Morning. It taste just like starbucks. Youre going to watt want starbucks or some coffee peerk we or 30 right now in cedar rapids the Doppler Radar is quiet and clear. Not much going on yet we do look for moisture as we head through the later afternoon and evening. It is pretty quiet and a little breezy, 34 with cloudy skies. 35 waterloo depute dubuque, we will be windy today. Cloudy skies on the satellite and a little moisture west of i 35. Here is your planet. As you see it we have a cloudy start to the day. A little rain and snow on into the evening. Good news is there is not much in the way for acumen kate does 6 a one is the type. Lets look at the drive in the morning commute. Lets look at the roadways. I 380 at 42nd street for the most part congestions are starting. With the usual hustle and bustle. It begins on an early wednesday morning. Not much on the way of payment right now. The map looks pretty good. As you can see all the way from laporte city to korbel and iowa city we h
Are quite a bit. Bringing him back to good health is costly. A gofundme was created after the incident at the beginning of the month. Its since raised nearly 8thousand dollars. Again, supervisor stacy walker is going to be speaking later tonight. Well have his comments tonight at 10 live in cedar rapids, forrest saunders, kcrg tv nine news. For protesting the Bakken Oil Pipeline at the iowa utilities board offices in des moines. Jessica reznicek faces a trespassing charge after the protest. Police say she refused their orders to leave the building this morning. Reznicek and others who call themselves water protectors want the iowa utilities board to rescind construction permits for the Dakota Access pipeline. They are drinking water. But the board says it isnt addressing protestors. The board issued its final decision in march. Thats being litigated so we cant comment on litigation. The pipeline is already in the ground in much of iowa. Lets turn now to the weather and meteorologis t j
Face any charges. Kcrgtv9s Forrest Saunders was at the fundraiser inside the African American museum of iowa in cedar rapids. Forrest, family and friends are still waiting for answers regarding the shooting . And a great deal remain. Police have declined to release much more than what we just told you. Including dash cam video from that night saying, Early Release could compromise the investigation. A lot of Unanswered Questions but also a lot of nat cheers erupted as Jerime Mitchell showed his face from a hospital bed via skype on wednesday night. He thanked the crowd of perhaps more than 300 for coming. So large, it pushed the capacity limits for the event space. Its amazing. I think the turn out speaks a lot to my brothers character. If you look around that room, its all walks of life. Hopes of getting lower extremities moving again. Family said the medical bills are pilling up. Money raised at the benefit aimed to help pay them down. Organizers were collecting donations and holding
There he says he knew 35 people who were killed in this tragedy he is from brazil and played for the chapecoense soccer team for six years. A deadly plane crash thousands of miles away but it hit very close to home for chico perisotto im still in shock. I cant believe together for like six years and chico is from chapeco and started his professional soccer career on the chapecoense soccer team they gave me the opportunity to follow my career and be a proffessional soccer place. Now coaching da coach Hewerton Moreira who is also from brazil we have a game in the east stays in your mind. Chicotelling ushe wishes he could be there for the families back homebut feels have their families behind, kids, wives, parents. So we need everyone to like pray, at least pray for them because we are far away we cannot do anything so if we pray i think we are designs team and goes to every game but decided not to go to the game in columbia his friend telling him yesterdayi am so luckyi did not get on th
Few tornadoes. Tonight storms continue to pound parts of the viewing area. We now go to meteorologist terry swails who has your weather first forecast. We did have a number of tornado Warnings Issued and we were on the air for about three consecutive hours for that reason. Now we have evolved to a flash flood threat around eastern iowa as heavy rains have fallen in the northern and western counties. Before this happened there was north and that will be out until 7 00 on thursday so we were concerned with the development of storms and it came to fruition today. Now we are seeing rain and big totals coming from the northern and western counties particularly in floyd county. Heres the radar and you can see we still have thunderstorms that are active around the area. They are in the Northern Counties. This is north of highway 20. This is where we see some of counties. We do have a Flash Flood Warning that is in effect and that includes county. That is out until three or clock. Strong storm