Seasonable weather through next week. The pattern stays dry through next friday. Have a good night and a safe weekend. Tonight stly clear low 3440 winds sw 1020tomorrow mostly sunny, mild high 5359 winds w 515 back to you. Todays extremely windy conditions were an issue for a lot of people all across the state. It was especialal hard on semi drivers. Several trucks tipped over in linn county alone. Four semis were on their sides. Road exit on 380. Another was on highway 1 near ellison road. Two others were along highway 13 east of cedar rapids. Kcrgtv9brady smith has more on what was a dedeructive day not just for drivers, but some homeowners. Driving a semi through eastern afternoon proved challenging. Curt vondrak sayaypulling a heavier load helped him stay on the road. It was enough to hold me down, but i was following a couple of guys that were being blown all over the place. He saw one trailer overturned on highwhw 151. Having been through that situation before. I have been blown
The beginning of their weekend wanting warmer temps but getting gusts. Honoring antonin scalia. Us leaders gather today in the nations capitol to remember the Late Supreme Court justice. Well have a look at the services happening this morning. Dead or alive . Well tell you which bills made it through the deadline funnel in the iowa legislature. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is the kcrgtv9 saturday morning news. Good morning and thanks for joining us. We begin with First Alert Storm Team meteorologis t britley ritz. Winds wont be as strong this morning, but will continue out of the west at 5 to 15 mph. With these winds and mostly clear to partly clouds skies, our temperatures will continue to stay warm. Throughout the Morning Hours our temperatures will sit in the middle to upper 30s, but will quickly rise. Though they wont be as warm as yesterday, our highs will still top out in the upper 50s. Once again with highs in the upper 50s were about 25 degre