Po through the day. Tonight, expect clear and Cool Conditions with widespread 20s. For those that have not experienced a hard freeze yet this season, you should get one tonight. This weekend continues to look great with highs primarily in the lower 50s saturday and upper 50s low 60s on sunday. Have a great weekend today mostly sunny. Wind n 1020. High 54 tonight clear and colder. Wind light. Low 28 tomorrow sunny. Wind sw 515. High 52 tom. Night clear. Wind sw 510. Low 33 thanks kaj. This morning, crews in Waterloo Commercial street. We spoke with authorities this morning and will continue to follow this developing story. Stay with us here and online, at kcrg dot com. Today is veterans day, a day when america honors all men and women whove served. Some veterans struggle after leaving the military and too many end up homeless. In eastern iowa, the Hawkeye Area Community Action program, or hacap, has a mission to Operation Home. We send our military men and women off to fight in foreign
From your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning news. First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first today will be another quiet day, though cooler than yesterday. A few more scattered clouds will be possible, but otherwise the sky should remain fairly clear through the day. Tonight, expect clear and Cool Conditions with widespread 20s. For those that have not experienced a hard freeze yet this season, you should get one tonight. This weekend continues to look great with highs primarily in the lower 50s saturday and upper 50s low 54 tonight clear and colder. Wind light. Low 28 tomorrow sunny. Wind sw 515. High 52 tom. Night clear. Wind sw 510. Low 33 in an update we brought you earlier this morning, trespassing after a fire in waterloo. Crews in waterloo responded to 919 commercial street just after three oclock this morning. No one was hurt, but the waterloo fired Department Says it rescued one person from an upstairs apartment. We are working with authorities to get more
Soaking rain as a tropical system moves over florida and hugs the coastline. In response, our beautiful weather will continue through sunday. By sunday night into monday, our next chance of rain arrives. Have a great day, and enjoy the welcome dry break today mostly sunny and less humid. Wind ne 515. High 79 tonight clear and comfortable. Wind ne 510. Low 56 tomorrow mostly sunny, spectacular. Low humidity. Wind ne 510. High 75 tom. Night clear and cool. Wind light ne low 53 thanks kaj. Countys minimum wage today. Its the first of 3 votes that would boost the minimum wage, eventually becoming 10. 25 an hour in 2019 during this morning meeting, the supervisiors are set to ask the county attorney to officially start drafting an ordinance. Their second and third readings of the ordinance are september 6th and 12th. Supervisors rejected some calls for a lower minimum wage for workers ages 1417. One of iow wapello county, may also raise its minimum wage. The proposal would increase the wage
A lot of scrambling. Ill have to makeup some time at work his week, and find somebody that will stay home with them she says her kids have never complained to her about being hot. Its bearable to me. I think we have had hotter days than this. I felt like today of all days, i felt like yesterday was warmer. But superintenden t Stephen Murley toured two hot schools tuesday, saying 23 percent of their classes dont have air conditioning. I know i was in multiple classrooms yesterday where they were running half a dozen fans at a time obviously for kids to hear, hard for teachers to communicate with the students. Only 7 out of the 26 schools are feeling the heat. But the district had to let all of tm out because of their strict bus schedule. We tier our buses that is in the morning they take elementary to schools and then go back out and pickup junior high and high school students. In the afternoon it works the same way. Luis lopez hopes picking up his sister from southeast early does not b
Has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on a great day in all areas. Highs will drop into the upper 70s today with lower humidity levels as well. Our wind will people believe the city is wasting their time and money. The city is holding an inforanal meeting tonight to explain why the city needs updates. The city council wants to fix crumbling sidewalks and put them into neighborhoods where they dont exist. Homeowners will have to cover the cost. Council members say the ordinance has been around for years, they just havent enforced it. Iowa code lets cities assess sidewalks to property owners. Some say the the city council is going about the project the wrong way, but the city 22 20 54;13 the other side of town down there, i can sit in front of my home for hours at night and never see a car go by let alone a person walking the streets 22 08 36;00 we have a Grant Program available that anyone that qualifies for lowincome we have grant money set aside, we also can assess it against their