Did the mercury get into the building and if it was a student, how did the student get it . All of this is still under investigation. We are a we are trying to put puzzle pieces together. Reporter answering questions about the contamination. Do you feel comfortable opening the school not knowing where the mercury came from . We are comfortable about opening the school. Theres been efforts to remediate the building. Epa has been he contractor. Reporter parents are now having their homes checked by the epa. They tested 80 the one family forced to move out. By and large, most of the houses are safe. Reporter today, the priority is getting students back in class. We can verify that this school is ready. I walked the gym, as i said before. Its ready. Theres been a lot of work to remediate and clear the facility the district took it very seriously. We reacted proactively and will continue to do so. Reporter the family that was told to move out of their home is hopefully temporary. The e will
Front moves into the area. This front doesnt have the same amount of moisture as our past few systems, and amounts are expected to stay at or below a half inch. Temperatures tomorrow will struggle to get to 70 over the north half, with lower 70s farther south. Dry sky returns for wednesday and thursday with our next chance of rain arriving again around friday. Enjoy your monday today mostly sunny and breezy. Wind s 10 high 80 toy cloudy. Showers move in late in the night. Wind s 515 low 63 tomorrow mostly cloudy with scattered showers and a few storms. Wind w 510. High 73 tom. Night chance of showers, mainly early. Wind n 510. Low 54 thanks kaj. The Waterloo City Council will consider adding traffic security cameras, with the success of a similar system in dubuque. Tonight, the council is discussing how they can fund the project. They say they are modeling their plan on dubuques security cameras. It monitors traffic and nearly 100 security cameras last year, with many of them around th
Increases take place in january of 2018 and january of 2019 with the county wage topping out at 10. 25 an hour roughly two and a half years from now. One supervisor says as more counties take action its more likely state lawmakers will step in. What the state has to do first is having a conversation about minimum wage and then well see what the state does about counties that enact their own and if theres no legislative action this session i guarantee you there will be a lot more counties following our lead City Councils in various linn county communities could adopt their own local ordinances to change the minimum Wage Structure now passed by linn county supervisors. Supervisors say they havent heard much opposition to the first one dollar an hour increase set to go into effect january 1st. Its the second and third dollar hikes that with that kind of action taking place next year. Live in the newsroom, Dave Franzman kcrg tv9 news. Iowas largest county is taking a different approach to
Valley this morning its sunday, september 11 across entire nation where looking back in history across the nation once again at the hateful day in the United States history. September 11 a moment of silence over new york city at ground zero get to that just a bit lets keep things local here jerry brown is in the studio. You are the Authority Things warming up expected to cool down the later this week. Thats a good news kendall we got some cool air coming in today one more day of digit everybody in the valley is going to experience some family the east and valleyCentral Valley west some will be in the 90s but our skies are brightening to the east no clouds to block that son thats going to be beating down currently in the Central Valley sahara and south of the spaghetti bowl at 74 degrees wins of no consequence. Humidity is up that will be around the valley we do have some 80s down in the southeast valley. To the 70s out to the west. 75 over in Spring Valley. Around the area 76 and mesqu
Day. She one of 80 parents who either asked for or required the test after her daughter was contaminated by the mercury found at Walter Johnson junior high last week. Best Case Scenario nothing at all. The test is simple. That machine pulls portion he of air and detects mercury, high enough level to force owners for the First Time Since wednesday. We can verify that the school is ready. I walked the gym. As i said before, its ready, theres been a lot of work to remediate and clear the facility for the material. The School District transparent in the cleanup. They say cameras will be welcome in on tuesday to clean up what they finished. But what they will not be able to answer, where did the mercury from . There is still investigation going on as to the source of the mercury, were working with local officials and helping them. Home is clear, good night sleep is ahead. Ill sleep a lot easier. When we figure out exactly where it came from. But when she wakes up shell be left wondering tha