Until 6 15. Already been some flash flooding and more expected as additional thunderstorms come through. You can see one batch of rain has lifted out of the northeast. Another set to move in. Right now heavy storms passing through the waterloo area. Theyll be heading towards olewin shortly. You can see the line extends through the rest as we go through the eefrn hours. There will be thunderstorms around and kick off temperatures around 71 degrees. Looks like the rain move outs by midnight and after that much Better Weather for the rest of the weekend. Minutes after classes began this morning the school was put on lock down for a medical he was taken to university of iowa hospitals and clinics. Until authorities were sure there was no threat to their safety. Generally its not our practice to report suicides. In this case we had to consider the many concerned parents and Community Members looking for answers. We also reached out to Health Experts in our community. They asked us to be sen
There may be an isolated shower and the we are back to sunshine for tomorrow afternoon with temperatures in the mid70s. Mostly cloudy tonight was showers and temperatures in the low 60s. More rain later this week which will lead to a bead a big weekend cool down. Cut them up coming up later i will have the full forecast. You may see a few more signs of normalcy today as cedar rapids continues to recover from we have flood 2016 coverage. Reporter the commute is running smoother than it has in recent days. As of this morning, all access on and off 380 is open to commuters. All pictures all bridges are opened as well. V and f avenues are open to one lane eastbound and westbound, joins us live from the best western Coopers Mill Hotel with the latest there. Hotel sits along first street northwest just a few hundred feet from the cedar river and on the wet side of planned flood protection. Protection. This morning the city Flood Control System Committee was briefed on Flood Control updates i
About to go back into their hoals after a dangerous threat. This morning the Monticello Fire Department responded to a gas leak. Homes and nearly 30 businesses were evacuated. Monticello Police Department says people who live north and west of the leak area may smell natural gas or the odor of rotten eggs. Thats while crews continue to fix the issue. They say its not harmful or hazardous. Were told to go to the Community Building while crews worked to solve the problem. Children will be bussed around the gas hazard area and in about an hour, neighbors will be allowed to return to their homes. Students at the Johnson Academy had a scare. This morning the cedar rapids Police Department says it was secured as a precaution while investigators handled the situation at a home when officers got there, they say they thought they saw a man waving a dwun. It was an air pistol. The situation may have been a custody issue. New information today on a trial were following out of ben to be county. Ju
Themselves on the wrong side of the walls. First, chief meteorologist terry swails and the rest of the Weatherfirst Team have been tracking this flood threat for a week now. Now. Terry, now that the highest water has past, were getting a better look at how all that water more on flood 2016 in just a m. Moment. Now we turn to a tragic story developing in cedar rapids, where a 13Year Old Girl died after being shot. Shot. Cbs 2 news anchor jenee ryan is looking into this mornings shooting. She joins us live with what neighbors have to say about all this, jenee . Scott of course everyone devastated by this tragedy. Right now neighbors and others alike are gathering for a candle lit vigil honoring the 13 Year Old Girl who lost her life to a gun shot wound right here this morning. Lousie murray 12 24 28 i think its horrible. I think its horrible. This morning i told everybody to stay in the house because i had to go to a doctors appointment. I come back and and crying and im like whats going
We should have teen in the afternoon hours tomorrow but another cold shot of weather for the weekend and we have snow in the forecast for sunday so theres a lot of winter to talk about in few minutes. Back to you. Thank you. Cedar rapids city leaders are getting together downtown to stay one step ahead of an epidemic they fear is coming towards the corridor. Kevin berry joins us from the Public Library where the Eastern Iowa Heroin Initiative will tell the community what to look out for. Kevin . Reporter yeah, karen, plenty of room for plenty of people to talk about the problem on the east coast, heroin. Thats affecting cities from states like massachusetts all the way down to virginia and plenty of communities inbetween as well. Until recently, its largely been thought of as an hes coast problem, but now heroin chicago, wisconsin, and now even iowa. The numbers in the Hawkeye State arent as bad as elsewhere, but u. S. Attorney kevin tedchaw said its a matter of time. Massachusetts had