Downtown cedar rapids from the tnn tower cam. The river is going up swiftly it is expected to crest in about 24 hours at 23 feet. Now from your 24hour news source, this is the kcrgtv9 morning news. Chris thank you for joining us now at 6 01 as so much, of course, of the focus is on the cedar, wapsi and its independence and toward anamosa. Lets start out with kyle. The good part with all this, it wont be terribly active for the next few days. No, it should be very quiet here for the rest of this work week. The only hazard we will have to contend with weatherwise is that we have gusty wind and i will show you that coming up. We have our air temperatures that are pretty decent. If this flood wasnt happening right now, we would be able to enjoy this weather quite ar bit and at least were done with the 50s is where we sit. The high that were going for is around 67 and that occurs around 3 00. And a lot of sunshine here from start to finish. We want to get you the latest numbers at cedar rap
Crest. The crest expected early in the morning at 21. 5. And that would be right along the latest forecast. In cedar rapids we just heard from the National Weather service they are not going to change the crest forecast. It remains at 23 feet. The latest stage. 15. 3. The 23 foot crest will stand as the forecast as we head through lowest sections of the old river road about 15. 5. It affect the lowest sections of palo, and edwards road majorly affected as we head toward 18 feet. The wapsi is down to 19 feet. Well take a look at the lels. And give you a look at the latest levels a little bit later. Just a cedar river in vinton is very close to cresting. Thats going to be a big relief for people who have been watching the river rise all day. Nicole griffin is live to give us the latest. This area of town near the Benton County sheriffs department. This road is closed tonight. Water completely covering the street. I spoke with a woman named becky sloan. She lives right next to the hinkle
Breezy dayr ahead of us but were calm weatherwise. No rain in place now that the cold front pushed through. Cedar rapids and 50 in dubuque and 51 in waterloo and iowa city and well top out at 67 degrees but at least again were dry. Temperatures going to cool down again through the evening because of the clear skies so we got a decent dry stretch ahead of us here. Well switch it over to ky to talk more about the riv absolutely. Thanks a lot. Were still watching the cedar basin carefully as well as the wapsi and mississippi. The iowa river basin has been Holding Steady and will likely stay that way for the next week or so. Heres what we have in vinton. Its in progress. The crest is in progress right now. The official gauge height is 21. 74 feet. Thats a lot of stream flow there in vinton and it just appears to be cresting now its at. What thatto does is it raises confidence for what happens downstream. Thee cedar river at cedar rapids which is around 18 feet cresting five feet higher at
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