And milder end to the weekend. Have a great night tonight partly cloudy. Wind n 510. Low 51 tomorrow increasing clouds. Wind ne 1015. High 69 back to you. With the river falling, cedar rapids will open the flood evacuation zone tomorrow for people who have homes and businesses there. And it will open the area to everyone saturday. And roads and bridges are also starting to open. The cedar river. The city says downtown bridges should be open to traffic saturday. So should all i380 ramps leading into the downtown area. Bus service will also resume saturday. And as people return to their homes and businesses, cleanup efforts are getting underway. That means removing tens of thousand of sandbags in the coming days. The city has two locations for homeowners to drop off wet and dry sandbags. The noelridge pool site opens at site opens at seven am saturday. Anyone who cant drop off the sandbags should leave them at their curb. The city will start picking them up on monday, october 10th. Busin
Have a question for gov. Scott walker . Get ready in just a couple of hours you can ask the governor that question when he holds his first Facebook Live event. Ann sterling is live with more. The Facebook Live event starts at 8 15 this morning. Questions can be submitted Facebook Page i checked out his page this morning. There are already a range of questions and responses on his page. Some are about the spiraling cost of health care. A couple are about the state budget. Others are using the form to take shots at the governor. Facebook launched its live Video Streaming Service for public figures in august 2015 and then made it available to the general public in january. Other politicians who have used the social media platform to connect with the public include House Speaker paul ryan and the governor of llinois. Walkers first Facebook Live event starts at 8 15 this morning. New this morning. Milwaukee police are investigating a shooting on the citys north side. Investigators tell us o
Woman who died was on the platform and not in the train itself. Meantime, up to a hundred people are injured with many of those critical. A look at the aftermath as the commuter train slammed into a new jersey terminal at the height of morning rush hour. People running for their lives in the midst of collapsed canopy and twisted metal. Passengers reported the crowded train barreling into the train station at full speed. The train felt like it would never stop. It didnt slow down. It didnt bke nancy hoboken was the last stop scheduled to arrive just after 8 30. There were approximately 250 people on the train this time of day. It was the 8 38 into hoboken. We are still determining the cause of the accident. Im not going to stand here and guess. Nancy instead, people on the train and on the platform scrambled to get to safety. The people in front of me were badly injured. Then we just heard people screaming in the first car. They were trapped. They couldnt get out. Managed to get us off
Im katy tur. It is 11 00 a. M. Out west and 2 00 p. M. In the east, where the two major stories of the day have just collided. A few minutes ago, donald trump was renominated for a second term in office. And the first thing he did in front of republican delegates and the American Voters he hopes will reelect him to that office was to repeat his baseless claim that the effort to allow voters to safely vote from home during a pandemic is nothing more than a democratic conspiracy to steal the election using fraudulent mailin votes. Theyre trying it again with this whole 80 million mailin ballots that theyre working on. Sending them out to people that didnt ask for them. They didnt ask. They just get them. And its not fair. Its not right. This time, theyre trying to do it with a whole post office scam. Theyll blame it on the post office. You can see them setting it up. Be very careful and watch it very carefully. Because we have to win. This is the most important election in the history of
Michigan democratic congressman about both of those topics, but first, reporting live from a midwest beer in chicago to get a lay of the land on this monday afternoon. Matt, hello. Bill, hundreds of protesters already gathered outside of the capitol in pennsylvania and there are even more demonstrations nationwide today from arizona to new york. A growing number of outraged americans and at least 23 states are now demanding their State Government reconsider some if not all parts of the state home orders. Insisting their livelihoods are being destroyed. It was probably a good decision at the time, but now, its clear it was a mistake. Now its time to just flip the switch, just flip the switch. Theres a lot of people that are hurting, not just people sick from the virus, but people, their entire livelihoods are being upended by this. Many protesters in various estates or blatantly disregarding social distancing guidelines will demonstrating, facing health concerns. In a protest near india