We are opening up regional lines this morning. If you are in the eastern or central time zone, your telephone number is 202 7488000. If youre in the mountain or pacific time zones, your telephone number is 202 7488001. We are opening up a special line for people who voted this year already in the 2020 primaries. If you voted in the primaries, your number is 202 7488002. Tell us what happened. You can keep in mind always text us at 202 7488003. We are always reading on social media on twitter and facebook. What happened in the georgia primary earlier this week has caused concern around the nation about what will happen for this fall election. And there is a story in politico that was written about what happened in the georgia primary. I will read this to you. Some voters and george are experiencing our long lines to cast ballots in todays primary, with official trading blame for who exactly is responsible for the latest trip up and holding an election during the pandemic. Since polls op
Chief of staff. Now, live coverage of the u. S. Senate. Vice president under the previous order, the senate will consider the following nomination. The clerk nomination, general charles q. Brown, jr. , to be chief of staff and general of the United States air force. The Vice President under the previous order, the question occurs on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . It appears there is a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote the Vice President are there any senators wishing to vote or to change their vote . If not, on this vote, the yeas are 98, the nays are zero. And the historic nomination of general charles q. Brown, jr. As the United States air force chief of staff is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. Mr. Alexander madam president . The presiding officer the senator from tennessee. Mr. Alexander thank you
Cup we go behind the scenes of the effort to keep the players safe in france. Its monday, june 17th, 2019. Here is todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. President Trumps Campaign has cut ties with several polling experts. This follows the damaging polling data. The president dumped pollsters ahead of his campaign launch. Spent 2 million on a poll and youre behind in 15 of 17 states. No one showed you those polls because they dont exist. Pentagon officials plan to release photos that they say prove iran was behind the attacks on two oil tankers. These unprovoked attacks warrant a retaliatory military strike. Millions of protesters marching in hong kong to demand the withdrawal of the extradition bill. Demonstrators want the chief executive to resign. We will not keep silent. Severe storms across the country leaving behind a lot of damage. People in indiana are cleaning up after multiple tornadoes hit the state. I thought i was going to die. Target stores is blaming an internal Te
Iowa unveiled new state flood maps today, eight flooding that hit cedar rapids and other parts of eastern iowa in 2008. Those floods devastated areas that people didnt people who experienced flooding then know if theyre still in the path of danger. The sixyear effort to create and update maps. Started in 2010. The Program Costs 15 Million Dollars. And the Us Department of housing and urban development funded most of it. Kcrg tv nines Dave Franzman joins us from along the cedar river in cedar rapids. Dave, just how extensive is the flood mapping that is finally wrapped up . Beth, the mapping doesnt just cover major the Iowa Flood Center studied every single stream that drains more than one square mile of territory and mapped out the flooding potential. The Iowa Flood Center may consider the mapping officially complete now. But the city of cedar rapids used the data this fall to fight off the second highest crest ever on the cedar rapids. The information compiled by the flood center pred
Accumulation s are likely, a brief reduction in visibility could occur in the more robust snow showers. This also looks to be another typical cloudy week too with little chance to see the sun beyond today. Our next chance of precipitation beyond tomorrow comes up later this weekend. Have a good day today mostly sunny. Wind sw 515. High 50 tonight mostly cloudy. Wind w 510. Low 31 tomorrow chance of light snow. Little to no accumulation. Wind w 1525. High 38 tom. Night scattered flurries. Wind w 1015. Low 32 thanks kaj. Raising money all day on kcrgtv9 to help feed seniors. That means every penny raised today goes to the Heritage Area Agency on aging and its senior Meals Program. Last year, with your help, we provides meals delivered to seniors stuck in their home. It also offers meals at several dining sites across the sevencounty region heritage serves. Last year, that totaled more than 320thousand meals for seniors in need. Statewide, about 72,000 seniors dont know when or where they