Fire at a cedar rapids landmark that every resource the city had. The next step more than two years after the proposal was denied. The first look after one of the most anticipated nood rekov roy project. Welcome this morning. Taking a live look at a still dark i380 and cold stream avenue. You can see on the roadway that not only are the headlights on, thats a good thing, but the road has some water on it, too. Already seeing rain fall. Be sure to be careful. Your morning commute. Welcome this morning. Lets go on over to rebecca with our weather first forecast. We have some heavy rain moving through parts of eastern iowa and most of the area is going to be seeing that threat for heavy rain as the day goes on. This morning, weve had a Flash Flood Warning in effect for Northern Counties, and it is still raining. This includes the city of walk this continues, once again, until 7 15, and there is still rain that is falling and moving in. This is all associated with a very slowmoving cold fr
A fire has shut down a popular cedar rapids restuarant and damaged a local bar thats just next door. Door. Right now fire officials are trying to figure out what caused flames to destroy the roof at rileys caf. Cafe. The Fire Department sent every truck and firefighter they had to battle the fire in 90degree heat. It happened right ater 330 and closed the busy road during the afternoon commute. Rileys was closed a manager at moose mcduffys was there while firefighters were working on the buildings and talked to both owners. Same spot same location meeting spot and have family gatherings here its quite a loss, such an iconic restaurant restaurant. It was scary seeing the firemen with axes and chainsaws and wondering if that was my roof to their roof. Roof. One firefighter had to be sent to the hospital for hes expected to be okay. The Salvation Army was on scene handing out water and gatorade to firefighters. Investigators say the fire started near a ventilation fan. Remember when you s
Winds w 1020 alo 26 dbq 25 iow 30tonight mostly clear low 1319 winds w 515 alo 12 dbq 18 iow 15tomorrow mostly sunny high 2632 winds w 515 alo 25 dbq 28 iow 30tomorrow night mostly clear low 1420 winds w 515 alo 14 dbq 14 iow 17 thanks kaj. Some members of the Iowa National guard in cedar rapids are starting the new year with a mission. Theyre heading to missouri today to help victims of extreme flooding. The troops will be driving 16 tanks each filled with two thousand gallons of water to the town of high ridge. Thats just southwest of st. Louis. Floodwaters took out the towns Water Treatment plant. High ridge goes million gallons of water a day with a working treatment plant. Troops know how important clean water is for the 65 hundred people in need. With the flooding a lot of folks are out of their homes, that takes off their food supply , theyre not able to cook, their not able to bathe, and water is an essential thing to life. You can go up to 2 weeks without food but only a coupl
They go through about a million gallons of water a day, and thats with their treatment plan online so with it offline theyre going to go through water super quickly. Thats why the soldiers are here, loading, fueling, and double checking to make sure everything is ready to go for the 65 hundred residents in need. With the flooding a lot of folks are out of their homes, that takes off their food supply , theyre not able to cook, their not able to bathe, and water is an essential thing to life. You can go up to 2 weeks without food but only a couple days without water. Theyll be using a twps, tactical Water Purification system, theyll set that up. The state of Missouri National guard currently has two of them running, well add another one making it three and then were also bringing 16 trucks and crews who will be Running Water to and from that purification site lieutenant voorhees says it means a lot to have a bordering state ask for help. It builds our confidence saying hey they need us.