A system will move through this evening into wednesday and bring another round of rain and possible thunderstorms. Drying conditions will briefly set in wednesday afternoon into thursday ahead of another approaching storm system. This late week system will likely be the most potent of the week and result in widespread rainfall, stronger southerly winds and a greater potential for hydrorelated impacts. vicki the return of the rain has road crews once again keeping an eye on active slide areas and other trouble spots. grant kron fours rob fladeboe is live in the Santa Cruz Mountains where the earth is moving once again. Amid the latest wet weather. Rob . Im here at highway 17 and bear creek road where this big pile of mud and debris kind of tells the story. This is where caltrans is dumping the mud slides that have been occurring throughoutthe area. And with each day, even when its not raining, the pile gets a little bit bigger. It didnt seem like all that much but the three inches of ra
Has your first alert forecast, kaj. Today will be fantastic as highs rise into the middle to upper 70s. The continued lack of mugginess will also be nice. This weekend, High Pressure is a lock and will keep the upcoming weekend quiet with moderating temperatures into the 80s for sunday and especially labor day. Next week, our weather should trend a little more active with thunderstorms possible on tuesday and wednesday. Have a great weekend toda y mostly sunny, high around 77. Tonight clear, low around 54. Tomorrow mostly sunny, high around 79. Thanks kaj. A 58 year old cedar rapids man has life threatening injuries this morning from a crash with a deer on his motorcycle. Paramedics lewis access road and Cedar Heights trail Near Center Point around 130. Officials say the driver, michael long, wasnt wearing a helmet. Floridas governor is asking people in his state to evacuate this morning. But many are staying put and have decided to weather hermine. Abcs Adrienne Bankert reports, its t
Thank you for joining us here on news channel 8 today. Im gene ramirez. And i am gayle guyardo. Leigh spann is standing by with the very latest. It made land fall around 1 30. Exactly. Its still a monster storm. Heres where it made land fall, 80 Miles Per Hour and that makes it a hurricane and its the first hurricane in 11 years to the make land fall in florida around the border of jefferson county. This is no quickly. Picking up forward speed, thank goodness but not fast enough for us. We would like for it to go away faster. We still have Tropical Storm warnings for citrus, pasco, pinellas, manatee and sarasota. So you could still feel Tropical Stormforce winds wrapping around the center of circulation. Heres what im concerned about. We get the feeder bands. Look at this band that extends and look where its going, right into tampa bay, basically north of i4. And thats where we have a tornado watch as well. The feeder bands have rotation in them so the threat is there. It means that th
Hear different questions. And id be talking to roughly the same people time after time in every county you go year after year so ive tried to sort out people who dont have the ability or capability to come to town meetings so i go to them. Grassley says one thing critics cant claim is he visits each county only in election years. Hes done it every year since elected to the senate in 1981. While political opponents wanted to make an issue of whether senator grassley has enough Public Meetings in iowas more populated counties, those who attended this years 99th event in anamosa had other interests. Questions from audience ranged from obamacare and a hearing for the Supreme Court nominee to issues with the v. A. Thanks, dave. Chuck grassley has said no to a possible democrat patty judge. That means the two candidates will debate just twice before the election. Both will be in des moines. One on radio, and the other on tv. Grassleys Campaign Says the senator couldnt do any more than two de
Alert forecast, kaj. Watch for areas of fog to start off your work week. Temperatures will be warmer today than at any time last week, with highs in th 3035 range. Plan on a mostly cloudy sky. Tonight, our next area of low pressure will move ininfter midnight, however, the bulk of the moisture will likely just miss us to the west. Well watch the trends, but minor snow accumulation is possible for your tuesday. In the wake of this system, its really all about some warming conditions, with highs in the 40s by thursday and widespread 50s by friday and saturday. This will feel fantasticicbut due to all the snow meltltreas of drizzle or fog may accompany this, especially over the northern half of the area. Today mostly cloudy high 3036 winds sw 510 alo 32 dbq 32 iow 35tonight m cloudy, mix late low 2430 winds s 510 alo 26 dbq 126 iow tomorrow chance of am snow high 3238 windsds nw 515 alo 35 dbq 35 iow 37tomorrow night mostly cloudy low 1723 winds nw 515 alo 20 dbq 21 iow 25 a 35 year old v