The flooding will continue as waters rise through the next several hours,,but little rain is in the forecast. There is a slight chance for showers late tomorrow night into wednesday. There will be a chance for light snow rain mix in nw ia. The rest of the week is dry. But much cooler. Highs will drop to the 30s and lows in the teens. Next week looks dry and warmer. Even with the crest coming along fleur drive in the morning. The Public Works Department closed the road around 3oclock today. Parts of nearby Waterworks Park are also underwater. Forcing Jolly Holiday lights to close for the season twoweeks the baricades are also up along the bike trail near 63rd and grand. Walnut creek is covering a portion of the trial under the grand avenue bridge. Walnut creek also flooded parts of clive today. Crews closed swanson boulevard for several hours today. The greenbelt trail along the creek remains closed. In the town of luther, homes are their own little islands. Kristen hethcot didnt need t
With temperatures cool in thh first on 13. Barricades are up and levees are on standby throughout the metro this morning. Thats as flood estimates creep up overnight. Two of des moines main waterways already sit at moderate flood stage. And they arent going down yet. The Raccoon River is well its already four feet above flood stage. And estimates continue to grow. Experts now expect it to crest overnight wednesday. At 18. 5 feet. That would mean. All levee gates close at water works park. And across george flagg parkway at southwest 18th. This morning, you can plan on fleur drive being closed. The Public Works Department closed it around 3oclock yesterday. Water buildup in waterworks park. Has already forced Jolly Holiday lights to close for the season twoweeks early. The Des Moines River is creeping up this morning as well. It currently sits over 26 feet. Thats two feet above flood stage. Crest is expected for tomorrow afternoon. At 27. 5 feet. Barricades are also up along the bike tr
Brad wx wall weather adlib today turned out pretty nice with less wind and milder temperatures well, why stop this great, fall weather now . We are going to do even better this weekend look for clear skies and fairly light winds tonight as temps fall back into the 30s by saturday morning. Jack the town of knoxville says they got no warning why the sirens didnt sound during iowas latest round of Severe Weather. Societys looking favorably on the veterans and i want to keep it that way. Stephanie a veteran spends 15,000 dollars of doing it . Jack and French Police storm a paris concert hall, ending the hostage situation. But not before a tremendous loss of life. The latest on this breaking news, straight ahead. Local 5 news at 10 in hd starts now. We are iowa stephanie a city thats known terrorism itself a city thats known terrorism itself stands for france tonight. This is the 408 foot spire on top the new World Trade Center in new york city, lit blue, white and red in honor of victims k
Memorial. Ricks favorite may we never forget any veterans who served our country remembering his own fallen friends. Is enivetable. You just do it around town its drawing finger pointing attention and creating the good kind of buzz. You know its just a wonderful thing, one more thing to be proud of its beautiful a memorial saluting veterans past present and future. For all to see. I see visions of 3040 people there, and i see visions of hundreds. Tears from grimes, Claire Powell local 5 news we are iowa stephanie the memorial is located right across from Grimes Public Library and city park. For more information head to our website at we are iowa dot com. We want to know what you think of the memorial. A chance to see you can post you thoughts on twitter. Or send us an call. Hear what you think your screen. In your local headquarters. Spotlight is on weekend for the next president ial debate. Three president ial be at drake the debate starts at 8 pm tomorrow night cbs. Chief political a
Differences. Theyre going to have a hard time figuring out how to move forward here, so im more concerned about them, what are they going to do, whats their option here . Im waiting for the feds to approve his plan to privatize the states medicaid system. Four outof state companies will be taking over the program by january 1st if all goes smoothly. There is some concern about the deadline being too ambitious for hospitals to get on board and for medicaid customers to shop around for new care providers. But the governors confident it will get done and the states medicaid will be part of a system. Which better healthcare for people who are program. Without coordinated care, we have one provider basically medicatin, another, times are in conflict with eachother and the hopital or emergency room. Stephanie also says the 51million dollars once the through. Office has not numbers or the math to explain how they came up with the numbers. The department of Human Services says they used actuar