Mccraney says People Living at the cedrel liked mmijon lint who along with renting a room also helped do odd jobs for motel owners. Mccraney says the victim wasnt a violent person. What michael did was so irresponsible and stupid. Youre killing a young innocent boy who doesnt bother anybody who helps mary clean out rooms why do that to him . Linn county sheriff Brian Gardner says many of the resiients at the cedrel motel are on the states sex offender registry. The suspect was on the list. The viitim was not. T. But aside from deputitis frequently making required residency checks, there are only infrequent calls to the motel for other complaints. Live in cedar rapids, Dave Franzman n crg tv9 news. An man is injured this evening into the jehovah witness kingdom hall in cedar rapids this morning. The Linn County Sheriffs Office says 64 year old Randall Maher of mount vernon lost control of his vehicle. He had been driving on Mount Vernon Road in cedar rapids a little before 10 this momon
Noticeable difference when it came to clearing snow and ice off the highways. There werent as many drivers out on the roaoa for the morning traffic to the snow faster. Another factor was the temperature. During the early hours of the storm and that meant ice melting materials worked better. With the temperatures Holding Around that 30 degree mark. As soso as this precipitation lets up itll let that material work that much quicker and itll take us a lot less rounds to get it cleaned up. Its about five weeks since many eastern iowans had to fire up the snowblowers or push the shovels. And warmerthanusual temperatures mighgh have left some wondering where winter went. But several out shoveling today told us they werent fooled, they knew the snow and ice would be back a number of eastern iowa communities also declared d snow emergencies today through midday tomorrow. That means staying off the marked snow routes so the plows can work. Meteorologist chris havely has been driving around linn
Winds w 1020 alo 26 dbq 25 iow 30tonight mostly clear low 1319 winds w 515 alo 12 dbq 18 iow 15tomorrow mostly sunny high 2632 winds w 515 alo 25 dbq 28 iow 30tomorrow night mostly clear low 1420 winds w 515 alo 14 dbq 14 iow 17 thanks kaj. Some members of the Iowa National guard in cedar rapids are starting the new year with a mission. Theyre heading to missouri today to help victims of extreme flooding. The troops will be driving 16 tanks each filled with two thousand gallons of water to the town of high ridge. Thats just southwest of st. Louis. Floodwaters took out the towns Water Treatment plant. High ridge goes million gallons of water a day with a working treatment plant. Troops know how important clean water is for the 65 hundred people in need. With the flooding a lot of folks are out of their homes, that takes off their food supply , theyre not able to cook, their not able to bathe, and water is an essential thing to life. You can go up to 2 weeks without food but only a coupl