Barack obam disaster declaration. It is currently to help allamakee, chickasaw, clayton, fayette, floyd, howard, mitchell and winneshiek counties. The money is designated for storms, Straight Line winds and flooding that happened between august 23rd and 27th. Fema will continue to see if additional designations will be added to this declaration. Within the next hour, the city will allow people who live or work in the evacuation zone from flood 2016 to get back within that area. But the flood evacuation zone wont open for the general public until 7 am tomorrow. Until then, the city is asking people who dont need to be downtown to stay away so large equipment can get in for cleanup. The city wants to make sure everyone can thoroughly clean up this weekend. Theyre keeping the City Services center on 15th avenue southwest open this weekend. Staff will be on hand from 8 am to 5 pm both saturday and sunday. People whose property related questions. All fees for flood permits are waived. And r
Killing one and injuring more than 100 others. And its homecoming weekend for the university of iowa. The annual parade could impact travel through downtown iowa city later tonight. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning news. Plan on an increase in clouds today. This should keep our temperatures confined to the 60s for highs in all areas. The wind will continue to blow out of the north, but not as strong as yesterday. Like we experienced wednesday, a sprinkle could come out of the thickest clouds, but no measurable rainfall is anticipated in our area. Tonight into saturday, plan on clouds to hang on. Sunday, clouds should disperse somewhat, allowing a return to the upper 60s low 70s across the area. Next week, a warming trend is likely through wednesday with a seasonable cooldown right behind a midweek cold front. Enjoy high 67 tonight cloudy. Wind ne 510. Low 57 tomorrow mostly cloudy. Wind n 510. High 66 tom. Night partly cloudy. Win
At times, obama became emotional speaking about the Sandy Hook School shooting victims. A white house advisor told tv9 today that for the president , this is personal. I have never seen the president more frustrated by the inability of congress to take reasonable steps to protect people from having to go through what those families went through. Iowa senator Chuck Grassley says Barack Obamas executive order is under the jurisdiction of the Senate Judiciary committee, which he chairs. Radio iowa reports grassley and his panel plan to review the details of obamas proposal to ensure the Second Amendment is upheld. Grassley says hes also working on a bill to prevent people in the us illegally from buying guns. Lets look now at weather conditions from our coralville city cam. You can see the sun just starting to set as our meteorologist joe winters joins us now. Joe, some clouds are rolling in with some precipitation . Sunshine helped push todays highs near 30 across eastern iowa and is a s
A fun friday night turns into to panic as a man starts waving a gun at people in front of the bellagio. New video surfacing this morning of that suspect being arrested. You can see cops gathering there in the distance surrounding the suspect on the ground. This is video sent to our newsroom overnight. A peaceful and fun friday night at the bellagio turned chaotic when gun shots rang out. 05 nats from shooting you can hear the gun shots right there. The suspect is in Police Custody this morning, and faces on the boulevard. Taking a live look. Out at the open on the boulevard. Traffic in both ways. Is back open on the boulevard. Taking a live look. Out at the strip. As you can imagine though, the traffic situation was a nightmare last night. Metro had to section off harmon all the way down to flamingo. Chopper 13 first in the air last night. Giving looks of traffic and the scene of the shooting. Another big trouble spot last night for drivers. Was the 15 as people were waiting to get off
Boulevards safety. Eric miller, caricature artist theres some cause for concern to have two unfortunate events like that to happen so close together in such a short time period. Its a bit worrisome. Things are back to normal on the strip, this morning whats believed to be bullet holes from the shooting, have now been patched up. A killer still on the loose this morning. After a man is shot dead in northeast las vegas. We first broke this story yesterday morning. Metro says the man was found in a parking lot officers were called out to a complex. Near owens and mary jane. Were told the victim. Was riding a bicycle when a pickup truck pulled up. Someone in that truck. Fired several rounds. Hitting the man. He was rushed to the hospital. But later died. Police have not released a motive. Or description on a suspect. Turning to the latest developments. On the deadly storm slamming the east coast. In total 19 people are dead this morning as this massive system moves out. New york city one o