured dozens more people. Thankfully, they say that wasnt the case today. The city says at this time theres no reported injuries. Officials say most of the storm damage was limited to northeast part of town, where the tornado lifted a few buildings of their foundations. In one case, the foundation. The city says this home along orchid drive was hit the hardest in the storm. I spoke to the homeowners and they tell me shingles are missing but overall the damage is pretty minimal. Again, there are no injuries in this storm and minor damage. Cleanup is expected to continue tomorrow morning. Live in parkersburg, jordee kalk, lets check in now with meteorologist joe winters. Joe, november tornadoes are rare, but, as we learned today, they do happen. After a mild monday the mercury falls the next several days, bringing more weather reminiscent of december. T
Accumulation s are likely, a brief reduction in visibility could occur in the more robust snow showers. This also looks to be another typical cloudy week too with little chance to see the sun beyond today. Our next chance of precipitation beyond tomorrow comes up later this weekend. Have a good day today mostly sunny. Wind sw 515. High 50 tonight mostly cloudy. Wind w 510. Low 31 tomorrow chance of light snow. Little to no accumulation. Wind w 1525. High 38 tom. Night scattered flurries. Wind w 1015. Low 32 thanks kaj. Raising money all day on kcrgtv9 to help feed seniors. That means every penny raised today goes to the Heritage Area Agency on aging and its senior Meals Program. Last year, with your help, we provides meals delivered to seniors stuck in their home. It also offers meals at several dining sites across the sevencounty region heritage serves. Last year, that totaled more than 320thousand meals for seniors in need. Statewide, about 72,000 seniors dont know when or where they