And had significant water the majority of newbostayed dry. This week as flood watersbuilt up inside these newbo buisnesseson one side of a hesco barrier wall Something City manager Jeff Pomeranz saysthey had no choice in. The only way to have a chance of saving an entire area and entire neighborhood was to place those barriers where we did. Keeping the majority of the newbo area dry like right here at expecting significant water instead minimal waternats is pumping out of their basement. I thought wed have 4 feet of water in here, i thought wed be down for 6,8 months, we had just three weekshe says the wallgave them hope. I actually had hope i was like dohe saysits an answered prayer. Bullet. And to his neighbors on the other side its too bad but the city will support them. Something he has seenas the citys peoplehave supported them all. People were down here, people i didnt even know, i time city leaders stop in for coffee ill see them and theyre gonna get my thanks. Evacuation zonewi
The east that will cover the state by midday. And they may have a stray shower with them. Highs will climb into keep a chance of rain into the weekend. Ill have those details in a few minutes. Are from the north, but will turn more to the northeast today keeping us from warming up much. Plus, we have clouds tracking in from the east that will cover the state by midday. And they may have a stray shower with them. Highs will climb into the mid t over. We keep a chance of rain into the weekend. Ill have those details in a few minutes. We begin with coverage of flood 2016. The flood waters across eastern iowa receeding now people are trying to move on. In cedar falls some areas saw heavy flooding last weekend. Weekend even though the waters fallen. Storm track sevens Amanda Gilbert is live in cedar falls this morning with information you need to know about the pink ribbon run. The 10th annual pink ribbon run happens tomorrow. Unfortunatly. Flooding in downtown cedar falls has forced the ru
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
Waking up with temperatures into the 50s once again, but this time around we might see a peek of sunshine mostly cloudy skies today will turn partly cloudy at times and this will allow for our high temperatures to be slightly warmer than what they were yesterday. Expect highs to reach near 70 degrees. Partly cloudy skies will be our weather for the evening, but now the winds will be out of the southeast instead of the north. This will change things up significantly in the way of temperatures. Monday highs will warm into the middle 70s and tuesday even warmer, topping out in the upper 70s. It wont be until wednesday things are definitely starting to get back to normal after last weeks ghost town. Last night not so much. This is what 2nd avenue looked like just outside of the kcrg studios around 1 00 this morning. As you can see, plenty of cars lining the streets. A lot of people heading back to bars and restaurants. More businesses plan to open back up sometime tomorrow. We talked on fr
The bridges will be open to everyone saturday morning. Edwards road is also back open tonight. The city reopened it this afternoon after crews were able to inspect the road and bridge. There are closures in place. We have a complete list on cbs2iowa. Com. One other no Public Transportation is set to resume operations tomorrow. Although downtown cedar rapids avoided the floodwater this time around, recovery will take time. Some to celebrate. Dora miller is live at white star alehouse downtown. Reporter after last week with the sandbagging and the stress we all need a little break. Businesses in downtown cedar rapids are trying to make that happen. They know it will be a long road to recovery. They say they can make it with right now, were just basically doing a nice deep clean of the kitchen, the bar. It might seem like a dream it means they have a lot of they have a lot of work to do. Right now we are doing a deep clean of the kitchen and bar. Everyone that has been working in the bars