Downtown cedar rapids from the tnn tower cam. The river is going up swiftly it is expected to crest in about 24 hours at 23 feet. Now from your 24hour news source, this is the kcrgtv9 morning news. Chris thank you for joining us now at 6 01 as so much, of course, of the focus is on the cedar, wapsi and its independence and toward anamosa. Lets start out with kyle. The good part with all this, it wont be terribly active for the next few days. No, it should be very quiet here for the rest of this work week. The only hazard we will have to contend with weatherwise is that we have gusty wind and i will show you that coming up. We have our air temperatures that are pretty decent. If this flood wasnt happening right now, we would be able to enjoy this weather quite ar bit and at least were done with the 50s is where we sit. The high that were going for is around 67 and that occurs around 3 00. And a lot of sunshine here from start to finish. We want to get you the latest numbers at cedar rap
Kevin briggs has accumulated many stories from his time spent talking with people ready to jump from the golden gate bridge. Hes been the subject of documentaries, written a book now hes bringing his message to iowa as suicide rates climb across the country. Its so empowering when the individual comes back over that rail, they did it, it takes a lot of courage to come back over that rail and face everything that pushed you over that edge. Briggs says the key is communication people something many people do. In johnson county, the Crisis Center offers a crisis hot line that gets one thousand calls a month, and recently started a mobile Crisis Center where Mental Health professionals actually go and visit with people who are considering harming themselves. We were averaging 15 calls a month, and that has sky rocketed to 34 or 35 calls a month the last couple months. Briggs says everyday people can going to say to their friends or lovedones. And be ready with resource materials and a plan
The Behavioral Health area is separate from the general patient rooms. You want to decrease that stimulation to them as much as possible. You dont want them interacting with the rest of the public, simply because you dont know whats going to set them off. In dubuque Katie Wiedemann kcrg tv9 news. Finley says its discussing ways to work more closely with Dubuque Police on how to help people in custody who have Mental Health issues. St. Lukes hospital and Mercy Medical center in cedar rapids also has similar rooms available in its er. Tonight at 6, mark carlson looks into another issue Johnson County wants to prevent suicides, so theyre bringing in a very influential speaker who has talked around 200 people down from jumping off the golden gate bridge, well have that story tonight on the tv9 news at six. We turn now to meteorologist joe winters. Joe, after a lot of rain overnight in many areas, this turned out to be a pretty nice police in western texas say a student took a gun to classm
From the basement but also fixtures like a water heater and the furnace. It wasnt necessary but after the lessons of 2008 they didnt want to take any chances at all. At todays final briefing on the flood situation, city Officials Say inspectors have visited a number of homes in the evacuation areas. So far, the number sustaining any water damage at all is considered a small number. Dave franzman kcrg tv9 news. Today, people started dropping off wet and dry their homes and businesses in cedar rapids. The city set up a collection site this morning at noelridge pool. A second collection site will open tomorrow in ellis park at 7 am. The city plans to start picking up sandbags from peoples front curbs a week from monday, october 10th. So if you cat haul sandbags to a collection site, put them out in front of your home. Lets turn now to meteorologist joe winters. Hes live in mount vernon where the mustangs are night lights game. Joe, as we wait for the water to recede, our dry weather will
Why they are up there in a live report. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning news. Our next area of low pressure is knocking on the door today with a chance of will be two rounds of rainfall with the First Arriving in our northwest counties early today. There should be a substantial break with very little activity around the midday hours, with storms increasing in coverage again for the Late Afternoon and evening hours. These storms may impact some football games, and they are worth monitoring today and tonight. The weekend continues to look excellent with highs around 70 on saturday and mid70s on sunday. Iowa iowa state football continues to look great with clear sky and kickoff temperatures in the upper 60s. Have a great develop. Locally heavy rain possible. Wind s 510. High 78 tonight lingering showers and a few thunderstorms. Wind nw 5 10. Low 57 tomorrow mostly sunny and very comfortable. Breezy. Wind nw 1525. High 72 tom. Night