And were standing by for an and weve probably been in 50 or update on the czu fire keeping so of these hurricanes. Thousands of people out of their so, you know, this is quite a homes. The third hour of today in the storm. It is the strongest storm that bay starts right now. Made landfall in this part of and a good thursday morning to you, thanks so much for the region right at the starting your morning right here with us. Louisiana texas border. Im marcus washington. Im laura garcia. A check on your commute with category 4. 150 mimileanhour winds and, mike in just moments. Cut across this area and left a but, first, some incredible lot of damage here. We know that buildings and homes images coming out showing the have been damaged extensively. Powerful hurricane that slammed flooding continues to be an into the louisiana texas border issue here. Overnight. Hundreds of thousands of people hurricane laura made landfall as a category 4 storm. Without power at this point. And the danger p
Negotiating. We bargained in good faith in a long process. Reporter the union objects to the policy of not filing in moving vehicles. So they sued. Have a judge order them back to the table. If they refuse to come back to the table im willing to let a superior court judge decide this or im willing to let an arbitrator decide this. Reporter the use of force policy is the final piece of mayor lees plan to implement 272 recommendations issued by the department of justice this year. On a brighter note, the union and the commission agreed on everything else. To get to the point where we agreed on 99 was wonderful. Reporter the tragedy in berlin has some members of the union more convinced than ever that officers need to be able to fire on moving vehicles even when the driver doesnt have a gun and in what might also be a historical moment [chuckling] tomorrow the union says they are going to go to Supreme Court im sorry, superior court here and file for restraining orders to prevent that use
Receiving their tickets to the inaugural ball and parade. We spoke to one woman who is preparing to go. This woman says she is excited to go to dc next week and she showed us those official documents she received just today. Liz richie got a very special delivery friday. Out comes fedex with my real ticket showing. How excited. Reporter excited because the tickets are for the inauguration of president elect donald trump in washington, d. C. The inauguration is right in here. And im going to be able to see it right there. Reporter richie is thrilled she showed us the official invitations that came a few weeks earlier embossed with a gold seal. This is the inaugural ball and this is to the welcome concert and to the inaugural parade. Im wanting to soak up every moment i coo from the whole entire experience. She is one of the 800,000 people attending the inauguration. Preparations are ranting up with flags hanging where trump will take the oath of office. About 1,000 of their members will
Right now, a temperature of 51 degrees here in cedar rapids with a west wind around 9 Miles Per Hour. That wind will be gusty today around 30 to 35 Miles Per Hour. Look at the dew point. It is 48 degrees. Much cooler and drier air settled in behind a cold front that did move through later on in the night. As we continue to look at temperatures from across your day planner today, around 9 00, well be at around 54. By noon, around 63 looking at High Temperature of around 66 today,and as we are having problems here, your forecast in for today. Mostly sunny and cool. It will be breezy, like i mentioned. Those winds west, 15 to 25 Miles Per Hour, gusting to around 35 Miles Per Hour. Were looking at High Temperatures in the low to middle 60s, maybe upper 60s down towards iowa city and washington. So much cooler and much less humidity in the forecast for minutes, i will be letting you know about the Current River levels and the current crest that we have for the cedar river here in cedar rapi
Something that we need to change. [cheers and applause] thank you is a great to be here. Not where we wish we were. [laughter] but it is great to be here in the wonderful to be with paul again. We had quite an experience and i know lot of you think it must just be awful running for are your for president a Different Hotel and debate after debate with the primaries and the general and the adoring press. [laughter] but yet the truth is it is a magnificent experience because you get to see the country person by person, a statebystate. The people that make the news do something stranger or an unusual. But the people we could see were wonderful and it made me more optimistic about our future. If you get a chance to run for president , led to its. [laughter] [applause] there was no better person to be a vice president. [applause] if you take a shot at me. [laughter] we have some of room questions of the book you have written in and i have read it and i hope you have as well. End paul actuall