Why is he suddenly supporting the man would called him a liar. Plus, midwest floods. Wisconsin and iowa hard hit, rivers on the rise, streets, cars and businesses waterlogged. Iowas governor declaring a disaster emergency in 13 counties. Sandbagging going strong in this race against time. Everyone. Lets get right to the breaking news. The shooting at the mall in washington state. This is the man police are hunting for this morning. They say he walked into the mall and opened fire killing five people in the Makeup Department at macys. The cascade mall is just outside of seattle. Its transformed into the scene of a mass shooting. Customers, many of them shell shocked, were loaded onto buses and taken to a safe location until their a typical night in suburbia violently interrupted and Neal Karlinsky is there in burlington, washington, with the latest. Neal, good morning to you. Reporter dan and paula, good morning. This is a community on lockdown right now. The man police say shot and kil
Jerman says this memorial set up behind me where family is gathering once again tonight with candles to honor 13year old ireshia parks. The says he says those balloons and candles and teddy bears and those tears being cried over there would not be happening and ireshia parks would still be here if one thing could happen. If we could keep guns out of the hands of kids. Guns and kids dont mix but Cedar Rapids Police jerman says he has seen the combination too often. In more than in a little more than one years time, we have seen three of our young people, three of our children from our community die as a result of firearm violence. Reporter two of those three deaths accidental, including the Tuesday Morning shooting of 13yearold ireshia parks of southeast cedar rapids. It was not an incident where there was a dispute or an jerman says it may have been to show off, but whatever the reason, it wasnt on purpose. I am at a loss at the death of our children. If a child does not have a firearm
Now in the southwest you can see another strong cell that is located to the north of sumner. This is located to the north of highway 20. This storm tracking to the north of be around hawkeye, west union and claremont between now and 11 00 tonight. Heavy rainfall is the primary threat. Additional storms are expected around eastern iowa as we go to the nighttime hours. A Flash Flood Watch is out to the north. We are expecting more heavy rain and flooding problems around the northern parts of the viewing area. We have breaking news related to the weather. Firefighters in charles city are going door to door to warn residents that evacuations could be ordered at any time between now and friday afternoon when the cedar river could be cresting. In floyd county they are saying travel is not advised. More rain is expected there. Wide due to the high waters. Stay home if you can. In the meantime scott you have pictures that illustrate the storm. Thanks to our viewers who shared their pictures. T
High 83 alo 82 tonight increasing clouds. Rain arrives late. Wind se 510. Low 65 alo 65 thanks britley. This morning, Black Hawk County expected to crest there, this afternoon. The forecast calls for 100 point 5 feet. Heres what the Iowa Flood Center says a crest at that level would look like. Water from the cedar river and lakes in that area would flood the city as far north as lone tree road. It would also cover sturgis and river front parks along the river. Volunteers were out overnight trying to falls. That area is normally busy on a friday night, but was eerily quiet with so many people preparing for flooding. Kcrgtv9s Samantha Myers shows us some of the other sandbagging efforts in the city. Groups of volunteers are stationed all around cedar falls, theyre building walls out of sandbags and helping out in any way they can. The city sent out a call for help at five on friday for people to help with the sand faster than anticipated. Volunteer lynn hoth spent her day filling sand ba
The heavy rains and Severe Weather that hit parts of north and east iowa are making an impact this morning there are a number of schools that have been affected. Affected. Right now north butler schools are closed for the day. That area was hit hard by heavy rain. Schools in charles city nashua plainfield and rockford are all starting two hours late closings head to our website cbs 2 iowa dot com. Com. Youre now looking at a photo of a funnel cloud that was seen yesterday evening in charles city. Ellie kew sent in this photo. Now heres video from damage left after last nights storms in floyd county. Powerful winds knocked trees into roadways closing some of them down. Other large tree branches also fell onto powerli. Powerlines. We want to thank the cbs 2 ne shared their pictures of the storms. A number of people posted pictures of the tornadoes that touched down, including this picture taken by sean britt near greene in butler county. You can track storms anytime by downloading the cb