Also developing tonight parts of the cbs 2 news viewing area could see some heavy rain, rain,weather first chief meteorologist terry swails joins us right now with the the head hawk is sticking around for awhile. Awhile. Cbs 2 sports anchor zach hanley joins us with the details of Kirk Ferentzs new contract. Big day for kirk ferentz and even bigger for his wallet the head hawk signed a 6 Year Contract extention on his deal which will now go through 20 26 season, basically meaning hell be a hawkeye for life with the extention hell make 4 point 5 Million Dollars a year and is now one of the top 10 highest paid 4. 5 million a year and is now one of the top 10 highestpaid coaches in college football. Obviously signing this deal is huge to the fourtime big ten coach of the year. Theres no way to describe it. Its a really unique thing and i feel really privileged and honored to do it in such a great place. With so many great people. One of the things ive said often is my desire is for kirk t
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
But i am more concerned about is the potential for heavy rains. We do have a Flash Flood Watch in effect tonight for the northern two thirds of our viewing area. Thunderstorms have been developing up in the north and they will be increasing in the next several hours. They have the potential to dump heavy rains with heavy moisture. Heres a quick look at the radar. You can see some of the storm scattered across our Northern Counties. The heaviest ones are developing in Howard County and these will work their way across the northern part of our thats the region thats most at risk for flash flooding tonight. The rest of the area will see heavy rains tomorrow and will talk more about it in the forecast ahead. Investigators are trying to figure out what happened with a fire at a popular seater restaurant. Crews responded to the riley cafi after three. They had to shut down first avenue during a busy afternoon commute. Kevin barry was there the cedar rapids landmark. Many people did not see m
Sure the building doesnt have more fire inside. That they still have to fight. What we know about damage, rileys was choseed. It norm closed. It normally closes about 2 00 in the afternoon. The owner said that everyone would have been out by about 2 30 or so. It was actually the folks at moose mcduffys next door who first started to see the smoke. They realized it was coming from rileys next door. They came outside, felt the fire. And the Fire Department is just right down the street. Theyre just catty corner. Its a 3alarm fire. That means that cedar rapids Fire Department called out everybody they had to come here. That comes gown to down to 10 trucks, 20 to 35 firefighters. One of those firefighters went to the hospital with heat related illnesses. He was not injured fighting the fire. He went to the hospital because its about 92 to 95 degrees. Its humid. There is not a lot of wind. You can see some of the firefighters have started to take off the heavy equipment. But right up here i
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