The time today was spent making sure haglin understood what she was giving up by allowing the judge along to make a decision. Both sides agreed the judge would decide haglins guilty or innocence only using the minutes of testimony. Thats information the public will never see and typically is only used by prosecutors to justify bringing charges. In this case, the minutes include an interview with the victim by Child Protective Services and a Police Interview with haglin. The judge explained what the defendant was opening statements, closing arguments if you agree to a stipulated trial then that means my decision will be based on information that the parties agree i should use to determine if you are guilty or innocent. Do you understand that . Because the judge will make the decision on information filed by prosecutors, nothing haglin decision. So the charge against her will be the original aggravated misdemeanor instead of the felony count filed later. Thats important for haglin becaus
Sewer system. It is still a very dangerous situation. The ground is saturated. We are continuing to fight water that is seeping through the system and coming in from our storm sewers. We also want to note that while we hope everyones firstfloor elevations are dry, we will still have many people with water in their basements. The city is urging people to stay out of the flood zone so crews can work, especially as the water goes down. Cedar rapids is trying to figure of sandbags throughout the city once theyre not needed anymore. And the city says its bus system wont run through friday. School is off for the rest of the week in the cedar rapids district. The district says its because of transportation issues and safety concerns. Classes will resume next monday. The calendar for this school year listed no school on monday. But now classes will be in session that day. Friday, two emergency shelters remain open in cedar rapids. Those include Saint Pauls United Methodist Church and cedar Hil
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
Get back and clean up and reopen. The director of the district says the city believes that could happen by saturday. Live in cedar rapids, dave franzman, kcrg tv nine news. Its not over yet, but were feeling good, were feeling very, very confident that this temporary system that weve built in less than two days will protect our city. The city says the temporary barriers a the worry is that water is putting too much pressure on the sewer system below ground. Crews have been working all night, fighting dangerous conditions to makes sure everything is functional. Law enforcement in cedar rapids are warning people to stay out of the evacuation zone. They say this will keep people safe and give them room to work. The city said it could announce Conference Tomorrow morning. Linn county sheriff Brian Gardner says his department on mays island in cedar rapids has escaped major flood damage. The city set up hesco barriers and sandbags to protect it against at least seven feet of water. Gardner
Breezy dayr ahead of us but were calm weatherwise. No rain in place now that the cold front pushed through. Cedar rapids and 50 in dubuque and 51 in waterloo and iowa city and well top out at 67 degrees but at least again were dry. Temperatures going to cool down again through the evening because of the clear skies so we got a decent dry stretch ahead of us here. Well switch it over to ky to talk more about the riv absolutely. Thanks a lot. Were still watching the cedar basin carefully as well as the wapsi and mississippi. The iowa river basin has been Holding Steady and will likely stay that way for the next week or so. Heres what we have in vinton. Its in progress. The crest is in progress right now. The official gauge height is 21. 74 feet. Thats a lot of stream flow there in vinton and it just appears to be cresting now its at. What thatto does is it raises confidence for what happens downstream. Thee cedar river at cedar rapids which is around 18 feet cresting five feet higher at