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
Spread over them so the heat of the pumpkins and the heat of the earth. We will get through a cold night. To make sure of that crews are bringing in pumpkins from the fields. Thatll do damage if you leave them out here. Living in iowa, its something hes been through before with Mother Nature weather is an issue if you are out in ag. And she is not a pleasant partener. And its a cold one out there people are bundled up like it was winter. Hot chocolate but before you know it Mother Natures mind will change temp the wind. Be patient it weekend has myers and the rest of heartland farms pretty excited. Hallelujah we like sunny warm weekends. Tell the weather man he is doing well. Kyle hes pretty happy with you tonight and im sure a lot of people are feeling the same way. Youll be this weekend. Weve got you covered, Lauren Moss Kwwl news. That freeze warning goes into effect from one until nine tomorrow morning. Most of eastern iowa dry after the 2016 flooding but a lot of clean up work sti
Storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan is here now with your storm track seven forecast. Freeze warnings and frost advisories continue over us through mi freezing in many areas this morning. Which is 2030 degrees colder than this point yesterday morning. Kind of big change winds are very light and we have mainly clear skies. The perfect conditions for cold temps. And we stay cool. Highs will climb into the 50s today with south winds only 5 to 10 mph. We stay chilly tonight but we start another warm up tomorrow. Ill have those details in a few decision 2016 coverage this morning. Donald trump is denying claims that he actually did what he talked about on that access hollywood videotape. Several women are now coming forward with Sexual Assault allegations. Trump denies them all. Tracie potts is in washington with more on that plus the New York Times that happened when she sat next to donald trump on a plane. Pageant contestants. Also coming forward he turned to me and embraced shock
Election may have seen more than its fair sheriff mudslinging but in Hernando County one woman claims the political attacks got physical for her. People are going nuts. Reporter she was sitting in the Doctors Office wearing her trump button one minute the next. He had a newspaper in his hand and he whacked me on the side of the eye. Reporter mike idol of springhill who admits the trump button set her off. Not exactly how she remembers it. He came right up like this, i looked up and he goes i am not sitting by you. Reporter that close . Yes and i went i dont care where you sit so i put my head down and that is when he came over and said what do you want me too do apologize . I said i want you to get away from me, that is what i want you to do. Reporter he did by the time i wasnt criticizing her for wearing the trump badge that is her right, i respect anybodys right i just got incensed by seeing that. Reporter you regret this . I do i seriously do. There is remorse in my heart. Reporter