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
National Hurrican Center says patricia is heading for potentially catastrophic landfall in southwester mexico. The storm has a maximum sustained winds of 190 miles an hour. The Mexican Government is making a series of emergency declarations. Heres a picture of Hurricane Patricia from the International Space station. Nasa astronaut scott kelly snapped the picture which shows the massive size of the storm. The attack chopper overlooking a local Veterans Memorial is getting a facelift. The cobra helicopter at dubuques veteran Memorial Plaza being repainted to mirror how one actually looked during the vietnam war. Kwwls brad hanson speaking with the woman who did all the paint work today. He joins us live now from the Veterans Memorial plaza in dubuque with the story. Jennifer luedtke has spent quite a bit of time getting this chopper to while her work honors veterans, her connection to this project goes much deeper. This is no ordinary paint job for jennifer luedtke. jennifer luedtke, hel
The kwwl viewing area. You had the picture from the des moines airport of the tornado ere. Tracking activity all afternoon. We have been ready for this. Ee we talked about this yesterday. The timing has been right on. Weve saw this yesterday coming, and the timing was between 2 00 and 7 00, and we are right on thehe nose here, across eastern iowa as the showers and thunderstorms push on through the region. We knew it was going to come through as a line, and the southern portion was going to be the best chance of any Severe Weather. Damaging straightline wind was going to be the primary threat, isolated tornado, yes, a possibility with the best chance farther to the south and west, and thats whats panning out with the rain across our northern counties, storm track 7 live Doppler Radar showing rain moving into the area. Theres t lightning associated with some of the storms running from waterloo to cedar rapids, down towards iowa city. Area highway 20 southward, thats going to be your cha