Cedar rapids, the river levels have not dropped that much. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts joins us now to look at just how long it will take for the river to get back to normal. Clouds, gusty winds, and Cool Temperatures its a fall day, no doubt. A few sprinkles are possible with highs barely getting above 60, and some will struggle to even do that. Winds from the north will gust as high as 25 mph again. Skies eventually clear tonight with lows returning to tomorrow with somewhat lighter winds and highs back near 70. Well hover close to 70 into the weekend, although more clouds return on saturday. Dry weather should continue until wednesday. To day mostly cloudy, cool, and windy. A few sprinkles are possible, mainly northeast. Wind n 1525. High 62 alo 62 dbq 59 iow 63 tonight turning mostly clear. Wind n 510. Low 48 alo 46 dbq 48 iow 48 finished up their latest 10 am news conference, updating us on when they hope to get people back to their homes. Kcrg tv nines Forrest Saunders has been f
67 degrees for the high today. Were dry. A lot of sunshine and a few passing clouds and keep the clear skies around for the overnight allowing to us drop down into the 50 and others to the upper 40s. Lets go over to ky to talk about the river levels. Thank you very much. Were getting more and more updates along the cedar river basin. Out of vinton, were situated at the cre around 21. 7 feet. However, it keeps going up. So thats the one thing we have to watch for here on all of this. Were at 21. 7 right now. It is at its crest point. Not expecting to exceed this by much but what that does is increase confidence in what will eventually occur at cedar rapids. We jumped 18 feet at the river. The crest is about a fivefoot rise to 23 feet by about this time tomorrow morning and notice the side of the screen. You get into the lower 20s on the cedar river stage, it reaches the bottom of the bridge decks in the area. The recent impacts that we have seen in the next four go like this. Right at 1
Important river lels. Joe. That the waterline where its you can see the darker color. That means in independence we have crested and the wapsipinicon has begun to fall. Right now the latest we 19. Twofoot level. 19. 4 was the crest earlier this afternoon. Along the wapsi right at 17. 1. So its coming up quite fast. By tuesday were expecting a 24. Fivefoot crest. Now lets travel down the cedar. The charles city youre falling faster. You will fall within your banks in waterloo the current level sits at 22. 22. 9 was the crest yesterday. Early thursday is when the cedar and waterloo will be back in its banks. Eventual ton awaiting that crest. 21. Five the expected crest monday morning. Still has about another half a foot to go before the crest tomorrow. In cedar rapids the latest forecast 23 feet currently. That will happen on Tuesday Morning. The latest we have is at 13. 1 feet in cedar rapids. The flooding will come to an end with its river in its banks on saturday morning. The next fou
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
Crest. The crest expected early in the morning at 21. 5. And that would be right along the latest forecast. In cedar rapids we just heard from the National Weather service they are not going to change the crest forecast. It remains at 23 feet. The latest stage. 15. 3. The 23 foot crest will stand as the forecast as we head through lowest sections of the old river road about 15. 5. It affect the lowest sections of palo, and edwards road majorly affected as we head toward 18 feet. The wapsi is down to 19 feet. Well take a look at the lels. And give you a look at the latest levels a little bit later. Just a cedar river in vinton is very close to cresting. Thats going to be a big relief for people who have been watching the river rise all day. Nicole griffin is live to give us the latest. This area of town near the Benton County sheriffs department. This road is closed tonight. Water completely covering the street. I spoke with a woman named becky sloan. She lives right next to the hinkle