With some of the storms. After a break on thursday, more active weather returns friday, ahead of a cold front, ushering in beautiful fall weather for the upcoming weekend. Have a great night. Tonight storms become likely. Heavy rain is possible. Wind sw 515. Low 70 tomorrow occasional rain and thunderstorm s. Heavy rain is possible. Wind firefighters say the rileys restaurant near downtown cedar rapids will need a lot of work before its up and running again. A fire this afternoon extensively damaged the popular spot for breakfast and lunch. The restaurants at 836 first 3 30 this afternoon. It took them a little more than an hour to get the fire under control. The fire itself didnt injure anyone, but one firefighter went to the hospital with a heatrelated illness. Kcrg tv nines jordee kalk is live outside rileys tonight with the latest. A good majority of the roof here, at rileys, is gone. The exact amount of damage inside the restaurant is unknown at this point. The owner of rileys tel
Chance for some storms tonight . Summer continues to hang on with high heat and humidity. The moisture that is in the air along with an unstable atmosphere brings showers and storms to the state tonight and tomorrow. Gusty winds will accompany some of the storms, but the main threat is heavy rain. Over 2 inches will be possible with some of the thursday, more active weather returns friday, ahead of a cold front, ushering in beautiful fall weather for the upcoming weekend. Have a great night. Tonight storms become likely. Heavy rain is possible. Wind sw 515. Low 70 tomorrow occasional rain and thunderstorm s. Heavy rain is possible. Wind sw 1020. High 84 anyone else who has to work outside or spend time in a building without air conditioning, today was pretty brutal. The heat forced several schools in eastern iowa to let out early today. That included iowa city, which dismissed classes two hours early. The superintenden ts receiving less criticism this time than when he ended classes ea
The storms are moving through. I would say anytime we have a warning storm issued through the next two and a half to threehour period be it a severe storm or Tornado Warning you need to stay away from windows need to your get to your safe place basement or lowest floor of whatever structure youre in, know where you can have find a flalalight if it goes out inin the lightning in these systems dont use things that are plugged into the wall stay safe and these storms move through actually quite rapidly. Why dont we take a look justin at all the warnings we have in effect. And it is severe thunderstorms now in effect at this moment i dont see any Tornado Warnings that are in effect right now. The Tornado Warning that has been in effect for iowa county has expired. Thats certainly some good news. However, some wind gusts over 70 Miles Per Hour still remain possible. Again heres the rundown of warnings Grundy County until 5 30. Black hawk until 5 30. Tachld ama until 5 30. Benton until 5 15.
Or alcohol. Many timm they had linns to opioid use, including heroin, which is a common substitute for people who opioids. Kcrg tv nines Iowa City Bureau chief mark carlson joins us live from iowa city. Mark, theyre calling this a new drug epidemic . Officials fight back like heroin seem to gain steam. The death of former hawkeye football star tyler sash shocked fans and former teammates. An autopsy revealed he died from mixing powerful pain medications methadone and hydrocodone. Both are forms of opiods powerful and increasingly popular prescriptionnpainkillers. Doctors nationwide wwite nearly 260 million prescriptions a year for them. Obviously they dont want to see patients in pain. With s many of the painkillers streets annually experts say millions are going unused. They then become easy targets for people looking to get high. One of the big keys about all this drug control needs to be the diversion issue of prescription medications, to find a conveeient way for people to take the
Made along the way were always wrapped around the people that helped make the business successful in making sure that. That will stay here in the waterloo area. Van miller leves behind 3 sons, 5 grandchildren and a wife of 24 years. As i mentioned, his youngest son got 4 married his weekend and co workers told me it was a beautifuu and fun wedding. Something that van was very excited about. Phillips also told me, miller was battling heart problems since 2000. He had minor heart attacks and even a bypass surgey and sadly, it appears t tat he died on sunday. From a heart attack. A visitation is set for this friday. And services will be saturday morning. We will post that information on our website, kwwl. Com weve got you covered, lauren moss. Kwwl news. Thanks lauren, it was announced that jim walsh is the new Business Partner of vans. Someone that continuing coverage a meth lab busted over the weekend. The bust happened at 210 ridge drive in marion. Police discovered the lab while respo