Administrative leave following a deadly officerinvolved shooting monday night. But the woman they saved from an attacker says police had no choice. Police shot and killed 25 yearold market bivins during a domestic disturbance call at the valley high apartments ,just off edgewood road nw. Raelynn finn returned home to her apartment for the first time just this afternoon. Finn says shes still healing from stab wounds, a broken jaw and ruptured ear drum. She also says police had to shoot bivins because he was stabbing her right in front of them. Her couch and started stabbing me in the fact. Did you know he had a knife . I saw it in his hand but i was trying to run when i saw the officers. Finn says the cedar rapids officers shot bivins twice during the attack. They also used a taser 3 times after that because he still wouldnt quit his attack. Reports surfaced this morning suggesting that waterloo has asked police chief dan trelka to resign. Out of town and no city official has been able
Jacket and a nice cup of hot chocolate and enjoy homecoming game today if you happen to be tailgating it could get a bit chilly for some. Tonight skies will start to clear out some. Well call it partly cloudy and temperatures will drop into the low 50s. Well see a bit more sunshine on sunday and high temperatures are expected to rise into the low 70s. Today mostly cloudy. A few sprinkles are possible. Wind n 515. High 64 alo 64 dbq 63 iow 64 61 to 67 tonight partly cloudy. Wind n 510. Low 52 alo 52 dbq 51 iow 52 49 to 55 thanks britley. This morning cedar rapids takes back to normal after this weeks flooding. After evacuating several city blocks along the river, the entire flood zone is back open to the public today. It opened back up evacuate their home or business. Traffic is also clearing up later this morning. This is a live look of northbound interstate 380 at 1st avenue southwest, near the quaker oats building in cedar rapids. The city plans on reopening traffic on all downtown b
Onsite counseling or referrals to outside services for students most in need. Nurses i spoke with today say ey see that need ininde schools every day. 20 42 48 well see any child who is a Cedar Rapids Community School District student and their siblings. Inside taylor elementary. 20 44 37 we do stock some antibiotics too. A metro care clinic is on display at an open house. 20 40 50 we have three school based clinics. Clinics that are essentiallllan inschool doctors office. 20 15 22 were not here to take the there are a lot of kiddos out there who have barriers that they cant get to a health care provider. Were here to be that bridge. Nurse practitioners like sara gordon staff the clinics. She says many of the issues kids come to her for arent really physical health problems. A common hears is headaches. 20 35 00a headache is never just a headache. A lot of times students are focusing on tonight, am i going to get a didnt come home last ninit. Theres j jt a lot more to deal with than my
Alert forecast, britley. As you wake up temperatures will start off in the upper 20s and low 30s for most. Skies will be partly cloudy which will allow for a great start to your friday. A little sunshine will go a long way throughout your late morning and afternoon. With the sunshine and a westerly wind temperatures will warm into the low 40s for highs. Into the evening temperatures will stay mild, with lows dropping into the low 30s. Skies will becomom mainly clear and thh start of you weekenen looks great. Once again the weather remains fairly quiet, but i think most of you will be ok with that. Especially since our weather gets even better into saturday and will continue into sunday. Temperatures are pushing 60 degrees both days. Spring isnt too far away. Thanks britley. A nurse at a Cedar Rapids School Health Clinic says there is a large need for student care and not just the physical part of care. During an open house at the clinic in taylor elementary, she says there should be mo
To and ffm school. We will be picking children up at homeless shelters and motels any place that has been designated a stop that we need to go to. The district has used Cab Companies to get students for several years, but dispatching individual cabs got expensive. So its trying a new Program Using small number of students at first. School leaders say this should cut costs nearly in half and address safety concerns. 12 47 13 just looking at as many of us being parentssthe ththught of putting our kindergartener or first grader on a cab, which is public transportation, could be kind of scary for both the parent and for the students hayes says it could expanddthe program in a few months. The districts homeless specialist says many are shocked to hear how many students are affected by homelessness in the district. Last year we had 620 homeless students and thats prek through 12th grade. The district says this nts van will also mean more to younger students than you might think. Its always o