Cedar rapids has been down this road. This time supporters of a new casino proposal hope they can sway state regulators that turned out to gaming license three years ago. Tonight i learned that the iowa racing and Gaming Commission started the process today for a new study to determine the impact of the cedar rapids casino. A similar project found a massive gaining center would pull too much money away from away existing facilities. That was majority of state regulators that had to hear when they shut down the request. Wild rose entertainment which already operates casinos and i what hopes is smaller compact gaming facility would cut down on that cannibalization. They are hoping to pitch the new plan to state regulators and gambling finally come to the secondbiggest city in the state. Here is how everything could play out in the weeks and request a casino license for linn county sometime in january. In february the iowa racing and gaming to patient plans to study how the proposal would
Im kevin barry and delaware is out on a sient. First lets take a look at the forecast with Justin Roberts where all the action has been up in the decorah ya. Once again these same folks are getting hit with rain they dont need. They are under a Flash Flood Watch well tell you about. Very muggy last day of summer. Take a look at the temperatures. Weve been in the 70s since the offering up some of the scattered showers and storms this morning in northeast iowa. A slight risk of severe storms later this afternoon on into the evening time. Again the timing looks to be later tonight and most of it north of highway 20. Flash Flash Flood Watch but muggy in cedar rapids. 70 right now on mostly clear sky. 64 decorah. 68 in iowa city. Very warm and muggy scattered shower and storms this afternoon. Upper 80s the high. Full forecast coming in about 10 manipulate nits time. Kevin thank you justin. Parts of northeast iowa are getting rained on again this morning and state leaders are trying to get m
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
Plan on a pretty wet day all across the area. Showers will move in by midmorning and be scattered about the area for most of the day. Our daytime highs will likely be hit in the evening hours, with a few thunderstorms also possible at that time. Overall rainfall amounts with this system will generally be in the quarter to half inch range. Plan on a quiet weekend with clearing sky on saturday, and mostly sunny sky on sunday. Next week, well be watching another system in the tuesdaywednesday weekend if theyre renting an apartment to someone with a criminal past. The city council is considering eliminating a if theyre renting an apartment to someone past. The city council is considering eliminating a portion of rental applications where youre required to disclose criminal convictions. Based on that information a landlord can then decide not to rent to them. Landlords of black hawk wants to protect the inexperienced landlords who dont know the rules. And preform a background check. Waterlo
Candidiates. To replace retiring mayor, buck clark. Here are the results for mayor of waterloo. The top voter getter is mayor protem, quentin hart, followed by former mayor, tim hurley. Those two, hart and hurley, will face off in the Runoff Election on december 1. Hart got 33point 7 per cent of the vote. Hurley with 26 percent. A clear cut winner needed to have 50 percent of the vote. No one came cloloe to that. Followed by leah morrison,,,and frank magsaman. Lets go live right now to kwwl reporter, nikki, newbrough, outside the Black Hawk County courthouse, with the latest on the results for waterloo mayor. This is what we expeeted. With f fve strong candidates, a Runoff Election will happen in decemeber. Both quentin hart and Tim Hurley Hart says it was exciting to see so many come out to vote. He says if he gets the mayor seat, he wants safer streets, and that includes building that trust between Law Enforcement and the community. As for tim hurley he says although he wanted to wra